285: Alfred Norris – He Learned Obedience by the Things He Suffered

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Welcome to Good Chris Selfie and
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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris.

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We post a new episode at the
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short intro beforehand to kind
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you’re about to listen to.
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this week’s talk.
Hello, welcome back.

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This is Brother Chris.
For our talk this week, we’re

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listening to the second class of
a day with the word study

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Weekend given by Brother Alfred
Norris at the Pomona Ecclesia

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back in 1992.
This was given in as a

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suggestion from a very dear
sister who actually started me

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on the journey of doing all the
tape digitization that I know

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we’ve talked about in a couple
other podcast of tapes that I’ve

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converted.
She handed me a stack of tapes

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for this series and said this is
my suggestion for the podcast

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and kind of started me on the
journey of figuring out how to

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digitize old talks and cassette
tapes and has now led to all the

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other many talks that we have
shared.

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This was one that I had wanted
to get to, but I had some issues

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with the original audio that I
had copied because it was right

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when I was starting to do it and
didn’t know what I was doing.

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So I had to go back and recopy
it to make sure that the audio

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sounded at the right level and
sounded good.

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One small disclaimer on this one
is this is a four part series of

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talks, but the sister who gave
it to me didn’t have the third

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tape and I have not been able to
find it anywhere online.

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So if anybody is aware of where
the third tape for this series

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is in existence, either online
or has a physical copy, please

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feel free to reach out to us.
I would love to be able to

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complete the set as it were.
This particular one, like I

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said, is the second class, and
the title of this one is He

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Learned obedience by the Things
He Suffered.

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In the entire series, Brother
Alfred is looking at Christ and

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different aspects of the
importance of his life.

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The first one he was looking at
the significance of the cross

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and the sacrifice of Christ.
This one, he was spending a lot

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of time looking at the
significance of Christ being a

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man and the importance of that.
And different little Nuggets

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that I hadn’t heard anybody make
mentioned before of the

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significance behind that.
And looking at different

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elements of the fact that
because Jesus was a man

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originally that he had, it just
was different in the way that he

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was tempted.
And because he had to learn

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obedience to God and battle
against his own human nature.

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Making the significance of the
sacrifice that he actually

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mentioned in the first class,
which will have classes 1-2 and

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four since class 3 is missing,
but we’ll have the three classes

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that we do have added to good
Christophian talks extended if

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you want to listen to all of
them.

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All three are excellent, and he
even mentions some of what he

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talks about in class 3 at the
start of class 4.

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So you kind of get a little
taste of what we’re missing, but

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at least you kind of can get the
sense of the entire series.

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I found this to be a really
powerful class, especially the

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last five to 10 minutes of this
class.

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Brother Alfred does a little bit
of a, I know exactly how to call

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it almost a monologue or sort of
a.

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What he’s sort of is surmising
is what could be the mindset of

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Christ when it came to him
learning obedience and the way

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he was approaching things when
it came to approaching God.

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And I don’t know if it’s just
the way that Brother Alfred

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spoke or the way that he had
written down the words that he

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was saying as he provided them,
but it just, it hit in a way

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that felt very powerful and very
different than I’ve heard in

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other scenarios.
So I know it was one of the

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things that I actually thought
about recounting some of the

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words that he said the next time
that I am remembering Christ at

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the memorial table because it
just kind of hit in a very

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different way for me, at least
at least personally.

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And I hope that the entire
class, the series, if you listen

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to it on the extended podcast or
the last five minutes of this

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class, have a impact on on you
and uplift you and encourage you

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in your walk.
Again, thank you to the sister

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who physically handed me a copy
as the suggestion for the

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podcast and I hope that you all
enjoy it just as much and as I

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did so.
With that, I will turn it over

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to Brother Alfred Norris.
For his class he learned

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obedience by the things that he
suffered.

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I sometimes think we don’t fully
appreciate the benefits and

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blessings in our understanding
of Scripture, particularly this

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present topic.
We stem from the fact that we do

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not believe in the doctrine of
the Trinity.

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Our usual approach to that
subject is to show quite

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convincingly from Scripture that
the Lord our God is 1 Lord.

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That there is one God the Father
and one Lord Jesus Christ.

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That whenever the Lord Jesus
Christ and His Father are

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mentioned together, the Lord
adopts or is given a subordinate

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position to His Father.
And that when the Lord Jesus

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returns to the earth and
conquers the nations, he will

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remain in control until such
time as He hath put all enemies

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under his feet.
And then, when it is said He

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putteth all things under his
feet, it is manifest that he is

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accepted, which did put all
things under him, that the Son

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shall be subject to the Father,
that God may be All in all.

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So we have an excellent starting
platform for which to

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contemplate what was done when
the Lord Jesus Christ died for

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our sins according to the
Scriptures.

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We start with one who is by his
own confession and in his own

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pleasure Son of God, who came to
do His Father’s will, and who

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did nothing of Himself.
We start with one, however, who

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is unlike us in this important
particular that his Father is

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not like our fathers, that he
had no immediate human Father,

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that he became the being he was
born as, because the Holy.

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Spirit came upon his mother.
And the power of the Most High

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overshadowed her, so that for
that reason her child could and

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must be called the Son of God.
Now they will rewrite that story

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in the interest of the doctrine
of the Trinity, and they will

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say that the Lord Jesus Christ
was but the manifestation.

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In flesh of God, eternally pre.
Existent.

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They will tell us that the birth
of the Lord Jesus Christ wasn’t

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really like what we understand
by our naive acceptance of Luke

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chapter one, but was something
like this invent problems for

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themselves in doing so, For they
say God has always been a

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triune.
Being and in that being there

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are three.
For one of a better term we call

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it English persons, and that
those persons are to be known as

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God the Father, God the Son, and
God the Holy Ghost or Spirit.

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And that it was long ages ago,
in the harmony of their divine

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councils, that it was decided
that person called God the Son,

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should come to the earth and
become also men.

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They do not, when they’re
speaking carefully, speak of the

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birth of Christ, they speak of
His incarnation.

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He’s putting on a flesh.
And they tell us that as far as

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we can understand such things,
the real circumstances were that

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eternal God, the second person
of the Godhead, voluntarily

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entered within the body of the
Virgin and took flesh from her

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womb and became also man.
So what emerged into the

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daylight of publicity when the
Lord was 30 human years old, was

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somebody whom, distastefully
they sometimes call the God man,

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no less God than he was man.
Perfectly both mount together in

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one being, and the choice of
both, in that nothing could go

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wrong with the God, and nothing
did go wrong with his manhood.

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And of course, by that day they
obliged themselves to admit when

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they are speaking candidly, that
the Lord was not what the Bible

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says.
He was made in all points like

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unto his brethren, but he was
not what the Bible says.

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He was tempted in all points,
like as we are, yet without sin,

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that he did not undergo the
experiences in needings of tight

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temptation that you and I do,
For how could he, even though in

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his manhood?
He was by his own choice weak

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and frail, and capable of
suffering and sorrow, as well as

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joy and hunger, as well as
repretion.

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Yet in all the things that
belong to his manhood there lies

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in control and unavoidable.
His divinity would say He was,

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is, and remains God.
And God, we know, cannot be

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tempted with evil.
Neither tempteth he any man, And

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it is an essential part of the
fact that it be a fact that

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Jesus Christ is God, that he
should not be able to respond to

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the forces of evil.
The temptation as we know the

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Word could be no part of his
experiences, if I can put it

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crudely, even if the manly side
nature of the nature of the Lord

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Jesus Christ had felt that he
urged to do what man likes to do

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the godless, I couldn’t have let
him, for God cannot sin and that

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man well complete, all of him
was God and man.

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So logically and strictly and in
some cases quite admittedly,

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they can’t accept the real
temptations of the Lord

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sufferings.
Yes, death by some means that

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none of us can understand.
Yes, that too they accept but

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temptations, in the sense that
he might have yielded, that

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yielding was possible.
The battle had to be fought to

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maintain his righteousness.
That cannot be a part of

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Trinitarian teaching, but it can
be a part of ours.

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It can and must be a part of
ours.

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The great glory of our
understanding of the Lord Jesus

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Christ, which they don’t like us
to have, is that we can stand

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back and look.
But him who sits now at the

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right hand of God, with marks in
hand and feet inside, and

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possibly the scars of the crown
of thorns, and the residue of

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the wheels wrought by the lashes
that lashed his back, we can

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look at the Lord Jesus Christ
and triumph in him, and say thou

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art worthy.
For thou was slain, and has to

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redeem this unto God by thy
blood, out of every kindred and

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tribe and people and tongue, and
we can acclaim his victory.

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And so there sits one who
against all the human odds won.

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Through there sits one who, when
we would many times, almost

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always in the same
circumstances.

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Have yielded ourselves to the
desires of the flesh, kept them

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at Bay, kept them tame, held
them in subjection, won his

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daily battles for God, being
tempted in all points like as we

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are, yet without sin.
Would you read with me the

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letter to the Hebrews Chapter 5
much of the earlier part of this

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passage?
We shall not need that.

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It’s needed to give us a a
connected recitation.

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So I’d like to begin at the
beginning and go as far as verse

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10, Hebrews 5, the 1st 10
verses.

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For every high priest taken from
among men is ordained from men

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in things pertaining to God,
that he may offer both gifts and

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sacrifices for sins, who can
have compassion or be ignorant,

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and on them that are out of the
way.

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For that he himself also is
compassed with infirmity, and by

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reason thereof he ought, As for
the people so also for himself,

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to offer for sins.
And no man taketh dishonor upon

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himself, but he that is called
of God, as was Aaron.

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So also Christ glorified not
himself to be made a high

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priest, but he that said unto
him, Thou art my son this day

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have I begotten thee, as he said
also in another place.

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Now the priest forever after the
honor of Melchizedek, who,

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that’s Jesus, who in there is of
his flesh, when he had offered

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up prayers and supplications
with strong crying and tears

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unto him, that was able to save
him from death, and was heard in

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that he feared though he were a
son, yet learned his obedience

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by the things that he suffered.
And being made perfect, he

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became the awful eternal
salvation, and to all them that

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obey him called of God and high
priest.

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After the order of Melchizedek.
In those messages, we begin with

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the Lord Jesus Christ preparing
for and acquiring the office of

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priesthood.
We know.

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That.
He know more.

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Than anybody else took it upon
himself without being asked that

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he, like Aaron, waited to be
asked before he did it.

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And as God had appointed Aaron
for the temporary office,

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discharged by himself and his
successors as high priests over

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Tabernacle and then temple, so
the Lord Jesus Christ bided the

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time.
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right that the priesthood should
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When it came to him, he did not
glorify himself to being a high

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priest.
He did not grasp that the office

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of being a high priest, he did
what God had wanted him to do,

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when beforehand he declared that
my son this day have I begotten

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thee, and again thou the priest
forever after the order of

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Melchizedek.
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the Lord took what he was
offered by the one who offered

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it, to do the will of the one
who offered it, and became a

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high priest for God in things
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Now the words that follow, that
with strong crying and tears he

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called on him, that was able to
save him out of death, and was

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heard for his godly fear.
That’s the English revised

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version, revealed to us the
depths of what the Lord must

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suffer, and the dungeon of
hopelessness into which he must

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willingly sink, if he would
become the one who is to be our

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high Priest.
He sobbed, saw tears that God

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would strengthen him to
overcome, that the will of God

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should not fail in his hands,
that he should I accept his

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death in such a way that God
might save him out of death, and

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that he might become our
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Those words, though he were a
son, yet learned he obedience,

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see most as though they might
have been written.

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Then why should it not be so
with the prescience of God, who

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could see all things from the
beginning to provide an answer

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that cannot be gained, said for
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For they would say, because he
was a son, there could be no

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suffering of temptation, and he
would says, though he were a

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son, yet did he learn obedience
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He learned obedience the hard
way, as we would say, not your

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kind of hard way and mine.
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extent to which we do, we learn
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painful it was to disobey.
We decided we’d rather not be

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hurt like that again, and so we
decide next time to do as we’re

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told.
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He was never disobedient, but He
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He learned obedience by the
things that he suffered,

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accepted steadfastly the path of
duty, whatever it cost, was

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prepared to endure the strong
crying and tears to which he was

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driven by the need to suffer in
the service of God, and did it

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faultlessly.
Suppose I asked you the

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question, Did Jesus Christ live
a perfect life?

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Unless you had been forewarned,
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Of course, if you’d heard me
perhaps others address this

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topic before, you might hesitate
a little and say, ah, he lived a

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life in which he did no sin.
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His behaviour from beginning to
end was spotless and I would say

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yes, that was a better way of
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The word being perfect, or more
correctly, being perfected, is

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only used, I think, four times
about Jesus, once by him and

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three times about him.
The one by him is in Luke

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chapter 13.
Well, the advice to run away

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from the possible wrath of
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He stays where he is and says to
them go tell that Fox, I do

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curse today and tomorrow and the
third day I shall be perfected

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and it seems.
That there is an intentional

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comparison there between the
Lord’s helping other people to

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get their bodies right.
I do curse today and tomorrow,

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and the Lord’s expectation that
shortly afterwards he will

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himself be perfected.
As though to admit that there

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was something falling just short
of perfect in his present

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condition, I said conditioned,
not behaviour.

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His behaviour was never.
Short of spotless, but I’ve

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scold myself, I’ll try to not to
use the word perfect about it,

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because the Bible doesn’t.
The Bible says the Lord expected

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to be perfected.
Not that he claimed to be

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perfect.
The Bible says that the Lord, in

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answer to the rich young man,
said, why call this army good?

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There is no good at one that is
gone.

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And that throughout his life the
Lord looked forward to a time

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when perfection would be His
that needs perhaps a self

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defensive word of explanation.
I don’t think there is a thing

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to be said against anything the
Lord did or said or entertained

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permanently in his thoughts.
Everything the Lord did and said

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and allowed to take root in his
mind was without fault.

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He did no sin.
Neither was guile found in his

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mouth.
But you don’t say things like

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that about the Lord without
realizing their implication.

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To say he did.
No sin will be meaningless.

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If he couldn’t, could.
Not have done any sin.

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To say he behaved faultlessly is
no commendation to him.

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He was bound to be faultlessly
to say he did always those

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things that pleased his father,
as he said himself.

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It would be an idol to boast if
he could do nothing else than

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please his father if the way he
was built was such that pleasing

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his father was part of his make
up.

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All.
Those things like he did no sin,

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that no guile was found in his
mouth, that he did always those

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things that please his Father,
that my need is to do the with

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him that sent me, and to finish
his work.

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They all rest inevitably, upon
the possibility that it could

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have been otherwise.
You don’t commend a man for

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being what he can’t help being.
You don’t say what a wonderful

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person you must be.
You were so handsome when you

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were born, which is quite
irrelevant.

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You say how well you have
behaved in face of the

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possibility that you might have
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The example I gave in the first
talk that when the Lord insisted

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on being baptized, when he might
have accepted John’s suggestions

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to the contrary, he went into
and came out of the water, and

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the Spirit of God came to heaven
in the shape of a dog.

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And God said yes.
And God said, This is my beloved

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Son, in whom I am well pleased,
is an indication that that was a

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victory, that that was a
temptation overcome, an

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opportunity of declining from
God’s service, detected and

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perceived and rejected, so that
he might do what God wished him

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to do and do it flawlessly.
God couldn’t usefully have said

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I’m very pleased with him.
Unless he had done something

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which warranted the divine
pleasure, if you’re pleased

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with.
A.

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A mechanical thing that can’t do
anything else.

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It’s because you’ve made it
rather nicely, not because of

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any merits in the thing itself.
1 can be personally proud of a

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robot or any mechanical or
electronic object one makes

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because one has designed what is
needed to make it and done it

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right.
But in this instance, there was

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nothing robotic about it at all.
I am very pleased with the way

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my son behaves.
Is what the Father said.

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And that must mean that he had
it within his power to behave

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differently and didn’t do so.
I’ve only given you one of the

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four examples, the use of the
word perfect about Jesus.

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I’ll skip quickly through the
other three.

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They’re all in the letter to the
Hebrews, and perhaps you’ll know

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them so well that we won’t need
to turn them up.

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But one is in chapter 2 where we
read it became God in bringing

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many sons unto glory to make the
captain of their salvation

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perfect through sufferings
notice make him perfect.

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You start off with a captain of
our salvation who has not yet

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been made perfect and you
legitimately consents to be LED

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through a path that involves his
sufferings and at the end of

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that he has been made perfect.
That’s the meaning of the words,

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whatever the reality turns out
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The second is 1.
We just read in Hebrews chapter

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5 that though he were a.
Son yet learned the obedience by

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the things that he suffered, and
being made perfect, he became

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the author of eternal salvation
called of God and High Priest

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after the order of Melchizedek.
And there is, I think, there an

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intended contrast between the
Jewish high priests who being so

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compassed.
About with infirmities of their

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own could with shamed eloquence
plead for their own sins and the

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sins of others, when they went
before the throne of grace, in

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the shape of the most holy place
of the temple or Tabernacle.

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And this person who, wherever he
started, had got to the point

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where he had been made perfect
before he is called by God our

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High priest.
There’s much more to say about

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this in the last talk, but
perhaps we can anticipate to the

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extent that when the Lord Jesus
Christ having been made perfect,

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whatever that mean, did go into
God’s heavenly temple as our

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high priest.
He didn’t just spend a few hours

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there on one day of a year, but
he stayed there and sat down the

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right hand of God.
That was where he belonged and

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belongs, having been made
perfect.

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And the last example is in the
7th chapter, I think towards the

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end.
Well, we are told the law

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appointed high priests which
have intermity, but God

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appointed this one who has been
consecrated forevermore.

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What a pity, the King James
authorized.

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Version said consecrated.
He shouldn’t have done.

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It’s the same word.
It’s the only other the last

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occasion where the word
perfected is used about Jesus,

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and the Word of God’s author
appoints our High Priest

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perfected forevermore.
And you can see in broad

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outlines the programme laid out.
You start up with Jesus as he

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was born.
You go through Jesus as he lives

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and behaves.
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You see that he having died,
Lord Jesus Christ raised from

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the dead.
And ascending to the right hand

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of God.
And he said there now he has

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been perfected forevermore.
Nothing can ever go wrong with

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the perfected Christ.
How much more?

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Glorious, that is, than to see
the Lord Jesus Christ as the

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Trinitarians, see him as the
eternal God the Son, assuming

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flesh as well.
But still, being God beyond the

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reach of sinning, our Lord was
not beyond the reach of sinning

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at all.
He missed it at close quarters.

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He missed it because of who he
was.

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He already be cast as the letter
to the Romans can say about him

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what the law could not do in
that it was weak through the

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flesh.
God, sending his own Son in the

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likeness of flesh of sin, and as
an offering for sin in the

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flesh, condemned sin.
And I have purposely reworded

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that so that I didn’t have to
say that I’m going to say it now

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to dismiss it.
Sin in the flesh.

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In the flesh he overcame sin.
He defeated sin, because God had

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sent him in the kind of person
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The Lord was in the likeness of
flesh and sin, just like it made

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in all points like unto his
brethren, and though he were a

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son.
Yet.

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Learned he obedience by the
things that he suffered.

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We must, of course, give
examples.

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He was pour the Lord through
some of the temptations of his

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life and see how keen they were
and stand back and marvel at his

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victories.
We’ve done it already with his

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baptism.
We are left from that to his

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temptations in the wilderness.
Described in similar terms in

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Matthew chapter 4 and in Luke
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With one interesting difference,
that they’re not given in the

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same order.
And somebody perhaps will tell

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me why if I haven’t run the risk
of telling you why before this

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talk comes to an end.
But in Matthew they are Turn

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stones into bread.
Throw yourself down from this

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exalted place.
Worship me and take all the

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kingdoms of the world and then
Luke.

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The other two are reversed.
It’s turned stones into bread.

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Worship me and take the kingdoms
and throw yourself down from

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this exalted place.
The Matthew 1 looks more

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sequential, but the Lukeman is
there.

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It’s not the same sequence.
I don’t believe they contradict.

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As I say, I may get succumbed to
telling what I do think they do,

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but the moment all three are
there, let’s look at them, shall

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we?
In the Matthew Record.

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Matthew chapter 4.
The 1st 11 verses are the

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relevant verses, but we won’t
necessarily read right through

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it.
We learned that Jesus was led by

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the Spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted by the devil.

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00:26:30,240 –> 00:26:33,200
Or in Matthew he was driven by
the Spirit into the wilderness

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00:26:33,200 –> 00:26:34,960
to be tempted by the Devil.
That was in Mark.

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00:26:34,960 –> 00:26:37,520
I’m sorry, that second one.
As though the Lord.

437
00:26:37,520 –> 00:26:43,600
Fresh from the victory of his
baptism, was obliged to meet his

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00:26:43,600 –> 00:26:47,640
nature in the Roar and deal with
the temptations to which it

439
00:26:47,880 –> 00:26:51,920
might have succumbed.
Now I know there are alternative

440
00:26:51,920 –> 00:26:55,200
views of this passage.
And I know that those who are.

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00:26:55,200 –> 00:26:59,120
Anxious to safeguard the total
righteousness of our Lord and I

442
00:26:59,120 –> 00:27:01,160
will yield to nobody.
And being anxious to do the same

443
00:27:01,160 –> 00:27:04,920
thing, sometimes feel it their
duty to deny that He could have

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00:27:04,920 –> 00:27:08,160
thought about the things which I
hear suggested.

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00:27:09,360 –> 00:27:12,600
And for that reason amongst
others, wish to take the record

446
00:27:12,600 –> 00:27:17,320
completely literally and make
that devil a person, so that

447
00:27:17,320 –> 00:27:21,280
there is a dialogue between
someone, whoever he is, or

448
00:27:21,280 –> 00:27:25,440
someone’s whoever they are, who
speak to the Lord and suggest a

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00:27:25,440 –> 00:27:29,680
course of action.
I know, too, that such pieces

450
00:27:29,680 –> 00:27:33,480
may go further, and they say it
wasn’t really temptation.

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00:27:33,480 –> 00:27:39,240
As you and I know it, he’s
rather a trial, a test, a dry

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00:27:39,240 –> 00:27:42,840
run to see if he really was the
Son of God proves you as they

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00:27:42,840 –> 00:27:45,000
say.
This person or person said that

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00:27:45,000 –> 00:27:47,800
you really are the good son of
God by doing the appropriate

455
00:27:47,800 –> 00:27:49,920
signs that make it impossible to
deny it.

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00:27:50,600 –> 00:27:53,960
Turn stones into bread, throw
yourself under harm from the

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00:27:53,960 –> 00:27:57,400
pinnacle of the temple, and
assume some kind of authority.

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00:27:57,400 –> 00:28:00,160
I’m not quite sure what this
could be over the kingdoms of

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00:28:00,160 –> 00:28:01,720
the earth.
If you do that, we’ll be obliged

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00:28:01,720 –> 00:28:03,840
to believe in you.
That’s what they say.

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00:28:04,600 –> 00:28:08,400
And the tests then become not
tests of His integrity and His

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00:28:08,400 –> 00:28:11,960
Holiness and His sinlessness,
but tests of his office, which,

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00:28:11,960 –> 00:28:13,960
for other reasons, the Lord
rejected.

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00:28:15,680 –> 00:28:18,280
I can’t see it that way, and I
don’t want to.

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00:28:19,560 –> 00:28:23,160
I don’t mind if a voice from
outside spoke these words.

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00:28:23,960 –> 00:28:26,520
If it is thought we must
construe Matthew poor and Luke

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00:28:26,520 –> 00:28:30,240
for us, meaning that some other
person than the Lord came and

468
00:28:30,240 –> 00:28:32,880
spoke the words.
If you are the Son of God, turn

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00:28:32,880 –> 00:28:35,840
these stones into bread.
If you are the Son of God, throw

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00:28:35,840 –> 00:28:39,480
yourself down from this
pinnacle, and then all these

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00:28:39,480 –> 00:28:42,040
things I will give you, you’ll
fall down and worship me.

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00:28:42,800 –> 00:28:44,520
If it is found.
We must accept that those were

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00:28:44,520 –> 00:28:47,920
spoken by somebody else.
I could live with those who

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00:28:47,920 –> 00:28:51,840
accepted it like that, but it
doesn’t alter the case at all.

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00:28:52,680 –> 00:28:55,240
It has its own problems in how
such a man, whoever he was,

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00:28:55,560 –> 00:28:57,840
could have given the Lord all
the kingdoms of the earth, or

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00:28:57,840 –> 00:29:00,000
could have induced the Lord to
believe that he might have done.

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00:29:01,400 –> 00:29:04,880
But provided that we accept that
what I’ve always spoken was

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00:29:04,880 –> 00:29:12,280
understood, perceived, felt, and
rejected, I have no problem

480
00:29:12,280 –> 00:29:14,200
believing that somebody else
might have said it.

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00:29:15,000 –> 00:29:18,720
But whoever said it, when the
words, if thou be the Son of

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00:29:18,720 –> 00:29:23,520
God, turned these stones into
bread, the Lord would not only

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00:29:23,520 –> 00:29:25,640
have known what he meant, which
he obviously would.

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00:29:26,640 –> 00:29:28,920
Not only know.
That he had the power to do it,

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00:29:29,960 –> 00:29:33,720
Who would have felt the urge to
do it, will have met that urge

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00:29:33,720 –> 00:29:36,680
and defeated it and gained a
victory.

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00:29:37,400 –> 00:29:39,640
The record goes out of its way
to tell us it was very, very

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00:29:39,640 –> 00:29:44,040
hungry.
After a 40 days passed and then

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00:29:44,040 –> 00:29:47,240
he should put it in that way.
Who needs me in no doubt that it

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00:29:47,240 –> 00:29:50,040
was an appeal to that hunger?
You don’t need to be hungry.

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00:29:50,920 –> 00:29:52,920
All you have to do is to snap
your fingers and there’ll be a

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00:29:52,920 –> 00:29:57,880
banquet made.
Out of stones, whatever that was

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00:29:58,240 –> 00:30:00,640
by way of proving his office.
And it would have done something

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00:30:00,640 –> 00:30:04,560
about that, I suppose.
It was an urge to the Lord to do

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00:30:04,560 –> 00:30:09,560
this totally unacceptable thing
of taking the powers he

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00:30:09,560 –> 00:30:13,480
possesses because he is Son of
God and using them without

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00:30:13,480 –> 00:30:17,080
permission to ratify the hunger
he suffered from because he is

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00:30:17,080 –> 00:30:22,840
Son of Man, turning God’s powers
to human usage gratuitously,

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00:30:23,280 –> 00:30:27,360
without so much as a bag.
You leave and the Lord’s answer

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00:30:27,360 –> 00:30:29,560
to that it is written.
Man doth not live by bread

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00:30:29,560 –> 00:30:32,520
alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of

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00:30:32,520 –> 00:30:36,400
God is an answer not just.
I won’t do it, but however

503
00:30:36,400 –> 00:30:39,520
tempting it may be, it would be
incompatible with my

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00:30:39,520 –> 00:30:43,120
relationship with God.
Was every word I must follow

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00:30:43,760 –> 00:30:47,520
Whose word is life.
Interesting that if you go back

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00:30:47,520 –> 00:30:49,880
to the part of Deuteronomy which
the.

507
00:30:49,880 –> 00:30:53,040
Lord is there.
Quoted new light comes into its

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00:30:53,040 –> 00:30:55,360
meaning.
The Lord thy God said, Do with

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00:30:55,360 –> 00:30:58,200
manner in the wilderness, said
Moses, Do thy might just know

510
00:30:58,200 –> 00:31:01,240
them, and do not live by bread
alone, but by every word that

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00:31:01,240 –> 00:31:02,720
proceedeth from the mouth of
God.

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00:31:03,800 –> 00:31:05,880
God short, seconded the cross of
nature.

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00:31:06,680 –> 00:31:10,720
When there was no food, the Lord
did what had there.

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00:31:10,720 –> 00:31:13,560
Been food have taken you hours
and days and weeks to do.

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00:31:14,600 –> 00:31:16,800
You have sown the seed.
The grain would have grown, the

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00:31:17,040 –> 00:31:20,360
the shoots would have ripened,
the ears would have ripened on

517
00:31:20,360 –> 00:31:22,280
the shoots.
You would have harbited the

518
00:31:22,280 –> 00:31:24,000
grain.
You would have taken away the

519
00:31:24,000 –> 00:31:25,240
stalk.
You’d have winnered away the

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00:31:25,240 –> 00:31:27,520
ears.
You’d have ground the grain.

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00:31:27,520 –> 00:31:30,120
You will bake the flour, and
then you would have been able to

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00:31:30,120 –> 00:31:32,800
eat it.
But the moment God says there’s

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00:31:32,800 –> 00:31:38,000
your food thereby God proved his
power to feed in that and every

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00:31:38,000 –> 00:31:41,000
other way.
The Lord Jesus Christ knew that

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00:31:41,800 –> 00:31:46,080
To be faced with the possibility
of anticipating the need for

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00:31:46,080 –> 00:31:49,000
that by using his own powers for
something he would not do, God

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00:31:49,000 –> 00:31:53,040
will feed me when it pleases
Him, I’m sure, he said.

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00:31:53,720 –> 00:31:57,640
And having said it once, he
could say it again, As for

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00:31:57,640 –> 00:31:59,360
example when he talked to the.
Woman by the.

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00:31:59,360 –> 00:32:04,720
Well, in Samaria John chapter 4
and his disciples went on into

531
00:32:04,720 –> 00:32:07,320
Psycho to buy bread and they
came back and they said master

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00:32:07,320 –> 00:32:10,720
eat.
And the Lord who was too busy to

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00:32:10,720 –> 00:32:14,400
eat at that time, talking to a
woman that was a Sinner and

534
00:32:14,400 –> 00:32:18,560
seeking to assuage her sins,
said, I have meat to eat that

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00:32:18,560 –> 00:32:22,160
she know not of my meat, is to
do the will of him that sent me

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00:32:22,200 –> 00:32:25,040
to finish his work.
And I wouldn’t.

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00:32:25,040 –> 00:32:28,040
Be surprised if the Lord was
saying they’re not just I’d

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00:32:28,040 –> 00:32:32,680
rather savour the will of God
than gratify my human appetites,

539
00:32:33,360 –> 00:32:37,400
Was also saying God can keep me
alive in any way that suits him

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00:32:38,040 –> 00:32:40,600
while I’m engaged in His work.
He’s not critical.

541
00:32:40,600 –> 00:32:44,000
I should eat just now.
I can turn to that when this

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00:32:44,000 –> 00:32:47,200
present meal is over, doing the
will of God.

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00:32:48,600 –> 00:32:51,080
It’s a very.
Lovely thing, that each

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00:32:51,080 –> 00:32:55,320
temptation the Lord endured in
the wilderness boy its fruits in

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00:32:55,320 –> 00:32:58,400
later life.
And he who would not turn stones

546
00:32:58,400 –> 00:33:02,920
to bread on his own account
would not multiply food to take

547
00:33:02,920 –> 00:33:05,680
him through the journeys which
he must endure in the Lord’s

548
00:33:05,680 –> 00:33:08,720
service, but would wait till
somebody gave him a crust to

549
00:33:08,720 –> 00:33:12,720
eat, or rich women ministered to
Him of their substance.

550
00:33:13,360 –> 00:33:16,880
Or in the feeding of the 5000,
he and his disciples could pick

551
00:33:16,880 –> 00:33:20,240
up trolls, basket full of the
scraps they’d left behind, and

552
00:33:20,240 –> 00:33:24,160
might it be take them home for
supper, using what men had

553
00:33:24,160 –> 00:33:28,080
rejected, who was rich and for
our sakes became poor.

554
00:33:29,360 –> 00:33:32,160
So we lose so.
Much if we do not see that

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00:33:32,160 –> 00:33:36,680
temptation as a temptation in
every sense of the term, all its

556
00:33:37,240 –> 00:33:41,600
attractions being plain to the
Lord, being seen and known and

557
00:33:41,680 –> 00:33:45,200
in the full knowledge of them
rejected, He don’t do any

558
00:33:45,200 –> 00:33:47,960
service to the Lord by imagine.
He couldn’t have thought of

559
00:33:47,960 –> 00:33:50,560
things like that, because if he
couldn’t have thought of them,

560
00:33:50,560 –> 00:33:52,680
they couldn’t have tempted him,
and he couldn’t have won a

561
00:33:52,680 –> 00:33:54,800
victory.
And so they could have been

562
00:33:54,800 –> 00:33:57,320
thought about, and they were a
temptation they would totally

563
00:33:57,320 –> 00:33:59,520
overcome.
And there’s a victory not down

564
00:33:59,520 –> 00:34:02,440
to the Lord’s credit, that
without that he would never have

565
00:34:02,440 –> 00:34:05,280
had.
It’s the same with the angels.

566
00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:08,600
How tempting it would have been,
having got to the pinnacle of

567
00:34:08,600 –> 00:34:10,679
the temple if he did literally
get there.

568
00:34:12,159 –> 00:34:15,719
To plunge himself down from that
with absolute assurance that

569
00:34:15,719 –> 00:34:18,120
he’ll give his angels charge
concerning thee, and in their

570
00:34:18,120 –> 00:34:20,920
hands they shall bare thee up.
This is anytime thou dash thy

571
00:34:20,920 –> 00:34:23,600
foot against a stone.
And throw himself down with an

572
00:34:23,639 –> 00:34:27,320
admiring multitude, gaping on
and wondering as he was safely

573
00:34:27,320 –> 00:34:31,080
parachuted to the ground by the
angels that God sent to ensure

574
00:34:31,080 –> 00:34:33,320
his safety.
Oh, it would have been a

575
00:34:33,320 –> 00:34:37,280
wonderful opportunity of acting
a drama before an appreciative

576
00:34:37,280 –> 00:34:40,320
and gobbling multitude, and
having them follow him for the

577
00:34:40,320 –> 00:34:44,880
wonders sake that he would not
do that then strengthen.

578
00:34:44,880 –> 00:34:46,560
Him I have.
No doubt against every other

579
00:34:46,560 –> 00:34:49,560
occasion to do related things
when they deserted him aside

580
00:34:49,560 –> 00:34:51,520
from heaven, and they wouldn’t
give them one.

581
00:34:51,520 –> 00:34:55,960
It’s the same with the kingdoms
of the world in a moment of

582
00:34:55,960 –> 00:35:00,080
time, which he saw.
I will repeat one thing about an

583
00:35:00,080 –> 00:35:03,440
earlier exposition of that in
order to give publicity to the

584
00:35:03,440 –> 00:35:07,000
mathematical acumen of our
chairman of today.

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00:35:07,680 –> 00:35:10,840
It was some years ago and I
wanted to get a picture as to

586
00:35:10,840 –> 00:35:15,720
how far someone could see from a
real high mountain on a clear

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00:35:15,720 –> 00:35:18,240
day if he could look around and
his eyesight was good.

588
00:35:19,080 –> 00:35:21,800
So for the sake of the occasion,
I imported Mount Everest into

589
00:35:21,800 –> 00:35:24,480
the wilderness of Judea, which
was the highest pinnacle I could

590
00:35:24,480 –> 00:35:28,200
think of, and approximated its
height to 6 miles, which is not

591
00:35:28,200 –> 00:35:31,080
quite right.
And then I told my audience that

592
00:35:31,120 –> 00:35:33,960
if the Lord Jesus Christ were
there, and he looked all around

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00:35:33,960 –> 00:35:36,960
him and there was nothing in the
way, and his eyesight was

594
00:35:36,960 –> 00:35:41,880
perfect, there was no quasi Los
Angeles smog you could have seen

595
00:35:41,880 –> 00:35:45,120
for 220 miles.
We should have been less than

596
00:35:45,120 –> 00:35:48,320
1/4 of the way across the island
of Cyprus and, oh, maybe 1/6 of

597
00:35:48,320 –> 00:35:52,920
the way to Rome.
And my diligent, accurate,

598
00:35:52,960 –> 00:35:57,640
mathematical president, He
wasn’t president then came to us

599
00:35:57,640 –> 00:36:02,120
and said, you’ve got it wrong.
I said, oh, he said yes, it

600
00:36:02,120 –> 00:36:07,880
wasn’t 220 miles, it was 219.
Well, I was grateful for that.

601
00:36:07,880 –> 00:36:09,640
I’ve actually watched it out
myself before, and then I knew

602
00:36:09,640 –> 00:36:11,840
that.
I also knew that everyone isn’t

603
00:36:11,840 –> 00:36:13,640
exactly 6 miles high.
So it’s going to be a bit of a

604
00:36:13,640 –> 00:36:16,480
guess anyhow.
But the important thing is that

605
00:36:16,480 –> 00:36:19,000
if you’re seeing with your own
eyes what can be seen from any

606
00:36:19,000 –> 00:36:23,280
mountain, however high, you
couldn’t from the highest of

607
00:36:23,280 –> 00:36:27,040
them all see further than about
1/6 of the way to Rome and

608
00:36:27,040 –> 00:36:27,680
though.
You couldn’t.

609
00:36:27,680 –> 00:36:30,120
With your own unaided eyes,
you’ve seen anything like all

610
00:36:30,120 –> 00:36:31,640
the kingdoms of the world, of
the glory of them.

611
00:36:31,800 –> 00:36:33,400
You couldn’t see their capital
even.

612
00:36:34,440 –> 00:36:37,000
But it doesn’t matter.
By 1 means or another, the Lord

613
00:36:37,000 –> 00:36:40,240
upon his high mountain saw
clearly the kingdoms of the

614
00:36:40,240 –> 00:36:43,120
earth and the glory of them as.
Clear.

615
00:36:43,120 –> 00:36:45,600
As Ezekiel, upon the very high
mountain of chapter 40 of his

616
00:36:45,600 –> 00:36:49,760
book, saw the frame of the city
of Jerusalem as clearly as John

617
00:36:49,760 –> 00:36:53,440
in the vision of chapter 21 was
put on his high mountain, and

618
00:36:53,440 –> 00:36:55,800
saw the new Jerusalem coming
down from God out of the heaven

619
00:36:56,840 –> 00:36:59,320
that the Lord saw.
In whatever world the Lord does

620
00:36:59,320 –> 00:37:01,880
see things, and was given the
opportunity.

621
00:37:02,040 –> 00:37:04,080
Take it, take it now take it the
quick way.

622
00:37:04,720 –> 00:37:08,920
Don’t worry about the sufferings
and declined to do so.

623
00:37:09,520 –> 00:37:12,600
Thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God, and him alone shalt thou

624
00:37:12,600 –> 00:37:15,280
serve.
That must be a great strength to

625
00:37:15,280 –> 00:37:18,040
him when they came and tried to
take him by force and make him a

626
00:37:18,040 –> 00:37:19,760
king after the feeding of the
5000.

627
00:37:20,920 –> 00:37:23,880
He must with the second case,
have been a great precedent for

628
00:37:23,880 –> 00:37:25,720
him.
When later, as he came mounted

629
00:37:25,720 –> 00:37:28,640
upon a donkey through the walls
of Jerusalem, they spread their

630
00:37:28,640 –> 00:37:31,640
garments and their palm these in
the way, and called Hosanna in

631
00:37:31,640 –> 00:37:34,960
the highest Blessed be the
Kingdom of David, blessed be he

632
00:37:34,960 –> 00:37:38,240
that cometh in the name of the
Lord on all three.

633
00:37:38,240 –> 00:37:39,920
Occasions.
He rejected the kingdoms in the

634
00:37:39,920 –> 00:37:42,880
terms in which they offered it.
My Kingdom is not of this world.

635
00:37:43,560 –> 00:37:45,920
If my Kingdom were of this
world, then would my servants

636
00:37:45,920 –> 00:37:48,880
fight?
So whatever you think about the.

637
00:37:48,880 –> 00:37:51,440
Mechanism whereby the Lord was
tempted in the wilderness.

638
00:37:51,640 –> 00:37:54,920
Don’t plead a little attempt to
whittle away its temptation.

639
00:37:55,480 –> 00:37:57,240
For if you do, you whittle away
the victory.

640
00:37:57,920 –> 00:38:01,800
You can’t see the Lord’s utter
overcoming of the things of this

641
00:38:01,800 –> 00:38:05,120
life which He could savor
because He came in the likeness

642
00:38:05,160 –> 00:38:08,480
flesh of sin.
He learned the videos by the.

643
00:38:08,480 –> 00:38:11,000
Things that he suffered.
Suffered from the enemies that

644
00:38:11,000 –> 00:38:12,960
wouldn’t believe in him.
Suffer from those who mocked

645
00:38:12,960 –> 00:38:16,280
him, Suffered from the hunger.
And thirst and sorrow that came

646
00:38:16,280 –> 00:38:18,720
to him and suffered ultimately
upon the cross.

647
00:38:19,160 –> 00:38:22,120
The Lord’s obedience was hard,
won every inch of the way

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00:38:22,680 –> 00:38:26,080
against every possible
temptation, and yielded not a

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00:38:26,080 –> 00:38:28,600
wit.
I said there were others.

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00:38:29,600 –> 00:38:32,520
Of course there were.
It would have been a temptation,

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00:38:32,520 –> 00:38:35,640
wouldn’t it, when the sons of
Zebedee said to him.

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00:38:35,960 –> 00:38:37,800
Look at those horrible.
Samaritans, it won’t give you a

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00:38:37,800 –> 00:38:39,880
home for the night just because
you’re going to Jerusalem.

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00:38:40,040 –> 00:38:42,880
Shall we destroy them?
Shall we call down fire from

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00:38:42,880 –> 00:38:44,600
heaven and consume them as
Elijah did?

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00:38:45,560 –> 00:38:49,960
Lord must have known the
feelings inside the heart of

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00:38:49,960 –> 00:38:54,200
those who come in flesh of sin,
who want vengeance and redress,

658
00:38:54,760 –> 00:38:57,000
so he must have.
Fought that and answered it for

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00:38:57,000 –> 00:39:00,400
himself before he said to them,
You know not what spirit you are

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00:39:00,400 –> 00:39:02,080
of.
The Son of man has not come to

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00:39:02,080 –> 00:39:03,920
destroy man’s life, but to save
them.

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00:39:03,920 –> 00:39:07,280
There would have been temptation
of some kind when they said get

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00:39:07,560 –> 00:39:09,800
out of this place, go hell
looking to kill you.

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00:39:10,320 –> 00:39:13,480
Until he stayed where he was.
There must have been temptation.

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00:39:13,480 –> 00:39:15,920
When they said, let Christ the
King of Israel come down from

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00:39:15,920 –> 00:39:19,160
the cross, and he didn’t take
the opportunity, he might have

667
00:39:19,160 –> 00:39:21,320
done so.
There must have been temptation

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00:39:21,320 –> 00:39:24,680
when Peters obviously failed
with his one single blade in the

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00:39:24,680 –> 00:39:27,440
Garden of Gethsemane, and the
Lord could remind him up there

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00:39:27,440 –> 00:39:30,000
there are more than 12 legions
of angels I could have done if I

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00:39:30,000 –> 00:39:34,720
wanted to save me from the
dunes, and in not using them.

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00:39:35,200 –> 00:39:39,440
He must have decided not to use
them, maintain this decision not

673
00:39:39,440 –> 00:39:43,080
to use them, refused to make
take advantage of the powers

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00:39:43,080 –> 00:39:46,520
that were his, that is face
temptation, and beaten.

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00:39:46,520 –> 00:39:50,600
It once referred to one actual
example and one well, they’re

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00:39:50,600 –> 00:39:53,840
really both examples of the way
in which the Lord’s faced and

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00:39:53,840 –> 00:39:56,680
defeated temptation.
The 1st I’ll take from John

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00:39:56,680 –> 00:40:01,680
chapter 12.
I don’t know why more.

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00:40:01,680 –> 00:40:03,760
Use isn’t made of this because
it doesn’t.

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00:40:04,400 –> 00:40:07,240
It does something that needs to
be done about the temptation of

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00:40:07,240 –> 00:40:09,520
the Lord.
And I don’t think it can be.

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00:40:09,520 –> 00:40:14,920
Again said in John chapter 12,
verse 25.

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00:40:14,920 –> 00:40:19,920
The Lord in verse 24 indeed
compares his own life, and the

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00:40:19,920 –> 00:40:22,840
fruits of it to a grain of
wheat, falling into the ground

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00:40:22,840 –> 00:40:25,720
and dying, and then emerging
from its death with abundant

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00:40:25,720 –> 00:40:29,000
fruitfulness.
And he sees him that the death

687
00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:32,720
is shortly going to die, as it
were, reminds himself of it,

688
00:40:32,720 –> 00:40:36,920
comes, brings it freshly to his
mind, opens his diary, and sees

689
00:40:36,960 –> 00:40:40,240
what he’s going to have to do.
And by that very.

690
00:40:40,240 –> 00:40:43,160
Fact, He’s reminded of what that
suffering will be and how hard

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00:40:43,160 –> 00:40:48,680
it will be to overcome.
But he says in verse 27, Now is

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00:40:48,680 –> 00:40:53,440
my soul troubled.
And what shall I say, Father?

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00:40:53,440 –> 00:40:56,080
Save me from this hour.
Look for this purpose.

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00:40:56,080 –> 00:41:00,000
Go around to this hour, Father.
Glorify thy name.

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00:41:01,400 –> 00:41:03,280
Now, I’m sure there were plenty
of people listening when the

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00:41:03,280 –> 00:41:06,240
Lord said that, but he wasn’t
talking, as it were, to an

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00:41:06,240 –> 00:41:08,880
audience.
He was like laying bare his

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00:41:08,880 –> 00:41:12,320
inmost feelings.
But as death loomed so close

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00:41:12,320 –> 00:41:15,000
before him, he confessed to what
it felt like.

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00:41:15,760 –> 00:41:21,000
Now is my soul troubled?
There are two things I might

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00:41:21,000 –> 00:41:24,120
say.
One is Father saved me from this

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00:41:24,120 –> 00:41:26,360
hour.
The other I’ll come to in a

703
00:41:26,360 –> 00:41:30,520
moment, but the Lord should be
able to enunciate those words,

704
00:41:30,520 –> 00:41:35,640
shows that he could feel the
possibility of saying that, see

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00:41:35,640 –> 00:41:40,040
the human desirability of saying
it, view it as an escape from

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00:41:40,040 –> 00:41:43,280
the troublings of his soul.
Is that the way I will take?

707
00:41:43,800 –> 00:41:46,880
He asks.
And then he answers himself and

708
00:41:46,880 –> 00:41:50,320
says But This is why I’m.
Here, that’s the purpose of

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00:41:50,320 –> 00:41:52,360
which I came.
If I were to say that, that

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00:41:52,360 –> 00:41:54,120
would frustrate the purposes of
God.

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00:41:54,800 –> 00:41:57,760
And as it were, I won’t do it.
This is what I will say, and I

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00:41:57,760 –> 00:42:00,400
will endure the sufferings and
the troublings, and let the

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00:42:00,400 –> 00:42:02,560
Father lead me.
In so doing, I will leave my

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00:42:02,560 –> 00:42:06,120
death in His hands.
I will put away the last urge to

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00:42:06,120 –> 00:42:10,480
go any other way than His.
I will glorify His name by

716
00:42:10,480 –> 00:42:13,760
putting away all the rebellious
and proud desires of the frack

717
00:42:13,760 –> 00:42:17,120
pledge.
I will die that the Father’s

718
00:42:17,120 –> 00:42:20,920
glory in my unbroken
righteousness shall be fully

719
00:42:20,920 –> 00:42:23,760
established.
And when the Father said in

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00:42:23,760 –> 00:42:27,760
reply to, that I have both
glorified it, glorified my name,

721
00:42:28,320 –> 00:42:31,760
and I will glorify it again,
whatever ignorant people

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00:42:31,760 –> 00:42:36,080
standing by might think about
it, or some said it thunders the

723
00:42:36,080 –> 00:42:38,640
other said, an Angel spoke to
him.

724
00:42:39,240 –> 00:42:41,520
The Lord knew that the Father,
who was well pleased with his

725
00:42:41,520 –> 00:42:44,840
baptism some years earlier, was
now well pleased with his

726
00:42:44,840 –> 00:42:48,400
resignation and surrender again,
would not fail him when called

727
00:42:48,400 –> 00:42:50,600
upon, and will establish his
glory.

728
00:42:50,600 –> 00:42:54,120
When the work succeeded, the
Lord died willingly.

729
00:42:54,920 –> 00:42:57,680
But who was the cup He asked to
pass from him, if it were

730
00:42:57,680 –> 00:43:00,560
possible, when he prayed those
words in the garden?

731
00:43:01,160 –> 00:43:03,840
Father, if it be possible, let
this cup pass from me.

732
00:43:04,240 –> 00:43:06,760
Nevertheless, not my will, but
thine be done.

733
00:43:07,360 –> 00:43:10,200
His first desire was that God’s
will should be paramount.

734
00:43:10,640 –> 00:43:12,720
No human will should interfere
with it.

735
00:43:13,480 –> 00:43:16,640
He may have wanted, perhaps,
that the Father should remain

736
00:43:16,640 –> 00:43:20,120
with him to the end.
He should face death with his

737
00:43:20,120 –> 00:43:23,800
hand in the hand of the one who
suckered him, for there should

738
00:43:23,800 –> 00:43:27,800
be no period of desolation.
It would seem that the Angel who

739
00:43:27,800 –> 00:43:31,160
appeared to strengthen him
showed to him that, however deep

740
00:43:31,160 –> 00:43:34,440
and great and loving the
Father’s concern, even that

741
00:43:34,440 –> 00:43:37,440
should be endured.
This separation from his father,

742
00:43:37,960 –> 00:43:41,400
to make his death to sin
complete, to cause him willingly

743
00:43:41,400 –> 00:43:46,520
to die as a criminal might die
to be hung, as Deuteronomy had

744
00:43:46,520 –> 00:43:50,440
put it, upon a tree, Behold be.
Taken down that day.

745
00:43:51,680 –> 00:43:54,520
So there was at that stage run
from his lips to cry.

746
00:43:54,760 –> 00:44:00,040
My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken, not questioning the

747
00:44:00,040 –> 00:44:04,720
reason, but finding so painful
the fact that the cry could not

748
00:44:04,720 –> 00:44:08,160
be suppressed?
How dreadful is it to die alone?

749
00:44:08,240 –> 00:44:11,320
He said.
So In the darkness that fell

750
00:44:11,320 –> 00:44:15,880
upon the earth, the Lord endured
his sufferings in silence and in

751
00:44:15,880 –> 00:44:20,200
sadness and in separation, until
at last the time appointed came.

752
00:44:20,840 –> 00:44:25,880
And seeking not to continue in
this now fast ebbing life, he

753
00:44:25,880 –> 00:44:28,840
willingly gave it up.
He gave up the Spirit.

754
00:44:29,160 –> 00:44:33,080
Having cried, it is finished.
Father, into thy hands.

755
00:44:33,080 –> 00:44:37,040
I commend my spirit as though he
flung out into the darkness the

756
00:44:37,040 –> 00:44:40,080
life that he had carried,
knowing that there was one there

757
00:44:40,080 –> 00:44:44,960
who, however little felt now was
still waiting, watching, loving,

758
00:44:45,480 –> 00:44:48,400
ready to help.
Into thy hands I commend my

759
00:44:48,400 –> 00:44:51,000
spirit.
His death was placed in God’s

760
00:44:51,000 –> 00:44:53,320
hand.
His life in God’s mercy and

761
00:44:53,320 –> 00:44:58,080
faithfulness he became obedient
unto death, even the death of

762
00:44:58,080 –> 00:45:01,080
the cross.
Now the Lord’s surrender could

763
00:45:01,080 –> 00:45:04,000
never be reversed.
Now it’s last period have been

764
00:45:04,000 –> 00:45:07,120
put in place.
Now the Lord would rest in peace

765
00:45:07,120 –> 00:45:12,000
and in purity until that time so
very short ahead, and the Lord

766
00:45:12,000 –> 00:45:15,080
would raise him from the dead.
All had been surrendered.

767
00:45:15,680 –> 00:45:18,640
All might now without peril to
God’s glory be granted.

768
00:45:19,160 –> 00:45:23,680
God in Jesus will be All in all.
Wherefore God also hath highly

769
00:45:23,680 –> 00:45:27,120
exalted him, and given him the
name which is above every name.

770
00:45:27,640 –> 00:45:31,040
But at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow of things in

771
00:45:31,040 –> 00:45:35,280
heaven, and things in earth, and
things under the earth, and that

772
00:45:35,280 –> 00:45:38,160
every time should confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord.

773
00:45:38,720 –> 00:45:43,360
To the glory of God the Father.
I have glorified thy name thus

774
00:45:43,360 –> 00:45:46,320
far.
The Lord had seemed to say, It

775
00:45:46,320 –> 00:45:48,440
shall now be glorious forever
through you.

776
00:45:49,080 –> 00:45:53,280
God says to him, Now is his
glorious reply, The Lord can be

777
00:45:53,280 –> 00:45:55,760
given the greatness and the
titles that belong to his

778
00:45:55,760 –> 00:45:58,120
Father.
Yet the greatness and the title,

779
00:45:58,120 –> 00:46:00,480
even in that giving, will remain
his Father still.

780
00:46:01,320 –> 00:46:05,640
The Holy will not give and lose.
When the Lord takes, the Father

781
00:46:05,640 –> 00:46:08,360
will give to the Son, whom He
will never lose.

782
00:46:08,680 –> 00:46:11,640
The Father and Son working
together will work out the

783
00:46:11,640 –> 00:46:15,600
purposes of God, the Alpha and
the Omega, the beginning and the

784
00:46:15,600 –> 00:46:19,120
end, the first and the last,
which was always the power.

785
00:46:19,600 –> 00:46:21,720
Our titles now which in the Book
of Revelation.

786
00:46:22,000 –> 00:46:26,480
The Son also can share having
been highly exhausted Him and as

787
00:46:26,480 –> 00:46:30,280
Matthew put it, all power having
been given unto Him in heaven

788
00:46:30,960 –> 00:46:46,560
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