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This is going to be a pretty in-depth
study, going from scripture to scripture.

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We're going to be studying all the basic
facets of denying self.

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You can title the study Self-Denial or
Death to Self.

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And it's important that you realize we're
going to be going quickly through many

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scriptures.

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You're to write the scriptures down and
then go back at another time and look them

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up and study them and pray over them.

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Some of these are very good memorization
scriptures, although I don't believe in a

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lot of scripture memorization.

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I think you can clutter your head up with
too much of the scripture without

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meditating on it, without really...

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I mean, I've seen people that memorize
chapters and chapters and chapters and

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they can recite it to you, but so can a
parrot.

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It doesn't matter how much of the
scripture you have memorized.

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It's how much of the scripture you have
digested in your spirit.

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I know there's many people that would
disagree with me, but I started memorizing

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scripture and I was more into the
memorization of it than the practice and

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assimilation of it into my life.

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But there's some great scripture here for
memorization.

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1 Kings chapter 17, verse 12.

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Let's start at verse 8.

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Then the word of the Lord came to him,
Elijah, saying, Arise, go to Zarephath,

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which belongs to Sidon, and stay there.

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Behold, I have commanded a widow there to
provide for you.

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So he arose and went to Zarephath,
and when he came to the gate of the city,

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behold, a widow was there gathering
sticks, and he called to her and said,

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Please, get me a little water in a jar
that I may drink.

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And as she was going to get it,
he called to her and said, Please bring me

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a piece of bread in your hand.

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But she said, As the Lord your God lives,
I have no bread, only a handful of flour

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in the bowl and a little oil in the jar.

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And behold, I am gathering a few sticks,
that I may go and prepare for me and my

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son, that we may eat it and die.

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Now this is in the middle of a famine.

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It hasn't rained in three years.

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I mean, at this point, it's probably two
years, because he stays with them for a

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year or so.

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Maybe it's only one year, but it's an
incredible drought.

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No water, and she's living in a landship.

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All she's got left from her stores is a
little bit enough to make a meal for her

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son and her, and then that's it.

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They don't have anything else to eat.

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Then Elijah said to her, Do not fear.

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Do as you have said, but make me a little
bread cake first from it, and bring it out

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to me, and afterward you may make one for
yourself and for your son.

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For thus says the Lord God of Israel,
The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted,

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nor shall the jar of oil be empty until
the day that the Lord sends rain on the

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face of the earth.

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So she went and did according to the word
of Elijah, and she and he and her

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household ate for many days.

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The bowl of flour was not exhausted,
nor did the jar of oil become empty

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according to the word of Elijah,
the word of the Lord, which he spoke

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through Elijah.

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Now, how rude can you get, right?

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Now God has already told him, I have
commanded a widow to provide for you,

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in verse 9.

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And he comes to her, and this is the way
God is going to provide for her,

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by giving him the first cake from the last
meal that she has.

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I find that when we are exhausted,
that when we have nothing left to give,

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when we have absolutely the last bottom of
the jar, that's when God will ask us for

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peace.

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When you're just about to fall asleep,
that's when the counseling call will come

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in.

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That's true.

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When you have no more room, then God sends
the people.

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When you have no more money, then the
bills come in.

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This is the test of the Lord.

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We're going to end, this is real
interesting, we're going to end this Bible

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study with an Old Testament test,
and we're going to start, I'm sorry,

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we're going to start it with an Old
Testament test, and we're going to end it

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with an Old Testament test, with a lot of
New Testament scripture in between.

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This is an Old Testament test.

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You want to be provided for, widow?

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She's ready to die, what's she got to
lose?

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You want to be provided for?

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God's going to use you to provide for me,
but I'm going to do miracles in your

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midst.

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I think it's incredible, God says,
I have commanded a widow to take care of

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you.

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I have commanded a widow to provide for
you.

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Dig that, verse 9.

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The widow isn't going to provide for him.

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He goes there, she's got one bit of flour
left, and he says, alright, you can

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provide for me out of a supernatural bowl
of flour and a supernatural jar of oil,

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that always only has one serving left.

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First you must deny yourself and give it
to me.

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Then I will eat.

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Every day will be a day of faith.

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You'll only have enough left for that day.

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But he swears to her.

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In verse 14.

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For thus says the Lord God of Israel,
the bowl of flour shall not be exhausted,

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nor shall the jar of oil be empty until
the day that the Lord sends rain on the

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face of the earth.

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Now there's a lot of New Testament
scripture on this that we're going to go

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through.

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I think the amazing thing for us in the
scriptures is that the only way for us to

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have anything is to give everything away.

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The only way to be exalted is to humble
yourself.

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The only way to increase is to decrease.

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The only way to receive love is to give
love.

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The only way to grow is to get smaller.

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The only way to be taken care of is to
take care of somebody else.

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It's the rule of the kingdom.

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Somebody once said that hell was a place
where there was food.

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There was a big table and all the people,
there was a feast in front of them.

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And their arms had no joint at their
elbow.

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They couldn't bring it to their thing.

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And there's this thing and they could
carve the turkey and everything but they

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couldn't get it to their mouth.

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And they said heaven was the exact same
scene with people whose arms couldn't bend

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either but they were feeding each other.

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The same situation that they were saying
here, you feed me, I'll feed you.

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The only way, the only difference between
those two things is selfishness and

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giving, sharing.

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The situation is exactly the same.

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You can have hell in a situation by having
two people who are afraid to love and give

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to each other.

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By having people who are afraid to give
themselves up.

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And that's hell.

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That's selfishness, that's hurt,
that's anguish.

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And the same situation with the same
amount of love and need.

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And they give to each other.

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Here is two people who have nothing to eat
at all.

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She's got enough to live and he's got
nothing.

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She's got just one last meal.

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Well, he says the only way you'll be
provided for is if you give me a meal from

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that last meal first.

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And that's the rule of the kingdom.

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Okay, turn to Matthew 10, verse 37.

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You have that on the middle speed,
right?

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Four hour speed, right?

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The middle one.

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Okay, Matthew 10, verse 37.

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He who loves father and mother more than
me is not worthy of me.

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He who loves son or daughter more than me
is not worthy of me.

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He who does not take his cross and follow
after me is not worthy of me.

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He who has found his life shall lose it.

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He who has lost his life for my sake shall
find it.

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He who receives me, he who receives you,
receives me.

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And he who receives me, receives him who
sent me.

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Okay, the key there, he who has found his
life shall lose it.

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That means he who tries to save his own
life shall lose his life.

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Again, back to the widow.

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Do you want to be saved?

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Give away the last bit of your substance.

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Now, how this reads into our life is that
we need to be continually laying our lives

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down for each other.

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Continually thinking about how we can make
the other person in our lives life better.

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And if we're always worried about what's
in it for me and why, I mean, even reading

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it into our life here, whether it be the
schedule or the job, you know,

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why is it that I'm always making the
salad?

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Why do they have me cutting the onions all
the time?

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Well, that might be the nastiest job in
the kitchen.

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Be grateful that you're able to do it.

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So somebody else doesn't have to do it.

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You're benefiting somebody else.

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If we would think of the body instead of
us, if we would think of the whole,

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we would be glad to do the nasty job.

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I'm sure you're glad when the grease is on
your hands instead of your face.

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You know, when you're working with
something greasy and all of a sudden

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somebody says, Hey, you have grease on
your nose.

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And you look down and you had it on your
hand and you rubbed your nose.

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And now you can't see your nose,
but you can see your hand.

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I'm sure your whole mind is grateful when
you realize you didn't rub your face and

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you see the grease and you catch it first
on your hand.

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Now, if your hand had a mind of its own,
it wouldn't be grateful.

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It wouldn't be grateful that it had grease
on it.

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Boy, I'm sure glad.

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Well, I'm not.

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I've got grease on me.

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Well, that's the way the body has to be
acting.

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I'm glad I got the grease instead of the
more honorable part of the body,

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whatever that is.

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They said there's some parts of the body
to honor and some to dishonor.

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We walk on our feet.

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It gets the brunt of weight.

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If we step on something, it gets hurt
first.

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Our feet, if they had a mind of their own,
wouldn't be grateful.

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They wish that we'd walk on our hands.

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So it could be up and you could shake feet
with people.

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You could wave to people.

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But which part of your body gets more
honor?

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Your feet or your hands?

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Your hands do.

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You cook, you sew, you work with it.

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You don't cook, sew, and work with your
feet.

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You don't love with your feet.

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You don't go up to somebody and give them
a foot rub with your foot on their back.

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The reason I'm saying this is that there
is parts of the body that are supposedly,

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the Bible calls it, parts to dishonor and
parts for honor.

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There are parts of your body that are
covered up.

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No one ever sees, except your husband or
wife.

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And those are for intimacy, those parts of
the body.

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There are parts of the Christian body that
no one ever sees.

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Only in the bridal love between the body
and the Lord do they get exposed.

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Only when God is being worshipped and only
when God is blessing and anointing are

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those parts of the body lifted up and
shown.

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And God sees them only in private.

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That's why Jesus said, when you do your
giving, give in private.

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For your Father sees thee in secret and
rewards thee openly.

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Anyone who is married will tell you that
there is intimate moments between a

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husband and a wife that they don't share
with anybody.

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But it beams from their face during the
day when they are doing other things.

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That love, that intimate fellowship
between a husband and a wife.

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It's not sex that I'm talking about,
it's the intimacy that's a part of it.

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That makes a man, a husband or a wife,
at ease.

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He's not alarmed, he's thinking of his
beloved or he's thinking of his mate.

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And he has a peace and a joy about that
person, even though he's not with them.

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That is the way it is with Christians.

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And you probably, whoever you are,
are probably a part of the body that's not

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getting as much honor as Billy Graham.

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Or not getting as much honor as somebody
in the spotlight.

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Or an elder, or a group leader,
or a team leader, or whatever it might be.

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And everybody sees them and they're the
hand that's always getting shaken.

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And they're the hand that's always getting
patted on the back.

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And they're the people that are always
getting written about and talked about.

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And you're just not noticed at all.

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But if you remain intimate with God as
part of the body, then God will honor you

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openly at the proper time.

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And it has to do with this losing your
life.

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It has to do with this... the only way to
find your life is to lose it.

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And I think that there needs to be...

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This Bible study is not a rebuke.

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This Bible study is a remembrance.

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And it's for me... it's more for me than
any of you.

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As I read through this, as I'm teaching
this, nobody needs to be humbled more than

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those that are in the public eye.

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Nobody needs to be at the foot of the
cross more than those who are being given

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honor, or being given esteem, or being
given attention.

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Those are the people that need to be the
humblest.

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Because if they're not, they're doomed to
fall.

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And everybody that's depending on them is
doomed to fall with them.

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Matthew 13, verse 44.

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Matthew 13, verse 44.

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The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure
hidden in the field which a man found and

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hid.

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And from joy over it he goes and sells all
that he has and buys the field.

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Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a
merchant seeking fine pearls.

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And upon finding one pearl of great value,
he went and sold all that he had and

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bought it.

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Now, what is it that you seek from the
Christian life, really?

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I mean, a lot of people that are
Christians were losers.

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In fact, most Christians today were losers
in the world.

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And they traded in a losing life for what
they hoped would be a winning life.

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That's not salvation.

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That might be something that will spark
you to get saved.

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That might be something that will put a
desire in your heart to meet the Lord.

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But that is, I think, the bulk of the
testimonies you hear.

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I had nothing.

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I was down and out.

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I was this and that.

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And my testimony is very much like that,
too.

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And that's really not serving the Lord.

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That might be meeting the Lord,
but it's not serving the Lord.

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I didn't have any happiness.

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I was unfulfilled.

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And I met Jesus, and since then things
have been wonderful.

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That's the attraction between a man and a
woman.

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That is not a marriage.

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I was lonely, and I met her, and my life
has changed.

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She has just thrilled my heart.

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That is not a marriage.

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That's attraction.

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That's the spark that might bring two
people together.

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That is not commitment.

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That is not relationship.

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People today are so emotional-minded.

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People today are so... they need to be
fulfilled.

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They need to have all their goodies.

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And it's just not like that in a man-woman
relationship, and it's not like that

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between Christ and the Church.

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You can be attracted to Jesus.

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I have nothing.

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Now I can have everything.

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Alright, that's valid.

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Then he's going to say, alright,
you really want everything?

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Give up everything.

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A man found a treasure hidden in the
field.

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He sold all that he had so he could get
it.

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He gave up everything to have it.

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Well, it's easy to give up.

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As Winky Pratt, he says, you know,
you say, I gave up smoking, I gave up

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drinking, I gave up fornicating,
I gave up drugs.

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It's easy to give up your wrongs.

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But have you given up your rights?

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Giving up your wrongs is easy.

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Those things are killing you anyway.

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You didn't do God any favors by giving up
things that are sending you to hell.

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God is impressed when you give up the
things you love.

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It was one thing for Abraham to send
Ishmael away.

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It was another thing for him to put Isaac
on the altar.

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He had to give up his wrong by getting rid
of Ishmael.

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Then he had to give up his right by
getting rid of Isaac.

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Put him on the altar.

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Offer him as a burnt offering.

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There couldn't be anything more
distasteful to a father to do.

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Nothing could be worse.

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Nothing.

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Absolutely nothing could have been worse.

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He'd rather cut his own head off with a
machete than to burn his own son.

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Giving up the things that are killing you
is a favor to yourself.

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Nobody ever did God a favor by getting
saved.

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Nobody.

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It's when you are saved and you are
beautiful Isaacs that God has given you

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your talents, your riches, your future,
your images of what you should have as a

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human being.

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Your rights.

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What I could be.

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I could be making such and such.

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I could be a so and so.

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I have the talent to do this and that.

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I could be writing books.

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I could be making records.

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I could be a great chef.

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I could be married by now.

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I should have married that guy instead of
coming to this place.

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Or whatever it was.

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I have four kids.

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Do the lot.

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I'm glad I'm here.

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Your rights is what God gives you.

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Your wrongs, you can get rid of those
yourself.

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If you are smart enough.

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There are people in the world that use
self-hypnosis.

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In Eastern stuff.

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They gave up drugs.

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They gave up fornication.

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They knew those things were killing them.

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You can give those things up without the
Lord.

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You can't give up yourself without the
Lord.

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You can't.

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It's impossible.

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Because all you do is benefit yourself.

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Unless you give yourself up for the Lord.

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The man found a treasure and he got rid of
everything he had to possess this

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treasure.

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What is the treasure?

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What is it?

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What's the treasure?

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What's the treasure?

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Jesus is the treasure.

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Jesus is the treasure.

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I am the resurrection and the life.

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I am the way.

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I am the truth.

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I am the life.

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He is the bridegroom.

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Who is the treasure?

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Jesus.

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You can't have him.

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If you have any of yourself.

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You can have part of him.

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You can be on your way.

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You can be growing.

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You can be going step by step on the
Christian installment plan.

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But you better, you'll always be making
payments until you have that experience

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where God karate chops you behind the
knees and you're on your face.

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And the best thing to get you there is to
give up the things you love the most.

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Your dreams.

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Your ideals.

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The things that you always wanted out of
life.

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Throw them away.

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You know, I always wanted to live in
Colorado.

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I don't know why, I just always wanted to
live in Colorado.

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And I wanted to have a ranch up in
Colorado with a recording studio and a

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Learjet.

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So that I could go up there and do all my
records and I could fly to LA or fly out

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and do concerts and come back.

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That would be a little paradise away from
everything else.

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Just my family and my friends.

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This was in B.C.

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days.

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Just going up there and partying and so
on.

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That was my dream.

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And then when I became a Christian,
all I had to do was get rid of the drugs

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and the party and put the Bible studies
in.

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And I could still have the ranch in
Colorado and the recording studio and the

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Learjet.

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And everybody would say how blessed God
had blessed me if I did it.

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It would be totally acceptable in the
body.

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That's the crazy thing.

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We have a Christianity where you can have
anything you want to and just put

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Christian labels on it.

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That's not Christianity.

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You can have anything you want to and put
Christian labels on it.

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You can say I have a burden for this and I
feel led to do this and whatever.

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And you can still Christianize your
selfishness.

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You can stamp a dove and a fish on it.

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You know?

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And God is not impressed with your dove
and your fish.

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He is impressed with nothing more than the
heart.

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A heart after Him.

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A heart that when finds the pearl,
sells everything He has.

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He sells everything He has to buy it.

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That's self-denial.

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That is everything.

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It doesn't say He sold most of what He
had.

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There is a story that I read once about a
guy.

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I think Winky tells this.

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A guy comes into the pearl shop,
right?

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He is a pearl collector.

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And there is a pearl the size of a globe
in the front.

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And the guy goes, I have been looking for
a pearl like that all my life.

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I have collected pearls.

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What does that pearl cost?

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Oh, it's very expensive.

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Well, how much does it cost?

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You probably couldn't afford it.

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Well, how much is it?

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Everything you've got.

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Is that all?

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Is that it?

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Well, that's great.

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What have you got?

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Oh, I don't know.

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Open up my wallet.

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$117.

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All right.

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What else have you got?

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Well, I've got a check here in my bank
account.

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There's $40,000, $50,000 I've saved in
stocks and bonds.

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All right, write a check.

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$40,000.

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Sign over your stocks and bonds.

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Okay.

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What else have you got?

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Well, that's all I've got.

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I mean, you know, I don't even have much
left to make my house payment with.

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Oh, you have a house.

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Yeah, I have a house.

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All right, we'll take that.

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Where do you want my wife and I to live?

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In our car?

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Oh, you have a car.

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Yeah, two of them.

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Two cars.

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Well, where do you want my wife and
children to go out in the cold?

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Oh, you have wife and children.

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One wife.

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How many children?

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Three.

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Three children.

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Oh, you expect me to live alone?

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Oh, yes, you too.

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That's the whole thing.

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People, when they think God wants
everything, they stop short.

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They think He wants my money.

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They think, well, He wants this and that.

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But He wants everything.

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It has to be under the blood.

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Everything has got to be committed.

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You can't think of just money.

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You can't think of what I could be doing.

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You can't think of who you could be or
what you're hoped to be or any other

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thing.

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It's got to be everything.

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Okay.

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Luke 12.

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36.

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Starting at 35.

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Luke 12, 35.

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Be dressed in readiness and keep your
lamps alight.

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And be like men who are waiting for their
master when he returns from the wedding

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feast.

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So that they may immediately open the door
to him when he comes anock.

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Blessed are those slaves whom the master
shall find on the other when he comes.

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Truly I say to you that he will gird
himself to serve and have them recline at

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table and will come up and wait on them.

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Now, this goes with the scripture in Luke
17.

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I just want you to read that first.

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It says that when we're with Jesus,
it says that he will gird himself,

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have them recline at table, and will come
up and wait on them.

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Now, this might just be a parable.

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It also might be literal.

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At the wedding feast, Jesus might come up
and say, what would you like?

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That's incredible.

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The king, the master, will gird himself to
serve and have them recline at table and

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will come up and wait on them.

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Now, this goes with Luke 17.

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Turn to Luke 17.

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And we'll come back to this.

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Luke 17, verse 7.

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But which of you having a slave plowing or
tending sheep will say to him when he has

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come in from the field, come immediately
and sit down to eat?

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But will he not say to him, prepare
something for me to eat, and properly

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clothe yourself and serve me until I have
eaten and drunk, and afterward you will

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eat and drink?

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He does not thank the slave because he did
the things which were commanded,

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does he?

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So you too, when you do all the things
which are commanded, you say, we are

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unworthy slaves.

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We have done only that which we ought to
have done.

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Now, that is the attitude when you serve
God.

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I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do.

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Remember Paul said, I don't have any
reward for preaching the gospel.

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Woe is me if I don't preach the gospel.

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My reward is that when I preach the
gospel, I offer it without charge.

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But think of that, think of that.

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It's like, whether it be Kevin on the
press, or whether it be Julie Lynn in the

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track department, or whether it be Carol
up in the office, or Terry in the art

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department, or whoever you are in this
ministry.

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If that's where God has you, you don't get
a reward for doing those things.

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Not at all.

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I don't get a reward for playing the piano
and singing.

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Woe is me if I don't.

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Woe is you if you don't draw pictures.

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It's not that that gets us a reward.

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It's serving God in everything we do with
a proper heart.

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It isn't the deeds.

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God isn't going to give art points for
him, and car points for him, and music

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points for me.

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God isn't impressed with my songs.

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He's got better music in heaven.

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God isn't impressed with any of us and
what we do.

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He's impressed with how we do it.

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He isn't impressed that this guy is out
tending sheep.

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He isn't impressed.

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He isn't impressed that he comes in and
cooks him a meal.

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He's impressed that the guy says,
I'm doing all I'm supposed to do.

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This is wonderful.

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He isn't patting himself on the back.

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I'm just an unworthy slave.

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That's the best slave there is.

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And yet, to tie it into Luke 12 that we
just read.

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I'm sorry, yeah, Luke 12.

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It says, He is going to wait on us.

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The Son of Man came not to be served,
but to serve.

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And to prove it.

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In John 13, turn to John 13.

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Verse 3.

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John 13, verse 3.

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Jesus, knowing that the Father had given
all things into his hands, and that he had

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come forth from God and was going back to
God.

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That's an interesting start.

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Rose from supper, laid aside his garments,
and taking a towel, girded himself about.

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Then he poured water into the basin and
began to wash the disciples' feet and to

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wipe them with the towel with which he was
girded.

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He dressed as a slave.

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He took off his clothes and put a towel
on, the way a foot slave would be girded.

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And then used the towel that was around
him.

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I mean, it's a pretty big towel.

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To start wiping their feet with.

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Not only did he say he's going to serve,
but he showed his disciples he was going

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to serve the night he died.

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He says, Now the hour has come for me to
be glorified.

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Not until I wash your feet.

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He goes on.

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So he came to Simon Peter in verse 6.

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And said to him, And Peter says to him,
Lord, do you wash my feet?

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Jesus said, What I do you do not realize
now, but you shall understand later.

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Thank you.

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Peter said to him, Never shall you wash my
feet.

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Jesus answered him, If I don't wash your
feet, you have no part in me.

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Simon Peter said to him, Lord,
not only my feet, but my hands and my

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head.

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He's the guy that opened his mouth and
changed feet all the time.

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He came to serve.

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Yet our attitude, he says, must be...

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And when we do what we are commanded,
we are to say we are only unworthy slaves

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doing what we are supposed to be doing.

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We don't deserve to live.

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With what we have done against God.

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With the lives we have lived for
selfishness.

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We do not deserve another breath.

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We deserve only hell.

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It's only God's grace that we're saved.

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We did not do anything to get saved.

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We did not turn around and go,
Okay God, I promise I'm going to be a good

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boy now.

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And God says, Okay, I'll save you.

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It was that God saw that we were lost in
our sins and He made provision for us.

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And then He offered us a way out.

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And we said, Come and get me.

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And He saved us.

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We didn't save ourselves.

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He saved us.

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And we've got to remember that.

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That we are on borrowed time.

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It's just like a man... You've heard this
expression before.

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A guy, he gets healed of cancer,
you know.

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He has an operation, they take out half of
his lung and he says, I'm living on

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borrowed time.

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I should have been dead a year ago.

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All the time that I've had since then is
borrowed time.

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You've all heard that expression,
I live on borrowed time.

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Who did he borrow it from?

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From God.

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We're all.

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As they say, as Lenin said.

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Lenin, from the communists, said that
communists were dead men on furlough.

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They were dead men on furlough.

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And I tell you that Christians are already
to be living martyrs.

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They're already to be dead.

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You're already crucified with Christ.

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You've already been destroyed.

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There shouldn't be anything left in me of,
you know, trying to build Keith's kingdom.

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Or trying to build up Keith Green.

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Or in you, trying to build up you.

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There's all got to be building up Jesus.

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There shouldn't be anything left in John
the Baptist of trying to build up John the

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Baptist.

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He says, no, I shall decrease and he shall
increase.

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There shouldn't be any looking to what we
can gain from being in last days

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ministries.

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Or we can gain from being in this
department.

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Or being the head of this, or the tail of
that.

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It's got to be.

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We're trying to build up Christ.

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We're trying to expand his kingdom.

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We are serving him.

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I don't care if it's washing toilets.

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I want to be the best toilet washer in the
universe.

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I want to clean the parts of the toilet no
one will ever see, that God sees.

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I always remember that somebody told me
that they were...

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He says, I was in a C.S.

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Lewis book.

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Has he ever thought about the wildflowers
that are in the crags in the hills that no

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one ever sees?

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That just bloom, they're beautiful flowers
that no one ever sees?

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He says, I meditated on that once.

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And after that, when I had bathroom
duties, I used to polish the bottom of the

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toilet.

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The behind the toilet, I'd polish it.

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Sounds ridiculous, but it's...

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God sees the bottom of the toilet.

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Who are you polishing the toilet for,
anyway?

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God sees everything, you know?

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And I've never forgotten that.

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And when I make the bed, my wife and I
make the bed together, it drives me crazy

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when the sheet underneath isn't totally
straight.

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If there's a wrinkle in it, you know,
I still remember, well, God sees the

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wrinkle.

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We're not really making the bed right,
because his eyes are under the blanket.

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Who do we make beds for?

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Who do we wash dishes for?

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Who do we clean toilets for?

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Is it so that people will go, boy,
she's a great toilet cleaner?

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Well, they're never going to look behind
the toilet.

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I think Wayne can tell you, in the
service, they have what's called white

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glove inspection.

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You put on a white glove and go to the
place behind the footlocker and run a

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white glove behind it and see if there's
any dust back where nobody can look.

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They want everything spick and span.

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They do that at McDonald's, too,
I hear.

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It's important that we realize that it's
God who sees the back of our minds,

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the back of our toilets, the back of
everything.

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And when we're given a job to do,
we're to do it that he's the one we are to

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impress.

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And we are not to try to impress anyone
but him.

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And if you can impress God, who else do
you have to impress?

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And he, like any loving father,
wants you to impress him.

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Not by impressing others, but just by
impressing you.

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Okay, this is getting exciting.

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John 12, verse 24.

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Back a chapter.

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This is beautiful.

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Truly, truly, verse 24, I say to you,
unless a grain of wheat falls into the

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earth and dies, it remains by itself
alone.

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And if it dies, it bears much fruit.

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He who loves his life loses it.

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He who hates his life in this world shall
keep it to life eternal.

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If anyone serves me, let him follow me.

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And where I am, there shall my servant
also be.

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If anyone serves me, the Father will honor
him.

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Now, look at verse 25.

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That's a good memorization verse.

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We ought to write that up on the wall.

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He who loves his life loses it.

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This is different than, he who finds his
life loses it, and he who loses it finds

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it.

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This is, he who loves his life,
not just finds it, but loves it,

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loses it.

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He who hates his life in this world shall
find it to life eternal.

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That's getting right down to it.

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Remember it says, he who loves father and
mother more than me.

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He who does not deny father and mother.

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He who does not love me more than son.

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And then, even his own life.

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In another place it says, he who does not
hate his father and mother, or his son and

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daughter, or his wife or husband,
even his own life.

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The word hatred there means by comparison
to God's love.

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Comparison for your love for God.

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What's important to you?

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You know, we had to go through a time.

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I went through a time when the newsletter
was important to me, believe it or not.

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There was a time when opening the mail was
important to me, two and a half,

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three years ago.

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And now I find that I've got to keep my
interest in the newsletter up.

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It's not so much that God is so important
to me.

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It's just that I have had my heart and my
treasure in so many things in my life.

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I think the hardest thing to give up my
treasure right now is my kids.

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I treasure my kids a lot.

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First it was music, and then it was
fellowship in Bible study.

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Anything but God is wrong.

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And then it was ministry and concerts,
and then it was the community and the

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newsletter.

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And then it was administration and so on.

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Now it's the children and...

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I guess it's the kids and indecision about
what to do in the future.

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But after a while you kind of get the hang
of it.

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After a while you get something in your
hand and God slaps your hand and you let

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it go.

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And then you get something else in your
hand and he slaps your hand and you let it

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go.

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And then you get something else in your
hand and before he can slap you,

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you let it go.

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You get used to letting things go.

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It becomes a habit.

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You see your heart loving something and
you immediately know there's danger

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because a hand is going to come out of the
sky and slap you.

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And he slaps you lovingly, like you would
if your kid had a scorpion in his hand.

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You'd slap his hand, get rid of that
scorpion.

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You wouldn't say, please let go of the
scorpion.

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Why daddy?

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Well, here's a book.

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Read this book on scorpions.

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I can't understand these parents that have
children that are six months old or eight

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months old or nine months old and the kid
only understands one thing.

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And they pick the kid up and they start
explaining to this nine month old why they

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can't touch the wall socket.

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That can really hurt you.

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The kid doesn't understand.

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He just understands pain and rebuke and
encouragement.

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That's about it.

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And it's even more the tone of voice than
what you're saying.

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The greatest thing was when Josiah hit the
age of reason, when I could sit down and

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explain to him why he's not supposed to
ask why when I say no.

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So it was wonderful.

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And it was just wonderful when I realized
I didn't have to keep dealing with,

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at that point, when if I said no,
you can't do it, and he asked why he got a

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spanking.

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And another time, he asked me...

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He says, can we go somewhere or something?

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And I said, yes.

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And he turned around and said,
why?

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He says, I can say why when you say yes,
right?

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But I can say why when you say no,
right?

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I said, yeah, you won't get a spanking if
you ask why when I say yes.

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And he said, you can ask why about
anything.

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You just can't ask why when I say no.

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You can't question me when I say no.

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Because I'll tell you why when I say no.

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You can't do that because of that,
and that's it.

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So it was real.

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When they reach the age of reason,
it's not any more pain, rebuke,

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and encouragement.

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It's explanation.

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And in the Christian walk, there's a time
when God doesn't explain because it

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doesn't make a lot of sense.

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It doesn't make sense to give up something
you love.

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It's easy to give up something you hate.

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It doesn't make sense to give up something
that is benefiting you.

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Except it's competing with God.

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God is more jealous than you know.

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Because he's jealous for our good,
and the best thing for us is to have God

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one and only.

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And that's the whole thing.

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He's not as jealous in a selfish way.

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He's jealous with us the way a Godly
husband is jealous of a wife.

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Or a father is jealous over his children.

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That he doesn't want anybody hurting his
children, or deceiving his children,

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or misleading his children.

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So he's jealous for their good.

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And God knows the best for us is to love
him with everything that's in us.

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Therefore, whenever we start loving
something else, he's jealous for us

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because it's harming us.

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Not because he ain't getting all the
glory.

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It's because it's not for our benefit,
it's not for his benefit, which is not for

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our benefit.

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And when he doesn't get the glory,
it destroys us.

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We think it feels good for a while when we
get the glory, but it kills us.

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Memorize that scripture.

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He who loves his life loses it.

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He who hates his life in this world shall
keep it till life eternal.

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Okay, Luke 17, verse 7.

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Oh, we've already gone there, sorry.

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Luke 21, verse 2.

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Verse 1.

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Luke 21, 1.

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And he looked up and he saw the rich
putting their gifts into the treasury.

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And he saw a certain poor widow putting in
two small copper coins.

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And he said, Truly I say to you,
this poor widow put in more than all of

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them.

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Now, can you imagine that?

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Here comes, you know, Mayor Sadie's,
you know, the mayor of Jerusalem.

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He's coming down there and he's writing
out a $40,000 check, you know,

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putting it in.

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Hi, I have a $40,000 cashier's check.

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Oh yeah, the next guy comes in,
he writes a $60,000 check, you know.

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They're all standing in line.

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Yes, yes, I've paid 25% this year.

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I pledge it to the temple treasury
television fund.

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Okay, and then here comes, you know,
this little widow.

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She's dressed in rags and she's got two
cents.

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She puts it in.

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Get out of the way!

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You know, we've got more important gifts
today.

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And Jesus turns and says to the disciples,
She's put in more than all of them

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combined.

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Why?

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For they all out of their surplus put into
the offering, but she out of her poverty

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put in all that she had to live on.

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Now, that's self-denial.

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They didn't deny anything.

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Do you know how...

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I do this all the time to Melody.

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You know, we go out to eat and I don't
like something, you know, that she likes.

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I'm very generous with it.

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Here, you can have this, you know.

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I don't like pickles and I don't like
tomatoes, you know.

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So I'm always giving her my...

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She's grateful.

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She likes tomatoes.

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She likes extra tomatoes.

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It's great.

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But it wasn't a gift.

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It's garbage to me.

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It is.

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It's just garbage.

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It's cluttering up my plate.

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I don't want those little gooey seeds all
over my hamburger.

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You know, pickle juice on my mayonnaise.

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It's just...

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To her, it's a gift.

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She goes, thank you.

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It's great.

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I have more.

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And I'm saying, I have more without it,
you know.

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Really, I have more to eat without that
stuff on my plate.

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And so many people...

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And the other time, this was our first
Mexico outreach that we had in L.A.

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We didn't really have a...

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The first Christmas, we were going to put
together clothing to take down to an

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orphanage.

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And we knew this Mexican brother that knew
some people in Mexico, and we were going

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to take it down.

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And Melody had Josiah.

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And when she was pregnant with our first
child, Josiah, she was...

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We were very well known around the area,
and people started giving her maternity

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clothes.

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And we had about four or five pregnant
girls in the ministry.

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And so we put in the newsletter,
you know, we have pregnant girls,

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and if you could send us...

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We are clothes for our guys, and you can
send us shoes, and you can send us

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maternity clothes and baby clothes.

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We could appreciate it.

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Anything left over, we will send to
Mexico.

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Well, she went out, and I bought her some
maternity clothes, and some people had

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given her some really neat maternity
clothes.

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So she had about five or six really neat,
like, you know, maternity blue jeans and a

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blue jean skirt.

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And really nice, you know, maternity plaid
this.

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And then she had all these goofy maternity
stuff.

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I mean, the stuff that she wouldn't be
caught dead in Tijuana wearing,

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you know.

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And she was going to give that all away,
you know.

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And she had all the good stuff put away
for when we had our next child.

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And she had all the other stuff ready to
go to Mexico.

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And then we had the revival.

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And lo and behold, the week of the
revival, the guy comes to pick up the

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stuff from Mexico.

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And she is in the back going through it.

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Well, Lord...

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She goes out, and she goes, guess what I
just did?

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I go, what?

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I gave all the prize stuff that I was
saving to the Mexican orphans,

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you know.

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And I knew it wouldn't matter to them,
but it really mattered to God.

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I knew that they would be grateful to get
the big polka dot bow tie maternity pass.

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The stripes with the dots on it.

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She goes, I knew, and I knew it really
mattered to me that I wanted those.

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But I knew it mattered to God that I gave
something away that was really giving.

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That's denying self.

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When the person works so the other one can
eat.

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It's not, okay, you work, and I'll eat,
and then I'll work and you eat.

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It isn't... that's a trade.

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That's not giving.

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I'm not saying you should not eat and only
work.

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I'm not trying to lay any of those things
on you.

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I'm just saying that giving is a final...

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Giving is painful.

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Real giving is painful.

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That was painful for Melody.

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For weeks and weeks after that,
she kept kicking herself.

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She didn't grumble.

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She just kept going, how am I going to
wear those clothes, you know?

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And she kept saying, well, you know,
I know it's the right thing.

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And, you know, she gave it up to the Lord
and finally got through.

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But it was like, it was painful.

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It cost her.

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Real giving... that widow could have gone
out and I bet you two cents would have

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bought a lot in those days.

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I bet you she came to follow Jesus.

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I mean, it doesn't say she did,
but I bet she became one of his disciples.

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And was there when he split the five
thousand, when he fed the five thousand.

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I bet you she... you know, she's probably
one of his followers.

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Because she had a right heart after God.

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Okay...

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1 Peter 4

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1 Peter 4 Therefore, since Christ has
suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves also

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with the same purpose, because he who has
suffered in the flesh has sinned from sin.

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So as to live the rest of the time in the
flesh, no longer for the lusts of men,

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but for the will of God.

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Self-denial is suffering in the flesh.

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Self-denial is putting to deeds the lusts
of the flesh.

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Self-denial is putting away the appetites
of self.

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It's saying, God is more important.

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You are more important.

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Others are more important.

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Spiritual things are more important.

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And there's nothing wrong with eating,
and there's nothing wrong with joking,

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and there's nothing wrong with playing
games and recreation.

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But those are some of the things that are
fun, that are also beneficial for us to

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give up, in part at least.

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And sometimes, like when we fast,
in totality, for the sake of arming

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ourselves with the purpose of suffering in
the flesh, because he who has suffered in

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the flesh has ceased from sin.

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I'm not talking about, you know,
becoming a sage, you know, with a long

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robe on and living in a cave, and so that
then you become spiritual.

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I'm talking about putting aside your own
selfish and physical lusts and desires.

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And it makes it conducive for prayer,
and it makes it conducive for fellowship.

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Because you're a lot easier to live with
when you're not hard to please.

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Can you write that down?

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That's important.

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You're a lot easier to live with when
you're not hard to please.

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And somebody who's willing to suffer in
the flesh is very easy to please.

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And they're very hard to wrong.

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You're a lot easier to live with when
you're not hard to please.

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Okay, Revelation 12, verse 11.

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Starting in verse 10, Revelation 12,
verse 10.

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And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying,
Now the salvation, and the power,

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and the kingdom of our God, and the
authority of his Christ have come.

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For the accuser of our brethren has been
thrown down, who accuses them before our

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God day and night.

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And they overcame him because of the blood
of the Lamb, and because of the word of

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their testimony.

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And they did not love their life even to
death.

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Now this is an after... this is the end of
the world.

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Here's the testimony of God concerning the
testimony of his saints.

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They overcame him by these things.

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By the blood of the Lamb, by the word of
their testimony, and the fact that they

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did not love their life even to death.

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That's pretty important for you to
understand.

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The blood of the Lamb, that's the death of
Christ.

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The word of their testimony, that means
the explanation of praise to God,

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and telling of the deeds of God,
which helped them overcome and build up

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their faith.

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And their hatred of their own life.

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Their inconsiderateness of themselves.

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You know the great saints we read books
and biographies about.

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Hardly ever considered themselves
personally.

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Okay, finally we are going to end the
study in Jeremiah 35.

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I'm going to read the whole chapter.

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Incredible story.

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Jeremiah 35.

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The test of self-denial, you can call this
part.

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This is an incredible story of God testing
the self-denial of a group of people.

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God testing, not the devil.

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I love the parts of the Bible that don't
fit in with our concept of God.

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Those are my favorite parts of the Bible.

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Because I love having my concept of God
expanded, twisted, stretched.

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That God is much bigger than I can put him
in a box.

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I love when parts of the Bible,
when God does things, says things,

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reacts to things in ways that are
inconsistent with our 1981 church western

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United States concept of God.

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Anything like that in the Bible alerts my
attention, flags my view.

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Because it shows me that God is bigger
than we have allowed him to become.

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In reality.

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Okay, chapter 35.

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Let's just read it through.

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The word which came to Jeremiah from the
Lord in the days of Jehoiakim,

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the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
saying, Go to the house of the Rechabites,

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and speak to them, and bring them into the
house of the Lord, into one of the

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chambers, and give them wine to drink.

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There's the test.

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Why is it a test?

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You'll find out in a minute.

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Then I took Jezeniah, the son of Jeremiah,
son of Habeziniah, and his brothers,

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and all his sons, and the whole house of
Rechabites, and I brought them into the

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house of the Lord, into the chamber of the
sons of Haman, the son of Igdaliah,

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the man of God, which was near the chamber
of the officials, which was above the

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chamber of Messiah, the son of Shalom,
the doorkeeper.

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Just in case you don't know where it is.

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Then I set before the men of the house of
Rechabites pitchers full of wine and cups,

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and I said to them, Drink wine.

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But they said, We will not drink wine,
for Jonadab, the son of Rechab,

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our father, commanded us, saying,
You shall not drink wine.

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You are your sons forever.

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And you shall not build a house,
and you shall not sow seed, and you shall

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not plant a vineyard or own one.

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But in tents you shall dwell all your
days, that you may live many days in the

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land where you sojourn.

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And we have obeyed the voice of Jonadab,
the son of Rechab, our father,

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in all that he commanded us, not to drink
wine all our days, we our wives,

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our sons, and our daughters, nor to build
ourselves houses to dwell in, and we do

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not have vineyard or field or seed.

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We have only dwelt in tents and have
obeyed and have done according to all that

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Jonadab, our father, commanded us.

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But it came about, when Nebuchadnezzar,
king of Babylon, came up against the land,

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that we said, Come and let us go to
Jerusalem, before the army of the

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Chaldeans and before the army of the
Assyrians, that we have dwelt in

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Jerusalem.

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In other words, the Babylonians came to
occupy Israel, and they rushed ahead of

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the occupying army to find shelter with
the people of Jerusalem.

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Then the word of the Lord came to
Jeremiah, saying, Thus says the Lord of

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hosts, the God of Israel, Go and say to
the men of Judah and the inhabitants of

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Jerusalem, Will you not receive
instruction by listening to my words,

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declares the Lord, the words of Jonadab,
the son of Rechab, which he commanded his

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sons not to drink wine or observe?

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So they do not drink wine to this day,
for they have obeyed their father's

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command.

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But I have spoken to you again and again,
and yet you have not listened to me.

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Also I have sent you all my servants,
the prophets, sending them again and

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again, saying, Turn now every man from his
evil way, and amend your deeds.

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Do not go after other gods to worship
them.

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Then you shall dwell in the land which I
have given to you and to your forefathers,

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but you have not inclined your ear to
listen or listen to me.

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Indeed the sons of Jonadab, the sons of
Rechab, have observed the command of their

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father, which he commanded them,
but this people have not listened to me.

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Therefore, thus says the Lord,
the God of hosts, the God of Israel,

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Behold, I am bringing on all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem all the disaster

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that I have pronounced against them,
because I spoke to them, but they did not

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listen.

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And I have called them, but they did not
answer.

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Now as I read this, I was hoping that God
would somehow give a nice word to the poor

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family that could not live in houses and
so on.

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Then Jeremiah said to the house of the
Rechabites, Thus says the Lord,

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the God of hosts, the God of Israel,
Because you have obeyed the command of

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Jonadab your father, kept all his
commands, and done according to all that

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he commanded you.

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Therefore, thus says the Lord,
the God of hosts, the God of Israel,

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Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not lack
a man to stand before me always.

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Test passed.

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Who tested them?

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God.

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Now God wanted to use them as an example.

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He said he looked all over the land.

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Let me find a righteous family around
here.

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He sees them.

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Well, before I use them as an example,
I better give them one last test.

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So he has Jeremiah, the heaviest righteous
man, most righteous man in Israel,

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bring him into the house of God,
set wine before him, and command him to

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drink it.

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In the church, here is a righteous
prophet, who is never listed as sinning,

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in the house of God, asking him to drink
wine, which is commanded in the law of

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Moses for people to drink wine,
except for the Nazarites.

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It wasn't against the laws of the land.

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It wasn't against the laws of the temple.

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They can drink wine in the temple.

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They said, uh-uh, our father said it,
and we are not going to do it.

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And you can see it wasn't, would you like
to drink wine?

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It was, drink wine!

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There will come a time, like with Balaam,
when God will say, go ahead and go.

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There will come a time when God has made
it clear to you not to do something,

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and God will tell somebody to come to you
and say, do it!

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There will, there will come a time in your
life that is consistent with the word of

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God, and you will jump at the chance.

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Because it's something you always wanted
to do.

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This family always wanted to drink wine,
especially the kids that weren't around

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when Grandpa said, don't drink it.

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You know, all my friends drink wine,
the priests drink wine, even Jeremiah

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probably drank wine.

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It was part of the culture, it was part of
the religion.

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How unreasonable for our father to make us
outcasts and weirdos.

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There will come a time when God says to
you, deny yourself.

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Don't raise your standard of living,
raise your standard of giving when God

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blesses you.

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And some other man of God will come
through and say, feed yourself,

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bless yourself.

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Some other man of God will come through
and God will say, and then God will say,

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okay, what did I teach you originally?

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What did I teach you about not raising
yourself up?

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What did I teach you about not dressing
yourself up?

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Bringing attention to yourself.

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Don't ever change that.

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God never changes his principles.

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Sometimes he changes his ways,
and sometimes, as in the case of,

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you know, Paul says, I've learned the
secret of abounding and abasing.

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I've learned the secret of having much and
enjoying it, having little and enjoying

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it.

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Some people like that.

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I'm not talking about money, I'm not
talking about anything.

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I'm not talking about there being any
benefit in giving up things.

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I'm talking about there being a benefit in
worshipping God through putting down

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everything else but God.

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You must understand there is no benefit in
giving up food and giving up sex or giving

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up money or giving up anything in its
proper place.

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There's only benefit in worshipping God
above all else and denying him nothing and

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denying yourself everything so you can
have him.

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Okay, any questions?

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Yes.

01:00:15.940 --> 01:00:19.940
In the scripture John 13, 6-10,
we talked about Jesus washing the

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disciples' feet.

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Something's a little confusing to me about
the symbolism of washing the feet because

01:00:26.500 --> 01:00:32.100
Jesus says later on after verse 10 that
anyone who has had a bath needs only to

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wash his feet.

01:00:33.220 --> 01:00:38.220
So apparently the way I read the symbolism
is that Jesus has washed our entire bodies

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and we're clean in him because of his
sacrifice.

01:00:41.500 --> 01:00:45.020
Yet our feet have to be... we're touching
the ground with our feet.

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We take a bath and we walk around and our
feet get dirty but yet you're still clean.

01:00:49.080 --> 01:00:49.820
And he had to keep washing our feet.

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There's a lot of different interpretation
of that.

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Can you?

01:00:52.500 --> 01:00:54.180
No, I wouldn't expound on it.

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All I would say, it also has been
explained as just being his reaction to

01:00:57.800 --> 01:00:59.280
Peter saying, wash my hands and my head.

01:00:59.360 --> 01:01:01.860
He says, no, your hands and head are
clean.

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You took a bath earlier.

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Your feet, you're walking in the dust.

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That's what needs to be washed.

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I don't need to wash them.

01:01:07.580 --> 01:01:10.420
I mean, it could just be a practical,
physical thing that he was telling Peter.

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I'm not saying it couldn't be spiritual.

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I wouldn't want to get into it,
especially now.

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Yes, Laura.

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When you were saying about there coming a
time when God told you something and then

01:01:25.820 --> 01:01:31.400
he'll send someone or allow someone to
come and ask God for something,

01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:35.760
it looked like it's really okay to not do
what he said.

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I thought about that prophet that
prophesied about Josiah and prophesied

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against the altar.

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Right.

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That's a heavy story.

01:01:46.900 --> 01:01:51.060
God told him not to go and the other guy
said, well, God said you could go,

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you know, you could come into my house and
eat.

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God had told him.

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All right.

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Can you turn to John chapter 11?

01:02:01.680 --> 01:02:02.580
Gospel of John.

01:02:07.300 --> 01:02:14.580
This is a study that I prepared for our
own ministry last night and I got sick

01:02:14.580 --> 01:02:17.280
yesterday and didn't feel up to presenting
this.

01:02:18.220 --> 01:02:25.880
As God works together for good in
everything, I know that possibly there are

01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:31.000
some here that needed to hear the
principles that Jesus lives out and

01:02:31.000 --> 01:02:32.820
presents in his life through this chapter.

01:02:34.640 --> 01:02:39.680
And this morning I felt the Spirit united
me to call Dale and see.

01:02:40.000 --> 01:02:45.000
I knew that Leonard was out of town and
that possibly I was to teach this here

01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:45.320
tonight.

01:02:45.320 --> 01:02:48.300
He said, no, there wasn't any plans for
anybody to be here to take Leonard's

01:02:48.300 --> 01:02:48.580
place.

01:02:49.580 --> 01:02:52.580
And I always feel kind of strange sitting
in Leonard Reagan's chair.

01:02:54.560 --> 01:03:00.200
I don't feel that I have his years or
anything that he has, except the same God

01:03:00.200 --> 01:03:02.800
and the same Bible, which is a lot.

01:03:05.020 --> 01:03:10.280
And so tonight we're going to look at,
I think, one of the most exciting,

01:03:10.560 --> 01:03:14.300
dramatic, It's more dramatic than anything
that ever happened on a soap opera or on a

01:03:14.300 --> 01:03:15.040
Hollywood screen.

01:03:15.860 --> 01:03:18.160
It's the death and resurrection of
Lazarus.

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And this chapter is peppered with...

01:03:24.680 --> 01:03:28.280
There's several verses in here that you
could teach on for a week if you have one

01:03:28.280 --> 01:03:29.020
of those teaching mentalities.

01:03:29.940 --> 01:03:33.600
I never could get into people that took a
verse and went a week on it.

01:03:33.860 --> 01:03:35.160
I've never been able to do that.

01:03:37.220 --> 01:03:39.200
The Bible is sort of like a love letter.

01:03:40.020 --> 01:03:41.340
And there's stories.

01:03:42.460 --> 01:03:47.720
There is a couple of books in the Bible
that you can spend weeks on verses.

01:03:48.460 --> 01:03:51.240
The only two I can think of, really,
is Romans and Hebrews.

01:03:51.760 --> 01:03:55.200
They always kind of stump the stars in the
theologian field.

01:03:56.940 --> 01:04:00.360
But the Gospels, I think they're meant to
be read.

01:04:01.820 --> 01:04:06.780
Read them, go through them, pick out the
good parts and expound on them.

01:04:06.780 --> 01:04:11.020
I don't know how you would feel if you'd
written a couple of letters to somebody

01:04:11.020 --> 01:04:13.080
and they took a week to go on each
sentence.

01:04:14.500 --> 01:04:15.320
Dear Fred.

01:04:17.040 --> 01:04:18.740
Look at the way he said dear.

01:04:19.080 --> 01:04:21.760
Look at that semicolon there at the end of
Fred.

01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:25.840
He spelled the date out.

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I have trouble with spending a lot of time
on one little part of the Scripture

01:04:31.960 --> 01:04:34.580
because you tend to forget the whole
story.

01:04:34.580 --> 01:04:36.320
So we're going to go through this.

01:04:39.060 --> 01:04:42.900
There is a couple of places where we need
to stop and say a few things.

01:04:44.220 --> 01:04:49.040
And to point out some things that aren't
necessarily obvious on the surface.

01:04:50.460 --> 01:04:57.860
But I think you'll agree, taking a look at
it, that Jesus' emotions are not what the

01:04:57.860 --> 01:04:59.940
people in this chapter thought they were.

01:04:59.940 --> 01:05:03.700
Okay, let's go from the beginning.

01:05:04.080 --> 01:05:04.820
Chapter 11.

01:05:04.980 --> 01:05:06.240
I'm reading from the New American
Standard.

01:05:11.420 --> 01:05:13.040
Now a certain man was sick.

01:05:13.520 --> 01:05:16.820
Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary
and her sister Martha.

01:05:16.980 --> 01:05:18.320
You can remember Mary and Martha.

01:05:19.040 --> 01:05:21.200
Remember, Martha was the busy one.

01:05:22.160 --> 01:05:24.660
She wanted to make Thanksgiving dinner for
Jesus.

01:05:24.860 --> 01:05:27.040
You know, the turkey and the stuffing and
she was running around.

01:05:27.040 --> 01:05:30.620
She had her hands in the microwave and
everything.

01:05:31.140 --> 01:05:33.140
And Mary was kind of sitting in a
gaze-indy.

01:05:33.880 --> 01:05:36.460
But that's another whole story,
another whole principle.

01:05:36.640 --> 01:05:40.520
But that's the same Mary and Martha of
the, hey Mary, how come you're not

01:05:40.520 --> 01:05:41.180
working, thing.

01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:44.100
Okay, verse 2.

01:05:44.160 --> 01:05:47.820
And it was the Mary who anointed the Lord
with ointment and wiped his feet with her

01:05:47.820 --> 01:05:49.760
hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

01:05:51.420 --> 01:05:56.660
The sisters therefore sent to him,
saying, Lord, behold, he whom you love is

01:05:56.660 --> 01:05:57.020
sick.

01:05:59.700 --> 01:06:01.300
Now, let's stop there.

01:06:03.640 --> 01:06:08.480
I think that Jesus had a special
relationship with his family.

01:06:09.080 --> 01:06:11.780
Now it's true that Jesus had a love for
all mankind.

01:06:12.100 --> 01:06:14.560
But let's face it, as Leonard says,
he had some favorites.

01:06:15.100 --> 01:06:19.820
Nobody likes to think of things like that,
but he had favorites.

01:06:20.460 --> 01:06:24.340
Not according to, like it says that God is
not a respecter of persons.

01:06:24.500 --> 01:06:27.240
That means that he's not impressed when
you have big gold rings.

01:06:27.600 --> 01:06:30.900
He's not impressed that you have a big
house, or that you've got a pretty face,

01:06:30.940 --> 01:06:32.120
or a wonderful personality.

01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:36.000
He's only impressed with one thing,
the state and attitude of your heart.

01:06:37.160 --> 01:06:41.360
Remember, here is a family, a man,
an Israelite in whom there is no guile.

01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:42.460
That impressed Jesus.

01:06:44.720 --> 01:06:48.780
It impressed David, a man after God's
heart, a man after my heart.

01:06:48.780 --> 01:06:52.360
Have you considered my servant Job,
a man righteous, upright and blameless.

01:06:52.560 --> 01:06:55.440
Those are the things that always impressed
God in the Bible.

01:06:56.360 --> 01:06:59.840
There must have been something about this
family that impressed Jesus.

01:07:00.660 --> 01:07:04.440
But we already have an example that he was
impressed with Mary, his devotion.

01:07:05.680 --> 01:07:08.400
Lazarus also, now there are a lot of
things in the Bible, in fact it says at

01:07:08.400 --> 01:07:11.280
the end of this book of John, that if
everything Jesus did were written,

01:07:12.100 --> 01:07:13.720
the world couldn't even contain books.

01:07:13.800 --> 01:07:15.700
Now I used to look at that and go,
that's not a literal statement,

01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:16.600
but it really is.

01:07:17.060 --> 01:07:17.840
You know why?

01:07:18.720 --> 01:07:19.800
What has Jesus done?

01:07:20.560 --> 01:07:22.420
Well, brought the earth.

01:07:23.040 --> 01:07:25.920
What if they wrote down every single thing
he did while he was on the earth?

01:07:25.980 --> 01:07:27.220
That wouldn't fill the earth, would it?

01:07:27.300 --> 01:07:28.260
No, probably not.

01:07:28.620 --> 01:07:32.180
I mean, if they wrote down everything that
John Paul Gideon did, you know,

01:07:32.380 --> 01:07:32.980
he took a breath.

01:07:33.740 --> 01:07:35.000
He digested his spirits.

01:07:36.000 --> 01:07:37.180
He blinked his eyes.

01:07:37.300 --> 01:07:38.580
I mean, that wouldn't even fill the earth.

01:07:40.140 --> 01:07:41.300
What else did Jesus do?

01:07:42.640 --> 01:07:43.580
He created the earth.

01:07:45.060 --> 01:07:48.180
Imagine all the books it would take to
talk about how he created the eye of a

01:07:48.180 --> 01:07:48.480
fly.

01:07:50.240 --> 01:07:51.320
What else does he do?

01:07:51.540 --> 01:07:53.020
He runs the universe.

01:07:53.860 --> 01:07:55.260
Are you getting the picture?

01:07:55.880 --> 01:07:56.980
How long has he done it?

01:07:57.260 --> 01:07:58.560
Forever in both directions.

01:07:59.420 --> 01:08:03.680
Now you can find out why the earth could
not contain all the books of everything

01:08:03.680 --> 01:08:04.400
Jesus has done.

01:08:04.440 --> 01:08:05.320
That's a literal statement.

01:08:06.160 --> 01:08:11.560
But back to Lazarus, Lazarus must have
done some incredible, had an incredible

01:08:11.560 --> 01:08:11.820
heart.

01:08:11.820 --> 01:08:18.020
He must have really impressed Jesus with
his spiritual depth and character.

01:08:18.940 --> 01:08:22.500
For him to be called by his own sisters,
the one whom you love.

01:08:24.940 --> 01:08:29.080
And another place in this chapter,
it says, look, see how much he loved them,

01:08:29.120 --> 01:08:29.600
he's weeping.

01:08:29.740 --> 01:08:33.120
The people, he has, Lazarus was one of his
best friends.

01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:37.620
He wasn't like one of the twelve,
but he was one of his favorite

01:08:37.620 --> 01:08:38.840
missionaries, if you will.

01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:45.240
One of his favorite people that were
supporting the ministry on the outside.

01:08:45.360 --> 01:08:47.640
Somebody he liked to hang out with when he
was in town.

01:08:49.420 --> 01:08:52.100
Now there's another thing in this verse.

01:08:52.560 --> 01:08:54.120
Lord behold, he whom you love is sick.

01:08:54.800 --> 01:09:00.780
It's almost like they're saying to him,
they don't say, Lord Lazarus is sick.

01:09:01.560 --> 01:09:05.560
They say, Lord, this guy is sick,
and remember how much you love him?

01:09:06.240 --> 01:09:11.140
Like they're trying to say, they're trying
to talk Jesus into coming.

01:09:11.860 --> 01:09:20.240
They're trying to add a little bit of
human ingenuity and human pull to get him

01:09:20.240 --> 01:09:20.620
to come.

01:09:21.800 --> 01:09:26.800
But when Jesus heard it in verse 4,
he said, this sickness is not unto death,

01:09:26.940 --> 01:09:30.320
but for the glory of God, that the Son of
God may be glorified by it.

01:09:32.700 --> 01:09:34.040
How does Jesus know that?

01:09:36.500 --> 01:09:43.540
Jesus knows that Lazarus, through the
spiritual realm, he knows that Lazarus is

01:09:43.540 --> 01:09:45.960
not going to stay dead by this sickness.

01:09:46.820 --> 01:09:47.980
This is not unto death.

01:09:50.740 --> 01:09:54.400
Now, you have to understand what his
disciples... you guys can come on in.

01:09:55.240 --> 01:09:59.240
There's plenty, there's room here on the
couch, and there's more chairs around.

01:10:02.200 --> 01:10:05.040
Do you have to understand what this sounds
like to his disciples?

01:10:05.560 --> 01:10:10.600
Now remember, Jesus had the kind of
disciples that would open their mouths to

01:10:10.600 --> 01:10:11.320
change feet.

01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:13.440
Especially Peter.

01:10:14.860 --> 01:10:19.640
He had disciples with 6 inch skulls.

01:10:21.540 --> 01:10:25.420
Imagine the night before you die,
you know you're going to be crying on a

01:10:25.420 --> 01:10:27.220
cross, you know you're going to be beaten
to a pulp.

01:10:27.220 --> 01:10:31.160
Here's your 12 disciples, 3 years of
intense discipleship training.

01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:33.000
3 years of Bible study.

01:10:33.240 --> 01:10:35.720
3 years of Old Testament in-depth
teaching.

01:10:35.960 --> 01:10:37.000
3 years of miracles.

01:10:37.400 --> 01:10:41.320
I'm the greatest, oh yeah, well let me get
into the kingdom, I'll sit at the right

01:10:41.320 --> 01:10:42.680
hand, oh no, I'll sit at the left hand.

01:10:43.960 --> 01:10:46.180
I would have gone out and gotten 12 new
disciples.

01:10:47.820 --> 01:10:48.520
Not Jesus.

01:10:49.020 --> 01:10:50.300
He got down and washed their feet.

01:10:51.600 --> 01:10:52.860
Shows you the heart of God.

01:10:54.080 --> 01:10:56.260
So he's got these numbskulls for
disciples.

01:10:56.340 --> 01:11:01.160
Now you have to understand how this
sentence sounds to the disciples.

01:11:02.140 --> 01:11:03.040
How does it sound?

01:11:03.460 --> 01:11:04.760
This sickness is not on the death.

01:11:05.060 --> 01:11:08.700
That means, very literally, vipers ain't
going to die.

01:11:09.480 --> 01:11:10.900
How do you think it looked to the
disciples?

01:11:13.240 --> 01:11:14.900
When he went there and they found him
dead.

01:11:14.960 --> 01:11:17.480
It looked like Jesus gave up all prophecy,
didn't it?

01:11:17.540 --> 01:11:18.260
On the surface.

01:11:19.620 --> 01:11:24.640
You have to understand that when Peter
said, is that you Lord out there?

01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:26.980
Jesus said, uh-huh.

01:11:27.220 --> 01:11:28.940
If it's really you, bid that I come.

01:11:31.280 --> 01:11:35.160
And the disciples said, I've got to see
this.

01:11:36.080 --> 01:11:38.380
Jesus said, alright, I've got to see this
too, come on.

01:11:42.620 --> 01:11:45.620
Peter starts walking on the water,
all the disciples go, I wish I would have

01:11:45.620 --> 01:11:46.060
done that.

01:11:47.060 --> 01:11:49.780
He starts to sink and I go, boy,
I'm glad I didn't do that.

01:11:54.000 --> 01:11:57.780
Peter was eager to jump to conclusions.

01:11:58.480 --> 01:11:59.640
All the disciples were too.

01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:03.120
He says, beware of the eleven of the
Pharisees.

01:12:03.380 --> 01:12:04.760
Maybe it's because we didn't take bread.

01:12:05.340 --> 01:12:07.220
I'm not talking about bread.

01:12:07.300 --> 01:12:08.480
I'm talking about their teaching.

01:12:09.460 --> 01:12:11.200
They're always taking everything
literally.

01:12:11.320 --> 01:12:12.840
So how does this sound to the disciples?

01:12:12.840 --> 01:12:16.140
This sickness is not unto death,
but to the glory of God, that the Son of

01:12:16.140 --> 01:12:17.540
God may be glorified by it.

01:12:18.540 --> 01:12:20.220
Well, maybe he's going to heal them from
afar.

01:12:20.300 --> 01:12:21.140
He did that before.

01:12:22.040 --> 01:12:27.300
Maybe Jesus will just go around the bush
and wave his hands and the Lazarus will

01:12:27.300 --> 01:12:27.780
get healed.

01:12:27.900 --> 01:12:28.900
And it's for the glory of God.

01:12:30.300 --> 01:12:33.200
Also, you have to understand, you'll find
later in the chapter, they had just come

01:12:33.200 --> 01:12:37.160
out of Jerusalem, where Jesus had almost
been killed and been taken, according to

01:12:37.160 --> 01:12:38.240
the disciples' view of it.

01:12:39.100 --> 01:12:41.900
So they don't want to go down to Bethany,
which is a rite of stone served in

01:12:41.900 --> 01:12:42.200
Jerusalem.

01:12:42.840 --> 01:12:43.440
Verse 5.

01:12:43.880 --> 01:12:49.440
Now here's one of those verses that gets
the Christian socialists very mad.

01:12:50.620 --> 01:12:51.600
I'll explain that in a minute.

01:12:51.840 --> 01:12:54.280
Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and
Lazarus.

01:12:55.200 --> 01:12:57.360
And therefore he heard that he was sick.

01:12:57.800 --> 01:13:00.820
He stayed then two days longer in the
place where he was.

01:13:01.780 --> 01:13:02.680
Verse 5.

01:13:03.740 --> 01:13:09.740
The people that say that Jesus loves
everybody equally, they say, well of

01:13:09.740 --> 01:13:13.060
course he loved Martha and her sister and
Lazarus and Fred and Mary and Ethel and so

01:13:13.060 --> 01:13:13.240
on.

01:13:14.560 --> 01:13:17.460
But that is one of those verses of
special.

01:13:17.740 --> 01:13:19.700
Jesus had a special love for them.

01:13:21.400 --> 01:13:22.520
You better believe it.

01:13:23.940 --> 01:13:25.120
Jesus had a special love.

01:13:25.220 --> 01:13:27.500
It doesn't mean that he didn't have...

01:13:27.500 --> 01:13:31.180
That means that because he loves more,
it doesn't mean he loves others less.

01:13:32.580 --> 01:13:34.180
You have to understand God's love.

01:13:34.980 --> 01:13:36.720
God can love you with his whole heart.

01:13:37.620 --> 01:13:40.440
And then the guy next to you, he can have
a special love for him.

01:13:40.480 --> 01:13:43.580
And it doesn't mean he loves you any less
than he can love you.

01:13:44.340 --> 01:13:45.280
You won't notice it.

01:13:45.780 --> 01:13:46.420
Remember Joseph?

01:13:47.440 --> 01:13:49.280
His father gave him a coat of many colors.

01:13:50.340 --> 01:13:51.720
Remember how jealous it made his brothers?

01:13:52.260 --> 01:13:55.300
His father gave them good things too.

01:13:55.560 --> 01:13:58.300
Their father was a rich man and shared
among his brothers.

01:13:58.540 --> 01:14:01.080
But he desired to give a special blessing
to Joseph.

01:14:03.100 --> 01:14:05.840
Remember the parable of the guy who worked
in the vineyard?

01:14:06.220 --> 01:14:11.280
He said, can I do what I want with what is
my own without you getting jealous and

01:14:11.280 --> 01:14:11.780
covetous?

01:14:14.360 --> 01:14:17.380
I want you to realize that because it is
going to be an important story.

01:14:17.520 --> 01:14:19.800
Jesus loved Martha and his sister and
wife.

01:14:19.920 --> 01:14:20.880
He had a special love for them.

01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:24.060
How many of the disciples were in the
inner circle?

01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:26.440
Three.

01:14:26.660 --> 01:14:29.360
He had three disciples that only got to do
certain things.

01:14:29.460 --> 01:14:30.680
Nobody else got to do.

01:14:31.080 --> 01:14:32.240
They were there on the Mount of
Transfiguration.

01:14:33.640 --> 01:14:36.420
Jesus took those three to...

01:14:39.040 --> 01:14:41.720
There is a special place in Stone's Throw
where he took those three to pray and

01:14:41.720 --> 01:14:42.040
disseminate.

01:14:42.080 --> 01:14:43.540
There is another place where he just took
them to.

01:14:43.960 --> 01:14:45.220
I can't think of the guy's name.

01:14:45.340 --> 01:14:48.080
Rahiel, the daughter of Jairus.

01:14:49.800 --> 01:14:50.980
He just took those three too.

01:14:53.800 --> 01:14:55.800
Jesus loved Martha and her sister and
Lazarus.

01:14:55.900 --> 01:14:56.100
Six.

01:14:56.220 --> 01:15:00.640
When therefore he heard that he was sick,
he got on the next plane and went to

01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:00.940
Bethany.

01:15:01.820 --> 01:15:02.320
No.

01:15:02.660 --> 01:15:03.320
He stayed.

01:15:04.800 --> 01:15:05.980
Premeditatedly didn't go.

01:15:06.300 --> 01:15:07.120
That's what that says.

01:15:08.360 --> 01:15:10.420
He premeditatedly said, Hey, he's sick.

01:15:10.500 --> 01:15:11.280
Let's stay here.

01:15:13.800 --> 01:15:17.240
Now, that doesn't sound like a very loving
thing to do if you have the power to heal

01:15:17.240 --> 01:15:17.780
somebody.

01:15:19.960 --> 01:15:21.210
God works in...

01:15:26.460 --> 01:15:28.160
in a mysterious way.

01:15:29.380 --> 01:15:34.160
God will withhold from us a blessing so
that we can get a greater blessing later.

01:15:35.200 --> 01:15:40.320
God will withhold a small miracle so that
he can do a greater miracle and get more

01:15:40.320 --> 01:15:40.680
glory.

01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:45.960
God always does the thing that gives him
the most glory because it's the best thing

01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:48.760
for his universe and his kingdom for him
to get the most glory.

01:15:49.040 --> 01:15:51.340
It's the healthiest thing for you,
for God, to get the most glory.

01:15:51.860 --> 01:15:56.440
Therefore, God will withhold from you
pennies so that you can get quarters,

01:15:57.220 --> 01:15:58.360
spiritually speaking.

01:15:58.820 --> 01:16:02.200
God will withhold from you those little
things sometimes.

01:16:02.880 --> 01:16:08.200
He will premeditatedly not give you what
you ask for immediately so that he can

01:16:08.200 --> 01:16:11.220
give you more than you bargained for
later.

01:16:13.280 --> 01:16:18.620
Things that we have not heard or seen or
even imagined in our hearts as God

01:16:18.620 --> 01:16:19.660
prepared for them in life.

01:16:20.860 --> 01:16:24.500
His sisters weren't thinking that Lazarus
was going to die.

01:16:24.500 --> 01:16:25.800
They weren't even considering it.

01:16:25.820 --> 01:16:27.180
Now, we all know the end of the story,
right?

01:16:28.140 --> 01:16:29.320
Lazarus is going to get raised from the
dead.

01:16:29.440 --> 01:16:32.540
Every Christian in here knows that so I'm
not going to act like you don't know the

01:16:32.540 --> 01:16:32.760
end.

01:16:32.840 --> 01:16:34.920
We're going to go through it as if we know
the end already.

01:16:35.420 --> 01:16:36.340
From God's point of view.

01:16:36.420 --> 01:16:38.220
God knew he was going to raise Lazarus
from the dead.

01:16:39.080 --> 01:16:40.740
He says it right there in verse 4.

01:16:42.480 --> 01:16:48.760
Jesus is planning God is planning to do
something big.

01:16:49.760 --> 01:16:55.580
They just want him to get healed of the
flu or the cold or the acne or whatever he

01:16:55.580 --> 01:16:55.920
had.

01:16:57.980 --> 01:17:02.920
They wanted an easy, quick, God gets a
little glory, way out.

01:17:03.600 --> 01:17:06.660
God had other plans which caused them to
doubt.

01:17:07.260 --> 01:17:11.440
Which caused them to fret and you'll find
out later caused them to be a little

01:17:11.440 --> 01:17:13.440
bitter questioning of God's wisdom.

01:17:14.440 --> 01:17:16.500
At the end, nobody questioned God's
wisdom.

01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:21.240
At the end, no one had a thing bad to say
about Jesus and how much he loved or

01:17:21.240 --> 01:17:22.760
didn't love Lazarus.

01:17:28.250 --> 01:17:32.370
Then after this, he said to his disciples,
let us go to Judea again.

01:17:33.730 --> 01:17:38.490
The disciples said to him, Rabbi,
here, his board of directors came by.

01:17:39.910 --> 01:17:42.550
We really don't think this is a wise idea.

01:17:43.450 --> 01:17:46.910
Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to
stone you.

01:17:48.030 --> 01:17:49.670
And are you going there again?

01:17:50.250 --> 01:17:51.550
Have you flipped your noodle?

01:17:52.370 --> 01:17:53.330
I mean, can you imagine?

01:17:54.090 --> 01:17:58.810
You're the teacher, they're the students,
they're the followers, and they're

01:17:58.810 --> 01:18:00.850
questioning your every move.

01:18:01.370 --> 01:18:03.670
Are you sure this is the right thing to
do, Jesus?

01:18:04.350 --> 01:18:06.890
Last week, he told this wind to shut up
and it did.

01:18:06.970 --> 01:18:08.170
And they're questioning him.

01:18:10.390 --> 01:18:14.030
A week before that, it made food stamps
look crazy.

01:18:14.210 --> 01:18:17.530
He's just passing food out and five loaves
of bread.

01:18:17.730 --> 01:18:19.010
They're questioning Jesus.

01:18:20.190 --> 01:18:23.030
They're giving him a political and social
statement.

01:18:23.310 --> 01:18:25.850
They're giving him the ABC World News
Tonight report.

01:18:25.850 --> 01:18:27.490
This is not good, Lord.

01:18:27.590 --> 01:18:28.790
It's not safe for you to go.

01:18:30.230 --> 01:18:33.070
He just saved them from drowning with the
word out of his mouth and they're

01:18:33.070 --> 01:18:33.710
questioning him.

01:18:33.910 --> 01:18:35.050
Can you believe that?

01:18:36.270 --> 01:18:42.930
What God allows people, what God puts up
with, what God allows people to go into in

01:18:42.930 --> 01:18:46.790
his presence and still very quietly says,
nine.

01:18:47.430 --> 01:18:50.230
Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours
in the day?

01:18:50.830 --> 01:18:51.850
Speaking of parables here,

01:18:55.850 --> 01:18:56.970
the light of this world.

01:18:58.370 --> 01:19:02.590
But if anyone walks in the night,
he stumbles because the light is not in

01:19:02.590 --> 01:19:02.850
him.

01:19:04.550 --> 01:19:05.670
What does all that mean?

01:19:05.750 --> 01:19:07.090
It has a whole bunch of different
meanings.

01:19:09.870 --> 01:19:15.670
One of the meanings is, of course,
the mystical or spiritual meaning is there

01:19:15.670 --> 01:19:18.630
is a time when I can walk and not be
taken.

01:19:19.310 --> 01:19:21.030
Remember, he says, my hour has not yet
come.

01:19:22.430 --> 01:19:25.130
He talked about a time when he will be
allowed to be taken.

01:19:25.310 --> 01:19:27.990
He says, no one takes my life from me but
I give it willingly.

01:19:28.270 --> 01:19:29.170
They can't take me.

01:19:29.270 --> 01:19:30.430
I don't have to worry about it.

01:19:31.110 --> 01:19:32.230
I'm going to walk in the day.

01:19:32.290 --> 01:19:34.750
This is the daytime of my ministry.

01:19:34.990 --> 01:19:38.710
There will come a night, the night of
Gethsemane, when they'll come and take us

01:19:38.710 --> 01:19:39.650
like thieves and robbers.

01:19:40.030 --> 01:19:40.770
That's the other meaning.

01:19:40.910 --> 01:19:42.850
You don't have to worry, we're going to
travel by day.

01:19:43.890 --> 01:19:45.670
When I get taken, it will be at night.

01:19:53.850 --> 01:19:54.630
Verse 11.

01:19:54.850 --> 01:20:03.670
Then he said, and after that, this he
said, our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep

01:20:04.650 --> 01:20:08.010
but I go that I might awaken him out of
sleep.

01:20:09.510 --> 01:20:10.530
Isn't that a nice way of putting it?

01:20:11.050 --> 01:20:13.030
Do you know why Jesus said that?

01:20:14.950 --> 01:20:18.510
Why did he say, Lazarus kicked the bucket,
let's go raise him from the dead.

01:20:21.780 --> 01:20:23.020
He cast in his chips.

01:20:28.940 --> 01:20:35.000
The reason he said Lazarus has fallen
asleep is because there is something of a

01:20:35.000 --> 01:20:36.300
finality in the word death.

01:20:37.140 --> 01:20:38.020
He died.

01:20:38.820 --> 01:20:41.960
You don't have any hope that someone is
going to come back in your lifetime when

01:20:41.960 --> 01:20:42.800
they use the word die.

01:20:43.440 --> 01:20:47.560
Jesus was trying to explain spiritually to
them, this is a temporary situation,

01:20:47.820 --> 01:20:48.040
kids.

01:20:49.120 --> 01:20:50.260
He's fallen asleep, I'm going to wake him.

01:20:50.620 --> 01:20:54.820
He said, it's going to be as easy as going
and shaking your brother.

01:20:54.820 --> 01:20:56.740
He had to wake him up for school.

01:20:57.660 --> 01:20:58.780
That's the way Jesus looked at it.

01:20:59.000 --> 01:21:01.400
He was giving them a glimpse at the way he
sees things.

01:21:02.460 --> 01:21:04.720
He was giving them a glimpse at what true
faith is.

01:21:06.120 --> 01:21:09.740
He was giving them a glimpse of the vision
of what resurrection really is to God.

01:21:09.820 --> 01:21:11.460
It's no great feat, it isn't even a
miracle.

01:21:12.920 --> 01:21:14.140
It's natural to God.

01:21:17.640 --> 01:21:22.060
The disciples therefore said to him,
now here's their medical advice to the

01:21:22.060 --> 01:21:22.560
Lord Jesus.

01:21:24.820 --> 01:21:27.400
First they gave him a political report,
now they're giving him the American

01:21:27.400 --> 01:21:30.580
Medical Association opinion about Lazarus
here.

01:21:31.480 --> 01:21:33.620
Lord, if he's fallen asleep, he'll
recover.

01:21:34.220 --> 01:21:35.620
He's just a little tired.

01:21:37.800 --> 01:21:40.900
Now Jesus had spoken of his death,
but they thought that he was speaking of

01:21:40.900 --> 01:21:41.400
literal sleep.

01:21:41.500 --> 01:21:42.080
Thank you John.

01:21:43.420 --> 01:21:49.180
Then Jesus therefore said to them plainly,
Jesus therefore said to them plainly,

01:21:50.320 --> 01:21:52.300
Lazarus is dead.

01:21:55.020 --> 01:21:56.000
Thank you Lord.

01:21:56.720 --> 01:21:59.940
Sometimes God will just say, shut up.

01:22:01.760 --> 01:22:04.600
And I am glad for your sakes that I was
not there.

01:22:05.900 --> 01:22:08.040
I can see the Lord smiling through that.

01:22:09.060 --> 01:22:10.820
And I wasn't there.

01:22:12.560 --> 01:22:14.040
So that you may believe.

01:22:14.460 --> 01:22:15.220
Come on, let's go.

01:22:16.680 --> 01:22:17.740
But let us go to him.

01:22:19.020 --> 01:22:27.060
Thomas therefore, a man of faith,
who is called Davidimus, which means the

01:22:27.060 --> 01:22:33.760
twin, said to his fellow disciples,
let us go also, that we may die with him.

01:22:35.280 --> 01:22:38.040
Come on, he's going to get killed,
let's go die too.

01:22:39.360 --> 01:22:41.140
There's a faithful man to have around.

01:22:42.400 --> 01:22:44.100
For your treasurer, you've got a thief.

01:22:44.560 --> 01:22:46.380
For your encourager, you've got a cynic.

01:22:47.220 --> 01:22:47.960
For your leader,

01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:52.440
you've got a thief.

01:22:52.440 --> 01:22:53.000
Verse 17.

01:22:54.180 --> 01:22:58.300
So when Jesus came, he found that he had
already been in the tomb four days.

01:22:59.900 --> 01:23:04.040
Which probably means now, I don't know
really where he was there, but they say

01:23:04.040 --> 01:23:06.540
it's a two day journey from there to
Bethany.

01:23:06.940 --> 01:23:10.160
He waited two days, which means he
probably died the same day they sent the

01:23:10.160 --> 01:23:10.400
message.

01:23:10.520 --> 01:23:14.600
Which means he probably couldn't even have
gotten there before he died anyway.

01:23:17.060 --> 01:23:24.420
So Jesus probably knew that his sickness
was not of the death, but he possibly had

01:23:24.420 --> 01:23:25.420
already died.

01:23:25.600 --> 01:23:29.400
Because you remember, if it took him two
days to get there, how long would it take

01:23:29.400 --> 01:23:30.540
the message to get to him?

01:23:31.900 --> 01:23:33.080
They didn't have air mail.

01:23:34.140 --> 01:23:37.660
It took somebody just as long to get to
you as it took you to get to them.

01:23:39.700 --> 01:23:45.540
So most likely, the message had been given
to him two days before Lazarus died.

01:23:46.120 --> 01:23:48.640
When he got it, it was the day Lazarus
died.

01:23:49.020 --> 01:23:50.360
So he couldn't have gotten there anyway.

01:23:51.620 --> 01:23:53.920
It took him two days, and then it took a
two day journey to get there.

01:23:54.180 --> 01:23:55.580
He's been in the grave four days.

01:23:59.040 --> 01:24:02.340
Now the thing, it's probably obvious to
everybody that he couldn't have gotten

01:24:02.340 --> 01:24:03.220
there before he died.

01:24:03.880 --> 01:24:06.780
But everybody here is going to be all
bummed out that he didn't at least make an

01:24:06.780 --> 01:24:07.540
effort to get there.

01:24:07.620 --> 01:24:10.400
Because he didn't know that he died,
but Jesus did know, and they don't trust

01:24:10.400 --> 01:24:10.620
him.

01:24:11.840 --> 01:24:15.360
They worship him, they hosanna him,
they say oh lord, they call him master,

01:24:21.620 --> 01:24:24.820
but it's obvious by everybody's attitude,
including his own disciples, that they

01:24:24.820 --> 01:24:25.460
didn't trust him.

01:24:26.080 --> 01:24:30.320
You can sing praise songs, you can raise
people from the dead, you can do all kinds

01:24:30.320 --> 01:24:33.380
of miracles, you can go to church until
your face is blue, until the church is

01:24:33.380 --> 01:24:38.040
gorgeous, you can give all your money,
but if you don't trust God, your religion

01:24:38.040 --> 01:24:39.800
is like all these people.

01:24:40.400 --> 01:24:40.760
Funny.

01:24:42.220 --> 01:24:45.320
It's really, it's either sad, it depends
on which way you look at it.

01:24:46.920 --> 01:24:54.840
I mean, you can look at this and weep,
it really is funny when Jesus falls in the

01:24:54.840 --> 01:24:57.300
water, I mean when Peter falls in the
water, and he tries to walk.

01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:00.040
It's also kind of sad.

01:25:00.400 --> 01:25:01.240
Jesus didn't laugh.

01:25:01.660 --> 01:25:03.140
Jesus said, be a little faithful.

01:25:03.240 --> 01:25:04.080
Why didn't you laugh?

01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:13.540
Everybody's attitude here is judgmental,
critical, untrusting, unbelieving,

01:25:14.000 --> 01:25:16.120
and they are all sounding so religious.

01:25:17.680 --> 01:25:19.540
It's a picture of you and me.

01:25:20.600 --> 01:25:26.480
It's a picture of Christians, who trust
God a little bit, who believe because

01:25:26.480 --> 01:25:30.340
something that God did for them a long
time ago, even last week, that's a long

01:25:30.340 --> 01:25:31.320
time in God's kingdom.

01:25:32.540 --> 01:25:34.380
Because remember, the manna only lasts one
day.

01:25:36.360 --> 01:25:38.220
And I think it's real important you
understand this.

01:25:39.320 --> 01:25:40.740
This is a picture of us.

01:25:41.000 --> 01:25:42.760
Every person in this chapter.

01:25:42.900 --> 01:25:44.180
This is an incredible story.

01:25:47.260 --> 01:25:47.700
17.

01:25:47.960 --> 01:25:50.500
So when Jesus came, he found that he had
already been in the tomb for four days.

01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:53.200
Now Bethany was near Jerusalem,
about two miles off.

01:25:53.900 --> 01:25:57.580
And many of the Jews had come to Martha
and Mary to console them concerning their

01:25:57.580 --> 01:25:57.820
brother.

01:25:58.220 --> 01:26:00.000
Have any of you ever been to a Jewish
funeral?

01:26:02.380 --> 01:26:03.820
It is the loudest.

01:26:04.120 --> 01:26:04.740
The voice...

01:26:07.000 --> 01:26:10.080
They had professional mourners in Israel.

01:26:10.440 --> 01:26:11.120
They still do.

01:26:11.360 --> 01:26:13.920
At a synagogue, or at the doc's funeral.

01:26:14.020 --> 01:26:16.700
You can hire people to weep and wail and
cry at your funeral.

01:26:17.480 --> 01:26:19.220
Or at your wife's funeral, your kid's
funeral.

01:26:20.480 --> 01:26:21.680
Really get the tears flowing.

01:26:21.740 --> 01:26:24.020
You know how when people are crying,
everybody else cries too?

01:26:25.160 --> 01:26:27.200
If you see somebody crying, it makes
you...

01:26:27.200 --> 01:26:28.560
it's a chain reaction.

01:26:30.420 --> 01:26:31.200
They had professionals.

01:26:31.280 --> 01:26:35.060
They hired people that were so authentic
in their tears.

01:26:37.180 --> 01:26:38.320
Because it was just...

01:26:38.320 --> 01:26:40.880
Remember when Jesus went to heal Jairus'
daughter?

01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:41.900
And they were wailing.

01:26:42.920 --> 01:26:44.100
Why don't you guys leave?

01:26:44.160 --> 01:26:45.000
She is always asleep.

01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:47.580
We all sit in our laps in our sleep.

01:26:48.680 --> 01:26:50.040
Where did you get this clown?

01:26:56.250 --> 01:26:56.670
Okay.

01:26:57.030 --> 01:27:00.650
Many of the Jews, verse 19, come to Martha
and Mary to console them concerning their

01:27:00.650 --> 01:27:00.850
brother.

01:27:01.230 --> 01:27:04.530
Martha, therefore, when she heard that
Jesus was coming, went to meet him.

01:27:04.630 --> 01:27:06.530
But Mary still sat in the house.

01:27:09.790 --> 01:27:12.190
Martha, therefore, said to Jesus,
First words.

01:27:13.770 --> 01:27:14.610
First words.

01:27:16.030 --> 01:27:19.850
Lord, if you had been here, my brother
would not have died.

01:27:21.510 --> 01:27:22.310
Hi, Lord.

01:27:22.410 --> 01:27:23.210
How have you been?

01:27:24.270 --> 01:27:24.630
No.

01:27:25.190 --> 01:27:26.330
Gee, it's good to see you.

01:27:26.610 --> 01:27:26.890
No.

01:27:27.830 --> 01:27:30.470
Hey, come over and raise my brother from
the dead.

01:27:30.690 --> 01:27:30.990
No.

01:27:32.250 --> 01:27:33.690
How's the miracles been going?

01:27:34.290 --> 01:27:35.470
Leave more people to yourself?

01:27:36.150 --> 01:27:36.630
No.

01:27:39.690 --> 01:27:40.890
How's the kingdom of God doing?

01:27:40.990 --> 01:27:43.450
If you would be here, my brother wouldn't
have died.

01:27:43.450 --> 01:27:43.650
No.

01:27:43.770 --> 01:27:45.530
Her sister didn't even come out.

01:27:46.690 --> 01:27:49.930
The one that was gazing at his feet,
that was so enraptured in Jesus,

01:27:50.030 --> 01:27:50.790
she's sitting in the house.

01:27:51.710 --> 01:27:52.950
I hope this guy's a colony.

01:27:55.170 --> 01:27:57.690
She's so bitter, she won't even leave the
house.

01:27:59.630 --> 01:28:03.350
Martha's so bitter, the first thing is,
if you, if, if, if, what's this if

01:28:03.350 --> 01:28:04.190
business with God?

01:28:04.910 --> 01:28:09.430
If you would do this, if you had done
this, then my life would be the way it

01:28:09.430 --> 01:28:09.670
was.

01:28:13.450 --> 01:28:14.310
Jesus wouldn't have died.

01:28:15.050 --> 01:28:16.610
That's what the whole world does with God.

01:28:17.210 --> 01:28:21.250
If God, if God is so good, then why does
he allow this to happen?

01:28:21.450 --> 01:28:23.990
Jesus, if you would have been here,
my brother wouldn't have died.

01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:33.240
22.

01:28:34.280 --> 01:28:38.040
And here's her, I told you, here's her
even sounding religion.

01:28:38.660 --> 01:28:41.720
Even now I know that whatever you ask of
God, God will give you.

01:28:42.060 --> 01:28:43.700
Now, do you think she means?

01:28:44.200 --> 01:28:45.900
Do you really think she means?

01:28:50.840 --> 01:28:53.260
You'll find out in the next few verses.

01:28:54.560 --> 01:28:56.460
Jesus is a little hopeful, that's what she
means.

01:28:58.940 --> 01:29:01.600
Now, this is a little complicated here,
but check it out.

01:29:02.340 --> 01:29:05.620
She says to him, if you had been here,
my brother would not have died.

01:29:05.780 --> 01:29:08.180
Even now I know that whatever you ask of
God, God will give you.

01:29:08.260 --> 01:29:10.920
That is just a bunch of religious hogwash
that she's saying.

01:29:11.820 --> 01:29:13.580
You'll find out two verses later.

01:29:14.020 --> 01:29:17.780
So Jesus replies to that statement with,
your brother shall rise again.

01:29:19.500 --> 01:29:20.180
You're right.

01:29:20.480 --> 01:29:23.140
She says, even now, whatever you ask,
I'll give you.

01:29:23.180 --> 01:29:25.020
So Jesus is saying, okay, I'll raise him
from the dead.

01:29:25.460 --> 01:29:26.700
That's what she's saying.

01:29:26.880 --> 01:29:32.620
So she says to him, I know that he'll rise
again in the resurrection on the last day.

01:29:33.920 --> 01:29:35.320
I've got my doctrine right.

01:29:35.700 --> 01:29:37.320
I sat under the best teacher, you.

01:29:37.700 --> 01:29:40.640
I know all the theological points of
doctrine.

01:29:41.060 --> 01:29:42.240
I know there's going to be a resurrection.

01:29:43.020 --> 01:29:46.080
Martha, Martha, listen.

01:29:46.540 --> 01:29:48.040
I'm the resurrection and the life.

01:29:50.040 --> 01:29:52.080
The resurrection day isn't a part for me.

01:29:52.260 --> 01:29:53.100
Hey, here I am.

01:29:53.160 --> 01:29:54.120
I'm resurrection day.

01:29:54.300 --> 01:29:55.280
Who do you want me to raise from the dead?

01:29:55.340 --> 01:29:55.660
Your brother?

01:29:55.800 --> 01:29:56.320
Here I am.

01:29:58.900 --> 01:30:01.740
He who believes in me shall live even if
he dies.

01:30:02.840 --> 01:30:05.120
And everyone who lives and believes in me
shall never die.

01:30:05.200 --> 01:30:05.900
Do you believe this?

01:30:07.100 --> 01:30:08.420
Here's her catechism question.

01:30:08.640 --> 01:30:09.820
That's the way she's taking it.

01:30:10.460 --> 01:30:11.940
She says to him, yes, yes, Lord.

01:30:12.020 --> 01:30:14.560
I believe that you are the Christ,
the Son of God.

01:30:18.040 --> 01:30:19.540
I believe in this and that and everything.

01:30:19.860 --> 01:30:21.120
I've got my doctrine down.

01:30:24.280 --> 01:30:27.960
And when she had said this, she went away
and called Mary, her sister, saying

01:30:27.960 --> 01:30:28.700
secretly.

01:30:29.800 --> 01:30:30.560
Why secretly?

01:30:31.520 --> 01:30:33.340
The Lord is here and he's calling for you.

01:30:37.640 --> 01:30:40.520
Because Mary was stewing.

01:30:41.840 --> 01:30:43.960
Mary's in the house and she's stewing.

01:30:45.420 --> 01:30:47.440
So she takes her aside to talk to her.

01:30:47.540 --> 01:30:48.080
Listen, man.

01:30:48.220 --> 01:30:49.120
Jesus is here.

01:30:50.180 --> 01:30:51.480
He's calling for you.

01:30:53.500 --> 01:30:56.440
She can't say it out in the open because
she may turn around and say, so what?

01:30:56.500 --> 01:30:57.280
He should have been here.

01:30:59.060 --> 01:31:02.140
You know how if somebody is in one of
those moods, you've got to take them aside

01:31:02.140 --> 01:31:03.760
and talk to them privately?

01:31:06.900 --> 01:31:09.480
Jesus, the Lord is here and he's calling
for you.

01:31:09.580 --> 01:31:11.160
The teacher is here and he's calling for
you.

01:31:11.600 --> 01:31:14.660
When she heard it, she rose quickly and
was coming to him.

01:31:15.740 --> 01:31:19.280
Now Jesus had not yet come into the
village but was still in the place where

01:31:19.280 --> 01:31:19.440
she had met him.

01:31:19.860 --> 01:31:24.860
The Jews then, who were with her in the
house and consoling her, when they saw

01:31:24.860 --> 01:31:28.700
that Mary rose up quickly and went out,
followed her, supposing that she was going

01:31:28.700 --> 01:31:29.940
to the tomb to weep there.

01:31:30.580 --> 01:31:31.540
Part of the Jewish custom.

01:31:32.780 --> 01:31:33.920
Go to the tomb and you weep.

01:31:35.560 --> 01:31:39.860
Therefore Mary came where Jesus was,
she saw him, fell at his feet,

01:31:40.300 --> 01:31:49.720
saying to him, hallelujah, saying to him
the exact same words Now, have you ever

01:31:49.720 --> 01:31:51.500
heard a story about yourself with two
different people?

01:31:52.080 --> 01:31:53.600
Same words, guess who's been talking?

01:31:54.140 --> 01:31:56.420
The two people that told you the same
story about yourself.

01:31:57.940 --> 01:32:01.160
Gossip, backbiting, bad mouth,
bad attitude.

01:32:02.420 --> 01:32:04.700
Well, I heard that you said this.

01:32:05.680 --> 01:32:08.180
And the next person to next, I heard that
you said this.

01:32:08.480 --> 01:32:09.280
Well, guess where they heard it?

01:32:09.360 --> 01:32:09.900
From each other.

01:32:10.840 --> 01:32:13.040
How do people come out with the same exact
words?

01:32:13.660 --> 01:32:15.540
They get together and grumble together.

01:32:16.100 --> 01:32:17.260
Guess who was grumbling together?

01:32:19.200 --> 01:32:21.380
She says the same exact words.

01:32:22.300 --> 01:32:25.180
Lord, if you had been here, my brother
would not have died.

01:32:27.040 --> 01:32:31.140
When Jesus therefore saw her weeping,
and the Jews who came with her,

01:32:31.460 --> 01:32:35.700
also weeping, he was deeply moved in
spirit and was troubled.

01:32:36.440 --> 01:32:39.560
Does anybody have a footnote on what
deeply moved in spirit is?

01:32:41.520 --> 01:32:41.740
No?

01:32:42.940 --> 01:32:43.500
What?

01:32:43.720 --> 01:32:44.120
Troubled.

01:32:44.980 --> 01:32:45.880
Troubled himself.

01:32:46.760 --> 01:32:47.320
Where?

01:32:49.700 --> 01:32:50.140
Here.

01:32:50.140 --> 01:32:51.820
Oh, here it is.

01:32:54.120 --> 01:32:56.500
What do you think deeply moved in spirit
means?

01:32:56.880 --> 01:32:57.500
It was troubled.

01:32:58.620 --> 01:33:00.000
You think he was touched?

01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:03.760
If you know you are about to raise
somebody from the dead, you are not going

01:33:03.760 --> 01:33:05.820
to get all caught up in the fact the guy
is dead.

01:33:07.020 --> 01:33:07.160
Right?

01:33:07.880 --> 01:33:11.320
Say you know, say somebody is blind.

01:33:11.820 --> 01:33:13.140
He has just been struck blind.

01:33:13.360 --> 01:33:16.600
A battery blew up in his face and battery
acid has made him blind.

01:33:19.120 --> 01:33:22.160
He was such a great father and he is such
a great husband and he is not going to be

01:33:22.160 --> 01:33:23.000
able to do his job.

01:33:23.340 --> 01:33:26.940
And you know without a shadow of a doubt
that you are going to touch his eye and he

01:33:26.940 --> 01:33:27.320
is going to see.

01:33:28.380 --> 01:33:31.600
Does it make any sense that you are going
to walk in and start wailing and crying

01:33:31.600 --> 01:33:32.520
that he is blind?

01:33:33.740 --> 01:33:39.400
That deeply moved and troubled Jesus is
disappointed.

01:33:40.460 --> 01:33:46.180
He is extremely hurt that though he has
come with good news telling them your

01:33:46.180 --> 01:33:47.240
brother is going to rise again.

01:33:49.120 --> 01:33:50.580
They ask me and I am going to heal this
guy.

01:33:50.600 --> 01:33:51.500
I am going to raise him from the dead.

01:33:51.840 --> 01:33:52.540
They are still weeping.

01:33:52.740 --> 01:33:53.220
They are still crying.

01:33:53.320 --> 01:33:57.800
They don't see five inches in front of
their nose that the Lord of life the

01:33:57.800 --> 01:34:00.420
creator of human bodies is right in front
of them.

01:34:02.420 --> 01:34:07.040
And he has come on the earth in a human
body to come and touch them from God from

01:34:07.040 --> 01:34:11.960
heaven with resurrection with healing with
new life

01:34:22.920 --> 01:34:28.340
okay and he said the first thing he said
he is not trying to talk some sense into

01:34:28.340 --> 01:34:31.380
Mary like he did Martha hey look the
brother is going to rise again he is just

01:34:31.380 --> 01:34:35.680
verbulative he realized words are not
going to do any good they failed last time

01:34:35.680 --> 01:34:38.120
I am just going to go raise him from the
dead and stop all this stuff.

01:34:39.280 --> 01:34:43.020
They said to him Lord come and see verse
35

01:34:52.880 --> 01:34:53.160
he is sweating

01:34:57.280 --> 01:35:03.280
I believe it is the shortest verse in the
bible because it is like a bullet and

01:35:03.280 --> 01:35:11.500
Jesus is really he is weeping his heart is
broken they look at him and say oh behold

01:35:11.500 --> 01:35:17.540
how he loves you he is weeping for Lazarus
I wouldn't weep for somebody I am going to

01:35:17.540 --> 01:35:22.160
raise him from the dead in five seconds
who is he weeping for the people around

01:35:22.160 --> 01:35:26.760
him He is coming to bring resurrection.

01:35:27.160 --> 01:35:29.120
They are still holding funeral services.

01:35:29.560 --> 01:35:32.080
Don't you realize, folks, I'm going to
raise this guy from the dead.

01:35:32.120 --> 01:35:33.820
He said it plainly in verse 23.

01:35:34.120 --> 01:35:35.480
Your brother is going to rise again.

01:35:36.120 --> 01:35:36.540
Rejoice!

01:35:41.540 --> 01:35:45.280
Verse 36, And so the Jews were saying,
Behold how I love him.

01:35:45.360 --> 01:35:45.900
Set up 37.

01:35:46.060 --> 01:35:50.320
But some of them said, Could not this man
who opened the eyes of him who was blind

01:35:50.320 --> 01:35:55.280
and kept this man also from dying put salt
in the wound?

01:35:56.000 --> 01:36:01.160
They keep blaming him for something
beautiful that God has allowed to happen.

01:36:01.900 --> 01:36:03.120
He sees the end.

01:36:03.500 --> 01:36:05.560
They are just blaming him, rubbing it in.

01:36:05.900 --> 01:36:06.780
He saved others.

01:36:06.880 --> 01:36:07.960
Could he not have saved himself?

01:36:08.180 --> 01:36:10.820
They are doing the same thing they did to
him on the cross, right there.

01:36:11.720 --> 01:36:16.280
He is carrying his cross all the way
through to the grave of Lazarus.

01:36:16.900 --> 01:36:19.080
They are making fun of him as he does a
good deed.

01:36:20.380 --> 01:36:22.080
They are putting a knife in him and
turning him.

01:36:22.540 --> 01:36:23.540
They are blaming him.

01:36:23.900 --> 01:36:27.880
They are making him sound like a bad
friend, a poor steward, an uncaring

01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:33.160
person, when he is the most caring,
compassionate, loving, planning to do a

01:36:33.160 --> 01:36:34.920
wonderful deed to glorify his Father.

01:36:35.680 --> 01:36:41.560
And meanwhile they are putting blame and
putting a false impression on his deeds

01:36:41.560 --> 01:36:42.860
and motives.

01:36:42.940 --> 01:36:47.420
Verse 38, Jesus therefore again being
deeply moved within, that is what they

01:36:47.420 --> 01:36:49.480
said, came to the tomb.

01:36:50.040 --> 01:36:52.180
Now it was a cave and a stone was lying
against it.

01:36:53.020 --> 01:36:55.240
Jesus says, remove the stone.

01:36:57.520 --> 01:37:01.280
I think Martha and Mary ought to get the
picture by now of what he is going to do.

01:37:02.620 --> 01:37:06.380
Martha, the sister of the deceased said to
him, Lord by this time there will be a

01:37:06.380 --> 01:37:08.400
stench for he has been dead four days.

01:37:10.060 --> 01:37:13.700
Does that leave any doubt that Martha does
not have any idea of what he is planning

01:37:13.700 --> 01:37:14.140
to do?

01:37:16.480 --> 01:37:20.200
Either that or maybe she wants to have a
sanitary resurrection.

01:37:21.860 --> 01:37:23.040
One without smell.

01:37:23.360 --> 01:37:27.760
Why don't you raise him first through the
stone and then we will spray some blade

01:37:27.760 --> 01:37:29.340
air freshener and he can come out.

01:37:33.290 --> 01:37:34.650
She has no concept.

01:37:34.790 --> 01:37:39.630
He says, if your brother is going to rise
again, show me where you laid him.

01:37:39.850 --> 01:37:40.850
Remove the stone.

01:37:41.230 --> 01:37:41.650
What does she want?

01:37:41.730 --> 01:37:42.230
A drum roll?

01:37:42.810 --> 01:37:44.450
I mean what does she need?

01:37:44.610 --> 01:37:48.690
Everything is being set up for a most
incredible miracle and she is still

01:37:48.690 --> 01:37:49.990
talking about stink.

01:37:52.270 --> 01:37:54.790
They think he just wants to see him one
last time.

01:37:54.990 --> 01:37:55.990
Poor guy loves leather.

01:37:56.210 --> 01:37:56.670
So what?

01:38:09.840 --> 01:38:13.100
Did I not say to you, if you believe you
will see the glory of God?

01:38:14.300 --> 01:38:15.200
Didn't I tell you?

01:38:16.340 --> 01:38:21.940
So they removed the stone and Jesus raised
his eyes and said, Father I thank thee

01:38:21.940 --> 01:38:23.100
that thou hurtest me.

01:38:24.160 --> 01:38:27.960
And I knew that thou hurtest me always,
but because of the people standing around

01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:28.500
I said it.

01:38:29.240 --> 01:38:31.000
That they may believe that thou didst send
me.

01:38:31.940 --> 01:38:34.360
Now what Jesus is saying is one of the
most odd prayers.

01:38:35.040 --> 01:38:37.580
It is a very interesting and odd and
unusual prayer.

01:38:38.880 --> 01:38:40.280
God I thank you to hear me.

01:38:40.480 --> 01:38:43.380
Now look, I know you can hear me,
but because of them I said it,

01:38:43.560 --> 01:38:44.800
so they will know it is believable.

01:38:46.840 --> 01:38:47.920
I mean that is what he is saying.

01:38:48.820 --> 01:38:50.600
I am not praying to you for my sake.

01:38:51.680 --> 01:38:53.600
I am praying to you for their sake.

01:38:53.700 --> 01:38:58.200
So they realize that you sent me and that
you are doing this and that you are

01:38:58.200 --> 01:38:58.860
getting the glory.

01:39:00.200 --> 01:39:05.420
Before he did one of the greatest feats on
earth, he brings his father into it in the

01:39:05.420 --> 01:39:06.300
people's eyes.

01:39:06.380 --> 01:39:07.580
And he says why he is doing it.

01:39:08.120 --> 01:39:10.520
He doesn't have to be reminded it is his
father doing it.

01:39:10.860 --> 01:39:12.720
He doesn't have to be reminded who is
getting the glory.

01:39:13.020 --> 01:39:14.280
He says I am not doing this for me.

01:39:14.800 --> 01:39:16.660
And he said that in front of them to make
a point.

01:39:17.360 --> 01:39:19.740
I don't need to give my father glory.

01:39:19.900 --> 01:39:21.620
I live to give my father glory.

01:39:21.840 --> 01:39:26.360
I don't need to say I am giving him glory
or point to him, but I am doing it for

01:39:26.360 --> 01:39:26.820
your sake.

01:39:27.400 --> 01:39:29.240
I don't need to be reminded of what Jesus
is saying.

01:39:29.300 --> 01:39:30.080
I don't need to be humble.

01:39:30.320 --> 01:39:30.940
I am humble.

01:39:35.690 --> 01:39:41.470
And when he said these things he cried out
with a loud voice Lazarus come forth.

01:39:43.170 --> 01:39:49.370
Now Leonard Raimond always says that the
reason he said Lazarus come forth is

01:39:49.370 --> 01:39:52.430
because if he would have just said come
forth everybody in the cemetery would have

01:39:52.430 --> 01:39:52.770
come out.

01:39:59.070 --> 01:40:01.370
You have to take responsibility for that.

01:40:04.610 --> 01:40:07.250
Lazarus, this great great great
grandfather comes out.

01:40:07.770 --> 01:40:19.170
And he who had died came forth,
bound hand and foot with wrappings and his

01:40:19.170 --> 01:40:21.210
face was wrapped around with cloths.

01:40:21.290 --> 01:40:22.370
He looked like he was in a cocoon.

01:40:23.090 --> 01:40:26.370
Jesus said to them, unbind him and let him
go.

01:40:27.410 --> 01:40:36.190
Leonard also points out that people that
don't believe So this is the proof that

01:40:36.190 --> 01:40:37.410
there needs to be a second blessing.

01:40:37.790 --> 01:40:39.470
Because new life is not enough.

01:40:40.870 --> 01:40:41.870
New life isn't enough.

01:40:41.950 --> 01:40:44.490
You have to be unbound and let go too.

01:40:45.450 --> 01:40:49.670
He was alive, but he was still all wrapped
up in his grave clothes, his stinky grave

01:40:49.670 --> 01:40:50.210
clothes.

01:40:51.610 --> 01:40:54.190
All they could need, he couldn't move,
he would have died again.

01:40:54.290 --> 01:40:56.390
If they would have said, Halleluiah,
here's a man that's got a party,

01:40:56.510 --> 01:41:00.230
and left him, he would have died again.

01:41:01.210 --> 01:41:05.450
That's how come so many new believers,
when Jesus touches them, and they get

01:41:05.450 --> 01:41:09.630
saved, everybody goes, Halleluiah,
and they just rejoice, and they forget to

01:41:09.630 --> 01:41:14.790
unbind him from the world, and unbind him
from his sins, and unbind him from the

01:41:14.790 --> 01:41:17.150
effects of a life lived to serve self.

01:41:17.770 --> 01:41:20.930
People come out of the grave of the old
life all bound up like that.

01:41:22.890 --> 01:41:24.150
And this is a type of that.

01:41:25.050 --> 01:41:28.970
They need to be let go, and unbound,
and unwrapped, and washed off.

01:41:29.350 --> 01:41:32.290
Don't think they sat down to eat with this
guy while he took a bath.

01:41:43.370 --> 01:41:46.270
He did a great commercial, he did one for
Dial Soap.

01:41:50.830 --> 01:41:54.930
Many, therefore, of the Jews who had come
to Mary, and beheld what he had done,

01:41:55.390 --> 01:41:56.150
believed in him.

01:41:57.330 --> 01:42:04.130
But some of them went away to the
Pharisees, and told them, Can you imagine

01:42:04.130 --> 01:42:06.850
having such a hard, satanic heart?

01:42:07.130 --> 01:42:09.230
You see this, and you go and tell on
Jesus?

01:42:11.370 --> 01:42:13.650
That to me, I've never met any.

01:42:13.770 --> 01:42:14.650
Well, maybe I have.

01:42:16.090 --> 01:42:19.930
I've met very few people that have that
much evil, that they can see a

01:42:19.930 --> 01:42:24.790
resurrection of a guy that's been dead
four days, and the first thing they think

01:42:24.790 --> 01:42:26.450
of is, Oh, I've got to go tell Caiaphas.

01:42:27.990 --> 01:42:29.590
What would be the first thing you'd think
of?

01:42:31.710 --> 01:42:35.030
Therefore, the chief priests and the
Pharisees convened a council, and were

01:42:35.030 --> 01:42:36.690
saying, What are we doing?

01:42:36.790 --> 01:42:38.390
For this man is performing many signs.

01:42:38.670 --> 01:42:42.350
If we let him go on like this,
all men will believe in him, and the

01:42:42.350 --> 01:42:46.010
Romans will come and take away both our
place and our nation.

01:42:47.350 --> 01:42:51.570
In other words, if he keeps doing stuff
like this, they're going to crown him

01:42:51.570 --> 01:42:54.750
king, and the Romans are going to get all
upset, because people are going to make

01:42:54.750 --> 01:42:55.270
him king.

01:42:56.110 --> 01:42:59.170
Which they do in another chapter,
they go riding in Hosanna and the whole

01:42:59.170 --> 01:42:59.550
thing.

01:43:01.670 --> 01:43:05.470
And the Romans are going to take away our
place and our nation.

01:43:05.990 --> 01:43:08.550
But a certain one of them, Caiaphas,
who was high priest that year,

01:43:08.670 --> 01:43:10.430
said to them, You know nothing at all.

01:43:11.730 --> 01:43:16.730
Nor do you take into account that it is
expedient for you that one man should die

01:43:16.730 --> 01:43:19.190
for the people, and that the whole nation
should not perish.

01:43:19.190 --> 01:43:23.490
Now this he did not say on his own
initiative, but being high priest that

01:43:23.490 --> 01:43:26.610
year, he prophesied that Jesus was going
to die for the nation.

01:43:27.510 --> 01:43:31.050
It's a very interesting narrative by John,
isn't it?

01:43:32.070 --> 01:43:33.550
John finds good in everything.

01:43:35.490 --> 01:43:40.610
I think it's a very interesting narrative,
because the guy is saying, Hey look,

01:43:41.170 --> 01:43:43.490
let's grub him out and save our nation.

01:43:44.450 --> 01:43:49.090
John is saying, but even though he was
high priest, the Holy Spirit still is

01:43:49.090 --> 01:43:51.010
going to give some meaning to that.

01:43:51.550 --> 01:43:55.030
Some spiritual meaning that he was going
to die for the sins of the whole nation.

01:43:57.290 --> 01:44:01.230
And not for the nation only, but that he
might also gather together into one.

01:44:01.250 --> 01:44:02.230
This is John still speaking.

01:44:02.870 --> 01:44:06.810
Might also gather together into one the
children of God who are scattered abroad.

01:44:07.270 --> 01:44:09.670
So from that day on they plan together to
kill him.

01:44:09.670 --> 01:44:13.770
So one resurrection produced one death
plot.

01:44:16.770 --> 01:44:20.870
Jesus therefore no longer continued to
walk publicly among the Jews, but went

01:44:20.870 --> 01:44:23.790
away from there to the country near the
wilderness into a city called Ephraim.

01:44:24.210 --> 01:44:25.530
And there he stayed with his disciples.

01:44:26.090 --> 01:44:30.210
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand,
and many went up to Jerusalem out of the

01:44:30.210 --> 01:44:32.210
country before the Passover to purify
themselves.

01:44:32.530 --> 01:44:36.090
Therefore they were seeking for Jesus and
were saying to one another as they stood

01:44:36.090 --> 01:44:37.250
in the temple, What do you think?

01:44:38.050 --> 01:44:39.930
That he won't come to the feast at all?

01:44:40.510 --> 01:44:41.790
Everybody always came to the feast.

01:44:42.030 --> 01:44:43.070
Is he going to be that chicken?

01:44:43.950 --> 01:44:49.050
Because you know he comes to the feast on
donkey back with crowds cheering as he

01:44:49.050 --> 01:44:49.930
walks through the town.

01:44:50.810 --> 01:44:52.910
Now the sheep, I mean think about that.

01:44:54.310 --> 01:44:55.570
Is he going to sneak in?

01:44:57.750 --> 01:44:59.670
The king of the zoo, here he comes.

01:45:00.070 --> 01:45:01.610
Who thinks he is going to come in like
that?

01:45:02.630 --> 01:45:05.250
Who thinks he is going to come in with
floats?

01:45:09.230 --> 01:45:13.630
Now the chief priests and the Pharisees
had given orders that if anyone knew where

01:45:13.630 --> 01:45:15.910
he was, he should report it and that they
might seize him.

01:45:16.730 --> 01:45:19.690
Then he had his big week before his
horrible couple nights.

01:45:21.510 --> 01:45:27.110
Ok, so this chapter is so incredibly
simple.

01:45:27.210 --> 01:45:28.170
It is a very simple chapter.

01:45:28.290 --> 01:45:32.170
I mean it is hard to read it and not
understand that Jesus is interested in one

01:45:32.170 --> 01:45:33.310
thing, giving his father glory.

01:45:33.410 --> 01:45:36.230
Everybody else is interested in blaming
him for the death of his friend.

01:45:37.650 --> 01:45:39.450
Grieving his holy heart.

01:45:41.130 --> 01:45:44.270
And this created of course the beginning
and the end for him.

01:45:44.750 --> 01:45:49.130
The Jews began their horrible plots
because of this.

01:45:49.470 --> 01:45:55.510
In fact in another couple of verses it
says that people were starting to believe

01:45:55.510 --> 01:45:57.210
in Jesus, they had come to see Lazarus.

01:45:57.550 --> 01:46:00.890
And the Jews were planning on putting
Lazarus to death because he was living

01:46:00.890 --> 01:46:01.370
proof.

01:46:01.930 --> 01:46:03.750
They were planning to put Lazarus to
death.

01:46:06.880 --> 01:46:09.840
So imagine that being one of Jesus'
resurrectees.

01:46:10.280 --> 01:46:13.160
People were trying to kill you so they
could prove you never did it.

01:46:14.640 --> 01:46:15.780
Get rid of the evidence.

01:46:17.440 --> 01:46:18.420
Alright, any questions?

01:46:21.820 --> 01:46:23.020
Questions or comments?

01:46:27.940 --> 01:46:30.500
Yes, is there anything more in the
scriptures about what happened to Lazarus

01:46:30.500 --> 01:46:31.120
after that?

01:46:33.120 --> 01:46:34.220
I mean did he die again?

01:46:34.600 --> 01:46:35.620
I think he did.

01:46:40.740 --> 01:46:43.700
I guess the scripture on the second death
didn't apply to him though.

01:46:48.100 --> 01:46:49.220
Yeah, I think he did.

01:46:50.220 --> 01:46:53.000
He might not have, he might still be
around hanging out in Bethany,

01:46:53.080 --> 01:46:53.480
I don't know.

01:46:55.700 --> 01:46:57.140
Only one resurrection, right?

01:46:57.280 --> 01:46:58.040
Just waiting around.

01:46:59.140 --> 01:47:00.700
He runs a Bible bookstore in Jerusalem.

01:47:03.460 --> 01:47:05.280
He sells tickets to all the crash
concerts.

01:47:10.720 --> 01:47:11.720
Any other questions?

01:47:15.780 --> 01:47:18.700
There is one other place where it says
that Jesus went and had dinner there and

01:47:18.700 --> 01:47:19.660
Lazarus was at the table.

01:47:20.580 --> 01:47:22.180
It's in John, I think.

01:47:22.520 --> 01:47:23.560
Next chapter.

01:47:23.740 --> 01:47:27.340
People are coming to believe in Jesus by
seeing Lazarus.

01:47:27.860 --> 01:47:28.780
Are you the guy who raised him?

01:47:28.860 --> 01:47:29.840
Yeah, in four days.

01:47:32.100 --> 01:47:34.620
He said come forth and all his stuff was
all around him.

01:47:35.280 --> 01:47:36.220
The whole thing is stuff.

01:47:37.360 --> 01:47:37.700
Yes?

01:47:39.100 --> 01:47:43.840
After three days, his body started to
decay.

01:47:44.640 --> 01:47:46.970
So Jesus would have to do two miracles.

01:47:48.040 --> 01:47:51.950
To bring him back to life and to restore
what part of his body was decayed.

01:47:53.780 --> 01:48:00.740
Well, I think the greatest miracle that
has ever been done was Joshua commanding

01:48:00.740 --> 01:48:01.640
the Son to stand still.

01:48:02.580 --> 01:48:06.140
I don't think Joshua realized what he was
bargaining for.

01:48:06.140 --> 01:48:10.040
Because he didn't realize that telling the
Son to stand still meant telling the earth

01:48:10.040 --> 01:48:10.860
to stand still.

01:48:11.200 --> 01:48:12.380
Because the sun doesn't move.

01:48:14.420 --> 01:48:17.560
How about the sun backing up?

01:48:18.980 --> 01:48:20.520
Yeah, that's a nice idea.

01:48:21.620 --> 01:48:22.860
It has to revert.

01:48:22.860 --> 01:48:22.940
It has to revert.

01:48:30.980 --> 01:48:34.400
Everybody knows if the earth suddenly
stood still, we'd be in Milwaukee.

01:48:38.500 --> 01:48:39.760
Sitting in your chair.