Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 245<\/p>\n
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\nbrother Ryan King, who will be
\nproviding today’s word of <\/p>\n
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\nexportation which he has
\nentitled, of whom the world was <\/p>\n
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\nnot worthy for the.
\nThank you, Brother Roberto, and <\/p>\n
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\ngood morning, my dear brothers
\nand sisters in the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist.
\nBring with me the love and the <\/p>\n
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\nfraternal greetings of your
\nbrothers and sisters who made <\/p>\n
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\nthe Petersburg Eclaisure in
\nRichmond, VA, specifically. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Paul and sister Donna
\nGatanas. <\/p>\n
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\nI always believe in doing that.
\nBut you know, sometimes when I <\/p>\n
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\nget home they say, well, we
\ndidn’t even know you were going.<\/p>\n
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\nWell.
\nPaul and Donna Gatanas told me <\/p>\n
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\nto tell all of you and send you
\nyour love. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, the portable Shining hand
\nlamp is now about to go out and <\/p>\n
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\nit will leave behind it that
\nphosphorus light, that permanent<\/p>\n
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\nlight.
\nThat nothing could ever put out.<\/p>\n
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\nAnd the time had come now for
\nJohn. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd by a simple comparison of
\nMatthew with the other Gospels, <\/p>\n
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\nwe learned that John was killed
\nat the Passover season, just 12 <\/p>\n
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\nmonths before our Lord Jesus
\nChrist would suffer a similar <\/p>\n
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\nfate.
\nHe was a forerunner, brothers <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters in every sense of
\nthat word. <\/p>\n
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\nJohn the Baptist said come.
\nAnd they had done unto him <\/p>\n
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\nwhatsoever they listed, you
\nknow, it was on the same day <\/p>\n
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\nthat 70 disciples came back to
\nthe Lord Jesus Christ, flushed <\/p>\n
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\nwith success.
\nLord, the spirits are subject <\/p>\n
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\nunto us through thy name.
\nAnd as they came from that <\/p>\n
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\ndirection, telling them all
\nabout the success they had had <\/p>\n
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\nin their preaching, there came a
\nman from the other direction who<\/p>\n
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\nsaid, they’ve killed John the
\nBaptist. <\/p>\n
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\nHe knew that John would suffer,
\nbut although he knew it, it <\/p>\n
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\ncertainly did not detract from
\nthe pain and the sorrow that he <\/p>\n
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\nwould have felt.
\nAnd so in that 31st verse of <\/p>\n
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\nMark Chapter six, he seeks
\nsolace on the other side of the <\/p>\n
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\nlake.
\nAnd he sat there on the other <\/p>\n
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\nside of the lake, and he fed the
\nmultitude. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it was the spring.
\nSo John was beheaded right at <\/p>\n
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\nthe Passover season.
\nJust 12 months before our Lord <\/p>\n
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\nJesus Christ, when we left John
\nimprisoned in Mccarris just <\/p>\n
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\nbelow the banquet hall while
\nHerod was celebrating this great<\/p>\n
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\nfeast on his birthday.
\nThe custom at that time was is <\/p>\n
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\nthat Caesar always had a great
\ncelebration in Rome on his <\/p>\n
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\nbirthday and because they all
\nconsidered Caesar to be a God <\/p>\n
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\nand all reflections of him.
\nEvery Roman Tetra in the land <\/p>\n
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\nand all over the world would
\nhave on their birthday a similar<\/p>\n
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\ncelebration.
\nIt was the great recognition of <\/p>\n
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\nhe who was Caesar in Rome, and
\nit being his birthday, we read <\/p>\n
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\nin Mark 6 and verse 21.
\nHerod now invites the Lords, the<\/p>\n
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\nhigh captains, and the chief of
\nstates of Galilee. <\/p>\n
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\nSo putting all that together,
\nthey were the high officials of <\/p>\n
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\nthe court.
\nThe legal system was there, the <\/p>\n
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\nhigh captains, the captains.
\nOver 1000 as the word means, the<\/p>\n
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\nmilitary was there, and the
\nchief of states, the word means <\/p>\n
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\nlandowners in the province.
\nAnd there they were, the gods of<\/p>\n
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\nthis world, the legal system,
\nthe military and all the <\/p>\n
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\nlandowners, the rich, all people
\nwho stood in the exact. <\/p>\n
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\nOpposite position to that man
\nwho is now down below in the <\/p>\n
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\ndungeon.
\nThe crowd in verse 21 is the <\/p>\n
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\ncrowd of Luke chapter 3 in verse
\none that God missed when he sent<\/p>\n
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\nout his word and he gave it to a
\nman that they would not deign to<\/p>\n
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\nspit on him to spit on.
\nThat’s the crowd who is here <\/p>\n
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\nnow.
\nThe Herod’s birthday, as I said,<\/p>\n
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\nwas meant to be a replica of.
\nCaesar’s birthday and these <\/p>\n
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\nparties that they had always
\nended the same way, that when <\/p>\n
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\nmen had imbibed very heavily and
\nthey’re beginning to see double <\/p>\n
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\nthey’re free and open with each
\nother, they would bring it forth<\/p>\n
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\ninto the hall a woman, some
\nloose, immoral woman who would <\/p>\n
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\nexcite them.
\nAnd these women were not usually<\/p>\n
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\nfrom the noble class.
\nBut this was different. <\/p>\n
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\nWho was the woman on this
\noccasion? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, verse 22 says it was the
\ndaughter of the said Herodius. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that’s not usual.
\nTypically they just drag some <\/p>\n
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\npoor person up there.
\nBut here we have the daughter of<\/p>\n
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\nthe said Herodius.
\nNow who is she? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, she’s a Princess.
\nShe was born of Mary Amney, the <\/p>\n
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\nwife of Herod the Great.
\nA Maccabee, and she was a <\/p>\n
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\ndescendant of the High priest of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nNow debasing herself in this
\nmanner, Josephus says that her <\/p>\n
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\nname was Salome.
\nSalome. <\/p>\n
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\nLike Shalom, peace, it was
\nanything but peace, brothers and<\/p>\n
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\nsisters, on this day and putting
\nall the Gospels together. <\/p>\n
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\nMark says that this woman
\ndanced, but Matthew says that <\/p>\n
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\nshe danced among them.
\nShe kind of whizzed her way <\/p>\n
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\nbetween the tables, and that
\nwasn’t usual either. <\/p>\n
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\nSo they tell me.
\nBut the girl left the stage and <\/p>\n
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\nmoved amongst the tables.
\nImagine, no, don’t imagine that.<\/p>\n
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\nThat’s the world that we don’t
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n
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\nGod be thanked.
\nAnd so Herod the fox now feels <\/p>\n
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\nlike Herod the lion.
\nThe world is at his feet. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd all these greats are here
\npaying him homage. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd poor John is downstairs
\nhearing all of that. <\/p>\n
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\nHe would have heard the noise.
\nHe would have smelled the wine. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it was Harrod’s birthday.
\nAnd John had been a NASA right <\/p>\n
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\nfrom his birthday.
\nHe had never drunk wine at any <\/p>\n
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\ntime in his life.
\nHere we ask ourselves the <\/p>\n
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\nquestion, where would we have
\nbeen on that day, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters?
\nWould we be with John down there<\/p>\n
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\nin the prison, with the water
\nleaking, because we had made a <\/p>\n
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\nstand against the pleasures of
\nthis world, because we had <\/p>\n
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\ndenounced an unjust and unholy
\nmarriage? <\/p>\n
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\nOr we’ll be up there enjoying
\nthe pleasures of sin for a <\/p>\n
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\nseason, Herod, now in inflamed
\nwith wine, says at the end of <\/p>\n
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\nverse 22.
\nIn this ribe old voice, <\/p>\n
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\nwhatsoever you ask, I will give
\nyou to the half of the Kingdom, <\/p>\n
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\nhe says to Salome.
\nWhatsoever you ask, that will <\/p>\n
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\ngive you to the half of my
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the crowd would just roar
\nwith approval. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, half of my Kingdom was
\na proverbial expression, and no <\/p>\n
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\nruler would give up half of his
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat it really means there is
\nsomething priceless. <\/p>\n
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\nYou have something beyond,
\nbeyond your thinking. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, a gift that you
\nwouldn’t expect Half of My <\/p>\n
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\nKingdom.
\nYou know where that comes from. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know where that particular
\nrequest is said elsewhere. <\/p>\n
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\nJust keep your hand here and
\ncome back to Esther. <\/p>\n
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\nEsther Chapter 5.
\nWhat’s Herod doing quoting this?<\/p>\n
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\nEsther Chapter 5 and verse 3.
\nThe half of my Kingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, here it is in Esther
\nChapter 5 and verse 3. <\/p>\n
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\nThen said the king, that is A
\nhas your ears under her. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat wilt thou, Queen Esther?
\nAnd what is thy request? <\/p>\n
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\nIt shall be given thee to the
\nhalf of the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s what A has your ears said
\nto Queen Esther, because he was <\/p>\n
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\nso impressed with her beauty of
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n
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\nShe had access to all the the
\ncosmetics that the Persian <\/p>\n
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\nKingdom could manufacture, and
\nshe wanted none of them, just <\/p>\n
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\nthose things that were necessary
\nfor godliness of character. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he has your ears.
\nLoved her so much, he said. <\/p>\n
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\nI’ll give you to the half of my
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat is your request, Esther?
\nAnd have a look at this girl in <\/p>\n
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\nMark chapter 6, debasing herself
\nin that party. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, she’s got the promise.
\nBehalf of my Kingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd what she does is she goes
\nback to her mom to Herodius. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat shall I ask?
\nJust come back to mark chapter <\/p>\n
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\n6.
\nAnd the Bible is just so <\/p>\n
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\nwonderful in the way it’s put.
\nAll you have to do sometimes is <\/p>\n
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\nis read it to get get the
\nfeeling of the story. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s a brevity of words in
\nthe scriptures but you know <\/p>\n
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\nthat’s done by gods that we
\nmight think about what’s <\/p>\n
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\nhappening.
\nHerodius has got no idea what <\/p>\n
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\nrequest is coming. 1st 24 She
\nwent forth and said it to her <\/p>\n
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\nmother.
\nWhat shall I ask? <\/p>\n
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\nI mean, half of the Kingdom.
\nI mean, wow, what am I going to <\/p>\n
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\nto ask?
\nHerodious. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, she doesn’t say, Well,
\nyou know, I’d like a new Tesla <\/p>\n
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\nor a new dishwasher.
\nI might ask that. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat do you want, mom?
\nThe head of John the Baptist? <\/p>\n
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\nNo hesitation.
\nWhatever. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat do you want?
\nThe head of John the Baptist? <\/p>\n
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\nShe doesn’t say I want John
\nKilt. <\/p>\n
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\nShe says I want his head.
\nBecause it was his thinking, his<\/p>\n
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\nNazarete thinking, his
\nwilderness thinking that she <\/p>\n
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\ndespised, that she detested.
\nWhat shall I ask the head of <\/p>\n
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\nJohn the Baptist?
\nThat’s how much she hated him. <\/p>\n
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\nNo hesitation at all.
\nDidn’t really even know what <\/p>\n
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\nquestion was coming.
\nWhat do you want, mom? <\/p>\n
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\nThe head of John the Baptist and
\nthe word head appears four times<\/p>\n
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\nin this section. 4 is the
\nbiblical number for <\/p>\n
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\nrighteousness.
\nIt was his righteous thinking <\/p>\n
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\nthat she despised because John
\nhad the audacity time and time <\/p>\n
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\nand time again to say it is not
\nlawful. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is not lawful for you to be
\ndoing this. <\/p>\n
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\nI want his head, says Hirodius.
\nShe instructs her daughter to go<\/p>\n
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\nback in and straight way.
\nShe doesn’t want any time <\/p>\n
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\nwasted.
\nStraight way. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 25 and Mark adds these
\nwords with haste. <\/p>\n
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\nStraightway verse 25 With haste
\nI will thou give me by and by <\/p>\n
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\nthe word by, and by there means
\ninstantly she doesn’t want any <\/p>\n
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\ntime wasted.
\nStraightway with haste instantly<\/p>\n
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\nget me the head of John the
\nBaptist. <\/p>\n
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\nThe head The thinking of John is
\nwhat she despised and what did <\/p>\n
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\nshe want to do with that head.
\nAnd this reveals how how sick <\/p>\n
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\nshe was.
\nShe wanted that head in verse 25<\/p>\n
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\non a charger.
\nThe word charger just means a <\/p>\n
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\nplate.
\nA head on a plate. <\/p>\n
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\nNow why would she want that?
\nWell, first of all, I think she <\/p>\n
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\nwanted that head on a plate
\nbecause she wanted to be <\/p>\n
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\nabsolutely sure it was him.
\nYou know, it wasn’t good enough <\/p>\n
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\nto hear about it from somebody
\nelse. <\/p>\n
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\nOkay, we took care of John.
\nNow you can move on, Hirodius. <\/p>\n
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\nShe wanted it on a head so that
\nshe could see it. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was no doubt it was him.
\nSecondly, she wanted that mouth <\/p>\n
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\nthat had been chomping against
\nJohn. <\/p>\n
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\nShe wanted that mouth shut so
\nthat everybody could see it <\/p>\n
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\nthere on the plate.
\nDo you still think it’s not <\/p>\n
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\nlawful for us to be married?
\nHusband? <\/p>\n
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\nDo you still think it’s unlawful
\nfor us to be married? <\/p>\n
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\nNow it’s shut.
\nAnd there was, of course, in <\/p>\n
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\nthat.
\nSomething very very sick because<\/p>\n
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\nit’s a head on a plate at a
\nparty and it would have been a <\/p>\n
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\ngruesome joke.
\nThis was the dessert served up <\/p>\n
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\nat a birthday party.
\nWhat a woman you no wonder the <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nWhen he heard about that he left<\/p>\n
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\nthe area.
\nHe said I I need to be alone and<\/p>\n
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\nhe went went away in the
\nwilderness when he. <\/p>\n
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\nHe thought about what they had
\ndone to John. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, Herod hears that request,
\nand in verse 26, remember Herod <\/p>\n
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\nlikes John.
\nVerse 26, the king was exceeding<\/p>\n
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\nsorry.
\nHe was exceeding sorrowful. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know how intense that is,
\nThose two words there in verse <\/p>\n
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\n26, you just flip over a few
\npages to mark chapter 14. <\/p>\n
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\nThe same two Greek words are
\nused here in March chapter 14, <\/p>\n
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\nexceeding sorry, where the Lord
\nbends his head, bows his head in<\/p>\n
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\nGethsemane, and verse 34 says,
\nmy soul is exceeding sorrowful <\/p>\n
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\neven unto death.
\nYou know we know the agony, <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t we of Gethsemane, my will,
\nyour will, my will. <\/p>\n
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\nYou’re well.
\nWell now. <\/p>\n
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\nHerod’s feeling that he was
\nexceeding sorrowful, you know, <\/p>\n
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\nhe would have sobered up really
\nquickly when that request came. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd those those words of that
\ngirl would have just pierced him<\/p>\n
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\nlike a dagger he was exceeding.
\nSorry. <\/p>\n
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\nBut here’s the problem that
\nHerod has. <\/p>\n
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\nEveryone in the room heard him.
\nThe legal system had heard him, <\/p>\n
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\nthe military had heard him.
\nThe landowners had all heard <\/p>\n
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\nhim, and he can’t afford to lose
\nface, can he? <\/p>\n
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\nHe can’t go back now.
\nAnd so he gives in to their <\/p>\n
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\nrequest, and he takes the life
\nof John the Baptist. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so John’s head, brothers and
\nsisters, was sacrificed on the <\/p>\n
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\naltar of pride, and in fierce
\nopposition to the greats of this<\/p>\n
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\nworld, he could not have
\nsuffered a more fitting. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd a bore honorable death.
\nJohn’s head was sacrificed on <\/p>\n
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\nthe altar of pride and in fierce
\nopposition to the greats of this<\/p>\n
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\nworld.
\nNow wasn’t that exactly how John<\/p>\n
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\nhad lived his life?
\nA man in a camel skin, living in<\/p>\n
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\nthe desert completely
\nunencumbered with all the things<\/p>\n
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\nthat haired antipass in this
\nworld worries about John didn’t <\/p>\n
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\nhave those things.
\nEverything that the world <\/p>\n
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\nesteems is great.
\nJohn had isolated himself from. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’d isolated himself from
\npossessions, just had the basics<\/p>\n
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\nof what he needed to live, and
\nhe gave his mind to the <\/p>\n
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\nwonderful voice of God’s word,
\nuntil finally he sacrificed his <\/p>\n
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\nlife, his mind in opposition to
\nthe greats of this world. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd his example now speaks to us
\nbrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nJohn has gone before us this
\nweekend, the voice that we all <\/p>\n
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\nhave to listen to, that we stand
\nwith God against the emotions <\/p>\n
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\nand against the pleasures of
\nmankind, and having enough to <\/p>\n
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\nlive a godly life with
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\nour four O1 KS our raises.
\nAll of those things will be <\/p>\n
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\ntaken care of just to give our
\nminds to the wonderful voice of <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s worth and if necessary, to
\nsacrifice our life. <\/p>\n
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\nIn opposition to the greats of
\nthis world, you what God thought<\/p>\n
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\nof that.
\nYou what God thought of what <\/p>\n
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\nthey did to John.
\nIt’s not written in the Bible, <\/p>\n
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\nbut the historians tell us very
\nclearly what happened in a D39 <\/p>\n
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\nabout 10 years later here at
\nAntipass appealed to Caesar. <\/p>\n
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\nHe wanted the title of King and
\nCaesar, of course. <\/p>\n
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\nKnowing Haired Antipass’s
\ndubious history was unwilling to<\/p>\n
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\ndo that.
\nHe was worried handing A haired <\/p>\n
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\nAntipass might be a threat.
\nAnd so he sent him where he sent<\/p>\n
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\nHaired Antipass and his wife
\nHerodius to a dungeon in Spain, <\/p>\n
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\nand there he died.
\nAt the end of his life he had no<\/p>\n
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\nmore money, He had no more
\npossessions. <\/p>\n
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\nIt was all gone and he was down
\nthere 10 years later, at the end<\/p>\n
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\nof his life in a dungeon with
\nhis wife. <\/p>\n
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\nThe justice of God is always
\npoetic. <\/p>\n
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\nAs a man sows that shall he also
\nreap. <\/p>\n
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\nHe finished up exactly where
\nJohn finished up. <\/p>\n
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\nBut look at the difference.
\nJohn will be in the Kingdom. <\/p>\n
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\nOne day the Lord Jesus Christ
\nwill snatch that head back and <\/p>\n
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\nput it on John and stand him on
\nthe earth again. <\/p>\n
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\nThere will be no future whatever
\nfor Herodana pass, or for <\/p>\n
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\nherodious.
\nYou know what they did to <\/p>\n
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\nSalome?
\nOr what happened to her several <\/p>\n
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\nyears later?
\nShe was on a lake, a frozen <\/p>\n
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\nlake.
\nSome parts of the ice were thin.<\/p>\n
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\nSo she steps out onto the lake
\nand she begins to slide. <\/p>\n
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\nShe loses her balance and she
\nstarts moving along the lake to <\/p>\n
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\nwhere the ice was thin.
\nAnd she fell down through the <\/p>\n
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\nice.
\nAnd as she fell down through the<\/p>\n
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\nice, you know what happened to
\nher head? <\/p>\n
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\nOff it went.
\nShe had said, I want his head, <\/p>\n
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\nthe hair at Annie Pass.
\nAnd she died going through the <\/p>\n
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\nice in a lake.
\nAnd as she went through the ice,<\/p>\n
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\nher head made contact with the
\nice, and off it went. <\/p>\n
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\nGod dealt.
\nWith this family, he rewards you<\/p>\n
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\nexactly how you reward others,
\nbecause they had treated John in<\/p>\n
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\nthat manner.
\nThey were dealt with like. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we come down to the 7th
\nchapter of Luke. <\/p>\n
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\nJohn is gone, and just before
\nthat gruesome moment, he sends a<\/p>\n
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\nquestion to Jesus Christ and
\nLuke records for us what that <\/p>\n
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\nquestion was.
\nYou know Herod would have been <\/p>\n
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\nglad to allow communication
\nbetween John and Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nHe this is back during the days
\nwhen he was trying to save John <\/p>\n
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\nfrom his wife.
\nSo in Luke chapter seven, we <\/p>\n
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\nread these words, verse 16, and
\nthere came fear on all and they <\/p>\n
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\nglorified God saying a great
\nprophet has risen up among us <\/p>\n
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\nand that God has visited his
\npeople. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that’s exactly as your
\nmargin indicates what Zachariah <\/p>\n
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\nsaid.
\nWhen John the Baptist was born, <\/p>\n
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\nhe said, God has visited his
\npeople, and he had not only in <\/p>\n
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\nthe person of John the Baptist,
\nbut now in the person of our <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus Christ.
\nAnd so with Zechariah’s words <\/p>\n
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\nnow echoing before us once again
\nin verse 19, John, calling unto <\/p>\n
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\nhim two of his disciples, sent
\nthem to Jesus, saying, Art thou <\/p>\n
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\nhe that should come?
\nOr do we look for another? <\/p>\n
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\nSo this is John’s question in
\nthe prison he sends a message to<\/p>\n
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\nJesus, Art thou he that should
\ncome, or do we look for another?<\/p>\n
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\nYou know, we sometimes try, I
\nthink in our sincerity and love <\/p>\n
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\nfor biblical characters to to
\nskirt the obvious. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, people say, well, John
\ndidn’t doubt it was for the IT <\/p>\n
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\nwas for the cause of the
\ndisciples. <\/p>\n
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\nThat John asked that question,
\nit wasn’t for his benefit. <\/p>\n
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\nThe brothers and sisters that
\nthat will not fit that context. <\/p>\n
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\nJohn had been continually
\ntelling those disciples to <\/p>\n
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\nfollow Jesus.
\nThey’re hardly likely to then go<\/p>\n
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\nto the Lord Jesus Christ to be
\nconvinced of him whom they saw <\/p>\n
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\nas John’s opposition in contrast
\nto what John was telling them <\/p>\n
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\nall the time.
\nThey’re not likely to be <\/p>\n
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\nconvinced to follow him by going
\nto the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nNo, that wouldn’t be the reason.
\nThe context of this chapter, <\/p>\n
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\nBros and sisters, demands that
\nthat doubt in verse 19, if we <\/p>\n
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\nwant to call it that, was John’s
\nverse 22. <\/p>\n
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\nGo and tell John what things you
\nhave seen and heard. <\/p>\n
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\nIf the answer is for John, that
\nmust mean that the question came<\/p>\n
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\nfrom John.
\nThere’s no perfect character in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Bible.
\nExcept one. <\/p>\n
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\nAll the great heroes of faith
\nhave their failings. <\/p>\n
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\nJohn wavered on just this one
\noccasion. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, after everything that
\nhad happened, he says. <\/p>\n
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\nAre you the one?
\nAre you really the one? <\/p>\n
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\nBut before we we criticize John
\nand start throwing stones, think<\/p>\n
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\nof John down there in that dark
\ndungeon. <\/p>\n
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\nWith all the rioting, he knows
\nhe’s about to die any moment and<\/p>\n
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\nhe just wanted some reassurance.
\nAre you the one? <\/p>\n
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\nPlease tell me he just wanted
\nsome reassurance. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, don’t we all need
\nreassurance, fellows and sisters<\/p>\n
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\nin our lives?
\nLet’s not criticize John. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s human, just like all of us.
\nI’ve seen miracles done in my <\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nI’ve seen God’s hand at work in <\/p>\n
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\nmy life.
\nAnd I could all stirred up. <\/p>\n
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\nFor about 30 minutes, and I need
\nreassurance every day of my life<\/p>\n
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\nconstantly to keep me going.
\nIf we need it, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, in our comfortable
\ncircumstances, then please be <\/p>\n
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\nconsiderate of John down there
\nin the prison who momentarily <\/p>\n
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\ndoubted in a cold, dark dungeon
\nwith an imperious woman there to<\/p>\n
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\nkill him.
\nHe knows any minute he’s going <\/p>\n
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\nto die.
\nWouldn’t you want reassurance if<\/p>\n
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\nyou were in that position?
\nLet’s bear thought for that poor<\/p>\n
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\n00:23:12,670 –> 00:23:15,630
\nman.
\nSo how is Jesus going to answer <\/p>\n
339
\n00:23:15,630 –> 00:23:18,790
\nhim?
\nHe knows John is struggling. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:23:19,830 –> 00:23:22,150
\nHe doesn’t say to John.
\nBut don’t worry John, I’m the <\/p>\n
341
\n00:23:22,150 –> 00:23:26,270
\none you know Jesus.
\nHe he always engages the mind of<\/p>\n
342
\n00:23:26,270 –> 00:23:29,990
\nhis followers.
\nLook at his response in in verse<\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:30,310 –> 00:23:33,190
\n20 they asked the question, art
\nthou he that should come? <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:33,800 –> 00:23:36,520
\nOr do we look for another?
\nAnd Jesus says to the disciples <\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:36,520 –> 00:23:39,280
\nof John, just stand over there,
\njust stand over there. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:40,320 –> 00:23:43,240
\nAnd then he goes to work, and he
\nheals like he’s never healed. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:43,720 –> 00:23:46,040
\nVerse 21.
\nThe same hour he cured many of <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:46,040 –> 00:23:50,480
\ntheir infirmities and plagues,
\nand of evil spirits, And unto <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:50,480 –> 00:23:52,920
\nthe many that were blind, He
\ngave sight. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:53,760 –> 00:23:55,560
\nSo he goes into a fervor of
\nactivity. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:55,560 –> 00:23:59,640
\nThe lame are healed, the blind
\ncan now see, the lepers are made<\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:59,640 –> 00:24:01,280
\nclean.
\nAnd the disciples of John are <\/p>\n
353
\n00:24:01,280 –> 00:24:03,970
\nwatching this.
\nAnd then he says, go tell John <\/p>\n
354
\n00:24:03,970 –> 00:24:08,570
\nthis, Go tell John this, Go your
\nway, verse 22. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:24:08,570 –> 00:24:11,090
\nAnd tell John what things you’ve
\njust seen and heard. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:24:12,290 –> 00:24:17,570
\nHow that the blind see the lame
\nwalk, the lepers are cleansed, <\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:18,050 –> 00:24:22,730
\nthe death.
\nHere the dead are raised, and to<\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:22,730 –> 00:24:30,290
\nthe poor the gospel is preached.
\nAnd that was Jesus’s answer to <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:30,290 –> 00:24:32,570
\nthe poor.
\nThe Gospels preach. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:32,570 –> 00:24:36,690
\nGo tell John that you can
\nimagine those messengers, those <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:36,690 –> 00:24:39,330
\ndisciples, going back to
\nMccarris and finding John. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:40,010 –> 00:24:42,290
\nYou know John is down there in
\nthe dungeon, pacing back and <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:42,290 –> 00:24:46,330
\nforth with anticipation.
\nJohn, you should see him. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:46,810 –> 00:24:50,330
\nHe’s giving sight to the blind.
\nLayman stood up. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:50,850 –> 00:24:53,730
\nLepers are being cleansed.
\nHe went to work like you’ve <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:53,730 –> 00:24:56,610
\nnever seen him go to work.
\nAnd and when your dad said that <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:56,770 –> 00:25:00,010
\nGod has visited his people,
\nthat’s exactly what’s happening.<\/p>\n
368
\n00:25:00,990 –> 00:25:03,470
\nThey’re all saying that all over
\nthe land. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:25:03,470 –> 00:25:08,670
\nAnd then he said to tell you,
\nJohn, to tell you to the poor. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:25:09,910 –> 00:25:14,030
\nThe gospel is preached.
\nNow there wouldn’t be have been <\/p>\n
371
\n00:25:14,030 –> 00:25:18,350
\na poor man on the earth at that
\ntime, and that poor man <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:18,350 –> 00:25:23,350
\nlanguishing in that prison.
\nAnd that was his answer you <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:23,350 –> 00:25:26,070
\nnoticed in verse 22, all of
\nthose things are physical. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:28,030 –> 00:25:33,100
\nThe blind see the lame walk.
\nThe lepers are cleansed, The <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:33,100 –> 00:25:37,660
\ndeath here, the dead are raised.
\nAnd then this one is different <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:38,180 –> 00:25:41,780
\nto the poor.
\nThe gospel is preached, and <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:41,780 –> 00:25:46,500
\nthat’s Isaiah 61.
\nLet’s come back to that because <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:46,860 –> 00:25:50,260
\nJesus here gives him his answer.
\nYour John didn’t. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:50,460 –> 00:25:54,260
\nJesus didn’t say to John, yes,
\nI’m the one, but he directed <\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:54,260 –> 00:25:57,580
\nJohn to the answer himself.
\nYou know, it’s always the best <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:57,740 –> 00:25:59,940
\nway to deal with a person who’s
\ngot a problem is. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:26:00,470 –> 00:26:03,190
\nSend them to find the answer in
\nthe Bible. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:26:03,710 –> 00:26:06,150
\nThey’ll be richly rewarded and
\nthat’s what Jesus does here. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:26:06,830 –> 00:26:09,070
\nTo the poor the gospel is
\npreached. <\/p>\n
385
\n00:26:09,710 –> 00:26:11,990
\nIsaiah 61.
\nNow John would have known that <\/p>\n
386
\n00:26:12,950 –> 00:26:16,790
\neven even the the casual Jews
\nrecited scriptures. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:16,790 –> 00:26:17,950
\nHe would have known this
\nscripture. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:17,950 –> 00:26:22,110
\nIsaiah 61 It’s all about the
\ngood tidings of the Kingdom of <\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:22,110 –> 00:26:27,190
\nGod, the gospel being preached.
\nVerse one, the Spirit of the <\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:27,190 –> 00:26:31,640
\nLord Yahweh is upon me.
\nBecause Yahweh hath anointed me,<\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:32,600 –> 00:26:37,680
\nYes, I’m the one, John.
\nAnd here it comes to preach good<\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:37,840 –> 00:26:41,720
\ntidings unto the meek.
\nThe word meek there is poor to <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:41,720 –> 00:26:47,040
\nthe poor the gospel is preached.
\nYou go tell John that here it is<\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:47,040 –> 00:26:52,240
\nin Isaiah 61 to preach good
\ntidings the gospel unto the <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:52,240 –> 00:26:55,120
\npoor.
\nJohn would think, Ah, Lizzie’s <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:55,120 –> 00:26:57,480
\ndown in there in the prison,
\ngood tidings to the poor. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:57,480 –> 00:27:01,860
\nYes, yes.
\nBut what does Jesus stop before <\/p>\n
398
\n00:27:01,860 –> 00:27:04,740
\nhe gets to?
\nHe doesn’t quote the rest of the<\/p>\n
399
\n00:27:04,740 –> 00:27:07,220
\nverse, does he?
\nWhat does the rest of the verse <\/p>\n
400
\n00:27:07,220 –> 00:27:11,300
\nsay?
\nHe has sent me to bind up the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:27:11,300 –> 00:27:17,140
\nbroken hearted, to proclaim
\nliberty to the captives and the <\/p>\n
402
\n00:27:17,180 –> 00:27:20,860
\nopening of the prison to them
\nthat are bound. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:20,940 –> 00:27:26,500
\nAnd Jesus stopped short of that,
\nsaying he would say, yes, I’m <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:26,500 –> 00:27:30,330
\nthe one.
\nAnd John would hear those words.<\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:30,330 –> 00:27:31,530
\nHe would know where they’re
\ncoming from. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:31,530 –> 00:27:35,290
\nBut John, I can’t open that
\nprison just yet. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:37,250 –> 00:27:40,970
\nBut that verse says that
\nultimately, one day it will be <\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:40,970 –> 00:27:43,730
\nopened.
\nVerse two, in an acceptable <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:44,010 –> 00:27:49,690
\ntime, it will be opened.
\nYou’re not going to get out of <\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:49,690 –> 00:27:52,130
\nthis, John.
\nNot now. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:53,210 –> 00:27:56,250
\nBut one day I will open it for
\nyou. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:56,840 –> 00:27:59,880
\nNow remember, when Jesus quotes
\na passage, he he’s not just <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:59,880 –> 00:28:02,840
\nquoting a phrase.
\nOkay to the poor, the Gospels <\/p>\n
414
\n00:28:02,840 –> 00:28:04,000
\npreach.
\nThat sounds good. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:28:04,840 –> 00:28:07,320
\nHe’s quoting from a whole
\ncontext. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:07,320 –> 00:28:09,120
\nHere’s the answer to John’s
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:10,520 –> 00:28:13,600
\nOne day I’ll open that prison
\nfor you, John, but but not now. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:14,160 –> 00:28:20,280
\nLook at verse 5 and strangers
\nshall stand and feed your <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:20,280 –> 00:28:23,320
\nflocks.
\nThe sons of the alien, we could <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:23,320 –> 00:28:24,640
\nsay.
\nThe Edomite. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:26,490 –> 00:28:28,770
\nShall be your plowman and your
\nvine dressers. <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:29,130 –> 00:28:30,850
\nYou shall be named the priests
\nof Yahweh. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:30,850 –> 00:28:32,850
\nMen shall call you the ministers
\nof our God. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:33,090 –> 00:28:36,410
\nYou shall eat the riches of the
\nGentiles. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:36,410 –> 00:28:38,290
\nNow, what were they all doing
\nupstairs? <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:38,610 –> 00:28:41,610
\nThey were savoring the riches of
\nthe Gentiles. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:41,930 –> 00:28:44,530
\nAnd he says, John, one day
\nyou’re going to do that. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:45,250 –> 00:28:48,530
\nOne day they’ll be serving you.
\nOne day you’ll be eating their <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:48,530 –> 00:28:52,410
\nriches.
\nAnd in their glory shall ye <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:52,490 –> 00:28:55,370
\nboast yourselves.
\nThey’re all boasting. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:56,280 –> 00:29:02,160
\nAnd mocking John, one day it’s
\nall going to change, your Jesus <\/p>\n
432
\n00:29:02,160 –> 00:29:04,120
\nhad said back in Luke 7, verse
\n23. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:04,120 –> 00:29:12,360
\nAnd blessed is he whosoever
\nshall not stumble in Me, verse <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:12,360 –> 00:29:15,320
\n9.
\nAnd their seed shall be known <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:15,320 –> 00:29:18,880
\namong the Gentiles, and their
\noffspring among the people. <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:19,720 –> 00:29:22,840
\nAll that see them shall
\nacknowledge them, that they are <\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:22,840 –> 00:29:25,480
\nthe seed which Yahweh hath
\nblessed. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:25,850 –> 00:29:30,050
\nBlessed is he who shall not be
\noffended in me. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:31,170 –> 00:29:34,250
\nAnd there was his answer.
\nHe sent him back to Isaiah 61 to<\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:34,610 –> 00:29:38,210
\nallow that great mind to think
\nabout the Kingdom of God. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:38,730 –> 00:29:42,650
\nLook beyond the problem, John,
\nto see the glory of the Kingdom <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:42,650 –> 00:29:45,130
\nof God.
\nYes, you’re in shame in that <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:45,130 –> 00:29:47,450
\nprison.
\nYes, you’re confused. <\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:47,450 –> 00:29:50,770
\nBut look at verse 7.
\nFor your shame, John. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:52,130 –> 00:29:57,100
\nYou shall have double.
\nAnd for confusion they shall <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:57,100 –> 00:30:00,420
\nrejoice in their portion.
\nTherefore in their land shall <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:00,420 –> 00:30:04,500
\nthey possess The double
\neverlasting joy shall be unto <\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:04,500 –> 00:30:06,460
\nthem.
\nOne day I will open that prison,<\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:06,460 –> 00:30:09,460
\nJohn, and it won’t be just to
\ngive you mortal life. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:10,740 –> 00:30:13,260
\nIt will be to bring you to
\nimmortal life. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:13,540 –> 00:30:17,900
\nEverlasting joy shall be unto
\nyou, John. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:17,900 –> 00:30:22,340
\nI can’t open that prison now.
\nGod’s not necessarily going to <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:22,340 –> 00:30:28,380
\nsolve all of our problems, both
\nand sisters now, but one day he <\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:28,380 –> 00:30:30,740
\nwill get us out.
\nAnd just before we leave Isaiah <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:30,740 –> 00:30:35,140
\n61 look at the verse 10 and see
\nhow appropriate this is in the <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:35,140 –> 00:30:38,740
\nlight of of John the Baptist.
\nI will greatly rejoice in <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:38,740 –> 00:30:41,660
\nYahweh.
\nMy soul shall be joyful in my <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:41,660 –> 00:30:45,940
\nGod, for he hath clothed me with
\nthe garments of salvation. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:46,260 –> 00:30:48,620
\nYou know the the the camel skin
\nis gone now. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:49,060 –> 00:30:52,900
\nThe prison garments are gone.
\nHe had covered me with a robe of<\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:52,900 –> 00:30:58,300
\nrighteousness as a bridegroom
\ndeketh himself with ornaments. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:30:58,500 –> 00:31:02,500
\nJohn had had to stand outside in
\nJohn chapter 3 and hear the <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:02,500 –> 00:31:04,900
\nbridegroom’s voice.
\nHe wasn’t part of the bridal <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:04,900 –> 00:31:08,980
\nparty, as we saw, but one day he
\nis going to be decked with <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:08,980 –> 00:31:14,740
\ngarments as a bridegroom, as a
\npart of the glorious Kingdom of <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:14,740 –> 00:31:17,980
\nGod to come.
\nAnd there was the Lord’s answer.<\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:17,980 –> 00:31:21,470
\nIt was a perfect answer.
\nBecause it set that great mind <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:21,470 –> 00:31:24,710
\nto work thinking about the
\nKingdom of God. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:24,750 –> 00:31:28,910
\nAnd just with that one little
\nphrase to the poor, the gospel <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:29,270 –> 00:31:32,150
\nis preached.
\nJohn got a perfect answer. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:32,230 –> 00:31:35,630
\nJesus didn’t upbraid him.
\nHe knew what his need was. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:35,630 –> 00:31:39,750
\nHe gently had to rebuke him.
\nDon’t be offended in me, John, <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:40,790 –> 00:31:45,030
\nbut he set John’s mind to work
\nthinking about the future. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:45,910 –> 00:31:47,710
\nThat’s the answer we get in
\nlife, isn’t it, brothers and <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:47,710 –> 00:31:50,580
\nsisters?
\nYou come to me or I go to you <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:51,540 –> 00:31:55,260
\nand we say, here’s my problem.
\nHow often is it that you ever <\/p>\n
477
\n00:31:55,260 –> 00:31:57,380
\nget a direct answer to your
\nproblems? <\/p>\n
478
\n00:31:57,580 –> 00:31:59,660
\nYou don’t.
\nBut what? <\/p>\n
479
\n00:31:59,660 –> 00:32:02,300
\nWhat God does is He gives us
\nenough to carry on. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:03,060 –> 00:32:04,500
\nHe says, I understand your
\nproblem. <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:05,180 –> 00:32:06,740
\nI could you, I could relieve
\nyou. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:07,340 –> 00:32:10,180
\nBut not now.
\nBut he sends our minds to the <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:10,180 –> 00:32:14,220
\nBible to help us think about
\nwhat’s beyond the problem, the <\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:14,220 –> 00:32:18,660
\nglory of the Kingdom of God.
\nJohn wasn’t going to get out of <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:18,660 –> 00:32:20,900
\nit at that time.
\nI can’t open that prison now, <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:20,900 –> 00:32:21,860
\nJohn.
\nI’m sorry. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:22,780 –> 00:32:26,140
\nBut one day he would.
\nEvery answer that you could <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:26,140 –> 00:32:28,660
\nfind, really for John’s life is
\nin that chapter. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:30,180 –> 00:32:34,060
\nAnd when John made that
\nconnection, when Jesus took him <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:34,060 –> 00:32:37,580
\nback to Isaiah 61, I think the
\ndoubts were gone. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:32:38,980 –> 00:32:42,340
\nThe doubts were gone, and John
\nwould have walked resolutely to <\/p>\n
492
\n00:32:42,340 –> 00:32:47,260
\nhis death.
\nWe come back now to Luke Chapter<\/p>\n
493
\n00:32:47,260 –> 00:32:51,980
\n7.
\nThe messengers are going back to<\/p>\n
494
\n00:32:52,020 –> 00:32:57,540
\nJohn with the message from
\nIsaiah 61 that the poor have <\/p>\n
495
\n00:32:57,540 –> 00:33:02,780
\nreceived the gospel and
\nsomething happened in the crowd.<\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:07,500 –> 00:33:11,620
\nLuke 7 verse 24 here was one of
\nthe greatest dressing downs that<\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:11,620 –> 00:33:14,690
\nyou’ll find in the Bible.
\nThat our Lord Jesus Christ <\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:14,690 –> 00:33:18,930
\nperforms and as the messengers
\nof John were departing, it says <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:18,930 –> 00:33:23,690
\nthe Greek is for verse 24.
\nWhat happened was this. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:23,690 –> 00:33:26,050
\nThere are hundreds of people
\ngathered around our Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:26,050 –> 00:33:29,130
\nChrist.
\nHe’s talking to the two <\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:29,130 –> 00:33:31,890
\ndisciples, the messengers of
\nJohn, and says, I want you to <\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:31,890 –> 00:33:35,890
\nsend this message back to John.
\nThe Lord has to mildly rebuke <\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:35,890 –> 00:33:41,210
\nJohn because he he temporarily
\nwould have doubted and as the <\/p>\n
505
\n00:33:41,210 –> 00:33:46,200
\ncrowd heard that.
\nA few Snickers went up in the <\/p>\n
506
\n00:33:46,200 –> 00:33:49,480
\ncrowd.
\nPeople began to laugh up their <\/p>\n
507
\n00:33:49,480 –> 00:33:53,280
\nsleeves.
\nWell, you never would have <\/p>\n
508
\n00:33:53,280 –> 00:33:59,000
\nbelieved that he would have
\ndoubted John the Baptist after <\/p>\n
509
\n00:33:59,040 –> 00:34:03,240
\nall that, he told us.
\nI suppose you know it. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:34:03,560 –> 00:34:06,280
\nEverybody’s got their
\nweaknesses, and the Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
511
\n00:34:06,280 –> 00:34:10,000
\nChrist heard that.
\nAnd so that triggered off in <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:10,000 –> 00:34:14,500
\nverse 24.
\nOne of the greatest dressing <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:14,500 –> 00:34:17,420
\ndowns that you find in
\nscripture, the Lord really let <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:17,420 –> 00:34:20,739
\ngo here and upbraids this crowd.
\nOur Lord could get angry <\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:20,739 –> 00:34:22,300
\nbrothers and sisters, very
\nangry. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:22,980 –> 00:34:26,020
\nAnd he had a righteous anger as
\nhe heard the people laughing up <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:26,020 –> 00:34:29,780
\ntheir sleeves at this man.
\nYou know, the Lord’s heart would<\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:29,780 –> 00:34:32,980
\nhave been bleeding for John, you
\nknow, sympathetic to his, his <\/p>\n
519
\n00:34:32,980 –> 00:34:34,580
\nweakness.
\nAnd he just says, what went she <\/p>\n
520
\n00:34:34,580 –> 00:34:39,620
\nout to see What was it you saw?
\nAnd the crowd would stagger <\/p>\n
521
\n00:34:39,620 –> 00:34:43,310
\nback.
\nA Reed shaken in the wind at the<\/p>\n
522
\n00:34:43,310 –> 00:34:48,989
\nend of verse 24 was he a man who
\nwho yielded his opinion, the <\/p>\n
523
\n00:34:48,989 –> 00:34:52,510
\npopular appeal.
\nHe fronted up to the Pharisees. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:34:52,710 –> 00:34:54,389
\nHe fronted up to the common
\npeople. <\/p>\n
525
\n00:34:54,750 –> 00:34:58,150
\nHe fronted up to the publicans.
\nAnd when a Roman soldier stuck <\/p>\n
526
\n00:34:58,150 –> 00:35:00,590
\nhis spear in the ground, he
\nfronted up to him too, and said,<\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:00,590 –> 00:35:04,670
\ndo violence to no man.
\nAnd when the great Herod and to <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:04,670 –> 00:35:08,870
\npass committed his great evil,
\nhe fronted him up, not once, not<\/p>\n
529
\n00:35:08,870 –> 00:35:13,220
\ntwice.
\nBut day after day until it cost <\/p>\n
530
\n00:35:13,220 –> 00:35:14,740
\nhim his life.
\nIs that what you went out to <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:14,740 –> 00:35:17,500
\nsee?
\nThe crowd would recoil. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:35:18,460 –> 00:35:22,140
\nOr did you go and see a man,
\nverse 25, who was clothed in <\/p>\n
533
\n00:35:22,140 –> 00:35:25,340
\nsoft Raymond?
\nThe word is effeminate, A softy.<\/p>\n
534
\n00:35:26,700 –> 00:35:28,340
\nIt means a man dressed as a
\nwoman. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:35:28,980 –> 00:35:33,580
\nDid you go and see an effeminate
\nsomeone who’s one thing one day <\/p>\n
536
\n00:35:33,580 –> 00:35:36,380
\nand another thing the next?
\nIs that what you went out to <\/p>\n
537
\n00:35:36,380 –> 00:35:37,780
\nsee?
\nAsked Jesus. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:35:39,030 –> 00:35:42,310
\nThat are gloriously apparelled
\nor in kings houses he wore a <\/p>\n
539
\n00:35:42,310 –> 00:35:45,350
\ncamel skin.
\nCould any of you do that? <\/p>\n
540
\n00:35:46,430 –> 00:35:48,790
\nA camel skin which which no one
\ncould wear. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:35:48,790 –> 00:35:52,270
\nHe didn’t live in a King’s
\npalace, he lived in a desert <\/p>\n
542
\n00:35:53,510 –> 00:35:57,190
\nwhere there was nothing and
\neating grasshoppers whilst <\/p>\n
543
\n00:35:57,230 –> 00:36:00,270
\nothers fared sumptuously every
\nday none. <\/p>\n
544
\n00:36:00,270 –> 00:36:03,710
\nNone of you would have had the
\ngumption to do what John did. <\/p>\n
545
\n00:36:04,590 –> 00:36:06,550
\nOr perhaps there was a measure
\nof respect for John. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:36:07,150 –> 00:36:10,170
\nDid you go and see a prophet?
\nVerse 26. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:36:10,610 –> 00:36:13,210
\nI mean, the record says that all
\nmen held John to be a prophet, <\/p>\n
548
\n00:36:13,690 –> 00:36:15,210
\nbut you know, they didn’t even
\nhave that right? <\/p>\n
549
\n00:36:16,570 –> 00:36:18,650
\nHe says, I’m going to tell you
\nhe’s more than a prophet. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:36:20,530 –> 00:36:24,330
\nThere wasn’t one person born
\namong women that was greater <\/p>\n
551
\n00:36:24,450 –> 00:36:27,290
\nthan he.
\nSo even those who had a measure <\/p>\n
552
\n00:36:27,290 –> 00:36:30,450
\nof respect for John, perhaps
\nwe’re looking to flatter John. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:36:30,930 –> 00:36:34,330
\nTheir estimation was too low.
\nJesus says there’s not one born <\/p>\n
554
\n00:36:34,330 –> 00:36:37,010
\namong woman that is greater than
\nhim. <\/p>\n
555
\n00:36:37,880 –> 00:36:40,400
\nYou think about Moses, you think
\nabout Elijah, You think about <\/p>\n
556
\n00:36:40,400 –> 00:36:44,720
\nall the great prophets.
\nThey’re nothing, says Jesus in <\/p>\n
557
\n00:36:44,720 –> 00:36:48,440
\ncomparison to that man.
\nAnd you know, he was so great, <\/p>\n
558
\n00:36:48,840 –> 00:36:52,920
\nsays verse 27, that the prophets
\nactually prophesied of him. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:36:53,800 –> 00:36:56,880
\nHe’s the subject of Malachi.
\nHe is the messenger that would <\/p>\n
560
\n00:36:56,880 –> 00:37:00,920
\ngo before me.
\nHe’s the greatest prophet there <\/p>\n
561
\n00:37:00,920 –> 00:37:04,840
\never was.
\nBecause, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
562
\n00:37:04,840 –> 00:37:10,050
\nhe wasn’t just words on a page.
\nIt’s one thing to say something,<\/p>\n
563
\n00:37:11,330 –> 00:37:14,450
\nand it’s another to to reinforce
\nits power by doing it. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:37:14,650 –> 00:37:18,090
\nWhat went she out to see?
\nThat was John. <\/p>\n
565
\n00:37:19,490 –> 00:37:21,770
\nThat was a verbal blast for my
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:37:21,770 –> 00:37:25,050
\nHow how dare you criticize that
\nman? <\/p>\n
567
\n00:37:25,050 –> 00:37:27,170
\nYes, he doubted and I rebuked
\nhim for the doubt. <\/p>\n
568
\n00:37:27,850 –> 00:37:30,010
\nBut look at his example.
\nIs is that what you do? <\/p>\n
569
\n00:37:32,130 –> 00:37:35,250
\nWell, now the scene changes
\nafter that, that verbal blast <\/p>\n
570
\n00:37:35,250 –> 00:37:39,460
\nfrom my Lord Jesus Christ.
\nThe Lord could sense some some <\/p>\n
571
\n00:37:39,460 –> 00:37:41,820
\ncontrition in the crowd.
\nPeople were we’re now a little <\/p>\n
572
\n00:37:41,820 –> 00:37:44,420
\nbit ashamed of, of thinking that
\nway about John. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:37:44,420 –> 00:37:49,100
\nAnd so the Lord said to
\neverybody come here in verse 28.<\/p>\n
574
\n00:37:50,140 –> 00:37:52,820
\nAmong those that are born among
\nwomen, there’s not a greater <\/p>\n
575
\n00:37:52,820 –> 00:37:59,460
\nprophet than John the Baptist,
\nbut he that is least in the <\/p>\n
576
\n00:37:59,460 –> 00:38:02,740
\nKingdom of God is greater than
\nhe. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:38:03,380 –> 00:38:07,440
\nSo as great as John was.
\nAnd we’ve been staggered as at <\/p>\n
578
\n00:38:07,440 –> 00:38:13,200
\nhis example this weekend, as
\ngreat as he was, you can be <\/p>\n
579
\n00:38:13,200 –> 00:38:15,640
\ngreater, said the Lord Jesus
\nChrist. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:38:15,960 –> 00:38:18,280
\nThe Lord would put his hands on
\non their shoulders, not <\/p>\n
581
\n00:38:18,280 –> 00:38:20,600
\napologizing.
\nHe would not apologize at all <\/p>\n
582
\n00:38:20,880 –> 00:38:23,280
\nfor what he had said.
\nBut but to tell them that he <\/p>\n
583
\n00:38:23,280 –> 00:38:27,840
\nthat is the very least in the
\nKingdom of God is greater than <\/p>\n
584
\n00:38:27,840 –> 00:38:31,840
\nJohn the Baptist.
\nYou can all be greater than <\/p>\n
585
\n00:38:31,840 –> 00:38:36,140
\nJohn.
\nJesus is not saying here that <\/p>\n
586
\n00:38:36,140 –> 00:38:40,100
\nJohn will not be in the Kingdom.
\nYou know, I say 61 just said <\/p>\n
587
\n00:38:40,100 –> 00:38:42,380
\nthat he will.
\nHe’s not saying that he wouldn’t<\/p>\n
588
\n00:38:42,380 –> 00:38:44,500
\nbe there.
\nBut as John stood there born <\/p>\n
589
\n00:38:44,500 –> 00:38:48,900
\namong women, the greatest of a
\ntransient system, as the phrase <\/p>\n
590
\n00:38:48,900 –> 00:38:52,460
\nborn among women means those
\nborn among women, people that <\/p>\n
591
\n00:38:52,460 –> 00:38:56,300
\nare in the Kingdom of God and
\neven lower places are greater <\/p>\n
592
\n00:38:56,300 –> 00:39:02,220
\nthan he is born among women as
\nthe greatest you can all be. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:39:03,430 –> 00:39:06,430
\nGreater than John.
\nBrothers and sisters, you want <\/p>\n
594
\n00:39:06,430 –> 00:39:08,750
\nan encouragement?
\nThat would have been for those <\/p>\n
595
\n00:39:08,750 –> 00:39:11,270
\nwho had previously
\nunderestimated John. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:39:11,350 –> 00:39:13,710
\nNow they can see what the Lord
\nis driving at in that man’s <\/p>\n
597
\n00:39:13,710 –> 00:39:16,830
\nexample, and they’re motivated
\nto do something about it. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:39:18,470 –> 00:39:24,590
\nWell, some did and some didn’t.
\nJust look at verse 29, who did <\/p>\n
599
\n00:39:24,590 –> 00:39:31,230
\nsomething about it and all the
\ncommon people that heard him. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:39:32,160 –> 00:39:39,160
\nAnd the publicans justified God
\nbeing baptized with the baptism <\/p>\n
601
\n00:39:39,160 –> 00:39:41,640
\nof John.
\nThey justified God when we <\/p>\n
602
\n00:39:41,640 –> 00:39:43,760
\nexplained that yesterday.
\nLet me put it to you another <\/p>\n
603
\n00:39:43,760 –> 00:39:48,120
\nway.
\nAll flesh is grass, and my <\/p>\n
604
\n00:39:48,120 –> 00:39:52,440
\nfather is right.
\nAnd they all did that, as we saw<\/p>\n
605
\n00:39:52,440 –> 00:39:56,080
\nyesterday in Luke Chapter 3, in
\nthe Baptism of John, all flesh <\/p>\n
606
\n00:39:56,080 –> 00:39:57,720
\nis grass.
\nThere’s nothing in me that’s <\/p>\n
607
\n00:39:57,720 –> 00:40:00,710
\ngood.
\nAnd they justified God. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:40:00,870 –> 00:40:06,630
\nMy father is right in putting me
\nto death, in requiring the death<\/p>\n
609
\n00:40:06,630 –> 00:40:09,710
\nof human nature.
\nBut then, as we read in verse <\/p>\n
610
\n00:40:09,710 –> 00:40:16,630
\n30, but the Pharisees and the
\nlawyers rejected the counsel of <\/p>\n
611
\n00:40:16,630 –> 00:40:20,870
\nGod.
\nAmong themselves or within <\/p>\n
612
\n00:40:20,870 –> 00:40:23,870
\nthemselves, you see the margin
\nfor against themselves, the <\/p>\n
613
\n00:40:23,870 –> 00:40:27,990
\nmargin has within.
\nThemselves, you see, Here’s <\/p>\n
614
\n00:40:28,070 –> 00:40:31,310
\ngroup number two.
\nGroup number one accepted those <\/p>\n
615
\n00:40:31,310 –> 00:40:33,070
\nprinciples and declared who they
\nwere. <\/p>\n
616
\n00:40:33,550 –> 00:40:35,870
\nBut group #2, there’s a battle
\ngoing on inside. <\/p>\n
617
\n00:40:35,990 –> 00:40:39,750
\nThey’ve been pricked in the
\nheart by John, but they just <\/p>\n
618
\n00:40:39,750 –> 00:40:42,350
\ncan’t do it.
\nThey can’t give up their <\/p>\n
619
\n00:40:42,350 –> 00:40:45,030
\ncomforts.
\nThey don’t want to give up their<\/p>\n
620
\n00:40:45,030 –> 00:40:47,910
\nhouses.
\nThey don’t want to give up all <\/p>\n
621
\n00:40:47,910 –> 00:40:51,790
\ntheir money, all their position,
\nall their honor, and they refuse<\/p>\n
622
\n00:40:51,790 –> 00:40:55,700
\nto be baptized.
\nYou know, as we face the table <\/p>\n
623
\n00:40:55,700 –> 00:40:59,740
\nnow, brothers and sisters, we
\nhave to ask ourselves, are we in<\/p>\n
624
\n00:40:59,740 –> 00:41:04,780
\nany way like these people in
\nverse 30, how many people walk <\/p>\n
625
\n00:41:04,780 –> 00:41:06,700
\naway impressed with John the
\nBaptist? <\/p>\n
626
\n00:41:07,620 –> 00:41:11,300
\nLike here at Antipass, they’re
\nstruck with him. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:41:11,300 –> 00:41:13,860
\nThey think, wow, that’s, you
\nknow, I really should be doing <\/p>\n
628
\n00:41:13,860 –> 00:41:16,540
\nthat in my life, but when it
\ncomes time to doing it, they <\/p>\n
629
\n00:41:16,540 –> 00:41:21,270
\njust can’t do it.
\nBecause to do that means I’ll, <\/p>\n
630
\n00:41:21,390 –> 00:41:24,510
\nI’ll lose this or I’ll have to
\ngive up this comfort or I might <\/p>\n
631
\n00:41:24,510 –> 00:41:28,550
\nbe taken down a peg or two.
\nThey frustrated the council of <\/p>\n
632
\n00:41:28,550 –> 00:41:35,350
\nGod within themselves.
\nWhich group are we having heard <\/p>\n
633
\n00:41:35,910 –> 00:41:39,710
\nthe studies on John the Baptist,
\nhaving seen his example, what <\/p>\n
634
\n00:41:39,710 –> 00:41:42,790
\nare we going to do?
\nLet’s come back to Matthew 11, <\/p>\n
635
\n00:41:42,790 –> 00:41:46,030
\nbecause Matthew just adds one
\ndetail that that Mark doesn’t <\/p>\n
636
\n00:41:47,590 –> 00:41:52,740
\nhere is Jesus.
\nFinal testimony to John and to <\/p>\n
637
\n00:41:52,740 –> 00:41:57,900
\nthe greatness of the man that we
\nhave seen this weekend, Matthew,<\/p>\n
638
\n00:41:57,900 –> 00:42:04,340
\nChapter 11, verse 11.
\nBarely, I say unto you, among <\/p>\n
639
\n00:42:04,340 –> 00:42:08,300
\nthem that are born of women,
\nthere have not risen a greater <\/p>\n
640
\n00:42:08,300 –> 00:42:11,660
\nthan John the Baptist.
\nNotwithstanding he that is least<\/p>\n
641
\n00:42:11,660 –> 00:42:14,220
\nin the Kingdom of heaven is
\ngreater than he. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:42:14,220 –> 00:42:15,700
\nYou can all be greater than
\nJohn. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:42:16,500 –> 00:42:19,020
\nAnd from the days of John the
\nBaptist until now the Kingdom of<\/p>\n
644
\n00:42:19,020 –> 00:42:22,900
\nheaven suffereth violence and
\nthe violent take it by force. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:42:23,540 –> 00:42:27,140
\nFor all the prophets in the law
\nprophesied till John and if you <\/p>\n
646
\n00:42:27,140 –> 00:42:30,460
\nwill receive it, this is Elijah
\nwhich was for it to come. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:42:30,980 –> 00:42:34,460
\nAnd verse 15 is a statement
\nwhich is universal. <\/p>\n
648
\n00:42:34,740 –> 00:42:38,020
\nWhen we read this statement in
\nverse 15 it means this is a <\/p>\n
649
\n00:42:38,020 –> 00:42:42,100
\nmessage for all time.
\nSo Jesus is not just speaking in<\/p>\n
650
\n00:42:42,100 –> 00:42:44,220
\nverse 15 to the people listening
\nthat day. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:42:45,040 –> 00:42:47,360
\nHere is a message for all
\ngenerations. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:42:47,600 –> 00:42:51,280
\nHe that hath ears to hear, let
\nhim hear. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:42:51,280 –> 00:42:56,880
\nIn other words, the choice now
\ncomes down to us on the very eve<\/p>\n
654
\n00:42:56,880 –> 00:42:59,240
\nof the Kingdom.
\nWhat are we going to do? <\/p>\n
655
\n00:43:00,800 –> 00:43:02,640
\nWell, verse 12 tells us what we
\nhave to do. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:43:03,360 –> 00:43:05,920
\nFrom the days of John the
\nBaptist until now, the Kingdom <\/p>\n
657
\n00:43:05,920 –> 00:43:11,040
\nof heaven, suffereth, violence,
\nand the violent take it by force<\/p>\n
658
\n00:43:11,040 –> 00:43:12,790
\nnow.
\nThe word violence, of course, <\/p>\n
659
\n00:43:12,790 –> 00:43:14,670
\nis, you know, triggers all kinds
\nof things. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:43:14,670 –> 00:43:17,910
\nBut really what the Greek is, is
\nmen of determination. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:43:19,030 –> 00:43:23,230
\nMen of determination grasp their
\nopportunity and didn’t let it <\/p>\n
662
\n00:43:23,230 –> 00:43:25,030
\ngo.
\nLet’s not go away from these <\/p>\n
663
\n00:43:25,030 –> 00:43:28,910
\nstudies and say, well, what a
\nmarvelous character John is. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:43:29,190 –> 00:43:32,310
\nLet’s go away from these studies
\nwith a determination that almost<\/p>\n
665
\n00:43:32,310 –> 00:43:36,710
\nborders on violence to grab this
\nKingdom and never let it go. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:43:37,590 –> 00:43:40,230
\nThat’s what John was telling men
\nto do. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:43:40,640 –> 00:43:42,200
\nAnd that’s what Jesus is saying
\nhere. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:43:42,880 –> 00:43:46,840
\nTake it by force, grab it and
\nnever let it go. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:43:48,120 –> 00:43:51,400
\nThat portable light had flared
\nup for a moment and people saw <\/p>\n
670
\n00:43:51,400 –> 00:43:53,800
\nthemselves for who they really
\nwere. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:43:54,360 –> 00:43:56,480
\nI think we all feel a little
\nembarrassed looking at John, <\/p>\n
672
\n00:43:56,480 –> 00:43:58,520
\ndon’t we?
\nBecause we know that our lives <\/p>\n
673
\n00:43:58,520 –> 00:44:03,920
\nare are not at all like his.
\nWe see how great he was, but but<\/p>\n
674
\n00:44:03,920 –> 00:44:07,040
\nlet that, let that motivate us
\nnow to go forward, brothers and <\/p>\n
675
\n00:44:07,040 –> 00:44:09,230
\nsisters, to to.
\nTo make the changes that we need<\/p>\n
676
\n00:44:09,230 –> 00:44:12,510
\nto make in our lives to grab
\nthat Kingdom before the light <\/p>\n
677
\n00:44:12,510 –> 00:44:17,750
\ngoes out and the parallel
\nparallel record in Luke, Jesus <\/p>\n
678
\n00:44:17,750 –> 00:44:21,030
\nsaid press into it.
\nHe said the law and the prophets<\/p>\n
679
\n00:44:21,030 –> 00:44:24,030
\nwere until John Luke 16, verse
\n16. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:44:24,750 –> 00:44:28,150
\nBut now the Kingdom of heaven
\nsuffer with violence and men <\/p>\n
681
\n00:44:28,670 –> 00:44:32,830
\npress into it with energy and
\nwith force they press into that <\/p>\n
682
\n00:44:32,830 –> 00:44:35,150
\nKingdom.
\nIt’s only a determination like <\/p>\n
683
\n00:44:35,150 –> 00:44:37,940
\nthat that’s going to succeed.
\nWhatever the brotherhood needs a<\/p>\n
684
\n00:44:37,940 –> 00:44:41,300
\ndetermination, it needs it now.
\nPress into it with all your <\/p>\n
685
\n00:44:41,300 –> 00:44:44,660
\nmight.
\nHalf hearted life, half hearted <\/p>\n
686
\n00:44:44,660 –> 00:44:47,740
\napproach is just not going to
\nwork in this day and age. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:44:48,940 –> 00:44:52,500
\nSo John now is passing off the
\nscene in front of us. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:44:52,500 –> 00:45:01,460
\nA man who had no money, no coke,
\nnothing, and yet had everything.<\/p>\n
689
\n00:45:03,820 –> 00:45:05,780
\nBut he’s nothing alongside of
\nJesus Christ, is he? <\/p>\n
690
\n00:45:07,620 –> 00:45:11,260
\nNow is our opportunity, brothers
\nand sisters, to grab that <\/p>\n
691
\n00:45:11,260 –> 00:45:15,940
\nKingdom, to allow these men to
\nto show us the way and to fall <\/p>\n
692
\n00:45:15,940 –> 00:45:19,020
\nin behind, like those disciples
\nin John chapter one did. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:45:20,620 –> 00:45:23,700
\nLet’s conclude our studies on
\nJohn with some very fitting <\/p>\n
694
\n00:45:23,700 –> 00:45:25,980
\nwords.
\nAnd no more fitting words, I <\/p>\n
695
\n00:45:25,980 –> 00:45:32,860
\nthink, could ever be recorded of
\nhim, they say, and others had <\/p>\n
696
\n00:45:32,860 –> 00:45:35,660
\ntrial of cruel mockings and
\nscourgings. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:45:36,540 –> 00:45:40,660
\nYay, moreover, of bonds and
\nimprisonment, they were stoned, <\/p>\n
698
\n00:45:41,580 –> 00:45:46,220
\nthey were sawn asunder, they
\nwere tempted, were slain with <\/p>\n
699
\n00:45:46,220 –> 00:45:48,740
\nthe sword.
\nThey wandered about in <\/p>\n
700
\n00:45:48,740 –> 00:45:53,660
\nsheepskins and goat skins, and
\nwe could add camel skins. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:45:54,700 –> 00:45:59,380
\nBeing destitute, afflicted,
\ntormented, of whom the world was<\/p>\n
702
\n00:45:59,380 –> 00:46:03,100
\nnot worthy, they wandered about
\nin deserts. <\/p>\n
703
\n00:46:04,750 –> 00:46:08,390
\nAnd in mountains, and in dens
\nand caves of the earth. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:46:08,870 –> 00:46:13,910
\nAnd we could add in the dungeon
\nof Mccarris, these all having <\/p>\n
705
\n00:46:13,910 –> 00:46:18,270
\nobtained a good report through
\nfaith, received not the promise <\/p>\n
706
\n00:46:19,070 –> 00:46:25,190
\nGod having provided some better
\nthing for us, us God leaves that<\/p>\n
707
\n00:46:25,190 –> 00:46:31,230
\nman where he is for 2000 years
\nfor us, that his example might <\/p>\n
708
\n00:46:31,230 –> 00:46:32,990
\nmotivate us to be there with
\nhim. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:46:34,710 –> 00:46:36,670
\nLet that motivate us now,
\nbrothers and sisters, as we <\/p>\n
710
\n00:46:36,670 –> 00:46:41,190
\nrenew our vows before the table,
\nGod having provided some better <\/p>\n
711
\n00:46:41,190 –> 00:46:45,830
\nthing for us that they without
\nus, should not be made perfect. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:46:46,950 –> 00:46:49,830
\nBrothers and sisters, let us
\nhear the voice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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