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Five Who Followed in Faith Msg 4 12 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: There comes a time in all our lives when something sparks.
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Speaker 2: The need for change.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps it's the birth of a child or the death
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Speaker 1: of a loved one. On the other hand, it could
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Speaker 1: be the stark realization of the depth of an addiction,
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Speaker 1: or the life altering shock of surviving a natural disaster.
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Speaker 1: Because of the intensity of such events, we're forced to
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Speaker 1: ask ourselves this question, will I continue living as I
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Speaker 1: have been living, or will this day mark a change
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Speaker 1: in direction for my life? Those moments are turning points.
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Speaker 1: The truth of God's word can also bring us to
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Speaker 1: such points of decision. Not long ago, an older gentleman
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Speaker 1: lingered after a message I had one of our Insight
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Speaker 1: for Living cruise conferences. He happened to be physically disabled
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Speaker 1: and had been for years. He had harbored a fierce
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Speaker 1: resentment toward the Lord. Confronted with the scriptures, the man
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Speaker 1: finally broke and acknowledged the fallacy of his heart. He
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Speaker 1: shared his experience with me, and he thanked me for
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Speaker 1: my words. I remember putting my arm on his shoulder,
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Speaker 1: leaned in close, and I said, directly, my friend, let
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Speaker 1: this be a turning point for you, for your marriage,
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Speaker 1: for your family, he agreed, That's what I mean by
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Speaker 1: turning point. John's Gospel depicts numerous turning points in the
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Speaker 1: lives of those who came face to face with Jesus
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Speaker 1: and the words that he spoke. Today in our pastage,
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Speaker 1: we will explore classic turning point moments in the lives
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Speaker 1: of five men who, having met Jesus, were forever altered.
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Speaker 1: There are lessons here for all of us. So I
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Speaker 1: invite you to join me once again with your bibles
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Speaker 1: open in reading John chapter one. I'll be reading today
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Speaker 1: verses thirty five to fifty one from the New Living Translation.
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Speaker 1: I'll begin at John one thirty five. The following day,
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Speaker 1: John was again standing with two of his disciples. As
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Speaker 1: Jesus walked by, John looked at him and declared, look,
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Speaker 1: there's the lamb of God. When John's two disciples heard this,
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Speaker 1: they followed Jesus. Jesus looked around and saw them following.
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Speaker 1: What do you want, he asked him. They replied, rabbi,
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Speaker 1: which means teacher, where are you staying? Come and see,
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Speaker 1: he said. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon
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Speaker 1: when they went with him to the place where he
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Speaker 1: was staying, and they remained with him the rest of
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Speaker 1: the day. Andrew, Simon, Peter's brother, was one of these
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Speaker 1: men who heard what John said and then followed Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Andrew went to find his brother Simon and told him
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Speaker 1: we have found the Messiah, which means Christ. Then Andrew
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Speaker 1: brought Simon to meet Jesus. Looking intently at Simon, Jesus said,
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Speaker 1: your name is Simon, son of John, but you will
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Speaker 1: be called Cephas, which means Peter. The next day, Jesus
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Speaker 1: decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip, and he
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Speaker 1: said to him, come follow me. Philip was from Bethseeda,
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Speaker 1: Andrew and Peter's hometown. Philip went to look for Nathaniel
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Speaker 1: and told him, we have found the very person Moses
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Speaker 1: and the prophets wrote about. His name is Jesus, the
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Speaker 1: son of Joseph, from Nazareth. Nazareth exclaimed, Nathaniel, can anything
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Speaker 1: good come from Nazareth? Come and see for yourself, Philip replied.
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Speaker 1: As they approached, Jesus said, now here is a genuine
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Speaker 1: son of Israel, a man of complete integrity. How do
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Speaker 1: you know about me, Nathaniel asked. Jesus replied, I could
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Speaker 1: see you under the fig tree before Philip found you.
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Speaker 1: Then Nathaniel exclaimed, Rabbi, you are the son of God,
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Speaker 1: the King of Israel. Jesus asked him, do you believe
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Speaker 1: this just because I told you I'd seen you under
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Speaker 1: the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.
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Speaker 1: Then he said, I tell you the truth. You will
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Speaker 1: all see heaven open and the angels of God going
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Speaker 1: up and down on the son of Man, the one
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Speaker 1: who is the stairway between Heaven and Earth.
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Speaker 2: Just this week I finished reading a series of five
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Speaker 2: lectures delivered by Douglas Hyde. If you're not familiar with
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Speaker 2: the name, you perhaps will remember that he is the
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Speaker 2: one who was a member of the Communist Party for
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Speaker 2: some twenty years of his life, having engaged in it
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Speaker 2: from the time he was seventeen until he was almost forty,
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Speaker 2: and he has spent his remaining years lecturing all over
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Speaker 2: the country and explaining the techniques, the evils, the scope,
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Speaker 2: the entire system of communism. The lectures are entitled Dedication
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Speaker 2: and Leadership Techniques. The title attracted me to the booklet,
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Speaker 2: and the more I began to read, and the more
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Speaker 2: I delved into the subject, the greater became my concern
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Speaker 2: that we have been robbed. The great system of life
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Speaker 2: presented and implemented by Jesus Christ has been mocked in
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Speaker 2: this god godless and atheistic system today known as communism.
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Speaker 2: All the way through the booklet I came across such
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Speaker 2: words as sacrifice, dedication, discipline, self confidence, and related terms
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Speaker 2: such as tactics and world revolution, domination of the mind,
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Speaker 2: and on and on. As a matter of fact, I
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Speaker 2: was amazed to discover that it was Marx who coined
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Speaker 2: the words change the world. They appear in his manifesto.
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Speaker 2: In fact, his closing line is the moving and passionate plead.
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Speaker 2: Now there is a world to win, he says in
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Speaker 2: his manifesto. Philosophers have only interpreted the world differently. The
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Speaker 2: point is, however, to change it. I couldn't believe that
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Speaker 2: I was reading the writings and the workings and the
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Speaker 2: system of an organization totally set against Christianity. They have
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Speaker 2: in fact adopted and implemented better than we the lifestyle
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Speaker 2: and the commitment that is necessary in fact to win
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Speaker 2: a world. And I say that to our shame. Now
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Speaker 2: there is one theme that appears through the book, and
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Speaker 2: this morning I do not speak as an ata communist,
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Speaker 2: though I am I speak as one who is pro christ.
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Speaker 2: It is easy to become so ata communistic that you
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Speaker 2: lose the perspective of Jesus Christ. And so as a
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Speaker 2: pro Christian, I am attracted to the theme because it
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Speaker 2: is the theme of Jesus calling the disciples. This is
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Speaker 2: the theme of that book that I've just finished reading.
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Speaker 2: If you make little demands on people, you will get
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Speaker 2: a little response, which is all you deserve. But if
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Speaker 2: you make big demands on them, you will get a
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Speaker 2: heroic response. The last part is of interest, because that's
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Speaker 2: the kind of demand Jesus made and continues to make
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Speaker 2: on people. If you make a big demand, you will
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Speaker 2: get a heroic response. It's true. In the business world.
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Speaker 2: I know a man who lost his leg in the war.
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Speaker 2: When he came back to the United States, he decided
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Speaker 2: to set up business. And in every fiber of his
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Speaker 2: body and every cell of his bea there is one
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Speaker 2: great desire, and that is discipline, quality workmanship. And he
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Speaker 2: has told me recently that when he went into business,
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Speaker 2: he didn't care if the business ever grew more than
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Speaker 2: two or three people beside himself, because he wasn't sure
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Speaker 2: he could find people so committed to that kind of lifestyle,
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Speaker 2: and he gave himself to it. His business today is
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Speaker 2: an incredible achievement of quality workmanship on the basis of
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Speaker 2: a disciplined lifestyle and disciplined work It's true in the
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Speaker 2: sports world, there is no such thing as an undisciplined
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Speaker 2: coach turning out a disciplined team. There is no such
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Speaker 2: thing as a great team revolving around it an inferior
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Speaker 2: are mediocre theme. Great disciplined minds create great disciplined teams,
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Speaker 2: and I don't know of an exception. That's the way
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Speaker 2: it is Christianity. Jesus is never interested in filling and
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Speaker 2: swelling the ranks of Christianity. He is interested in building
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Speaker 2: a quality body whose muscles and joints and bones and
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Speaker 2: parts fit together into a quality lifestyle. Jesus didn't pull
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Speaker 2: you from the ranks of mediocre humanity just to swell
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Speaker 2: the ranks of a church. He called you as he
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Speaker 2: called the five men were looking at this morning with
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Speaker 2: a global concept in mind, and let us never forget it.
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Speaker 2: That's the theme of the message this morning. Turn to
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Speaker 2: John chapter one, and we will look to begin with
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Speaker 2: at these seventeen verses with overview and mind. Then we'll
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Speaker 2: go back and analyze the verses as they fall together
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Speaker 2: in their interesting structure. If you have it a Bible
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Speaker 2: with you, please use one in the pews that are
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Speaker 2: in front of you. You will want to follow along.
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Speaker 2: We really have nothing to say outside the scriptures, so
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Speaker 2: without a Bible you'll only get human opinion. John Chapter one,
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Speaker 2: beginning at verse twenty nine, actually down through verse fifty one,
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Speaker 2: is nothing more than a series of three pages torn
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Speaker 2: out of John's daily diary. I say that because of
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Speaker 2: the time that is mentioned in these verses twenty nine,
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Speaker 2: the next day thirty five, the next day forty three,
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Speaker 2: the next day, we have three days back to back,
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Speaker 2: presented and unfolded in simple, straightforward chronological order, from one
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Speaker 2: day to the next, to the next and to the next.
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Speaker 2: So we're not missing apart in the beginning of Jesus' ministry.
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Speaker 2: It is as though we have ripped the pages out
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Speaker 2: of the baptizer's diary, and John, the fisherman who wrote
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Speaker 2: this book is the one who puts it down in writing.
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Speaker 2: But we have a diary put together for us and
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Speaker 2: presented in a simple and rather thematic plan. Now, the
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Speaker 2: structure of the passage before us again is straightforward and simple.
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Speaker 2: We have the appearance of five men on the pages
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Speaker 2: of Scripture, each of whom is given an approach to
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Speaker 2: the Gospel, which comes in the form of a message,
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Speaker 2: and then they are given opportunity to respond. There's a
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Speaker 2: result that comes. So the structure of these seventeen verses
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Speaker 2: is as follows. An approach which involves communication, are a
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Speaker 2: message which leads to a result, a decision that is
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Speaker 2: made on the part of the hearer. Now another word,
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Speaker 2: regarding the characters we're going to be looking at. There
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Speaker 2: are five of them, four of whom are named John.
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Speaker 2: The writer leaves himself unnamed for obvious reasons. For example,
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Speaker 2: if you will look at verse it's verse forty you
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Speaker 2: will read of Andrew. That's the first character, who was
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Speaker 2: Simon Peter's brother. Now Andrew and John appear together at
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Speaker 2: the beginning of the section we're looking at. Then come
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Speaker 2: Simon Peter. He's the third character. And then according to
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Speaker 2: verse forty three, there is a fourth person named Philip,
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Speaker 2: about whom we know very little. And then fifth verse
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Speaker 2: forty five, there is Nathaniel. We know least of all
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Speaker 2: about him. Let me say a word about these five
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Speaker 2: men before we analyze the passage, as far as the
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Speaker 2: approach and the message and the result is concerned. These
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Speaker 2: men are often presented in popular literature as saints, aren't they.
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Speaker 2: I remember attending a church when I was a child
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Speaker 2: at the end of our street where we lived in Houston, Texas.
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Speaker 2: We attended that church not because it was the best one,
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Speaker 2: but because it was the most convenient. My dad was
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Speaker 2: working at that time seven days a week and far
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Speaker 2: more than ten or twelve hours a day, and there
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Speaker 2: was no car to go elsewhere, so we walked to
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Speaker 2: the church at the end of the block. The name
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Speaker 2: of the church was Saint Andrew's Church, and I'll leave
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Speaker 2: the denomination for some of the time. But in that
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Speaker 2: church was a statue I remember seeing as a little boy,
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Speaker 2: and the statue was a picture of what you would
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Speaker 2: commonly think of as a saint. Yeah, the hands were
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Speaker 2: folded and there was sort of an aura about it.
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Speaker 2: It's hard for me to look saintly and it's sort
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Speaker 2: of like that, and the flowing robes and the sandals,
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Speaker 2: And I used to think as a little boy, I'd
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Speaker 2: walk up to it, and I would touch it. I'd think, oh, wow,
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Speaker 2: Saint Andrew. Saint Andrew was a loser. You would have
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Speaker 2: never hired him men in your business. If there ever
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Speaker 2: was a follower, it was Andrew. Every time he appears
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Speaker 2: in scripture, he's not doing something that is as a leader,
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Speaker 2: but he's bringing somebody to Jesus. Now that part is
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Speaker 2: not a loser. But the best thing you can say
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Speaker 2: about Andrew is that he was Peter's brother, and I
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Speaker 2: feel for that. I know what it was to be
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Speaker 2: a member of a family where the brother was the
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Speaker 2: greater light. And it's tough to make it as an Andrew.
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Speaker 2: But these guys are not saintly. They are indeed saints
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Speaker 2: and that they're members of the body, but they're not saintly.
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Speaker 2: They're not flawless, perfect specimens of perfection and humanity. They're
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Speaker 2: like you are. They're like I am, cracks and all
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Speaker 2: worts and all, and they come on the page of
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Speaker 2: Scripture in a very human flow of thought. Let me
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Speaker 2: show you. Let's look at Andrew and John together. Look
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Speaker 2: at verse thirty five. The next day John was standing.
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Speaker 2: Now that's not John the writer, that's John the Forerunner.
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Speaker 2: This is the one who was known as John the Baptizer.
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Speaker 2: He had begun to gather a following of disciples. So
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Speaker 2: he was standing and two of his disciples, now you
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Speaker 2: can pencil into your margin Andrew and John. They are
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Speaker 2: the two who were on the scene. And he looked
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Speaker 2: upon Jesus as he walked. John the Forerunner looked upon
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Speaker 2: Jesus as he walked by. And John said to his disciples, Oh,
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Speaker 2: that means look observed the Lamb of God. If you
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Speaker 2: look up at verse twenty nine, you'll get the full message,
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Speaker 2: the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of
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Speaker 2: the world. Jesus was no localized savior. He was no
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Speaker 2: Palestinian messiah. He came in global terms. And John said, men,
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Speaker 2: that's the one to follow. And you're not surprised they
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Speaker 2: followed it. Let's analyze it a little. The approach that
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Speaker 2: is used is what I would like to call mass evangelism.
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Speaker 2: By that, I mean there was one gifted person who
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Speaker 2: gave the good news to those that didn't know it.
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Speaker 2: In our day, the greater light is, of course Billy Graham.
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Speaker 2: In days past, it would be Dwight L. Moody or
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Speaker 2: George Whitfield, or John Wesley or John Knox. These are
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Speaker 2: great reforming minds. These are points on the wedge that
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Speaker 2: sweep a nation with the good news of Christ. John
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Speaker 2: the Baptizer was the evangelist of the first century, and
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Speaker 2: he gave the gospel to these men. There is Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 2: God's lamb. Follow him. Now. The message that he uses
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Speaker 2: is write in verse thirty six, behold the Lamb of God.
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Speaker 2: That's the only message in A true evangelist has true
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Speaker 2: evangelism around the true presentation of Jesus Christ. Men, he
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Speaker 2: is God's Lamb. Follow him. Look at the result. The
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Speaker 2: two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. How simple,
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Speaker 2: how beautiful. That's precisely what happened when you heard the
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Speaker 2: good news. By the way, can you think back to
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Speaker 2: when you first heard it? Can you remember the person
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Speaker 2: God used in your life. Maybe it was your mother,
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Speaker 2: Maybe it was your brother, maybe it was your father.
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Speaker 2: It could have been a preacher or an evangelist. Some
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Speaker 2: of you followed because of a person you worked with
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Speaker 2: that lived the claims of Jesus Christ instantly, day in
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Speaker 2: and day out. Maybe somebody you sat by at school
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Speaker 2: that didn't cheat on the exam, that continually to carried
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Speaker 2: out the lifestyle of truth and honesty, and that spoke
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Speaker 2: to you, and that led you to faith in the
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Speaker 2: Lord Jesus. Think back, all you did was follow Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 2: I never tire of relating the story of Jim Voss,
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Speaker 2: who was led to Christ through an evangelist in downtown
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Speaker 2: Los Angeles in the late forties. They pitched a massive
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Speaker 2: tint as some of you know who lived here at
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Speaker 2: that time, and they filled the place by and bye.
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Speaker 2: And Voss was one of them, a preacher's son. He
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Speaker 2: had heard the gospel all his life. He had rejected
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Speaker 2: it point blank. His life was characterized by criminal involvements.
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Speaker 2: He was a deceitful, unbelieving man, and he had been
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Speaker 2: through religious services so many times. He was weary of him.
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Speaker 2: And finally he came to the end of this service,
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Speaker 2: and it had so much spoken to him, he felt.
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Speaker 2: So they stood to sing familiar just as I am
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Speaker 2: without one plea, but that Thy blood was shed for me, O,
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Speaker 2: Lamb of God, I come. And he said, when he stood,
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Speaker 2: he towered over most of them. He's a giant of
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Speaker 2: a man. He looked for the exit, look for the
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Speaker 2: place to get out. And he was just planning to
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Speaker 2: make his way to the exit when a little tiny
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Speaker 2: sawed off runt. A little old fellow walked up to
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Speaker 2: him and pulled on his coattail, and he said, say,
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Speaker 2: wouldn't you like to be saved? Wouldn't you like to
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Speaker 2: go forward? And Voss said, I wanted to knock that
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Speaker 2: man right down on the sawdust until I looked at him,
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Speaker 2: and he was praying, and he said, how can you
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Speaker 2: hit a guy when he's praying? And he said, Suddenly
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Speaker 2: the spirit of God began to work, and he found
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Speaker 2: himself walking down that aisle giving his heart to Christ.
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Speaker 2: Revolutionary change took place in his life. That's the way
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Speaker 2: it was with some of you, wasn't he remember when
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Speaker 2: you gave your heart to Christ? Maybe you were like
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Speaker 2: the self sustained individual that wrote I had walked life's
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Speaker 2: way with an easy tread. I'd travel where pleasures and
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Speaker 2: comfort lad until one day, in a quiet place, I
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Speaker 2: met the Master, face to face with station and rank
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Speaker 2: and wealth for my gold, much thought for my body,
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Speaker 2: but none for my soul. I had entered to win
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Speaker 2: this life's mad race. When I met the Master face
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Speaker 2: to face. I'd built my castles and reared them high
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Speaker 2: till their towers had pierced the blue of the sky.
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Speaker 2: I'd sworn to you were with an iron mace. When
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Speaker 2: I met the Master face to face. I met him
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Speaker 2: and knew him, and blushed to see that his eyes
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Speaker 2: full of sorrow were fixed upon me. I faltered and
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Speaker 2: fell at his feet that day. You remember that while
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Speaker 2: my castles melted and vanished away, they melted and vanished,
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Speaker 2: and in their place nothing else could I see but
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Speaker 2: the Master's face. My thoughts are now for the souls
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Speaker 2: of men. I've lost my life to find it again,
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Speaker 2: since that day in the quiet place, when I met
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Speaker 2: the Master face to face. That's the way it was
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Speaker 2: with these two fellas andrew a lesser light. John bow Energies,
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Speaker 2: a son of thunder, hot tempered, impet your was strong willed,
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Speaker 2: who became John the Beloved, who met the Savior. They
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Speaker 2: followed him. Now, look at their response Jesus gives in
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Speaker 2: return to their following. Look at the next verns, Verse
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Speaker 2: thirty eight. Jesus turned and beheld them following, and said
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Speaker 2: to them, what do you seek? That's a probing question.
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Speaker 2: They said to him, teacher, where are you staying? That
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Speaker 2: seemed like a strange response, fellas what are you looking for? Jesus?
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Speaker 2: Where do you live? Why do they respond like that? Well,
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Speaker 2: I think g. Campbell Morgan is right. He said that
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Speaker 2: kind of question that demands time to think through your answer.
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Speaker 2: So they said, Lord, where do you stay? We'll give
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Speaker 2: you an answer after we thought about it and spend
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Speaker 2: some time with you. What's your motive for following Jesus?
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Speaker 2: Become a part of a going church, to be in
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Speaker 2: with the right group so you can handle your business affairs.
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Speaker 2: Why have you decided to follow Jesus Christ. That's a
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Speaker 2: searching question, it's a motive question. Oh. I love the
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Speaker 2: intimate scene that John pictures for us. Jesus response is beautiful.
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Speaker 2: They said where are you staying? And he said to them,
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Speaker 2: come and you will see. They came therefore and saw
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Speaker 2: where he was staying. By the way, it's one of
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Speaker 2: the very few times in all the Bible that Jesus
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Speaker 2: dwelling is even mentioned. Matthew tells us foxes have their holes,
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Speaker 2: and birds of the air have their nest, but the
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Speaker 2: son of Man does not have a place for his head,
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Speaker 2: maybe a mud hunt, maybe a cave, maybe the second
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Speaker 2: floor in Lazarus and Marry and Martha's home in Bethany.
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Speaker 2: We don't know where. The place wasn't significant, it's the
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Speaker 2: person they saw where he was staying, and they stayed
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Speaker 2: with him. Oh, that must have been magnificent. You ever
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Speaker 2: thought about doing something like that, You better You're gonna
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Speaker 2: be doing it for an eternity, so you better be
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Speaker 2: ready for it. Most of you. They sat down and talked.
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Speaker 2: Maybe they probed his motives, talked about his method of
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Speaker 2: dealing with the world and their times. Maybe he just
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Speaker 2: talked about his life. They didn't understand all of the answers,
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Speaker 2: and they stayed with him until it says for it
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Speaker 2: was about the tenth hour, that's four o'clock in the afternoon,
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Speaker 2: and it says that they stayed with him for that day.
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Speaker 2: So they stayed from four in the afternoon until sunset
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Speaker 2: until the evening, and then verse forty switches gears on
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Speaker 2: us immediately there's a change. They've left this dwelling, at
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Speaker 2: least Andrew has. And it says that the one of
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Speaker 2: the two who heard John speak and followed him was
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Speaker 2: Andrew Simon, Peter's brother. There's that label again, Andrew Peter's brother.
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Speaker 2: Now look at what he did. He found first his
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Speaker 2: own brother, Simon. Now wait a minute. We have this
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Speaker 2: concept that people in the Bible days we were not
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Speaker 2: really that human. But here was a brother going to
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Speaker 2: talk to a brother, and Simon was the greater of
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Speaker 2: the two in personality. He was the stronger. That's a
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Speaker 2: better word. Andrew goes to Simon's home. Simon's married, he's inside.
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Speaker 2: It's dark, and let's put it in the human terms, Okay.
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Speaker 2: Simon wonders, who in the world is coming this time
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Speaker 2: of night? Opens the door. Now he doesn't say, oh,
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Speaker 2: say it, Andrew. Why college that He looks at him.
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Speaker 2: He says, Andy, where you are? Well, you don't out
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Speaker 2: this time of night, and and and and Andrew responds, hey,
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Speaker 2: bubba hey, we found him. We found him, found him,
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Speaker 2: We found the Messiah. Oh man, you can't believe the
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Speaker 2: feeling at the door of that of that home right
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Speaker 2: there where Andrew and Simon were talking about the very
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Speaker 2: one