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 Father, we confess before you that a lot of us are sort of in a rush a lot of times.

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 And Father, that when we come to your word, we're in a bit of a rush.

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 And so if things just don't make sense really quickly and easily to us,

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 we just sort of think the problem is somehow not us.

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 So Father, we thank you that you know us.

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 We thank you that you love us, that we don't catch you by surprise.

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 So we ask, Father, that you would gently pour the Holy Spirit upon each one of us this morning

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 to calm our mind and our hearts and our wills, our memories, our imaginations,

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 that your Holy Spirit would calm us so that we might sit with your word and dwell with your word.

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 And Father, we ask that you would write your word in the command center of our lives.

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 And all this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 So this week on Friday, I had the great honor and privilege.

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 I really do consider it a great honor and privilege when I get invited to go on Parliament Hill

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 to speak to the Parliament Hill Christian Fellowship.

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 Some of you know that there are Christian MPs on Parliament Hill and Christian senators.

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 They meet privately on some other day of the week just amongst themselves

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 so they can sort of share across party lines and pray for each other.

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 It might be a good idea for some of us to pray for them when they do that.

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 But on Friday, some of the staff workers and some of the people who work in civil service

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 right near Parliament Hill, they come together for a time to get to know each other,

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 encourage each other, and somebody usually opens the Bible and talks to them

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 about what the Bible teaches.

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 And that was my great privilege this past Friday.

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 And I gave them sort of like a little bit of a preview of what I was going to be trying

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 to say to you folks this morning.

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 And so one of the ways I began, here I am on Parliament Hill, and I said,

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 it must be really nice to work on Parliament Hill where you don't have to deal with anybody

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 with big egos.

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 And I got a bit of a chuckle out of that.

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 And then I said, you know, if I was in your seat, I would immediately respond,

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 George, it must be so nice to work in the church where you never have to deal with big egos.

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 Because, of course, there's a lot of big egos in the church.

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 But why are there big egos in the church?

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 You know?

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 And why is it that we're a lot better at seeing other people's big egos

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 than we are at seeing our own big egos, right?

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 I mean, that's the fact of the matter is, that we're a lot better at noticing big egos

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 in other people than we are with ourselves.

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 And so the text that we're going to look at today in Galatians chapter 5,

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 it has a lot of great wisdom and insight about the whole problem of big egos

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 and our ability to recognize them or not.

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 And it might be a bit of a surprise to you for me to say that,

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 because for many people when they read the text, which I read earlier today,

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 the main thing that strikes them isn't that it's talking about big egos,

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 but how it seems to contradict itself time and time again.

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 So if you look at the text with me, it's Galatians chapter 5, verse 26.

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 It's the last verse of chapter 5.

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 Galatians chapter 5, verse 26.

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 And here's what it says.

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 Let us not become conceited.

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 By the way, it's just six verses that we're looking at today,

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 but they're very packed and powerful verses.

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 And here's how it begins.

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 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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 Brothers and sisters, if anyone is caught in any transgression,

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 you who are spiritual should restore him or her in a spirit of gentleness.

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 Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted.

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 By the way, this text isn't giving us permission to go around and be like a group of moral police,

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 examining each other, hoping to catch people in something.

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 That's not what the verse is talking about at all.

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 And notice this command about the self-awareness that we're tempted ourselves,

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 and we're to do it gently.

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 Verse 2, and this is where some of the contradictions,

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 or at least apparent contradictions, start to make themselves clear.

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 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

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 But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone,

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 and not in his neighbor.

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 And just sort of pause before the last verse.

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 Doesn't it sound a little bit as if it's saying,

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 that we can boast, that we're allowed to boast, but isn't boasting a sin?

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 Like, how does boasting go along with the spirit of gentleness and not being tempted?

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 And then it says, for each of us, each will have to bear his own load.

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 That's verse 5.

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 So how is it that we have to bear each other's burdens,

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 and we each bear our own load?

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 And it just seems on one level to be a little bit confusing in the text.

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 And it starts off with this command.

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 It's easy to command people not to be conceited.

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 Of course, as you know, one of the problems is that we can end up being proud at how humble we are.

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 Boy, God, I thank you so much that I'm not conceited like those other people.

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 I mean, you know, that's part of the dilemma.

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 The very moment when you start to think that you have some victory,

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 the devil can completely and utterly undercut you by making you proud at your victory.

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 And which is, by the way, one of the reasons why the ancient spiritual writers

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 considered pride to be the deadliest of sins.

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 Because no matter how much victory you got on some of the other sins,

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 pride could always rear its head and bite you in the butt or infect you.

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 That it's, in fact, very, very hard to stamp out.

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 Many, many years ago in a previous church, I had a fellow in the congregation,

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 and I went to his 100th birthday party.

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 And I used to bring him communion about once a month.

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 And his name was Eve Byers.

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 And, you know, we had a bit of a conversation.

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 And just some of us, you young guys, you just have to trust me with this one,

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 just like I have to trust Eve Byers.

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 But when you're 100 years old, you don't have the temptation for lust as much as you did when you were 20.

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 Some of those desires die a little bit by the time you're 100.

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 But it's still easy to be proud of the fact that you've outlived so many people.

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 Like, no matter how old you are, pride can still rear its head.

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 So what's going on here on the text?

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 And why is it that there's so many big egos?

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 Why is it that we're blind about it?

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 And why is it that so many of us don't think that we have the problem with big egos?

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 We have battered and timid egos.

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 In fact, many people outside the Christian circles, if they were to talk about Christians,

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 they would see us as either being very, very timid, far too timid,

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 or they would think of us as being far too full of ourselves.

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 Well, let's just look at this one verse to sort of try to tease this text out a little bit.

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 Look at chapter 6, verse 4.

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 It says,

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 So here's the first insight about the text.

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 This is a very odd text.

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 We're going to talk about it a bit.

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 But here's the first thing.

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 If you could put up the first point, Andrew, that would be very helpful.

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 It is very hard for me to judge myself or assess myself.

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 Maybe assess would be a better word right here.

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 It's very hard for me to assess myself without assessing or judging myself by comparing myself to other people.

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 You ever notice that?

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 It's almost completely impossible for us just to assess ourselves as us.

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 Like, you know, if I'm assessing myself as a pastor,

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 it's very hard for me not to compare myself to other pastors and how they preach

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 and other churches and how they seem to be doing on metrics which the world thinks are very, very important.

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 It's very, very, very hard for me to do that.

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 Like, even if I try to do it, very quickly I'll start to notice that there's this comparison with others that sneaks itself in,

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 sneaks into my attempt to understand myself.

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 In fact, I would suggest that this is a human problem,

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 that human beings have a hard time doing this now,

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 just being able to assess themselves as if there's just almost as if they're the only person who exists and God,

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 and what other people are doing and how they're handling things are sort of irrelevant to assessing ourselves.

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 It's a human problem.

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 And it's a bit of a shock to a lot of Christians to discover that they're still human.

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 And we are.

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 That even if we've been saved by grace alone, through faith alone and Christ alone,

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 it's human beings who are saved, and we still have to grow and deal with the human condition.

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 And so some of you might say,

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 Well, George, that's really, really, really helpful for you to tell me that we have this human problem

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 that we're going to have all of our lives.

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 I was hoping for something a little bit more hopeful than that.

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 And then some of you as well might be saying,

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 Well, George, here's the problem with this.

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 If I was to really try to just assess myself and judge myself as if only I exist and God,

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 aren't you encouraging Christians to ignore social cues?

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 Like there have, I was just giving somebody in another church a week or two ago some advice.

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 They had a person in the congregation, and, you know, I don't know what the issue was.

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 Maybe it was there on the autism spectrum a little bit or whatever.

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 It was a bit of a mental illness or just whatever it is.

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 I don't know.

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 I wasn't a psychologist.

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 But what the problem was is that the person was causing trouble in the church

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 because the person didn't pick up social cues.

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 Like they were hugging women, and the women didn't want to be hugged.

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 And they would come and talk to people, and they'd stand way too close.

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 And one of the advice I gave is that for people who suffered that,

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 you have to be far more direct.

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 You almost have to be what...

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 If I was to talk to the person I was giving advice to, a pastor,

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 if I was to talk to you in this way, you would be unbelievably offended.

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 But for people who can't pick up social cues,

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 you have to realize there's something wrong with them,

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 and so you need to be far more direct and blunt with them

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 and in their face about it than you would be with a person who can't pick up social cues.

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 But the question is, if in fact the way forward is just to judge myself

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 without comparing myself to other people, George,

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 you're not encouraging churches and Christians to...

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 They're not dealing with their big ego.

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 They're not dealing with being too timid.

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 All you've done is made them like this person who can't pick up social cues.

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 Well, no, the Bible is far wiser than that.

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 Listen to verse 4 again.

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 Actually, no, before we read verse 4, could you put up the next point?

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 Here's the issue.

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 God never judges me by comparing me to other people.

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 Look all the way through the Bible.

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 Now, there will be times when God will say to Israel, for instance,

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 listen, you're even worse than the nations.

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 There is a time in 1 Corinthians when Paul says,

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 you guys are doing things that even the pagans wouldn't do.

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 But the heart of the judgment isn't that they don't match up to pagans.

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 The heart of the judgment is,

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 guys, it's wrong to have a young man sleep with his mom.

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 That's part of the issue in 1 Corinthians.

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 It isn't the issue of whether or not there's some type of curve going on.

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 But that God, in fact, all the way through the Bible,

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 God never judges me by comparing me to other people.

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 And yet, I can't judge myself without comparing myself to other people.

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 And, you know, the Bible does something, you know, just like,

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 I mean, this is really actually a very, very important thing to meditate upon.

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 You know, the average Canadian, and most of us are average Canadians,

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 but not maybe in this particular way.

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 What does the average Canadian say?

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 You know, you sort of, you know, parse out or take out the well-instructed atheists

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 who really are very consistent atheists who say that when they die,

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 they become worm food, and that's it.

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 And maybe you take out the very well-instructed Muslims

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 who would believe that a small percentage of the human race

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 will go to where all the virgins are, and everybody else goes to hell.

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 And you take out the small number of very well-instructed Hindus and Buddhists

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 who would understand that after the cycle of life and rebirth and life and rebirth,

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 eventually you merge with the one and you sort of disappear

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 because you've merged with the one.

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 And then you take out the very, very small number of maybe well-instructed Christians.

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 But the average Canadian, once you've taken all those things away,

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 and it might be, I don't know, 80% of Canada, what do they say when you die?

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 You go to a better place.

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 Now, why do they say that?

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 Because they say, I mean, they have no reason for saying that,

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 but they say that because at the end of the day,

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 they think God grades on some type of curve.

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 And they might say those mean, nasty Muslims,

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 they think only the top 2% are going to get into heaven.

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 And those crazy Christians,

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 they maybe only think the top 10% is going to get into heaven.

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 And we have no word at all to describe Jehovah Witnesses

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 that only think a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of 1%

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 will make it into heaven.

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 We're far more tolerant.

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 We think like 60% of people will be going to heaven,

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 or 80% of Canadians will go to heaven,

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 or everybody in Canada except those who voted for Donald Trump will go to heaven.

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 And we just sort of think that.

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 We just sort of think that God looks,

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 and he compares us and say,

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 yeah, you folks are all good folks,

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 you're all good lads,

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 all good women,

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 and yeah, yeah, you're all going to go.

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 Because how do we think?

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 We think that God judges us in comparison to other people.

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 And the Bible says that God never judges me

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 by comparing me to other people.

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 Like, never.

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 And so, when we start to realize this,

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 if you look now, look at this,

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 look at chapter 6 again.

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 Look at verse 5.

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 It says,

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 for each will have to bear his own load.

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 And just so you know,

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 in case I run out of time later on in the sermon,

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 the original,

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 I mean, in most of your English versions,

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 it'll have a different word for burden

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 in verse 2 and load in verse 5.

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 And that's because there's very, very radically different words

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 in the original language.

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 And the word for load

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 would be the same word as the pack

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 that a soldier puts on

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 to go off to leave the base

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 to go for battle.

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 He would carry, or she would carry,

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 their pack.

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 It is, in a sense,

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 it would be that

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 if you go on a hiking trip

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 and you have the things you need

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 to survive the hiking trip

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 on your back

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 or in your car

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 if you're going moose hunting

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 or something like that,

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 you carry the things with you.

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 And in a sense,

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 it's the things of your life.

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 The word for burden,

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 which we'll look at

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 a little bit more in a moment,

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 the word for burden

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 is something which is

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 very, very, very heavy,

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 which in effect

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 you can't really carry by yourself

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 and you have to carry

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 for a very, very long distance.

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 And so they're very, very different ideas.

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 So if you look at verse 5 again,

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 mindful of the fact

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 that God never judges me

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 by comparing me to other people,

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 the text says

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 each will have to bear his own load.

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 I'm held responsible

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 for how I do with you folks.

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 I'm held responsible

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 for how I deal with the money

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 that I've been entrusted with from God

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 with my own family.

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 It isn't that I'm judged

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 in terms of like Bill Hybels

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 with his big church

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 or somebody with a...

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 Like I have my load

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 and I need to deal with my load.

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 God will judge me

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 in terms of how I deal

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 with the things

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 which have been placed

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 in my care.

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 And, you know,

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 look back at verse 4.

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 But let each one test his own work.

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 Then his reason to boast

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 will be in himself alone

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 and not in his neighbor.

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 You see that whole idea there

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 about testing your own work

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 and not your neighbor

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 in terms of...

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 That we're so used to

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 judging ourselves

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 in terms of our neighbor.

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 And we'll talk a little bit

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 in a moment

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 about boasting about himself alone.

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 But just a very simple idea there, right?

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 Remember,

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 the idea is very clear

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 in the Bible

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 that humility

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 is not telling lies

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 about yourself.

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 If Einstein said,

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 I suck at math,

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 that wouldn't be humble.

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 If Usain Bolt said,

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 I can't even keep up

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 with a 95-year-old

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 and a walker,

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 he's lying.

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 And humility

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 isn't telling lies

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 about yourself.

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 It's other things about it,

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 but it's definitely

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 never telling lies

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 about yourself.

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 And look up at verse 3.

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 For if anyone thinks

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 he is something

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 when he is nothing,

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 he deceives himself.

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 And that's all

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 going to be seen

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 in a moment about...

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 We're going to understand

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 how the Bible means it,

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 but we tend to think

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 of ourselves

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 as being nothing

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 and compared to others.

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 We're something

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 and compared to others.

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 That if I meet

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 a whole pile of pastors

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 and they have churches

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 with only 25 people in them,

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 it's...

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 I mean,

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 this is self-disclosure.

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 You pray for me.

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 It's easy for me

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 to think I'm something.

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 And if I go to something

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 and everybody there

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 has churches

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 that have like a thousand

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 on a Sunday,

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 I feel like nothing.

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 But God never judges me

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 by comparing me

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 to other people.

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 Like, never.

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 Like, never.

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 So,

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 some of you say,

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 okay, George,

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 well,

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 I'm not sure

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 where to go with this.

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 Well,

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 let's go back

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 to how the text begins

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 in chapter 5,

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 verse 26.

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 It's just a few small words,

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 chapter 5,

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 verse 26,

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 but it's very,

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 very,

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 very powerful,

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 very,

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 very deep,

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 very wise,

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 and very insightful

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 about the human condition.

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 And it says,

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 let us not become conceited,

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 provoking one another,

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 envying one another.

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 And just so you know,

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 when it says here,

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 let us not become conceited,

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 provoking one another,

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 and envying one another,

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 I guess if I had thought about it,

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 it's not as if

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 there's three things

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 that we have to deal with,

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 conceited,

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 being conceited,

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 provoking others,

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 and envying others,

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 it's a very clear direction

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 that there's this problem

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 with being conceited,

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 and that leads

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 and shows itself

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 in two different ways,

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 provoking other people

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 and envying other people.

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 Like,

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 it flows from conceit,

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 these other two problems.

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 And so,

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 just to sort of

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 unpack it a little bit,

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 if you could put up

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 the next point,

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 underneath this text,

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 is something

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 which isn't very flattering

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 about the human being,

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 the human person,

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 but it's very true.

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 I am like you.

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 Yeah,

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 you come here

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 so I can insult you.

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 If the Bible,

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 it's not me,

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 it's the Bible.

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 I am like you.

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 I have glory hunger.

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 I've adapted this idea

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 from something

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 Tim Keller

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 talks about very movingly,

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 and he calls it

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 honor hunger.

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 And that is

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 that human beings

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 have this hunger,

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 this desire

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 to be honored,

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 to be recognized,

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 to not just be recognized

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 as,

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 oh yeah,

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 there's old Joe Blow,

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 or oh yeah,

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 there's Sue,

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 but to recognize

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 as,

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 whoa,

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 there's Joe,

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 or whoa,

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 there's Sue.

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 They're fantastic.

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 They're awesome.

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 They're brilliant.

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 They're beautiful.

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 They're whatever.

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 And every human being

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 has this honor hunger

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 or glory hunger.

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 And it's not even necessarily

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 something we struggle about

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 because it's almost hard

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 for us as human beings

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 who can't assess ourselves

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 without comparing ourselves

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 to others.

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 It's almost completely impossible

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 for us human beings

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 to assess ourselves

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 and somehow leave behind

00:21:39.019 --> 00:21:40.980
 this hunger we have

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 for recognition

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 and for honor.

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 And here's so many places

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 where the Bible

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 is just unbelievably wise.

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 Because,

00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:51.380
 you know,

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 it talks about how

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 in Genesis 1 and 2

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 how human beings

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 are made in God's image

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 and likeness

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 and how God makes

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 the entire created order

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 for us as human beings

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 to dwell here

00:22:02.120 --> 00:22:02.779
 as our home.

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 And he's given us,

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 you know,

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 a role in terms of

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 like almost representing

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 and being the ones

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 who can give voice

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 to the unceasing praise

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 of the mountains

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 and the seas

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 and the birds

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 and the animals

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 and the stars.

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 And his desire was

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 that he could walk

00:22:18.120 --> 00:22:18.980
 in the garden with us

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 in the cool of the day.

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 And we choose

00:22:21.360 --> 00:22:22.660
 to rebel against God

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 and rather than

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 being able to walk

00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:26.860
 with God in the garden,

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 we decide we want

00:22:27.500 --> 00:22:28.380
 to be like God.

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 We want to be God

00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:30.259
 because we don't trust

00:22:30.259 --> 00:22:30.799
 God's word.

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 We don't trust

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 that he's going to be

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 good enough.

00:22:33.019 --> 00:22:33.599
 We're going to be

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 God ourselves.

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 And when that happens,

00:22:36.200 --> 00:22:37.620
 there's this bending

00:22:37.620 --> 00:22:39.039
 and this fundamental break

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 in our relationship

00:22:39.819 --> 00:22:40.339
 with God

00:22:40.339 --> 00:22:41.140
 and our relationship

00:22:41.140 --> 00:22:41.900
 with ourselves

00:22:41.900 --> 00:22:42.680
 and our relationship

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 with each other

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 and our relationship

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 with the created order.

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 And it creates within us

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 because we're creatures

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 made in the image of God.

00:22:51.599 --> 00:22:52.539
 We are created

00:22:52.539 --> 00:22:54.059
 with this hunger

00:22:54.059 --> 00:22:55.900
 to be connected

00:22:55.900 --> 00:22:56.460
 to the one

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 in whose image we are.

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 a hunger

00:23:01.900 --> 00:23:05.080
 to walk with God

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 in the garden

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 where God

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 in a sense

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 every day

00:23:07.779 --> 00:23:08.380
 as we walk

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 with God

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 in the garden

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 puts his arm around

00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:10.560
 and he says,

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 how's it going?

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 I love walking

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 in the garden

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 with you.

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 And because he's God,

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 he can do it

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 for a billion people,

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 seven billion people,

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 20 billion people,

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 50 billion people

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 to each one.

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 We were in a sense

00:23:23.779 --> 00:23:24.600
 made for God

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 to put his arm

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 around you

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 and say,

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 gosh,

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 it's good to walk

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 in the garden

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 with you.

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 I love spending

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 time with you.

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 It's like we have

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 a type of a wound

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 within us.

00:23:41.259 --> 00:23:42.619
 That hunger

00:23:42.619 --> 00:23:44.079
 for honor,

00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:45.379
 for recognition,

00:23:46.299 --> 00:23:48.519
 for being in glory

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 which can only really be

00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:50.539
 not by being

00:23:50.539 --> 00:23:51.579
 like a God ourselves

00:23:51.579 --> 00:23:52.319
 but by being

00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:53.919
 with the true creator God

00:23:53.919 --> 00:23:55.000
 and sustainer God

00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:58.420
 and that's just gone.

00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:00.420
 And that's why

00:24:00.420 --> 00:24:01.059
 if you could put up

00:24:01.059 --> 00:24:01.839
 the next point,

00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.200
 the word translated

00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:05.500
 as conceit,

00:24:05.559 --> 00:24:06.059
 it's a very,

00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:06.319
 very,

00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:07.059
 very good word

00:24:07.059 --> 00:24:07.900
 but this is actually

00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:08.700
 one of those cases

00:24:08.700 --> 00:24:09.539
 where the old

00:24:09.539 --> 00:24:10.599
 King James version

00:24:10.599 --> 00:24:11.220
 of the Bible

00:24:11.220 --> 00:24:13.140
 actually has a better word.

00:24:13.859 --> 00:24:14.740
 If you go back

00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:15.279
 and you look up

00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:16.220
 the King James version

00:24:16.220 --> 00:24:16.680
 of the Bible,

00:24:16.779 --> 00:24:17.220
 it doesn't use

00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:17.940
 the word conceit,

00:24:17.980 --> 00:24:18.819
 it uses the word

00:24:18.819 --> 00:24:19.759
 vainglory.

00:24:21.779 --> 00:24:22.440
 That's really

00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:23.240
 old-fashioned.

00:24:23.240 --> 00:24:25.599
 But this word,

00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:26.279
 although I think

00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:27.380
 there's a video game

00:24:27.380 --> 00:24:28.359
 involving lots of

00:24:28.359 --> 00:24:29.359
 mayhem and murder

00:24:29.359 --> 00:24:30.220
 called it,

00:24:30.220 --> 00:24:30.859
 but that's separate.

00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:31.680
 So other than people

00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:32.359
 who watch,

00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:32.640
 you know,

00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:33.519
 play those games,

00:24:33.660 --> 00:24:34.859
 it's an old-fashioned word.

00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:36.400
 But I am like you.

00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:37.160
 I desire

00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:38.900
 vain glory,

00:24:39.620 --> 00:24:40.779
 glory for myself

00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:42.160
 in regard to matters

00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:43.599
 that are in reality

00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:44.240
 unrighteous.

00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:45.500
 So,

00:24:46.000 --> 00:24:48.559
 if I would ever

00:24:48.559 --> 00:24:49.440
 get to do this sermon

00:24:49.440 --> 00:24:49.720
 again,

00:24:49.779 --> 00:24:50.960
 I'm going to use

00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:51.880
 that line a little bit

00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:52.519
 different because

00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:53.000
 there's sort of

00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:54.160
 three ideas

00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:56.420
 behind this idea

00:24:56.420 --> 00:24:57.660
 of vainglory

00:24:57.660 --> 00:24:59.359
 and only one of them

00:24:59.359 --> 00:24:59.900
 is around

00:24:59.900 --> 00:25:01.059
 unimportant matters.

00:25:01.539 --> 00:25:02.500
 Quite a few years ago

00:25:02.500 --> 00:25:03.079
 when I was in my

00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:03.799
 previous church,

00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:04.940
 which was a rural

00:25:04.940 --> 00:25:05.880
 country church,

00:25:06.440 --> 00:25:07.480
 I was doing a wedding

00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:08.420
 rehearsal one night

00:25:08.420 --> 00:25:08.960
 and I was having

00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:09.480
 a lot of trouble

00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:10.799
 with my Chrysler minivan,

00:25:11.140 --> 00:25:12.480
 my Dodge Chrysler minivan.

00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:13.620
 And so,

00:25:13.819 --> 00:25:15.500
 the women hadn't arrived

00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:16.720
 but the guys were there.

00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:18.799
 And this is country.

00:25:19.120 --> 00:25:20.140
 Every one of these guys,

00:25:20.240 --> 00:25:20.380
 I mean,

00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:20.860
 they could have built

00:25:20.860 --> 00:25:21.740
 their own sawmill,

00:25:21.900 --> 00:25:22.920
 built their own truck,

00:25:23.240 --> 00:25:24.339
 built their own airplane,

00:25:24.900 --> 00:25:25.559
 wired the house.

00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:25.779
 I mean,

00:25:25.799 --> 00:25:26.640
 these are like the

00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:27.480
 archetype,

00:25:28.440 --> 00:25:29.019
 burly,

00:25:29.559 --> 00:25:30.200
 country,

00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:31.779
 handy guys.

00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:32.599
 So,

00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:33.120
 I think we have

00:25:33.120 --> 00:25:33.720
 a few moments.

00:25:33.940 --> 00:25:34.440
 I'm going to ask

00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:35.420
 one of them to come over,

00:25:35.559 --> 00:25:36.220
 the groom,

00:25:36.380 --> 00:25:37.120
 the future groom,

00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:37.620
 to come over

00:25:37.620 --> 00:25:38.099
 and have a look

00:25:38.099 --> 00:25:40.059
 at my van

00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:40.779
 which is giving me

00:25:40.779 --> 00:25:41.480
 some problems

00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:43.500
 and he saunters over

00:25:43.500 --> 00:25:45.180
 in his jeans

00:25:45.180 --> 00:25:46.440
 and his cowboy boots

00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:48.440
 and he looks at it

00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:49.640
 and for the next

00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:50.620
 five minutes,

00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:52.039
 and his buddies

00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:54.019
 and the dad

00:25:54.019 --> 00:25:54.299
 and all,

00:25:54.380 --> 00:25:55.099
 they come behind him

00:25:55.099 --> 00:25:55.620
 and for the next

00:25:55.620 --> 00:25:56.380
 five minutes,

00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:58.839
 he ragged on me

00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:00.440
 for being so stupid

00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:01.900
 as to buy a Chrysler.

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:06.180
 And basically,

00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:07.740
 if you're stupid enough

00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:08.720
 to buy a Chrysler,

00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:10.059
 there's nothing you can do

00:26:10.059 --> 00:26:10.859
 for something

00:26:10.859 --> 00:26:12.240
 which is a Chrysler.

00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:14.059
 And for five minutes,

00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:15.019
 he and his buddies

00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:16.679
 ragged me on this issue

00:26:16.679 --> 00:26:17.700
 and it only ended

00:26:17.700 --> 00:26:19.139
 when it turned out

00:26:19.139 --> 00:26:20.139
 there were about six of them

00:26:20.139 --> 00:26:20.779
 and four of them

00:26:20.779 --> 00:26:21.799
 were Chevy guys

00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:22.819
 and two of them

00:26:22.819 --> 00:26:23.720
 were Ford guys.

00:26:24.659 --> 00:26:25.740
 So then they ragged

00:26:25.740 --> 00:26:26.379
 on each other

00:26:26.379 --> 00:26:27.659
 for being so stupid

00:26:27.659 --> 00:26:28.559
 to drive a Chevy

00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:29.139
 or a Ford.

00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:32.200
 And,

00:26:32.339 --> 00:26:32.639
 you know,

00:26:32.700 --> 00:26:33.359
 it was as if

00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:34.240
 it was a point

00:26:34.240 --> 00:26:35.220
 of importance

00:26:35.220 --> 00:26:35.980
 to them

00:26:35.980 --> 00:26:38.079
 that they're not stupid

00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:39.039
 like other people.

00:26:39.900 --> 00:26:40.660
 And this was

00:26:40.660 --> 00:26:41.819
 in the early 90s.

00:26:42.099 --> 00:26:43.920
 They would have gotten

00:26:43.920 --> 00:26:44.920
 very foul-mouthed

00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:45.440
 if it came to

00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:46.400
 Japanese vehicles,

00:26:46.500 --> 00:26:47.180
 let me tell you.

00:26:47.559 --> 00:26:48.759
 Had to be American,

00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:50.420
 North American.

00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:51.240
 And so,

00:26:51.339 --> 00:26:52.319
 but here's the thing,

00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:52.680
 okay?

00:26:53.019 --> 00:26:53.900
 So this word

00:26:53.900 --> 00:26:54.839
 which we translate

00:26:54.839 --> 00:26:55.640
 in our Bible here

00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:56.259
 is conceit

00:26:56.259 --> 00:26:57.140
 which could also be

00:26:57.140 --> 00:26:58.259
 translated as vainglory.

00:26:58.740 --> 00:26:59.579
 One of the aspects

00:26:59.579 --> 00:27:00.440
 of vainglory

00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:01.599
 is that we think

00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:02.440
 we're important

00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:03.500
 because of things

00:27:03.500 --> 00:27:04.460
 which are completely

00:27:04.460 --> 00:27:05.960
 and utterly unimportant.

00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:07.359
 There was a thing

00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:08.319
 in the National Post

00:27:08.319 --> 00:27:09.579
 just a week or two ago

00:27:09.579 --> 00:27:11.660
 and to my amazement

00:27:11.660 --> 00:27:12.660
 it said that

00:27:12.660 --> 00:27:13.440
 a lot of women

00:27:13.440 --> 00:27:14.259
 in their 20s

00:27:14.259 --> 00:27:16.880
 spend $300 a month

00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:17.720
 on makeup.

00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:21.140
 I wish,

00:27:21.240 --> 00:27:22.180
 I couldn't believe it.

00:27:22.920 --> 00:27:24.039
 Imagine the better Chevy

00:27:24.039 --> 00:27:24.480
 you could get

00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:26.779
 with an extra $300 a month.

00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:28.500
 But I couldn't believe it

00:27:28.500 --> 00:27:29.000
 so I asked

00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:30.420
 one of my kids

00:27:30.420 --> 00:27:30.859
 and they said,

00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:31.220
 yeah, yeah,

00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:31.900
 that's very,

00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:32.660
 there's a lot of

00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:33.440
 young women

00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:34.279
 who spend $300

00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:35.360
 a month on makeup

00:27:35.360 --> 00:27:36.000
 and then they said,

00:27:36.059 --> 00:27:36.920
 you should be so glad

00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:38.019
 you have me as your daughter

00:27:38.019 --> 00:27:39.340
 and you're married to Louise

00:27:39.340 --> 00:27:41.100
 and I'm very grateful

00:27:41.100 --> 00:27:42.700
 for them as my daughters

00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:43.519
 and Louise

00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:44.380
 because they definitely

00:27:44.380 --> 00:27:45.360
 don't spend $300

00:27:45.360 --> 00:27:46.160
 a month

00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:47.500
 on makeup.

00:27:48.059 --> 00:27:49.279
 But people can be

00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:50.660
 very proud about that

00:27:50.660 --> 00:27:51.360
 but makeup?

00:27:51.580 --> 00:27:51.880
 Your ability

00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:52.539
 to put on makeup?

00:27:53.740 --> 00:27:53.920
 You know,

00:27:53.980 --> 00:27:55.460
 you read style magazines

00:27:55.460 --> 00:27:56.600
 and people are proud

00:27:56.600 --> 00:27:57.259
 about their ability

00:27:57.259 --> 00:27:58.420
 to pick out the right color

00:27:58.420 --> 00:27:59.740
 or proud about their ability

00:27:59.740 --> 00:28:01.019
 to pick out the right whiskey

00:28:01.019 --> 00:28:02.200
 or proud about their ability

00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:03.420
 to pick up the right coffee

00:28:03.420 --> 00:28:05.220
 or whatever it is

00:28:05.220 --> 00:28:06.640
 or the anti type of stuff.

00:28:06.759 --> 00:28:06.860
 You know,

00:28:06.900 --> 00:28:07.960
 we don't waste our money

00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:08.539
 on all that stuff.

00:28:08.580 --> 00:28:09.259
 We go to Costco

00:28:09.259 --> 00:28:09.740
 or wherever,

00:28:09.900 --> 00:28:11.720
 whatever the hipster reaction is.

00:28:12.340 --> 00:28:14.019
 But so part of vainglory

00:28:14.019 --> 00:28:15.580
 and judging yourself

00:28:15.580 --> 00:28:16.340
 to other people

00:28:16.340 --> 00:28:18.480
 is a pride over things

00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:20.340
 which don't matter at all.

00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:22.180
 If you don't know this,

00:28:22.220 --> 00:28:23.100
 you've heard me say it before,

00:28:23.220 --> 00:28:24.400
 God never judges you

00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:25.740
 by how much money you make.

00:28:26.300 --> 00:28:27.279
 He doesn't judge you

00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:28.180
 and say you're bad

00:28:28.180 --> 00:28:28.840
 if you're poor

00:28:28.840 --> 00:28:29.860
 and good if you're rich

00:28:29.859 --> 00:28:31.259
 or bad if you're rich

00:28:31.259 --> 00:28:32.219
 and good if you're poor

00:28:32.219 --> 00:28:33.259
 and he doesn't judge you

00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:34.240
 in terms of whether

00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:36.000
 you have 10 extra pounds

00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:37.179
 or 20 extra pounds

00:28:37.179 --> 00:28:38.619
 or whether you're too skinny.

00:28:38.699 --> 00:28:39.399
 He doesn't judge you

00:28:39.399 --> 00:28:40.719
 on how many muscles you have

00:28:40.719 --> 00:28:42.019
 or whether you're good looking

00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:43.019
 or whether you're ugly.

00:28:43.159 --> 00:28:43.839
 He doesn't judge you

00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:44.779
 on whether you're smart

00:28:44.779 --> 00:28:45.779
 or whether you're dumb

00:28:45.779 --> 00:28:47.059
 or your IQ's high,

00:28:47.579 --> 00:28:48.459
 your IQ's low,

00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:49.619
 your EQ's high,

00:28:49.699 --> 00:28:50.399
 your EQ's low.

00:28:50.699 --> 00:28:51.500
 None of those things

00:28:51.500 --> 00:28:52.819
 which matter so much to us

00:28:52.819 --> 00:28:54.199
 does God ever judge us on.

00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:57.680
 And we really think

00:28:57.680 --> 00:28:58.420
 we're something

00:28:58.420 --> 00:28:59.860
 on a lot of those issues

00:28:59.860 --> 00:29:01.299
 and that's vain glory.

00:29:02.059 --> 00:29:03.180
 And the other aspect

00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:04.120
 of vain glory

00:29:04.120 --> 00:29:06.720
 is that it's a desire

00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:07.680
 for,

00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:09.740
 it's a desire

00:29:09.740 --> 00:29:13.620
 to be seen by others

00:29:13.620 --> 00:29:14.720
 as being important.

00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:16.120
 In effect,

00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:17.600
 it's a desire by others

00:29:17.600 --> 00:29:18.319
 to be seen by others

00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:19.000
 as if you're somehow

00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:20.100
 a little bit of a God

00:29:20.100 --> 00:29:22.160
 and there it's a matter of,

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:23.640
 that's a vain pursuit,

00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:24.200
 right?

00:29:24.320 --> 00:29:25.120
 It would be like,

00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:26.840
 like a vain pursuit

00:29:26.840 --> 00:29:27.520
 would be,

00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:28.300
 I don't know,

00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:29.540
 like a football analogy

00:29:29.540 --> 00:29:30.840
 to Cleveland Browns

00:29:30.840 --> 00:29:32.080
 trying to win the Super Bowl

00:29:32.080 --> 00:29:32.880
 this year or next.

00:29:32.940 --> 00:29:34.040
 That's a vain pursuit.

00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:34.860
 There's no hope

00:29:34.860 --> 00:29:35.660
 in it whatsoever.

00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:38.680
 If they win it next year,

00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:39.480
 that would be really,

00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:40.600
 I'm not a prophet,

00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:40.960
 okay?

00:29:41.100 --> 00:29:42.080
 If they win it next year,

00:29:42.120 --> 00:29:42.960
 that would be shocking.

00:29:43.220 --> 00:29:44.640
 But a vain pursuit.

00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:46.280
 And then the third aspect

00:29:46.280 --> 00:29:47.220
 of it is it just means

00:29:47.220 --> 00:29:48.020
 vain in the sense

00:29:48.020 --> 00:29:48.800
 of self-centered

00:29:48.800 --> 00:29:50.460
 and conceit.

00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:52.259
 A vain person.

00:29:52.259 --> 00:29:54.440
 And it's all captured

00:29:54.440 --> 00:29:55.519
 in the original language

00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:56.599
 and it's all wonderfully

00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:57.660
 captured in this word

00:29:57.660 --> 00:29:58.539
 vain glory,

00:29:58.859 --> 00:29:59.879
 which I understand

00:29:59.879 --> 00:30:00.859
 why they don't translate it

00:30:00.859 --> 00:30:01.799
 because it's an old word

00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:02.900
 and has to be explained.

00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:05.059
 And so what the Bible

00:30:05.059 --> 00:30:05.599
 is saying is,

00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:06.319
 I am like you.

00:30:06.379 --> 00:30:07.579
 I desire vain glory.

00:30:07.740 --> 00:30:08.900
 Glory for myself

00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:10.379
 in regard to matters

00:30:10.379 --> 00:30:11.480
 that are in reality

00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:12.180
 unimportant.

00:30:12.579 --> 00:30:14.460
 Or I desire vain glory

00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:15.720
 because I'm vain.

00:30:15.940 --> 00:30:16.879
 I just think there's

00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:17.700
 something unbelievably

00:30:17.700 --> 00:30:18.740
 special about me.

00:30:18.740 --> 00:30:20.539
 Or I desire vain glory

00:30:20.539 --> 00:30:21.660
 because I want to have

00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:22.660
 everybody honor me.

00:30:22.740 --> 00:30:24.000
 I have an honor hunger.

00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:25.500
 I have a glory hunger.

00:30:25.819 --> 00:30:27.079
 And I walk around

00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:28.420
 with this glory hunger

00:30:28.420 --> 00:30:30.700
 and honor hunger

00:30:30.700 --> 00:30:31.920
 all the time.

00:30:34.259 --> 00:30:35.359
 But some of you

00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:35.779
 might say,

00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:36.279
 George,

00:30:37.859 --> 00:30:41.900
 I so wish

00:30:41.900 --> 00:30:42.819
 my husband

00:30:42.819 --> 00:30:43.839
 could hear this

00:30:43.839 --> 00:30:44.660
 because you've just

00:30:44.660 --> 00:30:45.940
 described him perfectly.

00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:48.180
 Or I just so wish

00:30:48.180 --> 00:30:49.720
 my dad could hear this

00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:50.400
 because you've just

00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:51.880
 described him to a T.

00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:53.279
 But George,

00:30:53.460 --> 00:30:54.799
 I've been beat up

00:30:54.799 --> 00:30:55.799
 by people like that

00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:56.600
 all my life.

00:30:59.019 --> 00:31:00.680
 And that's not my problem.

00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:03.920
 Let's listen to the text again.

00:31:04.100 --> 00:31:04.880
 Remember I said,

00:31:05.420 --> 00:31:07.000
 let us not become conceited

00:31:07.000 --> 00:31:08.340
 or let us not

00:31:08.340 --> 00:31:09.960
 become vainglorious.

00:31:10.600 --> 00:31:11.360
 Remember I said

00:31:11.360 --> 00:31:12.140
 that in the language

00:31:12.140 --> 00:31:12.759
 it then says

00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:14.039
 there's two different things

00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:14.960
 that flow from it.

00:31:14.960 --> 00:31:16.120
 provoking one another

00:31:16.120 --> 00:31:17.559
 or envying one another.

00:31:17.640 --> 00:31:18.160
 If you could put up

00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:18.799
 the next point.

00:31:19.380 --> 00:31:20.200
 So here's what the Bible

00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:20.579
 has said.

00:31:21.039 --> 00:31:21.799
 When I believe

00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:23.360
 I am doing a great job

00:31:23.360 --> 00:31:24.720
 in attaining vain glory.

00:31:24.940 --> 00:31:25.940
 I know Scotch

00:31:25.940 --> 00:31:26.759
 so much better

00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:27.480
 than everybody here

00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:27.779
 in the room

00:31:27.779 --> 00:31:28.759
 except one person.

00:31:29.019 --> 00:31:29.299
 Like just,

00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:29.579
 you know,

00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:30.019
 come on.

00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:31.539
 Give me the kudos, right?

00:31:33.299 --> 00:31:34.019
 When I believe

00:31:34.019 --> 00:31:35.039
 I am doing a great job

00:31:35.039 --> 00:31:36.240
 in attaining vain glory,

00:31:36.380 --> 00:31:37.519
 I provoke people.

00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:38.440
 And the word provoke

00:31:38.440 --> 00:31:39.480
 here in the original language

00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:41.000
 it means challenge people,

00:31:41.539 --> 00:31:42.680
 irritate people.

00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:46.400
 bother people.

00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:48.759
 But when I believe

00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:50.480
 I am doing a poor job

00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:52.480
 in attaining vain glory,

00:31:52.740 --> 00:31:54.340
 I envy other people.

00:31:56.019 --> 00:31:56.640
 In other words,

00:31:57.400 --> 00:31:58.100
 many of us

00:31:58.100 --> 00:31:58.600
 who struggle

00:31:58.600 --> 00:32:00.340
 with inferiority complexes,

00:32:00.600 --> 00:32:01.519
 our problem is

00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:04.200
 we have a vain glory project

00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:06.240
 and we just suck at it.

00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:10.279
 Or we think we suck at it

00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:11.200
 so we're depressed.

00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:14.180
 And other of us

00:32:14.180 --> 00:32:15.340
 have the exact same

00:32:15.340 --> 00:32:16.460
 vain glory project

00:32:16.460 --> 00:32:17.460
 but because we think

00:32:17.460 --> 00:32:18.400
 that it really matters

00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:19.480
 whether you buy your coffee

00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:20.039
 at Starbucks

00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:21.100
 or Tim Hortons,

00:32:21.580 --> 00:32:22.440
 we think we're better

00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:23.180
 than other people.

00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:25.340
 Like how stupid is that?

00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:27.960
 That's why the text says

00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:29.299
 we deceive ourselves.

00:32:30.980 --> 00:32:32.340
 Like we deceive ourselves

00:32:32.340 --> 00:32:33.360
 all the time.

00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:38.399
 And you see,

00:32:38.479 --> 00:32:39.859
 this is a very, very

00:32:39.859 --> 00:32:41.859
 unbelievably insightful

00:32:41.859 --> 00:32:43.279
 Bible passage.

00:32:44.439 --> 00:32:45.500
 And it's also,

00:32:45.659 --> 00:32:46.079
 by the way,

00:32:46.199 --> 00:32:47.539
 it's also a little bit,

00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:49.699
 see it's also very,

00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:50.219
 very helpful

00:32:50.219 --> 00:32:51.799
 because people are complex.

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:52.959
 You know,

00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:53.319
 like,

00:32:53.659 --> 00:32:55.000
 so what can happen is,

00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:55.740
 so, you know,

00:32:55.779 --> 00:32:57.579
 I think there can just be somebody,

00:32:57.779 --> 00:32:58.479
 some people are just

00:32:58.479 --> 00:32:59.740
 so beat up by life

00:32:59.740 --> 00:33:01.339
 that they're basically

00:33:01.339 --> 00:33:02.439
 almost always

00:33:02.439 --> 00:33:03.199
 doing,

00:33:03.319 --> 00:33:03.980
 thinking they're doing

00:33:03.980 --> 00:33:04.639
 a poor job

00:33:04.639 --> 00:33:05.659
 of attaining vain glory.

00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:06.439
 And there's other people

00:33:06.439 --> 00:33:07.759
 who basically all the time

00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:08.299
 think they're doing

00:33:08.299 --> 00:33:09.579
 a spectacular job

00:33:09.579 --> 00:33:11.299
 and so they're dealing

00:33:11.299 --> 00:33:12.220
 with provoking people

00:33:12.220 --> 00:33:12.579
 all the time.

00:33:12.639 --> 00:33:13.559
 But most of us,

00:33:13.639 --> 00:33:14.720
 we're a mixture

00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:15.559
 of these things.

00:33:15.659 --> 00:33:17.220
 So it might very well be

00:33:17.220 --> 00:33:19.399
 that at work,

00:33:20.099 --> 00:33:21.399
 the husband thinks

00:33:21.399 --> 00:33:23.720
 he's really spectacular.

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:25.619
 No, sorry,

00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:26.319
 got this wrong.

00:33:26.539 --> 00:33:27.779
 It might be that at work,

00:33:27.859 --> 00:33:28.859
 he looks at himself

00:33:28.859 --> 00:33:29.419
 and he thinks,

00:33:29.539 --> 00:33:30.559
 I'm not getting the promotions

00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:31.519
 I should be getting

00:33:31.519 --> 00:33:32.480
 and I don't,

00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:33.240
 I can't drive,

00:33:33.579 --> 00:33:33.759
 you know,

00:33:33.819 --> 00:33:34.759
 I'm stuck driving

00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:35.500
 a Ford Ranger

00:33:35.500 --> 00:33:36.059
 and I'd really like

00:33:36.059 --> 00:33:36.679
 to have enough money

00:33:36.679 --> 00:33:38.139
 to buy an F-150

00:33:38.139 --> 00:33:39.480
 or an F-250.

00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:42.220
 And so they're comparing

00:33:42.220 --> 00:33:43.339
 themselves to other people

00:33:43.339 --> 00:33:45.440
 and they feel insecure,

00:33:45.700 --> 00:33:46.200
 inferior,

00:33:47.259 --> 00:33:49.099
 and envious at work,

00:33:49.259 --> 00:33:50.559
 but they go home

00:33:50.559 --> 00:33:51.819
 and they think

00:33:51.819 --> 00:33:52.779
 their wife's a loser

00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:53.899
 and they feel superior.

00:33:56.579 --> 00:33:58.119
 And so they go through

00:33:58.119 --> 00:33:58.559
 their day

00:33:58.559 --> 00:33:59.099
 and they're a week

00:33:59.099 --> 00:33:59.859
 like a yo-yo.

00:34:00.559 --> 00:34:03.059
 They leave the house

00:34:03.059 --> 00:34:04.839
 and they feel inferior,

00:34:05.019 --> 00:34:05.619
 they come home

00:34:05.619 --> 00:34:06.599
 and they feel superior.

00:34:07.159 --> 00:34:08.539
 And you can multiply this

00:34:08.539 --> 00:34:09.199
 with friendships,

00:34:09.860 --> 00:34:11.380
 with sports,

00:34:11.759 --> 00:34:13.320
 with all sorts of things,

00:34:13.599 --> 00:34:15.799
 is that we can go

00:34:15.799 --> 00:34:16.820
 from one to the other.

00:34:18.159 --> 00:34:20.079
 But the fundamental problem

00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.179
 is that we have

00:34:21.179 --> 00:34:22.000
 a God project

00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:23.019
 and a glory hunger

00:34:23.019 --> 00:34:23.880
 and an honor hunger

00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:24.739
 that's completely

00:34:24.739 --> 00:34:26.299
 and utterly unexamined

00:34:26.299 --> 00:34:27.860
 and isn't being killed.

00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:30.539
 and isn't being replaced

00:34:30.539 --> 00:34:31.579
 by something else.

00:34:32.579 --> 00:34:33.180
 So, you know,

00:34:33.200 --> 00:34:33.840
 I don't say all this

00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:34.700
 to depress you.

00:34:35.200 --> 00:34:36.260
 I mean, think of all of us.

00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:38.460
 If you could put up

00:34:38.460 --> 00:34:39.140
 the next point,

00:34:40.059 --> 00:34:40.400
 great.

00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:43.340
 In the midst of our pursuit

00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:44.200
 of vain glory,

00:34:44.900 --> 00:34:46.000
 God, the Son of God,

00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:46.860
 emptied himself

00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:47.820
 and died for us

00:34:47.820 --> 00:34:48.599
 to save us.

00:34:50.680 --> 00:34:52.579
 In the midst of my pursuit

00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:53.539
 of vain glory,

00:34:54.240 --> 00:34:55.260
 God, the Son of God,

00:34:55.340 --> 00:34:56.119
 emptied himself

00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:57.160
 and died for me

00:34:57.160 --> 00:34:57.980
 to save me.

00:34:58.559 --> 00:34:58.740
 I mean,

00:34:58.780 --> 00:34:59.880
 you think about the gospel

00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:00.559
 for a second.

00:35:00.680 --> 00:35:01.599
 This is what's so

00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:03.940
 completely counter

00:35:03.940 --> 00:35:06.920
 to how we think

00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:08.139
 in terms of comparing

00:35:08.139 --> 00:35:09.360
 ourselves to others

00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:11.720
 and having an honor hunger

00:35:11.720 --> 00:35:13.599
 is that the Bible

00:35:13.599 --> 00:35:14.700
 describes it

00:35:14.700 --> 00:35:15.220
 from,

00:35:16.220 --> 00:35:17.039
 in Philippians 2,

00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:18.519
 it's very powerfully put

00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:18.820
 that

00:35:18.820 --> 00:35:21.440
 from all creation,

00:35:22.059 --> 00:35:22.440
 God,

00:35:22.579 --> 00:35:23.300
 the Son of God,

00:35:23.380 --> 00:35:24.139
 the second person

00:35:24.139 --> 00:35:24.700
 of the Trinity,

00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:26.159
 he lives in glory

00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:27.300
 and majesty

00:35:27.300 --> 00:35:28.579
 and splendor

00:35:28.579 --> 00:35:32.340
 and divine prerogatives

00:35:32.340 --> 00:35:34.180
 and he has this

00:35:34.180 --> 00:35:35.500
 unceasing love

00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:36.120
 and affection

00:35:36.120 --> 00:35:37.180
 with God,

00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:37.800
 the Father

00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:39.039
 and the Holy Spirit

00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:40.400
 is like the love

00:35:40.400 --> 00:35:41.240
 between the Father

00:35:41.240 --> 00:35:41.900
 and the Son

00:35:41.900 --> 00:35:43.420
 and is his own person

00:35:43.420 --> 00:35:44.120
 and there's just,

00:35:44.860 --> 00:35:45.440
 and God,

00:35:45.640 --> 00:35:46.480
 and God,

00:35:46.600 --> 00:35:47.820
 the Son of God,

00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:50.539
 out of love

00:35:50.539 --> 00:35:51.620
 for human beings

00:35:51.620 --> 00:35:52.680
 like you and me

00:35:52.680 --> 00:35:53.700
 who've rebelled

00:35:53.700 --> 00:35:54.400
 against God,

00:35:54.539 --> 00:35:55.360
 turned our back

00:35:55.360 --> 00:35:55.880
 on God,

00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:56.900
 shaken our fist

00:35:56.900 --> 00:35:57.320
 at God,

00:35:57.500 --> 00:35:58.620
 broken ourselves,

00:35:59.260 --> 00:36:00.500
 are walking around

00:36:00.500 --> 00:36:01.660
 with vain glory

00:36:01.659 --> 00:36:02.399
 projects,

00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:03.579
 glory hungers,

00:36:04.039 --> 00:36:04.899
 honor hungers,

00:36:05.019 --> 00:36:06.059
 comparing ourselves

00:36:06.059 --> 00:36:07.000
 to each other

00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:08.879
 and dumping on each other

00:36:08.879 --> 00:36:10.099
 and dumping on ourselves

00:36:10.099 --> 00:36:11.879
 and that's what we're doing

00:36:11.879 --> 00:36:12.519
 and God,

00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:13.359
 the Son of God,

00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:14.679
 looks down at us

00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:15.940
 and sees that we cannot

00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:17.000
 fix ourselves

00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:18.579
 and so out of love

00:36:18.579 --> 00:36:19.079
 for us,

00:36:19.399 --> 00:36:20.480
 he doesn't yell

00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:21.319
 at us

00:36:21.319 --> 00:36:23.699
 but he sets aside

00:36:23.699 --> 00:36:24.319
 his glory

00:36:24.319 --> 00:36:25.480
 and he sets aside

00:36:25.480 --> 00:36:26.059
 his honor

00:36:26.059 --> 00:36:27.539
 and he sets aside

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:28.819
 his divine prerogatives

00:36:28.820 --> 00:36:30.260
 and he sets aside

00:36:30.260 --> 00:36:31.340
 everything that even

00:36:31.340 --> 00:36:32.140
 makes himself

00:36:32.140 --> 00:36:33.240
 look like God

00:36:33.240 --> 00:36:34.620
 and he sets all

00:36:34.620 --> 00:36:35.480
 of this aside

00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:36.420
 but he remains

00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:37.420
 in his fundamental

00:36:37.420 --> 00:36:38.620
 nature God

00:36:38.620 --> 00:36:41.080
 and he enters

00:36:41.080 --> 00:36:42.700
 the womb of Mary

00:36:42.700 --> 00:36:44.559
 taking into himself

00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:45.780
 our human nature

00:36:45.780 --> 00:36:48.700
 and God,

00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:49.920
 the Son of God,

00:36:50.700 --> 00:36:52.640
 the creator of all things,

00:36:52.780 --> 00:36:54.360
 the sustainer of all things,

00:36:54.500 --> 00:36:56.180
 the shaper of all things,

00:36:56.179 --> 00:36:58.139
 of unbelievable glory

00:36:58.139 --> 00:36:58.940
 and majesty

00:36:58.940 --> 00:37:00.519
 that when we

00:37:00.519 --> 00:37:02.259
 enter the new heaven

00:37:02.259 --> 00:37:03.239
 and the new earth

00:37:03.239 --> 00:37:05.419
 as redeemed individuals,

00:37:05.779 --> 00:37:07.519
 we will spend

00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:08.699
 all of eternity

00:37:08.699 --> 00:37:11.339
 and not exhaust

00:37:11.339 --> 00:37:12.219
 the beauty

00:37:12.219 --> 00:37:12.879
 and the glory

00:37:12.879 --> 00:37:13.819
 and the majesty

00:37:13.819 --> 00:37:15.159
 of God

00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:18.379
 and that same God,

00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:19.379
 the Son of God,

00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:21.919
 enters the womb of Mary

00:37:21.919 --> 00:37:23.480
 emptied of all

00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:24.919
 but that which continues

00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:25.880
 to make him God

00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:26.840
 but he empties himself

00:37:26.840 --> 00:37:27.900
 of all appearances

00:37:27.900 --> 00:37:29.720
 and his emptying

00:37:29.720 --> 00:37:31.119
 continues by living

00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:32.500
 a human life

00:37:32.500 --> 00:37:33.519
 in a remote corner

00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:35.380
 of the Roman Empire

00:37:35.380 --> 00:37:37.159
 under a conquered people

00:37:37.159 --> 00:37:40.440
 and he empties himself

00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:41.300
 even further

00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:42.960
 by dying on the cross

00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:44.380
 and on the cross

00:37:44.380 --> 00:37:46.539
 he bears your burdens

00:37:46.539 --> 00:37:47.380
 and mine,

00:37:47.619 --> 00:37:49.220
 he bears your load

00:37:49.220 --> 00:37:49.980
 and mine,

00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:52.280
 he bears your curse

00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:53.240
 and mine,

00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:55.199
 he bears our shame,

00:37:55.419 --> 00:37:57.119
 he bears our sin,

00:37:57.579 --> 00:37:59.219
 he bears our death,

00:37:59.619 --> 00:38:01.259
 he bears our rebellion

00:38:01.259 --> 00:38:02.759
 with nothing left over

00:38:02.759 --> 00:38:04.959
 that continues to be poured

00:38:04.959 --> 00:38:05.879
 into him

00:38:05.879 --> 00:38:07.239
 as he empties himself

00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:08.459
 and tastes all there is

00:38:08.459 --> 00:38:09.279
 to taste of death

00:38:09.279 --> 00:38:11.759
 and even for our sake

00:38:11.759 --> 00:38:13.159
 tastes abandonment

00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:14.859
 from the Father

00:38:14.859 --> 00:38:19.299
 and he does it all

00:38:19.299 --> 00:38:20.899
 to save you and me.

00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:28.879
 Could you put up

00:38:28.879 --> 00:38:29.500
 the next point?

00:38:30.879 --> 00:38:32.579
 Only God can save me

00:38:32.579 --> 00:38:34.559
 and only because

00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:35.379
 he loves me

00:38:35.379 --> 00:38:37.179
 and only by what

00:38:37.179 --> 00:38:38.399
 he did by his son's

00:38:38.399 --> 00:38:39.459
 death upon the cross

00:38:39.459 --> 00:38:41.039
 and only,

00:38:41.479 --> 00:38:42.179
 and it only

00:38:42.179 --> 00:38:43.139
 becomes mine

00:38:43.139 --> 00:38:44.039
 by faith

00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:45.579
 in his promise

00:38:45.579 --> 00:38:46.239
 to save.

00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:48.500
 Just like a little kid,

00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:49.139
 if you go out

00:38:49.139 --> 00:38:50.719
 after the service

00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:51.659
 and with the parents'

00:38:51.819 --> 00:38:52.199
 permission

00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:53.899
 and you say,

00:38:54.019 --> 00:38:55.000
 if you just put

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:55.619
 your hand out,

00:38:55.679 --> 00:38:56.059
 I'll give you

00:38:56.059 --> 00:38:56.819
 ten bucks.

00:39:00.819 --> 00:39:02.179
 And that little kid

00:39:02.179 --> 00:39:03.219
 has to not just

00:39:03.219 --> 00:39:03.699
 have faith

00:39:03.699 --> 00:39:04.599
 that you're a rich guy

00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:05.379
 or a rich gal,

00:39:06.059 --> 00:39:07.739
 but that you do it

00:39:07.739 --> 00:39:09.359
 and they put their hand out

00:39:09.359 --> 00:39:10.119
 and you put it in,

00:39:10.739 --> 00:39:12.059
 the ten bucks in.

00:39:14.019 --> 00:39:14.419
 And

00:39:14.419 --> 00:39:16.500
 that's the same thing

00:39:16.500 --> 00:39:17.079
 with salvation.

00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:17.719
 God accomplishes

00:39:17.719 --> 00:39:18.559
 accomplishes something

00:39:18.559 --> 00:39:19.759
 in the person of his son

00:39:19.759 --> 00:39:20.779
 and the work of his son

00:39:20.779 --> 00:39:22.199
 and he tells us

00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:22.839
 that he's accomplished

00:39:22.839 --> 00:39:23.559
 it for us

00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:25.119
 and faith is putting

00:39:25.119 --> 00:39:26.239
 our hand out to God

00:39:26.239 --> 00:39:27.839
 and he puts that

00:39:27.839 --> 00:39:29.000
 in our hands.

00:39:29.599 --> 00:39:30.679
 So how does this story

00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:31.019
 help

00:39:31.019 --> 00:39:32.039
 as we're gripped

00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:32.679
 by the gospel,

00:39:32.859 --> 00:39:33.719
 as the Bible

00:39:33.719 --> 00:39:35.519
 comes into our lives,

00:39:36.159 --> 00:39:37.480
 as we think about

00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:38.000
 the gospel

00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:38.619
 and in thinking

00:39:38.619 --> 00:39:39.480
 about the gospel,

00:39:39.959 --> 00:39:40.980
 that we now start

00:39:40.980 --> 00:39:41.500
 to desire

00:39:41.500 --> 00:39:42.419
 that we want to have

00:39:42.419 --> 00:39:43.519
 God's word written

00:39:43.519 --> 00:39:44.119
 in our heart

00:39:44.119 --> 00:39:45.199
 because the gospel

00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:45.599
 now,

00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:47.599
 what does this text say?

00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:48.699
 This text says something

00:39:48.699 --> 00:39:49.400
 to those of us

00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:50.639
 who feel superior

00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:51.440
 over others.

00:39:51.579 --> 00:39:52.900
 This text tells us

00:39:52.900 --> 00:39:53.940
 those of us

00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:55.460
 who struggle with feeling,

00:39:55.579 --> 00:39:56.480
 who don't even struggle

00:39:56.480 --> 00:39:57.380
 with feeling superior

00:39:57.380 --> 00:39:57.960
 over others,

00:39:58.099 --> 00:39:59.559
 but this text tells you

00:39:59.559 --> 00:39:59.980
 and me

00:39:59.980 --> 00:40:01.339
 who think we're superior

00:40:01.339 --> 00:40:01.960
 to others

00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:03.299
 and just think it's natural

00:40:03.299 --> 00:40:04.539
 that our

00:40:04.539 --> 00:40:08.119
 our situation

00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:09.299
 apart from grace

00:40:09.299 --> 00:40:12.059
 was unimaginably worse

00:40:12.059 --> 00:40:14.539
 than we could ever imagine.

00:40:14.539 --> 00:40:16.320
 the worst nightmare

00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:17.360
 that Hollywood

00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:18.659
 or writers

00:40:18.659 --> 00:40:19.360
 or poets

00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:20.059
 could imagine

00:40:20.059 --> 00:40:21.559
 does not even begin

00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:22.599
 to come close

00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:24.860
 to our desperate need

00:40:24.860 --> 00:40:25.599
 and the horror

00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:26.699
 of our situation.

00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:28.320
 Therefore,

00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:30.079
 all superiority

00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:32.059
 should be broken.

00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:34.199
 And this very same

00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:35.320
 gospel story

00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:36.599
 tells those of us

00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:37.400
 who struggle

00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:38.739
 with feeling

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:40.159
 that we are

00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:42.480
 losing the battle,

00:40:42.579 --> 00:40:43.420
 that all we can do

00:40:43.420 --> 00:40:43.900
 is envy.

00:40:43.900 --> 00:40:45.420
 We just feel inferior.

00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:46.840
 We've come to a point

00:40:46.840 --> 00:40:47.340
 in our lives

00:40:47.340 --> 00:40:48.500
 where we just feel inferior.

00:40:48.720 --> 00:40:50.260
 And this same gospel story

00:40:50.260 --> 00:40:51.039
 tells us

00:40:51.039 --> 00:40:53.039
 that you

00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:54.079
 are loved

00:40:54.079 --> 00:40:55.320
 by God.

00:41:00.680 --> 00:41:01.920
 That no amount

00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:02.559
 of pride

00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:04.139
 can even start to...

00:41:04.139 --> 00:41:04.960
 No amount

00:41:04.960 --> 00:41:05.960
 of narcissism.

00:41:06.119 --> 00:41:06.300
 No.

00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:07.960
 You are loved

00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:08.639
 by God

00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:09.240
 in a way

00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:09.979
 which you will

00:41:09.979 --> 00:41:11.839
 spend all of eternity

00:41:11.839 --> 00:41:13.000
 with God

00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:14.759
 experiencing

00:41:14.759 --> 00:41:15.979
 His love

00:41:15.979 --> 00:41:16.699
 for you

00:41:16.699 --> 00:41:18.159
 and all of eternity

00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:18.799
 with God

00:41:18.799 --> 00:41:19.419
 experiencing

00:41:19.419 --> 00:41:20.000
 His love

00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:20.339
 for you

00:41:20.339 --> 00:41:21.279
 and it will not

00:41:21.279 --> 00:41:22.299
 come to an end

00:41:22.299 --> 00:41:23.099
 because it is

00:41:23.099 --> 00:41:24.479
 so inexhaustible.

00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:30.519
 And as we're

00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:31.659
 gripped by the gospel

00:41:31.659 --> 00:41:32.519
 with what Jesus

00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:33.219
 did for us

00:41:33.219 --> 00:41:34.000
 on the cross

00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:36.039
 and as from

00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:37.059
 that perspective

00:41:37.059 --> 00:41:38.119
 God's word

00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:38.980
 starts to get

00:41:38.980 --> 00:41:40.239
 written on our heart

00:41:40.239 --> 00:41:43.900
 it begins

00:41:43.900 --> 00:41:45.059
 to shape us

00:41:45.059 --> 00:41:46.500
 and give us

00:41:46.500 --> 00:41:47.019
 the place

00:41:47.019 --> 00:41:47.699
 to stand

00:41:47.699 --> 00:41:48.559
 to deal with

00:41:48.559 --> 00:41:49.539
 all sorts of things

00:41:49.539 --> 00:41:50.219
 that we could not

00:41:50.219 --> 00:41:51.059
 deal with before.

00:41:51.059 --> 00:41:57.019
 It nudges us

00:41:57.019 --> 00:41:58.139
 to put a death

00:41:58.139 --> 00:41:59.039
 to our superiority

00:41:59.039 --> 00:42:00.179
 it nudges us

00:42:00.179 --> 00:42:01.239
 to put a death

00:42:01.239 --> 00:42:02.519
 to our inferiority

00:42:02.519 --> 00:42:03.980
 it nudges us

00:42:03.980 --> 00:42:05.340
 into the places

00:42:05.340 --> 00:42:05.940
 that the rest

00:42:05.940 --> 00:42:06.599
 of this text

00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:07.699
 tells us to go to

00:42:07.699 --> 00:42:09.199
 that when we see

00:42:09.199 --> 00:42:09.799
 a brother

00:42:09.799 --> 00:42:10.639
 or a sister

00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:11.460
 caught in

00:42:11.460 --> 00:42:12.719
 some trespass

00:42:12.719 --> 00:42:14.440
 that rather than us

00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:15.360
 on one level

00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:16.599
 secretly gloating

00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:16.960
 and saying

00:42:16.960 --> 00:42:17.500
 well I'm more

00:42:17.500 --> 00:42:18.599
 superior than them

00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:21.440
 the desire

00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:22.440
 is to restore

00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:22.779
 them

00:42:22.779 --> 00:42:24.539
 conscious

00:42:24.539 --> 00:42:25.059
 that we

00:42:25.059 --> 00:42:25.759
 ourselves

00:42:25.759 --> 00:42:28.460
 are beset

00:42:28.460 --> 00:42:29.299
 by sins

00:42:29.299 --> 00:42:30.219
 and when we

00:42:30.219 --> 00:42:30.940
 see somebody

00:42:30.940 --> 00:42:31.920
 bearing a burden

00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:33.440
 and rather

00:42:33.440 --> 00:42:34.719
 than feeling

00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:35.539
 that

00:42:35.539 --> 00:42:38.880
 we're superior

00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:40.079
 because that's

00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:40.900
 such a big burden

00:42:40.900 --> 00:42:41.900
 that there starts

00:42:41.900 --> 00:42:42.659
 to be a nudging

00:42:42.659 --> 00:42:43.199
 or a shaping

00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:43.759
 that maybe

00:42:43.759 --> 00:42:45.440
 I should get up

00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:46.420
 close and personal

00:42:46.420 --> 00:42:47.139
 that person

00:42:47.139 --> 00:42:47.759
 and help them

00:42:47.759 --> 00:42:48.579
 carry that burden

00:42:48.579 --> 00:42:49.840
 because

00:42:49.840 --> 00:42:51.019
 in the gospel

00:42:51.019 --> 00:42:51.860
 Jesus carried

00:42:51.860 --> 00:42:52.440
 my burden

00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:53.059
 didn't he

00:42:53.059 --> 00:42:57.199
 and maybe

00:42:57.199 --> 00:42:58.059
 for those of us

00:42:58.059 --> 00:42:58.920
 who are too proud

00:42:58.920 --> 00:42:59.539
 to confess

00:42:59.539 --> 00:43:00.079
 that we have

00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:00.639
 burdens

00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:02.340
 the gospel

00:43:02.340 --> 00:43:02.840
 will start

00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:03.559
 to shape us

00:43:03.559 --> 00:43:04.000
 in a type

00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:04.639
 of humility

00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:05.360
 to say

00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:06.279
 it's not wrong

00:43:06.279 --> 00:43:06.659
 to say

00:43:06.659 --> 00:43:07.699
 to another person

00:43:07.699 --> 00:43:10.099
 brother or sister

00:43:10.099 --> 00:43:10.920
 I have a burden

00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:11.420
 I'm having

00:43:11.420 --> 00:43:12.119
 a hard time

00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:12.659
 carrying

00:43:12.659 --> 00:43:13.519
 could you pray

00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:13.880
 for me

00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:14.219
 or maybe

00:43:14.219 --> 00:43:14.960
 even help me

00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:23.300
 and that

00:43:23.300 --> 00:43:23.940
 in such a

00:43:23.940 --> 00:43:24.440
 context

00:43:24.440 --> 00:43:25.740
 that maybe

00:43:25.740 --> 00:43:26.019
 we

00:43:26.019 --> 00:43:28.260
 I can test

00:43:28.260 --> 00:43:28.800
 myself

00:43:28.800 --> 00:43:29.880
 and if I test

00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:30.280
 myself

00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:30.860
 it's not by

00:43:30.860 --> 00:43:31.340
 thinking about

00:43:31.340 --> 00:43:31.639
 myself

00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:32.260
 do I preach

00:43:32.260 --> 00:43:32.980
 as well as

00:43:32.980 --> 00:43:34.440
 Matt Chandler

00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:35.340
 or Tim Keller

00:43:35.340 --> 00:43:37.880
 but how am I

00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:38.519
 doing compared

00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:39.320
 to a year ago

00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:42.039
 and it's maybe

00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:42.400
 not

00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:42.960
 you know

00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:43.820
 have I put on

00:43:43.820 --> 00:43:44.620
 five pounds

00:43:44.620 --> 00:43:45.260
 that I don't want

00:43:45.260 --> 00:43:46.340
 or lost five pounds

00:43:46.340 --> 00:43:46.720
 that I wanted

00:43:46.720 --> 00:43:47.180
 to lose

00:43:47.180 --> 00:43:47.460
 but

00:43:47.460 --> 00:43:50.440
 gosh Lord

00:43:50.440 --> 00:43:51.140
 how am I doing

00:43:51.140 --> 00:43:51.620
 with the fruit

00:43:51.620 --> 00:43:52.200
 of the spirit

00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:54.419
 do I love

00:43:54.419 --> 00:43:55.719
 more and better

00:43:55.719 --> 00:43:56.139
 than I did

00:43:56.139 --> 00:43:56.739
 a year ago

00:43:56.739 --> 00:43:59.039
 am I more

00:43:59.039 --> 00:43:59.639
 patient

00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:00.639
 than I was

00:44:00.639 --> 00:44:01.239
 a year ago

00:44:01.239 --> 00:44:03.460
 am I more

00:44:03.460 --> 00:44:03.939
 gentle

00:44:03.939 --> 00:44:04.480
 than I was

00:44:04.480 --> 00:44:05.500
 a year ago

00:44:05.500 --> 00:44:14.419
 you see

00:44:14.419 --> 00:44:14.659
 as

00:44:14.659 --> 00:44:15.679
 as the gospel

00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:16.480
 grips us

00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:17.859
 and the Holy

00:44:17.859 --> 00:44:18.339
 Spirit

00:44:18.339 --> 00:44:19.079
 then starts

00:44:19.079 --> 00:44:19.519
 to use

00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:20.119
 that gripping

00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:20.619
 to write

00:44:20.619 --> 00:44:21.419
 God's word

00:44:21.420 --> 00:44:22.280
 in our hearts

00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:24.119
 God

00:44:24.119 --> 00:44:25.320
 God works

00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:25.800
 to start

00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:26.780
 to free us

00:44:26.780 --> 00:44:28.519
 because wouldn't

00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:29.659
 it be so freeing

00:44:29.659 --> 00:44:30.400
 to be a human

00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:31.260
 being who doesn't

00:44:31.260 --> 00:44:32.340
 miss social cues

00:44:32.340 --> 00:44:33.400
 but no longer

00:44:33.400 --> 00:44:35.000
 thinks that we

00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:35.780
 have to compare

00:44:35.780 --> 00:44:36.940
 ourselves to others

00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:39.079
 but can carry

00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:39.940
 our own load

00:44:39.940 --> 00:44:41.240
 in light of the

00:44:41.240 --> 00:44:42.360
 God who loves us

00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:43.159
 and sent his son

00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:44.079
 to die for us

00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:47.139
 just to

00:44:47.139 --> 00:44:48.539
 I have other points

00:44:48.539 --> 00:44:48.940
 just I'm just

00:44:48.940 --> 00:44:49.500
 going to put them

00:44:49.500 --> 00:44:49.900
 up and then

00:44:49.900 --> 00:44:50.300
 we're going to

00:44:50.300 --> 00:44:50.559
 pray

00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:51.159
 next one

00:44:51.159 --> 00:44:51.519
 Andrew

00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:52.940
 every Christian

00:44:52.940 --> 00:44:53.820
 has burdens

00:44:53.820 --> 00:44:54.920
 don't believe

00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:55.719
 health and wealth

00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:56.900
 gospel people

00:44:56.900 --> 00:44:57.460
 who tell you

00:44:57.460 --> 00:44:57.920
 that you can

00:44:57.920 --> 00:44:58.719
 come to a state

00:44:58.719 --> 00:44:59.320
 of being filled

00:44:59.320 --> 00:44:59.799
 by the Holy

00:44:59.799 --> 00:45:00.139
 Spirit

00:45:00.139 --> 00:45:00.639
 you no longer

00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:01.279
 have burdens

00:45:01.279 --> 00:45:02.340
 Bible says

00:45:02.340 --> 00:45:02.880
 they're wrong

00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:04.880
 every one of us

00:45:04.880 --> 00:45:05.840
 here has burdens

00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:06.840
 we will always

00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:07.539
 have burdens

00:45:07.539 --> 00:45:08.480
 they'll change

00:45:08.480 --> 00:45:09.239
 but we'll have

00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:09.380
 them

00:45:09.380 --> 00:45:10.019
 next one

00:45:10.019 --> 00:45:11.380
 the Lord

00:45:11.380 --> 00:45:11.579
 the Lord did

00:45:11.579 --> 00:45:12.159
 not redeem

00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:12.579
 me to

00:45:12.579 --> 00:45:12.880
 bowl

00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:13.440
 alone

00:45:13.440 --> 00:45:15.360
 but to be

00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:15.840
 part of a

00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:16.300
 one another

00:45:16.300 --> 00:45:17.119
 local church

00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:17.420
 home

00:45:17.420 --> 00:45:20.259
 a one another

00:45:20.259 --> 00:45:20.900
 church home

00:45:20.900 --> 00:45:21.739
 where we learn

00:45:21.739 --> 00:45:22.300
 to bear each

00:45:22.300 --> 00:45:22.960
 other's burdens

00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:23.400
 you know

00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:24.099
 pray into this

00:45:24.099 --> 00:45:24.579
 for us as

00:45:24.579 --> 00:45:25.019
 Messiah

00:45:25.019 --> 00:45:25.800
 next one

00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:27.539
 no one

00:45:27.539 --> 00:45:28.240
 deceives me

00:45:28.240 --> 00:45:28.740
 better than

00:45:28.740 --> 00:45:29.420
 me myself

00:45:29.420 --> 00:45:29.860
 and I

00:45:29.860 --> 00:45:34.019
 I mean this

00:45:34.019 --> 00:45:34.800
 text is inviting

00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:35.500
 us to call out

00:45:35.500 --> 00:45:35.980
 to the Lord

00:45:35.980 --> 00:45:36.900
 to show us

00:45:36.900 --> 00:45:38.080
 each of us

00:45:38.080 --> 00:45:38.539
 and as a

00:45:38.539 --> 00:45:39.019
 congregation

00:45:39.019 --> 00:45:39.460
 how we're

00:45:39.460 --> 00:45:39.940
 deceiving

00:45:39.940 --> 00:45:40.480
 ourselves

00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:41.740
 not how my

00:45:41.740 --> 00:45:42.680
 wife is deceiving

00:45:42.680 --> 00:45:43.220
 me or my

00:45:43.220 --> 00:45:44.280
 boss is deceiving

00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:44.860
 me or my

00:45:44.860 --> 00:45:45.960
 friend is deceiving

00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:46.519
 me or the

00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:47.539
 prof is deceiving

00:45:47.539 --> 00:45:47.820
 me

00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:48.920
 I mean you can

00:45:48.920 --> 00:45:49.580
 keep praying about

00:45:49.580 --> 00:45:50.260
 that if you want

00:45:50.260 --> 00:45:51.480
 but most of us

00:45:51.480 --> 00:45:52.500
 spend ten times

00:45:52.500 --> 00:45:53.440
 hundred times

00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:54.300
 a thousand times

00:45:54.300 --> 00:45:54.740
 praying about

00:45:54.740 --> 00:45:55.420
 that and rather

00:45:55.420 --> 00:45:56.060
 asking the

00:45:56.060 --> 00:45:56.400
 question

00:45:56.400 --> 00:45:57.120
 father how do

00:45:57.120 --> 00:45:57.620
 I deceive

00:45:57.620 --> 00:45:58.160
 myself

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 please stand

00:46:01.280 --> 00:46:07.660
 just as

00:46:07.660 --> 00:46:08.320
 as we go

00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:08.820
 into this

00:46:08.820 --> 00:46:09.560
 I don't know

00:46:09.560 --> 00:46:10.100
 where you are

00:46:10.100 --> 00:46:10.460
 in all of

00:46:10.460 --> 00:46:10.960
 these things

00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:11.360
 but I just

00:46:11.360 --> 00:46:11.900
 want to assure

00:46:11.900 --> 00:46:12.440
 you of one

00:46:12.440 --> 00:46:12.820
 thing

00:46:12.820 --> 00:46:13.840
 the gospel

00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:14.539
 is for you

00:46:14.539 --> 00:46:16.100
 if you're here

00:46:16.100 --> 00:46:16.720
 and you think

00:46:16.720 --> 00:46:17.880
 George if you

00:46:17.880 --> 00:46:18.340
 knew some of

00:46:18.340 --> 00:46:18.820
 the terrible

00:46:18.820 --> 00:46:19.460
 things I've

00:46:19.460 --> 00:46:20.000
 ever done

00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:20.480
 you wouldn't

00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:20.800
 think the

00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:21.500
 gospel is for

00:46:21.500 --> 00:46:21.940
 me and all

00:46:21.940 --> 00:46:22.480
 I can tell

00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:22.980
 you is you're

00:46:22.980 --> 00:46:23.440
 right I don't

00:46:23.440 --> 00:46:23.780
 know the

00:46:23.780 --> 00:46:24.280
 terrible things

00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:24.720
 you've done

00:46:24.720 --> 00:46:25.260
 but God

00:46:25.260 --> 00:46:25.840
 knows them

00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:27.060
 and God

00:46:27.060 --> 00:46:27.560
 knew them

00:46:27.560 --> 00:46:28.200
 when he sent

00:46:28.200 --> 00:46:28.700
 his son to

00:46:28.700 --> 00:46:29.080
 die on the

00:46:29.080 --> 00:46:29.680
 cross for

00:46:29.680 --> 00:46:30.740
 you and if

00:46:30.740 --> 00:46:31.180
 some of you

00:46:31.180 --> 00:46:31.560
 are saying

00:46:31.560 --> 00:46:32.160
 George if

00:46:32.160 --> 00:46:32.700
 you knew how

00:46:32.700 --> 00:46:33.160
 much of a

00:46:33.160 --> 00:46:33.800
 failure I

00:46:33.800 --> 00:46:34.519
 am in so

00:46:34.519 --> 00:46:35.060
 many areas

00:46:35.060 --> 00:46:35.600
 of my life

00:46:35.600 --> 00:46:35.940
 you wouldn't

00:46:35.940 --> 00:46:36.260
 think the

00:46:36.260 --> 00:46:36.820
 gospel was

00:46:36.820 --> 00:46:37.260
 for me and

00:46:37.260 --> 00:46:38.200
 you're right I

00:46:38.200 --> 00:46:38.800
 don't know how

00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:39.220
 much of a

00:46:39.220 --> 00:46:39.920
 failure you are

00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:40.380
 in all those

00:46:40.380 --> 00:46:41.260
 areas but God

00:46:41.260 --> 00:46:41.860
 knows him and

00:46:41.860 --> 00:46:42.540
 still he sent

00:46:42.540 --> 00:46:43.019
 his son to

00:46:43.019 --> 00:46:43.360
 die on the

00:46:43.360 --> 00:46:44.040
 cross for you

00:46:44.040 --> 00:46:46.100
 there is no

00:46:46.100 --> 00:46:46.880
 one here so

00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:47.940
 broken or so

00:46:47.940 --> 00:46:49.040
 successful so

00:46:49.040 --> 00:46:50.000
 rich or so

00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:50.700
 poor so

00:46:50.700 --> 00:46:51.840
 sinful or so

00:46:51.840 --> 00:46:52.720
 self-righteous

00:46:52.720 --> 00:46:53.880
 that Jesus did

00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:54.480
 not die for

00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:54.780
 you on the

00:46:54.780 --> 00:46:55.200
 cross and

00:46:55.200 --> 00:46:55.599
 there is no

00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:56.360
 time better than

00:46:56.360 --> 00:46:57.960
 right now to

00:46:57.960 --> 00:46:58.700
 call out to him

00:46:58.700 --> 00:47:02.200
 for mercy to

00:47:02.200 --> 00:47:03.079
 thank him for

00:47:03.079 --> 00:47:03.640
 what he's done

00:47:03.640 --> 00:47:04.140
 for you on the

00:47:04.140 --> 00:47:04.900
 cross and to

00:47:04.900 --> 00:47:05.880
 believe his

00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:06.599
 promise that if

00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:07.000
 you put out

00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:07.780
 your hand what

00:47:07.780 --> 00:47:08.519
 he has accomplished

00:47:08.519 --> 00:47:09.220
 for you in the

00:47:09.220 --> 00:47:09.980
 person of Jesus

00:47:09.980 --> 00:47:11.340
 that that will come

00:47:11.340 --> 00:47:12.140
 into your hand and

00:47:12.140 --> 00:47:13.019
 into your life and

00:47:13.019 --> 00:47:13.840
 into your mind and

00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:14.559
 into your heart and

00:47:14.559 --> 00:47:15.340
 into your soul and

00:47:15.340 --> 00:47:16.160
 into your body and

00:47:16.160 --> 00:47:17.480
 that God will never

00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:19.300
 let you go there is

00:47:19.300 --> 00:47:20.160
 no better time than

00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:21.019
 right now to do

00:47:21.019 --> 00:47:21.819
 that business with

00:47:21.819 --> 00:47:24.159
 God let's bow

00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:24.579
 our heads in

00:47:24.579 --> 00:47:24.859
 prayer

00:47:24.859 --> 00:47:33.339
 father you know

00:47:33.339 --> 00:47:35.039
 that most of us

00:47:35.039 --> 00:47:35.399
 aren't even

00:47:35.399 --> 00:47:36.179
 struggling with

00:47:36.179 --> 00:47:37.500
 self-deception and

00:47:37.500 --> 00:47:38.699
 we ask father that

00:47:38.699 --> 00:47:40.019
 your holy spirit would

00:47:40.019 --> 00:47:41.139
 start to use your

00:47:41.139 --> 00:47:42.279
 word and the gospel

00:47:42.279 --> 00:47:43.399
 to reveal that to

00:47:43.399 --> 00:47:45.039
 us but father we

00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:45.879
 thank you so much

00:47:45.879 --> 00:47:46.480
 that you are a

00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:47.399
 gentle God and a

00:47:47.399 --> 00:47:48.519
 loving God and you

00:47:48.519 --> 00:47:49.399
 won't do it in a way

00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:50.519
 that unmakes us but

00:47:50.519 --> 00:47:52.720
 father bring that

00:47:52.720 --> 00:47:54.039
 home to us so that

00:47:54.039 --> 00:47:55.139
 we might cling to

00:47:55.139 --> 00:47:56.500
 Jesus and cling to

00:47:56.500 --> 00:47:57.420
 your word and cling

00:47:57.420 --> 00:47:59.500
 to your promises and

00:47:59.500 --> 00:48:00.559
 father you know those

00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:01.760
 of us who haven't

00:48:01.760 --> 00:48:02.860
 even begun to deal

00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:04.200
 with our vain glory

00:48:04.200 --> 00:48:05.980
 project our glory

00:48:05.980 --> 00:48:07.119
 hunger and and

00:48:07.119 --> 00:48:07.840
 suffer under

00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:08.940
 inferiority or

00:48:08.940 --> 00:48:09.940
 superiority and

00:48:09.940 --> 00:48:11.099
 father you know the

00:48:11.099 --> 00:48:12.340
 marriages which are in

00:48:12.340 --> 00:48:13.480
 danger over issues

00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:14.300
 like this and you

00:48:14.300 --> 00:48:15.639
 know father the jobs

00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:16.300
 that are in danger

00:48:16.300 --> 00:48:17.280
 over things like this

00:48:17.280 --> 00:48:18.019
 and the friendships

00:48:18.019 --> 00:48:19.420
 that are in danger

00:48:19.420 --> 00:48:20.840
 over over things like

00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:21.860
 this father even

00:48:21.860 --> 00:48:22.599
 know the ones who

00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:23.480
 are cutting themselves

00:48:23.480 --> 00:48:24.679
 over issues like this

00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:25.259
 or thinking of

00:48:25.259 --> 00:48:26.460
 suicide over issues

00:48:26.460 --> 00:48:27.320
 like that father you

00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:28.219
 know each one of our

00:48:28.219 --> 00:48:29.539
 hearts and we ask

00:48:29.539 --> 00:48:30.400
 father that you're

00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:31.599
 that the holy spirit

00:48:31.599 --> 00:48:32.440
 would be poured out

00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:33.480
 upon us and that you

00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:34.139
 would make us

00:48:34.139 --> 00:48:35.380
 disciples of Jesus

00:48:35.380 --> 00:48:36.300
 who are gripped by

00:48:36.300 --> 00:48:37.039
 the gospel

00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:40.139
 gripped by the gospel

00:48:40.139 --> 00:48:43.099
 and learning to live

00:48:43.099 --> 00:48:46.079
 free for your glory

00:48:46.079 --> 00:48:48.539
 and all this we ask

00:48:48.539 --> 00:48:49.940
 in the name of Jesus

00:48:49.940 --> 00:48:50.980
 your son and our

00:48:50.980 --> 00:48:52.480
 savior amen

00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:53.480
 you

00:48:53.480 --> 00:48:54.480
 you

00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:55.480
 you

00:48:55.480 --> 00:48:57.480
 you

00:48:57.480 --> 00:48:59.480
 you

00:48:59.480 --> 00:49:01.480
 you

00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:03.480
 you

00:49:03.480 --> 00:49:05.480
 you

00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:07.480
 you

00:49:07.480 --> 00:49:09.480
 you

00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:11.480
 you