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\nIn the beginning was the Word,
\nand the Word was with God, and <\/p>\n
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\nthe Word was God.
\nThe same was in the beginning <\/p>\n
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\nwith God.
\nAll things were made by him and <\/p>\n
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\nwithout him was not.
\nAnything made that was made. <\/p>\n
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\nIn Him was light, and the light
\nwas the light of men, and the <\/p>\n
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\nlight shineth in darkness, and
\nthe darkness compreted it not. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was a man sent from God,
\nwhose name was John. <\/p>\n
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\nThe same came for a witness to
\nbear witness of the Light, that <\/p>\n
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\nall men through him might
\nbelieve. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was not the Light, but was
\nsent to bear witness of that <\/p>\n
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\nlight.
\nThat was the true light, which <\/p>\n
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\nlighteth every man that cometh
\ninto the world. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was in the world, and the
\nworld was made by Him, and the <\/p>\n
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\nworld knew Him not.
\nHe came unto His own, and He its<\/p>\n
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\nown received Him not, but as
\nmany as received Him to them <\/p>\n
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\ngave He power to become the sons
\nof God, even to them that <\/p>\n
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\nbelieve on His name, which were
\nborn not of blood, nor of the <\/p>\n
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\nwill of flesh, nor of the will
\nof man, but of God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the Word was made flesh, and
\ndwelt among us, and we beheld <\/p>\n
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\nHis glory.
\nThe glory is of the only <\/p>\n
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\nbegotten of the Father, full of
\ngrace and truth. <\/p>\n
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\nJohn bear witness of him, and
\ncried, saying, This was he of <\/p>\n
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\nwhom I spake, He that cometh
\nafter me is preferred before me,<\/p>\n
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\nfor He was before me, and of his
\nfullness have all we received. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd grace for grace for the law
\nwas given by Moses, but grace <\/p>\n
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\nand truth came by Jesus Christ.
\nThank you, Brother Tom. <\/p>\n
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\nWe will have four classes, God
\nwilling, this afternoon. <\/p>\n
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\nThere will be a break in between
\neach one and during the break <\/p>\n
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\nyou may go up to the room to
\nyour right, out the doors and <\/p>\n
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\nthere will be refreshments
\nthere. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’ll be soft drinks, coffee
\nand tea and snacks so that you <\/p>\n
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\ncan enjoy those in between the
\nclasses. <\/p>\n
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\nSome of the rules of the
\nArboretum is that no children <\/p>\n
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\nunder 18 are allowed to roam
\naround without supervision. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, if your work, they’ve just
\ngone out well supervised, so we <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t have to worry about that.
\nBe sure if you have a child <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s young that they can’t
\nroam around the grounds on their<\/p>\n
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\nown.
\nWe’re thankful to be able to <\/p>\n
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\nrent such a nice place, and
\nwe’re glad for the beauty of of <\/p>\n
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\nthis spot to enjoy God’s
\nhandiwork in nature as we enjoy <\/p>\n
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\nHis.
\nWord. <\/p>\n
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\nWhich is able to make us wise to
\nsalvation. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so class #1 the subtitle is
\nThe Word Made Flesh, the unique <\/p>\n
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\nexample of Christ, Brother
\nPalmer. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you, Brother Bob, and
\nthank you to the committee for <\/p>\n
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\nthe invitation and thank you all
\nfor being here. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom my perspective, I’m very
\npleased to be here. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s a beautiful day.
\nIt’s a beautiful hall, but if I <\/p>\n
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\nwas you, I would be most
\nsuspicious of the sanity of <\/p>\n
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\nanybody who agrees to come from
\nWales to Los Angeles for just <\/p>\n
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\ntwo days.
\nYou can put that down to two <\/p>\n
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\nthings.
\nOne is the persuasive power of <\/p>\n
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\nUncle Bob, who it is impossible
\nto say no to. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd secondly, we have a postal
\nstrike back home and I had to <\/p>\n
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\ndeliver a letter from my young
\nbrother in South Wales to a <\/p>\n
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\nyoung sister in California.
\nBut our subject to brethren, <\/p>\n
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\nsisters and young people is to
\nlook at the Word of God in our <\/p>\n
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\nlives.
\nIt’s about living and <\/p>\n
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\nappreciation of the truth.
\nWe know California back home as <\/p>\n
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\nthe place where trends start in
\nthe world in general. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we’re grateful in fact to
\nthe experience of the ecclesias <\/p>\n
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\nin California for the example of
\nthe seminar series. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was learning about the
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\nin California that led to its
\ntake up in the United Kingdom <\/p>\n
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\nlast year.
\nAnd in fact, in Cardiff, we’ve <\/p>\n
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\nstarted on the second round of
\nof seminars having heard Brother<\/p>\n
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\nTom Graham’s account of the
\nsuccess in in the Los Angeles <\/p>\n
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\narea.
\nSo a good trend has started and <\/p>\n
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\nwouldn’t it be wonderful if we
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\nliving and appreciation of the
\ntruth because we need the same <\/p>\n
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\nthings Brans sisters the world
\nover. <\/p>\n
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\nBy chance, the day before
\nyesterday I was listening to the<\/p>\n
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\ntapes of the class brother Harry
\ngave last year. <\/p>\n
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\nMatthew came home and he had
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\nlistened to them coming up to
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\nAnd everything that Brother
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\nabsolutely applicable to my own
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\nso that when the Lord Jesus
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\nsoon, we assure there will be a
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\nthe Kingdom.
\nBut there is a problem, and <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s the gap between what we
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\nIn fact, human perversity is
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\noften put on the right front,
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\nAnd what we want to do in our
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\nsome of the power that has been
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\nIt’s not a mystical power, it’s
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\nwe have.
\nThat faith, which is what we <\/p>\n
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\nneed comes by hearing and
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\nSo what we need, brethren,
\nsisters, is faith, and we’re <\/p>\n
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\nonly going to get it in one
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\nGod.
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\nGod, we will not have the power
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\nlives.
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\nWord of God, there will be power
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\nit is the work of the Father
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\nof His Son.
\nIn the Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have the only one in whose
\nlife there was no gap between <\/p>\n
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\nthe Word and the way He lived.
\nThe two things were identical. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was the Word made flesh.
\nIt was the mind of God living in<\/p>\n
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\na human frame.
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\nAnd it is through that example
\nthat we will get our <\/p>\n
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\ninspiration.
\nNow, in each of the sessions, <\/p>\n
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\nwe’d like to do some study
\ntogether, not just exultational <\/p>\n
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\npoints, but actually some
\nexpositional study so that we <\/p>\n
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\ncan understand some of the ways
\nin which the scriptures change <\/p>\n
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\nthe way we think.
\nAnd I hope we’ll all be prepared<\/p>\n
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\nto have a go at following some
\nof these points. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m standing in the way of some
\npeople I know, and I’m sorry. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can move if you want.
\nI can’t. <\/p>\n
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\nWe want to look in John chapter
\n1 and compare John chapter one <\/p>\n
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\nwith the passage in Exodus
\nchapters 33 and 34, which speaks<\/p>\n
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\nto us of the divine name that
\nwas declared to Moses on Mount <\/p>\n
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\nSinai.
\nAnd what we find so often is <\/p>\n
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\nthat the New Testament
\nScriptures, in giving us an <\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding of the truth, call
\nupon the revealed word in the <\/p>\n
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\nOld Testament Scriptures.
\nAnd we really need to pay <\/p>\n
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\nattention to these echoes
\nbecause they are the basis of <\/p>\n
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\nchanging our thought patterns.
\nIt is by addressing these <\/p>\n
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\nissues, concentrating the mind
\non the very words of Scripture <\/p>\n
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\nand listening to what they say
\nand following the path they lead<\/p>\n
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\nthat our own thinking is going
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\nby the the media and society
\naround us. <\/p>\n
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\nOh, what we want to notice in
\nJohn chapter one, verse 14. <\/p>\n
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\nBut John says, And the Word was
\nmade flesh and dwelt among us, <\/p>\n
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\nand we beheld His glory, the
\nglory as of the only begotten of<\/p>\n
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\nthe Father, full of grace and
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
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\nJust look at that expression at
\nthe end of verse 14, full of <\/p>\n
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\ngrace and truth.
\nWhat we find is that that is a <\/p>\n
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\nquotation from Exodus chapter 34
\nand verse 6. <\/p>\n
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\nExodus chapter 34 and verse 6.
\nAnd this is the passage where <\/p>\n
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\nMoses is on the mounties in the
\ncleft of a rock, and the glory <\/p>\n
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\nof Yahweh has passed before him.
\nAnd he’s been allowed to see the<\/p>\n
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\nthe glory of the hinder part of
\nthe Angel. <\/p>\n
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\nAs the Angel moves away and he
\nhears the voice proclaiming the <\/p>\n
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\nname of Yahweh.
\nAnd verse 6 says of chapter 34 <\/p>\n
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\nand the Lord passed by before
\nhim and proclaimed this is what <\/p>\n
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\nthe name proclaimed was Yahweh,
\nYahweh ail in other words, he <\/p>\n
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\nwho will be the power here’s the
\npower of God revealed, merciful <\/p>\n
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\nand gracious, long-suffering and
\nabundant in goodness and truth. <\/p>\n
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\nAt the end of verse 6 you see
\nabundant in goodness, in truth. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you just compare these
\ntwo expressions in John, one <\/p>\n
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\nfull of grace and truth, and in
\nExodus 34 verse 6, abundant in <\/p>\n
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\ngoodness and truth, you can see
\nthere’s a parallel in the the <\/p>\n
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\nform of the phrase.
\nAnd if you check the <\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding of the words that
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\nan equivalence.
\nYahweh hail was abundant in <\/p>\n
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\ngoodness and truth, and it’s in
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\nJust go back to Exodus chapter
\n33 and this is a beautiful <\/p>\n
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\nsection of scripture where Moses
\nin verse 11 is having a <\/p>\n
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\nfull of compassion, gracious,
\nlong-suffering. long-suffering <\/p>\n
337
\n00:26:58,670 –> 00:27:07,430
\nis sometimes translated slow to
\nanger, abundant in goodness and <\/p>\n
338
\n00:27:07,430 –> 00:27:10,070
\ntruth.
\nThe word goodness is the same as<\/p>\n
339
\n00:27:10,070 –> 00:27:15,440
\nthe word mercy in verse 7,
\nkeeping mercy for thousands, and<\/p>\n
340
\n00:27:15,440 –> 00:27:20,080
\nit’s the word chess head, the
\nloving kindness of God. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:27:21,800 –> 00:27:29,280
\nThe loving kindness of God
\nextended to thousands of people,<\/p>\n
342
\n00:27:29,720 –> 00:27:34,000
\nforgiving iniquity,
\ntransgression and sin. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:27:35,160 –> 00:27:37,520
\nAll wonderful positive
\nqualities. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:27:37,520 –> 00:27:44,160
\nAnd then at the end, a serious
\nwarning, and that will by no <\/p>\n
345
\n00:27:44,160 –> 00:27:48,600
\nmeans clear, says in the AB the
\nguilty. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:27:49,720 –> 00:27:52,600
\nAnd what that’s telling us is
\nthat God is extending these <\/p>\n
347
\n00:27:52,600 –> 00:27:56,280
\nqualities of character.
\nThat is what God is like. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:27:57,600 –> 00:28:02,880
\nBut there comes a time when God
\nsays, well, my justice, my <\/p>\n
349
\n00:28:02,880 –> 00:28:07,480
\nrighteousness requires the
\nremoval of sin from the earth. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:28:09,200 –> 00:28:13,800
\nThere comes a time when all will
\ngive account of how they have <\/p>\n
351
\n00:28:13,800 –> 00:28:17,920
\nresponded to the extension of
\ngrace that has been revealed to <\/p>\n
352
\n00:28:17,960 –> 00:28:23,320
\nus.
\nIt’s not a limitation on the <\/p>\n
353
\n00:28:23,520 –> 00:28:27,480
\nlove of God, it is a
\nmanifestation of His character, <\/p>\n
354
\n00:28:27,640 –> 00:28:30,480
\nthe goodness and the severity of
\nGod. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:28:31,680 –> 00:28:37,480
\nThis is the character we wish to
\nhonour and come to know, and in <\/p>\n
356
\n00:28:37,480 –> 00:28:41,320
\nthat character, rightly
\nunderstood, there is power to <\/p>\n
357
\n00:28:41,320 –> 00:28:45,520
\nchange us.
\nWant to show this in Psalm 103, <\/p>\n
358
\n00:28:47,120 –> 00:29:01,370
\nPsalm 103, and verses 7 and 8.
\nAll we’re going to do is look in<\/p>\n
359
\n00:29:01,370 –> 00:29:04,490
\nthe Psalms at one or two
\npassages where the <\/p>\n
360
\n00:29:04,490 –> 00:29:09,290
\ncharacteristics of God’s name
\nare revealed to us. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:29:13,760 –> 00:29:19,160
\nPsalm 103, verse seven.
\nHe made known His ways unto <\/p>\n
362
\n00:29:19,160 –> 00:29:23,240
\nMoses, His acts unto the
\nchildren of Israel. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:29:24,480 –> 00:29:30,480
\nThe Lord is merciful and
\ngracious, slow to anger, and <\/p>\n
364
\n00:29:30,520 –> 00:29:35,160
\nplenteous in mercy.
\nHave you seen in verse 8? <\/p>\n
365
\n00:29:36,280 –> 00:29:39,320
\nWe have some of the
\ncharacteristics that are listed <\/p>\n
366
\n00:29:39,320 –> 00:29:42,360
\nhere.
\nThe Lord is merciful and <\/p>\n
367
\n00:29:42,360 –> 00:29:47,680
\ngracious, slow to anger, and
\nplenteous in mercy. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:29:49,640 –> 00:29:55,400
\nSee, that’s what God is like.
\nAnd this Psalm is really a <\/p>\n
369
\n00:29:55,400 –> 00:30:00,480
\nreflection upon how Israel had
\nbeen made beneficiaries of <\/p>\n
370
\n00:30:00,480 –> 00:30:04,600
\nknowing the qualities of God.
\nVerse three. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:30:05,160 –> 00:30:07,360
\nWho forgiveth all thine
\niniquities? <\/p>\n
372
\n00:30:07,640 –> 00:30:13,440
\nWho healeth all thy diseases?
\nWho redeemeth thy life from <\/p>\n
373
\n00:30:13,440 –> 00:30:16,160
\ndestruction?
\nWho crowneth thee with loving <\/p>\n
374
\n00:30:16,160 –> 00:30:22,400
\nkindness and tender mercies.
\nIsrael were overwhelmed, or <\/p>\n
375
\n00:30:22,400 –> 00:30:28,320
\nshould have been overwhelmed by
\nthe blessings of the mercy of <\/p>\n
376
\n00:30:28,320 –> 00:30:31,840
\nGod that was shown to them.
\nHe had forgiven all their <\/p>\n
377
\n00:30:31,840 –> 00:30:35,800
\niniquities.
\nHe had healed all their <\/p>\n
378
\n00:30:35,800 –> 00:30:40,760
\ndiseases.
\nAnd so should we, brethren, <\/p>\n
379
\n00:30:40,760 –> 00:30:46,480
\nsisters, look at verse 13 like
\nas a father pitieth his <\/p>\n
380
\n00:30:46,480 –> 00:30:50,320
\nchildren, so the Lord pitieth
\nthem that fear him. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:30:50,880 –> 00:30:55,520
\nFor he knoweth our frame, He
\nremembereth that we are dust. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:30:56,640 –> 00:31:01,760
\nThat’s the God we come to know,
\na God who understands the <\/p>\n
383
\n00:31:01,760 –> 00:31:08,360
\nfrailty of our nature, who is
\ncompassionate, full of <\/p>\n
384
\n00:31:08,360 –> 00:31:12,960
\ncompassion to those who come
\nbefore him and confess their <\/p>\n
385
\n00:31:12,960 –> 00:31:18,320
\nfaults.
\nHe is long-suffering. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:31:19,400 –> 00:31:23,680
\nWe can come again and again and
\nagain to the throne of grace. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:31:26,600 –> 00:31:31,120
\nIt’s not too late this year to
\nchange those things we know need<\/p>\n
388
\n00:31:31,120 –> 00:31:35,560
\nto be changed.
\nHe is slow to anger. <\/p>\n
389
\n00:31:38,720 –> 00:31:44,920
\nHe is keeping mercy, keeping it
\nnot away from us, keeping it for<\/p>\n
390
\n00:31:44,920 –> 00:31:50,640
\nus to show to us in the
\nforgiveness which is provided to<\/p>\n
391
\n00:31:50,640 –> 00:31:55,120
\nHis Son.
\nAnd that love of God which has <\/p>\n
392
\n00:31:55,160 –> 00:31:59,760
\nbeen revealed to us ought to be
\na power in our lives. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:31:59,760 –> 00:32:03,160
\nLet’s look at 2 New Testament
\npassages which tell us this <\/p>\n
394
\n00:32:03,920 –> 00:32:12,040
\nfirst John chapter 4, the first
\nEpistle of John and chapter 4 <\/p>\n
395
\n00:32:17,600 –> 00:32:28,760
\nverse 9 and 10.
\nIn this was manifested the love <\/p>\n
396
\n00:32:28,760 –> 00:32:34,520
\nof God towards us, because that
\nGod sent His only begotten Son <\/p>\n
397
\n00:32:34,520 –> 00:32:39,920
\ninto the world, that we might
\nlive through Him here in His <\/p>\n
398
\n00:32:39,920 –> 00:32:45,560
\nlove.
\nNot that we loved God whether He<\/p>\n
399
\n00:32:45,560 –> 00:32:50,680
\nloved us and sent His Son to be
\nthe propitiation for our sins. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:32:51,120 –> 00:32:58,680
\nBeloved, if God so loved us, we
\nought also to love one another. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:32:59,960 –> 00:33:03,520
\nWhat John is saying, if we have
\nan appreciation of the love of <\/p>\n
402
\n00:33:03,520 –> 00:33:08,040
\nGod, if we really feel that our
\nsins have been forgiven us, if <\/p>\n
403
\n00:33:08,040 –> 00:33:11,920
\nwe really feel that we are now
\nin fellowship with the Father <\/p>\n
404
\n00:33:11,920 –> 00:33:18,520
\nthrough the Son, we will show
\nthat same quality of love to one<\/p>\n
405
\n00:33:18,520 –> 00:33:24,120
\nanother.
\nIf we are living in the presence<\/p>\n
406
\n00:33:24,120 –> 00:33:29,440
\nof Christ, then we will behave
\nin a way which shows forth his <\/p>\n
407
\n00:33:29,440 –> 00:33:32,240
\nglory.
\nYou know, when we get involved <\/p>\n
408
\n00:33:32,240 –> 00:33:36,560
\nin quarrels in ecclesial life,
\nor we are upset with somebody or<\/p>\n
409
\n00:33:36,560 –> 00:33:39,080
\nwe, you know, we’re, we’ve got a
\ngrudge. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:33:39,600 –> 00:33:42,040
\nDon’t like to admit it, but you
\nknow that happens. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:33:45,000 –> 00:33:48,000
\nThere might be a two sisters in
\nan ecclesia 2 brethren who can <\/p>\n
412
\n00:33:48,000 –> 00:33:50,040
\nnever speak civilly to one
\nanother. <\/p>\n
413
\n00:33:50,560 –> 00:33:54,320
\nThey can never really be
\nwholehearted in their handshake.<\/p>\n
414
\n00:33:55,440 –> 00:33:57,120
\nThere’s always something in
\ntheir mind. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:33:58,120 –> 00:34:01,920
\nBut when that sort of situation
\nhappens, the love of God is <\/p>\n
416
\n00:34:01,920 –> 00:34:06,680
\nnowhere near.
\nWe couldn’t possibly feel like <\/p>\n
417
\n00:34:06,680 –> 00:34:11,960
\nthat with a full awareness of
\nwhat the Lord Jesus Christ did <\/p>\n
418
\n00:34:12,239 –> 00:34:19,639
\nwhen He washed Judas’s feet.
\nWe couldn’t hold a grudge, We <\/p>\n
419
\n00:34:19,639 –> 00:34:25,239
\ncouldn’t be spiteful, We
\ncouldn’t say unkind things if <\/p>\n
420
\n00:34:25,239 –> 00:34:27,880
\nour mind was full of the
\nforgiveness which God has shown <\/p>\n
421
\n00:34:27,880 –> 00:34:30,400
\nto us.
\nAnd when we deal with the faults<\/p>\n
422
\n00:34:30,400 –> 00:34:35,639
\nand failings of others, we will
\nbe sympathetic and <\/p>\n
423
\n00:34:35,639 –> 00:34:39,000
\nunderstanding, not to condoning
\nbecause we don’t want God to <\/p>\n
424
\n00:34:39,000 –> 00:34:44,080
\ncondone our sin and He hasn’t,
\nbut understanding that we might <\/p>\n
425
\n00:34:44,080 –> 00:34:48,880
\nrecover that one as we have been
\nrecovered ourselves. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:34:49,560 –> 00:34:53,880
\nWhat we need to do then is to
\nconcentrate on the work of God <\/p>\n
427
\n00:34:53,880 –> 00:34:57,120
\nthrough the Lord Jesus Christ
\nand come to know Him and <\/p>\n
428
\n00:34:57,120 –> 00:35:00,800
\nappreciate Him so that it has an
\neffect in our lives. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:35:02,640 –> 00:35:07,240
\nAnd it’s not once a week we do
\nthat, but it may be maybe less <\/p>\n
430
\n00:35:07,240 –> 00:35:11,040
\nthan once a week, and even then
\nit only takes half an hour. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:35:13,840 –> 00:35:20,120
\nBut everyday, brethren, system,
\nof course, simply doing our <\/p>\n
432
\n00:35:20,120 –> 00:35:26,400
\nBible readings each day will
\nmake us live in the atmosphere <\/p>\n
433
\n00:35:27,000 –> 00:35:33,840
\nof the love of God.
\nHave a look how the Apostle Paul<\/p>\n
434
\n00:35:33,840 –> 00:35:37,480
\nexpresses it in Second
\nCorinthians chapter 5. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:35:40,080 –> 00:35:42,520
\nHe speaks about the love of
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:35:43,480 –> 00:35:46,720
\nThe love of God manifests
\nthrough the Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
437
\n00:35:48,320 –> 00:35:54,560
\nand how it has an effect upon
\nhis own way of life. 2nd <\/p>\n
438
\n00:35:54,560 –> 00:36:07,140
\nCorinthians chapter 5, verse 14
\nFor the love of Christ <\/p>\n
439
\n00:36:07,580 –> 00:36:14,640
\nconstraineth us, because we thus
\njudge that if one died for all, <\/p>\n
440
\n00:36:15,480 –> 00:36:19,800
\nthen we’re all dead, and that he
\ndied for all. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:36:20,160 –> 00:36:23,840
\nThat they which live should not
\nhenceforth live unto themselves,<\/p>\n
442
\n00:36:24,200 –> 00:36:26,440
\nbut unto him which died for
\nthem. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:36:27,000 –> 00:36:32,880
\nAnd rose again.
\nVerse 17 Therefore if any man be<\/p>\n
444
\n00:36:32,880 –> 00:36:38,440
\nin Christ, he is a new creature.
\nOld things are passed away, <\/p>\n
445
\n00:36:38,480 –> 00:36:42,000
\nBehold, all things are become
\nnew. <\/p>\n
446
\n00:36:44,840 –> 00:36:49,080
\nVerse 14.
\nThe love of Christ constraineth <\/p>\n
447
\n00:36:49,320 –> 00:36:53,080
\nus.
\nThat word, so the lexicon tells <\/p>\n
448
\n00:36:53,080 –> 00:36:59,800
\nus, means to press in on and
\nhold together. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:37:02,240 –> 00:37:07,480
\nHave you ever felt that your
\nlife is falling apart, Grand <\/p>\n
450
\n00:37:07,480 –> 00:37:10,920
\nSisters?
\nHave we ever felt that we <\/p>\n
451
\n00:37:10,920 –> 00:37:15,760
\nourselves are falling apart?
\nThat the pressure that has been <\/p>\n
452
\n00:37:15,760 –> 00:37:19,600
\nplaced upon us by whatever
\ndifficulties we’re in, whether <\/p>\n
453
\n00:37:19,600 –> 00:37:26,920
\nit’s work or home life,
\nfinancial difficulties, personal<\/p>\n
454
\n00:37:26,920 –> 00:37:30,240
\nproblems, there’s such a
\npressure upon us that we feel <\/p>\n
455
\n00:37:30,240 –> 00:37:37,160
\nwe’re cracking under the strain
\nand the way we live is falling <\/p>\n
456
\n00:37:37,160 –> 00:37:39,880
\napart.
\nOur language is deteriorating, <\/p>\n
457
\n00:37:40,760 –> 00:37:49,560
\nour thoughts are contaminated,
\nour decisions are in error, and <\/p>\n
458
\n00:37:49,560 –> 00:37:51,920
\nwe are all under such pressure
\ntoday. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:37:52,640 –> 00:37:55,600
\nWe make that pressure worse very
\noften by the things that we <\/p>\n
460
\n00:37:55,600 –> 00:38:02,640
\nallow into our homes.
\nBut here the apostle says the <\/p>\n
461
\n00:38:02,640 –> 00:38:05,200
\nlove of Christ is holding him
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:38:06,560 –> 00:38:10,800
\nThe love of Christ is pressing
\nin and holding him from falling <\/p>\n
463
\n00:38:10,800 –> 00:38:14,560
\napart.
\nIt’s a beautiful picture of the <\/p>\n
464
\n00:38:14,560 –> 00:38:19,880
\npressure of the love of God
\ncounteracting the pressures of <\/p>\n
465
\n00:38:19,880 –> 00:38:23,960
\nthe world.
\nWhat he says is that the love of<\/p>\n
466
\n00:38:23,960 –> 00:38:28,880
\nChrist is holding him together
\nso that he is not living unto <\/p>\n
467
\n00:38:28,880 –> 00:38:36,000
\nhimself, but unto him which died
\nfor them and rose again, is <\/p>\n
468
\n00:38:36,000 –> 00:38:40,000
\nliving the new life through the
\npressure which Christ is <\/p>\n
469
\n00:38:40,120 –> 00:38:42,840
\nbringing to bear on his own
\nlife. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:38:43,440 –> 00:38:46,280
\nHe’s not living for himself,
\nwhich is what the world is <\/p>\n
471
\n00:38:46,280 –> 00:38:50,200
\ntrying to teach us every day, to
\nplease ourselves, to indulge <\/p>\n
472
\n00:38:50,200 –> 00:38:53,000
\nourselves, to think for
\nourselves. <\/p>\n
473
\n00:38:53,000 –> 00:38:55,880
\nOf course, it means to think
\nlike they want us to think, and <\/p>\n
474
\n00:38:55,880 –> 00:39:00,680
\nnot to think for ourselves.
\nTo mould our children, to press <\/p>\n
475
\n00:39:00,680 –> 00:39:06,080
\nthem into a mould that will make
\nmoney for big business <\/p>\n
476
\n00:39:06,080 –> 00:39:09,960
\nthroughout their life so that
\nthey will always purchase that <\/p>\n
477
\n00:39:09,960 –> 00:39:15,000
\nwhich men want them to purchase,
\nwhether it’s in music or clothes<\/p>\n
478
\n00:39:15,000 –> 00:39:20,000
\nor whatever.
\nUntil we have another pressure <\/p>\n
479
\n00:39:20,680 –> 00:39:25,880
\nto mould us into a form which is
\nthe character building form of <\/p>\n
480
\n00:39:25,880 –> 00:39:31,320
\nGod.
\nSo there’s the power of the love<\/p>\n
481
\n00:39:31,320 –> 00:39:37,160
\nof God, and that’s what we must
\nconcentrate on in our studies of<\/p>\n
482
\n00:39:37,160 –> 00:39:41,280
\nScripture to understand God more
\nclearly. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:39:41,880 –> 00:39:44,560
\nLet’s just do that for a minute
\nby looking at the example of the<\/p>\n
484
\n00:39:44,560 –> 00:39:47,240
\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nLet’s just take each of these <\/p>\n
485
\n00:39:47,240 –> 00:39:50,680
\nphrases and just quickly go to a
\nNew Testament gospel record <\/p>\n
486
\n00:39:50,680 –> 00:39:54,600
\npassage which shows the Lord
\nJesus manifesting those <\/p>\n
487
\n00:39:54,600 –> 00:39:59,840
\nqualities full of compassion and
\ngracious. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:40:00,480 –> 00:40:09,320
\nHow about Mark chapter 1?
\nMark chapter one, verse 41, <\/p>\n
489
\n00:40:09,320 –> 00:40:14,040
\nwe’ll just take one example
\nwhere the Lord was full of <\/p>\n
490
\n00:40:14,040 –> 00:40:17,720
\ncompassion in a very special and
\nunique way. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:22,240
\nIt’s the incident of the leper
\nin the Luke record. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:40:22,240 –> 00:40:28,880
\nHe was a man full of leprosy and
\nhe comes to Jesus believing that<\/p>\n
493
\n00:40:28,880 –> 00:40:34,120
\nJesus can make him clean.
\nAnd in verse 41 it says, and <\/p>\n
494
\n00:40:34,120 –> 00:40:39,520
\nJesus moved with compassion, put
\nforth his hand and touched him, <\/p>\n
495
\n00:40:39,880 –> 00:40:43,760
\nand saith unto him, I will be
\nthou clean. <\/p>\n
496
\n00:40:45,320 –> 00:40:47,880
\nUnless we know a little bit
\nabout leprosy, we won’t really <\/p>\n
497
\n00:40:47,880 –> 00:40:50,600
\nunderstand the power of verse
\n41. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:40:51,240 –> 00:40:53,760
\nI will tell you a little about
\nan incident. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:40:53,760 –> 00:40:56,520
\nI’ve mentioned it on numerous
\noccasions whenever leprosy is <\/p>\n
500
\n00:40:56,520 –> 00:41:00,280
\nmentioned, but it’s struck me so
\nforcefully that I, it’s <\/p>\n
501
\n00:41:00,600 –> 00:41:04,600
\nindelibly impressed on my mind.
\nThat’s when I went to Africa and<\/p>\n
502
\n00:41:04,600 –> 00:41:08,920
\noutside the Ministry of Health
\nbuilding in Addis Ababa and <\/p>\n
503
\n00:41:08,920 –> 00:41:11,000
\nEthiopia, there was a man
\nbegging. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:41:11,440 –> 00:41:14,720
\nI had a pocketful of money.
\nThe exchange rate was such that <\/p>\n
505
\n00:41:14,720 –> 00:41:18,280
\nyou know, to change \u00a310 or
\n$15.00, you know, my pockets <\/p>\n
506
\n00:41:18,280 –> 00:41:20,000
\nwere bulging with local
\ncurrency. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:41:20,120 –> 00:41:24,280
\nSo it was nothing to me to give
\nhim some money, you know. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:41:24,280 –> 00:41:28,040
\nAnd the poor chap was, was
\nbegging, not like the beggars we<\/p>\n
509
\n00:41:28,040 –> 00:41:32,640
\nget in London now, which are
\nSocial Security problems. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:41:33,440 –> 00:41:37,160
\nThis man was destitute like the
\nothers, living on the street. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:41:37,600 –> 00:41:41,480
\nI’d walk past a woman with a
\nbaby to stand over her to walk <\/p>\n
512
\n00:41:41,480 –> 00:41:43,560
\ndown the road.
\nThat was a hoe. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:41:45,920 –> 00:41:49,720
\nBut here was a leper.
\nWell, I realised he was a leper <\/p>\n
514
\n00:41:49,720 –> 00:41:51,760
\nwhen he put his hand out to me
\nbecause he didn’t have any <\/p>\n
515
\n00:41:51,760 –> 00:41:55,800
\nfingers on it.
\nAnd I had some money in my hand.<\/p>\n
516
\n00:41:55,800 –> 00:42:01,560
\nAnd I froze because the thought
\ndawned on me that to give him <\/p>\n
517
\n00:42:01,560 –> 00:42:07,240
\nthe money, I’d have to touch him
\never so slightly. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:42:07,240 –> 00:42:13,880
\nBut I’d have to touch him now.
\nI knew, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
519
\n00:42:13,880 –> 00:42:15,080
\nthat he wouldn’t be on the
\nstreet. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:42:15,080 –> 00:42:19,960
\nIf his leprosy was active, he
\nwould have been under treatment,<\/p>\n
521
\n00:42:20,360 –> 00:42:22,840
\nhe would have been registered
\nand he would have been on <\/p>\n
522
\n00:42:23,200 –> 00:42:25,440
\ntreatment.
\nThat would have rendered him non<\/p>\n
523
\n00:42:25,440 –> 00:42:27,440
\ninfectious.
\nAnd anyway, even if he had been <\/p>\n
524
\n00:42:27,440 –> 00:42:29,920
\ninfectious, for me to touch him
\nlike that wouldn’t have <\/p>\n
525
\n00:42:30,560 –> 00:42:32,800
\ncontributed at all to any risk
\nto me. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:42:33,800 –> 00:42:37,200
\nAnd even though intellectually I
\nknew that the very thought of <\/p>\n
527
\n00:42:37,200 –> 00:42:39,960
\ntouching a leper is the first
\nleper I’d ever seen in my life, <\/p>\n
528
\n00:42:42,760 –> 00:42:46,840
\nI was very reluctant.
\nI did in the end give him the <\/p>\n
529
\n00:42:46,840 –> 00:42:53,560
\nmoney, but the Lord saw a man
\nwho was full of leprosy, and <\/p>\n
530
\n00:42:53,560 –> 00:42:56,240
\nthis was the plague which put a
\nman outside the camp. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:42:56,240 –> 00:42:58,440
\nHe had to walk around unproved,
\nunclean. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:43:00,000 –> 00:43:04,880
\nHe wasn’t allowed in the camp.
\nHe was a man who represented sin<\/p>\n
533
\n00:43:04,880 –> 00:43:11,560
\nin all its ugliness, disfiguring
\nthe glory of God, the image and <\/p>\n
534
\n00:43:11,560 –> 00:43:13,360
\nlikeness in which Adam had been
\nmade. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:43:16,000 –> 00:43:17,720
\nAnd the Lord didn’t need to
\ntouch him. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:43:19,880 –> 00:43:22,840
\nDo you remember?
\nHe could have said a word, as <\/p>\n
537
\n00:43:22,840 –> 00:43:25,320
\nthe centurion understood, and
\nhis servant would have been <\/p>\n
538
\n00:43:25,320 –> 00:43:31,680
\nhealed.
\nBut he put forth his hand and <\/p>\n
539
\n00:43:31,680 –> 00:43:32,680
\ntouched him.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
540
\n00:43:33,320 –> 00:43:35,640
\nBecause he was moved with
\ncompassion. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:43:36,120 –> 00:43:38,800
\nThere was one thing that would
\nhave thrilled, that leper more <\/p>\n
542
\n00:43:38,800 –> 00:43:42,200
\nthan anything else, and that
\nwould have been to be touched. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:43:45,160 –> 00:43:47,400
\nThere would have been like an
\nelectric shock going through his<\/p>\n
544
\n00:43:47,400 –> 00:43:48,920
\nbody.
\nNo one would have touched him. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:43:51,240 –> 00:43:53,920
\nBut here was a man whose
\ncompassion overcame any <\/p>\n
546
\n00:43:53,920 –> 00:43:58,480
\nprejudice to stretch out and
\ntake in his hands the very sin <\/p>\n
547
\n00:43:58,480 –> 00:44:04,440
\nof the world.
\nNow that’s the character of God <\/p>\n
548
\n00:44:05,720 –> 00:44:09,040
\nmanifest through the Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:44:09,040 –> 00:44:14,200
\nDo you remember how
\nlong-suffering the Lord was? <\/p>\n
550
\n00:44:15,840 –> 00:44:19,200
\nRemember what he said when he
\nlooked at Jerusalem, about to be<\/p>\n
551
\n00:44:19,560 –> 00:44:22,640
\noverthrown by the Roman armies,
\nin the prophecy that he was <\/p>\n
552
\n00:44:22,640 –> 00:44:30,000
\nabout to speak?
\nO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou <\/p>\n
553
\n00:44:30,000 –> 00:44:33,520
\nthat killest the prophets, and
\nstonest them which are sent unto<\/p>\n
554
\n00:44:33,520 –> 00:44:38,680
\nthee, a city that had killed the
\nprophets, what would we have <\/p>\n
555
\n00:44:38,680 –> 00:44:40,520
\nsaid?
\nHow often would I thought of <\/p>\n
556
\n00:44:40,520 –> 00:44:46,200
\ndestroying you?
\nBut no, how often would I have <\/p>\n
557
\n00:44:46,200 –> 00:44:50,280
\ngathered thy children together,
\neven as a hen gathereth her <\/p>\n
558
\n00:44:50,280 –> 00:44:54,160
\nchickens under her wings?
\nAnd he would not. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:44:56,120 –> 00:45:01,160
\nHere was a man slow to anger.
\nWhat would we be of said <\/p>\n
560
\n00:45:01,160 –> 00:45:05,720
\nbrothers and sisters to Judas
\nIscariot when he came up to us <\/p>\n
561
\n00:45:05,720 –> 00:45:18,200
\nand gave us a kiss on the cheek?
\nSlow to anger, full of goodness <\/p>\n
562
\n00:45:18,480 –> 00:45:23,920
\nand truth.
\nThe loving kindness of the Lord <\/p>\n
563
\n00:45:24,800 –> 00:45:27,280
\nis revealed in so many placed
\nit. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:45:27,880 –> 00:45:36,640
\nHow about Mark chapter 1?
\nMark chapter one, verse 41. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:45:36,640 –> 00:45:41,360
\nWe’ll just take one example
\nwhere the Lord was full of <\/p>\n
566
\n00:45:41,360 –> 00:45:45,000
\ncompassion in a very special and
\nunique way. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:45:46,520 –> 00:45:49,560
\nIt’s the incident of the leper
\nin the Luke record. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:45:49,560 –> 00:45:56,120
\nHe was a man full of leprosy and
\nhe comes to Jesus believing that<\/p>\n
569
\n00:45:56,120 –> 00:46:01,320
\nJesus can make him clean.
\nAnd in verse 41 it says, And <\/p>\n
570
\n00:46:01,320 –> 00:46:06,720
\nJesus moved with compassion, put
\nforth his hand and touched him, <\/p>\n
571
\n00:46:07,120 –> 00:46:10,960
\nand saith unto him, I will be
\nthou clean. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:46:12,440 –> 00:46:15,080
\nNow, unless we know a little bit
\nabout leprosy, we won’t really <\/p>\n
573
\n00:46:15,080 –> 00:46:17,800
\nunderstand the power of verse
\n41. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:46:18,400 –> 00:46:20,960
\nI will tell you a little about
\nan incident. <\/p>\n
575
\n00:46:20,960 –> 00:46:23,720
\nI’ve mentioned it on numerous
\noccasions whenever leprosy’s <\/p>\n
576
\n00:46:23,720 –> 00:46:28,440
\nmentioned, but it’s struck me so
\nforcefully that I it’s indelibly<\/p>\n
577
\n00:46:28,440 –> 00:46:31,680
\nimpressed on my mind.
\nIt’s when I went to Africa and <\/p>\n
578
\n00:46:31,680 –> 00:46:35,960
\noutside the Ministry of Health
\nbuilding in Addis Ababa and <\/p>\n
579
\n00:46:35,960 –> 00:46:38,040
\nEthiopia, there was a man
\nbegging. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:46:38,480 –> 00:46:41,680
\nI had a pocketful of money.
\nThe exchange rate was such that <\/p>\n
581
\n00:46:41,680 –> 00:46:45,240
\nyou know, to change 10 lbs of
\n$15.00, You know, my pockets <\/p>\n
582
\n00:46:45,240 –> 00:46:46,920
\nwere bulging with local
\ncurrency. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:46:47,040 –> 00:46:51,320
\nSo it was nothing to me to give
\nhim some money, you know, and <\/p>\n
584
\n00:46:51,640 –> 00:46:55,280
\nthe poor chap was, was begging,
\nnot like the beggars we get in <\/p>\n
585
\n00:46:55,280 –> 00:46:59,480
\nLondon now, which are Social
\nSecurity problems. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:47:00,280 –> 00:47:03,960
\nThis man was destitute like the
\nothers, living on the street. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:47:04,480 –> 00:47:08,320
\nI’d walk past a woman with a
\nbaby to stand over her, to walk <\/p>\n
588
\n00:47:08,320 –> 00:47:13,880
\ndown the road that was a home.
\nBut here was a leper. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:47:15,200 –> 00:47:17,720
\nBut I realized he was a leper
\nwhen he put his hand out to me <\/p>\n
590
\n00:47:17,720 –> 00:47:19,360
\nbecause he didn’t have any
\nfingers on it. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:47:21,160 –> 00:47:26,800
\nAnd I had some money in my hand.
\nAnd I froze because the thought <\/p>\n
592
\n00:47:26,800 –> 00:47:29,760
\ndawned on me that to give him
\nthe money, I’d have to touch him<\/p>\n
593
\n00:47:32,760 –> 00:47:35,120
\never so slightly, but I’d have
\nto touch him. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:47:38,840 –> 00:47:41,200
\nNow I knew, brothers and
\nsisters, that he wouldn’t be on <\/p>\n
595
\n00:47:41,200 –> 00:47:43,240
\nthe street if his leprosy was
\nactive. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:47:45,120 –> 00:47:47,440
\nHe would have been under
\ntreatment, he would have been <\/p>\n
597
\n00:47:47,440 –> 00:47:50,320
\nregistered and he would have
\nbeen on treatment. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:47:50,320 –> 00:47:52,720
\nThat would have rendered him non
\ninfectious. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:47:52,720 –> 00:47:55,400
\nAnd anyway, even if he had been
\ninfectious, for me to touch him <\/p>\n
600
\n00:47:55,400 –> 00:47:58,800
\nlike that wouldn’t have
\ncontributed at all to any risk <\/p>\n
601
\n00:47:58,800 –> 00:48:01,800
\nto me.
\nAnd even though intellectually I<\/p>\n
602
\n00:48:01,800 –> 00:48:05,120
\nknew that the very thought of
\ntouching a leper is the first <\/p>\n
603
\n00:48:05,120 –> 00:48:10,760
\nleper I’d ever seen in my life,
\nI was very reluctant. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:48:12,400 –> 00:48:13,800
\nI did in the end, give him the
\nmoney. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:48:13,800 –> 00:48:20,760
\nBut the Lord saw a man who was
\nfull of leprosy, and this was <\/p>\n
606
\n00:48:20,760 –> 00:48:22,920
\nthe plague which put a man
\noutside the camp. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:48:22,920 –> 00:48:25,120
\nHe had to walk around unclean,
\nunclean. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:48:26,680 –> 00:48:31,560
\nHe wasn’t allowed in the camp.
\nHe was a man who represented sin<\/p>\n
609
\n00:48:31,560 –> 00:48:38,200
\nin all its ugliness, disfiguring
\nthe glory of God, the image and <\/p>\n
610
\n00:48:38,200 –> 00:48:40,000
\nlikeness in which Adam had been
\nmade. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:48:42,720 –> 00:48:44,360
\nAnd the Lord didn’t need to
\ntouch him. <\/p>\n
612
\n00:48:44,360 –> 00:48:49,520
\nDo you remember?
\nHe could have said a word, as <\/p>\n
613
\n00:48:49,520 –> 00:48:52,000
\nthe centurion understood, and
\nhis servant would have been <\/p>\n
614
\n00:48:52,000 –> 00:48:58,360
\nhealed.
\nBut he put forth his hand and <\/p>\n
615
\n00:48:58,360 –> 00:48:59,320
\ntouched him.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
616
\n00:48:59,960 –> 00:49:02,280
\nBecause he was moved with
\ncompassion. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:49:02,760 –> 00:49:05,440
\nThere was one thing that would
\nhave thrilled that leper more <\/p>\n
618
\n00:49:05,440 –> 00:49:08,600
\nthan anything else, and that
\nwould have been to be touched. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:49:08,600 –> 00:49:14,000
\nIt would have been like an
\nelectric shock going through his<\/p>\n
620
\n00:49:14,000 –> 00:49:15,560
\nbody.
\nNo one would have touched him. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:49:17,800 –> 00:49:20,480
\nBut here was a man whose
\ncompassion overcame any <\/p>\n
622
\n00:49:20,480 –> 00:49:25,040
\nprejudice to stretch out and
\ntake in his hands the very sin <\/p>\n
623
\n00:49:25,040 –> 00:49:30,760
\nof the world.
\nNow that’s the character of God <\/p>\n
624
\n00:49:32,320 –> 00:49:35,640
\nmanifest through the Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:49:35,640 –> 00:49:40,720
\nDo you remember how
\nlong-suffering the Lord was? <\/p>\n
626
\n00:49:40,720 –> 00:49:44,840
\nDo you remember what he said
\nwhen he looked at Jerusalem, <\/p>\n
627
\n00:49:45,120 –> 00:49:48,960
\nabout to be overthrown by the
\nRoman armies, in the prophecy <\/p>\n
628
\n00:49:48,960 –> 00:49:56,760
\nthat he was about to speak?
\nO Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou <\/p>\n
629
\n00:49:56,760 –> 00:50:00,280
\nthat killest the prophets, and
\nstonest them which are sent unto<\/p>\n
630
\n00:50:00,280 –> 00:50:05,400
\nthee, a city that had killed the
\nprophets, what would we have <\/p>\n
631
\n00:50:05,400 –> 00:50:07,240
\nsaid?
\nHow often would I thought of <\/p>\n
632
\n00:50:07,240 –> 00:50:10,360
\ndestroying you?
\nBut no. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:50:11,800 –> 00:50:15,760
\nHow often would I have gathered
\nthy children together, even as a<\/p>\n
634
\n00:50:15,760 –> 00:50:18,160
\nhen gathereth her chickens under
\nher wings? <\/p>\n
635
\n00:50:20,080 –> 00:50:26,520
\nAnd he would not.
\nHere was a man slow to anger. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:50:26,640 –> 00:50:29,440
\nWhat would we have said,
\nbrothers and sisters, to Judas <\/p>\n
637
\n00:50:29,680 –> 00:50:34,200
\nIscariot when he came up to us
\nand gave us a kiss on the cheek?<\/p>\n
638
\n00:50:38,240 –> 00:50:45,760
\nSlow to anger, full of goodness
\nand truth. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:50:48,600 –> 00:50:54,160
\nThe loving kindness of the Lord
\nis revealed in so many places. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:50:55,240 –> 00:50:58,520
\nHe was the one who act with
\npublicans and sinners, who went <\/p>\n
641
\n00:50:58,520 –> 00:51:03,640
\ninto their homes, who sat down
\nwith them, the despised class. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:51:06,440 –> 00:51:12,160
\nYet His mercy extended out
\ntoward them, full of truth. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:51:13,120 –> 00:51:17,840
\nWe read in our readings this
\nlast week of an example in Luke <\/p>\n
644
\n00:51:17,840 –> 00:51:23,280
\nChapter 11, a remarkable example
\nof how the Lord was full of <\/p>\n
645
\n00:51:23,280 –> 00:51:26,840
\ntruth.
\nA Pharisee had invited him home <\/p>\n
646
\n00:51:26,840 –> 00:51:30,120
\nto dine and he went in and sat
\ndown to meet, it says at verse <\/p>\n
647
\n00:51:30,120 –> 00:51:34,760
\n37 of Luke 11.
\nAnd the Lord said unto him, but <\/p>\n
648
\n00:51:34,760 –> 00:51:37,680
\nwhat would you have said, grand
\nsisters, if you’ve been invited <\/p>\n
649
\n00:51:37,680 –> 00:51:41,080
\nto somebody’s home?
\nOf course we try to be polite, <\/p>\n
650
\n00:51:41,560 –> 00:51:45,120
\ncourteous.
\nWe try to be on our best <\/p>\n
651
\n00:51:45,120 –> 00:51:48,560
\nbehaviour.
\nI’ve already been invited into <\/p>\n
652
\n00:51:48,560 –> 00:51:55,600
\nthis man’s house, but the
\nPharisee marvel that he had not <\/p>\n
653
\n00:51:55,640 –> 00:52:02,720
\nfirst washed his hand.
\nAnd the Lord said unto him, Now <\/p>\n
654
\n00:52:02,720 –> 00:52:05,560
\ndo we Pharisees may clean the
\noutside of the cup on the <\/p>\n
655
\n00:52:05,560 –> 00:52:10,560
\nplatter, but your inward part is
\nfull of ravening and wickedness.<\/p>\n
656
\n00:52:10,760 –> 00:52:12,240
\nWhat do you think to say to your
\nhost? <\/p>\n
657
\n00:52:15,840 –> 00:52:18,480
\nBut the Lord put truth the head
\nof everything. <\/p>\n
658
\n00:52:18,480 –> 00:52:20,920
\nYou see, He knew exactly what He
\nwas saying. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:52:21,000 –> 00:52:23,280
\nThat was the only way to get
\nthrough to a Pharisee. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:52:23,840 –> 00:52:27,280
\nHe had such a polished exterior
\nthat you couldn’t penetrate it <\/p>\n
661
\n00:52:27,880 –> 00:52:30,600
\nwith the words that the
\npublicans and sinners accepted. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:52:31,840 –> 00:52:37,880
\nBut He had to cut through it
\nwith a power that cut them to <\/p>\n
663
\n00:52:37,880 –> 00:52:42,360
\nthe quick.
\nHe was indeed full of truth. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:52:42,360 –> 00:52:44,760
\nMaster, we know that Thou
\nspeakest the truth. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:52:45,840 –> 00:52:52,960
\nThey had to say of Him keeping
\nmercy in the prayer. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:52:53,120 –> 00:52:56,840
\nIn John 17, the Lord Jesus
\nspeaks of that which He had <\/p>\n
667
\n00:52:56,840 –> 00:53:00,680
\nkept.
\nHe says while I was with them in<\/p>\n
668
\n00:53:00,680 –> 00:53:05,760
\nthe world, I kept them in thy
\nname. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:53:06,360 –> 00:53:09,240
\nThat is the name.
\nThat was what was revealed. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:53:09,400 –> 00:53:15,000
\nThat is the Yahweh name.
\nThat’s what He will be. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:53:16,000 –> 00:53:19,640
\nAnd the Lord says, I have kept
\nthem in thy name, in the mercy <\/p>\n
672
\n00:53:19,640 –> 00:53:28,080
\nand grace of the name of God,
\nforgiving iniquity, <\/p>\n
673
\n00:53:28,080 –> 00:53:36,840
\ntransgression and sin.
\nWhether it is easier to say thy <\/p>\n
674
\n00:53:36,840 –> 00:53:41,200
\nsins be forgiven, or to say rise
\nup, take up thy bed and walk, <\/p>\n
675
\n00:53:42,040 –> 00:53:45,000
\nhere was the man who could
\nforgive sins. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:53:45,880 –> 00:53:49,040
\nYou remember, brethren and
\nsisters, in John chapter 21, <\/p>\n
677
\n00:53:49,040 –> 00:53:54,720
\nwhen Peter is called to task for
\nhis threefold denial of his <\/p>\n
678
\n00:53:54,720 –> 00:53:58,040
\nLord.
\nDo you remember the withering <\/p>\n
679
\n00:53:58,040 –> 00:54:03,360
\nwords of the Lord Jesus Christ
\nwhen he tore Peter apart? <\/p>\n
680
\n00:54:07,160 –> 00:54:15,160
\nWhen he said to Peter, Lovest
\nthou me more than these? <\/p>\n
681
\n00:54:20,000 –> 00:54:27,440
\nLovest thou me, Peter?
\nAnd the third time it was <\/p>\n
682
\n00:54:27,440 –> 00:54:33,800
\nsavage.
\nPeter was distraught because the<\/p>\n
683
\n00:54:33,800 –> 00:54:39,880
\nMaster said to him, Peter, are
\nyou my friend? <\/p>\n
684
\n00:54:45,520 –> 00:54:52,240
\nThere will come a time, we
\nbelieve it to be soon, when this<\/p>\n
685
\n00:54:52,240 –> 00:55:01,400
\nfinal attribute of the name of
\nYahweh Ale will be manifest in <\/p>\n
686
\n00:55:01,400 –> 00:55:09,080
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ, and there
\nmay be only one question the <\/p>\n
687
\n00:55:09,080 –> 00:55:14,040
\nMaster will need to ask us to
\nreveal the truth. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:55:16,120 –> 00:55:21,000
\nLove us down me are you my
\nfriend?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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