Jason Robinson – Toward Jerusalem – Class 1 – Toward Jerusalem

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All right, so as mentioned
before, we’re going to be

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looking at this week is the
final journey of Christ into

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Jerusalem.
It’s a, it’s a massive theme in

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the Gospels of Christ getting to
Jerusalem, especially that last

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and final journey.
He knew something awaited for

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him and he knew exactly what it
was.

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But it seemed the rest of the
entire world was confused as to

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why Jesus is going and
journeying toward Jerusalem.

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And So what we’re going to be
doing is we’re going to be

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taking a look at that this week.
And what I’m passing out for you

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guys is a handout for the week.
What we’re going to do is we are

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going to kind of capture the
spiritual high that we all get

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after a Bible school.
We all leave here.

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We’re we’re motivated, we’re
pumped up about things, the

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truth.
And it’s a good time to

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capitalize on that.
And it’s a good time to set some

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goals for us.
So what we’re going to do is we

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are going to work together this
week and see if we can get a

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little bit closer to to a goal
that we’d like to set for

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ourselves spiritually.
So what you’re going to be

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getting is a little handout
here.

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There’s a page for each class,
each day that we have together.

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And in the back you’re going to
see there’s actually a map.

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And what this is is totally just
for fun.

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If you guys would like, you can
kind of color in where his route

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actually goes from the galley
area up north and he actually

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travels into Jerusalem.
And if you guys would like you

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guys can put some pieces
together as we move through the

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classes this week and really
kind of track where he’s going.

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More importantly though, if you
guys would like to, we can work

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together on these day by day
goals.

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And so you can see on today’s,
when you guys get your handout,

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it’s just a very easy bullet
point list of a few things, a

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couple easy questions.
And then by the end of the class

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today, by the end of our Sunday
school, it would be great if you

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guys could all come up with a
spiritual goal during this Bible

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school.
You’ll see it as a last question

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on session one.
All right, so with that being

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said, when these get passed out,
we’ll jump right into it.

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If you guys have any questions
on these as we’re going through,

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feel free to come up and ask me.
And it was a complicated fold

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for the print company to do this
weird 4 fold thing.

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So it was a very last minute
thing.

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So if you find typos, it won’t
shock you.

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You’d think I was a teacher or
something, but so just ignore

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typos or grammar mistakes or any
sort of mistakes at all.

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All right, so with that being
said, let’s jump into really the

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importance of why this journey
matters to us.

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Why does Scriptures play such a
relevant role on Christ’s

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journey toward Jerusalem?
All right, because it’s our

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journey.
As Jesus led his disciples to

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the great city, he leaves for us
these crumbs, dozens of

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principles that we can pull up
in our own lives.

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We can read from the word and we
can say this will make me a, a

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better person on my journey
towards Jerusalem.

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We’re all in the journey
together.

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Here we are, wonderfully
gathered at a Bible school.

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We’re all on the same path,
aren’t we?

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We’re all walking the same path
to the same place, following the

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same person.
We’re in harmony.

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And so our goal now is to find
out what exactly we’re doing on

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that walk.
All right.

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Does anybody not have a flyer or
handout part of me?

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We’re good.
Well done, people.

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Very well done.
Those of you who volunteered,

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100%.
All right, so let’s jump into

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our journey together.
Hopefully we have these things

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now.
Again, they’re not mandatory to

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use.
It’s not like we’re going to be

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grading you guys on your answers
by the end of the week, but

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maybe we can capitalize on that
spiritual motivation that we get

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at the end of a Bible school.
All right, great.

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So let’s start by looking at the
importance of the literal

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textual structure that the text
of the Scriptures places on the

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journey of Jesus toward
Jerusalem.

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The New Testament has 27 books.
Now of these 27 books we have

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Luke is our largest book in the
New Testament.

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Now, even though Paul wrote more
books than Luke did, Luke

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actually wrote more.
As far as volume goes, Luke

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actually turns out wrote over
1/4 of the New Testament.

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Luke alone in his two volumes,
Luke and Acts, you know, only

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Moses wrote more of the Bible
than Luke did.

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So if we’re going to take these
two books and we’re going to

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look at Luke’s series for our
sessions this week, what we find

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is in these two volumes, Luke
talks about Christ’s journey

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toward Jerusalem.
That’s Luke’s purpose.

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I have to get the story of
Christ’s journey towards

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Jerusalem, the cross.
And then in the book of Acts, he

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says, but it’s not done yet.
Now the message has to be

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preached to the world, to Judea,
Samaria and the ends of the

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earth, he says.
So he’s going to use two volumes

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to get this across to his
readers.

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I’m going to get Christ to
Jerusalem and Luke, and I’m

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going to show you how Christ is
going to get his message to the

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world in Acts.
We’re going to be looking at

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this first section this week
Together, Class 7.

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We’ll dip into Acts, I promise.
But this first few sessions that

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we have this week, we’ll be
talking about this journey

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toward Jerusalem.
We’re going to see how we can

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find a pattern to follow on our
journey there as well.

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Now, Matthew, Matthew has a
steady pace through his gospel.

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He bounces back between
parables, miracles, teachings,

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parables, miracles, teachings.
It’s a very steady, even flow.

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Mark, we know keyword to Mark
immediately.

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Mark moves him.
Mark says there’s a mission to

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be accomplished.
We’re going to get that done.

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Luke slows the journey down.
In Luke’s gospel, he places an

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emphasis on this idea of getting
him there.

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It takes 10 chapters for Christ
to get to Jerusalem.

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The phrase, and it came to pass
is Luke’s key phrase Matthew.

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It comes up six times, Mark,
four times, John 0, Luke 40.

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It’s about getting him there.
It’s a journey and it he slugs

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it in, but he gets there
eventually.

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Luke wants his readers to focus
on the journey because this

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journey, after all, brothers and
sisters, it’s the centerpiece of

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time, isn’t it?
Everything that happened before

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was meant to get Jesus there.
Everything that happens after is

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because he got there.
And so Christ gets to Jerusalem

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and what we’re going to refer to
it as, and what a lot of experts

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refer to it as is the journey
narrative, the journey toward

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Jerusalem.
What you’re going to see is it

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it occurs in 10 and 11 chapters.
And hint a couple answers on

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this sheet here for your
handout.

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The journey narrative starts in
Luke 951.

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Memorize that reference.
Luke 951, Luke 951, Luke 951.

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We’re going to bring it over and
over and over again.

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This is going to be our home
base.

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Luke 9:51.
That’s when the mindset of

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Christ changes and he says he
sets his face to go to

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Jerusalem.
That’s the key and he’s going to

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wrap it up somewhere in Luke 19.
It’s ironic because as as far as

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he’s going, he’s travelling to
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It never really says and he’s
stepped foot in Jerusalem just

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as he walks into the temple.
There’s no mighty entrance.

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He rides in on on a donkey.
In Luke’s gospel and in this

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journey narrative, 25% of what
you’re going to read is unique

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to Luke.
It’s Luke’s story and in that

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25%, there are actually 82
distinct, what we call story

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units.
Just a little little could be

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1/2 a verse, it could be
multiple verses.

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There’s 82 unique things, little
things that you’re going to read

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in Luke’s gospel in this journey
narrative.

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So if I was going to put Luke up
there for you, this is the

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Gospel according to Luke
chapters one and two.

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We have the birth of Jesus
Christ chapters 3 to 9.

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We have his ministry around
Galilee.

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Now this is when he is starting
his ministry, He is starting his

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work and he’s teaching everybody
around his hometown area.

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Chapters 9 through 19 is really
when this journey begins and

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he’s travelling to Jerusalem.
The the book ends up with four

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chapters, 20 to 24, talking
about his death and

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resurrection.
Now I’m going to show you guys

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that Jerusalem is such a
important part of Luke’s gospel

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because looking at some of the
unique things outside of this

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block of 11 to 10 chapters, in
the middle we have some unique

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stories to Luke.
Unique to Luke is the fact that

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he was an infant at the temple.
Guess where the temple is?

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It’s in Jerusalem.
He was a 12 year old boy unique

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to Luke at the temple.
Guess where the temple is?

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It’s Jerusalem and at the end
after there’s not a lot of

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Jerusalem talk around his
ministry in Galilee.

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Shockingly, at the end 2024, he
unique to Luke weeps over

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Jerusalem, his trial before
Herod, who was specifically it

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says in Luke’s gospel visiting
Jerusalem, the repentant thief

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on the cross Jerusalem.
Jesus appears to the two

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disciples in the way to Emmaus
who are leaving Jerusalem and

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return to Jerusalem.
Jesus appears to the disciples

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after his resurrection and he
says remain in Jerusalem.

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And finally the details of the
ascension to heaven.

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These are unique things to
Luke’s gospel.

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We’ll see many of these.
You see the importance that Luke

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places on the city of Jerusalem.
We have to get Christ to

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Jerusalem.
History centers around this

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event in Luke’s Gospel, in the
journey narrative.

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We’re going to take a look now,
as is Jerusalem in the four

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gospels, Matthew, the word
occurs 13 times, Mark 11, John

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13.
And in Luke, the word Jerusalem

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occurs 33 times.
You guys see how this, this is

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the point.
Luke says we’re going to get him

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there.
It is going to be a grind, but

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we’ll get them to Jerusalem.
So let’s take a look at the net,

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how the journey narrative
compares to the other gospels.

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We’ve seen already the block of
425 verses in Luke’s Gospel.

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How do the other gospels
compare?

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Well, Matthew has 65 verses that
it dedicates towards Christ

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getting to Jerusalem.
Mark 52 verses it dedicates to

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getting Christ to Jerusalem.
John 122.

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It actually has 2 little blips
that it talks about Christ

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getting to Jerusalem.
You can see there just the

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percentage of each book that it
focuses on getting Christ to

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Jerusalem.
So Needless to say, Luke places

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a massive priority in his gospel
on the journey towards

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Jerusalem.
So brothers and sisters, Are you

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ready to start?
Are you ready to follow Christ

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on the journey?
Let’s get started, shall we?

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Key verse was what Brave
Volunteer shouted out.

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Excellent.
Luke 951, That is the key verse.

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Turn there if you’re not already
there in your Bibles, please.

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Luke Chapter 9 and at verse 51.
I’m going to have up on the

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screen about a billion times
this week, but it’s good to kind

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of keep it in mind.
We’re going to focus a lot in

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Luke 9 for the first couple days
as we kind of really start to

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lay the foundation of this
journey.

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But it says Luke 951 and when
the time was come, he should be

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received up.
He steadfastly set his face to

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go to Jerusalem.
That’s your theme verse for the

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week for Toward Jerusalem
series.

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It’s the start of the journey.
It’s a change and shift in

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mindset for Christ.
He’s going to continue on his

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journey as he tries to prepare
his disciples, but now it’s

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about getting to the city.
There was a lot to be

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accomplished at the city of
Jerusalem, a lot of pain, shame,

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but ultimately, but ultimately
to manifest his Heavenly Father.

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Now we have to ask ourselves one
big question.

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Why Jerusalem?
Why Jerusalem?

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There were certainly cities more
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Jerusalem.
Jerusalem was full of corrupt.

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Its religious leaders were a
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Why Jerusalem?
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chapter 13, you don’t need to
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But he, he tells us in Luke 13,
he says on the third day, on the

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third day, I shall be perfected.
Nevertheless, he says, I must

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walk.
I must walk today, I must walk

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tomorrow, and I must walk the
day following, because it cannot

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be that a prophet perish out of
Jerusalem.

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That’s why we’re walking, he
says.

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That’s why we’re going now.
It’s an interesting little word

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he uses.
A prophet.

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Why a prophet?
Why not use a prophecies that

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says the prophet must perish in
Jerusalem?

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He says a prophet perish in
Jerusalem.

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What he’s doing is he’s quoting
a verse for us.

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He’s quoting for from
Deuteronomy chapter 18.

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If you’d like you could turn up,
but I will read it for you.

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Deuteronomy chapter 18.
It might be worth just

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scribbling this down.
Deuteromy 18 verses 15 through

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19.
It says, Yahweh, thy God will

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raise up unto thee a prophet, a
prophet from the midst of thee,

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of thy brethren like unto me,
unto him you shall hearken

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according to all, thou desirous
of Yahweh thy God in Horeb in

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the day of the assembly, saying,
Let me not hear again the voice

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of Yahweh my God, neither let me
see this great fire anymore,

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that I die not.
And Yahweh said unto me, They

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have well spoken.
That which they have spoken, I

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will raise them up a prophet
from among their brethren like

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unto thee, and will put my words
in his mouth, and he shall speak

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unto them all that I shall
command him, and shall come to

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pass it.
Whosoever will not hearken unto

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my words, which he shall speak
in my name, I will require it of

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him.
So what Deuteronomy is telling

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us is God says he’s going to
raise up a new prophet from

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among the people.
I’m going to put my words in his

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mouth and you’re going to listen
to everything he says.

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So what’s Christ doing here in
Luke 13?

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That’s me.
A prophet can’t perish out of

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Jerusalem.
I’m that new prophet.

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He’s putting himself in the
place of this new prophet.

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He’s pulling a prophecy of Moses
and he’s saying that he was the

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greater than Moses.
God has put his words in my

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mouth.
He’s saying listen to me,

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hearken to me.
That’s the key.

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So he has to get to Jerusalem.
This new prophet is going to die

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in Jerusalem.
He knew that.

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Countless prophecies talk about
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Well, back in Luke Chapter 9, if
you’re not there already, Christ

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goes through an amazing
encouragement in Luke Chapter 9.

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He talks to a couple people, and
a couple people tell him in

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verses 30 and 31, behold,
they’re talked with him, two

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men.
We know the story very well,

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Moses and Elias, who appeared in
glory, and they spake of his

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decease, which he should
accomplish where?

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At Jerusalem, this new prophet
would die in Jerusalem and right

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before he leaves for Jerusalem,
remember that’s verse 51 of this

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chapter.
Right before he leaves, he

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speaks to the masters of
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He speaks to Moses and Elijah.
Well, he speaks of his decease

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in the Greek.
It’s the word exodus.

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Many of us probably have that
marked.

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He spoke of the exodus which he
should accomplish at Jerusalem,

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none other than Moses and Elias.
And they said it’s got to be

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done in Jerusalem.
And he steadfastly set his face

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to go to Jerusalem, knowing full
well would have waited in there.

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He’s going to perish at
Jerusalem.

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But brothers and sisters, this
was his exodus.

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He needed to be taken up when
the time had come for him to

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ascend, He said fast.
He set his face to go to

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Jerusalem.
Something else awaited him there

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in Jerusalem.
And he said fast.

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He set his face to go there
because Christ, brothers and

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sisters, was also going to lead
an exodus.

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We, we, we were familiar with
this.

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Ephesians 4, quoting Psalm 68,
says you’ve ascended on high.

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You’ve LED captivity captive.
Notice the call outs to Elijah

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and Moses Chariots, Sinai.
The Chariots of God are 20,000.

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Even thousands of angels.
The Lord is among them.

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As in Sinai, in the holy place,
you’ve ascended on high.

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You’ve LED captivity captive.
This next exodus was leading

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captivity captive.
So we, we find ourselves

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constantly serving sin, don’t
we, brothers and sisters?

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It’s the curse we bear.
It’s horrible, it’s terrible.

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We hate it, but we feel
captivated by it.

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But we don’t need to be.
Christ made it to Jerusalem.

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He led captivity captive because
he sent it on high.

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So Christ journeyed toward
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He knew death awaited him.
He knew shame awaited him.

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He knew torture and pain awaited
him.

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He knew betrayal awaited him.
But he knew, more importantly,

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that getting to his father also
waited him.

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But the Stevens spoke this last
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Imagine that being your
motivation.

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He knew his father was He prayed
to him, he read from his word,

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he talked to him.
But he never sat next to him.

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He never got to sit next to his
father.

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Imagine that being your
motivation to get to Jerusalem.

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That would get you there,
wouldn’t it?

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Sit next to your Father, the God
of the world.

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And it gave him a steadfast
vision to get there.

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This was his motivation to begin
working on a new city.

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So Christ, a new prophet, says
Deuteronomy 18.

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This was this message of the
ministry in Galilee.

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This is what he preached through
Luke 9, through Luke 8.

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I’m a new prophet.
Listen to me.

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That was the ministry.
And he’s going to carry that

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same example and that same
message to Jerusalem.

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This new prophet was going to
create a new city.

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This is Isaiah and we’ll look at
this and throughout the week, a

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new city from a new prophet.
So ultimately, says 2nd

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Corinthians 5, he could create a
new creation.

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Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation.

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The olds passed away, but the
new has come.

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So he’s going to bring about all
things new.

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This was Christ’s goal.
This was his journey to

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Jerusalem to create a new city
for the new creation.

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But brothers and sisters, it’s
also where we’re headed.

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So we can take this path in Luke
9 to 19.

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We can say, yes, I can learn
from this.

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I can pull things out of this
because it’s our goal as well.

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It’s a new city.
Galatians 4 verses 24 to 27.

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Again, you don’t need to turn it
up.

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I’ll have a little bit on the
screen here.

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It brings up this phrase, but
the Jerusalem which is from

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above is free, says the ESV.
See the word the not in the King

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James is very much in the
original.

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It’s a different Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem above is free.

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This is a new Jerusalem when he
ascended, says Ephesians and

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Psalms.
When he ascended, he freed the

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captive.
New Jerusalem, which is from

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above, is the city of the free,
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If you looked at New Jerusalem
and you looked at old natural

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Jerusalem, you’d see no
similarities.

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They’re two cities.
When he set it up on high, he

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led captivity captive.
That was Ephesians 4.

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Up on high, the city is from
above.

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He led captivity captive.
He freed.

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We’re talking about the same
city, the same thing, brothers

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and sisters, but it’s a new
city.

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Now the New Jerusalem phrase
occurs in Revelation, and you’ll

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never guess the language.
And I saw the holy city, New

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Jerusalem, coming down down out
of heaven from God, prepared as

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a bride adorned for her husband.
New Jerusalem began in heaven.

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It was built in heaven, it was
prepared in heaven.

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And God will send it down
because it’s a free, it’s built

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from above.
Christ went up there to build a

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city, to create a new Jerusalem.
He marched to the Old so we

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could build the new further on
in Revelation 21 and he showed

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me that great city, holy
Jerusalem, Holy Jerusalem.

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You won’t find holy describing
Jerusalem very often.

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This is the new one.
It’s descending out of heaven

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from God.
The city has no need of the sun,

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neither of the moon to shine in
it, for the glory of God did

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lighten it.
The Lamb is the light thereof.

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Brothers and sisters, it’s an
important exercise, but do you

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visualize what the Kingdom will
look like?

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Do you put yourself there?
Do you imagine what it would be

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like to be in a city where the
Lamb is the light thereof?

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Those are eyes of faith.
But the holy Jerusalem came down

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from God.
Isaiah 65 Revelation Quotes from

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Isaiah 65 For Behold, I create
new heavens and a new earth.

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The former things, they won’t be
remembered, they won’t come into

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mind.
For behold, I create Jerusalem

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to be a joy.
Enter people to be gladness.

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To understand the ingredients of
New Jerusalem, you need to

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combine all of these passages,
Isaiah and Revelations and

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Galatians.
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chapter speaks of all the things
necessary to recreate Jerusalem

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to be a new city, all the things
that old Jerusalem didn’t

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possess, and the city’s being
prepared right now.

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Brothers and sisters, Christ is
in heaven right now, preparing

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it right now.
He’s building a new city.

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He’s setting everything in place
for the final steps for it to

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descend out of heaven.
He will call all those who are

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meant to be part of this new
creation to be part of his new

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Jerusalem, new heavens, new
earth, new Moses, the the bride

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prepared from heaven, the
children of the freed.

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So if we’re going to take all
these little pieces that we’ve

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looked at, brothers and sisters,
Revelation 21, a bride prepared

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Ephesians, four children of the
freed, Isaiah 65, God’s joyous

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people, What is new Jerusalem?
It’s actually just people.

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It’s us.
Brothers and sisters.

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Bible School 2024.
We can be part of a new city, a

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new Jerusalem.
Christ went to the old to create

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a new and invited us.
He says, do you want to be part

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of a new Jerusalem, a greater
city?

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Do you want to get there?
Do you want to follow my

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footsteps to make it to
Jerusalem?

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I’ll leave you some clues and
he’s going to leave us wonderful

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clues in this block between 9
and 19 of Luke.

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So new Jerusalem is people.
How do you get there?

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How do you become part of this
outstanding city?

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John 3.
Verily, verily, I say unto thee,

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Except a man be born again, he
cannot see the Kingdom of God,

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Jesus tells Nicodemus.
And the word again means from

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above.
You see the same language Your

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Bible’s margin probably says
from above.

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In there many translations
translated as from above.

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Christ explains to Nicodemus, a
Pharisee, that in order to be

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part of the Kingdom that he
speaks of, a person needs to be

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born from above, which makes
total sense.

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To be part of a city which is
from above, we must be born from

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above.
Where is Jerusalem being

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prepared from above?
Where is Jerusalem going to be

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sent from?
From above?

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It’s the same language.
It’s the same vocabulary.

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So New Jerusalem is a people,
isn’t it?

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But it’s not just any people.
You and I, brother And scissors.

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We’re not New Jerusalem, are we?
We better hope not, because if I

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was in New Jerusalem, it’d be a
pretty gross place.

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Because the Jason that Jason is
now doesn’t deserve anything

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close to being a New Jerusalem.
New Jerusalem is not mortal,

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gross, yucky, disgusting people.
It’s perfect, immortal people.

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It’s the bride of Christ, says
Revelation, the pillars in God’s

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temple name written on the
redeemed.

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It’s a, it’s a new ecclesia.
It’s a, it’s a new body of

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people in Christ.
That’s New Jerusalem.

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We’re all members of Christ’s
body, his blood, his his body,

436
00:28:39,880 –> 00:28:43,960
his flesh and his bones.
It’s a relationship of the bride

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00:28:44,200 –> 00:28:48,680
to the the old first born.
Eve’s relationship to Adam.

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00:28:48,840 –> 00:28:53,880
So is the new ecclesias relation
to the new first born Christ.

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00:28:56,840 –> 00:28:59,720
Ephesians 5 tells us we could be
part of that.

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00:29:02,000 –> 00:29:03,960
And so we journeyed toward
Jerusalem.

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00:29:07,440 –> 00:29:11,320
It says in Hebrews just a
another little verse, but you’re

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00:29:11,320 –> 00:29:14,440
coming to Mount Zion and to the
city of the living God, the

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00:29:14,480 –> 00:29:21,160
heavenly Jerusalem, to the
General Assembly and Ecclesia of

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00:29:21,160 –> 00:29:24,160
the first born, which are
written in heaven.

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00:29:24,240 –> 00:29:26,560
Do you see the language?
It’s everywhere.

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00:29:26,560 –> 00:29:29,160
When you start to see it, it’s
all over.

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00:29:29,560 –> 00:29:32,000
It’s a different Jerusalem.
It’s a Jerusalem made-up of

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00:29:32,000 –> 00:29:34,640
people who want to be it in part
of New Jerusalem.

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00:29:37,520 –> 00:29:41,440
And so Christ had to travel to
Jerusalem.

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00:29:42,240 –> 00:29:46,160
He had to get there.
It wasn’t just death, it wasn’t

451
00:29:46,160 –> 00:29:49,480
just pain, it wasn’t just
sorrow, it wasn’t just betrayal.

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00:29:51,520 –> 00:29:55,240
Who’s to begin putting in order
something brand new, A city not

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00:29:55,240 –> 00:30:00,240
of bricks, but a city of people.
This is what He wanted the

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00:30:00,240 –> 00:30:05,640
entire journey, the pain, the
disciples not understanding why

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00:30:05,640 –> 00:30:08,480
they’re walking, the trial of
pilot, the death on the cross,

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00:30:08,560 –> 00:30:11,960
they’re all just events that
lead to this great ascension

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00:30:11,960 –> 00:30:15,360
into heaven, to become a builder
of a new city.

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00:30:16,160 –> 00:30:19,080
This was his mission.
Now why 2 Jerusalem’s?

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00:30:20,520 –> 00:30:26,400
Why can’t he take the old one,
wipe it clean, restart with a

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00:30:27,160 –> 00:30:32,040
city Why created new Jerusalem?
Why is there this reason for two

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00:30:32,240 –> 00:30:37,360
Jerusalem’s?
Well, Isaiah tells us Isaiah is

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00:30:37,360 –> 00:30:40,680
a is a great book to look at if
you’re trying to figure out what

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00:30:40,680 –> 00:30:43,880
God’s plan for all of these
these these cities are.

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00:30:44,320 –> 00:30:47,480
So if you would like, I’d like
you to come to Isaiah chapter 1.

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If you’d like to listen, that’s
fine.

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But Isaiah chapter 1 is going to
give us a lot of clues to help

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00:30:52,120 –> 00:30:56,800
us understand why there needs to
be a second Jerusalem in

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Christ’s plan.
So Isaiah chapter 1, Isaiah

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00:31:02,640 –> 00:31:10,360
chapter one, we’re going to
start at verse one, the vision

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of Isaiah, the son of Amos,
which he saw concerning Judah

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00:31:14,920 –> 00:31:20,120
and Jerusalem.
All right, so we’re reading

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00:31:20,120 –> 00:31:22,040
about Jerusalem.
It’s clear.

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00:31:22,040 –> 00:31:25,840
And from Isaiah, this is a
prophecy concerning Jerusalem.

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00:31:26,080 –> 00:31:31,800
Look at verse 21.
How is the faithful city become

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00:31:32,240 –> 00:31:38,920
an harlot?
It was full of judgement.

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00:31:40,120 –> 00:31:45,960
Righteousness used to lodge in
it, but now murderers.

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00:31:48,320 –> 00:31:51,360
Thy silvers become dross, thy
wine mixed with water, thy

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00:31:51,360 –> 00:31:54,680
Princess are rebellious, and
their companions of thieves.

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00:31:54,960 –> 00:31:57,760
Everyone loveth gifts and
followeth after rewards.

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00:31:58,000 –> 00:32:00,080
They judge not the fatherless,
neither doth the cause of the

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00:32:00,080 –> 00:32:04,240
widow come unto them.
Therefore saith the Lord Yahweh

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00:32:04,240 –> 00:32:07,640
of hosts, the mighty One of
Israel, I will ease me of mine

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00:32:07,640 –> 00:32:10,880
adversaries, and avenge me of
mine enemies.

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00:32:14,280 –> 00:32:19,400
Verse 25.
A new thought, and I will turn

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00:32:19,400 –> 00:32:24,920
my hand upon thee purely, purge
away thy dross, take away all

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00:32:24,920 –> 00:32:30,920
thy tin, and I will restore thy
judges as at the 1st, and the

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00:32:30,920 –> 00:32:38,160
councillors as at the beginning.
So this old Jerusalem, the

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00:32:38,160 –> 00:32:45,400
faithful city that’s become in
harlot, that’s your old

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00:32:45,400 –> 00:32:48,280
Jerusalem.
You can’t work with that city.

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00:32:50,560 –> 00:32:56,600
It’s becoming harlot.
But he says in verses 26 and 27

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00:32:58,080 –> 00:33:04,600
afterwards, he says the city
will be called the city of

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00:33:04,600 –> 00:33:11,640
righteousness, the faithful city
that was nothing like the

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00:33:11,640 –> 00:33:16,520
Jerusalem Jesus walked into Zion
shall be redeemed with judgement

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00:33:17,600 –> 00:33:19,720
and to converts with
righteousness.

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00:33:21,160 –> 00:33:24,520
This is the city that they
looked for.

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00:33:26,040 –> 00:33:29,760
This is the city that Christ
went to create, a city of

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00:33:29,760 –> 00:33:34,560
righteousness, a faithful city,
a joyful city, a pure city, a

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00:33:34,560 –> 00:33:41,040
perfect city, a new city.
So Christ can stand on the

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00:33:41,040 –> 00:33:43,120
sermon.
Christ can stand on the mount in

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00:33:43,120 –> 00:33:45,960
his sermon and say, blessed are
they which do hunger and thirst

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00:33:46,040 –> 00:33:51,800
after righteousness.
They’ll be filled, He says,

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00:33:54,080 –> 00:33:55,960
because the city will be full of
it.

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00:33:57,920 –> 00:34:00,240
It’ll be a faithful city, a
righteous city.

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00:34:02,400 –> 00:34:05,400
The prophecy of Isaiah chapter
2.

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00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:11,159
Who is this prophecy written to?
The word of that Isaiah, the son

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00:34:11,159 –> 00:34:14,560
of Amos.
Ah, concerning first one, Judah

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00:34:14,880 –> 00:34:19,800
and Jerusalem, same prophecy,
same audience.

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00:34:20,480 –> 00:34:27,400
Come, let us go to the mountain
of Yahweh, for out of Zion shall

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00:34:27,400 –> 00:34:31,639
go forth the law, the Torah, and
the Word of Yahweh.

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00:34:31,880 –> 00:34:36,159
From Jerusalem, O House of
Jacob, come let us walk in the

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00:34:36,159 –> 00:34:39,800
light of Yahweh, the word of
Yahweh.

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00:34:39,920 –> 00:34:43,400
From Jerusalem, brothers and
sisters, the city has never been

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00:34:43,400 –> 00:34:47,239
like this.
People wouldn’t go to Jerusalem

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00:34:47,239 –> 00:34:52,960
to learn about God’s word except
for a blippin time during David,

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00:34:54,080 –> 00:34:59,240
Hezekiah, some great kings.
But when Christ walked onto the

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00:34:59,240 –> 00:35:03,360
scene, it was filthy.
But the word of Yahweh from

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00:35:03,360 –> 00:35:04,720
Jerusalem.
Where have we heard about the

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00:35:04,720 –> 00:35:07,720
word of Yahweh before?
Deuteronomy 18, verse 18.

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00:35:07,720 –> 00:35:10,160
I will put my words in His
mouth.

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00:35:10,560 –> 00:35:13,480
The words of God would come
forth from Jerusalem, from

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00:35:14,840 –> 00:35:21,000
Christ Himself.
And so, brothers and sisters,

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00:35:22,400 –> 00:35:25,320
these were all the ingredients
needed for new Jerusalem.

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00:35:25,320 –> 00:35:28,840
It was all there.
The prophets laid everything out

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00:35:28,840 –> 00:35:30,960
for us, didn’t they?
They told us what we needed.

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00:35:31,960 –> 00:35:38,000
A city of people up there on a
mountain showing everyone God’s

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00:35:38,000 –> 00:35:41,680
light.
That’s what we look for.

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00:35:42,440 –> 00:35:45,520
That’s New Jerusalem.
These are the ingredients.

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00:35:45,520 –> 00:35:49,400
This is the recipe.
Old Jerusalem didn’t fit this

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00:35:49,400 –> 00:35:51,920
mold, didn’t have all those
things.

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00:35:52,480 –> 00:35:55,960
So when Christ walked into that
city, it didn’t work.

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00:35:55,960 –> 00:36:01,040
He couldn’t use that, so God
sends a new prophet to build a

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00:36:01,040 –> 00:36:03,440
new Jerusalem to house his new
creation.

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00:36:06,080 –> 00:36:09,000
Now further on in Matthew 5
after the Sermon on the Mount,

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00:36:10,680 –> 00:36:16,680
Christ gives us an amazing
glimpse into His plan to begin

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00:36:16,680 –> 00:36:20,200
this city rolling.
I’ll read it for you and it’ll

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00:36:20,200 –> 00:36:30,600
be up on the screen.
Matthew 5 verse 14, he says you

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00:36:30,600 –> 00:36:34,960
are the light of the world.
He tells his disciples you’re

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00:36:34,960 –> 00:36:41,240
the light of the world.
You are a city set on a hill

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00:36:42,960 –> 00:36:48,800
that can’t be hidden.
Matthew 514 he tells his

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00:36:48,800 –> 00:36:51,400
disciples you’re everything
that’s needed.

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00:36:51,640 –> 00:36:55,800
All those ingredients spoken of,
we can work with you.

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00:36:57,880 –> 00:37:07,600
That city disciples there on a
mountain in view for everything

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00:37:07,920 –> 00:37:12,040
and everyone.
It’s all there, it’s everything.

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00:37:12,040 –> 00:37:14,000
It’s all there.
And he starts with his 12.

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00:37:14,680 –> 00:37:18,680
He says we’re going to
Jerusalem, we’re going to get

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00:37:18,680 –> 00:37:22,960
this rolling, let’s go.
And he brings the 12 with them,

547
00:37:23,120 –> 00:37:26,240
and they travel to Jerusalem to
begin work on a new city.

548
00:37:26,240 –> 00:37:29,240
And the disciples the whole time
have no idea what’s going on.

549
00:37:33,360 –> 00:37:35,160
They have zero clue what’s
happening.

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00:37:36,120 –> 00:37:38,800
They’re confused in the
beginning and they’re confused

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00:37:38,800 –> 00:37:40,760
steps away from entering the
city.

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00:37:41,840 –> 00:37:43,520
They’re confused before the
resurrection.

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00:37:43,640 –> 00:37:45,120
They’re confused after the
resurrection.

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00:37:47,520 –> 00:37:53,760
But he chooses them.
He chooses 12 flawed, confused

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00:37:53,840 –> 00:37:57,680
people.
Brothers, sisters.

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00:37:57,880 –> 00:38:04,640
How comforting is that, that he
dealt with those 12 the whole

557
00:38:04,640 –> 00:38:07,160
time?
I’m going to start something

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00:38:07,160 –> 00:38:09,960
great with you.
I’m going to build a new city

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00:38:10,400 –> 00:38:15,320
with you.
And here we are more lost, more

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00:38:15,320 –> 00:38:20,040
confused than they were.
He says, I’ll work with you too.

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00:38:20,840 –> 00:38:22,040
You could be a part of that
city.

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00:38:22,440 –> 00:38:24,920
You can come follow me to
Jerusalem.

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00:38:27,320 –> 00:38:34,040
And so he starts with these 12
Now this shouldn’t surprise us.

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00:38:34,040 –> 00:38:37,080
We, we know Revelation, come, I
will show you the brides as

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00:38:37,080 –> 00:38:40,200
Revelation 21.
I will show you the bride, the

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00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:43,960
wife of the Lamb.
And it says, and he carried me

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00:38:43,960 –> 00:38:47,880
away in the Spirit to a great
high mountain, and he showed me

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00:38:47,880 –> 00:38:51,560
the holy city, Jerusalem, same
language, the mountain, the

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00:38:51,560 –> 00:38:55,920
holiness of the city as compared
to the old coming down out of

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00:38:55,920 –> 00:38:58,160
heaven from God.
It’s the same language.

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00:39:00,160 –> 00:39:02,400
But look what else he uses to
describe the city.

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00:39:03,360 –> 00:39:06,200
He says further on in Revelation
21, verses 9 and 10, that the

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00:39:06,200 –> 00:39:09,760
city has 12 gates, it’s 12
angels, 12 tribes, 12

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00:39:09,760 –> 00:39:13,160
foundations.
The wall of the city has, as the

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00:39:13,160 –> 00:39:16,320
verse says, 12 foundations.
But not only that, for the

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00:39:16,320 –> 00:39:18,000
sisters, look what else the city
has.

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00:39:18,280 –> 00:39:22,600
There were 12 names of the 12
apostles.

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00:39:26,880 –> 00:39:29,640
The chapter continues to talk
about the measurements, the 12

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00:39:29,640 –> 00:39:30,920
Stones that adorn these
foundations.

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00:39:31,040 –> 00:39:33,680
Everything has to do with 12
because the 12 names of the 12

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00:39:33,680 –> 00:39:36,560
apostles.
This is the new city of

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00:39:36,560 –> 00:39:42,240
Jerusalem.
And so he brings those apostles

583
00:39:45,000 –> 00:39:51,720
in their confusion, in their
lack of attention, in their

584
00:39:51,720 –> 00:39:56,960
falling asleep.
And he says, I’ll use you.

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00:40:00,720 –> 00:40:03,080
And it’s where it all started.
It was the beginning of a city.

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00:40:04,160 –> 00:40:07,800
He’s going to spend that journey
to the old Jerusalem trying and

587
00:40:07,800 –> 00:40:12,840
trying and trying and trying to
get those 12 to see that it is

588
00:40:12,840 –> 00:40:15,480
so much more than the Old City
they should be worried about.

589
00:40:18,160 –> 00:40:20,640
We’re not looking at this city
of bricks and stones.

590
00:40:20,760 –> 00:40:23,520
Look past it.
Look through the city.

591
00:40:25,960 –> 00:40:28,040
Look at the prophets.
What are they Speaking of?

592
00:40:28,360 –> 00:40:33,640
Something far greater.
And he needed to prove to them,

593
00:40:33,800 –> 00:40:37,280
brothers and sisters, in this
journey before he was brought

594
00:40:37,280 –> 00:40:41,200
into heaven, that a new
Jerusalem was far greater than

595
00:40:41,200 –> 00:40:45,080
the old Jerusalem.
That’s what he needed to prove

596
00:40:45,080 –> 00:40:50,360
to them.
And he spent that whole time

597
00:40:51,360 –> 00:40:56,280
journeying toward Jerusalem,
trying to get them to see that,

598
00:40:59,400 –> 00:41:03,360
to create a living Jerusalem.
The interesting thing is, is

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00:41:03,360 –> 00:41:06,600
that if they were really paying
attention, they should have

600
00:41:06,600 –> 00:41:08,600
caught this many, many, many
times.

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00:41:08,640 –> 00:41:11,600
We’re going to look at just a
couple verses purely in Luke’s

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00:41:11,600 –> 00:41:13,080
gospel.
You can look at other gospels to

603
00:41:13,080 –> 00:41:15,560
prove this as well, but we’ll
just stick to Luke.

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00:41:16,240 –> 00:41:19,360
Luke 1334 to 35.
He’s talking about the city of

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00:41:19,360 –> 00:41:23,320
Jerusalem.
He says it’s the city that kills

606
00:41:23,440 –> 00:41:31,440
the prophets.
Luke 19 He’s almost there in

607
00:41:31,440 –> 00:41:36,640
Luke 19.
He’s just steps away and he sees

608
00:41:36,640 –> 00:41:40,320
the city and does it bring him
jubilance?

609
00:41:41,760 –> 00:41:46,080
He cries over it.
He knows what the future of the

610
00:41:46,080 –> 00:41:52,320
city holds.
Luke 19 He says to the people,

611
00:41:52,320 –> 00:41:56,640
You’ve made a den of robbers.
The temple of God is now a den

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00:41:56,640 –> 00:42:05,440
of robbers, he says.
Luke 20 His prophecy Jerusalem

613
00:42:05,800 –> 00:42:12,080
will be trampled under foot.
This is the language he uses on

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00:42:12,080 –> 00:42:14,560
his journey.
Can you believe this?

615
00:42:15,680 –> 00:42:20,120
And the disciples you can
understand?

616
00:42:20,920 –> 00:42:24,280
We’re so confused.
Why are we going?

617
00:42:24,960 –> 00:42:27,960
What is this journey about?
Why are we going to a city?

618
00:42:27,960 –> 00:42:29,200
Why are you crying over the
city?

619
00:42:29,200 –> 00:42:30,880
Why are you saying it’s going to
be ruined?

620
00:42:31,800 –> 00:42:33,080
I don’t.
I don’t understand what we’re

621
00:42:33,080 –> 00:42:38,760
doing.
And he says, just come on, it

622
00:42:38,760 –> 00:42:41,360
all makes sense.
Just follow me toward Jerusalem.

623
00:42:45,560 –> 00:42:48,880
Jeremiah 32.
I’m just going to put up a few

624
00:42:48,880 –> 00:42:52,800
verses here on the screen.
Jeremiah 32 goes over a prophecy

625
00:42:53,160 –> 00:42:57,520
that shows that it was never
really God’s intention to use

626
00:42:57,520 –> 00:43:02,080
that old city.
It says the city has aroused my

627
00:43:02,080 –> 00:43:08,520
anger and wrath from the day it
was built to this day.

628
00:43:10,400 –> 00:43:13,040
From the day the city was built
until this day.

629
00:43:13,880 –> 00:43:17,080
I will remove it from my sight
because of all the evil of the

630
00:43:17,080 –> 00:43:19,080
children of Israel and the
children of Judah.

631
00:43:19,400 –> 00:43:21,840
They did provoke me to anger.
They’re kings, they’re

632
00:43:21,840 –> 00:43:24,240
officials, they’re priests,
they’re prophets.

633
00:43:24,400 –> 00:43:29,840
The men of Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, They

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00:43:29,840 –> 00:43:32,600
have turned to me.
They’re back, he says, not their

635
00:43:32,600 –> 00:43:35,480
face.
So God through the prophet

636
00:43:35,480 –> 00:43:39,960
Jeremiah says the day it was
built it was a wicked city.

637
00:43:40,400 –> 00:43:43,680
But this follows the ingredients
of all the cities we saw you

638
00:43:43,680 –> 00:43:46,360
last night.
The city of Cain, the city of

639
00:43:46,360 –> 00:43:50,600
Babel.
This is what cities are until

640
00:43:50,600 –> 00:43:57,800
God can create a new city.
Revelation 21.

641
00:44:00,040 –> 00:44:08,760
I saw the holy city, the New
Jerusalem, coming down out of

642
00:44:08,760 –> 00:44:16,720
heaven from God, prepared as a
bride, beautifully dressed, says

643
00:44:16,720 –> 00:44:25,200
the NIV for her husband.
And I heard a loud voice from

644
00:44:25,200 –> 00:44:34,120
the throne saying, Look, God’s
dwelling place is now among the

645
00:44:34,280 –> 00:44:41,680
people, and he will dwell with
them, says Revelation 21.

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00:44:43,600 –> 00:44:49,240
God can dwell with people, it
can happen, and by the sisters

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00:44:49,240 –> 00:44:55,120
it will happen.
And he who was seated on the

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throne said, I’m making
everything new.

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And even though God promised
that he would destroy the

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wickedness of the city of
Jerusalem, he promised that he

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would bring about a new
Jerusalem, a perfect city of

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immortal Saints who only desire
is to serve God.

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And Christ, sitting on His
throne in the heavens, declared

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through John that He’s making
everything new, the new

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creation.
And so he gathers his swelled

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disciples in Luke 9 to begin a
brand new mission, to be lifted

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up, to begin working on a new
Jerusalem.

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And brothers and sisters, This
is why he steadfastly set his

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face to go to Jerusalem.
He was going to be received up

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to begin that work.
He was hoisted first onto a

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cross which would result in the
new creation, and then he would

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ascend to his Father’s side and
to begin work on a new city.

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And so, brothers and sisters, we
follow Christ to Jerusalem.

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We only have a couple minutes
left, but what I’d like us to do

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before the end of our time is to
just see if we can fill out in

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our handout session one.
We just have a couple more

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minutes, right?
Presider got the thumbs up.

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We just have a couple more
minutes.

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So is everybody comfortable with
where the journey begins and the

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journey ends?
We, we might have missed the

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journey’s purpose because I
didn’t actually talk about it,

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but it’ll come up soon.
So if you wrote something down,

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well done.
Journey begins where good Luke

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951, it ends in Luke 19, New
Jerusalem where the city start.

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But I would like you guys to
focus on is just in the last

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couple minutes of silence here.
See if you guys can just come up

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with some sort of goal
spiritually for yourself so that

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when you get home Sunday,
Monday, Saturday, you could say,

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OK, I know what, I need to work
on this one little thing.

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I can tackle this.
I can do this.

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Just a little spiritual goal.
It could be something as small

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as I haven’t spoken to this
brother in months.

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I’m going to go out for a cup of
coffee.

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It could be something as great
as I haven’t seen this family in

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years.
I’m going to call them up.

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I’m going to tell them something
encouraging spiritually and see

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if I can bring them back,
whatever it can be, brothers and

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sisters in your in your mind
spiritually.

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Hopefully we will all leave this
Bible school pumped up, excited

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about the spiritual future we
all have.

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And let’s see if we can come up
with just a spiritual goal

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during our Bible school
together.

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So I’m going to leave you guys
with with that.

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And if you guys can make sure
that that section at least

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tomorrow for our sessions is
filled out the spiritual goal.

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Because what you guys are going
to see is that throughout the

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the coming days, we will
actually see if we can build on

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that goal.
And we’ll apply some things.

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And these are going to be very
flexible to whatever your goal

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happens to be and see if we can
kind of start adding things onto

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it, buckling and snapping things
together.

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OK.
And if you guys would like to,

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you guys can kind of cruise
around, you’ll see that we’ve

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got some critical thinking
questions throughout here.

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But again, I do encourage you
guys to see if you guys can find

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an application for this
throughout the week.

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If you don’t want to, it’s
completely fine.

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It’s got a nice little coloring
map on the back.

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OK.
Thank you guys very much.