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- That's better. But behold the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.
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- Now you'll have to go back to John to understand the chronology of all of this.
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- This was said before the Lord's Supper was instituted, and John gives us all of that.
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- And he closes with, he then having received the sop, went immediately out and it was night.
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- And this is Judas. He did not return anymore till he come into the garden to betray his master.
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- And the sop is the clue to it. The sop could not be dipped and given while there was meat on the table.
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- And they removed all of that before the Lord's Supper. 22.
- 01:31
- And truly the Son of Man goeth as it was determined, but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed.
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- The Son of Man goeth as it was determined. Russell, when was all of this determined?
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- That's true.
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- So if it is determined, how is it that he can say woe unto the man by whom he is betrayed?
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- Russell, that is so true.
- 02:54
- Although the decree of God's providence necessarily comes to pass, yet it does not excuse the fault of those who bring it to pass.
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- Man can't understand that. I don't understand it, but I believe it.
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- God has determined everything. The Lord has. Even down to you being here and my speaking.
- 03:22
- It's all predetermined. But we have to say the right words.
- 03:29
- You have to listen. You have to form your own opinions. But everything is of God.
- 03:39
- Well, the disciples. And they began to inquire among themselves which of them it was that should do this thing.
- 03:51
- Now the thing is to betray me. And they began to ask each other who could this be.
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- Now I ask you why did they say that?
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- Why did they discuss among themselves, Bill? I think it was because they each knew that they could do it.
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- But the Lord did not tell them. Yes, that's right.
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- So you have to guard what you do.
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- Not what you think, but what you do. And there was also a strife among them which of them should be accounted the greatest.
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- Now here's the Lord. He's trying to prepare them for his crucifixion.
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- He's going to die. And they immediately began to argue about who's going to be the greatest.
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- Who's going to. I think it was in a frame of mind of the whole world that Jesus was going to come, the
- 06:02
- Christ, the Messiah, and he'd set up his kingdom. Well, they could understand the word kingdom because every king ahead of this
- 06:14
- Messiah had governors. He had potentates. He had people that took down the minutes and people, the treasurer and all.
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- So their mind at this moment was no different than the world.
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- Yes. Yes. I think that Judas also thought,
- 07:20
- I've seen him get out of difficulties before. And he will escape this somehow.
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- And I'll make a profit. Well, they had before them a situation not unlike it is today.
- 07:52
- You see how the Holy Spirit does for us. We'd be contending, arguing.
- 08:02
- Nothing can be more humiliating than that the disciples should have such contentions.
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- And in such a time and place that just as Jesus was contemplating his own death and laboring to prepare them for it, they would argue among themselves as to which officer am
- 08:28
- I going to get. That's so like the world. And he said unto them,
- 08:36
- The kings and Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.
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- But ye shall not be so, but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he that is chief as he that does serve.
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- The kingdom of Christ is coming. I just wonder how many times do
- 09:26
- I feel that I won't be anything or that I will be everything.
- 09:39
- In his kingdom, one of his ministers was not to have dominion over the others.
- 09:49
- They were all brethren, and he would be greatest who should be the most humble, the most ready to perform all useful services.
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- For whether is greater he that sitteth at meet, or he that serveth, is not he that sitteth at meet, but I am among you as the server, as he that serveth.
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- He is putting himself among his disciples. I am in the midst of you just now.
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- Look, I am sitting here with you. You can see it with your own eyes.
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- I take no state upon me, but sit in the midst on a level with the lowest of you.
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- Jesus the Christ, the one that is going in a few moments to death, is going to establish our salvation.
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- He is sitting here among them. Russell, that's hard for me to comprehend.
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- Sitting here with you all. Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.
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- Those who are partakers of the afflictions of Christ will also be partakers of his kingdom.
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- And I appoint unto you a kingdom as my Father hath appointed unto me, that ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit upon thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
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- I want to stop there. And I appoint unto you a kingdom as my
- 11:55
- Father hath appointed unto me. We'll take up with twenty -nine next week.
