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If I had a tattoo, which you still don't know if I've got one

or not, if I ever had a tattoo, I'd get it from the book of

John. I mean, it is the tattoo book.

Seriously. I mean, why go for Leviticus,

you know, when you could go for John?

John 316. For God so loved the world on my

back. You know, if you've got a John

tattoo, I've got 1000 bucks on my wallet.

You got a John tattoo? I'll give it to you now.

You got a John tattoo? Where Come, China?

Come where? Come.

Let's see. Let's see.

John 316. I mean, what are you talking?

What are you talking? What are you talking?

What are you talking? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Who knew? Hey, who knew?

I woke up this morning. I thought it's got to be from

the book of John. I am the vine.

You are the branches up your leg.

You know, you're like some grapes hanging off your knees.

You know, it is finished. And as your book gets bigger, it

is finished, gets bigger, you know, like, close to the end of

your life. So anyway, we're going to get

tattoos from John. And I would just really love to

thank my preaching partner Stephen for starting this series

in John and verse 40. I don't know how you did that,

but thank you. It's amazing that you missed the

difficult 1st 40 verses out. So I'm going to go back and do

those. But I mean, it was an incredible

preach. Thank you, Cath Don't worry.

I'm just joking with them, you know, but but thank you.

So what you're going to do is John 1239 to see if we can catch

up from last week and then we'll we'll change that around on the

overheads. OK, I'm only joking, Stephen.

You can see your wife's taking the fence or not yet.

I haven't got to the part main part yet.

So just remember this. You're going to remember 4

things. Nice to have you here.

We're not going to put on the screen.

He gives us a word. Say give us a word.

He gives us a right. He gives us a list of names and

he gives us a ladder. It's all you're going to

remember today. Gives us a word.

Hey guys, seriously, the Tony from Muscle base English folks

are worse in the end here in Muscle by gives us a word.

It gives us a right. It gives us a list of names and

a ladder. So let's read in the beginning

was the word say the word and the word was with God and the

word was God. He was with God in the

beginning. Through him all things are made.

Without Him, nothing was made that has been made.

In him was life, and that life was the light of men.

All the way through this book, there's an amazing fight between

light and darkness. There's an amazing fight between

truth and lies. All the way through this book,

there's a massive fight going on.

Like they will be in your own heart now.

There's always a fight between light and darkness, between

truth and lies. It's always a fight.

It says in John chapter 8, when the devil talks, he speaks his

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native language and his native language is lying.

As Mr. Faniela Prat Pratyelena Estatal Estatal is Afrikaans.

When I speak, I speak in my first language.

My first language is English. When the devil talks, he speaks

in his native language. It's lying.

The light signs in the darkness, but the darkness has not

understood it. There came a man who was sent

from God. His name was John.

He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that

through him all men might believe.

He himself was not the light. He came only as a witness to the

light. The true light that gives light

to every man was coming into the world.

He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,

the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his

own, yet his own did not receive him.

Yet to all who received him, say.

Yet to all who received him, some of your Bibles say, but,

but to all who received him, say, received him.

You've heard me say this 100 times.

You can't achieve God, you can't achieve salvation, you can't

achieve Christianity. You receive it.

It's a gift. You don't have to give up

anything or take on anything. It's nothing from your you

receive it. It's a gift.

It's done by somebody else. It's a gift.

You receive it. Yet to all who received them, to

those who believed in His name, He gave the right say the right

say He gave the right. He gave the right to become

children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of

human decision or a husband's will, but born of God, Say born

of God. Say I've been born of God.

It's going to be important. The Word became flesh and made

His dwelling among us. Same word as Tabernacle.

He came to live with us, not just to visit us on a Sunday, He

came to live with us. We have seen His glory, the

glory of the one and only who came from the Father, full of

grace and truth. Say grace and truth.

You have to have both. Grace sets you free, 2 sets you

on the road. Grace sets you free, 2 sets you

on the road. You need both.

Some people like truth and they become miserable.

Some people like grace and they become greasy.

Grace and truth go together. Grace and truth always go

together. They're bedfellows.

John testifies concerning him. He cries out saying This was he

of whom has said he comes after me has surpassed me because he

was before me from the fullness of His grace.

We have received one blessing after another for times sake.

Let's go to verse 28. This all happened at Bethany on

the other side of the Jordan where John was baptizing The

next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and he said, look,

the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

It's an amazing, this is an amazing scripture say takes

away, takes away. So in the scripture you see that

we used to sing a song that said he gives and takes away.

And I had a friend of mine who was like a charismatic

prosperity guy and he said God never takes away.

He only gives and makes away. So he changed the songs like we

all sing. He gives and makes away.

He gives and makes, but that's not what the Bible says.

It says he gives and takes away. So he takes away sin and he

gives us his Holy Spirit. He takes away sin and he gives

us his Holy Spirit so that we can say Holy Spirit because he

wants us to walk in holy way. So he takes away sin, gives us

the Holy Spirit. OK, we'll get to it all just

now. Just good to read.

This is the one I meant when I said a man who comes after me

and surpassed me because he was before me.

I myself did not know him. But the reason I came baptized

with water was that he might be revealed to Israel.

Then John gave this testament. I saw the Spirit come down from

heaven as a dove and remain on him.

I would not have known him except that the one who sent me

to baptize with water told me, the man on whom you see the

Spirit come down and remain as he will baptize with the Holy

Spirit. Verse 35 Look the Lamb of God.

Verse 38 Rabbi, which means teacher.

Verse 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother

Simon and tell him we have found the Messiah.

Underline it the Messiah that is the Christ verse 44 Philip like

Andrew and Peter was born was from the town of beside Philip

found Nathaniel told him we have found the one who Moses wrote

about them, the law and about whom the prophets also wrote

Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph come and see but further

down Rabbi son of God, king of Israel.

And then it says Jesus said in verse 50 you believe because I

told you I saw you under the fig tree.

You shall see greater things than that, he told, Eden added.

I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open and the angels

of God ascending and descending on the Son of man. 4 very quick

things. The first thing God does is he

gives us his word. He gives us his word, and many

people are disappointed. When I can have people come into

my office, they'll say this to me.

He never kept his say it. It's a very important thing, the

whole I saw my dad sign a business deal on his word.

I saw him shake hands with a man and said, I'll give you my word.

That man never believed my dad. And So what he did is he went

and saw his lawyer and he drew a 500 page document and he

presented this to my dad and he said this is to just put it in

writing. And my dad looked at the

document and he gave it back to me, said the deal is off, my

word is good. And then the man tried to get

the deal back again and, and my dad said, no, The way I do

business is I shake a hand, I've got a man that I look after.

He's going through some tough times, somebody from a church

for him. He said, would you look after

him? So I look after him a little bit

and I've got a little bit of resources and he phoned me the

other night. He was stuck in Moshad Adop.

His car was overheating and he phoned me, calls my Uncle Rory.

He said Uncle Rory, I'm in deep trouble.

It's about 10:00 at night, It's Friday night.

He said I'm stuck in Moshad Adop at the at Millies.

And he said I don't know what to do, but there's a mechanic here

from Middleburg. I mean, you don't trust the

mechanic from Pretoria, let alone Middleburg.

There's a mechanic from Middleburg and his name is, I

won't tell you. So I got him on the phone.

I said, how's it? I'm Rory, he said.

Rory, this car's in big trouble, I need to tow it to Middleburg.

I said, that's fine my mate, I'll pay you the money.

He said, who are you? I said, I'm Rory.

I'm Rory Dye. I said, no, no.

He said. That doesn't help me.

He said. I I said I'll give you my word.

He said, well, your word, because we've been disappointed

so many times by people, we no longer trust the word.

So when God says I give you my word, you think you got to back

it up? He doesn't doesn't have to back

it up. And so I said, So what do you

want? He said, I want proof of

payment. Was that OK?

Now 10:00 at night, I'm getting through my bank through Capitec

and putting money in and it's got to be immediate.

And I sent it to him and they finally said, thank you, I've

got proof of payment. Then when you read the book of

John in the beginning, as he gives us his word, at the end of

the book he gives us proof of payment.

And so you have no excuse, no excuse.

Some of you know this story, but through COVID our business got

into it. We were paying people through

COVID and the end of COVID. Our business was not liquid.

We needed money, lots of money, like 14,000,000 rent.

I'm sitting with my bank manager and an accountant and with the,

with all these guys and I'm asking for this money because

you've got to speak nicely to bank managers when you want lots

of money. And he said you're going to have

to sign guarantee. And I said no, I can't sign

guarantee. He said no, you have to.

I said no, I can't. He said why can't you sign?

I said, because the Bible says I can't sign.

And I pulled out two pens. Those pens are given to my dad.

I can't remember us for 30 years or 40 years.

You can see which bank it is. Those are given to my dad for 40

years or 30 years, let's say 30. So I'm not exaggerating. 30

years of good service. So I pulled out the pens and

I've got them to my bank, man. I said, will you take a picture

of these and ask your boss how many people have got these pens

because they kept their word? And he phoned me back the next

day. He said, Mr. Dyer, I've never

seen this in the history of our bank, but you don't have to sign

guarantees because your dad who's dead is good for his word.

I want to tell you, friends, my dad in heaven who is alive is

good for his word, is good for his word.

And some of you are too lazy to open your Bibles and you're

wasting your faith because you're so busy at work and so

busy doing all sorts of stuff that your marriages are

declining every single day. Your relationship with your

children is declining every single day.

Your own personal growth is declining every single day

because you're too lazy to open the greatest gift that God gave

you, which is his word. And he doesn't need backup and

he doesn't need guarantee. And he's been faithful for it to

over 2000 years. And so that's how John starts.

He says, I'll give you my word, which is resting and gathering

dust on your shelves because you're too lazy.

Excuse my French to open it. That thing has come at a massive

cost. People died to translate that

word into our language. People died.

And inside of there is the power to change Pretoria is the power

to change South Africa. It's the power to change your

marriage. It's the power to change your

children's futures. So when you pick it up, it's

like dynamite in your hands, friends.

And some of you have been sitting here for 12 years or 13

years, sitting under the preaching, but too lazy to open

the word. And I'm, I'm commissioning you

now to open it. It's got all different names,

Rabbi, teacher, son of God, son of Joseph, Lamb of God, friends.

I did a wedding last year. The 1st wedding I nearly missed

because I was meant to drive down and from Rena's parcels

coast and it was snowed in and they were getting married on the

other side of from Rena's pass. And but at the last minute I got

a flight to Maritsburg. I hired the car.

I got stuck a Land Rover, a Land Rover pulled me out and I got to

the wedding of of of a of a young lady who doesn't even

believe in the Bible. She had never read the Bible.

She had never opened the Bible and she's sitting here today.

I saw at the prayer meeting on Tuesday and she walked up to me.

She said I'm reading the book of John.

It was worth it to get in a plane, to fly down, to get

pulled by a Land Rover and I said do you understand it?

She says no I don't really understand it.

I said just take a piece of paper and write down the

questions and if you don't understand over time 2-3 days

God will reveal it to you like there was a wedding in Cana.

Do you know what that means? She says no I don't.

I said Cana is like Del Mas. If God can come from heaven and

dwell amongst us and go to Del Mas, then God can come from

heaven and dwell amongst us and come into your heart.

She's like, wow, really? I said yeah, wow, really?

Amen. It's got a word.

It's got a word. Don't waste it.

Don't waste it. This thing has changed people's

lives, can change your life too. One verse, one verse, but you

got to read it. The second thing, it gives us a

right, verse 12 yet say yet to all who received them, to those

who believed in his name, He gave the rights to become

children of God, children born not of natural descent, nor of

human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

I found this little thing. It's called the back he answered

on Dukeleng von Khabuna, Andela and Iskor Babak 1989.

My dad bought me 1000 shares in Eskor.

I lost this piece of paper, but I've got a right to 1000 shares

in Eskor. Those shares have now passed on

to Exaro and I'll get this message every week.

Munir, Dyer. Yehid Andela in Exoto This

little piece of paper has given me a right.

If I give it to my son, it means nothing because it hasn't got

his name on there. Rory Mitchell Dyer And I'm going

to go into office in somewhere in Santa and I'm going to give

this little piece of paper into them and they're going to give

me they're going to give me money.

I'll tell you how much. No ways.

It's got nothing to do with you. But I've got the right, I've got

the right. And this right is what God says

to us is not by natural descent. Because the problem, friends, is

that we get a whole lot of rights in our minds of how they

get passed down from families. It is not by natural descent,

you say, well, Aurora, it's easy for you grew up in.

No, it's not by natural descent. Or if you grew up in a bad

family, it is not by natural descent.

It's not by natural descent. And we've got people sitting

here that still battle with their natural descent, whether

it's good or bad, whole or broken, years later, still

dealing with the fact because they don't understand that

they've been given something with their name on it and nobody

else has got access to this. And so get over your stuff.

No, seriously, that's what it's saying.

You get over your stuff. It is not by natural descent or

human decision. Even if the human decision was

your parents at university messing around like they

shouldn't have messed around and they felt pregnant, they never

got married and you got born. It is not by natural descent.

And you've heard me say this many times, but I'll say it

again. If you are the product of rape,

that friends is human decision is that disgusting, despicable,

the boards dark dirty act, but in that act, my God can turn

that around and give you a right, a right friends a right

and it says a born of God. It's a birthright.

It's not just a right, it's a birthright.

And often I drive into my dad's business and I drive in there

and I think I have a birthright of this place and everybody

calls me boss because I'm Ian Dyer son.

How much more my father in heaven, friends.

And we and we don't we just in our minds, we've got these

blockages in our minds around social structures and and

seniority and all that sort of rubbish.

It's rubbish. God bypasses my biology the day

that I get born again and he gives me a direct birthright

from heaven, and that's how I act on the earth.

That's what John is saying. And he's saying, I'm going to

send my son to show you what it means for a man to act with a

birthright, to go in humbly yet with authority, to walk and

overcome sin, to not find himself in the wrong places, to

make choices that bring glory to God.

Some of you know this story, but I was playing golf and Harry

Smith Golf Club, third oldest Golf Club in the country, 14

years old. And I swore with my dad's

business colleagues. And I remember my dad walked up

to me, put his arm around me, didn't shout to me.

He said stop swearing, stop acting like an idiot.

He just put his arm around me, pulled me close and he said

dyers don't act like that boy. He takes over my sin.

He gives me his Holy Spirit. He puts his arm around me.

He says, let me show you, son, are you going to represent me on

earth with a birthright, opportunity, favor, inheritance,

blessing, Amen #3 I get a list of names.

I get a list of names. You can read them.

You can put the list up there if you don't mind.

It's a list of names. If you just go through it, you

just underline them with a pen word.

Light of the world, Lamb of God, Giver of the Holy Spirit, Rabbi,

Messiah, Messiah, the one Moses wrote about, Jesus of Nazareth,

Jesus of Nazareth. Why does he write that?

Because you guys are so caught up with Afiz and Varticruff and

Menlo Park and Hosmantane. Seriously, you are.

You're so caught up. Where'd you go to school?

Afiz how we divide the curve. I had a gun as he said.

I want to clap him. Oh, what?

Afrikaans High School. Clapham.

Where'd you go to school? Clapham.

Who is that brick? You see?

Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus of Nazareth.

Because we find our identity in the places that we've come from.

And the better the place, the better my position in society.

And Jesus said, I'm from Nazareth, I'm from nowhere.

And he says, you know what? I'm also the son of Joseph.

So people come and say, hey, Rory, you had a great dad.

Ian Dyer, he was an amazing man. I'm adopted.

So was Jesus son of Joseph. That's not his dad, but it is

his title. So if you've got issues with

your adoption, go and sit with the son of Joseph and let him

fix it so you get over your adoption and you realize that

Jesus adopted so that you could be healed.

Amen. I sound tough.

I sound tough because you've got lazy people sitting in the

church not understanding the fullness of what God has given

to them and called them to. So we can actually triumphantly

go and extend the Kingdom of God in the place of our influence.

I know some of you know the story friends, but when I was

looking at these names of God many, many, many years ago, I

went to Holland. I'm not any of you been to

Holland. Albert Hook from Holland to meet

all the cars Copen. This is my plaque.

This is a buyer my plaque in this the 7 million Mensa in this

the 7 million Farca and the the farken flies in Holland.

The buyer the farken flies and the orchid, the iris and the

speck and the metal. The tuprokis met the hum and the

Cos and the Costco and the hum and the and the and the the

Falcon met a met a pineapple and the suit and the seals.

Falcon Farcon in Holland. But I remember going to Holland.

Yeah, I've never eaten so much pork in my whole life.

And as I went there, guy called Terry Krueger gave me a name,

just a name, a name with the telephone number.

And he said if you're ever in trouble in Holland, phone this

number. And I thought I'll never be in

trouble in Holland. But I was travelling in the guy

called Vaughan McCullum and we got to the airport and and a

canister had blown in McDonald's, a gas canister, and

they thought it was a bomb. So they shut the airport down.

And I was in trouble. I was young, I didn't have

money, I was stuck in Holland. I went into Central Station.

As you come out of Central Station, there's a building that

says Jesus loves you. And behind that building is a

red light district. And I phoned the number.

I said, Sir, I'm in trouble. I got your number.

He said I'd love to host you. And he went into this, Jesus

loves your building. And there was a penthouse on top

that looked over the whole of Amsterdam.

We stayed there for two days and he hosted us, like incredibly.

And I remembered when I was reading the story, I thought I

got a list of names, Jesus of Nazareth, Son of Joseph, Lamb of

God, Giver of the Holy Spirit, Messiah, King.

And if you understand those names, you'll go into the

penthouse suite of whatever your circumstance is with the red

light district to this side and the mad rush of Central station

to that side and this overall view.

I thought I should explain each name to you.

And I thought, no, you can go and learn the names.

Lamb of God starts in Genesis 22 when Abraham and Isaac.

Isaac puts Abraham puts Isaac on the altar.

He's about to sacrifice him to God.

And God says no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, there's one lamb in

the thicket. And he says, take that lamb and

take your son off the altar. And it's 1 lamb for one man.

In Exodus, he says, take a lamb for every family and sacrifice

it and put it on the doorposts. And when my judgment comes, I'll

Passover you. In Leviticus, it's 1 lamb per

per nation. When the priest puts his hand on

the lambs called the Azazel, the scapegoat, he puts his hand on

all the sins of the people. Go.

And he chases it into the desert.

In Isaiah 53, it says the Lamb who takes away the sins of many.

And we get to John chapter one, it says the Lamb of God who

takes away the sins of the whole world.

And it's a theme that runs all the way through the Bible.

And I have that list and every time my guilt or my shame or my

condemnation comes back to visit me, I say, but the Lamb of God

took away the sins of the world. Amen.

Jesus gets baptized John chapter one verse 28.

You can just put it up there are baptized with water.

John replied, but among you stands 1.

You do not know he's the one who comes after me.

The thongs of his sandals are not worthy turned Thai.

This all happened at Bethany, say Bethany on the other side of

the Jordan where John was baptizing Jesus the Lamb of God.

Please turn to where we're going to Joshua chapter 3.

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Now the Jordan is in the flood during the harvest.

Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the

Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge, the water from

upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great

distance away at a town called Adam.

Say Adam, Jesus gets baptized. You can turn it off.

Jesus gets baptized in exactly the same place as Joshua, across

the river to go into the promised land, exactly the same

place. So as they stepped foot in the

water backed up all the way to say it, Adam, Adam, that's the

original sin. Hey, there was flood.

So you know what happens in flood.

You've seen the floods in the Kruger Park, trees come down,

dogs come down, cars come down, rubbish comes down.

All that stuff comes down. And when you walk into

floodwaters, not chance of drowning, you got a chance of

getting hit by rubbish. And that's what happens.

Now they have to go across the river into the promised land and

Jesus goes into the exact place where Joshua went.

And the Bible says the water backed up all the way to.

So all that rubbish that flows through your life stops.

Brilliant jewelry, you understand that stops, so you

don't come and say actually in 1975 or 1983 or 2005 stops and

you believe Christ and all that nonsense no longer has an effect

on you because Christ has done his job.

Let's read the last verse of John.

How do you know me? Nathaniel lost.

Jesus answered, I saw you while you were still under the fig

tree before Philip called you. Then Nathaniel declared, Rabbi,

you're the Son of God, you're the king of Israel.

Jesus said, you believe because I told you I saw you under the

fig tree. You shall see greater things

than that. He then added, I tell you the

truth, you shall see heaven open, say heaven open, and the

angels of God ascending and descending on say on, on the Son

of man. Turn with me to Genesis 28,

please. Jacob left Bathsheba and set out

for Hey ran. When he reached a certain place,

he stopped for the night because the sun had said.

Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay

down to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a

ladder resting on the earth with its top reaching to heaven.

And the Angel of God were descending and ascending and

descending on the Who's the ladder?

Who's the ladder? Say it Jesus.

Say Jesus the ladder, but read these two words.

Resting on the earth. Say resting on the earth and

reaching to heaven. Reaching to heaven.

So when you come to Christ and he comes into your life, he

rests on the earth and he reaches to heaven.

I was in a man's office this week.

It's built the most unbelievable business, got 1000 employees,

supernatural business that he's built.

And as I was reading John and sitting in his office, it felt

like the ladders here in his boardroom, resting in his

boardroom, reaching to heaven. And you've got too many

Christians with no rest in their heart, worrying themselves

stupid when they realize that Jesus is resting in the dust of

their homes. And he's reaching.

You don't have to do the reaching.

He does the reaching. He's resting and He's reaching.

And when I have fellowship with him, the angels ascend and

descend, and my message goes up and the message comes down, and

my message goes up and the message comes down, and I start

to live a supernatural life. Make sense?

I've been given a word and a proof of payment.

I've been given a right, not only a right, a birthright.

I've been given a list of names. It'll be enough in John chapter

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1 to conduct my life on this earth.

I've been given a ladder that links heaven and earth so that

I'm never alone in Jesus name.