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Jack Graham - God In The Dirt

October 19, 2025 | 27:29

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Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - God In The Dirt | October 19, 2025

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There is no person that god cannot save!
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There is no promise that god will not keep!
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There is nothing that our god cannot do!
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In john chapter 1 as our primary text, we're going to
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Meet “god in the dirt”. a bit of an unusual title i would
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Say. “god in the dirt”. but you're going to see why in this
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Passage of scripture.
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You know, there was a group of greeks that came to israel to
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The time of christ, and they went up to one of the disciples
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Of jesus whose name is philip and said, “sirs, we would see
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Jesus.” we want to meet jesus. that's the goal of this message
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Series. we want to help you to meet and know jesus. more about
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Jesus, the beauty of jesus, the grace of jesus, the glory of
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Jesus, the power of jesus, the salvation of jesus, the coming
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Of jesus, the cross of jesus, the resurrection of jesus. this
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Is jesus and he is god in the dirt. john chapter 1, verse 14:
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14) and the word became flesh...
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This is a part of the prologue of the gospel of john because
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It is in the four gospels that we get the initial primary
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Focus on jesus, of course. and john is focusing at the outset
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On christ who is the word of god. and that word is reflected
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And...
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14) ... became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his
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Glory, glory as of the only son from the father, full of grace
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And truth.
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1) in the beginning was the word, and the word was with
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God, the word was god. 2) the same was in the beginning with
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God. 3) all things were made by him, without him was not
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Anything made that was made. 4) in him was life, and the life
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Was the light of men.
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In this prologue of the gospel of john, this beginning of this
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Story of jesus through john, we see... we meet the living word
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Of god. the word... what is the word? the word is a reflection
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Of an idea; it's the communication of a message. the
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Word is the articulation, and in the sense of jesus, jesus
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Articulates god. he is god's vocabulary; he is god's version
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On earth and, therefore, we have in jesus the word made
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Flesh... the word made alive! we call this a theological
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Term... the incarnation. we celebrate it at christmas, but
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We celebrate it all of our lives knowing christ, because
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We know that god now is one of us. his name is immanuel, god
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With us.
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So "the word was made flesh." carne... the infinite, eternal
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God is now touchable; he is knowable, he is understandable;
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He made his home among us.
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Therefore, jesus is the incarnate son of god and son of
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Man; one with us. jesus often called himself the son of man,
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A favored title that he took for his own. he is a
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Full-fledged human being and that is going to be our focus
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In this message. god in the dirt. the humanity... the
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Humanness of jesus! and the reality that god stepped into
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History. that deity intersects with humanity.
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And this was not a masquerade man, but a real man. and we get
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A clear picture of what he looks like in these four
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Gospels. that god exists, that he revealed himself in christ
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And god has intervened in our lives, and that he stepped into
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Human history. god in the dirt personally, physically, and,
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Yes, permanently in jesus christ. god entered our world
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In a supernatural way and lived among us in a human way, so
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That broken men and women like you and me can know god, can
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Know him forever. and because of this, sin was destroyed and
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Satan was disarmed and death was destroyed and life begins,
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Because “in him was life, and that life was the light of men”"
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To be a christian is to believe in both the deity of christ and
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The humanity of christ. let me say that again... if you are a
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Christian, you believe in the deity of jesus and in the
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Humanity of jesus as well! he is god made man. he became man.
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Not man who became god; that's impossible; that's new age
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Mysticism, and it never happens! god was made man; it
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Wasn't a man who became god. nor was he half man and half
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God! that would be a freak of nature. not half god and half
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Man, but perfect god and perfect man! the man/god!
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Someone put it this way: he became what we are that we
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Might be made what he is.
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His divinity intersects our humanity. to deny the deity of
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Jesus is heresy! it is also heresy to deny the humanity of
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Jesus! as a matter of fact, among the first heresies of the
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Church in the early centuries of the christian faith was
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Gnosticism which was a heresy of denying the true humanity...
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The flesh and blood... of jesus.
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Through the years we've had ideas about who jesus is and
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What he looked like.
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The most recent presentation of jesus is seen in the chosen.
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And the chosen, i believe, is a very powerful and persuasive
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Image of who jesus is. and i thought i could just show you a
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Photograph of the chosen jesus or i could bring you a clip. so
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I brought you a very powerful clip just to give you a taste
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Of it, and this is jesus speaking to the man who had
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Being lying for 38 years at the pool of bethesda. it's a very
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Powerful moment and you see jesus who says, “look at me.”
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Watch.
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Crippled man: the others step down in front of me! you saw!
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Jesus: look at me... look at me. that's not what i asked.
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I'm not asking about who's helping you or who's not
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Helping, or who's getting in your way. i'm asking about you.
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Crippled man:(cripple man sobs) i try.
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Jesus: for a long time, i know. and you don't want false hope
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Again. i understand. but this pool... it has nothing for you.
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It means nothing, and you know it. but you stay here. why?
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Cripple man: (sobs) i don't know.
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Jesus: you don't need this pool; you only need me. so, do
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You want to be healed?
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Cripple man: (nods, sobbing)
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Jesus: so let's go.
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Woo! that gives me god bumps! and jesus said, “look at me.”
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So what does that mean for us? “look at me.” “looking unto
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Jesus, the author and the finisher of our faith.” and if
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We're to look at jesus, just how human is he?
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Just how human is jesus?
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The bible is the bestselling, most translated, and most
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Quoted book of all time, and yet so many have neglected
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Reading or have completely missed what the bible is all
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About. in a world of chaos and confusion uncertainty out
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There, the bible is the only constant. the only certainty is
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Jesus himself and his word, who is the same yesterday, today,
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And forever.
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When you look at our lord through the lens of scripture,
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He was as an adult in his early thirties. a jewish man with a
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Dark complexion, no doubt. he's a common jewish man. dark hair.
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We don't know that he had a beard but most jewish men in
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That era wore a short-cropped beard, not a long beard. he was
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Most likely a man with short-cropped hair as well. i
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Know we've seen the long flowing hair of jesus in our
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Minds, but most jewish males of that era cut their hair cut
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Rather short except those who had taken a nazarite vow like
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John the baptist.
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So we don't know, of course, whether he had a beard or
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Didn't have a beard; he probably did. dark complected,
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Dark eyes. he was a jewish semitic man. he... if he was
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Common, as we believe he was common to others in his same
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Time period, as a jewish male, he would have been about... now
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Are you ready for this? 5-foot 1 inch and 110 pounds.
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So jesus was not giant jesus; he was probably smallish, and
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Because he was a carpenter, in effect a contractor or a
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Construction worker who lived outdoors and worked outdoors.
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He would have had a weathered face and a winsome face because
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We know that he was kind and gentle and humble. but there
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Was nothing about his physical appearance that would have
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Taken you in. isaiah in speaking of the coming of the
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Messiah, said of him, he said, "he had no form or majesty that
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We should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire...
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Desire him."
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I'm pointing out to you that if you saw him physically, there
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Was not anything special about him physically, certainly not
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Supernatural if you just looked at him.
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But here's what we do know through the lens of scripture.
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We're capturing jesus in the lens of scripture. he was born
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Of a woman. he had a human body, a real human body; he was
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Not a phantom or a ghost. he had flesh (carne),
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Organs and bones.
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He was a common laborer. he got hungry; therefore, he ate.
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He grew tired and weary, even exhausted at times, and
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Therefore, he slept. he was thirsty and so he drank.
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He asked for help when he said to the woman at samaria, "would
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You give me a drink?" he was at times stressed, troubled. in
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The garden of gethsemane before golgotha, there was gethsemane
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And he was sweating blood. so stressed that the small
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Capillaries of his skin burst and oozing out of his skin was
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Blood. he was stressed to the nth degree. and yet while
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Stressed and sometimes he was angry, yet he never sinned. he
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Was the kind of man that overthrew the moneychangers in
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The temple when he saw injustice, when he saw people
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In pain and misuse and abuse, he said something... he did
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Something! yes, he was gentle jesus meek and mild, but he was
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Also when needed angry at sin and forceful with his message
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And taking things into his own hands. he was loving and
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Compassionate, and yet, he was willing to confront evil and
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Wrong when he saw it.
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He made friends and hung out with his friends, both female
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And male friends. he traveled with them.
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But here's what the world wants to do with jesus. jesus... they
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Want jesus... because they don't believe in god, they
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Don't believe jesus was anything special. "so he, you
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Know, he had a house, a mortgage; he had a wife, he had
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Kids. he was just like us in this way." no! the scripture
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Never says that jesus had a wife, though he had wonderful
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Friends. jesus loved children... he loved children.
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Little children would crawl up in his lap and he would speak
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To them tenderly. i always... as a little boy... related to
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Those little kids who loved jesus.
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He celebrated holidays... religious feasts and festivals
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Of the jewish faith and tradition, and jesus entered in
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A... oh, yes! and he entered... and he went to parties! and
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Weddings! a lot of people see jesus as... you know, because
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They see pictures of jesus that they think that's jesus... it's
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Boring. or maybe they went to church and church as boring so
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Jesus must be boring! but jesus was not humorless in his
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Humanity. he was joyful jesus! jesus with a smile. i can
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Imagine it; can't you?
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Even in his preaching and teaching when he told some of
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Those parables and antidotes, it was humorous to a first
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Century audience. you may not get the joke, but there were
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Jokes in there. and we'll get to that when we talk about the
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Teachings of... of jesus. but jesus said, "my joy i give to
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You." what joy you talking about? jesus joy! the joy that
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He knew. so jesus was joyous jesus.
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Oh yes, he was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.
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We're going to talk about that in just a second. but in his
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Sorrow, there was great joy. "for the joy set before him he
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Endured the cross and even despised the shame." yes, jesus
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Celebrated life! he went to parties. and, you know, you
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Don't... you don't invite a buzzkill to your parties.
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People enjoyed being around jesus. tax collectors and
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Sinners. just people, common people couldn't wait to hear
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Him; stayed all day to listen to him preach and teach.
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And one last thing... i could say much more, but... one last
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Thing about jesus, he loved his mom. that's good, isn't it? say
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Amen! [amen] he loved his mom. took care of her to the last
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Breath on the cross.
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Yes, jesus was real. real blood... his blood ran red.
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Human dna, authentic. not a masquerading man, but a real
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Man. god in every way and man in every way.
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And that's why as he diminished his dignity by coming to earth
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But he never gave up his deity. he emptied himself, took on the
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Form of a man. this is philippians chapter 2, and
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Became in the form of man, the physicality of a man, and
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Because he became a servant in this humility... in this
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Humanity, he's now exalted and he is king of kings and lord of
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Lords, "that at the name of jesus every knee would bow and
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Every tongue confess that he is lord."
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So jesus was a man; he suffered as a man. there was pain in his
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Life. there was struggle... human struggle. he lived in a
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World of death. the roman world... every thing around
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Them... people were dying. the average life expectancy for the
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First century roman world was 21 years of age. can you
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Imagine? jesus saw the death and the brokenness and the
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Tears and the hurt, and he himself suffered. he was tested
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And tried, the scripture says, in all points, such as we are
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Tested and tried.
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God got down in the dirt, didn't he? he washed dirty
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Feet. when a woman was accused... accosted because of
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Her adultery, he got down and wrote in the dirt. what, we
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Don't know exactly. what a picture of god down in the
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Dirt! for the sins of a woman and a man. that's what his
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Humanity is. he stooped down, the divine servant, the son of
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Man, the savior of the world, god in flesh, god in the dirt!
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He got on the ground for us.
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And this is such an incredible... incredible
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Encouragement to us because we do live in a broken world, in a
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Sinful, wicked, depraved, defiled, sin-sick world and
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Culture. we live here. we live here now! but god in christ
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Stepped into this world for us to show us his humanity, to
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Show us that he understands us, that he knows us!
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Now he didn't have to come to earth to understand us, right?
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I mean, he could have understood us from heaven. he
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Did understand us from heaven! but he came to earth to show us
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So we would know that he cared about us, that god cared about
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Us, that god understood us. so we don't have a high priest
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That is not acquainted... does not know our hurts, our pains,
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Our heartache, our heartbreaks, our tears, our fears!
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He picks us up. he stoops to pick us up.
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When i was a child, i had... when i was three years of age.
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My brother was 13 years my senior... my big brother. he
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Was a great big brother. so he would have been 16. i was 3
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Years old when it happened. we were picking him up for lunch
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At school and going to lunch and then taking him back. i'm
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Sure of those details but i was in the backseat of the car in
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My car. and my mother had made me a sandwich of some kind. and
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So i was willing to eat the sandwich; what i was not
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Willing to do was to eat the crust around the bread.
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Now remember, i'm 3 years old. i'm already a sinner in my
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Little wicked heart. [laughter] and i'm about to lie to my
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Mother because what i did in the backseat, i just peeled the
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Crust off as i often did. and i would get reprimanded and i did
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It, and then forced to eat the crust by itself. that was not
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Pleasant. but i took off the crust around the thing... and
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Now balled it up in my hand. so i'm sitting there in the
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Backseat with my sandwich and the crust in this hand. i'm
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Going, "now what am i going to do with this? she's going to
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Catch me. she's going to know what i did." now, i'm a liar
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And a deceiver at this point.
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So i said, “i know what i'll do. she's driving the car. my
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Brother's in the front seat. i know what i'll do.” i said,
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“i'll roll down the window quietly and i'll throw the
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Crust out the window.” now i'm not only a liar and a deceiver,
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I'm a litterer! [laughter]
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So i reach over to roll down the window, looking at her. and
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Unfortunately, instead of the window, i told hold of the car
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Door... i opened the car door and guess what happened? i went
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Flying out! it wasn't that funny! [laughter] i went flying
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Out, landed on my head, forty miles an hour! my dad always
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Said, it's a good thing i landed on my head, i was always
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So hardheaded and stubborn. i landed on my head. i'm lying in
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The street, bleeding. i'm still conscious, i think.
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But what i remember is my brother getting out of the car
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And running to me... my big brother running to me. he had a
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Plaid orange and yellow shirt and blue... i can still
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Remember. beautiful shirt. he picks me up and now he's got
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Blood all over his beautiful shirt. i'm bloody, he's bloody.
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Takes me back to the car. i'm trying not to cry. and my big
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Brother holding me and my mother. and we go to the
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Hospital. i've still got some scars from that experience. i
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Clearly survived the experience.
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But i've always thought of that story and of someone else who's
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Our elder brother, the lord jesus. when we fell and were
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Broken and wounded; left for dead, our big brother the lord
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Jesus christ... he came down of heaven, he got down on earth,
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He picked us up. he mingled his blood with our blood and
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Carried us to healing and hope. that's why god dwelt among us.
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And don't think for one skinny minute that when jesus
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Ascended, after his resurrection, when he ascended
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Into heaven that he left his humanity behind here on earth.
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Not at all. he is still our man in heaven. he's our elder
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Brother. "there is one mediator between god and man, the man
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Christ jesus." and god... in christ, in his humanity is
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Standing with us, still to this very day, interceding for us
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And picking us up. we have a man in heaven! we have a savior
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In heaven... the lord jesus christ, our god and our king.
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[applause] yes, yes, he is!
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♪♪♪
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Hello, everyone. pastor jack graham here, and i want to
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Personally invite you to join me for something very special.
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It's the patriot tour to washington, dc, april 22nd
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The united states, we're going to visit some of the most
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Monuments, mount vernon, and the museum of the bible.
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This won't be just a tour. it will be a spiritual journey,
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Really. i'll be opening god's word along the way, teaching us
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About the spiritual foundations, the biblical
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Foundations of our nation, and the hope that we have for the
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Jack Graham - God In The Dirt

October 19, 2025 | 27:29

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