Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 245<\/p>\n
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\nonce again as we listen to our
\nbrother Ryan, King and John the <\/p>\n
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\nBaptist allowing God to speak
\nfor hearts. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’ll now invite our beloved
\nbrother to share with us his <\/p>\n
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\nsecond class for today, which is
\nentitled He Shall Be Great in <\/p>\n
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\nthe Sight of the Lord, Brother
\nRyan. <\/p>\n
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\nGood afternoon again, brothers
\nand sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we passed between the the
\npages of Malachi to Matthew. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s 400 years of silence
\nthat is broken and Luke <\/p>\n
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\nintroduces John the Baptist in a
\nvery simple way. <\/p>\n
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\nHe said there was a man sent
\nfrom God whose name was John. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd John, of course, is is a
\nderivation of that beautiful <\/p>\n
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\nHebrew name, Johannon, the grace
\nof the Lord. <\/p>\n
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\nA man sent from God whose name
\nwas John. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd God was now about to speak
\nagain. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, there were many
\nprophets that were sent, but <\/p>\n
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\nhere is a prophet that we’re
\ntold was specifically sent. <\/p>\n
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\nFrom the presence of God
\nhimself, he was a product of the<\/p>\n
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\nSpirit we turn over to John
\nchapter five. <\/p>\n
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\nWe have the Lord Jesus Christ
\ntestimony to John and what he <\/p>\n
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\nwas sent to do in John chapter
\n5. <\/p>\n
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\nIn verse 35 and speaking about
\nJohn the Baptist, it says that <\/p>\n
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\nhe was a burning and a shining
\nlight. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd you were willing for a
\nseason to rejoice in his light <\/p>\n
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\npreviously John, and said in
\nJohn chapter one about John the <\/p>\n
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\nBaptist he was not that light.
\nNow when that phrase is used in <\/p>\n
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\nJohn one and verse 8, the Greek
\nword is Foss you like <\/p>\n
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\nphosphorus, glowing in the dark,
\na permanent light. <\/p>\n
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\nJohn was not that permanent
\nlight. <\/p>\n
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\nThat was the Lord Jesus Christ.
\nBut what was John? <\/p>\n
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\nWell, Jesus says he was a
\nburning. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd a shining lamp.
\nAnd the Greek word that’s used <\/p>\n
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\nthere is is a portable hand
\nlamp. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it’s it’s a lamp that
\nyou put a little bit of oil in <\/p>\n
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\nand it would light up and would
\nsort of flare up your path for a<\/p>\n
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\nshort time and then it would go
\nout. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a burning and a shining
\nportable hand lamp, said Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nYou had to be quick because the
\nlight was about to go out and <\/p>\n
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\nonce it had gone out you’d lost
\nyour opportunity. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a burning and a shining
\nportable hand lamp. <\/p>\n
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\nAs we said, one of the drawbacks
\nto living today is we’re not <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to get a John the Baptist
\nto warn us about the Lord’s <\/p>\n
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\ncoming.
\nAnd So what? <\/p>\n
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\nWe need our brethren who can
\nstand up and illuminate our <\/p>\n
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\npath, who can flare up our path
\nfor a moment to to show us what <\/p>\n
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\nwe are for a moment of time.
\nUntil that permanent Foss <\/p>\n
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\narrives from which nobody can be
\nextricated, our Lord Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nChrist.
\nAnd there he was, John, giving <\/p>\n
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\nmen just a a moment of time to
\nsee themselves to what they <\/p>\n
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\ntruly were until the Lord Jesus
\nChrist came. <\/p>\n
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\nThe great light which would
\nnever go out. <\/p>\n
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\nThey needed it at that time and
\nand boy do we need that today. <\/p>\n
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\nWe need that light flaring up in
\nour path. <\/p>\n
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\nSo that brothers and sisters can
\nset their sails for the Kingdom <\/p>\n
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\nof God.
\nAnd they really needed it, <\/p>\n
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\nbecause Micah had said this,
\nSaid the sun will go down over <\/p>\n
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\nthe prophets, the seers will be
\nashamed. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s no answer from God, said
\nMicah. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd those words were fulfilled
\nwhen the last prophet, Malachi <\/p>\n
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\nset down his pen.
\nThere was darkness over the <\/p>\n
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\nland.
\nThe Greeks came in. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Persians came in.
\nThere was no answer from God, <\/p>\n
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\nbut look at the next verse.
\nBut truly I am full of the power<\/p>\n
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\nby the Spirit of Yahweh, and
\nthat 400 year darkness was now <\/p>\n
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\nabout to be dispelled by one who
\ncame in the Spirit and the power<\/p>\n
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\nof Elijah, which was the spirit
\nand power of his God, to dispel <\/p>\n
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\nthat 400 year period of
\ndarkness. <\/p>\n
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\nHe was a man.
\nFor his time, and here he comes <\/p>\n
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\nnow in the person of John.
\nBut boy was the darkness thick <\/p>\n
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\nthat John had to dissipate.
\nHe came into a world that was <\/p>\n
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\nseething Jewish nationalism,
\nseized and permitted as it as it<\/p>\n
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\nlanguished beneath the the iron
\nyoke of Rome, the nation. <\/p>\n
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\nGod’s ecclesia in the
\nwilderness, as they were once <\/p>\n
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\nknown, is now going to be
\ndivided into many classes. <\/p>\n
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\nThe darkness indeed was thick.
\nMany people had no hope. <\/p>\n
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\nMany people had no ambition.
\nIt was a dark, dark period in <\/p>\n
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\nthe nation’s history.
\nThere was no middle class at <\/p>\n
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\nall.
\nWhen John came on the scene, you<\/p>\n
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\nwere either very rich or very
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\nAnd the poor would have found it
\nvery, very hard to find any <\/p>\n
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\nsense of hope, to find any sense
\nof of optimism in life. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was no middle class, the
\nparable, the rich man. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Lazarus was a perfect
\ndepiction of life at that time. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd Jewish nationalism, which
\nreally could never be quelled, <\/p>\n
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\nseethed and fermented as it
\ntried to throw off the iron yoke<\/p>\n
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\nof rum, looking for anything
\nthat might give them some sense.<\/p>\n
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\nOf hope in life.
\nAnd so God’s people, brothers <\/p>\n
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\nand sisters, were divided into
\nmany classes. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd this is who John came to.
\nThere were the Pharisees, the <\/p>\n
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\nclergy of the day, who were
\nzealous of tradition over and <\/p>\n
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\nabove the word of God.
\nProud and arrogant they were. <\/p>\n
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\nThey were too proud to even
\nsubmit to the iron yoke of Rome.<\/p>\n
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\nThey were the Sadducees who
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\nor resurrection, who possessed
\nfor this for this time the <\/p>\n
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\noffice of the priesthood, and as
\nsuch had the key to the temple <\/p>\n
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\ntreasury chest.
\nPeople who live for this life <\/p>\n
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\nand based upon how you did in
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\nmeasure of how God blessed you.
\nThey were the scribes and the <\/p>\n
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\nlawyers.
\nPeople who use the Bible to <\/p>\n
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\nThere were the zealots, hot
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\nthey were later known, who
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\na throat to do anything.
\nThey tried to get rid of the <\/p>\n
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\nRoman overlord.
\nThey were the Herodians, people <\/p>\n
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\nwhose policy was, well, if you
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\nWho took off the plain robe of a
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\nHerod’s court to all those
\nclasses, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
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\nJohn the Baptist was sent.
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\nwhose name was John, who would
\nflare up and show men for a <\/p>\n
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\nmoment what they truly were and
\ndispel that darkness so that <\/p>\n
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\nmen.
\nCould be ready for the Lord’s <\/p>\n
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\ncoming.
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\nchaos, there was still a
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\namong the old people, the
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\npeople who could remember better
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\nWho saw nothing in the the
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\nyearned within their hearts for
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\nThat was the world with all of
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\nJohn came.
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\nlight.
\nYou know, on other occasions God<\/p>\n
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\nmight not have done this, He
\nmight have chosen a different <\/p>\n
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\nmethod, But so great was the
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\nnation this, this stark
\naberration to wake people up. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that’s something that we
\nneed to, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and sisters, you know,
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\ncharacter like John to to see
\nthe issues of life as as clear <\/p>\n
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\nas they are because it’s easy to
\nforget about them in the in the <\/p>\n
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\nthe hubbub of this society,
\npeople have become apathetic, <\/p>\n
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\nPeople have become lethargic.
\nYou know, I don’t know what it’s<\/p>\n
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\nlike here, but the city where I
\ncome from there, 200 <\/p>\n
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\nChristadelphians of all makes
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\nAnd my my worry is is I I don’t
\nsee I think the enthusiasm that <\/p>\n
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\nwe should be having for the
\nreturn of Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know we’re buying and we’re
\nselling and we’re we’re building<\/p>\n
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\nand we’re planting and we’re
\nconsumed with all those things <\/p>\n
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\nand and and we need a character
\nlike John don’t wait to to sort <\/p>\n
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\nof shake us up to to get us out
\nof our our lethargy and to bring<\/p>\n
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\nus back to to some sort of of an
\nequilibrium. <\/p>\n
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\nNow although these words I’m
\nabout to quote to you don’t. <\/p>\n
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\nPertain to John the Baptist.
\nThey fit his life and his his <\/p>\n
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\npurpose absolutely beautifully.
\nRemember we said John means the <\/p>\n
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\ngrace of the Lord, Paul the
\nTitus in his second chapter. <\/p>\n
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\nFor the grace of God that
\nbringeth salvation hath appeared<\/p>\n
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\nto all men, teaching us that
\ndenying ungodliness and worldly <\/p>\n
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\nlust we should live soberly,
\nrighteously, godly. <\/p>\n
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\nIn this present age, looking for
\nthat blessed hope and the <\/p>\n
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\nglorious appearing of the great
\nGod our Savior Jesus Christ, and<\/p>\n
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\nthere he was, the grace of God
\nhath appeared teaching us that <\/p>\n
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\nwe should deny worldly lust.
\nJohn didn’t have any <\/p>\n
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\npossessions.
\nYou know the camel skin doesn’t <\/p>\n
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\nhave to be dry clean.
\nToo often grasshoppers don’t <\/p>\n
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\nneed much cooking, denying
\nungodliness, denying worldly <\/p>\n
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\nlust.
\nUntil the glorious appearing of <\/p>\n
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\nthe Great God and our Savior
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd And those words really could
\nform a caption, couldn’t they? <\/p>\n
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\nOver the top of John’s life.
\nAnd so the lamp was lit. <\/p>\n
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\nThe little portable hand lamp
\nwas lit in Luke chapter one. <\/p>\n
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\nSo let’s come back to Luke,
\nchapter one. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in order that we might not
\nmiss the point that the light <\/p>\n
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\nwas needed, Luke is going to
\ntell this most excellent <\/p>\n
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\nTheophilus.
\nThe background into which he <\/p>\n
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\ncame Luke, chapter one.
\nIn verse five there was in the <\/p>\n
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\ndays of Herod, the king of
\nJudea, a certain priest named <\/p>\n
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\nZacharias.
\nHerod. <\/p>\n
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\nNow who was he?
\nWell, Herod is a title. <\/p>\n
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\nIt means heroic.
\nAnd he was there as a <\/p>\n
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\nfulfillment of Bible prophecy.
\nBecause many years earlier Moses<\/p>\n
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\nhad told them that if they did
\nnot keep the words of this law, <\/p>\n
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\nstrangers would rule over him.
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\nHe was a man who was absolutely
\ndevoid of any morality at all. <\/p>\n
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\nyou’re ever going to control of
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\nthen. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so we built them a temple,
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\nSo how long was it in building? <\/p>\n
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\nfor the Romans to knock it down.
\nBut he was a man who was great <\/p>\n
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\ngreat. <\/p>\n
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\nWe know at that same time in
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\nThere was another man who rose
\nup, who was great, for he shall <\/p>\n
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\nbe great, verse 15 in the sight
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\nsight.
\nSo here we have Herod the Great,<\/p>\n
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\nwho the world would admire, who
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\nwas great in everything that men
\ncall great. <\/p>\n
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\nBut God voted for John the
\nBaptist. <\/p>\n
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\nThere’s the contrast, Herod the
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\nsight of the Lord.
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\nLuke tells us that this boy
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\nsignificance.
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\ndetail oriented in both his
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\nwants to tell us all about this
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\nElizabeth.
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\nElizabeth means the oath of Ale
\nand John the mercy of God. <\/p>\n
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\nYeah, you look over at verse 72
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\nThere is an obvious play upon
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\nHe said this.
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\npromised to our fathers to
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\noath which He swore to our
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\nZacharias ya hath remember
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\nNow just tuck those meanings <\/p>\n
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\naway in your mind, because
\nthey’ll come back up. <\/p>\n
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\nJust shortly in in a second.
\nNow this Zechariahs, we’re told <\/p>\n
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\nin verse five, was of the course
\nof abaya. <\/p>\n
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\nNow the courses go back to
\nDavid. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, David, as the
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\nsorry as the nation expanded,
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\nhad to expand.
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\ndidn’t he, into 24 courses.
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\nChronicles 24 and verse 10, <\/p>\n
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\nAnd when we look at which course
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\nthe book of Chronicles happens
\nto be the 8th course, the 8th <\/p>\n
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\nsense of the word.
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\ncourse you’ll know that it was
\non the eighth day. <\/p>\n
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\nWasn’t it that that right of
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\na Jewish boy, and circumcision
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\nmeans?
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\nit’s reminded Abraham of the
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\nAnd Luke, again in the Acts of
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\nHe says he gave him the covenant<\/p>\n
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\nof circumcision and so Abraham
\nbegat Isaac. <\/p>\n
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\nNow many years of time, of
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\nperformed on the eighth day in
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\n8th course, it spoke about God’s
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\nIt was God working in the lives
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\nAnd John here of course, is not
\nbegotten in the same way that <\/p>\n
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\nshortly, if if God had not
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\ntwo old people, John the Baptist
\nwould never have seen the light <\/p>\n
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\nof day.
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\nSpeaking of that, that new
\nbeginning connected with with <\/p>\n
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\nWhat about his mom?
\nThat was his dad. <\/p>\n
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\nThat’s pretty special heritage
\nhe has. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat about his mom?
\nWell, she’s even greater because<\/p>\n
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\nit says there in verse five that
\nshe was of the daughters of <\/p>\n
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\nAaron.
\nNow that’s impressive. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s not just the Levi, she’s
\nof the daughters of Aaron. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in fact, Eli Shaba.
\nElizabeth is Eli Shaba in <\/p>\n
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\nAaron’s wife.
\nSo this child’s got a pretty <\/p>\n
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\nnice heritage.
\nHis qualifications for <\/p>\n
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\npriesthood, John the Baptist
\nwere absolutely impeccable. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s got a mother and a father,
\nboth who were in the priestly <\/p>\n
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\nline.
\nYou know, a mother who who comes<\/p>\n
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\nfrom the family of Aaron.
\nWhy is he down in the wilderness<\/p>\n
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\nwearing a camel skin?
\nYou know how odd it is that that<\/p>\n
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\na man with those bloodlines is
\ndown in the wilderness of <\/p>\n
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\nGeodeo, not a high priest, but
\nwearing a camel skin and not <\/p>\n
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\ngarments for glory and beauty.
\nSo there’s there’s some some <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting things about John
\nthat we need to unearth here, so<\/p>\n
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\nRemember the meanings of the <\/p>\n
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\nthat this is a boy. <\/p>\n
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\nWho has got impeccable
\nqualifications for priesthood? <\/p>\n
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\nI mean qualities, you know,
\nqualifications that really are <\/p>\n
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\npar excellence.
\nI mean there was not even the <\/p>\n
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\nhigh priests themselves at this
\ntime would have had those <\/p>\n
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\nqualifications, but John does
\nand we’ll see why shortly. <\/p>\n
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\nBut this old couple brothers and
\nsisters had a problem and you <\/p>\n
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\nknow, we we’ve all got across
\nthe bear, don’t we, of some <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, we’ve all got an old <\/p>\n
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\nhabit we’ve all got.
\nA trial that really has been <\/p>\n
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\neating at it sometimes for like
\n20 years and and this was theirs<\/p>\n
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\nin in verse 7 and they had no
\nchild because Elizabeth was <\/p>\n
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\nbarren and they both were now
\nwell stricken in years she was <\/p>\n
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\nbarren and and so notorious was
\nthis barrenness that if you just<\/p>\n
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\n36 she was actually given a <\/p>\n
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\ntitle.
\nIn the sixth month with her who <\/p>\n
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\nwas called Baron now in the
\nGreek it’s the Baron one. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s the Baron 1 tragically and
\nand I don’t know if people would<\/p>\n
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\nhave said that out of any
\ndisrespect or or trying to to <\/p>\n
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\nbelittle her but you know this
\nthis here’s a family whose <\/p>\n
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\nbloodlines are so pure that you
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\nThis poor old lady became known
\nas as the Baron one and it was <\/p>\n
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\nsort of just a tragedy to look
\nat this family with with all of <\/p>\n
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\nthese great bloodlines.
\nAnd yet you you see that they <\/p>\n
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\ncan’t have a child.
\nWhat a struggle that must have <\/p>\n
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\nbeen for them, you know,
\nespecially in Israel where it <\/p>\n
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\nwas a joy to have children
\nbecause they all wanted to be <\/p>\n
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\nthe one to to bear that Messiah
\nwho would come. <\/p>\n
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\nBut but what was their attitude?
\nYour attitude is is, is a lot in<\/p>\n
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\nlife.
\nAttitude is a lot. <\/p>\n
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\nWell, here’s their attitude.
\nIf you come back to to verse <\/p>\n
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\nsix, you know it’s easy to give
\nup. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s easy to ask God, well, why
\nis this happening to me? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd they were both righteous.
\nThey noticed this verse six <\/p>\n
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\nbefore God and that means it’s
\ngenuine righteousness. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re righteous, not before
\nother people. <\/p>\n
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\nwe’re righteous because we do <\/p>\n
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\nIt was genuine.
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\ntrial, righteous before God.
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\ncompliment that’s given there by<\/p>\n
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\ndoesn’t mean that they were <\/p>\n
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\nwithout sin, but of course it
\nmeant that under the law they <\/p>\n
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\nwould have made all the
\nofferings. <\/p>\n
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\nThey walked in all the <\/p>\n
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\nthey prayed about. <\/p>\n
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\nThey prayed about that problem.
\nAnd they’re who knows how old. <\/p>\n
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\nThey’re well stricken in years
\nnow. <\/p>\n
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\nHow old that is in verse seven,
\nI don’t know. <\/p>\n
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\nBut they kept on praying for a
\nchild. <\/p>\n
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\nThey didn’t stop as old as they
\nwere. <\/p>\n
338
\n00:22:46,430 –> 00:22:48,470
\nThey kept on praying.
\nLook at verse 13. <\/p>\n
339
\n00:22:49,310 –> 00:22:54,750
\nFear not, Zacharias, for thy
\nprayer is her now the word <\/p>\n
340
\n00:22:54,750 –> 00:23:01,410
\nprayer there is desis D EE S.
\nI S it means a specific <\/p>\n
341
\n00:23:01,890 –> 00:23:04,970
\npetition.
\nIt wasn’t just any sort of <\/p>\n
342
\n00:23:04,970 –> 00:23:08,450
\nprayer, it was a specific
\npetition that they made. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:23:08,450 –> 00:23:12,090
\nAnd and I’d make the suggestion
\nto you that despite the age of <\/p>\n
344
\n00:23:12,090 –> 00:23:17,370
\nthis old couple, they are still
\nmaking a specific petition for a<\/p>\n
345
\n00:23:17,370 –> 00:23:20,570
\nboy.
\nThe word prayer there means <\/p>\n
346
\n00:23:20,570 –> 00:23:24,570
\nsomething specific.
\nIt’s not a general word, but <\/p>\n
347
\n00:23:24,570 –> 00:23:28,400
\nsomething specific.
\nAs old as they were, they kept <\/p>\n
348
\n00:23:28,400 –> 00:23:30,840
\non praying for a child.
\nThey just picture an older <\/p>\n
349
\n00:23:30,840 –> 00:23:32,360
\ncouple who doesn’t have
\nchildren. <\/p>\n
350
\n00:23:33,880 –> 00:23:37,160
\nThey’re praying day in and day
\nout for a child. <\/p>\n
351
\n00:23:37,160 –> 00:23:41,880
\nNow the look at that face, you
\nknow, how often do we do we just<\/p>\n
352
\n00:23:41,880 –> 00:23:46,440
\ngive up when problems arise?
\nYou know, we we need help or the<\/p>\n
353
\n00:23:46,920 –> 00:23:50,320
\nthe eclaisia needs help.
\nMaybe we get together and we <\/p>\n
354
\n00:23:50,320 –> 00:23:54,240
\nhave a special prayer.
\nAnd and the first sign of <\/p>\n
355
\n00:23:54,240 –> 00:23:56,720
\ndifficulty, you see people in
\nthe meeting wanting to give up. <\/p>\n
356
\n00:23:59,120 –> 00:24:03,600
\nThis man is still praying and
\nasking God to do it despite his <\/p>\n
357
\n00:24:03,600 –> 00:24:06,440
\nage.
\nNow was he rewarded by God? <\/p>\n
358
\n00:24:08,160 –> 00:24:12,240
\nWas he ever look at for say they
\ncame to pass while he executed <\/p>\n
359
\n00:24:12,240 –> 00:24:15,280
\nthe priest office before God in
\nthe order of his course. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:24:16,160 –> 00:24:20,280
\nAccording to the custom of the
\npriest office, his lot was to <\/p>\n
361
\n00:24:20,280 –> 00:24:22,680
\nburn incense when he went into
\nthe temple. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:24:23,330 –> 00:24:28,410
\nBefore into the temple of the
\nLord His lot. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:24:28,410 –> 00:24:31,290
\nNow this is where you kind of
\nneed to to look at how that <\/p>\n
364
\n00:24:31,290 –> 00:24:34,370
\nworked in the days of the Lord
\nJesus Christ, because you won’t <\/p>\n
365
\n00:24:34,370 –> 00:24:36,730
\nexactly find them doing it this
\nway in the law. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:24:36,970 –> 00:24:39,770
\nThe priesthood had changed a
\nlittle bit, but the great honor <\/p>\n
367
\n00:24:39,810 –> 00:24:43,850
\nof any any member of that
\nfamily, the great honor was to <\/p>\n
368
\n00:24:43,850 –> 00:24:48,490
\nburn incense in that holy place.
\nThat was what they all strive to<\/p>\n
369
\n00:24:48,490 –> 00:24:50,770
\ndo.
\nAnd because there were so many <\/p>\n
370
\n00:24:50,770 –> 00:24:55,650
\npeople at that time that wanted
\nto do it, they drew lots for it.<\/p>\n
371
\n00:24:57,610 –> 00:25:02,850
\nAnd when your name came out, you
\nburned incense on that one day. <\/p>\n
372
\n00:25:03,890 –> 00:25:07,930
\nAnd then after that your name
\nwas thrown out because you had <\/p>\n
373
\n00:25:07,930 –> 00:25:12,730
\nhad your privilege.
\nYou only got it one time in your<\/p>\n
374
\n00:25:12,730 –> 00:25:16,330
\nwhole life to go in there and
\nburn incense. <\/p>\n
375
\n00:25:16,970 –> 00:25:21,580
\nAnd on the 1:00.
\nGay that Zacharias would ever <\/p>\n
376
\n00:25:21,580 –> 00:25:25,020
\nget that privilege to go in
\nthere and burn incense. <\/p>\n
377
\n00:25:25,500 –> 00:25:28,260
\nThere is Gabriel standing on the
\nright side of the altar. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:25:29,020 –> 00:25:31,940
\nHe’s been praying all of his
\nlife for a child, and the one <\/p>\n
379
\n00:25:31,940 –> 00:25:35,940
\ntime his name comes out of the
\nhat, to use a modern expression,<\/p>\n
380
\n00:25:36,100 –> 00:25:38,540
\nthe one time his name comes out
\nof the hat is that’s OK, it’s <\/p>\n
381
\n00:25:38,540 –> 00:25:41,740
\nyour turn.
\nHis only chance to do it his <\/p>\n
382
\n00:25:41,740 –> 00:25:44,820
\nwhole life he walks in.
\nThere’s Gabriel standing on the <\/p>\n
383
\n00:25:44,820 –> 00:25:48,390
\nright side of the altar.
\nDoes God answer prayer in <\/p>\n
384
\n00:25:48,470 –> 00:25:53,750
\nremarkable ways?
\nWe went in there, and there was <\/p>\n
385
\n00:25:54,710 –> 00:26:02,630
\nAl Gibor not just any Angel, but
\nGabriel Edersheim, who was a Jew<\/p>\n
386
\n00:26:02,630 –> 00:26:05,270
\nwho became a Christian, wrote
\nvery wonderfully about the the <\/p>\n
387
\n00:26:05,270 –> 00:26:07,470
\ncustoms of the temple in the
\ndays of Christ. <\/p>\n
388
\n00:26:07,470 –> 00:26:10,550
\nAnd you see that last phrase
\nthere for the first time in his <\/p>\n
389
\n00:26:10,550 –> 00:26:16,410
\nlife, and for the last.
\nThis service would devolve upon <\/p>\n
390
\n00:26:16,410 –> 00:26:18,090
\nhim.
\nThat’s the only time he ever <\/p>\n
391
\n00:26:18,090 –> 00:26:21,090
\nwould have gone in there to burn
\nincense. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:26:22,170 –> 00:26:26,850
\nHis name came up that day.
\nAnd there is Gabriel listening <\/p>\n
393
\n00:26:26,850 –> 00:26:31,930
\nto that prayer and watching that
\nman as he burns incense. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:26:31,930 –> 00:26:35,050
\nAnd now he is going to appear to
\nhim with this great message. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:26:35,050 –> 00:26:37,410
\nNow where did Gabriel last
\nappear in our Bibles? <\/p>\n
396
\n00:26:38,090 –> 00:26:42,370
\nWas here in Luke chapter one.
\nWell, the last time he appeared <\/p>\n
397
\n00:26:42,370 –> 00:26:44,410
\nin our Bibles was Daniel Chapter
\n9. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:26:45,390 –> 00:26:48,430
\nWhere he appeared to Daniel to
\nto give him the prophecy of the <\/p>\n
399
\n00:26:48,710 –> 00:26:50,590
\nthe 70 weeks.
\nNow I told you to remember the <\/p>\n
400
\n00:26:50,590 –> 00:26:55,030
\nmeanings of of the names.
\nBut Daniel in his prayer you’ll <\/p>\n
401
\n00:26:55,030 –> 00:26:58,550
\nfind these three things.
\nHe first asked for God to <\/p>\n
402
\n00:26:58,550 –> 00:27:03,830
\nremember that the 70 years of
\ncaptivity have come to an end. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:27:05,030 –> 00:27:07,270
\nIn verse four he appeals for
\nmercy. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:27:09,820 –> 00:27:12,860
\nAnd he explains in verse 11 the
\nreason why they’ve suffered 70 <\/p>\n
405
\n00:27:12,860 –> 00:27:16,260
\nyears of captivity is because
\nthey hadn’t followed the oath <\/p>\n
406
\n00:27:17,420 –> 00:27:20,140
\nwritten in the law of Moses
\nZacharias. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:27:20,180 –> 00:27:26,460
\nYahweh hath remember John the
\ngrace of God, Elizabeth the oath<\/p>\n
408
\n00:27:27,100 –> 00:27:31,820
\nof A on this, this great Angel
\nnow spans those two bookends. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:27:32,700 –> 00:27:36,180
\nHe appeared in Daniel chapter
\nnine, 500 years earlier to <\/p>\n
410
\n00:27:36,180 –> 00:27:40,420
\nDaniel to an aged man.
\nWho had been praying? <\/p>\n
411
\n00:27:41,980 –> 00:27:46,260
\nAnd then he reappears in Luke
\nchapter one to an aged man who <\/p>\n
412
\n00:27:46,260 –> 00:27:50,820
\nhad been praying.
\nAnd you see all those details <\/p>\n
413
\n00:27:51,580 –> 00:27:53,780
\nall matched up.
\nAnd Gabriel was listening to <\/p>\n
414
\n00:27:53,780 –> 00:27:57,780
\nthat man and now he’s listening
\nto this man to show the nation <\/p>\n
415
\n00:27:57,780 –> 00:28:01,940
\nmercy.
\nGod was now going to act in <\/p>\n
416
\n00:28:01,940 –> 00:28:05,100
\nresponse to this great prayer.
\nAnd let that be an encouragement<\/p>\n
417
\n00:28:05,100 –> 00:28:07,860
\nto his brothers and sisters.
\nHow many years Zechariahs have <\/p>\n
418
\n00:28:07,860 –> 00:28:12,940
\nbeen praying, we don’t know.
\nBut God finally responded. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:28:13,700 –> 00:28:17,140
\nWe’ve got to learn faith, and we
\ngot to learn patience when we <\/p>\n
420
\n00:28:17,140 –> 00:28:19,820
\ncome before God and ask what we
\nneed. <\/p>\n
421
\n00:28:20,940 –> 00:28:23,300
\nSo he’s standing there.
\nWe come back to Luke, chapter <\/p>\n
422
\n00:28:23,300 –> 00:28:27,460
\none, there in verse 11, on the
\nright side of the altar of <\/p>\n
423
\n00:28:27,460 –> 00:28:29,500
\nincense.
\nThe right side. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:28:29,500 –> 00:28:31,620
\nNow, of course, most of us would
\nbe right-handed, wouldn’t we? <\/p>\n
425
\n00:28:32,260 –> 00:28:35,060
\nAnd in the right hand, of
\ncourse, is that hand which is <\/p>\n
426
\n00:28:35,060 –> 00:28:38,830
\nthe most dexterous.
\nNow it matters not with God, be <\/p>\n
427
\n00:28:38,830 –> 00:28:42,790
\nit right hand or left.
\nBut you know, what we read up in<\/p>\n
428
\n00:28:42,790 –> 00:28:48,990
\nthe Psalms is the saving power
\nof God’s right hand. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:28:49,630 –> 00:28:52,870
\nMy right, your left.
\nIt’s a symbol of power and <\/p>\n
430
\n00:28:52,870 –> 00:28:54,590
\naction.
\nSo he’s he’s not on the left <\/p>\n
431
\n00:28:54,590 –> 00:28:57,390
\nside of the altar, is he?
\nHe’s on the right side because <\/p>\n
432
\n00:28:57,390 –> 00:29:03,070
\nhe’s now going to act and give
\nthis old couple a boy who would <\/p>\n
433
\n00:29:03,070 –> 00:29:05,150
\nbe the forerunner of their
\nMessiah. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:29:05,510 –> 00:29:08,350
\nThe right side of the altar,
\njust take down these references <\/p>\n
435
\n00:29:08,630 –> 00:29:15,510
\nabout the right hand, Psalm 20,
\nverse 6 and Psalm 60, verse <\/p>\n
436
\n00:29:15,670 –> 00:29:18,230
\nfive.
\nAnd those two references are all<\/p>\n
437
\n00:29:18,230 –> 00:29:22,150
\nabout the saving strength of
\nGod’s right hand. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:29:22,150 –> 00:29:25,510
\nAnd that’s the saving strength
\nthat’s now going to be <\/p>\n
439
\n00:29:25,870 –> 00:29:30,670
\nmanifested as He stands there,
\nthis mighty Angel on the right <\/p>\n
440
\n00:29:30,670 –> 00:29:37,200
\nhand of the altar of incense.
\nThe Alter Vincent being used <\/p>\n
441
\n00:29:37,200 –> 00:29:40,320
\nhere in connection with
\nZechariah is is very <\/p>\n
442
\n00:29:40,320 –> 00:29:42,200
\ninteresting.
\nI’d like to just turn this one <\/p>\n
443
\n00:29:42,200 –> 00:29:45,480
\nup in Exodus Chapter 30.
\nJust come back with me to Exodus<\/p>\n
444
\n00:29:45,480 –> 00:29:51,400
\nChapter 30 because the Alter
\nVincent was a very unique item <\/p>\n
445
\n00:29:52,400 –> 00:29:55,600
\nin the Holy place.
\nIt’s described in terms of a <\/p>\n
446
\n00:29:55,600 –> 00:30:00,520
\nhouse.
\nThe Alter Vincent was a little <\/p>\n
447
\n00:30:00,520 –> 00:30:05,300
\nhouse in the Holy place.
\nAnd there in that holy place was<\/p>\n
448
\n00:30:05,300 –> 00:30:07,220
\na replica of every house in
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
449
\n00:30:07,220 –> 00:30:10,420
\nNow just look quickly at Exodus
\n30 and verse three. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:30:12,820 –> 00:30:16,500
\nAnd now shall overlay it with
\npure gold, the top thereof and <\/p>\n
451
\n00:30:16,500 –> 00:30:21,020
\nthe sides thereof, roundabout
\nExodus 30 verse three. <\/p>\n
452
\n00:30:21,580 –> 00:30:25,260
\nNow if you have a margin, the
\nmargin of my Bible for top is <\/p>\n
453
\n00:30:25,260 –> 00:30:30,380
\nroof, and the margin for sides
\nis walls. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:30:31,130 –> 00:30:34,530
\nSo the altar of instance is
\ndescribed in terms of a house. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:30:35,210 –> 00:30:38,130
\nIt’s got a roof and it’s got
\nwalls. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:30:38,170 –> 00:30:42,930
\nNow, the altar of instance was a
\nlittle box, like, like not big <\/p>\n
457
\n00:30:42,930 –> 00:30:46,690
\nat all, but it’s got a roof and
\nit’s got walls. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:30:47,050 –> 00:30:51,290
\nSo what’s that saying?
\nIt’s saying that every house in <\/p>\n
459
\n00:30:51,290 –> 00:30:54,330
\nIsrael ought to have been a
\nHouse of prayer. <\/p>\n
460
\n00:30:55,770 –> 00:30:57,250
\nDo you think about the House of
\nZechariahs? <\/p>\n
461
\n00:30:57,250 –> 00:31:00,130
\nAnd Elizabeth, what was it?
\nIt was a house. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:31:00,610 –> 00:31:02,250
\nOf prayer.
\nAnd there in the Holy Place was <\/p>\n
463
\n00:31:02,250 –> 00:31:07,530
\na replica of every house in
\nIsrael had a flat roof, and it <\/p>\n
464
\n00:31:07,530 –> 00:31:09,810
\nhad walls.
\nDeuteronomy 22. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:31:09,810 –> 00:31:13,730
\nThey had to construct their
\nhouses with a flat roof and <\/p>\n
466
\n00:31:13,730 –> 00:31:16,610
\nwalls.
\nAnd so you think about that in <\/p>\n
467
\n00:31:16,610 –> 00:31:18,290
\nterms of Zechariahs.
\nIn his house. <\/p>\n
468
\n00:31:18,290 –> 00:31:20,010
\nWas it a House of prayer, was it
\never? <\/p>\n
469
\n00:31:20,410 –> 00:31:23,730
\nAnd standing there on the right
\nside of the altar, Vincent’s <\/p>\n
470
\n00:31:24,250 –> 00:31:25,930
\nwhat his house had been all of
\nhis life. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:31:26,890 –> 00:31:31,710
\nNow there is Gabriel to.
\nTo give him this wonderful and <\/p>\n
472
\n00:31:31,710 –> 00:31:33,750
\ncheering news.
\nComing back to Luke, chapter <\/p>\n
473
\n00:31:33,750 –> 00:31:39,110
\none, he was told that his name
\nwas to be John, the Grace of <\/p>\n
474
\n00:31:39,270 –> 00:31:41,910
\nGod.
\nYou know, Elijah had called for <\/p>\n
475
\n00:31:41,910 –> 00:31:47,190
\nYahweh Elohim of armies in First
\nKings 19 but Elijah was shown <\/p>\n
476
\n00:31:47,190 –> 00:31:49,510
\nNo, that’s not what spirit we
\nneed to have. <\/p>\n
477
\n00:31:50,390 –> 00:31:55,310
\nWe need this spirit.
\nJohn appears the grace of the <\/p>\n
478
\n00:31:55,310 –> 00:31:58,310
\nLord, which leads men to
\nrepentance. <\/p>\n
479
\n00:31:58,980 –> 00:32:02,420
\nAnd he was to be the cause of
\ngreat joy and gladness, says <\/p>\n
480
\n00:32:02,420 –> 00:32:07,020
\nLuke, one in verse 14.
\nAnd many shall rejoice at his <\/p>\n
481
\n00:32:07,020 –> 00:32:09,420
\nbirth.
\nBecause, of course, this one was<\/p>\n
482
\n00:32:09,420 –> 00:32:13,140
\nto signal the forerunner of the
\nMessiah, for which so many of <\/p>\n
483
\n00:32:13,140 –> 00:32:16,780
\nthem had been waiting.
\nThere would be joy and gladness,<\/p>\n
484
\n00:32:16,780 –> 00:32:20,780
\nas there should be at the birth
\nof any child, especially this <\/p>\n
485
\n00:32:20,780 –> 00:32:23,580
\none.
\nMore on that phrase just in a <\/p>\n
486
\n00:32:23,580 –> 00:32:26,060
\nmoment.
\nNow I ask you to remember the <\/p>\n
487
\n00:32:26,060 –> 00:32:30,050
\nimpeccable qualifications that.
\nJohn would have had for <\/p>\n
488
\n00:32:30,410 –> 00:32:34,370
\npriesthood.
\nAnd we get to that in verse 15 <\/p>\n
489
\n00:32:34,490 –> 00:32:37,970
\nbecause this is what God said
\nhe’s going to be. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:32:39,810 –> 00:32:43,010
\nIt says he will be great in the
\nsight of the Lord Luke 115 and <\/p>\n
491
\n00:32:43,010 –> 00:32:46,570
\nshall drink neither wine nor
\nstrong drink. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:32:46,570 –> 00:32:49,210
\nIn other words, he’s going to be
\na Nazarete. <\/p>\n
493
\n00:32:49,930 –> 00:32:53,370
\nHe will drink neither wine nor
\nstrong drink. <\/p>\n
494
\n00:32:53,370 –> 00:32:56,570
\nNow the Nazarete vow was really
\ngiven just for one reason. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:32:58,230 –> 00:33:00,830
\nIf you see God told Israel,
\nSonia, you shall be unto me a <\/p>\n
496
\n00:33:00,830 –> 00:33:05,750
\nKingdom of priest.
\nAnd then he gave a law which <\/p>\n
497
\n00:33:05,750 –> 00:33:09,110
\nsaid it could never happen,
\nbecause unless you are of the <\/p>\n
498
\n00:33:09,110 –> 00:33:12,430
\ntribe of Levi and of the family
\nof Aaron, you never could be a <\/p>\n
499
\n00:33:12,430 –> 00:33:15,350
\npriest.
\nWell, how then could the words <\/p>\n
500
\n00:33:15,350 –> 00:33:20,310
\nof Exodus 19 ever be fulfilled?
\nYou shall be unto me a Kingdom <\/p>\n
501
\n00:33:20,430 –> 00:33:23,230
\nof priest.
\nThat’s where the Nazarete vow <\/p>\n
502
\n00:33:23,230 –> 00:33:26,240
\ncomes in.
\nBecause the Nazarete vow was the<\/p>\n
503
\n00:33:26,280 –> 00:33:32,200
\nopportunity for anyone in
\nIsrael, either man or woman, for<\/p>\n
504
\n00:33:32,200 –> 00:33:36,280
\na given period, to imitate the
\nhigh priest. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:33:36,960 –> 00:33:39,120
\nSo the high priest was told not
\nto drink wine. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:33:40,280 –> 00:33:42,400
\nSo the Nazarete wasn’t to drink
\nwine. <\/p>\n
507
\n00:33:43,400 –> 00:33:45,560
\nThe high priest was told never
\nto touch a dead body. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:33:46,640 –> 00:33:50,920
\nThe Nazarete was told never to
\ntouch a dead body as the the <\/p>\n
509
\n00:33:50,920 –> 00:33:53,360
\nhigh priest wore the the great
\ncrown. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:33:54,350 –> 00:33:59,590
\nUpon his head with with the name
\nof God inscribed across it so <\/p>\n
511
\n00:33:59,710 –> 00:34:02,950
\nthe nazarete when he grew his
\nhair long he would have worn it <\/p>\n
512
\n00:34:02,950 –> 00:34:06,750
\nin a turban in the in like sort
\nof a turban like what we see <\/p>\n
513
\n00:34:06,750 –> 00:34:11,350
\ntoday which was very similar in
\nshape as you can see to the <\/p>\n
514
\n00:34:11,350 –> 00:34:17,270
\nmiter of the high priest he’s
\ngoing to be a Nazarete. <\/p>\n
515
\n00:34:17,270 –> 00:34:21,909
\nBut but but hang on a second I
\nthought John already had every <\/p>\n
516
\n00:34:21,909 –> 00:34:28,489
\nqualification to be a priest.
\nWhy does John have to be a <\/p>\n
517
\n00:34:28,489 –> 00:34:30,170
\nNazarete?
\nNazarete. <\/p>\n
518
\n00:34:30,210 –> 00:34:32,690
\nThe Nazarete vow was for people
\nwho could never be priest. <\/p>\n
519
\n00:34:34,090 –> 00:34:38,730
\nAnd yet the record says that
\nhe’s going to be a Nazarete. <\/p>\n
520
\n00:34:39,210 –> 00:34:44,570
\nGabriel says, you know, from his
\nmother’s womb, he’s got to be a <\/p>\n
521
\n00:34:44,570 –> 00:34:47,610
\nNazarete.
\nWell, what’s the reason for <\/p>\n
522
\n00:34:47,610 –> 00:34:50,050
\nthat?
\nJohn had no reason to be an <\/p>\n
523
\n00:34:50,050 –> 00:34:52,330
\nNazarete.
\nHe’s already in the priestly <\/p>\n
524
\n00:34:52,330 –> 00:34:55,570
\nline.
\nWell, who was greater, The <\/p>\n
525
\n00:34:55,570 –> 00:34:59,690
\nNazarete or the High priest?
\nInteresting question. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:34:59,690 –> 00:35:08,650
\nWho was greater?
\nGot a 50% chance I guess the <\/p>\n
527
\n00:35:08,650 –> 00:35:10,490
\nNazarete.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n
528
\n00:35:11,410 –> 00:35:12,890
\nBecause why was the high priest
\nthere? <\/p>\n
529
\n00:35:13,530 –> 00:35:16,770
\nThe high priest was there by
\ndent of birth, by a carnal <\/p>\n
530
\n00:35:16,770 –> 00:35:18,570
\ncommandment as Paul says in
\nHebrews 7. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:35:19,130 –> 00:35:22,330
\nWhy is the Nazarete doing this?
\nBecause he wants to. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:35:23,980 –> 00:35:28,220
\nBecause he loves his God so much
\nand reveres his God so much. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:35:28,220 –> 00:35:31,740
\nHe wants to be like his high
\npriest so much that he says I’m <\/p>\n
534
\n00:35:31,740 –> 00:35:34,140
\ngoing to be a Nazarete because I
\nwant to be like my high priest. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:35:35,140 –> 00:35:37,220
\nThe high priest was just there
\nby dent of birth. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:35:37,300 –> 00:35:42,100
\nHe had no choice.
\nThe Nazarete in a very real <\/p>\n
537
\n00:35:42,100 –> 00:35:46,100
\nsense was greater than the high
\npriest. <\/p>\n
538
\n00:35:46,100 –> 00:35:49,860
\nThe high priest was there by a
\ncarnal commandment, but the high<\/p>\n
539
\n00:35:49,860 –> 00:35:52,020
\npriest was there.
\nBut the Nazarete, sorry, was <\/p>\n
540
\n00:35:52,020 –> 00:35:56,370
\nthere.
\nBecause he loved his God, he’s <\/p>\n
541
\n00:35:56,370 –> 00:35:58,250
\ngot to be a Nazarete, says
\nGabriel. <\/p>\n
542
\n00:35:59,090 –> 00:36:02,010
\nIt’s as though, brothers and
\nsisters, the law is being set <\/p>\n
543
\n00:36:02,010 –> 00:36:05,290
\naside in this boy.
\nYou know, John has absolutely <\/p>\n
544
\n00:36:05,290 –> 00:36:11,250
\nnothing to do with the law.
\nHere is the spirit of the law, a<\/p>\n
545
\n00:36:11,530 –> 00:36:15,810
\nseparate one, as the word
\nNazarete means a separate one in<\/p>\n
546
\n00:36:15,850 –> 00:36:20,610
\nevery sense of the word.
\nAnd it’s going to happen, says <\/p>\n
547
\n00:36:20,610 –> 00:36:24,880
\nverse 15.
\nFrom his mother’s womb, which, <\/p>\n
548
\n00:36:24,880 –> 00:36:27,040
\nagain, that’s a difference from
\nthe the law too, because a <\/p>\n
549
\n00:36:27,040 –> 00:36:32,400
\nNazarete normally could pick how
\nlong he would be a Nazarete for.<\/p>\n
550
\n00:36:32,480 –> 00:36:34,480
\nYou could do it for a week, you
\ncould do it for a month, you <\/p>\n
551
\n00:36:34,480 –> 00:36:37,920
\ncould do it for a year.
\nBut Gabriel says no, he’s going <\/p>\n
552
\n00:36:37,920 –> 00:36:39,840
\nto be a Nazarete.
\nHe’s going to be a separate one <\/p>\n
553
\n00:36:39,840 –> 00:36:43,720
\nfrom his birth.
\nThis is my work. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:36:44,400 –> 00:36:47,680
\nI mean, how much longer do you
\nthink Zacharias and Elizabeth <\/p>\n
555
\n00:36:47,680 –> 00:36:50,720
\nwere alive after this?
\nI mean. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:36:51,210 –> 00:36:53,370
\nProbably not very long.
\nThey’re old and most stricken in<\/p>\n
557
\n00:36:53,370 –> 00:36:57,810
\nyears already.
\nSo who then was going to be his <\/p>\n
558
\n00:36:57,810 –> 00:37:00,570
\nfather?
\nWell, it was going to be God. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:37:01,610 –> 00:37:05,130
\nHe was going to take over and be
\nhis father. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:37:05,130 –> 00:37:08,250
\nAnd John was in the deserts for
\nmuch of his early childhood. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:37:08,970 –> 00:37:10,970
\nSo who was his mentor?
\nWho was his guide? <\/p>\n
562
\n00:37:11,690 –> 00:37:16,290
\nBut Yahweh, this child indeed
\nwas to be a product of his <\/p>\n
563
\n00:37:16,290 –> 00:37:20,050
\nmaker, a Nazarete, a separate
\nwere, a separate one in. <\/p>\n
564
\n00:37:20,710 –> 00:37:25,070
\nEvery sense of the word.
\nSo Zacharias is informed by the <\/p>\n
565
\n00:37:25,070 –> 00:37:28,670
\nAngel that he’s going to have a
\nchild. <\/p>\n
566
\n00:37:29,830 –> 00:37:33,270
\nBut poor old Zacharias, you
\nknow, his faith was there, <\/p>\n
567
\n00:37:33,270 –> 00:37:36,910
\nwasn’t it?
\nHe was blameless according to <\/p>\n
568
\n00:37:36,910 –> 00:37:38,790
\nthe law.
\nBut you know, like it is with <\/p>\n
569
\n00:37:38,790 –> 00:37:40,830
\nwith us sometimes, both and
\nsisters, you know when God <\/p>\n
570
\n00:37:40,830 –> 00:37:43,910
\nanswers prayers in your life,
\nyou’re you’re sometimes just so <\/p>\n
571
\n00:37:43,910 –> 00:37:46,390
\nstaggered and and surprised you
\ncan’t believe it. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:37:47,480 –> 00:37:49,960
\nAnd that’s what happens here
\nwith with Zacharias, you stop <\/p>\n
573
\n00:37:49,960 –> 00:37:53,400
\nthinking for a second, you know,
\nwe pray every day, don’t we, <\/p>\n
574
\n00:37:53,400 –> 00:37:56,800
\nthat Christ is going to come.
\nAnd you know when that knock <\/p>\n
575
\n00:37:56,800 –> 00:38:01,120
\ncomes on the door, you know, we
\nwe might just be so, so overcome<\/p>\n
576
\n00:38:01,120 –> 00:38:02,840
\nwith the whole moment.
\nWe might not believe it. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:38:02,840 –> 00:38:05,560
\nAnd the Angel says he’s here.
\nLike who? <\/p>\n
578
\n00:38:06,800 –> 00:38:08,720
\nThat’s kind of what happens with
\nwith Zacharias. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:38:08,760 –> 00:38:11,760
\nIt’s it’s all his hope and it’s
\nall his aspirations. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:38:11,760 –> 00:38:14,600
\nBut momentarily he he doesn’t
\nbelieve. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:38:15,290 –> 00:38:18,770
\nBecause the fullness of the the
\nexpectation doesn’t match the <\/p>\n
582
\n00:38:18,770 –> 00:38:22,770
\nfullness of the realization.
\nAnd so we read there in verse 18<\/p>\n
583
\n00:38:23,610 –> 00:38:27,850
\nZacharias says to Gabriel, well,
\nhow shall I know this, You know,<\/p>\n
584
\n00:38:27,850 –> 00:38:33,650
\nfor I am old and and and my wife
\nis well stricken in years, so he<\/p>\n
585
\n00:38:33,650 –> 00:38:36,890
\ntemporarily doesn’t.
\nHe loses a little bit of faith. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:38:37,930 –> 00:38:40,130
\nYou know that question, that
\nvery same question there in <\/p>\n
587
\n00:38:40,130 –> 00:38:42,570
\nverse 18 you might recall, was
\nasked. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:38:43,710 –> 00:38:46,230
\nBy another faithful man so
\nfaithful that he became known as<\/p>\n
589
\n00:38:46,510 –> 00:38:52,790
\nthe father of the faithful,
\nwhereby shall I know that I <\/p>\n
590
\n00:38:53,470 –> 00:38:56,270
\nshall inherit it.
\nBut in Abraham’s case, it was it<\/p>\n
591
\n00:38:56,270 –> 00:38:59,030
\nwas a question of faith.
\nHe was asking what the modus <\/p>\n
592
\n00:38:59,030 –> 00:39:03,070
\noperandi was for how he would
\nhave a boy and immediately God <\/p>\n
593
\n00:39:03,070 –> 00:39:06,710
\nshowed Abraham the sacrifice.
\nBut Zechariahs just temporarily <\/p>\n
594
\n00:39:06,710 –> 00:39:08,870
\nloses heart.
\nHe’s he’s so overwhelmed with <\/p>\n
595
\n00:39:08,870 –> 00:39:12,430
\nthe excitement of seeing Gabriel
\nthat it says that he. <\/p>\n
596
\n00:39:13,130 –> 00:39:18,330
\nDoesn’t believe.
\nAnd So what was his penalty? <\/p>\n
597
\n00:39:19,730 –> 00:39:24,490
\nWhat did that lack of belief
\ncost Zacharias? <\/p>\n
598
\n00:39:26,050 –> 00:39:30,250
\nWell, verse 19 says, I am al
\nGabor that stands in the <\/p>\n
599
\n00:39:30,250 –> 00:39:32,890
\npresence of God.
\nAnd I’m sent to speak unto thee <\/p>\n
600
\n00:39:32,890 –> 00:39:37,170
\nand to show thee these glad
\ntidings, and behold, thou shalt <\/p>\n
601
\n00:39:37,530 –> 00:39:39,770
\nbe dumb.
\nHe struck dumb. <\/p>\n
602
\n00:39:41,260 –> 00:39:44,100
\nNow why would God strike a man
\nlike that gun. <\/p>\n
603
\n00:39:45,540 –> 00:39:47,420
\nIt’s interesting.
\nHe’s he’s in the holy place. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:39:48,260 –> 00:39:50,380
\nAnd you know, normally when you
\nyou came out of the holy place, <\/p>\n
605
\n00:39:50,380 –> 00:39:53,860
\neverybody’s standing outside
\nwaiting for Zacharias to come <\/p>\n
606
\n00:39:53,860 –> 00:39:55,860
\nout.
\nYou know, when the priest came <\/p>\n
607
\n00:39:55,860 –> 00:39:58,020
\nout, he would come out with the
\nthe blessing. <\/p>\n
608
\n00:39:58,020 –> 00:40:01,340
\nYahweh bless thee and keep thee.
\nYahweh make his face to shine <\/p>\n
609
\n00:40:01,340 –> 00:40:02,940
\nupon thee and Zacharias comes
\nout. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:40:06,060 –> 00:40:09,380
\nHe can’t speak.
\nIt seems harsh. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:40:10,100 –> 00:40:19,860
\nWhy would he be struck dumb for
\nnot believing verse 19, these <\/p>\n
612
\n00:40:19,860 –> 00:40:24,020
\nglad tidings?
\nLet’s come back to our chapter <\/p>\n
613
\n00:40:24,540 –> 00:40:29,420
\nIsaiah 40, because here it is.
\nGlad tidings. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:40:29,420 –> 00:40:33,660
\nWhere’s that from?
\nIsaiah chapter 40? <\/p>\n
615
\n00:40:33,660 –> 00:40:37,660
\nThis is the the chapter of John
\nthat we have to keep coming back<\/p>\n
616
\n00:40:37,660 –> 00:40:41,640
\nto to get our bearings.
\nHe struck dumb for not believing<\/p>\n
617
\n00:40:42,200 –> 00:40:48,240
\nthe glad tidings.
\nVerse nine. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:40:49,400 –> 00:40:50,920
\nWe know these words so well,
\ndon’t we? <\/p>\n
619
\n00:40:50,920 –> 00:40:53,880
\nFrom the the Messiah.
\nIsaiah 40, verse 90. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:40:53,880 –> 00:40:57,320
\nZion that bring us good tidings.
\nGet the up into the high <\/p>\n
621
\n00:40:57,320 –> 00:40:59,760
\nmountain.
\nOh, Jerusalem, that bring us <\/p>\n
622
\n00:40:59,760 –> 00:41:03,040
\ngood tidings.
\nLift up thy voice with strength.<\/p>\n
623
\n00:41:03,520 –> 00:41:05,960
\nLift it up.
\nBe not afraid. <\/p>\n
624
\n00:41:06,860 –> 00:41:10,820
\nSaying to the cities of Judah,
\nbehold your God. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:41:11,380 –> 00:41:14,260
\nSo what were they supposed to do
\nhere with the voice of the good <\/p>\n
626
\n00:41:14,260 –> 00:41:16,780
\ntidings?
\nThey were to lift it up with <\/p>\n
627
\n00:41:16,780 –> 00:41:22,180
\nstrength, Be not afraid.
\nBut Zacharias doesn’t believe <\/p>\n
628
\n00:41:22,180 –> 00:41:25,300
\nthe glad tidings, So what
\nhappens to his voice? <\/p>\n
629
\n00:41:27,140 –> 00:41:30,220
\nHe struck dumb.
\nYou see, it’s scriptural that it<\/p>\n
630
\n00:41:30,220 –> 00:41:33,100
\nbe so.
\nThe voice was the the tidings <\/p>\n
631
\n00:41:33,100 –> 00:41:35,460
\nwere supposed to be proclaimed
\nin a loud voice. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:41:36,300 –> 00:41:41,700
\nZecharias doesn’t believe the
\ntiding, so he’s struck dumb. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:41:42,740 –> 00:41:46,500
\nBut but who’s the voice of
\nIsaiah chapter 40? <\/p>\n
634
\n00:41:46,980 –> 00:41:51,980
\nWho’s the voice in this chapter?
\nVerse 3, It’s the voice of his <\/p>\n
635
\n00:41:51,980 –> 00:41:57,620
\nown boy, and while Zecharias may
\nbe temporarily struck dumb, the <\/p>\n
636
\n00:41:57,620 –> 00:42:01,900
\nvoice of his boy now comes
\nreverberating out of that <\/p>\n
637
\n00:42:01,900 –> 00:42:05,430
\nchapter.
\nSo because these glad tidings <\/p>\n
638
\n00:42:05,430 –> 00:42:10,790
\nare supposed to be spoken in a
\nloud voice, Zacharias doesn’t <\/p>\n
639
\n00:42:10,790 –> 00:42:13,190
\nbelieve it, and he’s struck
\ndumb. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:42:13,950 –> 00:42:16,310
\nBut who is speaking loudly in
\nthis chapter? <\/p>\n
641
\n00:42:16,310 –> 00:42:19,190
\nWell, it’s the voice of his own
\nboy. <\/p>\n
642
\n00:42:20,710 –> 00:42:24,790
\nSo we struck dumb because the
\nvoice said, lift up your voice <\/p>\n
643
\n00:42:25,390 –> 00:42:28,830
\nwith strength.
\nSo let’s just summarize this in <\/p>\n
644
\n00:42:28,830 –> 00:42:30,790
\nterms of the the slide that we
\nhad before. <\/p>\n
645
\n00:42:30,830 –> 00:42:34,370
\nHow do we know that Luke’s mind?
\nIs in Isaiah chapter 40. <\/p>\n
646
\n00:42:34,370 –> 00:42:39,490
\nWell, firstly we see Zacharias
\nis is struck dumb for not <\/p>\n
647
\n00:42:39,490 –> 00:42:45,450
\nbelieving the glad tidings, and
\nif we doubted that, that’s the <\/p>\n
648
\n00:42:45,450 –> 00:42:47,450
\nanswer.
\nThe context of this chapter is <\/p>\n
649
\n00:42:47,450 –> 00:42:49,730
\nabout the birth of John the
\nBaptist and the sending forth of<\/p>\n
650
\n00:42:49,730 –> 00:42:54,290
\nthe voice that lets us know that
\nwe’re on we’re on shore ground. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:42:55,050 –> 00:42:57,410
\nLet’s come back to Luke chapter
\none and see how Luke just picks <\/p>\n
652
\n00:42:57,410 –> 00:42:59,610
\nthis up so beautifully to show
\nthat. <\/p>\n
653
\n00:43:00,180 –> 00:43:03,580
\nHis mind was right here in in
\nJohn’s chapter in Isaiah chapter<\/p>\n
654
\n00:43:03,580 –> 00:43:06,540
\n40 because there are two other
\npoints that that come up in this<\/p>\n
655
\n00:43:06,540 –> 00:43:12,980
\nchapter that Luke is.
\nIt is it pains to record Mary <\/p>\n
656
\n00:43:13,380 –> 00:43:17,420
\nhaving been given her promise
\nthat she was to have the <\/p>\n
657
\n00:43:17,420 –> 00:43:20,340
\nMessiah.
\nIt says there in verse 39 of <\/p>\n
658
\n00:43:20,340 –> 00:43:23,620
\nLuke chapter one that Mary arose
\nin those days and went into the <\/p>\n
659
\n00:43:23,620 –> 00:43:26,900
\nHill Country with haste into a
\ncity of Judah. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:43:27,880 –> 00:43:30,720
\nNow Luke could have easily told
\nus what that city of Judah was, <\/p>\n
661
\n00:43:30,800 –> 00:43:33,360
\ncouldn’t he?
\nIn Luke chapter one in verse 39.<\/p>\n
662
\n00:43:33,360 –> 00:43:35,680
\nBut he doesn’t.
\nIt just says that Mary went into<\/p>\n
663
\n00:43:35,680 –> 00:43:39,000
\nthe Hill Country, into a city of
\nJudah. <\/p>\n
664
\n00:43:40,200 –> 00:43:43,560
\nWhat does Isaiah 40 say?
\nGet thee into the high mountain,<\/p>\n
665
\n00:43:45,120 –> 00:43:48,160
\nthe Hill Country?
\nSay to the cities of Judah. <\/p>\n
666
\n00:43:49,680 –> 00:43:52,160
\nShe went into a city of Judah.
\nProclaim. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:43:52,160 –> 00:43:57,560
\nBehold your God, he’s coming.
\nThe glad tidings that. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:43:57,900 –> 00:44:00,980
\nThat God is interested in our
\naffairs and he’s about to send a<\/p>\n
669
\n00:44:00,980 –> 00:44:03,940
\nvoice to save us.
\nProclaim that with a loud voice,<\/p>\n
670
\n00:44:04,300 –> 00:44:07,020
\nZecharias is struck dumb for not
\nbelieving it. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:44:07,500 –> 00:44:10,700
\nMary goes forth and proclaims it
\nupon the Hill Country of Judah. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:44:10,700 –> 00:44:13,940
\nBut what about Elizabeth, the
\nmother of John the Baptist? <\/p>\n
673
\n00:44:13,940 –> 00:44:18,940
\nThe other character in this
\nstory, verse 42, specifically <\/p>\n
674
\n00:44:18,940 –> 00:44:24,740
\nnotes when her prayer of
\nThanksgiving was expressed. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:44:25,980 –> 00:44:28,900
\nAnd this we’re told.
\nWas a spirit inspired prayer. <\/p>\n
676
\n00:44:30,020 –> 00:44:36,540
\nIt says that she spoke up with a
\nloud voice and said, blessed are<\/p>\n
677
\n00:44:36,540 –> 00:44:41,940
\nthou among women to marry, and
\nblessed is the fruit of thou <\/p>\n
678
\n00:44:41,940 –> 00:44:43,460
\nwomen.
\nLook at all of Luke’s illusions.<\/p>\n
679
\n00:44:43,460 –> 00:44:46,700
\nWe have there to that grand
\nchapter of Isaiah 40. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:44:48,380 –> 00:44:51,780
\nSo Zacharias lost heart
\nmomentarily for not believing <\/p>\n
681
\n00:44:51,780 –> 00:44:53,860
\nthe glad tidings, and he’s he’s
\nstruck dumb. <\/p>\n
682
\n00:44:53,860 –> 00:44:56,620
\nAnd you know when Zacharias’s
\nmouth is finally opened. <\/p>\n
683
\n00:44:57,030 –> 00:45:00,470
\nAt the the birth of of John the
\nBaptist, there comes forward in <\/p>\n
684
\n00:45:00,470 –> 00:45:03,750
\nverse 67 of this chapter, one of
\nthe most remarkable and <\/p>\n
685
\n00:45:03,750 –> 00:45:05,750
\nscintillating songs you’ve ever
\nheard. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:45:06,950 –> 00:45:10,830
\nYou know, we had to eliminate
\nthat consideration because five <\/p>\n
687
\n00:45:10,830 –> 00:45:13,510
\nsessions in an afternoon would
\nbe even harder than four. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:45:14,110 –> 00:45:17,190
\nBut if we had a #5, we we
\ndefinitely would look at that <\/p>\n
689
\n00:45:17,190 –> 00:45:19,790
\nsong.
\nHe he once he learns the lesson,<\/p>\n
690
\n00:45:19,790 –> 00:45:23,830
\nhe speaks one of the most
\nglorious songs that you can read<\/p>\n
691
\n00:45:23,830 –> 00:45:26,470
\nin your Bibles from verse 67
\ndown to. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:45:26,820 –> 00:45:32,100
\nThe end of this chapter And so
\nlet’s finish with verse 24. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:45:32,820 –> 00:45:36,580
\nThis remarkable faithful couple
\nis now told that they’re going <\/p>\n
694
\n00:45:36,580 –> 00:45:41,020
\nto to have a child.
\nSo what does Elizabeth do? <\/p>\n
695
\n00:45:44,100 –> 00:45:47,300
\nAnd after those days, Luke one
\nverse 24, his wife Elizabeth can<\/p>\n
696
\n00:45:47,300 –> 00:45:51,380
\nsee finally here it is all of
\ntheir hopes and prayers and she <\/p>\n
697
\n00:45:51,380 –> 00:45:56,090
\nhid herself 5.
\nMonths. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:45:56,090 –> 00:46:02,810
\nWhat does John mean?
\nMeans the grace of God and she <\/p>\n
699
\n00:46:02,810 –> 00:46:06,970
\nhit herself.
\nFive months to think about the <\/p>\n
700
\n00:46:06,970 –> 00:46:10,930
\ngrace of God.
\nAnd the number five brothers and<\/p>\n
701
\n00:46:10,930 –> 00:46:15,810
\nsisters everywhere in the Bible
\nis the number of grace you know <\/p>\n
702
\n00:46:16,410 –> 00:46:17,930
\nyou saw.
\nYou see it with Abraham and <\/p>\n
703
\n00:46:17,930 –> 00:46:20,650
\nSarah.
\nYour God adds the 5th consonant <\/p>\n
704
\n00:46:20,650 –> 00:46:23,590
\nof his name.
\nMaking it the 5th consonant of <\/p>\n
705
\n00:46:23,590 –> 00:46:27,270
\ntheir name because they were
\nerrors together of the grace of <\/p>\n
706
\n00:46:27,270 –> 00:46:29,830
\nlife.
\nWhen Israel redeemed the unclean<\/p>\n
707
\n00:46:29,830 –> 00:46:35,150
\nanimals they did so with the 5th
\npart. 5 is everywhere, the <\/p>\n
708
\n00:46:35,150 –> 00:46:37,190
\nnumber of grace.
\nAnd so to think about her boy <\/p>\n
709
\n00:46:38,070 –> 00:46:41,950
\nthat was to be born, she she
\nwent away and hit herself for <\/p>\n
710
\n00:46:41,950 –> 00:46:47,430
\nfive months to think about that.
\nWhere do you think she went? <\/p>\n
711
\n00:46:50,230 –> 00:46:55,150
\nWell, I think she went.
\nInto the wilderness, you know, <\/p>\n
712
\n00:46:55,150 –> 00:46:59,190
\nshe didn’t go around saying,
\nlook at me, God has taken away <\/p>\n
713
\n00:46:59,190 –> 00:47:03,590
\nmy reproach.
\nShe didn’t want to share that <\/p>\n
714
\n00:47:04,030 –> 00:47:05,910
\nnews with the world.
\nShe just wanted to share it with<\/p>\n
715
\n00:47:05,910 –> 00:47:08,870
\nGod.
\nAnd so she went away. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:47:08,870 –> 00:47:13,870
\nBrothers and sisters, I think
\ninto the wilderness like mother,<\/p>\n
717
\n00:47:15,390 –> 00:47:19,910
\nlike son, to allow the voice of
\nGod to to speak. <\/p>\n
718
\n00:47:21,040 –> 00:47:23,520
\nTo her heart you can just
\nimagine, can’t you? <\/p>\n
719
\n00:47:23,520 –> 00:47:27,960
\nThat is that that child formed
\nin her room in the wilderness. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:47:27,960 –> 00:47:33,680
\nPrepare ye the way of Yahweh and
\nmake straight in the desert a <\/p>\n
721
\n00:47:33,680 –> 00:47:36,760
\nhighway for our God.
\nShe goes away into the <\/p>\n
722
\n00:47:36,760 –> 00:47:41,080
\nwilderness to hear the voice.
\nAnd tonight, our next study, <\/p>\n
723
\n00:47:42,280 –> 00:47:44,240
\nthat’s exactly where we’re going
\nto meet her son. <\/p>\n
724
\n00:47:45,520 –> 00:47:46,920
\nHer son will be in the
\nwilderness. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:47:46,920 –> 00:47:50,240
\nAnd we’ll look at one of the
\nmost thrilling studies. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:47:50,660 –> 00:47:55,940
\nYou can do in the scriptures the
\nday of John’s showing unto <\/p>\n
727
\n00:47:55,940 –> 00:47:56,260
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