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well, good Lord, given this music and this liturgy and Professor stubbs preaching, I think I'm I'm ready to go on back and go to bed. But President War Law would like me to go ahead

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and do the sermon. So I'm gonna see if I can struggle through with this. I have really had a blessing this evening. I hope you have . I mean this has been such a wonderful communion

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of the Spirit. It has just been such a wonderful experience, that my whole day has been a wonderful experience. I have enjoyed thoroughly the lectures and the camaraderie of spirit on this campus. It's just

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been a pleasure and a gift for me. So thank you very much for this opportunity and for this time to be in your fellowship. It has just been wonderful for me this evening. As I said

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last evening, I wanted to finish with the scripture that we read. We heard from Gethsemane last evening and where that text ended, you will recall that Jesus comes out to his disciples and he finds that

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they're sleeping and he says enough, the time now is at hand behold my betrayer is at hand Apparently as he came out and found those disciples sleeping. There were only 11 of them because we now take

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up the story where the 12 comes with a group to follow in his wake. Starting at verse 43 of chapter 14. Immediately while jesus was still speaking Judas, one of the 12 arrived and with them

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, there was a crowd with swords and clubs from the chief priests, the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer had given them a sign, The one I Kiss is the man, arrest him and

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lead him away under guard. So when he came he went up to him at once and said Rabbi and kissed him. Then they laid hands on jesus and arrested him. The word of the Lord.

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Let us bow our heads gracious! God! Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight. O Lord! Our strength and our redeemer! Amen! My wife

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, Sharon and my daughter, Kaylin and I were walking the streets of Chicago. When we first heard the news, I've been invited to speak at 4th Presbyterian Church and since school was out for the summer

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, we had gone as a family. It's always nice when I go to speak in a strange place to look out and see their familiar faces. Besides , they always laugh at my jokes. We were

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looking for a place to eat amidst the crowds, on what they call Chicago's magnificent mile. All of a sudden we heard these three loud voices, young girls shouting a proclamation of stupendous shock and staring sorrow

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that was oddly enough, laced with an undeniably malicious and mocking scorn. It was as if they did not themselves know how they should feel about the stunning news that they were broadcasting. It's Michael Jackson,

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they were hollering, Michael Jackson is dead. Michael Jackson is dead. Now, who believes that kind of news When you hear it yelled out of the proverbial blue by teenagers on the street. One could

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hardly tell from their demeanors as draped in derision as they were cloaked and concerned whether they were perpetrating some sick joke. It is for this very reason that I keep my cellphone holstered on my hip. The

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way the cowboys of old latch their six shooters to their sides. You never know when you might need to quick draw that thing. You never know when trouble is coming. The snotty email, the gossiping

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news alert, the addictive desire for a quick game of solitaire. You have to be ready. Your cell phone has to be ready to open up and get to work at a moment's notice. I get

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so much email these days. I admit to having an itchy trigger finger on my cell phone hand, I'm fast, real fast. My cell phone comes out so quickly. My wife hardly has time to

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say put that thing down. We're having dinner this day before she could say put that thing down. We're having a nice walk. The cell phone was out. I was on the internet looking at pictures

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of Michael Jackson and reading a story about him being taken by ambulance from his home, not breathing. Didn't matter what you thought of the man or his music by the end of that day and the days

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that would follow. You were inundated with news about his spectacularly stunning and sad life and his equally as stunning and sad death? And his face was everywhere . Sometimes with his name, sometimes without. But

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there was no confusion. You knew him. The whole world seemed to know him know how he lived and how he died when walter, Cronkite and Edward Kennedy died a few weeks later. There was a

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similar sense of, of knowing their lives were less controversial, but their faces were just as recognizable. There are others like them, of course, among the living and the dead people who are instantly and

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globally recognized in life and in death. Elvis Presley , john F, Kennedy Ronald, Reagan, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods , Katie, Couric Peyton, manning, Muhammad,

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Ali, the queen of England doesn't matter what you think of them, You know them. And if they walked into the sanctuary this evening, your head would turn with everybody else's head and you would be

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able, without a moment's hesitation to point anyone of them out, Jesus is not like that. We know his name, but we don't have a face . We have all this data. We've got the

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writings of Mark Matthew, luke and john and so forth. But if jesus walked into the sanctuary this evening. Presuming he was wearing a 21st century suit and not a first century robe, How would you

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know who he was. The answer is you wouldn't for all. You know, the person sitting right beside you right now could be jesus and you would not have a clue. Apparently it wasn't so very

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different in the first century when jesus was walking and talking in galilee and judea and Jerusalem. Even during what appears to us to have been a spectacularly famous and decidedly controversial public life of preaching, exercising teaching

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and healing throughout the regions of Palestine. Not all that many people certainly not the important and powerful people could stare into a crowd and point jesus out, you know how I know that the kiss now don't

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focus too hard on the kiss or you'll miss the point and that's generally how it has been for me for most of my life. For me, the stress has always been on that despicable, treacherous,

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traitorous kiss. We humans are preoccupied with kissing, aren't we? If you walk down a beautiful pathway saying apart and you see gentle waterfalls and you hear the chirping of birds and the laughter of little Children

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and since the rustling of leaves at your feet as a gentle wind swirls around you and stirs up all of the pieces of creation in your midst, you notice those things, those beautiful things in God's creation

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. But if you walk down that same pathway and two people are making out on a bench kissing and stuff. Slobbering all over each other, What grabs your attention, You might smile at youthful indiscretion or

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if the couple is older wonder if some kind of dementia is involved, but the point is this kissing kidnaps your attention. When people kiss other people take notice. I noticed judas whenever I read this story

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and whenever I heard it preached, the stress for me was always on judas infamous kiss. The scripture says the one whom I kiss is the man arrest him and take him away. But what if the

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stress was not on the kiss? But on the him? The scripture says the one whom I kiss is the man arrest him. Take him away. See him is the problem. They know the reputation

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of him. His reputation is why they are out to get him. What they did not know was what this him looked like catching him, therefore had to be an inside job. The authorities needed someone

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close so they could be sure they got the right man. And that is where judas came in. They needed judas to point jesus out in her commentary on the Gospel of Mark mourner hooker makes the point

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. The prearranged signal. The kiss identifies jesus, which suggests that his captors did not recognize him and john's account, no signal is given and jesus identifies himself. It is interesting that the evangelists are all

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agreed that jesus captors did not know who he was since it suggests that he was not in fact as well known in Jerusalem as we might imagine from the gospels. I taught this class once it was called

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teaching the bible with media and technology in the class , we learned how to work with the bible using video and power point and streaming technology. We had guest lecturers come in who were using technology and everything

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from bible study to worship, and the students did some amazing projects of their own. But before they did any projects we did bible study for the first one third of the course, it was all in

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the Gospel of Mark. I wanted them to know Mark. Before they began to teach Mark with technology , one student created an internet paper, a newspaper with the research appropriate to a day in the life

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in the first century in Palestine about the time when jesus was at the prime of his ministry, he had jesus on the front page wheeling and dealing with ground shattering ministry and the students account Jesus was a

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sort of first century Billy Graham And that's where he took his critique because Billy Graham was more famous and more recognizable in the 20th century than Jesus ever was in the first. The students colleagues wonder well,

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how did jesus get so famous as to rate a cover story on the first page above the fold, Even they rightly pressed their colleague with some excellent questions of the historians of the period who covered jesus,

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the answer, pretty much nobody of the artists of the period who covered jesus. The answer pretty much nobody, and that is precisely why we don't know what he looked like. Unlike caesar augustus who had

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bust made of his head and face and therefore likenesses of him fixed in our imagination. There was no such work done on the Son of God. No one asked jesus to sit for a sculpture. So

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if the historians didn't cover him, if the artist didn't sculpt him, if the Temple police working for the San Hedren could not without a kiss, identify him, what makes us think he would wind up

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as a first page cover story? The more we reason, the more we realize he should be back in the metro section. If the metro section had 10 pages, he'd be on page 10 beneath the

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fold, in a corner, on the bottom right of the page. Maybe a two paragraph story. Certainly no picture, but a nice little story. Nonetheless, it would start off something like this rabble

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rouser, troublemaker, lawbreaker and Capernaum claims to cure diseases in the first century. He'd be one of many such healers and rabble rousers. And what would make him special. Oh, you're right, he's

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the son of God. Now, how many people believe that? Well, yeah, there were those jesus freaks who followed him all over the place and those miniature crowds that gawked to hear him preach and

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teach. But the fact was he had that little following, but that following did not convince the historians and the artists and the Temple police that he was God's son now did it. Besides, there were

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others making exactly the same claim to be the son of God. God's chosen one. No wonder the authorities and the people in Jerusalem crowding all around the garden of Gethsemane cannot pick the man out, sure

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you can pick out 21st century preachers day in and day out, they have a kind of look about them. Besides, their faces are often plastered all over television and billboards and commercials and pull pits,

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preachers are like undercover cops. No matter how they dress people, they try to catch always seem to be able to point them out. But not jesus , he's just like one of us. One more

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anonymous face in the bustling crowd. This is why judas has to say the one whom I kiss is the man take him lead him away. I'll point him out, a significant piece of evidence is that

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Kiss Mark likes speed. He is his is a fast gospel and by its use of grammar and vocabulary , it shows jesus and freakishly fast motion throughout most of his ministry and everyone following his ministry is desperately

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trying to keep pace. The narrative of jesus is take down by the Temple police should be a natural story for Mark to tell. Takedowns demands speed. This is the kind of scene Mark was born to

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write. We go into it expecting a blinding, dizzying pace and a novel I read on vacation and author describes the way a takedown of a dangerous person like jesus suspected of criminal sedition ought to happen.

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It should happen fast, he writes it looked like a gang war. But what he was actually seeing was a fast and efficient takedown by the N. Y. P. D. None of the police

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offers to stop running. They all piled in yelling with weapons drawn and badge is visible and they exploited their big physiques and their 3 to 1 numerical advantage and simply swamped the suspects. No contest, no

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contest at all. They club the suspects to the ground through them on their fronts and slam cuffs on their wrists and haul them away. No pauses, no delays, no Miranda warnings, just maximum speed

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and brutality. Perfect tactics literally. Seconds later they were gone. That's how you do it. That's how you take down someone without risking chaos. And that's exactly how the chief priest men would have done

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it if they had known what jesus looked like as desperate as they are to move and move quickly. They have to sit on their hands and wrists slowing everything down for a kiss because they need the kiss

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to point the man out. I don't think it's all that different today except we christians think that if God created a line up up here in the front of the chapel and stuck jesus in the lineup,

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we're sure we'd be able to point him out my thinking on the matter, we don't have the kiss . So what is that saying? We don't stand a snowball's chance in hell of pointing out this heavenly

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man. The closest image most of us have of jesus is a flawed image because I think the image most christians have of jesus is the image we see staring back at us in the mirror every day.

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That's right. Most of us think he looks just like us. We certainly think he acts like us , but what we think is and what actually is are two very different things, Jesus did not act

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like most of the people in his own time. The odds are pretty high that he would not act like most of the people in our time either. Here's the problem, Jesus is leading the way to

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heaven. How are we going to follow him to heaven if we don't know what he looks like? We need the world needs somebody to point him out . You know what we need, we need judas

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, I know what you're thinking, judas, are you crazy, judas. Amazingly enough though, judas was the first person, the first apostle to do what Jesus commissioned all the apostles to do. While

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all jesus's other followers were getting ready to put as much distance as they could between themselves and their lord judas was about to use a kiss to tether himself to jesus for all of time, judas made sure

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that the people who desperately wanted to find jesus found jesus, judas pointed jesus out now, it's our turn to be judas. Remember picture negatives, let me say something the way my grandfather used to say

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it kids today don't know nothing. All this digital mess, they snap a shot, they see what it looks like on the lens on the back of the camera instantly. They don't like it. They

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erase it instantly. They shoot another when they do like it. The picture seconds later is all over the internet, The web facebook twittering around the globe and nanoseconds for the entire population of the planet to

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see in my generation, after we took the pictures , we had to turn the camera this way and that until we discovered this little teeny lever, then we had to use that lever to crank the film

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back up into a roll. Then we had to break into the camera to get the film. Then we had to drag the film out of the camera . We had to do it all in the proper

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sequence of the film would get rolled up in the proper lack of sunlight so as not to expose the film. And then after we had done all of that, we still couldn't look at anything. We

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had to send the film off somewhere and we had to wait for days before we got to see what the picture looked like. It seems like. I was just rejoicing about the miracle of one hour photo

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processing when this whole digital thing crops up and turns the world upside down, that's what I'm talking about , turning the world upside down. Remember those little negatives, the strips we'd get back with the process

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pictures, the negatives were the reverse images of the things we saw in the actual photo, but they were the same photo just in negative, dark reverse judas is the dark reverse of what we should be

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like judas, we should be pointing jesus out, but unless we do the world won't know to run to him. Remember how when Barney Mays was on the road side crying out to jesus and Mark 10

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, the disciples should have pointed jesus out over here , bar to me is here he is. But they tried to hide, jesus tried to shut up to me is instead of pointing jesus out, they

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tried to secret jesus away, remember the stories about the little Children that people were bringing to jesus, jesus? The king James version tells us suffer the little Children to come to him suffer is the right

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word because in his time adults especially important teachers like jesus did not suffer Children in their presence too unruly too unpredictable, too dirty, just like a lot of christians today don't suffer Children and worship services all

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that well, especially if they start crying and moving or otherwise displaying a total lack of old people maturity instead of sending the Children away as the disciples apparently appropriately tried to do, they should have been shouting

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at the top of their lungs to the Children's parents . Here he is over here, do you see him? They should have been pointing jesus out all through the gospel narratives. People are trying to protect

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jesus from this and that separate jesus from the very reasons the very people, the very Brokenness, the very difficulties, the very diseases, the very impurities , the very troubles, the very despicable, disgusting

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, degrading, desperate demonic realities of life he was sent to engage Instead, having seen what the righteous , pure, safe and save the world saw as despicable, they should have been jumping up and down

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and shouting, hey you over there, you with a disgusting leprosy, you were the degrading 12 year flow of blood, you were the desperate withered limbs , you with the demonic legion of possessed spirit,

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Jesus is right here, right here. They should have been pointing, Jesus out point jesus out, that's your judas job. That is why you are here while we are here in this place this evening

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, celebrating this lecture series and the work of this seminary. We are not just training ministers and educators . We are raising of people who will have the passion, the perseverance, the purpose, scarcity and

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the power to point jesus out, we point jesus out by teaching and preaching the gospel and I know that sounds easy, but it's not not in the world we live in. It's not easy because one

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people even christian people don't know the stories that share the essence of the man, they don't really know . And a gallup poll of americans just a few years ago, the results of the polling demonstrated the

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following tidbits. Only 37% of those interview can name all four gospels, Only half of adults interviewed nationwide could name any of the four gospels of the new testament. Seven and 10 were able to name the

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town where Jesus was born, but just 42% could identify him as the person who delivered the sermon on the mount. Since then, the numbers have only gotten worse. How can a man, How can

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a world no, a man, if they don't know the materials which testify to how the man lived and died. I'm so weary of talking to folk who proclaim authoritatively that they know what a christian ought

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to do and be. And yet they have such little knowledge of any of Jesus's teachings and actions that should be the foundation for christian living. You've got to point jesus out to a world of people who

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have come to somehow think they can be christian without knowing Jesus, who have come to think they can know Jesus of Nazareth without knowing anything about or written in the gospel stories that share his ministry, who

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can have confidence that people who don't even know the names of the gospels are actually reading the gospels, we must point jesus out, but that won't be easy. Second because theological education is not easy,

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it costs a whole lot of money. It demands a whole lot of time. It exacts a whole lot of sacrifice and a whole lot of people are beginning again to wonder whether all that time and energy

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and expense of what you're doing, what we are doing here is worthwhile. As Michael Horton, professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary notes, I'm often reminded of this point these days when the familiar sentiment

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of Pink Floyd's anthem, we don't need no education seems to be more common than ever. Americans especially love practical leaders who can get the job done over scholars who spend a lot of time reading long before

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the Jesus movement of the 1970s. Many evangelical disparaged churches of the reformation for their educated ministry. Radical anabaptists like thomas Munzer mocked martin Luther for wanting to quote, send the holy ghost to college, john

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Calvin sharply rebuked the sex for their assumption that the spirit works immediately and directly apart from his word and a ministry ordained and trained to declare that word in christ's name. I'll admit it used to tick me

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off when I was a seminary student writing these papers and reading these theologians and executing these texts and taking these tests and guys in my hometown had just opened up a bible and started spouting off without any direction

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. We're preaching up firestorms and building up churches, why do we do it? If people can do what judas did, point jesus out without having to do what seminary demands of us. We do it

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because we know that the task we have is one of monumental importance. And while anybody could pick up some herbs and spices and home knowledge here and there and do some impressive healing when it comes time for

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you to have some surgery, you want someone who has devoted themselves whole heart and whole mind to unlocking every medical secret available tour. Or, as Professor Horton puts it just as your doctor needs to be

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professionally trained as well as practically experience. Those who watch over your soul for christ sake need tools for life Law ministry that they do not simply have by virtue of having a stirring personal testimony. They will

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one day give an account for their flock. The stakes are too high and christ promised too wonderful to settle for an unprepared ministry. My hope is that through their prayers and gifts, churches will cherish the

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seminaries that serve them, support the men and women in seminary will one day occupy their pulpits and hold accountable to the faith that most, that must be clearly articulated and defended in every new generation. These

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lectures and this worship service are about the celebration of us men and women who have come to teach and us men and women who have come to struggle to unlock the treasures hidden beneath the surfaces of biblical texts

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hidden in the records, the historical records of the ancient church laying tantalizingly just beneath the surface of great theologians minds, we are here as students, we are here as teachers. We are here as alums

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and friends are here as supporters, because we all believe that if we are going to point jesus out with as much integrity as passion, as much of a connection to the community, of enquiring believers as

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a connection to the Holy Spirit, then we need the equipping of a seminary filled with teachers who have themselves been taught by the best and brightest minds of the christian tradition. We are here so we can

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upgrade every gift, refine every resource, sharpen every skill set. We have two point jesus out, and finally, we point jesus out by living as he lived. Even when the circumstances of living in

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this world becomes so daunting as to be oppressive. We point jesus out by fighting through the difficulties that face our churches and our seminaries with the faith of a man who stepped up before a hostile garden crowd

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, determined to take his life. You point jesus out by fighting through the obstacles that littered the road you have taken to follow your call into ministry with the carriage of a man who fought through the holiness

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, purity and ethnic boundaries that separated humans from each other and ultimately humans from God. We point jesus out by living his wrath life of touching untouchables, of breaking rules that have become policies of oppression,

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of breaking through boundaries that separated humans from each other . And even from God, even when we hear people telling us that Jesus could not be possibly the one we're pointing to with the kind of life we

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are living. You know, when you point Jesus out to people who don't know the names of the gospels or know that he preached the sermon on the mount, they are bound to be shocked at what

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they hear you say and scandalized by how they see you live. When they hear that he went to parties populated by prostitutes, when they hear that he dined with people who were tax collectors, fleecing others

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out of any chance they had for a decent living , when they hear that he lingered with lepers who were cast out of polite society when they learned that he roamed from place to place without guarantee of a

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place to lay his head when they learned that he broke some of the most important cultic traditions of his time at the sabbath and the dietary laws when they learned that he confronted the ethnic and racial prejudice against

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gentiles and proclaim that they too were God's people when they learned that jesus lived his life in such a way that the roman and the jewish authorities of the time understood his behavior to be so seditious and that

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he so threatened the very way and order and life of society that they had to put him to death to put his movement to a stop. They won't be angry at jesus because they don't know jesus,

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but they may very well be mad as hell at you for pointing this jesus out, that is when you will have to reach down and find the strength to do what judas did. And one thing you

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can say for judas, he knew how to focus despite everything swirling around him, he stayed locked on jesus and he kept moving forward. He fought through the crowds and the difficulties and the second thoughts and

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the fear and the anxiety and through it all he pointed jesus out and I look at judas and I just don't understand imagine the weight of guilt pressing down upon in the knowledge of betrayal. And then when

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he gets on target, he finds his crowd pressing in upon jesus and likely to turn against anyone who turns him in. And yet he keeps pushing forward like the proverbial child and the tear jerker story who

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pleads with faith and hope, Sir, we would see jesus, the authorities have pleaded with judas to point jesus out and judas remains steadfast and he delivers the kiss. We must do at least as much

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as judas for a different reason altogether. We must not be diverted from our task of pointing jesus out . The people of our world for a reason very different than the one that motivated the high priests are

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still making that desperate plea, Sir ma'am, we would see jesus, they don't want Marks, jesus , they want their jesus and easy jesus, a comfortable jesus, a jesus who looks like they look

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and lives like they live, a jesus who demands nothing and asked them to return nothing to him our job, the one which calls us to this communal task of theological training is to get to know scriptures

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, jesus, and then to point him out, if judas could do it for the wrong reason, we can do it for the right reason in moments of difficulty and challenge, be it the hebrew evolve

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consecutive or the greek part of symbols, be a theology papers of biblical exegesis, be a church history , names and dates and consequences of preaching sermons, be it budget gaps or financial pressures, be it

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confounding pastoral care situations, be it discouraging development days and sleepless seminary nights, we cannot lose focus on the reason why we are here, we are here to ensure that this institution and the church it serves

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, continue to excel at equipping leaders to know jesus so those leaders can go out into the church and the world and point jesus out, do you know , someone struggling with a sense of call and trying

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desperately to discern God's will upon their lives, Use your seminary journey as a lightning rod. Two point jesus out, do you know, some social or political or religious Brokenness. Jump into the middle of

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it and point jesus out, do you know some desperate soul who feels that all is lost, navigate your way into their bewildered world. And Point jesus out, do you know a seminary struggling to reach

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its destiny, step onto its campus, reach out to its alums, dig down into your pockets, kneel down hard on your knees and point jesus out . We do know a world that is slipping farther

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and farther away from knowledge of in relationship to God . We want to help that world and that's why we are here. We have come to this place to learn from and to learn with each other.

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So that on those days when we find ourselves in the gardens of contemporary life where desperate crowds are wandering in search of direction and meaning like judas, we will have spent so much time with the history,

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tradition and person of the son of God that we will be able, Despite all the distractions. The