Jesus: Our Example

Chartridge Mission Church

#Jesus #Example #Humanity #Sermon #Encouragement  #KenSmythe #Wendover #QaintonBaptistChapel  #Christian #God #ChartridgeMissionChurch #chesham #thefriendliestfellowship #LearningTheBibleTogether  This sermon sees Ken Smythe at his animated best, encouraging us with the many examples Jesus gave us to live by, but with a specific focus on His Humanity. Ken Smythe is an internationally loved preacher from South Africa, known for his direct, no-nonsense preaching.   Ken Smythe YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeLtfVhcCUFsHo6mxlPChSfzACF5LaKY2  Chartridge Mission Church, a beacon of faith, was founded in 1844 and remains in the village of Chartridge, just outside Chesham, in the picturesque Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire, England, UK.  We are a warm and welcoming fellowship and would be delighted to have you visit us in person. Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm, followed by refreshments.   Our Church is fully accessible, with wheelchair ramps and an accessible toilet, ensuring everyone can participate in our services.     Chartridge Mission Church, Chapel Lane, Chartridge, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 2TH  The village Church with an international audience.  Support our work at Chartridge Mission Church:  Donations via Stewardship.org.uk:    https://www.stewardship.org.uk/partners/20005300    Cheques can be made payable to Chartridge Mission Church and sent to the above address for the attention of Pastor Barry Kempson.   Recorded on Sunday, 22nd March 2026.     Join us for our Sunday service at 6 pm.  www.Chartridge.UK   The Friendliest Fellowship.

Transcript

00:00Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my own.

00:20Well, good evening everyone. Good to see you all.

00:23Let's have a reading from the book of John, chapter 1.

00:27In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

00:31He was in the beginning with God.

00:33All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.

00:38In him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shines in the darkness, and

00:43the darkness did not comprehend it.

00:46There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

00:49This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all through him might believe.

00:54He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light.

01:00That was the true light, which gives light to every man coming into the world.

01:04He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him.

01:09He came to his own, and his own did not receive him.

01:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God, to those who

01:18believe in his name,

01:19who are born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but

01:25of God.

01:26And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only

01:32begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

01:34John bore witness of him, and cried out, saying,

01:38This was he of whom I said, He who comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before

01:44me.

01:45And of his fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.

01:49For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

01:55No one has seen God at any time.

01:57The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

02:02So tonight, I want to talk about Jesus, as much as I can possibly do that.

02:11Jesus is the Son of God, we know that.

02:14Jesus died on the cross, we know that.

02:16Jesus is my Saviour, I know that.

02:18Jesus died on the cross and rose again.

02:21The Father raised him from the dead, and we know that.

02:24And so we worship the Lord, because Jesus is our Saviour.

02:29If I asked you to go to the beginning of the Word, where would you go to?

02:36Genesis chapter 1.

02:38Good beginning. It's not the beginning.

02:41Not the beginning.

02:42Because in the beginning was the Word.

02:45The Word was with God, and the Word was God.

02:48He was in the beginning with God.

02:51All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.

02:57In the beginnings God created the heavens and the earth.

03:01It was Jesus who did it.

03:04Genesis tells us here, in chapter 1,

03:09In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth,

03:11and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was on the voice of the deep.

03:16We read here, in the book of John, chapter 1, verse 1,

03:20In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

03:25Furthermore, we read in Colossians chapter 1, in verse 15,

03:30He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

03:35For by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth,

03:40visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers,

03:46all things were created through him and for him.

03:49And he is before all things, and in him all things consist.

03:55And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning,

04:00the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may have the preeminence.

04:05That is who we are worshipping.

04:07Besides being Jesus, who came, who was born of a virgin, and became a baby,

04:15and was recognised as God, who recognised as Father as God,

04:21I and my Father are one, he said, and the Jews sought to stone him.

04:25Besides all these things, how he suffered for us, and he went to the cross and died for us.

04:29He made everything, everything that we can visibly see and understand,

04:34whether it's the mountains, or the seas, or the forests.

04:39Every single thing has been created by God the Word.

04:44God the Word.

04:46The Word became flesh.

04:48It's a mystery that we cannot comprehend.

04:52And Mary, she was a bit flabbergasted, and she said,

04:55How can this be? I don't know a man.

04:58How could I have a baby?

05:00And the Holy Spirit will come upon you, Mary, don't be bothered.

05:03Oh, well, that's all right then, that's fine, thank you very much.

05:06And she became pregnant.

05:07She just, she accepted it.

05:10Well, what woman would just say,

05:12Yo, let's go ahead, and, you know.

05:15It's a mystery beyond comprehension.

05:18But the mystery, another mystery beyond comprehension,

05:21is the fact that we are spiritual beings.

05:26We are physical in our flesh, and our bones, and our structure.

05:30But the Bible tells us that what we have is the temple, as a temple.

05:35The temple is something where God dwells in.

05:38And we are told that the Spirit dwells in us,

05:40that our bodies are the temple for the Holy Spirit to indwell.

05:43And so we have an incredible obligation to fulfill our testimonies

05:52that I am born again, that I believe God, and that God is my Father.

06:00The Bible tells us that God is the Father of spirits.

06:04We are spirit people.

06:07But how often, and how regularly, do we not walk in the flesh?

06:12Because the flesh is what the leaves are to the trunk of the tree.

06:19The flesh of the leaves, and exposed to the wind, and the storms, and everything.

06:24And after a heavy storm, you'll see leaves scattered all over the roads,

06:28and the sweepers come, cleaning up everything, and the branches.

06:31Even sometimes trees are blown over, because of the resistance of the wind,

06:37the sheer force of the wind on the bulk of the tree.

06:41The more leaves there are, the more resistance there is.

06:44Like a big ship sailing along, they have to drop the mainsail,

06:47because otherwise the ship will be blown upside down,

06:49because of the force of the wind.

06:52Our bodies are similar to those sort of things,

06:55because we are exposed to the winds of change in the world.

06:59We experience them, we see them with our eyes,

07:02we feel them sometimes when we fall and break our legs,

07:06we feel them sometimes when you have infection in our chest,

07:09and we can't breathe.

07:11But the Spirit is still there, trying,

07:13the Spirit is there helping us, helping us all the time,

07:16giving us that hope.

07:18A hope that no man can take away from us.

07:21The hope of our redemption.

07:23What is hope if it's not an expectation?

07:26Something I'd be looking forward to.

07:28I hope it's going to happen.

07:30And this hope of ours, the harder the things become in the world,

07:33the more serious things become, the more dangerous things become,

07:37the more the hope is flourishing as we wait and look to the coming of the Lord,

07:44which is promised that will happen to us.

07:46So Jesus was born as a man.

07:48He was born of Mary, and he grew up as a young lad,

07:54as a young boy, under the instruction of his mom and dad.

07:58And he grew up in such a manner that when he was baptized by John the Baptist,

08:07having not yet preached a word,

08:09his very lifestyle was applauded by God and recognized by God,

08:15by pouring the Holy Spirit on him,

08:17because the Spirit descended in the form of a dove.

08:19And a voice came from heaven saying,

08:21This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased.

08:25This is my beloved Son.

08:27And from there, Jesus began his ministry.

08:31We know that he is God because the Bible tells us he is God.

08:34We know that he is God because the Holy Spirit told us in the book of Luke,

08:39for instance, that the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will conceive

08:44and you will bear a son and you will call his name Jesus

08:47and you'll turn the hearts of many to God.

08:51These things we know.

08:53And then Jesus goes out and he starts his ministry.

08:57And he wasn't aggressive, but he was direct and to the point,

09:02to the point that people wanted to stone him regularly.

09:06They wanted to kill him regularly because he didn't say,

09:10Oh, I'm sorry, my brother.

09:12Okay, it's not so bad.

09:13It's not so bad.

09:14Well, you know, just try a little bit harder,

09:16but you know, you're actually preaching the wrong thing.

09:18He didn't say things like that nicely and pleasantly.

09:22He called them a brood of vipers, whitewashed sepulchres,

09:26and all sorts of other demeaning names to the point that they lost control of themselves

09:33and they went off in a rage and a fury trying to make plans to kill Jesus

09:38because they could not stand the truth of the matter,

09:44which he was revealing to everyone.

09:47This is who you really are.

09:51If a man came to me and told me all the secrets of my heart before everyone,

09:55I'd probably get angry too because I'm not the cleanest of people.

09:59I think none of us are.

10:00I don't know, but here he is.

10:03He's accosting everyone all the time.

10:08So Jesus has become a huge, huge, huge problem to the society in which he lives,

10:14to the nation from whom he was born.

10:18Mary was of the lineage of, in Matthew, I can't remember the lineages.

10:23I didn't look it up.

10:24I didn't think of it.

10:25And Joseph also, but Joseph wasn't his father.

10:28It was Joseph, the supposed father.

10:31God was the father of the Lord Jesus Christ.

10:34The incredible thing for me, though, is I am the son of my physical father.

10:41But, and Jesus is the son of his physical father, God, God, the spirit.

10:48And yet he has a greater comprehension of his father in heaven that I have of my physical father

10:54that I ever had of my physical father.

10:56Sometimes I didn't know my dad at all.

10:59Other times I did.

11:00I thought he was a great guy.

11:01But feelings fluctuated.

11:03But Jesus never once said, you know, I've got a problem with my dad.

11:07He never once.

11:08He said, everything that my father does, I do.

11:12I don't do anything.

11:14I don't do anything that he has not told me to do.

11:18I don't say anything unless he tells me to say it.

11:23These we find in the book of John.

11:26Let's go and read a few of them.

11:28In John chapter 5, for instance, we can start off there.

11:31For this reason, the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought to kill him because he had done

11:36these things on the Sabbath.

11:37But Jesus answered them, my father has been working until now and I have been working.

11:43Therefore, the Jews sought the more to kill him because he not only broke the Sabbath,

11:48but also said that God was his father, making himself equal with God.

11:54Jesus answered and he said to them, most assuredly, I say to you,

11:58the son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the father do.

12:03For whatever he does, the son also does in like manner.

12:09For the father loves the son and shows him all things that he himself does.

12:13And he will show him greater works than these that you may marvel.

12:17So here we have one declaration of Jesus.

12:19The son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the father do.

12:25John chapter 8, reading from verse 25.

12:28Then they said to him, who are you?

12:30And Jesus said to them, just what I've been saying to you from the beginning.

12:33I have many things to say to you and to judge concerning you, but he who sent me is true.

12:39And I speak to the world those things which I heard from him.

12:42They did not understand that he spoke to them of the father.

12:45Then Jesus said to them, when you lift up the son of man, then you'll know that I am he

12:51and that I do nothing of myself.

12:53But as my father taught me, I speak these things.

12:57And he who sent me is with me.

12:59The father has not left me alone, for I always do those things that please him.

13:06And another one in John chapter 12, verses 42 to 50.

13:10Nevertheless, even among the rulers, many believed in him.

13:13But because of the Pharisees, they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue.

13:18For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

13:22Then Jesus cried out and said, he who believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent

13:28me.

13:29And he who sees me, sees him who sent me.

13:32I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me should not abide in darkness.

13:38If anyone hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him.

13:43For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

13:46He who rejects me and does not receive my words has that which judges him.

13:52The word that I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

13:55For I have not spoken on my own authority.

13:58But the father who sent me gave me a command.

14:14And so here we have some examples of Jesus speaking the word that he had been given in obedience to

14:21the commandment of God the Father.

14:23Saying, I'm doing nothing of my own accord, but what God the Father has told me to do.

14:29I think what we need to highlight here is the element of obedience, which Jesus displayed by the comments which

14:39he made here.

14:39That it was not him.

14:41Remembering who Jesus was, he was God and man.

14:44He was born of the Virgin Mary.

14:48But he was a spirit man.

14:50To the point that he could say, I am.

14:52When they asked him who he was, speaking about Abraham.

14:55So with everything that he did, we read about the faith of Jesus in Revelations chapter 14.

15:02Now, I'm not sure about that statement.

15:05The faith of Jesus.

15:07Did Jesus walk by faith?

15:09I tend to like and I want to believe that he did walk by faith if he was a man.

15:14That is part and parcel of the walk that we have.

15:18And if Jesus has come as our example and the one who goes before us to show us the way,

15:23faith is a necessity.

15:25For without faith, it is impossible to please God, we are told in the book of Hebrews chapter 11.

15:29And if it is impossible to please God without faith, and we are told in Revelations chapter 14 and verse

15:3512, I think it is.

15:37The faith of Jesus is the only place.

15:42Oh, sorry, not the only place, but there's another place.

15:45And that is in the book of James, where James states as well.

15:49In James chapter 2 and verse 1, he says,

15:53My brethren, do not hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, our Lord of glory, with partiality.

16:00The faith of the Lord Jesus Christ.

16:03So I'll just put out there that for you to pray about and to work out for yourselves.

16:09The faith of Jesus.

16:11Did he conduct his life in faith, with faith?

16:15Faith towards God?

16:17Or not?

16:18Or did he just do?

16:20And the commandments that he accepted and that he did, in the capacity as the Son of God.

16:25We are told there, he did nothing by his own testimony.

16:29I do nothing of myself.

16:31Everything I say and everything I do, I do in accordance with what my Father has taught me and told

16:39me to do.

16:39I think possibly what is very, very important to us is that, you know, we're all on this pilgrim's road.

16:50All of us are walking in the world, not of the world.

16:55We are working out.

16:59Now listen to my words, because I've been in so much trouble, because I'm not working for my salvation.

17:04We are working out the traffic, the distance, the hindrances on our way to the day of glory when we

17:15get raptured, when we get taken home, when we die.

17:20So I'm working out, how am I doing on my walk on this pilgrim's road to my destiny, to my

17:27goal?

17:28What are the problems am I encountering, and am I able to overcome the problems, which are myriad?

17:37Because the antagonist along this pilgrim road in which I am walking is Satan.

17:43He's walked it many times with many believers.

17:46It's not the first time that he's encountered pilgrims on the road.

17:50And the thoughts come, this is a bit hard, this is a bit difficult, this is a bit tough.

17:54Oh, I'm just going to have a rest here, and read Pilgrim's Progress, about how the pilgrim lay down in

17:59the arbor to rest a while.

18:02Read about Pilgrim's Progress, when he thought he'd just go through this little swampy section, and he landed up in

18:08Maya up to his neck.

18:09I can't quite remember the whole story.

18:11It's a long time ago that I read it, but Pilgrim's Progress is well worth reading.

18:15We need to read it, because that's a human story of a spiritual battle right the way through to the

18:22end.

18:23We are in a fight.

18:24We are told so many times that we are soldiers of Christ.

18:27We have to put on the armor of Christ.

18:29We have to be prepared.

18:30We have to pray without ceasing.

18:32These exhortations come all the time.

18:35And then we gather once a week, and we say, praise the Lord.

18:38What have I got to tell you?

18:40What are you going to tell me?

18:41Am I encouraged in my walk?

18:43Can I keep going?

18:44What is it?

18:45And the purpose of these meetings that we have is to encourage one another, to exhort one another, to keep

18:51going.

18:52I'm saying, the problems aren't unique, but for me they're unique, because my path is different to your path.

18:58I have different temptations.

19:01I have different obstacles that you'll have to go.

19:04And you might have already done those at some time in the past.

19:06You say, no, this is how you've got to do this, my brother.

19:08Look at this.

19:09Read this and see that and understand this.

19:11And we are walking in the Spirit.

19:13We're not walking in the flesh.

19:15But when we walk in the Spirit, we are told to produce fruit.

19:21Not fruits and many fruits, as in Galatians chapter 5 and verse 16.

19:27Just fruit.

19:28And the fruit consists of love, joy, peace, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, and long-suffering.

19:35That is the fruit in its entirety.

19:38There's not one of love, and one of joy, and one of peace.

19:42Well, I think today I'm going to have the fruit of joy.

19:44I'll never mind the love.

19:45I don't love you anyway, so I'm just going to be joyful.

19:47Don't worry about you.

19:49We can't disseminate and dissect.

19:51There's one fruit.

19:52And that is a unit.

19:54And that is us.

19:56And we need to exercise ourselves towards godliness in the fullness of the fruit that God is wanting us.

20:04It's difficult.

20:05And it only comes with time.

20:08I was looking, when I got to England, I thought about planting an apple tree.

20:14And I can't remember actually what happened, but I never did.

20:19Because there was something about waiting four years before you bear the fruit, unless it was a different tree I'm

20:24thinking of.

20:25But it was, I thought, I'm not going to wait that long.

20:27But we are products of the Spirit.

20:32And the Spirit is fighting against the flesh all the way.

20:36And then many times, the Spirit is fighting against 50 years of accumulated worldly rubbish.

20:43And then all of a sudden, there's this new baby being born, which says, I'm in charge.

20:48And the flesh is saying, not in your life.

20:50And it's fighting to try and keep control over this new creature which is being born.

20:55And this new creature which has been born, born of the Spirit, born of God's will,

21:02is now trying to grow up against the old man.

21:06We're told about that right from the very beginning when Abraham and Sarah didn't have a child.

21:12And Hagar came along and Sarah said, well, we need a child, so get on with Hagar.

21:19Ishmael was born.

21:21And then later on, when God's promise was fulfilled for Abraham and Sarah, Isaac was born.

21:27And at 12 years old, Ishmael was mocking Isaac.

21:32Isaac, I can't remember the exact wording, but it's in around about Genesis chapter 18 to 19 or 20-ish.

21:40And Sarah got angry.

21:41And she said to Abraham, get rid of this bondwoman and her son.

21:45He will not be heir with my son.

21:48And the anger came up there.

21:50But the old heir, what a point I'm making there is the older son persecuted the younger son.

21:55And it's always the same way.

21:58Cain killed Abel.

21:59There's always the older and the younger.

22:01There's always the older trying to kill the younger.

22:04It seems to be a biblical concept which is going on all the time, right through to the end of

22:09the Bible.

22:13And so we have this continual struggle.

22:16Even now, even today, the flesh is saying one thing and the spirit says another.

22:20And we need to know what the Bible is telling us and what the spirit is telling us.

22:25And the only way that we can do that is if we, what Jesus said was to the disciples.

22:31And I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago up in Quentin.

22:34But when Jesus was speaking and he said to the disciples, you know, the only way you're going to be

22:39able to grow is if you eat and drink of the bread of heaven.

22:43And I am the bread of heaven.

22:44And they said, this is too difficult.

22:46This is too hard.

22:47And many of the disciples turned away and left him because they just couldn't, they couldn't, they couldn't take in

22:58this teaching that eating Jesus, drinking his blood, eating him.

23:02But what Jesus was saying, you have to live in me so completely that I am one with you, that

23:09my mind will be your mind and your mind will be my mind.

23:12As he said of his father, he said, I and my father are one.

23:17I will do everything that he wants me to do.

23:20But when we get instructed like that, what do we say?

23:25Hey, that's a bit difficult.

23:26I'm not going to do that.

23:28And the disciples turned away.

23:29That is what they did.

23:31And Jesus then turned to the few left with Peter and John and the few left.

23:35And do you want to go too?

23:37Do you want to go too?

23:39And they said, no, where else are we going to go?

23:41The question that comes up to this evening too is where else are we going to go?

23:46If we do not want to completely cover ourselves in Christ to the point that it is no longer I

23:58that liveth, but Christ that liveth in me, that when I conduct myself, I'm doing it in a Christ-like

24:03manner.

24:04And if somebody swears at me, which happens, not regularly, but it has, I'll just turn and walk away and

24:11not turn back with who you think you're talking to, which is our natural response.

24:16Our natural response should be love your enemy.

24:21But you know what?

24:22In times of stress and situation, the flesh comes to the fore, not the spirit.

24:28And you do what works naturally.

24:32And naturally is, I'll give you a slap.

24:34And that doesn't work.

24:36We need to love each other.

24:37And the true man is only revealed under times of duress.

24:42When there isn't any chance to gather your composure together and to think about it and try and get a

24:49nice, calm answer, it's an instantaneous reaction, like you chuck a match into a fuel tank, boom, and there's an

24:57explosion.

24:57And you've got no control over it.

25:00The control has already been lost because we've forgotten who we are.

25:04Because the old man has overpowered the new man, which is still growing and still trying to get maturity and

25:11still trying to get an understanding of who I am in Christ.

25:15Jesus didn't have that problem because right from the very beginning, he was in God.

25:20My father is in me and I am him and I'll hear him and I only do what he wants

25:27me to do.

25:28But Jesus said, I and my father will come and make our home with him.

25:34It's in John.

25:37That means that I am the receptacle of the spirit of God in the area which I have access to

25:46in the peripheral of my existence.

25:49So I need to be aware of who I am.

25:53When Paul says I need to pray without ceasing, he means that.

25:58And I've been reading that again and again for months.

26:04And I have found that it is possible because the more you pray, even if it's a small prayer, thank

26:10you, Lord, for bringing me safely to Chartres.

26:13Lord, take me home safely.

26:14Lord, help me to speak properly.

26:16Lord, everything but pray without ceasing.

26:20He's your constant companion.

26:22We don't think that he's our constant companion.

26:25We don't think when we say, go to bed at night, Lord, I love you.

26:29Abba, Father, thank you for loving me.

26:31The more you do that, it's like practicing.

26:36The more you practice your tennis strokes or your golf strokes or whatever, the better you can get and the

26:42better you will be and the more expert you'll be.

26:45There's a guy called Gary Player.

26:47A long time ago when I was young, he was the number one golf player in South Africa.

26:52And his name was up there, Gary Player, Gary Player, Gary Player.

26:56And he was interviewed one day and the guy and the interviewer said to him, well, you know, you really

27:04got that stroke very, very well.

27:06And I see that one was pretty good as well.

27:09And he said, yeah, it's amazing what practice does.

27:11Eight hours a day, every day, doing the same thing, how you become an expert.

27:15And so we need to become experts in this that we have here, the Bible.

27:21And that's why we need each other to be able to speak clearly with one another about the word of

27:27God.

27:27Because this is my roadmap.

27:31This is my Google map.

27:33This is the, what's the little thing on your dashboard?

27:39Tom Tom.

27:41This is my Tom Tom to get me to the kingdom of heaven.

27:44It's telling me where to go.

27:46It's telling me what to look out for.

27:48It's telling me where there's going to be a detour.

27:51It's telling me where there could be an accident.

27:54And it all depends upon my attention to detail.

27:58Because I'm not listening to the Father.

28:00Jesus listened to the Father all the time.

28:03And at the end, he died on the cross in obedience to what God, the Father, was wanting him to

28:10do.

28:11So now, with Jesus doing all that, God is spirit.

28:15And we have been born by the will of God again.

28:20So we are spirit-filled people.

28:22Jesus was spirit.

28:25But we read in the book of Hebrews the various things that happened to the Lord Jesus Christ.

28:32And Hebrews seems to enumerate a number of them.

28:38Chapter 2 and verse 9.

28:41We see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.

28:48Jesus, the creator of the heavens and the earth, who made the angels.

28:52He humbled himself to be lower than the angels.

28:57That the angels came and ministered to them.

29:00And they said, Lord, here, have a drink.

29:02They ministered to the Lord Jesus, who made himself lower than them for the suffering of death.

29:09And he's been crowned with glory.

29:139 and verse 10.

29:15For it was fitting for him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things.

29:21In bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

29:29So though Jesus was the Son of God, he suffered because of you and I.

29:34And that made him perfect.

29:39It's something.

29:40Can you imagine that Jesus, the Son of God, who is perfect.

29:44Jesus, the Son of God, who three times heard the voice of the Father saying,

29:48This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased, wasn't perfect.

29:54He had to be perfected through sufferings.

29:57But not because he wasn't perfect, I believe.

29:59I think he was made perfect to become the perfect sacrifice for you and I.

30:06Perfect in himself.

30:08But the perfectness was fulfilled with the sacrifice on the cross.

30:14Because that was his goal.

30:16That was the ultimate pinnacle of the reason and the purpose for Christ's coming.

30:22To give himself, body, soul, and spirit, on the cross and die for us.

30:29That by his sins we are healed.

30:32That he fulfilled every single law that where he was.

30:35And because of that, the Father God took him up and put him at his right hand.

30:44And chapter 5 and verse 2 of Hebrews.

30:50He can have compassion on them who are ignorant and going astray, since he himself is also subject to weakness.

30:59Did you know that Jesus was weak?

31:02When he was in the Garden of Gethsemane, he went off to pray and he fell on his knees and

31:07he prayed,

31:07Oh, Father God, if it is your will, take this cup away from me.

31:12And the sweat drops became like blood as he prayed.

31:17And he prayed three times, Father, take this away from me, but not my will, but yours be done.

31:23He was subject to weakness.

31:24We don't think of Jesus as being subject to weakness.

31:27But he was.

31:28Jesus got angry.

31:29We read about it somewhere in the scriptures as well, but I haven't got a reference for that.

31:36And chapters 5, chapter 5 and verse 8, verse 7.

31:41Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with vehement cries and tears

31:47to him who was able to save him from death,

31:50and was heard because of his godly fear, though he was a son, yet he learned obedience by the things

31:57which he suffered.

31:59And having been perfected, he became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey him.

32:08So suffering is part and parcel of the walk of the Christian.

32:12Don't be surprised when suffering comes, whether it's a broken leg or whether it's a bad chest or whatever it

32:19might be.

32:20It's part and parcel of the walk that we have with the Lord.

32:24In Hebrews chapter 12, as I come to an end, verse 7.

32:28If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons.

32:33For what son is there whom a father does not chasten?

32:38But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons.

32:46Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect.

32:52Shall we not much more readily be in a subjection to the father of spirits and live?

32:57For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them,

33:02but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

33:08Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful.

33:13Nevertheless, afterward, it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

33:22And so that brings us back to exercising ourselves towards godliness,

33:26exercising ourselves in the things which we are wanting to become professional at.

33:35Professional in the fact of knowing the word of God, knowing what the Bible says, knowing the gist of it.

33:43I don't think I would ever be able to know the whole Bible, but I know what the Bible is

33:48telling me.

33:48I know where I've come from.

33:50I know where I'm going to.

33:52I know the challenges which are being directed toward me to try and make me stumble along the way.

33:58I know that I'm saved, but my father is working with me.

34:03And I think that possibly the purpose that he's working with me is for me to be able to encourage

34:08somebody else.

34:09And with all of us, so that we have the experience to say to somebody else,

34:14this is what we need to do.

34:15This is how you need to pray.

34:16This is why you should pray.

34:17That's where we're going.

34:18That's where we've come from.

34:20To have that knowledge.

34:21Peter speaks about that, and he says to us that we always need to be ready.

34:28To give an answer to those who ask us for the reason of the hope that we have in us.

34:35Are we able to do that logically and to be able to convincingly speak and tell that to the people?

34:46And so finally now in chapter 20 of Acts, verse 28.

35:03The church of God that you and I, the church, purchased with his own blood.

35:12Jesus is God.

35:15And here we have another description of God and man and Jesus being God.

35:21And he has purchased the church.

35:24The church, the body of Christ, the different members, all part of one head.

35:29All should have one mind and one spirit and one goal and one hope.

35:35May the Lord bless us as we continue exercising ourselves towards godliness as we continue our walk on this pilgrim

35:43road until the Lord eventually says,

35:45Come home, my sons.

35:47Amen.

35:48When I surveyed the wondrous cross on which the grace of glory died,

36:04My riches laid on cowardly loss and poor content on all my pride.

36:23Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,

36:30Saving the death of Christ my God.

36:38All the vain things that shall be most,

36:47I sacrifice them to His blood.

36:57See from His head, His hands, His feet,

37:04Sorrow and love flow mingled down.

37:14He does such love and sorrow meet,

37:22O thorns on posts so rich a crown.

37:30Where love, O love of nature mine,

37:40That were an offering for too small,

37:49Love so amazing, so divine,

37:58Demands my soul,

38:02My life I owe.

38:08Amen.

38:09Amen.

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