00:07 let's open up our Bibles to the Gospel
00:10 of John it's a real exciting thing for
00:14 me I mean I don't know what you if you
00:16 know what it's like being a preacher but
00:18 starting a new book of the Bible
00:20 especially such a great book as this
00:22 it's really a very exciting thing for me
00:24 this morning so I hope you'll open your
00:25 Bibles to John chapter 1 the Gospel of
00:28 John and I'm gonna read our text this
00:30 morning and then we'll take a look at it
00:32 piece by piece would you please stand
00:34 and give reverence to the Word of God as
00:35 I read this morning's text John chapter
00:43 1 beginning of verse 1 in the beginning
00:46 was the word and the Word was with God
00:49 and the Word was God
00:51 he was in the beginning with God all
00:54 things were made through him and without
00:57 him nothing was made that was made in
01:00 him was life and the life was the light
01:02 of men and the light shines in the
01:04 darkness and the darkness did not
01:06 comprehend it there was a man sent from
01:09 God whose name was John this man came
01:12 for a witness to bear witness of the
01:14 light that all through him might believe
01:16 he was not that light but was sent to
01:19 bear witness of that light that was the
01:22 true light which gives light to every
01:25 man coming into the world he was in the
01:28 world and the world was made through him
01:30 and the world did not know him he came
01:33 to his own and his own did not receive
01:36 him but as many as received him to them
01:40 he gave the right to become children of
01:43 God to those who believed in his name
01:46 who were born not of blood nor of the
01:49 will of the flesh nor of the will of man
01:51 but of God and the word became flesh and
01:54 dwelt among us and we beheld his glory
01:56 the glory of the only begotten of the
01:59 father full of grace and truth John bore
02:02 witness of him and cried out saying this
02:04 is he of whom I said he who comes after
02:07 me is preferred before me for he was
02:10 now this fullness we have all received
02:13 and grace for grace for the law was
02:16 given through Moses but grace and truth
02:18 came through Jesus Christ no one has
02:22 seen God at any time the only begotten
02:25 Son who is in the bosom of the Father he
02:28 has declared him father we thank you for
02:33 your word we thank you for its majesty
02:36 for its profound character and we pray
02:39 that now as we give our attention to it
02:41 that you'd speak to us in and through
02:45 your word we pray this in Jesus name
02:47 Amen you may be seated
02:51 those eighteen verses from the first
02:54 chapter of the Gospel of John form what
02:57 you might call in classical music you'd
03:00 call it an overture in literature you
03:03 might call it a prelude in the film
03:05 culture you'd call it a movie trailer
03:07 it's sort of a introduction that
03:09 introduces many of the themes and many
03:12 ideas that John's gonna weave out there
03:15 it's about life it's about light it's
03:18 about God's work in eternity it's about
03:20 witness this is the overture to the
03:24 Gospel of John not tell you there's
03:26 something wonderful about the Gospel of
03:28 John because the writer himself John
03:30 whom were gonna discuss more and more in
03:32 coming weeks the writer himself wrote
03:35 the gospel for a deliberate purpose the
03:37 deliberate purpose was this so that you
03:39 and I might believe that we might have a
03:42 greater and a purer and a stronger faith
03:45 in who Jesus is and what he did for us
03:48 and so he introduces us right in the
03:51 beginning to this great person now I
03:53 wish that there was a way that I could
03:55 sort of wipe your mind of any
03:57 remembrance of the Gospel of John at
03:58 this point I wish there was a way that
04:00 you could come to John chapter one verse
04:03 one as if it was brand-new as if you'd
04:05 never read it before but if that's
04:07 possible let's take that apart those
04:09 majestic eighteen verses that I just
04:11 read to you and take it apart piece by
04:12 piece look at the first two verses in
04:15 the beginning was the word and the Word
04:18 was with God and the Word was God he was
04:23 in the beginning with God now once you
04:25 notice something in verse
04:27 one specifically there's no mention of
04:29 Jesus yet oh he'll get to the specific
04:32 mention of the name Jesus Christ but
04:35 John simply introduces us to a person
04:37 it's known as the word it's just right
04:40 there in the first few verses in the
04:41 beginning was the word you got to love
04:44 that phrase in the beginning does that
04:46 sound familiar to anybody like maybe
04:48 John 1:1 is a conscious connection to
04:53 Genesis 1:1 just as much as it says in
04:56 Genesis 1:1 in the beginning God created
04:58 the heavens the earth so the Apostle
05:01 John when he wrote his gospel
05:02 he's very deliberately connecting us
05:04 back to that point says I want you to go
05:07 back in your mind back to eternity pass
05:09 back to a time when there was nothing
05:11 when there was only God before God
05:14 created anything well in that beginning
05:16 was the word now again he makes it clear
05:20 that it's just in the beginning that
05:23 it's not the beginning of creation but
05:26 the beginning of the beginning before
05:28 there was anything else there was the
05:31 word and when he says word he's
05:35 translating an ancient Greek word that
05:37 you may have heard of before cuz
05:39 sometimes we'll use it in our common
05:40 language today it's the ancient Greek
05:42 word logos now the logos was a very
05:46 interesting idea in both Jewish culture
05:49 and in Greek culture in Jewish culture
05:52 they would often refer to God as the
05:55 Word of God the logos of God and so when
05:58 he says in the beginning was the word
06:00 he's connecting something with ancient
06:02 Jewish culture but did you know that
06:03 he's also connecting something with
06:05 ancient Greek culture many of the Greek
06:08 philosophers had a sophisticated
06:10 understanding of what they called the
06:12 logos and when they said logos they
06:15 thought of the intelligence that created
06:18 and manages the whole world you know
06:20 sometimes we speak about the idea of
06:22 intelligent design that we look around
06:25 us in the world and we see in creation
06:27 that things have been designed that
06:29 they've been deliberately constructed
06:31 that there's the evidence that things
06:33 have been made that they didn't happen
06:34 just by accident well friends the logos
06:37 is very much like the idea of what we
06:39 might call the intelligent designer
06:41 it's the mind behind everything its
06:43 rationality its reason coming forth to
06:46 us see therefore and this opening John
06:50 said something to both Jews and Greeks
06:51 he said for centuries you've been
06:54 thinking about you've been talking about
06:56 you've been writing about the word the
06:58 logos now I'm going to tell you who he
07:02 one of the great things about that is
07:04 God comes and he connects to us as to
07:08 where we are in our own culture in our
07:11 own day logos was something that would
07:14 connect with the ancient readers but
07:16 today I wonder if God doesn't say to the
07:19 person who's a commuter programmer Jesus
07:22 is the great programmer of the universe
07:24 if he doesn't say to the scientist Jesus
07:26 is the ultimate scientist and fluent of
07:29 knowledge if he doesn't say to the
07:30 engineer Jesus is the master engineer if
07:34 he doesn't say to the financial manager
07:36 Jesus is the ultimate because Jesus
07:38 wants his reality history to connect to
07:40 every generation right where they're at
07:43 so he comes back to this idea of the
07:45 logos look at it again in there in verse
07:47 1 in the beginning was the word and the
07:49 Word was with God and the Word was God
07:53 friends I don't know if those words
07:55 confuse you but they're actually quite
07:57 profound and he's telling us something
08:00 about this logos this being known as the
08:02 word he's telling us first of all that
08:05 the word is God that he's eternal that
08:09 he's in the beginning he's plainly
08:11 called God the Word was God
08:14 no bones about it the logos is eternal
08:19 the logos is in the beginning the logos
08:22 is God at the same time this being does
08:27 not encompass all that God is because
08:30 God the Father is a distinct person from
08:33 the word because he says the Word was
08:35 with God my friends I don't have time
08:40 this morning to go on an in-depth
08:43 discussion or understanding of the
08:46 Trinity but let me tell you this here is
08:48 one of the core passages that helps us
08:51 to understand something about the
08:52 Trinity or you could even say the Tri
08:55 unity of God and just simply this is
08:57 that the father and the son the son here
09:02 is known as the word are equally God yet
09:06 they are distinct in their person the
09:09 father is not the son and the son is not
09:11 the father yet they are equally God and
09:14 when you add the Holy Spirit to that
09:17 whole equation so to speak
09:19 it makes for one God in three persons by
09:22 the way can I just say very quickly we
09:25 are not try we don't believe in three
09:29 gods we believe in one God in three
09:32 persons Father Son and Holy Spirit and
09:37 so he emphasized at the point in verse
09:39 two he just says he was in the beginning
09:41 he again makes the point that the father
09:44 is distinct from the Son and the son is
09:46 distinct from the father they're equally
09:48 God yet separate persons now verse three
09:53 all things were made through him and
09:55 without him nothing was made that was
09:58 made in him was life and the life was
10:01 the light of men and the light shines in
10:04 the darkness and the darkness did not
10:06 comprehend it and since the Apostle John
10:08 says let me tell you some more about
10:09 this word this word the logos he created
10:15 everything now how firm is he in that
10:19 statement well he says not only did he
10:21 create everything but notice the next
10:22 aspect of the phrase without him nothing
10:24 was made that was made
10:26 it's everything he created everything
10:30 now again to the Jewish mind this is no
10:33 problem because when God created
10:36 everything in Genesis 1 how did he bring
10:39 it he spoke it into existence with the
10:41 word with the logos to the Greek mind
10:44 it's no problem because what was the
10:45 master designed behind everything in
10:48 creation it was the logos the great
10:50 intelligence of the universe so they
10:53 would understand that it's connected to
10:54 creation but then he goes on to say in
10:56 verse 4 that in him was life the word is
11:01 the source of life and not merely
11:04 biological life but the very principle
11:08 life itself is in the word and this
11:12 verse for the life was the light of men
11:16 speaking of spiritual light as well as
11:18 natural light it isn't that the word
11:21 contains light and life he is life and
11:28 light let me bring it down to a very
11:32 direct point very quickly here this
11:35 tells us something that if the person
11:37 doesn't know Jesus there is a sense in
11:40 which they are dead and in darkness if
11:43 in Jesus our light and life if a person
11:47 consciously separates themselves from
11:49 Jesus Christ there is a sense in which
11:51 they are dead and in darkness because in
11:56 Jesus are found light and life it's kind
11:59 of interesting that instinctively human
12:02 beings are afraid of the dark are afraid
12:05 of death instinctively God has given us
12:09 something that should be attracted to
12:11 the light and to life and that's found
12:14 in Jesus Christ matter of fact he says
12:16 there in verse five and the light shines
12:18 in the darkness and the darkness did not
12:20 comprehend it or another way to
12:21 translate idea is overcome it the
12:23 darkness could not overcome the light
12:26 because it stands eternally now verse 6
12:30 there was a man sent from God whose name
12:35 was John this man came for a witness to
12:39 bear witness of the light that all
12:41 through him might believe he was not
12:44 that light but was sent to bear witness
12:46 of the light now we're introduced to
12:49 another person first we've been
12:51 introduced to the word now there's a man
12:53 who bears witness of the word and we
12:56 know him later on as John the Baptist he
13:00 bore witness of the light as verse 7
13:02 tells us that all through him might
13:04 believe the work of John the Baptist was
13:07 deliberately to focus people towards
13:10 Jesus Christ and he makes the point here
13:12 in verse 8 that he wasn't that light but
13:14 he bore witness of the light he
13:16 deliberately pointed people towards that
13:19 light and then friends if you look at me
13:22 with me at verses 9 10 and 11 these are
13:25 some of the saddest words in the entire
13:28 gospel ready for this verse 9 that was
13:32 the true light which gives light to
13:35 every man coming into the world he was
13:39 in the world and the world was made
13:41 through him and the world did not know
13:44 him he came to his own and his own did
13:49 not receive him notice a few things
13:54 first of all as of yet
13:56 John has not given the word the logos a
14:00 name you and I feel like we're in on the
14:03 secret we read every word and go Jesus
14:05 Jesus Jesus but put yourself in the
14:08 place of an ancient person reading this
14:11 scroll for the first time and you're
14:13 tracking with John every step of the way
14:15 yes I understand the concept of the word
14:17 yes I understand the concept of the
14:19 logos yes he made everything and yes
14:22 what does he say there he says he's the
14:24 true light which gives light to every
14:26 man coming into the world if there's
14:28 light anywhere in this universe
14:30 ultimately it's traced back to Jesus
14:32 Christ in some way and then it says in
14:34 verse 10 he was in the world and the
14:37 world did not know him prints can we not
14:43 agree that this is a strange thing that
14:45 Jesus Christ came to the very same world
14:51 that he created and the world did not
14:54 when Jesus came to the world when he
14:57 lived when he walked when he taught when
15:00 he performed miracles even when he died
15:02 on the cross did the world acknowledge
15:04 him as the Son of God was there applause
15:07 every step of the way did they exalt him
15:09 as the creator and the maker of all
15:11 things the logos the divine intelligence
15:13 no they did not know him but if it could
15:15 get even worse notice what it says there
15:17 in verse 11 it says in the world was
15:19 made through him and the world did not
15:20 know him now he came to his own and his
15:24 own did not receive him you know you
15:29 could translate that phrase he came to
15:31 his own in a different way you could
15:33 translate that phrase he came to his own
15:36 really he came home and they did not
15:42 receive him he made them he established
15:47 them he created them he came home and
15:53 they did not receive them if you were I
15:56 were an ancient reader and we read that
15:58 we would have such a heavy heart we
16:00 would be burdened by the injustice of it
16:02 all by the wrongness it's just not right
16:05 it's like if there was a parent who gave
16:08 birth to a child in a sense they made
16:10 that child but all they were answered
16:12 with was ingratitude and rejection it
16:15 would be as if somebody trained up some
16:17 kind of animal or made some kind of
16:19 thing and yet in response to it it was
16:21 all rejection and never accepted we
16:23 would be struck with how wrong it was we
16:25 might put down the scroll at the end of
16:28 verse 11 and just say well then forget
16:30 if this is how ungrateful creation is
16:33 then let's just close the story here and
16:36 now but friends it doesn't end there
16:38 look now at verse 12 but as many as
16:41 received him to them he gave the right
16:45 to become children of God to those who
16:47 believed in his name who were born not
16:50 of blood nor of the will of the flesh
16:52 nor of the will of man but of God yes he
16:57 came into the world and was rejected yes
17:00 he came unto his own home so to speak
17:02 and was not received but not everyone
17:06 rejected him there were those who
17:09 received him he says in verse 12 but as
17:12 many as received him to them he gave the
17:15 right to become the children of God to
17:17 those who believed in his name though
17:20 some people rejected the revelation of
17:22 the word others received him and thereby
17:25 they became children of God children of
17:28 God through a new birth and friends I
17:31 know that there is a sense in which
17:33 every human being is a child of God
17:36 we're all his offspring we're all made
17:38 by him there's a sense in which that's
17:40 true but friends there's another sense
17:43 and this is the dominant sense in which
17:45 the Scriptures speak of it there is a
17:47 sense in which you do not become
17:49 child of God until you consciously
17:51 receive Jesus Christ until you put your
17:55 faith in Him and really that's what
17:56 receiving him is all about look at what
17:58 it says there it says as many as
17:59 received him to them he gave the right
18:01 to become children of God to those who
18:02 believed in his name to receive him is
18:07 really the same as putting your trust
18:08 your believing in or even in to his name
18:12 you are putting your faith your trust
18:13 your reliance on Jesus Christ this is
18:16 the great invitation that he gives even
18:18 to today if you will receive Jesus if
18:21 you will put your faith into him
18:24 then he gives you the possibility well
18:28 no I take that back not the possibility
18:29 he gives you the promise of being a
18:32 child of God in a sense that you weren't
18:36 born into being a child a son or
18:38 daughter of God but he gives us you up
18:41 to this very high privilege friends I I
18:44 need to make that point just very plain
18:46 today because at the end of my message
18:48 I'm gonna give it invitation if anybody
18:50 wants to receive him how could I preach
18:51 this text or not give an invitation how
18:54 can we come across a text that says to
18:56 any who received them till they may gave
18:57 the right to become a children of God
18:58 how could we do that and at the end of
19:00 my message I now invite who wants to
19:01 receive Jesus we'll get to that point a
19:03 little bit later on the friends isn't it
19:06 wonderful the promise that comes to
19:08 anybody as many as received him as many
19:12 you it can be you he doesn't want to
19:16 exclude any person and when you do
19:19 you'll find that your birth into the
19:22 kingdom of God you're born look at as it
19:24 says in verse 13 not of blood nor of the
19:27 will of the flesh nor the will of man
19:29 but of God this reminds us of the nature
19:33 of the new birth those who received him
19:36 are born of God but it's not by human
19:39 effort or human achievement no you just
19:41 say Jesus I want to receive it and he
19:43 does something in your life that you
19:45 could never do for yourself this tells
19:47 us that becoming a child of God is not
19:49 turning over a new leaf it's not self
19:53 Reformation it's not deciding you're
19:56 no it's complete surrender unto God and
19:59 then he does something in your life that
20:01 you could never ever do for yourself
20:04 looking out verse 14 and the word became
20:10 flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld
20:15 his glory the glory as of the only
20:18 begotten of the Father full of grace and
20:22 truth I don't know if you like to make
20:25 little marks in your Bible or bookmark
20:27 your little electronic Bible because I
20:29 know a lot of you are using electronic
20:30 Bibles you know it used to be a bummer
20:33 for the pastor when he'd look at people
20:35 coming into the church and very few
20:37 people would be carrying their Bible I'd
20:39 say oh I thought we were a Bible
20:40 teaching a Bible studying Church where's
20:42 everybody with their Bible but you know
20:44 what everybody does today do you have
20:45 your Bible yeah pastor right here it's
20:48 in my pocket so I don't know if you'd
20:50 like to make a little mark or
20:51 electronically bookmark but you want to
20:53 make a note at verse 14 did you see that
20:56 verse 14 now I imagine an ancient reader
21:00 of John's Gospel reading verse 14 and
21:03 putting the scroll down no I can't
21:06 believe that that the word became flesh
21:08 and dwelt among us this would be John's
21:10 most startling statement so far it would
21:13 have amazed thinkers on the Greek side
21:16 and on the Jewish side friends the
21:18 Greeks generally thought of God as too
21:20 low spoke so to speak they thought that
21:23 gods were like Hercules and Zeus and all
21:27 these other guys just super men but they
21:29 were just men he says no no the word
21:31 divine reason that became flesh and on
21:36 the Jewish side many in the Jewish world
21:39 at that time tended to think of God if
21:40 you could say it as too high what do I
21:43 mean or what I mean is they had a hard
21:45 time expecting that the great God
21:47 revealed and the Old Testament could
21:48 take on human form and he says no I want
21:51 you to know that the word became flesh
21:54 that this great majestic reason that
21:57 created the planets in the universe and
22:00 even the human body that great creator
22:03 he became flesh and did you see what it
22:06 says there in verse 14 and dwelt among
22:08 us you know how you could translate that
22:11 literally in the idea literally it means
22:13 to pitch a tent among people
22:17 to pitch a tent now some people put the
22:20 emphasis on there it's just being
22:21 temporary that Jesus just pitched a tent
22:23 among us for 33 years and then he went
22:25 back out there maybe that's the idea I
22:27 don't think so you know what I think the
22:28 dominant idea there is it connects back
22:30 to the Jewish world of the tabernacle he
22:35 tabernacled among us
22:37 do you realize what he did that just as
22:40 the ancient tabernacle was a place of
22:42 meeting in the Old Testament where man
22:45 met with God so Jesus
22:48 tabernacled among us and he becomes the
22:50 place where man meets with God we meet
22:53 with God in Jesus Christ friends here's
22:57 the great message of verse 14 and
22:58 actually the dominant theme of our whole
23:00 section it's simply this God has come
23:03 close to you in Jesus Christ you don't
23:07 have to struggle to find him he came to
23:10 you I meet people from time to time
23:14 sometimes I meet people who've never put
23:16 their faith in Jesus they're the people
23:18 who need to receive him today but they
23:21 say where's God he seems so far away
23:24 and what the Bible tells you is he came
23:26 close to you and I in the person of
23:28 Jesus he came and dwelt with us
23:31 sometimes I mean Christians they love
23:37 maybe they attend church faithfully
23:40 before whatever reason they feel like
23:42 they've lost Jesus somewhere I don't
23:45 know if they feel like they lost them in
23:47 church politics in church rituals in the
23:50 weariness of life in the struggles of
23:53 the day to day walking I don't know but
23:55 they feel like where's Jesus where is
23:57 God where can I find him I'll tell you
23:59 where you're gonna find him you're gonna
24:00 find him in the person of Jesus Christ
24:02 if you're having trouble finding God
24:04 then why don't you say God I'm gonna
24:07 look to Jesus I'm gonna reorient my
24:09 focus upon him I never spend a lot of
24:11 time reading the Gospels Matthew Mark
24:13 Luke and John and I'm gonna look to him
24:17 because he came and dwelt among us
24:19 friends this is the answer this is where
24:21 Jesus is you look to Jesus and God's
24:24 gonna meet you in Jesus he came and
24:26 dwelt among us that's how close he came
24:29 there's an old story
24:31 it's probably not true it's probably
24:32 just one of those preachers stories but
24:33 it's still a good story about a guy who
24:37 kind of has this this you know tail in
24:39 his life he goes man I went to the
24:41 Presbyterian Church and I didn't find
24:43 God and then I went to the Methodist
24:44 Church and I didn't find God and then I
24:46 went to Calvary Chapel and they didn't
24:48 find God and then I went you know on any
24:50 lames up five Church and then now I just
24:52 don't know where God is and finally the
24:54 guy dies and he goes to heaven and he
24:55 tells this story to God and got this no
24:57 no you misunderstood all the time
24:59 you stayed at the Presbyterian Church
25:01 just long enough until I started getting
25:03 close to you and then you left and went
25:04 to the Methodist Church and they say the
25:07 Methodist Church just long enough to
25:08 where I started getting close to you and
25:09 then you left and you went to Calvary
25:11 Chapel and then you went to Calvary
25:13 Chapel just long enough to where I
25:14 started getting close to you and then
25:16 you left you see the idea sometimes when
25:20 we feel that Jesus is far from us in a
25:24 way that we may not even realize we are
25:28 separating ourselves from Jesus we're
25:30 God's great message to us I came and
25:33 dwelt among you he dwelt among us
25:36 that is glory the glory is the only
25:38 begotten of the Father full of grace and
25:40 truth and now verse 15 John bore witness
25:44 of him and cried out saying this was he
25:48 of whom I said he who comes after me is
25:51 preferred before me for he was before me
25:54 this is John the Baptist great test
25:56 don't worry we're gonna talk a lot about
25:58 John the Baptist next week sort of put
26:00 that thought on hold pick it up now at
26:01 verse 16 and of his fullness
26:04 we've all received grace for grace for
26:09 the law was given through Moses but
26:12 grace and truth came through Jesus
26:16 Christ no one has seen God at any time
26:18 the only begotten Son who was in the
26:22 bosom of the Father he has declared him
26:28 friends did you see what he said he
26:31 finally revealed the name to us in verse
26:34 17 Jesus Christ grace and truth came he
26:39 says now put a name to the word Jesus
26:44 friends this is the great revelation of
26:46 God the word the eternally existing one
26:49 the mind that manages the universe came
26:53 and dwelt among us and when he came and
26:56 dwelt among us boy was he angry with us
27:00 boy did he show his hatred for mankind
27:02 no it would be so wrong to say that no
27:05 he came and dwelt among us and was what
27:07 full of grace and truth
27:12 I love that phrase in verse 17 for the
27:14 law was given through Moses but grace
27:16 and truth came through Jesus Christ this
27:19 demonstrates it shows forth the the
27:22 fullness of the grace announced by John
27:24 the Baptist and lived out by Jesus
27:27 Christ God the word Jesus Christ when he
27:30 came he brought a different order of
27:33 things than through Moses no he brought
27:35 a new order and it was announced by John
27:38 the Baptist Francis verse 18 says no one
27:42 has seen God at any time God the Father
27:46 lives in inexpressible radiance and
27:50 glory and no one has seen him at any
27:52 time but friends Jesus Christ the
27:55 faithful son he has declared him to you
28:00 and to me Jesus is the revelation of who
28:05 God is and look I give an invitation
28:08 this morning and I just simply say
28:11 everybody who wants to have a
28:13 relationship with God you come and
28:15 receive Jesus Christ this morning that's
28:18 are some people that says oh man that's
28:20 great that's what I've been longing for
28:21 someone else might say of course I doubt
28:25 that they would actually verbalize it
28:27 but they'd feel it in their heart I've
28:29 been running from God my entire life why
28:33 would I want to get together with him
28:34 now let me just tell you something
28:37 friend what John says in him is Light
28:41 and Life it's for you right here if you
28:46 want to reject light and you want to
28:49 reject life that's certainly doors God
28:51 respects your choice enough to say okay
28:54 if that's what you choose I'll allow you
28:57 in darkness and death but that's not my
29:00 will for you my will for you is light
29:03 and life receive it in the son who
29:08 dwells among us now
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