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- That was it was failed to be copied last week
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- Gives me an excuse to go back to the first the third chapter When was
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- Jesus born Roger well what year
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- For BC It's always been an amazement to me how they could count the years before Christ Counting down to him
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- Of course they didn't chapter 3 verse 1 now in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea and And Herod being
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- Tetrarch of Galilee and his brother Philip Tetrarch of Itura and of the region of Tricodonus and Lysandus Lysandus I can't say it the
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- Tetrarch of Abilene Ananias and Caiaphas being high priests the
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- Word of God came unto John the son of Zacchaeus in the wilderness Luke is a good historian he ties everything down to So we would know from secular history exactly when it occurred
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- He's the only writer that does that John was born
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- John the son of Zacchaeus in the wilderness John has been in the wilderness growing up In the second verse
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- Ananias and Caiaphas being high priests, why were there two high priests?
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- I thought there's only one Clarence That's right now a little bit about John and He came into all of the country about Jordan preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sin
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- John looked different Talked different. His food was different.
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- His message was different He was a prophet This was a man unwelcome
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- Had a very unwelcome message And it's even unwelcome today
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- The world will not receive a man who contradicts this philosophy of life
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- If you want to be a popular preacher today You must sing in unison with the crowd and Be nothing but a sounding board for what the congregation is saying
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- That's so true John's voice spoke of judgment People don't want to hear about judgment
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- Not baptism for remission of sins but baptism But repentance for the remission of sin
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- As it is written in the book of the words of the Isaiah the prophet saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness
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- Prepare ye the way of the Lord to make his paths straight every valley shall be filled every mountain and hill shall be brought low and The crooked shall be made straight and the rough ways shall be made smooth
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- Now the people of that day knew what he was talking about We don't so much today our highways are all prepared
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- They're every one of them smooth even the streets of course of Canada But in that day and time when an important man was going through the country he would have a crew out ahead of him
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- Filling in the valleys the low places smoothing out the
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- Dents Rocks everything And making the pathway straight and smooth
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- And all flesh shall see shall see the salvation of God Virgin what is the salvation of God?
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- They're all going to see They didn't know what he was talking about yet, but he says all of the flesh
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- Shall see the salvation of God Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him old generation of vipers
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- Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Now we must take note that John used very severe language
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- When he was addressing those who voluntarily came to be baptized
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- Compare with our weak speeches of today if he spoke like this to those seeking repentance
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- How much more should we speak? against the enemies of the church bring forth therefore a fruit worthy of repentance and Begin not to say within yourselves.
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- We have Abraham to our father For I say unto you
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- That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham Now that seems a little far -fetched to me
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- Roger Was God able of these stones to raise up children
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- Absolutely true But he didn't choose to John is speaking to those hypocrites
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- Soft words Seldom reach the heart of a hypocrite
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- They need to be flayed with violence And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees
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- Every tree Therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire talking about people
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- What group of people is this? Russell That's right the descendants of Cain seed of Satan They were among them
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- Repentance which is of no value unless it be proved by conduct and The people ask him saying what shall we do then?
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- A true feeling of repentance produced in the mind Of the poor sinner and eager desire to know what is the will of God?
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- There is nothing to which we are more prone than to offer to God pretended worship
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- Whenever he calls on us to repent 11
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- He answereth and saith unto them He that hath two coats let him impart to him that hath none and He that hath meat let him do likewise
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- In other words you will see the need of people and you will
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- Furnish it in 2nd Corinthians 9 7 we have every man according as a purpose in his heart so let him give not grudgingly
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- Or of necessity for God loveth a cheerful giver I've told this before but I'm reminded of a story
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- You act like you've never heard it Man was once at once asked if you had two houses, would you give me one?
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- The other man said sure if you had two cars, would you give me one?
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- Yes came the answer If you have two coats, would you give me one? And there was no answer
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- Man said well, would you? Well, I don't know if I would or not you see
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- I have two coats And that's about the way we act
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- Then came also publicans to be baptized and said unto him master.
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- What shall we do? They all wanted to do something
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- They that they were looking for a religion that would allow them to do something Good works is not the way of salvation
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- But good works follow salvation Ephesians 2 8 or the
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- Or by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is a gift of God Not of works lest any man should boast
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- Matthew 7 15 beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing but inward
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- Inwardly they are ravenous wolves This last verse applies to false preachers teachers church members 13 and he said unto them
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- Exact no more than that which is appointed you Christian life
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- Is the only way to prove that we're a Christian Did you ever think about trying to prove that you're a
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- Christian? And the soldiers likewise demanded of him saying
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- And what shall we do? And he said unto them do violence to no man
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- Neither accuse any falsely and be content with your wages And as the people were in Expectation and all men mused in their hearts of John whether he were the
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- Christ or not John answered saying unto them all
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- I Indeed baptize you with water but one mightier than I cometh
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- That alleged of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose He shall baptize you with Holy Ghost and with fire
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- Whose fan The preaching of his word Is in his hand and he shall thoroughly purge his floor and will gather the wheat
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- Now wheat has always been wheat Into his garner, but the chaff
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- The chaff's always been chaff He will burn with fire unquenchable.
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- Who does the wheat represent here? Virg, God's people, the chaff, the seed of Satan These two seeds have always been in the world.
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- All of this is anthropomorphic type speech we understand And many other things in his exhortation preached he unto the people but Herod The Tetrarch being reproved by him for Herodias his brother
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- Philip's wife and for all of the evils, which
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- Herod had done added yet This above all that he shut up John in prison.
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- What's happened to John? David He wasn't paying attention
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- Well, I just read verses 19 and 20 if that helps you any
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- Bill tell him what happened to John Put him in prison
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- Didn't like what he'd said John said it right out in the open but That's right, he's he's gonna lose his head over Now we shift
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- Now when all of the people were baptized it came to pass that Jesus also being baptized and praying
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- The heavens were open now something's about to happen and The Holy Ghost descended in bodily shape like a dove
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- Not a dove It came down like a dove upon him and the voice came from heaven which said
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- Thou art my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased now the
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- Holy Ghost Can is there anybody here that can see the
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- Holy Ghost? Why do you suppose it came like the shape of a dove?
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- That's right This was not the Holy Ghost this was representative of his presence
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- So John could see and Jesus himself began to be about 30 years of age
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- Being as was supposed the son of Joseph Which was the son of Eli So we've taken the
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- The book up to Jesus We have his baptism. We have him on stage
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- John is locked up in prison Why were they not both teaching?
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- Well, he did it He did his work It seemed strange to us that he was killed
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- So it shouldn't seem strange that some of us are killed He didn't want it his family didn't want it, but he got it anyhow
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- Jesus has come now forth That's right
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- We Later on we'll see that John sent his disciples to Jesus and said art thou he
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- That was not John's problem John knew he was but his disciples
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- They're the ones he wanted to know But that'll come later
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- Where's dismisses, would you please? Father I thank you for saving me and I thank you for asking me to be birthed in the morning and to be baptized in the morning
