1 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,240 One, nine, eight, oh, spread the tithing hand. 2 00:00:18,020 --> 00:00:21,180 Whenever man is found, whenever human hearts and 3 00:00:21,180 --> 00:00:26,100 human woes abound, let every Christian tongue proclaim 4 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:27,520 the joyful sound. 5 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:29,720 The Comforter is come. 6 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:31,580 One, nine, eight, please. 7 00:00:31,580 --> 00:00:33,900 The Comforter 8 00:00:41,420 --> 00:00:51,200 is come. 9 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:51,740 The Comforter is come. 10 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:59,900 We're coming 11 00:01:55,870 --> 00:05:52,040 to John's 12 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:56,760 Gospel tonight, and we're at the seventh chapter, 13 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:57,220 please. 14 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:03,940 John's Gospel, and we're at the seventh chapter, 15 00:06:09,030 --> 00:06:13,870 and we're going up to Jerusalem this evening. 16 00:06:14,330 --> 00:06:16,010 Going up to Jerusalem. 17 00:06:17,170 --> 00:06:20,710 I can never understand the muck properly, because 18 00:06:20,710 --> 00:06:24,090 when you're leaving Capernaum the way up there, 19 00:06:24,710 --> 00:06:28,450 and you're coming down the muck, well, the 20 00:06:28,450 --> 00:06:30,010 scholars say you're going up. 21 00:06:31,590 --> 00:06:34,390 When you're coming down on up, they say 22 00:06:34,390 --> 00:06:37,070 you're going up, so that if you're coming 23 00:06:37,070 --> 00:06:41,170 down from Capernaum to Jerusalem on the muck, 24 00:06:41,550 --> 00:06:45,290 you're actually, according to scholars and direction, you're 25 00:06:45,290 --> 00:06:45,830 going up. 26 00:06:46,690 --> 00:06:49,530 And when you're going up the muck, you're 27 00:06:49,530 --> 00:06:50,190 coming down. 28 00:06:51,310 --> 00:06:53,430 So I don't know anything about this. 29 00:06:53,970 --> 00:06:56,370 The only thing I know that when you're 30 00:06:56,370 --> 00:07:00,510 neither halfway up nor down, you're neither up 31 00:07:00,510 --> 00:07:01,010 nor down. 32 00:07:04,940 --> 00:07:07,620 But we're going up to Jerusalem tonight. 33 00:07:09,140 --> 00:07:12,100 The Lord has had that great tour in 34 00:07:12,100 --> 00:07:15,980 Galilee, and he's going up to Jerusalem. 35 00:07:16,180 --> 00:07:19,060 It's the Feast of Tabernacles. 36 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:23,480 And we're going to look at, first of 37 00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,920 all, just before the Feast, one or two 38 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:27,340 things before the Feast. 39 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,680 And then at verse 14, we're going to 40 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,480 come to about the midst of the Feast. 41 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,400 And then at verse 37, in that last 42 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,180 day, that great day of the Feast. 43 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,400 And at the end of the chapter, of 44 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,000 course, we're coming to after the Feast. 45 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,960 Before the Feast, in the midst of the 46 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,200 Feast, at the end of the Feast, and 47 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:01,100 after the Feast. 48 00:08:01,180 --> 00:08:03,260 And we've got a lot of ground to 49 00:08:03,260 --> 00:08:04,340 cover this evening. 50 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:07,260 And you'll have to pray for me as 51 00:08:07,260 --> 00:08:08,560 we get across the ground. 52 00:08:09,820 --> 00:08:12,500 Chapter 7, you'll notice, begins with this phrase, 53 00:08:12,660 --> 00:08:15,400 After These Things. 54 00:08:17,860 --> 00:08:20,120 And it's always good to stop and ask 55 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:21,160 yourself a question. 56 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:25,660 After These Things, what does this mean? 57 00:08:27,420 --> 00:08:30,940 You see, at verse 66, in chapter 6, 58 00:08:31,039 --> 00:08:35,900 it says, From that time many of his 59 00:08:35,900 --> 00:08:39,380 disciples went back and walked no more with 60 00:08:39,380 --> 00:08:39,700 him. 61 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,740 You know, he was beginning to lose the 62 00:08:43,740 --> 00:08:44,220 clothes. 63 00:08:47,570 --> 00:08:52,070 And remember, the Lord Jesus never worried about 64 00:08:52,070 --> 00:08:52,610 the clothes. 65 00:08:53,730 --> 00:08:55,170 Not for a moment. 66 00:08:56,590 --> 00:09:00,150 But after this took place, after these things, 67 00:09:01,730 --> 00:09:04,890 after a great multitude turned away and walked 68 00:09:04,890 --> 00:09:05,930 with him no more. 69 00:09:06,910 --> 00:09:10,710 After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee. 70 00:09:12,510 --> 00:09:14,810 And I think this is very specially put 71 00:09:14,810 --> 00:09:16,650 here, you know, by the Holy Ghost. 72 00:09:17,790 --> 00:09:21,030 He's not working in Galilee any more. 73 00:09:22,210 --> 00:09:25,190 And he's not witnessing the way he was. 74 00:09:26,170 --> 00:09:28,350 He's just walking in Galilee. 75 00:09:29,950 --> 00:09:33,830 It seems to me that the whole ministry 76 00:09:33,830 --> 00:09:36,990 to Galilee is coming to an end. 77 00:09:38,170 --> 00:09:40,390 In fact, he's about to leave it. 78 00:09:41,210 --> 00:09:43,650 And he won't be back there any more 79 00:09:43,650 --> 00:09:45,290 until after the Resurrection. 80 00:09:45,290 --> 00:09:48,830 But you'll notice this. 81 00:09:49,410 --> 00:09:52,250 After these things, Jesus walked in Galilee. 82 00:09:52,750 --> 00:09:56,130 For he would not walk in Jewry, that 83 00:09:56,130 --> 00:10:00,850 is down in Judaism, or Judea if you 84 00:10:00,850 --> 00:10:01,210 wish. 85 00:10:02,150 --> 00:10:04,750 For he would not walk in Jewry because 86 00:10:04,750 --> 00:10:07,290 the Jews thought to kill him. 87 00:10:08,790 --> 00:10:10,350 Now that's very interesting. 88 00:10:12,010 --> 00:10:14,250 Because, you know, it would teach us that 89 00:10:14,250 --> 00:10:15,790 we're not to run risks. 90 00:10:17,230 --> 00:10:19,850 And this is what I get scolded for 91 00:10:19,850 --> 00:10:21,150 doing all the time. 92 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:26,160 I always have a consciousness within me, you 93 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,020 know, that if the Lord gives me a 94 00:10:28,020 --> 00:10:31,340 message, and he tips and talks to me 95 00:10:31,340 --> 00:10:33,600 and tells me wee things and point things 96 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:38,060 out, then I am responsible for bringing them 97 00:10:38,060 --> 00:10:40,280 to you, whether I'm dottering or whether I'm 98 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:40,600 not. 99 00:10:43,580 --> 00:10:45,640 And I know that out of your kindness 100 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,060 for me, some of the office bearers came 101 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:51,520 to me tonight and said, now look here, 102 00:10:52,220 --> 00:10:54,200 half a month off, take a couple of 103 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,260 months off, go away to the Mediterranean. 104 00:10:56,860 --> 00:10:58,440 What in the name of the world would 105 00:10:58,440 --> 00:10:59,420 I do in the Mediterranean? 106 00:11:02,140 --> 00:11:04,560 I can neither swim nor sunbathe. 107 00:11:06,890 --> 00:11:08,130 Well, it's just kindness. 108 00:11:08,590 --> 00:11:10,050 And I appreciate that. 109 00:11:11,530 --> 00:11:14,270 Then you see I'm in a different position. 110 00:11:14,270 --> 00:11:17,370 And if the Lord sits and talks to 111 00:11:17,370 --> 00:11:21,430 me about a message for Sunday morning, I'll 112 00:11:21,430 --> 00:11:23,390 feel I need to be here on Sunday 113 00:11:23,390 --> 00:11:23,770 morning. 114 00:11:24,790 --> 00:11:27,050 And I'll be really ill and far put 115 00:11:27,050 --> 00:11:27,950 when I'm not here. 116 00:11:30,580 --> 00:11:33,160 I know that the Lord Jesus was laying 117 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:34,960 down a little message for us. 118 00:11:36,140 --> 00:11:38,340 You know, he knew himself that he would 119 00:11:38,340 --> 00:11:39,600 end up on the cross. 120 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,060 And he knew, if you look down the 121 00:11:43,060 --> 00:11:45,180 chapter a little bit there in verse 6, 122 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,740 he said unto them, my time is not 123 00:11:48,740 --> 00:11:49,460 yet come. 124 00:11:52,250 --> 00:11:54,510 You know, he knew that he mustn't go 125 00:11:54,510 --> 00:11:57,550 and risk his life down in Europe. 126 00:11:58,630 --> 00:12:00,150 They were ready to kill him. 127 00:12:01,350 --> 00:12:03,910 And he wasn't throwing away his life just 128 00:12:03,910 --> 00:12:04,490 like that. 129 00:12:05,910 --> 00:12:08,490 I was talking to a big policeman at 130 00:12:08,490 --> 00:12:09,250 the door there. 131 00:12:09,250 --> 00:12:12,110 And he was very kind to me yesterday. 132 00:12:12,410 --> 00:12:15,270 He brought me some stuff from the chemist 133 00:12:15,270 --> 00:12:16,650 and tried to do it best. 134 00:12:17,530 --> 00:12:19,270 And I was pointing out to him, you 135 00:12:19,270 --> 00:12:21,730 know, you haven't got your flapjacket on. 136 00:12:24,070 --> 00:12:26,450 Now, you've no call to run about these 137 00:12:26,450 --> 00:12:29,830 streets in a jeep without your flapjacket on. 138 00:12:30,270 --> 00:12:32,850 You're risking something that you shouldn't be doing. 139 00:12:34,450 --> 00:12:36,890 I know that I have to talk like 140 00:12:36,890 --> 00:12:37,270 this. 141 00:12:38,190 --> 00:12:40,370 And yet, of course, they come back at 142 00:12:40,370 --> 00:12:42,090 me and say, you know, your daughter is 143 00:12:42,090 --> 00:12:44,150 about to platform and you've no right to 144 00:12:44,150 --> 00:12:45,330 talk to us like this. 145 00:12:46,570 --> 00:12:48,630 Well, all right, I just see it different. 146 00:12:48,890 --> 00:12:52,050 But here's the Lord Jesus, and he would 147 00:12:52,050 --> 00:12:56,010 walk no longer in jury because the Jews 148 00:12:56,010 --> 00:12:56,890 thought to kill him. 149 00:12:58,630 --> 00:13:01,630 Now, the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at 150 00:13:01,630 --> 00:13:02,110 hand. 151 00:13:03,310 --> 00:13:05,970 And I think that all the young scholars 152 00:13:05,970 --> 00:13:10,370 should understand that this word, the Jews' feast, 153 00:13:11,630 --> 00:13:13,330 it's telling you something. 154 00:13:14,610 --> 00:13:16,750 You know, if you go back to Deuteronomy 155 00:13:16,750 --> 00:13:21,310 chapter 16, you will find that these were 156 00:13:21,310 --> 00:13:22,790 the feasts of Jehovah. 157 00:13:24,250 --> 00:13:26,850 Actually, there are several great books written on 158 00:13:26,850 --> 00:13:30,690 the feasts of Jehovah, on the feasts of 159 00:13:30,690 --> 00:13:31,150 the Lord. 160 00:13:32,250 --> 00:13:35,090 And in those days when they were instituted, 161 00:13:35,770 --> 00:13:37,930 they were the feasts of Jehovah. 162 00:13:38,990 --> 00:13:42,950 But now these old Pharisees and scribes and 163 00:13:42,950 --> 00:13:48,770 even Sadducees have injected so many man-made 164 00:13:48,770 --> 00:13:53,110 commandments into them that the Holy Ghost feels 165 00:13:53,110 --> 00:13:57,130 he must call them the feasts of the 166 00:13:57,130 --> 00:13:57,630 Jews. 167 00:13:58,850 --> 00:14:01,870 So easy to change things that the Lord 168 00:14:01,870 --> 00:14:05,370 has given us with man-made ideas. 169 00:14:05,990 --> 00:14:09,190 And it doesn't become the Lord's anymore, it's 170 00:14:09,190 --> 00:14:10,190 the Jews' now. 171 00:14:10,550 --> 00:14:16,270 The Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. 172 00:14:17,850 --> 00:14:20,230 His brethren therefore said unto him, and you 173 00:14:20,230 --> 00:14:22,590 have to watch that word brethren there very 174 00:14:22,590 --> 00:14:23,090 carefully. 175 00:14:24,110 --> 00:14:26,790 Now I know there are arguments about this. 176 00:14:28,750 --> 00:14:31,070 I don't think that this is any reference 177 00:14:31,070 --> 00:14:33,310 to Peter and James and John and all 178 00:14:33,310 --> 00:14:34,230 the rest of them. 179 00:14:35,290 --> 00:14:38,590 I think that this was his own brethren. 180 00:14:39,090 --> 00:14:40,710 I'll prove it to you in a moment. 181 00:14:41,810 --> 00:14:43,690 I think that these were Mary's children. 182 00:14:45,150 --> 00:14:47,370 And make no mistake, she knows she had 183 00:14:47,370 --> 00:14:50,050 sons and daughters after Jesus was born. 184 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:54,460 An old Roman Catholic priest argued with me 185 00:14:54,460 --> 00:14:55,100 about this. 186 00:14:55,420 --> 00:14:58,260 He said, you know, she was the Immaculate 187 00:14:58,260 --> 00:15:00,260 One, she had no more sons. 188 00:15:02,810 --> 00:15:05,650 I said, why would the Holy Ghost say 189 00:15:05,650 --> 00:15:09,930 her firstborn son was laid in the manger? 190 00:15:11,330 --> 00:15:14,630 Why would he use firstborn for it? 191 00:15:15,790 --> 00:15:17,390 If it's the only son. 192 00:15:18,590 --> 00:15:20,730 There's another way of saying it you know. 193 00:15:21,590 --> 00:15:23,550 You could say her only son. 194 00:15:24,830 --> 00:15:28,770 But the Holy Ghost said her firstborn son. 195 00:15:29,230 --> 00:15:32,330 And the group of sons talked about my 196 00:15:32,330 --> 00:15:33,590 mother's children. 197 00:15:34,790 --> 00:15:40,350 I was a stranger to my brethren and 198 00:15:40,350 --> 00:15:41,590 to my mother's children. 199 00:15:41,750 --> 00:15:43,750 And I think these were his own brethren. 200 00:15:44,930 --> 00:15:47,270 There were more boys in the family and 201 00:15:47,270 --> 00:15:48,730 you know the charging group. 202 00:15:48,730 --> 00:15:52,450 His brethren therefore said unto him, depart hence 203 00:15:52,450 --> 00:15:57,210 and go into Judea that thy disciples also 204 00:15:57,210 --> 00:15:59,390 may see the works that I doest. 205 00:16:00,530 --> 00:16:03,490 And you know these people are always harping 206 00:16:03,490 --> 00:16:04,310 on works. 207 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,740 We're going to learn in this chapter tonight 208 00:16:09,420 --> 00:16:12,380 that even the officers of the temple came 209 00:16:12,380 --> 00:16:15,660 and said, never mind, take like this man. 210 00:16:16,180 --> 00:16:18,620 And it wasn't works that they were thinking 211 00:16:18,620 --> 00:16:19,940 about, it was works. 212 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:22,620 It wasn't miracles, it was messages. 213 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:25,820 Of course there was a lot of folks 214 00:16:25,820 --> 00:16:27,220 taken up with the miracles. 215 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:30,380 There were folks that were only there for 216 00:16:30,380 --> 00:16:32,880 the loaves and the fishers. 217 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,840 And his own brethren have no right to 218 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:37,960 talk to him like this, depart hence and 219 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:41,160 go into Judea that thy disciples also may 220 00:16:41,160 --> 00:16:42,740 see the works that I doest. 221 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:45,220 For there is no man that doeth anything 222 00:16:45,220 --> 00:16:48,900 in secret and he himself seeketh to be 223 00:16:48,900 --> 00:16:49,700 known openly. 224 00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:54,260 If thou do these things, show thyself to 225 00:16:54,260 --> 00:16:54,920 the world. 226 00:16:55,460 --> 00:16:57,840 For hath any man the right to talk 227 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,520 to Jesus Christ like this? 228 00:16:59,820 --> 00:17:02,420 Show thyself to the world. 229 00:17:03,740 --> 00:17:05,680 You see, here's why they talk like that. 230 00:17:06,020 --> 00:17:10,040 For neither did his brethren believe in him. 231 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,240 That's his own brethren, that can't be Peter 232 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:16,160 and James and John. 233 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:18,599 No, his own family. 234 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:23,099 You see, he was a stranger to his 235 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:24,020 mother's children. 236 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:25,859 That's what the book of Psalms says. 237 00:17:26,859 --> 00:17:27,880 He was a stranger. 238 00:17:29,060 --> 00:17:30,540 They didn't believe in him. 239 00:17:31,460 --> 00:17:33,520 They didn't believe he was the Christ. 240 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,840 They believed he was a sort of exhibitionist 241 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:39,560 and could do certain works. 242 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:42,360 And they would like him to go up 243 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:45,060 to Judea to give an exhibition or two. 244 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:48,600 Now, these are just a few facts that 245 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:49,780 I'm pointing out. 246 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,500 A few facts before the feast began. 247 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,060 And we needn't waste the chapter. 248 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:00,240 Let's go to the midst of the feast 249 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:01,560 now, verse 14. 250 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,820 Now, about the midst of the feast, Jesus 251 00:18:06,820 --> 00:18:08,860 went up into the temple and talked. 252 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:13,020 Now, you've got the perfect right to ask 253 00:18:13,020 --> 00:18:18,980 me, before the feast began, Jesus walked in 254 00:18:18,980 --> 00:18:22,060 Galilee, for he would not walk in Judea 255 00:18:22,060 --> 00:18:24,080 because the Jews sought to kill him. 256 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:27,800 But now, about the midst of the feast, 257 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:29,160 he goes up to the temple. 258 00:18:29,340 --> 00:18:31,520 Now, why did he change this? 259 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,100 If he knew at the beginning of the 260 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:39,740 chapter, just before the feast began, that they 261 00:18:39,740 --> 00:18:41,780 were seeking to kill him, it hasn't changed 262 00:18:41,780 --> 00:18:42,120 now. 263 00:18:42,140 --> 00:18:43,460 Now, why did he change? 264 00:18:45,850 --> 00:18:48,110 You see, if you go back to Deuteronomy 265 00:18:48,110 --> 00:18:50,250 chapter 16, you'll get the answer. 266 00:18:51,810 --> 00:18:53,050 Book of Deuteronomy. 267 00:18:54,330 --> 00:18:56,390 And we're at the 16th chapter. 268 00:18:58,820 --> 00:19:01,400 And you'll always remember this when you're referring 269 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,600 to it because it's chapter 16 and it's 270 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:05,400 verse 16. 271 00:19:06,460 --> 00:19:11,080 When God was giving the orders and the 272 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,580 commandments and the statutes for these great feasts, 273 00:19:15,180 --> 00:19:17,320 he said this in verse 16. 274 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,560 Three times in a year shall all thy 275 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,120 meals appear before the Lord thy God in 276 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:25,560 the place which he shall choose. 277 00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,120 In the Feast of Unleavened Bread and in 278 00:19:29,120 --> 00:19:30,720 the Feast of Weeks and in the Feast 279 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:31,720 of Copperneckles. 280 00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:36,160 You see, while there were seven feasts of 281 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:41,220 Jehovah, there were three feasts that all the 282 00:19:41,220 --> 00:19:44,820 meal must put an appearance of. 283 00:19:46,120 --> 00:19:48,700 And if Jesus Christ was going to be 284 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:52,820 obedient to the book, then in some part 285 00:19:52,820 --> 00:19:54,540 of the feast he must go up to 286 00:19:54,540 --> 00:19:56,700 Jerusalem no matter what's going to happen to 287 00:19:56,700 --> 00:19:56,900 him. 288 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:03,440 You see, it's perfectly true that he walked 289 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:06,080 not unduly because they stopped to kill him 290 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,340 and he was going careful. 291 00:20:09,220 --> 00:20:11,620 But then it's equally true that the word 292 00:20:11,620 --> 00:20:14,700 of the Lord was compelling him to go 293 00:20:14,700 --> 00:20:16,720 at a certain time and it matters not 294 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:18,340 whether you're going to be killed or not 295 00:20:18,340 --> 00:20:18,560 now. 296 00:20:18,660 --> 00:20:20,040 You've got to obey the Lord. 297 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,340 That's the thing I was trying to work 298 00:20:23,340 --> 00:20:25,100 out for you but it takes the whole 299 00:20:25,100 --> 00:20:26,060 chapter to do it. 300 00:20:28,420 --> 00:20:33,120 When the Lord commands you, then you've got 301 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:35,220 to obey the Lord no matter what happens. 302 00:20:36,540 --> 00:20:39,760 And so it's the fidelity of the master 303 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,540 that comes up here as we're looking at 304 00:20:42,540 --> 00:20:45,320 the midst of the week, the midst of 305 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:46,420 the feast, these features. 306 00:20:47,460 --> 00:20:49,300 And then I want you to get this 307 00:20:49,300 --> 00:20:49,520 bit. 308 00:20:49,580 --> 00:20:50,680 Look at verse 15. 309 00:20:51,380 --> 00:20:55,180 And the Jews marveled, saying, how was this 310 00:20:55,180 --> 00:20:57,040 man let us having never learned? 311 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:03,500 Jesus answered them and said, my doctrine is 312 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:07,720 not mine but his that sent to me. 313 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:10,500 You know I love that bit with all 314 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:11,100 my heart. 315 00:21:12,340 --> 00:21:15,700 You know the master was perfectly humble at 316 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:16,240 all times. 317 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:19,200 He humbled himself. 318 00:21:20,580 --> 00:21:23,960 And you not only see the fidelity of 319 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:27,140 the master by going to the feast in 320 00:21:27,140 --> 00:21:29,100 obedience to the word of God. 321 00:21:29,100 --> 00:21:30,900 He was one of the new rules. 322 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:33,100 And he had to attend the feast of 323 00:21:33,100 --> 00:21:35,700 Tabernacle at some part of the feast. 324 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,840 And you can see his humility here. 325 00:21:39,380 --> 00:21:41,020 The doctrine is not mine. 326 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:43,380 His that sent me. 327 00:21:44,340 --> 00:21:47,300 And this I remember in the depths of 328 00:21:47,300 --> 00:21:48,620 my heart all the time. 329 00:21:49,380 --> 00:21:50,940 I never went to school. 330 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:52,480 I'm nobody. 331 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:53,740 I know nothing. 332 00:21:54,460 --> 00:21:57,160 I'm the greatest enigma from this place that's 333 00:21:57,160 --> 00:21:57,540 seen me. 334 00:21:57,540 --> 00:21:59,760 And I'm not just trying to fool you. 335 00:22:00,820 --> 00:22:02,740 That's exactly what I believe. 336 00:22:04,540 --> 00:22:06,360 And I believe that in the depths of 337 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:07,120 my heart too. 338 00:22:07,860 --> 00:22:09,520 And you can't shift it out of me. 339 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,000 And anything I know and anything that I've 340 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,780 taught this class and anything that I've brought 341 00:22:15,780 --> 00:22:17,900 to you that amazed you or filled you 342 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:21,320 or helped you or sanctified you then it 343 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,260 was never mine. 344 00:22:24,670 --> 00:22:27,770 It was his that sent me. 345 00:22:28,550 --> 00:22:29,690 Just like that. 346 00:22:29,890 --> 00:22:31,350 That's exactly what I believe. 347 00:22:33,510 --> 00:22:34,690 What have I gotten? 348 00:22:36,250 --> 00:22:37,750 That I have not received. 349 00:22:39,410 --> 00:22:42,050 How can a man preach except he's a 350 00:22:42,050 --> 00:22:42,350 saint? 351 00:22:44,210 --> 00:22:46,290 So you don't need to get too excited 352 00:22:46,290 --> 00:22:47,650 about it at any time. 353 00:22:48,370 --> 00:22:50,190 And I can see the humility of the 354 00:22:50,190 --> 00:22:50,870 Master here. 355 00:22:51,670 --> 00:22:52,750 Look at verse 18. 356 00:22:54,550 --> 00:22:57,430 He tells me that he that speaketh of 357 00:22:57,430 --> 00:22:59,650 himself speaketh his own glory. 358 00:23:01,170 --> 00:23:03,690 Mind you, you young preachers need to mark 359 00:23:03,690 --> 00:23:04,630 that in red ink. 360 00:23:06,470 --> 00:23:09,370 He that speaketh of himself speaketh his own 361 00:23:09,370 --> 00:23:09,650 glory. 362 00:23:10,230 --> 00:23:14,130 But he that speaketh his glory that tempts 363 00:23:14,130 --> 00:23:14,410 him. 364 00:23:15,950 --> 00:23:19,830 The same is true and all righteousness is 365 00:23:19,830 --> 00:23:20,350 in him. 366 00:23:21,950 --> 00:23:24,890 You know friend this is something that you 367 00:23:24,890 --> 00:23:26,510 have to set your heart for. 368 00:23:26,970 --> 00:23:28,470 Why am I here? 369 00:23:29,270 --> 00:23:31,590 Why did I crawl up the street? 370 00:23:32,130 --> 00:23:33,950 What do I mean this evening? 371 00:23:34,670 --> 00:23:37,450 My aim is the glory of the Lord. 372 00:23:38,510 --> 00:23:40,410 That's my aim if I know it at 373 00:23:40,410 --> 00:23:40,890 all. 374 00:23:41,450 --> 00:23:45,250 And I always think I'm saved when I'm 375 00:23:45,250 --> 00:23:46,850 asked for the glory of the Lord. 376 00:23:47,430 --> 00:23:48,370 That's what I do. 377 00:23:49,150 --> 00:23:53,410 So that's before the feast you can see 378 00:23:53,410 --> 00:23:56,030 these facts that were there in verses 1, 379 00:23:56,130 --> 00:23:57,510 2 and 3 and so on. 380 00:23:58,750 --> 00:24:00,770 And now in the midst of the feast 381 00:24:00,770 --> 00:24:04,530 you can see these features of fidelity and 382 00:24:04,530 --> 00:24:06,710 humility and clarity. 383 00:24:07,990 --> 00:24:09,510 And I want to rush this a bit. 384 00:24:09,590 --> 00:24:11,570 We don't want to take every little item 385 00:24:11,570 --> 00:24:13,990 out of the chapter because there's something greater 386 00:24:13,990 --> 00:24:14,470 coming. 387 00:24:15,150 --> 00:24:16,970 But let's go to the last day of 388 00:24:16,970 --> 00:24:17,390 the feast. 389 00:24:17,510 --> 00:24:18,350 Verse 37. 390 00:24:19,660 --> 00:24:24,800 And in the last day that great day 391 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,700 of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying 392 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:33,000 if any man thirst let him come unto 393 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,220 me and drink. 394 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:38,780 He that believeth on me as the scripture 395 00:24:38,780 --> 00:24:42,360 hath said also his belly shall flow rivers 396 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:43,260 of living water. 397 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,640 But despite ye of the spirit which may 398 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:50,240 not believe on him should ye see for 399 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,680 the Holy Ghost was not yet given because 400 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:56,700 Jesus was not yet glorified. 401 00:24:58,100 --> 00:24:59,920 And I think you can see the glory 402 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:03,140 of the gospel here and it's worth noting. 403 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,440 You know if you take the word thirst 404 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:12,460 if any man thirst you know what that 405 00:25:12,460 --> 00:25:12,780 is. 406 00:25:13,120 --> 00:25:16,680 It's the picture of a longing soul. 407 00:25:18,360 --> 00:25:20,900 My how many times on Sunday night when 408 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:23,900 the gospel's been preached I've seen the crowd 409 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:26,900 filling up and there's a big man sitting 410 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:29,840 just sitting alone in the seat. 411 00:25:30,580 --> 00:25:33,420 Remember the naked sack there he's in the 412 00:25:33,420 --> 00:25:34,080 corner there. 413 00:25:34,420 --> 00:25:36,660 I can see him way down in the 414 00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:37,220 middle there. 415 00:25:37,820 --> 00:25:40,460 This big man with the bald head and 416 00:25:40,460 --> 00:25:43,940 I can see him just sitting on just 417 00:25:43,940 --> 00:25:44,940 with the head down. 418 00:25:46,780 --> 00:25:49,200 When I go slowly down his aisle and 419 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,120 sit down beside him and say Harold, what's 420 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:52,820 wrong with you? 421 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:55,740 He will not leave until I'm through. 422 00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:58,860 He was thirsty. 423 00:26:00,780 --> 00:26:04,300 It's the picture of a longing soul. 424 00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,280 He was thirsting for something. 425 00:26:07,460 --> 00:26:09,260 That's what thirsting's all about. 426 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,860 You're really longing for something. 427 00:26:11,860 --> 00:26:16,880 So that if any man thirsts you know 428 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,620 it's the picture of a longing soul. 429 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:22,700 He says if any man thirsts let him 430 00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:24,120 come unto me. 431 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:28,120 It's the picture of a limitless saviour. 432 00:26:29,020 --> 00:26:31,700 Doesn't matter who you are or what you 433 00:26:31,700 --> 00:26:34,340 are or how big your knee goes or 434 00:26:34,340 --> 00:26:37,360 how your cleaving goes come unto me. 435 00:26:37,980 --> 00:26:39,960 There's a limitless saviour there. 436 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:43,600 Oh, the gospel's being preached now. 437 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:49,480 Yes, thirsting is the picture of a longing 438 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:50,100 soul. 439 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:56,000 Coming unto me is the picture of a 440 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:57,080 limitless saviour. 441 00:26:57,660 --> 00:27:00,000 Let him come unto me I'm drunk. 442 00:27:01,020 --> 00:27:04,360 Ah, this is the picture of life's greatest 443 00:27:04,360 --> 00:27:05,000 secret. 444 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:07,140 You only drink, man. 445 00:27:07,460 --> 00:27:08,600 You don't die. 446 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:14,760 You don't go into any sort of paying 447 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,980 the price in this drop of honour. 448 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:22,420 Oh, my dear friends, it's not penance. 449 00:27:22,460 --> 00:27:24,440 That's the word I'm struggling for. 450 00:27:25,620 --> 00:27:27,780 You just come and drink just like that. 451 00:27:28,820 --> 00:27:30,140 There for you, you know. 452 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,000 And it will make you a name for 453 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:33,180 it. 454 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,380 My life's a picture. 455 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:36,200 You just drink. 456 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,380 It is perfect. 457 00:27:37,780 --> 00:27:38,240 Sure. 458 00:27:38,820 --> 00:27:40,700 Get down on your knees and take it. 459 00:27:42,220 --> 00:27:45,040 Yes, you see, the word thirst is the 460 00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,120 picture of a longing soul. 461 00:27:48,620 --> 00:27:49,640 Come unto me. 462 00:27:50,100 --> 00:27:52,240 It's the picture of a limitless saviour. 463 00:27:52,740 --> 00:27:54,220 Come unto me and drink. 464 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:57,500 It's the picture of life's greatest secret. 465 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,220 My, that day that I came, I came 466 00:28:01,220 --> 00:28:04,600 to Jesus as I was weary, worn, and 467 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:04,960 sad. 468 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,040 I found in him a resting place. 469 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:10,680 He satisfied my soul completely. 470 00:28:11,260 --> 00:28:12,780 He just drank, that's all. 471 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:14,880 And do you notice this bit? 472 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:16,960 It says I'm thirst. 473 00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,500 Let him come unto me and drink. 474 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:21,800 And here's what it says. 475 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,500 He that believeth on me, as the scripture 476 00:28:24,500 --> 00:28:28,140 hath said, out of his bell shall flow 477 00:28:28,140 --> 00:28:30,780 rivers of living water. 478 00:28:31,540 --> 00:28:34,360 You know, that's the picture of a lasting 479 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:35,740 sufficiency. 480 00:28:36,740 --> 00:28:37,720 Did you get that? 481 00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:41,680 Oh, what a glorious gospel is being preached 482 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:42,060 here. 483 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,800 It's the last day of the feast. 484 00:28:45,940 --> 00:28:47,680 And you can see the glory of the 485 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:48,300 gospel there. 486 00:28:49,540 --> 00:28:51,940 Watch just for a moment the patter of 487 00:28:51,940 --> 00:28:52,400 the people. 488 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:53,400 See verse 40. 489 00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:57,080 Many of the people therefore, when, I want 490 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:58,220 you to mark the word many. 491 00:28:59,020 --> 00:29:01,920 Many of the people therefore, when they heard 492 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,640 this saying, said, many said, of a truth, 493 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:06,560 this is the prophet. 494 00:29:08,060 --> 00:29:10,540 Others said, just mark that too. 495 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,780 Others said, this is the Christ. 496 00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,880 But some said, you always get this from, 497 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:17,360 you know. 498 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,900 Shall Christ come out of Galilee? 499 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,140 The many, the others, the some. 500 00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:29,920 It's just the pattern of the people that 501 00:29:29,920 --> 00:29:30,580 you're looking at. 502 00:29:31,220 --> 00:29:34,420 It says in verse 43, so just because 503 00:29:34,420 --> 00:29:37,140 of this stuff, so there was a division 504 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,020 among the people because of him. 505 00:29:41,020 --> 00:29:42,960 You know, there's bound to be a tweedage 506 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,060 in the crowd when Christ is exalted. 507 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,720 My, there are hearts that really bend and 508 00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,980 worship him with every fiber of their being. 509 00:29:54,220 --> 00:29:55,140 And there's others. 510 00:29:56,060 --> 00:29:57,340 My, they question. 511 00:29:57,340 --> 00:30:01,360 Don't they sit in darkness and unbelief and 512 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:01,920 question. 513 00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,280 Can the Christ of God save me? 514 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:05,200 Yes, he can. 515 00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,320 My dear friends, you can feel the tweedage. 516 00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:13,040 You know, this is just in, at the 517 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:13,900 end of the piece. 518 00:30:15,060 --> 00:30:17,020 I don't think that I should start on 519 00:30:17,020 --> 00:30:20,200 that wonderful statement of verse 46. 520 00:30:20,500 --> 00:30:26,240 The Apostle has answered, never man's test like 521 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:26,760 this man. 522 00:30:27,700 --> 00:30:29,740 Oh, what a wonderful statement. 523 00:30:29,940 --> 00:30:32,520 I wrote across that many years ago. 524 00:30:33,220 --> 00:30:36,300 The unequal Christ. 525 00:30:38,220 --> 00:30:42,900 Mind you, it's not never man rock medicals 526 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:43,600 like this man. 527 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:44,760 That's not what it says. 528 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,860 These boys were not thinking about the medicals. 529 00:30:50,260 --> 00:30:52,420 These boys were thinking about the message. 530 00:30:53,380 --> 00:30:56,360 Never man's test like this man. 531 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,000 I remember changing this once for a gospel 532 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:00,460 meeting. 533 00:31:01,340 --> 00:31:03,000 And I preached it for a moment to 534 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:08,380 never man laid like this man. 535 00:31:08,460 --> 00:31:09,340 Wouldn't that be true? 536 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:15,580 Never man loved like this man. 537 00:31:15,660 --> 00:31:16,600 Wouldn't that be true? 538 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:23,060 Never man died like this man. 539 00:31:23,060 --> 00:31:26,860 Never man fells like this man. 540 00:31:27,060 --> 00:31:29,300 And I went on for 24 times. 541 00:31:30,180 --> 00:31:33,460 You can change it 24 times without destroying 542 00:31:33,460 --> 00:31:33,960 the truth. 543 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,640 And so you can see that just at 544 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,740 the end of the piece the glory of 545 00:31:40,740 --> 00:31:42,860 the gospel is to be noted and the 546 00:31:42,860 --> 00:31:44,820 fatter of the people is to be heard 547 00:31:44,820 --> 00:31:47,340 and the cleavage of the cloud is to 548 00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:50,260 be seen and the observations of the officers 549 00:31:50,260 --> 00:31:51,280 is to be weighed. 550 00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,160 And then you want to see the creature 551 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,720 and the creator just at the end. 552 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:58,900 Here's where the chapter ends. 553 00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:04,260 And every man went on to his own 554 00:32:04,260 --> 00:32:07,720 house and the first verse of chapter 8 555 00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:11,720 says Jesus went on to the Mount of 556 00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:12,200 Olives. 557 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:17,060 All these dear editors who put these chapters 558 00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:18,960 in sometimes I could shake them. 559 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,340 Whatever made them make that chapter division there. 560 00:32:26,140 --> 00:32:28,260 The chapter division shouldn't be there. 561 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,060 You know this is the feast day, isn't 562 00:32:31,060 --> 00:32:31,340 it? 563 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:34,540 And at the midst of the feast Jesus 564 00:32:34,540 --> 00:32:35,200 went up. 565 00:32:36,460 --> 00:32:39,180 And on the last great day of the 566 00:32:39,180 --> 00:32:42,080 feast I proclaim the gospel. 567 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:45,020 And then you know when the day was 568 00:32:45,020 --> 00:32:49,380 coming to an end every man went to 569 00:32:49,380 --> 00:32:50,300 his own house. 570 00:32:50,580 --> 00:32:53,580 You can see them going up the hillsides 571 00:32:53,580 --> 00:32:55,580 going down into the valley. 572 00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:57,660 They're going to their own house. 573 00:32:58,060 --> 00:33:01,180 Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 574 00:33:02,220 --> 00:33:05,040 Can't see our Lord lying out at night. 575 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,180 And you, I knew all about it many 576 00:33:08,180 --> 00:33:12,080 hundreds of times I crawled up in the 577 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,100 edge of a field lay up. 578 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:16,460 I knew all about that. 579 00:33:17,860 --> 00:33:20,360 Strange things happen you know, when you lie 580 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:20,660 up. 581 00:33:22,020 --> 00:33:24,100 I could tell you stories that would make 582 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:24,540 you shiver. 583 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,760 I can remember sleeping in an old dump 584 00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:30,540 one evening. 585 00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:32,960 Oh, it was a tumbledown place. 586 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:36,900 Just wrapped my coat up and got it 587 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:39,300 up over my ears lay down, pulled it 588 00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:41,760 in tight put your arms around your hips 589 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:42,640 to keep you warm. 590 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,020 And then the rat came by the hundreds. 591 00:33:46,780 --> 00:33:49,020 Oh, not a voice or two you know. 592 00:33:50,980 --> 00:33:52,860 I'll tell you it put the sleeping out 593 00:33:52,860 --> 00:33:53,500 of your head. 594 00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:56,480 Scrot over you all night and then I 595 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,560 fell asleep and in the morning I woke 596 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,100 there was a great big rat that lay 597 00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:01,780 up in here. 598 00:34:02,180 --> 00:34:03,800 Just cozy in there. 599 00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,280 I usually don't know anything about this you 600 00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:07,540 know. 601 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,340 My Lord, when I think that my Lord 602 00:34:12,340 --> 00:34:15,800 the one who made the heavens and the 603 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:20,159 earth whose fingers threw the stars into space 604 00:34:20,159 --> 00:34:24,960 the one who was God the one who 605 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,340 was the Lord of Glory to think that 606 00:34:29,340 --> 00:34:31,940 he came down and everybody went home. 607 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,679 And he went and lay down on the 608 00:34:35,679 --> 00:34:38,159 Mount of Olives and his hair was wet 609 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:39,500 with a dew. 610 00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:43,980 Mind you it was because he loved you. 611 00:34:46,179 --> 00:34:48,060 That was the path of men to the 612 00:34:48,060 --> 00:34:48,400 cross. 613 00:34:49,679 --> 00:34:52,260 Oh how we should give them every favour 614 00:34:52,260 --> 00:34:53,580 of our being you know. 615 00:34:55,380 --> 00:34:57,460 Now it was a busy day he'd had. 616 00:34:58,860 --> 00:35:00,640 He'd been teaching in the temple. 617 00:35:01,860 --> 00:35:03,900 I'm sure he'd answered a lot of questions 618 00:35:03,900 --> 00:35:05,360 more than there in the chapter. 619 00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:08,820 He'd preached the gospel in all its fullness. 620 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,140 Why the crowd was divided because of him. 621 00:35:12,140 --> 00:35:14,000 He'd slept out all night. 622 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:14,880 Watch this bit. 623 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,480 We're in chapter 8 and we're at the 624 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:18,300 2nd verse. 625 00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,320 And early in the morning he came again 626 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:23,100 into the temple. 627 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,540 And watch the word early. 628 00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:31,640 Mind you my dear friend here's the practical 629 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,840 example for us to follow. 630 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:38,380 You know the Lord was good off about 631 00:35:38,380 --> 00:35:38,940 the job. 632 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,920 You know when we think about praying sometimes 633 00:35:45,020 --> 00:35:48,240 you know the masts arose the groups wild 634 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:49,200 before day. 635 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,140 Before the sun was up. 636 00:35:53,540 --> 00:35:58,580 And went away into a solitary place near 637 00:35:58,580 --> 00:35:58,940 prayer. 638 00:36:02,500 --> 00:36:05,740 If I asked everyone to raise their hands 639 00:36:05,740 --> 00:36:08,440 who was praying before 5 o'clock was 640 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:13,830 tomorrow I wonder where you would be now. 641 00:36:16,850 --> 00:36:18,350 Don't be worried I'm not lying. 642 00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:23,400 I'm just trying to tell you you know. 643 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,100 You're not off a job at all. 644 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:29,940 Some of you can't get out of bed 645 00:36:29,940 --> 00:36:30,980 to get to your work. 646 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:33,980 You're never out of it. 647 00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,000 You're running for the bus and you've been 648 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,700 doing it for the last 10 years. 649 00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,300 And you live a slovenly life. 650 00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:45,120 And you're no tax to money to Christ 651 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,300 on the planet at all. 652 00:36:50,180 --> 00:36:51,940 As long as you're doing it for the 653 00:36:51,940 --> 00:36:53,400 love you know you need to get up 654 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:54,400 early in the morning. 655 00:36:56,340 --> 00:36:57,700 Don't forget that. 656 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,520 You're still in the water when you're doing 657 00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:00,860 it. 658 00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:02,720 I only pray now. 659 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,280 This is an example you know. 660 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,000 You're following Christ aren't you? 661 00:37:10,580 --> 00:37:12,380 Well I can tell you although he had 662 00:37:12,380 --> 00:37:14,720 a busy day right to the very last 663 00:37:14,720 --> 00:37:17,860 seed of night falling I'll tell you he 664 00:37:17,860 --> 00:37:19,180 was up early in the morning. 665 00:37:22,340 --> 00:37:24,280 Get up in the morning and get down 666 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,200 on your knees and pray until your 300 667 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:26,980 day goes. 668 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,960 We have early morning prayer meetings here at 669 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:31,360 times. 670 00:37:31,980 --> 00:37:34,520 7 o'clock in the morning and there 671 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:38,420 have been times when we've had 120 150 672 00:37:38,420 --> 00:37:40,600 in the prayer meeting in the morning. 673 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:42,860 And I'll tell you what everybody says. 674 00:37:43,620 --> 00:37:45,620 These are the best days in their lives. 675 00:37:46,820 --> 00:37:48,360 One when you get up in the morning 676 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:50,260 and even get down for a moment or 677 00:37:50,260 --> 00:37:51,020 two and pray. 678 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:52,840 And really honestly pray. 679 00:37:53,820 --> 00:37:55,680 And I'll tell you this it's a great 680 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,080 thing to get up in the morning and 681 00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,120 look into the roof see the masters face 682 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:02,380 and look for his face. 683 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:06,200 Yes it makes the day beautiful. 684 00:38:07,460 --> 00:38:08,440 Have a look at this. 685 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,960 And early in the morning he came into 686 00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,840 the temple and all the people came unto 687 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:16,240 him. 688 00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,820 You know when the Lord stands in the 689 00:38:19,820 --> 00:38:22,160 midst he gathers the people up too and 690 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,060 they sat down. 691 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:25,560 And taught them. 692 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,320 I think that's a great thing you know. 693 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:32,460 Here he's starting a meeting it's early in 694 00:38:32,460 --> 00:38:35,640 the morning and it's a practical example of 695 00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:36,900 the master that's resting. 696 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:39,400 Now watch this. 697 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,980 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him 698 00:38:42,980 --> 00:38:45,760 a woman taken in adultery and when they 699 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,120 had pepper in the midst they say unto 700 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,240 him master this woman was taken in adultery 701 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:52,280 in the very act. 702 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,800 You know this is the pharisaical enemies of 703 00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:57,260 the Lord. 704 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,740 You know that they're disturbing the teaching don't 705 00:39:01,740 --> 00:39:01,940 you? 706 00:39:05,460 --> 00:39:07,760 I have never no notion in my life 707 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,700 of letting anybody disturb the meeting. 708 00:39:12,200 --> 00:39:13,320 Never in my life. 709 00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:15,780 You know I went to have a mission 710 00:39:15,780 --> 00:39:16,800 at this one once. 711 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:18,620 The old elders there. 712 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,260 It was a brethren meeting bless them. 713 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:23,940 And the old elders said you know there's 714 00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:25,160 a wee man in the column. 715 00:39:26,220 --> 00:39:27,980 And he wears white gothic slippers. 716 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,020 And he'll come into this meeting and he'll 717 00:39:31,020 --> 00:39:31,640 upset me. 718 00:39:31,820 --> 00:39:32,440 Will he not? 719 00:39:33,940 --> 00:39:36,120 I said not on your life he not. 720 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,360 He said listen one you don't look at 721 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:38,540 him. 722 00:39:39,060 --> 00:39:41,040 He'll have a row that's right he'll have 723 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:41,400 a row. 724 00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:42,900 Because he'll have a row with me. 725 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:46,280 And I assure you that if I can't 726 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,520 put the devil over him I'll put him 727 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:49,420 devil in all of. 728 00:39:51,260 --> 00:39:54,460 I don't think that I'm letting anybody disturb 729 00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:54,880 the meeting. 730 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:57,420 I have no notion of doing that. 731 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,200 And sure as you're there one night when 732 00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:02,140 I was preaching he came here got his 733 00:40:02,140 --> 00:40:02,760 slippers on. 734 00:40:07,460 --> 00:40:09,580 I was preaching in lots life. 735 00:40:11,300 --> 00:40:14,680 He said I know this story you know. 736 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:16,300 Do you not? 737 00:40:17,700 --> 00:40:19,820 And you don't listen to me tell you. 738 00:40:19,820 --> 00:40:22,000 Now he says I'll chip in now and 739 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:22,380 again. 740 00:40:24,100 --> 00:40:26,600 I said Tom let me tell you that 741 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:27,480 watch is gone. 742 00:40:29,180 --> 00:40:32,000 And you have exactly one minute to get 743 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,800 out of that seat and get through that 744 00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:35,120 door or I'll put you out. 745 00:40:35,940 --> 00:40:37,620 And I'll not need any help either. 746 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:40,420 And the clock's going now. 747 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,140 I'm just ten seconds away. 748 00:40:44,860 --> 00:40:47,020 And my watch pistol shot into the thirty 749 00:40:47,020 --> 00:40:47,380 away. 750 00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:50,220 And you've only thirty seconds left in this 751 00:40:50,220 --> 00:40:50,480 one. 752 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:53,360 And he got up and went out and 753 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:54,420 we never saw him again. 754 00:40:55,660 --> 00:40:57,760 And I assure you I would have broke 755 00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:58,860 his nut through the door. 756 00:40:59,860 --> 00:41:01,840 Don't you make any mistakes about that. 757 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,100 I have no notion of letting the devil 758 00:41:04,100 --> 00:41:05,220 touch the meeting of me. 759 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:08,040 Not in your life. 760 00:41:09,820 --> 00:41:11,400 I have never been like that. 761 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:12,700 I never will be like that. 762 00:41:13,820 --> 00:41:15,760 I have no notion of doing that. 763 00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:20,580 These men came and disturbed this meeting. 764 00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,540 But the master dealt with them in a 765 00:41:23,540 --> 00:41:25,160 way that I'm not able to deal with 766 00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:25,320 them. 767 00:41:26,540 --> 00:41:27,420 You know those women. 768 00:41:28,300 --> 00:41:30,860 You can see them disturbing the teaching. 769 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:34,320 Now they're going to discuss the law with 770 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:34,560 him. 771 00:41:34,900 --> 00:41:37,600 This woman was taken in adultery in the 772 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:38,260 very act. 773 00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,620 Here's what they say in verse five. 774 00:41:41,100 --> 00:41:44,760 Now Moses in the law commanded us that 775 00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:46,020 such should be thrown. 776 00:41:47,820 --> 00:41:52,060 But what they saw this they said tempting 777 00:41:52,060 --> 00:41:55,100 him that they might have to accuse him. 778 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,480 You know you can see them disturbing the 779 00:41:58,480 --> 00:41:59,440 teaching can't you? 780 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,720 You can see them discussing the law. 781 00:42:02,460 --> 00:42:04,580 You can see them disguising the motive. 782 00:42:06,100 --> 00:42:07,920 They disguised the motive you know. 783 00:42:08,060 --> 00:42:09,380 They were only tempting him. 784 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,580 You know this has been a bone of 785 00:42:12,580 --> 00:42:16,620 contention with some of the modernists and some 786 00:42:16,620 --> 00:42:19,920 of the critics of the Bible for countless 787 00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:20,720 years now. 788 00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:22,720 I think I told you once I must 789 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:24,300 say this for the young people's sake. 790 00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:27,260 I was going into an office one morning 791 00:42:27,260 --> 00:42:28,640 I wanted to see the manager. 792 00:42:29,620 --> 00:42:32,420 The director's office is in there and there's 793 00:42:32,420 --> 00:42:34,860 great glass spent in it and I didn't 794 00:42:34,860 --> 00:42:37,220 want to talk to him because he was 795 00:42:37,220 --> 00:42:38,820 a glass ceiling janitor. 796 00:42:40,380 --> 00:42:42,660 And as I walked past he rattled the 797 00:42:42,660 --> 00:42:45,500 window and walked away. 798 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:47,840 So I went in. 799 00:42:50,180 --> 00:42:52,140 He says you know I've got a charge 800 00:42:52,140 --> 00:42:53,880 to lay against the Lord Jesus. 801 00:42:56,160 --> 00:42:57,160 Fair enough go ahead. 802 00:42:58,940 --> 00:43:01,280 He says you see he wouldn't obey the 803 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:02,460 word of God at all. 804 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:05,560 Tell me more about it. 805 00:43:06,780 --> 00:43:08,480 He said there was a woman in prison 806 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:09,240 in Adolphia. 807 00:43:09,380 --> 00:43:10,780 She was taken in the very end. 808 00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:12,380 There was no quibbles about it. 809 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:13,860 She was really condemned. 810 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:17,760 And the Lord said she should be stoned. 811 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,220 And the Lord wouldn't keep the law. 812 00:43:24,060 --> 00:43:26,140 Got my Bible out of my pocket you 813 00:43:26,140 --> 00:43:26,360 three. 814 00:43:26,560 --> 00:43:28,560 Carry a small Bible all the time. 815 00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:31,460 There you are my boy. 816 00:43:32,500 --> 00:43:35,000 Jesus find me where she should be stoned 817 00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:35,260 now. 818 00:43:35,340 --> 00:43:35,880 Find it. 819 00:43:36,060 --> 00:43:36,580 And I looked. 820 00:43:40,040 --> 00:43:41,580 He said you know I can't find it. 821 00:43:41,900 --> 00:43:44,440 I know you couldn't find Matthew, Matthew or 822 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:44,820 John. 823 00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:45,420 I know that. 824 00:43:47,110 --> 00:43:47,670 I know that. 825 00:43:49,650 --> 00:43:51,270 And I tell you what's more. 826 00:43:51,590 --> 00:43:53,550 There's no one living can find it. 827 00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,260 They were misquoting the book. 828 00:43:58,760 --> 00:44:00,780 Isn't that what the devil always does? 829 00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,100 This book doesn't say that a woman should 830 00:44:05,100 --> 00:44:05,680 be stoned. 831 00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:09,640 This book says that both of them should 832 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:10,220 be stoned. 833 00:44:12,830 --> 00:44:14,070 That's what this book says. 834 00:44:14,490 --> 00:44:16,170 I can take you back to the portion 835 00:44:16,170 --> 00:44:18,670 now where this book says that if two 836 00:44:18,670 --> 00:44:20,430 be taken in the dog race they should 837 00:44:20,430 --> 00:44:20,990 be stoned. 838 00:44:21,090 --> 00:44:22,150 That was the old law. 839 00:44:23,910 --> 00:44:26,210 So I said to the director. 840 00:44:26,490 --> 00:44:29,570 I said why didn't they let the fellow 841 00:44:29,570 --> 00:44:29,890 go? 842 00:44:31,670 --> 00:44:33,690 If she was taken in the act in 843 00:44:33,690 --> 00:44:36,930 the very act they took her mind didn't 844 00:44:36,930 --> 00:44:37,690 they? 845 00:44:37,990 --> 00:44:38,970 What did they do with him? 846 00:44:40,230 --> 00:44:41,350 Did they hide him? 847 00:44:43,420 --> 00:44:46,600 Did they say to him go you up 848 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:48,380 that back alley there and clean off. 849 00:44:49,180 --> 00:44:50,000 Tell me this. 850 00:44:50,860 --> 00:44:52,540 Was he one of the Pharisees? 851 00:44:56,550 --> 00:44:58,830 I have a great feeling in my heart 852 00:44:58,830 --> 00:44:59,410 he was. 853 00:45:01,390 --> 00:45:04,350 Of course it wouldn't do to expose one 854 00:45:04,350 --> 00:45:06,290 of the Pharisees would it? 855 00:45:06,830 --> 00:45:08,350 The poor woman you know. 856 00:45:08,810 --> 00:45:10,490 She was thrown in the dust. 857 00:45:10,930 --> 00:45:14,650 How often a man is to blame and 858 00:45:14,650 --> 00:45:15,770 a woman's cursed. 859 00:45:16,970 --> 00:45:18,490 Let me say that now. 860 00:45:18,630 --> 00:45:19,910 Let me say it over again. 861 00:45:20,570 --> 00:45:25,450 How often a man is to blame and 862 00:45:25,450 --> 00:45:26,350 a woman's cursed. 863 00:45:27,490 --> 00:45:29,370 You know what the old judge in America 864 00:45:29,370 --> 00:45:32,350 said to the jury when the prostitute was 865 00:45:32,350 --> 00:45:33,390 in the dock. 866 00:45:35,820 --> 00:45:37,640 He said that when you're in that jury 867 00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:44,780 room considering what she's done remember there's a 868 00:45:44,780 --> 00:45:45,700 man to blame. 869 00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:48,880 And the man may be your son. 870 00:45:52,620 --> 00:45:54,440 I'll tell you we want to go a 871 00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:55,960 little bit easy on this thing. 872 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:02,440 These men were unrighteous and unholy and unclean. 873 00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:06,520 Everything that's wrong and vile and hellish. 874 00:46:08,940 --> 00:46:11,120 And I have found a crowd like this 875 00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,380 in this world who would love to put 876 00:46:13,380 --> 00:46:16,220 a shoe on and raise an argument and 877 00:46:16,220 --> 00:46:18,640 think they have something to talk about when 878 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,780 they're the greatest pack of scoundrels under God's 879 00:46:21,780 --> 00:46:22,320 sunshine. 880 00:46:23,860 --> 00:46:26,240 We're beginning to see some of this in 881 00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:27,780 the British government now. 882 00:46:28,700 --> 00:46:30,640 They're getting caught on that's all. 883 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,560 And I can tell you if there was 884 00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:36,720 an inquiry into a thousand things we'd have 885 00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:37,640 a straw ball. 886 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:41,640 They'd be not very far from home either. 887 00:46:43,400 --> 00:46:44,040 Yes. 888 00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,780 Sometimes I'm tempted to say the things that's 889 00:46:48,780 --> 00:46:49,740 been said to me. 890 00:46:53,090 --> 00:46:54,230 My dear friends. 891 00:46:55,770 --> 00:46:56,670 Here it is. 892 00:46:57,830 --> 00:47:00,690 And you can see these Pharisees and enemies. 893 00:47:01,950 --> 00:47:03,470 Watch what the master did. 894 00:47:04,130 --> 00:47:05,750 Oh how wonderful he was. 895 00:47:06,770 --> 00:47:09,910 They fixed this they said tempting him that 896 00:47:09,910 --> 00:47:11,490 they might have to accuse him. 897 00:47:12,350 --> 00:47:14,350 Well you know he said stoner. 898 00:47:15,570 --> 00:47:17,930 Said very soon bring up the scriptures now. 899 00:47:18,570 --> 00:47:21,070 And if he was stoner they want the 900 00:47:21,070 --> 00:47:22,850 crowd to see that he wouldn't obey the 901 00:47:22,850 --> 00:47:23,570 word of God. 902 00:47:25,620 --> 00:47:27,540 They want to accuse him. 903 00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:32,660 But for Jesus stood down. 904 00:47:33,420 --> 00:47:35,140 Oh wonderful Jesus. 905 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:36,160 My Lord. 906 00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:39,920 And with his fingers wrote on the ground 907 00:47:41,140 --> 00:47:42,880 as though he heard them not. 908 00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,380 Now everybody speculated about what he wrote. 909 00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:48,620 I don't know what he wrote. 910 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,140 I have a feeling of course in my 911 00:47:52,140 --> 00:47:53,920 mind and you don't need to swallow this. 912 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:56,480 I have a feeling he wrote the Pharisees 913 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:56,880 name. 914 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,640 And I'll tell you if he wrote his 915 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,220 name he shot them. 916 00:48:06,790 --> 00:48:10,070 Because you know sometimes a woman could be 917 00:48:10,070 --> 00:48:12,430 taken in a godly and let me tell 918 00:48:12,430 --> 00:48:14,690 you she's not completely a cow. 919 00:48:16,230 --> 00:48:18,430 She's been hoodwinked by a man. 920 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:25,040 And our purity has been taken trouble by 921 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:27,660 a scoundrel who looks like that. 922 00:48:28,240 --> 00:48:29,560 You want me to come out into the 923 00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:30,500 open a bit more. 924 00:48:33,020 --> 00:48:36,060 You young ones you just know that men 925 00:48:36,060 --> 00:48:38,820 are not everything they seem to be. 926 00:48:39,500 --> 00:48:44,060 I'll block you if that's what this class 927 00:48:44,060 --> 00:48:44,940 is all about. 928 00:48:46,220 --> 00:48:48,080 At the times we come out into the 929 00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:49,760 open and say what needs to be said. 930 00:48:52,750 --> 00:48:55,290 If I wondered did Jesus write his name 931 00:48:56,570 --> 00:48:59,030 because if Jesus wrote his name they would 932 00:48:59,030 --> 00:49:01,790 know that Jesus knew everything about that old 933 00:49:01,790 --> 00:49:02,230 rascal. 934 00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:07,500 And there's not a rascal in here that 935 00:49:07,500 --> 00:49:08,840 Jesus doesn't know about. 936 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,060 But one you don't block the Lord you 937 00:49:14,060 --> 00:49:14,320 know. 938 00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:16,900 Yes! 939 00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:22,380 You know I think that this thing in 940 00:49:22,380 --> 00:49:25,220 this writing is a very parabolical exercise. 941 00:49:27,590 --> 00:49:28,930 And then you look at this. 942 00:49:30,350 --> 00:49:31,090 Verse 7. 943 00:49:31,230 --> 00:49:33,250 So when they continued asking him he lifted 944 00:49:33,250 --> 00:49:36,890 up himself and said unto them He that 945 00:49:36,890 --> 00:49:40,570 is without sin among you let him first 946 00:49:40,570 --> 00:49:41,970 cast the stone at her. 947 00:49:44,340 --> 00:49:46,780 You know this is a very penetrating expression. 948 00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,880 You know he dared them and then he 949 00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:54,660 defeated them and then he dispelled them. 950 00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:00,740 You know that Mr. Paisley comes to see 951 00:50:00,740 --> 00:50:04,380 me at times throws himself down on our 952 00:50:04,380 --> 00:50:07,120 couch and his big feet go over the 953 00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:07,980 end of it. 954 00:50:09,020 --> 00:50:10,940 Our couch is too small for him. 955 00:50:13,950 --> 00:50:16,950 But you know there are different opinions about 956 00:50:16,950 --> 00:50:17,750 Mr. Paisley. 957 00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:21,730 But I think one of the greatest things 958 00:50:21,730 --> 00:50:23,990 he ever said in his life and it's 959 00:50:24,330 --> 00:50:26,730 not just on the political realm at all. 960 00:50:28,190 --> 00:50:31,090 It was when somebody asked him in Westminster 961 00:50:31,910 --> 00:50:34,690 what he thought about Benedict having a baby. 962 00:50:36,750 --> 00:50:40,450 He said Let Ben that hath no sin 963 00:50:40,450 --> 00:50:41,990 cast the first stone. 964 00:50:43,860 --> 00:50:45,480 I think that will be ever to his 965 00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:45,880 credit. 966 00:50:48,050 --> 00:50:49,250 I think that's to his credit. 967 00:50:50,850 --> 00:50:52,450 And I was telling him so. 968 00:50:54,470 --> 00:50:56,270 Oh you know there are folks who run 969 00:50:56,270 --> 00:50:57,890 about casting stones. 970 00:50:58,890 --> 00:51:01,250 And trying to keep much out of other 971 00:51:01,250 --> 00:51:02,230 people's lives. 972 00:51:03,530 --> 00:51:05,330 And they don't seem to think there's a 973 00:51:05,330 --> 00:51:06,210 demon in the land. 974 00:51:07,030 --> 00:51:09,290 And while they back bite and while they 975 00:51:09,290 --> 00:51:12,170 even speak they don't seem to think that 976 00:51:12,170 --> 00:51:14,150 the Lord's against the whole thing. 977 00:51:14,670 --> 00:51:17,370 Ah go away home and shut up will 978 00:51:17,370 --> 00:51:17,550 you. 979 00:51:20,460 --> 00:51:21,720 Ever do you argue. 980 00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:24,460 Learn to shut your mouth. 981 00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,360 We get too much of this clop clop 982 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:29,280 all the time. 983 00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:35,220 Oh who are the judges to another man's 984 00:51:35,220 --> 00:51:37,920 servant who doesn't serve you. 985 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:42,100 You wouldn't think it was wrong to back 986 00:51:42,100 --> 00:51:44,120 bite the way you hear people talk in 987 00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:44,800 the times. 988 00:51:47,300 --> 00:51:49,780 The Lord silenced them I assure you. 989 00:51:51,240 --> 00:51:52,340 He dared them. 990 00:51:53,820 --> 00:51:55,600 And then he defeated them. 991 00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:58,000 Then he dispelled them. 992 00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:02,140 It was a penetrating expression wasn't it. 993 00:52:04,060 --> 00:52:05,960 Now look at this bit and I like 994 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:06,540 this bit. 995 00:52:09,390 --> 00:52:13,050 It says that's mine and then they and 996 00:52:13,050 --> 00:52:17,990 they which have it being convicted by their 997 00:52:17,990 --> 00:52:18,710 own conscience. 998 00:52:18,910 --> 00:52:20,850 I hope your conscience is working in this 999 00:52:20,850 --> 00:52:21,230 meeting. 1000 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:26,180 They're not one by one beginning at the 1001 00:52:26,180 --> 00:52:28,000 eldest even up to the last. 1002 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:31,640 And Jesus was left alone and a woman 1003 00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:32,900 standing in the midst. 1004 00:52:35,080 --> 00:52:37,400 When Jesus had lifted up himself and shone 1005 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,760 on the woman he said unto her woman 1006 00:52:41,020 --> 00:52:44,620 where are thine accusers. 1007 00:52:46,900 --> 00:52:48,540 Hath no man condemned thee? 1008 00:52:51,260 --> 00:52:53,040 You know there are times when I would 1009 00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:55,000 have loved to hear the master speaking. 1010 00:52:57,300 --> 00:52:59,960 And I would really love in my soul 1011 00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:01,420 to hear him speaking this. 1012 00:53:02,700 --> 00:53:05,780 I think he must have said this in 1013 00:53:05,780 --> 00:53:11,160 the most sympathetic tender way that could possibly 1014 00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:11,840 be said. 1015 00:53:13,440 --> 00:53:18,530 He just said woman where are thine accusers 1016 00:53:18,530 --> 00:53:18,910 thee? 1017 00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:26,290 Hath no man condemned thee? 1018 00:53:26,290 --> 00:53:27,610 And it was just like that. 1019 00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:31,260 And it brings him out you know in 1020 00:53:31,260 --> 00:53:37,560 all his wonder and glory and grandeur and 1021 00:53:37,560 --> 00:53:38,120 greatness. 1022 00:53:39,420 --> 00:53:45,080 Because as he dealt with her so he 1023 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:46,640 knew that he was I. 1024 00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:55,180 Wonderful wonderful Jesus who can compare with thee? 1025 00:53:55,800 --> 00:53:57,740 Let's forget the diagnosis. 1026 00:53:59,930 --> 00:54:01,650 You're following this story. 1027 00:54:02,450 --> 00:54:05,050 You saw the practical example of the master. 1028 00:54:06,190 --> 00:54:09,610 And the fallacetial enemies and the parabolical exercise 1029 00:54:09,610 --> 00:54:13,870 and the penetrating expression and the probing examination. 1030 00:54:14,950 --> 00:54:17,970 And then the typical exoneration. 1031 00:54:18,670 --> 00:54:21,210 Never do I condemn thee. 1032 00:54:21,730 --> 00:54:24,270 And remember a fool stoppers not there. 1033 00:54:26,670 --> 00:54:28,710 Oh it's only a semi-cold that's there. 1034 00:54:30,490 --> 00:54:32,590 You know he didn't try to excuse her 1035 00:54:32,590 --> 00:54:34,270 sin or anything like that. 1036 00:54:35,330 --> 00:54:38,450 Oh no there's a powerful excitation at the 1037 00:54:38,450 --> 00:54:39,690 end of this isn't there. 1038 00:54:41,270 --> 00:54:42,830 Go and sin no more. 1039 00:54:44,970 --> 00:54:47,070 The man might have been to bed you 1040 00:54:47,070 --> 00:54:49,750 know but you're just responsible a wee bit. 1041 00:54:52,350 --> 00:54:53,610 Go and sin no more. 1042 00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:58,500 The next Tuesday in the class we're going 1043 00:54:59,860 --> 00:55:03,160 to listen to that 10th chapter where he's 1044 00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:04,260 the shepherd of the sheep. 1045 00:55:05,780 --> 00:55:07,640 And there's a lot of problems there. 1046 00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:09,700 Let's have a look at chapter 10 just 1047 00:55:09,700 --> 00:55:10,920 before you go there. 1048 00:55:14,060 --> 00:55:20,170 Chapter 10 Verse 1 Verily I say unto 1049 00:55:20,170 --> 00:55:22,370 you he that enters not by the door 1050 00:55:22,370 --> 00:55:24,330 into the sheepfolds. 1051 00:55:25,530 --> 00:55:27,870 Now we must get what the door into 1052 00:55:27,870 --> 00:55:28,950 the sheepfold means. 1053 00:55:29,410 --> 00:55:33,030 He that enters in by the door is 1054 00:55:33,030 --> 00:55:34,270 the shepherd of the sheep. 1055 00:55:35,810 --> 00:55:38,370 So there's a difference between that door and 1056 00:55:38,370 --> 00:55:39,930 the shepherd this time isn't there. 1057 00:55:42,210 --> 00:55:44,410 Oh I know that there's a certain door 1058 00:55:44,410 --> 00:55:46,270 and Jesus is the door but it's not 1059 00:55:46,270 --> 00:55:46,730 this one. 1060 00:55:49,070 --> 00:55:51,910 Now the shepherd of the sheep enters this 1061 00:55:51,910 --> 00:55:54,710 one and then for him the porter opens 1062 00:55:54,710 --> 00:55:55,170 it. 1063 00:55:56,850 --> 00:55:59,130 Why who would this porter be that would 1064 00:55:59,130 --> 00:56:01,570 be opening this door to the shepherd of 1065 00:56:01,570 --> 00:56:01,910 the sheep. 1066 00:56:02,010 --> 00:56:02,810 Who would that be? 1067 00:56:04,750 --> 00:56:06,770 There's a lot of problems in the chapter. 1068 00:56:07,770 --> 00:56:10,090 A lot of lovely touches in the chapter. 1069 00:56:11,230 --> 00:56:13,390 Mr Bass came to me once when I 1070 00:56:13,390 --> 00:56:15,250 preached this at a conference he was at. 1071 00:56:15,330 --> 00:56:18,050 He said pastor why don't you write up 1072 00:56:18,050 --> 00:56:19,590 about the shepherd in the book. 1073 00:56:20,050 --> 00:56:22,490 And he even imprints to this day. 1074 00:56:23,210 --> 00:56:24,970 And that was the greatest message he ever 1075 00:56:24,970 --> 00:56:25,270 had. 1076 00:56:26,310 --> 00:56:27,870 And we're going into it next week. 1077 00:56:27,970 --> 00:56:29,510 Thank you for praying for me. 1078 00:56:29,890 --> 00:56:31,770 I've got through not too bad. 1079 00:56:32,350 --> 00:56:33,470 I think I'm getting better. 1080 00:56:35,190 --> 00:56:36,350 What are we saying Laura? 1081 00:56:39,820 --> 00:56:40,380 104. 1082 00:56:40,820 --> 00:56:41,340 104. 1083 00:56:43,220 --> 00:56:45,200 Just a couple of verses please. 1084 00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:46,240 104. 1085 00:56:46,700 --> 00:56:49,420 I've found a friend in Jesus. 1086 00:56:50,040 --> 00:56:52,580 He's everything to me. 1087 00:56:52,660 --> 00:56:55,640 We'll sing the first and the second verses. 1088 00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:58,940 First and second 104 please. 1089 00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,420 I've found a friend in Jesus. 1090 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,620 He's everything to me. 1091 00:57:18,980 --> 00:57:22,160 He's the first and second verses. 1092 00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:31,180 There's a house I need in my heart. 1093 00:57:32,420 --> 00:57:36,320 For I need to take it to the 1094 00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:36,860 Lord. 1095 00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:45,280 In my heart I've found a friend in 1096 00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:46,080 Jesus. 1097 00:57:46,180 --> 00:57:46,460 to me. 1098 00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:51,720 He's the first and second verses. 1099 00:57:54,060 --> 00:58:16,230 He's everything to 1100 00:58:16,230 --> 00:58:16,330 me. 1101 00:58:21,290 --> 00:58:56,880 He's I 1102 00:59:07,410 --> 00:59:16,550 don't want to be a fool, I don't 1103 00:59:16,550 --> 00:59:21,130 want to be a fool You're the reason 1104 00:59:21,130 --> 00:59:28,270 I'm afraid to be true She's a little 1105 00:59:28,270 --> 01:00:17,300 older than you, but that doesn't matter Our 1106 01:00:17,300 --> 01:00:21,600 Heavenly Father, we thank thee this evening for 1107 01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:25,380 the help given to thy servant to minister 1108 01:00:25,380 --> 01:00:26,900 the Word of God this evening. 1109 01:00:28,640 --> 01:00:32,180 And we thank thee for the Word, that 1110 01:00:32,180 --> 01:00:34,600 hath come in power to our weary souls. 1111 01:00:36,230 --> 01:00:38,570 We thank thee for the things that thou 1112 01:00:38,570 --> 01:00:40,690 hast spoken to us about this evening. 1113 01:00:42,910 --> 01:00:46,290 And even as the woman stood there with 1114 01:00:46,290 --> 01:00:50,250 a convicted conscience and feeling guilty before the 1115 01:00:50,250 --> 01:00:54,570 Saviour that day, so we feel the same 1116 01:00:54,570 --> 01:00:55,850 ourselves this evening. 1117 01:00:58,610 --> 01:01:02,830 We thank thee for the well-regarded deal 1118 01:01:02,830 --> 01:01:03,990 with her in sympathy. 1119 01:01:05,650 --> 01:01:07,930 We're glad that she found in thee a 1120 01:01:07,930 --> 01:01:12,330 friend that day, the same friend that we 1121 01:01:12,330 --> 01:01:13,610 have found thee today. 1122 01:01:16,320 --> 01:01:18,100 And we thank thee that thou didst know 1123 01:01:18,100 --> 01:01:20,720 and thou didst understand all our faults and 1124 01:01:20,720 --> 01:01:21,500 all our sins. 1125 01:01:23,260 --> 01:01:25,780 But even as thou didst say to her, 1126 01:01:26,500 --> 01:01:30,720 go and sin no more, so we feel 1127 01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:34,340 that thou art saying to us, go out 1128 01:01:34,340 --> 01:01:38,920 to live and to put right in your 1129 01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:42,420 heart and in your life the things that 1130 01:01:42,420 --> 01:01:44,420 I have been speaking to you about this 1131 01:01:44,420 --> 01:01:44,760 evening. 1132 01:01:45,700 --> 01:01:49,480 Help us to take this word firmly in 1133 01:01:49,480 --> 01:01:54,640 grace and in faithfulness this evening, blessed through 1134 01:01:54,640 --> 01:01:58,320 our hearts, and get glory through thy name, 1135 01:01:59,260 --> 01:02:02,820 through our obedience to thy word, for thy 1136 01:02:02,820 --> 01:02:04,260 name's sake we ask it. 1137 01:02:04,540 --> 01:02:04,920 Amen.