320: David Fraser – Exhortation: The Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8)

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Hello, this is brother Chris
back with another talk to share

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with you this week.
We’re listening to an

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exhortation that was given all
the way back in 2016 by Brother

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David Frazier from the Pine Town
Ecclesia in South Africa.

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And in the sectation, Brother
David is taking a look at the

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story of the Ethiopian eunuch.
And I really enjoyed this

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because it’s one of those taking
a deeper dive into one of those

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stories that you read and the
meaning behind it.

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A lot of it I felt like I had
heard before, but Brother David

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does a really good job of
putting it all together and

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pulling a lot of really
interesting Nuggets from the

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story of the Ethiopian eunuch
and Philip and kind of the

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events going on after Christ’s
resurrection during the time of

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Acts representing the gospel,
going out to the entire world,

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and sort of how that began
following Christ’s death and

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resurrection.
So this was one that was sent

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through as a suggestion for a
couple different expectations,

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and David Frazier’s one from
October in 2016 was one of them.

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And I found it to be really
encouraging.

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Also, one of those fun deep
dives into a little section of

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scripture and a little story
that maybe you haven’t always

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paid attention to or just sort
of read over as being just a

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Sunday school story that you
read about and not always

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focusing on all the little
details.

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But Brother David does a really
good job at digging into those

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details and finding all the
meanings that are there.

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So if you’re going to be
following along, the account is

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taken from Acts chapter 8
starting at verse 25.

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And there are tons of good
opportunities for Bible marking

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and kind of making little
connections to other parts so

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that the next time you read
through this passage, you can

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call back to this class and find
those fun notes to make the

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story come alive as I felt it
did when I was listening to

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Brother David give this
exhortation.

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So I hope that you find this
exhortation to be an

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encouragement to you as you go
through this coming week and

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uplifts you on your walk.
And with that, I will turn it

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over to our brother David
Frazier for his exhortation

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entitled The Ethiopian Eunuch.
My dear brothers and sisters in

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our Lord Jesus Christ.
So the exhortation is on the

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Ethiopian eunuch.
It’s the latter part of the ACT

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reading.
And we know the story of Philip

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in the Ethiopian eunuch very
well.

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It’s a very familiar New
Testament story.

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But the interesting thing is
that the reality of the story

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begins at least 1000 years
before this time.

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It begins 1000 years before in
the reign of King Solomon.

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So if you open your Bibles with
me to 1st Kings chapter 8, we’ll

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be able to see some of the
detail of of where the origin of

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the Ethiopian eunuch story
began.

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So we know in First Kings
chapter 8, verse 20, it says

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that Solomon had built a temple
as Yahweh had commanded him as

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an house for the name of Yahweh,
Elohim of Israel.

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The point of building the house
for Solomon and that had as God

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had required, was to venerate
the name of Yahweh.

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It was a place for Yahweh’s name
to be placed.

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Solomon plainly understood that
the temple couldn’t contain God,

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but it was a place where His
name would reside.

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And you see this from verse 22
onwards.

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First Kings 8.
Verse 22 And Solomon stood

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before the altar of Yahweh in
the presence of all the

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congregation of Israel, and
spread forth his hands towards

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toward heaven.
And he said, Yahweh elohimeth

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Israel.
There is no God like thee in

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heaven above or in earth
beneath, who keepest covenant

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and mercy with thy servants,
that walk before thee with all

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thine their heart.
Verse 27 But will God indeed

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dwell on the earth?
Behold, the heaven and heaven of

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heavens cannot contain thee.
How much less this house that I

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have builded.
So this was not a constraint of

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God.
It was a place where the name of

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Yahweh was to be imprinted on
the building that Solomon had

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made.
Now the temple was in many ways

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different to the Tabernacle and,
and we know obviously that the

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materials were mostly much
grander and of much greater

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worth.
It was a permanent structure

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compared with the temporary
structure which was the

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Tabernacle, and it was larger,
though not that much larger than

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the Tabernacle, but that’s not
the real difference.

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The real difference between the
Tabernacle and the temple was

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the following.
The Tabernacle was created by

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God in the wilderness for the
Jews, whereas the Temple of

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Solomon was the 1st House of
prayer for all people and we’re

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going to come to that in a
moment.

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It really is important to
understand the distinction

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between them.
If somebody had to appear at the

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Tabernacle, they had to comply
with Jewish strictures and and

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conversion principles.
The Temple was the 1st House of

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prayer for all people.
Have a look a little on in in

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First Kings chapter 8 down at
verse 41.

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Here is Solomon at the
dedication of the temple talking

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about non Jews.
Moreover, concerning a stranger

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that is not of thy people Israel
explicitly a non Jew, but who

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cometh out of a far country for
what reason?

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For Yahweh’s name’s sake, for
they shall hear of thy great

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name.
And if thy strong hand, and of

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thy stretched out arm, we
remember when Solomon started

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praying to God, he stretched
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The people are responding
because Yahweh’s arm is

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stretched out in verse 42.
And when this stranger shall

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come and pray toward this house,
hear thou in heaven, thy

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dwelling place, and do according
to all that the stranger calleth

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to thee, for that all people of
the earth may know thy name, to

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fear thee, as do the people
Israel, and that they may know

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that this house which I’ve
builded is called by thy name.

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So the purpose of the temple was
plainly to expand the principle

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of the name of Yahweh to all
nations, not just to the Jews.

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It was an outstretched intent.
It was an outreaching to all the

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nations.
And you know what?

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God actually built this into the
architectural features that He

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required Solomon to make in the
temple.

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If you come back just two
chapters, you’ll see this in

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First Kings chapter 6, verses 23
to 28.

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And that’s primarily in the
structure of the Caribbean in

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verse 23 of First Kings chapter
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It’s a notable change to the
Tabernacle within the Oracle

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that is the most Holy Place.
He made two Caribbeans of olive

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tree, each 10 cubits high, and
five cubits was the wing of one

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Carib and five cubits the other
wing of the Carib.

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From the outermost part of the
one wing unto the outermost part

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of the other were 10 cubits, and
the other Kerub was the same.

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Both the Kerubim’s were of one
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And verse 27 continues.
He set the Kerubim’s within the

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inner house, and they stretched
forth the same phraseology

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again, the wings of the
Kerubim’s, so that the wing of

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the one touched the one wall and
the wing of the other Kerub

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touched the other wall, and
their wings touched one another

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in the midst of the house.
And he overlaid the Caribbeans

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with gold.
So in the Tabernacle, the wings

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of the Caribbeans had been
folded in and exclusive in the

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wings of the Caribbean of
Solomon’s temple.

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They’re outward, reaching and
expansive.

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And it’s notable, too, that it
specifically describes them as

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two Caribbean of olive wood.
And because we Bible students,

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our minds run straight away to
Zechariah, to the two olive

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trees, the one wild and the one
natural who jointly created the

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oil for the lampstand.
Because this, my dear brothers

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and sisters, is talking about
the two anointed ones, the Jews

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and the Gentiles, each
represented in equal measure, in

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equal stature, in equal
structure within the Holy of

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Holies.
And what do they do?

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They’re made of olive wood and
they’re covered, both with the

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same method of redemption, the
gold of tried faith.

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How do they stand?
They stand stretching out,

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extending outwards, yet meeting
in perfect harmony in the

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middle.
It was a harmony of Jew and

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Gentile in the principles of
God’s expansion of His name to

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all nations.
And not only were the Caribbean

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expansive there Solomon also
says that he put them upon the

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veil and uniquely in the temple
also on the walls of the holy

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place, not the most holy, the
holy place both within and

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without.
And whether that means on the

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outside or not, it’s it’s a moot
point.

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But we have the symbol of two
olives, olive tree made Kerubim

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June Gentile, and then Kerubim’s
all over the walls of the holy

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place in Solomon’s temple.
So what did Kerubim’s represent?

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They represented the vehicle for
the conveying, the chariot for

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the conveying of God’s
principles and God’s truth in an

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expansionist form.
It was always the vehicle moving

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was a Kerubim to bring God’s
glory to all nations.

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Now we’re in first Kings and we
don’t have to wait very long to

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see the work of God actually
bearing fruit.

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Cometh me to 1st Kings chapter
10 because this is the first

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time when somebody responds to
this outstretched work of of

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Yahweh to the Gentiles in First
Kings chapter 10 at verse one.

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And when the queen of Sheba
heard the fame of Solomon

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concerning the name of Yahweh.
Isn’t that interesting?

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What was her response to it was
about the name of Yahweh and all

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that it stood for.
She came to prove him with hard

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questions.
And she came to Jerusalem with a

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very great train with camels
that best spices and very much

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gold and precious stones.
And when she was come to

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Solomon, she communed with him
of all that was in her heart,

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and Solomon told her all her
questions.

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There was not anything hid from
the king which he told her not.

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And then what happens?
The queen of Sheba makes an

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observation.
The Queen of Sheba, when she had

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seen all of Solomon’s wisdom and
the house that he had built, the

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food off his table, the sitting
of his servants in the

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attendance of his ministers,
their apparel of righteousness,

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and his cupbearers, and his
ascent by which he went up to

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the House of Yahweh.
There was no more spirit in her,

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because what was getting
presented here was the greater

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than Solomon preparing the table
for his servants.

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There was the food on the table,
and they were the cupbearers,

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and which she saw the expanse of
what this outward reaching

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humility was in giving the
salvation to all.

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The result was that there was no
more spirit in her.

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And verse 6.
She says to the king, It was a

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true report that I heard in mine
own land of thy acts and of thy

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wisdom.
Howbeit, I believe not the

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words, until I came, and my eyes
had seen it, and behold, the

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half of it was not told me.
Thy wisdom and prosperity

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exceeded the fame which I heard,
and the consequence of sitting

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at this table of bread and wine
is that happy are thy men.

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Happy are these thy servants,
which stand continually before

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thee, and that hear thy wisdom.
O Solomon, blessed be Yahweh thy

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God, which delighteth in thee to
set thee on the throne of

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Israel, because Yahweh loved
Israel forever, therefore made

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he the king to do judgment and
justice.

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And the echoes to us and our
Christ our greater than Solomon

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is plainly painted in this this
vision.

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She was a queen from the South.
She came from the way of the

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South.
She was the first queen of the

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South in scriptural language.
And she came because the name of

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Yahweh had been attached to that
house, but had spread.

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It was not just localized.
It had spread into all the earth

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this wonderful, true
monotheistic religion that made

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sense.
It was believable, unlike the

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nonsense of the pagans
roundabout.

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And she came and was satisfied,
and she received that wonderful

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wisdom from Solomon, who was
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So perhaps as a consequence of
her belief, my dear brothers and

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sisters, 1000 years later a man
of Ethiopia, the eunuch from the

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South, could make a similar
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This pattern though, had
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People out of all nations were
being called to God’s truth

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always because of the principles
by which He stood.

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There were truth seekers out of
all nations always wanting to

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come to this one God of Israel.
Open your Bibles just for a

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moment to John chapter 12 and
you’ll see an example of this,

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because in John chapter 12, we
get an example of exactly the

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same type of people as the Queen
of Sheba and her cohorts as they

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came up to Jerusalem.
So John chapter 12 beginning at

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1st 20 to 21.
And there were certain Greeks

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among them that came up to
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That’s the feast of Passover.
The same came therefore to

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Philip, which was of beside her
of Galilee, Galilee of the

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nations, and desired him saying,
Sir, we would see Jesus.

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It’s the same type of appeal as
the Queen of Sheba had.

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And what’s very important for us
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here are referred to as Greeks.
There is another word used in

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the New Testament.
It’s very important for us to

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distinguish, and you don’t need
to turn it up.

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In Act Six, there are people who
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Grecians are not Greeks.
Grecians in scriptural

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terminology and you can look it
up in your own time, were

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Hellenistic Jews, Jews who spoke
Greek as their first language.

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They were typically born outside
of the land of Israel and were

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viewed as second rate citizens
because they spoke Greek and not

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Aramaic or Hebrew as their first
language.

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These were the Grecians.
However, in John 12 these Greeks

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are Gentiles and it’s exactly
the same phrase that’s used in

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Galatians 328.
There’s neither Jew nor Greek as

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Jew nor non Jew in Galatians 328
and they came up to the

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Passover.
Gentiles came to the Passover at

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Jerusalem.
What brought them up?

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Well, it says they came to
worship.

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They came to worship.
And you know what?

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Gentiles could participate in
the Passover.

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And so they did from the very
first Passover.

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Because it didn’t mean you had
to be a Jew to partake in the

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Passover.
It meant you had to be

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circumcised, irrespective of
your national origin.

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You were welcome at the Passover
if you were circumcised.

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What Jesus did they see?
What was the Jesus they saw?

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Well, in the New Testament,
Jesus was the true cherub.

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He was the anointed cherub who
was taking God’s message outside

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the confines of the temple and
the precinct of the temple, and

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was Emmanuel walking among us.
He was the perfect vehicle to

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bring God’s principles amongst
all people, And they behold

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beheld as glory, as of the only
begotten glory of the Father,

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full of grace and of truth.
And Jesus though, presents

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Himself not as that great image
a little down in John 12.

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He presents Himself as the seed
which has to fall into the

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ground to bring forth much
fruit.

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They saw the suffering servant
Jesus, not the one who has

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glorified just yet.
Jesus showed that the cross had

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to come before the crown.
So now, brothers and sisters,

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cometh me to Acts chapter 8 as
we pick up the story of the

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Ethiopian eunuch, because it all
fits together.

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There was precedence to the
events of Acts chapter 8.

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In Acts chapter 8, the Angel of
Yahweh spoke to Philip again to

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Philip of all people, Philip
who’s he was a Gent.

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It’s a Gentile name.
Philip means a lover of horses.

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He was of Galilee.
He was a person who was speaking

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well to the Gentiles.
And of course the Angel of

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Yahweh chooses Philip of all
people to send him on this

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mission.
Verse 26 The Angel of Yahweh

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spoke to Philip saying, Arise
and go toward the South, unto

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the way that goes down from
Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is

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desert.
And Philip arose and went, and

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behold, a man of Ethiopia and
eunuch of great authority under

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Candace, queen of The
Ethiopians, who had the charge

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of all her treasure.
Interesting that word.

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Treasure is the word Gaza.
He was going down to Gaza and he

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was a man in charge of Gaza,
which is treasure.

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It’s a play on where your
treasure is.

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And he had come like the Greeks,
to Jerusalem for to worship.

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Isn’t this interesting?
He was a Gentile who had come to

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Jerusalem for to worship.
And he was returning and sitting

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in his chariot he read Isaiah
the prophet.

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So what was this road?
It says the road LED S.

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Well, obviously a southward
leading Rd. leads S.

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But you know what the the Greek
actually implies?

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It means it doesn’t mean S at
all.

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It means at noonday.
So this was another Rd.

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There was one Rd. that led S
through Hebron more directly

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South and another one that led S
towards the coast to Gaza, and

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that was the really unused Rd.
to Gaza.

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He was on that road to Gaza to
probably catch the King’s Hwy.

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to go further South.
It was like a adjoining route.

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He was on that route in a dry
desert in the middle of the day

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at noonday, and there was
nothing around him.

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It was quiet.
Still.

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No other passengers.
Nobody else would be mad enough

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to go on that road in the middle
of the noonday heat.

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And there he was in the most
unlikely place on earth that God

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caused a new beginning to happen
for the Ethiopian war.

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You see, God’s often causes
interesting things to start in

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our lives in the most unlikely
places that we could ever, ever

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expect or believe.
So where was Ethiopia that he

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was from?
So Ethiopia in those days tended

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to refer to anything South of
Egypt.

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It was a very wide area, not
just the narrow country that we

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know as Ethiopia now.
And who was he, the Chamberlain

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or control of the, the, the
treasury form?

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Well, it says her name was
Candace, Queen of The

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Ethiopians.
Well, Candace was a title very

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much like pharaoh.
It’s, it’s not a proper name.

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Her name was Amanatari and she
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So it’s a title.
He was in service to a great

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queen and as a eunuch.
He was a man of high status, a

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Chamberlain, and he had
knowledge of the Jewish faith

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because he was coming plainly to
Jerusalem to worship.

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His reason for being there was
only to worship.

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It was not to exalt his position
or his status or his power or in

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a diplomatic mission.
It wasn’t a byproduct of going

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there for some other reason.
He came there to worship.

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He had intent in his heart and
an understanding of the God of

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Israel.
So significantly then, brothers

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and sisters, with Paul and
Cornelius, he makes up the great

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three of the conversions of the
New Testament, Shem Paul Ham,

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the Ethiopian eunuch, and
Japheth Cornelius out of all

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nations called to the truth.
And he’s returning and he’s

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reading Isaiah.
Now, we might think that that’s

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normal because we’re people of
the book, but it was extremely

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rare to own a copy of your own
scrolls.

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This man had gone and taken his
own money and had bought the

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Isaiah scrolls.
And there there were normally

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two in a set because they were
so bulky.

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He had bought two of these from
the scribes in Jerusalem.

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We know from the version he’s
reading, it was probably,

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probably the substurgent
version, the Greek version of

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the Old Testament, which shows
that he was a learned man of

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those days that and he read this
and he was reading aloud, as

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many people in the past used to
do.

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We tend to read quietly.
In the past, reading aloud was

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much more frequent.
So he was, he was reading

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obviously somebody else was
driving because he couldn’t do

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both at the same time, and his
servants would have been hearing

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the things he was saying.
So verse 29, the Spirit says to

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Philip, Go near, join thyself to
this chariot.

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And Philip ran thither to him
and heard him read the prophet

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Isaiah and said, Understandest
thou what thou readest?

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And he said, How can I accept?
Some man should guide me?

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And he desired, or as the
Revised Version says, he

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besought Philip that he would
come up and sit with him.

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So the Ethiopian eunuch had
opened his scroll and had been

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reading through it and got to
Isaiah 53, the suffering servant

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of Jesus, and was now stuck.
Isn’t isn’t it interesting that

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Philip was at a distance from
the chariot at this point?

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The Spirit was able to take him
away in an instant, but that

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Philip, under circumstance of
God’s design, had to run with

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the Gospel to the Ethiopian
eunuch.

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The Spirit can move him around
afterwards, plainly moved him

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away, but Philip had to with his
feet shod with the gospel of

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grace, as Romans 10, verse 15
tells us, run with the gospel to

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bear it to the Ethiopian eunuch
and running aside him, the

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perfect timing to meet somebody
who’s moving at this desert

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place at noonday at just the
right place.

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The Spirit worked out that this
man was going to get stuck on

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Isaiah 53, and Philip met him
where he was.

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And it’s a great principle for
teaching the truth.

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God sends right people to say
the right things at the right

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time for the right reason.
It was perfectly tuned for the

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needs of the Ethiopian eunuch.
So the Ethiopian eunuch

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acknowledged that he was unable
to understand.

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He was stuck.
Verse 32.

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The place of the Scripture which
you read was this.

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He was led as a sheep to the
slaughter, and like a lamb done

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before his Shearer, so opened he
not his mouth.

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In his humiliation his judgement
was taken away.

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And who shall declare His
generation or his descendants,

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for his life is taken from the
earth.

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And the eunuch answered Philip,
and said, I pray thee, of whom

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speaketh the prophet this of
himself, or some other man?

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Then Philip opened his mouth,
and began at the same Scripture,

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and preached unto him Jesus.
The remarkable thing is, the

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scribes had fastidiously copied
this text down, but not one of

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them could have ever explained
it to this man.

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They got it down pat, but they
never understood its meaning.

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And yet this man wanted to know.
You see, this is the wonderful

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quality of a truth seeker, and
it’s what we have to do

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continuously, brothers and
sisters, ask questions, seek for

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truth.
What does it mean?

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So Philip opened his mouth and
preached unto him the suffering

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servant, which is Jesus.
You know, there’s no other way

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to speak except opening your
mouth.

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So what does it mean when it
says Philip opened his mouth?

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Well, that’s a phrase that comes
to us and you can just note it.

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Acts 116 and Acts 3, verses 18
and 21.

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It’s typically words that are
spoken under influence of the

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Holy Spirit when He opens his
mouth.

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The Holy Spirit was working now
through Philip because Philip

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had done the hard work and got
there at the right time.

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So Philip opens his mouth and
preaches to him the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
And as they went on their way,

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verse 36, they came to a certain
water.

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And the eunuch said, see here is
water, water in the desert, the

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most unlikely place to find
anything.

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What doth hinder me to be
baptized?

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And Philip said, If thou
believest with all thine heart,

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thou mayest.
And he answered and said, I

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believe that Jesus Christ is the
Son of God.

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And he commanded the chariot to
stand still.

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And they went down both into the
water, both Philip and the

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eunuch, and Philip baptized him.
When it says a certain water in

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verse 36, the resonance back to
Isaiah is absolutely plain.

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Now Isaiah 43 at verse 19, and
the subchergent, I’ll read it to

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you.
Behold, I will do new things

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which shall presently spring
forth, and ye shall know them,

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and I will make a way in the
wilderness and rivers, in the

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dry land.
And in some partial fulfillment

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00:29:46,360 –> 00:29:50,280
of that prophecy, it was coming
very real for the Ethiopian

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00:29:50,280 –> 00:29:53,680
eunuch.
But which springs of waters

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00:29:53,680 –> 00:29:57,080
would these have been?
It says a certain water.

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00:29:57,840 –> 00:30:00,640
It didn’t mean he just said
there is water.

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00:30:00,640 –> 00:30:04,000
He came and there was a certain
water.

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It appears, my dear brothers and
sisters, that these were the

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wells and the springs that were
given to the Gentile Caleb as

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his inheritance in the land.
In Joshua 15, verse 19, the

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springs of water as it is
described in Joshua in the

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Southland that were the Gentile
Caleb’s, the very water that was

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going to be baptizing him was
that which had been owned by

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Caleb.
So Philip started under the

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00:30:40,320 –> 00:30:44,880
inspiration of the spirit of
Isaiah 53 and he preaches to him

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00:30:45,080 –> 00:30:49,200
Jesus and baptism.
The two of them go hand in hand.

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Just a dead Christ is not good
enough, but a resurrected Christ

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00:30:53,760 –> 00:30:56,600
is.
And the Ethiopian wanted to be

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00:30:56,600 –> 00:31:01,360
baptized into the death of the
suffering servant of Isaiah 53,

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00:31:01,960 –> 00:31:05,680
the Jesus who the Greeks had
come up to see in John 12, who

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was the seed who fell into the
ground and came forth and

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00:31:08,920 –> 00:31:14,040
brought forth many more other
than just himself alone.

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He would have descendants which
would not be of His own loins.

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And verse 39, when they would
come up out of the water, the

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spirit of Yahweh caught away
Philip, that the eunuch saw him

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00:31:28,800 –> 00:31:31,200
no more, and he went on his way,
rejoicing.

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00:31:32,520 –> 00:31:35,560
And instantly Philip is found at
Ashdod.

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That’s Azotus.
It’s Ashdod.

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00:31:38,560 –> 00:31:41,000
You know where Ashdod is?
It’s on the coast.

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00:31:41,480 –> 00:31:45,120
He went from inland in this dry
desert place and was found at

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00:31:45,160 –> 00:31:49,760
Ashdod on the coast.
And wonderful Philip passing

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00:31:49,760 –> 00:31:52,240
through.
He preached in all the cities

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00:31:52,560 –> 00:31:56,520
till he came to Caesarea.
All the way from Gaza in the

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South, up the coastline to the
very top of the land to

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00:32:00,120 –> 00:32:03,120
Caesarea, Philip’s mouth was
opening.

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00:32:03,720 –> 00:32:06,880
Speak, speech, speaking the
gospel and preaching the good

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00:32:06,880 –> 00:32:11,640
news of the things of Christ.
Isn’t that wonderful?

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00:32:14,120 –> 00:32:19,640
But Philip May began at Isaiah
53, but I’m absolutely certain

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00:32:19,640 –> 00:32:23,840
he never ended there.
Either Philip may have

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00:32:23,840 –> 00:32:28,760
continued, or the Ethiopian
eunuch would have turned the

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00:32:28,760 –> 00:32:34,920
scrolls a couple of turns on and
he would have come to Isaiah 56.

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00:32:35,400 –> 00:32:38,680
Turn with me there if you
wouldn’t mind, because it’s so

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00:32:38,680 –> 00:32:43,280
exciting to see the promise that
the Ethiopian eunuch would have

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00:32:43,280 –> 00:32:48,760
seen in Isaiah 56 as I 56 at
verse 3.

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00:32:52,240 –> 00:32:56,800
Neither let the son of the
stranger that hath joined

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00:32:56,800 –> 00:33:01,360
himself to Yahweh speak, saying
Yahweh have utterly separated me

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00:33:01,360 –> 00:33:04,240
from his people.
Don’t think you’ve separated

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00:33:04,240 –> 00:33:06,360
from Israel because you’re not a
Jew.

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00:33:07,600 –> 00:33:13,120
Neither let the eunuch say,
Behold, I’m a dry tree, that

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00:33:13,160 –> 00:33:16,480
that’s exactly what he saw in
the desert, and his life had no

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00:33:16,480 –> 00:33:21,240
issuance after him, like the
suffering servant of Isaiah 53.

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00:33:22,760 –> 00:33:26,160
For thus saith Yahweh, unto the
eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths,

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00:33:26,160 –> 00:33:29,840
and choose the things that
please me, and take hold of my

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00:33:29,840 –> 00:33:33,720
covenant, even unto them will I
give.

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00:33:34,320 –> 00:33:40,800
Now look at this, please.
In mine house the Caribbean, the

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00:33:40,800 –> 00:33:45,760
two wooden Caribbean, and within
my walls the Caribbean.

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00:33:45,760 –> 00:33:54,160
On the walls a place and a name.
The name of Yahweh will be upon

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00:33:54,160 –> 00:33:57,280
him better than of sons and
daughters.

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00:33:57,280 –> 00:33:59,440
Sons and daughters, carry on
your name.

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00:34:00,600 –> 00:34:04,920
The promise with Christ is that
you will be carried on yourself.

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00:34:06,360 –> 00:34:11,159
I will give them an everlasting
name that shall not be cut off.

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00:34:12,960 –> 00:34:15,000
What are the attributes of this
person?

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00:34:15,360 –> 00:34:18,679
Verse 6.
The sons of the stranger that

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00:34:18,679 –> 00:34:23,760
join themselves to Yahweh to
serve him, to love the name of

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00:34:23,760 –> 00:34:28,159
Yahweh, to be his servants.
Everyone that keepeth the

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00:34:28,159 –> 00:34:32,080
Sabbath from polluting it,
taketh hold of my covenant.

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00:34:32,840 –> 00:34:36,760
Even then will I bring it to My
holy mountain and make them

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00:34:36,760 –> 00:34:44,360
joyful in My House of prayer.
And their offerings, their burnt

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00:34:44,360 –> 00:34:47,920
offerings and their sacrifices,
though not of Israel, will be

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00:34:47,920 –> 00:34:51,800
accepted on Mine altar, for Mine
house shall be called a House of

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00:34:51,800 –> 00:34:57,040
prayer for all people.
Yahweh Elohim, which gathereth

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00:34:57,040 –> 00:35:01,440
the outcasts of Israel, saith.
Yet will I gather others to Him,

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00:35:01,880 –> 00:35:09,240
beside those that are gathered
unto Him, Those who served, who

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00:35:09,240 –> 00:35:15,840
loved, who kept, and who held
would be given service and

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00:35:15,840 –> 00:35:18,880
access in the House of prayer
for all people.

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00:35:19,360 –> 00:35:21,720
This is you and me, my brothers
and sisters.

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00:35:23,000 –> 00:35:25,960
And as he says, he’s going to
gather others into the fold.

510
00:35:26,240 –> 00:35:28,280
This is the other fold of John
10.

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00:35:28,840 –> 00:35:31,960
There’s the Jewish fold, and
there’s the fold that you and I

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00:35:31,960 –> 00:35:36,680
are part of.
So in bringing this to a close,

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00:35:37,120 –> 00:35:41,640
brothers and sisters, Psalm 68
has a lovely prophecy here,

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00:35:42,760 –> 00:35:47,520
which in many ways was fulfilled
when this man of Ethiopia turned

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00:35:47,520 –> 00:35:52,120
to Yahweh in Psalm 68 at verse
29.

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00:35:54,720 –> 00:35:59,800
And look at the context of it
because of thy temple at

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00:35:59,800 –> 00:36:01,680
Jerusalem.
This is a Psalm of David

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00:36:01,920 –> 00:36:05,440
prophesying the future temple
that Solomon his son would

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00:36:05,440 –> 00:36:08,160
build.
But of course it’s it’s precient

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00:36:08,160 –> 00:36:11,560
of the future with Christ
because of my temple at

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00:36:11,560 –> 00:36:15,040
Jerusalem shall kings bring
presents unto thee.

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00:36:15,800 –> 00:36:20,720
Princess shall come out of
Egypt, and Ethiopia shall soon

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00:36:21,480 –> 00:36:27,560
stretch out her hands unto God.
You see, God did the first

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00:36:27,560 –> 00:36:32,680
stretching out and Ethiopia has
responded in kind and stretched

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00:36:32,680 –> 00:36:37,960
back to lay hold of the presence
and the gift of eternal life

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00:36:37,960 –> 00:36:44,840
through the Lord Jesus Christ.
And Psalm 87 is also says in the

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00:36:44,840 –> 00:36:48,600
end of days when all of these
things, the glorious things are

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00:36:48,600 –> 00:36:51,080
spoken of thee, the city of God,
Zion.

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00:36:51,520 –> 00:36:56,440
Verse 4, he’s going to make
mention of Rahab and Babylon of

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00:36:56,440 –> 00:37:03,840
Philistia and Tyre with Ethiopia
saying this man was born there.

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00:37:04,880 –> 00:37:07,680
He was not a citizen, but he’s
been made a citizen.

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00:37:08,040 –> 00:37:11,320
He’s been written onto the very
walls of the new temple.

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00:37:11,840 –> 00:37:16,480
He is intrinsically part of it
because he sets his affections

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00:37:16,480 –> 00:37:22,080
on the things of the name.
So as we come to remember the

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00:37:22,080 –> 00:37:25,200
bread and the wine and our
suffering servant.

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00:37:25,200 –> 00:37:28,440
Now, how does this affect you
and me?

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00:37:30,000 –> 00:37:33,560
Well, it’s a very interesting
thing because the Ethiopian

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00:37:33,560 –> 00:37:37,320
eunuch actually represents you
and me in Scripture.

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00:37:37,320 –> 00:37:42,440
My brothers and sisters, do you
know why Ethiopia?

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00:37:42,640 –> 00:37:48,000
The name Ethiopia means the
place of sun darkened faces.

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00:37:48,880 –> 00:37:53,200
The place of sun darkened faces.
And you know what?

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00:37:53,800 –> 00:37:57,720
This is exactly what the bride
of Christ says of herself.

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00:37:58,200 –> 00:38:02,880
Cometh me to the last reference
of Song of Solomon chapter one

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00:38:02,960 –> 00:38:05,920
at verse 4.
I mean to read to you from the

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00:38:05,920 –> 00:38:10,480
New King James Version, Song of
Solomon chapter one at verse 4.

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00:38:12,280 –> 00:38:16,440
The bride of Christ is Speaking
of her bridegroom, her greater

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00:38:16,440 –> 00:38:20,160
than Solomon, and she says it’s
important that Solomon wrote

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00:38:20,160 –> 00:38:23,920
this as well.
Just think of that in verse 4.

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00:38:24,680 –> 00:38:26,160
Rightly.
Do they love you?

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00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:32,240
I am dark.
But they answer, but lovely.

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00:38:32,520 –> 00:38:36,920
Her daughters of Jerusalem, dark
like the tents of Kedah, like

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00:38:36,920 –> 00:38:42,280
the curtains of Solomon, do not
look upon me because I am dark,

553
00:38:42,280 –> 00:38:46,440
because the sun has tanned me.
That’s the meaning of Ethiopia.

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00:38:48,280 –> 00:38:51,400
And then she says to her
beloved, wondering where the

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00:38:51,400 –> 00:38:53,640
flock is, that she should
associate herself.

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00:38:53,680 –> 00:38:58,440
Tell me, O you whom I love,
where you feed your flock, where

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00:38:58,440 –> 00:39:06,440
you make it rest at noon.
The chariot stopped at noon, and

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00:39:06,440 –> 00:39:08,200
he was drawn into the flock of
God.

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00:39:09,840 –> 00:39:13,920
For why should I be as one who
veils herself by the flocks of

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00:39:13,920 –> 00:39:18,000
your companions?
What does the beloved say to

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00:39:18,000 –> 00:39:24,000
this one?
He says, If you do not know, O

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00:39:24,000 –> 00:39:29,160
fairest among women, follow in
the footsteps of the flock.

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00:39:29,880 –> 00:39:33,000
So she thought herself uncomely
before her Lord.

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00:39:33,760 –> 00:39:38,360
He calls her the fairest among
women, and it was just to

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00:39:38,360 –> 00:39:41,320
follow.
And that’s what we do now, my

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00:39:41,320 –> 00:39:45,520
dear brothers and sisters, we
follow in the same footsteps as

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00:39:45,520 –> 00:39:50,160
we remember the table of our
Lord, with the food on the table

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00:39:51,240 –> 00:39:55,440
and the cupbearers, the sitting
of her servants of the greatest

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00:39:55,440 –> 00:39:58,920
Solomon.
Thank thanks be to God for the

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00:39:58,920 –> 00:40:16,650
Lord Jesus Christ.
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