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Five Who Followed in Faith Msg 412 · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: There comes a time in all our lives when something
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Speaker 1: sparks the need for change. Perhaps it's the birth of
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Speaker 1: a child or the death of a loved one. On
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Speaker 1: the other hand, it could be the stark realization of
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Speaker 1: the depth of an addiction, or the life altering shock
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Speaker 1: of surviving a natural disaster. Because of the intensity of
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Speaker 1: such events, we're forced to ask ourselves this question, will
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Speaker 1: I continue living as I have been living, or will
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Speaker 1: this day mark a change in direction for my life?
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Speaker 1: Those moments are turning points. The truth of God's word
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Speaker 1: can also bring us to such points of decision. Not
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Speaker 1: long ago, an older gentleman lingered after a message I
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Speaker 1: had to one of our Insight for Living cruise conferences.
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Speaker 1: He happened to be physically disabled and had been for years.
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Speaker 1: He had harbored a fierce resentment toward the Lord. Confronted
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Speaker 1: with the scriptures, the man finally broke and acknowledged the
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Speaker 1: fallacy of his heart. He shared his experience with me,
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Speaker 1: and he thanked me for my words. I remember putting
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Speaker 1: my arm on his shoulder, leaned in close, and I said, directly,
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Speaker 1: my friend, let this be a turning point for you,
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Speaker 1: for your marriage, for your family. He agreed, that's what
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Speaker 1: I mean by turning point. John's Gospel depicts numerous turning
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Speaker 1: points in the lives of those who came face to
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Speaker 1: face with Jesus and the words that he spoke. Today
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Speaker 1: in our past message, we will explore classic turning point
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Speaker 1: moments in the lives of five men who, having met Jesus,
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Speaker 1: were forever altered. There are lessons here for all of us.
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Speaker 1: So I invite you to join me once again with
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Speaker 1: your bibles open in reading John chapter one. I'll be
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Speaker 1: reading today verses thirty five to fifty one from the
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Speaker 1: New Living Translation. I'll begin at John one thirty five.
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Speaker 1: The following day, John was again standing with two of
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Speaker 1: his disciples. As Jesus walked by, John looked at him
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Speaker 1: and declared, look, there's the lamb of God. When John's
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Speaker 1: two disciples heard this, they followed Jesus. Jesus looked around
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Speaker 1: and saw them following, Well, what do you want, he
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Speaker 1: asked him. They replied, rabbi, which means teacher, where are
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Speaker 1: you staying? Come and see, he said. It was about
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Speaker 1: four o'clock in the afternoon when they went with him
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Speaker 1: to the place where he was staying and They remained
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Speaker 1: with him the rest of the day. Andrew, Simon, Peter's brother,
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Speaker 1: was one of these men who heard what John said
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Speaker 1: and then followed Jesus. Andrew went to find his brother
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Speaker 1: Simon and told him we have found the Messiah, which
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Speaker 1: means Christ. Then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus. Looking
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Speaker 1: intently at Simon, Jesus said, your name is Simon, son
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Speaker 1: of John, but you will be called Cephas, which means Peter.
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Speaker 1: The next day, Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He
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Speaker 1: found Philip, and he said to him, come follow me.
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Speaker 1: Philip was from Bethseeda, Andrew and Peter's hometown. Philip went
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Speaker 1: to look for Nathaniel and told him, we have found
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Speaker 1: the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about. His
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Speaker 1: name is Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth. Nazareth exclaimed, Nathaniel,
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Speaker 1: can anything good come from Nazareth? Come and see for yourself,
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Speaker 1: Philip replied. As they approached, Jesus said, now here is
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Speaker 1: a genuine son of Israel, a man of complete integrity.
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Speaker 1: How do you know about me, Nathaniel asked. Jesus replied,
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Speaker 1: I could see you under the fig tree before Philip
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Speaker 1: found you. Then Nathaniel exclaimed, Rabbi, you are the son
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Speaker 1: of God, the King of Israel. Jesus asked him, do
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Speaker 1: you believe this just because I told you I'd seen
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Speaker 1: you under the fig tree? You will see greater things
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Speaker 1: than this. Then he said, I tell you the truth.
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Speaker 1: You will all see heaven open and the angels of
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Speaker 1: God going up and down on the son of Man,
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Speaker 1: the one who is the stairway between Heaven and Earth.
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Speaker 1: Just this week I finished reading a series of five
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Speaker 1: lectures delivered by Douglas Hyde. If you're not familiar with
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Speaker 1: the name, you perhaps will remember that he is the
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Speaker 1: one who was a member of the Communist Party for
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Speaker 1: some twenty years of his life, having engaged in it
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Speaker 1: from the time he was seventeen until he was almost forty,
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Speaker 1: and he has spent his remaining years lecturing all over
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Speaker 1: the country and explaining the techniques, the evils, the scope,
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Speaker 1: the entire system of communism. The lectures are entitled Dedication
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Speaker 1: and Leadership Techniques. The title attracted me to the booklet,
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Speaker 1: and the more I began to read, and the more
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Speaker 1: I delved into the subject, the greater became my concern
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Speaker 1: that we have been robbed. The great system of life
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Speaker 1: presented and implemented by Jesus Christ has been mocked in
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Speaker 1: this god godless and atheistic system today known as communism.
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Speaker 1: All the way through the booklet I came across such
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Speaker 1: words as sacrifice, dedication, discipline, self confidence, and related terms
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Speaker 1: such as tactics and world revolution, domination of the mind,
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Speaker 1: and on and on. As a matter of fact, I
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Speaker 1: was amazed to discover that it was Marx who coined
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Speaker 1: the words change the world. They appear in his manifesto.
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Speaker 1: In fact, his closing line is the moving and passionate plea.
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Speaker 1: Now there is a world to win, he says in
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Speaker 1: his manifesto. Philosophers have only interpreted the world differently. The
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Speaker 1: point is, however, to change it. I couldn't believe that
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Speaker 1: I was reading the writings and the workings and the
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Speaker 1: system of an organization totally set against Christianity. They have
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Speaker 1: in fact adopted and implemented better than we the lifestyle
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Speaker 1: and the commitment that is necessary in fact to win
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Speaker 1: a world. And I say that to our shame. Now
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Speaker 1: there is one theme that appears through the book, and
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Speaker 1: this morning I do not speak as an at a communist,
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Speaker 1: though I am I speak as one who is pro christ.
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Speaker 1: It is easy to become so ata communistic that you
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Speaker 1: lose the perspective of Jesus Christ. And so as a
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Speaker 1: pro Christian, I am attracted to the theme because it
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Speaker 1: is the theme of Jesus calling the disciples. This is
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Speaker 1: the theme of that book that I've just finished reading.
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Speaker 1: If you make little demands on people, you will get
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Speaker 1: a little response, which is all you deserve. But if
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Speaker 1: you make big demands on them, you will get a
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Speaker 1: heroic response. The last part is of interest, because that's
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Speaker 1: the kind of demand Jesus made and continues to make
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Speaker 1: on people. If you make a big demand, you will
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Speaker 1: get a heroic response. It's true. In the business world.
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Speaker 1: I know a man who lost his leg in the war.
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Speaker 1: When he came back to the United States, he decided
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Speaker 1: to set up business. And in every fiber of his
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Speaker 1: body and every cell of his there is one great desire,
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Speaker 1: and that is discipline, quality workmanship. And he has told
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Speaker 1: me recently that when he went into business, he didn't
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Speaker 1: care if the business ever grew more than two or
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Speaker 1: three people beside himself, because he wasn't sure he could
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Speaker 1: find people so committed to that kind of lifestyle, and
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Speaker 1: he gave himself to it. His business today is an
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Speaker 1: incredible achievement of quality workmanship on the basis of a
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Speaker 1: disciplined lifestyle and disciplined work It's true in the sports world,
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Speaker 1: there is no such thing as an undisciplined coach turning
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Speaker 1: out a disciplined team. There is no such thing as
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Speaker 1: a great team revolving around it an inferior are mediocre theme.
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Speaker 1: Great disciplined minds create great disciplined teams, and I don't
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Speaker 1: know of an exception. That's the way it is Christianity.
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Speaker 1: Jesus is never interested in filling and swelling the ranks
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Speaker 1: of Christianity. He is interested in building a quality body
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Speaker 1: whose muscles and joints and bones and parts fit together
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Speaker 1: into a quality lifestyle. Jesus didn't pull you from the
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Speaker 1: ranks of mediocre humanity just to swell the ranks of
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Speaker 1: a church. He called you as he called the five
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Speaker 1: men were looking at this morning with a global concept
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Speaker 1: in mind, and let us never forget it. That's the
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Speaker 1: theme of the message this morning. Turn to John chapter one,
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Speaker 1: and we will look to begin with at these seventeen
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Speaker 1: verses with overview and mind. Then we'll go back and
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Speaker 1: analyze the verses as they fall together in the interesting structure.
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Speaker 1: If you have a Bible with you, please use one
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Speaker 1: in the pews that are in front of you. You
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Speaker 1: will want to follow along. We really have nothing to
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Speaker 1: say outside the scriptures, so without a Bible you'll only
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Speaker 1: get human opinion. John Chapter one, beginning at verse twenty nine,
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Speaker 1: actually down through verse fifty one, is nothing more than
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Speaker 1: a series of three pages torn out of John's daily diary.
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Speaker 1: I say that because of the time that is mentioned
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Speaker 1: in these verses twenty nine, the next day thirty five,
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Speaker 1: the next day forty three, the next day, we have
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Speaker 1: three days back to back, presented and unfolded in simple,
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Speaker 1: straightforward chronological order, from one day to the next, to
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Speaker 1: the next and to the next. So we're not missing
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Speaker 1: apart in the beginning of Jesus' ministry. It is as
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Speaker 1: though we have ripped the pages out of the baptizer's diary,
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Speaker 1: and John, the fisherman who wrote this book, is the
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Speaker 1: one who puts it down in writing. But we have
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Speaker 1: a diary put together for us and presented in a
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Speaker 1: simple and rather thematic plan. Now The structure of the
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Speaker 1: passage before us again is straightforward and simple. We have
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Speaker 1: the appearance of five men on the pages of Scripture,
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Speaker 1: each of whom is given an approach to the Gospel,
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Speaker 1: which comes in the form of a message, and then
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Speaker 1: they are given opportunity to respond. There's a result that comes.
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Speaker 1: So the structure of these seventeen verses is as follows,
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Speaker 1: an approach which involves communication or a message which leads
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Speaker 1: to a result, a decision that is made on the
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Speaker 1: part of the hearer. Now another word, regarding the characters
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Speaker 1: we're going to be looking at. There are five of them,
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Speaker 1: four of whom are named John. The writer leaves himself
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Speaker 1: unnamed for obvious reasons. For example, if you will look
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Speaker 1: at verse it's verse fourty, you will read of Andrew.
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Speaker 1: That's the first character, who was Simon Peters's brother. Now
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Speaker 1: Andrew and John appear together at the beginning of the
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Speaker 1: section we're looking at. Then come Simon Peter. He's the
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Speaker 1: third character. And then according to verse forty three, there
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Speaker 1: is a fourth person named Philip, about whom we know
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Speaker 1: very little. And then fifth verse forty five, there is
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Speaker 1: Nathaniel we know least of all about him. Let me
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Speaker 1: say a word about these five men before we analyze
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Speaker 1: the passage, as far as the approach and the message
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Speaker 1: and the result is concerned. These men are often presented
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Speaker 1: in popular literature as saints, aren't they. I remember attending
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Speaker 1: a church when I was a child at the end
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Speaker 1: of our street where we lived in Houston, Texas. We
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Speaker 1: attended that church not because it was the best one,
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Speaker 1: but because it was the most convenient. My dad was
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Speaker 1: working at that time seven days a week and far
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Speaker 1: more than ten or twelve hours a day, and there
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Speaker 1: was no car to go elsewhere, so we walked to
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Speaker 1: the church at the end of the block. The name
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Speaker 1: of the church was Saint Andrew's Church, and I'll leave
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Speaker 1: the denomination for some of the time. But in that
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Speaker 1: church was a statue I remember seeing as a little boy,
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Speaker 1: and the statue was a picture of what you would
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Speaker 1: commonly think of as a saint. Yeah, the hands were
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Speaker 1: folded and there was sort of an aura about it.
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Speaker 1: It's hard for me to look saintly and it's sort
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Speaker 1: of like that, and the flowing robes and the sandals,
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Speaker 1: and I used to think as a little boy, I'd
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Speaker 1: walk up to it and I would touch it, I'd think,
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Speaker 1: oh wow, Saint Andrew. Saint Andrew was a loser, you
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Speaker 1: would have I've never hired him. Men in your business.
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Speaker 1: If there ever was a follower, it was Andrew. Every
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Speaker 1: time he appears in scripture, he's not doing something that
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Speaker 1: is as a leader, but he's bringing somebody to Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Now that part is not a loser. But the best
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Speaker 1: thing you can say about Andrew is that he was
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Speaker 1: Peter's brother, and I feel for that. I know what
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Speaker 1: it was to be a member of a family where
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Speaker 1: the brother was the greater light. And it's tough to
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Speaker 1: make it as an Andrew. But these guys are not saintly.
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Speaker 1: They are indeed saints and that they're members of the body,
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Speaker 1: but they're not saintly. They're not flawless, perfect specimens of
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Speaker 1: perfection and humanity. They're like you are. They're like I am,
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Speaker 1: cracks and all whats and all, and they come on
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Speaker 1: the page of Scripture in a very human flow of thought.
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Speaker 1: Let me show you. Let's look at Andrew and John together.
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Speaker 1: Look at verse thirty five. The next day John was standing.
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Speaker 1: Now that's not John the writer, that's John the forerunner.
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Speaker 1: This is the one who was known as John the Baptizer.
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Speaker 1: He had begun to gather a following of disciples. That
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Speaker 1: he was standing, and two of his disciples, now you
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Speaker 1: can pencil into your margin Andrew and John. They are
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Speaker 1: the two who were on the scene. And he looked
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Speaker 1: upon Jesus as he walked. John the Forerunner looked upon
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Speaker 1: Jesus as he walked by. And John said to his disciples, Oh,
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Speaker 1: that means look observed the lamb of God. If you
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Speaker 1: look up at verse twenty nine, you'll get the full message,
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Speaker 1: the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of
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Speaker 1: the world. Jesus was no localized savior. He was no
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Speaker 1: Palestinian messiah. He came in global terms. And John said, men,
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Speaker 1: that's the one to follow. And you're not surprised they
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Speaker 1: followed it. Let's analyze it a little. The approach that
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Speaker 1: is used is what I would like to call mass evangelism.
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Speaker 1: By that, I mean there was one gifted person who
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Speaker 1: gave the good news to those that didn't know it.
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Speaker 1: In our day, the greater light is, of course Billy Graham.
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Speaker 1: In days past it would be Dwight L. Moody or
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Speaker 1: George Whitfield, or John Wesley or John Knox. These are
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Speaker 1: great reforming minds. These are points on the wedge that
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Speaker 1: sweep a nation with the good news of Christ. John
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Speaker 1: the Baptizer was the evangelist of the first century, and
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Speaker 1: he gave the gospel to these men. There is Jesus Christ,
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Speaker 1: God's lamb. Follow him. Now. The message that he uses
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Speaker 1: is write in verse thirty six, behold the Lamb of God.
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Speaker 1: That's the only message in a true evangelist has true
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Speaker 1: evangelism involve around the true presentation of Jesus Christ. Men,
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Speaker 1: he is God's lamb. Follow him. Look at the result.
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Speaker 1: The two disciples heard him speak and they followed Jesus.
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Speaker 1: How simple, how beautiful. That's precisely what happened when you
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Speaker 1: heard the good news. By the way, can you think
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Speaker 1: back to when you first heard it? Can you remember
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Speaker 1: the person God used in your life. Maybe it was
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Speaker 1: your mother, Maybe it was your brother, maybe it was
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Speaker 1: your father. It could have been a preacher or an evangelist.
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Speaker 1: Some of you followed because of a person you worked
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Speaker 1: with that lived the claims of Jesus Christ. Can distantly
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Speaker 1: day in and day out. Maybe somebody you sat by
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Speaker 1: at school that didn't cheat on the exam. That continually
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Speaker 1: to carried out the lifestyle of truth and honesty, and
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Speaker 1: that spoke to you, and that led you to faith
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Speaker 1: in the Lord Jesus. Think back, all you did was
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Speaker 1: follow Jesus Christ. I never tire of relating the story
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Speaker 1: of Jim Voss, who was led to Christ through an
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Speaker 1: evangelist in downtown Los Angeles in the late forties. They
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Speaker 1: pitched a massive tint as some of you know who
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Speaker 1: lived here at that time, and they filled the place
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Speaker 1: by and bye. And Boss was one of them, a
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Speaker 1: preacher's son. He had heard the gospel all his life.
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Speaker 1: He had rejected it point blank. His life was characterized
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Speaker 1: by criminal involvements. He was a deceitful, unbelieving man, and
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Speaker 1: he had been through religious services so many times. He
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Speaker 1: was weary of him. And finally he came to the
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Speaker 1: end of this service, and it had been so much
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Speaker 1: spoken to him, he felt. So they stood to sing
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Speaker 1: familiar just as I am without one plea, but that
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Speaker 1: Thy blood was shed for me, O, Lamb of God,
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Speaker 1: I come. And he said, when he stood, he towered
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Speaker 1: over most of them. He's a giant of a man.
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Speaker 1: He looked for the exit, look for the place to
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Speaker 1: get out. And he was just planning to make his
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Speaker 1: way to the exit when a little tiny sawed off runt.
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Speaker 1: A little old fellow walked up to him and pulled
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Speaker 1: on his coattail, and he said, say, wouldn't you like
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Speaker 1: to be saved? Wouldn't you like to go forward? And
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Speaker 1: Voss said, I wanted to knock that man right down
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Speaker 1: on the sawdust until I looked at him, and he
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Speaker 1: was praying, and he said, how can you hit a
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Speaker 1: guy when he's praying? And he said, Suddenly the spirit
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Speaker 1: of God began to work, and he found himself walking
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Speaker 1: down that aisle giving his heart to Christ. Revolutionary change
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Speaker 1: took place in his life. That's the way it was
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Speaker 1: with some of you, wasn't he remember when you gave
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Speaker 1: your heart to Christ? Maybe you were like the self
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Speaker 1: sustained individual that wrote I had walked life's way with
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Speaker 1: an easy tread. I'd travel for pleasures and comfort lead
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Speaker 1: until one day, in a quiet place, I met the Master,
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Speaker 1: face to face with station and rank, and well for
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Speaker 1: my gold, much thought for my body, but none for
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Speaker 1: my soul. I had entered to win this life's mad race.
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Speaker 1: When I met the Master face to face. I'd built
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Speaker 1: my castles and reared them high till their towers had
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Speaker 1: pierced the blue of the sky. I'd sworn to with
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Speaker 1: an iron mace. When I met the Master face to face.
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Speaker 1: I met him and knew him, and blushed to see
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Speaker 1: that his eyes full of sorrow were fixed upon me.
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Speaker 1: I faltered and fell at his feet that day. You
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Speaker 1: remember that while my castles melted and vanished away, they
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Speaker 1: melted and vanished, and in their place nothing else could
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Speaker 1: I see but the Master's face. My thoughts are now
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Speaker 1: for the souls of men. I've lost my life to
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Speaker 1: find it again, since that day in the quiet place,
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Speaker 1: when I met the Master face to face. That's the
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Speaker 1: way it was with these two fellas andrew a lesser light.
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Speaker 1: John bow Energies, a son of thunder, hot tempered, im patched,
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Speaker 1: was strong willed, who became John the Beloved, who met
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Speaker 1: the Savior. They followed him. Now, look at the response
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Speaker 1: Jesus gives in return to their following. Look at the
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Speaker 1: next verds, verse thirty eight. Jesus turned and beheld them following,
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Speaker 1: and said to them, what do you seek? That's a
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Speaker 1: probing question, They said, to him, teacher, where are you staying?
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Speaker 1: That seemed like a strange response, fellas what are you
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Speaker 1: looking for? Jesus? Where do you live? Why do they
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Speaker 1: respond like that? Well, I think g. Campbell Morgan is right.
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Speaker 1: He said that kind of question that demands time to
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Speaker 1: think through your answer. So they said, Lord, where do
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Speaker 1: you stay? We'll give you an answer after we thought
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Speaker 1: about it and spend some time with you. What's your
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Speaker 1: motive for following Jesus? Become a part of a going church,
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Speaker 1: to be in with the right group so you can
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Speaker 1: handle your business affairs. Why have you decided to follow
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. That's a searching question, it's a motive question. Oh.
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Speaker 1: I love the intimate scene that John pictures for us.
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Speaker 1: Jesus response is beautiful. They said where are you staying?
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Speaker 1: And he said to them, come and you will see.
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Speaker 1: They came therefore and saw where he was staying. It's
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Speaker 1: one of the very few times in all the Bible
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Speaker 1: that Jesus dwelling is even mentioned. Matthew tells us foxes
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Speaker 1: have their holes and birds of the air have their nest,
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Speaker 1: but the son of Man does not have a place
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Speaker 1: for his head. Maybe a mud hunt maybe a cave,
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Speaker 1: maybe the second floor in Lazarus and Marry and Martha's
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Speaker 1: home with Bethany. We don't know where the place wasn't significant.
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Speaker 1: It's the person they saw where he was staying, and
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Speaker 1: they stayed with him. Oh, that must have been magnificent.
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Speaker 1: You ever thought about doing something like that, You better
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Speaker 1: You're gonna be doing it for an eternity, so you
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Speaker 1: better be ready for it. Most of you. They sat
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Speaker 1: down and talked. Maybe they probed his motives, talked about
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Speaker 1: his method of dealing with the world and their times.
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Speaker 1: then Verse forty switches gears on us immediately there's a change.
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Speaker 1: here was a brother going to talk to a brother,
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Speaker 1: right there where Andrew and Simon were talking about the
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Speaker 1: there's all we need a little. Later on, in chapter
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Speaker 1: Philip took him to Andrew, and Andrew brought him to Jesus.
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Speaker 1: Now Andrew is all right, Andrew says, Simon, we found
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Speaker 1: twin beds, and I remember coming in late at night,
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Speaker 1: couldn't care less about spiritual things, and interrupting my brother
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Speaker 1: in prayer. He was beside his bed. I was in mind,
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Speaker 1: and I remember hearing him singing hymns of worship quietly,
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Speaker 1: not as a show off, but just walking with God.
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Speaker 1: He walked with God years before I ever walked with God.
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Speaker 1: it when it says Andrew brought Simon and said, there
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Speaker 1: Jesus looks into a person, he looks into his soul. Now,
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Speaker 1: before we go any further, let me say that the
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Speaker 1: one on many. This is one on one, one person,
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Speaker 1: maybe a relative, maybe a fellow student or friend, co worker,
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Speaker 1: bringing another person to Christ. That's personal evangelism. That's what
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Speaker 1: happened here. It's at times even more difficult than evangelism.
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Speaker 1: Were your strangers. Simon listened and he was brought to Christ.
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Speaker 1: Then the message was we have found the Messiah. And
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Speaker 1: We found the Messiah. Forty two. You brought him to Jesus.
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Speaker 1: He looked at him and said, you are Simon, the
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Speaker 1: son of John. The word means vacillating, shifty, moody. That's
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Speaker 1: you right now, Simon. You shall be called rock Peter.
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Speaker 1: Jesus saw men not as what they were, but as
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Speaker 1: what we are. We suffer terribly from inferiority because we
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Speaker 1: are so overwhelmed with our own inadequacies. And Jesus sees
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Speaker 1: us as what we are to become. And without that hope,
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Speaker 1: this church would be half empty, maybe more than that.
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Speaker 1: You were here and into the Word with me, as
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Speaker 1: I am here, and into the Word with you, because
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Speaker 1: we believe Jesus Christ sees hope in our lives, the
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Speaker 1: hope of change. When that's gone, we're gone. And he
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Speaker 1: saw him as vacillating moody one, and he said to him, Uh,
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Speaker 1: he're going to be the rock. I hope. I don't
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Speaker 1: overwork the booklet, but I have to draw upon an illustration.
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Speaker 1: Douglas Hyde was bringing a series of lectures in a
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Speaker 1: He says, when I came to the last session. I
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Speaker 1: ended it by saying what the Communists the world over
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Speaker 1: are saying. The Party is able to take anyone who
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Speaker 1: into a leader anyone. I repeat that because the Communists
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Speaker 1: believe it. And then he repeated it. If he is
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Speaker 1: willing to be trained, he can become a leader. That
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Speaker 1: was put to the test. Hyde says, when he stepped
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Speaker 1: down from the platform, he looked at a man. He said,
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Speaker 1: I thought I had never seen anyone who looked less
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Speaker 1: like a leader in all my life. He was short,
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Speaker 1: grotesquely fat, with a great, flabby, uninteresting face, as unprepossessing
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Speaker 1: a man as you will find anywhere. He had only
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Speaker 1: one eye, and the poor man had a most distressing stutter.
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Speaker 1: He said to me, And I'm not making fun of
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Speaker 1: of the men. He wondered, he says, I wondered how
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Speaker 1: I was going to do that. I wondered why we
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Speaker 1: had made that big claim of being able to take
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Speaker 1: anyone and turned him into a leader as long as
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Speaker 1: they are willing. Here he was pathetically willing. How are
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Speaker 1: we going to do it with him. I thought, that's
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Speaker 1: the challenge. And the marvelous story goes on to talk
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Speaker 1: about how he took that man and built into him
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Speaker 1: one great quality, self confidence. And he said, with self
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Speaker 1: confidence under his belt, the man began to be one
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Speaker 1: of the best tutors they ever developed. I want to
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Speaker 1: say a word at that point, because in personal evangelism,
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Speaker 1: that is one thing that we can really promote. How
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Speaker 1: frailties and needs and weaknesses, and don't we have them.
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Speaker 1: You haven't the time to hear mine, norah to hear yours.
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Speaker 1: But how Christ sees not what we are, but what
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Speaker 1: we are to become. How he takes this blow block
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Speaker 1: of marble or granted and begins to whittle away, and
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Speaker 1: as the shavings fall, the image emerges. That's what gave
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Speaker 1: became a part of the band. But a great challenge,
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Speaker 1: you see a small challenge, a small response, a great challenge,
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Speaker 1: he found Philip. That's Jesus, and Jesus said to him,
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Speaker 1: follow me. John rescues phil up from oblivion. For us,
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Speaker 1: he's the only one that mentions the disciple Philip. He's
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Speaker 1: I call this a contact evangelism. We've seen mass evangelism
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Speaker 1: had never met the Lord, though the Lord certainly knew
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Speaker 1: him inside and out, as he knows all people, but
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Speaker 1: they had never met. So there was a stranger meeting
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Speaker 1: a stranger, and this stranger who spoke said to him,
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Speaker 1: follow me. That's the message. And the response or the result,
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Speaker 1: fifty one. He followed him. I want you to stop
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Speaker 1: and think what that meant. Jesus made no big program promise,
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Speaker 1: no sense national ministry, no job security, no promise of
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Speaker 1: a raise every year or every other year, none of that.
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Speaker 1: He simply said to Philip, abandon your way and follow
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Speaker 1: He doesn't ask us to carve out a minute or
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Speaker 1: put him in first place. Let me show you this
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about Philip. I want you to turn
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Speaker 1: look at just a couple of verses, Isaiah chapter fifty
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Speaker 1: of us. That's an individual has turned to his own way.
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Speaker 1: That's the very best description of the carnal life, going
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Speaker 1: your own way. Had a man that left the service
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Speaker 1: this morning in the early service, and he said, you know,
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Speaker 1: iraise sheep for a living. He said, you will be
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Speaker 1: interested to know that Isaiah fifty three six is right on.
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Speaker 1: Sheep are by nature wayward, and he said, if you
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Speaker 1: those wayward woolies get all alone. They bleeped. They run
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Speaker 1: around in circles. They run in one direction, stop, turn,
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Speaker 1: run in another direction. They just act silly out in
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Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, because each one goes his own way.
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Speaker 1: Philip was going his own way, and Jesus met him.
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Speaker 1: I look at Joe of twenty three. Oh what a contrast.
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Speaker 1: Covered with boils to the point of desperation. Job writes
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Speaker 1: twenty three ten. God knows the way I take. When
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Speaker 1: he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
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Speaker 1: My foot has held fast to his path. I have
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Speaker 1: kept now circle that his way, not my way. I
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Speaker 1: have kept his way and not turned aside. I have
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Speaker 1: not departed from the command of his lips. I have
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Speaker 1: treasured the words of his mouth more than myne necessary food.
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Speaker 1: I have circled in my bible eight words, his path,
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Speaker 1: his way, his lips, his mouth. That's the lifestyle of
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Speaker 1: my mouth, his Philip, Jesus said, follow me, and I
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Speaker 1: am suggesting to you this morning, he abandoned his way
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Speaker 1: and went in God's way, which is something some of
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Speaker 1: you have not yet done. You may have joined a church,
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Speaker 1: You may have started caring a Bible. You may, as
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, have begun to pray every once
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Speaker 1: in a while, and miracle upon miracle, you may have
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Speaker 1: even brought somebody to this church. But you know, in
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Speaker 1: your heart of hearts, you have not yet departed from
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Speaker 1: your way and given your life to God's way. I
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Speaker 1: don't mean you've entered the ministry. I don't mean that
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Speaker 1: you have become vocationally involved in some kind of Christian service.
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Speaker 1: I mean you have set the priority as Jesus Christ. First.
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Speaker 1: As a wife, it's going to be Jesus' way. As
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ would have me be. As a career woman,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be one that brings honor to him
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Speaker 1: as a salesman on my trip as well as at home.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be him as an expert in my field,
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Speaker 1: whatever it may be, in the military or civilian life.
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Speaker 1: He his way first, That's what I mean. Philip followed
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Speaker 1: me and he did the fifth character is in Verses
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Speaker 1: forty five to fifty one. His name is Nathaniel. He
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Speaker 1: is an illustration of word evangelism or scripture evangelism. It
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Speaker 1: says that he that Philip was from Bethsada, the city
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Speaker 1: of Andrew and Peter, and Philip found Nathaniel. Maybe he
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Speaker 1: And so once he found him, he said to him,
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Speaker 1: how he describes the Messiah. We've found him, of whom
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Speaker 1: Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote Jesus
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Speaker 1: of Nazareth, the son of Joseph. If you're a keen thinker,
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Speaker 1: you'll notice that he misrepresented that point. He didn't know
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Speaker 1: son of Joseph. You say, can a person become a
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Speaker 1: believer in Jesus Christ and not know about the virgin birth? Yes, yes,
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Speaker 1: I do not think he can become a believer in
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Speaker 1: deny it. But I think he can certainly become a
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Speaker 1: believer in be ignorant of it. He's a son of Joseph.
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Speaker 1: He's been in our midst all alone. We found him. Well,
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Speaker 1: Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree,
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Speaker 1: Jews in that day. The Talmud encouraged men to meditate
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Speaker 1: under a large tree, and often the fig tree would
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Speaker 1: provide that kind of shade to get alone with God
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Speaker 1: at least once each day. They were perhaps the origin
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Speaker 1: meet with God. I think that Nathaniel was under the
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Speaker 1: Moses and the prophets Ah Nathaniel, you're looking for him,
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Speaker 1: you'd know that Nazareus was a profligate caravan town. It
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Speaker 1: was a stopover for the soldier of Rome. It was
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Speaker 1: a synonym for vice. And immorality. It's like saying, today
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Speaker 1: we found Jesus of Las Vegas, and Las Vegas, can
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Speaker 1: anything good come out of Vegas? Don't let that bother you. Now,
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Speaker 1: that's not blasphemous. That's the way it was. That explains
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Speaker 1: why Nathaniel said, oh, Nazareah, that's the world's last place
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Speaker 1: at least to land from the upper pinnacle of Jerusalem.
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Speaker 1: But Nazareh, Yeah, you don't want Nazareth. Now, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: say to you that Nathaniel had every reason in the
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Speaker 1: there you are, you old critic. No he didn't. He said,
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Speaker 1: Israelite in whom there's no God. He tells the truth.
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Speaker 1: He honestly wonders how a Nazarene could come and become
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Speaker 1: will accept every skeptic here today. I warn you the
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Speaker 1: Christians that are sitting around you, and perhaps the one
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Speaker 1: not yet rejected a skeptic that has come to him
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Speaker 1: by faith. This logical, thinking, meditative, skeptical person said, ah,
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Speaker 1: how can anything good come out of Nazareth? That's nothing?
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Speaker 1: And Jesus said, ah, Nathaniel, you know when you were
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Speaker 1: under the fig tree, I knew you. Oh that's all
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Speaker 1: Nathaniel had to hear fig tree? How did you know?
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Speaker 1: look at his response verse forty nine, Teacher, you're the
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Speaker 1: son of God, You're the King of Israel. What does
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Speaker 1: that say? It tells you that Nathaniel had a global
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Speaker 1: concept in his faith. Jesus didn't say to Nathaniel, Look,
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Speaker 1: I'd like to provide a sort of a localized band
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Speaker 1: of people who will help relieve the problems of the Jews.
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Speaker 1: He said, in effect, Nathaniel, I'm offering a message as
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Speaker 1: Nathaniel said, I accepted, I believe it. And then he responds,
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Speaker 1: do you believe that greater things than these you will see?
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Speaker 1: You will see the heavens opened, and the angels ascending
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Speaker 1: and descending upon the son of Man. There are visions
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Speaker 1: greater than man. Small vision, small demands, little response, great demand,
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Speaker 1: great vision, great response. Remember hearing doctor Ian Thomas as
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Speaker 1: he would tell the interesting story of how he boarded
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Speaker 1: an airplane after a very busy day, wanting so much
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Speaker 1: to get a loan so he could prepare for the
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Speaker 1: itinerary that was ahead of him, and he purposely asked
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Speaker 1: for a seat away from everybody. You ever done that?
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Speaker 1: He want to be alone. So you plan a seat
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Speaker 1: that you know there are ten rows around you. That's freeze.
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Speaker 1: He can be all alone. That's the way he planned
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Speaker 1: his seating, got all alone, opened his Bible, and this
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Speaker 1: student of the Word began to work through his message,
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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, way across the plane he
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Speaker 1: could hear thought what in the world is that? And
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Speaker 1: he looked over and he said, say, this guy across
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Speaker 1: the way, you know anything about the Bible? What do
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Speaker 1: you think about the He said, yeah, he says, I've
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Speaker 1: been reading here in John about Jesus and Nicodemus. You
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Speaker 1: don't think about that, Ed Thomas is what can you do?
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Speaker 1: He said, I got up and walked allway across, said
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Speaker 1: and said, I led him to Christ. What was that word? Evangelism?
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Speaker 1: The word has done his work and it wedged into
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Speaker 1: his heart and he couldn't turn it off. That's what's
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Speaker 1: happened to some of you. God's word has that magnetic appeal,
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Speaker 1: and it comes in like a flood, and you'll never
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Speaker 1: be the same. May that never cease. I was listening
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Speaker 1: to Alan Redpath preach at Palo Alto a number of
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Speaker 1: years ago, and I disagreed with his approach. And I
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Speaker 1: saw him afterwards and I said that, with all due respect,
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Speaker 1: doctor Redpath, I questioned the method you used. It seemed
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Speaker 1: to me that you manipulated the audience today, he said,
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Speaker 1: young man, my message today had one design to get
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Speaker 1: people off the fence. That's my method today. I have
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Speaker 1: one desire to get you off the fence. You've ridden
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Speaker 1: it long enough. Jesus doesn't ask you to carve out
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Speaker 1: a minute or two.
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Speaker 2: He says, I want your life, every moment of your
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Speaker 2: day brought under the authority of my control, off the fence,
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Speaker 2: maybe a bow together place.
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Speaker 1: At this moment and for the next few seconds, I
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Speaker 1: want to invite you to step off the fence. No,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to invite you to do that. I
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Speaker 1: want to command you to do that. With the authority
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Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus Christ. I command you to get
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Speaker 1: off of fence. If you've never trusted Jesus Christ, then
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Speaker 1: the cross the empty tomb available and provided to you
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Speaker 1: without a cost on your behalf. Just by faith, you
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Speaker 1: give Jesus Christ your life, not a part of it,
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Speaker 1: but your life. No reservations. Christians, what I'm saying to
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Speaker 1: you is seek first the Kingdom of God his righteousness,
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Speaker 1: and all these things will be added to you. Father,
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Speaker 1: Please forgive us for those times we've ridden the fence,
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Speaker 1: for the moments of indecision. Yeay, the months, the years.
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Speaker 1: May we be gripped not just emotionally with the end
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Speaker 1: of a service, but with the importance of responding by
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Speaker 1: faith in a volitional decision to serve Jesus Christ and
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Speaker 1: Him only. May it be more important than the necessary
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Speaker 1: food of this noon hour, more important than any friendship,
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Speaker 1: any business, or any ministry. I ask for Christ's Sake Amen.
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Speaker 3: The preceding message five who followed in Faith was cut
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Speaker 3: writed in nineteen seventy five, nineteen eighty seven, two thousand
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Speaker 3: and twenty eighteen, and the sound recording was copyrighted in
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Speaker 3: twenty eighteen by Charles R. Swindall Ink. All rights are
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Speaker 3: reserved worldwide. Duplication of copyrighted material for commercial use is
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Speaker 3: strictly prohibited