John 3 | The Upward Way | Bible Study with A. Z. Adams — Transcript

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1. 0:00John chapter 3. There was a man of the
2. 0:03Pharisees named Nicodemus,
3. 0:06a ruler of the Jews.
4. 0:09This man came to Jesus [music] by night
5. 0:12and said to him,
6. 0:13"Rabbi,
7. 0:15we know that you have come from God as a
8. 0:18teacher,
9. 0:19for no one can do these signs that you
10. 0:22do unless God [music] is with him."
11. 0:27Jesus answered and said to him,
12. 0:29"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one
13. 0:32is born [music] again, he cannot see the
14. 0:35kingdom of God."
15. 0:39So, right off the bat,
16. 0:41we need to answer some questions. Who is
17. 0:43Nicodemus?
18. 0:45This chapter tells us that he [music] is
19. 0:46a ruler of the Jews and a Pharisee.
20. 0:50But, the other gospel tells us that he
21. 0:53belongs to the council.
22. 0:56That means that
23. 0:57>> [music]
24. 0:57>> he is a member of the senior most and
25. 1:01most powerful body of of authority
26. 1:04[music] in the Jewish nation.
27. 1:07So, he's like a senator. He sits on the
28. 1:10Sanhedrin, which is like the Jewish
29. 1:12Senate.
30. 1:14And he comes to Jesus at night.
31. 1:16And you say, "Why did he come at night?
32. 1:19Was it because he was personally
33. 1:20embarrassed?" No.
34. 1:23Listen to the way he speaks. He says,
35. 1:26"We know
36. 1:28that you are from [music] God,
37. 1:30for no one could do the things you do
38. 1:32unless God was with him."
39. 1:34What he's saying is, "We in the
40. 1:37Sanhedrin, we who hold political power
41. 1:40and sway,
42. 1:41we who are interested in throwing off
43. 1:44Rome
44. 1:45and looking for the coming kingdom, we
45. 1:48think you might be our man.
46. 1:50We think you might be the guy we should
47. 1:52back,
48. 1:54perhaps in a political revolt."
49. 1:56What he's doing is tantamount to
50. 1:58treason.
51. 1:59He's suggesting that Jesus might be the
52. 2:03one to help them get rid of Rome.
53. 2:06So, the interest in the kingdom, he
54. 2:08doesn't say, "I think you might be the
55. 2:11guy to lead the revolt or I think
56. 2:12[music] you might be the guy to launch
57. 2:14the kingdom."
58. 2:16He just says, "We know that you're from
59. 2:18God." But, the fact that Jesus
60. 2:21immediately cuts to the chase and says,
61. 2:23"You can't see the kingdom."
62. 2:25means that's what his real question was.
63. 2:27Jesus perceived his real question
64. 2:30beneath the compliment.
65. 2:31>> [music]
66. 2:32>> And, he doesn't really take the
67. 2:33compliment.
68. 2:35Nicodemus said to him,
69. 2:37"How can a man be born when he is old?
70. 2:41He cannot enter a second time into his
71. 2:43mother's womb and be born, can he?"
72. 2:47Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to
73. 2:49you, unless one is born of water and the
74. 2:52spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of
75. 2:55God.
76. 2:57That which is born of flesh is flesh.
77. 3:00And, that which is born of spirit is
78. 3:03spirit.
79. 3:04Do not be amazed that I said to you,
80. 3:07'You must be born again.'
81. 3:09The wind blows where it wishes,
82. 3:12and you hear the sound of it, but do not
83. 3:15know where it comes from and where it is
84. 3:17going.
85. 3:19So, is everyone who is born of the
86. 3:22spirit."
87. 3:24Nicodemus said to him, "How can these
88. 3:26things be?"
89. 3:29So, there's a lot in this.
90. 3:31Nicodemus comes to Jesus at night
91. 3:34because he's
92. 3:36potentially committing treason to
93. 3:38suggest that Jesus would start a revolt
94. 3:41or be the one they back against the
95. 3:43Roman state.
96. 3:44And, he speaks for the Senate. He says,
97. 3:46"We know that you're from God."
98. 3:48And, Jesus tells him, "The kingdom I
99. 3:51came to bring, you can't see it. If it
100. 3:54were right in front of you, you can't
101. 3:56see it until you're changed.
102. 3:59Cuz it's not a fleshly kingdom. It's a
103. 4:01spiritual kingdom.
104. 4:03And then he doubles down when Nicodemus
105. 4:06is confused.
106. 4:08If rebirth, if birth in the spirit were
107. 4:10something that were happening
108. 4:12to the Old Testament believers,
109. 4:14Nicodemus would not be confused. He'd be
110. 4:16like, "Well, sure, I'm born again."
111. 4:19But he is utterly confounded. He does
112. 4:21not understand what Jesus is talking
113. 4:23about at all.
114. 4:26And Jesus doubles down and he says,
115. 4:29"Truly I say to you, unless one is born
116. 4:30of water, referring to baptism, and the
117. 4:33spirit, referring to spirit baptism, he
118. 4:36cannot enter
119. 4:37the kingdom of God."
120. 4:39Why? He makes this statement, "That
121. 4:42which is born of flesh is flesh.
122. 4:45And that which is born of spirit is
123. 4:47spirit." Why does he say that right in
124. 4:50the middle?
125. 4:51He's clearly saying if the kingdom were
126. 4:53fleshly, you could see it in your
127. 4:55current state. If the kingdom were
128. 4:57natural, you wouldn't need to be born
129. 4:59again. But because this kingdom is
130. 5:01spiritual,
131. 5:03in order to be awakened to it, in order
132. 5:05to see it, you have to undergo a change.
133. 5:08And this term born again,
134. 5:11it's a positive, beautiful term that we
135. 5:13use and look forward to and encourage
136. 5:16people in,
137. 5:17but it's not an encouraging term. He's
138. 5:19telling a man who's old, "You've got to
139. 5:22go all the way back. You've got to
140. 5:24unlearn what you think you know. You've
141. 5:26got to start over and become as a little
142. 5:28child."
143. 5:29That's not inspiring to someone who
144. 5:32thinks they're standing on a platform of
145. 5:34accumulated wisdom over an entire
146. 5:36lifetime of learning.
147. 5:39But it's what Jesus says is necessary
148. 5:42in order to be in order to see the
149. 5:45kingdom of God.
150. 5:46He says, "Do not be amazed that I said
151. 5:48you must be born again. The wind blows
152. 5:51where it wishes. You know what that word
153. 5:53wind is in the Greek?
154. 5:54It's the word pneuma.
155. 5:56And it means spirit. It's the word from
156. 5:59which we get things like pneumatology.
157. 6:01Now, Jesus is describing a phenomenon
158. 6:03that's never happened before.
159. 6:06But he says it's like the blowing of the
160. 6:08wind and a very unique sound occurs. And
161. 6:11that sound, you don't know where it's
162. 6:12coming from and you don't know where
163. 6:14it's going.
164. 6:15This matches
165. 6:17with startling accuracy exactly what
166. 6:20Luke describes in the second chapter of
167. 6:23Acts
168. 6:24when the spirit was poured out and there
169. 6:26was something like a wind blowing and
170. 6:29the sound of speaking in tongues
171. 6:30occurred. And you didn't know where it
172. 6:32was coming from and you didn't know
173. 6:33where it was going.
174. 6:35But you heard the sound.
175. 6:37And that word that he uses, the sound of
176. 6:39it, is phone.
177. 6:41And that is the exact same word that
178. 6:43they use in the book of Acts to describe
179. 6:45the sound of speaking in tongues, phone.
180. 6:48And how would you describe speaking in
181. 6:50tongues to someone who'd never
182. 6:51experienced it? You'd say it was like
183. 6:53the wind. You didn't know where these
184. 6:55tongues were coming from and you didn't
185. 6:56know where they were going, but a sound
186. 6:58occurred with everyone who is born of
187. 7:00the spirit.
188. 7:02Nicodemus said to him,
189. 7:03>> [clears throat]
190. 7:04>> "How can these things be?"
191. 7:06Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you
192. 7:09the teacher of Israel and you don't
193. 7:11understand these things?"
194. 7:13Why did Jesus think that the teacher of
195. 7:15Israel should understand these things?
196. 7:18Because he should have known Joel
197. 7:20chapter 2. He should have known Isaiah
198. 7:22chapter 44.
199. 7:24Ezekiel to 39.
200. 7:26Zechariah.
201. 7:28He should have known all the passages
202. 7:29where the Lord said
203. 7:31that his Messiah in the end was going to
204. 7:34be an outpouring of the spirit. In the
205. 7:36last day saith God, I will pour out my
206. 7:39spirit on all flesh. He shouldn't have
207. 7:41been looking for a political kingdom. He
208. 7:43should have been looking for an
209. 7:44outpouring of the spirit.
210. 7:46That the dry places in the wildernesses
211. 7:48were going to spring forth with the
212. 7:49water of the spirit. That my spirit will
213. 7:52never depart from your descendants
214. 7:54forever. That I will put a new heart in
215. 7:56you and give you a new spirit and cause
216. 7:58you to walk in my statutes. Jeremiah,
217. 8:01that you will all know me from the least
218. 8:03to the greatest. In other words, Jesus
219. 8:05is rebuking him for having a political
220. 8:08expectation of the kingdom.
221. 8:10And he's saying, "If you really knew
222. 8:12your Bible,
223. 8:13you would not be looking for a political
224. 8:15answer when what God is wanting to do on
225. 8:17the face of the earth is an outpouring
226. 8:19of his spirit."
227. 8:20"Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of
228. 8:23what we know and testify of what we have
229. 8:25seen, and you do not accept our
230. 8:27testimony."
231. 8:29I think in that he's referring to the
232. 8:30miracles. He's referring to the working
233. 8:33of the spirit. And the Pharisees and the
234. 8:36Sadducees and the Sanhedrin aren't
235. 8:38accepting that.
236. 8:41And then he says, "If I told you earthly
237. 8:42things and you did not believe, how will
238. 8:44you believe if I tell you heavenly
239. 8:46things?"
240. 8:48He's telling him that what I've
241. 8:49described to you about rebirth is going
242. 8:50to happen on earth. It's going to happen
243. 8:53in the upper room. It's going to happen
244. 8:54on the day of Pentecost. It's not going
245. 8:56to happen in the sweet by and by.
246. 8:59He says, "No one has ascended into
247. 9:00heaven, but he who descended from
248. 9:03heaven, the Son of Man.
249. 9:05As Moses lifted up the serpent in the
250. 9:07wilderness,
251. 9:08even so must the Son of Man be lifted up
252. 9:12so that whoever believes will in him
253. 9:16>> [clears throat]
254. 9:16>> have eternal life."
255. 9:18So,
256. 9:20right here, he tells this guy
257. 9:23that nothing you expect
258. 9:27is preparing you for what is actually
259. 9:29going to happen.
260. 9:30It's not going to be a political
261. 9:32kingdom. It's going to be a spiritual
262. 9:33kingdom. You can't enter it through an
263. 9:36agreement. You've got to enter it
264. 9:37through a transformation that opens your
265. 9:39eyes to the realm of the spirit and
266. 9:41baptizes you in water and in spirit.
267. 9:44I'm not bringing what you expect, he's
268. 9:46saying.
269. 9:47And then he tells him
270. 9:49that as the teacher of Israel, he should
271. 9:50know this, implying that it's all in the
272. 9:52Bible.
273. 9:54And then he says, "As Moses lifted up
274. 9:56the serpent in the wilderness, even so
275. 9:59must the Son of Man be lifted up." When
276. 10:00did Moses lift up the serpent in the
277. 10:03wilderness?
278. 10:05When they were struck with judgment and
279. 10:08plague and snake bites and
280. 10:11horrible things were going through the
281. 10:12camp. And where did that come from? It
282. 10:15came from unbelief, didn't it?
283. 10:17It came from grumbling and discontent at
284. 10:20the way God was saving them, didn't it?
285. 10:22[clears throat]
286. 10:23So, he's telling Nicodemus, "Just like
287. 10:26the children of Israel did not recognize
288. 10:29their salvation and grumbled and
289. 10:31complained against it, you Sanhedrin and
290. 10:34you Pharisees, you want a political
291. 10:36solution and you're going to grumble and
292. 10:38you're going to complain
293. 10:40and you're going to you're going to wish
294. 10:41I was doing something that I'm not
295. 10:43doing. And in the end,
296. 10:45that grumbling spirit, that rebellion
297. 10:47against God's ways, is going to lift up
298. 10:50Jesus on the cross." Now, I ask you, was
299. 10:54was the serpent a pretty sight for the
300. 10:57children of Israel to look at?
301. 11:00Was it, "Oh, wow, I want to make jewelry
302. 11:02out of that. What a beautiful snake."
303. 11:04No, those snakes were biting them and
304. 11:06killing them.
305. 11:07But God wanted the children of Israel to
306. 11:10look
307. 11:11at the outcome of their rebellion. And
308. 11:14the snake was the symbol of their sin.
309. 11:17He wanted them to face what their sin
310. 11:20was in the eyes of God.
311. 11:22And so, the cross is no prettier than
312. 11:24the snake. The cross is a demonstration
313. 11:27to us of what our sin is, our rebellion
314. 11:31against God and the one whom he sends.
315. 11:34That's what our sin did. It took the
316. 11:36lamb of God. It took the healer.
317. 11:39The one who forgave and cleansed the
318. 11:40lepers. The one who taught. The one who
319. 11:43loved and had compassion. And it nailed
320. 11:46him to a tree.
321. 11:47That's what our sin does. And so in
322. 11:50facing our sin, we can come to
323. 11:52repentance like they did when they faced
324. 11:56the outcome of their transgression
325. 11:59in the serpent. The serpent of their
326. 12:01rebellion. So we have to also face that
327. 12:04that brutal ugly cross is what we do to
328. 12:08God. What we do to love and truth and
329. 12:11righteousness.
330. 12:13As Moses lifted up the serpent in the
331. 12:15wilderness, even so must the son of man
332. 12:17be lifted up so that whoever believes
333. 12:20will in him have eternal life.
334. 12:23For God so loved the world
335. 12:27that he gave his only begotten son
336. 12:31that whoever believes in him shall not
337. 12:33perish but have eternal life.
338. 12:36It doesn't say God so hated the world
339. 12:39but decided to kill his son instead.
340. 12:42It was God's love for the world. As 2
341. 12:45Corinthians 5:19 says, God was in Christ
342. 12:49reconciling the world to himself.
343. 12:52So it was not wrath
344. 12:54that caused the sacrifice, Christ's
345. 12:57sacrifice on the cross.
346. 12:59It was love.
347. 13:01And it was not God who bludgeoned and
348. 13:03killed Jesus.
349. 13:05It was our sin. It was our rebellion. It
350. 13:08was the institutionalized rebellion of
351. 13:10man fighting with the one whom the Lord
352. 13:13sent.
353. 13:15Says whoever believes in him shall not
354. 13:17perish but have eternal life.
355. 13:20For God did not send the son into the
356. 13:23world to judge the world but that the
357. 13:26world might be saved through him.
358. 13:28>> [clears throat]
359. 13:29>> The purpose of Jesus' coming was not
360. 13:31criticism and rejection,
361. 13:34but salvation. But there will be
362. 13:35rejection. How does that work?
363. 13:37He who believes in him is not judged,
364. 13:40but he who does not believe has been
365. 13:42judged already,
366. 13:44because he has not believed in the name
367. 13:46of the only begotten Son of God.
368. 13:49So, he says, "If you believe, you're not
369. 13:51judged. But if you don't believe, you're
370. 13:54already judged. The Son doesn't have to
371. 13:56exhibit some wrath towards you. The
372. 13:59Father doesn't have to have a remarkably
373. 14:01intense bad attitude towards you.
374. 14:04You have placed yourself outside of life
375. 14:07of your own accord.
376. 14:09You're condemned already.
377. 14:11The The condition of unbelief doesn't
378. 14:13need anything in order to be
379. 14:16a judgment. It just needs to stay in
380. 14:18unbelief, and you're going to perish."
381. 14:22And he says, "This is the judgment."
382. 14:25Now, the word that he's using here is
383. 14:27crisis, which means separation.
384. 14:31So, he says, "If you have unbelief,
385. 14:32you're judged already.
386. 14:34But you can leave that unbelief and come
387. 14:36into belief."
388. 14:38He says, "This is the judgment. This is
389. 14:40the separation between you and life,
390. 14:43between you and Christ. This is the
391. 14:45judgment.
392. 14:46The separation. That light has come into
393. 14:49the world, and men loved darkness rather
394. 14:52than light, for their deeds were evil."
395. 14:54So, he's saying,
396. 14:56"I'm not the one judging you. Your love
397. 14:59for darkness is peeling you away from
398. 15:01me. Your love for darkness is dragging
399. 15:04you away." As James says, "When one is
400. 15:07tempted, he is dragged away by his own
401. 15:09desires."
402. 15:11That's the judgment. That's what's
403. 15:12separating you from God. Jesus is trying
404. 15:15to tell him, "I'm not the problem here.
405. 15:18Your attachment to rebellion is.
406. 15:21For everyone who does evil hates the
407. 15:24light and does not come to the light for
408. 15:26fear that his deeds will be exposed.
409. 15:29But he who practices the truth comes to
410. 15:32the light so that his deeds may be
411. 15:34manifested as having been wrought in
412. 15:36God.
413. 15:37So Jesus is saying those that are of the
414. 15:40truth want to be open. They want to be
415. 15:43in the in the light. Now who came to him
416. 15:46in the night?
417. 15:48Nicodemus.
418. 15:50And he said, "You're one of these guys
419. 15:52who loves the darkness because your
420. 15:55deeds are evil and you're on a path
421. 15:57that's going to separate you from me.
422. 16:00You're committed to a course that I am
423. 16:02not on and a judgment is coming.
424. 16:05And I'm not going to bring that judgment
425. 16:07to you. Your sin is going to bring that
426. 16:09judgment to you.
427. 16:10Everyone who does evil hates the light
428. 16:14for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
429. 16:17But if we'll just love the light, then
430. 16:19we can abandon our deeds
431. 16:22and escape the judgment of the darkness.
432. 16:25He says, "But he who practices truth
433. 16:28Truth isn't something that you believe
434. 16:29only.
435. 16:30It's something you believe and it's
436. 16:32something you practice.
437. 16:34You do it.
438. 16:36Comes to the light so that his deeds may
439. 16:38be manifested as having been wrought in
440. 16:40God.
441. 16:42Somebody ever starts
442. 16:44going after someone else, bringing hurt
443. 16:46and harm and slander against someone
444. 16:49else
445. 16:50and they say they can't bring it into
446. 16:52the light.
447. 16:54Well, they love the darkness because
448. 16:56their deeds are evil. Our inability to
449. 16:58bring things into the light is evidence
450. 17:01enough that our heart is wrong, that our
451. 17:03motivation is evil.
452. 17:05When we're willing to come into the
453. 17:06light what we want to prove is that what
454. 17:09we've done has been done through God.
455. 17:12After these things, Jesus and his
456. 17:14disciples came into the land of Judea
457. 17:17and there he was spending time with them
458. 17:19and baptizing.
459. 17:21John was baptizing in Aenon near Salem
460. 17:25because there was much water there.
461. 17:28And people were coming and were being
462. 17:30baptized for John had not yet been
463. 17:34thrown into prison. Why was John
464. 17:36baptizing in Aenon?
465. 17:39Because there was much water there.
466. 17:42If you can baptize with this much water,
467. 17:45you don't need much water to baptize.
468. 17:48But if baptism is baptizo to utterly
469. 17:52submerge
470. 17:54and you're taking people down into the
471. 17:56water where their whole body is
472. 17:59figuratively drowned and raised in
473. 18:01resurrection life, symbolic resurrection
474. 18:04life, then you need much water. But you
475. 18:07don't need much water to sprinkle
476. 18:09something on someone. But that's not a
477. 18:11baptism.
478. 18:13Therefore, there arose a discussion on
479. 18:15the part of John's disciples with a Jew
480. 18:18about purification.
481. 18:20And they came to John and said to him,
482. 18:22"Rabbi,
483. 18:23he who was with you beyond the Jordan,
484. 18:26to whom you have testified, behold he,
485. 18:28that is Jesus, is baptizing and all are
486. 18:31coming to him."
487. 18:33John answered and said,
488. 18:35"A man can receive nothing unless it has
489. 18:38been given him from heaven."
490. 18:41John will not be sucked into the
491. 18:43competition, the rivalry between him and
492. 18:46Jesus.
493. 18:47Every time they try to trigger him, try
494. 18:50to excite him into this
495. 18:52competition,
496. 18:54he doesn't do it.
497. 18:55He says, "If Jesus is doing that,
498. 18:58he's operating on what God has given him
499. 19:00from heaven."
500. 19:02And then he goes on, "You yourselves are
501. 19:03my witnesses that I said, I am not the
502. 19:06Christ.
503. 19:08But I have been sent ahead of him.
504. 19:12He who has the bride is the bridegroom.
505. 19:16But the friend of the bridegroom who
506. 19:17stands and hears him
507. 19:19rejoices greatly because of the
508. 19:21bridegroom's voice.
509. 19:24So this joy of mine
510. 19:26has been made full.
511. 19:28John says, "I'm not the Messiah.
512. 19:30Jesus is the bridegroom. Jesus is the
513. 19:33one who has the bride, but I am the
514. 19:35friend of the bridegroom. I'm a
515. 19:37groomsman.
516. 19:39>> [snorts]
517. 19:39>> And I'm thrilled because I can hear his
518. 19:42voice.
519. 19:43And I know that he's going to receive
520. 19:45what he came for."
521. 19:47And then he makes this statement.
522. 19:49He must increase,
523. 19:52but I must decrease.
524. 19:56What a profound statement of humility.
525. 19:59Would that we all could have that
526. 20:01attitude that Jesus must increase even
527. 20:05as we decrease.
528. 20:08He who comes from above is above all.
529. 20:12He who is of the earth is from the earth
530. 20:14and speaks of the earth.
531. 20:16He who comes from heaven is above all.
532. 20:20What he has sent and heard, of that he
533. 20:22testifies, and no one receives his
534. 20:25testimony.
535. 20:27He who has received his testimony has
536. 20:29set his seal to this, that God is true.
537. 20:33For whom God has sent speaks the words
538. 20:37of God. For he gives the spirit without
539. 20:40measure.
540. 20:41So he's saying, "God has sent Jesus,
541. 20:44and he speaks the words of God because
542. 20:46God has given to Jesus the spirit
543. 20:49without measure.
544. 20:51You and I are promised the spirit in a
545. 20:53measure, a tiny little teaspoon.
546. 20:56But Jesus has the spirit without
547. 20:58measure.
548. 21:00The Father loves the Son and has given
549. 21:02all things into his hand.
550. 21:05He who believes in the Son has eternal
551. 21:07life.
552. 21:09But he who does not obey the Son will
553. 21:11not see life, but the wrath of God
554. 21:14abides on him.
555. 21:16So,
556. 21:18we've just read one of the most
557. 21:19important [music] passages in the Bible,
558. 21:21and one of the most quoted. We've read
559. 21:24God so loved the world that he gave his
560. 21:26only begotten Son, [music] that whoever
561. 21:27believes in him should not perish, but
562. 21:29have everlasting life.
563. 21:31But here we we understand something
564. 21:33about the way they saw belief.
565. 21:35It says, "He who believes in the Son
566. 21:39has eternal life,
567. 21:41but he who does not obey the Son will
568. 21:44not see life." What are they doing?
569. 21:47They're making the word believe and the
570. 21:49word obey interchangeable, showing that
571. 21:52you cannot have a mental [music]
572. 21:55or an emotional belief that does not
573. 21:59become obedience, that does not become a
574. 22:02life conformed to that [music] claim.
575. 22:06You cannot say, "I believe there is
576. 22:07poison in this cup," and then drink it
577. 22:10happily as if there is not.
578. 22:12There must be a complete connection
579. 22:16between your beliefs and your obedience.
580. 22:19And for the Jews, for the Hebrews, even
581. 22:21in their Hebrew word, there is no
582. 22:23[music] difference. To hear and to obey
583. 22:25and to believe, it all becomes one
584. 22:27thing.
585. 22:29If you
586. 22:30acted against your belief, then you
587. 22:32never believed at all.
588. 22:36He who believes in the Son has eternal
589. 22:39life, but he who does not obey the Son
590. 22:41will not see life, but the wrath of God
591. 22:45abides on him.
592. 22:47But what is that wrath? That's the wrath
593. 22:49that Jesus spoke [music] of to
594. 22:51Nicodemus.
595. 22:52That's not the wrath that God is
596. 22:54personally bringing out of anger toward
597. 22:56us.
598. 22:57That's the wrath of separating ourselves
599. 23:00from him
600. 23:01by sticking with our stubborn way that
601. 23:04leads us into darkness.
602. 23:07When the way of faith and the way of
603. 23:09light and the way of truth is right over
604. 23:12here where Jesus is.
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