1 00:00:03,270 --> 00:00:08,810 Again, tonight, the John's Gospel, and we're at 2 00:00:08,810 --> 00:00:09,750 chapter 10. 3 00:00:11,550 --> 00:00:14,630 Now, we're starting at verse 30 this evening, 4 00:00:15,370 --> 00:00:18,630 and we're going down to the end of 5 00:00:18,630 --> 00:00:19,190 the chapter. 6 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:27,700 Verse 30 reads like this, I and my 7 00:00:27,700 --> 00:00:34,520 Father are one, and I'm calling this this 8 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:38,920 evening, Christ's confessed deity. 9 00:00:41,740 --> 00:00:43,880 You see, I spoke to you last week 10 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,680 and pointed out that the word my is 11 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:53,760 in italics, and I think it's very necessary 12 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:58,460 to see this, because I believe, as many 13 00:00:58,460 --> 00:01:02,200 other scholars believe, that the verse should read 14 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:08,340 like this, I and the Father are one. 15 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,880 You see, when Christ uses the word my 16 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:18,740 Father, in every other portion of the Gospels, 17 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,720 he always speaks of the servant of Jehovah. 18 00:01:25,750 --> 00:01:28,460 You see, the very first utterance of Christ, 19 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:34,760 recorded, is this one, when Joseph and Mary 20 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,260 came seeking for him, when they had lost 21 00:01:38,260 --> 00:01:38,720 him. 22 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,720 You remember, he responded by saying, which he 23 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:46,760 not that I must be about my Father's 24 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:51,380 business, and he's speaking of the servant of 25 00:01:51,380 --> 00:01:51,900 Jehovah. 26 00:01:54,430 --> 00:01:57,770 Almost his last words were, my God, my 27 00:01:57,770 --> 00:02:01,690 God, why hast thou forsaken me? 28 00:02:01,890 --> 00:02:04,930 And, again, it's the cry of the servant 29 00:02:04,930 --> 00:02:06,610 who is the sacrifice. 30 00:02:08,650 --> 00:02:11,830 But, on this occasion, he's not speaking of 31 00:02:11,830 --> 00:02:14,850 the servant of Jehovah, he's speaking of the 32 00:02:14,850 --> 00:02:15,850 co-equal. 33 00:02:18,790 --> 00:02:21,250 Otherwise, he couldn't have put the I first, 34 00:02:21,250 --> 00:02:29,900 he said I am, and if he's not 35 00:02:29,900 --> 00:02:32,960 speaking of the co-equal of God, I 36 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,600 think it's very bad manners to put the 37 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:36,280 I first. 38 00:02:38,450 --> 00:02:42,250 But, here we have the co-equal, and 39 00:02:42,250 --> 00:02:47,490 the co-eternal one, saying I am the 40 00:02:47,490 --> 00:02:48,010 Father. 41 00:02:49,830 --> 00:02:53,850 You see, it's God the Father, and God 42 00:02:53,850 --> 00:02:57,150 the Son here, is brought into the picture, 43 00:02:57,850 --> 00:03:00,630 and we're calling this the concept deity of 44 00:03:00,630 --> 00:03:00,870 Christ. 45 00:03:02,870 --> 00:03:05,990 Then, we shall go on from there, to 46 00:03:05,990 --> 00:03:08,690 look up the Jews revealed to prophecy. 47 00:03:09,970 --> 00:03:13,050 The moment this tremendous statement that we'll look 48 00:03:13,050 --> 00:03:15,110 up in detail in a moment was made, 49 00:03:15,690 --> 00:03:17,990 verse thirty-one says, then the Jews took 50 00:03:17,990 --> 00:03:20,510 up stones again to stone him. 51 00:03:21,590 --> 00:03:25,090 Oh, when you see men with their hands 52 00:03:25,090 --> 00:03:29,590 filled with stones, and their hearts filled with 53 00:03:29,590 --> 00:03:34,270 murder, and their heads filled with envy, surely 54 00:03:34,270 --> 00:03:39,500 we're about looking up to prophecy against a 55 00:03:39,500 --> 00:03:41,920 wonderful person like Christ. 56 00:03:42,780 --> 00:03:44,420 Surely this is to prophecy. 57 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,040 And then, we shall go on from there 58 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:51,500 to look up this supposed blasphemy. 59 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:56,580 Some people don't understand the meaning of verse 60 00:03:56,580 --> 00:04:01,000 thirty, certainly the Jews did, because at the 61 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:04,480 end of verse thirty-three they said, we're 62 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:09,020 stoning thee for blasphemy, because that thou being 63 00:04:09,020 --> 00:04:11,980 a man makest thyself gods. 64 00:04:12,940 --> 00:04:15,100 Oh, they understood all right. 65 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:20,560 If the Jehovah's Witnesses don't understand verse thirty, 66 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:22,580 certainly the Jews did. 67 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,740 Oh yes, they understood what he was talking 68 00:04:26,740 --> 00:04:27,180 about. 69 00:04:28,660 --> 00:04:33,020 Thou being a man makest thyself gods. 70 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:36,900 This is the supposed blasphemy. 71 00:04:37,620 --> 00:04:39,640 Oh, we'll look it up in detail in 72 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:40,560 a moment or two. 73 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:43,600 Then we shall move on from there to 74 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,500 Christ's affirmed surety. 75 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:50,120 You see, he spoke to them very gently 76 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:54,820 about their laws, and that it was written 77 00:04:54,820 --> 00:04:57,680 in their law, I said, God said, ye 78 00:04:57,680 --> 00:04:58,380 are gods. 79 00:04:59,460 --> 00:05:01,860 You see, he called them gods unto whom 80 00:05:01,860 --> 00:05:05,160 the word of God came, and the scripture 81 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:06,320 cometh be brutal. 82 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,280 Such a beautiful phrase. 83 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,560 How wonderful our Lord Jesus Christ gave us 84 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:14,200 this word. 85 00:05:15,380 --> 00:05:20,340 He was absolutely sure, you might remember, that 86 00:05:20,340 --> 00:05:23,540 the scripture, and when he put that word 87 00:05:23,540 --> 00:05:28,300 in, he was embracing the prophets, and the 88 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:32,160 law, and the Psalms, all the old testament 89 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:33,800 that they had just then. 90 00:05:34,460 --> 00:05:36,860 He said, the scripture cometh be brutal. 91 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:40,960 My, the modernists would need to sit up 92 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,940 a seat and learn, but they're too slow. 93 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,500 Then we shall take time to look at 94 00:05:47,500 --> 00:05:52,200 this phrase tonight, verse 36, say ye of 95 00:05:52,200 --> 00:06:00,340 him whom the Father hath sanctified, and we 96 00:06:00,340 --> 00:06:04,640 want to look at Christ's sanctified capacity. 97 00:06:05,940 --> 00:06:08,580 Then we shall go on to look at 98 00:06:08,580 --> 00:06:13,560 the works, his ability, and we'll end with 99 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,960 this phrase that the people beyond Jordan said, 100 00:06:17,860 --> 00:06:20,800 John did no medical, but all things that 101 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,000 John spake of this man were true. 102 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:26,460 Christ successed the domesty. 103 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:31,480 There are these verses before you, Christ confessed 104 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:40,300 deity, the Jews revealed depravity, Christ supposed blasphemy, 105 00:06:41,380 --> 00:06:48,940 Christ's profound surety, Christ's sanctified capacity, Christ displayed 106 00:06:48,940 --> 00:06:53,000 ability, and Christ successed the domesty. 107 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:58,180 Now there are the bones, but the bones 108 00:06:58,180 --> 00:06:59,860 are no use, we need to put the 109 00:06:59,860 --> 00:07:00,880 piece on the bones. 110 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:05,800 So let's really tackle this portion bit by 111 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:06,180 bit. 112 00:07:06,820 --> 00:07:09,640 The Lord Jesus is speaking here in verse 113 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,000 30, and notice that he puts the I 114 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:14,340 first. 115 00:07:16,780 --> 00:07:20,360 If you were speaking about your Father, you 116 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:25,560 would say my Father and I, but he 117 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:30,020 said I and the Father are one. 118 00:07:32,310 --> 00:07:36,490 Not only do we get co-equality here, 119 00:07:38,090 --> 00:07:40,710 and not only do we see unity in 120 00:07:40,710 --> 00:07:44,650 the one, but we are gazing now at 121 00:07:44,650 --> 00:07:47,890 Christ confessing his own dignity. 122 00:07:49,870 --> 00:07:52,310 Yes, he is confessing that he's God. 123 00:07:54,060 --> 00:07:59,840 He's just saying, I, God the Son, I'm 124 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:00,800 God the Father. 125 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,020 Now, I want you to get this one 126 00:08:04,020 --> 00:08:06,920 mess, and there are great arguments about this. 127 00:08:08,660 --> 00:08:11,060 You know, he's not talking like a Unitarian, 128 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:15,920 because there are quite a number in the 129 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,220 land, the Knights who have again embraced Unitarianism, 130 00:08:20,340 --> 00:08:21,520 they call it one mess. 131 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:22,280 Oh, I know. 132 00:08:24,810 --> 00:08:27,410 I believe he spoke at a trinity of 133 00:08:27,410 --> 00:08:31,370 it, and I'm perfectly sure that the Bible 134 00:08:31,370 --> 00:08:33,210 teaches the trinity, all right. 135 00:08:34,669 --> 00:08:39,530 When our Lord Jesus was being baptized, just 136 00:08:39,530 --> 00:08:41,210 as he came up out of the water, 137 00:08:41,530 --> 00:08:46,970 and there he is, there's a voice from 138 00:08:46,970 --> 00:08:50,670 heaven, and don't try to tell me he 139 00:08:50,670 --> 00:08:56,000 was acting like a philoquist, because he's on 140 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:01,140 the bank, and the Father is speaking from 141 00:09:01,140 --> 00:09:07,360 heaven, and in between comes the Spirit, like 142 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,270 a dove, and you've got Father, Son, and 143 00:09:11,270 --> 00:09:12,310 Holy Spirit there. 144 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:17,000 I was talking to one of these fellows 145 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,860 who believes that Jesus is the Father and 146 00:09:20,860 --> 00:09:24,480 the Spirit, and he doesn't believe in trinity, 147 00:09:24,660 --> 00:09:25,580 he said they're one. 148 00:09:27,080 --> 00:09:28,900 And here's a little verse that I've turned 149 00:09:28,900 --> 00:09:30,460 into, and I'd like you to have a 150 00:09:30,460 --> 00:09:30,840 look at. 151 00:09:33,130 --> 00:09:37,650 It's in 2nd John, you know, 1st, 2nd, 152 00:09:37,790 --> 00:09:40,050 3rd John, well, just 2nd John will do 153 00:09:40,050 --> 00:09:40,830 you this time. 154 00:09:48,770 --> 00:09:51,710 This is John writing on to the Elect 155 00:09:51,710 --> 00:09:56,610 Lady, and here's what is said in 2nd 156 00:09:56,610 --> 00:09:58,970 John, verse 9, just one chapter. 157 00:10:00,550 --> 00:10:07,010 He said, Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in 158 00:10:07,010 --> 00:10:09,350 the doctrine of Christ hath not God. 159 00:10:11,700 --> 00:10:15,180 He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, 160 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:22,130 he hath both the Father and the Son. 161 00:10:23,770 --> 00:10:26,070 And I said to him, could you tell 162 00:10:26,070 --> 00:10:27,710 me what the word both means? 163 00:10:31,570 --> 00:10:33,390 And I would want to know again if 164 00:10:33,390 --> 00:10:34,390 both means one. 165 00:10:37,230 --> 00:10:39,650 My dear friends, of course there is one 166 00:10:39,650 --> 00:10:46,070 God, but there is a plurality of persons 167 00:10:46,070 --> 00:10:48,470 taught in the book. 168 00:10:49,150 --> 00:10:53,750 In the beginning was the Word, and if 169 00:10:53,750 --> 00:10:56,010 you want to go down John's Gospel and 170 00:10:56,010 --> 00:10:58,270 find out who the Word was, you go 171 00:10:58,270 --> 00:10:59,530 down to verse 14. 172 00:10:59,870 --> 00:11:03,170 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, 173 00:11:03,270 --> 00:11:06,050 and we beheld His glory as of the 174 00:11:06,050 --> 00:11:07,950 only begotten of the Father. 175 00:11:08,210 --> 00:11:10,650 The Word was the only begotten of the 176 00:11:10,650 --> 00:11:10,950 Father. 177 00:11:11,510 --> 00:11:13,050 Here's the first verse again. 178 00:11:13,630 --> 00:11:16,090 In the beginning was the Word, and the 179 00:11:16,090 --> 00:11:18,270 Word was with God. 180 00:11:19,830 --> 00:11:24,990 Or as Hendrickson translated the actual Greek, the 181 00:11:24,990 --> 00:11:29,110 Word was face to face with God. 182 00:11:29,110 --> 00:11:34,870 Of course there are personalities in the Godhead, 183 00:11:35,890 --> 00:11:38,290 but we're not after that so much tonight. 184 00:11:38,930 --> 00:11:42,790 We're just getting the hold of this, that 185 00:11:42,790 --> 00:11:45,430 Christ is confessing His deity here. 186 00:11:46,310 --> 00:11:48,730 I am the Father of one. 187 00:11:49,870 --> 00:11:51,330 One what? 188 00:11:52,370 --> 00:11:57,050 One in purpose, one in power. 189 00:11:58,110 --> 00:12:00,350 Why, the thing follows what we were asked 190 00:12:00,350 --> 00:12:00,970 last week. 191 00:12:01,070 --> 00:12:03,330 Watch this, go back a couple of verses. 192 00:12:04,670 --> 00:12:06,950 See verse 28, it's talking about the sheep. 193 00:12:08,150 --> 00:12:12,070 I give unto them eternal life, and they 194 00:12:12,070 --> 00:12:16,070 shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck 195 00:12:16,070 --> 00:12:17,690 them out of My hands. 196 00:12:19,330 --> 00:12:21,730 My Father which gave them Me is greater 197 00:12:21,730 --> 00:12:24,430 than all, and no man is able to 198 00:12:24,430 --> 00:12:26,170 pluck them out of My Father's hands. 199 00:12:26,430 --> 00:12:29,150 I am the Father, I'm one in this 200 00:12:29,150 --> 00:12:29,510 purpose. 201 00:12:29,790 --> 00:12:36,660 We'll keep the sheep, yet they're one in 202 00:12:36,660 --> 00:12:37,040 power. 203 00:12:39,770 --> 00:12:46,190 Distinct personalities, both the Father and the Son, 204 00:12:46,290 --> 00:12:47,570 but one in power. 205 00:12:49,070 --> 00:12:51,610 But the thing that touched the Jews was 206 00:12:51,610 --> 00:12:56,610 this, when He said, I am the Father, 207 00:12:57,790 --> 00:13:01,070 when He placed Himself right there, they knew 208 00:13:01,070 --> 00:13:05,630 exactly what He meant, My sitting in the 209 00:13:05,630 --> 00:13:10,890 place of God, God the Son, of course. 210 00:13:12,590 --> 00:13:17,550 And so, when this deity was confessed, then 211 00:13:17,550 --> 00:13:21,130 the Jews took up stones again to stone 212 00:13:21,130 --> 00:13:21,430 Him. 213 00:13:23,350 --> 00:13:26,290 My dear friends, I think that this is 214 00:13:26,290 --> 00:13:30,450 one of the saddest, one of the most 215 00:13:30,450 --> 00:13:33,430 sorrowful things in the whole book. 216 00:13:34,970 --> 00:13:36,530 And I'd like you to get the hold 217 00:13:36,530 --> 00:13:36,830 of it. 218 00:13:36,950 --> 00:13:39,730 Remember, the man who took up the stones, 219 00:13:40,390 --> 00:13:42,850 the man that you're watching now with stones 220 00:13:42,850 --> 00:13:46,490 in their hands, ready to stone the most 221 00:13:46,490 --> 00:13:50,650 tender-hearted soul that ever walked the broad 222 00:13:50,650 --> 00:13:53,790 eagles of earth, the most pure man that 223 00:13:53,790 --> 00:13:54,950 ever breathed. 224 00:13:55,630 --> 00:13:58,190 Remember, the hands that took up the stones 225 00:13:58,190 --> 00:14:07,230 were religious hands, Pharisees they were, men steeped 226 00:14:07,230 --> 00:14:08,130 in religion. 227 00:14:09,870 --> 00:14:11,790 And I believe this, you know, with all 228 00:14:11,790 --> 00:14:15,050 my heart, if you preach the way Christ 229 00:14:15,050 --> 00:14:19,760 preached, and if you walk the way Christ 230 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:24,260 walked, and if you work the way Christ 231 00:14:24,260 --> 00:14:28,380 worked, the dead-empty form of religion that's 232 00:14:28,380 --> 00:14:30,980 around you will throw stones. 233 00:14:33,270 --> 00:14:35,570 And if you're going to live for God, 234 00:14:37,150 --> 00:14:42,170 my all that lives godly in Christ shall 235 00:14:42,170 --> 00:14:43,710 suffer persecution. 236 00:14:45,130 --> 00:14:52,090 The old, dead, hypocritical, pharisaical, dead formalists around 237 00:14:52,090 --> 00:14:54,830 you will throw stones. 238 00:14:56,860 --> 00:14:58,980 But I think that he spoke to them 239 00:14:58,980 --> 00:15:01,340 very wonderfully, although the stones were in their 240 00:15:01,340 --> 00:15:01,660 hands. 241 00:15:03,140 --> 00:15:11,030 Look at verse 32, Jesus answered them, "'Many 242 00:15:11,030 --> 00:15:13,390 good works have I told you from my 243 00:15:13,390 --> 00:15:13,750 Father. 244 00:15:15,330 --> 00:15:18,770 For which of those works do ye stone 245 00:15:18,770 --> 00:15:24,960 me?' The Jews answered him, saying, "'For a 246 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,060 good work we've stoned thee not, but for 247 00:15:27,060 --> 00:15:32,120 blasphemy, because that thou, being a man, makest 248 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:38,480 thyself God.'" You see, they were so darkened 249 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:43,620 in their understanding, and so vain in their 250 00:15:43,620 --> 00:15:48,220 imagination, so blinded by the God of this 251 00:15:48,220 --> 00:15:52,940 world, that even the moral glory of Christ 252 00:15:52,940 --> 00:15:55,700 was veiled before them. 253 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,120 And, you know, he just looked at them 254 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,320 and said, "'For which of the good works 255 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:05,460 do you stone me?' And they come out 256 00:16:05,460 --> 00:16:08,100 with a supposed blasphemy." 257 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:09,480 Now, let me put it to you like 258 00:16:09,480 --> 00:16:09,740 this. 259 00:16:12,250 --> 00:16:18,910 If Jesus Christ, who was born in Bethlehem 260 00:16:18,910 --> 00:16:23,430 of the Virgin, if Jesus Christ was not 261 00:16:23,430 --> 00:16:27,880 God, then the Jews were right. 262 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:37,940 My dear friend, if Jesus Christ was not 263 00:16:37,940 --> 00:16:41,900 God, then this phrase, "'I am the Father 264 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:45,540 of one,' is most decidedly blasphemy. 265 00:16:51,180 --> 00:16:55,800 And remember to let men fall down and 266 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:59,480 worship him, as he did on many occasions, 267 00:17:01,110 --> 00:17:03,290 as again to make him a deceiver. 268 00:17:05,260 --> 00:17:07,180 But there are no quibbles about it. 269 00:17:08,900 --> 00:17:12,260 Jesus Christ was God. 270 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,400 I have no hesitation at all. 271 00:17:17,819 --> 00:17:20,960 Praise the Lord for this tremendous fact." 272 00:17:22,329 --> 00:17:23,849 You know, a Russell Light looked at me 273 00:17:23,849 --> 00:17:27,810 once when I said, "'Jesus Christ was God.'" 274 00:17:27,810 --> 00:17:33,310 And she said, "'God can't die.'" I said, 275 00:17:33,410 --> 00:17:34,530 "'Does that mean he's stopping there? 276 00:17:34,550 --> 00:17:38,090 He's putting the foot off there.'" I said, 277 00:17:38,190 --> 00:17:42,370 "'God can't sleep.'" And he slept in the 278 00:17:42,370 --> 00:17:43,630 hinder part of the book. 279 00:17:43,910 --> 00:17:46,170 "'And God can't be weary.'" And he was 280 00:17:46,170 --> 00:17:47,590 weary sitting on the well. 281 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:53,880 "'Course God can't die, and God can't sleep, 282 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,800 and God can't be weary, but God manifest 283 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:06,280 in flesh can.'" Other then, he says, "'God 284 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:11,980 manifests in flesh, and God manifests in flesh 285 00:18:11,980 --> 00:18:16,480 can die, and did die.'" Yes, when we 286 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,480 take the cup and break the bread, he 287 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,320 was what we say. 288 00:18:20,020 --> 00:18:23,520 As often as you drink, as often as 289 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:25,980 you eat this bread and drink this cup, 290 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:30,120 now watch it, "'Ye do so the Lord's 291 00:18:32,290 --> 00:18:33,810 way.'" That's what the book says. 292 00:18:36,020 --> 00:18:38,800 "'When he hung in yon cross, with his 293 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,860 hair matted with sweat, and his face battered 294 00:18:42,860 --> 00:18:46,360 beyond recognition, and his bones pulled out of 295 00:18:46,360 --> 00:18:49,080 joint, and his back furrowed with the Roman 296 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:50,960 lock, what a spectacle! 297 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:54,780 Paul penned these words, "'If the princes of 298 00:18:54,780 --> 00:18:57,380 this world had known, they would not have 299 00:18:57,380 --> 00:19:03,590 crucified Christ, the Lord of Glory.'" Now, that's 300 00:19:03,590 --> 00:19:08,410 who he was, the Lord of Glory. 301 00:19:09,790 --> 00:19:15,070 God manifest in flesh. 302 00:19:16,270 --> 00:19:19,310 Oh, don't only that as the theologians. 303 00:19:20,450 --> 00:19:23,510 Let's stand just for a moment at the 304 00:19:23,510 --> 00:19:27,610 cross, poor we measurable things of the dusk, 305 00:19:28,050 --> 00:19:31,290 sinners of the deepest dark, and remember that 306 00:19:31,290 --> 00:19:35,530 God's lovely Son loved me. 307 00:19:44,420 --> 00:19:48,220 You know what the old missionary said? 308 00:19:50,160 --> 00:19:56,740 Jesus Christ be God and died for me. 309 00:19:58,610 --> 00:20:04,650 There is no sacrifice too great for me 310 00:20:04,650 --> 00:20:05,490 to make for him. 311 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:08,820 Get the hold of the back page. 312 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,040 My only supposed blasphemy. 313 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,760 Yes, he was really God, but let's move 314 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:19,160 on. 315 00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:24,260 I think this is a tremendous answer that's 316 00:20:24,260 --> 00:20:25,260 being made now. 317 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:33,560 Verse 34, Jesus answered them, "'Is it not 318 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:34,900 written in you, Lord? 319 00:20:36,020 --> 00:20:42,990 I said, ye are God.'" And you know 320 00:20:42,990 --> 00:20:44,810 that's in Psalm 82. 321 00:20:46,450 --> 00:20:47,970 Let's have a look at the psalm just 322 00:20:47,970 --> 00:20:48,630 for a moment. 323 00:20:50,630 --> 00:20:56,740 It's the 82nd psalm, and it's very wonderful 324 00:20:56,740 --> 00:20:57,640 to notice this. 325 00:21:01,580 --> 00:21:03,740 Our Lord knew the book, didn't he? 326 00:21:06,190 --> 00:21:08,690 And remember, even as a man he had 327 00:21:08,690 --> 00:21:09,210 to learn. 328 00:21:13,030 --> 00:21:15,470 Now, we're after the 82nd psalm. 329 00:21:18,330 --> 00:21:24,010 Verse 1, "'God standeth in the congregation of 330 00:21:24,010 --> 00:21:30,120 the mighty.'" I think the congregation of the 331 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,800 mighty just then was the whole nation of 332 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:34,180 Israel. 333 00:21:37,410 --> 00:21:45,220 He judges among the gods, and I believe 334 00:21:45,220 --> 00:21:49,360 the gods, on this occasion, is a word 335 00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:51,580 given to the judges in Israel. 336 00:21:53,380 --> 00:21:55,680 You see, when Moses took the whole nation 337 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:58,420 upon his shoulders, he thought the weight could 338 00:21:58,420 --> 00:22:01,420 be too much, and you remember, judges were 339 00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:05,580 appointed, and as they stood in the gate 340 00:22:05,580 --> 00:22:08,060 and had the particular cases, they gave a 341 00:22:08,060 --> 00:22:08,440 judgment. 342 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:12,900 And here, just because they speak to the 343 00:22:12,900 --> 00:22:15,160 nation the word of God, given to them 344 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,820 by God, they're called gods. 345 00:22:19,890 --> 00:22:22,530 And God's speaking to them now, "'How long 346 00:22:22,530 --> 00:22:28,800 will ye judge unjustly and accept the persons 347 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:33,300 of the wicked, defend the poor and fatherless, 348 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:39,240 do justice to the afflicted and needy, deliver 349 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,060 the poor and needy, rid them out of 350 00:22:42,060 --> 00:22:43,060 the hand of the wicked? 351 00:22:44,060 --> 00:22:46,220 They know not, neither will they understand. 352 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,300 They walk on in darkness, all the foundations 353 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:52,060 of the earth are out of course. 354 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:59,300 I have said, ye are gods, and all 355 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:05,340 of you are children of the Messiah.'" You 356 00:23:05,340 --> 00:23:09,000 see, this word was applied to the judges 357 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,760 in Israel, and as they stood there to 358 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,320 give judgment, and the word of God came 359 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:20,500 through them, as these particular needy folks stood 360 00:23:20,500 --> 00:23:25,280 before them, God said, "'I have said, ye 361 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:30,440 are gods,' and our Lord Jesus, you know, 362 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,020 remembered this time, as he did all the 363 00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:36,960 others, and now on this occasion he's turning 364 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:38,780 them back, and here's what he's saying to 365 00:23:38,780 --> 00:23:38,920 them. 366 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:43,920 Let's get back to John 10, verse 34, 367 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:50,080 "'Jesus answered them, "'Is it not written in 368 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:57,370 your law, I said, ye are gods, if 369 00:23:57,370 --> 00:24:01,230 ye call them gods, unto whom the word 370 00:24:01,230 --> 00:24:05,290 of God came, and the scripture done was 371 00:24:05,290 --> 00:24:09,990 broken, say ye of him whom the Father 372 00:24:09,990 --> 00:24:13,110 hath sanctified and sent into the world, thou 373 00:24:13,110 --> 00:24:17,410 blasphemous, because I said, I am the Son 374 00:24:17,410 --> 00:24:21,110 of God.'" Oh, they got it all right, 375 00:24:21,210 --> 00:24:23,650 you know, when he said, "'I am the 376 00:24:23,650 --> 00:24:28,430 Father,' they knew that he was talking about 377 00:24:28,430 --> 00:24:31,730 God the Son, they knew he was making 378 00:24:31,730 --> 00:24:35,990 himself God, and now he's just putting it 379 00:24:35,990 --> 00:24:38,670 up to them, he's saying this to them, 380 00:24:39,570 --> 00:24:44,290 he's saying, you know, you're inconsistent, you never 381 00:24:44,290 --> 00:24:46,750 fell out with God when he called the 382 00:24:46,750 --> 00:24:50,850 judges an Israel God, and some of them 383 00:24:50,850 --> 00:24:55,360 were unjust, but you haven't found any fault 384 00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:59,020 with me, and yet now you take up 385 00:24:59,020 --> 00:25:00,380 stones to stone me. 386 00:25:02,100 --> 00:25:07,020 My, he was driving home their inconsistency and 387 00:25:07,020 --> 00:25:12,940 his eternality, and it was very wonderfully done." 388 00:25:12,940 --> 00:25:14,500 But you know how many of us here, 389 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,140 when we are placed in the tight corner 390 00:25:17,140 --> 00:25:20,420 by the enemy, could go to Psalm 82 391 00:25:20,420 --> 00:25:21,780 and bring out something. 392 00:25:23,910 --> 00:25:25,350 There's very many of us. 393 00:25:25,990 --> 00:25:30,630 When the devil came to chasten in the 394 00:25:30,630 --> 00:25:34,950 wilderness, do you remember he answered three times, 395 00:25:35,210 --> 00:25:37,710 "'It is written, it is written, it is 396 00:25:37,710 --> 00:25:40,330 written,' and he got the three portions from 397 00:25:40,330 --> 00:25:42,370 the book of Deuteronomy, and how many of 398 00:25:42,370 --> 00:25:44,950 us know the very chapters that he did. 399 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:51,240 And always you will find this, that our 400 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:57,960 wonderful Lord, when the lion was roaring, and 401 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:01,800 the enemy was near, and they were trying 402 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,880 to beset him round about, could put his 403 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:09,720 hand into the book, and from some seemingly 404 00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:15,600 almost unknown portion, bring out the very thing 405 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,960 that won the day." 406 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:19,960 And let me tell you this, he's only 407 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:22,200 putting his finger on one word in Psalm 408 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:23,600 82, it's the word God. 409 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:28,220 And the boys that don't believe in candor, 410 00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:32,340 and verbal inspiration, they're going to be in 411 00:26:32,340 --> 00:26:33,200 a fix in a minute. 412 00:26:35,540 --> 00:26:36,860 He's picking out one word. 413 00:26:38,020 --> 00:26:40,680 He says, you know that word, God, is 414 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:42,920 in Psalm 82, and you never could think 415 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:43,560 about it. 416 00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:46,760 He's bringing it out now. 417 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:49,220 Strange. 418 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,880 Thank God he left this on record. 419 00:26:54,360 --> 00:27:00,320 The scriptures shall not be broken. 420 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:03,780 Thank God he left that on record. 421 00:27:04,270 --> 00:27:10,280 The whole of the Old Testament, Genesis, Exodus, 422 00:27:10,580 --> 00:27:14,680 Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, just the Judges, and so 423 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,880 on, right through to Malachi, the whole of 424 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:22,060 the Old Testament, our blessed, wonderful Lord said, 425 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,020 cannot be broken. 426 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:29,680 My friends, the modern would need to sit 427 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,700 down at the feet of Jesus and learn 428 00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:37,500 all they can, that this is indeed the 429 00:27:37,500 --> 00:27:47,640 infallible, inspired, impregnable, unchangeable, eternal 430 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,940 work of the living God. 431 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,780 Don't ever forget it is. 432 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,420 But he did two things in the argument. 433 00:27:58,600 --> 00:27:59,620 What's this? 434 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:06,080 First of all, he said to them, if 435 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,600 it's not written in your law, I said, 436 00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:09,680 ye are God's. 437 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:17,540 If ye call them God's, unto whom the 438 00:28:17,540 --> 00:28:21,420 word of God came, and the scripture cannot 439 00:28:21,420 --> 00:28:26,160 be broken, say ye of him whom the 440 00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:31,580 Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world. 441 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,580 And so we want to have a look 442 00:28:34,580 --> 00:28:44,000 at this sanctification that became Christ, even before 443 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:45,560 he came into the world. 444 00:28:47,870 --> 00:28:50,450 You know, I believe that in our country 445 00:28:50,450 --> 00:28:59,790 today, there is more nonsense taught about sanctification 446 00:28:59,790 --> 00:29:04,650 than any other subject that I know of. 447 00:29:06,130 --> 00:29:07,390 I'm sure of it. 448 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,400 It's a good thing I would look around 449 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,040 each one of you now and say, what 450 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,380 do you think that sanctification means? 451 00:29:16,710 --> 00:29:18,470 Or you just turn it over in your 452 00:29:18,470 --> 00:29:18,670 mind. 453 00:29:18,710 --> 00:29:19,910 What do you think it means? 454 00:29:22,310 --> 00:29:25,610 Because if you're thinking that it means the 455 00:29:25,610 --> 00:29:30,110 second blessing just now, then Christ got it 456 00:29:30,110 --> 00:29:38,000 before he came, because he was sanctified before 457 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:38,780 he was sent. 458 00:29:41,220 --> 00:29:43,780 I know people in the country who preach 459 00:29:43,780 --> 00:29:50,380 that sanctification means the eradication of the nature. 460 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:54,640 Is this what happened to Christ before he 461 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:55,100 came? 462 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,720 Well, you can't make it mean one thing 463 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,460 one day, you know, and make it mean 464 00:30:02,460 --> 00:30:04,880 another thing another day, or other ways. 465 00:30:05,180 --> 00:30:06,120 Language is no use. 466 00:30:09,210 --> 00:30:11,370 You know, I had a schoolmaster who came 467 00:30:11,370 --> 00:30:13,810 into the back room one night. 468 00:30:13,850 --> 00:30:14,950 He was in the ridge. 469 00:30:15,890 --> 00:30:17,930 I had said something like what I'm saying 470 00:30:17,930 --> 00:30:18,410 now. 471 00:30:19,210 --> 00:30:21,030 And he came in the ridge and said 472 00:30:21,030 --> 00:30:23,630 to me, you know right well that sanctification 473 00:30:23,630 --> 00:30:24,990 means the second blessing. 474 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,280 I know nothing of the kind, I say. 475 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:32,840 And here's a wee verse that I turn 476 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:35,280 them to, and you just have a look 477 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:35,860 at it. 478 00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:38,700 And don't forget it after you do look 479 00:30:38,700 --> 00:30:40,140 at it, and remember it again. 480 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:41,140 It's just like Christ. 481 00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:44,720 It's the Word of God, and it's handwritten 482 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:45,200 by Brooklyn. 483 00:30:46,400 --> 00:30:47,440 Look at it. 484 00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:52,900 It's 1 Corinthians, and it's chapter 7. 485 00:30:55,550 --> 00:31:05,830 1 Corinthians, chapter 7, and 486 00:31:05,830 --> 00:31:15,560 it says, verse 14, carefully, carefully, for the 487 00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:32,440 unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and 488 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:39,920 the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband. 489 00:31:41,180 --> 00:31:46,680 So, I simply asked the schoolmaster, has the 490 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,620 unbelieving husband got the second blessing? 491 00:31:52,590 --> 00:31:55,270 Now, you wouldn't need very much intelligence to 492 00:31:55,270 --> 00:31:56,490 answer the question, would you? 493 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,440 And he just knew exactly where he was. 494 00:32:02,460 --> 00:32:04,960 You see, first of all, we see that 495 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:10,980 this book talks about Christ being sanctified before 496 00:32:10,980 --> 00:32:15,990 he came, and this book talks about an 497 00:32:15,990 --> 00:32:19,290 unbelieving husband being sanctified. 498 00:32:22,110 --> 00:32:26,110 Very careful what we say about sanctification, because 499 00:32:26,110 --> 00:32:28,170 just whatever you're going to make at least 500 00:32:28,170 --> 00:32:29,010 you have got it. 501 00:32:32,630 --> 00:32:37,510 Now, just in case you misunderstand me, don't 502 00:32:37,510 --> 00:32:39,730 go out of the place saying this. 503 00:32:41,430 --> 00:32:45,850 If you have an experience that brought you 504 00:32:45,850 --> 00:32:49,870 nearer to the Lord, I'm not talking about 505 00:32:49,870 --> 00:32:50,730 your experience. 506 00:32:53,250 --> 00:32:55,890 I'm not talking about the doctrine of sanctification. 507 00:32:57,950 --> 00:32:58,890 I'm not talking... 508 00:32:58,890 --> 00:33:01,170 I knew a lot of old dead Baptists 509 00:33:01,170 --> 00:33:03,010 could do with some sort of an experience. 510 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:05,340 I do. 511 00:33:07,980 --> 00:33:10,060 Now, let's get the whole thing correct, and 512 00:33:10,060 --> 00:33:11,920 then you'll not blame me for something I 513 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:12,520 didn't say. 514 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,820 My dear friends, many a man and woman 515 00:33:18,820 --> 00:33:22,940 has got gloriously saved, and for years only 516 00:33:22,940 --> 00:33:27,200 lived a sort of half-hearted, carnal existence, 517 00:33:28,020 --> 00:33:30,440 and came to the place where they surrendered 518 00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:32,560 all to God and began to live. 519 00:33:33,330 --> 00:33:35,760 Well, if you got there, God bless you, 520 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,700 but don't start to make that a doctrine. 521 00:33:42,660 --> 00:33:44,080 That's your experience. 522 00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:47,240 Don't drive it into something that it doesn't 523 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:48,080 apply to. 524 00:33:50,370 --> 00:33:51,550 Keep it out of it. 525 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:57,780 We'll deal with sanctification now, because our blessed 526 00:33:57,780 --> 00:34:07,500 Lord and the unbelieving husband who had 527 00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:10,380 sanctified him would mean something that will fit 528 00:34:10,380 --> 00:34:11,260 into both of them. 529 00:34:12,739 --> 00:34:14,239 And if you would like me to take 530 00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,860 it further, I'll show you something more. 531 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,600 All right, come on, we'll start and we 532 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:18,239 might as well finish. 533 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,120 First Corinthians, and we're at the first chapter, 534 00:34:32,750 --> 00:34:34,250 and we're at the first verse. 535 00:34:35,909 --> 00:34:38,310 Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus 536 00:34:38,310 --> 00:34:41,449 Christ through the will of God, and to 537 00:34:41,449 --> 00:34:44,770 see these, our brothers, unto the church of 538 00:34:44,770 --> 00:34:47,929 God which is at thorns, to them that 539 00:34:47,929 --> 00:34:50,770 are sanctified in Christ Jesus. 540 00:34:50,989 --> 00:34:52,010 That's what he's writing to. 541 00:34:52,810 --> 00:34:56,210 He's writing to people that are sanctified. 542 00:34:57,610 --> 00:34:59,330 All right, if you think they've got the 543 00:34:59,330 --> 00:35:01,130 second blessing, have a look at how they're 544 00:35:01,130 --> 00:35:02,730 living in the third chapter, will you? 545 00:35:04,030 --> 00:35:05,110 See chapter three? 546 00:35:05,610 --> 00:35:06,550 See verse one? 547 00:35:07,810 --> 00:35:10,690 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you 548 00:35:10,690 --> 00:35:16,010 as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even 549 00:35:16,010 --> 00:35:17,390 as unto babes in Christ. 550 00:35:17,690 --> 00:35:19,650 I have fed you with milk and not 551 00:35:19,650 --> 00:35:22,490 with meat, for hitherto you were not able 552 00:35:22,490 --> 00:35:24,710 to bear it, neither yet now are you 553 00:35:24,710 --> 00:35:27,190 able, for you are yet carnal. 554 00:35:28,690 --> 00:35:31,470 For whereas there is among you envy and 555 00:35:31,470 --> 00:35:34,510 strife and division, are you not carnal, and 556 00:35:34,510 --> 00:35:35,190 what of men? 557 00:35:36,550 --> 00:35:40,450 Yet these carnal Christians, this carnal child, is 558 00:35:40,450 --> 00:35:43,270 called sanctified in the first verse. 559 00:35:44,950 --> 00:35:45,610 Is that right? 560 00:35:46,910 --> 00:35:49,170 He's writing for these people who were sanctified. 561 00:35:50,370 --> 00:35:52,810 All right now, we've got problems on our 562 00:35:52,810 --> 00:35:53,410 hands now. 563 00:35:54,070 --> 00:35:56,850 The blessed Lord was sanctified before he came. 564 00:35:57,150 --> 00:36:01,290 The unbelieving husband got sanctified by the believing 565 00:36:01,290 --> 00:36:01,770 wife. 566 00:36:02,430 --> 00:36:07,370 The carnal Corinthians were sanctified according to the 567 00:36:07,370 --> 00:36:07,790 first verse. 568 00:36:10,330 --> 00:36:13,850 Friends, you know, this is a wonderful subject. 569 00:36:14,850 --> 00:36:18,470 Don't, don't just try to twist the word 570 00:36:18,470 --> 00:36:18,930 of God. 571 00:36:19,550 --> 00:36:27,690 This word, sanctified, or sanctification, it has a 572 00:36:27,690 --> 00:36:32,610 root meaning that can never at any time 573 00:36:32,610 --> 00:36:36,880 be changed, and the root meaning just means 574 00:36:36,880 --> 00:36:37,340 this. 575 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:46,300 Sanctified means to be set apart, and sanctification 576 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:48,160 means separation. 577 00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,040 Do you see the Lord before he came? 578 00:36:53,300 --> 00:36:55,760 He's the eternal Father, that's what he's getting 579 00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:56,260 at here. 580 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,800 And before he came, he was set apart 581 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,920 by the Father. 582 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,160 Now, what's your wording? 583 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,760 We're not John 10 again. 584 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:14,240 I want you to get this, because this 585 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:15,180 is very important. 586 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,460 Now, watch this. 587 00:37:21,780 --> 00:37:25,200 Verse 35, If he called them gods unto 588 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,460 whom the word of God came, and the 589 00:37:27,460 --> 00:37:31,140 Scriptures had not been broken, say ye of 590 00:37:31,140 --> 00:37:36,520 him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent 591 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:37,440 into the world. 592 00:37:39,020 --> 00:37:40,760 Now, I want you to notice who did 593 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:41,880 the sanctifying. 594 00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:44,540 Did you notice that? 595 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:45,220 The Father. 596 00:37:46,460 --> 00:37:49,460 Can't you see there are some exclusive brethren, 597 00:37:50,460 --> 00:37:55,460 and they don't believe in the eternal sonship, 598 00:37:57,430 --> 00:37:59,170 and they would try to put me in 599 00:37:59,170 --> 00:38:02,690 a corner sometimes to prove that Christ was 600 00:38:02,690 --> 00:38:03,690 the eternal Son. 601 00:38:03,990 --> 00:38:08,930 They believe that the sonship begun at Bethlehem. 602 00:38:09,870 --> 00:38:11,790 Well, I'll prove the opposite, just now. 603 00:38:12,970 --> 00:38:16,030 Who sanctified the Father? 604 00:38:16,590 --> 00:38:17,330 When? 605 00:38:17,810 --> 00:38:19,390 Before he came into the world. 606 00:38:21,550 --> 00:38:23,030 The Father set them apart. 607 00:38:23,330 --> 00:38:23,990 Now, wait a minute. 608 00:38:24,910 --> 00:38:29,790 You know, there couldn't be the Father without 609 00:38:29,790 --> 00:38:30,370 the Son. 610 00:38:32,210 --> 00:38:34,230 You see, the moment you got married, you 611 00:38:34,230 --> 00:38:35,430 didn't become a father. 612 00:38:37,410 --> 00:38:42,330 Your fatherhood just runs along as far as 613 00:38:42,330 --> 00:38:46,610 the sonship, or the childship in your family. 614 00:38:47,910 --> 00:38:51,910 The day the wee fellow was born, you 615 00:38:51,910 --> 00:38:57,690 became the father, and they're both running equal, 616 00:38:57,950 --> 00:38:59,750 on the same length of time. 617 00:39:01,170 --> 00:39:05,550 And if the father was setting apart, who 618 00:39:05,550 --> 00:39:06,870 was to be the son? 619 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:11,120 So, he was the son before he came. 620 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,600 I'm sure your book taught you long ago 621 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,520 that the Father sent the Son to be 622 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:18,700 the Savior of the world. 623 00:39:19,780 --> 00:39:20,740 But wait a minute. 624 00:39:21,660 --> 00:39:23,880 The Father set them apart. 625 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,220 For what? 626 00:39:27,620 --> 00:39:28,540 Well, watch. 627 00:39:28,660 --> 00:39:29,980 We'll go to 1 Peter. 628 00:39:32,950 --> 00:39:33,890 1 Peter. 629 00:39:35,770 --> 00:39:37,750 I think this is a lovely one. 630 00:39:47,540 --> 00:39:50,120 Just for the sake of time, verse 18. 631 00:39:52,430 --> 00:39:54,570 For as much as ye know that ye 632 00:39:54,570 --> 00:39:58,330 were not redeemed with corruptible things, of silver 633 00:39:58,330 --> 00:40:01,230 and gold, from your vain conversation received by 634 00:40:01,230 --> 00:40:04,490 tradition from your fathers, but with the precious 635 00:40:04,490 --> 00:40:07,330 blood of Christ, as of a lamb without 636 00:40:07,330 --> 00:40:11,290 blemish and without spot, who verily was full 637 00:40:11,290 --> 00:40:15,610 ordained before Christ, the foundation of the world. 638 00:40:17,610 --> 00:40:19,030 Sorry, way back yonder. 639 00:40:19,990 --> 00:40:24,710 Before the hills in August stood, when earth 640 00:40:24,710 --> 00:40:29,910 received its frame, way back in yon chancel 641 00:40:29,910 --> 00:40:36,490 chamber of eternity, the power set the Son 642 00:40:36,490 --> 00:40:39,010 apart to be the Lamb. 643 00:40:41,690 --> 00:40:43,410 There was no afterthought, you know. 644 00:40:44,990 --> 00:40:47,870 My dear friend, God had the whole thing 645 00:40:47,870 --> 00:40:51,630 cut and dried before he ever promised a 646 00:40:51,630 --> 00:40:53,410 Savior to Adam in Eden. 647 00:40:53,850 --> 00:40:57,210 He had a Lamb prepared in the Eden 648 00:40:57,210 --> 00:40:57,750 above. 649 00:40:59,250 --> 00:41:00,930 Oh, it was no afterthought. 650 00:41:01,610 --> 00:41:05,510 You see, he was full ordained to be 651 00:41:05,510 --> 00:41:06,010 the Lamb. 652 00:41:06,110 --> 00:41:10,150 The eternal chancel took place from the Father's 653 00:41:10,150 --> 00:41:10,250 end. 654 00:41:11,590 --> 00:41:17,850 You, the Eternal Son, you're after God, and 655 00:41:17,850 --> 00:41:20,570 you have to become the sacrifice to deal 656 00:41:20,570 --> 00:41:23,290 with sin, to meet the requirements of this 657 00:41:23,290 --> 00:41:26,990 holy throne, and you have to so satisfy 658 00:41:26,990 --> 00:41:29,770 us that you'll be raised the third day 659 00:41:29,770 --> 00:41:32,930 to be the Savior of all who will 660 00:41:32,930 --> 00:41:33,350 believe. 661 00:41:33,730 --> 00:41:37,150 A wonderful story, isn't it? 662 00:41:37,510 --> 00:41:41,250 Yes, the Father set him apart to be 663 00:41:41,250 --> 00:41:41,850 the Lamb. 664 00:41:43,210 --> 00:41:44,890 All right, let's go further. 665 00:41:45,430 --> 00:41:50,290 We're going back to Titus, and we're at 666 00:41:50,290 --> 00:41:52,230 the first chapter of Titus. 667 00:41:57,630 --> 00:41:59,190 This is a lovely one. 668 00:42:07,950 --> 00:42:10,870 Titus, chapter 1, verse 1. 669 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,620 Paul, it thrills me every time I see 670 00:42:16,620 --> 00:42:18,820 this man writing these letters in the New 671 00:42:18,820 --> 00:42:19,160 Testament. 672 00:42:20,740 --> 00:42:23,380 No popish nonsense here. 673 00:42:25,020 --> 00:42:30,180 This Paul, not the very Reverend Gregory this 674 00:42:30,180 --> 00:42:31,700 or that or the other, no, no. 675 00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:37,320 This Paul, you can see his humility. 676 00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:44,240 Our servant of God, you can see his 677 00:42:44,240 --> 00:42:44,840 honesty. 678 00:42:45,900 --> 00:42:50,040 An apostle of Jesus Christ, you can see 679 00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:50,660 his authority. 680 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:57,020 According to the faith of God's elect. 681 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,020 Don't you know God's elect need to have 682 00:43:01,020 --> 00:43:01,460 faith? 683 00:43:01,460 --> 00:43:05,340 Lovely rephrasing there, mind you. 684 00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,340 The faith of God's elect. 685 00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:13,500 On the acknowledging of the truth, which is 686 00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:14,440 after godliness. 687 00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:20,900 Yes, if we're the servants of God, and 688 00:43:20,900 --> 00:43:23,720 if we've got any gifts, if we're the 689 00:43:23,720 --> 00:43:26,440 elect through faith, you know, we need to 690 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:28,480 be practicing things down here. 691 00:43:28,740 --> 00:43:29,360 Godliness. 692 00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,680 They're all tied up together. 693 00:43:34,060 --> 00:43:34,700 What's this? 694 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:40,640 In hope of eternal life, which God that 695 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:44,560 cometh alive promised before the world began. 696 00:43:44,860 --> 00:43:46,220 Who did he promise it to? 697 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,040 Who did he promise it to? 698 00:43:52,020 --> 00:43:54,020 Well, if he promised it before the world 699 00:43:54,020 --> 00:43:56,300 began, he didn't promise it to everyone. 700 00:43:57,720 --> 00:43:58,280 Is that right? 701 00:44:00,460 --> 00:44:02,860 My dear friend, he promised it to the 702 00:44:02,860 --> 00:44:03,960 Eternal Son. 703 00:44:06,290 --> 00:44:07,010 Is that, you know? 704 00:44:07,110 --> 00:44:10,810 If you become the Lamb and finish the 705 00:44:10,810 --> 00:44:14,310 work and rise again from the dead, I'll 706 00:44:14,310 --> 00:44:15,690 make you the life giver. 707 00:44:17,310 --> 00:44:21,870 And you can only get life eternal in 708 00:44:21,870 --> 00:44:22,390 Christ. 709 00:44:25,220 --> 00:44:25,880 Is that right? 710 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,380 Because God's death is a pass. 711 00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:33,120 No hope is peace. 712 00:44:37,630 --> 00:44:42,530 A new ritual of any touch can give 713 00:44:42,530 --> 00:44:43,010 you life. 714 00:44:48,050 --> 00:44:57,360 Jesus alone can only get life. 715 00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:02,760 And he that hath the Son hath life. 716 00:45:04,660 --> 00:45:06,940 And he that hath not the Son, he 717 00:45:06,940 --> 00:45:10,600 can be sprinkled of God's Christ by immersion, 718 00:45:11,060 --> 00:45:13,740 or stuck in any creed, but he hasn't 719 00:45:13,740 --> 00:45:14,300 got life. 720 00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,940 You can't get life without Christ. 721 00:45:20,240 --> 00:45:22,600 God promised this before the world began. 722 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:23,700 Well, do you see this? 723 00:45:24,260 --> 00:45:29,000 God set him apart, yes, to be the 724 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:29,400 Lamb. 725 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,180 God set him apart to be the life 726 00:45:34,180 --> 00:45:37,720 giver, to get eternal life. 727 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:49,350 Now, watch again, without Ephesians now, at the 728 00:45:49,350 --> 00:45:54,820 first chapter, verse three, just to get the 729 00:45:54,820 --> 00:45:55,300 connection. 730 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,500 Ephesians, chapter one, verse three, Blessed be the 731 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:03,920 God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 732 00:46:04,660 --> 00:46:07,500 who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings 733 00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:11,900 in the heavenlies in Christ, opposing as he 734 00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:16,320 hath chosen us in him before the foundation 735 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:17,160 of the world. 736 00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:22,900 I want you to get this. 737 00:46:23,800 --> 00:46:30,800 You know, when God, the great Trinity, in 738 00:46:30,800 --> 00:46:35,400 the eternal past, in the council chambers of 739 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,700 eternity, tossed this thing over and planned it 740 00:46:38,700 --> 00:46:43,640 all out, the eternal Son, by the eternal 741 00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:47,420 power, was set apart to be the Lamb. 742 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:51,080 And when he would finish the work and 743 00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:53,220 be brought back from the dead, he would 744 00:46:53,220 --> 00:46:54,220 be the life giver. 745 00:46:55,280 --> 00:46:57,680 But he was not only set apart to 746 00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:00,240 be the Lamb and the life giver, he 747 00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:02,200 would go on up back to the truth 748 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:04,980 as the Lord of the elect. 749 00:47:09,780 --> 00:47:12,160 He was set apart before the foundation of 750 00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,080 the world as the Lord of the elect. 751 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:17,440 My, they were all chosen in him. 752 00:47:22,110 --> 00:47:23,870 In case you're worrying about the other two 753 00:47:23,870 --> 00:47:25,790 cases, watch this. 754 00:47:26,110 --> 00:47:28,730 When Paul went into Cairn and was saying 755 00:47:28,730 --> 00:47:30,370 his preaching to a village, there are only 756 00:47:30,370 --> 00:47:32,810 twenty houses, and he stands out in the 757 00:47:32,810 --> 00:47:34,270 middle of the street and he preaches this 758 00:47:34,270 --> 00:47:36,950 great message that God's Son came to be 759 00:47:36,950 --> 00:47:39,010 the Lamb and rose again as the life 760 00:47:39,010 --> 00:47:40,890 giver and he'll be the Lord of all 761 00:47:40,890 --> 00:47:42,190 who really trust in him. 762 00:47:42,670 --> 00:47:44,470 Supposing a wee woman at the end of 763 00:47:44,470 --> 00:47:48,530 the street trusts the Christ, you see all 764 00:47:48,530 --> 00:47:50,070 the rest of the houses in the village, 765 00:47:50,830 --> 00:47:53,090 well her house is different from theirs now. 766 00:47:53,610 --> 00:47:55,930 There's a wee woman in there that knows 767 00:47:55,930 --> 00:48:00,410 the Lord, and her husband is different from 768 00:48:00,410 --> 00:48:01,390 all the other husbands. 769 00:48:02,130 --> 00:48:05,570 You see, her husband is set apart because 770 00:48:05,570 --> 00:48:08,550 there's light in the house now, and he's 771 00:48:08,550 --> 00:48:10,390 set apart from the rest of the village, 772 00:48:10,570 --> 00:48:12,690 and the unbelieving husband is set apart. 773 00:48:13,890 --> 00:48:16,910 You see these Corinthians, well the moment they 774 00:48:16,910 --> 00:48:21,210 trusted the Lord Jesus and ventured their all 775 00:48:21,210 --> 00:48:24,510 upon his atoning blood, they were set apart 776 00:48:24,510 --> 00:48:27,830 as the sheep of the great shepherd, but 777 00:48:27,830 --> 00:48:30,410 the trouble is they were living carnal lives. 778 00:48:31,510 --> 00:48:35,630 But nevertheless, through faith and the sacrifice, they 779 00:48:35,630 --> 00:48:36,510 were set apart. 780 00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:42,840 And the only sanctification that I know for 781 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:44,840 the day in which we're living is found 782 00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,420 in John 17, I read verse 17, and 783 00:48:47,420 --> 00:48:48,840 if you don't know it, here it is. 784 00:48:49,340 --> 00:48:51,200 Christ is praying, will come to us in 785 00:48:51,200 --> 00:48:54,900 a night or two, and he cries, sanctify 786 00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:57,860 them through my truth. 787 00:48:57,860 --> 00:49:03,820 They would love to be sanctified without the 788 00:49:03,820 --> 00:49:04,000 truth. 789 00:49:05,780 --> 00:49:09,100 When we preach believer's baptism, you dodge it. 790 00:49:10,580 --> 00:49:11,480 What's up with you? 791 00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:12,740 Are you afraid of the word? 792 00:49:13,300 --> 00:49:18,570 Well then, don't talk about holiness, just give 793 00:49:18,570 --> 00:49:18,990 it up. 794 00:49:19,770 --> 00:49:23,750 Why are you concerned about talking about sanctification 795 00:49:23,750 --> 00:49:24,670 and holiness? 796 00:49:25,110 --> 00:49:27,430 Well, I'll tell you how you get sanctified, 797 00:49:28,110 --> 00:49:31,070 through opinion to the book. 798 00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:35,480 And you know, when the Lord talks to 799 00:49:35,480 --> 00:49:37,380 some of you boys that are stuck in 800 00:49:37,380 --> 00:49:41,100 some of these secret clubs about coming out 801 00:49:41,100 --> 00:49:45,300 and being separate and touching not the unclean 802 00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:46,860 things, you dodge it. 803 00:49:48,460 --> 00:49:49,180 Don't you? 804 00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,140 Go home and sleep all of the night. 805 00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:53,940 You're stuck in it. 806 00:49:55,060 --> 00:49:59,020 And the Lord is saying, come out and 807 00:49:59,020 --> 00:50:02,380 touch not the unclean things. 808 00:50:03,380 --> 00:50:07,060 May God set you apart for himself through 809 00:50:07,060 --> 00:50:07,640 his words. 810 00:50:10,030 --> 00:50:11,390 But I want you to get this. 811 00:50:11,570 --> 00:50:13,030 Let's get back to John 10. 812 00:50:18,790 --> 00:50:24,150 John 10, I think this is lovely, how 813 00:50:24,150 --> 00:50:27,590 the Lord Jesus puts it to them. 814 00:50:28,870 --> 00:50:31,470 He says, verse 36, Say ye of him 815 00:50:31,470 --> 00:50:38,670 whom the Father hath sanctified, and then sent 816 00:50:38,670 --> 00:50:40,350 into the world. 817 00:50:41,270 --> 00:50:46,730 He was set apart as the Lamb, as 818 00:50:46,730 --> 00:50:49,950 the life-giver, as the Lord of the 819 00:50:49,950 --> 00:50:54,030 elect, before he ever stepped out of the 820 00:50:54,030 --> 00:50:55,730 ivory powers of the tomb. 821 00:50:56,910 --> 00:51:00,090 And then, when the fullness of the time 822 00:51:00,090 --> 00:51:02,650 was come, he came into the world. 823 00:51:06,160 --> 00:51:07,980 My, he's got a clear argument now. 824 00:51:09,280 --> 00:51:12,720 He says, you fellas, you didn't object to 825 00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:14,980 God calling your own son as God? 826 00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:19,040 How can you say of the one whom 827 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,800 the Father set apart, and then sent into 828 00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:22,320 the world? 829 00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:23,260 How blasphemous. 830 00:51:25,020 --> 00:51:26,920 You know, he's tying them up, isn't he? 831 00:51:28,380 --> 00:51:29,960 Yes, and then he went just a little 832 00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:30,440 bit further. 833 00:51:31,660 --> 00:51:37,380 He said this, verse 37, If I do 834 00:51:37,380 --> 00:51:42,620 not the works of my Father, believe me 835 00:51:42,620 --> 00:51:48,580 not, but if I do, though ye believe 836 00:51:48,580 --> 00:51:51,960 not me, believe the works, that ye may 837 00:51:51,960 --> 00:51:54,260 know and believe that the Father is in 838 00:51:54,260 --> 00:51:55,960 me, and I in him. 839 00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:03,100 You know, he's going from the books to 840 00:52:03,100 --> 00:52:07,500 his position, and now he's going to vindicate 841 00:52:07,500 --> 00:52:11,440 everything by the very works that were accomplished. 842 00:52:13,340 --> 00:52:15,180 My, he can just look at them full 843 00:52:15,180 --> 00:52:15,720 on the face. 844 00:52:16,180 --> 00:52:19,680 Didn't he give sight to the blind? 845 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,420 Didn't he cleanse the leper? 846 00:52:24,660 --> 00:52:26,320 Didn't he raise the dead? 847 00:52:27,460 --> 00:52:28,600 He said, just have a look at the 848 00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:32,600 works, and if you can't believe me, believe 849 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:33,220 the works. 850 00:52:34,140 --> 00:52:35,820 And you know, the moment that he quoted 851 00:52:35,820 --> 00:52:38,580 the books, and showed his position, and produced 852 00:52:38,580 --> 00:52:41,040 the works, my, they were in a very 853 00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,020 tight corner, and they did what they always 854 00:52:43,020 --> 00:52:43,340 do. 855 00:52:44,240 --> 00:52:45,500 They're going to fight now. 856 00:52:46,580 --> 00:52:51,460 Watch, verse 39, Therefore they sought again to 857 00:52:51,460 --> 00:52:51,880 take you. 858 00:52:53,360 --> 00:52:55,480 My, can't you see the depravity? 859 00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:02,660 Oh, this sinful heart that dwells in every 860 00:53:02,660 --> 00:53:03,860 human breast. 861 00:53:04,900 --> 00:53:09,800 Mine is that carnality, man, that is enmity 862 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:10,960 against God. 863 00:53:12,660 --> 00:53:16,140 And whether the book speaks, or the Christ 864 00:53:16,140 --> 00:53:20,600 stands, or the works are produced, this causes 865 00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:22,280 the poverty of all. 866 00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:28,240 So resist God, and it does, you know. 867 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,040 We're no better than they were. 868 00:53:31,980 --> 00:53:34,200 My, I thought they'd take him again. 869 00:53:35,770 --> 00:53:41,530 Look this way, verse 40, And they went 870 00:53:41,530 --> 00:53:44,670 away, and went away again, and he went 871 00:53:44,670 --> 00:53:48,890 away again, beyond Jordan, into the place where 872 00:53:48,890 --> 00:53:52,470 John had first baptized, and there he abode. 873 00:53:52,550 --> 00:53:56,050 And many resorted unto him, and said, John 874 00:53:56,050 --> 00:53:57,550 did no miracle. 875 00:53:57,710 --> 00:53:59,370 Isn't that a lovely way of saying it? 876 00:54:00,790 --> 00:54:09,050 You know, miracles were not necessary to accredit 877 00:54:09,050 --> 00:54:09,630 the prophets. 878 00:54:11,350 --> 00:54:14,010 They were not the credentials of the prophets. 879 00:54:16,120 --> 00:54:17,380 You know, there are a lot of people, 880 00:54:17,500 --> 00:54:19,080 you know, and if he didn't do something 881 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:23,200 spectacular, my, you wouldn't be anybody at all. 882 00:54:24,340 --> 00:54:27,260 Oh, let me tell you that John was 883 00:54:27,260 --> 00:54:30,040 the last of the old Testament prophets, and 884 00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,900 our Lord Jesus Christ said, there was not 885 00:54:32,900 --> 00:54:35,980 a greater born among women. 886 00:54:36,940 --> 00:54:39,580 And our Lord Jesus Christ, in his own 887 00:54:39,580 --> 00:54:43,320 word, revealed that John was filled with the 888 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,860 Holy Ghost from his mother's womb. 889 00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:47,780 But he did no miracle. 890 00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,140 No, a prophet didn't need to do miracles 891 00:54:52,140 --> 00:54:53,280 to be accredited. 892 00:54:55,380 --> 00:54:58,680 You know, some people, unless you're always doing 893 00:54:58,680 --> 00:55:00,660 what they want you to do, my, they 894 00:55:00,660 --> 00:55:02,360 wouldn't recognize your gift, you know. 895 00:55:03,860 --> 00:55:06,480 You see, when God is talking in Corinthians 896 00:55:06,480 --> 00:55:09,200 about the church, he says, he hath set 897 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:12,340 some in the church first apostles. 898 00:55:13,660 --> 00:55:15,320 They were gifts, you know. 899 00:55:16,340 --> 00:55:17,360 They had certain gifts. 900 00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:19,100 The apostles had certain gifts. 901 00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:22,480 And then, secondly, came prophets. 902 00:55:22,740 --> 00:55:24,480 Of course, they were New Testament prophets. 903 00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,680 And then, thirdly, and mark that, came teachers. 904 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,900 That's what I'm supposed to say. 905 00:55:33,900 --> 00:55:34,860 They're running third years. 906 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:39,520 And when Paul outlines all these gifts, he 907 00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:40,520 just asks questions. 908 00:55:40,640 --> 00:55:44,040 He said, are all the disciples in the 909 00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:45,360 body apostles? 910 00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:51,800 Are all the believers prophets? 911 00:55:53,340 --> 00:55:54,020 No. 912 00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:56,600 Are all teachers? 913 00:55:57,080 --> 00:55:57,440 No. 914 00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,660 Do all have the gift of miracles? 915 00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:02,420 No. 916 00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:05,840 Do all speak with tongues? 917 00:56:06,340 --> 00:56:06,580 No. 918 00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,700 That's what they talk about, you know, sometimes. 919 00:56:11,860 --> 00:56:13,700 Oh, they've all got to talk with tongues. 920 00:56:15,660 --> 00:56:17,060 Well, you want to go back and learn 921 00:56:17,060 --> 00:56:17,820 the book again. 922 00:56:21,590 --> 00:56:24,790 My dear friends, just be careful of what 923 00:56:24,790 --> 00:56:28,290 you're going to make the credential of any 924 00:56:28,290 --> 00:56:28,670 gift. 925 00:56:31,170 --> 00:56:32,170 John was a prophet. 926 00:56:33,370 --> 00:56:34,370 But he did no miracle. 927 00:56:35,290 --> 00:56:36,450 But what's this? 928 00:56:39,060 --> 00:56:42,500 But all things that John speak of this 929 00:56:42,500 --> 00:56:43,840 man were true. 930 00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:45,680 Oh, isn't that lovely? 931 00:56:47,220 --> 00:56:53,860 My, he didn't do any spectacular works, but 932 00:56:53,860 --> 00:56:57,500 he really brought forth some remarkable words, didn't 933 00:56:57,500 --> 00:56:57,760 he? 934 00:56:59,540 --> 00:57:01,020 My, he was a real preacher. 935 00:57:02,300 --> 00:57:06,400 And all that John speak of this man 936 00:57:07,760 --> 00:57:08,500 was true. 937 00:57:10,020 --> 00:57:11,300 And I'll tell you one or two of 938 00:57:11,300 --> 00:57:12,960 the things, and then you can follow on, 939 00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:13,400 you see. 940 00:57:14,660 --> 00:57:18,180 First of all, you'll notice this, that John 941 00:57:18,180 --> 00:57:21,000 looked at the crowd, and he said, just 942 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:22,280 stand as one among you. 943 00:57:24,710 --> 00:57:26,510 The lot to the fool's shoes are not 944 00:57:26,510 --> 00:57:28,110 worthy to sit down in the moose. 945 00:57:29,930 --> 00:57:35,790 He's prepared before me, for he was before 946 00:57:35,790 --> 00:57:36,150 me. 947 00:57:37,190 --> 00:57:39,450 Mind you, that was some saying for John. 948 00:57:39,810 --> 00:57:43,010 For John, according to flesh, was six months 949 00:57:43,010 --> 00:57:44,170 older than Christ. 950 00:57:46,100 --> 00:57:47,080 Six months older. 951 00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:49,780 How could he make a doubt that Christ 952 00:57:49,780 --> 00:57:50,660 was before him? 953 00:57:51,140 --> 00:57:54,060 You see, he's seeing the eternality of the 954 00:57:54,060 --> 00:57:54,300 Son. 955 00:57:54,900 --> 00:57:56,520 He knew who he was. 956 00:57:57,340 --> 00:58:01,040 And when John speak of his eternality, it 957 00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:01,660 was true. 958 00:58:03,180 --> 00:58:05,160 But as John looked at him, he said, 959 00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:06,420 behold the Lamb. 960 00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:09,820 Yes, the one who came down out of 961 00:58:09,820 --> 00:58:12,240 eternity had come to be the Lamb of 962 00:58:12,240 --> 00:58:14,340 God, the one who would go to the 963 00:58:14,340 --> 00:58:17,220 cross and give the sacrifice for the sin 964 00:58:17,220 --> 00:58:19,280 of the world, the one who would so 965 00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:21,540 satisfy God that he would rise again the 966 00:58:21,540 --> 00:58:24,520 third day and he'd become the Savior of 967 00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:26,800 all who would believe. 968 00:58:28,060 --> 00:58:31,300 Mind, John talked about his eternality, and then 969 00:58:31,300 --> 00:58:32,980 he talked about his sufficiently. 970 00:58:34,620 --> 00:58:36,280 And then John said, you know, I'm not 971 00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,200 worthy to stoop down and lose a shoe. 972 00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:42,020 He was thinking of his glory, and the 973 00:58:42,020 --> 00:58:47,260 majesty, and the authority that belonged to Christ. 974 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:50,360 And then he said something else. 975 00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:51,320 Do you remember this? 976 00:58:51,820 --> 00:58:53,080 When they came to him and said, you 977 00:58:53,080 --> 00:58:55,000 know, he's gathering up all the disciples and 978 00:58:55,000 --> 00:58:55,840 you're losing out. 979 00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:57,440 Do you remember what he said? 980 00:58:57,680 --> 00:59:01,620 He, that hath the bride, is the bridegroom. 981 00:59:02,620 --> 00:59:05,640 And he was thinking of Christ's capacity down 982 00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:06,060 here. 983 00:59:09,450 --> 00:59:10,990 Oh, let's have a real look at him 984 00:59:10,990 --> 00:59:11,470 tonight. 985 00:59:12,390 --> 00:59:20,230 His eternality, his own sufficiency, his glory, his 986 00:59:20,230 --> 00:59:24,710 majesty, his authority, his capacity, he owns the 987 00:59:24,710 --> 00:59:25,170 bride. 988 00:59:26,390 --> 00:59:31,440 And every soul that trusts is in the 989 00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:33,580 bride just now. 990 00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:36,920 You see the last verse of this chapter? 991 00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:44,260 And many believe on him there. 992 00:59:46,740 --> 00:59:48,920 Friend, I want to talk to you on 993 00:59:48,920 --> 00:59:50,300 saved ones here tonight. 994 00:59:51,620 --> 00:59:53,280 And I want to put this straight to 995 00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:53,480 you. 996 00:59:53,600 --> 00:59:54,700 I want you to be honest. 997 00:59:56,320 --> 00:59:59,320 Do you really think that this one who 998 00:59:59,320 --> 01:00:05,340 came was the eternal son of God? 999 01:00:06,900 --> 01:00:08,300 What do you think now? 1000 01:00:10,310 --> 01:00:12,830 Do you really believe that he came into 1001 01:00:12,830 --> 01:00:16,990 the world to save sinners by becoming the 1002 01:00:16,990 --> 01:00:17,810 Lamb of God? 1003 01:00:19,250 --> 01:00:21,790 Do you really believe he rose again from 1004 01:00:21,790 --> 01:00:22,290 the dead? 1005 01:00:22,550 --> 01:00:24,870 And tonight there is no alternative. 1006 01:00:25,530 --> 01:00:27,990 Then trust him, trust him now. 1007 01:00:32,820 --> 01:00:34,640 Why don't you step out and fall at 1008 01:00:34,640 --> 01:00:35,960 his feet if you believe this. 1009 01:00:37,610 --> 01:00:39,550 And before you leave the church tonight, say 1010 01:00:39,550 --> 01:00:40,150 Lord Jesus. 1011 01:00:41,290 --> 01:00:44,230 In this place tonight, knowing who you are, 1012 01:00:45,210 --> 01:00:48,310 and how far you came, and what you 1013 01:00:48,310 --> 01:00:51,750 endured, and how you went to Calvary and 1014 01:00:51,750 --> 01:00:53,730 died and rose again to be my savior, 1015 01:00:54,330 --> 01:00:57,450 here and now, I accept you. 1016 01:01:00,380 --> 01:01:01,920 Oh, to God we could change the church 1017 01:01:01,920 --> 01:01:02,280 tonight. 1018 01:01:02,860 --> 01:01:05,640 Many believe on him here. 1019 01:01:17,510 --> 01:01:24,950 Oh God, we thank thee for thy, thine 1020 01:01:24,950 --> 01:01:26,450 eternal son. 1021 01:01:28,850 --> 01:01:31,210 We thank thee that the son of God 1022 01:01:32,450 --> 01:01:36,630 who made the world became the Lamb of 1023 01:01:36,630 --> 01:01:39,450 God for the world. 1024 01:01:40,510 --> 01:01:43,550 And we bless thee that he rose again 1025 01:01:44,230 --> 01:01:48,270 and tonight he's the savior of the world. 1026 01:01:49,750 --> 01:01:54,170 And that life eternal is found in him 1027 01:01:55,470 --> 01:01:59,390 for whosoever will believe. 1028 01:02:01,570 --> 01:02:05,830 Oh God, bless the saints and save the 1029 01:02:05,830 --> 01:02:11,090 lost and magnify thy lovely son. 1030 01:02:12,190 --> 01:02:12,950 Amen.