Jason Robinson – Toward Jerusalem – Class 4 – Learning to Work (Together)

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OK, so I’ve realized we totally
forgot to do our handout

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yesterday.
We were so busy being lost that

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we need to come back and find
ourselves very quickly.

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So if you guys go to session
three, our blue paper on our

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handout, we’ll just quickly
answer a couple of these and

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then the personal goals for your
own goods for this week.

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So number one, who did Christ
came to come to save the not

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lost, lost or the Super lost
everyone.

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Christ came to save everyone.
He came to save those who

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weren’t lost, those who were
lost, and those who were super

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lost, right?
That was a trick question.

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Christ came to save everyone and
it got it got you good.

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All right.
What makes someone super lost?

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They have no idea that they’re
lost.

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They refuse to believe that
they’re lost.

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How could somebody like me be
lost?

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Very good.
And what did both Jesus and John

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the Baptist say was necessary to
find salvation?

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Repentance, fruits of
repentance.

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All right, very good.
And then we conclude there at

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the end, what small thing can
you do after Bible school to

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help someone that you feel is
lost?

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So just, I mean, the smallest
thing is all we’re looking for,

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the smallest thing, a text, a
short message on a social media

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platform, a longer conversation
than you would have say, good

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morning, lovely weather we’re
having.

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Isn’t it just the smallest
little thing that you can do to

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break that ice with someone that
you feel is lost on the road to

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Jerusalem?
OK.

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And then the maze at the bottom.
Up until last night, I assumed

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it was solvable because I
googled impossibly hard maze and

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they took the word impossible
very literally.

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Mike, you should have seen the
teens sweating over solving this

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maze that I assured them was
solvable.

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And it’s not.
All right, so let’s go to

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session #4 learning to work
together.

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And what we’re gonna do is we’re
gonna, this is gonna be broken

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up into two parts for our class.
We’re gonna spend the first

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section of our class today
purely looking at the dynamics

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of the disciples.
This was very eye opening for me

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because we’re going to see the
purposeful selection of the 12

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Christ shows and how it relates
perfectly, perfectly to

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ecclesial life.
OK, so does anybody have marked

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from page one on our handouts
the journey’s purpose?

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What the what verse shows us the
journey’s purpose, not the

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beginning, the purpose. 1831
Luke 1831 and taking the 12, he

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said unto them, See, we’re going
up to Jerusalem, and everything

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that is written about me by the
prophets must be accomplished.

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He says in Luke 1831.
This was the mission of getting

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Christ to Jerusalem to fulfill
everything that was written by

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the prophets about the Son of
Man.

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Think about the gravity.
Think about the gravity of that

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verse.
On this mission hinges

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everything written by the
prophets.

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There’s a scope involved with
getting to Jerusalem to finish

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all of those things.
The rest of the Bible that was

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written pointed forward to you
making it to that city.

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Now think about the 12 He chose
those, the 12 He chose.

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Let’s look at Him.
He called 12 disciples from the

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area that he and Joseph had
their carpentry business up in

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Galilee, 11 of them from
Galilee.

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Does anybody know which one
wasn’t Judas?

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Jesus was not.
So this group of 12 individuals

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he picks to be his disciples.
Does he put ads in the local

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paper and say calling the
brightest and the best for

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interviews, tryouts, auditions?
Is that what he does?

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No, he chooses 12 individuals,
ordinary, average people.

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And it’s exactly what our walk
to Jerusalem is like, isn’t it?

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As much as we may think, we are
sure a gift to our ecclesia.

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I don’t know how my ecclesia
would manage without me.

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We’re normal, average, ordinary
people just like everyone else,

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and all the people that you’re
going to work with in your

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ecclesias are average, ordinary,
normal people just like everyone

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else.
That’s why Christ chose these

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12.
He selected the 12 to

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demonstrate that no matter what
your group looks like, no matter

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what your ranging board looks
like, no matter what your

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committee for the family night
or for your CYC looks like,

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you’re all average, you’re all
normal, and you’re all ordinary.

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Learn to work together.
Figure it out.

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Learn to work together.
Let’s say you’re putting A-Team

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together on the caliber of
something like fulfilling

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everything the prophets had
written about you.

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And that’s your job at work.
Your boss says, I want you to

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put a team.
You get 12 people, put a team

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together.
Your job is to fulfill

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everything the prophets wrote
about you.

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Would you end up with a team
like this?

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No, no way you’d end up with a
team like this.

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Let’s look at these guys, 12
men.

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You would not have been crazy to
look at Christ leading these 12

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bunch of people and thought that
team’s doomed.

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You would not have been crazy.
There’s careers mentioned for a

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few of them, those not mentioned
with careers, Philip,

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Bartholomew, Thomas, James and
Thaddeus.

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We pretty well know the careers
of the rest of them.

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Four of them are fishermen,
Peter, Andrew, James and John

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Fisherman.
There was a tax collector.

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Was a tax collector’s name,
Matthew or Levi, Very good.

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We had a zealot who was the
zealot, Simon the zealot, very

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good.
And we had probably somebody

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with a financial background
elected as the treasurer.

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Judas probably had some sort of
financial background.

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We could be sure.
OK, so we know now at least a

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handful of maybe a little bit
more about what made these guys

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who they were, the backgrounds
to them.

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But let’s look a little bit more
at kind of the inner workings,

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the the dynamics between these
12.

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Two of them are sets of
brothers, James and John, Peter

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and Andrew.
So in the group of 12, you

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always have four brothers, 2
sets of two.

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Now, if you know anything about
young men and brothers, what

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often happens between brothers?
They can.

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They can often get into little
spats with each other.

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Do you think that that was
happening here?

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What if your brother was
somebody like Peter?

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Do you think you’d maybe butt
heads occasionally?

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Yeah, there was definitely some
spats between these brothers.

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And you look at this team of 12
and you go, you’re not going to

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make it out of Nazareth.
There was also two seemingly

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financially well off, probably
educated.

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We have a tax collector in
Matthew, some sort of financial

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person in Judas.
We know, by the way, that

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Matthew would have been wealthy
from what story, let alone the

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fact that he was a tax
collector, not just who they

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were.
Is there any stories you guys

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could think of that show us that
Matthew probably had a couple

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bucks?
What happens when he’s called?

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What does he do?
Yeah, he holds a feast and he

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invites tons of people over to
his house and he feeds them all.

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So Matthew maybe had a buck or
two.

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All right, so mixing these guys
are wealthy with fishermen.

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Does anybody remember what is
told us about fishermen in Acts?

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I’ll read for you Acts 4, verse
13.

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It says now when they saw the
boldness of Peter and John the

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fisherman, when they saw the
boldness of Peter and John and

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perceived that they were
uneducated common men, they were

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astonished.
So not only do we have very

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different backgrounds, we have
very different levels of

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education in this group.
Now imagine in your ecclesia

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being stuck on a committee with
somebody at a very different

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education level than you.
Does it ever happen every single

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day?
Imagine being on a committee in

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your ecclesia where somebody in
your committee doesn’t think

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about, let alone where their
next meal comes from, but where

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their next car comes from.
You ever have that in your

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committees?
Every single day.

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We have mixtures of wealth, we
have mixtures of education, we

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have mixtures of backgrounds in
all of our ecclesias.

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What’s the point?
Learn to work together and

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Christ introduces these.
These weren’t the 1st 12 to show

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up to a wanted poster.
These were the first 12 that he

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hand picked.
He said I want you and I want

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you and I want you to follow me
to Jerusalem and he purposely

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picks these ones.
Also on his team was a zealot.

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What is a zealot?
What was the zealots known for?

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The Zealots were those who are
anti occupation, anti Rome.

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The Romans had come in.
The Zealots goal was to kick the

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Romans out.
The Zealot found himself

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successful.
If they pushed Romans out, they

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pushed them down and they pushed
them out.

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That was a successful Zealot
many times by violent means.

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We’re not saying Simon was
violent, but they would have

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found success if they had
successfully moved the Romans

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out.
What about Matthew?

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Who did Matthew work for?
Who was his employer?

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Rome.
So we’ve a tax collector who

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would have been successful if he
kept the Romans in, and a Zealot

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who would have been successful
if he pushed the Romans out.

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Christ says, I want both of you
to work on my team.

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Does that ever happen in your
ecclesia?

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When you’re on a committee or
you’re on a board with somebody

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and they have completely
different ideas, different

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directions every single day?
What’s the point?

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Learn to work together.
He introduces 1/3 though,

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doesn’t he?
Not only that, he introduces

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Phillip.
Phillip.

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What does that name originate?
It’s Greek.

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Phillip probably was a
Hellenistic Jew.

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I’ll give you just a quick
reason why we can maybe think

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it’s a good guess.
John chapter 12, verse 21.

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Now among those who went up to
worship at the feast were some

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Greeks, says John 1220.
So they go up to the feast and

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there’s some Greeks.
Verse 21.

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So these Greeks came to Philip,
who was from Bethsaida in

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Galilee, and asked him, Sir, we
wish to see Jesus.

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Philip went and told Andrew.
Andrew and Philip went and told

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Jesus.
Why would a bunch of Greeks find

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out Philip to find Jesus?
Possibly because he spoke Greek.

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And if he speaks Greek and he
has a Greek name, there’s a good

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chance that his background was
Greek.

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So you put all of these things
together and you say these are

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on the same team of 12 people.
That means that if he spoke

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Greek, he probably had a
different version Bible.

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He probably used the cituigent.
The other was we’re used to the

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Hebrew scrolls.
There’s some differences in

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there, isn’t there?
But Christ purposefully puts

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these together.
So you have on this team of 12

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someone who’s pro Roman, someone
who’s very pro Israel, anti

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Roman, and someone who comes
from a very Greek influence.

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You know what, I want you all to
work together.

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But it gets worse, it gets
crazier.

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Peter, James and John, what were
these three known as?

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The inner circle.
The inner circle, These three

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got to see a resurrection, the
Transfiguration, and Christ’s

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most emotional moments in the
garden.

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He raised a girl from the dead
transfiguration there on the

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mount, and they were with him in
the garden twice in these

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events.
By the way, he says, don’t tell

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anyone what you’ve seen here
today.

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So does Christ allow an inner
circle to bubble up?

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No, he makes 1.
He purposefully makes an inner

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circle.
These three were also given

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nicknames.
What were the brothers James and

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John nicknamed Sons of Thunder?
We had Peter named the Rock, so

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these give her names.
Now how would this have made

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that other brother feel?
Andrew?

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Not only was he the other
brother in this group, the other

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fisherman in this group, he was
actually the first disciple

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called.
Now that would really get under

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our skin, wouldn’t it?
We would.

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We would feel totally betrayed.
This isn’t fair.

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So why did Christ create an
inner circle in the 1st place?

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If it were me creating an inner
circle, I’d probably like to

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choose the most educated of the
group, or I’d try to choose the

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wealthiest of the group.
That would give our mission a

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little bit more comfort, a
little bit more chance of

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success.
If I could get those ones

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closer.
Why don’t, why didn’t he choose

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Judas?
Maybe, maybe, maybe see if he

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can work him a little bit, Maybe
see if he can, he could bring

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him close to his side and and
maybe there’s a different

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alternative for the sacrifice
that needs to be made.

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Why does he make an inner
circle?

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Not only that, how do you think
the relationship would have been

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with other disciples?
When the mother of these two

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comes up and says, can my two
boys sit on your right hand and

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your left hand?
How do you think that would have

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gone down?
But we’re told Matthew 20, they

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resented them.
They resented those brothers.

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Not only that, but those two
were probably actually cousins

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of Jesus.
How do you think nepotism would

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go over in the 12 disciples out
of his inner circle?

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He has a inner circle, doesn’t
he?

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He has Peter and John, John the
one whom Jesus loved, Peter the

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one on whom I will build my
ecclesia.

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Now you have an inner circle
inside of your inner circle.

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How would this make James feel?
Peter and John were sent to make

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preparations for the Passover.
Peter and John seem to be the

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ones who follow Christ after
he’s captured.

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They’re definitely the ones who
race to the tomb after he’s

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erected.
How would James feel about this?

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What about personalities?
We’re almost done.

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What about personalities?
We’re very fast to recognize the

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personality of Thomas doubting
Thomas skeptical.

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He wasn’t around when the other
disciples saw Jesus.

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And so they say we’ve seen Jesus
says I’m not going to believe it

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until I actually see and witness
the evidence of the crucifixion.

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So we have a man who’s
skeptical, but you know what?

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There’s also another man,
Bartholomew seems to be a little

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bit sceptical.
We’re told very little about

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these two, but the stories we
are told give us a little bit of

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a clue.
Maybe after Jesus calls Philip,

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Philip goes to Bartholomew and
says, we found the one that

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Moses wrote about in the Law,
Jesus of Nazareth.

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And what does he say?
Nazareth.

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Can anything good come out of
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Come and see.
So we have two fairly like, I’m

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going to think before we act.
Was there anybody on the

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disciples who didn’t think
before he acted?

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Peter?
Was he skeptical?

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Was Peter the one who would sit
and calculate and think I

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shouldn’t do this?
No, he wasn’t, was he?

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Peter was impulsive.
What are some examples of when

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Peter was impulsive?
It’s not hard to think of him

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walks on water.
He goes, you walk in the water.

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Can I come?
And he hops out of the boat and

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he walks and he goes, oh, wait a
second.

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And he and he begins to doubt.
He chops off a guy’s ear in the

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garden.
There’s there’s so many examples

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you could think about of, of
Peter being impulsive.

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Now, these two were supposed to
work together for years on the

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road to Jerusalem, for years.
The smallest decisions that

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would need to be made, not these
big ones, like walking on the

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water, not these big ones, like
who’s going to pray with Jesus?

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The smallest ones.
Where are we going for lunch

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today?
These little decisions would

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need to involve personalities of
everyone.

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Some of the disciples were very,
very methodical and they thought

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things out.
Others just jumped right into

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it.
Imagine being on an ecclesial

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committee where there’s a group
of people who say, let’s just

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get it done, and there’s other
group of people say, well, we

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should probably think about this
first.

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Does that ever happen every
single day?

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What’s the point?
You’ve got to learn to work

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together.
This is why he can gather the

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most random 12 people when you
really look at who they were.

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And you could say each one of
these has his own baggage, their

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own weaknesses, their own
biases, their own egos.

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And Jesus knew exactly what he
was doing.

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Had any of you been hired to put
together A-Team for your job,

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you would never end up with a
team like this.

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Your project would be doomed.
Christ knew exactly what he was

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doing.
And not only that, but he

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purposefully introduces chaos.
He purposefully introduces

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competition in the group because
he needs everyone to learn to

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work together.
That’s the point of the road to

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Jerusalem.
Brothers and sisters, everybody

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in this room, we’re all going to
the same place, but nobody in

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this room is exactly like
somebody else.

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And as special as we think we
are and as great as we think we

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are, we’re not.
We’re just like everyone else

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trying to get to New Jerusalem.
And so he puts together this

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group because he says you’re
going to be in an ecclesia,

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you’re going to be working with
brothers and sisters, you’re

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going to be put down at a table
needing to make a decision with

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somebody that you don’t agree
with.

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And you got to learn to work
together for a long time.

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Yeah, a long time.
These guys, every day for over

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three years.
Do you think that they would

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have kind of gotten under each
other’s skin from time to time?

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Do you think that they would
have had fights from time to

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time?
We’re told they did.

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Is that how ecclesial life
works?

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You better believe that’s how
ecclesial life works.

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There’s a committee for this
Bible school, isn’t there?

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Do you think every time that
they sit down and there’s a

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decision to be made that they
say, oh, this is easy.

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Oh, this is easy.
Oh, this is easy.

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Done at the meeting, I see some
people nodding their heads every

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time.
That’s never how it works.

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We come to the table thinking
this is the best idea I’ve ever

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had, and somebody says that’s a
crazy idea.

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And we go, that’s ridiculous.
I quit this committee.

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But it happens, brothers and
sisters, we got to learn to work

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together.
It gets worse, these 12.

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Think about this again in your
job perspective, think about

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this.
You put together your team of

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12.
Not only would you not classify

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this as the dream team, but
you’re sitting together the

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first day of the job with your
new 12 employees and you have a

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job on caliber with, you know,
filling everything.

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The prophets are written about
you and your disciples.

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Your employees have no idea what
your mission is.

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Who is this?
That even the winds in the

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water, they obey him.
Luke 9, We looked at this day 2.

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They didn’t understand the
saying it was concealed from.

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They didn’t perceive it right
before they entered Jerusalem.

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They understood none of these
things.

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The saying was hid from them.
Neither knew they the things

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which were spoken.
You spend three years every day

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with your employees, your 12
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On 1/3 year they go wait a
second, what is it we’re working

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on again?
And you go, brothers and

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sisters, Christ was something
special because Christ put up

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with those 12.
And guess who else he puts up

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with?
He puts up with us.

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And we could sit there at a, at
a, at a meeting at our ecclesia

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trying to decide what color
carpet to put in and we can have

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hours long meeting fighting with
each other.

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We got to learn to work
together, brothers and sisters.

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That’s the point of why He puts
together literally the best team

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that’s ever been assembled.
There was no greater team in the

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history of mankind than those
12.

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They went with Christ to
Jerusalem and they got Him

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there.
Sure, Jesus had to pull them

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every inch of the way.
Sure it was challenging.

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Sure, it looked impossible, but
man, what a journey it was, what

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love Christ showed these 12.
So with that background, now

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with that example and with that
context of who these 12 were,

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let’s look at their road to
Jerusalem together.

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So let’s go to the beginning,
Luke Chapter 9.

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We know we’re going to depart
for Jerusalem in what verse?

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Luke 9, 51 We’re going to leave
for Jerusalem.

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Let’s just go a few verses back
and let’s see.

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We’ve looked at verse 45.
They did not understand the

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saying.
It was concealed from them, so

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they might not perceive it, and
they were afraid to ask Him

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about the saying.
So we know now that this is our

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context.
We know we’re leaving in verse

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51.
We are 5 verses away.

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Verse 46.
An argument arose among them as

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to what were these disciples
just like us or what?

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Here Christ says, here’s our
mission.

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I got to go to Jerusalem.
I’ll be shamed, I’ll be

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tortured, I’ll be killed, and on
the third day I’ll rise again

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and you go.
I don’t know what he’s talking

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about, but I think I’m better
than you are.

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Verse 46, an argument arose as
to which one of them was the

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greatest.
These were flawed, egotistic,

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biased human beings.
It’s a totally childish

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argument, isn’t it, Brothers and
sisters?

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It’s, it’s something that that
all of us think, but none of us,

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well, most of us are mature
enough not to say these things

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out loud.
We would never, ever express

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these things.
But again, is it any surprise?

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Look at the 12 he’s chosen.
Is it any surprise that he has

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to deal with this right off the
bat?

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Our journey to Jerusalem.
But this is exactly the same.

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But we would never argue about
who’s the greatest, would we?

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What about on the way home from
meeting?

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What about with our children
around the dinner table?

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What about with our friends or
brothers or sisters?

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Texting, calling.
Do we ever put down others and

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elevate ourselves?
Do we ever actually have the

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who’s the greatest argument?
Even worse, do we have these

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arguments in front of our
children?

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We can’t do that.
That’s not how collegial life

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works.
But they had an argument as to

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who was the greatest.
And remember this is immediately

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following when he expresses what
would happen to him at the hands

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of men.
They had really no clue what was

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going on.
All that mattered to them now is

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who’s the top disciple.
So why is it a problem where

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this argument about who’s
greater?

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How is this anti working
together?

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How is putting yourself in a
fictional place with superiority

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better?
Sorry, different and against

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working together.
Well, what happens is when you

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elevate yourself automatically,
now other people have to be

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below you.
That’s just what what happens.

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But everybody needs to be on the
same plane, the same field, the

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same level if they’re walking
together to Jerusalem.

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So when you have this argument
now about who’s the greatest,

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you’re now saying, well, there’s
levels that we need to worry

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about as well because you need
to do more work than I do and

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you didn’t do way more work than
I do.

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I know we’re all going the same
place, but try to pick it up,

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man.
And this is this is an issue.

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This is a problem.
We need to learn to work

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together.
So how does this argument really

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come from?
Because I think it’s fascinating

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and it’s exactly where the
argument will come from in our

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Eclesius.
Look at verse 40.

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It says in verse 40, the man, he
comes to Jesus.

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He says, I beg you to heal my
son.

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I tried to ask your disciples,
I, I begged your disciples to

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cast it out, but they could not.
And there’s a boy with an

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unclean spirit, and he would
throw him to the ground, he

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would convulse.
And he comes to the disciples

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and say, please heal my boy.
Heal my boy, he says.

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And they couldn’t.
Matthew 17 says to the

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disciples, Christ says because
of your little faith.

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He says, for truly I say to you,
if you have faith like a grain

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of mustard seed, you’ll say to
this mountain, move from here to

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there and it’ll move and nothing
will be impossible to you.

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So he says there was a lack of
faith that made it so these

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disciples couldn’t heal.
The boy could the disciples

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heal?
Verse 6, same chapter, they

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departed and went through the
villages preaching the gospel

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and healing everywhere.
Could the disciples heal?

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Yes, they come now to this boy
and they cannot.

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What’s wrong?
What’s the matter?

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Christ says in Matthew, it’s
their faith.

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What was the problem here?
Well, we know what’s in their

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mind.
Let’s look at when Christ heals

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him further on in the verse,
verse 41, Jesus said, O

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faithless and twisted
generation, how long am I to be

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with you and bear with you?
Bring your son here, he says.

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While he was coming, the demon
threw him to the ground and

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00:28:36,160 –> 00:28:38,160
revulsed him.
But Jesus rebuked the unclean

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spirit, healed the boy, gave him
back to his father, and all were

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00:28:43,800 –> 00:28:53,360
astonished at what Jesus the
majesty of God.

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00:28:54,640 –> 00:28:57,320
They didn’t look to Jesus and
say, Wow, Jesus, you’re an

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00:28:57,320 –> 00:29:02,000
amazing healer.
They knew full well that the

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healing came from the majesty of
God.

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00:29:06,200 –> 00:29:08,400
So what do you suppose the
problem with the disciples would

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have been?
If just verses later, they’re

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arguing about who’s the best and
who’s better?

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What do you suppose the problem
was?

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00:29:17,400 –> 00:29:22,280
Well, I think it’s stems from
this idea of who could heal him.

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I’m, I think I’m a better
disciple.

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I’ll give it a stab, Peter, get
out of my way.

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00:29:26,840 –> 00:29:33,280
And it didn’t work.
He couldn’t heal him and so that

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they go through the the reins
and nobody can heal him and he

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00:29:37,600 –> 00:29:40,080
brings them to the Jesus says I
went to your disciples and they

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couldn’t.
He says you’re faithless.

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He heals him and majesty
instantly from the crowd goes to

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00:29:45,680 –> 00:29:49,080
God.
You want to learn to work

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together brothers and sisters,
who cares who does the work, Who

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cares who gets the praise Just
get it done.

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Get the work done.
Don’t care about what eyeballs

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are looking at you don’t care
about who gives you a round of

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applause when you’re done.
Just get the work done.

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Bring more people to Jerusalem.
But these people, these

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disciples were arguing about who
was the greatest brothers and

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sisters. 1 Little quick side
note, take a look at verse 42.

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I think hidden in verse 42 is
probably the shortest summary of

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the road to Jerusalem that we
have just just hidden in there.

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Look at verse 42.
Think about this.

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Jesus rebuked the unclean
spirit.

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He heals the boy and gives him
back to his Father.

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That was Christ’s mission all
along, to rebuke the unclean

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spirit, to heal the boy and to
ascend to his Father.

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That’s what Uncle Stevens been
looking at with us in Class 3.

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To bring him back to the Father
hidden in here was his mission

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00:31:00,760 –> 00:31:02,880
all along.
Let’s keep moving.

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00:31:03,800 –> 00:31:06,120
So they have this argument about
who is the greatest.

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Verse 46, an argument arose
among them about which one was

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the greatest.
They completely missed the point

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00:31:11,320 –> 00:31:13,880
about why they’re journeying
what Christ is going there for.

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00:31:13,960 –> 00:31:15,400
And they come back to the
argument saying, well, why

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00:31:15,400 –> 00:31:16,680
couldn’t you heal them?
Well, I couldn’t heal them

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00:31:16,680 –> 00:31:18,360
because of this reason, but I’m
still better than you.

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Verse 47 But Jesus, knowing the
reasoning of their hearts, takes

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a child.
He takes a child and put him by

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00:31:28,960 –> 00:31:32,240
his side and said to them,
whoever receives this child in

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00:31:32,240 –> 00:31:36,080
my name receives me, and
whosoever receives me receives

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00:31:36,080 –> 00:31:40,320
him who sent me.
For he who is least among you

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00:31:40,360 –> 00:31:47,040
all is the one who is great.
What he’s going to do is he’s

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00:31:47,040 –> 00:31:51,840
going to demonstrate now this
principle of humility.

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00:31:53,880 –> 00:31:56,560
Brothers and sisters, you want
to learn how to work together.

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It’s humility.
How many times would pure

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00:32:05,120 –> 00:32:08,200
humility solve a cliche of
problems?

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So many times, wouldn’t it?
So many times.

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00:32:12,320 –> 00:32:16,720
And he brings a little child to
him and he says whoever wants,

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00:32:17,240 –> 00:32:20,000
whoever is least among you shall
be great.

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00:32:20,440 –> 00:32:24,520
Now our minds, my mind, pardon
me, my mind automatically says,

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00:32:24,520 –> 00:32:29,200
OK, Jason wants to be great.
Jesus says that to be great you

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00:32:29,200 –> 00:32:32,320
need to be least.
So from to get from A to BI need

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00:32:32,600 –> 00:32:35,480
to be least that way I’m always
aiming at being great.

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00:32:35,480 –> 00:32:39,360
Is that what Jesus is saying?
Not at all, not at all.

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The point about being least is
actually to be the least.

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He says be the least because you
actually are the least.

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You’re ordinary, you’re average,
you’re a normal person, you’re

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00:32:54,720 –> 00:32:57,760
the least among the brethren.
He says if you actually view

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00:32:57,760 –> 00:33:00,400
yourself as the least, not so
you could be great, but so you

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00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:02,440
can be the least, God will lift
you up.

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Christ will make you the
greatest.

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He brings a boy to him, to his
side, and he finds a child and

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00:33:11,320 –> 00:33:15,400
he says whoever receives me
receives him who sent me for

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00:33:15,400 –> 00:33:18,120
he’s least among you is the one
who is great.

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00:33:20,120 –> 00:33:25,640
What he’s going to do now is he
is going to teach us humility

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00:33:27,080 –> 00:33:31,680
and we’re going to get this
beautiful story on the road to

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Jerusalem.
We’re going to be given three

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00:33:34,840 –> 00:33:38,880
stories of children.
Well, each one of these is going

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00:33:38,880 –> 00:33:44,000
to teach us a little bit extra.
Another layer about this

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00:33:44,000 –> 00:33:47,760
humility principle that we can
learn from kids.

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00:33:49,400 –> 00:33:54,720
Kids can teach us a lot.
The 1st is becoming teachable,

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00:33:55,080 –> 00:34:00,960
the second is learning to ask,
and the third is accepting

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00:34:00,960 –> 00:34:04,120
graciously.
And these three principles we’re

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00:34:04,120 –> 00:34:08,960
going to see in Luke 1011 and 18
all in this row to Jerusalem.

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But he introduces it steps
before verse 51.

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He says he brings a kid to him.
This is verse 48.

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We’re 3 verses away.
He brings a child to him and

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00:34:19,239 –> 00:34:23,719
says learn to be like this kid,
except with humility.

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00:34:23,920 –> 00:34:27,520
Be the least.
Now, Are you ready to go?

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00:34:29,600 –> 00:34:30,880
And we’re going to go through
these three stories.

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And we’re going to get as far as
we can with the actually only 15

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minutes, 15 minutes we have
left.

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Becoming teachable, learning to
ask and graciously accepting.

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Because what we’re going to
notice is there’s the showdown

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00:34:48,320 –> 00:34:51,199
on the road to Jerusalem.
He’s going to show multiple

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00:34:51,199 –> 00:34:56,080
times that we need to act like
little helpless children when it

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comes to our Father.
We need to act like kids to our

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00:34:59,960 –> 00:35:01,920
Father.
And this is the very last thing

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00:35:01,920 –> 00:35:03,960
he’s going to teach us before he
leaves for Jerusalem.

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Verse 48.
So let’s take a look then at our

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first.
The first one is this finding

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humility.
We’ve already looked at in verse

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48.
The kid principle is this is the

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00:35:15,240 –> 00:35:19,200
kid principle.
Acting humbly shows that you

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understand your place in
relation to the Father.

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The father can make great the
lowest.

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That’s the kid principle.
The principle here was humility.

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Whoever acts like the least
important was in God’s eyes,

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00:35:31,480 –> 00:35:34,320
actually the most, because he’s
elevating God automatically by

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00:35:34,320 –> 00:35:36,600
putting himself down.
There’s no struggle with

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00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:40,120
hierarchy in the mind of a
child, is there?

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And I’m talking young children.
My 4 year old is already

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00:35:46,360 –> 00:35:48,440
starting to push the boundaries
of hierarchy.

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It’s amazing how fast it
happens.

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I’m talking maybe 3 and under,
little children.

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Little children is what Christ
says, but a little child knows

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00:35:58,400 –> 00:36:03,520
the hierarchy of the family.
What we’ll notice just quickly,

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the older the children get, the
more they abandoned these kid

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00:36:07,200 –> 00:36:09,880
principles and take on adult
mistakes.

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We’re in Luke 9 verse 48 at the
moment.

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00:36:15,120 –> 00:36:16,720
Yep, we’re going to get to the
adult principal right now.

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00:36:18,360 –> 00:36:22,320
OK, so the story was in Luke 40,
Luke 946 to 48.

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That was our argument.
Now we have a couple more verses

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because John instantly gives us
the how adults take it.

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So the principle is least shall
be greatest.

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00:36:35,600 –> 00:36:40,000
John verse 49, John answered
Master verse 49.

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00:36:40,160 –> 00:36:44,360
You know, we saw someone casting
out demons in your name and we

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00:36:44,360 –> 00:36:47,680
tried to stop him because he
doesn’t follow with us.

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00:36:48,680 –> 00:36:51,840
But Jesus said to him, don’t
stop him for the one who is not

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00:36:51,840 –> 00:36:56,440
against you is for you.
Very next verse, by the way, we

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go to Jerusalem.
So this is it.

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00:36:58,360 –> 00:37:03,480
This is this is the end of the
pre journey narrative and John

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00:37:03,480 –> 00:37:06,920
jumps up and says, look, Jesus,
we saw him with someone casting

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00:37:06,920 –> 00:37:09,160
out names.
Sorry, demons in your name.

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00:37:09,920 –> 00:37:12,480
Don’t worry, we tried to stop
him.

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00:37:13,640 –> 00:37:17,640
What does Jesus say?
What does Jesus say?

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00:37:18,960 –> 00:37:22,400
Don’t stop him.
For the one who’s not against

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00:37:22,400 –> 00:37:26,480
you is for you.
How many times would that solve

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00:37:26,480 –> 00:37:32,600
problems at an ecclesial
committee meeting if you sat

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00:37:32,600 –> 00:37:34,800
down, you actually thought
about, you know what?

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00:37:34,800 –> 00:37:36,440
We’re actually all working on
the same thing.

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00:37:37,920 –> 00:37:42,280
Instead of look, look, look,
that guy over there, he’s taken

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00:37:42,280 –> 00:37:45,240
all the credit.
It’s in your name, Jesus.

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00:37:45,880 –> 00:37:48,800
Don’t worry, we put an end to
it.

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00:37:50,440 –> 00:37:52,760
Think about that.
Think about what he’s saying.

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00:37:52,840 –> 00:37:55,080
We look at this and we go, how
childish.

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00:37:55,640 –> 00:37:59,800
How could John do that?
Brother, sisters, has this story

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00:37:59,800 –> 00:38:02,480
happened before?
Yeah, it’s happened before.

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00:38:02,840 –> 00:38:05,160
You don’t have to go there.
I’ll, I’ll read you the story.

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00:38:05,160 –> 00:38:08,000
But it’s number Chapter 11.
This has happened before.

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00:38:08,320 –> 00:38:10,640
This happens probably in our
ecclesias.

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00:38:11,560 –> 00:38:18,040
Number Chapter 11, it says in
verse 24, Numbers 11, verse 24.

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00:38:18,960 –> 00:38:21,240
So Moses went out and told the
people the words of Yahweh, and

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00:38:21,400 –> 00:38:24,040
he gathered 70 men of the elders
of the people and placed them

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00:38:24,040 –> 00:38:25,960
around the tent.
Then Yahweh came down in the

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00:38:25,960 –> 00:38:28,640
cloud and spoke to him and took
some of the spirit that was on

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00:38:28,640 –> 00:38:31,640
him and put on the 70 elders.
And as soon as the spirit rested

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00:38:31,640 –> 00:38:36,240
on them, they prophesied, but
they did not continue doing it.

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00:38:36,560 –> 00:38:40,320
So these men, these 70 are given
the Spirit and they’re

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00:38:40,320 –> 00:38:43,400
prophesying.
Now it says in verse 26, two men

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00:38:43,400 –> 00:38:47,760
remained in the camp.
We’ve heard these names, Eldad

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00:38:47,760 –> 00:38:49,800
and me Dad.
The Spirit rested on them.

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00:38:50,200 –> 00:38:53,240
They were among those who
registered, but they had not

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00:38:53,240 –> 00:38:56,000
gone out to the tent, so they
prophesied in the camp.

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00:38:56,280 –> 00:39:00,400
So the Spirit of God comes on 70
the 70 go out and prophecy.

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00:39:00,640 –> 00:39:04,400
Two of them are left in the camp
prophesying Eldad and me dad.

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00:39:06,520 –> 00:39:10,320
And a young man ran and told
Moses.

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00:39:10,760 –> 00:39:17,320
Moses, Eldad and me, dad, are
prophesying in the camp, and

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00:39:17,320 –> 00:39:22,920
Joshua, yes, the son of Nun, the
assistant of Moses from his

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00:39:22,920 –> 00:39:28,280
youth, said, My Lord Moses, stop
them.

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00:39:31,440 –> 00:39:35,640
But Moses said to him, Are you
jealous for me?

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00:39:37,520 –> 00:39:39,680
He says.
And what was Moses’s answer?

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00:39:40,480 –> 00:39:47,320
Would that all Yahweh’s people
were prophets, that Yahweh would

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00:39:47,320 –> 00:39:51,160
put his spirit on all them?
And Moses and the elders

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00:39:51,160 –> 00:39:53,400
returned to the camp.
What was Moses’s answer?

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00:39:53,800 –> 00:39:56,920
A man runs in and he says
there’s two people prophesying.

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00:39:57,640 –> 00:40:00,080
Joshua says what stop them,
Moses?

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00:40:00,240 –> 00:40:02,760
Moses says.
What this says.

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00:40:03,200 –> 00:40:04,480
Are you jealous?
For me?

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00:40:04,840 –> 00:40:08,160
I wish everybody could prophecy.
Imagine how much better this

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00:40:08,160 –> 00:40:10,360
place would be if everyone had
the Spirit of God on them.

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00:40:13,520 –> 00:40:17,960
Never, ever, brothers and
sisters, consider the work that

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00:40:17,960 –> 00:40:21,000
you’re doing as somehow better
than another project in your

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00:40:21,000 –> 00:40:25,080
ecclesia.
As long as everyone is walking

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00:40:25,080 –> 00:40:30,720
towards Jerusalem, any project
is great in the ecclesia,

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00:40:32,320 –> 00:40:34,720
whether it’s helping those who
need help, whether it’s

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00:40:34,720 –> 00:40:37,800
arranging for a Bible school,
whether it’s helping children,

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00:40:37,920 –> 00:40:40,680
whether it’s running a CYC,
whether it’s running preaching

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00:40:40,680 –> 00:40:45,120
efforts, they’re all perfect
because they’re getting people

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00:40:45,120 –> 00:40:50,880
to Jerusalem.
Learn to work together in

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00:40:50,880 –> 00:40:54,560
humility.
We’re going to blast through a

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00:40:54,560 –> 00:40:55,800
couple of these.
Let’s go to the next one.

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00:40:56,480 –> 00:41:01,120
We’re in the journey now.
Luke 1021, Luke 10, verse 21.

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00:41:02,000 –> 00:41:06,440
In the same hour rejoiced.
He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit

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00:41:06,440 –> 00:41:08,840
and said, I thank you, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth, that

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00:41:08,840 –> 00:41:12,000
you have hidden these things
from the wise understanding and

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00:41:12,000 –> 00:41:14,440
revealed them to little
children.

657
00:41:14,960 –> 00:41:18,480
Yes, Father, for such was your
gracious will.

658
00:41:18,480 –> 00:41:20,680
All things have been handed over
to me by my Father, and no one

659
00:41:20,680 –> 00:41:23,200
knows who the Son is except the
Father, or who the Father is

660
00:41:23,200 –> 00:41:27,400
except the Son and anyone to
whom the son chooses to reveal

661
00:41:27,400 –> 00:41:30,480
him.
So this is all about becoming

662
00:41:30,760 –> 00:41:35,720
teachable kids.
Young children are extremely

663
00:41:35,760 –> 00:41:38,600
receptive to what their father
teaches.

664
00:41:39,520 –> 00:41:42,360
Very quickly, I’m putting father
for these examples.

665
00:41:43,640 –> 00:41:46,800
We all are aware that mothers
are equally important.

666
00:41:48,400 –> 00:41:50,280
I capitalize the word father for
us.

667
00:41:50,880 –> 00:41:54,560
We’re all under our Father’s
guidance.

668
00:41:55,360 –> 00:41:58,080
So when you see Father that
that’s the reason kids are

669
00:41:58,080 –> 00:42:01,360
receptive and open to what their
literal father teaches.

670
00:42:01,480 –> 00:42:03,800
Just like we need to be to our
Heavenly Father.

671
00:42:04,520 –> 00:42:08,280
But you tell a three-year old he
is going to trust you

672
00:42:08,280 –> 00:42:11,720
implicitly.
You’re his dad.

673
00:42:12,760 –> 00:42:16,120
He knows that when you tell him
that’s gold.

674
00:42:16,400 –> 00:42:19,640
He may not listen, but he knows
you’re his dad.

675
00:42:21,520 –> 00:42:22,560
They’re open and they’re
receptive.

676
00:42:22,560 –> 00:42:25,400
Is that how we approach our
heavenly Father?

677
00:42:25,680 –> 00:42:30,160
So that’s the kid principle.
How do adults apply it on the

678
00:42:30,160 –> 00:42:37,600
road to Jerusalem?
Come to verse 40, Luke 10, verse

679
00:42:37,600 –> 00:42:49,600
40, sorry, pardon me, verse 25.
And behold, a lawyer stood up to

680
00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:58,960
put him to the test, saying,
teacher, what shall I do to

681
00:42:59,000 –> 00:43:02,720
inherit eternal life?
He said to him, what is written

682
00:43:02,720 –> 00:43:04,240
in the law?
How readest thou?

683
00:43:04,520 –> 00:43:06,400
By the way, great point to an
expert in the law.

684
00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:09,040
Might have been quite some time
since she actually read it.

685
00:43:09,040 –> 00:43:11,320
It was pretty memorized.
And up in here.

686
00:43:12,040 –> 00:43:13,560
What readest thou?
And he answered, You shall love

687
00:43:13,560 –> 00:43:15,120
the Lord your God with all your
heart, with all your soul, with

688
00:43:15,120 –> 00:43:16,080
all your strength, with all your
mind.

689
00:43:16,320 –> 00:43:18,080
Your neighbor is yourself.
And you said to him, you know

690
00:43:18,080 –> 00:43:20,560
you’ve answered correctly, do
this and you will live.

691
00:43:20,720 –> 00:43:22,880
And does he accept that answer?
Is he teachable?

692
00:43:25,080 –> 00:43:32,120
But he desiring to justify
himself, Why does he ask the

693
00:43:32,120 –> 00:43:34,680
question?
Because he wants to learn,

694
00:43:34,800 –> 00:43:39,360
Because he’s a teachable man.
No, he asks it to prove how

695
00:43:39,360 –> 00:43:43,840
great he was.
That’s the principle right after

696
00:43:43,840 –> 00:43:50,160
what he teaches about the kids.
But Christ’s answer to him is

697
00:43:50,160 –> 00:43:53,920
perfect.
He says, how readest thou?

698
00:43:56,520 –> 00:43:59,720
This is perfect, isn’t it?
Faith comes by hearing, hearing

699
00:43:59,720 –> 00:44:03,920
by the word of God.
How often in our lives in 2024

700
00:44:04,360 –> 00:44:08,080
have we become used to the
answers of things like, you

701
00:44:08,080 –> 00:44:09,520
know, God didn’t mean it that
way.

702
00:44:10,720 –> 00:44:12,680
Well, Jesus was living in a
different time.

703
00:44:13,360 –> 00:44:17,920
Paul wrote to a different kind
of people, Brother and sisters,

704
00:44:18,280 –> 00:44:22,720
how readest thou the answers are
in here.

705
00:44:24,080 –> 00:44:26,520
How do you read?
He asks him.

706
00:44:26,920 –> 00:44:34,720
But he, desiring to justify
himself, said, OK, and who is my

707
00:44:34,720 –> 00:44:37,920
neighbor?
And Jesus goes into the parable

708
00:44:37,920 –> 00:44:42,920
of the Good Samaritan.
You see, we can be so pridefully

709
00:44:42,920 –> 00:44:48,840
locked into our views and our
practices that we become almost

710
00:44:51,880 –> 00:44:56,200
immune to other people’s ideas.
You know, I didn’t actually ask

711
00:44:56,200 –> 00:44:59,440
you to get an answer.
I asked you because I wanted you

712
00:44:59,440 –> 00:45:02,880
to hear me ask you this.
Do we ever find ourselves doing

713
00:45:02,880 –> 00:45:06,360
that?
No, it’s, it’s not good.

714
00:45:07,680 –> 00:45:10,880
We got to skip over this one.
My apologies learning to ask

715
00:45:11,760 –> 00:45:14,360
right after that they Christ
says an evil generation.

716
00:45:14,480 –> 00:45:17,280
They ask for a sign.
No sign should be given of the

717
00:45:17,280 –> 00:45:19,080
prophet Jonah.
We can ignore signs all the

718
00:45:19,080 –> 00:45:22,800
time, but graciously accepting
this is the end of the journey.

719
00:45:22,800 –> 00:45:24,280
Luke 18 come with me to this
one.

720
00:45:24,680 –> 00:45:33,520
Luke 18 verse 17 Truly I say
unto you, he says, now let’s go

721
00:45:33,520 –> 00:45:37,720
to, let’s go to 16 But Jesus
called them to him, saying, let

722
00:45:37,720 –> 00:45:39,880
the children come to me, don’t
hinder them.

723
00:45:40,000 –> 00:45:44,800
For to such belong the Kingdom
of God, the humble, the least

724
00:45:44,960 –> 00:45:47,040
those is who the Kingdom belongs
to.

725
00:45:47,280 –> 00:45:50,360
Truly I say to you, whoever does
not receive the Kingdom of God

726
00:45:50,560 –> 00:45:56,400
like a child shall not enter it.
You receive it like a child.

727
00:45:56,680 –> 00:46:01,280
Children, little children,
understand that they cannot

728
00:46:01,280 –> 00:46:05,440
earn, they cannot repay their
parents for the gifts they

729
00:46:05,440 –> 00:46:07,960
provide.
How many times do you see a

730
00:46:07,960 –> 00:46:11,760
three-year old at a birthday
party say, oh thanks dad, how

731
00:46:11,760 –> 00:46:16,040
much was it?
How many times do you see a

732
00:46:16,040 –> 00:46:19,280
child at dinner say that Mac and
cheese dad was great?

733
00:46:19,560 –> 00:46:22,760
What do I owe you?
Ironically, you never see 18

734
00:46:22,760 –> 00:46:26,040
year olds do that either, but
that’s beside the point.

735
00:46:27,040 –> 00:46:33,640
Kids fully grasp, they fully
understand that what their dad

736
00:46:33,640 –> 00:46:37,600
and mom give them is that of the
pure greatness of his heart.

737
00:46:37,600 –> 00:46:40,760
And they they don’t even, they
don’t even it doesn’t even comes

738
00:46:40,760 –> 00:46:45,800
into their mind that they need
to give back because they don’t.

739
00:46:47,600 –> 00:46:52,760
They accept knowing full well
that that’s just how it works.

740
00:46:54,480 –> 00:47:01,840
Kids get things from the Father.
Is that how we approach the

741
00:47:01,840 –> 00:47:07,560
Kingdom of God?
Or do we say things like the

742
00:47:07,560 –> 00:47:15,160
adult mistake?
Luke 1818 instantly after a rich

743
00:47:15,160 –> 00:47:20,640
young ruler asked him, good
teacher, what must I do to

744
00:47:20,680 –> 00:47:25,760
inherit eternal life?
That’s the principle.

745
00:47:28,640 –> 00:47:35,560
And so the grown up mistake that
we can all make is thinking that

746
00:47:35,560 –> 00:47:38,040
we have some sort of control
over our place in the Kingdom of

747
00:47:38,040 –> 00:47:42,360
God.
Learn humility, learn to work

748
00:47:42,360 –> 00:47:45,640
together.
That’s how you find your way to

749
00:47:45,640 –> 00:47:51,440
Jerusalem.
And so let’s conclude then by

750
00:47:51,440 –> 00:47:55,680
looking at skipping a few
slides.

751
00:47:56,640 –> 00:47:59,000
Luke 22.
Let’s come then into Jerusalem.

752
00:47:59,440 –> 00:48:04,520
He’s sitting at a meal with his
disciples, Luke 22, seven to 13.

753
00:48:04,520 –> 00:48:08,840
He sends Peter and John to
prepare the Passover meal, 14 to

754
00:48:08,840 –> 00:48:11,640
20, the Lord’s Supper.
Familiar words we hear every

755
00:48:11,640 –> 00:48:16,520
single week.
Verse 21 Luke 2221 But to behold

756
00:48:16,520 –> 00:48:19,520
the the hand of him who betrays
me is with me on the table.

757
00:48:19,720 –> 00:48:22,520
For the Son of Man goes as has
been determined, but woe to that

758
00:48:22,520 –> 00:48:25,080
man by whom he is betrayed.
And they began to question one

759
00:48:25,080 –> 00:48:27,640
another which of them was going
to do this?

760
00:48:27,800 –> 00:48:29,880
And so he says, one of you will
betray me.

761
00:48:29,880 –> 00:48:31,800
And they say, is it you?
Is it you?

762
00:48:31,800 –> 00:48:33,640
And then what do they do
instantly after that?

763
00:48:34,960 –> 00:48:46,400
What does it say in your Bibles?
They argued about who was what

764
00:48:48,560 –> 00:48:52,400
the greatest.
Is this a new argument?

765
00:48:53,680 –> 00:48:55,360
Nope.
This happened the very

766
00:48:55,360 –> 00:48:58,560
beginning, and it’s happening
right when.

767
00:48:58,560 –> 00:49:01,360
Christ is going to be killed.
Is it you?

768
00:49:01,760 –> 00:49:03,680
Is it you?
Are you going to kill him?

769
00:49:03,840 –> 00:49:06,080
No, I’m fantastic.
I’m a great disciple.

770
00:49:06,160 –> 00:49:09,280
Well, I’m better than you are.
And it breaks out again.

771
00:49:09,280 –> 00:49:17,000
And what’s Christ’s answer verse
26 Rather, let the greatest

772
00:49:17,240 –> 00:49:23,200
among you become as the least
no, but the.

773
00:49:23,200 –> 00:49:30,480
Greatest become.
As the youngest, which is why in

774
00:49:30,480 –> 00:49:39,840
John he can say in John 13
little children get a little.

775
00:49:39,840 –> 00:49:42,800
While I’m with you.
And while he’s.

776
00:49:42,800 –> 00:49:44,000
In the upper room, what is
Christ?

777
00:49:44,000 –> 00:49:47,520
Doing while they’re.
Arguing about who’s the.

778
00:49:47,520 –> 00:49:50,200
Best disciple?
What is Jesus doing?

779
00:49:52,480 –> 00:49:56,840
He’s down on his knees.
He’s washing their feet.

780
00:50:01,400 –> 00:50:03,320
That’s the man they followed to
Jerusalem.

781
00:50:04,520 –> 00:50:08,160
Brothers, sisters, we follow the
same man.

782
00:50:10,640 –> 00:50:13,720
Sure, we can get into.
Spats in our cliches.

783
00:50:14,360 –> 00:50:18,160
Sure, we can go through tough
times with brothers and sisters.

784
00:50:20,000 –> 00:50:21,640
But man, the big picture makes
it.

785
00:50:21,640 –> 00:50:25,040
Seem so petty, doesn’t it?
We’re all going to Jerusalem.

786
00:50:25,160 –> 00:50:28,120
We’re all trying to get there,
brothers and sisters.

787
00:50:28,120 –> 00:50:32,320
The point is simply learn to
work together.

788
00:50:32,840 –> 00:50:37,480
Become humble.
He says a new.

789
00:50:37,480 –> 00:50:42,800
Commandment I give to you.
You love one another and.

790
00:50:44,680 –> 00:50:45,680
So.
Brothers and sisters.

791
00:50:47,200 –> 00:50:48,520
Sorry, we had to.
Skip a few things.

792
00:50:48,840 –> 00:50:50,560
Hopefully slides we made
available at the end of this

793
00:50:50,560 –> 00:50:54,240
week, but the theme of working
together, the theme is of course

794
00:50:54,400 –> 00:51:00,400
learning to work together.
So hopefully what we can do is.

795
00:51:00,520 –> 00:51:04,120
We can now.
Maybe question #1 give some

796
00:51:04,120 –> 00:51:06,360
reasons why you think Jesus
chose the disciples.

797
00:51:06,360 –> 00:51:08,160
Did I put it as a critical
thinking question because it’s a

798
00:51:08,160 –> 00:51:10,680
tough one, But what’s your
reasoning?

799
00:51:11,440 –> 00:51:13,320
When you get back to your
ecclesia and you’re sitting down

800
00:51:13,320 –> 00:51:16,160
with a meeting and, and, and
things aren’t going perfectly,

801
00:51:16,840 –> 00:51:21,120
just think back to how it must
have been for these 12 and for

802
00:51:21,240 –> 00:51:23,920
Jesus.
Humility is the cure for the

803
00:51:23,920 –> 00:51:26,680
feelings of greatness, the
examples of children.

804
00:51:26,680 –> 00:51:32,160
And finally, maybe there’s a kid
principle.

805
00:51:32,160 –> 00:51:37,120
You can apply to your.
Life OK, so ultimately brothers

806
00:51:37,120 –> 00:51:38,160
and.
Sisters, of course, the way

807
00:51:38,160 –> 00:51:39,480
that.
People will be able to tell that

808
00:51:39,480 –> 00:51:42,200
we’re disciples of Christ, that
we’re followers of him, that

809
00:51:42,200 –> 00:51:45,960
we’re walking with him together
towards Jerusalem as we follow

810
00:51:45,960 –> 00:51:49,320
the new commandment Christ gave
us, that we love one another.