1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,960 With then the 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:44,000 When fears are still, my comforts are, my all in all, here in the love of Christ ourself. 3 00:00:44,000 --> 00:01:00,000 In Christ alone, He took on flesh, bonus of God and helpless faith. 4 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:20,000 This gift of love and righteousness, scorned by the ones He came to save. Till on the cross, as Jesus died, the breath of God was satisfied. 5 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:31,000 For everything on Him was laid, here in the death of Christ ourself. 6 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Then when the cross His body laid, light of the world by darkness slain, 7 00:01:47,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Then bursting forth in glorious state, up from the grave He rose again. And as He stepped in victory, 8 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Since Christ has lost His people He, for I am His and He is mine, God with the precious God of Christ. 9 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:33,000 No gifts in life, no fear in death, there's simply power of Christ in me. 10 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:48,000 From life's first cry to final breath, Jesus commands my destiny. The power of God, whose name I'll chant, 11 00:02:48,000 --> 00:03:13,000 I'll never let me forget. Till He returns, or calls me home, here in the power of Christ ourself. 12 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:31,000 Alright, it's Tuesday night, whacked out simple stuff. I'm going to take you somewhere briefly in the Bible that you may not have been recently. 13 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:36,000 We're going to look briefly at the story of Samuel. Does anybody remember Samuel from the Bible? 14 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:48,000 Okay, somebody tell me something about Samuel. Samuel was not a king, but you're close, you're very close. 15 00:03:48,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Wasn't Samuel, wasn't he a godsman? He was. He was a very, uh, oh, my judge. 16 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Um, yeah, kind of not a judge, yeah, kind of a judge. So Samuel was a priest, he was a high priest, right? 17 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:13,000 And he's the one who anointed Saul, the first king of Israel, and later David to be king. 18 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:21,000 When Samuel's parents had not had a child, his mother prayed fervently that she be given a child, and she was. 19 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 And she said if she was given a child, she would dedicate that child to the Lord. 20 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:32,000 That was Samuel, and she dedicated Samuel to the Lord. He went to live in the temple, and he was raised to be a priest, and he was a priest. 21 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:39,000 And he took over for the priest before him, who was not a very good man, and did some bad things, and his sons especially did some bad things. 22 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:48,000 So that's just kind of the background story. Now fast forward a long time in the story, and there's a scene that I want to share with you. 23 00:04:48,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Saul said to Samuel, I did obey the voice of the Lord, and went on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and had brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and had utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 24 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:06,000 God told him to completely destroy the Amalekites, and he did, except he didn't, to be brought back to the king, right? 25 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:09,000 So he didn't destroy the ball, even though he was told to. 26 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Then it says, But the people took some of the spoils, sheep, and oxen, the choices of things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice, to the Lord your God and Yilgoth. 27 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,000 They were also supposed to not do that, and yet they did, and they said they did it for a sacrifice. 28 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Verse 22, Samuel said, Has the Lord as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifice as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and the heed is better than the fat of rams. 29 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:43,000 Alright, what did it say was better? Did you catch it? 30 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:59,000 To obey, that's right, it said, is not better to obey than to sacrifice? God told them not to take that stuff, and they took it anyway, and they said they were going to take it to sacrifice it to God. 31 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:11,000 But people do that sometimes, they don't do the things that they're supposed to do, or that God would want them to do, and they make excuses, because they say they're doing something else that God wants them to do. 32 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:18,000 And this is the important verse, this is what I was headed for, listen closely, all the kids especially, a really super important lesson for your whole life right here. 33 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:35,000 God's speaking and he says, For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and in subordination, that means not following the directions of those who are in charge of you, is as iniquity, that means sin, or idolatry, that means worshiping some other God. 34 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he has also rejected you from being king. So the king was told he was no longer going to be king. Why? Because he disobeyed God. 35 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:59,000 He said he disobeyed God and brought back the enemy king, and brought back the riches, the spoils, the animals, the stuff to sacrifice them to God, but really what was he doing? 36 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Disobeying. 37 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:10,000 He was disobeying. He didn't do what God told him to do, God just said go do that, and instead of doing that he kind of did it, and then kind of didn't do it, he stopped short. 38 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,000 And this gets way out of hand. Does anybody know the end of this story? 39 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Saul no longer is king, David becomes king instead. It takes a long time before that happens. 40 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 What happens to the guy that he didn't kill? Does anybody know this? 41 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:37,000 There was a guy that brought back Agag the king of Amalek. Does anybody know what happens with Agag the king of Amalek? 42 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:45,000 Somebody does, I mean Kate does. Tell me who does Agag the king of Amalek? 43 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Daddy. 44 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Who comes out of his family? 45 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,000 He comes from the descendants of Haman, which is the book of Esther. 46 00:07:53,000 --> 00:08:03,000 Does anybody remember the story of the book of Esther? In the book of Esther, Haman gets the king, he's going to wipe out all of the Jewish people. 47 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:15,000 He's going to kill them all. And Esther has to go to the king and ask the king please don't do that, don't wipe out my entire people, because Esther was a Jew who had been made queen. 48 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:24,000 And she was very afraid to do that, to go to the king, because if the king didn't tip his scepter to her, she'd be killed immediately. 49 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:32,000 You know why? Think about it. Because she'd be disobeying, she's coming into the king's presence without permission, that's disobeying. 50 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:40,000 So she was going to get the same treatment from the king, then that God has every right to give us, if we disobey him. 51 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:46,000 He could just destroy us if he wanted to. God doesn't want disobedience. 52 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:59,000 He says rebellion is like a sin of witchcraft. So Saul saves the king, saves Agang the king of Amalek, and his descendant becomes Haman, and the Jewish people almost get totally wiped out because of that. 53 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:08,000 But Esther goes and petitions the king, and the king says you know what, I can't take it back. I already made the law, but on that day everybody can wipe out the Jews, I can't take it out, I can't take it back. 54 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:16,000 And she says well we've got to do something, and he says okay here's what I'll do, I'll make a law that says that they can defend themselves. 55 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:23,000 And they do defend themselves, and they prosper, and God defends them, works on their behalf, and they prosper, and ultimately it works out for their good. 56 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:31,000 But none of that would have happened if Saul had not disobeyed God. Sometimes this is what we do, we disobey, we think won't this be fun? 57 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:40,000 Won't this be better? What if I do this instead? I know better than my parents, I know better than God, I know better than what the Bible says, I can see what's right before me. 58 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:50,000 And you do something that normally might not be sin, but because it's rebellion to God, it's sin, and the long lasting effects of that can be very bad. 59 00:09:50,000 --> 00:10:01,000 Classic example, your parents try to teach you to eat healthy, eat fruits and vegetables, eat healthy, and maybe you don't feel like you want to eat healthy right? 60 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:07,000 Because those foods don't taste as good as those other foods. Well guess what? When you don't eat healthy you're killing your brain cells. 61 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:17,000 You're making it harder for you to breathe when you're 30 or 40 or 50 years old. You're messing up your whole life because you don't like something. 62 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:26,000 And that's the way it is. We can't do that. And this is what Samuel is saying to Saul, that he would no longer be king because of this. Why? 63 00:10:26,000 --> 00:10:34,000 Because he said rebellion is just like the sin of divination, which is trying to know the future without God's help. 64 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:44,000 And insubordination, that means not following the direction of the people in charge of you, is as sin and is as idolatry, following false gods. 65 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:54,000 And because you have rejected the word of the Lord, he said he would be rejected as being king. God wants to be able to tell you what to do and he wants you to do it. 66 00:10:54,000 --> 00:11:01,000 I submit to you that the more you are willing for him to tell you what to do and then you'll do it, the more he'll tell you what to do. 67 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:09,000 He's going to give you great ideas and great plans and great creativity above and beyond what you already have. He's got so much good in store for you. 68 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:19,000 But if you rebel against him, even if you have a good excuse, if you rebel against him, he's not going to be able to do those wonderful things like he has for you. 69 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Just like if mom or dad, like we're planning on taking our kids out later somewhere fancy to a restaurant, go on vacation or something, and then the kids are acting up. 70 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:35,000 Now we can't take them because that would be rewarding their bad behavior and say, well, we wanted to get we wanted to go. 71 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:44,000 So we get a babysitter and we go to the babysitter or we'll stay home and we'll give up the fun that we would have had too because we can't take our kids to go do that thing because they weren't obeying. 72 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:50,000 They weren't being responsible. God is the same way. He wants to take you somewhere amazing. He's got a plan to take you somewhere amazing. 73 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:56,000 And to do that, he needs you to obey, not to make excuses and rebel. 74 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:05,000 All right. That's our Wacked Out Simple Stuff for today. We're going to pray, do one more song and then let the children and their leaders go to the side. 75 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:13,000 One more song. We did one, do one more, and then we go. Hold on. That's the order. OK. That'll be all right, won't it? 76 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:19,000 You like the music. Miracle likes the music. So all right. Well, let's pray together. And that's the plan. 77 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:28,000 Father in heaven, I thank you so much that you know better than we do. And in every situation when we think we have it figured out, when we don't think we have it figured out, 78 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:37,000 when we're facing difficulty or things are soaring along easily, in every situation it would pay dividends beyond dividends. 79 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:45,000 It would be a great investment. It would always turn out best if we would just remember that you know. 80 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:53,000 You have a plan. You control the resources. You set kings on the throne and cast them down. 81 00:12:53,000 --> 00:13:01,000 You build up countries and destroy them. You have wiped nations off the face of the earth because of their rebellion. 82 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:12,000 And they just literally are no longer existing. There's places where they can't even find even a record or any like a fossil or any piece of old pot or anything, 83 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:19,000 because you wiped that nation out completely. Other historical references perhaps, but nothing left of them. 84 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:24,000 And we don't want to be like that. We want to be your people. We don't want to rebel. We want to be obedient. 85 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:31,000 And obedient sounds boring, but it isn't because it is letting you do that amazing thing that you want to do. 86 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:40,000 And so far, every time that I've ever been obedient in 28 years, whatever it's been that I've been a Christian, Lord, you've almost done amazing things. 87 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:49,000 When I've not been obedient, I've suffered the price. Not that I lose my salvation, but that it just doesn't go the way I want it to go. 88 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:56,000 And so Lord, I pray that we will remember that we are a people of obedience to the God of heaven who knows and who can. 89 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:11,000 God bless you as we sing praises to you in Jesus name. Amen. 90 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:26,000 My word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my God. 91 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:38,000 My word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my God. 92 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:50,000 When I feel afraid and I think I've lost my way, send your lamp right beside me. 93 00:14:50,000 --> 00:15:18,000 Nothing will I fear as long as you are near, please be near me unto the end. My word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my God. 94 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:30,000 My word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my God. 95 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:57,000 I will ever again show love to me and yet my love forever is one thing. Jesus, be my guide and hold me to your side and God will allow you unto the end. 96 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:23,000 My word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my God. 97 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:31,000 At this time we'll release the children and their leaders to the classroom. 98 00:16:53,000 --> 00:17:12,000 I will ever again show love to me and yet my love forever is one thing. Jesus, be my guide and hold me to your side and God will allow you unto the end. 99 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:25,000 Always looking around and never looking up, oh so never minded. I'm trying not to save a dirty hand but my heart's divided. 100 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:51,000 Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, oh fill our hearts to the one who can get our heart's finding finger. Let our hearts be led by mercy, help us reach with open heart to hope and joy. 101 00:17:51,000 --> 00:18:10,000 Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours. 102 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Jesus, friend of sinners, who's riding in the sand, may the righteous turn away and the souls walk on their hands. Help us to remember we are all needs of these. 103 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:41,000 Let the memory of your mercy bring our peoples you and me. Nobody knows what will fall and what will against what we've done so long ago. 104 00:18:41,000 --> 00:19:01,000 Only if we look down on our sides, cross over the lines of love like you did. Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, open our hearts to the world at the end of our heart's finding finger. 105 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:14,000 Let our hearts be led by mercy, help us reach with open heart to hope and joy. 106 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours. You're reverent in those past, you reach for the outcast, for the leper and the lame. 107 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:50,000 You're the reason that you came to what I was never lost, and I was never found. But you died for sinners just like me, a grave forever at your feet. 108 00:19:50,000 --> 00:20:04,000 Cause you are good, you are good, and your love endures forever. 109 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:30,000 You are good, you are good, and your love endures forever. 110 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:45,000 You are good, you are good, and your love endures forever. 111 00:20:45,000 --> 00:21:09,000 Jesus, friend of sinners, open our hearts to the world at the end of our heart's finding finger. Let our hearts be led by mercy, help us reach with open heart to hope and joy. 112 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Oh Jesus, friend of sinners, break our hearts for what breaks yours. 113 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:46,000 And I was the lost cause, and I was the outcast. And you, you died for sinners just like me, a grave forever at your feet. 114 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:07,000 Thank you, thank you, thank you. 115 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:31,000 Okay, while the worksheets are coming around, I want to just kind of do a couple of housekeeping things just so we make sure we're on the same page. So we started doing these worksheets quite a while back now, and every Tuesday is a unique, pretty much hand drawn, I think I did one that I kind of copied and pasted together, pretty much hand drawn worksheet each week. 116 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:44,000 And we provided binders, so if you have your binder, you can keep track of your worksheets, and we have extra binders if anybody doesn't have one, and so there's that. 117 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:59,000 And then we are also doing kind of like a little reward system, and so when you have eight, which if you kept your binder from the beginning and you've been here every week, today would be your eighth Tuesday in your binder, correct RJ? 118 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,000 Yes. He's going to double check, yes sir. 119 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:16,000 I'm going to talk about that in a second. So just let me finish my spiel. I'll get you. Okay, and so if you were in this room, and you got a worksheet every week and you filled it out every week, you would have eight. 120 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:33,000 Okay, and so that means I have prizes for those who have eight. Now, as Jason so astutely pointed out, those of our children's workers, they cannot do that. They cannot be here because they have that. Now they can do the worksheets on their own, and we're building a better system for people to be able to do that. 121 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:50,000 So if you're not here, we posted the tonight's worksheet has already been posted on Facebook, and then we're still debating. I'm not sure we're going to post a completed worksheet or what we might do is post a completed worksheet quite a bit later because we don't want to ruin it for people who want to do the worksheet on their own. 122 00:23:50,000 --> 00:24:05,000 And they'll be very, it's very hard not to look at the answers in the back of the book kind of thing. So what we've decided to do is if it's a children's worker, and so you're out every other week or however often your your sheets will be worth 1.5. 123 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:22,000 The regular count. So if you are out every other week, you will not have you still will not make it up because you don't get to per. So if you want to have as much somebody else, you'll have to get some worksheets at least and do them. But if you do get the worksheets and do that, you'll actually be ahead. 124 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:41,000 So if you're getting 1.5 per worksheet and you do a worksheet every single week and you're a children's worker, then you're getting an extra half a worksheet every single week and you'll go faster than anybody else. So the fastest, the very fastest progress to be made on the number of worksheets would be to be in here every week you possibly can and do the worksheet every week. 125 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:56,000 And then if you go once or say every other week to go to child care, then on that week you still go online, get the worksheet and complete it. And in two weeks you will get three worksheets where everyone else will get two. That makes sense? You understand? Yes, sir. 126 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:14,000 1.5, very good. So he'll be at eight. So that's good. So and for those who had them from before we got the binders, some people have been keeping them for a lot longer than that. If you have them like you have some, you know, just kind of scrabble with them or you have a few or whatever, go ahead and put them in your binder and count them. Right? 127 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:27,000 Because we're counting that towards your total. So we have one person who, if they're not able to be here tonight, that's Chris McCrory. He couldn't be here tonight because Amazon did not give him his PTO and he's using PTO to be able to come to Bible study. 128 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:38,000 So they blamed it on the solar flare and said that the PTO was not on there because of the solar flare. So he couldn't take the two hours off to come to Bible study, which is just comical to me. But that's what they said. 129 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:54,000 So yeah, that's Amazon. We love you, Amazon, but we also wish you would change and be more like Jesus. OK, all right. So anyway, the point is, if he gets his worksheet and does it for tonight, he's got 24 worksheets. 130 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:00,000 So that gives us a good idea because he's kept them from the very beginning. And then we have somebody else who what? 131 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:09,000 He told me he told me that he told me last week would be 24. So it'd be 25 today then. Sorry. Yeah. OK. So anyway, just so you know, that's going on. 132 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:19,000 And I do have the eight gifts. The 13 is a meal with me. Either we prepare it or we'll go out to eat or whatever. And we have some people who are already there. 133 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:31,000 And then the 26 is a meal with me again, but also something additional on top of that to be yet named because we don't know what that is yet. And we've got somebody approaching that. So we'll have to figure that out pretty soon. 134 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:38,000 OK, so I just want to let you know that's what it's at. This is a fair. This is a fairly well known story that we're going to look at here. 135 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:47,000 Anybody by looking at the page, can you tell me what the story is? Tell me what it is. That's right. So baptism of Jesus. Very good. 136 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:57,000 So we're going to look at the baptism of Jesus. It's not not a particularly complicating story, but then there are a couple of things that this story does for us that are very valuable. 137 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:03,000 OK, so we're going to talk about those at the end. The story itself will go by pretty quickly. 138 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:10,000 And you might even be able to help. We're going to let you try to take a stab at the various things. All right. So we're starting in the upper left hand corner. 139 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:20,000 It does jump around. We go by numbers. So the number one is in the upper left hand corner. And does anybody know the reference? 140 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:31,000 Anybody can get the book. It's in all four Gospels to some extent, but looking at this. OK, so you guessed and you're wrong. Good guess, though. 141 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:36,000 Say it again. It is Matthew. Yes, that we said to you. Yeah. So it's Matthew. So the book is Matthew. 142 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:44,000 All right. Now, if I tell you this, the temptation begins in Matthew, chapter four, verse one. So what chapter is this? 143 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:55,000 He's getting baptized. No, Matthew, four, one is the temptation city. Three is three because the last thing after he goes into the temptation is he's baptized. 144 00:27:55,000 --> 00:28:00,000 He baptized. Holy Spirit comes and settles up. And by the way, who takes him into the wilderness to be baptized or to be tempted? 145 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:07,000 Who takes him into the wilderness? The spirit, right? So the spirit settles on him at his baptism and then immediately right after takes him into the wilderness. 146 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:13,000 So we know it's Matthew, chapter three. And I'll give you the verse just so you don't have to look at it. It's 13. Starts in 13. 147 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:19,000 Now, the whole passage could be a little longer if you wanted to. Right. But the key of where Jesus. 148 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:28,000 So the first set up there is just the description of 13. So I'm going to read verse 13. And by the time I do that, you'll be you could probably fill in all the blanks. 149 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,000 It says, then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan, coming to John to be baptized by him. 150 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:49,000 So the first one starts with a J. So that's probably Jesus. Say it again. OK. Yeah, I know. Jesus came or went. 151 00:28:49,000 --> 00:29:01,000 Where to? I skipped the Jordan to John, right? To be baptized. Yep. But you're right. In the verse, it was the Jordan. 152 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:08,000 OK, so Jesus went to John to be baptized. That right there says a whole heck of a lot. All right. 153 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:16,000 That Jesus, the son of God, need to be baptized. All right. And he went to a human. 154 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:21,000 But kind of flawed human at that, because later he questions whether or not Jesus was the one. 155 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:26,000 And Jesus says, well, John the Baptist is the greatest man born of women. 156 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:30,000 But all of you who are born in the Kingdom of God are greater than he was. 157 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:35,000 That's pretty extreme. Kind of like laying it out. Who's where? Right. 158 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:44,000 So Jesus went to John the Baptist to be baptized. Jump over to number two. It's on the bottom right hand there. See number two. 159 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:52,000 Now, this is a J and it's not Jesus. And it's John. That's right. So what did John do? Let's see. 160 00:29:52,000 --> 00:29:58,000 It says, but John tried to prevent him saying, I have need to be baptized by you. And do you come to me? 161 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:13,000 That's verse 14. OK. And so that's verse 14. John what? Fill in the blanks. Tried or tried to prevent him. 162 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:20,000 John tried to prevent him. OK. John tried to prevent him. 163 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:27,000 And you can word it any way you want as long as you get the summary of verse 14 in five blanks or make your extra blanks if you really want to. 164 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:34,000 That's fine. OK. Jumping to the left. Number three. 165 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:41,000 So this is verse 15. It says, but Jesus answering said to him, permit it at this time. 166 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:49,000 For in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he, that's John, permitted him. 167 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:56,000 OK. So what would you say? The first one starts with a P. I already gave you the P. 168 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,000 Permit it or permit this. And those are like fancy quotation marks. Permit this. 169 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:05,000 Because those are actually the words of Jesus. Permit it or permit this. 170 00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:12,000 That's a T there which means it can be, it's a neuter something. 171 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Permit it, permit this. Either way it works. Right. Permit this. It's. OK. 172 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:31,000 Fulfilling is there but there's something else first. Say it again. Fitting. And then fulfill or fulfilling. Right. 173 00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:38,000 Fulfill or fulfilling what? Righteousness. Righteousness. Correct. 174 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:44,000 OK. So let's hang here for just a second because there's something we need to see here. 175 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:52,000 Where do we get our righteousness from as Christians? God by. 176 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,000 How does he do it? Kind of. Yeah. 177 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:01,000 Holy Spirit seals, regenerates, cleanses, does all of that. 178 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,000 He is righteous. He never stopped being righteous. 179 00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:10,000 So we come to him. We don't know how far we're going. But if we trust in Jesus, he gives us his righteousness. 180 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000 OK. So that's the word I'm looking for. He gives us his righteousness. Right. 181 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:21,000 He imputes his righteousness. Did Jesus deserve to be crucified? Did Jesus ever sin? 182 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Never. OK. We know the Bible says Jesus never sinned. Right. Not even in ignorance. 183 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000 He never sinned. Therefore, he did not deserve to be crucified. 184 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:35,000 But he was he was crucified, which is kind of an image of a sinner's death, if you will. 185 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:43,000 So did Jesus need righteousness? No. OK. 186 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:53,000 So the lesson to be learned here is that a person who has righteousness still might need to do something 187 00:32:53,000 --> 00:33:00,000 that God would want done or a way that God would want something done in order to what? 188 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Fulfill righteousness. 189 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:09,000 So if you have righteousness, you have it because it was imputed or bestowed, but from Jesus. 190 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:18,000 It's really Jesus's righteousness. Now, if you go ahead and do like lie or cheat or steal or adultery or lust or whatever. 191 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:24,000 Right. That does not fulfill that righteousness. Right. 192 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:35,000 So when we think fulfill. What does it mean to fulfill something? 193 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:41,000 OK. So what does it mean? Let's break it down. That's what Josh would tell us. Let's break it down. 194 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:48,000 Kind of. Yeah. So what does it mean to fill something? 195 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,000 Put the stuff in it. Right. Put the good in it. Or what? Fill a bucket. Bucket's got whatever you put in it. Right. 196 00:33:54,000 --> 00:34:05,000 So a bucket can hold stuff. And if you put stuff in it until it can't hold any more than it's filled. Right. 197 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:10,000 And to fulfill the purpose of a bucket would be to put something in it. 198 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:17,000 But let's say you don't put anything in it. Let's say you turn it over and you stand on it as a ladder. 199 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:23,000 Did you fulfill the purpose of the bucket? No. You did not fulfill the purpose of the bucket. 200 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:29,000 Buckets are not made for standing on. Now you can use it for that. And you do. Right. And you stand on it. 201 00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:36,000 And so purpose is accomplished because you can change the light bulb or reach the spice on the top shelf or whatever. 202 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:41,000 So you accomplished something. But you did not fulfill the purpose of the bucket. Right. 203 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:49,000 But let me ask you this. When is a bucket empty? Never. It's always got air in it. 204 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:57,000 Unless you make a perfect vacuum in it. Which scientists have actually not really figured out how to make a perfect vacuum inside the atmosphere. 205 00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:02,000 They can get really close. And now they debate whether there is a perfect vacuum in space. That's debatable. 206 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:07,000 So if that's possible that there is no such thing as a perfect vacuum. Possibly. 207 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,000 Josh, did you want to add something there that I run past what you were going to say? 208 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Yeah. So you could take it out of space and you'd get as close as mankind can get to a vacuum inside the bucket. Right. 209 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,000 But even then they know there are stray particles and there's theories about what outer space actually is. Blah blah blah. 210 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:31,000 But that doesn't matter. The point is the bucket is filled with air when the bucket is filled with nothing else. 211 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:38,000 But was a bucket made to carry air? No. I mean you can use it for that. I mean there could be a time. 212 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,000 Let's say you're about to go underwater. And you're going to go underwater. 213 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000 You know you're going to be underwater longer than you would think. And you have a bucket. 214 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,000 You'd be smart to flip the bucket over and bring it down with you. Bring down a bucket of air. 215 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:52,000 And then you could breathe that air while you're underwater. And you could stay down there a lot longer. Right. 216 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:57,000 It's not easy. You could do it. Especially if you had weight. And you get the weight on the bucket to hold it down. 217 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,000 And you could do that. People would do that in the hulls of ships when the ship flips over. 218 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:04,000 And it's a pocket of air and they stay there for hours. Right. And it happens. 219 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:09,000 So there could be some advantage to having a bucket of air. But that is not the purpose of a bucket. 220 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:15,000 So now take that back to righteousness. What is the purpose of righteousness? 221 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:20,000 Be good. Okay. That's really close. 222 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:26,000 So why does Jesus give mankind his righteousness? What is accomplished when he does that? 223 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:30,000 That gets glorified. Yeah. But more. 224 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:35,000 If you die and you do not have Jesus' righteousness, what happens to you? 225 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:43,000 You go to hell. Right. So Jesus' righteousness returns the ability for man to have a proper relationship with God. 226 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:52,000 It renews or recreates that. So the purpose of righteousness in that sense then is to give man the ability to have the right relationship with God. 227 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Right. Otherwise we'd still be in our sin. If you're not in righteousness with Jesus, you're still in your sin. 228 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:03,000 And you're dead to God. You're going to go to hell. Right. You're never going to be with him unless you eventually have the righteousness. 229 00:37:03,000 --> 00:37:13,000 So in that sense, the purpose of righteousness, follow my logic, the purpose of righteousness is to restore the relationship between man and God or to make that possible. 230 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:25,000 Okay. So now if you're going to fulfill, now we're back here, if you're going to fulfill righteousness, if we're going to fulfill righteousness, what do we do? 231 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:30,000 The purpose of righteousness is so that man can have a right relationship with God. 232 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,000 Then what do you do in your life to fulfill the purpose of righteousness? 233 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:39,000 Right purpose by having a relationship with God. Exactly. 234 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:46,000 So it is fitting that we do X to have a right relationship with God. Now you don't have to do that. 235 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:52,000 That's why you don't get saved by worshiping God. You don't get saved by praying. You don't get saved by giving. 236 00:37:52,000 --> 00:38:03,000 All of the spiritual disciplines, even if you did them all perfectly, you still wouldn't get saved because we have the effect of original sin and the effect on us and our sinful nature. 237 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:10,000 Right. So we wouldn't get saved. So we need Jesus's righteousness imputed. Now it's been imputed. So what do you do? 238 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:18,000 You practice a right relationship with God. Now that may mean spits and sputters and stumbles and falls and figuring it out. 239 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,000 You're going to go, okay, I have Jesus's righteousness so now I know how to do everything perfectly all of a sudden. 240 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:29,000 Actually, I think that's why Jesus likens it to be born again. Born again because you basically have to learn how to do everything over again. 241 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:35,000 Right. And then as you do, like a toddler, you learn to walk for Jesus, then you fall on your face. 242 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,000 You go, okay, that was not the good part of walking. I don't like that part of walking. 243 00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:43,000 Right. So you go back to walking for Jesus and trying not to fall on your face the same way you did before. 244 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:49,000 So we learn and grow and I would submit to you then this is where Reaching New Heights and Jesus comes in 245 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:57,000 because there is a time at which you do what you're next doing to fulfill the purpose of righteousness or to fulfill righteousness. 246 00:38:57,000 --> 00:39:08,000 Okay. Jesus did not need righteousness. He already had it. Yet he said he needed it back. 247 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:14,000 Someone will argue, I'm going to tell you right now, a lot of theologians will say to you that Jesus was only baptized 248 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:20,000 to institute baptism in the church so that we could show that we needed to be baptized. Right. 249 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:29,000 But even if that's true, there's more to that because he said it's fitting to fulfill righteousness. 250 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:34,000 So what he was saying was I have righteousness and yet even though I have righteousness, 251 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:43,000 it's fitting for me to be baptized to fulfill righteousness, to give a public show of the fact 252 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:49,000 that I am living solely and only for God. Even though his old man wasn't dying per se, 253 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:53,000 he didn't have to do that part of it, right? His old man didn't have to die for him to be saved 254 00:39:53,000 --> 00:40:00,000 because he wasn't being saved but he was still demonstrating the fact that he was walking in righteousness, following God. 255 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:08,000 And someone would argue perhaps that it's a picture of his death, burial, and resurrection before that ever even happened. 256 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:13,000 Right. So you could say this, you could say that it is fitting to fulfill all righteousness 257 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:20,000 that he would go through with the crucifixion, which without that we wouldn't be able to have his righteousness. 258 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:26,000 You follow? So the baptism then could be a picture of the crucifixion which is coming 259 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:32,000 and that is why it's fitting to fulfill righteousness. But the bottom line is for you, for me, for us, 260 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:36,000 what we need to walk away with is yes, you have Jesus' righteousness. 261 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:43,000 Now having Jesus' righteousness, hear these words. It is fitting to do, 262 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:49,000 put in there whatever God is telling you to do. The spiritual disciplines, worship, prayer, serve, give, love, 263 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:55,000 especially love, right? That's huge. Those kinds of things. It is fitting to fulfill righteousness. 264 00:40:55,000 --> 00:41:01,000 It's not going to kill it. It's not a problem to stand on a bucket. If it works, it can be a problem 265 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,000 because you twist your ankle, fall off, whatever. But if it works, it's not a problem. 266 00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:11,000 But it does not fulfill the purpose of the bucket. So those who say, well I can lie now because I'm saved, 267 00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:19,000 they are at the minimum, at the least, not doing what is fitting to fulfill the righteousness. 268 00:41:19,000 --> 00:41:28,000 That makes sense? Okay. Alright. That was three. Now four. Okay. Well it's down to the right hand side. 269 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,000 As you might expect, if you know what's coming next, he said, permitted this time from this way, 270 00:41:33,000 --> 00:41:38,000 it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he permitted him. Then he permitted him. 271 00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:44,000 So one word goes in the blank, starts with a P and it is? Permitted. 272 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:55,000 Hang your hat on the word permitted for one second because John the Baptist just permitted the Son of God to be baptized. 273 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:01,000 After being entreated to him that he do this because it's fitting to fulfill righteousness, he permitted it. 274 00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:08,000 What do you have to do to fulfill righteousness in any given situation? All you really have to do is permit it. 275 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:12,000 It's really all you have to do. God entreats you and says, come on, give and I'll take care of it. 276 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:16,000 Just permit it. Just do what God is telling you to do. Just permit it. He's going to empower it. 277 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:19,000 He's going to make it possible. He's going to make it work. All that. 278 00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:23,000 So we take that for what it's worth, but he permitted Jesus to be baptized. 279 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:30,000 And I submit to you, if John the Baptist had refused, John would have been in trouble, 280 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:39,000 but Jesus wouldn't have been baptized because it was fitting to fulfill all righteousness that John the Baptist baptized Jesus. 281 00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:48,000 OK, then five up to the left hand side. Five up on the left. 282 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:55,000 All right. The first one is a J and we're going to read a little bit of verse here. 283 00:42:55,000 --> 00:43:02,000 After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water and behold, the heavens were opened. 284 00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:05,000 And that's all the further we need to go right this second. 285 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:13,000 So we've got the J, which is Jesus, and we've got a very little word. 286 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:20,000 Up. All right. And then when Jesus is up, something happened. What just happened? 287 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:28,000 Heavens opened. That's right. Now, what exactly that means, I think it would have been really cool to be there to see it. 288 00:43:28,000 --> 00:43:33,000 I've probably been scared to death, but it would have been really cool to be there to see it. 289 00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:38,000 After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water and behold, the heavens were opened. 290 00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:47,000 And it says, and he saw it is a little age, not a capital H. So we're talking about if it's not a capital H, that means we're talking about who? 291 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:51,000 John, not Jesus. Right. John got the little age. Jesus gets the big H. 292 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:56,000 And he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on him. 293 00:43:56,000 --> 00:44:05,000 OK, so right above the eyes and next to the little binoculars there, you can imagine those two words and they are. 294 00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:15,000 He saw. OK. Also, well, we'll just go down, follow it down to the right there. 295 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:20,000 And you see like in a puddle on this is the river, but there's like in a little circle on the river. 296 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:28,000 There are two words. And he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on him. 297 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:32,000 And so those little two words in the water is on him. 298 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,000 There's the dove or some kind of rendering of a dove anyway. 299 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:41,000 And notice the spirit of God. Why did I write it like it's written? Do you think, Jason? 300 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:46,000 Why is it written like that? Because it's descending. That's right. 301 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:52,000 He saw the spirit of God descending on him. OK, that puts that whole thing together. 302 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:58,000 He saw the spirit of God descending on him. He saw the heavens opened and that's the lines going up to the page. 303 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:05,000 The heavens open up there like that really huge foot on the right. That's all that. OK. 304 00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:13,000 It says he saw the spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on him. Let's be very clear. Was there a dove? 305 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:21,000 No, there was no dove. OK, so yeah, like a dove, not or as a dove. 306 00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:26,000 That's that's what's called a simile. So it's like or as right. That's a simile. 307 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:34,000 Yeah. And so it means it did it that way. So if it says it lighted on him as a dove or like a dove, what does that mean? 308 00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:40,000 What do we think of doves are like when they light on someone or something? Say it again. 309 00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:50,000 I can't hear you. OK, so flew down on like a bird. OK. 310 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:57,000 Yeah, peacefully doves are very much thought of as peaceful animals. I don't know why that is exactly. But that's a symbol of peace. 311 00:45:57,000 --> 00:46:02,000 Anybody else got something else to add? How else would a dove come down on him? 312 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:10,000 I'll say because imagery, because sometimes I'd say the whole spirit can't see what it is. So that's why it doesn't look like a dove. 313 00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:17,000 Yeah, it could have. Yeah, but it doesn't it doesn't give us the image that it looked like a dove, really. 314 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:25,000 I don't know what he saw. No, I'm saying like I'm saying that that's what they saw. Right. So they might have thought. 315 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:34,000 Yeah, Josh. Yeah, I'm with you. You're what? A joke. OK, we like jokes, but I didn't hear it. 316 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:40,000 So ha ha. That's for you. All right. 317 00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:48,000 OK, so yeah, like or as a dove, but not an actual dove. Also, and lighting on him. 318 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:56,000 So lighting is is generally like gently coming down on something. Right. So we have this imagery of the dove peacefully. 319 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:04,000 I was to you when the heavens open up and send something down on people normally, this is not normally the way it comes down. 320 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:10,000 Something comes out of the sky on you and it may not be gentle and peaceful. 321 00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:17,000 You know, but for Jesus, it was. So that's kind of cool. Hmm. Yeah, like an asteroid or a lightning bolt. 322 00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:25,000 Anything falling, even heavy rain, the sky opens up and it starts to rain. It hurts. I've been in it. 323 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:30,000 Right. We've many of us have experienced that hail. Yeah. So not necessarily. 324 00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:37,000 But for him, it was as a dove and it lied on him. And then. 325 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:48,000 OK, so we're going we're following we're going up to the right there and you see a little pair of binoculars kind of facing up to the right, looking at some words. 326 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:54,000 And it says there is a blank above that. I don't know if I gave you that word or not. It is behold. 327 00:47:54,000 --> 00:48:00,000 And it says, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, and then you have all the words. 328 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:05,000 This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. And that is essentially verse 17. 329 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:15,000 So you can memorize verse 17 right now if you want to, because all it says is, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 330 00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:25,000 That's a super easy verse to memorize. Really, the way it makes sense. And behold, just look, a voice out of the heavens said, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 331 00:48:25,000 --> 00:48:31,000 We're not quite done with our blanks, however, because this first, as I told you, it really does something for us. 332 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:39,000 That's really important. So there are blanks on the right hand side and there are three persons, 333 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:46,000 persons with these air quotes, right, that are demonstrated here in God's action. 334 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:53,000 The first one is F and I'm pointing upwards and so it is the father. 335 00:48:53,000 --> 00:49:00,000 And so the voice of the father is heard as he says, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 336 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:07,000 Also, the next one starts with an S, the son. Not only because he says, this is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased, 337 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:13,000 but because Jesus is literally being baptized, right, so he comes up, Jesus came up out of the water. 338 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:18,000 We are on the right hand side in the middle, under the cloud, there's a cloud. 339 00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:25,000 It's the only blanks you have left on the whole page. You should have father, F, father, S, son. 340 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:30,000 And the last one, no big surprise, Holy Spirit. And where was the Holy Spirit? 341 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:35,000 Descending out of heaven, lighting on Jesus as a dove, right. 342 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:43,000 And so while the imagery of an egg talking about the yolk and the yellow and the shell, 343 00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:50,000 or water in three states talking about water, ice, and steam, and in any other thing you can think of to try to talk about 344 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:56,000 how God is three persons may break down, these verses will not. 345 00:49:56,000 --> 00:50:05,000 They show the role and the existence of the three, we say persons, but they are the three personalities, personas, 346 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,000 it might be a better way to say it, personas, three characters of one God. 347 00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:16,000 This one God who is the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit, he is all, alright. 348 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,000 And so you've got Roman numerals there, you have one thing left to do on your worksheet, 349 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:27,000 that's Roman numeral one, Roman numeral two, Roman numeral three, it's I, I, I, I, I, right. 350 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:35,000 And I want you to circle the number of personas that are in this passage of scripture. 351 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:40,000 Now obviously I've already given you the answer, God the father, God the son, God the Holy Spirit. 352 00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:46,000 So I would circle the Roman numeral three. Now we know that it's one God that's represented, 353 00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:51,000 but there are clearly three distinct individuals in this passage of scripture. 354 00:50:51,000 --> 00:51:00,000 God the father, now I want to beg your forgiveness because I have drawn God the father's foot. 355 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:05,000 And we are not supposed to make any images of God, so I did not mean anything simple by that, 356 00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:10,000 but you can think of that as Elijah's foot if you want, or somebody else's foot, it doesn't have to be God's foot. 357 00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:16,000 Yeah, okay, well now you know. So that is someone's foot in the heavens, 358 00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:21,000 and if it's God's foot, then realize I was not trying to make any kind of an imagery of God. 359 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:26,000 God may not have a foot as we think of feet, or he certainly could if he wants to, or whatever, I'm not trying to picture God. 360 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:32,000 The bottom line is there are three distinct personas pictured here. 361 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:37,000 You also can see their roles because God the father is still ruling in justice. 362 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:45,000 And who sets the standard of what is fitting to fulfill righteousness? God the father, no doubt about it. 363 00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,000 He has set the standard since the beginning of time. Jesus was there, Holy Spirit is there, 364 00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:55,000 but God the father very much has dealt with his people in righteousness all throughout time. 365 00:51:55,000 --> 00:52:02,000 And who came amongst men and was willing to die for the sins of men and could have saved himself, 366 00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:08,000 but chose not to, and chose to be baptized because it was fitting to fulfill all righteousness? 367 00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:13,000 God the son, definitely, right? Not God the father, not God the Holy Spirit, right? 368 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:18,000 But are they all God? Yes, they are. I'm not saying they're not, but there's God the father, God the son. 369 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:24,000 And who came from the heavens and lighted upon Jesus at his baptism and leads him into the wilderness to be tempted? 370 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:31,000 God the Holy Spirit. There are three distinct individuals, but they are the same God. 371 00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:37,000 And you also see that in the plan here as there's only one thing that's actually being accomplished, 372 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:45,000 and that is the fulfilling of righteousness. There's not other things, it's all one thing, 373 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:49,000 the fulfilling of righteousness. And God the father, God the Holy Spirit, and God the son are all participating 374 00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:58,000 to make that happen, to make it clear to us. So if anyone would question, can God be distinctly separate 375 00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:03,000 because the Holy Spirit lighting on him and a person in the water and a person in the heavens speaking, 376 00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:11,000 that is distinctly separate and still be one God, this scripture makes it very clear that they can be distinctly separate 377 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:17,000 and still be very much one God, okay? Alright, so that's going to conclude our worksheet. 378 00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:24,000 Does anybody have any questions or anything? I'm going to ask a few questions and for candy I have to give you for one second. 379 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,000 I just like your rugged, Jim. 380 00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,000 You like my what? 381 00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:28,000 Your rugged, Jim. 382 00:53:28,000 --> 00:53:41,000 Yeah, well, if nothing else, you get to come to church and be entertained by my sprawling scribbles. 383 00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:54,000 Alright, Jason, are you ready? I'm going to ask you a question. Okay, let's see. 384 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:59,000 Are there words in there? 385 00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:06,000 In the little circle, oh, yes, there's twice, yeah, in the little circle with the O and the H, that's on him. 386 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:15,000 And then down to the right is John tried to prevent him or prevent Jesus. 387 00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:23,000 No, no, that's just the currents. Yeah, I made him a little too level, I guess. 388 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:27,000 Be careful about drawing horizontal lines on these worksheets. 389 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:30,000 It makes it look like they're supposed to be more words. 390 00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:39,000 Okay, how about this one, Jason? And it has almost nothing to do with scripture, but it does have to do with our lesson. 391 00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:50,000 Okay, when you say that something, one thing is like another thing or one thing is as another thing, what kind of speech is that? 392 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:56,000 Did you catch it? It's not in a blank. 393 00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:00,000 Very good, I'm impressed. 394 00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:07,000 Oh man, that really shotgunned out. I'll try differently on that one. That really flew four shots wide. 395 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:13,000 Okay, and they're sitting back there together, so they're probably going to share anyway. 396 00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:19,000 Okay, alright, Chris, you ready? You ready? 397 00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:26,000 When Jesus came to John the Baptist and said, baptize me, what was John's response? 398 00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:29,000 No one help him yet, Jason. Give him a second. 399 00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:34,000 How did he respond? 400 00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:45,000 Okay, give him a little help there. 401 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:50,000 He did something, yeah. What did he do? Did he baptize him right away or was he? 402 00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:57,000 He did baptize him. Did he do anything before that? 403 00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:03,000 Okay, he tried to prevent him. He tried telling him he didn't want to baptize him. Okay, let me try and give you another one. 404 00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:09,000 So when the Spirit of God came down from heaven, where did he go? 405 00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:16,000 Where did the Spirit of God go? That's where it came from. Where did he go when he came down? 406 00:56:16,000 --> 00:56:43,000 Yes, good. I'm going to try and throw them one on top of each other and see if they all scatter.