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Ed Young - The Greatest Man

December 16, 2024 | S24:E5101

Ed Young - The Greatest Man
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Greatest Man | December 16, 2024
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  • Dr. ed young: four hundred years, no word from god.
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  • Temple worship went on.
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  • Sacrificial system continued.
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  • All the special days were religiously observed.
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  • A form of godliness, no power, until we read
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  • In the gospel of john,
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  • There was a man sent from god whose name was john.
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  • Not john the apostle, but john the baptizer.
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  • John was the last of the old testament prophets.
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  • Read the last few verses in malachi, you see how
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  • Hypocritical, empty, godless, vain all the worship of israel
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  • Had become.
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  • No authentic voice that represented the true and living
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  • God, until john the baptist!
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  • He was the last of the old testament prophets, and he
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  • Preached with clarity, insight, no respecter of persons.
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  • Herod was king.
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  • Herod had stolen his brother, philip's, wife.
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  • Her name was herodias.
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  • John the baptist looked at the king right square in the eye and
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  • Said, you are guilty of adultery.
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  • Prophet.
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  • A prophet is not only someone who predicts, a prophet
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  • Primarily in the bible is someone who tells forth, and he
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  • Spoke the truth to the highest ranking person in the land.
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  • You are an adulterer.
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  • Herod put him in prison, a prison in the backside of
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  • Nowhere, down by the jordan river.
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  • Hot, barren, if you've ever been there, empty, void of life, you
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  • Would think, and there john, the great prophet, through a period
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  • Of time, i'm sure, he began to be delirious, and wondering, and
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  • Somewhat confused.
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  • Two of his followers came to him, and john said, when he
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  • Heard about jesus and what he was doing, and what was going
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  • On, he said, go and ask my cousin, jesus, if he is the
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  • Messiah, emmanuel, god with us, the promised one.
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  • Now you would think that certainly john knew this.
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  • He'd been a part of all of it, but yet, i can tell
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  • You something.
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  • Alone in a prison, hot, forgotten, all kind of things
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  • Happen, so he said, go ask jesus if he is emmanuel, god with us.
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  • And the two messengers left john in his prison and went to jesus
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  • And ask him, "are you the one?"
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  • And jesus said, "go back and tell john what you see and what
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  • You hear."
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  • He said, "the deaf are hearing, the lame are walking, the blind
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  • Have their sight restored, and the dead are being brought back
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  • To life, and good news is being proclaimed to the poor.
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  • You go back and tell john, that's what i'm doing."
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  • That's what's going on.
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  • What was he saying?
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  • He wanted to remind john that jesus was fulfilling exactly the
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  • Prophecy that predicted about the coming of messiah.
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  • And then, in that prison, we have a strange situation.
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  • Herod was afraid of john, the king, but then herod had a large
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  • Party, gathering of the people, the dignitaries, celebration.
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  • And he asked his step-daughter, salome, to dance.
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  • And salome, the daughter of his adulterous wife, herodias,
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  • Danced a dance that was so sensual, it excited herod so
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  • Much, he said, i'll give to that girl anything she wants, up to
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  • Half the kingdom.
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  • And the little girl went and asked her mother, herodias,
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  • What should i ask for?
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  • And that vindictive woman said, go ask for the head of john
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  • The baptist.
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  • He was beheaded.
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  • His head was brought to the king on a platter.
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  • Courageous.
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  • His courage cost a price.
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  • Incidentally, parenthetically,
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  • This is the first baptist who lost his head
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  • Over dancing!
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  • [laughter]
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  • You have in a scripture here, that after this happened, john
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  • Was still alive, but jesus turned to a large crowd and he
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  • Said, what did you go out into the wilderness to see?
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  • Talking about john the baptist.
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  • Did you go out in the wilderness?
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  • By the way, they think over 300,000 went out to hear him,
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  • Way out in the boondocks.
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  • Did you see a man dressed in soft clothing?
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  • Those who wear soft clothing are in the king's palaces.
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  • But he said, "but what did you see?"
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  • He's talking to the crowd, jesus, "a prophet?"
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  • Yes!
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  • I'll tell you one who is more than a prophet.
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  • "this is the one about whom it is written, 'behold!
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  • I send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way
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  • Before you."'
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  • Verse 11, "'truly i say to you,' said jesus.
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  • 'among those born of women, there has not arisen anyone
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  • Greater than john the baptist."'
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  • Did you get that?
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  • Jesus said no man, no woman, nobody's ever walked this planet
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  • Who was greater than john the baptist.
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  • How did he get to this lofty position?
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  • He was a disciplined person.
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  • He went out in the wilderness, out in the no-man's land.
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  • Have been around the jordan river, down in that part where
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  • Jesus was baptized?
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  • My goodness, it's just rocks and rocks and rocks and rocks
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  • And rocks.
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  • Emptiness, void.
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  • You wouldn't think anything could live there.
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  • Nothing.
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  • That's where john the baptist goes.
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  • He's dressed up in camel's hair, the bible tells us.
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  • He eats locusts and honey, gluten free,
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  • And he's an austere guy, you know, just pale.
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  • Desserts, he would sometime go catch a grasshopper.
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  • What kind of life is that?
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  • Alone, aloof.
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  • Let me tell you what kind of life it is.
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  • He got away from the face of human beings so he could go and
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  • Spend his time with the face of god.
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  • Our problem is, we spend so much time with noise, and clutter,
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  • And racket, and something's gotta be going on, we've got to
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  • Be with somebody!
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  • I don't want to be by myself.
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  • We spend so much time in the face of man, we don't have time
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  • For the face of god.
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  • John the baptist was disciplined.
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  • Away from everybody. aloof!
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  • Other-worldly, mystical, prophet, prophet, disciplined.
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  • His very appearance was a sermon.
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  • You know, he would walk out, he was real.
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  • He didn't care about money, or fame, or power.
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  • Everybody knew that!
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  • He didn't care about everything most people cared about.
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  • He cared only about being god's man.
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  • See the discipline that he had in his life?
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  • Discipline. discipline.
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  • And then he was humble.
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  • We see that all the way through.
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  • How can you be so strong and prophetic, and yet be humble?
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  • But he really was.
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  • When they went to him and said, are you the messiah?
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  • He said, no.
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  • Said, who are you?
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  • He said, i'm just a voice.
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  • I'm a voice crying with all the other voices and racket in
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  • The world.
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  • He said, i'm preparing the way for the lord.
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  • This was the prophecy of isaiah, coming before the coming of
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • And john says, i have come to make the crooked road straight.
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  • I've come to take the mountain and flatten it out.
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  • I've come to take the valley and to fill it up.
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  • I am preparing a runway for the coming of the son of god.
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  • He was going ahead.
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  • He was a voice of preparation.
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  • Discipline. discipline.
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  • Also, what made him great was timing.
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  • You see, most of you were not there for the battle of
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  • The bulge.
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  • You may have been a hero and won the congressional medal of
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  • Honor, but you weren't there, the timing wasn't right.
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  • So there's a sense of timing for this greatness.
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  • I want you to see the time in which he lived.
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  • It's really something.
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  • Take your bibles and just flip over to luke chapter 3.
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  • It dates john the baptist.
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  • It says, "now in the 50th year of the reign
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  • Of tiberius caesar."
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  • We know that was about ad 29, 28.
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  • When pontius pilate was governor of judea.
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  • Herod was tetrarch of galilee, and his brother, philip, was
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  • Tetrarch of the region of iturea and traconitis, and lysanias was
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  • The tetrarch of abilene, not texas.
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  • In the high priesthood of annas and caiaphas, the word of god
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  • Came to john, the son of zechariahs, in the wilderness.
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  • That puts the date in which he lived.
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  • It tells who was running rome, who was running israel, who was
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  • Running judea, who the religious leaders were.
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  • And you'd be hard-pressed to find a more corrupt, rotten,
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  • Evil, vicious group of people on this earth.
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  • Philip, and herod, and pilate, and, well, annas and caiaphas,
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  • They were just phony-baloney exporters of people in the name
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  • Of religion.
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  • Never heard of that happening, have you?
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  • [chuckles]
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  • They'd had darkness for 400 years, and now all of a sudden,
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  • He walks out and brings the light of god.
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  • Boy! you see that he was a great man.
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  • You see his preparation for it.
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  • And you see his greatness is seen by his message.
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  • Not only the time in which he lived, his background, his
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  • Humility, look at the message that he brought.
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  • A powerful, powerful message.
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  • Turn, if you would, the book of luke, still in the third
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  • Chapter, verse 3, "and it came into all the district around
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  • Jordan, preaching a baptism and repentance for the forgiveness
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  • Of sin."
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • This is unique.
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  • Jews were not baptized.
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  • If you are a gentile and you became a jew, you'd be baptized
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  • As a proselyte, but jews were not baptized.
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  • The essenes were jews, it was a sect, but their baptism was
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  • Called tarboleum, it was in blood for cleansing.
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  • And when john the baptist says, repent, turn away from your sin.
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  • By the way, do you know what repentance is?
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  • One somebody asked a little girl, "what's repentance?"
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  • He says, and the little girl said, "it's being sorry for
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  • Your sin."
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  • And another little girl said, "oh no, it's being sorry for
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  • Your sin enough to quit."
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  • See, that's repentance.
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  • So john says, repent.
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  • Be forgiven, and be baptized.
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  • The jews said, oh no, no, no!
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  • We don't have to be baptized!
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  • We're inheritance, we come from abraham!
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  • Father abraham.
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  • Man, we've got all that covered.
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  • It's like people today who are living a godless life, "oh, i
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  • Joined a church when i was 12 years old, and i was baptized,
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  • I'm all right. i'm all right."
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  • John the baptist says, "repent.
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  • Be baptized."
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  • And they came by the thousands out in the boondocks,
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  • To hear him.
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  • I mean, pharisees, sadducees, politicians, religious people,
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  • People in government, all walks of life came out to hear him.
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  • I'm telling you, he spoke the truth.
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  • And we see his message.
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  • And he goes on and said he's a voice in the wilderness.
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  • And then he says, "so he began saying to the crowds who were
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  • Going out to be baptized by him," luke 3 chapter 7.
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  • "you brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath
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  • To come?
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  • Therefore bear fruits in keeping with repentance."
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  • In other words, you have repented and turned away from
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  • Sin, let's see the result of your new life.
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  • You've turned away.
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  • John said, "show me.
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  • Put up or shut up."
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  • And they say, "we have abraham for our father, for i say to you
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  • That from these stones god is able to raise up all kinds of
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  • Children to abraham."
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  • He said, "indeed the axe is already laid at the root of the
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  • Trees, judgment is coming."
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  • And then, in verse 10, "the crowds were questioning him,
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  • Saying, 'then what shall we do?'"
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  • They wanted to change.
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  • They saw they were phony.
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  • They saw they were liars.
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  • They saw there were hypocrites.
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  • They saw their worship was not real.
  • 00:16:21.592 --> 00:16:24.028
  • They said, "what shall we do?
  • 00:16:24.028 --> 00:16:25.563
  • We repent, we baptized."
  • 00:16:25.563 --> 00:16:27.331
  • And then he tells them exactly what to do.
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  • By the way, when you pray, don't pray, o, lord, forgive me of my
  • 00:16:29.267 --> 00:16:33.004
  • Many sins.
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  • Be specific. okay?
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  • Be specific.
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  • I used to pray like that.
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  • O, lord, cover me, for i got so many sins, just cover up.
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  • Oh no, no, no, no, no.
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  • He wants you to be very specific.
  • 00:16:46.451 --> 00:16:48.019
  • And we see how specific here.
  • 00:16:48.019 --> 00:16:49.620
  • These people said, oh, lord we want to change.
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  • What shall we do?
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  • And he just goes right down.
  • 00:16:52.790 --> 00:16:54.158
  • The crowds would question him, then what shall we do?
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  • Verse 10, luke 3, "and he would answer and say to them, 'the man
  • 00:16:55.993 --> 00:17:00.631
  • Who has two tunics,"' that's your undershirt, "is share with
  • 00:17:00.631 --> 00:17:04.135
  • Him who has none.
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  • And he who has food is to do likewise."
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  • What's he saying? be generous.
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  • If you're known as a tightwad, closed-fisted, that's not the
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  • Way we are as christians.
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  • We'd be openhanded.
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  • We're to be easy.
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  • Be generous. you've repented.
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  • Be generous.
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  • "and there's some tax collectors also came to be baptized, and
  • 00:17:24.989 --> 00:17:27.859
  • They said to him, 'teacher, what shall we do?'
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  • He said to them, 'collect no more than what you've been
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  • Ordered to do."'
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  • See in that day, you collect taxes and all you got over you
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  • Had to pay the government you could keep for yourself.
  • 00:17:37.068 --> 00:17:40.204
  • So the tax collectors were amazingly rich.
  • 00:17:40.204 --> 00:17:46.177
  • And then he went on to say, "some soldiers were there
  • 00:17:46.177 --> 00:17:50.448
  • Saying, 'well what do we do?
  • 00:17:50.448 --> 00:17:51.983
  • What shall we do?'"
  • 00:17:51.983 --> 00:17:53.317
  • We are guilty.
  • 00:17:53.317 --> 00:17:54.652
  • "and he said, 'do not take money from anyone by force or accuse
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  • Anyone falsely, and be content with your wages.'"
  • 00:17:57.889 --> 00:18:03.895
  • What would he say?
  • 00:18:03.895 --> 00:18:05.229
  • Show me the fruit, the result of the new life that you want, the
  • 00:18:05.229 --> 00:18:07.965
  • Change that god has brought in your life.
  • 00:18:07.965 --> 00:18:10.768
  • "and john answered and said to them, 'as for me, i baptize you
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  • With water."'
  • 00:18:16.107 --> 00:18:17.441
  • I just dunk ya.
  • 00:18:17.441 --> 00:18:18.776
  • "but he says, 'one is coming who is mightier than i, i'm not fit
  • 00:18:18.776 --> 00:18:22.513
  • To untie the thong of his sandals."'
  • 00:18:22.513 --> 00:18:24.448
  • There's humility.
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  • "he will baptize you with the holy spirit and with fire."
  • 00:18:25.783 --> 00:18:30.388
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:18:30.388 --> 00:18:31.722
  • It means john was external baptism, but jesus would come,
  • 00:18:31.722 --> 00:18:36.761
  • And when they received him, and he would baptize them with the
  • 00:18:36.761 --> 00:18:40.765
  • Holy spirit inside of their life.
  • 00:18:40.765 --> 00:18:42.867
  • And inside their life that will be like a fire that will burn up
  • 00:18:42.867 --> 00:18:48.105
  • All the ugliness and junk and immorality and mess that's in
  • 00:18:48.105 --> 00:18:52.810
  • The middle of them.
  • 00:18:52.810 --> 00:18:54.145
  • That's the difference.
  • 00:18:54.145 --> 00:18:55.513
  • And then we've got this tremendous thing.
  • 00:18:55.513 --> 00:18:58.783
  • "so many others he preached the gospel to people."
  • 00:18:58.783 --> 00:19:02.853
  • Hold on, don't miss this.
  • 00:19:02.853 --> 00:19:06.490
  • John the baptist is the only old testament prophet who preached
  • 00:19:06.490 --> 00:19:11.429
  • Judgment, fire and brimstone, and the law.
  • 00:19:11.429 --> 00:19:17.401
  • He also was a new testament preacher of forgiveness, a new
  • 00:19:17.401 --> 00:19:23.641
  • Life, and grace.
  • 00:19:23.641 --> 00:19:26.244
  • The only one.
  • 00:19:26.244 --> 00:19:27.578
  • Prophet the old, yet bridging the gap being the proclaimer of
  • 00:19:27.578 --> 00:19:34.085
  • The grace of god and in you.
  • 00:19:34.085 --> 00:19:36.487
  • You see, he puts the old and new together.
  • 00:19:36.487 --> 00:19:39.657
  • Darkness he brings light.
  • 00:19:39.657 --> 00:19:42.059
  • Under the new contract, the new relationship, the king that all
  • 00:19:42.059 --> 00:19:45.463
  • The world had been preparing for until this strategic moment
  • 00:19:45.463 --> 00:19:49.333
  • In history.
  • 00:19:49.333 --> 00:19:50.668
  • It is the good news.
  • 00:19:50.668 --> 00:19:52.203
  • And look back and see what the good news really really
  • 00:19:52.203 --> 00:19:55.506
  • Really was.
  • 00:19:55.506 --> 00:19:56.841
  • It's a magnificent thing.
  • 00:19:56.841 --> 00:19:58.809
  • Go back to baptism.
  • 00:19:58.809 --> 00:20:00.144
  • John baptized jesus verse 13, matthew 3, "then jesus arrived
  • 00:20:00.144 --> 00:20:06.484
  • From galilee at the jordan coming to john to be baptized
  • 00:20:06.484 --> 00:20:09.420
  • By him.
  • 00:20:09.420 --> 00:20:10.755
  • But john tried to prevent him, saying, 'i need, jesus, to be
  • 00:20:10.755 --> 00:20:14.825
  • Baptized by you, and do you come to me?"'
  • 00:20:14.825 --> 00:20:17.962
  • Key verse.
  • 00:20:17.962 --> 00:20:19.897
  • Key verse. 15 verse.
  • 00:20:19.897 --> 00:20:22.500
  • "jesus answered and said to john, 'permit it at this time,
  • 00:20:22.500 --> 00:20:30.374
  • For in this way it is fitting for us.
  • 00:20:30.374 --> 00:20:35.146
  • John the baptist, and jesus, to fulfill all righteousness.'"
  • 00:20:35.146 --> 00:20:44.021
  • What is that saying?
  • 00:20:44.021 --> 00:20:45.356
  • It's saying something tremendously important.
  • 00:20:45.356 --> 00:20:49.260
  • Here you have john the baptist, the bridge between the law and
  • 00:20:49.260 --> 00:20:52.997
  • The gospel.
  • 00:20:52.997 --> 00:20:54.332
  • Here we have jesus being baptized.
  • 00:20:54.332 --> 00:20:56.200
  • Why?
  • 00:20:56.200 --> 00:20:57.535
  • He had no sin.
  • 00:20:57.535 --> 00:20:58.869
  • He was baptizing so we would fulfill.
  • 00:20:58.869 --> 00:21:01.672
  • He would identify with you and with me in our sin as a
  • 00:21:01.672 --> 00:21:06.944
  • Precursor for the gospel which was proclaimed by john.
  • 00:21:06.944 --> 00:21:12.983
  • As he saw jesus later on he said, "behold the lamb of god."
  • 00:21:12.983 --> 00:21:19.557
  • What does that mean, behold the lamb that satisfies god, takes
  • 00:21:19.557 --> 00:21:24.161
  • Care of all the sacrifices that had been offered, and the lamb
  • 00:21:24.161 --> 00:21:27.865
  • Of god is on the cross.
  • 00:21:27.865 --> 00:21:30.034
  • Jesus in baptism identified with us, jesus on the cross took all
  • 00:21:30.034 --> 00:21:38.142
  • Of our iniquity.
  • 00:21:38.142 --> 00:21:39.677
  • I love that word, it sounds bad.
  • 00:21:39.677 --> 00:21:41.645
  • It sounds ugly.
  • 00:21:41.645 --> 00:21:43.013
  • It sounds like sin.
  • 00:21:43.013 --> 00:21:44.815
  • Took all of it out of you and me and put it on himself.
  • 00:21:44.815 --> 00:21:47.752
  • Didn't identify with us, he became sin for us.
  • 00:21:47.752 --> 00:21:53.224
  • And that's the miracle and the grace of calvary, and that's the
  • 00:21:53.224 --> 00:21:56.460
  • Good news of jesus christ.
  • 00:21:56.460 --> 00:21:58.896
  • Behold the lamb of god.
  • 00:21:58.896 --> 00:22:01.098
  • Takes away the sin of the world.
  • 00:22:01.098 --> 00:22:02.566
  • And john baptized jesus, and when he came up out of the
  • 00:22:02.566 --> 00:22:06.404
  • Water, the voice from heaven said, this is my boy, this is my
  • 00:22:06.404 --> 00:22:10.908
  • Beloved son in whom i'm well pleased.
  • 00:22:10.908 --> 00:22:14.078
  • And there was jesus, god in flesh, and there was a dove who
  • 00:22:14.078 --> 00:22:17.648
  • Came like the holy spirit.
  • 00:22:17.648 --> 00:22:19.817
  • See, it's one thing to be baptized by water, it's another
  • 00:22:19.817 --> 00:22:23.387
  • Thing to have your insides drenched by the holy spirit.
  • 00:22:23.387 --> 00:22:28.592
  • Like fire that burns away all of that's within you and within me,
  • 00:22:28.592 --> 00:22:33.497
  • That's the gospel, that's the good news.
  • 00:22:33.497 --> 00:22:36.667
  • Now, did you read it?
  • 00:22:36.667 --> 00:22:40.037
  • Nobody's greater than john, said jesus.
  • 00:22:40.037 --> 00:22:43.207
  • Anybody here think you're greater than john the baptist?
  • 00:22:43.207 --> 00:22:45.910
  • Would you lift your hand?
  • 00:22:45.910 --> 00:22:47.244
  • I'm liftin' my hand.
  • 00:22:47.244 --> 00:22:52.450
  • Well, what kinda megalomaniac do we have up there in the pulpit?
  • 00:22:52.450 --> 00:22:57.822
  • You see, i didn't read the rest of that verse.
  • 00:22:57.822 --> 00:23:02.126
  • The rest of that verse says no one who's ever lived is greater
  • 00:23:02.126 --> 00:23:05.596
  • Than john the baptist.
  • 00:23:05.596 --> 00:23:06.931
  • But it says in that verse 11 i read in the beginning, but the
  • 00:23:06.931 --> 00:23:10.501
  • Least in the kingdom of god is greater than john the baptist.
  • 00:23:10.501 --> 00:23:17.875
  • Somebody who gets into heaven through jesus christ's kiss
  • 00:23:17.875 --> 00:23:21.612
  • Barely, i mean saved by fire, they just barely are a
  • 00:23:21.612 --> 00:23:27.918
  • Christian, they are greater than john the baptist.
  • 00:23:27.918 --> 00:23:34.492
  • I was rushing to go somewhere this summer, and i was in
  • 00:23:34.492 --> 00:23:38.062
  • Dallas, and i had to get from those buses and i was late, and
  • 00:23:38.062 --> 00:23:41.866
  • Boy i had to catch it or i'd miss the flight up there.
  • 00:23:41.866 --> 00:23:44.535
  • And the door was closing and i put my hand in the door, and i
  • 00:23:44.535 --> 00:23:47.471
  • Caught the door and i got in and they took me up and they said,
  • 00:23:47.471 --> 00:23:50.975
  • Three and a half minutes, we were going to close the gate if
  • 00:23:50.975 --> 00:23:52.910
  • You hadn't gotten here.
  • 00:23:52.910 --> 00:23:54.245
  • I got there by the skin of my teeth, by the hair of
  • 00:23:54.245 --> 00:23:57.481
  • My chinny-chin-chin.
  • 00:23:57.481 --> 00:23:58.816
  • Did you see what the scripture says?
  • 00:23:58.816 --> 00:24:05.256
  • The lowest person.
  • 00:24:05.256 --> 00:24:06.957
  • Who may well that might be?
  • 00:24:06.957 --> 00:24:08.292
  • Who knows jesus christ.
  • 00:24:08.292 --> 00:24:11.395
  • Receives his grace, his forgiveness, his love, the
  • 00:24:11.395 --> 00:24:14.131
  • Exchanged life, is greater than john the baptist!
  • 00:24:14.131 --> 00:24:19.470
  • Whew!
  • 00:24:19.470 --> 00:24:20.804
  • That helps us understand a little bit about the love, the
  • 00:24:20.804 --> 00:24:24.341
  • Grace, the patience, the overwhelming care that he has
  • 00:24:24.341 --> 00:24:31.382
  • For all of us.
  • 00:24:31.382 --> 00:24:32.716
  • It's available to us.
  • 00:24:32.716 --> 00:24:39.290
  • Love so amazing, so divine, demands my life, my soul,
  • 00:24:39.290 --> 00:24:46.163
  • My all.
  • 00:24:46.163 --> 00:24:47.498
  • Everybody here who knows jesus,
  • 00:24:47.498 --> 00:24:53.170
  • You're greater than john the baptist.
  • 00:24:53.170 --> 00:24:59.476
  • Ed young: we have all felt alone.
  • 00:25:02.580 --> 00:25:05.416
  • Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
  • 00:25:05.416 --> 00:25:08.652
  • On earth.
  • 00:25:08.652 --> 00:25:10.321
  • But god did not create us to live in
  • 00:25:10.321 --> 00:25:12.823
  • A constant state of loneliness.
  • 00:25:12.823 --> 00:25:14.658
  • We need community and fellowship
  • 00:25:14.658 --> 00:25:16.961
  • With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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  • Dr ed young: from my earthly human perspective, john's life
  • 00:26:00.037 --> 00:26:04.208
  • And ministry ended in disaster.
  • 00:26:04.208 --> 00:26:06.877
  • Why then did jesus refer to john as the goat, the greatest of
  • 00:26:06.877 --> 00:26:11.548
  • All time?
  • 00:26:11.548 --> 00:26:12.883
  • The answer lies in how you define greatness.
  • 00:26:12.883 --> 00:26:17.988
  • Now throughout the bible, we learn that god doesn't look at
  • 00:26:17.988 --> 00:26:20.891
  • Things as you and i do.
  • 00:26:20.891 --> 00:26:22.993
  • He has a different perspective on what constitutes greatness.
  • 00:26:22.993 --> 00:26:28.365
  • If your dream is to be used by god, let him have control of
  • 00:26:28.365 --> 00:26:32.403
  • Your life and you will see something truly great takes
  • 00:26:32.403 --> 00:26:36.040
  • Place in you.
  • 00:26:36.040 --> 00:26:38.342
  • And when we begin to realize that god has given us the
  • 00:26:38.342 --> 00:26:41.178
  • Capacity to do great things in his eyes for him, listen, we can
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