Jason Robinson – Toward Jerusalem – Class 3 – Save Those who are Lost

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All right, good morning, Bible
school.

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Fantastic to be back up with you
here on a Tuesday.

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We are marching our way through
the week.

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Before you know it, the Bible
school’s over.

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So let’s enjoy these last couple
last these beginning days before

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they’re over.
Goodness.

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OK, we are on class #3 today.
I hope everyone did their

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homework and came up with a
verse for strength when feeling

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overwhelmed with your burden
from yesterday.

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I got called out yesterday for
not having my verse the top of

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my head.
I found 1 and I thought I would

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share it with you guys.
So Sister Beth, here’s my verse.

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Romans 8, verse 18.
It’s a great encouraging verse

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to kind of help you if you feel
like sometimes that burden’s

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just a little too heavy.
Romans 8, verse 18 for I

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consider the sufferings of this
present time are not worth

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comparing with the glory that is
to be revealed to us.

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So if you guys ever get down and
you didn’t find a verse

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yesterday, feel free to use that
fantastic verse from Paul’s

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letter to the Romans.
All right, today we’re going to

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take a look at saving the lost,
and we’re going to see how this

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was an incredible theme all the
way through Christ’s journey

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toward Jerusalem.
And as he’s walking and as he’s

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journeying and as he’s bringing
along his 12, he is really

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trying to find everybody who’s
kind of lost and wandering on

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that road to Jerusalem.
What we’re going to see is

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that’s everyone.
Everyone was lost on the road to

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Jerusalem.
It’s your attitude about what

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you do when you find out that
you’re lost.

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So the theme today is saving
those who are lost.

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This was Christ’s mission.
The purpose, of course, we

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looked at yesterday, the purpose
of the mission is to fulfill all

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the things that were spoken of
by the prophets as that’s why he

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went up to Jerusalem and on his
way.

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He’s going to save those who are
lost.

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We’re going to be looking at a
handful of parables.

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We’re going to be taking a look
in the Old Testament received

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the failure of some of the
leaders in Israel, but he is on

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this mission to create a new
Jerusalem, a Jerusalem of

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people.
And it is going to be a city for

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all, but in particular those who
are lost without a city who are

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looking for one.
OK, so let’s start off.

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We’re going to be looking at the
the big picture here.

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Christ set off on the journey
towards Jerusalem and he kind of

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paints very clearly that if you
want to be found, if you want to

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get to that city, well, follow
him, follow me.

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And we looked at that yesterday
with the three volunteer

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disciples at the end of Luke
Chapter 9.

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The goal, of course, is to be
found.

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The goal of course, is to become
part of a magnificent heavenly

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city which will come down from
heaven, a city made-up of

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people, a city which we can walk
through the gates and which

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Christ can call us New
Jerusalem.

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That’s the goal.
Now, unfortunately, what we

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notice is that it’s not always
easy to just get into that city.

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We find barriers, we find walls,
we find speed bumps, all on this

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road to Jerusalem.
We find exits, we get off of the

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road.
We can get confused, we can get

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lost.
And Christ says, I know that’s

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going to happen, you’ll feel
lost.

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But it came to seek and to save
those who are lost.

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So we have two sides now.
We have those who are lost,

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those who are found, and
everybody on this side of the

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Kingdom is just lost.
That’s where we are.

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We’re lost, we’re wandering,
we’re looking, and Christ has

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called us to be found.
But in this lost side, there’s

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two groups of people.
We’re going to fall into one of

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these two.
There’s the people who are lost

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and they don’t think they’re
lost.

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And there’s the people who are
lost who desperately want to be

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found.
You know, we’re going to run

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into those people from Luke 9 to
Luke chapter 19 over and over

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and over again.
Christ is going to sit down and

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he’s going to have a meal with
people.

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And the people are going to
stare at him and say, do you

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know who you’re eating with?
Do you know what this person has

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been through?
Do you know how disgusting these

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people are?
And Christ is going to say, I

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came to seek and to save the
lost.

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And there’s people who
desperately want to be found,

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and there’s people who say, I
don’t think I’m lost.

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I don’t understand what the
confusion is here.

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But Christ came to save all.
Now a big, big theme and a

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reason we can prove that a big
theme is lost and found inside

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of this journey to Jerusalem is
the fact that we have many, many

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parables.
And we actually have a couple

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chapters that come right in the
middle of the journey and Luke

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15 and Luke 16.
So if you guys could turn with

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me to Luke chapter 15, we’re,
we’re not going to do too much

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reading at this time.
We’ll get into the parables in a

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little bit, but we’re going to
kind of lay out an outline in

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Luke chapter 15.
We start off the chapter really

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with the parable of the lost
sheep parable.

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Lost sheep is not unique to
Luke.

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We also have the parable the
lost coin in verses 8 through

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10.
This parable is unique to Luke.

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In Luke chapter 16, as we skip
over to the next chapter, we

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have the parable of the unjust
steward unique to Luke and the

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rich man and Lazarus unique to
Luke.

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Now right in the middle of this
is one more unique to Luke

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parable, and that’s the parable
of the prodigal son, Luke

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chapter 15, verses 11 through
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And it’s a long parable, but it
is a fantastic parable because

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what the parable, the prodigal
son is, it’s it’s an outline of

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Christ’s journey to Jerusalem.
He’s going to find two kinds of

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people.
He’s going to find some like the

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younger son.
He’s going to find some like the

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older son.
And his desire is just to bring

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them where to the father’s
house.

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That’s the goal, the House of
the father.

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And some run back to it and some
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So right in between these two
sets of parables, 1 describing

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those who are lost and another
describing those who are lost,

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is another describing those who
are lost.

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Everyone’s lost.
It’s your attitude once you

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realize that.
So it’s a parable, the prodigal

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son.
And this is really we’re going

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to focus on for the beginning
here of our class this morning.

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The parable, the prodigal son
has three simple characters.

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And we’re just going to dive
into these three characters,

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which we all know very, very
well.

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But let’s look at them for the
sake of our class this morning.

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We have the younger son and the
parable, the prodigal son.

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The younger son, he asks his
father for part of the

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inheritance.
He says, dad, I know we’re going

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to get inheritance.
Can you give me mine early?

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His father, who says, yes, he
leaves home.

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He wastes it all.
And he has this revelation as

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he’s eating the food he was
hired to feed pigs with.

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He’s eating it.
And he goes, I’d rather be a

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servant working in my father’s
house than live this life.

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And he runs home and his father
runs out to meet him and greets

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him and brings him in, and he
throws him a party.

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His son was lost, but he’s been
found.

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He’s repented.
But we have the story of the

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older brother, It says in Luke
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Now his older son was in the
field, and as he came and drew

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near to the house, keep in mind
the house, he heard music and he

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heard dancing.
The younger son, he’s working in

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the field and as he’s coming
home, he goes, is that dancing

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and music?
Verse 26 And he called one of

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the servants and asked what
these things meant.

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And he said to him, your
brother, your brother has come

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back and your father has killed
the fatted calf because he has

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received him back safe and
sound.

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And the attitude of the older
brother should have been drop

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everything, run and embrace his
brother.

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What’s the attitude of the older
brother?

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Very next verse, he was angry
and he refused to go in.

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The older brother wouldn’t even
enter the House of the father.

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So the father comes to him.
His father came out and

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entreated him, but he answered
his father.

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Look, these many years I have
served you, and I have never

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disobeyed your command.
Yet you never gave me a young

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goat that I might celebrate with
my friends.

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But when this son of yours who
has devoured your property with

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prostitutes, you killed the
fatted calf for him, and he said

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to him, son, you are always with
me and all that I, all that is

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mine is yours.
And so we have now the

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introduction of the father.
The father is trying to bring

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both sons into the house.
He runs out to the younger, he

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brings them into the house.
The older refuses to come in.

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He comes out and he says come
into the house.

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It’s getting to the father’s
house.

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That’s the point.
That’s where Christ is going to

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the House of his Father.
His first step into Jerusalem.

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The text is walking into the
temple.

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And he’s called all those who
would be willing to follow,

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those like the younger and those
like the older.

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And so if we’re going to look
now at the types of who each of

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these is, it’s pretty easy.
I’m sure we all have this

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marked.
Of course, the Father is our

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heavenly Father who desires
everybody to be saved.

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He desires all to come into his
house and find salvation.

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The younger Son was those
publicans and sinners.

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How dare they be accepted into a
place like this?

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The publicans and sinners, those
who had left it, wasted their

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life, and now they want
repentance.

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And the older son was those
scribes and the Pharisees.

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And so we have this beautiful
type of everyone that Christ

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would meet on that road to his
Father’s house toward Jerusalem.

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Now look at the attitude of each
of these brothers, verse 21, the

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attitude of the younger son.
The Son said to him, Father, I

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have sinned against heaven and
before you, I am no more worthy

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to be called your son.
So the attitude of the younger

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is I’ve sinned.
That’s the first step.

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That’s what we all have to do.
That’s repentance.

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But what was the attitude of the
older verse 29?

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But he answered his father, the
older brother.

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Look, these many years I’ve
served you and I have never

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disobeyed your command.
So the attitude of the younger

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son is, father, I have sinned.
The attitude of the older is I

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have never sinned.
Which one of these brothers and

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sisters is actually lost?
Which one of these people is

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actually the lost brother?
The younger son was lost, but

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he’s been found.
He’s come back.

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The older son has no idea that
he’s actually lost.

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He thinks he’s never sinned.
Well, if we were to compare this

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to another unique Luke parable,
Luke 18-9 to 14, we’re almost

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back into Jerusalem in Luke 18,
verse 9.

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I’ll read it for you.
He told also this parable to

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some who trusted in themselves
that they were righteous.

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That’s his audience.
Verse 10 Two men went up into

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the temple to pray.
Two men went into the House of

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the Father to pray. 1A Pharisee
and the other a tax collector.

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The Pharisee standing by himself
prayed thus.

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God, I thank you that I am not
like other men, extortioners,

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unjust adulterers, or even like
this tax collector.

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I fast twice a week.
I get ties of all that I get.

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But the tax collector standing
far off would not even lift up

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his eyes to heaven, but beat his
breath saying, God be merciful

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to me, a Sinner.
I tell you, this man went down

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to his house justified rather
than the other.

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For everyone who exalts himself
will be humbled, but the one who

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humbles himself will be exalted.
So we take now another unique

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Luke story, another parable by
Christ, two men, House of the

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Father.
The one says I sure thank you

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God that I am not like
disgusting people.

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And the other one says I’m a
Sinner, please be merciful to

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me, I’m lost.
The Pharisee who couldn’t be

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more self-centered, exposes just
how lost he actually was.

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And the publican, he couldn’t
sound more lost.

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If you walked in, he’d be a
little scared of this guy.

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He couldn’t sound more lost.
But in so doing, he exposes his

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desire to be found.
And this is everybody on Christ

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road to Jerusalem.
They’re lost.

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They want to be found or they
really can’t accept the fact

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that they’re lost.
So the publicans and sinners

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were going to label as lost.
They were lost, but they desired

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so much to be found.
They knew they sinned.

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They knew they made mistakes.
So they come to Christ, they

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fall down at his feet and
worship him.

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And the Pharisees and scribes
look down and they say, if this

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man knew who this person was, if
only we’re to categorize these

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as the Super lost forsake of
example.

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So we have lost and we have
super lost.

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We have the lost to say, I just
need to be found.

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And the Super lost who haven’t
even made it to the fact that

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they understand that they’re
lost as well.

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So as we move forward toward
Jerusalem, Christ is going to

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come across these people time
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We could think of countless
stories.

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So if you’re going to say that,
well, the parable, the prodigal

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son is this beautiful picture of
the story, the road that leads

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to the father’s house, the
calling of those who are lost in

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the Super lost.
The parable ends and it explains

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to us for the son of man came to
seek, he’s searching and save

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the lost.
That was Christ’s goal.

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Let’s pause for a second and
understand how beautiful that

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is.
We can feel so lost sometimes in

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our lives.
We can feel like, I don’t know

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if I need to turn left or if I
need to turn right or if I need

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to go straight.
We can feel so lost.

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And Christ says, I came to not
only save you, but I came to

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find you.
I came to search you out.

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And we’re going to see it at the
end of our class, time

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permitting.
But one of the last things that

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he says before he enters
Jerusalem is the Son of Man came

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to seek and to save the lost.
This was the theme.

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This was why he journeyed.
He wants as many as he can to

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admit or lost in this life
without him.

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So this was his purpose.
This was his goal was to seek

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and to save the lost.
Well, Jesus, in the collection

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of the four gospels that we
have, he, he heals, He

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socializes, He instructs, He
forgives all kinds of people who

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were lost.
He spends time with tax

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collectors.
He spends time with the unclean,

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lepers and the diseased, the
zealots, the mentally sick, the

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confusing, the social outcasts,
Samaritans, Gentiles, the

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uncircumcised Gentiles,
adulterers, prostitutes,

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thieves.
Christ came to seek and to save

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the lost.
But not only that, not only does

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this, the path that he chose to
walk towards Jerusalem.

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Look at the people he spent his
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His closest friends were
uneducated fishermen.

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Those were his disciples, His
meals.

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He would sit down with sinners.
The treasurer he collected was a

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thief.
If you’re putting together a

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team, brothers and sisters for
work, you have a project or a

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goal or a place you need to make
it to.

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Would you put together a team
that Christ assembled?

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I wouldn’t to take to take this
group.

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Maybe the first people I’d
Passover.

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I’d find the cream of the crop,
the best of the best, the

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biggest resume.
That’s what I’d find.

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Christ doesn’t.
He chooses these.

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We’re going to really open this
up in tomorrow’s session because

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we really explore the dynamics
of the people to Christ chosen

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his disciples, but keep this in
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Christ came to seek and to save
the lost.

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This was his purpose.
So as he travels to Jerusalem,

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he does so going out of his way
so many times, so many times to

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just save this person, or he’s
going to linger here to save

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that person, or he’s going to
walk into the city to save this

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person.
And the disciples are going, why

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are we going here?
What are we doing over here?

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Christ came to seek and to save
the lost.

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So if you’re going to now look
at this and you’re going to say,

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well, everyone’s lost.
We know we’re trying to get to

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Jerusalem.
Christ is searching.

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He wants everybody to be found.
It’s up now to, it’s up to us

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now to admit we are lost.
Are you going to sit on the side

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and say I am, I’m not actually
lost, I’m fine, Or are you going

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to do anything that you can to
make us so Christ can find you

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so you can follow Christ to
Jerusalem?

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We’re going to see these
examples as we March forward.

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Just to kind of quickly recap
now, these parables that

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surround the parable, the
prodigal son, chapter 15 and

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Luke verse one.
Now the tax collectors and the

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sinners were drawing near to him
and the Pharisees and the

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scribes grumbled.
So we have the characters, the

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tax collectors and the sinners
who hear the parables of the

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parable of the lost sheep and
the parable of the lost coin.

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Well then what we have is
chapter 16, verse 1.

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He also said to the disciples,
and he speaks the parable of the

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unjust steward.
Well look at verse 14.

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This is verse 14.
The Pharisees who were lovers of

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money, they heard.
All these things and they

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ridiculed him and said you are
those who justify yourselves

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before men, but God knows your
hearts, for what is exalted

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among men is an abomination in
the sight of God.

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So we have now all the parties
present hearing these parables.

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What I’d like to do now is take
a little break from the New

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Testament.
If you guys would come with me

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to the prophecy of Ezekiel.
The prophecy of Ezekiel gives us

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a springboard into our next
little topic here looking at the

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lost.
We’re going to look at Ezekiel

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chapter 34.
Ezekiel chapter 34 tells us the

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story of the shepherds of
Israel.

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Because as we come unto the
scene of Christ and he’s

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wandering and he’s seeking those
who are lost, nobody should be

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surprised.
This is exactly what was to be

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expected.
This was prophesied.

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Had these religious leaders
truly been paying attention to

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their Bibles, to their prophets,
they would have known precisely

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the state that Israel was in.
We come to Ezekiel 34, verse

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one, and the word of Yahweh came
to me, Son of Man, prophecy

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against the shepherds of Israel,
prophecy and say to them, even

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to the shepherds of Israel.
Thus says the Lord Yahweh,

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shepherds of Israel who have
been feeding yourselves,

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shouldn’t shepherds feed the
sheep?

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So he says, listen to this
prophecy, you shepherds of

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Israel, you’ve been feeding
yourselves.

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Isn’t it the job of a shepherd
to feed sheep?

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Verse three, You eat the fat,
you clothe yourselves with the

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wool, you slaughter the fat
ones, but you don’t feed the

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sheep the weak, he says You
haven’t strengthened them.

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The sick you haven’t healed, the
injured you haven’t bound up,

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the strayed you haven’t brought
back and the lost the lost.

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You have not sought out
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So what happens when Israel
doesn’t have shepherds looking

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after them?
We know, we know the we know the

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story.
When sheep don’t have shepherds,

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they wander, they’re scattered.
Verse 77.

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Therefore you shepherds hear the
word of Yahweh as I live,

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declares Lord Yahweh.
Surely, because my sheep have

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become a prey, and my sheep have
become food for all the wild

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beasts, since there was no
shepherd, and because my

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shepherds have not searched for
my sheep, the shepherds have fed

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themselves and have not fed my
sheep.

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Therefore you shepherds hear the
word of Yahweh.

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I am against the shepherds.
So because these shepherds had

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failed in their duty to feed the
sheep, to strengthen the weak,

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to heal the sick, to bound up
the injured, to bring back the

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strayed and to seek out the
lost, the children of Israel

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became scattered.
They became food for the beasts

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they were.
They were eaten up by the

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culture and the religions of the
Gentiles.

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They were just chewed up.
They wandered the mountains,

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said Ezekiel.
And while they were wandering,

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there was no one looking for
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These shepherds were too busy
sitting in their kitchens,

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feeding themselves.
They couldn’t even search for

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the the sheep.
Israel was full of lost sheep

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who just wanted to be found, but
none searched for them.

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But we come to verse 11.
For thus says the Lord Yahweh,

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Behold, I, I myself will search
for my sheep.

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I will seek them out.
Shepherds, you failed.

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I will do this.
As a shepherd seeks out his

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flock when he’s among his sheep
that have been scattered, so

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will I seek out my sheep, and I
will rescue them from all the

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places where they have been
scattered.

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I will bring them back from
among the peoples, and I will

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gather them from the countries,
and we’ll bring them into their

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own land.
I will feed them on the

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mountains of Israel.
I will feed them in a good

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pasture.
So what he’s saying is I have to

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do your job.
Shepherds of Israel, you have

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failed.
You’ve stuffed your faces while

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the sheep have been lost.
You’ve only done these things

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for yourself.
Verse 16.

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I will seek the lost that was
God’s words in this prophecy.

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I will seek the lost.
What was Christ’s words?

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I came to seek and to save the
lost.

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God sent his Son to finish the
work that the shepherds of

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Israel failed to do according to
Ezekiel 34.

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And I will strengthen the weak
and the fats and the strong I

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will destroy, I will feed them
injustice.

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So what does God say He is going
to do in verses 11 through 16?

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He says the lost I will seek,
the strayed I will bring back,

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the injured I will bind up and
the weak I will strengthen.

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Everything that the shepherds
have done wrong.

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I’m going to send my son to make
right.

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This was God’s promise in the
prophecy of Ezekiel 34.

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So when Christ comes onto the
scene in Matthew Chapter 9, he

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has compassion on the crowd.
Matthew 9 And Jesus went

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throughout all the city and
villages, teaching in their

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synagogues, proclaiming the
gospel of the Kingdom, healing

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the disease of every affliction.
And when he looked out and he

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saw the crowds, he had
compassion on them because they

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were like sheep without a
shepherd.

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And this is Christ’s
introduction to the scene.

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And he comes and he sees these
people and he looks out and he

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says they’re just like sheep.
They have no shepherd.

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I’m healing their diseases.
I’m teaching in the synagogues.

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I’m doing the work of all these
shepherds because they’re

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feeding themselves.
John 10, verse 11.

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I am the Good Shepherd.
The Good Shepherd lays down his

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life for the sheep, he says, and
Jesus knew this as he

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steadfastly set his face to go
to Jerusalem.

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He knew that what awaited for
Him there was that He would lay

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down His life for all of those
sheep that He would gather and

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collect.
But He does it anyway because He

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came to seek and to save the
lost, and He went to Jerusalem

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to start an order.
All that was written about him

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of the prophets, even Ezekiel
34, He begins these things in

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order and it was a message of
repentance.

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So as you compare now the
shepherds of Israel and Christ

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finishing their task, repentance
would come.

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But Ezekiel tells us it was
going to come now, not by the

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hands of the shepherds, but by
the hands of God, and he uses

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his Son.
So when we come onto the scene,

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where’s the first time we’re
introduced to these shepherds of

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Israel in Christ’s day?
They haven’t changed.

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They’re still feeding
themselves.

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They just now have names.
They’re just now known as

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scribes, Pharisees, and
Sadducees.

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They live in Jerusalem, but they
still ignore the flock and feed

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themselves.
But God promised He would

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somehow bring about repentance.
So the very, very first time we

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see these shepherds, come with
me to Matthew chapter 3, these

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shepherds now we come unto the
scene and it’s none other than

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John the Baptist, the one who
prepared the way for Christ.

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Beautiful language in this road
to Jerusalem prepared the way

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Matthew 3 verse 3 for this is he
who was spoken by the prophet

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Isaiah when he said the voice of
one crying in the wilderness.

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Prepare the way of the Lord,
make his paths straight.

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First four.
Now John wore a a garment of

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camel’s hair and a leather belt
around his waist.

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His food was locusts and wild
honey.

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Then guess who comes to him?
Jerusalem comes to him and all

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Judea and all the region round
about Jordan were going to him

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and they were baptized by him in
the river Jordan confessing

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their sins.
Verse 2 tells us this was the

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goal.
Repent, He says that’s how you

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can be found.
You repent.

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We’ve seen this.
God said repentance would come.

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So John comes declaring, you
guessed it, repentance, and they

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come to him baptized, confessing
their sins.

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So Jerusalem now comes.
Guess who’s part of Jerusalem?

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Well, not only is it the lost,
but it’s also the Super lost.

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Come look at our introduction to
the Pharisees and Sadducees,

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verse 7.
But when he saw many of the

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shepherds of Israel, the
Pharisees and Sadducees coming

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to his baptism, he said to them,
you brood of Vipers, who warned

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you to flee from the wrath to
come bear fruit in keeping with

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what?
Repentance.

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He says, Imagine that.
Imagine you are one of these

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hired Pharisees or Sadducees and
you come out to check out this

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John the Baptist guy and you
step foot into this area and he

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yells at you that you’re the
seed of Vipers.

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Bear fruit in keeping with
repentance.

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And don’t you dare say, he says,
don’t you dare say that we have

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Abraham as our father, for I
tell you, God can make new sons

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of Abraham with those rocks
right there.

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He tells them, shepherds of
Israel, your responsibility is

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00:31:08,640 –> 00:31:11,360
what?
It’s the bear fruits of

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repentance.
That’s your job description.

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Go look it up.
Bear fruits worthy of repentance

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for a group of people who follow
every jot and title of the law.

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Your goal, your career is about
getting people, finding people,

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seeking them out and saving
them.

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But you yourselves can’t even
find repentance.

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And this is what he tells them.
Bear fruits keeping with

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repentance.
But then he says in verse 9,

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don’t think to say within
yourselves we have Abraham to

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our father.
After I say to you that God is

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able of these stones to raise up
children unto Abraham, he says,

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don’t think that you’re going to
say we’re 4 seeds of Abraham,

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We’re fine.
I just said your seeds of the

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Viper, don’t say your seeds of
Abraham.

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Everything’s going to be OK.
Now Luke adds a little bit to

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this.
Luke says Bring forth therefore

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fruits worthy of repentance.
That’s the goal, bring forth

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00:32:18,760 –> 00:32:22,840
fruits worthy of repentance.
Now why Abraham?

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00:32:23,000 –> 00:32:27,280
Why does John say, don’t say we
have Abraham to our father

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because God can make new
children unto Abraham.

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00:32:29,440 –> 00:32:34,440
What’s so special about Abraham?
Why not David, the kingly line?

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Why not the second Adam, a new
creation?

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Why Abraham?
Well, we know the story of

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Abraham.
What’s he remembered for in

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Hebrews 11.
If you’re going to sum up the

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faith of that man, Hebrews 11,
what is he known for?

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Hebrews 11, it says in verse 8,
by faith Abraham obeyed when he

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was called to go out to a place
that he was to receive as an

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inheritance, and he went out
having no idea where he was

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00:33:18,320 –> 00:33:21,720
going.
What’s Abraham remembered for in

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00:33:21,720 –> 00:33:28,920
Hebrews 11 verse 8?
For being a guy who’s lost, for

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00:33:28,920 –> 00:33:34,360
being a guy who wandered, for
being a guy who was commanded by

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God to leave the house and to
leave having no idea where he

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was going.
The brothers and sisters is more

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than that.
Look at verse 10, for he was

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looking for a city.
This is what he was looking for.

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He wandered lost because he was
looking for a city.

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Not just any city, a city with
foundations whose builder and

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00:34:01,840 –> 00:34:07,360
maker is God.
That’s why Abraham because he

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00:34:07,360 –> 00:34:12,239
spent his whole life looking for
a city he knew he would never

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00:34:12,239 –> 00:34:16,280
see a city built and designed by
God.

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00:34:17,880 –> 00:34:25,400
Verse 16 But as it is they these
faithful desire a better

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00:34:25,400 –> 00:34:33,600
country, a heavenly one.
Therefore God is not ashamed to

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be called their God, for He has
done what he’s prepared them.

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A city.
All of these faithful of old,

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00:34:42,880 –> 00:34:46,760
they wandered, lost their whole
lives looking for a city,

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00:34:47,880 –> 00:34:50,280
knowing I’m not going to find it
in this life.

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It’s a heavenly one, it’s one
from above, it’s a city built,

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it’s a city designed by God.
So I wander, lost in this life,

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00:34:59,640 –> 00:35:04,640
knowing I’ll be found.
That’s Abraham’s record in

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00:35:04,640 –> 00:35:09,240
Hebrews 11.
So children of Abraham, they all

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have a city waiting for them.
We wander in this life knowing

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we’re not going to be found
until we find our city, New

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Jerusalem.
We follow Christ to get there,

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00:35:20,520 –> 00:35:22,360
one that will come down from
heaven.

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The children of Abraham will
make up this city.

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So then we come to Luke chapter
13, come with me if you would to

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about middle of our journey
toward Jerusalem in Luke 13.

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We’re going to follow this theme
now of repentance.

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If we follow Christ to
Jerusalem, we’ll see abundantly

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that it’s the loss of this world
that Christ came to save.

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00:35:55,210 –> 00:35:58,440
He says in Luke 13 verse 3, I
tell you, nay, but except you

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00:35:58,440 –> 00:36:01,120
repent, you shall all likewise
perish.

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So the story here is there were
some of the present verse one

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who told them about the
Galileans whose blood Pilate had

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00:36:07,240 –> 00:36:09,960
mingle with their sacrifices.
What they’re saying is they come

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to Christ and they say look up
in Jerusalem.

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Pilate has slain some of the
Galileans and their blood has

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been mixed with the blood of the
offerings.

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There’s been murder, committed
religious acts of murder, and

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00:36:24,880 –> 00:36:31,960
Christ says, do you think that
are you implying that these

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Galileans were worse than other
people because they died this

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00:36:34,360 –> 00:36:36,560
way?
This is no, no, no, that’s not

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how it works.
Verse three, I tell you, unless

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00:36:40,720 –> 00:36:44,640
you repent, you all will perish.
Repentance is the key is what he

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00:36:44,640 –> 00:36:47,320
says.
If you do not repent, it equals

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00:36:48,360 –> 00:36:50,600
perishing.
The word perish is the same

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00:36:50,600 –> 00:36:53,200
exact word that we’ve been
seeing as lost.

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So the solution to perishing is
repenting.

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The solution to being lost is
repenting.

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We’ve seen this in Ezekiel.
We’ve seen this with John the

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00:37:03,240 –> 00:37:05,720
Baptist.
Bear fruits worthy of

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00:37:05,720 –> 00:37:09,400
repentance.
And Christ here emphasizes to

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the people, it’s about your
fruit.

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It’s about the repentance.
You want to be found, repent.

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There was a group of people who
Christ went with who did repent,

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00:37:20,040 –> 00:37:22,800
and there were a group of people
who Christ travelled with who

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00:37:22,800 –> 00:37:25,680
could not bring themselves to
repent.

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We come to verses 6 through 9.
We have the parable of the

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00:37:30,840 –> 00:37:33,640
barren fig tree, a fig tree that
cannot produce fruit.

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Then we come to verse 10.
Now he was teaching in one of

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the synagogues on the Sabbath.
Christ really loved to push

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00:37:43,800 –> 00:37:49,840
their buttons, didn’t He?
This is how Christ worked verse

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00:37:49,840 –> 00:37:52,840
11 the behold, there was a woman
who had a disabling spirit for

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00:37:52,840 –> 00:37:56,240
18 years.
She was bent over and she

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00:37:56,240 –> 00:37:58,400
couldn’t fully straighten
herself.

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When Jesus saw her, he called
her over and said to her, woman,

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you are freed from your
disability.

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And everybody would have would
have steered clear of this

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00:38:07,040 –> 00:38:11,640
woman.
She’s unclean, something’s wrong

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00:38:11,640 –> 00:38:13,480
with her.
She doesn’t belong here.

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And Christ says, woman, come
here, you’re healed.

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Now what’s the story?
This story is crazy.

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Verse 13, he laid hands on her
and immediately she was made

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straight and she glorified God.
Beautiful story.

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Imagine this the the presenter
now in the synagogue saying this

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00:38:36,480 –> 00:38:39,360
is the expectation for today.
This is wonderful.

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That’s not at all what happens.
We’ll see what happens.

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00:38:42,600 –> 00:38:46,200
Verse 14 But the ruler of the
synagogue indignant because

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00:38:46,320 –> 00:38:49,040
Jesus had healed in the Sabbath
and said to the people, said to

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00:38:49,040 –> 00:38:51,240
who?
The people?

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00:38:51,360 –> 00:38:57,480
He changes his sermon.
There are 6 days in which work

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00:38:57,520 –> 00:39:01,600
ought to be done, come on those
days and be healed and not on

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00:39:01,600 –> 00:39:04,600
the Sabbath day.
So he’s giving his sermon, He’s

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00:39:04,600 –> 00:39:05,920
giving his sermon, He’s giving
his sermon.

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00:39:06,000 –> 00:39:08,560
Jesus heals somebody.
He says, people, there are 6

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days in which you can be healed,
never on the Sabbath.

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What an opportunity to capture
this miracle, to expound on the

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00:39:18,800 –> 00:39:20,600
principles and the expectations
there.

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00:39:21,480 –> 00:39:26,520
And yet he changes his sermon
now to call out Christ.

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00:39:27,880 –> 00:39:31,320
Then the Lord answered in verse
15, You hypocrites, does not

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00:39:31,320 –> 00:39:34,120
each of you on the Sabbath untie
his ox or his donkey from the

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Manger and lead it away to
water?

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00:39:35,440 –> 00:39:43,920
And I thought this woman, a
daughter of Abraham, whom Satan

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00:39:43,920 –> 00:39:48,960
hath bound 18 years, I can
Christ can take these stones and

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00:39:48,960 –> 00:39:51,120
make sons and daughters of
Abraham.

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00:39:52,280 –> 00:39:55,080
Don’t think to say within
yourselves, Abraham’s our

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00:39:55,080 –> 00:39:57,200
father.
God can make new ones.

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00:39:59,000 –> 00:40:03,000
And here Christ walks into the
synagogue and he heals a woman

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00:40:05,080 –> 00:40:10,640
who’s been diseased 18 years and
says she.

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00:40:11,520 –> 00:40:18,800
Is a daughter of Abraham.
That was the exhortation.

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00:40:19,920 –> 00:40:24,720
That was the perfect sermon for
the synagogue on that Sabbath

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00:40:24,720 –> 00:40:33,240
day.
But we have one more Luke 19.

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What do we know happens in Luke
19?

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00:40:41,080 –> 00:40:49,200
Christ enters Jerusalem, but
Jesus has one more lost sheep to

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00:40:49,200 –> 00:40:55,880
find one more He’s going to
collect and He’s going to sum up

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00:40:56,320 –> 00:41:04,920
this journey perfectly.
Luke 19, Luke 19, verse 1.

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He enters Jericho and passing
through there was a man named

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00:41:12,800 –> 00:41:19,400
Zacchaeus.
He has one final sheep to find.

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00:41:21,240 –> 00:41:26,320
It will be his final stop.
It’s a reverse journey to the

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00:41:26,320 –> 00:41:30,840
parable of the Good Samaritan
from Jericho to Jerusalem.

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Now, the story of Zacchaeus is a
fairly familiar one, but it’s a

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00:41:37,880 –> 00:41:40,920
story that really seals this
theme of Jesus searching for the

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lost.
Zacchaeus, we’re told, was chief

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00:41:43,800 –> 00:41:47,200
among the publicans.
He was a chief tax collector.

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Not only was he himself a tax
collector, but he was a boss of

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other tax collectors.
And like tax collectors, in that

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00:41:56,680 –> 00:42:01,400
time, he made his wealth mostly
by deception and by stealing.

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00:42:01,400 –> 00:42:03,960
The riches of these tax
collectors was almost always

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00:42:04,320 –> 00:42:06,360
acquired by deception or
thievery.

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00:42:07,520 –> 00:42:09,960
But Zacchaeus wants something
more than riches.

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He just wants to see Jesus.
He just wants to see Jesus.

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He heard how Jesus was coming to
Jericho.

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At this point, Jesus’s itinerary
was probably quite a topic.

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00:42:26,720 –> 00:42:31,240
A man who could, at the heel of
a touch, a man who could feed

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00:42:31,240 –> 00:42:37,400
thousands from a boy’s picnic.
This man is a guy worth paying

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00:42:37,400 –> 00:42:41,280
attention to.
And Zacchaeus was no stranger to

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00:42:41,280 –> 00:42:43,880
these rumors.
He just wants to see Jesus.

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00:42:44,040 –> 00:42:48,480
He has a problem.
He’s vertically challenged.

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00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:52,080
What he needs to do is he climbs
up.

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00:42:52,080 –> 00:42:56,320
In verse four, he ran ahead, he
dashed in front of the people

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and he climbs up into a Sycamore
tree to see him.

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00:43:01,880 –> 00:43:05,080
For Christ was about to pass
right by the road where this

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00:43:05,080 –> 00:43:06,800
tree was.
Zacchaeus.

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00:43:06,800 –> 00:43:10,520
The solution, climb a tree.
He hopes to see Jesus, who he

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00:43:10,520 –> 00:43:12,400
was.
He had heard so much, but he

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00:43:12,400 –> 00:43:14,680
just wants to see him.
So he climbs into a Sycamore

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00:43:14,680 –> 00:43:16,640
tree.
Now the fascinating thing is

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00:43:16,640 –> 00:43:20,480
Jesus stops and he looks up and
he sees Zacchaeus.

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00:43:21,520 –> 00:43:24,600
Now the interesting thing is
that this word Sycamore, the

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Sycamore is actually this type
of fig tree.

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It comes from the Greek word
sukumoria, the he, the, sorry,

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00:43:32,240 –> 00:43:36,160
the Greek root word for this is
sukhan, which is a fig.

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00:43:37,240 –> 00:43:40,360
So what he’s saying is he’s
stopping by this, this type of

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Sycamore that bears figs and he
stops.

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00:43:44,880 –> 00:43:48,440
And it’s the same word in Mark
11 that is this fig tree.

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Now, fig trees on this road to
Jerusalem and on Christ’s

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journey through the Gospels, fig
trees do something.

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They have an interesting story
to tell.

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I’m going to read you a few
verses as we follow Christ

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toward Jerusalem in this Gospel
of Luke.

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We’ll stick to Luke’s gospel,
Luke 6 and at verse 43.

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For no good tree bears bad
fruit, nor again does a bad tree

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bear good fruit, for each tree
is known by its own fruit.

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00:44:20,600 –> 00:44:24,200
Figs, they’re not gathered from
thorn bushes.

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00:44:24,960 –> 00:44:29,040
Grapes are picked, aren’t picked
from a Bramble Bush.

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No, the good person out of the
good treasures of his heart,

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they produce good fruit.
And the evil person, out of the

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evil, he produces evil, for out
of the abundance of the heart,

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his mouth speaks.
So good trees produce good

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fruit.
Luke 13.

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We’ve already danced around this
verse a little bit.

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The Luke 13 is this story of the
parable of the barren fig tree.

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He told this parable.
A man had a fig tree planted in

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his vineyard.
Amazing study to look at.

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Why would you plant a fig tree
in a vineyard another time?

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And he came seeking fruit on it.
Does he find fruit?

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No.
A fig tree is supposed to make

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fruit.
So he comes and he doesn’t find

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any fruit on it.
And he said to the vine dresser,

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00:45:15,360 –> 00:45:18,440
look, for three years now I come
to this tree and I seek fruit

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00:45:19,280 –> 00:45:21,480
and I find it, not just chop it
down.

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00:45:23,040 –> 00:45:26,240
But he answered and said, Sir,
just leave it alone this year

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00:45:28,520 –> 00:45:30,560
until I dig it about and I put
it up a newer than if it should

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00:45:30,560 –> 00:45:32,840
bear fruit next year, well,
good, and if not, I can cut it

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00:45:32,840 –> 00:45:35,800
down.
Who else came to a fig tree

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00:45:35,800 –> 00:45:38,920
Jerusalem looking for fruit for
three years but could never find

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00:45:38,920 –> 00:45:46,680
it?
Christ did Luke 21 verse 29.

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He’s entered Jerusalem, He’s
come back out, and he told them

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00:45:52,160 –> 00:45:53,880
a parable.
Look at the fig tree and all the

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trees.
As soon as they come out in

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leaf, you see for yourselves and
know the summer is already near.

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00:45:59,280 –> 00:46:01,280
So also when you see these
things taking place, you know

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that the Kingdom of God is near.
Fig tree leaves symbolize the

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sign that your redemption draws
near the fruit.

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00:46:10,480 –> 00:46:13,000
It’s the context, of course, of
the destruction of Jerusalem.

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So the story is that fig trees
bear fruit.

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So when Christ comes to this fig
tree, guess what he finds?

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He finds fruit and he looks up
in the tree, a fig tree.

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00:46:34,920 –> 00:46:38,400
And what does he do with the
fruit?

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00:46:41,200 –> 00:46:45,200
He picks it.
He says, Zacchaeus, come down,

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00:46:47,720 –> 00:46:52,640
I’m coming to your house today.
But Zacchaeus wasn’t just any

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kind of fruit, was he?
What kind of fruit was

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00:46:56,280 –> 00:47:00,040
Zacchaeus?
What does he say when he invites

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00:47:00,040 –> 00:47:01,520
him over to his table for
dinner?

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00:47:02,280 –> 00:47:06,800
Half of my goods I gave to the
poor, those who I’m defrauded,

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I’m going to give back four
times as much.

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What is this?
What is he doing?

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He’s bearing fruits of
repentance.

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00:47:16,920 –> 00:47:20,880
He’s saying I was going this
way, I’m going to completely

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00:47:20,880 –> 00:47:26,920
turn around and go this way.
And Christ says this fig tree

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00:47:26,920 –> 00:47:33,960
bears fruit and he picks him off
and he dines with him.

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00:47:38,120 –> 00:47:42,680
Because you see, brothers and
sisters, Jerusalem couldn’t find

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00:47:42,680 –> 00:47:48,200
much fruit there, but there was
one last guy he had to save, one

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last lost individual who just
wanted to be found.

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And he goes to Jericho and he
finds him.

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00:47:56,800 –> 00:48:00,680
We don’t have time to look at
this, but the fruits of

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repentance that John the Baptist
spoke in Luke chapter 3 bear

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00:48:07,160 –> 00:48:08,960
fruits in keeping with
repentance.

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00:48:09,120 –> 00:48:11,440
Don’t begin to say yourselves.
Look, we have Abraham to our

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00:48:11,440 –> 00:48:13,760
father.
God can have these very stones

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raise up new children to
Abraham.

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Even now he says the axe is laid
to the root of the tree.

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Every tree, therefore, that does
not bear good fruit is cast down

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and thrown into the fire.
Zacchaeus showed fruits of

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repentance.
Jesus picked him.

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He’s shown himself to be one
that could bear fruit.

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So that tree lived.
He was lost, but he’s found.

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00:48:48,800 –> 00:48:51,320
But why?
Brothers and sisters, how does

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it end?
What are the last words in the

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00:48:55,840 –> 00:49:00,320
story of Zacchaeus?
The last words he speaks to the

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00:49:00,320 –> 00:49:07,440
last man he brings to Jerusalem
and Jesus said to him today

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00:49:08,440 –> 00:49:11,320
salvation has come to this
house.

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He also is a son of Abraham,
sons and daughters.

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00:49:21,560 –> 00:49:26,040
He came to gather all for, he
says verse 10.

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The Son of Man came to seek and
to save the lost.

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And so he calls Zacchaeus.
He’s going to enter the city

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further on in this chapter.
But the purpose of Christ in

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this third session together is
that Christ came to seek and to

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00:49:48,240 –> 00:49:50,440
save the lost.
Everyone’s lost.

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We may know everything that
there is about this book in

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front of us.
That doesn’t mean we’re not

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00:49:58,440 –> 00:50:02,960
lost.
The mission of Christ was for us

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to repent, for us to say we’ve
sinned.

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We can’t make it there without
Christ.

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Ezekiel 34 got his very, very
harsh words for the shepherd,

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00:50:14,800 –> 00:50:17,000
shepherds of Israel who are
doing more harm than good.

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00:50:18,400 –> 00:50:26,800
And Christ came not only to save
those, but he came to save all.