1 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:06,800 If I had a tattoo, which you still don't know if I've got one 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:11,480 or not, if I ever had a tattoo, I'd get it from the book of 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,320 John. I mean, it is the tattoo book. 4 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,320 Seriously. I mean, why go for Leviticus, 5 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:20,720 you know, when you could go for John? 6 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,960 John 316. For God so loved the world on my 7 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,000 back. You know, if you've got a John 8 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,880 tattoo, I've got 1000 bucks on my wallet. 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:32,680 You got a John tattoo? I'll give it to you now. 10 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:36,880 You got a John tattoo? Where Come, China? 11 00:00:36,880 --> 00:00:42,480 Come where? Come. 12 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:43,760 Let's see. Let's see. 13 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,840 John 316. I mean, what are you talking? 14 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,400 What are you talking? What are you talking? 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,400 What are you talking? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 16 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:00,120 Who knew? Hey, who knew? 17 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,760 I woke up this morning. I thought it's got to be from 18 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:06,120 the book of John. I am the vine. 19 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:07,560 You are the branches up your leg. 20 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:10,880 You know, you're like some grapes hanging off your knees. 21 00:01:10,880 --> 00:01:15,640 You know, it is finished. And as your book gets bigger, it 22 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:18,200 is finished, gets bigger, you know, like, close to the end of 23 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,360 your life. So anyway, we're going to get 24 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,560 tattoos from John. And I would just really love to 25 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:27,880 thank my preaching partner Stephen for starting this series 26 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:30,080 in John and verse 40. I don't know how you did that, 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,560 but thank you. It's amazing that you missed the 28 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,360 difficult 1st 40 verses out. So I'm going to go back and do 29 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:37,880 those. But I mean, it was an incredible 30 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:39,840 preach. Thank you, Cath Don't worry. 31 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:42,440 I'm just joking with them, you know, but but thank you. 32 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:45,560 So what you're going to do is John 1239 to see if we can catch 33 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:48,320 up from last week and then we'll we'll change that around on the 34 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,120 overheads. OK, I'm only joking, Stephen. 35 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:57,240 You can see your wife's taking the fence or not yet. 36 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,440 I haven't got to the part main part yet. 37 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:02,880 So just remember this. You're going to remember 4 38 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:03,920 things. Nice to have you here. 39 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:05,880 We're not going to put on the screen. 40 00:02:06,360 --> 00:02:08,360 He gives us a word. Say give us a word. 41 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:15,280 He gives us a right. He gives us a list of names and 42 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,680 he gives us a ladder. It's all you're going to 43 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:19,000 remember today. Gives us a word. 44 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:24,480 Hey guys, seriously, the Tony from Muscle base English folks 45 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:28,320 are worse in the end here in Muscle by gives us a word. 46 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:35,200 It gives us a right. It gives us a list of names and 47 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,560 a ladder. So let's read in the beginning 48 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:45,080 was the word say the word and the word was with God and the 49 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,760 word was God. He was with God in the 50 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,320 beginning. Through him all things are made. 51 00:02:52,880 --> 00:02:55,680 Without Him, nothing was made that has been made. 52 00:02:56,520 --> 00:03:01,400 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 53 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,800 All the way through this book, there's an amazing fight between 54 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,040 light and darkness. There's an amazing fight between 55 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,040 truth and lies. All the way through this book, 56 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,640 there's a massive fight going on. 57 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:15,840 Like they will be in your own heart now. 58 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:20,600 There's always a fight between light and darkness, between 59 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:23,240 truth and lies. It's always a fight. 60 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,120 It says in John chapter 8, when the devil talks, he speaks his 61 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:30,480 native language and his native language is lying. 62 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:36,680 As Mr. Faniela Prat Pratyelena Estatal Estatal is Afrikaans. 63 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:38,800 When I speak, I speak in my first language. 64 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,720 My first language is English. When the devil talks, he speaks 65 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,760 in his native language. It's lying. 66 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,640 The light signs in the darkness, but the darkness has not 67 00:03:51,640 --> 00:03:54,520 understood it. There came a man who was sent 68 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:55,880 from God. His name was John. 69 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:00,320 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that 70 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,160 through him all men might believe. 71 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:06,680 He himself was not the light. He came only as a witness to the 72 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,280 light. The true light that gives light 73 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:11,920 to every man was coming into the world. 74 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,400 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, 75 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:19,040 the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his 76 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:21,000 own, yet his own did not receive him. 77 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:23,320 Yet to all who received him, say. 78 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,440 Yet to all who received him, some of your Bibles say, but, 79 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,680 but to all who received him, say, received him. 80 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,000 You've heard me say this 100 times. 81 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,520 You can't achieve God, you can't achieve salvation, you can't 82 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:40,160 achieve Christianity. You receive it. 83 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,360 It's a gift. You don't have to give up 84 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:46,200 anything or take on anything. It's nothing from your you 85 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:47,400 receive it. It's a gift. 86 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,560 It's done by somebody else. It's a gift. 87 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:55,080 You receive it. Yet to all who received them, to 88 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,040 those who believed in His name, He gave the right say the right 89 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,640 say He gave the right. He gave the right to become 90 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:08,000 children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of 91 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:14,000 human decision or a husband's will, but born of God, Say born 92 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,840 of God. Say I've been born of God. 93 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:23,440 It's going to be important. The Word became flesh and made 94 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:26,280 His dwelling among us. Same word as Tabernacle. 95 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,560 He came to live with us, not just to visit us on a Sunday, He 96 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,320 came to live with us. We have seen His glory, the 97 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,640 glory of the one and only who came from the Father, full of 98 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:38,760 grace and truth. Say grace and truth. 99 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,640 You have to have both. Grace sets you free, 2 sets you 100 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:45,760 on the road. Grace sets you free, 2 sets you 101 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:47,000 on the road. You need both. 102 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:49,720 Some people like truth and they become miserable. 103 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,760 Some people like grace and they become greasy. 104 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,160 Grace and truth go together. Grace and truth always go 105 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:58,000 together. They're bedfellows. 106 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,360 John testifies concerning him. He cries out saying This was he 107 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:06,560 of whom has said he comes after me has surpassed me because he 108 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:09,800 was before me from the fullness of His grace. 109 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:17,880 We have received one blessing after another for times sake. 110 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:23,520 Let's go to verse 28. This all happened at Bethany on 111 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:27,440 the other side of the Jordan where John was baptizing The 112 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:30,400 next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and he said, look, 113 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,120 the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. 114 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:37,440 It's an amazing, this is an amazing scripture say takes 115 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,400 away, takes away. So in the scripture you see that 116 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:43,640 we used to sing a song that said he gives and takes away. 117 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:46,720 And I had a friend of mine who was like a charismatic 118 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,080 prosperity guy and he said God never takes away. 119 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:51,880 He only gives and makes away. So he changed the songs like we 120 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,320 all sing. He gives and makes away. 121 00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:57,040 He gives and makes, but that's not what the Bible says. 122 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:00,680 It says he gives and takes away. So he takes away sin and he 123 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,920 gives us his Holy Spirit. He takes away sin and he gives 124 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:08,480 us his Holy Spirit so that we can say Holy Spirit because he 125 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,560 wants us to walk in holy way. So he takes away sin, gives us 126 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,040 the Holy Spirit. OK, we'll get to it all just 127 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:17,240 now. Just good to read. 128 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,080 This is the one I meant when I said a man who comes after me 129 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:22,320 and surpassed me because he was before me. 130 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:24,920 I myself did not know him. But the reason I came baptized 131 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:27,600 with water was that he might be revealed to Israel. 132 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,280 Then John gave this testament. I saw the Spirit come down from 133 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:32,920 heaven as a dove and remain on him. 134 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,440 I would not have known him except that the one who sent me 135 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,520 to baptize with water told me, the man on whom you see the 136 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,280 Spirit come down and remain as he will baptize with the Holy 137 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:45,400 Spirit. Verse 35 Look the Lamb of God. 138 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:48,640 Verse 38 Rabbi, which means teacher. 139 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,680 Verse 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother 140 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,120 Simon and tell him we have found the Messiah. 141 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:58,680 Underline it the Messiah that is the Christ verse 44 Philip like 142 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,800 Andrew and Peter was born was from the town of beside Philip 143 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,320 found Nathaniel told him we have found the one who Moses wrote 144 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,360 about them, the law and about whom the prophets also wrote 145 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:11,000 Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph come and see but further 146 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:13,440 down Rabbi son of God, king of Israel. 147 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,560 And then it says Jesus said in verse 50 you believe because I 148 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,240 told you I saw you under the fig tree. 149 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,080 You shall see greater things than that, he told, Eden added. 150 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,600 I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open and the angels 151 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:29,640 of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. 4 very quick 152 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:31,000 things. The first thing God does is he 153 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:35,400 gives us his word. He gives us his word, and many 154 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,640 people are disappointed. When I can have people come into 155 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:39,919 my office, they'll say this to me. 156 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:46,960 He never kept his say it. It's a very important thing, the 157 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,920 whole I saw my dad sign a business deal on his word. 158 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:55,000 I saw him shake hands with a man and said, I'll give you my word. 159 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,720 That man never believed my dad. And So what he did is he went 160 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:03,920 and saw his lawyer and he drew a 500 page document and he 161 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,840 presented this to my dad and he said this is to just put it in 162 00:09:06,840 --> 00:09:08,400 writing. And my dad looked at the 163 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:11,560 document and he gave it back to me, said the deal is off, my 164 00:09:11,560 --> 00:09:15,320 word is good. And then the man tried to get 165 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,240 the deal back again and, and my dad said, no, The way I do 166 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:22,480 business is I shake a hand, I've got a man that I look after. 167 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:24,920 He's going through some tough times, somebody from a church 168 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:25,920 for him. He said, would you look after 169 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:27,400 him? So I look after him a little bit 170 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,960 and I've got a little bit of resources and he phoned me the 171 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,400 other night. He was stuck in Moshad Adop. 172 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,160 His car was overheating and he phoned me, calls my Uncle Rory. 173 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:37,840 He said Uncle Rory, I'm in deep trouble. 174 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,880 It's about 10:00 at night, It's Friday night. 175 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,720 He said I'm stuck in Moshad Adop at the at Millies. 176 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,240 And he said I don't know what to do, but there's a mechanic here 177 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,920 from Middleburg. I mean, you don't trust the 178 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,080 mechanic from Pretoria, let alone Middleburg. 179 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:56,000 There's a mechanic from Middleburg and his name is, I 180 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:59,160 won't tell you. So I got him on the phone. 181 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,800 I said, how's it? I'm Rory, he said. 182 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,760 Rory, this car's in big trouble, I need to tow it to Middleburg. 183 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,840 I said, that's fine my mate, I'll pay you the money. 184 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:12,000 He said, who are you? I said, I'm Rory. 185 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,320 I'm Rory Dye. I said, no, no. 186 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:15,520 He said. That doesn't help me. 187 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:18,800 He said. I I said I'll give you my word. 188 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:26,080 He said, well, your word, because we've been disappointed 189 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,840 so many times by people, we no longer trust the word. 190 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,520 So when God says I give you my word, you think you got to back 191 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:37,040 it up? He doesn't doesn't have to back 192 00:10:37,040 --> 00:10:40,480 it up. And so I said, So what do you 193 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:41,560 want? He said, I want proof of 194 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:44,080 payment. Was that OK? 195 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,920 Now 10:00 at night, I'm getting through my bank through Capitec 196 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,120 and putting money in and it's got to be immediate. 197 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,320 And I sent it to him and they finally said, thank you, I've 198 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,120 got proof of payment. Then when you read the book of 199 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:58,640 John in the beginning, as he gives us his word, at the end of 200 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:00,040 the book he gives us proof of payment. 201 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:05,920 And so you have no excuse, no excuse. 202 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:13,280 Some of you know this story, but through COVID our business got 203 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:14,680 into it. We were paying people through 204 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:17,960 COVID and the end of COVID. Our business was not liquid. 205 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:20,960 We needed money, lots of money, like 14,000,000 rent. 206 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:24,440 I'm sitting with my bank manager and an accountant and with the, 207 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,680 with all these guys and I'm asking for this money because 208 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:30,080 you've got to speak nicely to bank managers when you want lots 209 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:31,880 of money. And he said you're going to have 210 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:34,080 to sign guarantee. And I said no, I can't sign 211 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:35,560 guarantee. He said no, you have to. 212 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:37,760 I said no, I can't. He said why can't you sign? 213 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,280 I said, because the Bible says I can't sign. 214 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:53,640 And I pulled out two pens. Those pens are given to my dad. 215 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,600 I can't remember us for 30 years or 40 years. 216 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,760 You can see which bank it is. Those are given to my dad for 40 217 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:04,280 years or 30 years, let's say 30. So I'm not exaggerating. 30 218 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:10,560 years of good service. So I pulled out the pens and 219 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:12,720 I've got them to my bank, man. I said, will you take a picture 220 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,240 of these and ask your boss how many people have got these pens 221 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,960 because they kept their word? And he phoned me back the next 222 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:21,160 day. He said, Mr. Dyer, I've never 223 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:23,880 seen this in the history of our bank, but you don't have to sign 224 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,440 guarantees because your dad who's dead is good for his word. 225 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:33,000 I want to tell you, friends, my dad in heaven who is alive is 226 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:36,600 good for his word, is good for his word. 227 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:42,480 And some of you are too lazy to open your Bibles and you're 228 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:47,160 wasting your faith because you're so busy at work and so 229 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:49,720 busy doing all sorts of stuff that your marriages are 230 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,560 declining every single day. Your relationship with your 231 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:54,560 children is declining every single day. 232 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,880 Your own personal growth is declining every single day 233 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:00,920 because you're too lazy to open the greatest gift that God gave 234 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:04,640 you, which is his word. And he doesn't need backup and 235 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,160 he doesn't need guarantee. And he's been faithful for it to 236 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:10,960 over 2000 years. And so that's how John starts. 237 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:14,280 He says, I'll give you my word, which is resting and gathering 238 00:13:14,280 --> 00:13:19,040 dust on your shelves because you're too lazy. 239 00:13:19,200 --> 00:13:23,840 Excuse my French to open it. That thing has come at a massive 240 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,280 cost. People died to translate that 241 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:28,320 word into our language. People died. 242 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:32,640 And inside of there is the power to change Pretoria is the power 243 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,480 to change South Africa. It's the power to change your 244 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,360 marriage. It's the power to change your 245 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:42,080 children's futures. So when you pick it up, it's 246 00:13:42,080 --> 00:13:44,240 like dynamite in your hands, friends. 247 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:47,600 And some of you have been sitting here for 12 years or 13 248 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,360 years, sitting under the preaching, but too lazy to open 249 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,000 the word. And I'm, I'm commissioning you 250 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,080 now to open it. It's got all different names, 251 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:04,400 Rabbi, teacher, son of God, son of Joseph, Lamb of God, friends. 252 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,520 I did a wedding last year. The 1st wedding I nearly missed 253 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:09,960 because I was meant to drive down and from Rena's parcels 254 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:12,320 coast and it was snowed in and they were getting married on the 255 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,640 other side of from Rena's pass. And but at the last minute I got 256 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,480 a flight to Maritsburg. I hired the car. 257 00:14:17,480 --> 00:14:25,360 I got stuck a Land Rover, a Land Rover pulled me out and I got to 258 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:28,880 the wedding of of of a of a young lady who doesn't even 259 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:30,880 believe in the Bible. She had never read the Bible. 260 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,560 She had never opened the Bible and she's sitting here today. 261 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,400 I saw at the prayer meeting on Tuesday and she walked up to me. 262 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,920 She said I'm reading the book of John. 263 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:47,320 It was worth it to get in a plane, to fly down, to get 264 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,080 pulled by a Land Rover and I said do you understand it? 265 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:52,720 She says no I don't really understand it. 266 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,320 I said just take a piece of paper and write down the 267 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,680 questions and if you don't understand over time 2-3 days 268 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,440 God will reveal it to you like there was a wedding in Cana. 269 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:03,320 Do you know what that means? She says no I don't. 270 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:12,200 I said Cana is like Del Mas. If God can come from heaven and 271 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,880 dwell amongst us and go to Del Mas, then God can come from 272 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,040 heaven and dwell amongst us and come into your heart. 273 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,680 She's like, wow, really? I said yeah, wow, really? 274 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,760 Amen. It's got a word. 275 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:30,240 It's got a word. Don't waste it. 276 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:34,920 Don't waste it. This thing has changed people's 277 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:41,280 lives, can change your life too. One verse, one verse, but you 278 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:47,480 got to read it. The second thing, it gives us a 279 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:56,800 right, verse 12 yet say yet to all who received them, to those 280 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,640 who believed in his name, He gave the rights to become 281 00:16:00,640 --> 00:16:06,520 children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of 282 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:11,320 human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. 283 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:17,320 I found this little thing. It's called the back he answered 284 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:26,000 on Dukeleng von Khabuna, Andela and Iskor Babak 1989. 285 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,240 My dad bought me 1000 shares in Eskor. 286 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,040 I lost this piece of paper, but I've got a right to 1000 shares 287 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,760 in Eskor. Those shares have now passed on 288 00:16:37,760 --> 00:16:43,440 to Exaro and I'll get this message every week. 289 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:48,680 Munir, Dyer. Yehid Andela in Exoto This 290 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:51,200 little piece of paper has given me a right. 291 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:57,000 If I give it to my son, it means nothing because it hasn't got 292 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:01,640 his name on there. Rory Mitchell Dyer And I'm going 293 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:04,400 to go into office in somewhere in Santa and I'm going to give 294 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,079 this little piece of paper into them and they're going to give 295 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:12,520 me they're going to give me money. 296 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,200 I'll tell you how much. No ways. 297 00:17:17,319 --> 00:17:23,119 It's got nothing to do with you. But I've got the right, I've got 298 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:28,000 the right. And this right is what God says 299 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,360 to us is not by natural descent. Because the problem, friends, is 300 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:35,800 that we get a whole lot of rights in our minds of how they 301 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:39,440 get passed down from families. It is not by natural descent, 302 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:41,960 you say, well, Aurora, it's easy for you grew up in. 303 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:45,960 No, it's not by natural descent. Or if you grew up in a bad 304 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,200 family, it is not by natural descent. 305 00:17:49,720 --> 00:17:52,920 It's not by natural descent. And we've got people sitting 306 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,960 here that still battle with their natural descent, whether 307 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:00,800 it's good or bad, whole or broken, years later, still 308 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,440 dealing with the fact because they don't understand that 309 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:05,880 they've been given something with their name on it and nobody 310 00:18:05,880 --> 00:18:09,720 else has got access to this. And so get over your stuff. 311 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:12,320 No, seriously, that's what it's saying. 312 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:15,440 You get over your stuff. It is not by natural descent or 313 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:19,320 human decision. Even if the human decision was 314 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,360 your parents at university messing around like they 315 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:24,720 shouldn't have messed around and they felt pregnant, they never 316 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:28,200 got married and you got born. It is not by natural descent. 317 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:33,800 And you've heard me say this many times, but I'll say it 318 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,840 again. If you are the product of rape, 319 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:41,760 that friends is human decision is that disgusting, despicable, 320 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:46,680 the boards dark dirty act, but in that act, my God can turn 321 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:51,440 that around and give you a right, a right friends a right 322 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,560 and it says a born of God. It's a birthright. 323 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:56,520 It's not just a right, it's a birthright. 324 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:04,200 And often I drive into my dad's business and I drive in there 325 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,280 and I think I have a birthright of this place and everybody 326 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:09,880 calls me boss because I'm Ian Dyer son. 327 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 How much more my father in heaven, friends. 328 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,040 And we and we don't we just in our minds, we've got these 329 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,080 blockages in our minds around social structures and and 330 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,440 seniority and all that sort of rubbish. 331 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:32,760 It's rubbish. God bypasses my biology the day 332 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:37,560 that I get born again and he gives me a direct birthright 333 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,840 from heaven, and that's how I act on the earth. 334 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,200 That's what John is saying. And he's saying, I'm going to 335 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,800 send my son to show you what it means for a man to act with a 336 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,680 birthright, to go in humbly yet with authority, to walk and 337 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:54,920 overcome sin, to not find himself in the wrong places, to 338 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:56,960 make choices that bring glory to God. 339 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,240 Some of you know this story, but I was playing golf and Harry 340 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:08,440 Smith Golf Club, third oldest Golf Club in the country, 14 341 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,160 years old. And I swore with my dad's 342 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,640 business colleagues. And I remember my dad walked up 343 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,560 to me, put his arm around me, didn't shout to me. 344 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:17,520 He said stop swearing, stop acting like an idiot. 345 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,840 He just put his arm around me, pulled me close and he said 346 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:27,680 dyers don't act like that boy. He takes over my sin. 347 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,640 He gives me his Holy Spirit. He puts his arm around me. 348 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:33,320 He says, let me show you, son, are you going to represent me on 349 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:39,160 earth with a birthright, opportunity, favor, inheritance, 350 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:50,920 blessing, Amen #3 I get a list of names. 351 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,080 I get a list of names. You can read them. 352 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:57,240 You can put the list up there if you don't mind. 353 00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,920 It's a list of names. If you just go through it, you 354 00:20:59,920 --> 00:21:02,840 just underline them with a pen word. 355 00:21:02,840 --> 00:21:05,560 Light of the world, Lamb of God, Giver of the Holy Spirit, Rabbi, 356 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,680 Messiah, Messiah, the one Moses wrote about, Jesus of Nazareth, 357 00:21:09,680 --> 00:21:11,720 Jesus of Nazareth. Why does he write that? 358 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:16,600 Because you guys are so caught up with Afiz and Varticruff and 359 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:21,880 Menlo Park and Hosmantane. Seriously, you are. 360 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:24,280 You're so caught up. Where'd you go to school? 361 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:28,800 Afiz how we divide the curve. I had a gun as he said. 362 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,200 I want to clap him. Oh, what? 363 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:34,160 Afrikaans High School. Clapham. 364 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,320 Where'd you go to school? Clapham. 365 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,280 Who is that brick? You see? 366 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,360 Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus of Nazareth. 367 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,200 Because we find our identity in the places that we've come from. 368 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:50,120 And the better the place, the better my position in society. 369 00:21:50,120 --> 00:21:55,080 And Jesus said, I'm from Nazareth, I'm from nowhere. 370 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:59,560 And he says, you know what? I'm also the son of Joseph. 371 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,520 So people come and say, hey, Rory, you had a great dad. 372 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:05,120 Ian Dyer, he was an amazing man. I'm adopted. 373 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:09,520 So was Jesus son of Joseph. That's not his dad, but it is 374 00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:12,400 his title. So if you've got issues with 375 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,920 your adoption, go and sit with the son of Joseph and let him 376 00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:22,280 fix it so you get over your adoption and you realize that 377 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,560 Jesus adopted so that you could be healed. 378 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:26,960 Amen. I sound tough. 379 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:29,840 I sound tough because you've got lazy people sitting in the 380 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:33,600 church not understanding the fullness of what God has given 381 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:36,280 to them and called them to. So we can actually triumphantly 382 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:38,960 go and extend the Kingdom of God in the place of our influence. 383 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,520 I know some of you know the story friends, but when I was 384 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:47,240 looking at these names of God many, many, many years ago, I 385 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:49,640 went to Holland. I'm not any of you been to 386 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:51,120 Holland. Albert Hook from Holland to meet 387 00:22:51,120 --> 00:22:54,760 all the cars Copen. This is my plaque. 388 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:58,160 This is a buyer my plaque in this the 7 million Mensa in this 389 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:03,480 the 7 million Farca and the the farken flies in Holland. 390 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,160 The buyer the farken flies and the orchid, the iris and the 391 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:10,520 speck and the metal. The tuprokis met the hum and the 392 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:15,320 Cos and the Costco and the hum and the and the and the the 393 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,480 Falcon met a met a pineapple and the suit and the seals. 394 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:30,720 Falcon Farcon in Holland. But I remember going to Holland. 395 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,560 Yeah, I've never eaten so much pork in my whole life. 396 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,760 And as I went there, guy called Terry Krueger gave me a name, 397 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,680 just a name, a name with the telephone number. 398 00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:49,640 And he said if you're ever in trouble in Holland, phone this 399 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,520 number. And I thought I'll never be in 400 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:52,920 trouble in Holland. But I was travelling in the guy 401 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,520 called Vaughan McCullum and we got to the airport and and a 402 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,720 canister had blown in McDonald's, a gas canister, and 403 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:01,600 they thought it was a bomb. So they shut the airport down. 404 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,840 And I was in trouble. I was young, I didn't have 405 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:07,680 money, I was stuck in Holland. I went into Central Station. 406 00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:09,720 As you come out of Central Station, there's a building that 407 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,160 says Jesus loves you. And behind that building is a 408 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,240 red light district. And I phoned the number. 409 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,800 I said, Sir, I'm in trouble. I got your number. 410 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,560 He said I'd love to host you. And he went into this, Jesus 411 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:22,720 loves your building. And there was a penthouse on top 412 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,320 that looked over the whole of Amsterdam. 413 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,080 We stayed there for two days and he hosted us, like incredibly. 414 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,160 And I remembered when I was reading the story, I thought I 415 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:37,040 got a list of names, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Joseph, Lamb of 416 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:41,960 God, Giver of the Holy Spirit, Messiah, King. 417 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,200 And if you understand those names, you'll go into the 418 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:54,560 penthouse suite of whatever your circumstance is with the red 419 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,680 light district to this side and the mad rush of Central station 420 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:00,280 to that side and this overall view. 421 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:08,020 I thought I should explain each name to you. 422 00:25:11,140 --> 00:25:12,940 And I thought, no, you can go and learn the names. 423 00:25:14,740 --> 00:25:20,180 Lamb of God starts in Genesis 22 when Abraham and Isaac. 424 00:25:20,260 --> 00:25:22,820 Isaac puts Abraham puts Isaac on the altar. 425 00:25:23,340 --> 00:25:24,900 He's about to sacrifice him to God. 426 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:28,240 And God says no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, there's one lamb in 427 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,560 the thicket. And he says, take that lamb and 428 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,120 take your son off the altar. And it's 1 lamb for one man. 429 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,760 In Exodus, he says, take a lamb for every family and sacrifice 430 00:25:37,760 --> 00:25:41,040 it and put it on the doorposts. And when my judgment comes, I'll 431 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,320 Passover you. In Leviticus, it's 1 lamb per 432 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:47,040 per nation. When the priest puts his hand on 433 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:50,640 the lambs called the Azazel, the scapegoat, he puts his hand on 434 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:51,960 all the sins of the people. Go. 435 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,840 And he chases it into the desert. 436 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:58,240 In Isaiah 53, it says the Lamb who takes away the sins of many. 437 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:01,040 And we get to John chapter one, it says the Lamb of God who 438 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,920 takes away the sins of the whole world. 439 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:06,600 And it's a theme that runs all the way through the Bible. 440 00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,800 And I have that list and every time my guilt or my shame or my 441 00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,880 condemnation comes back to visit me, I say, but the Lamb of God 442 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:18,320 took away the sins of the world. Amen. 443 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,720 Jesus gets baptized John chapter one verse 28. 444 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,360 You can just put it up there are baptized with water. 445 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:32,040 John replied, but among you stands 1. 446 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,080 You do not know he's the one who comes after me. 447 00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:36,640 The thongs of his sandals are not worthy turned Thai. 448 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:40,320 This all happened at Bethany, say Bethany on the other side of 449 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,560 the Jordan where John was baptizing Jesus the Lamb of God. 450 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:49,080 Please turn to where we're going to Joshua chapter 3. 451 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,600 Now the Jordan is in the flood during the harvest. 452 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:55,280 Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the 453 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,120 Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from 454 00:26:58,120 --> 00:27:00,640 upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great 455 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:02,200 distance away at a town called Adam. 456 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,320 Say Adam, Jesus gets baptized. You can turn it off. 457 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:09,080 Jesus gets baptized in exactly the same place as Joshua, across 458 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,440 the river to go into the promised land, exactly the same 459 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,000 place. So as they stepped foot in the 460 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:19,560 water backed up all the way to say it, Adam, Adam, that's the 461 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,280 original sin. Hey, there was flood. 462 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:23,600 So you know what happens in flood. 463 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,240 You've seen the floods in the Kruger Park, trees come down, 464 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,520 dogs come down, cars come down, rubbish comes down. 465 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,080 All that stuff comes down. And when you walk into 466 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,400 floodwaters, not chance of drowning, you got a chance of 467 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,880 getting hit by rubbish. And that's what happens. 468 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,000 Now they have to go across the river into the promised land and 469 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Jesus goes into the exact place where Joshua went. 470 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,640 And the Bible says the water backed up all the way to. 471 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,280 So all that rubbish that flows through your life stops. 472 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:55,680 Brilliant jewelry, you understand that stops, so you 473 00:27:55,680 --> 00:28:01,640 don't come and say actually in 1975 or 1983 or 2005 stops and 474 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:05,520 you believe Christ and all that nonsense no longer has an effect 475 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,760 on you because Christ has done his job. 476 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:17,400 Let's read the last verse of John. 477 00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:23,440 How do you know me? Nathaniel lost. 478 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:25,480 Jesus answered, I saw you while you were still under the fig 479 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:28,800 tree before Philip called you. Then Nathaniel declared, Rabbi, 480 00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:30,640 you're the Son of God, you're the king of Israel. 481 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,200 Jesus said, you believe because I told you I saw you under the 482 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:35,080 fig tree. You shall see greater things 483 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,120 than that. He then added, I tell you the 484 00:28:37,120 --> 00:28:40,760 truth, you shall see heaven open, say heaven open, and the 485 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:45,040 angels of God ascending and descending on say on, on the Son 486 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,880 of man. Turn with me to Genesis 28, 487 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,120 please. Jacob left Bathsheba and set out 488 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,080 for Hey ran. When he reached a certain place, 489 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,280 he stopped for the night because the sun had said. 490 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,680 Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay 491 00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,200 down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a 492 00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:04,960 ladder resting on the earth with its top reaching to heaven. 493 00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,680 And the Angel of God were descending and ascending and 494 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,480 descending on the Who's the ladder? 495 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,240 Who's the ladder? Say it Jesus. 496 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,480 Say Jesus the ladder, but read these two words. 497 00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:21,840 Resting on the earth. Say resting on the earth and 498 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,800 reaching to heaven. Reaching to heaven. 499 00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:33,000 So when you come to Christ and he comes into your life, he 500 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:37,200 rests on the earth and he reaches to heaven. 501 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,440 I was in a man's office this week. 502 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:45,280 It's built the most unbelievable business, got 1000 employees, 503 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,240 supernatural business that he's built. 504 00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:49,840 And as I was reading John and sitting in his office, it felt 505 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:54,200 like the ladders here in his boardroom, resting in his 506 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:59,240 boardroom, reaching to heaven. And you've got too many 507 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:03,000 Christians with no rest in their heart, worrying themselves 508 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:09,200 stupid when they realize that Jesus is resting in the dust of 509 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,000 their homes. And he's reaching. 510 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:12,080 You don't have to do the reaching. 511 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:15,840 He does the reaching. He's resting and He's reaching. 512 00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:20,520 And when I have fellowship with him, the angels ascend and 513 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,480 descend, and my message goes up and the message comes down, and 514 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,320 my message goes up and the message comes down, and I start 515 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:35,800 to live a supernatural life. Make sense? 516 00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,240 I've been given a word and a proof of payment. 517 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,960 I've been given a right, not only a right, a birthright. 518 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:54,760 I've been given a list of names. It'll be enough in John chapter 519 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,840 1 to conduct my life on this earth. 520 00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,160 I've been given a ladder that links heaven and earth so that 521 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:06,280 I'm never alone in Jesus name.