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beloved brothers and sisters in our lord jesus 
christ there is a direct relationship between

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waters as we have been considering them all week 
how they represent the peoples of this world  

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and how from them some aspect of those waters 
tends to rise above to a higher place and  

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there's a composition a coalescence of 
some part of the waters of this world  

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into clouds which will emerge in the future 
prophetically now for us but then as a reality  

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showing that that god is able to 
draw from the waters of this world

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a part of them which will become his glory 
in the heavenlies of the kingdom of god  

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which has a direct relationship to baptism what we 
would like to do now is understand how it is that  

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god has envisioned this relationship 
from the very earliest moments of his

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creative intention to to bring about his 
purpose in the world when the earth was very new  

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and uh it was only the beginning where we know 
from the foundation of of this world he had  

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envisioned a son and from that one many would come 
and he knew that a part of that would be their  

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relationship to cleansing in water so now let's 
take a look at this series of things that there  

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are to be considered from his word that relate to 
waters and especially baptism from the beginning

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in the beginning in the second verse 
of genesis chapter 1 it says this  

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and the earth was without 
form and void and darkness  

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was upon the face of the deep so before we're told 
much about anything else in god's message to us  

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he he refers to this creation of 
his and to water and to darkness

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it was upon the face that is the the surface 
of the deep which we know to be the oceans  

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and seas of the world and then it says this 
that the spirit of god moved upon the face of  

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the waters so now god's power has some kind of 
a direct interface with the face of this deep  

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and in in in this interface god brings something 
else into existence by contrast to the darkness  

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that was below god says let there 
be light and there was light

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in the beginning it was water then in the simplest 
of terms that separated light from darkness  

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so that's interesting isn't it as we we we're 
beginning to think about all that we've learned  

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and what we remember from god's word about 
the meaning of light and darkness and there  

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in between the two is the face of the deep 
where water separates light from darkness

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when we get to the new testament and the 
testimony that christ brought into this world  

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of his father and his purpose that is of life we 
find that jesus also separates light and darkness  

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as we read in john 1 verse 3 in him was life  

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and the life was the light of men and the 
light shines in darkness and the darkness  

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comprehended it not so once again in the 
simplest way we can understand something now  

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about the work of christ and the creation of god 
from the beginning above the waters there is light

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below the waters

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there remains darkness

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so water covered darkness

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we also understand from so 
many years of reading and  

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the the great symbols that there are in the 
bible that darkness symbolizes ignorance and sin

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as it says in isaiah 60 verse 2 darkness 
shall cover the earth and gross darkness  

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the people but the lord shall arise upon 
you and his glory shall be seen upon you  

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and the nation shall come to your light 
and kings to the brightness of your rising  

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so we also understand that light symbolizes at 
least in this context the brightness of rising

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waters also symbolize people without god 
as we've seen in other places this week  

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as isaiah says in the 17th chapter verse 13 
the nations shall rush like the rushing of  

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many waters and this we can see that 
waters symbolize people and nations  

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there's an interesting verse in job i 
don't know if you've ever noticed this  

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but in context it's quite interesting in the 
26th chapter of job in verse 5 dead things

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it says are formed from under the 
waters and the inhabitants thereof  

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well if we think about it that reminds us now of 
the next area of consideration in god's word where  

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waters and light and darkness and life and 
death and what would be come to to represent  

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the work of christ in this world is spoken 
of and that's in in the context of the flood  

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where we can understand the idea of baptism 
in in an initial sense uh we we know this  

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was a time of great darkness upon the face of 
the earth there was evil every every thought  

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of the imagination of man's heart was only evil 
continually and of that time it says that god uh  

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in genesis 6 verse 5 that god saw that the wicked 
wickedness of man was great in the earth and that  

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every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was 
only evil continually and so it was in that time  

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where god used the waters of the world coming 
raining down from the heavens and flooding up from  

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the depths of the earth he used them to bury the 
iniquity of men so water was used in the judgments  

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of god to bury iniquity and we can if we think 
about it we can see there's a direct relationship  

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between that idea and waters of 
baptism as representing a burial

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the ark went upon the face of the waters it says 
it was upon the face of the deep the same deep  

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that god's spirit moved upon in the beginning 
when he was thinking about the separation  

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between light and darkness and what his creative 
power and his spirit would do in that interface  

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between light and darkness 
and the waters of this world

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water in the times of noah when noah was delivered 
was used to bury the iniquity of men but it was  

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also used to cover and cleanse the earth so it 
came upon mankind as a covering upon which in that  

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ark noah and his family all those of faith 
were suspended elevated elevated by the power  

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of god just above the surface where for 
noah and his family they found salvation  

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immediately and directly from the destruction 
of the flood water was used to destroy all flesh

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and it was used to save noah and his family so 
it's interesting here where the spirit of god  

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moves upon the face of the deep that this surface 
became became an area of demarcation between the  

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destruction of all flesh and the salvation 
of those who would be righteous by faith

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so we understand another level of god's 
foresight and this prophetic sense in which uh  

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the waters of this world say something about 
god's desire to save ultimately to save a host  

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of people who are drawn out of many waters 
the next place in the bible where waters  

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and and the idea of baptism come up is 
in israel in the story of the red sea  

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uh all of us are familiar those of us who grew 
up in sunday school are well familiar with  

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this fantastic story of a multitude of people 
who passed through the waters of the red sea  

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to be emerged on the other side into a special 
relationship with uh with god as it was in the  

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in the ecclesia in the wilderness and so 
paul speaking about that ecclesia in first  

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corinthians 10 says this of them i do not 
want you to be ignorant brothers and sisters  

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that our ancestors were baptized into moses in the 
cloud and in the sea so now we we know that that  

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from paul's writing that that god understood this 
to be a baptism of a whole congregation of people  

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who from that baptism were drawn into a special 
relationship with him whereupon they would be  

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instructed in sin and in righteousness and 
learn the meaning of their relationship with god  

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and especially learn learning in the context 
of sin how there would be a provision on every  

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point to find forgiveness in the great mercy of 
the lord and so there were there were sacrifices  

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and there was atonement and there was that special 
fellowship offering that they found wherein they  

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could make their peace with god in the context 
of what they were now learning was their own sins  

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and and and so we find in that uh everything that 
we understand about our own baptisms and our own  

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relationship and fellowship with god and the 
provision that he's made for us on a weekly  

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basis every seven days finding the goodness 
of god at the table of the lord wherein we  

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understand we can be forgiven for the weaknesses 
of our flesh if only we will continue to walk  

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after the spirit of our lord but he then says this 
nevertheless god was not pleased with most of them

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making a message making a point about the 
importance of our relationship to god after we  

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are baptized when they were baptized and they they 
they came into a collegial life in that wilderness  

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where there was a great struggle where there was 
more understanding of sin than they that than they  

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they could bear really almost and uh where they 
they nevertheless experienced the mercy of the god  

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but they also understood from many great events uh 
his judgments that he he was both good and severe  

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and he says this of that god was not pleased with 
most of them and they were struck down in the  

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wilderness now these things occurred as examples 
for us so that we might not desire evil as they  

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did so for those of us who have been baptized and 
for those of us who may be thinking about baptism  

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possibly in the abstract or possibly as 
it may represent a decision for us that  

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lies before us in the days ahead there's a very 
important lesson here and that is that there's  

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a direct relationship between emerging from 
the darkness that that below the waters  

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represents and the light of life that life in 
christ represents above the waters of baptism  

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that we might not desire evil anymore that in 
our life in the truth we've made a commitment  

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to christ to god uh we've expressed we've 
made a public proclamation of faith and  

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we hate evil in every way there's nothing about 
evil that we that finds acceptance in our mind  

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anymore in this new man that has been raised from 
the waters of baptism but there's an implicit  

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warning of judgment in this that we have 
to be very careful with our life in christ  

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not to desire evil in any sense because most 
of them god was not pleased with and they were  

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struck down in the wilderness well none of us want 
that to happen to us so we we stay very carefully  

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sensitized to the commitment we make in 
baptism not to desire evil as they did  

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the next place in the bible where baptism comes 
up is with naaman and he was a syrian commander  

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found great favor in the eyes of 
the syrian king and in naaman's days  

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they had they were going on raids in israel 
and on one of the raids they they brought back  

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a young jewish girl who became a servant 
in naaman's household well it came to be  

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that this great powerful commander 
of the syrian army this gentile uh  

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having just the slightest contact with 
anything of god that came from israel in  

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the in the form of whatever his little 
servant girl may have understood neyman  

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fell to the disease of leprosy and she said if 
only my master uh could go to samaria there's  

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a prophet there and that prophet can heal him so 
upon finding out about this uh naaman and the king  

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said well why don't we go and avail whatever 
powers there are in israel and see if we can  

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find healing from this prophet so a letter was 
sent to the king of israel with silver and gold  

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and and clothing and the letter said can you 
please heal nathan naaman rather my servant and  

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the story proceeds uh with with naaman and 
his leprosy in these dire circumstances and  

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the panic that came upon the king 
of israel when he realized that he  

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he thought actually that this was a setup and 
and he thought surely this is going to lead to  

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another war and the destruction of israel this 
is this is not none other than a setup because  

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am i a god that i can heal this man so elisha 
finds out about it and he says why don't you  

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why don't you send naaman over to see me so that 
he might know that there is a prophet in israel  

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and so naaman goes to elisha's dwelling 
and there elisha sends a messenger to him  

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saying go and wash in the jordan seven times 
and your flesh shall be restored to you  

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and you shall be clean but naaman became angry 
and that was because naaman had another view  

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of how he should be healed and he went away 
saying i thought for me he would surely come  

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out and stand and call in the name of 
the lord is god and would wave his hand  

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over the spot and cure the leprosy in other words 
naaman had a sort of a magical idea about his his  

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this interface where he would would come from 
darkness to light and find the cleansing of  

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his sins and find the healing of his flesh he 
thought in fact that it would be sufficient  

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to do it his way and when he found out that the 
lord had required him to dip in in the waters  

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of the river jordan and be cleansed he he resented 
the idea because he he thought surely we can do it  

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in a simple more magical way why do i have to 
go and do this and he also reasoned to himself  

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but these waters where i'm from are they 
not even more pure than the waters here in  

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in israel and uh the problem with naaman was he 
had an idea of salvation that was a departure from  

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the step-by-step instructions of god there was 
something that god needed naaman to learn by the  

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dipping that that would take place seven times in 
in the river but his servants approached him and  

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said to him father if the prophet had commanded 
you to do something difficult would you not have  

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done it how much more when all he said was wash 
and be clean and here we find another lesson about  

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baptism that is very important for those of us who 
who face baptism as the potential in the future  

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that it's something very simple that god asks 
of us he has his reasons he means for us us and  

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those who see us baptized to learn something from 
the idea of being buried in the waters of baptism  

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being washed being cleansed and then rising to 
the brightness of some kind of new life and when  

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god says do it this way he doesn't mean for us to 
question the details of his instructions if we're  

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like naaman and if naaman had gone home without 
suddenly realizing the wisdom of his servants  

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he would have died of leprosy not feeling 
any pain as this disease overtook his limbs  

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instead there was something very humble about 
naaman and he was able to understand the logic  

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of his servants and you know you're right i 
would have climbed a mountain i would have  

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killed ten lions i would have done all 
sorts of things but all he said was wash  

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and be clean can i not do that so he went down 
and immersed himself seven times in the jordan  

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according to the word of the man of god and 
there's another lesson for us in in most cases  

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the idea of of god's instruction comes to us from 
people who are now as we would understand it in  

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terms of male and female men and women of god 
these are people who are men and women of god  

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because they've read god's word they've been 
there before us if if we are now somehow being  

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introduced to all of this and they have understood 
very um necessary and spiritual lessons from god's  

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word and especially the sensitivities that 
there are that there need to be to to god's  

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word as it is specifically understood in truth 
and in action as he gives us his his uh his  

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the instructions along the path of righteousness 
and it was according to that word that naaman  

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responded in in naaman's case it was the word 
of the man of god elisha so when he did dip  

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his flesh was restored like the flesh of a young 
boy and he was clean he was healed of his leprosy  

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can you imagine knowing the horror of that disease 
and having seen lepers and being frightened by  

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their very appearance as this disease advances how 
naaman felt when he understood this was so simple  

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a thing that god asked me to do to be buried 
in the waters of baptism to wash and be clean  

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i have listened to him and now i know that 
i am clean how happy he must have been  

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we would probably assign less significance to 
this story had not jesus brought it up as being  

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something something that was was applicable to all 
of israel in the times when the lord himself when  

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the royal majesty of the kingdom stood before them 
when he who would literally show them in his own  

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physical death burial and resurrection what 
the true purpose of cleansing would be in  

00:22:03.200 --> 00:22:09.280 align:start position:0%
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righteousness as it would apply to the flesh 
that in which jesus found himself existing  

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as a human being and so he says to them this 
point about a gentile in israel someone who had no  

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covenant relationship with god who was for all 
intents and purposes entirely outside of god's  

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direct work with israel in the times when israel 
had been sequestered from the gentile population  

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and there was only the law and its 
schoolmaster bringing them to christ  

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now jesus says of this gentile there were many 
lepers in israel in the time of the prophet elisha  

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and none of them was cleansed except naaman 
the gentile and so he he all but says he  

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doesn't say what naaman's judgment will be 
but he all but in elevating him to this place  

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in in in the understanding of nation 
naaman's relationship to god and his  

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faith and his cleansing he all but says naaman was 
baptized and naaman will be present when i come

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so that now brings us to the understanding of the 
lord jesus christ as it applies to baptism and to  

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the waters uh whereupon god's spirit moves in that 
interface between life and death this is a very  

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special painting to me because the painter somehow 
focused in a very sharp um isolated focus on  

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this great man this lamb of god 
who went dumb to the slaughter  

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in order to make the great declaration of 
his father's righteousness understanding  

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full well that it wasn't about his will but his 
father's in his death burial and resurrection

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and so we look into at least in so 
far as this painting enables us to  

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into the pained eyes of a man who understood 
the real meaning of burial of the flesh

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and where that would lead taking upon himself 
the sins of the world bearing in his own body  

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your sins and mine i'm hoping that as we look upon 
that cross upon that elevated serpent representing  

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all the sins uh that diabolos can can present in 
this world the sum total of sin looking at that  

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that we can understand in ourselves that 
we are flesh we have no glory in flesh  

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and in ourselves we have transgressions sins 
that need to be forgiven which when forgiven we  

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will appreciate the full extent of god's mercy in 
the cleansing that comes from the the brightness  

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of our rising from the waters of baptism and so 
paul says of that in the sixth chapter of romans  

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and verse four therefore we are buried with him 
by baptism into death that like as christ was  

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raised up from the dead by the glory of the father 
even so we also should walk in newness of life  

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so we identify with christ and we we have the 
ability through god's word to understand uh the  

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the the length and the depth the full breadth of 
understanding that comes uh from the recognition  

00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:58.400 align:start position:0%
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of the meaning of sin as it was identified 
in the cross and the meaning of god's mercy  

00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:05.200 align:start position:0%
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as it is in new life in christ and then the 
prophetic hope of salvation that comes to us  

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from not just the rising from water but 
eventually the rising from the waters of the  

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seas of humanity to become composed into a a 
great cloud of witnesses who will make in that  

00:26:16.560 --> 00:26:22.720 align:start position:0%
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day a testimony to the whole world that god 
is indeed merciful and that his name has now  

00:26:22.720 --> 00:26:30.400 align:start position:0%
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taken its its place in this world and manifested 
in in thousands upon thousands of people  

00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:36.640 align:start position:0%
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who identified with the lord jesus christ either 
before he came or after he came who understood  

00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:43.840 align:start position:0%
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spiritually that god meant for us to become 
like him so from that one many will come

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that raising has has has an understanding 
for us especially this week doesn't it  

00:26:51.600 --> 00:26:58.800 align:start position:0%
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on so many different levels that rising to 
the brightness of uh that cloud of witnesses  

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so in in christ then light on the on above the 
surface of this water is rising to new life  

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for once for you were once darkness but now 
you are light in the lord therefore walk as  

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children of light for the fruit of the spirit 
is all goodness and righteousness and truth

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which now brings us to another way we can look at 
baptism baptism and the prophecy of our salvation  

00:27:33.280 --> 00:27:39.680 align:start position:0%
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which somehow or another must relate to our daily 
life in the truth this is a picture of a brother  

00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:49.040 align:start position:0%
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who is baptizing a whole family of people in 
india in our time and in that we find this idea  

00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:55.680 align:start position:0%
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from mark 16 15-16 and he said unto them go into 
all the world and preach the gospel to every  

00:27:55.680 --> 00:28:02.080 align:start position:0%
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creature he that believes and is baptized shall 
be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned  

00:28:02.080 --> 00:28:08.720 align:start position:0%
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and once again we we think of of naaman and how 
simple it was what he was told to do go and dip  

00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:14.320 align:start position:0%
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seven times in the jordan and you will be cleansed 
now we find the lord jesus christ coming into this  

00:28:14.320 --> 00:28:20.560 align:start position:0%
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world and giving a command which has been carried 
forth to this day by the men and women of god who  

00:28:20.560 --> 00:28:27.360 align:start position:0%
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speak about the kingdom of god this very simple 
thing this instruction of god which is specific  

00:28:27.360 --> 00:28:34.320 align:start position:0%
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in every sense and must not be altered in order 
for salvation to take place there are four things  

00:28:34.320 --> 00:28:39.760 align:start position:0%
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in this that are that are so simple and yet 
very specific in the instruction of christ  

00:28:41.200 --> 00:28:46.000 align:start position:0%
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there's a world and it's a world full of darkness 
as we've already understood and he says go  

00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:52.400 align:start position:0%
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and preach and how can we preach unless someone 
gets up and and and goes to the preaching and  

00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.720 align:start position:0%
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what will be preached if it isn't the good 
news of the kingdom of god and the name of  

00:28:56.720 --> 00:29:02.960 align:start position:0%
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jesus christ is a simple gospel that children 
can understand and indeed children of families in  

00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:08.320 align:start position:0%
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in the earliest days of christianity did 
understand and responded to uh whole families  

00:29:08.320 --> 00:29:15.040 align:start position:0%
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being baptized that preaching of the good news 
of the gospel that gospel is specific that's the  

00:29:15.040 --> 00:29:21.760 align:start position:0%
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second thing it's a specific message and there 
is no salvation apart from the discernment of  

00:29:21.760 --> 00:29:27.920 align:start position:0%
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the the gospel of the kingdom of god and the name 
of jesus christ it's that gospel there's only one  

00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:34.160 align:start position:0%
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name and one gospel and if there's any perversion 
thereof there's no salvation available so it's a  

00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:41.120 align:start position:0%
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specific action that takes place in the making of 
the message a specific uh set of of of doctrines  

00:29:41.120 --> 00:29:48.560 align:start position:0%
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and uh and under and specific understanding that 
takes place as a result of that preaching it's to  

00:29:48.560 --> 00:29:52.880 align:start position:0%
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every creature who would become i'm skipping over 
something now who would become a living creature  

00:29:52.880 --> 00:30:01.840 align:start position:0%
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and jesus says then there is is is something 
that follows that gospel which is a remarkable  

00:30:01.840 --> 00:30:11.280 align:start position:0%
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basis for salvation belief faith because faith 
in in the form of a little seed in a man's mind  

00:30:11.840 --> 00:30:18.080 align:start position:0%
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has the ability as that seed grows and matures 
to grow into something that represents spiritual  

00:30:18.080 --> 00:30:25.040 align:start position:0%
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understanding which in other terms is the mind of 
christ and it has the capacity in that belief to  

00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:31.120 align:start position:0%
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actually conform us to the image of christ being 
conformed to the image of christ we become one of  

00:30:31.120 --> 00:30:38.720 align:start position:0%
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many who have that same conformity and in the end 
that little seed of belief turns into something  

00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:44.080 align:start position:0%
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that grows into a tree that fills the whole earth 
with fruit so that all the fowls of the air take  

00:30:44.080 --> 00:30:51.600 align:start position:0%
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their their nests in it and it becomes a day when 
one little seed grew into god being all in all  

00:30:51.600 --> 00:30:57.840 align:start position:0%
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and everything that breathes praising the name of 
the lord for the salvation that has been wrought  

00:30:57.840 --> 00:31:08.400 align:start position:0%
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in the end when god is all and in all that's the 
power of the word belief so we believe don't we  

00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:15.280 align:start position:0%
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and we treasure our belief this faith that has 
the ability to actually to conform us to the image  

00:31:15.280 --> 00:31:20.160 align:start position:0%
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of his son in the working the day by day 
working in the the the seventh day by  

00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:25.840 align:start position:0%
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seventh day remembrance of god's name and 
the year in and year out of bearing trials  

00:31:25.840 --> 00:31:31.120 align:start position:0%
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of enduring cares and pleasures of making it 
all the way past temptations of every form of  

00:31:31.120 --> 00:31:37.440 align:start position:0%
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evil one to the endurance that takes us to the 
end wherein we know that belief carried us like  

00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:43.760 align:start position:0%
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like like babies in a womb to the protection 
of god when we are born from the womb of the  

00:31:43.760 --> 00:31:50.800 align:start position:0%
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morning in that day and then there's one more 
specific thing it isn't enough just to believe

00:31:53.840 --> 00:32:01.680 align:start position:0%
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we have to identify with christ and the lord jesus 
christ in his wisdom wanted that testimony to be  

00:32:01.680 --> 00:32:07.600 align:start position:0%
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made in a formal proclamation to all those 
who see those who are baptized and recognize  

00:32:07.600 --> 00:32:13.760 align:start position:0%
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the meaning of death burial and resurrection 
to everlasting life as it will work out in the  

00:32:13.760 --> 00:32:22.240 align:start position:0%
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lives of the faithful from the waters of baptism 
he says they shall be saved but he that believeth  

00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:29.920 align:start position:0%
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not as may be evidenced by a failure to follow the 
instructions of god to the waters of baptism he  

00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:38.480 align:start position:0%
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that believeth not shall be damned jesus answered 
and said to nicodemus in john 3 and verse 5  

00:32:39.600 --> 00:32:45.280 align:start position:0%
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very truly i tell you no one can enter the kingdom 
of god without being born of the water and of the  

00:32:45.280 --> 00:32:50.880 align:start position:0%
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spirit so there are two things and it depends on 
how you you see this verse is how you interpret  

00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:57.280 align:start position:0%
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it one could mean that unless you're born of the 
waters of baptism and then born into the spirit  

00:32:57.280 --> 00:33:01.520 align:start position:0%
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of god at the time of the judgment seat we'll 
never be in the kingdom but there's another way  

00:33:01.520 --> 00:33:07.440 align:start position:0%
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we can read this and i think it's possibly uh this 
these words are flexible enough to allow for both  

00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:14.800 align:start position:0%
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and that is that being born of the water of of 
the water of baptism we live our lives in christ  

00:33:15.360 --> 00:33:19.200 align:start position:0%
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uh those of us who live our lives 
with the kind of devotion that faith  

00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:28.480 align:start position:0%
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brings into the life of a person um we are step 
by step in our relationship to god becoming  

00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:34.960 align:start position:0%
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vessels that are formed which in the end can 
hold righteousness like the lord jesus christ  

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:39.200 align:start position:0%
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that requires us to walk after the spirit 
or the mind or the mental disposition  

00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:47.280 align:start position:0%
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of christ and so unless we are born both of 
water and of the mind of christ you might say  

00:33:47.280 --> 00:33:54.320 align:start position:0%
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into a life that expresses something imperfectly 
yes but something about the spirit of our lord  

00:33:54.320 --> 00:34:01.680 align:start position:0%
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in this world as it is interpreted in our lives in 
love and joy and peace and gentleness and kindness  

00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:07.600 align:start position:0%
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and mercy and faithfulness and all of those things 
that that show people that the royal majesty of  

00:34:07.600 --> 00:34:15.520 align:start position:0%
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the kingdom was was once with us but now there's a 
a a a slightly more dim reflection of that majesty  

00:34:15.520 --> 00:34:21.200 align:start position:0%
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in something that becomes this this this 
congregation of people who continue to make  

00:34:21.200 --> 00:34:26.640 align:start position:0%
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that testimony of light in this world in the way 
they speak the way they behave the things that  

00:34:26.640 --> 00:34:34.480 align:start position:0%
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they think and that that docile sheep-like 
spirit that makes them so valuable to god

00:34:36.560 --> 00:34:44.000 align:start position:0%
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and so in galatians he says for as many of you as 
have been i'm sorry as many of you as have been  

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:49.520 align:start position:0%
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baptized into christ have put on christ there 
is neither jew nor greek there is neither bond  

00:34:49.520 --> 00:34:56.000 align:start position:0%
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nor free we're all the same in christ god is not 
partial there's neither male nor female you're all  

00:34:56.000 --> 00:35:04.320 align:start position:0%
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one in christ jesus many but one one loaf as it 
would be in other terms and if you are christ's  

00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:10.880 align:start position:0%
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then you are abraham's seed and heirs according 
to the promise which brings us to another area of  

00:35:10.880 --> 00:35:17.840 align:start position:0%
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baptism and that is life in christ for those of us 
who are now uh bearing the burden in the heat of  

00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:24.480 align:start position:0%
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the day of our lives there's something interesting 
that happens we were once in this position in  

00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:32.240 align:start position:0%
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darkness we recognized we came to the point where 
we recognized what we sin and then through baptism  

00:35:32.240 --> 00:35:38.240 align:start position:0%
x
we entered into a new kind of life where there's 
a new man and in that life we find that we have  

00:35:38.240 --> 00:35:44.640 align:start position:0%
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available to us the strength of christ that comes 
to us in the form of understanding sin and the  

00:35:44.640 --> 00:35:49.600 align:start position:0%
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battle within that reasoning where we say you know 
i feel angry that's the same thing as murder so  

00:35:49.600 --> 00:35:55.920 align:start position:0%
x
the battle is here and and i'm tempted with 
respect to to the temptations of my flesh but but  

00:35:55.920 --> 00:36:01.600 align:start position:0%
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it starts here and it actually begins at my eyes 
so so i now thinking like christ and recognizing  

00:36:01.600 --> 00:36:06.000 align:start position:0%
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that it's not about external things that whatever 
law it gets written has to be written in our  

00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:13.040 align:start position:0%
x
reasoning where wherein we become we adopt the 
mind of christ we have available to us this all  

00:36:13.040 --> 00:36:18.480 align:start position:0%
x
the strength that comes to us from his teaching 
and his teaching as it was in interpreted by the  

00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:24.960 align:start position:0%
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the spirit in the letters of the new testament but 
we find this other thing begins to happen in our  

00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:34.320 align:start position:0%
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lives when we are baptized we notice a cycle that 
there is is temptations come along and sometimes  

00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:40.560 align:start position:0%
x
we find our minds returning to the the mind 
of an old man that we're trying to keep at bay  

00:36:40.560 --> 00:36:47.280 align:start position:0%
x
trying to keep to death but he he he has a 
way of of of bringing about thoughts that  

00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:53.040 align:start position:0%
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are incompatible with the new man and and we see 
ourselves in a cycle of temptation and sin and  

00:36:53.040 --> 00:36:59.120 align:start position:0%
x
repentance which it can be distressing and it can 
be very discouraging for those of us who recognize  

00:36:59.120 --> 00:37:06.080 align:start position:0%
x
that we we may be helpless in certain times in 
our life to a cycle that that returns us from  

00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:13.760 align:start position:0%
x
uh from walking in christ to temptation to sin 
to repentance then to return to the table of the  

00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:20.720 align:start position:0%
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lord and and beg god for strength to overcome only 
to find that we are weak and we return then to a  

00:37:20.720 --> 00:37:25.600 align:start position:0%
x
frame of mind that brings about sin in our lives 
and it's a distressing thing because we wonder  

00:37:25.600 --> 00:37:32.720 align:start position:0%
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how can a new man live like this well we have 
the assurance in christ that all of the mercy  

00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:38.240 align:start position:0%
x
and forgiveness and grace and peace that christ 
brings to us from having dealt with sin and won  

00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:45.680 align:start position:0%
x
the victory over it once and for all on the cross 
that he's given us a garment that covers our flesh  

00:37:46.240 --> 00:37:52.160 align:start position:0%
x
our life in christ involves not only uh this 
great desire and commitment and determination  

00:37:52.160 --> 00:37:58.000 align:start position:0%
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to be obedient and every effort that we make with 
day by day increasingly more and more throughout  

00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:04.400 align:start position:0%
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our lives to be obedient but it also involves a 
covering which in effect tells us that there is  

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nothing that can separate us from the love of 
christ so how do we resolve this what appears  

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to be uh a paradox of of being living with 
with bodies wherein paul said we have a law  

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of sin and death and the law wrought in us like 
paul all manner of covetousness leading to sin  

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how do we resolve that with with this promise 
that there is therefore now no condemnation for  

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those who walk not after the flesh but after 
the spirit of christ how do we resolve that  

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well we know in the initial sense we have 
access to the table of of the lord we have  

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a high priest in heaven the whole point of 
hebrews is to tell us we have a high priest  

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who was tempted in all points like as we are and 
we when we take the bread we don't only recognize  

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that we are flesh and we are weak and we have 
promised to put to death the flesh but we  

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are taking the body of christ in symbol as the 
representation of the life in which we now live  

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and his strength then becomes available to us so 
more than weakness of flesh in the bread that we  

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take on sunday we find the strength of christ 
because it was the strength of his body body  

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and the strength of his mind that said not my will 
but thine be done and we can bring that strength  

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into our reasoning and then we have the wine 
which we understand to be symbolically the life  

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of christ coursing through his body sunday after 
sunday every seven days where on that holy day  

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of the lord the body of christ is enlivened in 
its understanding of new life in christ and we  

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treasure the understanding of that bread and that 
wine and its significance to us every day every  

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first day every holy day of the lord every 
seven days that we return to our commitment  

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in baptism and the point is our incentive 
to return from sin to obedience comes from  

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knowing that we can and that's walking after the 
spirit of our lord and there is no condemnation  

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there is no condemnation for those who walk not 
after the flesh but after the mind of christ

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how thankful we are otherwise we would 
give up we would find ourselves sinning we  

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we we would say we failed this new man and we 
would give up. but don't give up fear not jesus  

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said to you and to me little flock it is your 
father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom

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we know that paul spoke of or the bible rather 
speaks of strength overcoming weakness where david  

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said it is god that girds me with strength not 
me not my mind it's god and makes my way perfect  

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you're in his hands you're being shaped according 
to his knowledge of you and he said to me my grace  

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is sufficient for you my strength is made perfect 
in weakness so so what we don't make up in in our  

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efforts in this life the sacrifice of christ 
has already dealt with the victory has been won  

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we are secure in the hands of christ and so paul 
said i can do all things in christ who strengthens  

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me including improvement in the areas of our 
weakness and more and more obedience as we mature  

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which now brings us to the prophetic side of 
our baptism and the the closing few ideas that  

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we want to think of baptism and the river of life 
one day there will be a river in this world that  

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cleanses and heals the whole world and that river 
will flow from the temple and be available with  

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the trees growing on on both sides of that river 
to all the people of the world who when they come  

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will not only find the healing of their diseases 
but the forgiveness of their sins so what this  

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house of prayer is manifest for all people and 
they go in to worship the lord there will be the  

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most exalted and exhilarated worship that that can 
be found among men uh the hearts of men will will  

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will overflow with with both humility and bowed 
heads and the spirit of thankfulness this offering  

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which is the only offering that god will 
accept when they see the lord jesus christ  

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enact those offerings in the destruction of animal 
flesh and so it says there's a river the streams  

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whereof shall make glad the city of god the holy 
place of the temple of the most high god is in the  

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midst of her she shall not be moved god shall 
help her and that right early and so what we  

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understand from that is that the streams of that 
river in that day now in this prophetic image  

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will make the city glad it will make the people 
who visit that city glad and it will make gladness  

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throughout the whole world when jesus is on the 
throne and the waters of that of that baptism in  

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those times um bring about the the formation of 
a global ecclesia as it will be in the kingdom  

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and so he says in isaiah 66 and verse 12 
through 14 for thus saith the lord behold  

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i will extend peace to her like a river and 
the glory of the gentiles like a flowing stream  

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then ye shall suck and ye shall be born 
upon her sides and dandel upon her needs  

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and one as one whom his mother comforts so i 
will comfort you and you shall be comforted in  

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jerusalem and when you see this your heart 
shall rejoice and your bones shall flourish  

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like an herb and the land and the hand of 
the lord shall be known toward his servants  

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there will be peace and healing from those waters 
and so finally he sent me from above he took me

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he drew me out of many waters we've been 
speaking about those waters we will rise  

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to become the particles of a great bright 
cloud that all the world will see and in  

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that cloud will be a rainbow which will be the 
full spectrum of the brightness of that cloud  

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and the glory of our lord the spectators will 
be all the inhabitants of the world and when  

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they see the salvation of our lord they will know 
the god of abraham isaac and jacob they will know  

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the god of our lord jesus christ they will know 
the god of all those who have manifested his name  

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and they will know the god 
of salvation in this world

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