Leen Ritmeyer – The Power of Bible Places and their Lessons for Us – Class 2 – He shall be called a Nazarene

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This is the 2010 Ontario Winter
Bible School.

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Our speaker for this second
session is Brother Lane

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Rittmeyer from Cardiff, Wales.
His theme this week is The Power

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of Bible Places and their
Lessons for us.

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This is his second class and the
subject for this class is He

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shall be called a Nazarene.
Our reading was taken from

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Matthew chapter 2.
Dear brothers and sisters and

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young people, it’s very pleasing
to hear Josiah read Matthew

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Chapter 2 for me, one of my
former students, to see Chris

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Ayles here, former teacher of
Heritage College, and Tim Badger

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and other children here that
were my students.

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It’s lovely to be here in your
midst.

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It makes me feel really at home.
Yesterday we start to look at

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the land of Israel and he saw
that God has created that land.

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He loved that land.
His eyes were always on that

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land.
But it was also to be used as a

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teaching aid.
And we’ve seen a few of these

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lessons and hope to bring out
many more.

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We saw that the land of Israel
was placed in the midst of the

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earth in between those
continents of Asia and of Europe

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and of Africa.
How in the past they were vetted

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between the powers of Egypt and
the empires of Assyria, Babylon

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and and Persia.
And we’ve seen that it was both

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an opportunity to stay isolated,
to be separated under the

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surface of God, or to be
influenced by those people that

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use that land as a land bridge
to fight with one another.

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And then we looked at the Angel
Gabriel going to that

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magnificent temple which Herod
had built in Jerusalem, the most

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beautiful building that was ever
built in the land of Israel.

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But his message was met with
unbelief.

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A lady was sent to Nazareth, a
humble village, a small village

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in a humble abode, and there the
message was received with joy.

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And Mary said, Behold the
handmaid of the Lord, be it unto

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me, even according to thy word.
What a contrast that was.

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Then we’ve seen how the Angel
intimated that she should go to

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visit her cousin Elizabeth.
And we’ve seen that she lived in

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the city of Aaron because she
was a daughter of Aaron, married

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to a son of Aaron, living in the
city of Aaron, which was Hebron.

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And we looked through the
history of Hebron, how the

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patriarchs were buried there,
how David was anointed king in

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Hebron.
And so we saw the power of that

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place of, of Hebron where
Elizabeth was living.

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And those two women, Mary and
Elizabeth, had so much to share

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between them.
In the chapter we read today, we

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talked about the fulfilment of
Jesus having to be born in

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Bethlehem.
And we’ve seen how 1000 years

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before Christ actually was born,
God had already prepared a place

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for him to be born in the Inn of
Kim Ham.

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And so we can only marvel at
God’s foresight, at his care for

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the preparation for the birth of
his Son.

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And in this chapter, again, we
see that all the time prophecy

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is being fulfilled In verse 15,
we read it out of Egypt.

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Have I called my son?
He wondered.

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It’s going to tell Joseph, Mary
to take little baby Jesus and

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run to Egypt because otherwise
he would be killed by Herod.

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I don’t think that was the case.
If God can command legions of

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angels than the power of
heritage, absolutely nothing

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compared to Him.
But they had to go there to

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fulfil a prophecy out of Egypt.
Have I called my son?

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Now the calling out of Egypt, of
Israel is a theme that goes

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right through the Scriptures.
Brother Tim has been referring

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to it and all the time you have
this reference of Israel being

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saved out of the House of
bondage, the House of sin out of

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Egypt.
But why is this particular

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prophecy referred to out of
Egypt?

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Have I called my son?
It’s a reference you won’t find

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in Exodus or in Numbers,
Leviticus or Deuteronomy or

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Joshua.
You find it in the prophecy of

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Hosea.
So let’s go to the prophecy of

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Hosea Chapter 11 and see why
this particular verse has been

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chosen to be fulfilled.
So Hosea, Chapter 11.

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And there we have it, right in
the first verse when Israel was

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a child.
Then I loved him and called my

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son out of Egypt.
So the definite parallels there

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between the nation of Israel
coming out of Egypt and Jesus

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having to go to Egypt 1st and
then to come out of Egypt again,

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although he was totally unaware,
I suppose of what was happening

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to him because he was only a
little baby.

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But was the first sentiment in
this verse, Why did God bring

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Israel out of Egypt?
He says because I loved him.

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And this chapter is Speaking of
the great love which God has for

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Israel, but also for his son.
If you continue reading in verse

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three, he said I taught Ephraim
also to go taking them by their

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arms.
Now that’s what happened to

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Jesus as well.
He was a little baby and I think

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he learnt walking in the land of
Israel.

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He’s only up to two years old
and Joseph must have held his

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hands out of dummies and all
fires have dummies, their sons

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and their daughters.
And he taught teaching him how

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to walk.
God is showing his love for his

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son in this chapter and that’s
why I believe this chapter is

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referred to in Matthew chapter 2
in verse 4I drood him with

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chords of of a man with bands of
love.

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It’s how a man wants to bind his
wife to himself in in love.

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And that is why this particular
prophecy has been referred to.

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Although there were times that
got absolutely despaired of

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Israel.
Look at the previous chapter,

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verse 9.
It says there in verse 15 all

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their wickedness is in Gilgal.
For there I hated them for the

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wickedness of their doings.
I will drive them out of my

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house.
I will love them no more.

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All their Princess are
revolters.

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Ephraim is smitten.
Their root is dried up.

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They show they bear no fruit and
God can’t work as people like

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that.
He can’t love them.

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But then God’s bowels were
yearning for Israel.

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He did not want to cast them
off.

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It says in verse seven of the
chapter.

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Readers read Chapter 11.
My people are bent to

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backsliding for me, though they
call them to the Most High.

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None at all would exalt him, or
would glorify or or sanctify

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God.
And he was.

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In the meantime she was ready to
cast them off and to destroy

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them.
But then he says in verse 8, How

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shall I give thee up?
If I am, How shall I deliver

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thee, Israel?
How shall I make thee as Atman?

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How shall I set thee as Zeboim?
We go to see tonight.

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God willing.
I would.

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God destroyed those cities of
Sodom and Gomorrah, of Atma and

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Zebovim, because he couldn’t
tolerate their sin anymore.

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But think about Israel.
My heart is turned within me, my

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repentings.
I’m are kindled together.

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I will not execute the
fierceness of my anger.

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I will not return to destroy
Israel.

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Why Bradley sisters?
Because he says I am God.

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I’m Elohim, I’m not man, and
that’s the greatest of God, that

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He can forgive our sins,
although He doesn’t hold the

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guilty innocent, that he could
never give up Israel.

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And it’s amazing to see the
nation of Israel still gathered

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together in Israel.
They have been gathered together

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there out of God’s love, so that
they can look upon Him whom they

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have pierced.
Jesus was totally unaware of all

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this happening.
But you saw yesterday the

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beautiful character of Mary who
kept all those things in her

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heart, who pondered about all
the things that were being said

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to her when she had given birth
to Jesus.

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Almost too much to take in, but
she remembered everything.

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By meditating on them, she
eventually realised how old the

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prophecy had to be fulfilled for
her Son Jesus Christ.

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And when he was growing up, He
must, He must have told Him all

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those things, because God is the
Father of Jesus Christ.

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He wanted Jesus to know that
even if Jesus found life

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difficult, that God would never
give him up, just like he

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couldn’t give up Israel.
How shall I give thee up if I

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am?
Because Jesus wasn’t born

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perfect.
He had to develop God’s

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character also.
You know the passage in he was 5

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and 8.
So well, though he were a son,

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he had learnt the obedience by
the things which he suffered.

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If he had to learn obedience,
that there must be moments that

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he didn’t want to be obedient.
And like any other child, he’d

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like to disobey sometimes.
But of course, Jesus never ever

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did.
And it was a process by many

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sisters, that learning of
obedience that continued to the

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end.
Let’s go to Mark chapter 14.

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And God understands all that in
Mark chapter 14, verse 34, we

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now at the end of the earthly
life of Jesus in the Garden of

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Gethsemane, He says in verse 34,
My soul was exceeding sorrowful

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unto death.
Tarry you here and watch.

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And he went forward a little and
fell on the ground and prayed

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that if it were possible the
hour might pass from him.

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He said, ABBA Fateh, all things
are possible unto thee.

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Take away this cup from me, and
if there’s not what I know, but

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what thou build.
And so in learning to obey his

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mother and Joseph, who was a
father figure to him, she’s

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learnt to obey God even unto the
end.

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It’s a salutary lesson by the
sisters and young people for for

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parents to learn to always love
their children, even when

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they’re disobedient.
And it’s a good lesson for

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children because by obeying
their parents, they learn to

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obey God as their parents are
also obeying God.

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So although we don’t know
exactly where in Egypt they went

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to, you can see the the the
journey in in red.

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So they must have left Bethlehem
and gone down the road to

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Ascalon, go all the way down the
coast by Gaza and went into

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Egypt, probably staying there.
The children of Israel were in

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captivity where they built all
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And then they had to come back
again to fulfil another prophecy

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that he shall be called a
Nazarene.

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What does that mean?
What is a Nazarene?

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After many speakers badly
sisters, young people about it,

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they think it’s a Nazarite, but
it’s a completely different word

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in Hebrew.
And Nazarite is a man who

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consecrates himself to God, who
let his hair grow along like

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Elijah did in John the Baptist
when at a certain time it was

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cut off and offered to God.
But that is not what it is, what

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it is saying here.
A Nazarene is an inhabitant of

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Nazareth.
But there’s much more to that as

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well today.
If you look at Nazareth, we saw

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this slide yesterday.
So we’re going to have a look at

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the power of the Bible place.
Why did Jesus have to go back

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there or go there for the first
time for him and be grow up

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growing up in Nazareth?
Yesterday I showed this slide.

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Now it’s a very large city, a
lot of Christian Arabs living

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there.
But in the 100 years ago, this

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picture was taken, 100 years
ago, it was just a very small

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village.
And that is where Jesus grew up.

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It shows he was not a city kid.
God, he didn’t choose Jerusalem

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for his child to be educated.
He chose a small little village

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far away from Jerusalem in the
Hill Country of Galilee, in a

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little bowl where you can’t see
much beyond the limit of your

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village.
And that’s where that’s where he

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was educated.
Robert Roberts he wrote about

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the spiritual benefits of
growing up in despised Nazareth.

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It was a place of preparation
for the public life of Jesus.

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Robert Roberts says this an
unexciting lowly life of private

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manual labour was chosen by God
as the right school for the

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training of his beloved son for
the heirship of all things.

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If you continue reading about
Robert Robert’s work words about

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the first formative years of
Jesus, he says the work the life

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of a working man means the full
development of man, whose

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strength a strong frame, a kind
and firmly muscular hand, a

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simple and independent character
combined with humility of

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deportment.
If to these we add the

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clearness, clearness of a divine
intellect, the fire of godly

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zeal, and the tenderness of true
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an approximation to Jesus of
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the archetype to which all his
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But the more fundamental reason
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prophecy of Isaiah.
He shall be called a Nazarene.

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So what is that all about?
Let’s go to Isaiah Chapter 11

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because that’s where the the
code comes from in Isaiah

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Chapter 11.
I’ve got a wonderful description

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of the work of the Lord Jesus
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But the preparation for that
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There shall come forth a rod out
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branch shall grow out of his
roots.

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But the stem of Jesse was cut
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The House of David was cut off.
There were no kings in Israel

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anymore after the Babylonian
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So the the IT was like a stump
of a tree, but a branch, a chute

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came forth out of his roots.
And that word, the branch, is

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netzer.
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but Nazareth is the same word.
It’s Nazareth in Hebrew.

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It’s the plural word of branch.
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That’s what it means.
If you continue reading, we can

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see how God chose that place to
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The Spirit of Yahweh shall rest
upon him, the spirit of wisdom

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and understanding.
The spirit of counsel and might,

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the spirit of knowledge and the
fear of Yawa, and shall make him

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of quick understanding in the
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He shall not judge after the
sight of His eyes, neither

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reproof after the hearing of His
ears, but His righteousness

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shall He judge the poor, and
reprove his equity for the meek

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of the earth.
And the time will come that He

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will smite the earth with the
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With the breath of His lips
shall He slay the wicked, and

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righteousness shall be the
girdle of His loins, and

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faithfulness the girdle of His
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You could never develop such
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the city of Jerusalem.
It’s just full of the

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hypocritical Pharisees and
Sadducees who are teaching their

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students to be just like them.
God chose Nazareth, the place of

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a branch to bring up His Son.
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So Naz was chosen for that new
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to grow again.
And we just read in verse 21,

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Thy people also shall be all
righteous, they shall inherit

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the land forever.
The branch of my planting as the

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Lord Jesus Christ, the work of
my hands, that I may be

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glorified.
That called for the education of

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Jesus in Nazareth, so that
eventually a little one shall

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become 1000 and a small one, a
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I Yahweh will hasten it in his
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So in a Chapter 11, Jesus called
the branch the Netzer who lived

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in the place Natserrat, the
place of branches, because there

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were two branches there.
Brethren, sisters got that

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carefully chosen Mary to be the
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a father figure.
They were both descendants of

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the House of David.
As you can read in Matthew

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chapter 1 and Luke chapter 32,
branches of the House of David

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came together in the place of
branches to bring forth the

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branch that came out of that cut
off stump of the House of David.

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Mary was descended from David
through Solomon and Joseph

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through another branch of David
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Both were branches of the House
of David, living in the place of

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branches to bring up the greater
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If you go to Psalm 80, it speaks
again about the Lord Jesus

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Christ as a branch, and you can
see how God has chosen that

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particular place to make Him
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In Psalm 80
and in verse 14, we return, we

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beseech the Yabweh of armies,
look down from heaven, and

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behold, and visit this vine and
the vineyard which thy right

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hand has planted, and the branch
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It’s burnt his fire, it’s cut
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They perish as the rebuke of thy
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But let thy hand be upon the man
of thy right hand, upon the Son

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of man.
That is the branch whom thou

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made this strong for thyself.
And so God has chosen that place

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in Nazareth to educate His Son,
to prepare him for a very

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difficult public ministry,
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The word for Christians is not,
not sreen Nazarenes.

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The Jews call us Christians
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Have you just imagine how Jesus
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Because he grew up in quite a
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He was the eldest in the family.
Joseph and Mary had other

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children.
We know some of the names like

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James and Joseph, Jude and their
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So Jesus grew up in quite a
lively family, and if you go

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through the epistles of James
and of Jude, it’s quite clear

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that they knew their Bible
stories.

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They knew the stories of Sodom
and Gomorrah, of Cora Jason, and

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the Byron of Adam and of Enoch.
So we can imagine that Jesus and

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his brothers and his sisters
grew up in the family with the

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Bible that was being read every
day.

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A beautiful example for our
families, brother sisters, as

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most of the families do, reading
the word of God and making those

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stories of the Bible alive so
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So when Jesus was growing up,
Mary must have told Jesus slowly

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all that had happened to her.
From the time that the Angel

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gave your first appeared to her
in Nazareth, there has been a

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time when Jesus asked his
mother, why do the kids call me

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by that B word.
And he had to listen to that

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explanation that people don’t
understand the power of God,

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which he had experienced in her
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And he had a sharp mind and but
Mary had to find out how much at

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a young age he could absorb.
But he was made of quick

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understanding and he must have
surprised her quite a few times

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with his understanding because
his ears were open from a young

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age.
He started to read the

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scriptures himself and praying
to his father.

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That is how God spoke to him.
And he grew up with the

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knowledge of his father.
But of course, as any child, if

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you live in a place, eventually
you want to spread your wings

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and you want to expand your
horizons.

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Now here we see a map where
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So Nazareth is right here in
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the Mediterranean Sea.
Right in in the South is the

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Jezreel valley.
Mount Tabor is very nearby and a

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place which has been excavated
Sephoris and that is more or

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less the surroundings with
Angharad and Mount Kilboa where

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Jesus grew up.
So I can just imagine him

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leaving home and creeping up the
brow of the hill and then

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looking out and what did he see?
Eventually you would have

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ventured further afield.
From Nazareth you can go to

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Zephyrus and then to Cana of
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And it’s not too far to go to
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And so all those places which we
read about were quite close by.

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And actually right here beside
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northward is the tomb of the
prophet Jonah.

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It’s also features heavily in
the life of Christ.

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If you stand on the top of Mount
Tabor, that’s where you can see

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Nazareth located here.
It was in the deep here just

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behind the hills.
And so Jesus Rudhev grown up

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close to the home inside the
village, but eventually climbing

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up over the mountain and and
look over the horizon.

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And what did he see?
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that special mount, Mount Tabor
right in front of his eyes.

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And it would have been
remembering all the stories of

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Deborah and of Barack and of
Gideon and his 300 men of Seoul

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losing the battle and dying on
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But you can see actually from
from Nazareth, this is a

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photograph taken from Mount
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So it’s fairly to the West.
We can see the whole of the

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Jezreel Valley.
And here is Nazareth, and here’s

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Mount Tabor.
That was his field of vision.

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And knowing the Scriptures, it’s
such great fun burden, sister,

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to travel through the land of
Israel to go a place open by.

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Oh, this happened here.
You understand why?

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What did he see?
What did he recognise apart from

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Mount Carmel on which we are
standing?

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Well, here’s Nazareth, here’s
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hill of Moray, here’s the well
of Kharghod, Jezreel, and Mount

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Gilboa.
And here the Jezreel Valley and

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the Kishon River running right
through there were the

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associations.
There are as all those places on

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Mount Tabor.
Probably Jesus was later

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transformed into His glory.
But look at Mount Gilboa and the

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well of Kharghod.
We have the great victory of

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Gideon with 300 men overcoming
the Midianites who were there on

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the hill of Mohair and the 300
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But later, when Saul was
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Philistines, he was in the same
location he was in, just real.

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The Philistines were on the hill
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Endors on the other side for
Saul to breakthrough, to go to

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Endor, to go through the ranks
of the Philistines and talk to

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that witch in Endor.
But he never learnt anything

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from what he saw.
He didn’t realise he was in the

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same place where Gideon with 300
mighty men overcame a huge army,

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but bigger than the Philistines.
Therefore it is a much larger

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army.
He lost the battle.

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What lessons were than sisters
Mount Tabar where we got Deborah

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and Barak calling all the tribes
together, Issachar and Naftali

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and Zebulun fighting against the
canines.

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We had to flee away and the the
the views of the church were

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stuck in the Kishung River which
overflows its banks.

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Now when we do our readings ban,
this is get an Atlas out, get

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the map out, and see what
happened in those particular

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places, because the power of
those places is overwhelming at

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times and we only neglect him at
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So here’s Nazareth then, viewed
from sufferers.

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The Jesuit Valley is on the
other side, and this is

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Nazareth.
We told that Jesus was a

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Carpenter.
I don’t think he was actually,

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because the Greek word for a
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It means a Craftsman, a
Craftsman in hard materials.

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It could be wood, it could be
stone or metal or precious

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stones.
That’s what Jesus did.

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But the interesting thing is
that Belgies was growing up, a

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new city was being built,
Sephorus, a Roman city,

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beautiful buildings and a
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And it has been suggested that
Jesus actually worked with his

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dad was was Joseph, at least in
this particular place.

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And every morning he would walk
for an hour or so.

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He was through the fields,
passing by the tomb of Jonah and

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then going to Sephorus.
While he was walking through the

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fields, he was very observant.
He knows the flowers of the

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field.
Do you look at the flowers of

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the field?
And do we think of the

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scriptural lessons Jesus did?
He saw the birds of the airs

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flying overhead, learned the
lessons from it.

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He saw the soil and the grain in
that every time, walking to work

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and back again.
He was an observant young man.

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He noticed everything.
And so should we, Brendan

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sisters, because when you look
at the parables, they’re all

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taken from his walk from
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He saw farmers working,
ploughing, sowing, weeding and

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weeping.
The fields were full of flowers

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and birds which later featured
in the sayings of Jesus.

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It knows.
It shows that we also need to be

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observant, use our eyes and our
ears and our noses, our brains

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and use the scripture as our
guide.

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Now the Sepphoris is then not
far away, only hours walk and we

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imagine Jesus walking there
going to work.

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You can go there today and you
can see the beautiful paved St.

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which had calms on both sides to
the citadel high on top and

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inside.
Here they’ve reconstructed a

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house with a beautiful mosaic
floor.

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The centrepiece was the the face
of the woman of the house called

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a Mona Lisa of Sapphiris.
But that city was being built at

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that particular time and there
was a theatre being built as

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well at the very time when Jesus
was growing up.

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There’s a normal theatre cutting
the mountainside with a stone.

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Benches cut exactly every stone
to shape and it’s just wonderful

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00:29:11,720 –> 00:29:15,520
to be able to go there and sit
and contemplate on Jesus.

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If you think, if you go through
the Gospels, look at the

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00:29:21,520 –> 00:29:26,760
references to wood and the
references to stone, only one of

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00:29:26,760 –> 00:29:30,400
wood splinter in your eye.
But there are hundreds of stone

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and the word hypocrite has been
used 17 times by Jesus.

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Why did he use the word
hypocrite actually portrayed the

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00:29:41,520 –> 00:29:43,640
carrot of the Pharisees and the
Sadducees?

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00:29:43,640 –> 00:29:50,080
Because the word hypocrite is an
actor who puts on a mask, and

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00:29:50,080 –> 00:29:53,640
all these masks have been found
in different places because they

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00:29:53,640 –> 00:29:57,960
pretend to be somebody else.
And Jesus learned that language

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00:29:58,000 –> 00:30:01,360
of a hypocrite in the theatre of
Zeprat, which he actually may

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00:30:01,360 –> 00:30:05,120
have helped building himself.
Look at all the reference to

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stone, the stone which the
builders rejected, Cephas,

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00:30:08,040 –> 00:30:12,520
Cephas, a stone, but one stone
left upon another got him of the

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stones to raise up, and so on.
Jesus knew everything about

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00:30:16,240 –> 00:30:20,680
house building, about stones,
much more than woodworking.

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00:30:20,680 –> 00:30:24,040
So all those nice pictures of
Jesus in the little carpet shop

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with his father Joseph and the
blaming piece of wood is all

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00:30:27,360 –> 00:30:32,920
nonsense.
So we know where he lived, but

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what do we know?
Him as a growing teenager and as

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a young man.
Let’s go to Luke chapter 2.

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I think the more we realise
under what circumstances and in

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what powerful place Jesus was
brought up, a place chosen by

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00:30:52,650 –> 00:30:58,490
God, then he also understands
that he used all those 30 years

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to prepare himself for the
ministry.

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00:31:00,730 –> 00:31:05,370
He learned all those lessons
before he spoke to the spoke to

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the people in verse 40 of Luke
chapter 2.

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00:31:11,640 –> 00:31:14,960
The child grew well.
Children can’t help that.

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00:31:15,240 –> 00:31:17,280
I see some students here that
haven’t seen for three years.

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00:31:17,280 –> 00:31:19,480
My goodness, they’re almost
taller than I am now.

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So that’s quite normal.
But they vexed.

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He vexed strong in spirit.
He was filled with wisdom and

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the grace of God was upon him.
We need to give proper

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nourishment to our children so
they can grow up and they do

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that whatever you do, but to
fill them with wisdom.

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We can only do bread and sister
by reading the scripture with

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them and making it a life and
illustrated with lessons from

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00:31:44,760 –> 00:31:47,480
life.
And the grace of God was upon

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him.
That’s wonderful.

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00:31:49,160 –> 00:31:54,400
And then in verse 52 we see that
Jesus increased in wisdom and in

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stature and in favour with God
and man.

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So the place was well chosen and
made me think about the

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00:32:03,000 –> 00:32:04,800
education of our children, Bread
and sisters.

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00:32:05,680 –> 00:32:09,040
It’s not always the the top
grade university that is the

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00:32:09,040 –> 00:32:12,800
best education for our children.
They need to be educated and I

479
00:32:12,840 –> 00:32:14,800
fully agree with that.
We need to have a job, but

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00:32:14,800 –> 00:32:16,840
that’s the only reason why we
should be educated.

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00:32:17,120 –> 00:32:20,600
The greatest education is in the
Word of God because that gives

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00:32:20,600 –> 00:32:24,840
them wisdom and understanding,
not just knowledge which you can

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00:32:24,840 –> 00:32:30,920
get in many, many places.
But think of this little country

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00:32:30,920 –> 00:32:33,400
bumpkin, as people would perhaps
call him in the little village

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00:32:33,400 –> 00:32:36,560
of Nazareth, now going for the
first time to Jerusalem.

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What an impression that would
have made on him.

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00:32:40,120 –> 00:32:44,760
One more thing has said it.
On his way to Sephorus, he

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passed by the tomb of Jonah.
There’s still a mount Jonah

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00:32:47,480 –> 00:32:50,840
called here and he says an evil
in the daughter’s generation

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00:32:50,840 –> 00:32:54,000
seeketh after sign, and shall no
sign be given it to it, but the

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00:32:54,000 –> 00:32:56,880
sign of the prophet Jonah,
because John was three days and

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00:32:56,880 –> 00:32:59,600
three nights in the middle’s
belly, so shall the Son of Man

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00:32:59,600 –> 00:33:02,440
be 3 days and three nights in
the heart of the earth.

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00:33:03,000 –> 00:33:05,400
And he has learned that already
when he was growing up in in

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Nazareth, but now 12 years old.
What an excitement.

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00:33:11,320 –> 00:33:15,280
We’re going now to the temple.
And that is not another very

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00:33:15,280 –> 00:33:17,800
powerful place.
We’re still in Luke chapter 2.

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00:33:18,280 –> 00:33:24,520
And let us read from verse 41.
Now, as parents went to

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Jerusalem every year at the
feast of Passover, what a

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00:33:29,120 –> 00:33:33,160
faithful family.
Every year they went to

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00:33:33,160 –> 00:33:36,360
Jerusalem, they must have left
their little children behind.

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00:33:36,840 –> 00:33:39,560
It shows they lived in the
community of caring brothers,

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00:33:39,560 –> 00:33:42,080
sisters who would look after
their children if their parents

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00:33:42,080 –> 00:33:44,120
went to Jerusalem.
And it’s a long journey.

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00:33:44,120 –> 00:33:46,080
It took perhaps a couple of
weeks before they were back

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00:33:46,080 –> 00:33:50,520
again.
So it’s good to create good

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00:33:50,520 –> 00:33:53,800
customs to go to the meeting on
a Sunday in the go to the

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00:33:53,800 –> 00:33:56,480
lecture, go to Bible class,
bring your kids to Sunday

509
00:33:56,480 –> 00:33:59,360
school, to Bible schools,
wherever they can make friends

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00:33:59,360 –> 00:34:02,880
and learn about God.
So when he was 12 years old, he

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00:34:02,880 –> 00:34:07,360
was being so excited he went up
to Jerusalem at the custom of

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00:34:07,360 –> 00:34:10,280
the feast.
And then they had fulfilled the

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00:34:10,280 –> 00:34:12,760
days.
As they returned, the child

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00:34:12,760 –> 00:34:16,080
Jesus tarried behind in
Jerusalem, and Joseph and his

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00:34:16,080 –> 00:34:20,080
mother knew not of it.
But they look how comforting

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00:34:20,080 –> 00:34:22,520
this is, supposing him to be in
the company.

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00:34:23,840 –> 00:34:26,199
And that’s so good, brothers,
sisters, to bring up your

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00:34:26,199 –> 00:34:28,400
children in the Christian
community.

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00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:31,000
We always didn’t know where our
children were, but there would

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00:34:31,000 –> 00:34:33,239
be always brothers, sisters
looking after them, and we would

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00:34:33,239 –> 00:34:37,840
bring them together again.
So they supposed him to have

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00:34:37,840 –> 00:34:40,000
been in the company.
He went for a whole day’s

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00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:42,400
journey, for 24 hours.
They’d even bought it.

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00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:44,960
Because he will be all right,
because the other brothers and

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00:34:44,960 –> 00:34:48,040
sisters will take care of him.
But then they started to get

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00:34:48,040 –> 00:34:50,560
worried and sought him among
their kinsfroken acquaintance.

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00:34:50,920 –> 00:34:54,040
They found him not they really
got worried now, and they turned

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00:34:54,040 –> 00:34:55,960
back again to Jerusalem, seeking
him.

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00:34:56,960 –> 00:34:59,440
And it came to pass that after
three days they found him in the

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00:34:59,440 –> 00:35:02,440
Temple, sitting in the midst of
the doctors, both hearing them

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00:35:02,440 –> 00:35:05,360
and asking them questions.
He used every opportunity by an

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00:35:05,360 –> 00:35:08,640
assistor to to to challenge the
the authorities and to see how

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00:35:08,640 –> 00:35:11,320
much they knew and how much he
knew he wanted to learn from

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00:35:11,320 –> 00:35:13,400
them.
But for actually the elevator

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00:35:14,160 –> 00:35:16,000
round happened.
I learned from him because all

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00:35:16,000 –> 00:35:19,640
that hurt him were astonished at
his understanding and answers.

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00:35:20,480 –> 00:35:22,480
And we can say, of course, you
had the Spirit of God.

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00:35:22,480 –> 00:35:25,120
No, he didn’t bring the sisters.
That only happened when he was

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00:35:25,120 –> 00:35:28,120
30 years old.
I’m sure he was reading the

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00:35:28,120 –> 00:35:32,440
scriptures because we suggested
when those three wise men came

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00:35:32,440 –> 00:35:36,880
to to Bethlehem, that gold and
frankincense and myrrh, not for

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00:35:36,880 –> 00:35:39,360
Joseph, for Mary, for the baby
Jesus.

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00:35:39,360 –> 00:35:41,920
What can the baby do with gold?
What does the baby do with

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00:35:41,920 –> 00:35:45,320
frankincense and myrrh?
It has been suggested, I can’t

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00:35:45,320 –> 00:35:48,440
prove it at all, but that they
would have kept that money for

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00:35:48,440 –> 00:35:51,680
Jesus and they would have bought
scrolls for him when he was

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00:35:51,680 –> 00:35:54,400
growing up.
If you look at the references to

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00:35:54,400 –> 00:35:57,120
the Old Testament in the
Gospels, there are three books

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00:35:57,120 –> 00:36:01,520
that stand out, Deuteronomy,
Psalms and Isaiah.

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00:36:02,240 –> 00:36:03,840
And I believe he had those
scrolls himself.

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00:36:03,840 –> 00:36:06,760
He would have learnt reading
Hebrew in synagogue with his own

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00:36:06,760 –> 00:36:08,200
scrolls.
He was reading them.

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00:36:08,400 –> 00:36:12,040
And in that reading he God
opened his ears and he would

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00:36:12,040 –> 00:36:16,640
have asked him for wisdom.
And God gave it to him, but now

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00:36:16,880 –> 00:36:18,800
become.
When they found him in the

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00:36:18,800 –> 00:36:21,800
temple, it was 47.
They were astonished at his

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00:36:21,800 –> 00:36:24,360
understanding and answers.
And they when their son, they

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00:36:24,360 –> 00:36:29,120
were amazed, his mother said
unto him, Son, why hast thou

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00:36:29,120 –> 00:36:33,480
dealt thus with us?
We all thy father, and I sought

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00:36:33,480 –> 00:36:38,560
thee, sorrowing thy father.
Joseph wasn’t his father.

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00:36:39,200 –> 00:36:43,360
God was his father.
And he said to them, How is it

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00:36:43,360 –> 00:36:48,320
that he sought me?
Is he not that I must be in my

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00:36:48,320 –> 00:36:51,840
father’s house?
God was his father.

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00:36:51,880 –> 00:36:55,480
He knew that at the age of 12.
He was never disrespectful to

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00:36:55,480 –> 00:36:57,480
his parents.
He was never disrespectful to

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00:36:57,480 –> 00:37:00,800
Joseph, but he knew that God was
His Father.

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00:37:01,560 –> 00:37:05,520
We talked early about children
being obedient because his

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00:37:05,520 –> 00:37:08,560
parents, if he was 15, did not
understand the saying which He’s

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00:37:08,560 –> 00:37:11,160
spoken to them.
They had still much to learn.

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00:37:11,520 –> 00:37:17,040
But look, the Son of God, such a
wise young man, could hold a

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00:37:17,040 –> 00:37:20,160
conversation with the wise sages
of Jerusalem.

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00:37:20,160 –> 00:37:24,200
He went down with them, He came
to Nazareth, and He was subject

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00:37:24,200 –> 00:37:28,680
unto them.
But His mother kept all these

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00:37:28,680 –> 00:37:33,240
sayings in her heart.
Government went to Jerusalem, or

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00:37:33,240 –> 00:37:37,400
did he see?
What do you know about the

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00:37:37,400 –> 00:37:41,080
Temple?
Nowadays we can see the Temple

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00:37:41,080 –> 00:37:44,920
Mount, and the Dome of the Rock
stands where the Temple Mount

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00:37:44,920 –> 00:37:46,400
stood.
He used the Easter Wall of the

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00:37:46,400 –> 00:37:49,760
Temple Mount, the southern wall,
and having worked there for many

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00:37:49,760 –> 00:37:52,960
years, we was able to make
reconstruction drawings.

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00:37:53,000 –> 00:37:55,400
These ones were done for the ESV
study Bible.

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00:37:55,400 –> 00:38:00,320
It shows a huge complex.
The sun was 280 meters long and

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00:38:00,680 –> 00:38:03,120
500 meters long, half a
kilometre long.

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00:38:03,560 –> 00:38:07,680
Istanbul and Westernbul and the
temple stood there in the in the

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00:38:07,960 –> 00:38:11,600
in the centre, surrounded by the
buildings of the temple.

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00:38:11,960 –> 00:38:14,840
There are porticoes built all
around the temple, and the

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00:38:14,840 –> 00:38:18,280
Antonia Fort was there.
That was the temple complex

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00:38:18,520 –> 00:38:21,000
which Jesus saw for the first
time.

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00:38:21,360 –> 00:38:24,600
Here’s the Western Wall was
Robinson’s Arts and Warrensgate,

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00:38:25,200 –> 00:38:28,360
Barclays and Wilson’s Arts, a
massive complex.

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00:38:28,360 –> 00:38:31,440
It’s an astonishing complex.
And coming from a small village

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00:38:31,440 –> 00:38:34,960
of Nazareth, it must be
absolutely overwhelming to see

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00:38:34,960 –> 00:38:36,240
this.
But he saw everything in

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00:38:36,240 –> 00:38:39,480
perspective.
He still called this my father’s

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00:38:39,480 –> 00:38:42,040
house.
And so we were able to build a

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00:38:42,040 –> 00:38:46,200
model a long time ago.
And based on the these these

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00:38:46,200 –> 00:38:49,120
drawings, you can see the
temple, how high it was covered

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00:38:49,120 –> 00:38:52,320
over his gold towering over the
whole temple complex.

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00:38:52,600 –> 00:38:54,960
And that was where God’s
presence was.

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00:38:55,320 –> 00:38:57,920
And Jesus knew this is my
father’s house.

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00:38:58,800 –> 00:39:02,480
Now here’s the temple itself all
covered over with gold.

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00:39:02,480 –> 00:39:05,120
Here’s the holy place where
yesterday we looked at how

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00:39:05,120 –> 00:39:10,480
Zecharias was offering incense.
He’s a massive veil separating

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00:39:10,480 –> 00:39:13,880
the holy from the most holy.
But Jesus, of course, he came

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00:39:13,880 –> 00:39:16,520
from the tribe of Judah.
He wasn’t allowed in this

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00:39:16,520 –> 00:39:20,120
temple.
Around the temple were the

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00:39:20,120 –> 00:39:23,160
courts, several courts, the
temple court, the court of the

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00:39:23,160 –> 00:39:25,120
Israelites, and it’s the court
of the women.

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00:39:25,400 –> 00:39:28,600
And that is where all Israelites
that were purified were allowed

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00:39:28,600 –> 00:39:30,520
together was called the
treasury.

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00:39:30,880 –> 00:39:33,000
And because genius did a lot of
teaching there.

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00:39:33,760 –> 00:39:38,040
So this magnificent complex, Mr.
Royal stole a hole at a sudden

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00:39:38,040 –> 00:39:41,120
end where the money change was
sitting, and he was observing

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00:39:41,480 –> 00:39:43,760
how they were fleecing the
tourists like they do nowadays

615
00:39:43,760 –> 00:39:47,160
in most Middle Middle Eastern
cities and later.

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00:39:47,160 –> 00:39:49,720
And he was grown up.
He took a court and he threw

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00:39:49,720 –> 00:39:52,360
them all out of his father’s
house because they were defiling

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00:39:52,600 –> 00:39:56,720
the House of his father.
And he was presented as a baby.

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That happened in this courtyard.
Here he met Simeon and Anna the

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00:40:00,640 –> 00:40:04,520
prophetess.
And under the colonnades were

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00:40:04,520 –> 00:40:07,280
money boxes.
Which had a copper funnel to

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00:40:07,280 –> 00:40:10,680
guide the money into the box.
So when Jesus laid it, saw the

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00:40:11,120 –> 00:40:14,320
poor widow cast in the last two
nights, he could hear by the

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00:40:14,320 –> 00:40:18,280
sound of those two little coins
going into that box, He knew

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00:40:18,280 –> 00:40:20,200
exactly how much she has cast
in.

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00:40:20,200 –> 00:40:23,160
In contrast to the Pharisees
with a big handful of shackles,

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00:40:23,160 –> 00:40:26,000
heavy coins and clank, clank,
clank, everybody knew how much

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00:40:26,000 –> 00:40:28,680
they threw in.
So Jesus learnt all those

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00:40:28,680 –> 00:40:33,640
lessons, but he went there at
the time of Passover and it’s a

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00:40:33,640 –> 00:40:38,200
very important feast, of course,
in the calendar of the Jews.

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00:40:39,120 –> 00:40:41,560
Peter and John, for example,
were told by Jesus to kill the

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00:40:41,560 –> 00:40:43,560
Passover.
They would have stood in this

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00:40:43,560 –> 00:40:48,280
row in a line with a little
sheep, and the priest at the end

634
00:40:48,280 –> 00:40:51,880
of this row would cut the
jugular vein, catch the blood in

635
00:40:51,880 –> 00:40:55,400
silver and golden vessels passed
between rows of priests and

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00:40:55,400 –> 00:40:58,160
splashed at the bottom of the
altar.

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00:40:59,080 –> 00:41:03,120
And so that was how they kept
the Passover in the temple that

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00:41:03,120 –> 00:41:05,840
you still keep the Passover
today.

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00:41:06,400 –> 00:41:10,120
And it’s quite interesting to
know how they did it.

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00:41:10,280 –> 00:41:13,480
If you read a Luke chapter was a
22.

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00:41:14,360 –> 00:41:15,920
We read actually, we’re not
going to read it.

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00:41:16,360 –> 00:41:19,160
You may remember that at least
two cups mentioned.

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00:41:21,480 –> 00:41:23,280
But since you’re going there, I
may as well follow you.

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00:41:33,360 –> 00:41:34,840
Now I’ve got to find myself as
well.

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00:41:35,400 –> 00:41:38,160
In verse 17 we read that he took
the cup and gave thanks.

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00:41:38,160 –> 00:41:40,200
I said, take this and divide
among yourselves.

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00:41:40,600 –> 00:41:42,680
For I say unto you, I will not
drink of the fruit of the vine

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00:41:42,880 –> 00:41:48,920
unto the king of God shall come.
But later on he said there was

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another cup, because then he
took the bread.

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The verse 19 gave thanks and
break it.

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And then verse 20 says like
there’s also the cup after

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supper, saying this cup is the
new covenant in my blood which

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is shed for you.
There are two cups I mentioned

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here.
Actually the Jews still today,

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as Jesus did at that particular
time, drank 4 cups of wine.

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We were four cups of wine when
we were still in Adelaide.

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We had a relationship with the
rabbi of Adelaide who let me

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take the students to the
synagogue and they can see how a

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synagogue worked and all that.
But we were invited once to his

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Passover party because they must
always have a Gentile there or,

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or to sit on the empty chair of
Elijah.

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00:42:33,320 –> 00:42:37,280
And he had his four cups.
And like it says in Psalm 23, my

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cup flow is over.
He had his first cup, quite a

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00:42:39,760 –> 00:42:43,680
big cup, and it they filled it
out, overflowed and he drank it.

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And he continued with his
Passover story.

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But after the 3rd and 4th cup,
he didn’t know what he was

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talking about anymore.
That is exactly the purpose of

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it.
The Jews like we just read in

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verse 18, Jesus said I will not
drink of the fruit of the vine

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until the Kingdom of God shall
come.

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The fruit of the vine is the
collective name for those four

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00:43:08,880 –> 00:43:14,520
cups and all those cups have a
name and they take it from

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00:43:14,560 –> 00:43:17,160
Exodus.
So if you go to Exodus chapter

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6.
Therefore say unto the children

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of Israel, I am Yahweh, and
here’s the name of the first

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00:43:37,360 –> 00:43:40,200
cup.
I will bring you out from under

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the burdens of the Egyptian.
That was the first cup.

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The name of the first cup they
drank at Passover.

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I will bring you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians.

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Cup #2 was called.
I will rid you out of their

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00:43:52,440 –> 00:43:57,800
bondage.
There’s a second cup, the third

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00:43:57,800 –> 00:44:00,760
cup.
It’s called I will redeem you.

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That’s the cup of redemption,
and that’s actually the cup

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which we drink every Sunday.
If you know about the three cups

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and you follow the the Passover
service, then Jesus sent out

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Judas just before they drank the
third cup.

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Jesus was very merciful, but he
wouldn’t let a betrayer drink of

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the cup of redemption.
That’s the cup which we drink

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every Sunday.
So we also, we remember the

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redemption of God because He
loved Israel.

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He took his son out of Egypt
because He loved him and He

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00:44:36,880 –> 00:44:40,120
loves us also.
But the fourth cup is called in

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verse 7.
I will take you to meet for a

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people and I will be to you and
Alabin, and ye shall know that I

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00:44:46,640 –> 00:44:49,960
am Yao Alabin, which brings you
out from under the burdens of

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the Egyptians.
He didn’t drink that cup and

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00:44:53,800 –> 00:44:57,760
aren’t we glad brethren,
sisters, that he didn’t, because

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00:44:57,760 –> 00:45:03,560
if he would have drunk that cup,
which means I will take you to

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me for people, You didn’t all
have to hang on the cross.

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Jesus did it once for all.
But he said I will not drink of

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00:45:13,280 –> 00:45:17,800
the cup of the fruit of the vine
until I drink it new with you in

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my Kingdom.
That is when the Passover will

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00:45:20,320 –> 00:45:24,160
be completed, when the Saints
have that have been resurrected

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00:45:24,360 –> 00:45:28,520
and Judge writes us, we’ll hold
the Passover and complete it in

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a sense, and I miss Jesus.
We will drink that fourth cup

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00:45:32,080 –> 00:45:36,960
because then in our immortal
state we will be taken to Him

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00:45:37,280 –> 00:45:42,320
for a people, and then truly He
will be to us God.

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And then shall we fully know
that He is Yahweh, your Elovim,

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00:45:47,440 –> 00:45:50,920
that being brought out of the
burdens of the Egyptian.

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We’ve been brought out by the
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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which is representing that cup
of redemption, the third cup.

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And we pray when the sisters and
young people that may continue

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to walk worthy of Our Calling,
so that we may be there when

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Jesus will drink that last cup
anew in the Kingdom, and He will

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00:46:10,720 –> 00:46:13,800
take us to Himself for a people.