1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:04,600 And he turned to the woman and said unto Simon, seest thou this 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:08,900 woman entered into thine house and gave us now gave his me. 3 00:00:08,900 --> 00:00:13,000 No water for my feet, but she has washed my feet with tears 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:15,300 and wiped them with the hairs of her head. 5 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:19,300 Thou gavest me no kiss. But this woman since the time I 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:23,500 came in, have not ceased to kiss my feet, my head with oil, thou 7 00:00:23,500 --> 00:00:26,500 didst, not annoyed, but this woman hath, anointed my feet 8 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:29,700 with ointment. What for I say unto thee her 9 00:00:29,700 --> 00:00:34,000 sins, which are many Many are forgiven for she loved much, but 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:38,600 to whom little Is Forgiven the same, love it little and he 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,100 said, unto her thy sins are forgiven. 12 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:44,700 And they that sat at meat, with him, began to say within 13 00:00:44,700 --> 00:00:47,600 themselves, who is this, that forgive his sins. 14 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,700 Also, and he said, to the woman that faith has saved thee. 15 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,700 Go in peace, that'll be our reading for this evening. 16 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:56,800 And this time, let's go to God and worship prayer. 17 00:00:58,900 --> 00:01:03,400 Jesus feet. I'm impressed with how many 18 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,900 times I find people falling at the feet of Jesus, when he was 19 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:11,600 here in person, I suppose there were many people who did that, 20 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,200 that we don't have any record off, but we do have a record of 21 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:20,000 four different individuals who did and it's amazing to me the 22 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,300 benefits that they receive when they fell at Jesus feet. 23 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:25,600 I want to talk about that for a little while. 24 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:29,300 This evening, I want to go back with you and revisit these 25 00:01:29,300 --> 00:01:32,800 occasions. And note the beautiful stories 26 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:34,400 that are connected with each one. 27 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:40,300 Also, we draw from them, some spiritual benefits for the life 28 00:01:40,300 --> 00:01:44,700 that we try to live today for Christ, we need to be at Jesus 29 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:47,600 feet. This of course we're speaking 30 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:52,200 figuratively now but these people actually literally fell 31 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,100 at the feet of Jesus. Today, of course, we can't do 32 00:01:55,100 --> 00:01:59,200 that, but we can do it at least figuratively and we'll be 33 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,100 talking about that a little bit as the Lesson 4 seeds. 34 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,200 We have, as I say for different people or characters, who fell 35 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:16,200 at Jesus feet, one of them received pardon one One found 36 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,700 out, we can do the same thing. So we want to talk about them in 37 00:02:20,700 --> 00:02:23,400 turn for a little while this evening and see if there's not 38 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,500 something that we receive as a benefit from each one of these 39 00:02:27,700 --> 00:02:31,300 first, we're talking about the woman who found power, pardon 40 00:02:31,300 --> 00:02:35,700 read at Jesus feet. We're talking about, Simon the 41 00:02:35,700 --> 00:02:38,700 Pharisee. Now, go don't want you to be 42 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,800 confused with the other time that Jesus went into a home 43 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:46,200 down. In in the land of Judea and 44 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:50,800 visited a home, where in Mary fell at his feet and anointed 45 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:55,500 him, this is up in Galilee and this person is certainly not to 46 00:02:55,508 --> 00:02:59,400 be compared with Mary, with the Beloved and, and are consecrated 47 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,600 and love a wonderful person called. 48 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:06,000 Mary, Jesus was an old-time preacher, he was moving about 49 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,700 over the country. He had not graduated from their 50 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:11,600 school's, their theological seminaries of that day. 51 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,600 And he was not very Very much liked the said the Pharisees and 52 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,900 Sadducees particular to didn't like him because he didn't 53 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:25,400 subscribe to the brotherhood's idea, he was sort of a Maverick, 54 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,200 he was sort of a rebel to their ideas and this didn't get him 55 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:38,500 any points with them. This fellow Simon decided he 56 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:44,500 would give Jesus a test or so it seems to me he invited Jesus to 57 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:46,800 eat with him are to come into his home. 58 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:50,800 Now my understanding of it is he's pretty well-to-do man had a 59 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,000 home, beautiful mansion. I would suppose and he wanted to 60 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,700 have Jesus they're not to entertain him. 61 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:03,800 Really not to show him Hospitality actually and not to 62 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:08,200 have him as a beloved guest, but it wanted to humiliate our 63 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:11,500 humble savior. He wanted to just sort of cast 64 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:14,700 aspersions upon him, see if he could trick him a little bit, 65 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,899 put him down. In other words. 66 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:21,800 So we have this scene, taking place, they come to the door 67 00:04:21,808 --> 00:04:26,200 Jesus and the apostles, and when they come at the door, they're 68 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:30,100 snubbed to a certain extent. Just brought on in and let's 69 00:04:30,100 --> 00:04:33,400 suit up over here. Seems to me that Simon might 70 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:37,000 have sat on the other side, a little distance away from them 71 00:04:37,100 --> 00:04:39,400 and just look the situation over. 72 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:41,400 But you know, they didn't have long to sit here. 73 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:44,700 Deliberating about these matters because the door opens and in 74 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:49,300 walks a woman, the Bible says that she was a sinful woman. 75 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,400 Now all the authorities that I've ever checked on says it, 76 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,300 she was a woman of the street, a Scarlet woman. 77 00:04:55,300 --> 00:04:59,700 She was an immoral person. Evidently She's been used so 78 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:04,100 many times until she had. Absolutely just desperately 79 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:08,800 turned against law of all together so far as we know she 80 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,400 didn't know what that was anymore. 81 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,400 As is usually the case with a person like this. 82 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:16,500 Nothing said about the me and that had been in her lives. 83 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:19,700 They had gone on their way and out this become outstanding 84 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:23,200 citizens of the community. But of course, she was left to 85 00:05:23,207 --> 00:05:29,300 Bear the blame and to Bear the stain of it all But she came in 86 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:35,100 this day to Simon's house. I don't know why she came that's 87 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:39,200 conjecture about it. Some wonder why she came and 88 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:42,500 some wonder where this fella Simon knew so much about her. 89 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,200 You can just entertain that thought as you see fit in your 90 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,800 own minds, but it might have been that she knew that Jesus 91 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:53,100 was there and had heard of him and had known that he was 92 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:57,100 sympathetic toward Fallen people and sinful people. 93 00:05:57,900 --> 00:06:00,400 So she came. That's all we know. 94 00:06:00,700 --> 00:06:04,400 But I'll tell you one thing when She walked in that house and 95 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:06,400 looked into the eyes of this man. 96 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,200 She saw a different man than she had ever seen in all the days of 97 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,300 her life. She so Purity, she's so 98 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:17,300 innocence. She saw everything was high and 99 00:06:17,300 --> 00:06:20,300 holy and Noble and good and true so much. 100 00:06:20,300 --> 00:06:23,400 So, to the minute, she looked in this man's eyes of Fountains of 101 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,300 her emotions were burst asunder and tears began to stream out of 102 00:06:27,308 --> 00:06:31,000 her eyes down her face. And she fell at his feet and her 103 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,400 tears began to stream down upon the dusty feet of Jesus 104 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,600 thinking. She had done something amiss, 105 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:40,100 then she takes the long Tresses of her hair and wipes his feet 106 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:42,900 off. Realizing she shouldn't touch 107 00:06:42,900 --> 00:06:44,500 somebody like that and said about it. 108 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:48,600 Shouldn't touch her in that day and age because she was a sinful 109 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:52,200 woman. Well while this was taking 110 00:06:52,200 --> 00:06:55,800 place, Simon set off over here and in heard some Heart of Jesus 111 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:59,100 that he was a prophet, he was a man who was this team, very 112 00:06:59,100 --> 00:07:02,700 highly in many respects. So he says, within himself, you 113 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:05,900 know, he must not be what he claims to be your. 114 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:07,800 He would let a woman like that touching. 115 00:07:07,900 --> 00:07:10,800 That's one thing for sure. Well, you know, you don't have 116 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,800 to write out a statement and hand it to Jesus for him to know 117 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:16,800 what you're thinking about. Second chapter, The Book of John 118 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,900 said he needed opted, any should test the Five band because he 119 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:23,300 You what was in man, and you can be sure of that tonight. 120 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:26,600 He's reading your heart tonight. He's reading your thoughts 121 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:28,800 tonight. You don't have to express them. 122 00:07:28,900 --> 00:07:31,800 He knows they're there and he knows what they are too. 123 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:36,000 So when he saw Simon over here and he read that through the 124 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,300 window pane of his heart, these things he said, Simon summon up 125 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:42,700 some have to say to thee. Now the words listen up, Simon. 126 00:07:42,700 --> 00:07:46,700 I won't tell you something. Well, Simon said, say own 127 00:07:46,700 --> 00:07:49,600 Master. Well, this is not said sincerely 128 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,700 because Has he didn't consider him his master, but he did say 129 00:07:52,700 --> 00:07:56,200 it probably, for politeness sake, since he was in his house, 130 00:07:56,500 --> 00:08:00,400 say own master, and then Jesus tells him this wonderful thing 131 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,300 here. Jesus tells him, he says, you 132 00:08:03,300 --> 00:08:09,400 know, salmon, When I came here, but I came here. 133 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:12,800 You didn't entertain me properly. 134 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:17,400 You didn't give me much of a, of an acceptance when I came here. 135 00:08:18,300 --> 00:08:21,700 And I know that you are thinking that I should know who this 136 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:25,000 woman is and what she is, and so on and so forth. 137 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:27,700 And so I want to say something to you. 138 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,300 That was a certain creditor, which had two debtors, the one 139 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,799 owed five hundred pints in the other 50 and when they have 140 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:36,600 nothing to pay Fight. They forgave them. 141 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:40,700 Both tell me he said, therefore, which of them will love him. 142 00:08:40,700 --> 00:08:44,600 Most while his brother JW McGarvey says, when he comments 143 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:50,000 upon this Simon just seems to think, well, that's no big deal. 144 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:52,300 That's not a difficult question to ask. 145 00:08:52,300 --> 00:08:59,800 He says, well, I suppose that he whom he forgave most And he said 146 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,400 unto him, thou has rightly judged, and then he turned to 147 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:07,700 the woman. But said to Simon, seest, thou 148 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:13,700 this woman I entered your house and you gave me no water for my 149 00:09:13,700 --> 00:09:18,000 feet. But she has washed my feet with 150 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,700 tears and wiped them with the hairs of her head, that gave us 151 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:25,000 me no kiss. Which was the custom of 152 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,900 acceptance and politeness. And Hospitality in that day 153 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:33,200 since I've been here, this woman has not ceased to kiss my feet. 154 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:36,200 My head with all that I did. It's not a do it. 155 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,400 But this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment. 156 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:43,800 I say, ladies and gentlemen. She was at the feet of Jesus. 157 00:09:44,700 --> 00:09:47,400 If ever there was anybody who was at the feet of Jesus? 158 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:52,300 This course, sinful broken woman was there. 159 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:55,900 She was well for us, I say unto thee persons, which are many are 160 00:09:55,900 --> 00:10:00,800 forgiven for, she loved much but to whom little Is Forgiven the 161 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:05,100 same beloved little. And don't You ever doubt that 162 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:10,300 Simon got to point. He got the point and it struck 163 00:10:10,300 --> 00:10:14,900 him quite possibly. And he said, unto her thy sins 164 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:17,200 are forgiven Thee. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I 165 00:10:17,208 --> 00:10:20,600 want to tell you something right now, this is a beautiful Story. 166 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,900 One of the forgiveness is of Jesus Christ on this side of the 167 00:10:23,900 --> 00:10:25,700 Cross. And I'm not going to preach a 168 00:10:25,708 --> 00:10:28,000 big sermon about that tonight. But this is one of the 169 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,700 forgiveness is, of Jesus, on this side of the Cross. 170 00:10:30,700 --> 00:10:34,500 Before the gospel was revealed and before the plans, Salvation 171 00:10:34,500 --> 00:10:38,900 was affected, but she came down to the feet of Jesus, and that's 172 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:41,800 where she found her. Pardon had she not come in that 173 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,700 house that day and had she not fall into feet of Jesus, out of 174 00:10:44,700 --> 00:10:47,700 been, no, pardon all that woman upon that occasion. 175 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:52,000 But she did and she found sweet. Pardoned, are you and I today 176 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,800 are certainly under a different Administration, Jesus died on 177 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:59,300 the cross and he sent forth his word into the world that you and 178 00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:02,000 I have today. And we don't come down to the 179 00:11:02,008 --> 00:11:04,600 feet of Jesus. Literally, I'm certainly not 180 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,700 talking about coming down to the mourners beach in kneeling down, 181 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,000 so don't get that idea. But I am saying this in essence, 182 00:11:12,100 --> 00:11:14,700 when we listened to the commandments of Jesus Christ, 183 00:11:14,700 --> 00:11:19,400 and when we obey them, we are as close to the feet of Jesus, as 184 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,400 people can ever be in this life. And that is where we will have 185 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:25,800 to be. If we obtain any, pardon Jesus 186 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:28,800 said, why call you me? Lord Lord and do not the things 187 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,800 which I say and the people who walk around over the country 188 00:11:31,800 --> 00:11:34,100 tonight just saying, Lord Lord, Lord. 189 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:38,100 So to speak are trying to employ their own designs and their own 190 00:11:38,100 --> 00:11:40,800 plans. Those who think they can go and 191 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,600 stay out on the Love by the creek down. 192 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,300 Ian, and watch the birds and listen, if the breezes blow, and 193 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:48,500 so on and so forth. In to go get religion down 194 00:11:48,500 --> 00:11:52,000 there, their Justice are from scriptures as they can be and 195 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,700 how be no pardon. There, we must obey the word of 196 00:11:55,700 --> 00:12:00,700 the Lord and that is falling at the feet of Jesus, far apart and 197 00:12:00,700 --> 00:12:03,000 that's the way we do it. There's no other way. 198 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,300 And if we reject that we have vanished, the cup of Salvation 199 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:10,700 from our lips, didn't the Apostle Paul say in second 200 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:14,400 Thessalonians 1, in 7 to you, who are troubled rest with us, 201 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:17,200 when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his 202 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:20,300 mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking Vengeance on them, who 203 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:23,700 know, not God, and Obey, not the gospel. 204 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,800 There's something called the gospel Paul said, in Romans 1 205 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:29,700 and 16, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. 206 00:12:29,700 --> 00:12:32,400 For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that 207 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:33,700 believeth to the Jew first, First. 208 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:37,100 And also to the Greek by there, in in the gospel, is the 209 00:12:37,100 --> 00:12:39,500 righteousness of God revealed from Faith to Faith. 210 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:42,300 And that's the only place you will find the righteousness of 211 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:46,700 God, it is contained within the teachings of the scripture. 212 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:50,800 Now, when we obey that we are saved, but as Paul says, when we 213 00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,500 don't obey them, we can expect flaming fire to be administered 214 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:58,400 upon us as the Apostle Paul says, Peter said, what shall be 215 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:02,300 the end of them that know, not God and Obey, not the gospel. 216 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:06,700 Well so much For this part of our sermon, we learned in that, 217 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:11,200 we must be at the feet of Jesus, even as she was in a different 218 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,200 form. However, but with the same 219 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:16,900 humility, with the same love with the same interest. 220 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:20,400 And with the same obedience, we come on down next to the next 221 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,700 person that we talked about this is in Luke 8 + 35. 222 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:29,100 This is when Jesus and his disciples were upon the boat 223 00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:32,900 crossing, the lake of Galilee, it was Placid and calm at this 224 00:13:32,900 --> 00:13:35,800 time. I'm but this little lake called 225 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,400 Galilee was surrounded with some mountains. 226 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,600 It look like the opening Petals of a rose, the lake could be 227 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:46,500 perfectly calm, but in might as a moment's, a storm could sweep 228 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:49,800 down, from the top of those that those mountains and and hit the 229 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,700 surface of that Lake and whip it up into a tornado, put it up 230 00:13:53,700 --> 00:13:57,300 into a storm, a hurricane in just matters of minutes and 231 00:13:57,300 --> 00:13:59,900 that's what happened while they were sailing along. 232 00:13:59,900 --> 00:14:03,800 Jesus was tired. He was he was weary From 233 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:08,400 preaching The Human Side of Jesus was weary and tired. 234 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,300 So he lay himself down to sleep that night, you know, you can 235 00:14:11,300 --> 00:14:13,300 get tired of preaching. People don't know that, but you 236 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:16,200 can get tog breaching, you know. Now, I'm not going to say that 237 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,100 preachings is is is tiring is making cotton crop like some 238 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,000 have tried to tell you, I know better, I've done both but you 239 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,500 can get tired of preaching. Even Jesus was tired of 240 00:14:26,500 --> 00:14:30,200 preaching and he was resting his head that night and they glided 241 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:33,000 along overrun rippled waters for a while. 242 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:36,600 When all of a sudden that storm came down, they began to man the 243 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,900 boat as best. They could, they began to bail 244 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:41,600 out the water as best they could, but do as they might, 245 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,000 they're going to drowned. And they saw that they were and 246 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,800 that shit was going to go down right into the depths of that 247 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:51,000 sea, but they happen to Faith. Jesus is on board and no ship 248 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:52,900 ever went down with Jesus on board. 249 00:14:53,500 --> 00:14:57,600 Sometimes, you know, we go through life and we forget we 250 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:01,000 have Jesus on board with us in our small bark as we Sail Out 251 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:05,000 across life C and we try Everything else before we even 252 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,800 call upon him, even if they did we try all about human resources 253 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,200 and we do everything we can. But find me somebody thought we 254 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,500 got the master on board and somebody ran down to him. 255 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:18,400 I don't think they just rushed up and grabbed him. 256 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,500 Lucky, would you football buddy? I think they were spending in 257 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:23,700 all this man. They always did what they said. 258 00:15:23,700 --> 00:15:30,000 Master master, we perish with Parish are as another narrative, 259 00:15:30,100 --> 00:15:32,800 puts it. And as mayor baker said, in her 260 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:37,000 beautiful, Song Classic master. The Tempest is Raging carest. 261 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:38,500 Thou not that. We perish. 262 00:15:38,900 --> 00:15:43,100 Of course he cared, he opened his eyes and he stood up and I 263 00:15:43,100 --> 00:15:45,900 don't think he had to yell. He didn't have to scream. 264 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:50,800 He just said it quite calmly. Peace be still. 265 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:55,300 And the Bible dramatically describes it by saying that was 266 00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:59,000 a calm just like that, the wind stops. 267 00:16:00,100 --> 00:16:02,200 The Sea Falls is smooth as a mirror here. 268 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,400 Iron, the wrinkles out right there, just like that. 269 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,200 Well, they can see the reflection of a distant star 270 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:15,100 known, Ripple Waters at his feet in, and they thought, behold 271 00:16:15,100 --> 00:16:17,600 what a man. Water main. 272 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:22,000 This is they went to bed that night or bunk down that night 273 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,800 thinking as they glided over the waters. 274 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:27,600 We don't understand this man and they really never did. 275 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:30,500 That's the reason Jesus prayed the 17th chapter, The Book of 276 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:33,200 John that God would let him take him home with him. 277 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,900 So, they could see his glory one day, and then they would know. 278 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:41,900 But find that they landed in the land of the gadarenes had. 279 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:46,500 When they when they landed there, they started off, this 280 00:16:46,500 --> 00:16:50,100 has the boat. They saw a figure coming down 281 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:55,500 from the tombs of the under naked, bloody gashed and 282 00:16:55,500 --> 00:17:01,200 screaming. And he saw Jesus and he 283 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:04,200 recognized Jesus, the demons within him recognize Jesus. 284 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:08,000 Don't you ever doubt the devil's know Jesus and they know his 285 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:11,900 power? So he screamed out and said o, 286 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:16,599 thou, Son of God, come without a torment, me don't torment me 287 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:18,900 before the time. In other words, he wanted all 288 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:22,000 the days of probation that were coming to him down here. 289 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,300 And you know the rest of the story Jesus came and he said who 290 00:17:27,300 --> 00:17:31,300 art thou Legion was a quick while tone reply because there 291 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:35,900 were many of them and Jesus said come out of the man he said if 292 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:38,400 I've got we've got to come out. Let us go into that herd of 293 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:42,100 swine Over Yonder across the lake on the other side, on Old 294 00:17:42,100 --> 00:17:45,300 Timer, had been feeding out. A crop of hogs over there that 295 00:17:45,300 --> 00:17:47,900 year. And he had them up pretty, 296 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:51,800 pretty good shape evidently, but the devil's entered into those 297 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,800 Hogs and they ran down a violently down a steep Place 298 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,500 into the sea and were choked. The Bible says, well in our 299 00:17:57,500 --> 00:18:00,300 country fide way, we just know they were drowned. 300 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:03,100 That's what happened. And I do man stood up there, 301 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:06,000 great to just made me upset over the fact that he lost all of his 302 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,100 Hogs and I certainly don't blame him for that. 303 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:12,600 He didn't know any different and so why wouldn't he be? 304 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:15,200 Why? It's a tragic thing when you've 305 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,200 invested all of your savings and everything into a project and 306 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:21,200 then lose it all, just like that. 307 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,500 But he didn't know then yet, I don't think that there had been 308 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,900 another great benefit given to the land and it's like I told 309 00:18:28,900 --> 00:18:31,400 you earlier, Jesus never takes anything away from. 310 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,000 He doesn't give you something into play solid tympole better 311 00:18:35,700 --> 00:18:39,000 and that was what was happening to the land of the gadarenes if 312 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,500 they had just known it. Because oh man evidently didn't 313 00:18:41,500 --> 00:18:44,500 know it at that time. So the Bible says, he went into 314 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:47,600 the town and he told it in the country and he told it in the 315 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,800 city. And he didn't die, but he sort 316 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:55,200 of slanted it. He went to tell him that he'd 317 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,000 lost his homes and he told where that the man came from that. 318 00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:04,100 Made him lose his Hogs and the best. 319 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:08,300 I can figure out from this whole narrative is he, is he painted 320 00:19:08,300 --> 00:19:12,600 Jesus up in the wrong way. Jesus was there to give him some 321 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:15,200 benefits. He was there to give the whole 322 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:19,800 land, some benefits, but he had lost his homes, and he is upset 323 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:24,200 about that he gained a great benefit that he'd have to give 324 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,400 up something, he'd lost his halls, and he told it everywhere 325 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,100 in town. He went to the barber shops, and 326 00:19:30,100 --> 00:19:32,400 he went to the The Seed stores and he went to the fertilized 327 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,700 stores and he went to the grocery stores and he told it 328 00:19:34,700 --> 00:19:38,200 everywhere and had the town all stirred up over the matter. 329 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:42,100 So a great crowd came running out to the coast, you know. 330 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:45,600 You tell that a rumor get started and there's always 331 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:48,000 somebody ready to listen. There's people who like to 332 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,400 listen as well as people who like to tell and when you get 333 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,200 that combination going you've got a problem in the country. 334 00:19:55,100 --> 00:19:59,800 Well they went running out to the seaside for Jesus was there 335 00:20:00,100 --> 00:20:03,800 and there sat Jesus just as calm as an inland Lake sitting there 336 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:05,300 but I won't tell you something else. 337 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:09,900 They're set Legion At His Feet. I think when they got there they 338 00:20:09,900 --> 00:20:12,800 came up kind of tiptoeing around, they were free. 339 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,700 This man because they had every reason to be afraid off, no man 340 00:20:16,700 --> 00:20:20,200 had ever been able to binding. The Bible says when they put 341 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,500 ropes on him he snapped them asunder just like Samson did. 342 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:26,700 When Delilah shout it out. The Philistines be upon thee. 343 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:29,400 He just broke them and got up from that went on around over 344 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,300 the country, yelling and screaming and crying and cutting 345 00:20:32,300 --> 00:20:35,300 himself with stones and bleeding and going back to the film's. 346 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:40,200 That's where he lived. But now you have to worry about 347 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:43,400 that anymore. Children can go out and play. 348 00:20:43,700 --> 00:20:46,300 You can go plow the back 40 without him jumping out of the 349 00:20:46,308 --> 00:20:50,200 woods that you you can go on now and just do your work all over 350 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,700 the country. The country is played of its 351 00:20:52,700 --> 00:20:56,100 Menace. But that had to give up some 352 00:20:56,100 --> 00:20:59,700 Hogs. And so, now there's a big big 353 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:02,400 problem. These people came out there. 354 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:08,500 They saw him, though, sitting at Jesus feet, looking up at him at 355 00:21:08,500 --> 00:21:14,200 Barney's, loving him, respecting him thanking him for what he had 356 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,900 done for him. The rest of the country may not 357 00:21:16,900 --> 00:21:20,400 be impressed but I am. Thanks this man. 358 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,500 Look what he's done for me. An old? 359 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:27,600 Yes, don't let me forget this. He had his clothes on. 360 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,100 Before he presented himself to Jesus. 361 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:34,300 He put his clothes on. And I think that's a remarkable 362 00:21:34,300 --> 00:21:36,900 point in view of the day we're living in. 363 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,900 And I just have decided from this particular narrative that 364 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:45,900 when a person's thinking, right? They'll put their clothes on and 365 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:48,600 they'll wire clothes and they won't go around showing their 366 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,300 nakedness all over the country. I don't know. 367 00:21:50,308 --> 00:21:53,300 What's got into these, the people of this land anyway, 368 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:58,300 before he'd come to Jesus, he put his clothes on before people 369 00:21:58,300 --> 00:22:00,700 come to church y'all to clothe themselves decently. 370 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:06,700 I've seen people come to church disgraceful. as much pleasure 371 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:13,400 showing as I had covered and maybe more and then some long 372 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,800 mouth preacher would come up and try to get Thayer's, Greek, 373 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:17,300 Lexicon, and try to tell them that. 374 00:22:17,300 --> 00:22:22,100 That's modest. Well, we know better than that, 375 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:26,400 we don't have to have some field little Chien explaining, these 376 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,400 matters to us, we know what's modest and we know what's not, 377 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:32,300 not modest. And we don't have to have great 378 00:22:32,300 --> 00:22:35,600 big sermons about it. This man put his clothes on when 379 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:38,300 he came to see Jesus. And that goes for men, women 380 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:45,000 boys, girls, the whole business. And that goes to show you, he's 381 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,800 thinking, right? When a person goes around modest 382 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:53,500 in this day and age, in which we live, you can just see the 383 00:22:53,500 --> 00:22:54,900 people. And notice, the people know, I 384 00:22:54,908 --> 00:22:58,000 don't care for our church members, you've noticed the 385 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:06,000 people who were thinking, right? Also, he's not fearful anymore. 386 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:10,700 You don't have to be afraid of this man anymore that heart that 387 00:23:10,700 --> 00:23:12,900 have been on Council room for demons. 388 00:23:12,900 --> 00:23:14,700 Now's the throne room for Angels. 389 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:21,300 And the stormy seed. had been raging in his heart, has been 390 00:23:21,300 --> 00:23:24,500 calm, just like the waves of Galilee had been calm the night 391 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:29,000 before because Jesus can calm the storms, whether it's inside 392 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:34,100 or outside, if you come down to his feet, Because that's where 393 00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:40,900 he was. And there he said but you know I 394 00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:44,400 guess it was a committee committees are impressive things 395 00:23:45,100 --> 00:23:48,200 and probably it was a committee from the city came out and 396 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:50,900 walked up to him and advised him that we would like you to leave 397 00:23:50,900 --> 00:23:53,400 our country. We would like you to leave our 398 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:56,200 Shores. That hurt Jesus. 399 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:02,800 After all the Jesus that done. and Jesus is hurt today, when 400 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,700 you go against his teachings, and when you kick him out of 401 00:24:05,708 --> 00:24:09,400 your life and when you kick him out of your country, when you 402 00:24:09,408 --> 00:24:12,900 kick him out of your home, That hurts Jesus. 403 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,300 And the Heart of Jesus can be hurt because he's the son of 404 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:19,300 God, because he's deified and because he's glorified, no sign, 405 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:22,100 he can't be hurt. The Tender Heart of Jesus is 406 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:27,000 wounded many times, because P of his father's today in view of 407 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:33,300 all that he's done for us. But he lead, he's a gentleman. 408 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:37,800 When he knocks, he won't even come into, you answer an open 409 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:40,600 the door. And when you asked him to leave, 410 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:44,200 he will surely give. And when you kick him out, he'll 411 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,100 go. But you got to be careful how 412 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:49,100 you do that. You might need him someday. 413 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:55,200 There are days of her head. You can't see today their times 414 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,400 yet unforeseen that you going to need the Lord. 415 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:01,800 You might not be able to recognize it now, you are 416 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,400 vigorous and you're young and you're healthy and the families. 417 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,400 All right, and a little home is perfect right now. 418 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:12,100 But listen, Dark Days will come. Tempest of life will blow 419 00:25:12,900 --> 00:25:15,100 sickness, will invade that home and someday. 420 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,400 That Grim monster death going to step across your threshold. 421 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:20,900 He's going to take that baby of yours. 422 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:22,400 He's going to take that wife of yours. 423 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,500 It might even be you that he's going to gather in his cold, Icy 424 00:25:25,500 --> 00:25:31,100 arms and bear you away. So you better be prepared, don't 425 00:25:31,100 --> 00:25:36,500 run Jesus out of your life. Jesus looked at his Apostles and 426 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,100 suggest go. They walked over here and they 427 00:25:40,100 --> 00:25:42,500 stepped over in that boat and started to push off. 428 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,400 Everybody else has stayed in there, all lies. 429 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,900 The only man there that I know of, it was ready in sympathy 430 00:25:49,900 --> 00:25:53,900 with him was a man whom he had healed, and his Jesus starts 431 00:25:53,900 --> 00:25:55,900 off. He hear somebody say, Lord let 432 00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:57,700 me go with you. Let me go. 433 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:02,700 But Jesus wouldn't even go. And you know why? 434 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:08,100 Because Jesus needed a witness in that land, he needed a voice 435 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:10,400 there to talk to the people. I can't stay. 436 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:12,900 They've making me leave. My Apostles couldn't stay. 437 00:26:12,900 --> 00:26:16,600 They wouldn't let him stay. You got to be my voice. 438 00:26:19,500 --> 00:26:23,000 Well, might be that you the only voice of the Lord have in your 439 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,900 community? It might well be that you are 440 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:29,700 the only person whom the Lord can depend on to take the 441 00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:31,600 message to that family across the street. 442 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:35,400 Over Yonder from, you don't talk to him about politics, all time, 443 00:26:35,700 --> 00:26:39,100 raising, whatever you raised grapes or cotton or whatever it 444 00:26:39,100 --> 00:26:40,500 is. Don't talk about that all the 445 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,200 time, talk to him about something can benefit them. 446 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,900 Here and hereafter. Can bring a blessing to them in 447 00:26:47,908 --> 00:26:51,000 this life and given salvation and redemption in the world to 448 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:55,000 come. Jesus said you go back home. 449 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,800 And you should tell your friends, what great things. 450 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:03,100 The Lord has done for thee. And how did he have had 451 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:06,200 compassion upon deed? For he stands there for a minute 452 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:10,200 and he thinks well, if that's what he wants me to do, that's 453 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,700 what I'll do. He turns around, I think in 454 00:27:12,700 --> 00:27:14,700 walked right out that crowd heads for home. 455 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,100 He doesn't understand these people anymore and they sure 456 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:23,300 don't understand him anymore. But listen, what a prospect. 457 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,600 What was that word? He said, go, we're home. 458 00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:33,400 Go home. He probably hasn't been home in 459 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,800 years. But he's going home today. 460 00:27:38,800 --> 00:27:42,100 All he might have gone by home a time of two in his raging. 461 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,200 And in his trips. About over the country, the 462 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:50,000 children looks and sees him and screams and runs out the back 463 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,600 door terrified, but he's going home. 464 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,600 When he gets to home today in my fantasy, I can see him as he 465 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,400 comes home today, and the children look out and turn to 466 00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,000 go. But then if they wait, there's 467 00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,800 something different today, He's not bloody, he's not naked. 468 00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,000 He's got his clothes on, he's smiling and he's reaching out 469 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,200 his hand for his babies. That's the old daddy were used 470 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,100 to know a long time ago. Or take something tonight. 471 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:23,900 That was peace at home that night. 472 00:28:26,500 --> 00:28:29,300 Jesus had brought peace to that home that night. 473 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,100 Jesus has brought peace to the heart of that man that night and 474 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:37,000 the only time you will ever have peace in your home. 475 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,200 The only time you'll ever have peace in your life is we you 476 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:47,000 fall at the feet of Jesus Christ and take his word into your life 477 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,800 and into your homes and into yours and you will never have it 478 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:52,400 any other way. Don't think you can get any 479 00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,700 shortcuts through. You don't need to go get a 480 00:28:56,708 --> 00:28:59,900 best-selling book on how to be happy and have peace in my life 481 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,800 because every one of them wants to cut around Jesus. 482 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:04,400 They don't believe in him anymore. 483 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:08,700 They don't think he's not for and they think the people who 484 00:29:08,700 --> 00:29:10,700 are following him a bunch of weirdos. 485 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,700 So you just take the Bible and you do what it says and you open 486 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:20,900 up your hearts and when you do you are at the feet of Jesus and 487 00:29:20,900 --> 00:29:22,700 you're going to have peace in your life. 488 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,100 And in your home. Next. 489 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:32,200 Praise. one day Jesus and his apostles were walking into a 490 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:37,000 city and as he walked into the city, they saw 10 men standing 491 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:42,500 off after under Justice white as snow, their flesh was just 492 00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:51,600 hardened and brittle breaking off Bones Exposed and abandon 493 00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,800 for a far as we know and had been banished from their homes. 494 00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,300 Back in that day, didn't matter who you were, could be the new 495 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,700 born baby, it could be your mother. 496 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:04,900 Beloved mother could be whoever but if that's spot occurred on 497 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:07,800 them and the priest saw it, they were banished. 498 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:11,200 It's goodbye to Mama. She has to go. 499 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:17,000 And these 10 people had evidently colonised for the some 500 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,000 sake of society. Some companies they could get 501 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,300 from one another so far as I know, with, of course, that 502 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,500 command resting heavily upon them that when they saw, anybody 503 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:29,600 that was supposed to cover their mouth and scream, unclean 504 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:33,700 unclean. But today, Jesus went walking 505 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:36,500 down the road and they saw him and came up just as near to the 506 00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:39,600 road as was appropriate and stopped. 507 00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,700 And when Jesus saw him, he had compassion upon them because 508 00:30:43,700 --> 00:30:49,200 there's nobody, who can have compassion, like, the Lord. and 509 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:52,700 he said to them, go show yourself to the priest, and 510 00:30:52,700 --> 00:30:58,200 course, that was the law under Moses law, developer not Go show 511 00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:01,800 yourself to the priest. I don't know why they did this 512 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,500 made. It was a ring of authority of 513 00:31:03,500 --> 00:31:06,400 Christ had in his voice. Maybe they thought. 514 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:10,800 Well, what's the difference? We don't have anything else to 515 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,700 do for sure, but all I know is they started off down the road 516 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:19,900 to go see the priest when all of a sudden, they felt a surge of 517 00:31:20,100 --> 00:31:23,200 Health come through their body. Like they hadn't felt in years 518 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,600 and years and years. All of a sudden, the surging of 519 00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:30,200 the fever in their Temple stopped. 520 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,700 All of a sudden the pounding of their heart stopped all of a 521 00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:39,800 sudden that aching painful disease subsided and they just 522 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:43,900 felt as good as they ever felt in their lives and they look 523 00:31:43,900 --> 00:31:47,100 down at their flesh and the Bible just goes to say was look 524 00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:51,000 like the Flesh of a child. They were healed. 525 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,500 And one of them throws his brakes on what their he stops in 526 00:31:55,508 --> 00:31:59,300 the Bible takes pains to tell you and he was a Samaritan. 527 00:32:02,500 --> 00:32:04,200 Now, the Bible made a point there. 528 00:32:05,300 --> 00:32:07,500 The rest of them were Jews and they should have known. 529 00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:12,800 They should have understood but they didn't, they kept going on 530 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,700 but this fella had enough gratitude in his heart and 531 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:19,100 enough praise in his heart that he stopped. 532 00:32:19,100 --> 00:32:22,600 He thought, oh, I must go back and tell him how much I love 533 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:24,000 him. I must go back and tell him how 534 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:28,300 much I thank him, and he turned and came and met Jesus, and lay 535 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:32,800 there in the road where, at his feet and thanked him, and 536 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:36,200 thanked him in painting and Praise Jesus, for what he had 537 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:39,800 done. Do we praise Christ for what 538 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,000 he's done for us today in our lives? 539 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:46,800 I know we say a prayer when we come to church to those prayers 540 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,400 many speak out, the real feelings of our self. 541 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:55,200 And do we feel that from day to day as we live in a real real 542 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,900 sense? Do we thinking when we eat our 543 00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:02,700 food, do we think that time when we were sitting in the hospital 544 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:06,200 Down, Yonder will revive hanging in the balance. 545 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,800 We wondered how it's going to be in the doctor comes out and says 546 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:11,800 we don't know how it's going to be yet. 547 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:18,500 And you think, oh God, please have mercy and you pray and you 548 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:20,200 pray. And after a while after some 549 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,800 test remains and treatments are made you come back up says, it's 550 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,100 going to be all right. We decided now that 551 00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:44,200 That man found praise in his heart for Jesus when he did that 552 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,800 day and aren't we thankful for the fact that we can come to the 553 00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,500 feet of Jesus and praise him. For what? 554 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:53,500 He's done. One more thing in connection 555 00:33:53,500 --> 00:33:56,000 with this was, Jesus stood there and looked at him. 556 00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:01,200 He stood not gratified and, and, and happy that a person like 557 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,700 that would be so thankful. And so, so appreciative of his 558 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:10,500 benefits. but he was a little bit saddened because Of a 559 00:34:10,500 --> 00:34:13,900 situation. He says to him were there. 560 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:28,000 Not ten? Four of the nine Peppa bunch of 561 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:35,199 sins that would fit the book later days who oppose in that 562 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:39,199 long sorted list of immoralities and so on and so forth. 563 00:34:39,300 --> 00:34:41,699 I believe he says that would be people today. 564 00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:45,100 Hook me up. You think that's not a spin? 565 00:34:46,500 --> 00:34:49,300 If you think, I'm just twiddling my thumbs and talking about 566 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:52,400 triviality tonight. Paul said that would accompany 567 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:56,199 the people are these latter days who don't properly praise the 568 00:34:56,199 --> 00:34:57,700 Lord. Give him the credit for what 569 00:34:57,700 --> 00:35:02,300 he's done. Last night we won't talk about 570 00:35:02,300 --> 00:35:06,000 the people of the person who found power at the feet of 571 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,300 Jesus. I love this one so much 572 00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:12,800 Stephanie was just a few miles out of Jerusalem. 573 00:35:14,300 --> 00:35:16,000 Bethany was such a pretty little town. 574 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,500 You're to read up on what a pretty little situation. 575 00:35:18,500 --> 00:35:22,800 This is Perched, upon the side of a mountain with palm trees 576 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,200 growing all around it, and flowers of Exquisite Style Just 577 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:30,100 for in constant Bloom. Bethany the beautiful little 578 00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:34,900 town. Jesus like to go out here. 579 00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:40,600 This was one place where that welcome mat was always out and 580 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:45,700 Christ knew it When the hard day of was done in the city when 581 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:50,200 people had been so unreceptive when persecutions that even 582 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,900 attended their lives. And when the sun was lowering 583 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:56,500 over the Western Hills, and you wondered where we going to spend 584 00:35:56,500 --> 00:36:00,800 the night tonight, with all the boys, the cloud, the 12, where 585 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:04,600 we going to go tonight. They always remembered. 586 00:36:04,900 --> 00:36:08,900 We can always go to Bethany. We can always go down to the 587 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:14,100 home of Martha Mary and Lazarus. We read several times if they 588 00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:16,400 win and oh the Lord only knows how many times they went. 589 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,500 That we don't even know about. It was just one of those places 590 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:22,300 where they like to go. You know, some people wonder why 591 00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:24,600 it is a preacher. Go to the same place, old-time 592 00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,600 new people come in and they wonder why he goes out there. 593 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,000 Oh, that, would you ever stop to think? 594 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:31,100 Maybe it's because they asked him sometimes. 595 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:34,300 That's one. Good clue. 596 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,800 And maybe they're glad to have them when they go. 597 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:46,500 As the old saying, goes, says people go where invited and stay 598 00:36:46,500 --> 00:36:50,000 where well treated, so that might be the reason they went 599 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:53,000 it. Anyway, they are looking for him 600 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,700 today. And boy are they ever preparing? 601 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:10,200 Take a lot of fried chicken and then or pudding for 13 hungry 602 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:12,400 men who walked all the way down there. 603 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:14,700 They're going to have to get in that kitchen and do some 604 00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:18,800 cooking. I get up early so far of that 605 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:23,100 stove and it get with it. That will know what they had. 606 00:37:23,100 --> 00:37:26,200 I wish I did know, none of my business but I'd sure like to 607 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:31,100 know just for curiosity sake. But anyway, I know it was a good 608 00:37:31,100 --> 00:37:34,000 one. While they cooked. 609 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,400 I think maybe they went out and looked up. 610 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,300 The do robes. See if they're coming yet? 611 00:37:37,300 --> 00:37:39,100 No, we've got time to set the table. 612 00:37:39,300 --> 00:37:41,100 We've got time to make the gravy. 613 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:43,000 We've got time to do this. I'm not here yet. 614 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,500 We can put on a few more things after a while. 615 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:48,800 Though, they look in Yonder, they all come down the road, 616 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:51,900 Jesus out front walking along and all up walking along the 617 00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:53,600 side. And look looking up at him. 618 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,800 Everybody crowding to get too close to him, because he's 619 00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:59,000 preaching, he always preaches. They weren't talking about the 620 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,700 football game and our favorite team and they weren't talking 621 00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:04,400 about the chariot races. Up in Jerusalem where they could 622 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,400 buy a ticket and go and they did have them in those days, you 623 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,300 know, they copied him off of the Olympics, you know, over in 624 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:15,700 Greece they had Olympics to over there that I might say that they 625 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:19,500 initiated by offering up sacrifices to their Idol gods. 626 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:24,400 I'll say that to the people who were so hard on Christmas all 627 00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,500 the time. They put a bolt in the same bag. 628 00:38:29,900 --> 00:38:35,700 just give you that first free, but at any rate, but at any 629 00:38:35,700 --> 00:38:41,500 rate, Jesus sees a lily over there, just talk to him about 630 00:38:41,500 --> 00:38:44,100 that. Lately, Solomon ever was close 631 00:38:44,100 --> 00:38:46,700 like that little Lily right there and he doesn't worry a 632 00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:50,100 bit, the father closing, maybe Caesar spare on them, and talks 633 00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:52,500 about that Sparrow preaches, a sermon on that. 634 00:38:53,900 --> 00:38:55,700 Here's this was a simple preacher. 635 00:38:56,700 --> 00:39:00,700 He didn't preach about profound and gray deep things. 636 00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:06,300 He didn't go down to the Jewish seminar down in Jerusalem and 637 00:39:06,300 --> 00:39:10,600 get his degree down there, come back and talk about deep things 638 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,200 that the common people couldn't understand when you left hearing 639 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,500 Jesus, you knew everything he was talking about and exactly 640 00:39:18,500 --> 00:39:22,000 what he meant. And nobody had to go home 641 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:24,800 wondering. You didn't have to go get out 642 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,500 all your Greek dictionaries, Hebrew dictionary, to find out 643 00:39:27,500 --> 00:39:32,100 what it meant either. No reflection on people who like 644 00:39:32,100 --> 00:39:37,900 Hebrew, dictionaries. But at any rate he finally gets 645 00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:40,900 up there and here they are out to meeting those old modest 646 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:43,300 leaders of long ago, standing out there to meeting. 647 00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,300 So Pious and sweet. They greet him at the gate and 648 00:39:46,300 --> 00:39:49,100 he still preaching. He tells them, he speaks to them 649 00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,100 and Martha still Trenton around about that dinner in there. 650 00:39:52,100 --> 00:39:55,200 You know, he comes on in, but Mary just becomes in transfer 651 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:59,000 his words and her eyes get set on his face and our hearts gets 652 00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,700 fixed on his words. And she just, she just loses 653 00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:04,100 herself. And before, she knows it, she 654 00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:08,600 just Just sits down on the front steps probably and spreads her 655 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,900 long skirts over her feet and just sits there and looks up at 656 00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:15,000 Jesus. She's at Jesus feet. 657 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,700 Of course, Martha has to run back to the kitchen because 658 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,800 dinner's not done yet. No reflection on that. 659 00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:23,600 You know, Jesus doesn't mind that. 660 00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:27,700 But after a while she gets carried away with the thing, she 661 00:40:27,700 --> 00:40:29,400 get to thinking. You know, that girl's not in 662 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,800 here. Get, I've got all this to do by 663 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:33,500 myself. Enough to won't tell the cops to 664 00:40:33,500 --> 00:40:35,300 come in here and we're not gonna have a thing done. 665 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,700 No, no, that's bound to be what she's thinking, because in a 666 00:40:38,707 --> 00:40:41,400 little bit, she just lets it, get the best of her and she just 667 00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:42,700 found a walk right back out there. 668 00:40:42,700 --> 00:40:45,700 And she said the whole Master Hammer sisters, left me here, 669 00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,900 serve alone. She won't Jesus to just bake it 670 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:51,900 up. Put it back in the kitchen where 671 00:40:51,900 --> 00:40:54,800 she belongs. If we get that dinner ready, 672 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,700 Now, sometime when I preach on this assistance try to be cute 673 00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:01,600 and he'll tell me when you got all right. 674 00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,400 I have we not go cook anything, we just go talk all day today. 675 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:09,600 No, that's not what Jesus is talking about. 676 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:14,300 So you go ahead and cook. But the point is this Jesus 677 00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:19,300 didn't want anybody putting a meal ahead of his word and ahead 678 00:41:19,300 --> 00:41:21,800 of his teaching. Not just that particular 679 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:24,600 incident right there, but he was teaching an immortal or less 680 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:28,500 than because that's the only way you get spiritual power in. 681 00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:32,900 Your life is out of that word that I'm teaching you and I want 682 00:41:32,900 --> 00:41:36,100 you to hear it. If Jesus ever smiled, I think he 683 00:41:36,100 --> 00:41:39,400 must have smiled that day when he said Martha Martha. 684 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,500 Now he didn't say it quite because he's yelling loud enough 685 00:41:43,500 --> 00:41:46,900 to hear down the cow barn. You know just said, Martha 686 00:41:46,900 --> 00:41:50,700 Martha for emphasis sake, that would cumbered about much 687 00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:54,600 serving. But one thing is needful Mary 688 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:57,900 has chosen this good part and I'll not take it away from her. 689 00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:01,200 Nobody's going to make her get up, listening to the words of 690 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:04,800 eternal life in which there's power, which is a lamp to our 691 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:07,300 feet and a light to our path. No, I'm not gonna make her get 692 00:42:07,300 --> 00:42:10,000 up and go back in the kitchen. We can eat later Martha. 693 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:11,900 Wait, I get through with this argument. 694 00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:14,500 Wait, I get there with this talk thought that I don't write here. 695 00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:17,200 We're going to death while that's meaning of it. 696 00:42:17,900 --> 00:42:21,500 But the point I want to bring in today, is she found power God 697 00:42:21,500 --> 00:42:27,300 that day because there's power in that word And ladies and 698 00:42:27,300 --> 00:42:30,500 gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, you're going to never 699 00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:33,200 be powerful in the living of the Christian Life. 700 00:42:33,300 --> 00:42:37,200 Did you have sat at the feet of Jesus in the constant study and 701 00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,200 embodiment of his word in your life? 702 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:41,000 That's where you're going to get your power. 703 00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:43,400 God's not going to send power down here to you in the Holy 704 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:47,000 Ghost, that days passed away and gone because the Holy Ghost is 705 00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,700 already given it to you. After all. 706 00:42:48,700 --> 00:42:51,700 What do you want the Holy Ghost? You he's giving you that thing 707 00:42:51,700 --> 00:42:53,700 that brings you power and to show you that. 708 00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:56,600 That's what he means. Paul said, in Romans 1:16, I'm 709 00:42:56,600 --> 00:42:58,800 not ashamed of the Gospel across fix the power. 710 00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:04,100 I've got himself a ship. So if you want Power, you just 711 00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:07,000 get down at the feet of Jesus in the study of his word. 712 00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:11,700 And you read it and you study it and you put it in your life and 713 00:43:11,700 --> 00:43:15,100 you're going to walk out a powerful person in Christ. 714 00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:21,100 And you would not until you do. Now, you can have all the 715 00:43:21,100 --> 00:43:23,900 retreats in all the get-togethers and all the ball 716 00:43:23,900 --> 00:43:26,700 games and all the poly Ball Teams you want to. 717 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:30,900 That's not going to make you one wet more spiritual. 718 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,700 And that's not going to make you one Speck more powerful and 719 00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:38,400 people to turn these things around brother that's going to 720 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,300 be one of the crisis of the church in the future 721 00:43:40,300 --> 00:43:42,000 Generations. Notes, you ever doubt it. 722 00:43:44,500 --> 00:43:47,100 I've seen people who set off by themselves, you know? 723 00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:50,900 But they studied the word of God and they became Giants. 724 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:54,400 But I've seen father's mother said well you know I think I'm 725 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,700 going to get my boys down there so they can have some more 726 00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:02,300 Association and fellowship. Well they moved down where the 727 00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:06,500 church has numerous where the people are our social where they 728 00:44:06,500 --> 00:44:10,000 have all sorts of entertainment. And the first thing, you know, 729 00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,400 they get too carried away with the entertainment and all the 730 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,600 functions until they stop studying. 731 00:44:14,600 --> 00:44:16,900 The only thing that can give them power that too busy with 732 00:44:16,900 --> 00:44:24,100 the other. now, sinking I'm not condemning that all together, 733 00:44:24,500 --> 00:44:29,900 but I am condemning letting that replace this because that's 734 00:44:29,900 --> 00:44:32,500 where you grow. Peter said, desire, the sincere 735 00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:34,300 milk of the word that you may grow. 736 00:44:34,300 --> 00:44:37,100 Thereby. And that's how it's done because 737 00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:40,400 that's how it brings you power. I'm through with the sermon 738 00:44:40,400 --> 00:44:42,800 tonight. This is not a profound sermon 739 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:45,200 but I love it. Because it just tells us some of 740 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:50,200 the warm pulsing, sweet little things about Christ that we hear 741 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,200 in his word. And we read in his word and it 742 00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,200 can give us some benefits in each one of the items that I 743 00:44:58,207 --> 00:45:00,800 talked about in my talking to somebody tonight, who's never 744 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:03,600 come down to the feet of Jesus, in obedience to his will. 745 00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:07,600 If you have it, you must believe on Jesus Christ, as a son of 746 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:11,100 God. You know that used to be sort of 747 00:45:11,107 --> 00:45:15,400 routine when I started preaching long time ago, we just command 748 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,900 that and sort of glide on over to go on but you know, that's 749 00:45:17,900 --> 00:45:21,000 not so routine anymore. We've got a lot of folks today. 750 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,600 Coming out of the higher institutions of learning that 751 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:27,000 don't believe in Jesus Christ, as the Son of God came before 752 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,000 they believe in him, they know he lived it be a fool. 753 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,600 If he said he didn't real, you know, naturally the histories 754 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,800 tell us that but they don't believe he's really the son of 755 00:45:35,808 --> 00:45:37,600 God. But when you've denied, the fact 756 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:41,000 that Jesus Christ was born, The Virgin and not just a young 757 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:46,000 girl, as some translations say, you have blasted us under God's 758 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,500 whole system of redemption. The very Foundation of it. 759 00:45:50,500 --> 00:45:53,900 Is the fact that you've got to believe that Jesus Christ was 760 00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:56,900 born of a virgin, the son of God. 761 00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,600 That's where our faith starts. Next to that then we must repent 762 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:07,300 of our sins. We repent of all of our past we 763 00:46:07,300 --> 00:46:10,500 quick what we're doing and change our mind with a view to 764 00:46:10,500 --> 00:46:14,700 reforming our lives. And then we confess you that's 765 00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:17,700 where we run up our flag for Christ. 766 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,300 We believed him but now we want the world to know and if it 767 00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:24,300 means death like you did in the first century. 768 00:46:24,500 --> 00:46:27,100 That's all right, too. They? 769 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,200 And then, of course, we've commanded to be baptized for the 770 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,200 remission of our sins, and that changes our relationship. 771 00:46:34,200 --> 00:46:37,900 It leaves the world, we leave the world, like we spoke about 772 00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:40,200 math, you do the night, we leave the world. 773 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,600 We leave our own friends. We come to The Parting of the 774 00:46:42,600 --> 00:46:46,100 ways we come to the crossroads. And then we step over into the 775 00:46:46,100 --> 00:46:48,900 new land. And we start living the new life 776 00:46:48,900 --> 00:46:51,400 of then Owen where a new creature. 777 00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:53,600 Paul said in second Corinthians 5 and 17. 778 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,500 If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are 779 00:46:57,500 --> 00:47:00,200 passed away. 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