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I have a burden of my heart.
Not to take the time, all of it.
I've been impressed.
In the Gospels and especially John's Gospel.
How the Lord dealt with individuals?
From the.
From the highest to the lowest.
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There weren't any that he left out.
He met every need.
That we're not going to be able to take up the mall.
But let's turn to John's Gospel chapter 3. We'll just look at a few of them.
Now he dealt with them.
The one in John chapter 3 is that he's the higher echelon in society. Religious man Pharisee.
He who?
Was looked up to.
And whom they addressed as Rabbi, Rabbi.
Verse one there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus.
A ruler of the Jews.
The same came to Jesus by night.
And said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher, come from God.
For no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
He had gotten that far in his observation of the Lord Jesus.
He said. We know.
Thou art a teacher. Come from God.
You notice in the last part of the second chapter, it says in verse 24 Jesus did not commit himself unto them because he knew all men and needed not that any should testify of man, for he knew what was in man.
And he knew what was in Nicodemus, his heart and in his soul and in his life. And he was one that was the in the upper class of society. The next chapter we read of a woman that was of a lower class.
From the highest to the lowest. And how he spoke to them? And what did Nicodemus need? Do they need to be told?
And some deep, profound truths of Scripture.
No, he needed the very foundation, the most basic truth that everyone of us needs, from the highest to the lowest.
So he comes to the Lord Jesus as a teacher to a teacher.
We know that thou art a teacher, come from God, for no man can do the miracles that thou doest except God be with him.
And as so often when the Lord deals with souls, He does not answer their question directly at all. Sometimes he just completely omits it.
Jesus answered and said to him, verily, verily, truly, truly.
I say to thee, Nicodemus, except a man be born again. He cannot see the Kingdom of God.
That's a tremendous truth for a self-righteous, egotistical Pharisee.
He had all that the religious world could confer upon him, and the Lord gives him the very most basic truth, that you need a new life, you need a new beginning, you need a new nature. Except a man be born again, born of God. He cannot see the Kingdom of God. That includes you Nicodemus and all the rest of you self-righteous Jews.
Nicodemus saith unto him.
Sounds like a stupid question coming from such an intelligent man. How can a man be born when he's old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?
Again, he didn't understand the Lord's words at all.
Jesus answered. Verily, verily, truly, I say to thee, except a man be born of water.
And of the Spirit. He cannot enter the Kingdom of God if he's not born again. He can't see it, can't understand it. It's a sphere which is outside of this world. And Nicodemus had everything that the religious world could confer, and yet he needed a new life.
He needed to be born of water. That's the word of God, Peter tells us. Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God that liveth and abideth forever. That's what the water speaks of. Stillwater always speaks of the scriptures, and flowing water speaks of the Spirit of God.
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Now he's going to talk about that in the next chapter, but he doesn't talk about the spirit of God except as the one that is the source of his new life.
Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.
So young people remember this when you're dealing with souls, if they don't have a new life, if they don't have a new beginning, a new nature they can't see.
And they can't enter the Kingdom of God.
Religion is I think it was Karl Marx that said it's the opiate of the people, said a lot of wrong things, but he certainly was right there because religion gives to man something to do. That's why they like the law the Jews did because it gave them something to do. And when they heard it they said all that the Lord has spoken, we will do and obey. And they had broken the 1St 3 commandments before Moses came down.
We don't keep it.
Man can't keep it.
He needs a new life, a new beginning.
And then he says that which is born of the flesh is flesh. It you can train it, you can educate it, you can put it through college and university. It's still flesh.
When I got saved as a freshman in college, I made the mistake of taking a religion course as an elective. And it was a mistake because the man that was running the course was a he was a modernist and he didn't have any faith, and he liked to make fun of those that did that kind of thing. A man that knew nothing about the Kingdom of God, really, because he'd never been born again, born anew afresh.
It's not really born again, as though you need another life the same as you have already been born with. No, it's a fresh and altogether new beginning. And this is what this self-righteous Pharisee.
Needed.
Have you ever thought of it, That we're all born Pharisees?
We're all born Pharisees. We all think highly of ourselves.
Yes, we do.
Yes, we do. In the first step, we have to learn in the school of God is to get rid of that pride. The greatest sin that we commit is pride. It's the greatest evil of all.
It gives to man a place that only belongs to God.
Pride is the greatest of all evils, and we all have it.
And especially an educated, trained, religious pharisee like Nicodemus was.
And he's told you have to have a new beginning. All that you have I'll let you are boasting in and that and that you can rejoice in down here that's of the flesh is still flesh.
That which is one of the flesh is flesh. You can do every possible give it every possible advantage. It's still flesh.
I used to preach at Skid Row and I saw the lower class, the bums of the the, the drunkards in that.
But here was one that was just the opposite. He was the upper echelon, and he needed to be born again, Born a new, a new life, new beginning.
That was just born of the flesh is flesh. No matter what you do to it, it's still flesh. You can't change it into spirit, but that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Takes of the nature of the source. If you haven't been born again, you're still in the flesh and you have no you can't see. You can't enter the Kingdom of God without that new birth.
Marvel not that I said unto thee, Notice the singular in our King James. It retains the distinction between singular and plural. He says unto thee, Nicodemus, ye plural, now all you use must be born again.
All of you that think of yourselves higher than and better than others.
Oh, we're not guilty of that. Oh, yeah, yes.
We are.
We can even be proud of.
The the light that God has been pleased to give us, because that makes us better than other Christians, doesn't it?
No, it doesn't. Makes us more responsible, not better than much more responsible to walk in the light that God has committed to us, but not better than.
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Nicodemus was one that taught himself better than.
The others.
Marvel not, the Lord says that I said to thee.
Must be born again. You need a new life.
Now let's turn to the 4th chapter.
So the first one that he deals with here that we've looked at for a short few moments was a very.
Looked up to Matt.
And he was proud of it.
And he needed to be told that he needed a new life.
Now we come to the lower class.
Chapter 4. When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John.
Though Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples, he left Judea and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. Did you notice that must in John 3YE must be born again or born anew. Now the Lord must go through Samaria. Why? Because he had an appointment. Oh, she didn't know anything about it, But it was an appointment to meet someone there that he was going to bring into blessing.
I believe that Nicodemus had a work of God begun in his soul, and the Lord gave him the very basic, fundamental truth that he needed to hear.
He must need to go through Samaria, then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sikar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being worried with his journey, sat thus on the well.
And it was about the 6th hour. This woman came at that time. She came at a time when there wouldn't be anyone there normally, because because of her reputation, because of her life that she had lived and was continuing to live.
And she was not only that morally bad, but she was a Samaritan.
And she come at that very time.
Was about the 6th hour. Then cometh their cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water.
Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink, That must have been a very, very.
Difficult situation, this Samaritan woman.
That she knew her life, what she, how she had lived and how she was living. And then she comes and there was this Jew sitting. That's all she saw was this Jew sitting at the and the well.
How was how was the conversation? The Jews don't talk to the Samaritans. The Samaritans don't talk to the Jews. They despise each other. Jews are so much better than the Samaritans. They wouldn't stoop down to talking to a Jew to a Samaritan. Excuse me?
So he opens the conversation. He breaks down the barrier that was there that would have hindered any kind of communion between them. He says, Give me to drink.
Amazing that a Jew would ask of a Samaritan woman, no less. Not even a man, but a woman, because they look down upon the female sex you know, as being inferior to the men.
A lot of countries in this world that still consider it that way, Christianity is has elevated the status of the woman wonderfully.
He says to her. Give me to drink.
For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat. Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him. Now she is emboldened to speak to him, though she would have totally avoided that.
She says to him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, ask us drink of me, which I'm a woman of Samaria?
Unthinkable.
That a Jew would do that.
What the Lord did?
He had to breakdown that barrier.
That existed between the Jews and the Samaritans.
So that he could talk to her so that he could reach her. So he asks of her a favor.
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To break it down.
How is it that thou, being a Jew, ask us, drink of me, a woman of Samaria?
The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus passes that all by, and he answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God.
God is a giver.
Not God who has given the 10 commandments saying you do this and then you'll live, you do this, and then you'll have a title to heaven. And man can't do that.
10 Commandments.
And he says, if thou knewest the gift of God, the free giving of God, not God, demanding something from a man that can't produce that the obedience that would be required to keep the law.
The only new God is a giver.
And who it is that saith to thee, if you only knew who I am?
He hides himself in a way, but he says who it is that says to thee. Give me to drink if you know me. If you only knew me.
And the God that sent me.
And when this whole thing is is over, she didn't know him.
If you knew who it is that saith to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
At Living Water, that's a picture of the Holy Spirit. That Stillwater in John 3 is a picture of the word of God, but now he's talking about the Spirit of God as free flowing living water.
Again, just like Nicodemus says, how can a man be entered the second time to his mother's woman be born? She says that was nothing to draw with and the well is deep from. Winston asked how that living water.
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself?
And his children and his cattle.
Nicodemus could boast in his religion as a Jew. She could boast in her religion as a Samaritan.
Jesus answered and said to her, whosoever drinketh of this water.
Shall thirst again.
You know what that is? Take a drink of water and soon you're you're finished with it. You don't have a drink of water up here.
We should did.
Art thou greater? Oh, yes, she was. Jesus answered and said to her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again, but whosoever drinketh of the water, that I shall give him.
Shall never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a it should read a fountain of water.
That's something that you have to dip a bucket down into, But a fountain of water? Freeze flowing fountain of water springing up into everlasting life?
He told the Nicodemus he didn't speak anything at that first time of eternal life. He just says you need a new life, you need to be born again. But now he speaks to this woman, this woman, Samaria. Far deeper truth, he says, the living water spirit of God springing up into it eternal life.
The woman saith to him. Sir, give me this water, but I thirst not, neither come hit her to draw.
So he had awakened.
In her a desire. Thank you.
After that water.
That's satisfying.
Fountain Spirit of God indwelling everyone of us who's a Christian here this afternoon, the Spirit of God dwells within you.
And she says, Sir, give me this water.
He awakens a desire.
That has to be awakened when you deal with souls. When we deal with souls, we have to.
We have to know where they are in their soul. She came to that place to draw water, hoping, thinking that no one else would be there. You didn't want to get into a conversation, especially with a Jew.
Being who she was, Samaritan.
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But she encounters one that loved her with an everlasting love.
And offered to her.
Something that would satisfy her forever.
Go call my husband.
Come here.
How did he know she had a husband? Well, he knows all about us.
But she needed to realize that he knew all about her.
And he had offered her that living water.
That that free flowing water that would satisfy forever.
She says I have no husband.
Jesus said to her.
As well said, I have no husband, for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou hast is not thy husband.
And that sets out truly he lets her know. I know all about you. I know your past. I know your present. I know you need.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive thou art a prophet. How would you know this if you weren't a prophet?
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain.
And you say, you Jews say that in Jerusalem is a place where men ought to worship. Isn't it striking that one can get into a religious tack, as it were, in order to take the edge of the sword of the Spirit off of me?
And.
Jesus says to her woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father the Father. The Jews didn't worship the Father. They didn't know who he was as Father. It took the eternal Son to come into this world as a man to introduce to us the Father.
You worship, you know not what he tells the Samaritan. He says The worship that you carry out does not have a divine foundation.
We know. We Jews know what we worship. They had the truth.
For salvation is of the Jews. The Messiah, the Savior came through that line I need, and he tells her that there's only two people in John's Gospel that he tells who he is to She's one of them.
The hour cometh, and now is we're in that hour, beloved, when the true worshippers.
Worship the Father in spirit and in truth. Not on an organ, not with an orchestra, not with instruments of music that don't have a spirit or a soul. That can be played beautifully and you can hear it and it can you can really enjoy the music.
But no worship can come out of those things.
Worship comes from the heart.
Yeah, the hour cometh, and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. I used to say, if I was dealing with Nicodemus, that's what, that's the truth. I would have given the Nicodemus and I'd have been dead wrong. And what I would have said to the Samaritan woman was what he said to the Nicodemus. You must be born again. I would have been dead wrong. Absolutely.
No, the self-righteous, egotistical Pharisee needed to be told you need a new beginning all together, not only you, but.
The whole bunch of you, all you Jews, to think yourself so much better than the whole rest of mankind.
But this woman needed something to satisfy the longing of her soul. She had tried and tried and tried.
To find satisfaction, she had five husbands in the past. The man she was living with was not her husband, and she was still thirsty. She still needed something that didn't satisfy her.
God is a spirit. What truth He's giving to this Samaritan woman and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
You can't worship God with a.
An organ.
Or piano. That instrument has no spirit to worship him from your heart.
That's what he wants. We'll be doing that tomorrow morning when we remember him. Greatest privilege we have is true worship, the outfall of a redeemed heart, a heart that has the Spirit of God indwelling it and praising and worshipping adoring him.
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The hour cometh, and thou is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
In spirit, according to his nature, in truth, according to the revelation that he has now been pleased to give of himself as the Father.
Those that do that seeketh such to worship him.
God is a spirit, and they worship him a spirit worship him in spirit and in truth. The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh when which is called Christ. When he has come, he will tell us all things, and here it is. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee, and he.
He revealed himself first time the Gospel of John to a sinful Samaritan woman despised.
He revealed who he was.
Such.
And it speak unto thee and he And upon this came his disciples in marvel that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said, What seeketh thou? I talkest thou with her? The woman then left her water pot.
And went her way into the city, and saith to the men, come, she becomes an evangelist. Come see a man that told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ? And then they came and hurt him themselves, and many believed. Now we believe that because of thy word they said to her. But we've heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
Wonderful to know that one.
Don't want to take much more time? Turn to John 8.
There's another woman.
John 8.
Verse 2 Early in the morning he came again into the temple.
And all the people came unto him, and sat down, and taught them.
Now in this John eight you have you have John 3 self-righteous Jew and you have John 4A simple woman.
Early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came to him and sat down, and taught them. He sat down and taught them the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery. If she was taken in adultery, where was the man they were to bring both they were to stone, both of them according to the law, Those hypocrites, Those hypocrites.
We're all hypocrites when we pretend to be something we're not.
That's a Pharisee, he said. Ye hypocrites, ye generation of Vipers, How should he escape the damnation of hell?
He spoke the severest language possible.
I remember talking to a Jewish engineer at work. I was in the screen room testing microphones and he and I were all alone there and had my Bible there And I got talking to him and I said, do you know why your people rejected Jesus? I said, let me read it to you and I read to him Matthew 23. I just quoted a few of the verses. Matthew 23. I was talking to another Christian and I was telling him this story.
And when I got through reading Matthew 23, read it. Ye hypocrites, he generation of Vipers, How should he escape the damnation of hell? And he said, you read him that. I said that's exactly what I read him. And when I looked up and was finished with the reading, his face had turned red.
Read.
The Lord Jesus.
Is often portrayed as carrying a little child or shepherding a little lamb. Holding a little lamb.
A bruised Reed he would not break, and smoking flax he would not quench. But all he was severe with those hypocrites, those religious hypocrites.
Thinking they're better than others.
That are not so privileged.
As they.
Scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery, and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery in the very act. Why did they do this? They were simply trying to find fault with the Lord Jesus.
They thought they had him on the horns of a dilemma. If he said let her go free, they would have said, well you're not keeping the law. If he had said Stoner, then you're not showing mercy. Notice how he answers.
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Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned. But what say stop?
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not the finger of God. Here was the finger of a man, that very same God, Jehovah God, who wrote the 10 commandments on the 2 tables of stone. Thou shalt not commit adultery now rights in the ground something that he was writing that commandment, the 6th commandment.
7th The 7th 6th with Thou Shall not kill 7th thou shalt not commit adultery. We're not told what he wrote.
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
The most.
Difficult.
Function the assembly.
Has to perform sometimes.
Is to put away a wicked person.
Not easy.
Given to an assembly.
Sometimes I have to do that.
If it does it, if you do it, if I do it as being superior to that person, we're dead wrong.
He that is without sin among you.
Let him first cast the stone at her, and again.
He stooped down and rode on the ground two times. Remember, the law was given twice. First time he broke it. Had he brought it into the camp? They were dancing around the golden calf which they had made. They broke the first commandment. They made another God and worshipped it. They made an image and worshipped it. They call that.
God Jehovah taking the name of the Lord in vain. First three commandments they brought.
Then he Then he gave him the law mixed with grace.
The second time.
They which heard it being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest even to the last, and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst.
He said he that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. There was one in that company that was without sin, and that was the Lord.
What would he do now? They'd all left. They were all convicted. They were sinners.
When Jesus had lifted himself up, he saw and saw none but the woman. He said to her woman, Where are those sign accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? She said. No man, Lord.
And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee.
Go and say no more.
Well, that's what he said to everyone of us because of the cross. In order for him to utter those words. He was looking forward to the cross when he would bear the sins of those of those that he had forgiven that woman's sin and odd your sins in mind.
No man Lord, she said. Neither do I condemn thee wonderful, wonderful gospel.
The difference between law and grace is a universe apart Law and grace.
Now go to the 9th chapter.
The 9th chapter is.
The second time, the Lord revealed himself to someone here.
There was this man who was born blind.
And they asked him Master verse two, Chapter 9, who sinned this manner as parents that he was born blind.
How could he have sinned before he was born unless he had a former life?
You remember the Jews were 70 years captive to Babylon and they were exposed to all the evils of the false religions that are in this world.
Reincarnation.
How could he have been born blind? Did he do something in a previous life and he's paying for it in this one?
Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents.
But that the works of God should be made manifest in Him. I must work the works of Him that has sent me. While it is day, the light night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
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When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground. The word became flesh. He spat on the ground.
And he made clay of the spittle God formed of man the dust to the ground.
And he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. When you see that God became a man, the Word became flesh dwelt among us. That's what's needed to open your blind eyes.
That's what opened the eyes of this blind man and more, he says to her him.
Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.
Verse seven He said to him go wash in the pool of Siloam, which is by interpretation sent. The Father sent the Son to be the savior of the world. He sent him to become a man, that the Word could become flesh. And when that's applied by the Spirit of God to the eyes of a blind Sinner, he sees eternal life is his. He's been born of God.
He washed and came see.
The neighbors, therefore, they which before had seen him that he was blind, said is not this he that sat and begged. Some said this is he. Others said he's like him, but I am he, he said I'm he.
Well, we know this. Do we know the chapter?
Go to the end of it.
They asked him over and over again, how were your eyes open? How were your eyes open? They asked his parents, and they said ask him. He's of age. They didn't want to get into trouble. They didn't want to get put out of the synagogue.
First, he said.
He was just a man.
A man called Jesus. Then he was a prophet. Oh, he makes progress in this chapter they said to him in verse 24. They called the man that was blind and said unto him, give God the praise. We know that this man is a Sinner. He answered and said whether he be a Sinner or no, I know not one thing I know that whereas I was blind. Now I see.
Then said they unto him again, What did he to thee? How open he thine eyes?
Notice what he says to them. He answered and said, I have told you already, and he did not hear. Wherefore would you hear it again? Will you be also His disciples? And they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple. But we are Moses disciples.
Talk about hypocrites.
We know that God spake unto Moses. As for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.
And that answered and said to him, then, why? Here it is a marvelous thing, that you know not from whence he is, and yet he has opened mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners, but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do with his will him he heareth. Since the world began, was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind? If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
They answered and said unto him, Thou hast altogether born in sins.
Altogether born in sins, that refers to some past life that he did evil in and and so that he was paying for that. That's what they thought. That was altogether born in sins, and helped us out, teach us, and they cast him out. Now we come to the end. Jesus heard they had cast him out, and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? It said he was a man. He said he was a prophet.
He said more wonderful things about the Lord. Now the Lord asked him, Do you believe on the Son of God? He answered, and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou has both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
And he said, Lord, I believe, and he worshiped him.
He told that Samaritan woman, I am he the Christ, He tells this poor blind Jew who has now given his sight by the Son of God, who he is. I am he.
He worshipped him. He worshipped him.
One more and then I'm done. John 20, John 21.
Do you remember in Acts 22 after Peter had denied him three times?
The Lord turned and he looked at Peter.
And Peter went out and wept bitterly.
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Peter was real, but he was self confident, just like you and I are.
And he had to fall in order that God would teach him what he really was in himself.
But he needed he was going to be restored. He met him privately. We don't know the conversation that went on, but this is public in John 21.
Verse 15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas Lovestami. More than these.
You saith unto him, Yay, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. You sayeth unto him, feed my lands. You sayeth to him again The second time. Simon, son of Jonas, love, assail me. He saith unto him, Yeah, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee, He sayeth unto him, feed my sheep. You sayeth unto him, The third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved, because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things.
Thou knowest that I love thee.
Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep. He didn't want to just say I love you. He had said, I love you more than these others, and he'd failed three times. Someone asked me why did the Lord ask him that three times? I said he failed three times. He was bringing it home to his soul. And he had to come to the point where he said, You know that I love you, you know that I love you. I'm not claiming anything.
I've been such a miserable failure, but you know I love you, Lord.
And he said the emotion.
10 My sheep, Some have developed a doctrine of the.
Blemished priest.
Certainly if that doctrine were correct at once, one has failed, the Lord can't use him again, then he could never have used Peter again.
And they needed to know that publicly. So he restores them publicly. He restores Peter.
Feed my sheep, feed my lambs, Tend them.
So no matter how you failed, no matter what you may have done.
And the Lord has allowed it to bring you down, just as He needed to bring Peter down.
He'd still use you.
He can still use you. If he couldn't, who would he? Who could he use? Which one? Raise your hand if you think that he could use you because you haven't failed.
You better not put your hand up.
Because he'll teach you that you're not perfect. There's only one that was perfect.
Our precious Lord Jesus.
Thou knowest all things, Peter said. Thou knowest that I love you.
They just had to leave it there and that love of his heart for you and me.
That he could use our poor wretched sinners, such as I am by nature.
By practice.
That's great.
Wonderful Grace.
Turn to second, Timothy.
Second Timothy and chapter three, I think. Yeah, and verse.
16 All Scripture is given by inspiration.
Of God. It's all God breathed.
And is profitable for doctrine?
Turn to.
John 5, John 5.
And verse 45 at the end there is one that accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust. For had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for Moses wrote of me.
Let's turn to Luke 24.
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And verse 26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to have entered his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures things concerning himself.
Verse 44 he said unto them.
These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms concerning me.
Now I could give a lot more but I'm not going to not much time but.
Moses wrote of me said Christ, the Lord Jesus. So when you read the Old Testament scriptures especially, we're talking now about the Pentateuch, The first five books seek to find Christ in them, he wrote of him. Now we're going to turn to a very short portion, may not be able to even handle it.
It'll be in Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy. Moses wrote it one of his books, Deuteronomy.
In chapter 21, Deuteronomy 21 and remember, Moses wrote of me.
9 verses I doubt if I could cover them, but I'd love to.
If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
That has to mean Canaan. It has to mean the Holy Land. It has to mean the land that the Lord gave to the children of Israel to possess. I could go back, don't have time now, but I could go back and show you maybe 7 times and then up to.
To Joshua first verse you'll find it again. I mean first chapter the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. That's what it is. What was wrong? Well, someone was found dead, slain in the in the land.
OK, lying in the field, that's different. You know, God explains God includes everything. When he talks about Christ. He has to. Moses is merely speaking for God here. It's wonderful, isn't it? In the field. What does this field mean?
It means the place every Sinner in this world is. That's a field, John 316 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, whosoever any Sinner believeth in him.
Shall not perish but have everlasting life. No, I don't waste time on those simple verses, but that's the field. Now turn to Matthew.
13 Matthew 13 I'm going fast because time sneaks away. Matthew 13.
We will show you the difference between these things.
And verse 44, I believe verse 44 all right.
Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like under the treasure hid in the field. What's the treasure? It's every man. A woman and child. Yeah, that's who my Lord was concerned with before God created anything. He was concerned with the children of men. You isn't that beautiful? The witch. When a man foundeth heideth.
And for and.
Wait a minute, And for joy goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth the field. You know what that speaks of. Whosoever the field means, whosoever any Sinner, anywhere, Anytime he paid for that field, he died for sin. Propitiation has been made.
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Isn't that beautiful? All right. Otherwise. Well, let's read on again. The Kingdom of heaven is like unto A merchant man seeking goodly pearls when he found one Pearl of great price, sold all that he had and bought it. Oh, I'm that beautiful.
That's.
That is the bride of Christ, of course, and it's the body of Christ.
Is there water here? Yeah, Chuck didn't drink at all.
Thank you, Chuck. Okay Okay. It's the body of Christ. I don't waste much time here, but it's very beautiful. I want to go back to the 9th 9 verses. Okay.
Then let's see. And it be not known who has slain him, But you know there's murder.
God's righteousness is at stake, His Holiness.
Has been blemished. There's murder, so no one will own up to it. No one will confess it. Isn't that the heart of man? Yeah. You know, you go back to Genesis and.
I'd like to go to all these but Genesis chapter 5 I believe.
Verse 8 Cain talked with Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field. Notice that in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Now there's been a man found slain in the field. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is thy brother? And he said, I know not.
And the Lord said, What hast thou done?
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. What did What did Abel's blood cry for to the Lord?
Justice. Justice. That's what it cried for. You know, the Lord left his blood here. And what did the Lord's blood cry for? And he's still crying for it. Mercy. What a difference. A mercy. I'm a recipient of it, and I hope everyone here is.
All right, now, how did such a terrible thing happen to a young man at the beginning of man's history? How could it be? He kills a man and then lies about it? That's the pattern of Satan.
That's the pattern in all your hearts.
Turn to John. Five I think, I hope. Got to go quick here, John. Five, maybe it's eight, I'll go to 8.
John 8 and verse 40.
For ye are of your father, the devil, and the lust of your father you will do He was a murderer from the beginning.
He's talking to the religious leaders, by the way.
And abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
Adam sinned and that's where his son got this. And it's with any of us, all of us. None of us were any different. You know, Jeremiah makes it clear. I don't want to go back to Jeremiah, but you know the verses 220 and so on.
The heart is deceitful. Here I go. The heart is deceitful above all things. Desperately wicked. Who can know it? The next verse I the Lord.
Lord knows your heart and he tells you the truth. You say I may have lied? Yeah, I lied. But I never killed anybody.
Watch out.
The thought is in your heart. Just give it the right opportunity and you will murder somebody. Ask God to help, but that's it. Unless you're saved and you're indwelled by the spirit of God. But every Sinner has that in his heart. I got to go on, all right.
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Verse.
Well, it was not known. Nobody will confess even today, but they're all guilty.
You're guilty. Everyone ever lived as a Sinner is guilty before God. What was the Super scription of his accusation written above? Christ on the Cross, Huh. It was written in Hebrew and Latin and and Greek. What does that mean?
The Jews, the Gentiles, and the Roman Authority.
They're all guilty, but no one will take responsibility. We know today, Chris, Adam.
Is putting away the responsibility from God's chosen people of this earth, the Jews. That's not a nice thing to say. They're the most responsible. It's not nice. Don't. So they don't do it. They take it away. There's nobody claims responsibility. Are you responsible for the death of Christ and the judgment he had to take?
Are you?
You say I wasn't even there. That's the answer I get. I wasn't there. Of course I wasn't responsible. He died for the sin of this world, propitiation. He died for you. You're responsible for that death. And when we remember the Lord.
We have to remember, look at that cup, the bloodshed for my sins. All of my sins. And when I was saved, I had a mountain of them.
Were punished upon my substitute Jesus. I caused his suffering and his death on the cross I added to it. Well, I don't want to get into that. But you too are responsible. People don't like to take the responsibility. All right, be it not known who slayed him. I should have a picture here.
All right, verse 2. Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth. Why? For the elders are the ones who are responsible for identification, and for justice too, as the judges were the law.
They were to come forth, you know. Elders were always ready to be called upon to settle matters, and the elders often were called upon as witnesses because they were honorable men and men who would take that place to help judge a matter.
We know that Boaz called for the elders, and they judged the matter. They sought their witness. That's elders. Judges of course, applied the law, kept it strictly to God's truth. Elders and my judges shall come forth and they shall measure.
What?
Yeah, everything has to be done precisely accurate. They're to measure with under the city surround about what a city speak of, where men dwell. That's what a city speaks of in the word of God. And it says cities. They're all responsible, but they had to measure among all the cities. Now let's go on.
Ah, don't forget we're we're heading up to Christ. Thank you. God bless you. Hell, that's nice. One time they brought me a whole picture full with ice cubes. But it's all right. Hey, you did the best you could.
All right, cities.
Let's see.
Which are round about the one that is slain.
It has to be according to God's word, that's why the measurement. And it shall be verse three, that the city which is next under the slain man, the elders of that city, shall take an heifer. Now what is the city do you think nearest?
The slain man, of course. It's Jerusalem, I mean.
You shouldn't think about that. It's Jerusalem, the holy city, God, Zion.
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In this world, that's it. That's what they found, all right, next to the slain man. It's still murder, still a blemish on God's wonderful righteousness. Even the elders of that city shall take an heifer.
A heifer. Yeah, a heifer. Female cow, right? A heifer. Interesting, isn't it? In Isaiah 55 it says the sheep before her shearers was done. Why? It's a female for everybody whosoever the worst and the best.
The best down here, because that's the worst. But the worst of the best? The heifers. All right. But in Acts Chapter 8, I believe the unique the treasurer of Ethiopia, the Lamb.
Before his shears was dumb. Why is the change of of that her to him his Well, because of the honorable ones.
And the rich ones and the important ones. It took a Bullock or ram, so it's his. Well, I don't. I love to get into that, but I won't. Let's see Heifer which has not been wrought with. What does that mean?
Hasn't been affected by human hands. Hasn't been.
And hasn't been done with with men, sinful men. Christ that speaks of Christ, of course, hasn't been wrought with and have not drawn in the yoke. What's that? Of course, that speaks of the law, doesn't it? The yoke. And Christ was never under the law. I think Galatians, I like to quote a few of these, but I don't have much time.
Anyway, Galatia, let's look at it because I shouldn't always just say this not good. I should tell you Galatians. Oh, man, this is what wrong. See, it's like when you're when the you're on the highway and there's an accident and you waste so much time sitting there when you could be going 75, you know, that's what bothers me. And I said to my wife, you know, we'd be about 70 miles ahead right now.
Well, she said. That's the way it is.
OK, John, I mean Galatians 51 stand fast therefore in the liberty which Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of *******. That's the law.
Christ was never affected by the law. The law was perfect, and so was Christ. So that's why the Heather had to be both all right. And the elders of the city shall bring down the heifer.
You know that? Doesn't that remind you of Second Corinthians 8-9? I I think you could all recite it with me. I won't waste the time. Turn the pages for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor. That ye through his poverty might be rich. Isn't that beautiful? Now it's the same thing as Philippians.
Chapter 2.
Maybe it's four. It's two.
Seven steps downward to the bottom and Job really brings that out. So clear how far down he went. I like to see. I can't tell everything to you, but you probably know it anyway, Joe. I love that job.
And I think it's oh boy.
Job, I guess in Europe or maybe I will maybe here I'll goof up say, pardon me for the expression.
Oh, well. Anybody know where it is? He brought me down. Well, it's not Job. It's Jonah. Hey, turn to Jonah. He brought me down to the bottom.
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I'll hurry. This is a this is like a traffic accident. Here we are wasting time. Some men know the Bible. You know, that's pretty nice, but I know itsy bits. Anybody with me? I'll hurry. Amos obadiah. Jonah. All right.
Chapter 2 of Jonah, Verse 3. Thou has Cast Me into the deep.
In the midst of the Seas and the floods compass me about all I billows, and thy waves passed over me. 5 The waters compassed me about even to the soul. The depth closed me, roundabout. The weeds were in tangled about my head. I went down to the bottoms. When did Jesus Christ do that?
You know when. You know when. On the cross. When he was my substitute and took the punishment I deserved in three hours of darkness. And I'd like to tell you. All right now. You probably know it. That's the passion. The passion wasn't what man did to him. You know, Hollywood likes to invent stuff. It's not the word of God. The passion was the three hours of darkness.
When his form was, I don't want to turn to it. His form. Everybody knows that 52. Isaiah 52. I want to turn. I I don't have a lot of time or I'd have more fun here. Isaiah 52 Okay, this is very beautiful.
14 As many were astonished as thee, His visage was so marred, more than any man.
And his form than the sons of men. When was that? In the three hours of darkness, when God had to turn his back upon his son, and punished him for my sins And yours if you belong to him, and 1St for the sin of the world can can you even begin to grasp what he went through? That was a passion.
Was this not what man did to him? All right, let's go on. Oh my goodness, I'm over.
Only halfway. We should give up your time for a refreshment, but I can't ask you to. I'd love to tell you this so well.
This is Moses wrote of me. Read the rest 1St 9 verses. Wish I could finish it, but I can't. Every stroke and every controversy was met by that red heifer.
Isn't that beautiful, what they do to him? They took him down to the rough valley. That's this wilderness we live in. That's where Christ came. And they lopped off his head. They killed him. That heifer, a substitute, a picture is so beautiful. What they do to Christ. They killed him, you know?
An innocent. The heifer was innocent.
Christ was innocent in that lovely, the one who betrayed him said. I betrayed innocent blood.
His judge three times over. No fault in this manner and I could go on. The judges wife don't have nothing to do with this. Just man.
God, this is my son, my beloved Son, and whom I well pleased. This is the testimony. The devil. Thou art the Son of God.
Something about eternal life? Well, I don't know. Anyway, reads and the rest of the 9 verses, that's what I had on my heart. But you can read it. And with the Spirit indwelling you, you can get all types right there. the United type is Christ.
First and last, first.
All right.