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Dudley Rutherford - The Four Gospels (Part 1)

February 12, 2026 | 27:29

Dudley Rutherford - The Four Gospels (Part 1)
Pastor Dudley Rutherford seeks to "lift up the name of Jesus across the country and the world through uncompromising biblical teaching."
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| Dudley Rutherford - The Four Gospels (Part 1) | February 12, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Announcer: from the beginning of creation to the fall of man,
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  • Through it all, the hope of a savior.
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  • This fall, experience the bible like never before.
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  • Join dudley rutherford on "a journey of a lifetime."
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  • If you've ever wanted to understand the bible
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  • From beginning to end, this is your chance.
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  • Don't just read the story, live it.
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  • Coming up next on "lift up jesus,"
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  • "a journey of a lifetime."
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  • Pastor dudley rutherford: every book in the old testament
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  • Points that one day god is gonna send a messiah.
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  • Those old testament books, god's saying, he's coming,
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  • He's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming,
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  • He's coming, he's coming.
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  • Oh, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready.
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  • And one day you're gonna throw up your hands
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  • That jesus is here.
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  • Jesus is here. he's coming back.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor dudley: welcome to "lift up jesus."
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  • I'm dudley rutherford, senior pastor of shepherd church,
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  • And i wanna thank you for joining me here today.
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  • I'm sharing a message that i believe will impact your life
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  • In a powerful way.
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  • You're here for a reason, and god has an important plan
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  • For your life.
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  • So take a quick moment, grab your bible, a pen,
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  • Your notes, and let's begin today's lesson.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor dudley: and as you might have already heard,
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  • Today's a monumental shift, monumental.
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  • Because we're going from the old testament
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  • Into the new testament.
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  • Now your bible has--is divided into halves.
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  • There's the old testament, that's the first half,
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  • And then the second half is the new testament.
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  • Now in the old testament, there are 39 books.
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  • Everybody say 39.
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  • There's 39.
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  • In the new testament there are 27.
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  • We took 11 weeks, which is really almost silly to even try.
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  • We took 11 weeks, because it could take 11 years
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  • If you did it verse by verse,
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  • But we took 11 weeks to look at
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  • Those 39 books of the old testament.
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  • And today, as we turn the page into the new testament,
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  • Where there are 27 books, we're gonna try to cover
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  • All 7 books in 7 weeks.
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  • How many of you be praying for us?
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  • You'll be praying for us?
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  • Now, on a timeline between the old and new testament
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  • Are 400 years of silence.
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  • Now we're doing a lot of teaching in this series,
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  • More teaching than preaching.
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  • And that's because we're covering large windows of time,
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  • Like 400 years.
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  • And as i come today to speak on the new testament,
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  • 400 years of silence.
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  • Now, i, most of you know, i now have five grandsons.
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  • I call them the five kings. this is the latest king.
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  • He is king number five.
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  • We call him clyde the glide.
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  • There is a sixth king coming, but he's still in the oven
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  • If you know what i'm talking about.
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  • But for every one of my children and for every one
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  • Of my grandchildren, when they're even
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  • As young as this, i sit them on my lap
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  • And i take their hands.
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  • And i clap their hands, but i'm doing the clapping.
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  • And i do that little thing.
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  • Some of you do it. this is my own version.
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  • I say with every-- all my children,
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  • All my grandkids know this:
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  • "pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man, make me a cake
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  • As fast as you can."
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  • And then i go, "roll them up, roll them up,"
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  • And then i'm just dead silence,
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  • And they're just dying for me to get to the punch line.
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  • And i wait longer than what they think i should wait
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  • And then i say, "throw 'em in the pan."
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  • I take their hands and i throw them up in the air
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  • And they wave like that.
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  • It's "pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man,
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  • Make me a cake as fast as you can.
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  • Roll them up, roll them up. throw 'em in the pan."
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  • I want you to do it with me.
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  • Come on, come on, everybody, everybody, come on.
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  • Here we go.
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  • Come on, do it with me, "pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake,
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  • Baker's man, make me a cake--" because you, hey, hey, stop.
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  • You gotta teach this to your grandchildren.
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  • All right, here we go: "pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake,
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  • Baker's man, make me a cake as fast as you can.
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  • Roll them up, roll them up."
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  • Just gotta wait.
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  • Let it simmer, and then here we go.
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  • "throw 'em in a pan."
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  • Now, here's what i think.
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  • Through the entire old testament,
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  • Through all 39 books,
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  • Thousands of years, every book in the old testament points that
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  • One day god is gonna send a messiah.
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  • Those old testament books, god's saying, god's saying,
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  • He's coming, he's coming, he's coming, he's coming,
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  • He's coming, he's coming, he's coming.
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  • Oh, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready.
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  • And one day you're gonna throw up your hands
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  • That jesus is here.
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  • Jesus is here. he's coming back.
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  • Now, we're blessed today because the bible in which we hold
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  • In our hands as we turn the page from the old testament
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  • Into the new testament, after 400 years of silence,
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  • We come to the first 4 books of the new testament.
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  • The first four letters.
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  • The first 4 documents.
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  • After 400 years of silence, we have in our bibles
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  • In our hands, what's called the four gospels.
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  • And these four gospels give us, show us, explain to us,
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  • The details of when the messiah arrived, his ministry,
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  • His sermons, his words, his deeds, his teachings,
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  • His miracles, his life.
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  • From 2000 years ago we get to read what god's word
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  • Has to say about that moment
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  • Where the messiah finally showed up.
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  • One of the last days of our washington, dc, trip,
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  • We went to ford theater,
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  • Which is where abraham lincoln, our 16th president,
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  • Was assassinated.
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  • So we walked into the museum, and i went around this corner.
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  • I was not expecting what i saw, what i was about to see.
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  • I was--just wasn't expecting this.
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  • I turned the corner and here's what i see.
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  • It's a tower of books.
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  • And every one of these books was written about abraham lincoln.
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  • You know how many books have been written
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  • About abraham lincoln?
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  • Over 15,000 different books.
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  • This tower has about 8000 of them.
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  • This is only about half of the books.
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  • And each of these authors looked at his life and decided to write
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  • A book about abraham lincoln.
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  • When i saw that tower, i started to imagine of all the books
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  • In all the world that has been written about jesus christ,
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  • Although it'd be too many to count,
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  • Certainly too many to stack.
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  • But of all the books that have ever been written about jesus,
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  • The most reliable source for any book
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  • Written about any person would be
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  • Those who would be considered eyewitnesses.
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  • And what you need to know, the most important thing is that
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  • When you read the book of matthew
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  • And you read the book of mark and you read the book of luke
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  • And you read the book of john,
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  • You need to know that you are reading eyewitness accounts,
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  • Because these 4 men knew jesus, they traveled with jesus,
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  • They ate with jesus, they laughed with jesus,
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  • They talked with jesus for 3.5 years, every single day,
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  • And then they wrote down and recorded what they saw
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  • In his life and in his words and in his deeds.
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  • One of my favorite scenes in our passion play,
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  • If you've never seen the passion play,
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  • We do a drama, like a drama
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  • Broadway-type play where we go through the last week
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  • Of jesus's life called the passion play.
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  • One of my favorite scenes in that whole play is the song
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  • That the disciples sing, and it's matthew
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  • Who's a tax collector, and the song is called
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  • "write it down."
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  • Write it--everybody say, "write it down."
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  • I want to show you a 90-second clip
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  • From that just to show and kind of get into your head
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  • That these guys were all eyewitnesses.
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  • Watch this 90-second clip if you will.
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  • ♪ write everything ♪
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  • ♪ so, when we're not around they can read it ♪
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  • ♪ write everything ♪
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  • ♪ 'cause one day the world's going to need it ♪
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  • ♪ we have been with him 3 years ♪
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  • ♪ he calmed the storm by his will ♪
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  • ♪ when we thought we were drowning, jesus said, ♪
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  • ♪ "peace ♪
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  • ♪ be still" ♪
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  • ♪ and it was still ♪
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  • ♪ everything ♪
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  • ♪ he drives out demons with one command ♪
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  • ♪ write everything ♪
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  • ♪ the pharisees called him a threat to the land ♪
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  • ♪ write everything ♪
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  • ♪ and we have been blessed ♪
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  • ♪ to be called by the son of man ♪
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  • ♪ the lame now are walking ♪
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  • ♪ the dead girl is alive ♪
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  • ♪ the deaf mute is talking ♪
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  • ♪ the woman survives ♪
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  • ♪ he gave the 5000 two fish and some bread ♪
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  • ♪ when they came in and found him, ♪
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  • ♪ they were all fed ♪
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  • ♪ everything that i can keep in my head, ♪
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  • ♪ he writes it down before he goes to bed ♪
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  • ♪ everything ♪
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  • ♪ i write it down ♪
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  • ♪ so that the world knows how great is his love ♪
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  • ♪ i'm writing down everything that he does ♪
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  • ♪ everything ♪
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  • ♪ write it ♪
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  • Pastor dudley: okay, how many of you are glad
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  • That matthew wrote everything down?
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  • How many of you glad that mark wrote everything down?
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  • How many of you glad that luke wrote everything down?
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  • How many of you are glad that john wrote everything down?
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  • You should be.
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  • Let's give those guys a hand for keeping track.
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  • So what i want you to do is i want you to grab your outline
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  • Inside your bulletin, and there's two--
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  • There's a graph, and then there's
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  • A kind of what i would call a chart.
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  • I want to begin by looking at the graph,
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  • And there you see it's a timeline.
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  • You have the four guys, matthew, mark, luke, and john.
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  • And just so you know, matthew wrote the book of matthew,
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  • Mark wrote the book of mark,
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  • Luke wrote the book of john--luke,
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  • And john wrote the book of john, and all four of these guys
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  • Preached or wrote, recorded, guided by the holy spirit,
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  • I gotta add that, they wrote down as they were looking
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  • At the life of jesus,
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  • And so all four of those books, first four books
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  • Of the new testament, all begin with jesus's birth,
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  • Going through his life story, ending with the death,
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  • The burial, and the resurrection.
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  • And then jesus was on earth for about a month and a half,
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  • 40 more days, and then he ascended into heaven.
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  • I always tell people this, if you're at work
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  • On monday morning and your coworker
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  • Comes over to you and says to you,
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  • "hey, you go to church, don't you?"
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  • And you'd say, what?
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  • "i have a question.
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  • Can you answer a question for me?
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  • Here's the question: can you tell me where in the bible
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  • That we read about the christmas story,
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  • Jesus being born in bethlehem?"
  • 00:11:54.600 --> 00:11:58.003
  • Someone asked me a question this week about bethlehem
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  • And you say exactly what i would say,
  • 00:12:01.507 --> 00:12:04.510
  • You would say this, "listen, i don't know the exact verse,
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  • But if you would turn to the beginning of matthew,
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  • Mark, luke, or john, you'll read about
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  • The christmas story."
  • 00:12:11.217 --> 00:12:13.686
  • Somebody comes up to you and says to you,
  • 00:12:13.686 --> 00:12:15.221
  • "hey, where can i read about jesus dying on a cross
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  • That--where he was--
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  • Where he actually died, that moment that he died?
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  • Where do i find that in the bible?"
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  • You'd say exactly what i say: "i can't tell you
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  • The exact verse, but if you look at the end
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  • Of either matthew, mark, luke, or john, you'll read the story
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  • Of the death, burial, and the resurrection of jesus."
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  • Does everybody have that? everybody have that?
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  • Okay, i just want to put all that in perspective for you.
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  • Here, these guys record his sermons, they record
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  • His prayers, they record his travels,
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  • They record his words, his miracles, his healings.
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  • It is his story.
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  • They're not autobiographies.
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  • They would be autobiographies if they wrote about themself.
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  • These are biographies.
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  • These are first century eyewitness accounts
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  • To the life of jesus,
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  • And they wrote down what they saw
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  • And what they heard.
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  • Everybody tracking with me?
  • 00:13:01.367 --> 00:13:02.835
  • Now, if you want to learn and read about jesus,
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  • You read those four books.
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  • Now, here's what i want you to know,
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  • And this is important.
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  • As you read through those four different accounts,
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  • There are many different nuances.
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  • You say, "why is that?"
  • 00:13:14.613 --> 00:13:15.948
  • Well, because each wrote what they saw
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  • From their own angle.
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  • If i had someone over here and someone over here
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  • And someone over here
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  • And someone over here write about what happened
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  • In church tonight, you would all tell the same story,
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  • But you'd all have a different nuance.
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  • Does that make sense?
  • 00:13:34.767 --> 00:13:37.002
  • So what i want to do is i want to share with you
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  • The nuances of these four different books.
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  • What--how they're alike and how they're different, okay?
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  • So if you have your notes, there's a big chart there
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  • And we're going to put it on the screen,
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  • And it's in your notes.
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  • And you'll see the four quadrants
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  • Which represent the four books.
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  • I want you to notice first of all,
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  • The cross in the middle of that chart.
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  • You see--everybody see the cross and you see
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  • The four arrows?
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  • So i just want you to get as matthew writes,
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  • He's looking at jesus.
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  • When mark writes, he's looking at jesus.
  • 00:14:08.334 --> 00:14:11.437
  • When luke writes, he's looking at jesus,
  • 00:14:11.437 --> 00:14:14.373
  • And when john writes, he's looking at jesus.
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  • So everything you write in this book is what
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  • Those four men see as they're looking at jesus.
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  • Are you with me?
  • 00:14:21.947 --> 00:14:23.382
  • Now outside that box, you have four little words,
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  • And the reason they're there is so that
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  • You would know that when matthew writes his letter
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  • That he's writing, his audience
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  • Is primarily a jewish audience.
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  • It's very important for you to know that.
  • 00:14:35.628 --> 00:14:38.030
  • Mark, when he writes, is primarily writing
  • 00:14:38.030 --> 00:14:41.533
  • To a roman audience.
  • 00:14:41.533 --> 00:14:43.569
  • Now, who are the romans?
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  • The romans are the one that are occupying the land.
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  • The jews are living there, but romans are in charge.
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  • Luke's account is primarily written to the gentiles.
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  • Who are the gentiles?
  • 00:14:54.680 --> 00:14:56.015
  • Anyone who's not jewish.
  • 00:14:56.015 --> 00:14:59.318
  • And when john writes his letter, he's basically writing
  • 00:14:59.318 --> 00:15:02.087
  • To everyone, say "everyone."
  • 00:15:02.087 --> 00:15:04.256
  • So, how many of you tracking with me so far?
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  • You're with me?
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  • I want you to write these things down.
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  • Here's number one, matthew.
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  • When he looks at the life of jesus
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  • Under the guidance of the holy spirit,
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  • He writes with this purpose and this intent:
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  • To show and to describe jesus as a king.
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  • If you read it, if you study it, read the book of matthew,
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  • Everything that he writes is slanted towards proving
  • 00:15:25.444 --> 00:15:28.747
  • To the jews that jesus is the king of all kings,
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  • That jesus fulfills biblical prophecy.
  • 00:15:33.852 --> 00:15:36.121
  • There's a lot of stuff in matthew where they look
  • 00:15:36.121 --> 00:15:38.791
  • At the old testament prophecy, how jesus fulfills
  • 00:15:38.791 --> 00:15:41.060
  • All that prophecy.
  • 00:15:41.060 --> 00:15:43.429
  • It explains how jesus comes from the lineage of david
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  • And david's throne.
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  • Jesus himself talks about his kingdom, and he calls people
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  • To live differently.
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  • That's why you have at the beginning of matthew,
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  • Where jesus teaches what we call kingdom principles
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  • As he delivers what's called the sermon on the mount.
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  • This is a new way of life.
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  • This is a new kingdom.
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  • And he demonstrates his royal authority
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  • Through all the miracles that he does.
  • 00:16:10.122 --> 00:16:12.591
  • And ultimately, at the end of that book,
  • 00:16:12.591 --> 00:16:15.060
  • Jesus conquers sin,
  • 00:16:15.060 --> 00:16:16.662
  • He conquers death, and he conquers the grave,
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  • Rising as an eternal reigning king.
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  • That's the purpose of matthew.
  • 00:16:23.168 --> 00:16:25.904
  • And then we come to mark.
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  • Why--what is mark's slant?
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  • What is mark looking at?
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  • Well, write this down.
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  • In mark's--the gospel of mark, jesus is described as a servant.
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  • Jesus is seen through-- throughout mark's book
  • 00:16:38.784 --> 00:16:42.721
  • As being a faithful servant.
  • 00:16:42.721 --> 00:16:45.190
  • Now this is different than matthew's account.
  • 00:16:45.190 --> 00:16:49.194
  • Who was matthew--what was that book?
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  • Who was his audience? who was matthew's audience?
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  • The jews.
  • 00:16:53.032 --> 00:16:55.434
  • And what were the jews looking for?
  • 00:16:55.434 --> 00:16:58.504
  • They were looking for a king.
  • 00:16:58.504 --> 00:17:01.306
  • And so matthew explains that jesus
  • 00:17:01.306 --> 00:17:03.876
  • Is the king of all kings,
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  • That he is the king that you're looking for,
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  • Although many of them did not believe it.
  • 00:17:08.080 --> 00:17:10.649
  • When mark writes, he's writing primarily
  • 00:17:10.649 --> 00:17:13.685
  • To a roman audience.
  • 00:17:13.685 --> 00:17:16.855
  • He's not trying to convince them that jesus is a king
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  • Because a king might threaten them.
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  • Mark wants his audience to know that jesus, yes, he is a king,
  • 00:17:22.995 --> 00:17:28.233
  • But he came to serve, that he's going to willingly
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  • And without complaint,
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  • He's going to obey, that he constantly is trying
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  • To help those who are hurting.
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  • He's not trying to lord anything over anyone,
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  • That he came to serve the people that were there.
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  • And we will see at the end where he, in his own humility,
  • 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:52.458
  • Will suffer on a cross for the people of this world.
  • 00:17:52.458 --> 00:17:58.931
  • Then luke comes along.
  • 00:17:58.931 --> 00:18:00.833
  • Luke has a entirely different viewpoint.
  • 00:18:00.833 --> 00:18:03.902
  • He's writing to explain and to show jesus as a man.
  • 00:18:03.902 --> 00:18:08.807
  • This book was written to gentiles.
  • 00:18:08.807 --> 00:18:11.376
  • Who were gentiles?
  • 00:18:11.376 --> 00:18:12.978
  • They were considered to be outsiders.
  • 00:18:12.978 --> 00:18:15.080
  • Everybody say "outsiders."
  • 00:18:15.080 --> 00:18:17.816
  • And so, from the very beginning of luke's account of jesus,
  • 00:18:17.816 --> 00:18:21.854
  • Where's jesus born?
  • 00:18:21.854 --> 00:18:23.589
  • Well, in this--he's born in a manger, a humble manger.
  • 00:18:23.589 --> 00:18:28.594
  • And yes, he will grow as a teenager in wisdom
  • 00:18:28.594 --> 00:18:30.863
  • And in grace and yet this jesus,
  • 00:18:30.863 --> 00:18:34.099
  • He's a man who feels compassion
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  • For those that are broken.
  • 00:18:35.868 --> 00:18:37.736
  • Jesus feels compassion for those that are lost.
  • 00:18:37.736 --> 00:18:40.973
  • We find him often praying and ministering
  • 00:18:40.973 --> 00:18:43.675
  • To what we would call outsiders,
  • 00:18:43.675 --> 00:18:46.178
  • And he ends his account, luke ends his account
  • 00:18:46.178 --> 00:18:49.581
  • With jesus on a cross, asking for forgiveness
  • 00:18:49.581 --> 00:18:54.186
  • For those who even put him on the cross.
  • 00:18:54.186 --> 00:18:57.122
  • Well, in luke, jesus is a perfect example
  • 00:18:57.122 --> 00:18:59.424
  • Of grace and love from the cradle to the grave.
  • 00:18:59.424 --> 00:19:04.530
  • And then john, the ultimate picture,
  • 00:19:04.530 --> 00:19:07.533
  • He paints jesus as god, as divine.
  • 00:19:07.533 --> 00:19:12.604
  • Yes, he's fully man.
  • 00:19:12.604 --> 00:19:13.972
  • We see that in luke, but john says
  • 00:19:13.972 --> 00:19:16.175
  • That he's fully god.
  • 00:19:16.175 --> 00:19:18.277
  • John is the one that records the seven i ams
  • 00:19:18.277 --> 00:19:21.480
  • Where jesus responds, i am that i am,
  • 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:24.850
  • And he's identifying himself as one who is eternal,
  • 00:19:24.850 --> 00:19:29.188
  • One who was equal with god, who was with god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Tani: i remember leaving the hospital,
  • 00:20:33.585 --> 00:20:35.787
  • Crying and saying that all these people
  • 00:20:35.787 --> 00:20:38.223
  • Get to leave with their babies except for us.
  • 00:20:38.223 --> 00:20:44.029
  • John: when we got married,
  • 00:20:44.029 --> 00:20:45.364
  • I didn't really want to have children.
  • 00:20:45.364 --> 00:20:48.000
  • You know, we were later in life, and we just kind of said,
  • 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.504
  • "let's have our time together."
  • 00:20:52.504 --> 00:20:55.474
  • And then just kind of out of the blue,
  • 00:20:55.474 --> 00:20:58.210
  • I kind of felt like maybe i was missing out on something.
  • 00:20:58.210 --> 00:21:01.680
  • We started trying to get pregnant,
  • 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:03.115
  • And she had a couple miscarriages,
  • 00:21:03.115 --> 00:21:06.485
  • And then finally got pregnant.
  • 00:21:06.485 --> 00:21:07.953
  • And we made it through the first trimester,
  • 00:21:07.953 --> 00:21:10.522
  • And the ultrasound and everything was looking good.
  • 00:21:10.522 --> 00:21:13.492
  • Everything, you know, we were really excited.
  • 00:21:13.492 --> 00:21:16.094
  • And we found out that it was going to be a boy.
  • 00:21:16.094 --> 00:21:19.064
  • And you know, that only made it--our joy even greater.
  • 00:21:19.064 --> 00:21:24.970
  • Her water broke in the middle of the night,
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  • And we didn't really know what it was.
  • 00:21:27.339 --> 00:21:29.875
  • And that morning, we went to the hospital.
  • 00:21:29.875 --> 00:21:33.011
  • And they basically told us
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  • It's time to terminate this pregnancy.
  • 00:21:34.379 --> 00:21:40.185
  • Tani: three weeks later, we lost him.
  • 00:21:43.955 --> 00:21:49.995
  • John: in the midst of our despair and our darkness,
  • 00:21:53.999 --> 00:21:58.203
  • We got a bulletin from her sister, from shepherd
  • 00:21:58.203 --> 00:22:03.875
  • That a miscarriage support group was going to be starting.
  • 00:22:03.875 --> 00:22:07.312
  • And so, tani contacted shepherd.
  • 00:22:07.312 --> 00:22:09.614
  • And we weren't-- we didn't go to shepherd.
  • 00:22:09.614 --> 00:22:11.450
  • You know, we didn't-- it was that huge church
  • 00:22:11.450 --> 00:22:14.286
  • That, you know, we just felt we'd be lost in.
  • 00:22:14.286 --> 00:22:17.556
  • We went to the first class, and i could honestly feel
  • 00:22:17.556 --> 00:22:20.392
  • Just like a sense of peace and calm.
  • 00:22:20.392 --> 00:22:23.128
  • And to sit in a room
  • 00:22:23.128 --> 00:22:24.696
  • With other people that hurt the exact same way you do,
  • 00:22:24.696 --> 00:22:31.303
  • It was just so, like, refreshing to know you're not alone.
  • 00:22:31.303 --> 00:22:35.407
  • Tani: we actually started going to church.
  • 00:22:35.407 --> 00:22:37.809
  • And at first,
  • 00:22:37.809 --> 00:22:41.546
  • I felt like every song they sang
  • 00:22:41.546 --> 00:22:48.453
  • Was about my pain.
  • 00:22:48.453 --> 00:22:52.057
  • And everything that they said at the service
  • 00:22:52.057 --> 00:22:55.093
  • Was about my pain.
  • 00:22:55.093 --> 00:22:58.363
  • I didn't understand it then, but i think that's
  • 00:22:58.363 --> 00:23:02.100
  • How the holy spirit was talking to me,
  • 00:23:02.100 --> 00:23:05.137
  • To letting me know that it's okay,
  • 00:23:05.137 --> 00:23:07.639
  • That he's got me.
  • 00:23:07.639 --> 00:23:14.546
  • But i think part of, i think, growing
  • 00:23:14.546 --> 00:23:16.181
  • In your spiritual growth is, you know,
  • 00:23:16.181 --> 00:23:18.250
  • There's a season for everything.
  • 00:23:18.250 --> 00:23:20.419
  • So, that season was so helpful for our healing
  • 00:23:20.419 --> 00:23:23.755
  • At the time that it was there.
  • 00:23:23.755 --> 00:23:25.257
  • So, those women and those men really all help each other
  • 00:23:25.257 --> 00:23:29.394
  • And walk alongside of each other
  • 00:23:29.394 --> 00:23:31.763
  • As we were growing not only spiritually,
  • 00:23:31.763 --> 00:23:34.533
  • But also in our healing process.
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  • And when that season ended, it was time for all of us
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  • To extend ourselves to others and reach out to others.
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  • And share, you know, what we have.
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  • You know, the great gift i think that we have gotten
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  • And share it with others.
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  • We started our own life group, and we designed it for couples.
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  • And we moved into this--our home.
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  • We had to get a larger dining room table for the space.
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  • John: i mean, i saw it, i'm like, "oh, this is it.
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  • This is like what i've been looking for,
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  • Something big and sturdy."
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  • But it was kind of too big for just two people to sit at.
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  • Tani: and then little did we know
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  • That god perfectly planned it that way.
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  • He said you need to get this big table 'cause one day,
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  • You're gonna fill it with seven other couples.
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  • So, we had a vision
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  • That we were going to be mommy and daddy,
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  • And with big sister and our little son.
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  • And that's not what happened.
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  • So, instead we have an extended family
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  • Of seven other couples.
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  • And it's always scary when you open up your home to strangers,
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  • You know, 'cause at one point, they were strangers,
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  • And you never know how it's everybody--you know,
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  • How everything's going to blend and work together.
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  • But you know, god said
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  • If you are obedient and you just follow,
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  • Everything will fall into place.
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  • And just like he promised, you know, it did.
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  • And we now have an extended family.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Pastor dudley: hey, it's pastor dudley
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  • From shepherd church and "lift up jesus."
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  • But any time the word of god is preached,
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  • The bible knows what it's talking about
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