Class 3 from this series was used in GCT Episode 367.<\/p>\n
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\nOur first period teacher is
\nBrother Greg Robinson. <\/p>\n
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\nHis general subject is Now We
\nbelieve, John’s Guide to Growing<\/p>\n
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\nour Faith.
\nToday’s topic. <\/p>\n
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\nWill he find faith on the earth?
\nIt’s an article for Michelle and<\/p>\n
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\nI Michelle and I can do between
\nthis speech. <\/p>\n
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\nThey actually did 20 years since
\nwe read Idol Violence last time.<\/p>\n
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\nThat’s a long time since we’ve
\nbeen here titled that is now we <\/p>\n
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\nbelieve John’s guide ignoring
\nour filth. <\/p>\n
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\nI’m going to be using John then
\nas the basis of growing our <\/p>\n
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\nfaith this week and as title of
\nour class today our first class <\/p>\n
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\nhistory will keep on faith on
\nthe earth recognize this not <\/p>\n
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\nspoke from John’s but with
\nJohn’s help. <\/p>\n
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\nOur goal is to strengthen our
\nfaith so that when the Son of <\/p>\n
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\nman comes, he will indeed find
\nfaith on the earth. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that’s what we’re that’s what
\nour goal is this week. <\/p>\n
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\nSo build our faith-based upon
\nour studies that begin this week<\/p>\n
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\nin the gospel of John and
\nhopefully you did want as you I <\/p>\n
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\nuse the gospel of your own
\nstudies as well. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you might be asking, what
\ndoes John after you with faith? <\/p>\n
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\nWhat does John have to do with
\nbelief? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the answer to that question
\nis the word John has involved a <\/p>\n
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\nlot to you is that I would put
\nto you that John’s Gospel may be<\/p>\n
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\nthe best book in the Bible to
\nhelp us grow our faith because <\/p>\n
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\nJohn is looking for actions
\nbetween Jesus and other people <\/p>\n
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\nthat come away from those
\ninteractions with their faith. <\/p>\n
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\nHappy Wednesday and the
\nconclusion of those <\/p>\n
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\ninteractions.
\nWe frequently hear the phrase he<\/p>\n
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\nbelieve they believe he
\nfrequently come away with the <\/p>\n
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\nunderstanding that they actually
\ncame to the lead and Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd one of the things that I
\nlove about them is actually see <\/p>\n
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\nthose interactions.
\nWhat John does is he actually <\/p>\n
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\nspends time with people.
\nHe has conversations with <\/p>\n
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\npeople.
\nHe says things to people that <\/p>\n
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\nmake them believe.
\nAnd if you’re like me, you beat <\/p>\n
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\nthose and you think, wow, you
\ndon’t understand me. <\/p>\n
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\nI don’t understand why that
\nperson says that I would be or <\/p>\n
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\nwhy the, the, the contest says
\nthat they would be. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you have to go back and you
\nhave to research it. <\/p>\n
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\nYou have to figure it out and
\nwhat ends up happening if you <\/p>\n
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\nend up believing almost at the
\nsame time that you’re seeing the<\/p>\n
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\nperson that you’re studying from
\nthe and you have that same aha <\/p>\n
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\nmoment of belief that they met.
\nSo I find that to be very <\/p>\n
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\nsatisfying as we’re looking at
\nthe roster. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you might be saying, how do
\nwe know that John wrote his box <\/p>\n
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\nbook to help us believe?
\nHow do we know that that’s what <\/p>\n
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\nthey see for us.
\nWhy did John praise his nose? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, John actually tells you’re
\ngoing to reply to Saint John <\/p>\n
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\nJohn.
\nJohn gives us his mission <\/p>\n
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\nstatement.
\nHe gives us precise declaration <\/p>\n
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\nof the purpose of his Gospel.
\nHe gives us this by giving us <\/p>\n
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\nthe intention that he has the
\nwriting. <\/p>\n
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\nSo John chapter between verse 30
\nwho been served it says and many<\/p>\n
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\nother signs truly did Jesus in
\nthe presence of his examples, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich are not the municipal but
\nthieves are written which he <\/p>\n
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\nmight believe that Jesus is the
\nChrist the Son of God and that <\/p>\n
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\nbelieving he might have liked
\nhis I I love that he gives us <\/p>\n
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\nthat I wish that in every book
\nof the Bible have a verse a <\/p>\n
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\nsentence like that that tells us
\nwhat they’re after what they’re <\/p>\n
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\ntrying to accomplish what
\nthey’re belong. <\/p>\n
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\nI wish that they they happen
\nbecause that was so healthy and <\/p>\n
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\nthis is this is such an
\nincredibly powerful mission <\/p>\n
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\nshape we have.
\nThere’s really almost nothing <\/p>\n
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\nIf you didn’t just figure it <\/p>\n
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\nout.
\nThere’s nothing else. <\/p>\n
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\nJesus is the Christ.
\nYou have to believe that Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nis the Christ, that he’s the
\nanointed. <\/p>\n
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\nNow there were many people in
\nthe Old Testament that were <\/p>\n
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\nanointed.
\nThere were kings, there were <\/p>\n
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\npriests, there were prophets.
\nBut Jesus is deed anointed. <\/p>\n
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\nHe is demon that Braves people
\ninto God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s what that was to say.
\nThat’s what that phrase is <\/p>\n
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\nsaying.
\nAnd then the next one is even <\/p>\n
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\ngreater than that one.
\nHe says he is deed Son of God. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s born of the Holy Spirit.
\nThe Son of God is God’s Son <\/p>\n
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\nbecause he’s developed.
\nHe’s developed the mind, and the<\/p>\n
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\nSon is the Son because God has
\ngiven him. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd John says what I want is for
\npeople to believe that and <\/p>\n
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\nbelieving that you might have
\nlife. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s talking here about life in
\nfront of them, nobody’s name. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he’s showing us that if we
\ncan believe life by that, Jesus <\/p>\n
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\ntelling us he’s going to sorry,
\nJohn is telling us he’s going to<\/p>\n
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\nshow us how Jesus worked with
\nthe people, the Lord of God. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I have a slide here which
\ngives us a picture of how <\/p>\n
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\nfrequent John actually uses this
\nword, the word belief. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this this picture of this
\ngraph is I think you’re going to<\/p>\n
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\nfind very surprising if we look
\nat all the New Testament books. <\/p>\n
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\nSo all the places in the New
\nTestament, we find the Greek <\/p>\n
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\nword for believe, which one has
\nthe word believe in the news? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s John’s.
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\namount that John talks about
\nleaving more than uses that <\/p>\n
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\nword, the Greek word for indeed
\nmore than any of the other books<\/p>\n
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\nsupposed to you think about <\/p>\n
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\nWell, that’s that compared with <\/p>\n
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\nlittle bit of a study on the <\/p>\n
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\nword faith and the word belief.
\nWhat we find is that the word <\/p>\n
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\nThey really have the same idea
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\nform, which is in the second <\/p>\n
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\ncolumn.
\nAnd that one is usually <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you’re thinking about <\/p>\n
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\nfaith, you’re thinking about
\nHebrews 11, Hebrews 11. <\/p>\n
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\nNow faith, that’s the noun form.
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\nforth the evidence of things not
\nseen John 20 verse 31, which is <\/p>\n
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\nwritten that she might believe <\/p>\n
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\nthe verb that Jesus in the
\nChrist Son of God. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then believing there is
\nagain the verb form. <\/p>\n
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\nYou might have Michael through
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\nSo as you can see, John, who
\nuses the verb of his abuse <\/p>\n
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\ngadget for faith is the mound.
\nHe uses it to believe in his <\/p>\n
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\ngospel.
\nThat’s because he’s going to <\/p>\n
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\ntake us through the process, the
\nverb of believing, John, as you <\/p>\n
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\ncan see from this chart, if you
\ncombine the the verb in and out <\/p>\n
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\nthose together, you’ll see that
\nJohn uses the idea of believing.<\/p>\n
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\nThat covers the idea of
\nbelieving five times more than <\/p>\n
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\nThis is what John’s about. <\/p>\n
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\nThis is the idea that he might
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\nhard through the gospel to bring
\npeople to believe, the brave <\/p>\n
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\npeople have faith.
\nAnd that makes sense because <\/p>\n
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\nhis word. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Hebrews tells us it’s
\nimpossible to have that He’s got<\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s go back to the 18 just <\/p>\n
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\nthe title of our classic thing. <\/p>\n
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\nNevertheless, Son of Man coming,
\nshall he find faith on? <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, I remember the person
\nbeing that person and I remember<\/p>\n
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\nthinking of it in very general
\nterms. <\/p>\n
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\nfaith was challenged and that <\/p>\n
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\nbe challenged at that time. <\/p>\n
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\nBut it seems like today, I don’t
\nknow if it’s this way N Leisure <\/p>\n
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\nand Virgin Unity, but it seems
\nlike today we’re hearing about <\/p>\n
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\nmore and more people losing
\ntheir faith. <\/p>\n
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\nYou hear people say I don’t
\nbelieve. <\/p>\n
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\nSometimes we hear people say,
\nyou know, I never did. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd often we hear of young
\npeople that decided not to <\/p>\n
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\nbecome baptized because they
\ndon’t keep. <\/p>\n
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\nSo they’re not joining me,
\nplease. <\/p>\n
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\nBut I think they have the faith
\nof all of us. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s being challenged in the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
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\nThat would be the good thing.
\nSo these words of Jesus have a <\/p>\n
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\nreal relevance to us.
\nYeah, there’s a there’s a good <\/p>\n
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\nside to it when you think about
\nthe fact that this explaining <\/p>\n
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\nthing indicates to us the
\nconcern price is near. <\/p>\n
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\nBut that’s not what it’s also a
\nbad sign because it means that <\/p>\n
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\nthe bound is upon us.
\nThe bound is here and we’ve got <\/p>\n
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\nto do something about fighting
\nand so that’s our goal this week<\/p>\n
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\nis to begin that study in John,
\ngo through the first few <\/p>\n
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\nchapters of John looking at how
\nJohn does that and to maybe give<\/p>\n
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\nyou excitement to continue on
\nthat study. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we have to have this belief
\nso that we’re completely <\/p>\n
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\nconvinced and that Jesus the
\nChrist, the Son of God. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I recommend this, we go
\nthrough this so how many times <\/p>\n
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\nthe word believe is found in the
\ngospel on. <\/p>\n
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\nI recommend that as we go
\nthrough this that you kick out a<\/p>\n
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\npencil, a highlight or something
\nand you begin to highlight John <\/p>\n
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\nall the times that you see this
\nblooming because you’re going to<\/p>\n
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\nsee it a lot and you’re going to
\nsay, well, I never noticed that.<\/p>\n
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\nMaybe some of you have, but
\nyou’re going to think this is <\/p>\n
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\nreally cool how frequently John
\nmentions this. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s also some other some
\nother ideas that you you’ll want<\/p>\n
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\nto.
\nThere’s the idea of testimony <\/p>\n
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\nfor testifying because John’s
\ngoing to bring information to <\/p>\n
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\nus, the testimonies, John’s
\ngoing to bring witnesses in the <\/p>\n
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\nSelling it said that
\nunderstanding and then believing<\/p>\n
339
\n00:23:06,280 –> 00:23:12,760
\nin eternal life is the light.
\nThen if we believe, if we can <\/p>\n
340
\n00:23:12,760 –> 00:23:16,040
\nbelieve those things, so he saw
\nit, that’s what God was after. <\/p>\n
341
\n00:23:16,040 –> 00:23:20,200
\nThat’s what God was.
\nBut if we don’t believe, we’re <\/p>\n
342
\n00:23:20,200 –> 00:23:24,120
\nin darkness and we can’t see
\nvery much of anything at all. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:24,120 –> 00:23:26,600
\nSee just what we see with the
\nsenses. <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:27,240 –> 00:23:31,000
\nWhat God’s abandoned was to
\nbring people to money. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:31,440 –> 00:23:33,040
\nThat’s what Hebrews 11 is
\nleveling up. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:33,040 –> 00:23:35,000
\nSo let’s find we can talk about
\nit twice. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:35,120 –> 00:23:38,440
\nLet’s go to Hebrews Chapter 11
\nand see if you can see John’s <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:38,440 –> 00:23:43,360
\nideas here coming from Hebrews
\n11 verse one down. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:43,360 –> 00:23:47,560
\nFaith is the substance or the
\nconfidence that things vote for.<\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:47,760 –> 00:23:51,920
\nIt’s the evidence of things not
\nseen. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:52,000 –> 00:23:53,640
\nYeah, we get it.
\nThat makes the most sense. <\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:53,640 –> 00:23:57,120
\nIt’s things we can see because
\nwe believe, which we wouldn’t <\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:57,120 –> 00:23:59,160
\nhave been able to see without
\nthat need. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:59,160 –> 00:24:01,640
\nThat belief came from the word
\nof God. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:24:01,640 –> 00:24:04,920
\nWe wouldn’t have had any, any
\nvision at all, any ability to <\/p>\n
356
\n00:24:04,920 –> 00:24:09,520
\nsee it at all without our
\nunderstanding of the word of <\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:09,720 –> 00:24:14,600
\nGod, he says.
\nNow faith is a substitute for <\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:14,600 –> 00:24:17,800
\nconfidence that they vote for
\nthe evidence of things not seen <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:18,240 –> 00:24:20,120
\nthat visibility came from my
\nfather. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:20,440 –> 00:24:26,680
\nFor by it’s faith stalking right
\nhere the elder obtained a good <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:26,720 –> 00:24:31,720
\nreport ESP says for by it people
\nthe old received their <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:31,720 –> 00:24:35,000
\ncommendation.
\nSo because of old people could <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:35,000 –> 00:24:41,800
\nsee by faith God wanted to give
\nthem from the life they saw that<\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:42,200 –> 00:24:46,040
\nthey believed and God Christ
\ntheir name so that they could <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:46,040 –> 00:24:50,480
\nvote the faith by the chapter of
\nthe faith, every answer to verse<\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:50,480 –> 00:24:57,480
\n13, verse 11.
\nIt says these all died faith not<\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:57,480 –> 00:25:02,360
\nhaving received the promises and
\nyou do having your life is God <\/p>\n
368
\n00:25:02,640 –> 00:25:06,280
\nand promised it to them.
\nBut it was promised that they <\/p>\n
369
\n00:25:06,280 –> 00:25:12,200
\nwill lead they it says having
\nseen them afar off, they lead in<\/p>\n
370
\n00:25:12,240 –> 00:25:15,080
\nthose states.
\nThey could see the light of the <\/p>\n
371
\n00:25:15,080 –> 00:25:18,040
\nlight of belief which came from
\nthe word. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:18,040 –> 00:25:21,280
\nYou know, there’s a there’s a
\nprogression in them. <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:21,320 –> 00:25:27,440
\nSo they’re persuaded of them.
\nSo they go from from seeing to <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:27,440 –> 00:25:33,160
\nto to now being persuaded, being
\nconvinced of them and then next <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:33,360 –> 00:25:37,600
\nand they embrace them.
\nWhat does it mean to embrace? <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:38,440 –> 00:25:41,240
\nSo they got to a point they,
\nthey, they put their arms <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:41,240 –> 00:25:44,520
\naround, they embraced and they
\ncrapped forward, right? <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:44,920 –> 00:25:46,520
\nBecause their belief was so
\nstrong. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:46,800 –> 00:25:49,560
\nThose promises to them were as
\nif they weren’t. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:49,560 –> 00:25:53,560
\nI mean, that gave you the
\nability to change their life. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:53,560 –> 00:25:56,840
\nIt says they confess that they
\nstrangers and pilgrims. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:56,840 –> 00:26:01,440
\nThere were people that weren’t
\nconcerned about this one. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:26:02,400 –> 00:26:04,760
\nWe’re seeing some people that
\nare studying this week and <\/p>\n
384
\n00:26:04,760 –> 00:26:06,800
\npeople that really weren’t
\nconcerned about us. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:26:08,080 –> 00:26:10,400
\nAnd they went on to bigger and
\nbetter things. <\/p>\n
386
\n00:26:11,680 –> 00:26:16,400
\nFirst John chapter 1 OK, so this
\nis the epistle of John now <\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:16,960 –> 00:26:20,400
\nchapter 1 Chow and we’re going
\nto see this idea that John <\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:20,400 –> 00:26:24,160
\nexpands it in his epistle.
\nFirst John chapter one in verse <\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:24,160 –> 00:26:30,720
\none, it says that which was from
\nthe beginning which we have <\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:31,000 –> 00:26:36,560
\nheard something like John on the
\nscene in the beginning was word <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:36,560 –> 00:26:42,160
\nGod’s plans for eternal life.
\nThey heard it in God’s Word, and<\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:42,160 –> 00:26:46,120
\nthen John says, which we have
\nseen without eyes, which we have<\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:46,120 –> 00:26:49,160
\nlooked upon and then flashed
\nwithout weeds. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:50,480 –> 00:26:53,960
\nThat sounds like this sense of
\ndownplaying Eurism. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:54,480 –> 00:26:57,240
\nSo why does John make that
\nchange for something that was <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:57,240 –> 00:27:00,320
\nseen in the future that they can
\nonly see with faith? <\/p>\n
397
\n00:27:00,560 –> 00:27:03,640
\nWhy does he change that here?
\nHe’s changing that because he’s <\/p>\n
398
\n00:27:03,640 –> 00:27:09,840
\ntalking about which he’s this is
\nthe man that was finally given <\/p>\n
399
\n00:27:09,920 –> 00:27:13,320
\neternal life.
\nThis is the life that that that <\/p>\n
400
\n00:27:13,400 –> 00:27:17,000
\neverybody was looking for.
\nThis is the the life of life. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:17,200 –> 00:27:29,400
\nJohn 71 And he says concerning
\nthe word of life, he says verse <\/p>\n
402
\n00:27:29,400 –> 00:27:33,280
\n2, he says, and the life was
\nmade manifest. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:34,000 –> 00:27:38,440
\nSo the life was was made
\nmanifest and we have seen it <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:38,440 –> 00:27:43,000
\ntalking about what Jesus wants
\nand we testified to him and we <\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:43,000 –> 00:27:48,240
\nproclaimed to the eternal.
\nSo here’s John. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:48,560 –> 00:27:50,480
\nHe’s ready one of the last posts
\nof the Bible. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:50,720 –> 00:27:53,800
\nHe’s one of the last people
\naround that’s actually seen an <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:53,800 –> 00:27:58,200
\nimmortal man, a man that he
\nspent three years with probably <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:58,240 –> 00:28:02,040
\nmaybe more.
\nAnd he’s now seeing this man as <\/p>\n
410
\n00:28:02,040 –> 00:28:04,640
\nan important there’s some wits
\nof that. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:28:05,160 –> 00:28:08,840
\nI see him touching him.
\nI I’m telling you, he’s been one<\/p>\n
412
\n00:28:08,840 –> 00:28:13,600
\ntime and so the promises that
\nGod made about that are coming <\/p>\n
413
\n00:28:13,600 –> 00:28:17,800
\ndreams, he says, which was with
\nthe father and was made <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:17,800 –> 00:28:21,480
\nmanifest.
\nSo we have this incredible <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:21,480 –> 00:28:25,120
\nsequence that John gives us in
\nfirst few 1st and John leaves <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:25,120 –> 00:28:30,600
\nchapter one.
\nThe first few verses he talks <\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:30,600 –> 00:28:33,640
\nabout the fact that God started
\nout trying to help people <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:33,640 –> 00:28:38,040
\nbelieve with His word.
\nHe sent his word, He sent His <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:38,040 –> 00:28:41,840
\nword to all those people, all
\nthose different ways to people <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:41,840 –> 00:28:48,360
\nto try to get them beat and he
\nmet with some success, but later<\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:48,360 –> 00:28:55,040
\non to summon them up.
\nThere was really an obstacle to <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:55,120 –> 00:29:01,000
\nGod’s there was an almost
\nuniversal problem that God’s <\/p>\n
423
\n00:29:01,000 –> 00:29:07,520
\nplan to bring to evil and that
\nwas that most people remained in<\/p>\n
424
\n00:29:07,520 –> 00:29:10,640
\nCongress.
\nMost people didn’t see for what <\/p>\n
425
\n00:29:11,600 –> 00:29:14,080
\nthey didn’t develop fate that
\nwas in the system. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:29:15,760 –> 00:29:19,960
\nThey never thought about it from
\nthem, but it did change their <\/p>\n
427
\n00:29:19,960 –> 00:29:24,200
\nthey didn’t change them in any
\nmaterial way. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:29:25,120 –> 00:29:29,680
\nSo John von plus 5 back in the
\nGospel of John says in the light<\/p>\n
429
\n00:29:29,720 –> 00:29:34,400
\nshineth in the darkness.
\nHere’s God where shining is home<\/p>\n
430
\n00:29:34,400 –> 00:29:36,000
\nof eternal life.
\nIt’s in the darkness. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:29:37,360 –> 00:29:43,120
\nWhat did the darkness see?
\nThe darkness, the darkness <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:43,120 –> 00:29:47,040
\ndidn’t see.
\nHold on picture God working hard<\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:47,280 –> 00:29:51,360
\nto get people to see generation
\nafter generation generation from<\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:51,360 –> 00:29:55,560
\nyour vestment sending his life
\ngiving word from all these <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:55,560 –> 00:29:59,280
\npeople.
\nBut most people, those people <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:59,280 –> 00:30:04,120
\ndon’t grab hold of that thing.
\nThat is almost a perfect summary<\/p>\n
437
\n00:30:04,120 –> 00:30:09,120
\nof the old lesson John is
\nwriting his father that say, but<\/p>\n
438
\n00:30:09,120 –> 00:30:12,120
\nguess what, there’s more to the
\nstory. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:30:13,000 –> 00:30:14,440
\nThat’s what we’re going to see
\nto speak. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:30:15,360 –> 00:30:18,520
\nYou look at verse 10.
\nIt says God was in the book. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:30:19,360 –> 00:30:30,040
\nIt was made by his word.
\nVerse 11 says he came to his own<\/p>\n
442
\n00:30:31,120 –> 00:30:35,280
\nin Israel.
\nHe worked with Israel his own <\/p>\n
443
\n00:30:35,280 –> 00:30:44,960
\nMuslim.
\nI have why did this save in <\/p>\n
444
\n00:30:44,960 –> 00:30:48,000
\ndarkness.
\nCertainly Second Corinthians <\/p>\n
445
\n00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:52,680
\nshepherd, second Corinthians
\nshepherd or gives us the reason <\/p>\n
446
\n00:30:52,680 –> 00:30:56,600
\nwhy that couldn’t happen, didn’t
\nhappen for people. <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:57,680 –> 00:30:59,120
\nPaul’s talking about the same
\nthing. <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:59,120 –> 00:31:02,320
\nHe’s talking about the gospel.
\nWhat’s the gospel? <\/p>\n
449
\n00:31:02,960 –> 00:31:07,320
\nIt’s the good news of Kingdom of
\nGod, good news of eternal month.<\/p>\n
450
\n00:31:08,000 –> 00:31:12,920
\nSo Second Corinthians chapter 4
\nverse 3, it says, but if our <\/p>\n
451
\n00:31:12,920 –> 00:31:19,920
\ngospel be his, they say to those
\nit is same topic, same thing. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:31:20,680 –> 00:31:24,840
\nHe explains why the gospel is
\nthe next verse. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:31:25,480 –> 00:31:32,760
\nHe says in whom the God of this
\nworld has blinded the minds of <\/p>\n
454
\n00:31:32,760 –> 00:31:39,160
\nthem, which will be Paul says
\nthere’s something he calls the <\/p>\n
455
\n00:31:39,160 –> 00:31:45,600
\nGod of this world which has
\ncompletely blinded people left <\/p>\n
456
\n00:31:45,600 –> 00:31:50,600
\npeople in darkness has the
\nability right now to erode those<\/p>\n
457
\n00:31:50,600 –> 00:31:55,680
\npeople that have erode that
\nfaith that they continues. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:31:56,600 –> 00:32:01,040
\nThey believe not bless the light
\nof the glorious gospel of Christ<\/p>\n
459
\n00:32:01,600 –> 00:32:03,840
\nbecause the huge God should
\nshine. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:32:06,240 –> 00:32:09,880
\nSo what is it What is it that
\nsought God’s word for <\/p>\n
461
\n00:32:09,880 –> 00:32:13,040
\naccomplishing what it could have
\nbeen called the new investment. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:32:13,720 –> 00:32:16,840
\nWhy aren’t there 100 Hebrews 11
\nchapters. <\/p>\n
463
\n00:32:19,360 –> 00:32:22,960
\nWhy are they so people?
\nBecause the God of this world, <\/p>\n
464
\n00:32:23,360 –> 00:32:30,120
\nin those sins, what would you
\nsay is the God of this world? <\/p>\n
465
\n00:32:33,240 –> 00:32:37,320
\nWhat would you say for the gods
\nthis will get if they’re <\/p>\n
466
\n00:32:37,320 –> 00:32:39,920
\ncovered?
\nYes, absolutely. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:32:40,240 –> 00:32:43,160
\nYeah, Ourselves.
\nOurselves, absolutely. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:32:43,520 –> 00:32:46,760
\nI’ve got a list here.
\nI’ll throw them up, print them <\/p>\n
469
\n00:32:46,760 –> 00:32:49,520
\nup here as we go.
\nAnd this is not extensive, it’s <\/p>\n
470
\n00:32:49,520 –> 00:32:53,920
\nnot complete this list, but this
\ngives us an idea of what slots <\/p>\n
471
\n00:32:54,120 –> 00:32:56,560
\nthey put in it.
\nAnd we want to block all those <\/p>\n
472
\n00:32:56,560 –> 00:32:58,320
\npeople.
\nFaith, people’s faith in the <\/p>\n
473
\n00:32:58,320 –> 00:33:03,920
\nopenness, ambition, coward, well
\nposition, family, sexual <\/p>\n
474
\n00:33:03,920 –> 00:33:06,640
\ndesires, social beliefs,
\nscience. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:33:07,760 –> 00:33:12,120
\nThis is the challenge that we
\nface is overcoming the gods of <\/p>\n
476
\n00:33:12,120 –> 00:33:14,200
\nthis world.
\nSo here we are. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:33:14,200 –> 00:33:16,960
\nWe’re a group of people that
\nhave come to Bible school and <\/p>\n
478
\n00:33:16,960 –> 00:33:20,320
\nour hope is our intent is to
\nincrease our faith. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:33:21,560 –> 00:33:24,520
\nOur lives would be would be so
\nmuch more wonderful. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:33:25,560 –> 00:33:29,000
\nWe didn’t have war.
\nWe all do greetings. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:33:29,760 –> 00:33:34,040
\nAnd yet we have the gods of this
\nworld that stand right in the <\/p>\n
482
\n00:33:34,040 –> 00:33:41,720
\nway of that ambition, that door
\nGod of the God of this book. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:33:41,960 –> 00:33:48,000
\nLet’s go back to John.
\nSorry, Gentle 1. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:33:54,440 –> 00:33:57,160
\nYou’re turning that up a little.
\nJust talk a little bit about <\/p>\n
485
\n00:33:57,720 –> 00:34:00,000
\nschool.
\nOne of the things that I’ve <\/p>\n
486
\n00:34:00,000 –> 00:34:07,080
\nnoticed in in my life in trying
\nto to develop one thing, it <\/p>\n
487
\n00:34:07,080 –> 00:34:10,320
\ncomes from the word of God, from
\nthe question about one of the <\/p>\n
488
\n00:34:10,320 –> 00:34:15,639
\nthings that I’ve noticed that
\nI’ve spent time trying to build <\/p>\n
489
\n00:34:15,639 –> 00:34:20,400
\nmy faith and I’ve spent time in
\nthe word of God and I’ve noticed<\/p>\n
490
\n00:34:20,400 –> 00:34:25,239
\nthat nothing was changing.
\nSomebody experienced that you’re<\/p>\n
491
\n00:34:25,239 –> 00:34:27,760
\nactually reading the word,
\nyou’re studying the word and <\/p>\n
492
\n00:34:27,760 –> 00:34:30,400
\nmaybe it’s not having an impact
\non me. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:34:31,719 –> 00:34:36,520
\nI experienced that and I felt
\nthat and most times when I felt <\/p>\n
494
\n00:34:36,520 –> 00:34:41,360
\nthat what I realized they said
\nthat this that we just still on <\/p>\n
495
\n00:34:41,360 –> 00:34:45,719
\nthe screen.
\nThe fact this was from standing <\/p>\n
496
\n00:34:45,719 –> 00:34:51,960
\nin front of my All right, so
\nlet’s go back to John. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:34:51,960 –> 00:34:56,880
\nWe’re looking at verse 11 now.
\nWell, it says he that has gone <\/p>\n
498
\n00:34:56,880 –> 00:35:00,360
\ncame through his own.
\nHis own received him not but as <\/p>\n
499
\n00:35:00,360 –> 00:35:04,520
\nmany as received him.
\nThere was somebody there that he<\/p>\n
500
\n00:35:04,520 –> 00:35:06,760
\ngot work.
\nThere were some that were <\/p>\n
501
\n00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:13,320
\nblinded to them.
\nHe gave power to become the sons<\/p>\n
502
\n00:35:13,360 –> 00:35:23,120
\nof the dead, gave them out to
\nlive for him. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:35:23,960 –> 00:35:31,200
\nThe word for art, I believe, he
\nsays even to them they believe <\/p>\n
504
\n00:35:32,120 –> 00:35:36,600
\nChristine.
\nHe describes the process he <\/p>\n
505
\n00:35:36,600 –> 00:35:42,280
\nsays, which were born not of
\nblood nor the will of the flesh <\/p>\n
506
\n00:35:43,760 –> 00:35:51,560
\nnor the will of God that they
\nwere born born of his living <\/p>\n
507
\n00:35:51,560 –> 00:35:58,440
\nword being planted into their
\nmouths when they believed began <\/p>\n
508
\n00:35:58,440 –> 00:36:04,120
\nto bring about changing them.
\nThese people became a part of a <\/p>\n
509
\n00:36:04,120 –> 00:36:10,600
\ncompletely new creation.
\nThese people were born again to <\/p>\n
510
\n00:36:10,600 –> 00:36:16,400
\na new friend and so upon living
\nfamily that ultimately lives. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:36:16,400 –> 00:36:25,520
\nIt’s astonishingly.
\nThen the next chapter begins the<\/p>\n
512
\n00:36:25,520 –> 00:36:26,680
\nchapter that we’re going to
\nfocus on. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:36:26,760 –> 00:36:30,640
\nThat’s John’s introduction.
\nThen John tells us in verse 14 <\/p>\n
514
\n00:36:32,360 –> 00:36:42,800
\nand the word God said his son
\nand God’s son lived up to and <\/p>\n
515
\n00:36:42,800 –> 00:36:52,520
\nGod’s son showed us God son
\nwealthy among us and we begin at<\/p>\n
516
\n00:36:52,560 –> 00:37:03,240
\nthe yell is the glory as a field
\nwe become with grace more than <\/p>\n
517
\n00:37:03,320 –> 00:37:08,760
\nwe begin looking at the word gay
\nflesh and we’re going to look at<\/p>\n
518
\n00:37:08,760 –> 00:37:12,240
\nthis conversation and we’re
\ngoing to watch Nathaniel have a <\/p>\n
519
\n00:37:12,240 –> 00:37:18,360
\nconversation with the word gay
\nflesh while he was thinking <\/p>\n
520
\n00:37:18,960 –> 00:37:23,000
\nabout the word and we’re going
\nto see almost an instantaneous <\/p>\n
521
\n00:37:23,200 –> 00:37:31,040
\nchange on on the thing the news
\nthat Jesus all right, so <\/p>\n
522
\n00:37:31,040 –> 00:37:36,560
\ntakeaways for our class today.
\nOur small God’s plan is the same<\/p>\n
523
\n00:37:36,640 –> 00:37:38,880
\nthing.
\nThat’s his intent. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:37:38,880 –> 00:37:42,920
\nThat’s what he wants to do.
\nThat’s what Jesus came to help <\/p>\n
525
\n00:37:42,920 –> 00:37:47,080
\nus with.
\nHe gave us His word to help <\/p>\n
526
\n00:37:47,480 –> 00:37:51,960
\naccomplish this.
\nThey give us a son. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:37:52,720 –> 00:37:54,600
\nThey help us.
\nI’m kiss. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:37:55,920 –> 00:38:03,080
\nBut there’s a challenge.
\nBut for most the gods of this <\/p>\n
529
\n00:38:03,080 –> 00:38:10,400
\nworld have walked the faith
\nnecessarily or salvation. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:38:11,720 –> 00:38:13,040
\nThat’s the challenge we all
\nface. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:38:13,040 –> 00:38:16,400
\nThat’s what the Old Testament
\nstory is, most faceless <\/p>\n
532
\n00:38:16,400 –> 00:38:19,520
\nchallenge.
\nOur challenge is to strengthen <\/p>\n
533
\n00:38:19,520 –> 00:38:27,800
\nour thing to overcome.
\nAll right, I have one word for <\/p>\n
534
\n00:38:27,840 –> 00:38:32,760
\nyou.
\nSo what I’d like you to do the <\/p>\n
535
\n00:38:32,760 –> 00:38:37,880
\nnext day or two is if you would
\ncome up to me and tell me about <\/p>\n
536
\n00:38:37,880 –> 00:38:42,960
\na certain passage or a certain
\ncharacter of the Bible that has <\/p>\n
537
\n00:38:43,000 –> 00:38:48,120
\nreally helped you to develop.
\nYou maybe can tell me why that <\/p>\n
538
\n00:38:48,120 –> 00:38:49,960
\nis.
\nJust going to kind of make a <\/p>\n
539
\n00:38:49,960 –> 00:38:52,680
\nlist of some of those people and
\nI’ll share that in my class. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:38:52,680 –> 00:38:55,600
\nThis way he would do that and
\nhelp you to put that list <\/p>\n
541
\n00:38:55,600 –> 00:38:58,120
\ntogether.
\nVery helpful to me and give us <\/p>\n
542
\n00:38:58,120 –> 00:39:02,280
\nan opportunity to have something
\nto to talk about and all we can <\/p>\n
543
\n00:39:02,280 –> 00:39:03,760
\ndo.
\nSo thank you very much.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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