Andrew Bramhill – Life-Changing Sayings of the Lord Jesus – Class 1 – The Vision Invigorated

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Thank you very much.
Good evening everybody.

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So we’re talking we’re talking
about the, the vision of the

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Kingdom, not quite the vision of
the Kingdom that you might be

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envisaging actually, but but
when you start to think about

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the, the coming Kingdom, I
wonder what you think of it.

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If if I was to share with you my
personal anticipations of what

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the Kingdom will be like, it
might be very different to

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yours.
You will have your own ideas and

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your own views there.
There are two or three things

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that that that that I I look
forward to which which you may

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be able to relate to what 1 is
that when Christ reigns and his

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government is in Jerusalem.
I rather think that unarguable

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evidence of God at work in the
world will make it easier to

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speak to people about salvation
in Christ.

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And I rather think our preaching
will be more effective and more

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powerful that that’s an idea
I’ve got.

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Whether it’s right or not, I
don’t know.

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Maybe men and women will still
be in denial even though Christ

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is back.
I, I, I also have a view, having

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been privileged to see the, the,
the desolate Judean desert.

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We’ve stayed in a kibbutz in the
Judean Desert, and it’s a pocket

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of green and lush vegetation in
the middle of a desert.

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And you think if there’s only
some water flowing through here,

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this would be a wonderful place.
And what do you know, in the

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Kingdom, living waters are going
to flow out of Jerusalem and

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water that desert and it will be
transformed.

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So that that’s a vision.
I’ve got one last little thing,

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which might be a small little
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Wherever we go today, we see
decay, we see pollution, we see

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man having touched the landscape
and scarred it and polluted it

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and damaged it.
Well, in the Kingdom, that’s all

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going to be cleaned up.
I’d quite like to be part of the

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cleaning up process.
That’s one of my little wishes,

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as it were.
I’d love to see a clean ocean

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again and a clean environment.
Maybe you’ve got your own view

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of what the Kingdom will be
like, but we’re not just trying

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to visualize the Kingdom.
I want you to examine for a

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moment or two what you think
about the return of the Lord

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Jesus.
We need Jesus to return before

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we can start on our Kingdom
experience.

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And and I wonder what you what
you think about the return of

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the Lord Jesus.
And just as we were thinking

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yesterday about our breaking of
bread, some of you will turn up

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at the breaking of bread with
very little preparation.

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You’ll turn up and suddenly it’s
bread and wine and you haven’t

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really focused.
Well, I wonder what you think

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about the Kingdom, the return of
the Lord Jesus that that the

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reality is some of you will will
just be too busy.

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You know, you, you get up in the
morning and it’s hectic and

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you’ve got a schedule to keep
and you’ve got places to get to

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when you need to be there by a
certain time when you’re in a

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mad rush and you’re busy all day
long and you come back home and

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you’re exhausted.
And it doesn’t matter whether

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it’s school or work or whatever
it is.

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And finding time to think about
the return of the Lord Jesus is

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difficult sometimes.
And, and there is a probability

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that a good portion in this room
don’t think about the return of

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the Lord Jesus Christ very much.
There’s a good probability

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that’s the case.
Now, if that’s you, maybe we can

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do something about that.
Maybe this week will help you

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and encourage you to think more
about the coming of our King.

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But maybe some of you are
anxious about it.

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Sometimes you hear brothers and
sisters talk about what if Jesus

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comes and I’m not ready?
What what, what if Christ

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returns and and I miss it.
You know, you sometimes get this

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message about missing the call.
Come back with me to Matthew

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chapter 24.
Would you please?

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You know the kind of verses that
indicate this, Matthew 24, for

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example, We’re talking about
Noah and the sudden flood coming

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and people not knowing until the
flood came.

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Verse 39 took them all away.
So shall also the coming of the

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Son of Man B And then we read
verses about two in the field, 1

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taken, the other left, two women
grinding at the mill, one taken,

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the other left.
Watch therefore, for you know,

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not on what hour your Lord does
come.

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Kind of fills us with dread a
little bit.

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What what if I’m left behind?
What if I’m one of those who

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misses out here and Jesus comes
and and everyone else goes in

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and I’m left behind?
I don’t think it’s like that.

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I, I don’t think it’s like that
at all.

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Brothers, sisters, young people,
you, you do not need to worry

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for one moment about missing the
return of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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I promise you that.
I promise you that.

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I, I, I think this kind of thing
has an AD 70 application

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actually.
And there might be a need to

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prepare and be ready, but the
idea of, oh, oh, it’s Christ’s

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return.
I didn’t know Fancy.

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Is he here?
And did I miss it?

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It’s not going to be like that.
How do I know that?

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Well, I know that because of
earlier verses.

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Look at verse 29.
Immediately after tribulation of

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those days shall the sun be
darkened.

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The moon shall not give her
light, the stars shall fall from

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heaven, the powers of the
heavens shall be shaken.

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And then shall appear the sign
of the Son of Man in heaven.

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Verse 31.
And he shall send his angels

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with a great sound of a trumpet,
and they shall gather together

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His elect from the four winds,
from the one end of heaven to

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the other.
You will not miss this.

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You will be gathered.
Even if you’re sleeping, even if

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you’re one of those virgins who
are fast asleep and have no

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extra oil in your lamp, you will
be taken.

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You will be gathered because we
are called of Christ, and we

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will go to meet with Him.
So, so you will not miss the

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call, I promise you that.
So don’t worry about that.

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But that might, that might lead
to something else, brothers and

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sisters, which is I’m very
excited about the Kingdom.

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I can’t wait for the Kingdom to
come, but there’s a judgement I

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need to get through 1st that
worries me.

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You know, the idea of having to
stand before Christ, having to

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explain myself to him, having to
account for my actions, my

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behaviours, the things I’ve done
and the things I should have

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done but haven’t.
Sometimes these weigh heavy

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honours and therefore the
Kingdom.

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Oh yes, please give me the
Kingdom.

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But this bit in between this
judgement that looms large and

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it’s a difficulty.
So, so I, I, I suggest, brothers

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and sisters, that there are some
concerns among us.

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I’d like to show you this
evening that we can reinvigorate

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the vision of the Kingdom by a
swaging some of those fears,

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putting to one side those
concerns that you may have

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because the Lord Jesus died and
rose so that we might go into

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the Kingdom.
So that’s going to lead us to

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three more of our life changing
sayings of the Lord Jesus Christ

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this evening.
Our reading was in Mark chapter

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10, and I wonder if you’d come
there.

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Any ideas in Mark chapter 10,
which verse was read there which

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might form one of our sayings
this evening?

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Where’s a nice verse in Mark 10
from 17 to 31?

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Who can find a nice phrase in
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2727, Thank you very much.
Who said that extra point?

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Well done.
Verse 27.

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There it is.
Look at that.

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What, what?
What an uplifting verse there.

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With men it is impossible, but
not with God.

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For with God all things are
possible.

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OK, with God all things are
possible.

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That’s, that’s our starting
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Then this evening and, and on
it’s own, OK, I’ve extracted the

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words, I’ve put it on the screen
there.

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You read that and you reflect
that and you say, hey, this,

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this is powerful stuff.
Actually, all of a sudden with

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God everything is possible.
There is nothing which is

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impossible.
And you can start to think for a

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moment about the wonders that
God has done and performed for

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his people.
He can flood the earth with

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water if if he chooses to do
that, He could divide the waters

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of the sea.
If he wanted to do that, He

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could bring living waters out of
a rock.

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If he wanted to do that, He
could create wine from water.

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If he wanted, He could calm
stormy waters.

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He could allow men to walk on
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God can do anything.
He can create an abundance of

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plagues.
He can create an abundance of

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manner.
He can create an abundance of

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food from just a handful of
loaves and fish.

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He can defeat a multitude of
armies with just a handful of

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faithful men, if that’s what he
chooses to do.

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And when you start putting those
phrases together, you think,

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yeah, God can do the impossible.
It’s a wonderful thing, isn’t

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it, That power, young people, is
still evidence today.

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We might not see God’s acts in
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he’s still at work.
We see him working in his

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creation.
We see his angels working among

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the nations that you might have
experienced or at least

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witnessed some great act of God
in your life because he works

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among the lives of those who
would be the heirs of salvation.

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So so just putting it on the
screen like that, it’s a really

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heartening thing and it’s a
really encouraging thing.

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But but we shouldn’t do that
with Scripture verses.

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We should not just cut them out
and paste them and stick them as

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post it notes on the bedroom
wall.

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We, we should read the, the
section and read the scripture

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and see what’s being said here.
And I just want to do that for a

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moment or two here, because when
you understand the context, I,

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I, I think the verse is even
better than it sounds in

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isolation.
So, so we’ve got the story in,

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in, in Mark 10 from verse 17
about this rich young ruler.

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We know he’s rich, we know he’s
young and we know he’s a ruler,

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but we have to piece together
all the three records of the

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Gospels to prove that to us.
But but but just in being

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introduced to him with all those
things, what what, what, what

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great advantage he’s got who who
wouldn’t love to be rich and

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young and in some position of
authority.

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You have got everything going
for you there, haven’t you?

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Everything is on your side.
Life is is treating you well

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here and he comes to the Lord
Jesus and his question is what

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shall I do that I may inherit
eternal life on there in verse

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17, which is which is a good
question, I suppose, because

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he’s interested in salvation and
you and I sitting here, we all

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ought to be interested in the
salvation of God.

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So he’s coming to ask what must
I do?

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And of course, that’s a bit of
an issue, isn’t it?

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You know, it puts the focus on
me.

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What do I have to do to be
saved?

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And and I was talking a little
bit yesterday about the correct

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focus.
Admittedly, I was talking and

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concentrating for the breaking
of bread.

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But.
But notice again, here’s another

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episode in the life of the Lord
Jesus Christ where someone wants

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to do something.
What must I do to be saved?

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Yeah, this is about me.
And I’ve been trying to tell you

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in, in my two studies so far
that this is not about us.

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We might like it to be, but but
it isn’t.

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So he comes and he’s coming with
the slightly wrong motive, or at

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least misguided motive.
And the Lord Jesus Christ is

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going to first of all, say, why
do you call me good?

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There is none good but one.
That’s God.

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And then he lists the
commandments.

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Now.
Now it’s enlightening, I think,

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to see the commandments that he
lists, because he skips 1 to 4

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and commandments one to four are
all about our relationship with

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God.
And that seems to suggest to me

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that this man coming with the
right question, maybe, but he

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doesn’t have much of a
relationship with God.

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Christ isn’t going to explore
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This, this man doesn’t have a
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What’s the point of me asking
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commands because your
relationship is not yet with

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God.
And then Jesus lists the next 6

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which are all about behaviour
and treatment of fellows and

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relationships with one another.
Except he doesn’t quite you.

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You will know this.
He doesn’t quite list all six

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correctly, does he?
The Lord Jesus Christ doesn’t

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get by Bible reading wrong, but
he he says in verse 19 defraud

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not and he slips that one in and
he doesn’t say you shall not

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covet.
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So the Lord Jesus Christ has
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little to suit this particular
man because those that are

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listed by the Lord Jesus Christ,
he can say, Oh yeah, I’ve done

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that, yes, I have done that.
I, I, I, I have kept that

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commandment.
I don’t commit adultery, I don’t

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kill, I haven’t stolen anything.
I don’t bear false witness.

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I’ve certainly not defrauded.
Now, yes, I do honour my

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father’s, my tick, tick, tick,
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Is that what I need to do for
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It’s a, it’s a doing thing.
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saved?
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Matthew, he asks the question
the young man asked the

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question, he says I’ve done all
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Now that’s a powerful question
actually, and that that’s where

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we should all be.
Do I like something?

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And the Lord Jesus is going to
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But at this point in the
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21, looking upon him, beholding
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But now intriguingly, you might
say, well, Jesus loves

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everybody.
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the named individuals that Jesus
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I found six, including this rich
young ruler, only six people

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named in the Gospels who Christ
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And he loves this young man.
And I think he loves them

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because this young man is
willing to say, do I lack

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something?
What do I lack?

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And the Lord Jesus Christ is
going to say to him that you

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need to sell what you have, and
you will have treasure in heaven

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and come take up your cross and
follow me.

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Verse 22 But he was very sad at
that saying, and he went away

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grieved, for he had great
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As far as I can see, this is the
only person who goes away from

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the Lord Jesus Christ, sad at
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he was caught up.
Now he had to do something which

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was too big for him.
So, so this rich young ruler

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walks away.
Ironically, Jesus is saying come

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follow me.
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He can’t follow with that
particular, that particular

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instruction.
So that that’s where we get to

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with this rich young man.
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Mark.
Chapter 10 finishes with just

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the opposite example, because
the chapter finishes with blind

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Bartimaeus.
This is a man, a poor man

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sitting at the side of the road.
This man has got absolutely

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nothing, not even his eyesight,
and he’s desperate to be healed

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and he calls out to Jesus.
And I’m in verse 50 now of this

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particular chapter and
Bartimaeus castaway his garment

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and rose and came to Jesus.
As soon as Jesus calls him, he

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casts away his garment.
This man’s got nothing apart

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from a garment, and he chucks it
on one side and goes to find

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Jesus.
I don’t think blind men would do

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that.
I think if you’re blind, you

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would not cast something away or
leave it in case you can’t find

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it again.
You’d take it with you, or you

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put it in a very safe place
where it would be and you’d find

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it again.
But this man, he’s got nothing.

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And even what he’s got he’s not
caring about, because he’s going

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to the Lord Jesus.
And Jesus says, What wilt thou

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that thou should do unto thee?
And the blind man said unto him,

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Lord, the time I receive my
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And Jesus said unto him, Go thy
way, thy faith has made thee

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whole.
He Jesus gives him the opposite

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instruction.
He said to the rich and ruler,

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come and follow me.
You know he was a man who needed

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to be with Jesus because his
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Bartimaeus is full of faith and
Jesus says, well you can go,

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your faith has made you whole.
And immediately received his

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sight and followed Jesus in the
way Bartimaeus was was not

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leaving at all.
Even though Jesus said you can

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go now your faith has sorted you
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He was sticking close to the
Lord Jesus and unfortunately

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it’s it’s just a complete
contrast to the rich young ruler

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who went away sad at heart
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the request of the Lord Jesus.
So as as this young ruler goes

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away.
The disciples were absolutely

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perplexed as far as they could
see God blessed those who were

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good.
So here now is a rich young

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ruler boy has he been blessed?
So he must be very good That

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that’s how the disciples, that
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That’s how our minds work.
We look at people and say, wow,

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they’ve got a lot there, that
that they possess a lot, they do

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a lot.
They must be blessed by God.

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Look at all I’ve got.
Maybe he doesn’t love me as

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much.
And we make comparisons and it

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doesn’t work well, but they’re
looking and they’re puzzled now

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how come this individual is is
going away?

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Who then can be saved if this
individual cannot be saved?

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And the Lord Jesus is going to
talk to the disciples and he’s

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going to explain how hard it is
for those that trust in riches

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to enter into the Kingdom of
God.

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Verse 24, It’s easier for a a
camel to go through the eye of a

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needle.
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they said, well if he can’t be
saved, what hope for the rest of

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us?
And the Lord Jesus answer is

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with men it is impossible, but
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For with God all things are
possible.

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And you see, it’s a very
specific thing.

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That the Lord Jesus Christ, he’s
not just talking about a a bunch

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of miracles here, He’s talking
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You see, that’s the impossible
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It doesn’t matter who you are,
whether you’re a blind

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Bartimaeus with next to nothing,
even without your eyesight, or

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whether you’re a rich young
ruler with everything going for

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you, you cannot save yourself.
That’s the reality of it.

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It doesn’t matter standing there
saying, what must I do?

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You can’t do anything.
You cannot save yourself.

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It’s an impossibility, but not
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He he wants to save.
And I’d like to suggest young

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people that this is this is a
theme that runs throughout our

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scriptures.
Let’s just go back to to

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Genesis, Can we?
We were here yesterday, Genesis

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chapter 18.
If you would.

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I, I, I always encourage you, if
you come across a saying or a

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word or a phrase or an incident,
try and find the first

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occurrence of it in your Bible
because that often sets the

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scene for how the Bible is going
to use this phrase or word or

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incident.
Did I say Genesis 14?

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I was meaning to say Genesis 18.
Sorry, I might have said that.

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Genesis chapter 18.
We were there yesterday, weren’t

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we?
Sarah, the barren wife, too old

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now to give birth.
Romans 4 tells us that Abraham

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also was dead, at least in terms
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And the angels speak, and they
say, tomorrow, this time next

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year, your wife will bear a
child.

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Then of course Sarah laughed.
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Therefore Sarah laughed with
herself, saying, After I am

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waxed old, shall I have
pleasure, my Lord, being old

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also?
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Abraham, saying, Why did Sarah
laugh from verse 14?

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Here it is.
Is anything too hard for the

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Lord?
See, here’s the impossible

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thing.
Here is the impossible thing.

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Well, it’s not impossible for
God.

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And the thing that’s happening
here, of course, is the

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provision of the promised seed,
the one through whom salvation

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would ultimately come, would
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And the impossible thing then is
the provision of this great

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child of promise.
So, so the first occurrence of

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the hard thing, the impossible
thing is there and it speaks of

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the promised child.
Coming me to Luke chapter 1,

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would you please?
Because the same kind of idea

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appears in the beginning of our
New Testaments.

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Here we have, we have two
impossible things happening,

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don’t we?
We have a virgin who is about to

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conceive without the
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Gabriel’s coming and speaking to
Mary and explaining all this to

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her.
And Mary asks in in Luke one,

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verse 34, how will this be
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I know not a man.
If you don’t let me know a man,

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how am I going to become
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Seems to be the very logical
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And it’s a very reasonable
question, isn’t it?

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And the explanation comes from
Gabriel, and there’s proof that

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it’s going to work for Mary.
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verse 36, she hath also
conceived a son in her old age,

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and this is the 6th month with
her, who was called Baron.

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For with God nothing shall be
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Here it is again the same idea,
and it’s the promise of the seed

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who would bring salvation.
So the impossible thing that’s

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talked about in Scripture isn’t
just moving mountains or

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creating great miracles for men
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It’s about man’s salvation.
And if I can just take you back

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a couple of pages to mark
chapter 14, just observe this

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moment of weakness in the life
of the Lord Jesus Christ, would

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you?
Because here he is praying in

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the garden, and the pressure is
on, and he prays earnestly that

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he might not have to go through
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And verse 34 of Mark 14 Look,
look at this, He saith unto

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them, My soul is exceeding
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Tarry ye here, and watch.
And he went forward a little and

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fell on the ground and prayed
that if it were possible, the

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hour might pass from him.
And he said, ABBA, Father, all

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things are possible unto thee.
Take away this cup from me.

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And here is the Lord Jesus
Christ asking for the possible.

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And the answer is we’re not here
to do the possible.

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We need God and his Son at this
moment to do the impossible, the

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thing that you and I can’t do.
So little turn around there

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isn’t it in the, in the Garden
of Gethsemane?

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Jesus is asking about the
possible.

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Well, no, we’re here to do the
impossible.

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We’re here to do the saving of
mankind.

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They can’t do it for themselves.
I, I need you, Son, to go

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through this because they can’t
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And the, the, the picture of the
Almighty doing the impossible

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thing with his son is a
beautiful theme right through

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our scriptures.
So I I’m just trying to trying

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to show you that God is at work
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It is not possible.
There is nothing we can do.

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You can’t sit there and make a
commitment to God which is going

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to secure your salvation by
doing things doesn’t work that

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way.
It’s impossible.

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But with God and the Lord Jesus
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Now how reassuring is that?
If, if God and Christ are

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willing to secure that way of
salvation for you and me, then

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we’re on to a winner here,
aren’t we?

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And, and the route to salvation
is, is, is dead easy.

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Actually, you know, entrance
into the Kingdom is not

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difficult.
It talks about repentance, it

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talks about belief, it talks
about baptism and it talks about

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some kind of effort to walk in
the light, you know, not to be a

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wayward individual.
God and his, his Son know we

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will fail.
But, but those are the things

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they’re looking for from us.
The kingdom’s yours if we can do

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those things, which leads me to
my next saying, which is the

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view of God Almighty in this
particular relationship.

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And it’s in Luke chapter 12 and
a very heartening 1 to

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underline, isn’t it?
It is your father’s good

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pleasure to give you the
Kingdom.

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Let’s just read the read the
verse in context, shall we?

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It’s in Luke chapter 12 and
verse 32.

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Fear not little flock, for it is
your Father’s good pleasure to

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give you the Kingdom.
And and I I just, I just take

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from that a desire of God for us
to be there.

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He, he, he wants us in the
Kingdom.

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You might think that that God or
Christ or the judgement seat of

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God and his son are the
obstacles to get over.

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You know, that’s the, that’s the
big step.

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If I can just get to the other
side of that, then immortality

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and life eternal in the Kingdom
is going to be ours.

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But I’ve got to get over this
judgement.

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Well, he is God saying through
his son, it’s my pleasure, my

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pleasure to give you the
Kingdom.

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And we see that.
We see that in our Scriptures.

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I often comment and observe the
the root of Israel.

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We’re just with Moses, aren’t
we?

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And the plagues and bringing out
the people.

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Well, you just you just play
that forward a little bit.

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God does all those plagues.
Israel come out of Egypt,

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they’re baptized unto Moses in
the Red Sea.

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They’re taken down to Sinai.
A covenant is made.

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They’re marched up to the
promised land.

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They stand on the border and God
says in you go, where’s the

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promised land?
It’s all yours.

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He, he did everything for them.
Even though they make a golden

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calf at Sinai, He doesn’t say,
you’re not going in.

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I’ve changed my mind.
He doesn’t do that.

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He he’s not a God who looks at
performance.

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He’s a God who wants faith.
And he marches them to the

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promised land and he says, in
you go, it’s yours.

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And all of a sudden they say,
oh, not sure, Lord, didn’t we

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ought to send some spies in just
to make sure it’s OK.

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And then when the spies come
back and the message is full of

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giants, well, we’d rather die in
the wilderness.

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That’s the very words of Numbers
14.

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We’d rather die in the
wilderness.

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OK.
If that’s what you want, the

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only thing God won’t do for you
is make salvation compulsory.

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Ironic, isn’t it?
It’s it’s not compulsory.

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You have to choose it.
It’s there, but you have to

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choose it.
He’s not going to force it on

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anyone who doesn’t want it.
And they didn’t force it on the

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children of Israel.
They chose a different way.

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It’s our Father’s good pleasure
to give us the Kingdom.

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This phrase, good pleasure, I
suggest, is usually about

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salvation.
Do you remember when the

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shepherds came?
Angel sang, Didn’t they?

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Outside Bethlehem?
Peace on earth, goodwill toward

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men.
This wasn’t just there’s going

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to be a nice feeling in the
earth.

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Men are going to be kind to one
another, goodwill toward men.

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It’s God’s good pleasure to give
us the Kingdom and the sun has

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00:30:58,880 –> 00:31:01,280
just been born.
Who’s going to secure it?

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00:31:02,040 –> 00:31:03,960
That’s what the angels were
singing about.

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00:31:03,960 –> 00:31:08,960
Not nice happy time at Christmas
That that that wasn’t the

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message of the angels at all.
When we read of it.

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You don’t need to look at these
verses, but in Romans 10, Paul

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00:31:17,680 –> 00:31:21,320
talks about God’s good pleasure
to save Israel.

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00:31:21,880 –> 00:31:25,920
When he talks about it in
Ephesians one, it’s for you and

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00:31:25,920 –> 00:31:28,040
me.
It’s His good pleasure to

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00:31:28,040 –> 00:31:32,840
appoint us unto salvation.
So, so, so the judgement seat,

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00:31:33,200 –> 00:31:38,280
The judgement seat which you
might look on as a big obstacle,

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00:31:39,240 –> 00:31:43,480
isn’t that at all.
God is on our side.

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He wants nothing more than us to
be in the Kingdom.

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00:31:49,800 –> 00:31:52,320
Isn’t that wonderful?
He’s not putting barriers in our

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00:31:52,320 –> 00:31:53,960
way.
But you might.

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00:31:54,720 –> 00:31:58,160
But he is not because he wants
us to be there.

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00:32:00,280 –> 00:32:04,320
This isn’t one of my sayings,
but this is a well known phrase.

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How does that conclude?
Where there is no vision, the

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people perish.
Very good.

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00:32:15,200 –> 00:32:19,400
How does that conclude?
Oh, no idea, Andrew.

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00:32:19,400 –> 00:32:21,560
Is there more to it than that?
No idea.

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00:32:21,880 –> 00:32:26,280
Yes, there is more to it.
Where there is no vision, the

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00:32:26,280 –> 00:32:33,120
people perish.
He that keepeth the law happy is

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he.
If you’ve not come across that

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00:32:35,320 –> 00:32:39,720
verse, it’s in Proverbs and and
well worth making a note of it.

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00:32:40,120 –> 00:32:43,440
And I, and I put that up there,
brothers, sisters, young people,

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00:32:43,440 –> 00:32:47,600
because the vision of the
Kingdom is going to help you

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00:32:47,800 –> 00:32:51,920
keep strong, OK?
It’s going to help you move

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00:32:51,920 –> 00:32:58,160
forward in your discipleship.
Now, if you haven’t got Proverbs

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00:32:58,160 –> 00:33:01,480
2918 underlined in your Bible,
you will need to do that.

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00:33:01,480 –> 00:33:05,000
You’ll need to do that at some
point, but I want to, I want to

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00:33:05,000 –> 00:33:10,720
just take you back to One
Samuel, chapter 3, please.

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I’ve got a couple of references
I want to share with you.

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Where there is no vision, the
people perish.

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00:33:25,960 –> 00:33:30,560
So the vision is important to
keep us sustained, keep our

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00:33:30,560 –> 00:33:37,240
stamina up, help us endure.
The idea of perish means that

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00:33:37,240 –> 00:33:40,280
there’s no hope.
OK, so where there is no vision,

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00:33:40,280 –> 00:33:42,520
there’s no hope.
We might as well give up.

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00:33:43,080 –> 00:33:45,440
But the revised version talks
about where there is no

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00:33:45,440 –> 00:33:47,960
restraint.
So where there is no vision,

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00:33:48,120 –> 00:33:53,920
there’s no restraint, which is
an odd idea actually, when you

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00:33:53,920 –> 00:33:56,560
think about it.
But the Kingdom, the vision of

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00:33:56,560 –> 00:33:58,920
the Kingdom will help control
you.

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That’s what the verse is saying.
So you won’t just behave in any

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00:34:04,280 –> 00:34:06,840
old way.
You will try and be a restrained

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00:34:06,840 –> 00:34:09,679
individual who will walk in the
ways of God.

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00:34:10,920 –> 00:34:14,880
And he that keepeth the law,
happy is he.

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00:34:14,880 –> 00:34:18,320
You see, if you’ve got a vision,
you’ve got an obligation to keep

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00:34:18,360 –> 00:34:20,480
the law.
I’ll take you to One Samuel

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00:34:20,480 –> 00:34:27,840
chapter 3 because here, look
what’s happened to the vision,

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00:34:28,639 –> 00:34:33,120
verse one of one Samuel 3.
The child Samuel ministered unto

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00:34:33,120 –> 00:34:36,120
the Lord before Eli.
The word of the Lord was

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00:34:36,120 –> 00:34:39,880
precious in those days.
There was no open vision.

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00:34:39,880 –> 00:34:44,440
They’ve lost the vision.
And what is it they’ve lost?

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00:34:44,440 –> 00:34:46,760
Actually, they’ve lost the Word
of God.

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00:34:48,560 –> 00:34:54,280
So to reinvigorate your vision
of the Kingdom, can I suggest

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00:34:54,280 –> 00:34:58,160
you open your Bibles?
Start to read of it.

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00:34:58,160 –> 00:35:01,000
Start to read of the signs that
precede it.

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00:35:01,000 –> 00:35:04,520
Start to read of the prophecies
which explain those signs.

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00:35:05,080 –> 00:35:08,000
Start to read those chapters
which talk about what the

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00:35:08,000 –> 00:35:10,960
Kingdom will be like.
Start to read about the men and

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00:35:10,960 –> 00:35:13,960
women in all the pages of
Scripture who will be in that

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00:35:13,960 –> 00:35:18,640
Kingdom.
Reinvigorate your vision of the

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00:35:18,640 –> 00:35:22,600
Kingdom.
Psalm 74 just take you here,

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00:35:22,600 –> 00:35:27,160
just just in passing, if I may.
Psalm 74, just to show you what

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00:35:27,160 –> 00:35:30,120
was happening to people without
a vision.

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00:35:33,880 –> 00:35:37,880
Psalm 74 takes place at the time
of Jeremiah.

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00:35:38,480 –> 00:35:42,320
Babylonians are coming.
They’re invading the land,

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00:35:42,760 –> 00:35:46,160
they’re encamped against
Jerusalem, they break into

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00:35:46,160 –> 00:35:54,400
Jerusalem, they they burn the
temple and the sanctuary is

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00:35:54,400 –> 00:35:58,560
destroyed.
And we can pick that up from the

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00:35:58,680 –> 00:36:05,840
earlier verses of Psalm 74.
For example, verse 4 talks about

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00:36:05,840 –> 00:36:09,480
the enemy’s roar in the midst of
the congregations.

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00:36:09,480 –> 00:36:12,520
They have set up their end signs
for signs.

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00:36:12,520 –> 00:36:15,360
Here they are.
They’ve infiltrated the Holy

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00:36:15,360 –> 00:36:18,600
Mount.
Verse 7, they have cast fire

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00:36:18,600 –> 00:36:21,880
into the sanctuary.
They have defiled it by casting

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00:36:21,880 –> 00:36:24,640
down the dwelling place of the
name to the ground.

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00:36:24,920 –> 00:36:28,680
These invaders have destroyed
Jerusalem and burnt the temple.

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00:36:29,000 –> 00:36:32,480
And verse 9, this is what the
people say we see, not our

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00:36:32,480 –> 00:36:35,080
signs.
There is no more profit.

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00:36:35,480 –> 00:36:40,840
Neither is there among us any
that knoweth how long you see.

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00:36:40,840 –> 00:36:45,400
They’ve lost the vision here
because they’ve stopped reading

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00:36:45,400 –> 00:36:49,600
about the signs, and they’ve
stopped listening to the

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00:36:49,600 –> 00:36:55,200
prophets who might explain them.
And there’s no one who knows how

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00:36:55,200 –> 00:36:59,480
long it will be.
And we’re not to be like that.

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So to, to reinvigorate or
perhaps even just to invigorate

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00:37:05,760 –> 00:37:10,680
your vision of the Kingdom, you
need to open your Bible and you

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00:37:10,680 –> 00:37:13,840
need to read and you need to
reflect.

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00:37:15,000 –> 00:37:19,120
So those are my those are my
thoughts about keeping the

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00:37:19,120 –> 00:37:22,200
vision strong.
It’s one last thing I want to

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00:37:22,200 –> 00:37:26,160
show you, if I may, which is
from John chapter 8.

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I’ve got a final saying that I
want to share with you, please,

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00:37:30,680 –> 00:37:40,530
in John chapter 8.
John chapter 8 is a a long

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00:37:40,530 –> 00:37:46,170
chapter, but it begins with the
woman taken in adultery.

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And we sometimes puzzle a little
bit over this, don’t we?

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00:37:51,050 –> 00:37:54,770
I don’t quite know why we do.
There’s no need to.

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00:37:54,810 –> 00:37:57,090
It’s a very straightforward
account.

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00:37:58,250 –> 00:38:01,370
You’ll notice actually,
depending on how your Bible is

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00:38:01,370 –> 00:38:07,080
set out, that the text actually
links the last verse of Chapter

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00:38:07,080 –> 00:38:09,920
7 with the beginning of chapter
8.

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If some of your Bibles got that,
you connected words there, so

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the chapter break is in the
wrong place.

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That’s not unusual.
Actually, that happens quite a

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bit.
But if it begins with every man

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00:38:21,480 –> 00:38:26,520
went on to his own house, last
verse of Chapter 7, every man

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00:38:26,520 –> 00:38:29,320
went to his own house.
You just have a little look in

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00:38:29,320 –> 00:38:33,320
the Old Testament.
Second Chronicles chapter 10.

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00:38:36,480 –> 00:38:38,240
I might have these on the slide,
I’m not sure.

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00:38:38,720 –> 00:38:42,520
Second Chronicles chapter 10,
verse 16 and First Samuel 8

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00:38:42,520 –> 00:38:46,120
verse 22.
I’ll share those with you if you

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00:38:46,120 –> 00:38:49,880
need afterwards.
These are examples of people

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going to their own tents when
they reject their king.

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00:38:55,400 –> 00:38:58,480
Israel said we don’t want David
to reign over us, we don’t want

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00:38:58,480 –> 00:39:00,080
the king of Judah to reign over
us.

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00:39:00,080 –> 00:39:03,880
So every man to his own tent and
they all return to their own

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00:39:03,880 –> 00:39:07,000
homes.
At first, Samuel 8 has Israel

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00:39:07,000 –> 00:39:10,440
saying we don’t want you,
Samuel, to reign over us, we

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00:39:10,440 –> 00:39:13,920
want our own king.
We’re rejecting God as our king

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00:39:14,560 –> 00:39:16,600
and every man goes to his own
house.

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00:39:16,600 –> 00:39:20,400
The phrase only occurs when they
are rejecting their king.

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00:39:21,280 –> 00:39:24,040
OK, so here they are.
This is a little marker in our

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00:39:24,040 –> 00:39:28,320
gospels that every man who was
surrounding the Lord Jesus and

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00:39:28,320 –> 00:39:33,000
wanting his downfall has gone to
his own house because they’ve

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00:39:33,000 –> 00:39:36,800
rejected the Lord Jesus.
And I, I, I find with with a

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00:39:36,800 –> 00:39:40,880
smile that with the Lord Jesus
Christ is in the temple in verse

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00:39:40,880 –> 00:39:43,520
2.
He’s gone to his home house,

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00:39:43,520 –> 00:39:45,480
hasn’t he?
He’s gone to his Father’s house.

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00:39:45,680 –> 00:39:48,000
We see Jesus in the temple.
They’ve all gone to their own

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00:39:48,000 –> 00:39:49,600
homes.
He’s in the right place, isn’t

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00:39:49,600 –> 00:39:52,080
he?
He’s in the temple and they

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00:39:52,080 –> 00:39:54,360
bring this woman to him, don’t
they?

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00:39:54,360 –> 00:39:58,160
Caught in adultery and the Jews
have brought and of course it’s

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a it’s a set up.
You know, we, we puzzle we

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00:40:01,240 –> 00:40:05,760
puzzle over why just the woman?
Where was the man?

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And and, and ladies, perhaps you
feel a little bit like this.

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00:40:08,560 –> 00:40:10,400
You feel a little bit hard done
by.

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00:40:10,920 –> 00:40:13,440
Why just the woman?
Why wasn’t the man brought?

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00:40:13,560 –> 00:40:15,480
Surely there were two who were
guilty here.

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00:40:15,600 –> 00:40:17,800
Why just pick on the woman?
Well, well, they’re picking on

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00:40:17,800 –> 00:40:20,920
the woman because it’s a set up.
What they’re trying to do here

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is they’re trying to prove that
Mary was a fornicator.

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That’s what they’re trying to
do.

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Joseph doesn’t seem to be around
when the Gospels, when the

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ministry of the Lord Jesus
Christ starts.

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So we don’t quite know what’s
happened to Joseph.

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But even if Joseph was around
and they asked him the direct

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00:40:41,920 –> 00:40:46,360
question, are you the father of
this child, He’d have to say no.

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As far as they were concerned,
Mary is a fornicator.

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And you can see that if you just
look at this particular chapter,

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the way the conversation is
going to go.

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00:40:57,920 –> 00:41:03,600
Look at chapter 8 in John and at
verse 13.

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00:41:04,520 –> 00:41:07,720
OK, they, they, the Pharisees
therefore said unto him, Thou

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00:41:07,720 –> 00:41:11,160
bearest record of themselves,
Your record is not true.

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00:41:11,920 –> 00:41:15,200
OK, Jesus, you are a liar.
That’s what they’re saying.

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00:41:15,200 –> 00:41:22,280
You are a liar.
Verse 19, Where is your father?

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00:41:23,080 –> 00:41:25,280
OK, it’s a set up.
That’s what they’re after.

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Verse 25.
It’s right throughout the

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chapter here.
Verse 25.

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00:41:30,600 –> 00:41:33,160
Who are you?
Who are your parents?

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Prove to us your lineage if you
can.

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00:41:36,720 –> 00:41:41,720
Verse 39.
We have Abraham as our father.

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00:41:41,920 –> 00:41:43,880
In other words, we know who our
father is.

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00:41:43,880 –> 00:41:45,680
You don’t know who your father
is.

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00:41:46,200 –> 00:41:52,800
Verse 41 we are not born of
fornication like you, like Mary

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00:41:52,800 –> 00:41:57,920
was a fornicator.
Verse 48 they they say unto him,

654
00:41:58,760 –> 00:42:03,240
say we say we not well, that
thou art a Samaritan, half Jew,

655
00:42:03,240 –> 00:42:06,600
half Gentile, and all the way
through they’re accusing the

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00:42:06,600 –> 00:42:11,720
Lord Jesus Christ here of
unfaithful parents or an

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00:42:11,720 –> 00:42:15,320
unfaithful mother.
They brought the woman because

658
00:42:15,320 –> 00:42:18,840
their accusation against Christ
was that he got an unfaithful

659
00:42:18,840 –> 00:42:22,960
mother who had slept around.
I guess that’s the way to put

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00:42:22,960 –> 00:42:26,400
it, isn’t it?
And the whole incident in John

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00:42:26,400 –> 00:42:29,680
chapter 8, then those opening
verses, just an embarrassment to

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00:42:29,680 –> 00:42:33,480
the Lord, isn’t it?
You know, So he’s, he’s there

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00:42:34,080 –> 00:42:38,040
and the woman is brought and,
and cast down at his feet.

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00:42:38,440 –> 00:42:41,960
And that must have been
embarrassing for her and it must

665
00:42:41,960 –> 00:42:45,200
have been embarrassing for him.
Is she half dressed?

666
00:42:45,800 –> 00:42:49,920
She’s just this dishevelled
person who’s brought to him.

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00:42:51,320 –> 00:42:54,040
And in his embarrassment, he
Stoops down.

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00:42:54,040 –> 00:42:57,480
I’m in verse 6 now and then
writes on the ground with his

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00:42:57,480 –> 00:43:01,440
finger.
I find that quite interesting.

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00:43:01,440 –> 00:43:04,360
It tells us he does that again
in verse 8.

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00:43:05,320 –> 00:43:09,720
You, you look at the occasions
where the finger of God writes

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00:43:10,720 –> 00:43:16,480
and it’s only, it’s only the law
which writes where the finger of

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00:43:16,480 –> 00:43:21,240
God writes on those 2 stones.
And it’s only at Belshazzar’s

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00:43:21,240 –> 00:43:25,400
feast where the finger writes on
the wall and judgement is

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00:43:25,400 –> 00:43:28,520
coming.
And that’s what the Lord Jesus

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00:43:28,520 –> 00:43:31,400
Christ is indicating.
And you might want to have a a

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00:43:31,400 –> 00:43:36,720
look at some point at Jeremiah
17, verse 13, which talks about

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00:43:36,720 –> 00:43:41,440
the names of those being written
in the earth who are against

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00:43:41,480 –> 00:43:43,720
God.
And here is Christ writing in

680
00:43:43,720 –> 00:43:46,360
the earth.
But of course he’s got this

681
00:43:46,360 –> 00:43:49,280
wonderful response to them,
hasn’t he?

682
00:43:49,720 –> 00:43:54,360
When they continued asking him
verse 7, he lifted up himself

683
00:43:54,360 –> 00:43:57,440
and said unto them, he that is
without sin among you, let him

684
00:43:57,440 –> 00:44:03,360
cast the cast a stone at her.
And again he stooped down and

685
00:44:03,360 –> 00:44:07,400
wrote on the ground.
And as a consequence of that one

686
00:44:07,400 –> 00:44:11,800
by one, beginning at the eldest,
even unto the last, they all

687
00:44:12,360 –> 00:44:16,720
melted away, didn’t they?
So we’ve now got the Lord left

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00:44:16,720 –> 00:44:22,040
with this embarrassed woman
caught in the very act of

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00:44:22,040 –> 00:44:26,240
adultery.
And here’s our here’s our

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00:44:26,240 –> 00:44:34,080
heartening saying, number six,
woman, where are those thine

691
00:44:34,080 –> 00:44:37,320
accusers?
Hath no man condemned thee?

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00:44:38,360 –> 00:44:42,640
And she said, No man, Lord, And
Jesus said unto her, neither do

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00:44:42,680 –> 00:44:46,400
I condemn thee.
Go and sin no more.

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00:44:46,400 –> 00:44:50,960
Now isn’t that a lovely saying?
Now you’re worried about thee,

695
00:44:51,080 –> 00:44:53,560
the judgment.
You’re worried about a catalog

696
00:44:53,560 –> 00:44:57,480
of failure, shortcoming,
disaster.

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00:44:57,800 –> 00:45:00,320
Oh, do you remember the day when
I did that and I’ve not been

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00:45:00,320 –> 00:45:04,240
able to wipe it out of my mind?
Well, God does.

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00:45:04,760 –> 00:45:08,440
He removes, He blocks out, He
extinguishes your sins.

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00:45:08,440 –> 00:45:11,800
It doesn’t just say he.
He writes them in the book and

701
00:45:11,800 –> 00:45:14,440
closes it.
So you can open the book and

702
00:45:14,440 –> 00:45:17,320
read them out at some point,
blocks them out.

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00:45:18,200 –> 00:45:21,480
Cast them behind him as far as
the east is from the West.

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00:45:21,480 –> 00:45:24,640
He throws them away.
God isn’t remembering.

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00:45:24,640 –> 00:45:29,400
He does not condemn.
Isn’t that a lovely thing?

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00:45:29,880 –> 00:45:32,880
Just come with me to Romans 7,
would you please?

707
00:45:34,680 –> 00:45:36,080
I have nearly finished, I
promise.

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00:45:36,640 –> 00:45:40,200
Romans Chapter 7.
Cast your eyes down.

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00:45:40,200 –> 00:45:48,480
Romans Chapter 7 and from about
verse 13 onwards you have Paul

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00:45:48,480 –> 00:45:52,400
explaining this great conflict
within him and you and I can

711
00:45:52,400 –> 00:45:58,200
relate to that Paul saying I
know the teachings of Christ, I

712
00:45:58,200 –> 00:46:06,280
know that he wants me to do this
and I want to do this, but when

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00:46:06,280 –> 00:46:10,200
I’m going to do this, I suddenly
find out I’m doing that.

714
00:46:10,200 –> 00:46:14,360
And I didn’t mean to and I
didn’t want to, but I did that

715
00:46:15,600 –> 00:46:17,920
and Christ wants me to do this
and I’m doing that.

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00:46:18,080 –> 00:46:23,080
And it doesn’t matter how hard I
try, I end up doing that and I’m

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00:46:23,080 –> 00:46:25,760
so annoyed with one.
And this, this conflict which

718
00:46:25,760 –> 00:46:29,320
the apostle Paul had you can
relate to because we’re all like

719
00:46:29,320 –> 00:46:31,480
that.
This internal battle against sin

720
00:46:31,680 –> 00:46:34,520
just overwhelms us.
We know the right thing, we know

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00:46:34,520 –> 00:46:37,040
what we should be doing, but we
always find ourselves somehow

722
00:46:37,320 –> 00:46:39,440
doing this.
Just reflect for a moment on the

723
00:46:39,440 –> 00:46:43,880
Lord Jesus Christ, who had that
same conflict, and he knew that

724
00:46:43,880 –> 00:46:46,800
he was supposed to do this and
knew that that was the right way

725
00:46:47,800 –> 00:46:50,160
and never found himself doing
that.

726
00:46:50,160 –> 00:46:53,720
You know, he managed somehow to
keep doing this because that was

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00:46:53,720 –> 00:46:57,960
the right thing.
And Romans Chapter 7 can be

728
00:46:57,960 –> 00:47:00,720
quite a depressing thing because
you think, yeah, I can relate to

729
00:47:00,720 –> 00:47:02,640
that, Paul, I know just what
you’re saying.

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00:47:02,800 –> 00:47:04,560
That’s me.
That’s how I am.

731
00:47:04,880 –> 00:47:07,240
I’m just like that.
How do we overcome?

732
00:47:07,320 –> 00:47:11,920
Well, Paul finishes Chapter 7 in
verse 25, doesn’t he?

733
00:47:11,920 –> 00:47:15,160
I thank God through Jesus Christ
our Lord.

734
00:47:16,320 –> 00:47:21,000
OK, so there’s a hint there.
Sorry, I should have read verse

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00:47:21,000 –> 00:47:22,720
24.
Shouldn’t IO, wretched man that

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00:47:22,720 –> 00:47:26,040
I am, who shall deliver me out
of this body of death?

737
00:47:26,040 –> 00:47:27,920
Who’s who’s going to help me
escape from this?

738
00:47:28,320 –> 00:47:32,000
I thank Jesus Christ our Lord.
So.

739
00:47:32,080 –> 00:47:35,080
So he’s hinting at the solution
to the problem being Jesus

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00:47:35,080 –> 00:47:37,760
Christ.
And again, forget your chapter

741
00:47:37,760 –> 00:47:42,840
break because the very best
thing about Romans Chapter 7 is

742
00:47:42,840 –> 00:47:46,640
that it’s followed by Romans
chapter 8, because Romans

743
00:47:46,640 –> 00:47:49,000
chapter 8 begins with these very
words.

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00:47:49,480 –> 00:47:52,320
There is therefore now no
condemnation to them which are

745
00:47:52,320 –> 00:47:55,800
in Christ Jesus.
Neither do I condemn thee.

746
00:47:56,280 –> 00:47:58,320
You think Christ is not on your
side?

747
00:47:58,320 –> 00:48:00,680
Well He is and He’s not
condemning.

748
00:48:01,000 –> 00:48:03,320
And you might be hard on
yourself and you might be judge

749
00:48:03,320 –> 00:48:06,160
mental on yourself and you might
be saying this is really

750
00:48:06,160 –> 00:48:07,720
difficult.
I can’t do this Lord, because I

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00:48:07,720 –> 00:48:10,720
always end up failing.
He doesn’t care.

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00:48:11,480 –> 00:48:14,360
Isn’t that remarkable?
He knows you’re a failure.

753
00:48:15,000 –> 00:48:19,760
He knows you’re full of sin.
That’s why He died for you.

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00:48:20,640 –> 00:48:23,680
Those of you who were sitting
there perhaps thinking I’m not

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00:48:23,680 –> 00:48:27,520
yet good enough to be baptized,
forget that frame of mind.

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00:48:28,120 –> 00:48:30,960
Course you’re not good enough.
None of us are.

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00:48:30,960 –> 00:48:32,760
If you were good enough, then
you wouldn’t need to be

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00:48:32,760 –> 00:48:35,000
baptized.
You would not need God and his

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00:48:35,000 –> 00:48:37,320
Son to be doing the impossible
thing for you.

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00:48:38,160 –> 00:48:43,160
But He is and He has, and he
will return to welcome you into

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00:48:43,160 –> 00:48:44,880
the Kingdom.
So.

762
00:48:44,920 –> 00:48:49,320
So those are powerful things,
brothers, sisters, young people.

763
00:48:49,320 –> 00:48:52,440
And I’m trying to convey to you
that the vision of the Kingdom

764
00:48:52,440 –> 00:48:56,560
should burn brightly, open your
Bibles and be refreshed and

765
00:48:56,560 –> 00:48:59,240
invigorated.
Talk about it, think about it,

766
00:48:59,240 –> 00:49:04,080
prepare yourselves for it, but
do not fear the judgement

767
00:49:05,200 –> 00:49:10,200
because the Lord Jesus Christ is
on your side and he wants us to

768
00:49:10,200 –> 00:49:14,200
be there, for it’s our Father’s
good pleasure to give us the

769
00:49:14,200 –> 00:49:16,320
Kingdom.
Thank you very much.