Ryan King – Class 4: To Fulfill All Righteousness

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Now, my dear beloved brothers
and sisters, to our final class

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for today.
It’s our fifth class in this

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wonderful series that has so
much food for thought.

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John the Baptist allowing God to
speak to hearts.

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And I’m sure you’ll you’ll agree
with me that our brother Ryan

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has really expounded God’s word
in a way that opened our hearts

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and minds to receive this
ungrafted word therein.

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And.
Traverse as we traverse this

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path to God’s Kingdom.
So we come now to our final

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class today.
And without any further delay,

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I’ll invite our brother Ryan
once more for today.

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Class #4.
Fulfilling all righteousness.

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Brother Ryan.
Thank you, Brother Nigel.

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Good afternoon.
One more time, Brothers and

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sisters, we’ve done a really
good job of sticking to our

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schedule.
Today.

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So we we left John on the desert
floor, giving us that very

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rousing exhortation to live
within our means, to live a

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quiet and simple life.
With the ability to isolate

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ourselves from this.
Terrible world and and allow the

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voice of.
God to speak to our hearts.

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And I think if you’ve learned
that one lesson today, brothers

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and sisters, then we’ve all
taken a gigantic.

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Step forward to.
The Kingdom of God.

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Because there really is no other
way to the Kingdom than that.

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But a new phase is coming for
John and for.

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Israel is the words of the
Prophet are about to be

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fulfilled.
Behold, I send my messenger,

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which was John and he.
Will clear the way.

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Before me and the Lord, whom ye?
Seek.

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That’s the Lord Jesus Christ
will suddenly.

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Come to his temple, even the
messenger of the covenant, you

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know, whilst John was down there
at the river Jordan, baptizing

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others, he.
Was in a fervor of expectancy.

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Because he knew one day anytime
the one of whom the Old

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Testament had spoken would
arrive, the one in whom the the.

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Purpose of God was to be
vocalized.

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And and you can imagine, John is
all Judea, and all Jerusalem is

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coming down to hear him one
after the other, the common

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people.
The soldiers, the Pharisees, the

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tax collectors.
He knew one day that one would

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step.
Out of that crowd, who was?

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To be the Messiah.
And you can imagine in his body

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just quivering with.
Excitement as he awaited.

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That day and and.
Isn’t that the state?

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That you and I should be in
today.

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The Lord is almost here any day
now.

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We know he’s.
Going to step forth.

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And proclaim himself any day now
the the Messiah, the the

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messenger of the covenant.
Is to arrive.

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We have to be in that fervor of
expectancy that John was in.

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Salvation will only be to.
Those who love his appearing the

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law of the prophets, said the
Lord Jesus.

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Christ were until.
John but.

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Now we come to.
This this great.

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Transition.
So let’s start now in John

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chapter one as the excitement
and the the tension is is

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building within John is that
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Approached.
Now John is.

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Of course, speaking these words
here, he’s he’s speaking them

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in.
In hindsight, and this was

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John’s statement as he was
looking for the.

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Lord Jesus Christ verse. 29 of
John chapter one the next day

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John one verse 29 John seeth
Jesus coming unto him, and said,

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Behold.
The Lamb of God.

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Which taketh away the sin of
the.

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World this is.
He of whom I said after me come

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with a man which is performed
before me.

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For he was before me.
And I knew him not.

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But that he should be made
manifest.

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To Israel, therefore.
I am come baptizing.

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With water.
Now I knew him.

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Not now John the Baptist knew.
Jesus, personally.

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I mean they.
Were cousins.

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So he knew.
Who he was, clearly, But what?

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John didn’t know.
Here was that that.

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Person who made always known.
Was to be.

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The Messiah.
And we learn also from verse 31

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that John’s task was not.
Just to baptize others.

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But in that very.
Process.

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One day, out of the thousands
that came down there to see

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John.
One day, Messiah would.

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Appear and the way that Messiah
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Manifested to Israel was through
the waters of.

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Baptism in Jordan.
I knew him, not verse 31.

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Therefore I am come baptizing.
With what it was through.

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The act of.
Baptism that Messiah.

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Would be revealed to Israel.
And as we’ll see this morning or

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this afternoon rather, it was
absolutely necessary that

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Messiah be manifest and
introduced to the nation in that

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way.
It wasn’t just that the the

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crowds were.
There, and it would draw a lot

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of attention, those and sisters.
It was, absolutely.

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Essential that Jesus go.
Through the River Jordan, as we

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shall see.
So whilst we’re here in John

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chapter one, we note the the
extraordinary description in

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verse 29.
The next day John seeth Jesus

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coming unto him and said Behold
the Lamb of.

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God which taketh away.
The sin of the world.

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Now that is a monumental
statement.

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John is not just saying here
that the Lord was meek and mild.

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You will never find in the Old
Testament anywhere a male lamb

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for a sin offering.
It’s not in the law, it’s not in

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the Psalms, it’s not in the
Prophets.

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You’ll find a female lamb for a
sin offering, but you will never

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find a male lamb for a sin
offering.

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And he’s saying here in verse
29, here comes one that the law

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never foresaw the Lamb of God.
Which taketh away the sin.

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Not just of Jewish.
People.

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But the sin of.
The world.

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So it was never seen anywhere in
the law, and it’s efficacious

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for more than just Jewish
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What a statement, the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sin of

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the world and John was waiting
for that lamb to be manifest at.

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Jordan.
I mentioned a moment ago that.

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It had to be.
This way and had to be this way.

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For several reasons, it wasn’t
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An example.
It wasn’t just because the

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crowds were there.
I only know three men in the

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Bible who were manifested.
To Israel by.

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Coming up out of.
Jordan.

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And this?
This is absolutely.

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Fascinating.
And what God did was to

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demonstrate their leadership and
to put them forth as the great

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captain of.
God’s people.

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By bringing them.
Up out of that.

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River now those three men of.
Course were Joshua, Elijah.

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And the Lord.
Jesus Christ, Let’s just take

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Joshua first of all and Joshua
chapter 3.

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And we’ll see why.
It was that the Lord.

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Had to be manifest to Israel
coming up.

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Out of that river Joshua Chapter
three, first of all.

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We’ll just.
Go through these quickly.

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Just to get the point, it’s.
Very simple to grasp.

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Moses has passed off the scene
and there would have been much

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apprehension about who the new
leader.

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Was to be so God says to Joshua
Joshua three verse.

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Seven.
This day will I begin to magnify

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the.
In the sight.

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Of all Israel that.
They may know that as I was with

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Moses, so.
Will I be with?

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Thee.
And how was that?

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How was that to be done?
Thou shalt command the priest.

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That bear the arc of the.
Covenant of saying, when you are

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come to the brink.
Of the water of.

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Jordan.
Ye shall stand still in Jordan.

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Now you see what was being done
here.

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This day.
Joshua, I will magnify you in

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the sight of all Israel.
Now go and tell the.

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Priest to put their.
Feet in Jordan.

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And as the priest, of course,
put their feet in Jordan, the

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arc of the covenant would then
pass.

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Over Jordan verse 11, Behold the
arc.

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Of the covenant.
Of the Lord of all the earth

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passes over before you.
Into Jordan and.

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That arc there.
Represented, of course, the

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leadership of the nation for.
Which Joshua stood so as?

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The arc went over Jordan.
Joshua was magnified in the

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sight.
Of all Israel.

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And Yahweh showed his.
Acceptance of Joshua by.

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Connecting him with the Ark
going.

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Over the River Jordan.
By getting.

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Across that particular river,
that’s the first case.

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The next case, Second Kings
Chapter 2, Elijah is gone.

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He’s left.
The Earth in a storm, The

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question.
Is who is.

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Going to be his.
Successor.

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There were 50 aspirants for the
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And how did God manifest his
acceptance of?

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Elijah verse. 13 Second Kings.
Chapter 2 he took up.

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Also the mantle of Elijah that
fell from him and went back and

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stood where by the Bank of
Jordan and he took the mantle.

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Of Elijah that fell.
From him and smote the waters

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and said.
Where is Yahweh Elohim of

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Elijah?
So the question.

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Here is is Where did God go?
Did he leave with Elijah or is

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the?
Still small voice still working

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in Israel.
Elijah picks up Elijah’s.

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Mantle and he whacks.
The River Jordan.

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And what does Jordan do?
It goes back and Elijah goes

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right across into the promised
land.

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Where is.
Yahweh Elohim of Elijah.

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He smites the waters and goes
over.

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And verse 15 What do?
They say, well, the spirit of

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Elijah.
Must rest upon.

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Elijah and.
They came to meet him and bowed

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themselves to the ground before
him.

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So when the.
Successor to Elijah.

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Came he had to be manifest by.
Coming out of what?

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Jordan and he takes the man of.
Elijah’s hits the water.

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And back it.
Goes Yahweh manifested his

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approval of the great captain
by.

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Bringing him out.
Of.

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Jordan so.
It begs the question then, well,

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why those three men, Joshua,
Elijah and the Lord?

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Jesus Christ.
Well, the 1st.

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Reason, of course.
Is is that they all?

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Basically have the same name.
Two of them are.

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Identical Joshua Yahashua.
Is the name.

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Of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus is but the.

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Greek equivalent and Elijah
means the salvation of God and

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they were.
All manifested.

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As Yahweh’s.
Salvation in coming up out of

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that river.
This day.

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Will I begin to magnify thee?
The spirit of Elijah dot the

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rest upon Elijah this.
Is my beloved son in whom I am

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well pleased.
That’s the answer to question

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number one.
Question #2 is.

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Why the River Jordan?
Why would God?

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Choose to bring them.
Out.

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Of Jordan.
I think we can see the

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connection between the three
men, but.

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Why?
Jordan.

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Well, the answer that, brothers
and sisters, lies in the very.

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Clear.
Lesson for which Jordan stood.

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You see, Jordan begins way up
north.

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The melting snows come off of
Herman.

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They they go down and they form
the river.

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Jordan is it.
You burst from the ground up

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there at Bannius.
The water is crystal.

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Clear.
In many places it’s.

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It’s emerald green when it
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It starts off pure.
God made man upright.

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Says Ecclesiastes.
Then you go down 30 miles South.

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The water turns brown.
Murky and.

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The name Jordan means the
descender.

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It starts pure and as you make
your way down it gets dirtier.

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And dirtier.
And dirtier.

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It has a long, long course and
lane.

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You see it starts way up in the
north.

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At the top this lake, this body
of.

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Water you see in the middle.
Is the sea.

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Of Galilee the Jordan goes in
the top of.

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The Sea of Galilee.
And then it comes out the bottom

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and then continues to flow
South.

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It starts right up at.
Herman, 9000.

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Feet above sea level.
Beautiful.

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Clear.
Like, like, like the like the

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face of the high priest, says
Psalm. 133 but as it makes.

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Its way South it.
Gets brown.

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It descends.
Herman is 9000.

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Feet above sea level, the Sea of
Galilee.

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Is 690. 2 feet below sea level
at Galilee.

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We’re not even to the Dead Sea
yet.

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At Galilee it’s 6. 192 feet
below sea level.

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We’ve gone down almost 10,000
feet in the space of about 40

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miles Jordan ever stood,
brothers and sisters, for.

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The.
Flesh, and of course.

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The Sea of Galilee.
Which we really won’t have time

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to talk about.
It’s the sea of the nation.

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So it’s it’s the wild rough.
Sea Jordan goes in.

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The top of.
Galilee, and then comes out the

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bottom.
Of Galilee.

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It stands for the flesh.
And who can overcome the flesh?

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Nobody.
Well, eventually Jordan comes

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out of the.
Bottom of the Sea of Galilee,

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there’s the Golan Heights.
There, in the background, here’s

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Jordan coming out of the.
The.

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Bottom of the lake.
It’s 65 miles from the bottom.

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Of the Sea of Galilee to the top
of the Dead Sea.

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And Jordan as.
It makes its way.

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Down to the sea.
To to the Dead Sea.

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The lowest place on earth.
It’s this winding course.

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You know what it’s like.
It looks exactly like the

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winding of a snake as it goes
down and down and down.

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Towards the Dead Sea.
Jordan.

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Ever.
Stood for the.

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Flesh, and anybody who can get
through that river who can be

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brought out of it, must be.
Yahweh’s salvation.

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So it’s absolutely critical that
the Lord.

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Jesus Christ be manifested.
At that place and if you

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thought.
It was brown up north.

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You should see it down South.
And it gets more turgid, more

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stagnant.
It moves.

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So slow they’ve actually.
Got to use machines nowadays to

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push it along.
It’s so slow and stagnant, man.

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Starts off great, doesn’t it,
you know?

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You got a bundle.
Of joy in your arms.

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His brother, Robert said it’s
also.

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A bundle of propensities, and it
goes down and down and down so.

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That’s where we started.
Up north, beautiful clear.

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And here’s where we are as we go
down South.

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A muddy, stinking stream.
You know you.

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See these kids?
Books and these books.

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Put out by socalled.
Christian Books of of of Jesus’s

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Baptism and Jesus steps into
the.

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Crystal clear water.
And he’s got a Halo around his

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head and the grass is all green.
It’s.

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Exactly the opposite to that.
Jordan was a muddy, stinking

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mess that, as we mentioned in
our last session.

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Zechariah the Prophet.
Warned people about Jeremiah the

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Prophet warned people about, he
warned.

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People about that, Jordan.
There were lions down.

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There they were.
Vipers.

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Down there, it ever stood as a
symbol for the flesh.

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And look at that.
Look at that.

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Water that’s there, we were
there about.

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Four or five months ago, another
brother and I and.

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The flies were just.
Swarming us, I mean, you’ve

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never seen more flies in your
life.

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It’s just, it’s even today it’s
a nasty place, Prophets warned

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people who came in contact.
With that water.

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And any person who can get.
Through that water has to be.

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Yahweh’s salvation so.
Joshua Elijah.

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And the Lord Jesus Christ were
all manifested to Israel coming

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up out of that water.
And where does it end?

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It ends in the Dead Sea, in the
stagnation.

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Of death the lowest.
Place on the Earth.

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So we’ve gone from Mount Herman
9000.

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Feet above sea level.
To the dead.

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Sea which is 14192 feet.
Below sea level.

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And really only the space of
about 100 miles.

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It goes down and down and down
into death.

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And.
Follows that that snake like

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course and of course.
To get.

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Back to what we said in our last
session, when a snake.

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Like river overflows its.
Banks.

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It really makes a mess.
You know, 1 river that goes

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straight, yeah.
But because.

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All the water eventually
overlaps and and leaves a mess

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behind it.
But about 30.

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Miles.
Well, here’s here’s a.

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Sign that says that.
You’re at the lowest.

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Place on the earth that’s in
meters, not feet, so the

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Canadians in here will will know
what I’m referring to, Grant

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Penny’s.
Listening about. 30 miles north

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of where John was baptizing,
there was a city.

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Called Adam Adam.
So this represents the mortality

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of man Jordan ever stood, didn’t
it, For?

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The.
Flesh and And now we begin to

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understand why when God wanted
to manifest His salvation to

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men, He.
Did so by bringing.

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Them out of that.
Water the Joshua and Elijah were

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but types.
They were but.

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Representatives But there was a
man of our nature who came

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through Adam, the stagnation of
death.

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But he got out of it.
And of course, the only way that

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he got out of it was through the
power.

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Of God and anyone who can
successfully negotiate.

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That river has to be.
God’s son, and John was waiting

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with with bated.
Breath for this.

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To happen for the tide of
humanity that that.

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All ends up in the Dead Sea.
To one day be.

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Reversed.
So we come now to the third

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chapter of Matthew and just
remember the slides.

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That we just looked at.
And see Matthew’s description.

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Of what the Lord?
Did as he came down to identify.

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With us?
In that river.

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Matthew chapter 3 verse 13 then
come with Jesus from Galilee to.

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Jordan.
Unto John to be.

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Baptized.
Then come with Jesus from

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Galilee.
So he’s basically.

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Traversed the whole course of
that.

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River from Galilee to Jordan to
John to be baptized.

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He’s basically walked the whole
course that we’ve just walked.

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From uprightness into the
stagnation.

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Of death he came from Galilee
and descended, which is what the

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Jordan means.
The whole course of that river.

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And of course, we know that was
the place to where naming naming

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the Syrian had to get off his
high.

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Horse.
And go down in.

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To the water to.
Acknowledge who he was, and it

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was only when he had done that
that lo and.

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Behold his leprosy.
Went and of course John was

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embarrassed.
Wasn’t.

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He.
You know this?

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Tells you that clearly John knew
who he was.

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But first 14 John says no, no
no.

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No, I have.
Need to be.

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Baptized of thee.
And whence comest thou to me?

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So John knew who Jesus?
Was.

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What he didn’t know.
Is that he was to be the

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Messiah.
But he clearly knew him as a

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person and he knew that the
remarkable life.

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That that the Lord lived.
He knew the character and and

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looking into.
Those eyes.

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I mean, John was absolutely
embarrassed.

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Put yourself for a. 2nd in
John’s shoes, Wouldn’t you be

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embarrassed?
If you had to put the Lord

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Jesus.
Christ under the water, knowing

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the life he lives, and knowing
the life you live.

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And So what is John going to do?
Your Lord?

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I have need to be.
Baptized of thee.

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And whence comest thou to me?
And furthermore, what was the

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reason that Luke?
Specified that John was

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baptizing for he was baptizing
for the baptism.

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Of.
Repentance for the remission of.

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Sins Jesus has absolutely.
Nothing at all to repent of and

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and that would have added to the
to the extreme embarrassment.

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You know he’s he’s been putting
common people and Roman soldiers

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and and tax collectors in there.
I mean it’s one thing to put

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those guys in.
But this is a.

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Perfect man.
He has, absolutely.

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No place in that water from that
standpoint.

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If that’s all it was.
But of course, we.

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Know that That’s.
That’s not all it was John.

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He says 1st 15 there.
There’s a 2 keywords in this

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verse.
Suffer it to be.

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So now, now, when is now when
Jesus Christ was a man being

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found in fashion as a man?
He’s one of us.

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Said the Apostle Paul.
Suffer it to be so.

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Now for.
Thus it become with us to

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fulfill all.
Righteousness now.

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Why?
How is the righteousness of God

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fulfilled?
By asking a perfect man.

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To be baptized well.
John wasn’t only baptizing, was

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he, brothers and sisters for the
baptism of repentance?

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What did John say he was?
They said John, who are you?

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He said I’m the.
Voice and he connected.

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That voice with the voice in
Isaiah 40.

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Now what did the voice in Isaiah
40?

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Say.
Just keep your hand here and

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come back to.
Isaiah Chapter 40, where.

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We’ve been in every.
Class so far.

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Here is the.
Key to John’s.

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Life all back here.
We’ve looked at verse 9.

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We’ve looked at verse. 3.
In our last session we we looked

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at at 4:00 and 5:00.
But what was the voice?

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To cry.
The voice is John.

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We know that from John chapter
one.

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The voice said.
What shall I cry?

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And Isaiah said tell him this
verse 6.

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All flesh is grass.
All flesh including.

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The Lords.
Including him all flesh.

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Is grass.
And to go under that water was

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an acknowledgement that all.
Flesh was grass.

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So had Jesus not submitted?
To that baptism, brothers and

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sisters.
He would have been confessing to

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be a creature from another
planet.

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All flesh is grass.
Thus it becometh and.

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Here’s the other.
Keyword in Matthew chapter.

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Three us all flesh is grass.
You’re.

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Flesh, John.
And I’m flesh.

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All flesh is.
Grass and he makes.

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The identification.
The declaration on that day as

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the Lord was to go under the.
Water was that his father was

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right.
Which?

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Was seen even more powerfully as
we know in the cross.

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I mean, why?
Did the Lord have to go to the

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cross?
To declare that his.

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Father is absolutely right.
In declaring the.

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The death.
Of of human nature because there

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is no value in this.
Flesh that we possess.

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In my flesh.
Said the apostle.

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Paul Dwells.
No good thing.

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There’s nothing in this.
Body that’s worthy of

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perpetuation.
And furthermore, as we know from

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bitter experience, you can’t
tame it, you can’t train it, you

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can’t do anything with this
nature.

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All you can do is put it to
death.

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00:24:06,910 –> 00:24:08,270
It cannot be disciplined.
It.

452
00:24:08,710 –> 00:24:11,870
Takes something else.
So the Lord was.

453
00:24:11,870 –> 00:24:14,150
Declaring that my.
Father was.

454
00:24:14,150 –> 00:24:15,590
Right and this is.
What we all should.

455
00:24:15,590 –> 00:24:18,150
Be doing with our flesh, putting
it to death.

456
00:24:18,910 –> 00:24:21,590
So when the Lord.
Stepped into the water on that

457
00:24:21,590 –> 00:24:23,950
day, there were really two
things that were being declared.

458
00:24:25,190 –> 00:24:27,870
He acknowledged that he.
Was flesh.

459
00:24:28,420 –> 00:24:30,700
And that as a member of the
human race.

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00:24:30,820 –> 00:24:34,740
He himself could do.
Absolutely nothing and but.

461
00:24:34,740 –> 00:24:37,940
What he was also.
Declaring is he was making it

462
00:24:37,940 –> 00:24:40,540
clear.
Who the real source?

463
00:24:40,580 –> 00:24:43,020
Of his strength.
Was and that was.

464
00:24:43,020 –> 00:24:44,220
In God.
And for those.

465
00:24:44,220 –> 00:24:49,740
Two reasons John suffered.
Jesus, Just look at Isaiah

466
00:24:49,740 –> 00:24:51,940
chapter 42 whilst we’re still in
Isaiah.

467
00:24:53,500 –> 00:24:57,210
Isaiah 42.
Here’s a picture in this verse

468
00:24:57,210 –> 00:25:00,850
of the the greatness.
Of our of our God as He He takes

469
00:25:00,850 –> 00:25:04,930
the Lord Jesus Christ.
By the hand verse five of

470
00:25:04,930 –> 00:25:07,490
Isaiah. 42 Thus saith ale
Yahweh.

471
00:25:07,730 –> 00:25:10,410
He that created the heavens and
stretched them out.

472
00:25:10,970 –> 00:25:12,370
He that spread forth the.
Earth.

473
00:25:12,370 –> 00:25:15,810
And that much comes out of it.
He that giveth breadth unto the

474
00:25:15,810 –> 00:25:17,530
people.
Upon it the Spirit to them that

475
00:25:17,530 –> 00:25:19,610
walk there in.
I Yahweh have.

476
00:25:19,610 –> 00:25:23,490
Called thee in righteousness,
and will hold thine hand and

477
00:25:23,490 –> 00:25:26,480
will keep thee.
And give thee for a covenant of

478
00:25:26,480 –> 00:25:28,120
the people.
For a light.

479
00:25:28,320 –> 00:25:31,240
To the Gentiles, so that he’s
saying here to his son as he

480
00:25:31,240 –> 00:25:32,800
takes the hand of his son.
I want to.

481
00:25:33,400 –> 00:25:34,920
I want to.
Give you for a.

482
00:25:34,920 –> 00:25:37,600
Covenant he says here.
To the Lord Jesus Christ.

483
00:25:38,080 –> 00:25:39,360
But in order.
To do that, he says.

484
00:25:39,440 –> 00:25:40,680
I’ve got to.
Hold your hand.

485
00:25:41,240 –> 00:25:43,480
I’ve got to walk with you.
I’ve got to take you there.

486
00:25:44,000 –> 00:25:47,400
And the Lord walked hand in hand
with his father ultimately to

487
00:25:47,400 –> 00:25:49,200
the.
Cross I’ve got to.

488
00:25:49,200 –> 00:25:51,200
Hold your hand.
And the Lord on that day is he

489
00:25:51,240 –> 00:25:52,840
went under the water and came
up.

490
00:25:53,460 –> 00:25:55,260
He would have felt the warmth
and the strength.

491
00:25:55,260 –> 00:25:58,700
Of his father’s arm.
Holding him there, keeping him,

492
00:25:59,100 –> 00:26:02,180
and giving him for.
A covenant of the people.

493
00:26:03,820 –> 00:26:08,300
So when God said this is my
beloved Son, it wasn’t so much a

494
00:26:08,300 –> 00:26:14,900
statement of of endearment as it
was God saying this is my son.

495
00:26:15,220 –> 00:26:17,180
That’s how he got out of that
river.

496
00:26:18,220 –> 00:26:20,980
Had he not been my son, he would
still be in the stagnation of

497
00:26:20,980 –> 00:26:23,690
humanity.
Into the Dead Sea.

498
00:26:23,970 –> 00:26:27,330
But he got out of that river
because he was my son, and God

499
00:26:27,330 –> 00:26:30,010
held.
His hand like Abraham and Isaac.

500
00:26:30,450 –> 00:26:32,810
And they went.
Forward to the cross.

501
00:26:33,490 –> 00:26:36,410
And so John suffered him, and
Jesus went.

502
00:26:36,610 –> 00:26:38,970
Under the water.
But Luke tells us that as.

503
00:26:38,970 –> 00:26:40,810
The Lord went under the water
and came up.

504
00:26:40,810 –> 00:26:42,650
He was doing something and
Matthew.

505
00:26:42,650 –> 00:26:45,410
Doesn’t tell us this, but look
at what Luke says Jesus was

506
00:26:45,410 –> 00:26:49,090
doing.
This is a touch that that Luke.

507
00:26:49,090 –> 00:26:51,810
Adds in his gospel that.
The other writers don’t.

508
00:26:53,870 –> 00:26:55,830
When the Transfiguration took
place.

509
00:26:56,870 –> 00:26:59,750
The other gospel say.
That Jesus was transfigured.

510
00:27:00,230 –> 00:27:05,390
But Luke says he was praying the
other Gospel.

511
00:27:05,390 –> 00:27:06,870
Said that Jesus went up under
the water.

512
00:27:06,870 –> 00:27:08,750
But you know what Luke says he
was doing is he came up from.

513
00:27:08,750 –> 00:27:13,870
The water verse. 21 of Luke 3
Now when all the people were

514
00:27:13,870 –> 00:27:15,630
baptized, it came to pass.
That.

515
00:27:16,110 –> 00:27:21,470
Jesus also being baptized, he’s
one of the human race and.

516
00:27:22,110 –> 00:27:25,550
Praying the heaven was open so
as the.

517
00:27:25,550 –> 00:27:29,150
Lord came up from the water.
Luke says he was.

518
00:27:29,270 –> 00:27:33,190
Praying now why?
Should Luke record that?

519
00:27:34,710 –> 00:27:35,550
And what?
What?

520
00:27:35,550 –> 00:27:40,510
Did the the Lord pray for?
Well, here in Luke’s Gospel we

521
00:27:40,830 –> 00:27:42,310
for the rest of the chapter we
have.

522
00:27:42,310 –> 00:27:45,310
This genealogy that just seems
to be.

523
00:27:45,910 –> 00:27:49,440
Stuck here.
Out of Nomer going, going all

524
00:27:49,440 –> 00:27:51,360
the way back to Adam and you
think well.

525
00:27:51,360 –> 00:27:52,480
What’s?
What’s that here?

526
00:27:52,480 –> 00:27:56,360
For in a chronologically.
Ordered gospel like.

527
00:27:56,360 –> 00:27:59,800
Luke, I think that’s giving you
a clue as to what the Lord was

528
00:27:59,800 –> 00:28:02,560
praying for.
See suffered to be.

529
00:28:02,640 –> 00:28:06,160
So now he said to John that we
might fulfill all righteousness.

530
00:28:06,760 –> 00:28:08,880
All Flesh’s.
Grass was was the message of

531
00:28:08,880 –> 00:28:11,400
John the Baptist that the
message of Isaiah 40 as the

532
00:28:11,400 –> 00:28:12,080
Lord.
Went under the.

533
00:28:12,080 –> 00:28:16,640
Water he He acknowledged that he
was one of us and.

534
00:28:17,430 –> 00:28:18,750
Cognizant, of course, that he
wants to.

535
00:28:18,750 –> 00:28:20,310
Declare the righteousness of
God.

536
00:28:20,630 –> 00:28:24,270
He came up out of that water and
and then comes all the genealogy

537
00:28:24,270 –> 00:28:25,590
of.
All the way back to.

538
00:28:25,590 –> 00:28:28,070
Adam and I think it’s telling us
that.

539
00:28:28,070 –> 00:28:30,390
Conscious in the Lord’s.
Mind as he came up out of that

540
00:28:30,390 –> 00:28:34,270
water on that day was the
tremendous burden that he had

541
00:28:34,310 –> 00:28:37,110
to.
To share that for four. 1000

542
00:28:37,110 –> 00:28:40,590
years back to Adam and and we
can even say for another. 2000

543
00:28:40,590 –> 00:28:45,470
years back to us the weight of
having to save all this lineage.

544
00:28:45,910 –> 00:28:48,570
Was on his mind.
And he.

545
00:28:48,570 –> 00:28:50,970
Prayed that the.
Father would give him the

546
00:28:50,970 –> 00:28:53,490
strength to to.
Save all of that.

547
00:28:53,490 –> 00:28:56,170
Lineage to save all of of
mankind.

548
00:28:56,170 –> 00:28:59,010
I mean the salvation of great
men like Abraham and David

549
00:28:59,010 –> 00:29:02,250
depended on this one.
As we prayed that.

550
00:29:02,450 –> 00:29:04,010
The Father might give him the
strength.

551
00:29:04,010 –> 00:29:06,810
To save all that.
Lineage when the.

552
00:29:06,810 –> 00:29:08,490
Father saw that.
Action, he said.

553
00:29:08,490 –> 00:29:11,890
This is my beloved son in whom I
am well pleased.

554
00:29:11,890 –> 00:29:13,370
There was an immediate
acknowledgement.

555
00:29:13,370 –> 00:29:16,250
By God of his faith, thou art my
son.

556
00:29:16,980 –> 00:29:18,580
And I’m exceedingly well
pleased.

557
00:29:18,820 –> 00:29:24,740
With that, he prayed.
Just a touch that that, Luke

558
00:29:24,740 –> 00:29:26,180
adds.
As he came up.

559
00:29:26,700 –> 00:29:31,220
Out of that water.
Well, verse 22 says and the Holy

560
00:29:31,220 –> 00:29:34,780
Spirit descended.
In a bodily shape like a dove.

561
00:29:35,300 –> 00:29:39,020
Upon him you know John, which I
won’t take you to, John says.

562
00:29:39,020 –> 00:29:42,700
That that spirit settled.
Upon him like a dove and.

563
00:29:43,020 –> 00:29:44,860
It.
Remained.

564
00:29:45,400 –> 00:29:47,040
On him.
So it wasn’t that the dove came

565
00:29:47,040 –> 00:29:49,600
there as he came up out of the
water, and then the dove.

566
00:29:49,600 –> 00:29:53,640
Left the spirit.
Left, right afterwards, John

567
00:29:53,640 –> 00:29:54,760
says that, that.
Spirit.

568
00:29:55,480 –> 00:30:00,560
Came on him that instant, and it
stayed on him from that point

569
00:30:00,600 –> 00:30:03,040
onward.
The Spirit was there.

570
00:30:03,040 –> 00:30:05,600
He was.
God manifest in the flesh.

571
00:30:05,600 –> 00:30:08,040
He was Emanuel.
So.

572
00:30:08,040 –> 00:30:12,950
So why a dove?
Whatever.

573
00:30:12,950 –> 00:30:14,190
A dove.
Represents you know you.

574
00:30:14,190 –> 00:30:17,750
Really have to relate.
It to to what’s happening here,

575
00:30:18,790 –> 00:30:20,750
you have all the characteristics
that we know about a dove.

576
00:30:20,750 –> 00:30:23,950
It’s it’s harmless.
It’s a symbol of peace.

577
00:30:24,550 –> 00:30:26,790
We know two things and and I
think they fit this.

578
00:30:26,790 –> 00:30:28,830
Case like like a.
Hand fits a.

579
00:30:28,830 –> 00:30:31,510
Glove.
The two features that I think

580
00:30:31,510 –> 00:30:33,990
are important is that the Dove
is a very.

581
00:30:33,990 –> 00:30:36,790
Clean little bird a dove will
not.

582
00:30:36,790 –> 00:30:38,790
Put its feet.
In mud?

583
00:30:40,690 –> 00:30:42,210
It’s a very, very clean little
burden.

584
00:30:42,210 –> 00:30:45,530
So Song of Solomon says, My
dove, my undefiled.

585
00:30:46,730 –> 00:30:49,210
You think about the example.
Of the Lord Jesus Christ.

586
00:30:49,450 –> 00:30:52,130
He was clean.
He was.

587
00:30:53,170 –> 00:30:56,290
Not one that put its foot in in
mud.

588
00:30:57,530 –> 00:30:59,290
The second quality.
That we learn about.

589
00:30:59,290 –> 00:31:01,730
Is that the Dove really it?
It belongs to the.

590
00:31:01,730 –> 00:31:04,050
Pigeon family.
So it has homing instincts.

591
00:31:04,050 –> 00:31:08,130
The dove will always come home
to where it belongs.

592
00:31:08,660 –> 00:31:10,740
So, so you think about this, he
he’s clean.

593
00:31:10,740 –> 00:31:11,940
He’s.
Spotless.

594
00:31:12,540 –> 00:31:16,260
And the spirit then comes home
where it belongs.

595
00:31:16,420 –> 00:31:17,860
It rested upon.
Him.

596
00:31:19,220 –> 00:31:22,540
He was clean.
The Spirit of his Father, which

597
00:31:22,540 –> 00:31:26,780
had made that life holy.
Had made it clean the origin of

598
00:31:26,780 –> 00:31:30,780
his morality.
Being in heaven, that spirit

599
00:31:30,820 –> 00:31:33,340
homed in where it belonged.
What else could it do?

600
00:31:34,180 –> 00:31:40,180
And it remained with him.
You know the dove is is

601
00:31:40,180 –> 00:31:42,820
mentioned one other place, one
famous place in scripture.

602
00:31:42,820 –> 00:31:46,060
If you come back to Genesis
Chapter 7, we’ll just note.

603
00:31:46,260 –> 00:31:49,180
A parallel here with.
The first time we read about it

604
00:31:49,180 –> 00:31:51,900
in the Bible, Genesis Chapter 7,
where.

605
00:31:52,140 –> 00:31:57,060
There was a baptism, you know
the flood, says Peter.

606
00:31:57,060 –> 00:31:59,780
And his epistle was.
A baptism.

607
00:32:02,540 –> 00:32:06,340
The Ark was was born aloft.
As the the flesh was washed

608
00:32:06,340 –> 00:32:10,150
away.
So as Genesis Chapter 7 verse 22

609
00:32:10,150 –> 00:32:12,150
note note these words and their
similarity.

610
00:32:12,150 –> 00:32:16,470
To Isaiah 40.
All in his nostrils.

611
00:32:16,470 –> 00:32:19,710
Was the breath of life of all
that.

612
00:32:19,710 –> 00:32:28,590
Was in was on dried land.
Died so all died all flesh

613
00:32:28,750 –> 00:32:32,710
verse. 21 died that moved upon
the earth well.

614
00:32:32,830 –> 00:32:35,550
We’ve just read that all flesh
is grass, so you’ve got all

615
00:32:35,550 –> 00:32:38,300
flesh died.
All flesh is.

616
00:32:38,300 –> 00:32:41,660
Grass.
Now what does Noah then send out

617
00:32:41,660 –> 00:32:44,380
of the ark?
We sends a dove.

618
00:32:44,740 –> 00:32:48,180
Chapter 8 and verse eight he
sent forth a dove from him to.

619
00:32:48,180 –> 00:32:50,020
See if the waters.
Were abandoned from off the face

620
00:32:50,020 –> 00:32:51,700
of the ground.
But the dove?

621
00:32:52,020 –> 00:32:54,260
Being the creature that it is,
it found no rest.

622
00:32:54,260 –> 00:32:56,980
For the soul of its foot.
And it Where did it go?

623
00:32:56,980 –> 00:33:02,140
It came back where it belonged.
It homed in back into the ark,

624
00:33:02,860 –> 00:33:07,200
and Noah pulls the dove in.
And it came home where it

625
00:33:07,200 –> 00:33:07,800
belongs.
So you’ve.

626
00:33:07,800 –> 00:33:11,880
Got that parallel.
All flesh died and the dove.

627
00:33:11,880 –> 00:33:15,000
Comes.
So the Lord comes to the River

628
00:33:15,000 –> 00:33:17,080
Jordan.
He proclaims that all flesh is

629
00:33:17,080 –> 00:33:21,320
grass, and the dove comes it
homed in where it belonged on

630
00:33:21,320 –> 00:33:24,480
that very clean and undefiled
man.

631
00:33:26,000 –> 00:33:30,720
So in Luke Chapter 3, let’s just
finish this up, as we’ve really

632
00:33:30,720 –> 00:33:32,240
left John temporarily, haven’t
we?

633
00:33:32,240 –> 00:33:35,280
We’ve begun making a study.
Of our Lord Jesus Christ but.

634
00:33:35,750 –> 00:33:37,750
It was necessary, of course,
that as John.

635
00:33:37,750 –> 00:33:41,030
Stood there and witnessed.
That event that he just stand

636
00:33:41,030 –> 00:33:43,390
there as an awe stricken
spectator?

637
00:33:44,870 –> 00:33:46,510
Well Jesus.
Heard a voice.

638
00:33:46,750 –> 00:33:53,270
In Luke chapter 3, a voice that
came from heaven saying this is

639
00:33:53,270 –> 00:33:57,270
my beloved son Luke 3, verse 22
in whom I am.

640
00:33:57,270 –> 00:34:00,190
Well, pleased now.
Rotherham says in his

641
00:34:00,190 –> 00:34:04,950
translation.
This is my son, the beloved.

642
00:34:05,870 –> 00:34:10,949
This is my son.
The beloved It’s the.

643
00:34:10,949 –> 00:34:16,469
Same word that’s used in the
Septuagint version of Isaac and

644
00:34:17,310 –> 00:34:18,630
Abraham.
Now I think we all know the

645
00:34:18,630 –> 00:34:20,949
connection, don’t we, between
the offering of the.

646
00:34:20,949 –> 00:34:23,790
Lord Jesus Christ.
And the offering?

647
00:34:23,830 –> 00:34:27,070
Of Isaac as a as a.
Father and a son cooperated,

648
00:34:27,070 –> 00:34:28,909
didn’t they, to?
To go to.

649
00:34:29,150 –> 00:34:31,710
Mount Moriah.
But why is is that language so

650
00:34:31,870 –> 00:34:33,949
so reminiscent of what we find
here in verse?

651
00:34:34,440 –> 00:34:39,480
22 Because Abraham as he as he,
raised the knife, as he was

652
00:34:39,480 –> 00:34:41,400
about to come down upon his son,
it says.

653
00:34:41,400 –> 00:34:43,480
There fell a voice.
From heaven?

654
00:34:45,840 –> 00:34:51,199
Well, here we have their fellow
voice from heaven.

655
00:34:51,199 –> 00:34:54,440
All the gospel say.
There came a voice from heaven,

656
00:34:54,920 –> 00:34:56,719
that voice.
Had gone way back, hadn’t.

657
00:34:56,760 –> 00:34:59,240
It to Genesis chapter 22 it was.
The voice of.

658
00:34:59,240 –> 00:35:00,800
God to Abraham that.
Saved his.

659
00:35:00,800 –> 00:35:04,050
Son from death but.
The Lord Jesus Christ, as we

660
00:35:04,050 –> 00:35:06,410
know here, would would not.
Get that privilege.

661
00:35:06,730 –> 00:35:08,330
And so Abraham had to look
behind him.

662
00:35:08,330 –> 00:35:09,530
He looked.
Behind him and he saw.

663
00:35:09,530 –> 00:35:13,170
That the ram that was caught in
the thicket here was God’s son,

664
00:35:13,410 –> 00:35:17,850
entangled in our problems.
There wasn’t any way out for

665
00:35:17,850 –> 00:35:19,570
him.
He came.

666
00:35:19,570 –> 00:35:22,130
To identify with our.
Weakness, brothers and sisters,

667
00:35:22,930 –> 00:35:25,890
that in doing that we might
identify.

668
00:35:26,290 –> 00:35:29,650
With his strength.
And there was the RAM with its.

669
00:35:30,090 –> 00:35:32,570
It’s it’s horn.
It’s power caught in that

670
00:35:32,570 –> 00:35:34,650
thicket.
The thorny branches are our

671
00:35:34,650 –> 00:35:38,010
sins, our problems our.
Difficulties the Lord came and

672
00:35:38,010 –> 00:35:41,570
identified himself with all of
that He to get us up out of the

673
00:35:41,570 –> 00:35:44,370
River Jordan.
And to stand us in newness of

674
00:35:44,370 –> 00:35:52,490
life in the Promised Land, Well,
John stood there as just an awe

675
00:35:52,570 –> 00:35:58,170
stricken spectator.
His course has now come to an

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end.
Because really, from that moment

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onwards.
It’s it’s vital.

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Isn’t it that he?
Must decrease last we.

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Move on in our studies.
Brothers and sisters, we’ll see.

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Just how taken John was with
that scene, that scene.

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There at the River Jordan.
How he drew constant attention

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to.
The Lamb of God, Which?

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Taketh away the sin.
Of the world.

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You.
From this point, Jesus was

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driven into the wilderness.
He was tempted.

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To the Diablos 40.
Days.

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And then he came back and saw
John and.

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John sees Jesus.
Coming and John’s got 2.

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Disciples with him.
John and Andrew.

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And John said there he is.
There’s the one, the Lamb of

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God.
That takes away.

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The sin of the world.
And his disciples were.

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Clinging to him, you know.
That tells you how.

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Great John was that even after
this this event here in Luke

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chapter three with Jesus, John’s
courses is finished effectively

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and he says.
To the disciples, that’s who you

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have to follow, and they won’t.
Leave him.

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They won’t leave him.
They’re clinging to it and he

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says no.
My work is done.

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Listen to me.
There’s the lamb.

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It says that as Jesus walked
past.

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John stood so as Jesus keeps
walking John.

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Stops.
He stops walking as if to say.

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My work is over.
They’d heard the voice.

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And they were now.
Ready to follow?

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Him.
As Jesus walked past, they left.

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John and they followed.
Jesus.

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So it is our great and earnest
prayer, brothers and sisters.

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That our studies.
Today on John have.

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Have achieved that, end that,
that having heard the.

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Voice.
Let’s move in behind those two.

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Disciples and follow in.
Jesus’s.

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Footsteps.