100:00:00,000 –> 00:00:04,040Iím David Pick for Jesus Christ.200:00:04,040 –> 00:00:08,720These are directions then that are given to those who would later speak the word of God300:00:08,720 –> 00:00:10,840in times of great difficulty.400:00:10,840 –> 00:00:13,960And it follows of course that they are therefore directions for us.500:00:13,960 –> 00:00:21,520They lay out how we are to speak the word of God to other people who are in captivity,600:00:21,520 –> 00:00:24,080who are facing great difficulty.700:00:24,080 –> 00:00:26,320How are we to bear witness to Jesus Christ?800:00:26,320 –> 00:00:28,860Welcome to Open the Bible with pastor Colin Smith.900:00:28,860 –> 00:00:32,000Iím David Pick and Iím so pleased youíre with us today.1000:00:32,000 –> 00:00:35,980And Colin last time we were thinking about the way we speak about God.1100:00:35,980 –> 00:00:39,419The tone if you like, but today itís more about the substance.1200:00:39,419 –> 00:00:43,660Itís really important to be clear about what the message of the Gospel actually is.1300:00:43,660 –> 00:00:48,840Iíve been looking at a book by a scholar who did research on what is being preached1400:00:48,840 –> 00:00:55,200in many churches and the research gave rise to this title, ìall is forgivenî and what1500:00:55,220 –> 00:01:00,340the writer found was that what was being said in many churches is simply, ìHey everybody,1600:01:00,340 –> 00:01:01,340you are forgivenî.1700:01:01,340 –> 00:01:03,580Well thatís not the Gospel.1800:01:03,580 –> 00:01:06,000In Jesus Christ there is forgiveness.1900:01:06,000 –> 00:01:10,940Outside of him there is this terrible terrible lostness, which is the reason why we have2000:01:10,940 –> 00:01:12,419to come to Jesus Christ.2100:01:12,419 –> 00:01:19,820So, knowing what the Gospel is and that it is the good news of what is ours in Jesus2200:01:19,820 –> 00:01:22,540is really important.2300:01:22,540 –> 00:01:23,919Thatís what weíll hear about today.2400:01:23,919 –> 00:01:29,500Join us if you can in Isaiah chapter 40 as we continue the message, ìThe Glory of the2500:01:29,500 –> 00:01:30,500Lordî.2600:01:30,500 –> 00:01:31,559Here is Colin.2700:01:31,559 –> 00:01:32,559You want to serve God?2800:01:32,559 –> 00:01:35,279Well listen to what God says in scripture.2900:01:35,279 –> 00:01:41,959Look at this ìComfort comfort, my people, says your God.î3000:01:41,959 –> 00:01:48,639If we are to be useful in speaking into the lives of others, we need to have minds and3100:01:48,739 –> 00:01:53,980hearts that are well saturated in what God Himself actually says.3200:01:53,980 –> 00:02:02,080In other words, your ministry, your usefulness to God will be an overflow of your own walk3300:02:02,080 –> 00:02:05,059with God in His Word.3400:02:05,059 –> 00:02:09,919You cannot give to others what you have not received yourself, and the Word of God has3500:02:09,919 –> 00:02:16,000to come with power to you before it can come with power through you.3600:02:16,039 –> 00:02:21,139It must be in you in order that it can come from you.3700:02:21,660 –> 00:02:22,880And Paul speaks about this.3800:02:22,880 –> 00:02:24,279It happens in all kinds of ways.3900:02:24,279 –> 00:02:30,639Do you remember in 2 Corinthians chapter 1, he says, now, God has comforted us so that4000:02:30,639 –> 00:02:36,559we may be able to comfort others with the comfort with which He has first comforted us.4100:02:37,139 –> 00:02:42,600In other words, the reality of an experience of the grace of God and of the truth of God4200:02:42,639 –> 00:02:48,100has become earthed in Paul’s own experience so that out of this,4300:02:48,100 –> 00:02:51,639he is able to minister effectively to others.4400:02:52,360 –> 00:02:54,160Do you want to be useful?4500:02:54,660 –> 00:02:59,339Be in the place where you’re listening to what God says in scripture.4600:02:59,940 –> 00:03:01,279And here’s the fourth thing.4700:03:02,080 –> 00:03:09,479You want to be useful to the Lord, speak for Him usefully, ask God to fill you with His Spirit.4800:03:10,320 –> 00:03:14,759I take this directly from verse 1 and the link to John’s gospel,4900:03:15,259 –> 00:03:19,800comfort, comfort my people, says your God.5000:03:21,080 –> 00:03:26,279And you ask the question, well how in the world can I come for God’s people?5100:03:26,279 –> 00:03:30,119How can I bring hope, how can I bring help to others?5200:03:30,539 –> 00:03:37,220You read that very striking word comfort and surely your mind goes to who is the comforter?5300:03:38,119 –> 00:03:43,240You remember how Jesus said, it’s translated in different ways in different versions,5400:03:43,740 –> 00:03:45,740but Jesus said about the Holy Spirit,5500:03:45,740 –> 00:03:50,759I will ask the Father and he will give to you another comforter.5600:03:50,759 –> 00:03:53,600John chapter 14 and verse 16,5700:03:54,320 –> 00:04:03,580ask God to make you a Christian who is filled with his word and is filled with His spirit.5800:04:04,539 –> 00:04:09,119Do you know, to me, one of the most tragic pictures in all of the bible is5900:04:10,660 –> 00:04:12,559the picture of6000:04:12,559 –> 00:04:14,039Jonah6100:04:14,039 –> 00:04:20,600when he was asleep, you remember, in the bottom of the ship, in the middle of a life-threatening storm,6200:04:21,839 –> 00:04:25,899here are all the ship’s crew and not one of them knows God.6300:04:26,920 –> 00:04:28,399Not one of them.6400:04:28,399 –> 00:04:31,760They’re in an absolute panic for their life.6500:04:32,040 –> 00:04:33,220And6600:04:33,220 –> 00:04:40,459there’s one man in the ship who knows God. And he has absolutely nothing to say, because he’s6700:04:40,940 –> 00:04:45,200pathetically caught up in the trivia of his own6800:04:45,899 –> 00:04:52,579altercation with God and his own resistance to the will of God. What’s the use of the man of faith, in that situation?6900:04:53,519 –> 00:04:55,480You do not want to be that man.7000:04:55,480 –> 00:04:57,480You do not want to go into this7100:04:57,480 –> 00:05:04,820Christmas as a believer with a kind of beef with God. Your own altercation, your own fight. No, you want to be in the place7200:05:05,959 –> 00:05:07,959where by the mercy of God7300:05:08,160 –> 00:05:13,359you have come to be freshly filled with His Word and7400:05:13,359 –> 00:05:15,359freshly filled with His spirit.7500:05:15,760 –> 00:05:18,600So that in this world where so many people are7600:05:18,739 –> 00:05:24,480desperately lost, and know nothing of the God who has laid hold of your life, that you may be of some use,7700:05:25,320 –> 00:05:26,959some value,7800:05:27,000 –> 00:05:29,519that there may be some readiness7900:05:29,859 –> 00:05:31,720to make a8000:05:31,720 –> 00:05:35,899difference. So ask God to fill you with your spirit.8100:05:35,899 –> 00:05:40,119How can you really pray for others if you are not even praying for yourself?8200:05:41,000 –> 00:05:46,579How can you bring God’s Word into the lives of others if you are not daily bringing It into your own life?8300:05:46,619 –> 00:05:51,160How can there be any comfort from the spirit that emanates from you if you are not8400:05:51,519 –> 00:05:53,880experiencing the comfort of the spirit for yourself?8500:05:54,040 –> 00:05:56,019Self8600:05:56,019 –> 00:06:01,100Ministry to others is always the overflow of what God is doing in your life8700:06:01,679 –> 00:06:05,519So live in the Word of God be filled with the spirit of God8800:06:07,239 –> 00:06:09,839Learn to speak tenderly and8900:06:10,700 –> 00:06:14,119Remember when all is done. You’re only a voice you’re not a name9000:06:15,179 –> 00:06:17,179So that the one name that matters9100:06:18,119 –> 00:06:20,040will get all9200:06:20,040 –> 00:06:23,640Of the glory. Can you imagine the impact of an entire church?9300:06:23,920 –> 00:06:27,820being alive in the way that Isaiah is describing here9400:06:29,019 –> 00:06:31,019Who knows what God will do9500:06:31,660 –> 00:06:33,660The messenger9600:06:33,959 –> 00:06:35,739That’s us9700:06:35,739 –> 00:06:37,859It’s what we’re being called to9800:06:39,160 –> 00:06:41,359As God places us9900:06:42,880 –> 00:06:44,880Strategically in his own purposes10000:06:45,739 –> 00:06:47,739for these next days and10100:06:48,540 –> 00:06:50,540for these coming years10200:06:51,500 –> 00:06:56,200The messenger how we are to speak for God more briefly the message10300:06:57,220 –> 00:06:59,220What we have received from God10400:06:59,519 –> 00:07:00,540and10500:07:00,540 –> 00:07:06,260As we seek to prepare ourselves to really be useful to the Lord over this Christmas season, especially10600:07:07,339 –> 00:07:13,480how marvelous that all that we have received from God in Jesus Christ is so wonderfully10700:07:14,200 –> 00:07:16,200anticipated right here in10800:07:16,739 –> 00:07:18,399the Scripture10900:07:18,399 –> 00:07:20,500perhaps you’ve come to church today and11000:07:20,720 –> 00:07:23,739you’re not yet in a position of being a committed Christian and11100:07:24,739 –> 00:07:28,700In your mind, you’re saying well. I understand about all the birth of Jesus and so forth11200:07:28,700 –> 00:07:33,799But what really is the point what really comes of all of this? What’s it really all about?11300:07:33,799 –> 00:07:39,940What difference does it actually make 2,000 years ago? What difference does it make for my life today? I?11400:07:41,059 –> 00:07:48,399Want just very simply here in this last part to give you an outline of the Christian message that just falls out of these11500:07:48,519 –> 00:07:55,420verses and it will be easy to remember and so for those who are believers here, you can take it you can use it and11600:07:56,480 –> 00:08:03,000It will be an easy way for you to speak perhaps in God’s goodness over these next days about the things of11700:08:03,600 –> 00:08:05,279Jesus Christ11800:08:05,279 –> 00:08:07,279What is the message?11900:08:08,079 –> 00:08:11,859Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and cry to her cry. What?12000:08:13,160 –> 00:08:15,320That her warfare is ended12100:08:16,160 –> 00:08:19,220that her iniquity is pardoned12200:08:21,239 –> 00:08:24,619That she has received from the Lord’s hands double12300:08:25,480 –> 00:08:27,480for all her sins12400:08:28,179 –> 00:08:34,080Let me give you it in a sentence here and just break it up into these very simple steps. What is the message?12500:08:35,280 –> 00:08:37,280It begins here peace12600:08:38,039 –> 00:08:39,440established12700:08:39,440 –> 00:08:42,599That’s what God has done in Jesus Christ speak tenderly to Jerusalem12800:08:42,659 –> 00:08:46,539Jerusalem that her warfare is end12900:08:48,179 –> 00:08:52,500Here are these people and for years and years. There has been this great conflict with God13000:08:53,260 –> 00:08:58,280They have been the object of his love, but they have lost his blessing their constant13100:08:58,599 –> 00:09:03,140Idolatry has brought them to this desperate place. They have been exiles13200:09:03,140 –> 00:09:06,039They have been prisoners of war life has been grim13300:09:06,179 –> 00:09:12,419And here God says tell this word her warfare is ended13400:09:13,679 –> 00:09:18,200There’s a reconciliation that’s taking place with God. Peace the end of war13500:09:18,599 –> 00:09:22,280And you know that that is right at the heart of the Christmas story13600:09:22,280 –> 00:09:29,799Why is Jesus Christ come into the world when he is born the Angels say glory to God in the highest and unearth?13700:09:29,799 –> 00:09:31,799What peace?13800:09:32,200 –> 00:09:34,200good will13900:09:34,359 –> 00:09:36,679Towards men on whom God’s favor14000:09:37,599 –> 00:09:39,280rests and14100:09:39,280 –> 00:09:44,119Here we have God reaching out to end a war to end14200:09:44,520 –> 00:09:49,280Conflict a war that’s gone back to the beginning of time God giving an amnesty14300:09:50,020 –> 00:09:56,200God sing to his own enemies here is a time where there can be peace here is a time where there can be14400:09:56,780 –> 00:10:01,039Reconciliation here is a time for the warfare to be ended14500:10:01,479 –> 00:10:02,679and14600:10:02,679 –> 00:10:05,960The Lord Jesus Christ has come into the world14700:10:06,880 –> 00:10:13,700To resolve this conflict that lies deeper in every person deeper in you than any other conflict14800:10:13,700 –> 00:10:17,539you will ever experience and that is the conflict between you and God and14900:10:18,700 –> 00:10:20,719How how is there to be peace?15000:10:21,280 –> 00:10:23,280I’ll notice what he says next15100:10:23,880 –> 00:10:27,400Peace established because a pardon is secured15200:10:28,479 –> 00:10:30,760That her iniquity is15300:10:31,020 –> 00:10:33,020Pardoned15400:10:33,679 –> 00:10:39,039Here’s this God who lays claim to our lives, and we’ve been resisting him15500:10:39,400 –> 00:10:42,500here’s this God against whom we’ve been sinning and15600:10:43,159 –> 00:10:49,919Breaking his Commandments, and what is he doing is reaching out in love, and he’s reaching out to forgive15700:10:50,919 –> 00:10:54,640He’s not reaching out to impose the condemnation of the law15800:10:54,760 –> 00:11:00,700No, he’s reaching out to embrace you to reconcile you to use the Bible’s word to save you15900:11:01,799 –> 00:11:03,799He’s established16000:11:04,659 –> 00:11:06,400Pardon16100:11:06,400 –> 00:11:07,960secured16200:11:07,960 –> 00:11:12,239And this comes through the Lord Jesus Christ who has authority to forgive sins16300:11:12,320 –> 00:11:16,880He says to a paralyzed man on one occasion your sins are forgiven16400:11:18,039 –> 00:11:21,559And everyone around is saying that was saying at the time16500:11:21,719 –> 00:11:26,659Well, now how can he say this because no one has the authority to forgive sins except God and16600:11:27,640 –> 00:11:33,539And of course here, he is it God in the flesh and he’s here for this purpose securing a pardon16700:11:33,539 –> 00:11:35,539How does he secure a part?16800:11:37,039 –> 00:11:41,840Pardon where’s that come from? How is Jesus able to forgive sins answer?16900:11:42,559 –> 00:11:47,299Peace is established and a pardon secured because a payment has been made17000:11:48,299 –> 00:11:52,239We’ve got to pause the message briefly there, but we’ll be back very shortly17100:11:52,299 –> 00:11:57,380You’re listening to open the Bible with pastor Colin Smith and a message called the glory of the Lord17200:11:57,679 –> 00:12:02,260It’s part of a series called waiting for the Lord and it’s based on Isaiah chapter17300:12:02,719 –> 00:12:09,35940 if you’ve joined later if you have to leave early or if you miss any of the messages in the series or indeed the17400:12:09,359 –> 00:12:14,460Previous series, you can easily catch up or go back and listen again by going to our website17500:12:15,020 –> 00:12:22,219Open the Bible dot org dot UK and you can also find pastor Colin’s messages on all the main podcast sites17600:12:22,239 –> 00:12:28,840You’ll find them there by searching for open the Bible UK or alternatively by following a link from our website17700:12:29,340 –> 00:12:36,099Back to the message. Now here again is Colin. How is Jesus able to forgive sins answer?17800:12:36,859 –> 00:12:41,599Peace is established and a part insecure because a payment has been made17900:12:42,020 –> 00:12:45,580Notice this marvelous phrase fascinating phrase in verse to18000:12:48,260 –> 00:12:52,520Tell her that she has received from the Lord’s hand double18100:12:53,679 –> 00:12:55,679for all her sins18200:12:57,500 –> 00:12:59,500What a marvelous statement18300:13:00,179 –> 00:13:04,179There’s great discussion about exactly how it’s to be understood18400:13:05,359 –> 00:13:09,200Let me point to you in this direction that’s persuaded me18500:13:09,400 –> 00:13:11,159Persuaded me18600:13:11,159 –> 00:13:15,859I like Mater perhaps the greatest living scholar on Isaiah in the world18700:13:16,760 –> 00:13:24,400points out that when it says she has received from the Lord’s hand double the the definite article is in there it’s18800:13:24,559 –> 00:13:26,559literally the Double18900:13:27,359 –> 00:13:34,140Tell her that she’s received the double or to put that another way the duplicate the duplicate19000:13:35,140 –> 00:13:40,739Tell her that she has received from God’s hand the mirror image the carbon copy19100:13:41,940 –> 00:13:43,940the exact19200:13:44,299 –> 00:13:46,099Replica and19300:13:46,099 –> 00:13:50,559All of us know that none of us can make payment for our sins19400:13:50,679 –> 00:13:57,280So here is what God has done. God took flesh in the person of Jesus Christ. He’s come to us19500:13:57,280 –> 00:13:59,539He’s taken his stand with us19600:13:59,799 –> 00:14:04,539He has come to act for us and here is what God has done in Jesus Christ19700:14:05,320 –> 00:14:07,400Taking our nature to himself19800:14:07,840 –> 00:14:13,640He lived a sinless life and then laid it down as a sacrifice for our sins19900:14:13,780 –> 00:14:15,080he bore our20000:14:15,080 –> 00:14:21,979Sins in his body on the tree all that was done by me if I can personalize this for clarity20100:14:22,000 –> 00:14:24,000All that was done by me20200:14:24,820 –> 00:14:31,760Was born by him and he paid the price and he took the rap and20300:14:32,580 –> 00:14:35,119What he bore on my behalf is20400:14:37,000 –> 00:14:39,000Exactly20500:14:39,020 –> 00:14:45,460Duplicate mirror image the price of every one of my sins20600:14:47,580 –> 00:14:52,599And what he did for all the people of God if we’re to mass all of them together, and the thought of this is20700:14:53,380 –> 00:14:56,119Overwhelming as it was overwhelming to Christ is20800:14:56,780 –> 00:14:58,780He have paid the price exactly20900:14:59,260 –> 00:15:01,260duplicate replica21000:15:01,479 –> 00:15:03,479precisely of21100:15:03,940 –> 00:15:07,859Every one of the sins of every one of God’s people21200:15:08,979 –> 00:15:12,880So that if you think about going into a shop, that’s not gone high-tech21300:15:12,880 –> 00:15:17,580and they’re still on the old-fashioned way of writing out a bill in21400:15:17,919 –> 00:15:20,179duplicate where you get the white copy and you know21500:15:20,840 –> 00:15:24,299keeps the yellow copy or the pink copy or whatever it is and21600:15:25,500 –> 00:15:28,900Then comes Jesus Christ and he pays that duplicative21700:15:28,900 –> 00:15:32,640He pays the pink copy and when you find that you can appear the white copy21800:15:32,840 –> 00:15:39,679Here’s the good news be build because there is only one and it’s only paid once has already been paid on your behalf21900:15:39,780 –> 00:15:43,099if you are in Jesus Christ the duplicate tell22000:15:43,820 –> 00:15:46,479Tell God’s people tell them this22100:15:47,299 –> 00:15:51,799That they have received the duplicates from God’s hand and22200:15:52,599 –> 00:15:54,320It’s the amazing22300:15:54,320 –> 00:15:58,200amazing payment that has been made for all of22400:15:58,500 –> 00:16:01,400Her sins. That’s why Jesus said when he came into the world22500:16:01,400 –> 00:16:07,520I come to seek and save lost people and to give my life as a ransom for many a purchase22600:16:07,520 –> 00:16:13,400I could have pay a price. That’s why I came into the world. That’s why this baby was born in22700:16:14,059 –> 00:16:18,859Bethlehem and laid in the manger the paying of a price the laying down of22800:16:19,000 –> 00:16:25,780that life in which God became man and took his stand with us and took his stand for22900:16:26,219 –> 00:16:32,200us and that takes me to the very last thing and it’s simply this peace has been established and23000:16:32,960 –> 00:16:35,400Pardon has been secured forgiveness23100:16:35,400 –> 00:16:41,559Why because payment has been made and all this has happened through a person23200:16:41,659 –> 00:16:43,780Person and only one person23300:16:44,679 –> 00:16:46,679Jesus Christ our23400:16:47,080 –> 00:16:49,080Savior and our lord23500:16:49,080 –> 00:16:54,119Which is why Isaiah goes on to speak words that are taken up by John the Baptist in the wilderness23600:16:54,760 –> 00:16:56,599prepare the way of23700:16:56,599 –> 00:16:58,359the Lord23800:16:58,359 –> 00:17:04,119Make a straight way in the desert a highway for our God all the good23900:17:05,000 –> 00:17:07,000That is in the gospel24000:17:07,439 –> 00:17:09,540comes from this unique and glorious24100:17:10,420 –> 00:17:15,859Person Jesus Christ take away Jesus, and you don’t have the payment24200:17:17,260 –> 00:17:20,300Take away the payment, and you don’t have the pardon24300:17:20,959 –> 00:17:26,699Take away the Pardon and you no longer have the peace peace with God24400:17:27,040 –> 00:17:34,160All this good all this comfort comes from this unique person who came into the world at Christmas24500:17:34,439 –> 00:17:39,859There was never anyone like him before there has never been anyone born quite like him24600:17:40,459 –> 00:17:43,859since and Isaiah says this person will come and24700:17:44,739 –> 00:17:48,959Who is this person prepare the way of the Lord for?24800:17:49,579 –> 00:17:51,020capital letters24900:17:51,020 –> 00:17:52,079God25000:17:52,079 –> 00:17:56,599Almighty taking flesh and coming into his own creation25100:17:57,119 –> 00:17:59,500It’s the most amazing thing that has ever happened25200:17:59,859 –> 00:18:06,739Lloyd jones says at one point he says is it not amazing to you that the whole world is not standing and applauding25300:18:08,119 –> 00:18:10,119But God should do this25400:18:12,599 –> 00:18:19,140Our revelation of our own perversity that when this love and this grace comes to us in Jesus Christ at such a cost25500:18:20,160 –> 00:18:22,160That we could be so25600:18:22,599 –> 00:18:24,219unresponsive25700:18:24,219 –> 00:18:26,699dead in trespasses and sins25800:18:26,839 –> 00:18:28,760this25900:18:28,760 –> 00:18:30,739Propair the way off the26000:18:31,439 –> 00:18:33,439Lord26100:18:33,780 –> 00:18:36,140What’s going to happen when he comes is that26200:18:37,839 –> 00:18:41,380Every valley will be exalted every hill will be brought low26300:18:42,420 –> 00:18:47,579You think about how that happens in the Lord Jesus Christ himself? Who is he is God and26400:18:48,300 –> 00:18:54,020He leaves all this glory and he sets it aside, and he’s born as a baby. That’s about as26500:18:55,020 –> 00:19:00,560Lowering of the Heights as you could imagine and then then what happens he assumes our humanity and26600:19:01,979 –> 00:19:07,280Making himself one with us and becoming our redeemer he lifts our humanity in his ascension26700:19:08,060 –> 00:19:09,939Back into the presence of God26800:19:09,939 –> 00:19:17,079That’s the lifting up of the low places as you could ever ever imagine and it all happens in26900:19:18,319 –> 00:19:23,400Jesus Christ no wonder Isaiah says the glory of the Lord27000:19:24,880 –> 00:19:26,859Will be27100:19:26,859 –> 00:19:31,400Revealed the glory of the Lord will be27200:19:32,660 –> 00:19:34,900Revealed and just with these questions27300:19:36,680 –> 00:19:38,680Have you received this comfort27400:19:40,119 –> 00:19:47,280Do you know what it is today to a peace with God because of the pardon based on the payment that came by Jesus Christ27500:19:47,800 –> 00:19:49,800do27600:19:50,079 –> 00:19:54,839Know if you can’t say yes to that question. Why would you go home from the service today?27700:19:55,319 –> 00:19:59,439Still pushing Jesus Christ away when he offers himself to you today27800:20:01,479 –> 00:20:03,479Why would you not27900:20:04,160 –> 00:20:07,079Get down off your pride and28000:20:08,280 –> 00:20:11,140get up from your despair and28100:20:11,760 –> 00:20:18,800and come honestly before the Lord Jesus Christ today and in repentance and in faith say28200:20:18,920 –> 00:20:22,819Lord Jesus I see that you are everything that I need and28300:20:24,300 –> 00:20:27,119Today, I want to give myself as best28400:20:27,119 –> 00:20:31,300I know how to you and to ask that you will be my Savior give me that peace28500:20:31,300 –> 00:20:34,319I need you to pay that price for me28600:20:34,319 –> 00:20:40,219I asked for the pardon and I offer myself into your hands, why would you not do that today as28700:20:40,400 –> 00:20:44,479this Christ in love offers himself to you28800:20:45,599 –> 00:20:47,599and if you are Christ28900:20:48,560 –> 00:20:52,680What are you gonna do over this Christmas season in a broken world?29000:20:52,920 –> 00:21:00,540where so many people are cast adrift in an endless inner conflict an alienation from God and29100:21:00,739 –> 00:21:03,140You like Jonah are the one who knows God29200:21:04,599 –> 00:21:09,500Well over these next days. Why would you not seek with God’s help?29300:21:10,479 –> 00:21:14,560so look for every opportunity to speak tenderly and29400:21:16,040 –> 00:21:19,020To speak about the peace and29500:21:19,459 –> 00:21:23,979About the pardon and about the payment that have come through the person29600:21:24,560 –> 00:21:26,599Of your Lord and your Savior29700:21:28,140 –> 00:21:29,660Jesus Christ29800:21:29,660 –> 00:21:32,760Pastor Colin finishing the message the glory of the Lord29900:21:33,199 –> 00:21:37,099It’s part of our series waiting for the Lord based on Isaiah30000:21:37,459 –> 00:21:39,43940 and if you ever miss one of the series30100:21:39,439 –> 00:21:42,239Or if you want to get back and listen to any of them again30200:21:42,380 –> 00:21:44,920You can do that by coming online to our website30300:21:45,359 –> 00:21:51,300Open the Bible org UK or go to your favorite podcast site and search. 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We’re delighted to offer a free gift31500:22:40,380 –> 00:22:46,640when you set up a new direct debit to the work of open the Bible in the amount of five pounds per month or31600:22:46,640 –> 00:22:49,579more or a one-off gift of fifty pounds or more31700:22:49,819 –> 00:22:56,560We’d love to say thank you by sending you a free copy of Pastor Colin’s new book hike through the Bible31800:22:57,160 –> 00:23:02,099Colin went at the idea for this book come from well that goes back a long way actually31900:23:02,099 –> 00:23:06,80030 years to a conference I attended in the UK and at lunchtime32000:23:06,800 –> 00:23:11,380I just happened to sit next to a man who had given his life to32100:23:11,699 –> 00:23:18,300Serving as a Pioneer missionary to an unreached tribal group in Northern Thailand. His story was32200:23:19,020 –> 00:23:19,959absolutely32300:23:19,959 –> 00:23:27,400Fascinating he told me how he had met the tribal chief how he’d built his own home having been invited to live among these people32400:23:27,400 –> 00:23:30,339Learned their language. I mean, I’m listening to his story32500:23:30,540 –> 00:23:34,300It was amazing and then I asked him over lunch Toni32600:23:34,300 –> 00:23:42,040I said, where in the world would you begin in explaining the gospel to people who don’t even know who God is?32700:23:42,219 –> 00:23:50,579and he said, we tell them the Bible story and that really started me on a journey that’s gone over many many years32800:23:50,920 –> 00:23:51,900because32900:23:51,900 –> 00:23:55,660God has introduced his Son to us through an33000:23:56,260 –> 00:24:00,640Unfolding story that begins in Genesis and it ends in Revelation33100:24:00,640 –> 00:24:06,520And actually if we follow the contours of the Bible story, we have the best possible33200:24:07,260 –> 00:24:12,119introduction to understanding who Jesus is why we need him what he’s able to33300:24:12,339 –> 00:24:17,300accomplish what he’s done for us and so hike through the bible is very simply an33400:24:17,939 –> 00:24:20,560introduction to the whole of the Bible story33500:24:20,579 –> 00:24:23,920It shows how it’s all pointing towards the Lord Jesus Christ33600:24:23,920 –> 00:24:27,680And I hope that it’s going to be helpful and encouraging for many many people33700:24:27,800 –> 00:24:28,300well33800:24:28,300 –> 00:24:34,699We’d love to send you Collins new book when you set up a new direct debit of five pounds per month or more33900:24:34,979 –> 00:24:38,400Or a one-off gift of 50 pounds or more this month34000:24:38,819 –> 00:24:45,920Full terms and conditions online at our website open the bible org UK and you can give online34100:24:46,719 –> 00:24:50,520Don’t forget to leave your name and address so we can send you your gift34200:24:51,500 –> 00:24:58,040For open the Bible and Pastor Colin Smith I’m David Pick, and I look forward to being with you again next time34300:25:07,300 –> 00:25:10,839God calls us to speak tenderly into his broken world34400:25:11,520 –> 00:25:17,219But we don’t need to invent the message find out why next time on open the Bible