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Speaker 1: When you think of power, you don't think of a lamb.
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Speaker 1: When you think of a conqueror, you don't think of
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Speaker 1: a lamb. Yet the most transformative figure in history was
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Speaker 1: announced to the world not as a king, not as
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Speaker 1: a warrior, but as a lamb. Today, on Insight for Living,
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Speaker 1: Chucks Wndaull begins a remarkable three day journey through the
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Speaker 1: Bible's most profound symbol. From the very first pages of scripture,
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Speaker 1: God was weaving a single crimson thread through history, pointing
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Speaker 1: toward the one who would come, suffer and surrender his life.
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Speaker 2: If you brought a Bible with you today, you will
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Speaker 2: want to locate the writing of Isaiah the Prophet, chapter
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Speaker 2: fifty three. Mark that place with your finger, and you
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Speaker 2: wish to put the outline of the message today back
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Speaker 2: at Genesis chapter twenty two, where we will begin in
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Speaker 2: a few moments, but the reading will be from Isaiah
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Speaker 2: fifty three, beginning at verse three down through verse seven.
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Speaker 2: Isaiah fifty three, Verse three, he was despised and forsaken
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Speaker 2: of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief,
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Speaker 2: and like one from whom men hide their face. He
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Speaker 2: was despised, and we did not esteem him. Surely our
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Speaker 2: griefs he himself bore, and our sorrows he carried. Yet
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Speaker 2: we ourselves esteemed him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
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Speaker 2: But he was pierced through for our transgressions. He was
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Speaker 2: crushed for our iniquities. The chastening for our well being
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Speaker 2: fell upon him, and by his scourging we are healed.
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Speaker 2: All of us, like sheep, have gone astray. Each of
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Speaker 2: us has turned to his own way. But the Lord
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Speaker 2: has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him.
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Speaker 2: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he did
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Speaker 2: not open his mouth, like a lamb that is led
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Speaker 2: to slaughter, and like a sheep that is silent before
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Speaker 2: its shearers, so he did not open his mouth. Because
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Speaker 2: this section of Scriptures speaks of our Savior, we desire
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Speaker 2: today that he be honored and magnified as we live
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Speaker 2: out the truth of what we have just read.
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Speaker 1: lamb that was slaughtered.
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Speaker 2: When you think of a lamb, you don't think of
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Speaker 2: something powerful or mighty or strong or all that impressive,
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Speaker 2: do you. For example, if you were the campaign manager
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Speaker 2: of the one running for president, I doubt that your
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Speaker 2: motto would be vote for our man. He is a
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Speaker 2: real lamb. As a leader, a real lamb. And isn't
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Speaker 2: it interesting when they come up with names for cars,
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Speaker 2: you will never see one called a lamb. Think of them?
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Speaker 2: How about the Cadillac lamb? It just doesn't work, does it?
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Speaker 2: Or a Hummer lamb is not right, it's not what
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Speaker 2: you'd expect. I even thought about some of the ball
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Speaker 2: team names that come to mind. We have the Lions,
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Speaker 2: don't we And and there's the LSU Tigers. That's another one.
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Speaker 2: And you've got I hate to say this because I'll
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Speaker 2: get a response. Were the Aggies And that's another group
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Speaker 2: that we have to put up with. But I the
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Speaker 2: Broncos in Denver and the Vikings in Minnesota. But you'll
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Speaker 2: never read of the New York Lands just not going
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Speaker 2: to be there. You'll have giants, but you won't have lambs.
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Speaker 2: Why because it's not very impressive, it's not very significant. Surely,
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Speaker 2: surely the thought of a lamb did not impress the
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Speaker 2: shakers and movers of the first century in the Middle East.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there certainly were some type a individuals who
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Speaker 2: got word of this man who was taking Galilee by storm.
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Speaker 2: I mean, people were being swept into his teaching, and
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Speaker 2: they were following him by the thousands. And then word
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Speaker 2: gets back to someone's headquarters and they hear, did you
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Speaker 2: hear that he's known as the lamb? The lamb? You
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Speaker 2: sang the words to the song, and it's my favorite
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Speaker 2: part of the song. We sang. Who would have thought
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Speaker 2: that a lamb could rescue the souls of men? Why
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Speaker 2: would the songwriter put that in there? Because you don't
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Speaker 2: think of lambs as rescuing anyone. You rescue lambs. Lambs
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Speaker 2: don't rescue you, unless, of course, the lamb is the
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Speaker 2: Lamb of God. That was all of this in my
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Speaker 2: mind that led me to open my concordance. Now there's
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Speaker 2: a word concordance. If you're a serious student of the Bible,
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Speaker 2: you need to have in your library a concordance, which
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Speaker 2: is an alphabetical listing of all the words in the
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Speaker 2: Bible and scripture reference providing whether you're And I got
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Speaker 2: my concordance on my desk, and I turned to Lamb,
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Speaker 2: and I was amazed how many references there were to
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Speaker 2: this little animal. I mean, you would think it plays
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Speaker 2: a role that no other animal and scripture plays. In fact,
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Speaker 2: it does. One of the early references to Lamb is
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Speaker 2: found in Genesis chapter twenty two. If you've not yet
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Speaker 2: turned there, please open your bible to that twenty second chapter.
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Speaker 2: Is It is a tender, touching story of a father
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Speaker 2: who was told to take the life of his son.
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Speaker 2: We have to pause at that moment and believe what
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Speaker 2: we just heard. Every time I read Genesis twenty two,
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Speaker 2: I'm taken aback by Abraham's obedience. Look at the command
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Speaker 2: from God. Verse one. It came about after these things
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Speaker 2: that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham, and
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Speaker 2: he said, here am I. He said, take now your son,
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Speaker 2: your only son, whom you love, Isaac, Go to the
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Speaker 2: land of Mariah and offer him there as a burnt
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Speaker 2: offering on one of the mountains of which I will
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Speaker 2: tell you. Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled
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Speaker 2: the donkey, and took two of his young men with him,
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Speaker 2: and Isaac his son, and he split wood for the
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Speaker 2: burnt offering, and arose and went to the place which
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Speaker 2: God had told him. Yes, you read that correctly. Abraham
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Speaker 2: is an aging, aging father. The son is born to
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Speaker 2: the family late in life, and many years have passed
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Speaker 2: since the birth, and Isaac is now a young adult.
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Speaker 2: We know that because he carries the firewood up the
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Speaker 2: mountain for the altar to be built. Look at verse six.
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Speaker 2: Abraham took the wood of the bird offering and laid
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Speaker 2: it on Isaac, his son, and he took in his
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Speaker 2: hand the fire and the knife. The two of them
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Speaker 2: walked together. When I was growing up at Sunday School,
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Speaker 2: I remember seeing pictures of Abraham and Isaac, and Isaac
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Speaker 2: was just a little lad. But little boys can't carry firewood,
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Speaker 2: certainly not up the side of a mountain. This is
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Speaker 2: a grown man. Isaac is smart enough to realize that
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Speaker 2: in his hand is that which will be the makings
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Speaker 2: of an altar. In his father's hand is the torch
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Speaker 2: which will set fire to the altar. So his question
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Speaker 2: makes sense. He says to his father verse seven. My father,
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Speaker 2: he said, here am I, And he said, behold the
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Speaker 2: fire and the wood where is the lamb for the
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Speaker 2: burnt offering? Worse, you would wonder, where's the lamb? Isaac
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Speaker 2: doesn't know the story. Now Isaac is living it out. Father.
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Speaker 2: We have the wood, we have the torch, We're going
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Speaker 2: to build an altar. Where's the where's the sacrificial lamb?
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Speaker 2: I love Abraham's response. God will provide for himself the
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Speaker 2: lamb for the burnt offering, my son. So the two
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Speaker 2: of them walked on together. You know what is all
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Speaker 2: so impressive. There was no wrestling match at the top
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Speaker 2: of the mountain. There was no fight. Not only do
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Speaker 2: we admire the obedience of Abraham, but the submission of
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Speaker 2: Isaac to lie down on the altar to be bound
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Speaker 2: and his father to take the knife. He would have
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Speaker 2: cut his throat had Got not intervened. So it is
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Speaker 2: with lambs. So it has always been thank goodness, the
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Speaker 2: Lord intervened and Isaac lived on. But it was a
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Speaker 2: test of Abraham's faith in his God. If you trace
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Speaker 2: the word further, you'll come to Exodus chapter twelve. Turn
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Speaker 2: there next Exodus twelve. We've come all the way to
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Speaker 2: the days of Moses and the time in which the
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Speaker 2: Hebrews are living under the authority of the Egyptians. And
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Speaker 2: God is about to lead them into what is known
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Speaker 2: now as the Exodus, and he's preparing them for the
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Speaker 2: departure out of the land. They've lived there for over
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Speaker 2: four hundred years. And the Lord now gives them instruction
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Speaker 2: on how to prepare for the departure from the land
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Speaker 2: and to go into and toward the Land of Promise.
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Speaker 2: Exodus twelve three. These are the Lord's words to Moses,
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Speaker 2: speak to the congregation of Israel, saying, on the tenth
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Speaker 2: of this month, they are each one to take a
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Speaker 2: lamb for themselves. Look at that. Each family is to
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Speaker 2: take a lamb for themselves according to their father's households.
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Speaker 2: A lamb for each household. If the household is too
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Speaker 2: small for a lamb, and he and his neighbor nearest
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Speaker 2: to his house, or to take one according to the
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Speaker 2: number of persons in them, according to what each man
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Speaker 2: shall eat. Shall you are to divide the lamb Verse five.
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Speaker 2: Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old.
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Speaker 2: You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
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Speaker 2: You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the
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Speaker 2: same month. Then the whole assembly of the Congregation of
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Speaker 2: Israel is to kill it at twilight. That would be
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Speaker 2: the night they would be exiting from the land of Egypt.
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Speaker 2: But you're to keep it there and have it ready
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Speaker 2: verse seven. Moreover, they shall take some of the blood
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Speaker 2: and put it on the two doorposts on the lintel
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Speaker 2: of the houses in which they eat it. They shall
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Speaker 2: eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire. They
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Speaker 2: shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Do
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Speaker 2: not eat any of it raw or boiled at all
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Speaker 2: with water, but rather roasted with fire. Verse eleven. Now
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Speaker 2: you shall eat it in this manner, with your loins girded,
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Speaker 2: your sandals on your feet, your staff in your hand.
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Speaker 2: You shall eat it in haste. Why it is the
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Speaker 2: Lord's pass over. You who know the story know that. Well,
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Speaker 2: let's read it Verse twelve. I will go through the
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Speaker 2: land of Egypt on that night and will strike down
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Speaker 2: all the first born in the land of Egypt, both
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Speaker 2: man and beast, and against all the gods of Egypt.
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Speaker 2: I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. The blood
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Speaker 2: shall be assigned for you on the houses. So when
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Speaker 2: the death Angel passed over, that's where the word comes
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Speaker 2: from when the death angel passed over. As the blood
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Speaker 2: was seen, he would leave the house and he leave
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Speaker 2: it untouched. But if there was no blood on the door,
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Speaker 2: then the angel would enter and the life of the
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Speaker 2: firstborn would be taken. This was what it took to
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Speaker 2: break the back of Pharaoh. Finally, Pharaoh says to the Israelites,
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Speaker 2: let the people go. He says to Moses, go, go,
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Speaker 2: be on your way. But the lamb. The lamb was
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Speaker 2: an essential part of the Exodus strategy. We could look
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Speaker 2: at Leviticus twenty three or Exodus twenty nine. In Exodus
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Speaker 2: chapter twenty nine, you will see another reference to lambs
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Speaker 2: verse thirty eight of twenty nine. Now this is what
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Speaker 2: you shall offer on the altar, two one year old
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Speaker 2: lambs each day twenty nine thirty eight of Exodus, and
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Speaker 2: do that continuously at the one lamb you shall offer
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Speaker 2: in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer
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Speaker 2: at twilight verse forty two. It shall be a continual
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Speaker 2: burnt offering throughout your generations at the doorway of the
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Speaker 2: tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet
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Speaker 2: with you to speak with you. MARYL. Tenney in his
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Speaker 2: work Encyclopedia of the Bible writes this the lamb was
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Speaker 2: the principal animal of sacrifice among the Jews, being the
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Speaker 2: offering each morning and each evening in the Mosaic system,
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Speaker 2: and especially on the Sabbath. Also, the lamb was sacrifice
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Speaker 2: on special days of religious significance. Lambs represented innocence and
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Speaker 2: gentleness to this day. To this day, the presence of
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Speaker 2: blood is still seen as significant in the household of
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Speaker 2: the Orthodox Jews. The feasts, the festivals, the Holy days,
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Speaker 2: the special days, even the Nazarite vow was to be
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Speaker 2: accompanied with the offering of lambs. And here in Exodus
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Speaker 2: twelve we sort of have the seed plot for the
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Speaker 2: rest of the festivals and feasts of the Jews, as
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Speaker 2: lambs were offered up. Our faith today is if you
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Speaker 2: will blood less. But in those days there was not
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Speaker 2: a time when there wasn't blood running from the altar
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Speaker 2: of the place of worship. Strange to us, but very
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Speaker 2: famili to those who would follow in the generations to come.
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Speaker 2: Now we turned to the New Testament, Mark chapter fourteen,
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Speaker 2: and we come across yet another reference to the lamb,
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Speaker 2: Mark fourteen, beginning at verse twelve on the first day
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Speaker 2: of unleavened bread. When here it is when the passover
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Speaker 2: lamb was being sacrificed. His disciples said to him, the him,
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Speaker 2: of course would be Jesus, where do you want us
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Speaker 2: to go and prepare for you to eat the passover
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Speaker 2: Verse sixteen. The disciples went out, came to the city,
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Speaker 2: found it just as he had told him, and they
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Speaker 2: prepared the passover. These are all grown men, throughout their
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Speaker 2: childhood and teenage years, young adult years to the very
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Speaker 2: age they are. They have been familiar with the passover meal.
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Speaker 2: They knew how to prepare it. They knew the ingredients,
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Speaker 2: they knew the way to fix the lamb so that
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Speaker 2: it would be appropriate for the Passover meal. And they
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Speaker 2: told the Lord himself, we'll go and prepare it. Completely
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Speaker 2: familiar with it, and it answers back to what we
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Speaker 2: just read in Exodus twelve. Just a couple more First
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Speaker 2: Corinthians five, beginning at verse six. First Corinthians five, verse six,
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Speaker 2: Paul is writing the people of Corinth and he's urging
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Speaker 2: them to clean up their lives. They were a people
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Speaker 2: who danced near the edge of disobedience. They were what
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Speaker 2: we might call a fast culture. And because of that.
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Speaker 2: Paul had to rein them in, and one of the
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Speaker 2: ways of doing it was to remind them of the
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Speaker 2: importance of getting rid of the leven. In the scriptural days,
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Speaker 2: levin was a symbol. It was a word representing. Look
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Speaker 2: at how Paul uses it. In First Corinthians five, verse six,
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Speaker 2: you're boasting is not good. They'd been boasting about how
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Speaker 2: how full of grace they were, when in fact it
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Speaker 2: was license. He said, that's not good. Do you not
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Speaker 2: know that a little leaven leven's the whole lump of dough?
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Speaker 2: Do you not realize that when you put just a
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Speaker 2: little leaven, the dough will all rise. It's not just
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Speaker 2: a little part of it. And it's a picture of sin,
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Speaker 2: A little bit of sin, and the life is contaminated.
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Speaker 2: It was illustrated to me at one time a pin
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Speaker 2: and a balloon. How many pins does it take to
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Speaker 2: burst a balloon? One pin and the whole balloon bursts
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Speaker 2: the presence of sin, and the life is on its
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Speaker 2: way to becoming shattered. So he says, clean up your life.
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Speaker 2: A little bit of leven. Leven's the whole lump. When
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Speaker 2: I was taking Greek from doctor Stan Tussaint years ago
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Speaker 2: in my day's at seminary, he told the funny story
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Speaker 2: of one of his students, earlier than when I was
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Speaker 2: a student of his. He said, the student could not
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Speaker 2: get that translated, the little leaven leavens the whole lump
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Speaker 2: of dough. And he said he finally, in an exasperated moment,
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Speaker 2: simply said, well, a little dad will do you. That
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Speaker 2: seemed to say it for him. That's true with sin,
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Speaker 2: just a little dab, and it's amazing what it does.
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Speaker 2: So a thought reap an act, So an act reap
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Speaker 2: a habit, So a habit reap your characters, So your
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Speaker 2: character reap your destiny. That's Paul's concern here, And so
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Speaker 2: he now turns to the picture of Christ, the land
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Speaker 2: Christ the Passover. Verse seven. Clean out the old eleven,
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Speaker 2: so that you may be a new lump, just as
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Speaker 2: you are in fact unleavened, meaning in your position you
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Speaker 2: are as righteous as the Son of God is righteous.
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Speaker 2: So in your life you must be as well. For Christ.
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Speaker 2: Here it is Christ, our passover has all so have
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Speaker 2: been sacrificed. Isn't that a marvelous statement? We no longer
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Speaker 2: come to an altar and slice the throat of an
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Speaker 2: animal and the blood pours out. Has happened day after
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Speaker 2: day after day on Jewish altars. We come to our Savior,
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Speaker 2: who is our passover, and in him, In him forgiveness
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Speaker 2: is found. In him alone, there is purpose and reason
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Speaker 2: to go on with our lives. The Christ, our Passover,
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Speaker 2: has been sacrificed. Let me add this, He never needs
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Speaker 2: to be sacrificed again. It is called a finished work.
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Speaker 2: Christ said while hanging on the cross, to tell us
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Speaker 2: die the very word he used. It has been finished,
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Speaker 2: it has been completed, it is done, paid for, paid
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Speaker 2: in full. At that moment the lamb of God, God
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Speaker 2: took care of that which had forever plagued humanity, past, present,
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Speaker 2: and future, the sins of humanity taking care of now.
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Speaker 2: This isn't an afterthought with God. This is part of
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Speaker 2: the plan since the foundations of the world. In fact,
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Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter fifty three prophesied of it way back seven
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Speaker 2: hundred years b c. Isaiah writes of the lamb who
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Speaker 2: was to be slaughtered, picturing the coming Messiah. So Isaiah
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Speaker 2: is looking ahead seven hundred years or so for the
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Speaker 2: coming of Messiah. Verse three of Isaiah fifty three, he
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Speaker 2: was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows
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Speaker 2: and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men
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Speaker 2: hide their face. He was despised, and we did not
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Speaker 2: esteem it. It's a picture of shunning. But look at
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Speaker 2: verse five. He was pierced through for our transgressions, crushed
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Speaker 2: for our iniquities, the chastening for our will being fell
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Speaker 2: on him, and by his scourging we are healed.
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Speaker 1: Seven hundred years before it happened, Isaiah saw it coming,
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Speaker 1: a Messiah who would be despised, rejected, crushed not for
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Speaker 1: his own sins but for ours, pierced for our transgressions,
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Speaker 1: wounded for our iniquities. The weight of that prophecy is staggering.
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Speaker 1: This is insight for living. Chuck Swundall titled his message
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Speaker 1: the Lamb that was Slaughtered. There's more teaching from this
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Speaker 2: I came across a quote not long ago that I
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Speaker 2: haven't been able to shake. It was from a man
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Speaker 2: named John Allen, a Salvation Army saint who was near
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Speaker 2: the end of his life. John made this shocking state.
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Speaker 2: I deserve to be damned. I deserve to be in hell.
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Speaker 2: But God interfered That last part is worth repeating. God interfered, Wow.
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Speaker 2: I love that more than I can say, because that's
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Speaker 2: the story of the Cross. We were running hard in
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Speaker 2: the wrong direction and God stepped in. He didn't send
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Speaker 2: a memo, he didn't offer a suggestion. He hung on
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Speaker 2: not a metaphor, that's history, and that interference has changed
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Speaker 2: every life that's ever truly reckoned with it. Here's what
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Speaker 2: keeps me up at night. Millions of people are still
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Speaker 2: running the wrong direction and they don't know it. They're busy,
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