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John chapter 12 · Scripture Unscripted

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  John chapter 12 Let us pray. Lord God Almighty, here we are.
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  We sit at your feet, Lord, we are expectant, Father.
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  We are expectant to learn from you, Lord, to be touched by
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  these words. Father, I pray that you'll open
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  up our hearts and minds. God, open up our understanding.
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  God, let us feel the depths of your love for us.
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  God, let us have the mind of Christ as we allow these
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  scriptures to change us from the inside out.
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  God, here we are, or we are waiting and we desire to be
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  taught by you. Lord, I decrease as you
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  increase. Show us your eternal paths.
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  God, lead us in the high paths. God, take us to new heights of
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  your glory and let us sit in it and bask in the beauty.
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  Father, heal us, cleanse us, God, make us more like Jesus.
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  And Lord, I pray that we will be found doing whatever it is that
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  you desire for us for today. And so God, help us, help us to
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  know you better. Help us to know your words.
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  Help them, help them to become part of who we are.
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  Lord, we love you in this, in Jesus Christ, holy and precious
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  name that I pray, Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  Then Jesus, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany, where
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  Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the
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  dead. So here we can see that Lazarus
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  was dead, dead and he stinketh. And here you can see that
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  they're going to throw a little get together in honor of Lazarus
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  coming back from the dead. Verse 2.
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  There they made him a supper and Martha served, but Lazarus was
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  one of them that sat at the table with him.
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  So we could see Martha here and she's stepping into her servant
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  role. Aren't we thankful for the
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  Martha's in this world? Aren't we thankful for those who
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  have the gift of serving? There could be no Mary's if they
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  were not Martha's. And so we are eternally grateful
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  for those that have that gift. Verse 3 then took Mary a pound
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  of ointment of spikenard, very costly and anointed the feet of
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  Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair and the house was
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  filled with the odor of the ointment.
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  So you can see here that this was a year's wages is how much
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  this perfume would have cost. And Mary spared no expense on
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  our Lord Jesus Christ as she poured it out.
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  She was undignified and it would have been embarrassing to see
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  this display of affection at the feet of Jesus.
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  Let's see how everyone reacts. For then said one of his
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  disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray
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  him, Five Why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence and
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  given to the poor? So we know that Judas here
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  didn't have the right heart. We know that he was a thief.
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  It's going to tell us here in a minute that he cared nothing for
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  the poor. But look at how Mary, she loves
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  Jesus and she sees that his words have pointed them in the
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  direction that he is to go to the cross.
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  And so here she's anointing him for his death.
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  She's anointing him for his burial.
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  And here she put the perfume on him that he went to the grave
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  smelling like. How amazing is this?
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  If you can just imagine this fragrance, the fragrance of how
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  we perceive baby powder, if you think of that, that is the
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  spikenard. And so therefore Jesus went to
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  the cross smelling like this beautiful fragrance.
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  And Mary, here she is at his feet and she is pouring it all
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  out. And we should do the same.
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  We need to be like Mary and we need to be like Martha and we
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  need to be balanced in our approach.
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  We need to be practical in the things that have to happen, but
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  we need to be non sparing of our devotion and our adoration and
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  affection unto the Lord. We need to pour it all out unto
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  Him and be undignified. 6 This he said, not that he cared for
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  the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag and bore
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  what was put in it. So we can see here that Judas
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  helped himself to the money bag. 7 Then said, Jesus, leave her
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  alone against the day of my bearing.
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  Has she kept this for the poor? Always you have with you, but me
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  you have not always. So perhaps Jesus's rebuke of
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  Judas is what sparked him to go and to sell our Lord out for 30
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  pieces of silver. And you can see here that Jesus
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  knew that Mary had kept it back in.
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  Instead of waiting for him to die to use it, she went ahead
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  and poured it out on him while he was still living and could
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  enjoy it. 9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was
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  there, and they came, not for Jesus sake only, but that they
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  might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
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  So look at how Jesus has made a stink here in town and look at
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  how Lazarus was the object lesson of the power, the great
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  power that Jesus Christ possessed.
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  And he was able to raise him from the dead after four days.
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  And it would have been common thought in that land that on the
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  4th day there was no chance of being resuscitated.
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  And you can see here that Jesus is proving that he is the
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  Messiah. And all the people came to lay
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  eyes not just on Jesus, but on Lazarus, because he proved that
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  Jesus was who he said he was. 10 But the chief priests consulted
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  that they might put Lazarus also to death, 11 because that by
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  reason of him many of the Jews went away and believed on Jesus.
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  So you can see here that these Jews were envious of the power
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  of Jesus Christ and how Lazarus was proof to all the people
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  around. And they were afraid.
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  They were afraid of losing their position and that Rome would
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  come in and take away their land and take away their heritage and
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  take away the temple. And so they thought that it was
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  much better for Lazarus and Jesus to die than to lose the
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  temple and to lose all of their rituals and to lose all their
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  traditions. And they had missed the mark
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  that Jesus Christ fulfilled all of the law, and he came to
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  introduce them to this period of grace that you and I find
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  ourselves in. And it is grace that abounds,
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  friends. And we know that we're gonna
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  stand before Almighty God in every bit of our sin is going to
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  be covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, and we don't have to
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  worry and fret and bite our nails and wonder if we're going
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  to make it there because of the work of Jesus Christ.
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  And he came to introduce this liberty unto them, and they
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  refused it because they were too afraid of losing all of their
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  understanding of God and how God worked.
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  And so you can see here that they resulted to violence in the
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  way of Cain, and they killed their brother Abel. 12 On the
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  next day, much people that will come to the feast, when they
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  heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 took branches of
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  palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried, Hosanna,
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  blessed is the king of Israel that comes in the name of the
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  Lord. So you can see here that they
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  were looking for a military leader, a political usurper that
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  was going to come in and overthrow the Roman rule, and
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  they missed the mark. They were not looking for a
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  savior of the world, someone who could take away their sins.
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  They were looking for a hyper nationalized political leader.
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  And that is the reason they are quick to fulfill all of these
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  messianic psalms that were written of him.
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  And you can see here that Jesus came in a way of his first
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  advent, not in their expectant second advent.
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  And they were unfamiliar with the suffering servant, and so
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  they rejected him. 14 In Jesus, when he had found a young ass,
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  sat on it, as it is written. 15 Fear not, daughter Zion, behold,
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  your king comes sitting on an Asus colt. 16 These things
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  understood not his disciples at the first, but when Jesus was
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  glorified, then remembered they that these things were written
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  of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
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  So you can see Jesus riding in on this little donkey, You can
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  see the mother right beside it, studying this unbroken beast.
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  You can see that He's coming in as the Prince of Peace, not as a
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  military conqueror. You can see that He's riding in
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  and He has all authority and He is showing them that He is the
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  Messiah if they would accept it. And here the disciples were not
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  yet indwelled with the Holy Spirit, and so they had missed
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  that He was fulfilling so many different prophecies and it's no
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  different for us today. There are many prophecies that
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  are coming to fruition today and we missed the mark.
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  And it won't be until we're on the other side that we see that
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  all of these things were moving in accordance and they're very
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  congruent with all of Scripture. And when Jesus says that people
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  will be lovers of self and lovers of money and disobedient
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  to their parents, when he said that the apostate church would
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  come in. There's so many of the
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  prophecies that are coming to fruition today and we can look
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  around, we can see it, but we refuse it because much like the
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  Jews at this time, we just want to hold on to our nice little
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  cushy life. We like our gated communities,
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  we like our vacations. We like all of the autonomy that
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  we have. And we're not too excited about
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  heaven. And that's where we air friends.
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  Because if you understood the heart of God, if you understood
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  the depths of his love for this world, we would sell everything
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  and go out and tell people all about Jesus, knowing that the
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  time is short and that the birth pains are happening and the
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  contractions are getting closer and closer together.
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  And we would not try to buy time.
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  We would look up and see that our redemption is drawing near,
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  that the leaves are on the fig tree.
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  We would know that Jesus's return is imminent.
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  And no scholar today could debate that we're closer today
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  than we were yesterday. Let's get excited about heaven
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  and let's get excited about the presence of Jesus.
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  Friends, let's not try to hold on to this world.
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  Do not love this world or anything in this world. 17 The
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  people, therefore, that was with him when he called Lazarus out
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  of the grave and raised him from the dead bore record.
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  So eyewitness accounts and we can know that this word of God
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  is trustworthy and true and that it is reliable and that it has
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  all been fact checked. We can know that it bears record
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  that Scripture is inspired, it's infallible and inerrant. 18 For
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  this cause the people also met him, for they for that they
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  heard that he had done this miracle talking about the
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  raising of Lazarus from the dead.
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  And it's no wonder they wanted to put Lazarus to death as well
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  and Jesus, because he was winning the whole world over to
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  himself. 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves,
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  perceive you how you prevail nothing.
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  Behold, the world is gone after him.
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  So it looked as if everybody was making a decision for Christ,
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  and they were worried that they were going to lose all of their
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  rights, they were going to lose their land, they were going to
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  lose their heritage. And they thought that if you
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  were connected to Abraham, you were immediately going to go
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  into heaven. And they missed it all.
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  And Jesus came to correct their theology. 20 And there were
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  certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast.
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  21 The same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida
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  of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
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  22 Philip came and told Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip told
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  Jesus. So here you can see this
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  telephone gang of these Greeks coming and they want to see
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  Jesus. And it's much like the Magi that
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  came from the east. You can see that the Greeks are
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  coming from the West and you can see that the gospels for the
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  whole world and how the Magi came at his birth and now these
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  Gentiles are coming at his death.
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  And you can see the plan of God. It's for all people, friends,
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  all nations and all people groups.
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  This is a world Without Borders. And I pray that you can see that
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  Jesus is the king. He's the King of kings, and he
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  is the one that we give all authority to.
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  We all obey the law of the land until the law of the land goes
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  against the word of God, and then we become rebels. 23 And
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  Jesus answered them, saying, The hour has come that the Son of
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  Man should be glorified. 24 Truly, truly, I say unto you,
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  accept a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die.
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  It abides alone, and if it dies, it brings forth much fruit.
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  So here we can see that these Greeks wanted to see Jesus, and
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  then they, Andrew and Philip, go and tell Jesus.
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  And then look how immediately Jesus starts speaking.
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  Perhaps he's speaking to the Greeks.
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  Perhaps he's speaking to you and to me and to the whole world,
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  and he's saying that he has to be pushed down into the ground
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  and die and he has to suffer first before he can go and
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  exponentially change the whole world.
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  He flipped the whole world over friends with a band of unlearned
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  men 25 He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates
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  his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
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  So he's saying, by comparison, your life should look like you
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  hate the world. If you love Jesus Christ, you're
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  going to stiff arm all of the ways that the world tells you
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  that you need to operate. There are lots of worldly wise
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  men out there who would counsel you to look and mirror your life
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  just like the world. But I want you to know by and
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  large that is the entryway into the apostate church is whenever
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  we are so saturated by the world.
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  Jesus says, and foxes have holes and birds have nests, but the
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  Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
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  And as we are sanctified, we should look more and more like
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  Jesus Christ until we are following after Him in all of
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  His ways, even as we take up the cross daily and follow Him as we
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  go and make disciples of all nations.
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  Friends, we should mirror and model our lives after our Lord.
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  Let go of this world. 26 If any man serve me, let him follow me.
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  And where I am, there also shall my servant be.
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  If any man serve me, him will my Father honor.
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  So he's showing us how we can be honored by God Almighty.
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  It's by serving Jesus Christ. It is by actually obeying the
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  words that He tells us, and we do not obey to show our love for
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  Him. Our obedience is birthed from
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  the love that we possess for our Savior, and we see that He is
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  worthy and that He did not deserve to die the criminal
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  death, that He lived a perfect life, that He was sinless and
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  blameless, and He chose to go to the cross so we can easily
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  follow Him, knowing that He loved us all the way till the
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  end. 27 Now is my soul troubled? And what shall I say?
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  Father, save me from this hour, but for this, 'cause I came unto
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  this hour. So you can see that Jesus was
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  all man, and He was all God. And you can see He was troubled
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  at all the events that were about to happen.
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  And He knew that the communion that He shared from Eternal was
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  about to be broken. And that is what grieved him.
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  That is what he was asking the Father to find another way is
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  because he did not want the communion that he had with
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  Father God to be broken. How sweet it is to be known by
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  him. 28 Father, glorify your name.
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  And then came there a voice from heaven saying, I have both
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  glorified it and will glorify it again.
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  So here Jesus knows that he must be glorified.
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  He knows that he must go to the cross and die and be buried and
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  be put in the tomb and be resurrected on the third day and
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  appear to many, and then to ascend to the right hand of God.
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  He knows that these things must happen.
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  And he's saying to Father God, he's saying be glorified and all
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  the things that I'm about to do. And then God says audibly from
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  heaven, I am glorified in what you're doing.
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  Let's see how the people around heard it. 20 The people
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  therefore that stood by and heard it said that it thundered.
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  Others said an Angel spoke to him so much like Paul when he's
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  on the road to Damascus. They missed the mark.
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  They were not in tune with it and they were just thinking that
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  some natural occurrence had happened.
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  And we do the same today. There are miracles after
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  miracles after miracles that are happening all around us.
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  And we just relegate it to the medical profession.
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  We just relegate it to happenstance.
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  We just relegate it to a coincidence.
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  And it is miraculous, friends. And there are many miracles
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  happening around us. And the people here missed that.
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  God had spoke directly and audibly.
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  But for those that were in tune, they could hear it.
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  And I pray that that's your story today.
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  I pray that you're in tune with the Holy Ghost and that as He's
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  speaking to you. You can discern. 30 Jesus
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  answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for
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  your sake. So he's showing us that he is in
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  tune with the Father, and he does nothing outside of the will
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  of the Father. But for our edification, God
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  spoke to us. Think about it, friends.
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  He gave us his spoken word that you hold in your hand.
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  We cannot just let it collect dust on a shelf. 31 Now is the
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  judgement of this world. Now shall the Prince of this
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  world be cast out? He's talking about Satan.
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  He's talking about how Satan has no hold on him and how when he
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  goes to the cross, he's going to snatch the keys to death in
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  Hades and he is going to have the full authority to give us
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  resurrection power so that we will not taste in the second
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  death. He's saying that the Prince of
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  this world will be cast out. Satan was cast down to the earth
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  because of the great rebellion in heaven whenever he wanted to
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  be like God. Go and read Isaiah 14 in Ezekiel
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  28. It's going to tell you all about
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  those stories of how Satan was cast out and he was put here and
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  why was he in the garden in the 1st place?
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  Why was the serpent there? Why was the tree of the
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  knowledge of good and evil there, friends?
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  And you must ask yourself these questions because it's going to
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  lead you into the reality that God allows all of the things
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  that are happening and it's for His glory.
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  And it is for our sanctification and it is to reveal the inner
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  motives of man. And it's all part of the master
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  plan of God Almighty. There is no cat and mouse game
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  between the two. God is omnipotent.
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  He is all powerful, He is sovereign friends, and there is
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  no competition between Him and the devil and Jesus knows it and
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  he's going to cast him out. 32 And if I if I be lifted up from
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  the earth, and I will draw all men unto myself.
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  So he's saying, just like the pole that was lifted up in the
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  wilderness that had the snake on it, and people must look upon it
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  to be saved, Jesus must be lifted up so that we can be
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  healed and made whole friends, and look upon him today and be
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  saved. He must be lifted up to draw all
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  men unto himself. 33 This he said, signifying what death he
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  should die. So they were able to see that he
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  was going to go to the cross. 34 The people answered him.
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  We have heard out of the law that Christ abides forever.
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  And how do you say the Son of man must be lifted up?
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  Who is this Son of man? So here you can see they are not
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  in tune. They thought that he was coming
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  in the second advent style with the sharp 2 edged sword from his
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  mouth. They thought that he was coming
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  to annihilate all of their foes and that is the savior that they
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  desired. They did not desire a savior
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  that would be humiliated and mocked.
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  They did not desire a savior that would be killed and
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  crucified, which was the most embarrassing low way of being
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  murdered was a crucifixion. And here Jesus goes through this
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  excruciating pain for you and for me, and these things must
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  happen. And it pleased God to crush him.
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  And then they say, who is this Son of man?
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  Jesus used this messianic title of Himself and it was shrouded
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  in mystery for those who refuse to come to Him honestly.
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  They would have missed it just like these people were asking.
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  They wanted Him to make it plain and just say I am Christ.
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  They wanted Him to make it plain and say I am your Messiah.
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  But because He used the Son of Man, it was hidden from those
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  who would not come to Him honestly. 35 Then Jesus said
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  unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you.
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  Walk while you have the light, and less darkness come upon you.
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  For he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.
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  So he's telling them that the night is coming, that Jesus
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  won't be in this earthly bodily form on earth forever, that they
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  must come to him while they can. And it's the same for you and
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  for me today. And the caveat is once he comes
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  back and raptures the church, friends, that's going to usher
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  in a seven-year period that's going to be hell on earth unlike
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  anything that this world has ever experienced.
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  And it's far better for us to put our faith and trust in him
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  now. And if you were to take your
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  last breath, friends, then you would have no more chances to
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  put your faith in Him. And so he's telling us now,
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  while we still have life, while the light of the world is here,
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  while the Holy Spirit and the ministry of the Holy Spirit is
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  indwelling us and is in the world.
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  Put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ now.
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  Don't wait, friends. If you try to wait until you're
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  older and then you die younger than you expected, there is no
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  more salvation for those who refuse the Lord Jesus Christ
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  here on this earth now. Once you die, that's it.
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  There is no more chance after you die.
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  So we must get it right while we still have breath in our lungs.
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  Friends. 36 while you have light, believe in the light,
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  that you may be the children of light.
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  These things spoke Jesus and departed and did hide himself
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  from them. So you can see here that Jesus
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  is making this public proclamation unto all of the
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  land, and He's telling them that they have the opportunity and
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  they must take it and they must take His words seriously.
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  They cannot just discount them and go and try to scrutinize
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  them to the point where they are in error.
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  And they do not believe Him, because He is speaking plainly
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  to them, and they refuse Him because they delighted
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  themselves in evil. 37 But though he had done so many
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  miracles before them, yet they believed not on him. 38 that the
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  saying of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he
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  spoke. Lord, who has believed our
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  report, And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
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  39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Isaiah
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  said again. 40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened their
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  hearts, that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand
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  with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal
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  them. So what a wonderful thought
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  here, that God in a moment's notice, in a twinkling of an
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  eye, and instantaneously could rend the heavens and RIP them
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  back and reveal his face to the whole world, and there would not
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  be one who wouldn't give their life to him and be sorrowful and
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  regretful. And he says there's coming a
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  time where people will try to hide themselves under the rocks
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  because they do not want Him peeking and peering upon them.
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  And so here he's showing that he has designed this world to be
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  blinded for those from those who will not inherit eternal life,
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  but for those of us who are predestined and chosen before
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  the foundations of the earth and who come to Him honestly and who
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  desire to know Him in all of his suffering.
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  Christ and Christ crucified. God is pleased to reveal it to
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  us. And aren't you thankful when the
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  blindfold comes off? Aren't you thankful when your
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  ears become unstopped and you can finally see into the
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  spiritual realm? You can finally see that Jesus
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  Christ is the long-awaited Messiah and he's hidden and
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  shrouded from those who delight themselves in evil and refuse to
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  love the truth. And they are delusional.
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  And that is what Isaiah is referencing here.
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  They are blinded by their own sin. 41 These things said
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  Isaiah, when he saw his glory and spoke of him.
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  So we know that Isaiah saw the train of his robe filling the
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  temple, and the seraphim crying out holy, holy, holy.
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  And we know that their wings covered their eyes, because he
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  was so holy. And Isaiah got to see it.
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  And he says, I am a man of unclean lips, and they touched
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  his tongue with the coal. Praise the Lord. 42
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  Nevertheless, among the chief rulers also many believed on
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  him, but because of the Pharisees, they did not confess
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  him unless they should be put out of the synagogue. 43 For
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  they love the praise of men more than they love the praise of
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  God. This is that fear of man that is
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  crept in And we care more about what people are going to say
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  about us and we try to protect our reputation.
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  And far be it from us to be more worldly centered than we are
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  godly minded. We must please God more than we
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  try to please man. Let the fear of man go. 44 Jesus
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  cried and said, he that believes on me believes not on me, but on
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  him that sent me. 45 And he that sees me sees him that sent me.
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  46 I am come a light into the world that whosoever believes on
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  me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hears my words
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  and believes not, I judge him not, for I am come not to judge
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  the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejects me and
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  receives not my words has one that judges him, the word that I
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  have spoken. The same shall judge him in the
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  last day. 49 For I have not spoken of myself, but the Father
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  which sent me. He gave me a commandment, what I
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  should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his
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  commandment is life everlasting, whatsoever I speak.
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  Therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
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  This is Jesus's last public proclamation.
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  From here forth, He's going to be speaking to the religious
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  leaders, and he's going to be speaking to his disciples
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  privately. And so we need to know that
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  these words have paramount importance, that we must believe
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  on the Lord Jesus Christ to receive our salvation, that He
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  did not come on His own accord, that He only speaks for Yahweh,
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  the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the only one true, living
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  God. He is speaking for our only way
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  to the Father is through Jesus. He is speaking for all of
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  mankind, for all of eternity. He's speaking the most important
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  thing that we need to know, so we must listen and listen up and
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  don't try to discount and discredit these words.
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  Jesus knew that he was from the Father and He was fulfilling the
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  Father's purpose for his life and that he was soon to be
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  glorified. Hope you've been blessed by this
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  chapter here. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you, so does God. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.