Dudley Rutherford - The Four Gospels (Part 2)

February 20, 2026 | 27:29

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 2) | February 20, 2026

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"a journey of a lifetime."
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Pastor dudley rutherford: and see the life of jesus
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And know that he did come to this earth,
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That he is the christ, the son of the living god,
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That he did die upon that cross for your sins and for my sins.
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And that by simply coming and believing and trusting in him
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That you shall have everlasting life, amen?
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Pastor dudley: welcome to "lift up jesus."
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I'm dudley rutherford,
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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,
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And god has an important plan 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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Pastor dudley: the sermon on the mount.
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This is a new way of life. 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.
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And ultimately, at the end of that book,
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Jesus conquers sin, he conquers death,
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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. and then we come to mark.
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Why--what is mark's slant? 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--
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Throughout mark's book as being a faithful servant.
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Now this is different than matthew's account.
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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.
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And what were the jews looking for?
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They were looking for a king.
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And so matthew explains that jesus 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.
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When mark writes, he's writing primarily to a roman audience.
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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,
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Yes, he is a king, but he came to serve;
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That he's going to willingly and without complaint,
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He's going to obey;
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That he constantly is trying to help
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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,
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Will suffer on a cross for the people of this world.
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Then luke comes along.
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Luke has a entirely different viewpoint.
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He's writing to explain and to show jesus as a man.
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This book was written to gentiles.
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Who were gentiles?
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They were considered to be outsiders.
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Everybody say, "outsiders."
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And so from the very beginning of luke's account of jesus,
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Where's jesus born?
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Well, in this--he's born in a manger, a humble manger.
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And, yes, he will grow as a teenager in wisdom and in grace,
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And yet this jesus, he's a man who feels compassion
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For those that are broken.
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Jesus feels compassion for those that are lost.
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We find him often praying and ministering
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To what we would call outsiders, and he ends his account--
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Luke ends his account with jesus on a cross,
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Asking for forgiveness for those who even put him on the cross.
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Well, in luke, jesus is a perfect example of grace
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And love from the cradle to the grave.
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And then john, the ultimate picture,
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He paints jesus as god, as divine.
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Yes, he's fully man. we see that in luke.
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But john says that he's fully god.
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John is the one that records the seven "i am's"
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Where jesus responds, "i am that i am,"
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And he's identifying himself as one who is eternal,
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One who was equal with god, who was with god,
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And john is the one that brings truth and light,
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And that jesus brings and makes a difference
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Not just to a confused world, but jesus brings truth and light
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Into the heart of every human being.
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And at the end of john, jesus triumphs gloriously
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At the resurrection, proving his deity.
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So each of the four gospels, as you look at them,
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It's the same story.
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But they were written for different purposes.
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Matthew to tell us that jesus is the king of kings.
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Mark was written to tell us that jesus is
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The servant of all servants.
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Luke was written to show us the humanity side--
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That jesus is the son of man.
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Yes, he's born of woman.
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He's the creator god, but he's clothed in humanity,
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And yet john comes to tell us that jesus is the christ,
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The son of the living god.
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Now, if you do your own research,
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And, again, i'm trying to get too much--
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Through too much in a short period of time,
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I kind of want to give you just the crib notes.
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I tried to think about if you went back
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To the gospel of matthew
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And everything that matthew wrote
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And you had to summarize it and narrow it down
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To just one verse, what would that verse be?
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If you took the gospel of mark, has 16 chapters,
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Narrowed it down to one verse, what would that verse be?
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If you took luke and narrowed it down to just one verse,
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What would that one verse be?
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If you looked at john and narrowed it down
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To just one verse, what would that verse be?
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I want you to say, "pastor, what would that verse be?"
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Oh, i'm glad you asked.
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Matthew, speaking to a jewish audience,
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Wanting to emphasize that jesus is the king,
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Slants that story as he writes.
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It's all found in the opening question
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From the wise men inside that christmas story
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At the beginning in that book, in matthew 2:2,
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Where the question is asked:
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"where is the one who's been born
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King of the jews?
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We have seen his star in the east
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And we have come to--" do what?
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"we've come to worship him."
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And that one verse to me sums up the entire book of matthew.
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Of course, jesus, as i mentioned earlier,
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He will preach about the kingdom of god.
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He will say to his listeners,
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"repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
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And even at the very end of matthew,
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In jesus's last words before he ascends, he says,
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"all authority has been--
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In heaven and on earth, has been given to me."
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So that book is written to prove that jesus is king.
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And in mark, jesus is a servant.
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The one verse that stands out of all the other verses
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Is in mark chapter 10, verse 45, where mark says
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And records these words,
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"for even the son of man did not come to be served but--"
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To what?
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"to serve."
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Jesus came to serve, to work, to give, to sacrifice.
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The bible talks about, in that book,
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"whoever wants to be first must become last,
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'cause whoever's last will be first."
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It's all shown there that jesus came not to see
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How many people would serve him,
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That jesus himself came to serve as many people
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As he possibly could serve.
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Then we come to luke.
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What's the one verse written to the gentile audience
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To show that jesus is a man,
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To emphasize, yes, he's fully god,
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But he's also fully man?
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We find a lot of that just in the details
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Of the christmas story, where god becomes flesh.
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Emmanuel, god in flesh.
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We know that jesus is just like us,
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As you read through the book of luke,
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That he's full of emotion, he's full of compassion,
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That jesus is very relational,
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That he was tempted in ways that we're tempted,
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That he struggles with the things that we struggle with,
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And yet we see him being a tender person,
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That he cares.
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We find over and over again in the gospel of luke
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That he's a friend of sinners.
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And the one verse is luke 19:10, where it actually says,
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"for the son of man came," for what?
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"he came to seek and to save that which was lost."
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We see his heart and we see his mission in that one verse.
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And, again, we will see his humility
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When he's on the cross in luke 23 and he says,
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"father, forgive them,
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For they know not even what they're doing."
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I just want you to know that in our greatest, our great--
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What is our greatest struggle on this earth?
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I think one of our greatest struggles--
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I see it more and more--is just the ability to forgive
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Someone who's offended you.
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Nobody's doing that anymore.
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We wanna just fight back whenever anyone offends us.
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And yet what is jesus?
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He comes to-- he's the son of god.
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He comes to this earth,
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And what does he leave us with this lasting impression,
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The gospel of luke?
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He looks up at that moment where he dies and he says,
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"father, forgive them."
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That's his humanity.
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That's also, yes, proves that he's from god, amen?
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The gospel of john is written to prove that everyone
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That jesus is god, that jesus is divine,
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That he's eternal, that he's divine.
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And what's the one verse that's the song
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That the choir sang?
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John 1:1: "in the beginning was the word,
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And the word was with god and the word was god."
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The creator of the universe becomes our deliverer.
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The god who was distant becomes touchable.
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The god who was unseen becomes visible--
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That he's not just in the heavens
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And he's not just in the holy of holies,
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But god left heaven and came to this earth in flesh
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So that we might meet him and that we might know him.
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So i want you to go back up to that chart
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And write this thing.
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We're gonna give you all four words at the same time.
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Here's what the holy spirit paints.
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Everybody say, "holy spirit."
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Here's what the holy spirit does.
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The book of matthew, jesus is king,
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Jesus is painted with a crown.
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The book of mark, jesus is painted with a towel.
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The book of luke, he's painted as a man of tears,
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As a man of compassion.
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And in the gospel of john,
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He is painted as the light of the world.
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See, he's got that crown because he's a conquering king.
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He's painted with a towel in the gospel of mark
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Because he came to serve.
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We know the story where he takes the basin of water,
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The towel and washes the disciples' feet.
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In the gospel of luke, we see him over and over again.
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There's many stories of people crying,
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But one of the greatest stories is where jesus himself
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Is looking over jerusalem and he's weeping.
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He's crying out on behalf of jerusalem.
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And, of course, john portrays jesus
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As being a light that cannot be extinguished.
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So the crown shows jesus's authority,
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Mark shows us jesus's hands, luke shows us jesus's heart,
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And john shows jesus's divinity.
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Again, he's painted with a crown, with towels,
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With tears, and with light.
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And here's what that means. write this down.
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The fact that he has a crown means that jesus reigns
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Over our life.
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He reigns above all.
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The fact that he has a towel, that he came to serve
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In the gospel of mark
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Shows that jesus walks, or works, among us,
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That he lives among us,
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He's not distanced, that he's here.
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The gospel of luke--that he's a man, a man of compassion,
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That he cries out at times over the people of jerusalem--
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Shows that he walks beside us.
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And, of course, john, being the light of the world
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And god coming into this world
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Means that jesus dwells within us.
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And all god's people said...
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Congregation: amen.
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Pastor dudley: and what's the result of all these things?
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You should write this down quickly.
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Well, a king should be worshiped.
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If he's truly a king, he should be worshiped, amen?
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If he's truly a servant, then we too should serve.
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He's a man of compassion who came to show us how to live,
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Then he should be followed.
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Those are all good things-- to worship, to serve,
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And to follow jesus.
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But when we come to john's gospel
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That was written for everyone,
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What is the main point of the gospel of john
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Is that you and i, as we look to jesus,
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He should be believed.
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He should be believed.
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As i read throughout all the gospels,
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There's too many places
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Where people are interacting with jesus
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And they ask, "who is this-- who is this jesus?"
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I think of luke 8, after jesus calms the storm,
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People are asking, "what kind of man is this
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That even the wind and the waves obey him?"
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John chapter 6,
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After the miracle of feeding 5000 people,
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The people looked at jesus and said, "who is this guy?
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Well, he must be a prophet. he must be a prophet."
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John chapter 7, the religious leaders
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Are questioning and doubting, "is this man the messiah?
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Could he be the messiah?"
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John chapter 8, they ask, "who does this man think he is?
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Does he think he's greater than our father abraham?"
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John chapter 18, jesus is standing before pilate.
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Pilate asked jesus, 'cause he doesn't know who he is,
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He asked, "are you the king of the jews?"
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Acts chapter 9, saul of tarsus meets jesus
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On the road to damascus and he cries out,
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"who are you, lord?"
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You come to matthew chapter 16, jesus is there.
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He's got all his disciples.
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Jesus actually asked the disciples,
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"who do people say i am?"
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And they answered him, "well, some people think
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You're john the baptist.
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Some people think you're elijah.
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Some people think you're jeremiah."
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Then jesus looked at the disciples and he said,
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"yes, but who do you say that i am?"
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And it was peter. do you remember what he said?
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Peter said, "lord, you are the christ, the son of," what?
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"the living god."
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I just want you to know, as you read through those gospels,
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That matthew shouts from the palace,
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"behold your king!"
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Mark calls from a workshop and says, "behold your servant!"
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Luke shouts from the streets, "behold the son of man!"
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And john thunders from eternity, "behold the son of god!"
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The bible says in john chapter 20--
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I close with this--
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That "jesus did many other miracles
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In the presence of his disciples,
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Which are not even written down."
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We didn't write 'em all down. but these are written.
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Why were these written?
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So that "you might believe that jesus is the christ,
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The son of the living god, and that by believing,
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You may have eternal life in his name."
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[congregation applauding]
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Pastor dudley: these four gospels invite each of us
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To answer the same question.
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Here's the question that jesus asked:
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"who do you say i am?
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Who do you say i am?"
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Each of these men looked at jesus,
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They saw something different.
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They saw the same thing,
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But they saw something different.
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And under the guidance of the holy spirit,
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We begin to see the true picture of who jesus christ really is.
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But the question is who do you say that jesus is?
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And john tells us that everything written down
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In this book--didn't write everything down that he did.
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There's one verse that says, "if we wrote down everything,
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There's not enough books in the whole world to contain
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All that jesus did."
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But these were written.
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Matthew was written, mark was written,
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Luke was written, and john was written.
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You say, "why do we have those four books?"
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So that you would read and see the life of jesus
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And know that he did come to this earth;
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That he is the christ, the son of the living god;
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That he did die upon that cross for your sins and for my sins;
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And that by simply coming and believing and trusting in him,
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That you shall have everlasting life, amen?
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[congregation applauding]
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Pastor dudley: oh, i know there's a lot there.
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And forgive me for trying to squeeze all that in,
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But i got it in.
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[congregation applauding]
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Pastor dudley: let's stand. let's stand.
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Right over here is the door.
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See that shepherdchurch.com above that door?
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That door over there says liftupjesus.com.
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But shepherdchurch.com, right through those doors,
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There's rooms back there
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With people who will pray with you.
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If you have any prayer need,
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You're going through a tough time
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And you just need to talk to somebody,
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This is your time to run over there.
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If you've never been baptized into the name of jesus,
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You need to come today and be baptized into his name.
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And maybe something happened, something clicked in your head.
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You know, i talked to a man this week.
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He's a jewish man.
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I spent an hour and a half with him this week.
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I was trying to explain to him
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And lead him into becoming a christian.
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I didn't know where to start.
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So i did what i've done with you in 11, 12 weeks.
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I went back and actually started with abraham.
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He's almost 60 years of age.
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He told me he'd never heard the story of abraham,
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Never heard the story by isaac.
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Sixty years old almost.
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I just wrote it-- he's actually 58.
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I wrote it down: "he's 58."
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I said, "how fast did those years go by?"
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He goes, "fast."
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I said, "how much longer do you plan on living?"
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He goes, "oh, maybe 20 years." i wrote "20."
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I said, "how fast do you think those 20 years
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Are going to go by?"
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He goes, "fast."
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I go, "what happens when you die?
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What's gonna happen to you?"
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Now, this is a man who'd never even heard
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The story of abraham and isaac.
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Said, "what's gonna happen to you when you die?"
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He says, "i'm gonna go to heaven."
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I said, "well, why do you think you're gonna go to heaven?"
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Here's what he said.
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He says, "because i've been good; i'm a good person."
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And i wrote down, on that piece of paper,
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The word "merit."
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That's--you're saved based on merit
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Is what you believe.
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I asked him, "do you think hitler's gonna go to heaven?"
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He goes, "no." i go, "why?"
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"because he's evil."
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Okay, so you believe that god judges on a scale.
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If i do more good things than bad things, that you--
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When you die, you get to go to heaven?
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And then i opened up god's scriptures,
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And i taught him about jesus
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And all the things that jesus taught--
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That how do we get to go to heaven
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Is not based on our works.
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It's whether or not you come to a point in your life
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Where you realize that jesus is the fulfillment
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Of all those old testament prophecies.
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He's coming, he's coming, he's coming,
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He's coming, he's coming.
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Get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready.
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And one day jesus christ is going to return,
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And you will be throwing up those hands and praising him
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If you are a believer, amen?
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Pastor dudley: oh, i hope you were blessed by today's message.
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You can watch it again by visiting our website
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At liftupjesus.com,
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Clicking the "watch and listen" button
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Up there at the top of that page.
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And when you're on the site,
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In the lives of millions of people.
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I'll see you here again next week--
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Same time, same place-- and until then,
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Whatever you're doing and wherever you're going,
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Don't forget to always lift up jesus.
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Pastor dudley: as you know,
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The name of our television broadcast
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And radio broadcast is to "lift up jesus,"
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And our logo, many people don't realize this,
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But our logo is very intentional.
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You'll notice that there's an s, which represents the savior,
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And it's a path because jesus said
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That he's the only way.
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He's the way, the truth, and the life.
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"and no one can come to the father
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Except through me."
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And so, that s represents that jesus is the only way
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To salvation.
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And then you notice the four colors,
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And we actually have this where you can download this
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If you go to our website, liftupjesus.com.
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And you'll notice, first of all,
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The red color,
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Which the bible says that we've all sinned
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And that the wages of sin is death,
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But the bible also says that jesus christ died on that cross
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In our place.
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That red stands for the blood of christ,
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That when he shed that blood,
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It was an atonement for our sins.
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The blue stands for your baptism.
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Now, some people don't understand this,
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But the bible clearly teaches
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That every single believer in jesus
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Is supposed to be baptized,
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And we're to be baptized into his name,
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Not the name of a church, not the name of an organization,
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But in the name of jesus.
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And when you're baptized into his name,
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It's a commitment that you are serving him,
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You're going to-- you're willing to die
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And to live for him for the rest of your life.
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And the bible says that if you have repented
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And if you have confessed him as your lord,
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That you are to be baptized into his name.
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And, of course,
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The green stands for after you come up
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Out of that water,
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After you become a christian
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That every believer is supposed to continue to grow,
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And to mature, and become more like jesus
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Each and every day.
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The bible says that he who began a good work in you
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Will carry it on to completion, philippians 1:6.
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And, of course, the yellow stands for heaven.
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The bible tells us that one day
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That every believer
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From every tribe and every tongue
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From every nation, that one day
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We will gather together around the throne of god
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And we will worship the lamb of god.
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God bless you,
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And thank you for listening to this.
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Share it with as many people as you possibly can.
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And remember, whatever you're doing
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And wherever you're going, to always lift up jesus.
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Founder and executive director of influenceher group.
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Realized in your life.
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You're the precious work of god's hands.
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You were made to do and accomplish good,
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It's an amazing experience you'll never forget.
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Until next time, remember to always lift up jesus.
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Dudley Rutherford - The Four Gospels (Part 2)

February 20, 2026 | 27:29

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