Alfred Norris – Class 1 – Behold the Lamb of God

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Told the Lamb of God for Alfred
N Paul England, Alfred.

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Good morning to everyone, the
notes you have.

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Before you contain only a small
fraction of of what I want to

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say in the course of these
talks, if God be willing, and

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what I.
Have to say constitutes.

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Only a very small fraction of
all that might be said about the

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work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
About the work of the Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
Leading up to and culminating

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upon his cross the Witch.
If I can borrow a praise from

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John’s Gospel.
The things which the.

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Lord did.
If they should be written,

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everyone, I suppose even the
world itself could not contain

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the books that should be.
Written.

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They have been reminded that
when I first came here some

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decades ago, the topic which was
then accepted for the second

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Idlewild Bible school from me
was Meditations on the Cross.

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Two things have happened since
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One is that the decades have
ruled by and our memories are

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not perfect.
And the 2nd is.

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That I’ve.
Done a good deal more

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meditating.
So what has to be offered now

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will certainly have a lot in
common with what I said at that

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time, for those of you who
remember, but I hope will

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involve some measure of growth
in an understanding of this

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tremendous topic.
I want to draw two things from

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things I’ve already said during
this week 1 to a young people’s

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class and the other to last
Sunday morning’s Bible class

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here, and I hope I may be
forgiven for the repetition to

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the young people’s class.
I recorded the.

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Opening words of a confession of
faith by two different people

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when they were asked why they
wanted to be baptized.

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The first was well.
That’s the way to eternal life

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and that’s where I want to go.
No 3 guesses that to.

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My shame was me.
And the other was to a young

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person who had not been brought
up in a Christadelphian

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background, who made known to
the sister who had instructed

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her that she wanted to be
baptized.

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And when she was asked and why
do you want to be baptized?

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She answered.
When I think.

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Of the Lord Jesus.
Christ hanging in agony upon His

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cross, and I know that was done
for me.

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Something has to be.
Done about that.

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How I could wish in God’s grace
that I?

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Had thought of that?
When they asked.

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Me.
Why I wanted to be baptized, but

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I thought.
About it, since out of the mouth

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of that particular babe and
suckling great wisdom came for

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the instruction of us all.
A further general comment.

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I don’t know whether if you look
down your ecclesial programs of

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Sunday public addresses, you
would find the cross of Christ

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figuring largely.
I hope so, but I don’t expect.

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So.
I don’t know whether you divided

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up.
The things that are discussed

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you would find.
That a lot of.

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Attention is given to the second
coming of the Lord, as it should

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be.
A good deal?

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Of attention is given us to when
he will come back.

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Which has.
Over the years had its

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embarrassments there.
Is a good deal of time.

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We’ve devoted to.
Seeking to divide who it is.

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Who will come down to take a
spoil to take a prey?

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In the land of.
Unwalled villages with

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fluctuating conclusions
concerning which we are

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currently very much in the
melting pot and that very, very.

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Little.
They said about the.

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Cross of Christ.
Some few years ago, I had to go

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to Norway on behalf of the Bible
mission to begin the recent

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Christadelphian preaching in
that country.

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And while I was there, I bought
a Norwegian Bible.

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I bought a cheap one.
And I hadn’t noticed how it was

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bound.
But when I got back, some

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brother called attention to the
image that was emblazoned on the

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front and he said ah.
Got the.

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Sign of the beast on it.
I see it was a cross and some

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young member of a
Christadelphian household came

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to me.
And he.

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Too saw that inscription on the
front of my Bible and he said.

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Oh, we don’t.
Believe in the cross.

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Do we, Uncle?
Well, we do, don’t we?

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And I would like this morning to
spend a good deal of attention

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in showing how very important.
It is to believe in it.

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I seem to remember that, Paul
said.

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God forbid that I.
Should glory saving the.

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Cross of Jesus Christ.
My Lord, by which the world has

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been crucified unto me and.
I am to the world.

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I seem to remember on one
occasion he walked to Mr.

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Sophisticated Town where many of
them there?

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Would have known much more about
Greek philosophy than any of us

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know, and perhaps even than Paul
than learned Paul would have

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known.
But he wasn’t.

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Prepared to compete?
Who knew more or?

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Most about the things in the
world around them.

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Paul did not.
Care and he said.

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I determined to know nothing.
Among you save Jesus Christ, and

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him crucified Jesus Christ.
And him crucified.

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That same Apostle Paul wrote
about himself.

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I have been crucified with
Christ.

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Nevertheless, I live.
And yet, no longer I but Christ.

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Liveth in me.
And that same Apostle Paul.

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Wrote to you and me.
There that our Christ have

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crucified the flesh.
With the.

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Affections and lusts thereof.
So whatever part the cross.

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Praise in our preaching.
In our excitation in our study.

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And in our meditation it played
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Very large part, a central part.
Indeed, if I may call in its

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own.
Phrase a crucial.

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Part in the thinking of the
believers of.

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Those days.
The cross well, the.

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Crossroads where human thought
came to a stop and.

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Contemplated the wisdom of God.
And thought about itself.

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And pride retired, discomfited,
and humility.

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Mounted the place.
Side by side.

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With where the Lord?
Hung in agony, and said, Lord,

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Remember Me when thou comest in
thy Kingdom.

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There is no.
Such topic as this.

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To keep us humble if that is
where we are.

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To make us humble if.
We are not there.

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To restore.
Us to humility.

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We have straight away.
And make us glory in nothing

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save what has God has.
Done for us.

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And in nothing that we think we
have done for ourselves.

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And now to take up what was the
topic of a talk last Sunday.

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But briefly, I want you to
picture before your minds the

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River Jordan, but John the
Baptist standing there, having

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performed his mission of baptism
upon publicans extortionate.

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Tax collectors, that is.
Pilots.

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We call them prostitutes.
Today.

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And sinners of all.
Kinds who were willing.

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But to.
Fulfil this simple condition.

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That they would go to John and
confess their sins before they

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could be baptized by him in
Jordan when John.

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Stood there with two of his
disciples.

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Those two must have.
Been two of those.

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Many who had.
Accepted his baptism.

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And we don’t know that.
Stage know anything against.

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Them.
If we learn things later, which

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make us?
Realize how human John the

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brother of James.
Was but if.

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As we suspect, Andrew was no
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Human.
Then those.

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Two were men who would see that,
gentle though their sins might

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have been.
Good though their public.

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Reputation might have been.
They like the.

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Publicans and the.
Harlots were sinners and should

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be baptized.
With the baptism of John.

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So there had been.
And so had someone else some

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days.
Before, some weeks before.

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I think it would have been,
probably not.

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Less, but not much.
More than six weeks before, John

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had conducted another baptism.
And while the publicans and the

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harlots were flocking.
To him and the.

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Pharisees were standing aloof
with superior.

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Gaze and contemptuous glance
there came to John, to Jordan,

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Jesus of Nazareth.
To be baptized by him.

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If we had to take this meaning,
exactly what it?

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Says the words of John chapter
one, then when John later.

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Six weeks later, says.
I knew him not.

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We were supposed that he.
Did not at.

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Once recognize the person who
came to.

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Be baptized, he might not have
done.

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They might never have met up to
now.

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Elizabeth, John’s mother, had
been in the hill.

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Country in the wilderness and.
She had not met.

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Mary the Mother.
Of the Lord at that time.

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And perhaps during the whole.
Period.

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Since.
John was in the.

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Desert until the day of his
showing unto Israel.

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But now they met.
For the first time.

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Perhaps when Jesus came to
Jordan to John.

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To be baptized by him.
Would you look with me at the?

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Circumstances in Matthew.
Chapter 3.

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The earlier verses up to verse
13 have been devoted to

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describing John’s general
mission.

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Preparing the Word of the Lord
and the people Who.

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Came to him and the sinners who
repented, and the.

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People who?
Would not repent to whom?

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John warned that this.
Might be their last opportunity.

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For behold, the axe was laid at
the root of the tree, and if the

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people did not repent, then the
tree they represented would be

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cut down.
And in that partly.

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Penitent, partly hostile
community.

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Came the Lord Jesus.
Christ and we read verse 13.

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Then cometh Jesus from Galilee
to the Jordan.

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And to John to be baptized of
him, but John would have

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hindered him saying.
I have need to be.

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Baptized of thee, and comest
thou to me?

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How did he know?
That he had need to be.

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Baptized by this one, whom he
later confesses, I knew him not,

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but he that said unto me, upon
whom thou shalt see the Spirit

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descending like a dove it.
Is he that shall.

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Baptize with the Holy Spirit.
How did John?

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Who had not yet.
Had that experience know?

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That the relationship between
Jesus.

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And himself was such.
That better.

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Than would be better the other
way.

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Round but his.
Character can bed.

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With the Lord’s.
Character would make.

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Him, the Suppliant, the.
Penitent, the confessor of sins,

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and Jesus.
Christ the receiver.

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The baptizer?
The conveyor of grace?

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I don’t know.
It could just be that the very.

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Demeanour of Jesus marked him
out from the shamefaced.

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Blushes of the Pharisee, of the
publicans and the Harlots.

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It could.
Just be that.

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John knew something that we
don’t know in a way.

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We don’t know about, but it is
not.

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Quite true that he and Jesus.
Had not met before.

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They had met. 30 years before.
Before either of them was born.

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And.
Elizabeth having, but lately

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been given the power to bear a
child by that quickening of her.

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Womb and of the.
Powers of Zacharias.

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Which God had given her,
encountered Mary the Mother.

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Of the Lord Jesus, but lately
the subject.

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Of the Holy Spirit’s action and
when they came together,

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Elizabeth.
Said.

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Whence is it that?
The mother of my.

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Lord is coming to me.
For when the child that.

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Is in me.
Saw thy coming, it leapt in my.

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Womb for joy.
So in some way.

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Quite unknown to us.
Even the unborn, John.

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Responded to the presence of the
majesty of the Son of God.

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And if the unborn John could do?
That then John the Baptiser.

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At the age of 30 plus.
With no prejudices to warn him

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against.
The Lord Jesus coming might.

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Within himself somehow have.
Perceived that.

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This was one.
Greater than he, as he had said,

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the latches of whose shoes he
was not worthy to unloose, and

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so.
I have.

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Need to be baptized of thee,
said John.

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It would have been so.
Tempting to accept the words of

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John at their face value.
And agree and retire.

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And decide.
Not to be baptized.

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He would have come so naturally.
To me, had I been there and had

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John, which he could not have
done, said such a thing to me.

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To say.
Yes, he’s right, isn’t he?

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All those being.
Baptized are sinners in.

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One way or another, gross
sinners coarse, sinners

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rapacious.
Sinners, but sinners every.

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One of them.
And that’s for me.

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I have done done no sin.
I shouldn’t need.

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To be baptized should I?
John’s humble.

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Abdication might well have.
Appealed to any pride that could

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have.
Influenced the work.

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Of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And turned him away.

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From baptism.
Not the Lord we know.

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That was not his way.
It’s quite evidence there was a.

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Struggle of will between John
who said I shouldn’t baptize

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you, and withstood him, which
seems.

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To be a very.
Powerful withstanding.

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And the Lord’s statement suffer
it to be so now.

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For thus it’s.
Becometh us to fulfil.

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All righteousness.
From which he would.

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Not move.
In his subservience to his God

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and his Father.
So John gave way.

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And the Lord was.
Baptized.

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And he went down into the.
Water and as he came.

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Out of the water, so.
This record in Matthew which I

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have been.
Paraphrasing tells us the.

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Spirit of heaven God descended
from heaven in the shape of a

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dove, and a voice was heard
saying.

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This is my beloved.
Son in whom I am well pleased

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there’ll be more.
To say about that and.

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Similar divine declarations
later.

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But for all.
We know about the omnipotence of

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God and his knowing things from
the beginning and the fact.

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That he wouldn’t be.
Aware of what Jesus Christ was

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going.
To do if I.

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As a son in relation to my own
now.

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Deceased father can remember
rightly.

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That I as a.
Father, in relation to my own

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now grown sons, can assess the
way I.

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Felt.
I think there was in him for all

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his concealment there was in me
for.

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Whatever I may have.
Reacted.

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A glow of.
Pleasure when my son said to me

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or.
I said to him.

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We would.
Like to be baptized?

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And God’s foreknowledge.
Is not a hinder.

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To to his feelings.
His awareness of what will.

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Happen does not.
Make him simply.

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Mechanically turn over the leaf
of A.

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Diary, when something happens,
he too feels what is going on.

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And I.
Have no doubt that when the Lord

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Jesus Christ had humbly.
Accepted his baptism and.

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Came up to complete that and was
received.

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By the greeting of the spirit
of.

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God from heaven.
In the shape of a dove, then the

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voice.
That said, from heaven, this is

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my beloved Son, in whom I am
well.

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Pleased was saying.
In my vernacular, well done, my

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son.
I’m very.

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Pleased with you for what you’ve
done.

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In the sort of way, my father.
Would have said to me.

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And with the same joy and John
looked on.

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He had done.
The thing he would.

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Not wish to do.
He had accepted the grace he.

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Shrugged his shrank from.
He had touched the.

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Body of the Son of God, and
baptized him and now.

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God has said what?
A great thing that condescension

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was and John.
Knew him now.

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And the Lord was taken away,
driven.

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Says mark by the.
Spirit of God into the.

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Wilderness and during.
Therefore the 40.

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Days, I have referred to the
temptation which must.

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Arise.
Later in this series.

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Of talks today, an emerging
triumphant.

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Not having sinned.
You know there.

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Are some words that ring untrue.
I said.

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Triumphant, although it wasn’t
the right.

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Word to say, just to awaken you.
And me to the way in which Jesus

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did emerge from everything.
He never triumphed.

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He never.
Adopted A triumphant attitude.

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What he did was obey and work.
And love and Labour.

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And serve and supper and die and
all to the glory.

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Of his father.
And the manner in which he

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endured the temptations.
In the woodless was.

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Our same kind.
Man does not live by bread

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alone.
I will not tempt the Lord.

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Thy God thus.
Worship the Lord thy God, and

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him alone shalt thou serve.
He came from a.

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Victorious encounter with those.
Temptations with his humble.

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Obedience to God intact,
unchallenged.

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By the pride or lust or desire
or ambition of man.

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And he came back to Jordan, and
John saw.

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Him from afar.
And as John.

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Chapter One.
Tells us, he said.

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To his two disciples.
Behold the Lamb of God.

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That taketh away the sin of the.
World the title.

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Of this first talk.
And then again a little later,

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behold the Lamb of God and the
two disciples, John the brother

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of James.
And Andrew, we leave them to

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have been.
Went and followed Jesus and

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said.
Rabbi, where dwelleth thou?

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And were taken to his temporary.
Home by him who had no home.

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Worse off than the birds of the.
Air and the foxes of their in

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their holes and had their first.
Application of his teaching, but

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John spoke.
Andrew and.

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John, the brother of the brother
of.

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James Heard and who else?
Heard Jesus was sharp of hearing

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he.
Could tell what people were

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saying when they were walking a
good way.

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Behind and.
Conversing secretly amongst

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themselves, hoping the Lord
wouldn’t.

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Know he could when they came.
To him.

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Say what?
Was that you were disputing?

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With you, by the way.
I’m sure you could have told

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them the answer.
He was aware of was in the

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hearts.
Of men before they spoke the

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Lord.
Knew what was.

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In men and if.
John the Baptist.

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Voice would not be.
Audible as a voice.

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I have no.
Doubt the Lord would have

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apprehended.
What he said because.

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He was the Lord with such
powers.

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Belonging to him.
So suppose now.

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You had been walking.
By.

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And John had pointed at you.
And he had said that you had

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heard him.
Behold the Lamb of God.

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What thoughts would have gone
through your mind?

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Suppose he had said.
Behold the love of God that

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taketh away the sin of the
world.

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What additional?
Thoughts would have.

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Pierced your mind, wounded, your
thinking given.

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Voice to the anxiety.
You were already.

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Feeling and made you.
Look at the future.

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And see at.
Least as clearly.

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As you had ever seen.
What it was that?

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Was in store for you.
Behold the love of God.

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Said John.
When they were going to

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sacrifice a lamb in old.
Testament times and especially.

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Under the injunction.
That they must not.

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Sacrifice a lamb with.
Blemish that.

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They must pick out from their.
Flocks.

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One that seemed to them to be
flawless.

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In all its characteristics you
can.

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Picture the shepherd.
Going to his flock.

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And looking them over.
And walking amongst them, and

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finally laying his hand on the
head of one and saying.

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That, that’s the one I’ll take.
And the Lord Jesus Christ walked

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among the multitudes.
And John revealed in the simple.

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Words he used.
That the Almighty.

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Had said that one.
That’s the Lamb of God, and he

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knew it was himself to which
reference was being made.

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I don’t think it was the 1st.
Time that that thought came into

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Jesus.
Mind, I don’t know.

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Because we are not told as far
as I’m.

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Aware when the first the Lord
first.

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Apprehended his Messiah.
Nick mission very early.

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I think it would have been but.
There was at least something of

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it there when at the age of 12,
he.

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Disputed with the scribes in the
temple in.

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Jerusalem.
And his answer to his mother,

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Did you not know that I must be
about?

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My father’s business.
Would already.

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Reveal that he knew.
Who his father was.

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And that.
It was his father’s work he was

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come to do.
And whether at that age he saw

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the cross ahead of.
Him I do not.

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Know but.
I think he knew it before John.

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Told him.
He was already in his mind

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before it was made.
Public by those very painful

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public words, behold the Lamb of
God that taketh away.

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The sin of the world?
Well, there’s no mistaking the

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import of the words Lambs.
To take away.

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Slim sin were sacrificed.
A lamb as an.

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Offering was put.
To death, John was.

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Saying that man is.
Going to die for the sins of.

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The world I don’t.
Even know how?

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Much John himself understood the
words were played.

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Enough and it’s.
Hard to understand any.

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Other meaning for them?
And perhaps there is some other

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explanation of why John.
In prison, in great unhappiness.

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With no expectation of being.
Delivered from the Headsman.

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‘S acts sent messages.
To the Lord saying.

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Art thou he that should come or
look, we for another?

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Well, at least at that time, I
think even later.

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Perhaps.
John understood or made us to

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understand that the.
Purpose of God had Jesus dying

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for our sins according to the
scriptures.

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He knew the scriptures.
Well, this Jesus did.

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He could stand up in the
synagogue at Nazareth, and when

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they gave him the scrolls
containing a part of the Old

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Testament to read, he could find
the 61st.

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Chapter of Isaiah.
You could read the words.

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The Spirit of the Lord God is
upon me because he hath

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anointed.
Me to.

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Preach the Gospels.
Of proclaimed deliverance to

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proclaim the.
Opening of prisons and then.

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Having given the robe.
Back and sat.

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Down, he could say.
That means me this.

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Day.
Is this scripture fulfilled?

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In your ears.
And if he knew that, about the

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preaching of the.
Gospel of peace.

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It is not possible to believe
that he did not also know.

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The route he must.
Tread to bring that peace.

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As Paul would later write, he is
our peace.

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Which had made both one and
broken down the middle wall of

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partition.
That was between us.

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He has made peace by the blood
of his cross, Paul would write.

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And I’m.
Sure that Jesus saw.

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That when he stood.
Up to read in the synagogue at

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Nazareth.
When he sat.

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Down to preach.
And maybe saw it yet more.

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Painfully when having preached.
To them about the abounding

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grace of God to Gentiles as well
as.

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Jews, they were angry.
With him and they.

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Took him out of their synagogue.
And they took him to the brow of

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the hill.
On which their city was built,

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and he would.
Have cast him headlong.

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They were not able to do more.
Than that.

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00:25:27,160 –> 00:25:31,120
Not then, for Jesus passed out.
Of the midst.

452
00:25:31,120 –> 00:25:36,480
Of them and went his way.
But there is one recurrent

453
00:25:36,480 –> 00:25:39,480
phrase in John’s Gospel.
In particular, sometimes from

454
00:25:39,480 –> 00:25:40,440
the.
Lips of the Lord.

455
00:25:40,520 –> 00:25:43,600
Sometimes from the pen of the
writer, his art was not yet

456
00:25:43,600 –> 00:25:46,000
come.
What I’d like to do with.

457
00:25:46,000 –> 00:25:49,320
Thee mine are is not yet come.
They are covers.

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00:25:50,640 –> 00:25:51,640
They are.
Is come.

459
00:25:52,920 –> 00:25:55,320
This is your.
Hour and the power of darkness.

460
00:25:57,520 –> 00:26:00,120
And to all those.
Measures of time yet to come.

461
00:26:01,000 –> 00:26:04,560
Close by at hand.
And now?

462
00:26:04,560 –> 00:26:08,240
Happening, Jesus saw the.
Passage of the time.

463
00:26:08,240 –> 00:26:11,960
That would lead him to his death
upon the cross.

464
00:26:15,480 –> 00:26:17,240
There are many.
Other indications of that?

465
00:26:19,040 –> 00:26:21,680
Carefully through the words of
Jesus from both early.

466
00:26:21,680 –> 00:26:25,000
Days till later days we see how
evidently he was.

467
00:26:25,000 –> 00:26:27,000
Aware of what?
Was in store for him.

468
00:26:29,720 –> 00:26:33,560
Why do not your disciples fast?
So the Pharisees and the.

469
00:26:33,560 –> 00:26:37,520
Disciples of John to him and
the.

470
00:26:37,520 –> 00:26:39,800
Lord said in reply.
Can the children of the?

471
00:26:39,800 –> 00:26:43,520
Bride chamber fast.
While the bridegroom is with

472
00:26:43,520 –> 00:26:47,520
them.
The hour is coming when the

473
00:26:47,520 –> 00:26:49,520
bridegroom.
Shall be taken away from them.

474
00:26:51,800 –> 00:26:56,480
And then shall they fast.
In those days and.

475
00:26:56,480 –> 00:26:59,400
What else could he have met?
Then that the.

476
00:26:59,760 –> 00:27:02,680
Course of their engagement.
Would not run smooth.

477
00:27:02,720 –> 00:27:05,800
He and his bride.
That there might.

478
00:27:05,800 –> 00:27:08,680
Be an expectation.
Of an early union in the glories

479
00:27:08,680 –> 00:27:10,360
of the Kingdom, but it was not
to be that.

480
00:27:10,360 –> 00:27:12,640
Way.
All their hopes and their joys

481
00:27:12,640 –> 00:27:16,080
concentrated in the association.
Of the Lord.

482
00:27:16,080 –> 00:27:19,560
With his spiritual bride.
Were to be postponed as they

483
00:27:19,560 –> 00:27:23,200
would see it.
Until the bridegroom returned.

484
00:27:23,200 –> 00:27:24,880
From a long and.
Painful journey.

485
00:27:26,880 –> 00:27:28,520
And the hour.
Is coming when the bridegroom

486
00:27:28,760 –> 00:27:33,760
shall be taken away from them.
It’s a quite instructive.

487
00:27:33,760 –> 00:27:37,360
Exercise to go through.
All the passages in the Gospels

488
00:27:37,360 –> 00:27:38,960
where.
The symbols of a.

489
00:27:38,960 –> 00:27:42,360
Marriage.
Are there like the great peace

490
00:27:42,360 –> 00:27:43,920
to which guests are invited and
won’t?

491
00:27:43,920 –> 00:27:45,920
Come, and so those from the
highways and the.

492
00:27:45,920 –> 00:27:51,040
Byways are brought in instead,
like the 10 virgins 5 whom are

493
00:27:51,040 –> 00:27:55,800
wise and five are foolish.
Like the Lord Jesus Christ as

494
00:27:55,800 –> 00:27:57,160
the.
Bridegroom and John the Baptist

495
00:27:57,160 –> 00:28:00,880
as the best man.
It’s a strange business.

496
00:28:02,080 –> 00:28:03,520
You have the father of the
bridegroom.

497
00:28:03,520 –> 00:28:05,680
You have the bridegroom.
You have the marriage hall.

498
00:28:05,680 –> 00:28:08,040
You have the feast prepared.
You have the guests.

499
00:28:09,440 –> 00:28:13,400
You never see the bride.
Not in the Gospels.

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00:28:15,360 –> 00:28:16,120
You have to.
Keep on.

501
00:28:16,160 –> 00:28:20,240
Waiting while the.
Bridegroom is lost.

502
00:28:20,240 –> 00:28:27,240
To sight in the.
Darkness of his grave then

503
00:28:27,240 –> 00:28:28,880
emerges to new.
Glory.

504
00:28:28,880 –> 00:28:33,280
And then we begin to learn,
slowly and painfully, but quite.

505
00:28:33,400 –> 00:28:40,840
Inexorably that at last there
can be a bride and wise.

506
00:28:40,840 –> 00:28:45,200
For whom in symbol the Lord?
Died for the church.

507
00:28:45,200 –> 00:28:46,720
And gave.
Himself up for it?

508
00:28:47,480 –> 00:28:50,400
That he might purify to himself
a holy church.

509
00:28:50,600 –> 00:28:53,320
Without spot or blemish.
Zealous of good.

510
00:28:53,320 –> 00:28:56,560
Works are privileged at last in
Ephesians to be brought.

511
00:28:56,560 –> 00:28:58,040
Before the daylight and we are
be.

512
00:28:58,120 –> 00:29:02,440
Being told that that.
Is the first explicit statement

513
00:29:02,440 –> 00:29:08,000
that the bride has been found.
And then, of course, the events

514
00:29:08,000 –> 00:29:12,280
March on to the expected glory.
When John is told, come hit her,

515
00:29:13,760 –> 00:29:19,320
and I will show thee the bride
the lamb’s wife, and the bride

516
00:29:19,320 –> 00:29:20,360
the.
Lamb’s wife arranged.

517
00:29:20,360 –> 00:29:22,680
In primed linen.
Clean and white stands.

518
00:29:22,680 –> 00:29:24,040
By the side of.
Her.

519
00:29:24,040 –> 00:29:28,000
Gloriously tired, resplendent
Lord basking in the.

520
00:29:28,000 –> 00:29:31,800
Glory of his father.
And only the.

521
00:29:31,800 –> 00:29:35,920
Eye of Remembrance knows that in
the hands that hang down there

522
00:29:35,920 –> 00:29:40,080
are the marks of nails.
And the feet so splendidly shod

523
00:29:40,080 –> 00:29:40,800
there.
Are two more.

524
00:29:40,800 –> 00:29:45,200
Marks of two more nails and if
it lies in the.

525
00:29:45,200 –> 00:29:46,400
Purpose of.
God to let the.

526
00:29:46,400 –> 00:29:49,840
Scar be assemble.
Of his victory, there is

527
00:29:49,840 –> 00:29:55,000
somewhere a place still to be
seen, where the spear pierced

528
00:29:55,000 –> 00:30:00,080
his side.
And all that the Lord Jesus saw

529
00:30:00,080 –> 00:30:00,880
when.
He said.

530
00:30:01,440 –> 00:30:03,080
Can the children of the Bride
chamber?

531
00:30:03,080 –> 00:30:06,920
Fast when the bridegroom.
Is with them and under the.

532
00:30:06,920 –> 00:30:10,320
Shadow of that pending.
Cross the Lord walked his life,

533
00:30:12,360 –> 00:30:16,480
not just there, alone.
Every time he escaped.

534
00:30:16,480 –> 00:30:17,920
From death.
And there were several of them.

535
00:30:19,640 –> 00:30:21,680
Every time they raised up.
Stones to stone him.

536
00:30:21,880 –> 00:30:24,160
And either God stead.
Their hands, so they couldn’t

537
00:30:24,160 –> 00:30:27,160
release the stone or the Lord.
Disappeared from their sight and

538
00:30:27,160 –> 00:30:29,760
I don’t know which it was.
The Lord.

539
00:30:29,760 –> 00:30:33,880
Saw the threat of death,
perceived how tenuously his

540
00:30:33,880 –> 00:30:36,880
life.
Hung upon the staid.

541
00:30:36,880 –> 00:30:39,760
Anger of his enemies and.
When he went out of the it’s

542
00:30:39,760 –> 00:30:42,400
them and walked on the other
side of Jordan, or did all the

543
00:30:42,440 –> 00:30:46,240
other things that the Lord did
to evade the imminent death.

544
00:30:46,840 –> 00:30:48,480
We see not.
Just that for that.

545
00:30:48,480 –> 00:30:51,040
Moment he escaped, but that his
eye had not yet come.

546
00:30:53,280 –> 00:30:57,240
He was not shaking death.
He was deferring.

547
00:30:57,240 –> 00:30:58,480
The time of death.
Till the time.

548
00:30:58,480 –> 00:31:02,160
That God had appointed.
And then he would.

549
00:31:02,160 –> 00:31:09,080
Resignedly die, he goes
throughout his preaching, They

550
00:31:09,080 –> 00:31:10,320
will.
Tell him he is Christ the.

551
00:31:10,320 –> 00:31:11,280
Son of the.
Living God.

552
00:31:11,440 –> 00:31:13,040
And what does the Lord say in
reply?

553
00:31:14,440 –> 00:31:16,720
The Son of Man.
Must go into Jerusalem to be

554
00:31:16,720 –> 00:31:18,480
betrayed into the.
Hands of citizen be put to

555
00:31:18,480 –> 00:31:22,120
death.
And the third day rise again.

556
00:31:23,760 –> 00:31:26,280
From that day on, began.
Jesus to tell his disciples how?

557
00:31:26,280 –> 00:31:28,280
He must go to Jerusalem and the
same.

558
00:31:28,280 –> 00:31:29,720
Repetition.
We have once more.

559
00:31:32,560 –> 00:31:34,800
You want the chief?
Places James and John do you in

560
00:31:34,800 –> 00:31:37,880
my Kingdom, are you?
Able to be.

561
00:31:37,880 –> 00:31:41,760
Baptized with my baptism.
To drink of my cup.

562
00:31:42,680 –> 00:31:48,680
To endure my sufferings.
You say you are, then you shall.

563
00:31:49,960 –> 00:31:52,080
But the best places?
In my Kingdom is not mine to.

564
00:31:52,080 –> 00:31:54,000
Give that, my father.
Will give to those.

565
00:31:54,120 –> 00:31:56,040
For whom he disappointed.
In the meanwhile.

566
00:31:56,040 –> 00:31:57,400
Prepare yourselves for
sufferings.

567
00:31:57,400 –> 00:32:01,040
Like mine.
And the Lord.

568
00:32:01,040 –> 00:32:03,400
Stared his sufferings.
Plainly in the place and knew

569
00:32:03,400 –> 00:32:07,440
they were to come and said.
To the disciples.

570
00:32:07,440 –> 00:32:10,360
In return, when they were angry
with James and John.

571
00:32:11,600 –> 00:32:12,920
He That would be.
Greatest among you.

572
00:32:12,920 –> 00:32:17,200
Let him be your minister even.
As the son of man came, not.

573
00:32:17,200 –> 00:32:19,040
To be ministered until.
But to.

574
00:32:19,040 –> 00:32:22,800
Minister and Give.
His life a ransom for many.

575
00:32:27,160 –> 00:32:30,680
Somewhere in the personal.
Diary of the Lord Jesus Christ.

576
00:32:33,000 –> 00:32:37,360
In that non leather.
Bound and ring united and.

577
00:32:37,920 –> 00:32:39,680
Carefully organized set of loose
leaf.

578
00:32:39,680 –> 00:32:41,520
Sheets.
We call an organizer in these

579
00:32:41,520 –> 00:32:45,080
days somewhere.
In the.

580
00:32:45,080 –> 00:32:48,440
Immaterial diary that reminded.
The Lord of his appointments.

581
00:32:50,440 –> 00:32:51,880
There was a note against a
certain.

582
00:32:51,880 –> 00:32:56,640
Day and night on AD whenever it
was saying go and be crucified.

583
00:33:00,280 –> 00:33:03,440
It was not an appointment he.
Couldn’t have broken.

584
00:33:05,760 –> 00:33:06,880
It was an.
Appointment he didn’t.

585
00:33:06,880 –> 00:33:11,160
Choose to break and.
Every day of his.

586
00:33:11,160 –> 00:33:13,920
Waking life he was.
Moving his steps nearer.

587
00:33:13,920 –> 00:33:16,200
To the time.
But not before the time.

588
00:33:16,320 –> 00:33:18,120
The time but not.
Later than the time.

589
00:33:18,240 –> 00:33:22,160
No anticipation and no.
Postponement when he would.

590
00:33:22,160 –> 00:33:27,320
Come to the point where he.
Must say this is your hour and

591
00:33:27,320 –> 00:33:33,160
the power of darkness.
How grieved he must have been.

592
00:33:34,400 –> 00:33:36,960
When his efforts to make that
plain to his disciples.

593
00:33:37,200 –> 00:33:40,680
Founded upon their human
incredulity and their desire.

594
00:33:40,680 –> 00:33:45,000
For glory without the shame,
when he said with desire, I have

595
00:33:45,000 –> 00:33:47,760
desire to eat this Passover with
you before I suffer.

596
00:33:50,080 –> 00:33:53,480
This is my body.
Which is?

597
00:33:53,480 –> 00:33:57,520
Given for sin, this cup is the
new.

598
00:33:57,520 –> 00:34:00,600
Covenant in my blood.
Shed for.

599
00:34:00,600 –> 00:34:06,760
Many for the remission of sins.
How heightened his sorrow?

600
00:34:06,760 –> 00:34:11,560
Must have been when leaving 8
disciples sleeping in the rear.

601
00:34:11,560 –> 00:34:13,120
He took three.
With him who slept.

602
00:34:13,120 –> 00:34:18,280
In their turn close by his place
of agony, and he prayed without

603
00:34:18,280 –> 00:34:21,000
their noticing it.
Father if it be.

604
00:34:21,000 –> 00:34:23,239
Possible let this cup pass from
me.

605
00:34:23,560 –> 00:34:26,320
Nevertheless, not my will.
But thine be done.

606
00:34:30,080 –> 00:34:39,760
Yet he set his face steadfastly
to go to Jerusalem, and at last

607
00:34:40,840 –> 00:34:45,800
they tried him, and they
condemned him and they.

608
00:34:45,800 –> 00:34:47,600
Passed the verdict of death.
Upon him and.

609
00:34:49,440 –> 00:34:53,199
The cross loomed.
For him humanly inescapable.

610
00:34:53,199 –> 00:35:00,840
Now he was their prisoner, but
he was their prisoner from

611
00:35:00,840 –> 00:35:04,960
choice.
They could never have.

612
00:35:04,960 –> 00:35:08,040
Taken him when he stripped them
to the ground in the garden.

613
00:35:10,080 –> 00:35:11,040
And could have walked over
their.

614
00:35:11,040 –> 00:35:15,600
Prostate bodies to freedom?
Had he not been willing to rise?

615
00:35:15,600 –> 00:35:20,280
Again and say take me.
And even then they could take

616
00:35:20,280 –> 00:35:23,480
but Him so great was the Lord’s.
Power that though he granted.

617
00:35:23,480 –> 00:35:27,400
Them the right to take.
Him and his life, he said.

618
00:35:28,120 –> 00:35:30,240
But don’t touch the others.
Let them go.

619
00:35:32,360 –> 00:35:35,000
And that rattle armed.
With swords and stay stood to

620
00:35:35,000 –> 00:35:37,400
attention and.
Obedience as 11 disciples.

621
00:35:37,400 –> 00:35:38,960
Filed out of that company
Utterly.

622
00:35:38,960 –> 00:35:44,360
Unharmed as the power of the
Lord rescued them, but himself

623
00:35:44,360 –> 00:35:48,160
he would not rescue.
They could get up.

624
00:35:48,160 –> 00:35:54,760
Now and take him away, and he
would not say them nay before

625
00:35:54,760 –> 00:35:56,320
high.
Priest and before power he would

626
00:35:56,320 –> 00:35:57,520
speak.
The words that condemned.

627
00:35:57,520 –> 00:36:00,480
Him.
Was all around.

628
00:36:00,480 –> 00:36:03,600
Mockers and rulers an.
Impenitent, Thief said.

629
00:36:03,680 –> 00:36:05,720
Come down from the.
Cross if you’re Christ.

630
00:36:07,160 –> 00:36:11,920
And as I think he knew.
That power within him, he stayed

631
00:36:11,920 –> 00:36:15,760
where he was.
And willingly died.

632
00:36:15,760 –> 00:36:18,080
For our sins and.
Gave up the spirit.

633
00:36:19,640 –> 00:36:26,440
According to the scriptures what
John said to them.

634
00:36:28,280 –> 00:36:30,640
We must now say to.
Each other and.

635
00:36:30,640 –> 00:36:34,040
Try to apprehend.
Its poignancy and its pain and

636
00:36:34,040 –> 00:36:36,960
its.
Love and hear the words.

637
00:36:38,080 –> 00:36:45,840
Behold the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin of the.

638
00:36:45,840 –> 00:36:51,240
World.
But to end on a note of.

639
00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:54,840
Our triumph?
It was the.

640
00:36:54,840 –> 00:37:00,360
Lamb of God, as it had.
Been slain that.

641
00:37:00,360 –> 00:37:02,240
Came out of the.
Multitudes of people who could

642
00:37:02,240 –> 00:37:05,760
not help.
Of angels.

643
00:37:05,760 –> 00:37:08,200
With authorities and powers.
And governors, and living and

644
00:37:08,200 –> 00:37:11,400
dead and presented.
Himself to the Father.

645
00:37:11,400 –> 00:37:14,840
Before the majesty of heaven
and.

646
00:37:14,840 –> 00:37:16,240
Took from the father’s.
Willing.

647
00:37:16,240 –> 00:37:21,600
Hand the book that disclosed and
contained the future and sat

648
00:37:21,600 –> 00:37:29,800
down and opened it.
And said to you and me to him

649
00:37:29,800 –> 00:37:31,600
that.
Overcometh will I grant?

650
00:37:31,600 –> 00:37:35,280
To sit down.
With me in my throne, even as I

651
00:37:35,280 –> 00:37:39,200
overcame.
And I’m sat down with my father

652
00:37:40,560 –> 00:37:41,320
in his throne.