Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 245<\/p>\n
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\nthis weekend on John the Baptist
\nallowing God to speak for <\/p>\n
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\nhearts, We now invite our
\nbrother Ryan to lead us in his <\/p>\n
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\nthird class for today, the day
\nof his exhibition on to Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nBrother Ryan.
\nGood afternoon once again, <\/p>\n
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\nbrothers and sisters.
\nSo everybody’s refreshed for the<\/p>\n
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\nthe back half when John was
\nasked by a deputation of the <\/p>\n
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\nJews that were sent to him, who
\nare you? <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s interesting to to see that
\nthe more John said, actually the<\/p>\n
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\nless he said the Jewish leaders
\nasked are you the Christ, his <\/p>\n
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\nanswer?
\nI am not the Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nAre you, Elijah?
\nI am not. <\/p>\n
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\nAre you the prophet?
\nThe Deuteronomy 18 No. <\/p>\n
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\nWell.
\nWell then, who are you? <\/p>\n
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\nNothing, Just a voice.
\nAnd the very fact that John saw <\/p>\n
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\nhimself as nothing, brothers and
\nsisters, is what allowed God to <\/p>\n
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\nmake him.
\nA voice. <\/p>\n
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\nSee, if there’s one thing that
\nprevents God speaking through <\/p>\n
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\npeople, it’s when we insist on
\nspeaking for ourselves. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s only when we’re able to.
\nDivest ourselves of. <\/p>\n
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\nSelf that God can take our mouth
\nand and. <\/p>\n
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\nUse.
\nThat mouth for his purpose. <\/p>\n
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\nIf we don’t need brothers and
\nsisters who go around the <\/p>\n
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\necclesia speaking their mind,
\nwhat we need is brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters who are going to speak
\nGod’s mind. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd we can only do that, as John
\nis going to show us, when we <\/p>\n
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\nempty ourselves of our own
\nthoughts, that we might be <\/p>\n
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\nfilled with gods.
\nI am not the Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nI am not.
\nNo. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, then, who are you?
\nJust a voice, you. <\/p>\n
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\nKnow it’s interesting that he of
\nwhom it was said that he’s the <\/p>\n
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\ngreatest prophet born among
\nwomen. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have just one verse of
\nscripture that spans 30 years of<\/p>\n
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\nhis.
\nLife. <\/p>\n
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\nI’d like you to just.
\nFocus on that verse of. <\/p>\n
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\nScripture now with me in Luke
\nchapter one and. <\/p>\n
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\nAt verse 80.
\nYou much like the testimony <\/p>\n
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\nabout our Lord Jesus Christ.
\nWe have just a glimpse of him <\/p>\n
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\nthere, don’t we?
\nIn the temple dazzling the the <\/p>\n
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\ndoctors of the law.
\nBut although this one verse <\/p>\n
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\nspans 30 years of John’s life,
\nit it really fits his purpose <\/p>\n
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\nabsolutely.
\nBeautifully. <\/p>\n
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\nLuke won the very last.
\nVerse. <\/p>\n
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\nThe child grew and waxed strong
\nin spirit. <\/p>\n
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\nHis parents are probably have
\nnow passed off the scene and was<\/p>\n
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\nin the deserts until the day of
\nhis showing unto Israel. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as as we’ve been repeating
\nthroughout the classes, he’s in <\/p>\n
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\nthe deserts.
\nThat’s where God’s voice can be <\/p>\n
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\nheard.
\nThat’s where he can be <\/p>\n
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\nunderstood.
\nWe have to. <\/p>\n
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\nIsolate don’t we ourselves from
\nthis world. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, I don’t think that.
\nGod expects any of us, brothers <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters, to live like John
\nthe Baptist. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, we’re taught in the book
\nof Ecclesiastes to live a a <\/p>\n
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\nbasic life, having contentment
\nwith food and raiment. <\/p>\n
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\nHe doesn’t expect us to live
\nlike John the Baptist. <\/p>\n
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\nBut what he is saying is that we
\nhave to cut off ourselves from <\/p>\n
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\nthis world, go out into a
\ndesert, even if in our minds and<\/p>\n
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\nthey’re uncluttered from
\nsociety, we can hear the voice <\/p>\n
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\nof God.
\nAnd that was his message He <\/p>\n
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\nlived.
\nHis message? <\/p>\n
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\nHe was in the desert for all of
\nthose years, in a world that <\/p>\n
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\nseethed an intrigue and all of
\nits class distinctions. <\/p>\n
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\nThe voice was crying.
\nCome out here. <\/p>\n
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\nCome out here and learn
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\nGod, but that first says
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\nJohn the Baptist claimed to be
\njust a voice. <\/p>\n
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\nNow I understand that when you
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\nVoice, you listen.
\nBut what does that verse say? <\/p>\n
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\nHe was in the deserts until the
\nday of his showing onto Israel, <\/p>\n
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\nso they were looking at
\nsomething. <\/p>\n
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\nIt wasn’t just that they were
\nhearing a voice, they were <\/p>\n
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\nseeing something as well.
\nWhen the Lord Jesus Christ spoke<\/p>\n
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\nabout John, he said in Luke 7,
\nverse 24. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat went she out?
\nTo see. <\/p>\n
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\nSo it wasn’t just a voice.
\nAlthough John claimed to be only<\/p>\n
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\nthat they were seeing something
\nabout, there was something they <\/p>\n
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\nsaw in his character that was
\nimpressive too, and we need to <\/p>\n
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\ngo down this morning and we need
\nto have a look at him. <\/p>\n
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\nThis was Vision in the
\nWilderness, his exhibition in <\/p>\n
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\nthe desert well.
\nWhat do we? <\/p>\n
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\nSee, let’s come to Matthew
\nchapter 3. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause Matthew.
\nGives us those details. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat went she out to?
\nSee. <\/p>\n
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\nSaid the Lord Jesus Christ.
\nWell, here he is. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd everyone would have seen
\nhim, you know, as we turn up <\/p>\n
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\nthat reference, let’s just have
\na look at the the layout of of <\/p>\n
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\nthe land where John was.
\nJohn was in the wilderness, the <\/p>\n
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\nshowing. <\/p>\n
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\nSo he was here in the the
\nwilderness of Judea, which is <\/p>\n
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\nvery inhospitable terrain, very
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\nThrough because it’s just. <\/p>\n
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\nVery dry.
\nHe was in the wilderness until <\/p>\n
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\nthe day of his showing onto
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
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\nNow when John appeared on the
\nscene to the to the nation of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael, he moved out of the
\nwilderness and he went down. <\/p>\n
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\nHere on the valley floor, which
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\nSea on the Jordan River, and
\nthere he manifested himself to <\/p>\n
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\nthe people, and everyone would
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\nthese hills.
\nWhere you see this, this rough <\/p>\n
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\npart of the map, those hills are
\nabout 3000 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n
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\nJohn is down here on the valley
\nfloor, probably about 1400 feet <\/p>\n
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\nbelow sea level.
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\nLooking down on him, it’s like
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\nWhat were they all looking at?
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\nMatthew, Chapter 3 this is.
\nWhat they saw. <\/p>\n
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\nVerse 3 But this is he that was.
\nSpoken by the prophet Isaiah <\/p>\n
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\nsaying the voice of 1 crying in
\nthe wilderness. <\/p>\n
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\nPrepare you the way of the.
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\nthis same John had his raiment
\nof camel’s hair and 11 girdle <\/p>\n
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\nabout his loins, and his meat
\nwas locust and wild honey. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that is the total of John’s
\npossessions, one leather girdle <\/p>\n
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\nand one camel’s hair garment.
\nHe had nothing. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was completely undistracted
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\nThat was all he had.
\nAs we said, a camel skin doesn’t<\/p>\n
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\ncooking.
\nAnd because of that, he was <\/p>\n
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\navailable.
\nGod could get through to him. <\/p>\n
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\nGod could speak to him.
\nNow it’s interesting that <\/p>\n
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\nthere’s a fascinating
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\nWe saw the parallels, didn’t we,
\nwith Elijah? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Elijah was.
\nDressed in nature, you know, <\/p>\n
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\nescarpment of Gillian.
\nBut of Elijah, it said that his <\/p>\n
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\nclothing was the skin of an
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\nIt doesn’t say what one, but of
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\nwas because it says there in
\nverse four that it was Camel’s. <\/p>\n
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\nHair.
\nNow, why? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy would the scriptures note
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\nWell, you’re the camel of all
\ncreatures. <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and Sisters is made by
\nthe creator for the desert. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the ship of the Desert.
\nYou look at the unique features.<\/p>\n
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\nOf a camel.
\nA camel has special foot pads <\/p>\n
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\nwhich mold itself to the the
\nsand of the desert. <\/p>\n
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\nIf you put a camel on rocky
\nground, he’s hopeless. <\/p>\n
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\nBut if you put him on the sand
\nof the desert, he’s he’s <\/p>\n
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\nabsolutely sure he has a hump in
\nwhich to store his food. <\/p>\n
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\nThe poor camel doesn’t know how
\nlong he’s going to have to be <\/p>\n
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\ntrotting, so he has a hump that
\nstores food. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s got a massive 3 chambered
\nstomach. <\/p>\n
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\nIn which to store water so that
\nyou can constantly have a a <\/p>\n
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\nreplenishment.
\nIts nostrils are all pinched in.<\/p>\n
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\nSo you see the the blowing sands
\nof of the desert can’t get in <\/p>\n
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\nhis nose because they’re pinched
\nin. <\/p>\n
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\nIt has lips.
\nThat are like. <\/p>\n
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\nLeather so you can eat cactus
\nand all of the the plants that <\/p>\n
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\nare that are in the desert.
\nIt sheds its coat just before <\/p>\n
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\nthe hot weather so it has a
\nthick. <\/p>\n
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\nCoat in the winter.
\nAnd it has a small coat. <\/p>\n
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\nIn the summer it can go 100
\nmiles in 12 hours, and if it <\/p>\n
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\nneeds it can go for four.
\nSuccessive days without a rest. <\/p>\n
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\nKeeping going and keeping going
\nand keeping going and keeping <\/p>\n
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\ngoing and John’s clothes in him.
\nNow you look at look at those <\/p>\n
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\ncharacteristics.
\nDoesn’t the word of God need to <\/p>\n
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\nbe in several chambers of our
\nthinking? <\/p>\n
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\nDon’t we need to have special
\nshoes to get through the terrain<\/p>\n
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\nof the world?
\nYou don’t. <\/p>\n
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\nWe need to have food stored up
\nin case of a a long trial that <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re going through.
\nDon’t we need to have our <\/p>\n
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\nnostrils, you know, pinched in
\nso we we don’t. <\/p>\n
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\nGet the, the, the.
\nDegrading sands of criticism and<\/p>\n
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\nand negativity in there.
\nYou know we need to wear warm <\/p>\n
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\ncoats in the winter to prepare
\nfor the the. <\/p>\n
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\nTrials of the Winter.
\nAnd then when the hot weather is<\/p>\n
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\nbeating down on us, we need to
\nhave our our thin coats. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s adapted to his
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\nfind room in their life. <\/p>\n
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\nYou got to wash. <\/p>\n
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\ngot to get baptized.
\nYou’ve all got to get baptized. <\/p>\n
340
\n00:19:49,890 –> 00:19:53,530
\nUnless you’re prepared to all go
\ndown into the money stream of <\/p>\n
341
\n00:19:53,530 –> 00:19:58,330
\nJordan and confess that all
\nflesh is grass, then there’s no <\/p>\n
342
\n00:19:58,330 –> 00:20:00,770
\nway that you’re going to find
\nrepentance. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:20:01,370 –> 00:20:05,570
\nYou know, imagine, imagine a
\nPharisee having to to lower his <\/p>\n
344
\n00:20:05,570 –> 00:20:08,810
\nhis dignity to that you know,
\nwith his his royal. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:20:08,810 –> 00:20:10,890
\nRobes and his broad
\nPhilactories. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:20:10,930 –> 00:20:12,570
\nYou’ve.
\nAll got to get down. <\/p>\n
347
\n00:20:13,330 –> 00:20:17,850
\nInto that muddy mess and confess
\nwho you are. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:20:18,450 –> 00:20:19,850
\nHave a look at what John was to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:20:19,930 –> 00:20:22,090
\nCome back to John’s chapter.
\nIsaiah 40. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:20:23,250 –> 00:20:25,370
\nSo we’ve said we.
\nWe’re going to be here in every <\/p>\n
351
\n00:20:25,370 –> 00:20:28,930
\nsession because this is the work
\nof John, all spelled out not <\/p>\n
352
\n00:20:28,930 –> 00:20:33,490
\njust in the Gospels, but it’s
\nall predicted here by Isaiah in <\/p>\n
353
\n00:20:33,490 –> 00:20:35,690
\nview of John’s.
\nPreaching the glory of Yahweh <\/p>\n
354
\n00:20:35,690 –> 00:20:38,850
\nwas to be revealed, says verse
\n5. <\/p>\n
355
\n00:20:41,340 –> 00:20:45,820
\nThe glory of Yahweh was to be
\nrevealed, and all flesh verse <\/p>\n
356
\n00:20:45,820 –> 00:20:50,260
\nfive of Isaiah 40 shall see it
\ntogether. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:20:50,420 –> 00:20:53,420
\nThe word together there really
\nmeans to become alike. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:20:53,820 –> 00:20:56,980
\nIt’s the word Ekad.
\nWhich means to be united, to to <\/p>\n
359
\n00:20:56,980 –> 00:21:03,300
\nbecome alike.
\nThis glory will bring everyone <\/p>\n
360
\n00:21:03,780 –> 00:21:06,660
\nto a common level, whether
\nyou’re rich, whether you’re <\/p>\n
361
\n00:21:06,660 –> 00:21:12,030
\npoor, no matter your race.
\nEverything will be brought to a <\/p>\n
362
\n00:21:12,030 –> 00:21:15,270
\ncommon level by what John is
\nabout to do. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:21:16,190 –> 00:21:20,910
\nAll distinctions will disappear,
\nand it was the glory of Yahweh. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:21:20,910 –> 00:21:23,030
\nIt says that will that will do
\nthat. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:21:23,350 –> 00:21:25,870
\nNow in John chapter one and
\nverse 14 you needn’t turn to it,<\/p>\n
366
\n00:21:25,870 –> 00:21:29,270
\nbut it says the Word became
\nflesh and dwelt among us, and we<\/p>\n
367
\n00:21:29,270 –> 00:21:32,070
\nbe held as glory.
\nThe glory is of the only. <\/p>\n
368
\n00:21:32,070 –> 00:21:34,390
\nBegotten of the Father, full of
\ngrace and truth. <\/p>\n
369
\n00:21:34,630 –> 00:21:37,670
\nSo there’s the glory of verse 5
\nbeing revealed. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:21:38,670 –> 00:21:42,290
\nThat’s in John chapter one.
\nJohn chapter 3 deals with <\/p>\n
371
\n00:21:42,290 –> 00:21:46,930
\nNicodemus, a man who thought his
\nblood was blue and everybody <\/p>\n
372
\n00:21:46,930 –> 00:21:51,130
\nelse’s was red.
\nAnd John chapter 4 deals with a <\/p>\n
373
\n00:21:51,130 –> 00:21:55,490
\ncorrupt, evil woman of Samaria,
\nthe other end of the scale. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:21:56,570 –> 00:22:03,610
\nAnd God brought them together.
\nHe met Nicodemus at night. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:22:04,490 –> 00:22:06,570
\nHe met the woman of Samaria at
\nthe blaze of dead. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:22:08,030 –> 00:22:12,070
\nHe said to Nicodemus.
\nGod so love the world, He said <\/p>\n
377
\n00:22:12,070 –> 00:22:14,310
\nto the woman of Simarius.
\nSalvations of the Jews. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:22:14,470 –> 00:22:18,270
\nHe brought them together.
\nHe narrowed Nicodemus’s <\/p>\n
379
\n00:22:18,270 –> 00:22:22,590
\nperspective, and he sorry he
\nbrought Nicodemus’s perspective,<\/p>\n
380
\n00:22:22,590 –> 00:22:25,390
\nand he narrowed the woman of
\nSimarius. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:22:25,950 –> 00:22:30,830
\nBecause all status, all
\npositions, everything phase into<\/p>\n
382
\n00:22:30,830 –> 00:22:35,990
\ninsignificance in the view of
\nthat glory and every valley. <\/p>\n
383
\n00:22:36,440 –> 00:22:41,640
\nWas to be exalted.
\nEvery mountain hill was to be <\/p>\n
384
\n00:22:41,640 –> 00:22:44,680
\nmade low.
\nThe crooked places shall be made<\/p>\n
385
\n00:22:44,680 –> 00:22:46,040
\nstraight.
\nAnd so those lives that were <\/p>\n
386
\n00:22:46,160 –> 00:22:50,160
\ncrooked in God’s sight would be
\nstraightened out and the rough <\/p>\n
387
\n00:22:50,160 –> 00:22:53,320
\nplaces smoothed over.
\nNow there are four classes in <\/p>\n
388
\n00:22:53,320 –> 00:22:56,600
\nthat verse.
\nThere’s the valleys, there’s the<\/p>\n
389
\n00:22:56,600 –> 00:23:00,240
\nmountains and hills.
\nThere’s the crooked places, and <\/p>\n
390
\n00:23:00,240 –> 00:23:05,120
\nthen there’s the rough places.
\nAnd we come to the record of <\/p>\n
391
\n00:23:05,120 –> 00:23:09,430
\nLuke Chapter 3.
\nThere are only four classes of <\/p>\n
392
\n00:23:09,430 –> 00:23:13,950
\npeople who asked John questions.
\nThere’s the common people that <\/p>\n
393
\n00:23:13,950 –> 00:23:19,950
\nhe elevated, the scribes and the
\nPharisees that he leveled, the <\/p>\n
394
\n00:23:19,950 –> 00:23:21,910
\ntax collectors with all their
\ntheir crooked. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:23:21,910 –> 00:23:26,830
\nDealings as tax collectors.
\nHe straightened them out, and <\/p>\n
396
\n00:23:26,830 –> 00:23:31,230
\ndown came the Roman soldiers
\nwith all of their brutality and <\/p>\n
397
\n00:23:31,230 –> 00:23:34,910
\nhe said do violence to no man.
\nHe smoothed them over. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:23:35,940 –> 00:23:39,460
\nWhat a remarkable fulfillment
\nthere is of Isaiah chapter 40. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:23:39,460 –> 00:23:42,020
\nThose are the only four classes
\nthat asked him questions. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:23:42,420 –> 00:23:44,980
\nThe common people whom he
\nelevated, the scribes, and the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:23:44,980 –> 00:23:47,980
\nPharisees, whom he leveled, the
\ntax collectors. <\/p>\n
402
\n00:23:48,140 –> 00:23:50,820
\nHe.
\nStraightened out and the rough <\/p>\n
403
\n00:23:50,860 –> 00:23:54,220
\nbrutal Roman soldiers, they said
\nwhat are we going to do? <\/p>\n
404
\n00:23:54,740 –> 00:23:57,540
\nAnd he smoothed them over.
\nWhat we want now want to <\/p>\n
405
\n00:23:57,540 –> 00:24:01,300
\nconsider is what he said.
\nIn fact to each class. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:24:01,340 –> 00:24:06,050
\nCome back to Luke, Chapter 3.
\nSo the glory of Yahweh is <\/p>\n
407
\n00:24:06,050 –> 00:24:09,370
\nrevealed, and all flesh will be
\nmade alike. <\/p>\n
408
\n00:24:10,890 –> 00:24:13,050
\nSo who comes there?
\nWell, of course it’s the scribes<\/p>\n
409
\n00:24:13,050 –> 00:24:15,890
\nand the Pharisees as.
\nYou can expect that that come <\/p>\n
410
\n00:24:15,890 –> 00:24:18,290
\nfor.
\nFirst they make their presence <\/p>\n
411
\n00:24:18,290 –> 00:24:23,610
\nknown immediately.
\nLuke, chapter 3 and verse seven,<\/p>\n
412
\n00:24:25,250 –> 00:24:27,330
\nthen set.
\nHe to the multitude that came <\/p>\n
413
\n00:24:27,330 –> 00:24:30,850
\nforth to be baptized of him a
\ngeneration of Vipers who has <\/p>\n
414
\n00:24:30,850 –> 00:24:32,970
\nwarned you to flee from the
\nwrath to come. <\/p>\n
415
\n00:24:33,650 –> 00:24:36,210
\nYou know in verse 7 where it
\nsays they’re the multitude. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:24:36,610 –> 00:24:40,090
\nWe know from the parallel
\naccount in Matthew chapter three<\/p>\n
417
\n00:24:40,090 –> 00:24:43,610
\nthat this in fact was the
\nscribes and the Pharisees. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:24:43,610 –> 00:24:46,650
\nThey come first to be a
\nbaptized. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:24:46,650 –> 00:24:48,810
\nDo you know what a Pharisee
\nmeans? <\/p>\n
420
\n00:24:49,930 –> 00:24:53,530
\nThe word Pharisee.
\nIt means a separate one. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:24:54,490 –> 00:24:56,490
\nIt’s a separate one.
\nHave a look at who they’re <\/p>\n
422
\n00:24:56,490 –> 00:24:58,810
\ntalking to.
\nWho’s separate? <\/p>\n
423
\n00:24:59,930 –> 00:25:06,110
\nJohn the Baptist Or then?
\nDown come the separate ones and <\/p>\n
424
\n00:25:06,110 –> 00:25:08,630
\nand John doesn’t even let them
\nopen their mouth. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:25:09,190 –> 00:25:14,070
\nThe Pharisees who you know could
\ntalk, who make long. <\/p>\n
426
\n00:25:14,070 –> 00:25:15,470
\nPrayers for a.
\nPretense. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:25:15,630 –> 00:25:17,750
\nThey don’t even get one word in
\nthis record. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:25:18,110 –> 00:25:21,270
\nJohn just cuts them off before
\nthey even get there. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:25:21,270 –> 00:25:25,870
\nHe says, oh generation of Vipers
\nwho hath warned you to flee from<\/p>\n
430
\n00:25:25,870 –> 00:25:30,310
\nthe wrath to come, bring forth,
\ntherefore, fruits worthy of <\/p>\n
431
\n00:25:30,310 –> 00:25:32,270
\nrepentance, so in Isaiah’s
\nprophecy. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:25:32,590 –> 00:25:36,910
\nThe mountains are now going
\nbecause they were the mountains <\/p>\n
433
\n00:25:36,910 –> 00:25:37,590
\nof that.
\nDay. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:25:37,910 –> 00:25:39,950
\nIn Jewish society they were the
\nclergy. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:25:40,230 –> 00:25:44,470
\nThe mountains are now.
\nJohn doesn’t even let them get a<\/p>\n
436
\n00:25:44,470 –> 00:25:49,390
\nword in bring forth their forth
\nfruits, meat for repentance and <\/p>\n
437
\n00:25:49,390 –> 00:25:52,150
\nand what he’s actually doing is
\nhe’s really drawing on the the <\/p>\n
438
\n00:25:52,150 –> 00:25:57,270
\nfigure of the land.
\nYou see Jordan overflows its <\/p>\n
439
\n00:25:57,270 –> 00:26:00,510
\nbanks during the time of harvest
\nevery spring. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:26:02,180 –> 00:26:06,500
\nAnd if you’ve ever seen a, you
\nknow, a river flood and then <\/p>\n
441
\n00:26:06,500 –> 00:26:09,860
\nrecede, what it does is it
\nleaves behind it all the the <\/p>\n
442
\n00:26:09,860 –> 00:26:12,660
\ndebris and the the trash and
\nthe. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:26:12,940 –> 00:26:15,060
\nThe.
\nSticks and the the leaves that <\/p>\n
444
\n00:26:15,060 –> 00:26:18,020
\nleaves that behind it as it as
\nit recedes. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:26:19,140 –> 00:26:23,140
\nThen in the Land of Israel, it
\ngets really, really hot and it <\/p>\n
446
\n00:26:23,340 –> 00:26:26,580
\nbakes all of the debris and the
\nbracken and the trash that the <\/p>\n
447
\n00:26:26,580 –> 00:26:29,220
\nJordan has washed up and it
\nmakes it really, really hard and<\/p>\n
448
\n00:26:29,220 –> 00:26:32,180
\nit’s really caked.
\nAnd in John’s day, you know who <\/p>\n
449
\n00:26:32,180 –> 00:26:35,140
\ngot down into into all that
\ndebris and all that bracken <\/p>\n
450
\n00:26:36,420 –> 00:26:38,940
\nsnakes.
\nYou know, when Zechariah, the <\/p>\n
451
\n00:26:38,940 –> 00:26:42,460
\nprophet, in Jeremiah, the
\nprophet, he warned people about <\/p>\n
452
\n00:26:42,460 –> 00:26:44,820
\nthe Jordan.
\nThere were Vipers down there. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:26:44,820 –> 00:26:47,700
\nThere were lions down there.
\nIt was a dangerous place. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:26:48,580 –> 00:26:50,940
\nAnd So what the farmers used to
\ndo is they would sometimes put <\/p>\n
455
\n00:26:50,940 –> 00:26:55,420
\nthe torch to that trash and all
\nthat bracken down there along <\/p>\n
456
\n00:26:55,420 –> 00:26:58,900
\nthe Jordan and out would come
\nall the snakes flinging away. <\/p>\n
457
\n00:26:59,950 –> 00:27:02,910
\nMost serpents and generation of
\nVipers who has warned you to <\/p>\n
458
\n00:27:02,910 –> 00:27:06,350
\nflee from the wrath of the comp,
\nsays John, bring forth therefore<\/p>\n
459
\n00:27:06,350 –> 00:27:11,310
\nfruits meat for repentance to
\nthe mountains are being leveled.<\/p>\n
460
\n00:27:12,830 –> 00:27:15,070
\nNow the con chapter 4 and verse
\none said this. <\/p>\n
461
\n00:27:15,670 –> 00:27:20,870
\nThe day is coming that shall
\nburn as an oven, and yea upon <\/p>\n
462
\n00:27:20,870 –> 00:27:23,830
\nall that are proud and all that
\ndo wickedly, and he will leave <\/p>\n
463
\n00:27:23,830 –> 00:27:26,750
\nhim neither root nor branch.
\nAnd the end of that. <\/p>\n
464
\n00:27:26,750 –> 00:27:28,710
\nChapter says, Behold, I send you
\nElijah. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:27:29,660 –> 00:27:34,660
\nSo here’s John drawing on the
\nfigure of the of the Times. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:27:34,940 –> 00:27:36,700
\nYou know who hath warned you to
\nflee from? <\/p>\n
467
\n00:27:36,860 –> 00:27:40,820
\nThe wrath to come, you
\ngeneration of Vipers bring forth<\/p>\n
468
\n00:27:40,820 –> 00:27:43,540
\nfruits, meat for repentance
\nbefore I ever baptize you. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:27:44,580 –> 00:27:48,500
\nThey don’t even get a word in.
\nThey don’t even get a word in. <\/p>\n
470
\n00:27:48,980 –> 00:27:51,420
\nYou see there in verse. 7 Where
\nit says, oh, generation of <\/p>\n
471
\n00:27:51,420 –> 00:27:55,260
\nVipers, the word actually is a
\nlittle brood, A little brood of <\/p>\n
472
\n00:27:55,260 –> 00:27:59,090
\nsnakes.
\nThat would be fleeing from the <\/p>\n
473
\n00:27:59,130 –> 00:28:02,450
\nthis fire that the farmer would
\nwould use to to burn up all <\/p>\n
474
\n00:28:02,450 –> 00:28:04,410
\nthat.
\nTrash the little little brood <\/p>\n
475
\n00:28:04,410 –> 00:28:05,770
\nof.
\nOf snakes. <\/p>\n
476
\n00:28:07,130 –> 00:28:11,130
\nMany years later, Jesus came
\nalong and he called them a <\/p>\n
477
\n00:28:11,130 –> 00:28:13,970
\ngeneration of Vipers.
\nBut then he said, oh, generation<\/p>\n
478
\n00:28:13,970 –> 00:28:17,250
\nof Vipers, he said.
\nYou serpents and he used a <\/p>\n
479
\n00:28:17,250 –> 00:28:21,090
\nmature word.
\nTherefore for serpents they’re <\/p>\n
480
\n00:28:21,090 –> 00:28:23,530
\njust a little brood here.
\nBut by the time the Lord comes <\/p>\n
481
\n00:28:23,530 –> 00:28:26,930
\nalong in Matthew chapter 23,
\nwhere he absolutely up Abraids <\/p>\n
482
\n00:28:26,930 –> 00:28:30,390
\nthem for.
\nTheir iniquity he calls them. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:28:30,390 –> 00:28:32,550
\nSerpents.
\nSince this little. <\/p>\n
484
\n00:28:32,550 –> 00:28:37,070
\nBrood and now matured in its
\niniquity and it become a full <\/p>\n
485
\n00:28:37,070 –> 00:28:41,270
\nblown serpent.
\nYou have to change your thinking<\/p>\n
486
\n00:28:41,270 –> 00:28:45,750
\nbefore I’ll ever baptize you.
\nBy the time the Lord came, they <\/p>\n
487
\n00:28:45,750 –> 00:28:49,030
\nhadn’t changed and they had
\ngrown up. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:28:50,110 –> 00:28:54,310
\nNow just to remind ourselves
\nwhere we are, John is baptizing <\/p>\n
489
\n00:28:54,310 –> 00:28:56,150
\nright here where this this arrow
\nis. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:28:56,580 –> 00:28:59,940
\nAt Bethabara.
\nBethabara, you may remember, was<\/p>\n
491
\n00:28:59,940 –> 00:29:03,820
\nwhere the children of Israel
\ncrossed in the days of the <\/p>\n
492
\n00:29:03,860 –> 00:29:05,540
\nExodus.
\nHe’s not baptizing in the Dead <\/p>\n
493
\n00:29:05,540 –> 00:29:10,780
\nSea, he’s baptizing a little
\nfurther north in the Jordan at <\/p>\n
494
\n00:29:11,220 –> 00:29:16,780
\nBethabara.
\nNobody says next says, Don’t <\/p>\n
495
\n00:29:16,780 –> 00:29:19,700
\nthink to say within yourselves
\nthat we have Abraham to our <\/p>\n
496
\n00:29:19,700 –> 00:29:23,540
\nfather, But I say unto you that
\nGod is able of these stones. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:29:24,180 –> 00:29:26,780
\nTo raise up children unto
\nAbraham. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:29:26,780 –> 00:29:28,700
\nDo you remember?
\nWhat Joshua did with the stones <\/p>\n
499
\n00:29:28,700 –> 00:29:31,700
\nwhen they crossed.
\nYou see, there were stones in <\/p>\n
500
\n00:29:31,700 –> 00:29:34,940
\nthe Jordan, in the muddy filth
\nof Jordan, that the priest had <\/p>\n
501
\n00:29:34,940 –> 00:29:40,820
\nto pick up 12 of them and put
\nthem in the land, and then <\/p>\n
502
\n00:29:40,820 –> 00:29:44,300
\nJoshua not the priest.
\nJoshua took 12 Stones that were <\/p>\n
503
\n00:29:44,300 –> 00:29:47,420
\nnative to the land, native to
\nthe land. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:29:47,780 –> 00:29:50,620
\nHe took those 12 Stones and put
\nit back in Jordan, and Jordan <\/p>\n
505
\n00:29:50,620 –> 00:29:56,380
\nwashed him over Joshua.
\nDid that God is able of these <\/p>\n
506
\n00:29:56,380 –> 00:30:01,420
\nstones to raise up children unto
\nAbraham. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:30:02,500 –> 00:30:05,900
\nSo just because you’re native to
\nthe land, just because you’re <\/p>\n
508
\n00:30:05,900 –> 00:30:09,540
\nAbraham’s natural descendants,
\nthat doesn’t mean anything. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:30:09,700 –> 00:30:11,700
\nJoshua took the.
\nStones that were native to the <\/p>\n
510
\n00:30:11,700 –> 00:30:15,140
\nland and stuck them in the
\nJordan, and then stones that <\/p>\n
511
\n00:30:15,140 –> 00:30:17,740
\nweren’t native to the land.
\nYou could say gentiles. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:30:18,060 –> 00:30:20,500
\nStones that aren’t native to
\nland were picked up out of the <\/p>\n
513
\n00:30:20,500 –> 00:30:23,650
\nmuddy filth of Jordan.
\nAnd put in glory in the promised<\/p>\n
514
\n00:30:23,650 –> 00:30:28,970
\nland, God is able of these
\nstones to raise up children unto<\/p>\n
515
\n00:30:28,970 –> 00:30:31,930
\nAbraham.
\nHe just keeps on going. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:30:31,930 –> 00:30:33,130
\nI mean the invitement, Just,
\njust. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:30:33,250 –> 00:30:36,290
\nYou get a.
\nFeeling here for the way John <\/p>\n
518
\n00:30:36,290 –> 00:30:38,210
\nthought about these people, he.
\nHe knew they. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:30:38,290 –> 00:30:42,730
\nAbsolutely needed a dressing
\ndown and he says the. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:30:42,890 –> 00:30:44,850
\nAxe.
\nIs laid verse 9. <\/p>\n
521
\n00:30:45,930 –> 00:30:50,780
\nAt the root of the tree.
\nEvery tree which bringeth not <\/p>\n
522
\n00:30:50,780 –> 00:30:55,060
\nforth good fruit is hewn down
\nand cast into the fire. <\/p>\n
523
\n00:30:55,060 –> 00:30:59,940
\nYou know, when Israel planted a
\nfruit tree, they weren’t to <\/p>\n
524
\n00:30:59,940 –> 00:31:03,860
\ntouch it for three years.
\nThey were to leave that alone <\/p>\n
525
\n00:31:04,420 –> 00:31:08,620
\nand give it to God.
\nThey did bear fruit in the <\/p>\n
526
\n00:31:08,620 –> 00:31:11,420
\nfourth year.
\nThey chopped it down. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:31:12,380 –> 00:31:15,380
\nSo John is here at the beginning
\nof the ministry of our Lord <\/p>\n
528
\n00:31:15,380 –> 00:31:18,380
\nJesus Christ, which lasted 3
\n1\/2. <\/p>\n
529
\n00:31:18,960 –> 00:31:22,720
\nYears.
\nAnd he’s saying there’s an axe. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:31:23,440 –> 00:31:26,640
\nAt the root of that tree, you
\ngot. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:31:26,640 –> 00:31:32,480
\nThree years bring forth,
\ntherefore, fruits, meat for <\/p>\n
532
\n00:31:32,640 –> 00:31:36,080
\nrepentance.
\nThree years later, Jesus comes <\/p>\n
533
\n00:31:36,080 –> 00:31:40,440
\nalong and he gives a parable in
\nLuke chapter 13, a parable of of<\/p>\n
534
\n00:31:40,440 –> 00:31:43,320
\na fig tree and a vineyard.
\nIt’d be going for three years. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:31:43,320 –> 00:31:46,320
\nIt hadn’t brought forth fruit
\nand he says cut it down. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:31:47,040 –> 00:31:49,160
\nAnd someone says, well, let it
\ngo a little further. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:31:49,520 –> 00:31:51,360
\nLet let’s see if it if it brings
\nfruit. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:31:52,000 –> 00:31:57,680
\nIf it doesn’t, then cut it down.
\nLook at the correlation now <\/p>\n
539
\n00:31:57,680 –> 00:32:01,080
\nbetween John and and Jesus in
\ntheir teachings and your <\/p>\n
540
\n00:32:01,080 –> 00:32:02,720
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nWe don’t know how much longer we<\/p>\n
541
\n00:32:02,720 –> 00:32:05,280
\nhave.
\nIs it three years? <\/p>\n
542
\n00:32:06,000 –> 00:32:08,640
\nI don’t know.
\nThere’s an axe. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:32:09,280 –> 00:32:13,400
\nIt’s there if we don’t bring
\nforth fruits, meat for <\/p>\n
544
\n00:32:13,400 –> 00:32:15,610
\napprentice.
\nI like to think about that first<\/p>\n
545
\n00:32:15,610 –> 00:32:17,530
\nbecause I think, you know, I
\nthink I’ve got an unlimited <\/p>\n
546
\n00:32:17,530 –> 00:32:19,930
\namount of time in life.
\nYou know, I always. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:32:20,130 –> 00:32:22,570
\nOne of my worst problems is I
\nthink we’ll do it tomorrow. <\/p>\n
548
\n00:32:23,690 –> 00:32:27,730
\nBut there’s an axe if I don’t
\nbring forth fruit. <\/p>\n
549
\n00:32:28,930 –> 00:32:31,130
\nWe’ve got to do it now.
\nToday, if you will hear his <\/p>\n
550
\n00:32:31,130 –> 00:32:34,210
\nvoice said the song harden not
\nyour heart. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:32:35,210 –> 00:32:37,770
\nWhat a what a verbal blast this
\nis from from John. <\/p>\n
552
\n00:32:37,770 –> 00:32:42,050
\nWho could stand up to that the
\nmountains not accepted. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:32:42,050 –> 00:32:44,050
\nDon’t come here until your
\nattitude changes. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:32:45,690 –> 00:32:48,170
\nWhat about the valleys?
\nWhat about the? <\/p>\n
555
\n00:32:48,170 –> 00:32:50,490
\nYous and mes?
\nWhat about the working class, <\/p>\n
556
\n00:32:51,290 –> 00:32:53,770
\nverse 10?
\nThe people? <\/p>\n
557
\n00:32:53,770 –> 00:32:56,770
\nThis is the common people, asked
\nhim, saying what? <\/p>\n
558
\n00:32:56,770 –> 00:33:00,770
\nWhat shall we do?
\nJohn, you know the common <\/p>\n
559
\n00:33:00,770 –> 00:33:01,170
\npeople?
\nThey. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:33:01,250 –> 00:33:03,570
\nThey would have just.
\nWitnessed the Pharisees, you <\/p>\n
561
\n00:33:03,570 –> 00:33:05,330
\nknow, getting upbraid.
\nThey’d have been a little bit <\/p>\n
562
\n00:33:05,330 –> 00:33:07,650
\nmore confident.
\nYou know, John, we’re not like <\/p>\n
563
\n00:33:07,650 –> 00:33:10,810
\nthose guys, you know, we’re not
\nproud we’re not. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:33:11,220 –> 00:33:13,220
\nMaterialistic.
\nYou know, we’re we’re just, <\/p>\n
565
\n00:33:13,220 –> 00:33:15,180
\nwe’re just common folk.
\nWe’re not like those Pharisees. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:33:15,180 –> 00:33:22,580
\nWhat what should we do?
\nHe that’s got two coats, give <\/p>\n
567
\n00:33:22,580 –> 00:33:28,340
\none away and every eye in that
\naudience would have been on his <\/p>\n
568
\n00:33:28,340 –> 00:33:33,620
\ncoat.
\nAnd if he offered you his coat, <\/p>\n
569
\n00:33:34,220 –> 00:33:35,620
\nbrothers and sisters, you
\nwouldn’t take it. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:33:38,100 –> 00:33:43,890
\nAnd he that has food.
\nLet him share it, and all eyes <\/p>\n
571
\n00:33:43,890 –> 00:33:48,930
\nare looking at a handful of
\ngrasshoppers, and if he invited <\/p>\n
572
\n00:33:48,930 –> 00:33:52,370
\nyou to dinner, brothers and
\nsisters, you’d feel sick. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:33:54,610 –> 00:33:56,730
\nThose are the only two things,
\nin fact, that we know about <\/p>\n
574
\n00:33:56,730 –> 00:33:59,890
\nJohn’s personal circumstances,
\nand they’re the only two things <\/p>\n
575
\n00:33:59,890 –> 00:34:04,250
\nhe tells the common people.
\nWhat he ate and what he. <\/p>\n
576
\n00:34:04,250 –> 00:34:07,290
\nWore.
\nYou know, as I was going through<\/p>\n
577
\n00:34:07,290 –> 00:34:10,090
\nthese notes this morning, I was
\nthinking to myself. <\/p>\n
578
\n00:34:11,310 –> 00:34:13,190
\nYou know, I would love to be in
\nthat position. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:34:14,270 –> 00:34:18,310
\nYou know, I would love to be
\nable to to tell you today to you<\/p>\n
580
\n00:34:18,310 –> 00:34:20,630
\nknow you need to do this in your
\nlife and you need to do that in <\/p>\n
581
\n00:34:20,630 –> 00:34:23,750
\nyour life and and every one of
\nthose things that I’m telling <\/p>\n
582
\n00:34:23,750 –> 00:34:30,870
\nyou I do in mind but but I don’t
\nBut see John could say that you <\/p>\n
583
\n00:34:30,870 –> 00:34:33,670
\nknow without any.
\nHypocrisy at all. <\/p>\n
584
\n00:34:34,469 –> 00:34:36,810
\nYou know, I’ve.
\nI’ve got a, you know, nice <\/p>\n
585
\n00:34:36,810 –> 00:34:38,250
\nsuits.
\nI’ve got a car. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:34:38,250 –> 00:34:41,210
\nI live in a.
\nBetter than average home, yeah. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:34:41,250 –> 00:34:43,330
\nI wish I could stand up here and
\nsay, you know, whatever you see <\/p>\n
588
\n00:34:43,330 –> 00:34:45,409
\nme do, do the same yourself.
\nBut. <\/p>\n
589
\n00:34:45,409 –> 00:34:48,929
\nHe could.
\nHe wasn’t asking any of us to do<\/p>\n
590
\n00:34:48,929 –> 00:34:52,889
\nwhat he hadn’t done himself.
\nShare your coat and share your <\/p>\n
591
\n00:34:52,889 –> 00:34:55,530
\nfood.
\nYou know, hearts. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:34:55,690 –> 00:34:57,890
\nHearts would have melted.
\nYou know, the common people come<\/p>\n
593
\n00:34:57,890 –> 00:34:59,570
\nup confident.
\nThey’ve just watched the <\/p>\n
594
\n00:34:59,570 –> 00:35:02,530
\nPharisees get blasted.
\nWe’re not like those guys. <\/p>\n
595
\n00:35:02,530 –> 00:35:05,850
\nWell, what would we do, John?
\nAnd then they all look at his <\/p>\n
596
\n00:35:05,850 –> 00:35:11,810
\ncoat and they all look at his
\nfood and they think, well, now <\/p>\n
597
\n00:35:11,810 –> 00:35:12,850
\nthey have something to think
\nabout. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:35:14,090 –> 00:35:15,930
\nNow they have something to to
\nthink about. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:35:15,930 –> 00:35:17,930
\nJohn didn’t let anybody off easy
\nand. <\/p>\n
600
\n00:35:19,770 –> 00:35:21,730
\nWhat he told the common people
\nthat those are the only two <\/p>\n
601
\n00:35:21,730 –> 00:35:24,530
\nthings we know about him.
\nHis food. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:35:25,170 –> 00:35:27,250
\nAnd what he ate.
\nSo they now have something to <\/p>\n
603
\n00:35:27,250 –> 00:35:29,650
\nthink about.
\nSo the common people, as opposed<\/p>\n
604
\n00:35:29,650 –> 00:35:31,450
\nto the scribes and the
\nPharisees, the common people. <\/p>\n
605
\n00:35:32,440 –> 00:35:34,440
\nAre elevated.
\nIf they could take that advice <\/p>\n
606
\n00:35:34,440 –> 00:35:36,920
\nand put it to practice, they
\nwould be elevated. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:35:38,560 –> 00:35:44,520
\nThe Who’s next?
\nClass #3, The publicans. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:35:44,520 –> 00:35:45,920
\nNow these, of course, are the
\npeople. <\/p>\n
609
\n00:35:46,040 –> 00:35:48,920
\nThey are the crooked places of
\nIsaiah chapter 40. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:35:49,160 –> 00:35:51,600
\nLook all their crooked dealings
\nas as tax. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:35:51,600 –> 00:35:53,520
\nGatherers.
\nAnd they’re going to be made <\/p>\n
612
\n00:35:53,520 –> 00:35:58,480
\nstraight, they’re going to be
\nsmoothed over, you know, the tax<\/p>\n
613
\n00:35:58,480 –> 00:36:01,130
\nsystem.
\nIn that day was was known as the<\/p>\n
614
\n00:36:01,130 –> 00:36:03,330
\nfarming system, and it was.
\nFull of corruption. <\/p>\n
615
\n00:36:04,050 –> 00:36:08,730
\nYou had the the treasurer in
\nRome who was at the head and he <\/p>\n
616
\n00:36:08,730 –> 00:36:11,530
\nwould say to his under
\ntreasurer, you look, I don’t <\/p>\n
617
\n00:36:11,530 –> 00:36:14,370
\ncare what you charge, this is my
\ncut. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:36:15,570 –> 00:36:17,690
\nAnd then the under treasurer
\nwould say to the under under <\/p>\n
619
\n00:36:17,690 –> 00:36:22,290
\ntreasurer, look, I don’t care
\nwhat you charge, but the Roman <\/p>\n
620
\n00:36:22,290 –> 00:36:26,490
\ntreasurer needs this and I need
\nthis and well, whatever you <\/p>\n
621
\n00:36:26,490 –> 00:36:29,280
\ncharge is your business.
\nAnd then the under under <\/p>\n
622
\n00:36:29,280 –> 00:36:32,880
\ntreasurer would go to the
\nMatthews and would go to the to <\/p>\n
623
\n00:36:32,880 –> 00:36:35,680
\nthe Zachiuses and say well the
\nRoman treasurer wants this and <\/p>\n
624
\n00:36:35,680 –> 00:36:38,040
\nthe Under Secretary wants this
\nand the under Under Secretary <\/p>\n
625
\n00:36:38,040 –> 00:36:41,360
\nwants this and I don’t care what
\nwhat you get but. <\/p>\n
626
\n00:36:43,080 –> 00:36:46,200
\nThis is what we need.
\nAnd so people like Zachius and <\/p>\n
627
\n00:36:46,200 –> 00:36:48,840
\npeople like Matthew had to
\ncharge exorbitant amounts just <\/p>\n
628
\n00:36:48,840 –> 00:36:52,040
\nto get to get any.
\nWay to survive. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:36:52,280 –> 00:36:56,760
\nIt was called the farming system
\ncontrolled by the. <\/p>\n
630
\n00:36:57,410 –> 00:36:59,410
\nThe treasure in Rome they had to
\ncharge. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:36:59,410 –> 00:37:01,450
\nIncredible.
\nAmounts, which is why people. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:37:01,450 –> 00:37:04,330
\nHated them.
\nYou know, I thank God that I’m <\/p>\n
633
\n00:37:04,330 –> 00:37:07,370
\nnot, as other men are,
\nextortioners, unjust adulterers,<\/p>\n
634
\n00:37:07,770 –> 00:37:11,490
\nor even this public.
\nI mean, it’s. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:37:11,490 –> 00:37:15,490
\nHard to to overemphasize how
\nmuch these these guys tax <\/p>\n
636
\n00:37:15,490 –> 00:37:18,210
\ncollectors were despised.
\nSo what does? <\/p>\n
637
\n00:37:18,210 –> 00:37:20,850
\nJohn, say to them, Tegan, let
\nthem off easy. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:37:22,530 –> 00:37:27,510
\nVerse 13, exact no more.
\nThan what has appointed you. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:37:27,510 –> 00:37:31,550
\nOh, that really hurt.
\nI mean, there’s there’s no place<\/p>\n
640
\n00:37:31,550 –> 00:37:34,390
\nthat you can hurt someone in the
\nworld more than hitting them in <\/p>\n
641
\n00:37:34,390 –> 00:37:37,390
\ntheir pocket every time you hear
\nof a tax increase. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:37:37,870 –> 00:37:39,790
\nYou know, every time you get a
\nbill in the mail, I mean it. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:37:39,790 –> 00:37:44,870
\nHurts.
\nHe says if the taxes say that’s <\/p>\n
644
\n00:37:44,870 –> 00:37:50,150
\nhow much you received and that’s
\nwhat you receive, only tax what <\/p>\n
645
\n00:37:50,150 –> 00:37:54,330
\nyou need exact, no more.
\nThan what is appointed to you? <\/p>\n
646
\n00:37:55,050 –> 00:37:56,570
\nThat would hurt.
\nBecause you see, all the cream <\/p>\n
647
\n00:37:56,570 –> 00:38:00,330
\nis gone.
\nAll the, all the extra that that<\/p>\n
648
\n00:38:00,330 –> 00:38:02,250
\na tax collector would want,
\nthat’s all gone. <\/p>\n
649
\n00:38:02,650 –> 00:38:05,130
\nOnly tax what you need.
\nI mean, he may get a little bit <\/p>\n
650
\n00:38:05,130 –> 00:38:08,170
\nof Commission, but all the
\ncream, all the extra money is <\/p>\n
651
\n00:38:08,170 –> 00:38:10,410
\ngone.
\nIf you follow that advice. <\/p>\n
652
\n00:38:11,690 –> 00:38:16,890
\nYou know you live paycheck to
\npaycheck, just exact no more <\/p>\n
653
\n00:38:17,330 –> 00:38:21,730
\nthan what is required.
\nYou only take what you need. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:38:22,720 –> 00:38:27,040
\nAnd nothing more that the rough
\nplaces would have been <\/p>\n
655
\n00:38:27,120 –> 00:38:29,800
\nstraightened out, wouldn’t they?
\nThe crooked places. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:38:30,400 –> 00:38:33,320
\nThey would be straightened out
\nin the view of of that advice. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:38:33,320 –> 00:38:37,800
\nYou know, one thing that
\nimpresses me every day is when <\/p>\n
658
\n00:38:37,800 –> 00:38:41,160
\nPaul said the love of money is
\nthe root of all evil. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:38:41,480 –> 00:38:43,560
\nThere is not a crisis in this
\nworld. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:47,760
\nThere is not a crime that is
\ncommitted that does not have <\/p>\n
661
\n00:38:47,760 –> 00:38:51,400
\nsomewhere along the line to do
\nwith money. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:38:52,330 –> 00:38:56,730
\nMoney is at the bottom of every
\nill that we see in the world. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:38:56,770 –> 00:38:59,090
\nAnd that’s where John hit them.
\nExact. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:38:59,090 –> 00:39:03,330
\nNo more than what is appointed
\nexact. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:39:03,330 –> 00:39:05,610
\nNo more.
\nThat would have really hurt. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:39:05,690 –> 00:39:08,090
\nI mean, these are already people
\nwho are ostracized, people who <\/p>\n
667
\n00:39:08,090 –> 00:39:11,890
\nare hated, people who maybe need
\nto have needed to lift up in <\/p>\n
668
\n00:39:11,890 –> 00:39:12,370
\nlife.
\nHe. <\/p>\n
669
\n00:39:13,330 –> 00:39:17,330
\nSaid you only take what you
\nneed. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:39:17,610 –> 00:39:20,370
\nHe didn’t necessarily tell them
\nto to give up their vocation. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:39:21,180 –> 00:39:27,780
\nHe said only take what you need,
\nbe content with what you have. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:39:28,740 –> 00:39:31,660
\nThe crooks were straightened
\nout. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:39:33,060 –> 00:39:35,860
\nI knew who the 4th class was
\nthat came down of all people. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:39:36,940 –> 00:39:41,100
\nDown came the Roman soldiers in
\nall their brutality. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:39:41,220 –> 00:39:43,460
\nAnd as they sent their delegate
\nto John, you know the guy would <\/p>\n
676
\n00:39:43,460 –> 00:39:47,700
\nhave plunked his spear in the
\nground and say what do we do in <\/p>\n
677
\n00:39:47,700 –> 00:39:49,460
\na threatening manner.
\nHey you, what do we do? <\/p>\n
678
\n00:39:50,700 –> 00:39:54,100
\nWhat do you have to say?
\nTo us, did John shrink back in <\/p>\n
679
\n00:39:54,100 –> 00:39:58,700
\nin fear?
\nJohn told them three things. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:40:00,180 –> 00:40:06,700
\nHe said do violence to no man,
\ndon’t accuse anyone falsely, and<\/p>\n
681
\n00:40:06,700 –> 00:40:10,580
\nbe content with your wages.
\nNow the three things really all <\/p>\n
682
\n00:40:10,580 –> 00:40:13,820
\nhave to do with one thing, and
\nthat’s money. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:40:15,180 –> 00:40:17,860
\nDo violence to no man.
\nWhat they would do is the Roman <\/p>\n
684
\n00:40:17,860 –> 00:40:21,690
\nrations were very, very small.
\nAnd So what would they do to <\/p>\n
685
\n00:40:21,690 –> 00:40:24,530
\nmake extra money?
\nGet extra rations? <\/p>\n
686
\n00:40:24,650 –> 00:40:27,290
\nThey would threaten people.
\nThey would do violence to them <\/p>\n
687
\n00:40:27,410 –> 00:40:31,930
\nand take their rations, he says.
\nDo violence to no man, nor <\/p>\n
688
\n00:40:31,930 –> 00:40:35,530
\naccuse any man falsely if they
\nwanted to get in the good <\/p>\n
689
\n00:40:35,530 –> 00:40:36,570
\ngraces.
\nOf a of a. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:40:36,570 –> 00:40:40,010
\nHigh-ranking general.
\nOr or or. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:40:40,010 –> 00:40:42,730
\nLegion in the in the Roman army,
\na legionaire. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:40:43,490 –> 00:40:46,410
\nThey go to him and say well, he
\nyou know so and so is plotting <\/p>\n
693
\n00:40:46,410 –> 00:40:48,400
\nagainst you and.
\nThere’s this. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:40:48,800 –> 00:40:50,880
\nThere’s this.
\nAim to to take down your <\/p>\n
695
\n00:40:50,880 –> 00:40:53,000
\nposition.
\nI’ll tell you all about it if <\/p>\n
696
\n00:40:53,000 –> 00:40:57,440
\nyou pay me and be content with
\nyour wages. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:40:57,760 –> 00:41:02,400
\nThe Roman soldiers did not make
\nvery much all three of those <\/p>\n
698
\n00:41:02,400 –> 00:41:04,800
\nthings.
\nActually have to do with one <\/p>\n
699
\n00:41:04,800 –> 00:41:05,840
\nthing.
\nMoney. <\/p>\n
700
\n00:41:07,360 –> 00:41:10,120
\nBrothers and sisters, how much
\ndid John have in the bank? <\/p>\n
701
\n00:41:12,760 –> 00:41:15,360
\nThink money worried him?
\nHow diversified was his <\/p>\n
702
\n00:41:15,360 –> 00:41:21,350
\nportfolio?
\nAre we content with our wages? <\/p>\n
703
\n00:41:23,870 –> 00:41:27,110
\nIf I was to tell you that you’re
\ngoing to get a 20% pay cut <\/p>\n
704
\n00:41:27,270 –> 00:41:29,350
\nstarting next month, how did you
\nfeel? <\/p>\n
705
\n00:41:31,150 –> 00:41:36,270
\nA 25% pay cut, a 30% pay cut,
\nhow would you feel? <\/p>\n
706
\n00:41:38,030 –> 00:41:40,590
\nWould you still be content?
\nI mean, it’s one thing to say I <\/p>\n
707
\n00:41:40,590 –> 00:41:42,430
\ndon’t have a problem with money
\nwhen you got plenty. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:41:43,040 –> 00:41:44,720
\nBut what if?
\nWhat if someone started started <\/p>\n
709
\n00:41:44,720 –> 00:41:46,800
\npoking you and started taking
\nmore and they’re taking more <\/p>\n
710
\n00:41:46,800 –> 00:41:48,800
\nnow?
\nHow would you feel? <\/p>\n
711
\n00:41:50,520 –> 00:41:52,880
\nBe content with what we have,
\nand I think what that means at <\/p>\n
712
\n00:41:52,880 –> 00:41:54,320
\nthe end of the day, brothers and
\nsisters, is. <\/p>\n
713
\n00:41:54,320 –> 00:41:56,120
\nThat we always live within our
\nmeans. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:41:57,040 –> 00:41:58,560
\nWe should always live within our
\nmeans. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:41:58,560 –> 00:42:02,160
\nWe don’t rack up credit cards,
\nYou know, we don’t spend beyond <\/p>\n
716
\n00:42:02,240 –> 00:42:06,240
\nwhat is necessary.
\nWe live within our means. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:42:07,010 –> 00:42:09,490
\nBefore a wife, we learned to
\nlive within our husband’s <\/p>\n
718
\n00:42:09,490 –> 00:42:11,890
\nsalary.
\nWe don’t spend beyond it or or <\/p>\n
719
\n00:42:11,890 –> 00:42:15,690
\nlook for ways to to get around
\nthe the barriers that he has <\/p>\n
720
\n00:42:15,690 –> 00:42:21,290
\nset.
\nWe’re content always with what <\/p>\n
721
\n00:42:21,290 –> 00:42:24,210
\nwe have.
\nJohn says. <\/p>\n
722
\n00:42:24,250 –> 00:42:27,810
\nTake the salary you’ve been
\ngiven, Roman soldier, and be <\/p>\n
723
\n00:42:27,810 –> 00:42:31,250
\nhappy with that.
\nThe rough places were made <\/p>\n
724
\n00:42:31,250 –> 00:42:34,410
\nsmooth, You know, I wonder how
\nyou could have been a Roman <\/p>\n
725
\n00:42:34,410 –> 00:42:37,270
\nsoldier after.
\nImplementing those three things.<\/p>\n
726
\n00:42:38,310 –> 00:42:39,230
\nI mean, I don’t know if you
\ncould. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:42:39,230 –> 00:42:41,550
\nI mean, this is a verse that
\nback in the days of the Vietnam <\/p>\n
728
\n00:42:41,550 –> 00:42:44,910
\nWar, our brethren would be
\ngetting hit with, you know, So <\/p>\n
729
\n00:42:45,150 –> 00:42:48,550
\nJohn doesn’t say give up their,
\ntheir job as soldiers, does he? <\/p>\n
730
\n00:42:49,070 –> 00:42:52,030
\nWell, if you put into practice
\nthat advice, I don’t know how <\/p>\n
731
\n00:42:52,030 –> 00:42:56,110
\ngood of a Roman soldier you’d be
\nbecause that was their lives. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:42:56,110 –> 00:43:00,910
\nThat was how they survived.
\nBut he smoothed. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:43:01,470 –> 00:43:03,870
\nThem over.
\nAnd so there is. <\/p>\n
734
\n00:43:04,590 –> 00:43:08,910
\nThe summary Every valley shall
\nbe exalted, the common people <\/p>\n
735
\n00:43:08,910 –> 00:43:11,790
\nwere elevated, every mountain
\nand hill the scribes and the <\/p>\n
736
\n00:43:11,790 –> 00:43:15,870
\nPharisees were leveled, the
\ncrooked places were made <\/p>\n
737
\n00:43:15,870 –> 00:43:19,630
\nstraight, and the rough places
\nplain. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:43:19,630 –> 00:43:22,470
\nOr, as Isaiah 40 put it, the
\nglory of Yahweh shall be <\/p>\n
739
\n00:43:22,470 –> 00:43:27,350
\nrevealed, and all flesh shall
\nbecome alike everybody’s on one <\/p>\n
740
\n00:43:27,350 –> 00:43:32,670
\nlevel after that exhibition.
\nThe crowd would have gone home <\/p>\n
741
\n00:43:32,670 –> 00:43:35,650
\nand.
\nNot only would they been, <\/p>\n
742
\n00:43:35,650 –> 00:43:37,050
\nreally.
\nStruck with what they heard, <\/p>\n
743
\n00:43:37,050 –> 00:43:41,010
\nbrothers and sisters, but it
\nsays in verse 15 that all men <\/p>\n
744
\n00:43:41,850 –> 00:43:45,930
\nmused in their hearts whether he
\nwas the Messiah. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:43:46,850 –> 00:43:49,330
\nOr not if they’re thinking, oh
\nboy, I hope he’s not the <\/p>\n
746
\n00:43:49,330 –> 00:43:51,770
\nMessiah.
\nBecause if he’s the Messiah boy,<\/p>\n
747
\n00:43:51,770 –> 00:43:55,490
\nif I got to clean up my life
\nbecause his his example was so <\/p>\n
748
\n00:43:55,490 –> 00:43:58,530
\nunhypocritical.
\nEverything he said he did in his<\/p>\n
749
\n00:43:58,530 –> 00:43:59,130
\nown.
\nLife. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:44:01,020 –> 00:44:03,900
\nAnd you can imagine the common.
\nPeople you know, heads down. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:44:03,900 –> 00:44:08,500
\nLow and thinking well you know I
\nreally wanted a vacation and you<\/p>\n
752
\n00:44:08,500 –> 00:44:11,700
\nknow I I really wanted to live
\nin prosperity like a Pharisee. <\/p>\n
753
\n00:44:11,700 –> 00:44:16,820
\nBut you know I guess it’s best
\nthat I I share what I have the <\/p>\n
754
\n00:44:16,820 –> 00:44:18,940
\nPharisees would have the
\nPharisees would have murmured in<\/p>\n
755
\n00:44:18,940 –> 00:44:20,580
\nthemselves.
\nYou know who is he to call us <\/p>\n
756
\n00:44:20,580 –> 00:44:22,660
\nthose names in front of the
\npeople. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:44:22,660 –> 00:44:25,500
\nI mean we came down here with
\nwith good intentions we thought <\/p>\n
758
\n00:44:25,500 –> 00:44:28,900
\nwe were serious and and he said
\nall those things about us about <\/p>\n
759
\n00:44:28,900 –> 00:44:30,540
\nfleeing from the wrath to come
\nand. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:44:31,750 –> 00:44:35,190
\nYou know, the publicans would
\nwould go away and you know, <\/p>\n
761
\n00:44:35,190 –> 00:44:38,550
\nthey’d say, well, you know, if
\nit’s one thing for him to say <\/p>\n
762
\n00:44:39,270 –> 00:44:43,630
\nnot to charge more, but, you
\nknow, I’ve got to make a living <\/p>\n
763
\n00:44:43,630 –> 00:44:45,110
\nand and I’ve got to do what I’ve
\ngot to do. <\/p>\n
764
\n00:44:45,110 –> 00:44:47,550
\nAnd well, the truth may be
\nimportant and I may need to get <\/p>\n
765
\n00:44:47,550 –> 00:44:50,110
\ndown to my Bible study and I may
\nneed to go visit those who are <\/p>\n
766
\n00:44:50,110 –> 00:44:51,590
\nsick.
\nBut, you know, I got to earn a <\/p>\n
767
\n00:44:51,590 –> 00:44:54,710
\nliving too.
\nAnd if I. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:44:54,790 –> 00:44:56,990
\nIf I do what he does, if I play
\nit straight, then I’m not going <\/p>\n
769
\n00:44:56,990 –> 00:45:01,050
\nto get the things that I want.
\nAnd the soldiers might say, <\/p>\n
770
\n00:45:01,050 –> 00:45:03,850
\nwell, you know, it’s it’s one
\nthing for him to be living in a <\/p>\n
771
\n00:45:03,850 –> 00:45:06,490
\ndesert, but but how can we do
\nthis occupation if we’re not <\/p>\n
772
\n00:45:06,490 –> 00:45:08,010
\nviolent?
\nIf I, if I’m not rough, if I <\/p>\n
773
\n00:45:08,010 –> 00:45:11,570
\ndon’t, you know, mess people up
\nand and hurt them, then how can <\/p>\n
774
\n00:45:11,570 –> 00:45:14,330
\nI make a dollar?
\nAnd and and all that. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:45:14,450 –> 00:45:16,890
\nThat really hurts.
\nSo they’re all. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:45:16,890 –> 00:45:20,690
\nAmusing in their hearts whether
\nJohn is the Messiah. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:45:20,690 –> 00:45:24,370
\nDo you know why?
\nBecause all of them. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:45:24,530 –> 00:45:29,730
\nPharisee, commoner, publican.
\nAnd soldier would would have to <\/p>\n
779
\n00:45:29,730 –> 00:45:32,330
\nsay in their hearts, finally,
\nthat that however difficult it <\/p>\n
780
\n00:45:32,330 –> 00:45:35,010
\nmay be for me, I cannot say.
\nThat guy’s A hypocrite. <\/p>\n
781
\n00:45:36,410 –> 00:45:40,330
\nWhat winch you out to see?
\nAsk the Lord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
782
\n00:45:41,170 –> 00:45:43,650
\nYeah, that tells us, brothers
\nand sisters, about the power of <\/p>\n
783
\n00:45:43,650 –> 00:45:46,130
\nan example.
\nThe name of John became a <\/p>\n
784
\n00:45:46,130 –> 00:45:47,770
\nhousehold word.
\nAll. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:45:47,770 –> 00:45:51,210
\nOver the world, as we saw in our
\nopening point, they knew him in <\/p>\n
786
\n00:45:51,210 –> 00:45:52,810
\nAsia Minor, they knew him in
\nEgypt. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:45:52,810 –> 00:45:56,550
\nHe was all over the land.
\nNot because he broadcasted how <\/p>\n
788
\n00:45:56,550 –> 00:45:57,830
\ngreat he was, but.
\nBecause it was. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:45:57,990 –> 00:46:00,190
\nAwe.
\nInspiring example of singleness <\/p>\n
790
\n00:46:00,190 –> 00:46:02,110
\nof mind.
\nHe lived what he said. <\/p>\n
791
\n00:46:02,110 –> 00:46:07,110
\nNow, do we?
\nIf we say something, do we do <\/p>\n
792
\n00:46:07,110 –> 00:46:08,870
\nit?
\nIf we say we’re going to do <\/p>\n
793
\n00:46:08,870 –> 00:46:10,150
\nsomething?
\nIf we say we’re going to fulfill<\/p>\n
794
\n00:46:10,150 –> 00:46:12,670
\na commitment, do we do it or do
\nwe drag our heels? <\/p>\n
795
\n00:46:13,910 –> 00:46:16,030
\nYou know, heads would have been
\nhung in shame on that day. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:46:16,030 –> 00:46:18,510
\nBut you know, Luke doesn’t leave
\nit there. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:46:19,110 –> 00:46:21,070
\nI’d like to finish with verse
\n18. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:46:23,520 –> 00:46:25,480
\nYou know, the people would have
\nall gone away in their hearts, <\/p>\n
799
\n00:46:25,480 –> 00:46:29,080
\nand all that that hurt, and how
\nam I ever going to apply that? <\/p>\n
800
\n00:46:29,080 –> 00:46:34,680
\nBut that’s not all John did on
\nthat day when verse 18 it says, <\/p>\n
801
\n00:46:34,680 –> 00:46:40,120
\nand many other things in his
\nexhortation preached he unto the<\/p>\n
802
\n00:46:40,120 –> 00:46:41,080
\npeople.
\nI’d like to just give. <\/p>\n
803
\n00:46:41,080 –> 00:46:45,040
\nThat to you from from the dye
\nblock, and exhorting many other <\/p>\n
804
\n00:46:45,040 –> 00:46:51,200
\nthings, he proclaimed glad
\ntidings unto the people. <\/p>\n
805
\n00:46:52,200 –> 00:46:57,520
\nGlad tidings.
\nThat’s Isaiah 40 unto the <\/p>\n
806
\n00:46:57,520 –> 00:46:59,400
\npeople.
\nSo you pictured on John down <\/p>\n
807
\n00:46:59,400 –> 00:47:02,120
\nthere on the on the valley, for
\nhe had left them with with <\/p>\n
808
\n00:47:02,120 –> 00:47:06,200
\nstinging rebukes advice that
\nthat would have been really <\/p>\n
809
\n00:47:06,200 –> 00:47:08,840
\nreally hard to implement.
\nIt would have hurt. <\/p>\n
810
\n00:47:10,000 –> 00:47:12,960
\nI mean to tell to tell the
\npublic and you got to you got to<\/p>\n
811
\n00:47:12,960 –> 00:47:13,840
\nonly.
\nCharge. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:47:14,280 –> 00:47:16,600
\nWhat is necessary and what the
\nsystem says? <\/p>\n
813
\n00:47:17,520 –> 00:47:21,270
\nWould have been very difficult.
\nYou’re telling the. <\/p>\n
814
\n00:47:21,270 –> 00:47:24,150
\nSoldiers, you essentially have
\nto give up your jobs if you want<\/p>\n
815
\n00:47:24,150 –> 00:47:25,870
\nto survive.
\nWould have been very, very <\/p>\n
816
\n00:47:25,870 –> 00:47:28,070
\ndifficult.
\nBut you know the strength of <\/p>\n
817
\n00:47:28,070 –> 00:47:31,710
\nthat beautiful golden voice
\ndidn’t just dwell upon the <\/p>\n
818
\n00:47:31,710 –> 00:47:33,670
\nnegative, he also went to the
\npositive. <\/p>\n
819
\n00:47:34,150 –> 00:47:36,150
\nHe would have said to the
\nPharisees, he would have said to<\/p>\n
820
\n00:47:36,150 –> 00:47:37,750
\nthe people.
\nLet me tell you what the Kingdom<\/p>\n
821
\n00:47:37,750 –> 00:47:41,030
\nof God is going to be like.
\nHe gave them encouragement. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:47:41,630 –> 00:47:44,310
\nYes, yes, I know I’ve had some
\nhard things to say. <\/p>\n
823
\n00:47:44,310 –> 00:47:47,070
\nYes, I know I’ve had some some
\ndifficult things to say. <\/p>\n
824
\n00:47:47,070 –> 00:47:48,790
\nBut.
\nBut let me tell you what the <\/p>\n
825
\n00:47:48,790 –> 00:47:49,790
\nKingdom’s.
\nGoing to be like. <\/p>\n
826
\n00:47:50,790 –> 00:47:54,750
\nSee, he gave them an incentive
\nto press on. <\/p>\n
827
\n00:47:56,430 –> 00:47:59,110
\nHe gave them motivation to
\ncontinue. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:47:59,110 –> 00:48:02,430
\nAnd yet whilst to bark at
\npeople, they have its place. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:48:05,710 –> 00:48:09,110
\nWe have to supplement everything
\nwe say that’s hard with some, <\/p>\n
830
\n00:48:09,430 –> 00:48:13,470
\nwith some kind of encouragement,
\nand make people in our number <\/p>\n
831
\n00:48:13,470 –> 00:48:16,070
\nfeel like it’s worth carrying on
\nlike the Kingdom is. <\/p>\n
832
\n00:48:16,070 –> 00:48:20,230
\nWorth fighting for, Otherwise
\nwe’ll never really change. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:48:20,780 –> 00:48:24,140
\nAnyone.
\nSo verse 18 says there that, you<\/p>\n
834
\n00:48:24,140 –> 00:48:26,660
\nknow, yes, John had some hard
\nthings to say. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:48:26,660 –> 00:48:29,260
\nAnd we have some hard things to
\nsay at times too, especially in <\/p>\n
836
\n00:48:29,260 –> 00:48:32,540
\nthis age where, you know, we can
\nsee the world making inroads <\/p>\n
837
\n00:48:32,540 –> 00:48:34,900
\ninto the brotherhood.
\nYou know, we can see that that <\/p>\n
838
\n00:48:34,900 –> 00:48:36,900
\nthings are challenging and we
\nhave to point out those <\/p>\n
839
\n00:48:36,900 –> 00:48:39,060
\nchallenges, but but let’s make.
\nSure that we’re. <\/p>\n
840
\n00:48:39,060 –> 00:48:42,380
\nAlso giving people a reason to
\ncarry on. <\/p>\n
841
\n00:48:42,980 –> 00:48:45,780
\nThat’s what John did with many
\nother things. <\/p>\n
842
\n00:48:46,220 –> 00:48:49,900
\nIn his exhortation he preached
\nglad tidings. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:48:50,490 –> 00:48:54,450
\nOne to the people you know, it’s
\nit’s the majestic and and <\/p>\n
844
\n00:48:54,450 –> 00:48:59,730
\npowerful expositions that have
\nchanged me far more than getting<\/p>\n
845
\n00:48:59,730 –> 00:49:03,370
\na lecture from someone you know.
\nIt’s those positive things that <\/p>\n
846
\n00:49:03,370 –> 00:49:05,770
\nwe hear from the word.
\nEven the most simple <\/p>\n
847
\n00:49:06,010 –> 00:49:10,130
\nexhortations have been the most.
\nPowerful because they encouraged<\/p>\n
848
\n00:49:10,130 –> 00:49:13,490
\nme that yes, it is worth going
\non. <\/p>\n
849
\n00:49:14,570 –> 00:49:16,490
\nSo what went we out to see?
\nBrothers and sisters? <\/p>\n
850
\n00:49:16,490 –> 00:49:18,650
\nLook at those.
\nFour classes put yourself there.<\/p>\n
851
\n00:49:19,320 –> 00:49:22,400
\nHow are you going to apply that
\nadvice? <\/p>\n
852
\n00:49:24,000 –> 00:49:27,840
\nIt says we lay in bed tonight as
\nwe we go to bed, you know, let’s<\/p>\n
853
\n00:49:27,880 –> 00:49:30,760
\nlet’s try to get a mental
\npicture of that of that day as <\/p>\n
854
\n00:49:30,760 –> 00:49:34,600
\nJohn is down there on the valley
\nfloor exhorting all of these <\/p>\n
855
\n00:49:34,600 –> 00:49:38,040
\npeople.
\nYou know, let’s let’s say in our<\/p>\n
856
\n00:49:38,040 –> 00:49:41,680
\nprayers before our God that we
\nwill try to make the most of the<\/p>\n
857
\n00:49:41,680 –> 00:49:44,240
\ntime that we have left.
\nLet’s take away those things <\/p>\n
858
\n00:49:44,240 –> 00:49:47,360
\nthat in our lives are not
\nnecessary. <\/p>\n
859
\n00:49:48,680 –> 00:49:52,240
\nTo say that, you know, I’m
\nsorry, Lord, for the the time <\/p>\n
860
\n00:49:52,240 –> 00:49:54,480
\nthat I’ve wasted in my life.
\nAnd I and I want to use it <\/p>\n
861
\n00:49:54,480 –> 00:49:58,520
\nbetter and grind on in this
\nwilderness and help me to make <\/p>\n
862
\n00:49:58,520 –> 00:50:03,000
\ntime to hear the voice, that the
\nvoice that kings and Queens and <\/p>\n
863
\n00:50:03,440 –> 00:50:06,240
\nand prime ministers and
\npresidents will never ever hear.<\/p>\n
864
\n00:50:06,840 –> 00:50:08,840
\nAnd that’s the wonderful.
\nVoice of God’s Word. <\/p>\n
865
\n00:50:10,040 –> 00:50:14,800
\nAnd let me never cease to be
\nimpressed with the power of what<\/p>\n
866
\n00:50:14,800 –> 00:50:18,940
\nI went out that day to see.
\nI’m not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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