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 Good morning, church family.

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 So the Bible reading for this session is Deuteronomy chapter 12,

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 and we're going to be reading from verses 1 to 18.

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 So that's Deuteronomy chapter 12, verses 1 to 18.

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 These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord,

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 the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.

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 You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess serve their gods,

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 on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

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 You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their ashram with fire.

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 You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.

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 You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way,

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 but you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes

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 to put his name and make his habitation there.

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 There you shall go and there you shall bring your burnt offerings and your sacrifices,

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 your tithes and the contribution that you present, your vow offerings, your freewill offerings

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 and the firstborn of your herd and of your flock.

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 And there you shall eat before the Lord your God and you shall rejoice,

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 you and your households, in all that you undertake, in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

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 You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today,

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 everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes.

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 For you have not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance that the Lord your God is giving you.

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 But when you go over the Jordan and live in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit,

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 and when he gives you rest from all your enemies around so that you live in safety,

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 then to the place that the Lord your God will choose to make his name dwell there,

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 there you shall bring all that I command you,

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 your burnt offerings and your sacrifices,

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 your tithes and the contribution that you present,

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 and all your finest vow offerings that you vow to the Lord.

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 And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God,

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 you and your sons and your daughters,

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 your male servants and your female servants,

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 and the Levite that is within your towns,

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 since he has no portion or inheritance with you.

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 Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place that you see,

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 but at the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes.

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 There you shall offer your burnt offerings,

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 and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

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 However, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your towns as much as you desire,

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 according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.

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 The unclean and the clean may eat of it, as of the gazelle and as of the deer.

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 Only you shall not eat the blood, you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

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 You may not eat within your towns the tithe of your grain,

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 or of your wine or of your oil,

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 or the firstborn of your herd or of your flock,

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 or any of your vow offerings that you vow,

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 or your freewill offerings,

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 or the contribution that you present.

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 But you shall eat them before the Lord your God,

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 in the place that the Lord your God will choose,

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 you and your son and your daughter,

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 your male servant and your female servant,

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 and the Levite who is within your towns.

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 And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God,

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 in all that you undertake.

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weisem & Grodus

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 Thank you.

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 We had four chapters in the first talk.

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 We had seven in the second talk.

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 And we have 14 in this talk.

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 But don't despair because we're not going to run through 14 chapters at all.

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 We're going to just pick and choose.

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 I don't know if you've heard the story before of the police cadets who are doing an exam.

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 And the question says, you're driving down the road, you, young policeman, policewoman,

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 and you come across a huge accident where cars have all crashed into one another.

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 One of them has hit a fire hydrant.

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 Water is pouring into the air.

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 There's a large dog that has just bitten a small boy.

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 A young man has just grabbed the handbag of a lady and is running off.

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 People have begun looting some of the shops that have been hit.

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 And in the distance you see a fire has broken out on the third floor of a nearby building.

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 What is your first course of action?

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 And one of the police students wrote, carefully remove uniform and mingle with crowds.

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 And there are those times where you think, let me out of here.

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 Don't despair as we come to our third session.

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 It's going to be manageable.

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 And what I've tried to do, if you're new and this is your first time,

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 is we've tried to look through the book of Deuteronomy, which is 34 chapters,

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 and we've tried to walk through it quite quickly.

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 Because as I was saying to somebody over morning tea,

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 we either take a couple of little bits and you say, yeah, well, that's great.

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 What's the big book about?

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 Or we attempt to do what we're doing, which is to walk through it.

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 So if you're here for the first time, let me tell you that Deuteronomy is set out like

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 a treaty between God and his people as they are about to go into the promised land.

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 And the first four chapters are basically Moses recapping the trip so far.

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 The next chapters 5 to 11 are talking about the relationship that God has with his people,

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 full of privilege and also responsibility.

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 Not that the responsibility will create the security.

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 God will create the security.

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 But there needs to be a response.

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 Now we're going to come to what is really the unpacking of the Ten Commandments.

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 And so if you are reading chapters 12 to 26,

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 you would notice that the chapters correspond fairly closely with the Ten Commandments.

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 Let me show you what I mean.

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 Deuteronomy 12, which we just had read for us,

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 has to do with worshipping God, commandment 1.

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 Deuteronomy 13 has to do with idolatry, commandment 2.

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 Deuteronomy 14 has to do with who you are, commandment 3.

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 Deuteronomy 15 to 16 has to do with feasts, or we might say Sabbath, commandment 4.

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 Deuteronomy 17, 18 has to do with authority figures, judges, priests, prophets, kings.

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 We might call that the parental, commandment 5.

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 Deuteronomy 19 to 21 has to do with fighting and war.

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 We might call that commandment 6.

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 And Deuteronomy 22 to 24 has to do with marriage.

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 We might call that commandment 7.

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 And Deuteronomy 25, 26 is a range of thoughts on the subject of honesty and greed, etc.

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 So some people say, no, no, this is too clever.

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 It's not really the unpacking of the commandments.

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 But many people think it is, and I think it is.

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 And so if somebody said, well, commandment number 1, worship God, what does that look like?

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 Deuteronomy 12 spells it out in very practical details for the people of Israel.

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 Can I remind you that Israel, picture the million people.

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 That's a nation.

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 They need laws to do with taxes and land rights and armies.

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 But they're also a church.

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 And so they need rules to do with ceremony and sacrifice and forgiveness and thanksgiving to God.

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 They're a nation and they're a church.

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 And therefore, when we read Deuteronomy 12 to 26, although a lot of what is there is not relevant to us.

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 Animals you can eat, animals you can't eat.

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 But it's still instructive.

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 It's still informative.

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 Because it tells us what God was doing with his people.

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 And the principles are useful for us today.

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 So that's why Jesus can say that it's all written about him.

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 Because in the end, it's all bringing us to him.

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 Interesting that the popular religions today, think of your friends who would say they were Buddhists,

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 have got, you'll notice, no authority over them.

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 So convenient, isn't it?

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 Nobody tells me what to do.

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 But God is an authority.

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 And his authority is a loving, safekeeping authority.

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 Now, I thought that I would pick a few bits of the commandments from this section.

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 And so you'll see on your outline that I've tried to pick commandment 1, 3, 6 and 7.

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 And we'll just look at those quite quickly.

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 Okay?

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 Are you with me?

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 Did any of that make sense?

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 I'm going to pretend it did.

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 Commandment 1, Deuteronomy 12.

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 You remember how the chapter begins?

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 And I'll just remind you of the first couple of verses.

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 Where Moses says, these are the statues and judgments in the land which the Lord your God's giving you.

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 First thing, destroy the idols.

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 Then verse 9, 5.

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 Verse 5.

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 Seek the place where the Lord your God chooses.

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 Those of you who remember the great John Chapman may remember him telling a story where somebody comes up to him in the break and brings him a cup of tea with three sugars and white milk.

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 And Chapo says, well, that's very kind of you.

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 I actually drink black coffee, no sugar.

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 And the simple point is that the person wanted to be helpful but didn't listen to what actually he was looking for.

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 And it's typical John Chapman illustration.

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 So simple.

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 But there are so many people who think, I'll give God what I think he wants.

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 But we need to listen very carefully to what he says he wants.

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 And it's here in Deuteronomy chapter 12.

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 First thing is you enter the promised land, get rid of the idols.

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 Destroy them, break them down, smash them, get rid of them.

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 Because, verse 3, you're not to worship God like this, Yahweh like this.

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 This is a big issue for believers when they come from animist religions.

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 And they have to somehow get rid of the infection and the infiltration and the contamination of their old faith.

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 God is not to be fitted in to something else.

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 Everything is to be fitted into what he asks.

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 And as I mentioned, the idols of Canaan were very attractive.

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 And so getting rid of them was a costly thing to do but infinitely worthwhile.

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 And then, says the Lord, verse 5, seek the place the Lord chooses.

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 Bring the appropriate sacrifices, verse 6, verse 7, because I want you to rejoice.

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 How interesting.

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 God says, worship where I say and worship how I say because I want you to be happy.

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 Now, the place, of course, eventually would be Jerusalem.

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 But, obviously, Moses in Deuteronomy is not talking about a specific place like Jerusalem.

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 He just says, when God says this is the place to worship him, that's the place to worship him.

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 Eventually, it will be Jerusalem.

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 And you're to bring the sacrifices that God asks for.

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 So, chapter 12, verse 8, don't do as you see fit.

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 But go to his place with his sacrifices and the joy will follow.

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 Well, the worship of God, you see, is like chopping a log.

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 If you chop with the grain, the axe moves much more carefully.

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 If you try to chop against the grain, it's much more difficult.

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 And this section of worshipping God as he calls us to reminds us how Jesus in John 4 said that we should worship him in spirit and truth.

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 It's not enough just to be sincere.

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 It's possible to be sincere but wrong.

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 I'm always disappointed with people in churches who say, I don't read my Bible but I do pray.

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 And I think I hate those relationships.

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 When nobody ever listens, they just talk.

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 And we must treat God as somebody who not only will listen to us but who speaks to us.

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 We must hear him and we must speak to him.

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 And, of course, when we hear him, we'll speak to him more wisely, more carefully.

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 And then, of course, the place where we meet God today is not a building.

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 We may hear the gospel in a building but the place we meet him is Jesus.

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 That's why Jesus described himself as the temple where we will meet God.

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 And the sacrifice that we need to relate to God is Jesus.

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 And the joy that comes from this is Jesus' joy.

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 So this chapter 12 is a very wonderful call to take seriously the God of the first commandment.

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 The devil, of course, comes along and offers us all sorts of alternatives.

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 But you'll discover down those roads that he's fooled you.

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 We're slow learners.

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 We keep going down dopey roads.

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 But eventually, in the goodness of God, we come back and humbly agree that he's right.

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 So that's commandment number one.

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 Commandment number two.

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 Sorry, commandment number three, which relates to Deuteronomy 14,

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 seems to be the commandment about being God's special people.

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 Now, how do you identify as God's people in the world today?

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 You could wear the cross around your neck.

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 You could get a great tattoo indicating you're a believer.

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 But in the end, the way that you're going to show yourself to be the people of Jesus

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 is going to have a lot more to do with what comes up from the heart.

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 Now, when we get to the end of this session, there's going to be a Q&A.

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 And I forgot to say how helpful it would be if you think of some good questions.

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 Because there's nothing worse in a Q&A when there's dead quiet.

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 And then finally, somebody says,

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 Do you think there's life on Jupiter?

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 And I say, I don't.

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 And then we hang around for another five minutes waiting for somebody to say,

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 Have you ever eaten a shark?

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 And I say, no.

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 Those Q&As are terrible.

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 Try to think of some good questions that emerge from Deuteronomy

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 or from your Christian life.

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 And that will make everything buzz along.

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 And if I don't know the answer,

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 I'll just call on many of the great pastors who are in this room to help us out.

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 But the Q&A can be great if you make it great.

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 So dive in with your questions.

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 Let's go to Commandment 3, Deuteronomy 14.

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 We didn't read this chapter.

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 It seems to be about being the people of God.

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 And verses 1 to 2 are very interesting.

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 And I will read them to you.

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 And then I'll tell you a little more.

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 First of all, Chapter 14, 1 and 2.

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 Imagine this is the unpacking of Commandment 3.

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 You're the children of the Lord your God.

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 You shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

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 For you're a holy people to the Lord your God.

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 And the Lord has chosen you to a people for himself,

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 a special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

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 The rest of the chapter has to do with clean and unclean animals.

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 And the last bit has to do with tithing.

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 So what does this have to do with being a believer today?

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 Can you imagine studying this in your own small group or your youth group

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 or trying to preach this to your congregation?

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 And you think, well, what will I do with this?

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 But let me ask you this.

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 If you lived in the peoples of the land

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 and you were not the people of Yahweh

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 and one of your relatives died,

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 tragically,

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 why might you cut yourself?

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 Why might you shave your head in a strange and distraught way?

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 Why might you do that?

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 Any thoughts?

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 I've got two possibilities.

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 To show your grief, your distress.

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 Yes.

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 Yeah.

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 The other possibility?

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 To?

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 Oh, to buy something.

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 A bargaining.

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 A bargaining.

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 Yes, I hadn't thought about that.

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 Yeah.

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 Is this a way of appeasing the gods

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 and getting some reprieve?

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 I've got another possibility

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 and it relates to 1 Kings 19.

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 Manipulation is a good word for it.

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 It's the prophets of Baal

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 trying to get the attention of Baal

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 by slashing themselves.

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 So can you imagine a pagan faced with death

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 and they start cutting themselves,

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 the family?

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 What are they doing?

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 They could be grieving.

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 This is so distressing.

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 They could be saying,

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 I'm doing this to make sure that I can buy favour

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 or it could be that they're saying,

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 oh God, gods, gods, gods up there

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 or whoever you are,

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 please take notice.

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 Step in and do something.

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 Come on, help us out.

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 And you can see how terrible and distressing that is

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 and you can see why Moses says to the people of Israel,

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 don't do that.

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 You're not going to do that.

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 When it comes to death,

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 you're not going to do that

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 because in the end,

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 the people of Israel have got some clues

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 that death is not the end.

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 There are little hints, aren't there,

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 in the Old Testament,

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 shadowy ideas that death is not the end.

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 Can you think of any from the Old Testament?

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 I'll give you an example.

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 Psalm 23,

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 Another example from the Old Testament?

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 Enoch walking with God.

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 Yeah, there's an unusual situation.

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 Elijah disappearing.

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 Yeah, David, when his son died,

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 he said he will not come back to me

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 but I'll go to be with him.

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 Paul?

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 That's too clever an answer.

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 I just wanted a simple answer

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 from the ordinary people,

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 from the plebs,

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 not the clergy kids.

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 That's terrific.

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 I'm thinking of things like Job.

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 I know that my Redeemer lives,

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 chapter 19.

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 And even if this body perishes,

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 yet in my flesh will I see God.

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 What an amazing diamond

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 to come up from the book of Job.

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 Psalm 23,

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 Enoch,

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 Elijah,

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 Psalm 16,

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 treasures at your right hand.

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 There's a whole lot of little shadowy things.

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 Daniel chapter 12,

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 the dead will rise from the dust.

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 Pictures of the resurrection

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 in the Old Testament.

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 But if you were to ask

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 the people of Israel,

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 what's your clue for the future?

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 They can't quote Psalm 23.

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 It hasn't happened yet.

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 They can't quote Psalm 16.

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 They can't possibly quote the book of Job.

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 But Jesus would say to them

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 exactly what Paul just said.

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 God is the God of Abraham,

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 Isaac and Jacob.

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 Do you remember when Jesus

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 was being challenged by the Sadducees

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 and they mocked him

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 for the whole idea of a future?

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 And they made up that story

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 of the lady who died

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 after having been married seven times

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 and whose wife will she be?

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 And laugh, laugh, laugh,

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 mock, mock, mock.

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 You know, there's no future.

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 And Jesus said,

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 God is the God

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 of Abraham,

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 Isaac and Jacob.

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 It's not he was the God

00:21:42.360 --> 00:21:43.519
 of Abraham,

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 Isaac and Jacob.

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 He is the God

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 of Abraham,

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 Isaac and Jacob.

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 Because when you come

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 into a covenant with God,

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 how could that break?

00:21:52.500 --> 00:21:53.659
 How could that break?

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 And we know from the New Testament

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 that death cannot break the covenant

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 because of Christ taking death for us.

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 And so Deuteronomy 14

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 is previewing the importance

00:22:07.140 --> 00:22:08.480
 of the people of God,

00:22:08.539 --> 00:22:09.680
 even in the Old Testament,

00:22:10.500 --> 00:22:13.200
 having a confidence in Yahweh

00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:14.960
 in the face of death.

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 And no wonder Paul takes up

00:22:17.140 --> 00:22:17.980
 the whole principle

00:22:17.980 --> 00:22:19.519
 in 1 Thessalonians 4

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 where he says,

00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:22.339
 we're to grieve,

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 but not as those without hope.

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 And so you'll know

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 if you go to the funeral

00:22:26.679 --> 00:22:27.419
 of a pagan,

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 I mean, imagine the funeral

00:22:29.859 --> 00:22:30.559
 that's coming up

00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:31.439
 for Shane Warne.

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 It will be full of grief

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 and it will be full of memories.

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 But unless I'm mistaken,

00:22:38.539 --> 00:22:39.359
 there'll be no hope.

00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:40.859
 There'll be no gospel.

00:22:41.019 --> 00:22:41.799
 There'll be no future.

00:22:41.939 --> 00:22:42.899
 There'll be no glory.

00:22:43.839 --> 00:22:46.500
 It will just be grief

00:22:46.500 --> 00:22:47.839
 and memories.

00:22:48.779 --> 00:22:50.419
 It'll just be looking backwards.

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 And the mark of the Christian funeral

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 is that we're able

00:22:54.600 --> 00:22:55.820
 to look back and look forward.

00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:56.820
 We're able to grieve

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 and we're able to hope.

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 And we don't have to just do one

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 and not the other.

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 And that's why the funeral

00:23:02.279 --> 00:23:02.940
 of the believer

00:23:02.940 --> 00:23:03.900
 is better than just

00:23:03.900 --> 00:23:05.600
 25 helium balloons

00:23:05.600 --> 00:23:06.759
 going up into the air.

00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:09.320
 And what is said

00:23:09.320 --> 00:23:10.340
 at a Christian funeral

00:23:10.340 --> 00:23:11.500
 may be very feeble,

00:23:11.600 --> 00:23:12.160
 but what's said

00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:13.320
 on the other side of the river,

00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:13.759
 welcome,

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 is very precious.

00:23:17.600 --> 00:23:18.460
 For the pagan,

00:23:18.620 --> 00:23:19.580
 what's said on this side

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 of the river

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 may be very grand,

00:23:22.120 --> 00:23:22.920
 the MCG,

00:23:23.059 --> 00:23:23.720
 the SCG,

00:23:23.900 --> 00:23:24.799
 filled with people,

00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:26.500
 but what's said

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 on the other side

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 of the river,

00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:30.120
 that's more significant,

00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:30.660
 isn't it?

00:23:31.819 --> 00:23:33.059
 The terrible thought

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 of coming to the other side

00:23:34.120 --> 00:23:34.480
 of the river

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 and for the Lord Jesus

00:23:35.360 --> 00:23:35.799
 to say,

00:23:35.900 --> 00:23:36.579
 I don't know you.

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 Depart.

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 It's a really big issue.

00:23:42.120 --> 00:23:43.160
 And Deuteronomy 14

00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:44.279
 in these strange

00:23:44.279 --> 00:23:45.160
 first two verses

00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:47.299
 is raising this fantastic issue

00:23:47.299 --> 00:23:48.160
 that the believers

00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:49.740
 are to live in the world

00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:50.500
 with a past

00:23:50.500 --> 00:23:51.240
 and a future.

00:23:53.180 --> 00:23:53.940
 And the world

00:23:53.940 --> 00:23:54.660
 is only marked

00:23:54.660 --> 00:23:56.180
 so much by the past.

00:23:57.700 --> 00:23:58.940
 I read a book recently

00:23:58.940 --> 00:24:00.180
 called Mortals,

00:24:00.500 --> 00:24:01.940
 written by two psychologists

00:24:01.940 --> 00:24:03.440
 in the eastern suburbs

00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:03.980
 of Sydney,

00:24:04.519 --> 00:24:05.440
 and their argument

00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:06.200
 is basically

00:24:06.200 --> 00:24:07.339
 that you've got to just learn

00:24:07.339 --> 00:24:08.160
 to live with the fact

00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:08.859
 that you're mortal,

00:24:09.019 --> 00:24:10.240
 so make the most of your life

00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:11.160
 because there's nothing

00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:12.180
 to come.

00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:14.440
 And the book then argues

00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:15.700
 that all religions

00:24:15.700 --> 00:24:17.200
 are basically games

00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:18.140
 that people play

00:24:18.140 --> 00:24:18.819
 to invent

00:24:18.819 --> 00:24:19.960
 some kind of future.

00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:22.380
 And I wrote to them

00:24:22.380 --> 00:24:22.759
 and I said,

00:24:22.819 --> 00:24:22.900
 look,

00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:23.319
 I don't think

00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:24.140
 you've done justice

00:24:24.140 --> 00:24:25.120
 to the fact

00:24:25.120 --> 00:24:27.080
 of the person of Christ

00:24:27.080 --> 00:24:28.680
 who genuinely lived

00:24:28.680 --> 00:24:30.500
 and genuinely died

00:24:30.500 --> 00:24:31.100
 and if you look

00:24:31.100 --> 00:24:31.700
 at the evidence,

00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:33.080
 genuinely rose.

00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:34.160
 And I don't see

00:24:34.160 --> 00:24:35.180
 how you can dismiss

00:24:35.180 --> 00:24:36.539
 the sensible faith

00:24:36.539 --> 00:24:38.080
 of two billion people

00:24:38.080 --> 00:24:38.819
 in the resurrection.

00:24:38.819 --> 00:24:42.379
 So that's the context

00:24:42.379 --> 00:24:43.259
 of the world we live in,

00:24:43.299 --> 00:24:43.519
 isn't it?

00:24:43.539 --> 00:24:44.859
 No wonder Deuteronomy 14

00:24:44.859 --> 00:24:45.899
 is a great challenge

00:24:45.899 --> 00:24:47.039
 to the people of Yahweh

00:24:47.039 --> 00:24:47.879
 to live differently

00:24:47.879 --> 00:24:48.539
 in the world.

00:24:49.399 --> 00:24:50.460
 Now the second bit

00:24:50.460 --> 00:24:51.619
 in Deuteronomy 14

00:24:51.619 --> 00:24:53.439
 has to do with the food laws

00:24:53.439 --> 00:24:55.500
 and I didn't get anybody

00:24:55.500 --> 00:24:56.379
 to read these

00:24:56.379 --> 00:24:57.799
 because they're so funny

00:24:57.799 --> 00:24:59.819
 and we would find ourselves

00:24:59.819 --> 00:25:01.460
 sort of laughing.

00:25:02.700 --> 00:25:03.000
 You know,

00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:03.939
 you can eat the ox,

00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:04.419
 the sheep,

00:25:04.519 --> 00:25:04.779
 the goat,

00:25:04.879 --> 00:25:05.119
 the deer,

00:25:05.220 --> 00:25:05.720
 the gazelle,

00:25:05.859 --> 00:25:06.379
 the rose deer,

00:25:06.460 --> 00:25:07.019
 the wild goat,

00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:07.740
 the mountain goat,

00:25:07.819 --> 00:25:08.460
 the antelope.

00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:10.899
 But you can't eat

00:25:10.899 --> 00:25:13.740
 the swine.

00:25:15.539 --> 00:25:16.399
 I can't see

00:25:16.399 --> 00:25:17.179
 how the rest of it

00:25:17.179 --> 00:25:17.939
 all fits together.

00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:19.839
 You shall not eat

00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:20.339
 the eagle,

00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:20.859
 the vulture,

00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:21.439
 the buzzard,

00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:22.019
 the red kite,

00:25:22.099 --> 00:25:22.579
 the falcon,

00:25:22.679 --> 00:25:23.139
 the kite,

00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:24.419
 raven,

00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:25.079
 ostrich,

00:25:25.200 --> 00:25:25.960
 short-eared owl,

00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:26.539
 seagull,

00:25:26.639 --> 00:25:26.859
 hawk.

00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:28.240
 What is going on?

00:25:28.659 --> 00:25:29.579
 What is going on?

00:25:29.599 --> 00:25:30.279
 You can imagine

00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:31.960
 the unbeliever

00:25:31.960 --> 00:25:33.019
 who sort of comes

00:25:33.019 --> 00:25:33.899
 across this chapter

00:25:33.899 --> 00:25:35.599
 says this is a fantastic

00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:36.879
 chapter to whip

00:25:36.879 --> 00:25:38.200
 the people of God with

00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:39.140
 because why aren't

00:25:39.140 --> 00:25:40.039
 they doing this?

00:25:41.120 --> 00:25:41.840
 And which of you

00:25:41.840 --> 00:25:42.500
 have gone to the

00:25:42.500 --> 00:25:43.279
 supermarket this week

00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:44.380
 and carefully avoided

00:25:44.380 --> 00:25:45.200
 the red kite?

00:25:47.059 --> 00:25:48.259
 Now what's going on

00:25:48.259 --> 00:25:49.039
 in these verses?

00:25:50.039 --> 00:25:51.200
 The answer is that

00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:52.080
 these are not

00:25:52.080 --> 00:25:54.160
 unhygienic animals.

00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:58.140
 We know that

00:25:58.140 --> 00:25:59.080
 because there came a time

00:25:59.080 --> 00:25:59.900
 where Jesus said

00:25:59.900 --> 00:26:00.340
 you can eat

00:26:00.340 --> 00:26:01.180
 whatever you want to.

00:26:02.580 --> 00:26:04.059
 It's not a hygiene issue.

00:26:04.059 --> 00:26:06.519
 It's not even a

00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:07.679
 this is what the pagans

00:26:07.679 --> 00:26:08.819
 in the promised land

00:26:08.819 --> 00:26:09.539
 eat now

00:26:09.539 --> 00:26:10.519
 so don't eat them.

00:26:11.859 --> 00:26:13.799
 This is sheer sovereignty

00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:14.440
 of God.

00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:17.179
 This is just the absolute

00:26:17.179 --> 00:26:19.279
 decision-making power

00:26:19.279 --> 00:26:19.799
 of God.

00:26:20.480 --> 00:26:21.299
 This is in,

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:22.299
 this is out.

00:26:22.659 --> 00:26:24.019
 This is clean,

00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:25.240
 this is unclean.

00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:26.839
 Watch carefully.

00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:29.500
 And so the people of God

00:26:29.500 --> 00:26:30.720
 every time they went

00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:31.379
 to the shops

00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:33.680
 they would be remembering

00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:34.960
 that there was a clean

00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:36.200
 and an unclean.

00:26:37.360 --> 00:26:37.980
 And every time

00:26:37.980 --> 00:26:38.920
 they sat at breakfast

00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:39.700
 and every time

00:26:39.700 --> 00:26:40.920
 they sat at their lunch table

00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:41.500
 and every time

00:26:41.500 --> 00:26:42.680
 they sat at their dinner table

00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:43.940
 they would remember

00:26:43.940 --> 00:26:45.000
 that there was a clean

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:46.100
 and an unclean.

00:26:47.320 --> 00:26:48.980
 And God had made them clean.

00:26:49.340 --> 00:26:49.640
 Why?

00:26:50.100 --> 00:26:50.920
 Deuteronomy 7

00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:51.960
 because he loved them.

00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:52.900
 That's all.

00:26:53.980 --> 00:26:55.320
 And there's an unclean

00:26:55.320 --> 00:26:56.640
 amongst whom they live

00:26:56.640 --> 00:26:58.460
 to whom they have a mission.

00:26:58.460 --> 00:27:01.559
 So all of this teaching

00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:03.660
 on the animals to be eaten

00:27:03.660 --> 00:27:04.940
 and the animals not to be eaten

00:27:04.940 --> 00:27:06.660
 are to teach the people of God

00:27:06.660 --> 00:27:07.400
 every day

00:27:07.400 --> 00:27:09.980
 that God is a God

00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:11.259
 who has his own people

00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:13.380
 to reach the lost.

00:27:14.380 --> 00:27:15.500
 The food laws of course

00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:16.160
 were abolished

00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:17.039
 in the New Testament

00:27:17.039 --> 00:27:17.860
 by Jesus

00:27:17.860 --> 00:27:19.819
 because he paid the price

00:27:19.819 --> 00:27:21.340
 of our failures

00:27:21.340 --> 00:27:23.160
 but he also

00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:24.700
 has brought in

00:27:24.700 --> 00:27:26.180
 a cleanness

00:27:26.180 --> 00:27:27.820
 which has got nothing

00:27:27.820 --> 00:27:29.259
 to do with rule keeping

00:27:29.259 --> 00:27:30.140
 and animals

00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:32.360
 but has got to do

00:27:32.360 --> 00:27:33.060
 with forgiveness

00:27:33.060 --> 00:27:34.500
 and a new heart.

00:27:36.340 --> 00:27:36.700
 And so

00:27:36.700 --> 00:27:37.960
 we're not the sort of people

00:27:37.960 --> 00:27:38.880
 who are interested

00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:40.640
 so much in external

00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:41.779
 ritual

00:27:41.779 --> 00:27:44.500
 as internal change.

00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:47.560
 Well how do we show

00:27:47.560 --> 00:27:48.360
 our distinctiveness?

00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:50.600
 We show it mostly

00:27:50.600 --> 00:27:51.940
 by asking the Lord

00:27:51.940 --> 00:27:53.560
 to fill and rule our heart

00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:56.079
 so that when we walk

00:27:56.079 --> 00:27:56.799
 into the day

00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:58.059
 he might help us

00:27:58.059 --> 00:27:58.960
 to think, say

00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:00.399
 and do the things

00:28:00.399 --> 00:28:01.359
 that would mark us

00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:02.759
 as his people.

00:28:03.539 --> 00:28:04.539
 And a huge part

00:28:04.539 --> 00:28:05.740
 of witness today

00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:08.299
 is not cleverness

00:28:08.299 --> 00:28:10.460
 it's just faithfulness.

00:28:11.419 --> 00:28:12.539
 And as I said last night

00:28:12.539 --> 00:28:13.220
 it's sometimes

00:28:13.220 --> 00:28:14.379
 being asked a question

00:28:14.379 --> 00:28:15.799
 and giving an honest answer.

00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:19.519
 A small, short, honest answer.

00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:22.200
 Do you remember

00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:23.039
 Colson

00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:24.119
 the right hand man

00:28:24.119 --> 00:28:25.180
 of the President Nixon

00:28:25.180 --> 00:28:27.200
 who was so tough

00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:28.000
 they said he would

00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:29.420
 sacrifice his grandmother

00:28:29.420 --> 00:28:30.339
 if the decision

00:28:30.339 --> 00:28:31.240
 required it.

00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:32.980
 And he was deeply

00:28:32.980 --> 00:28:33.940
 impressed by a man

00:28:33.940 --> 00:28:35.339
 called Tom Phillips

00:28:35.339 --> 00:28:36.879
 who in the midst

00:28:36.879 --> 00:28:37.660
 of the White House

00:28:37.660 --> 00:28:39.460
 was just such a nice man.

00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:41.299
 And eventually

00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:42.180
 Colson went round

00:28:42.180 --> 00:28:42.799
 to see him

00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:44.500
 this tough, tough Colson

00:28:44.500 --> 00:28:46.480
 and Tom Phillips

00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:47.240
 opened up

00:28:47.240 --> 00:28:48.359
 mere Christianity

00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:49.199
 and read to him

00:28:49.199 --> 00:28:50.059
 from C.S. Lewis

00:28:50.059 --> 00:28:51.579
 and the whole subject

00:28:51.579 --> 00:28:52.339
 of pride.

00:28:53.539 --> 00:28:54.459
 And Colson went back

00:28:54.459 --> 00:28:55.019
 to his car

00:28:55.019 --> 00:28:55.919
 and he sat at the wheel

00:28:55.919 --> 00:28:56.579
 of his car

00:28:56.579 --> 00:28:58.359
 and the evening

00:28:58.359 --> 00:28:59.779
 was pouring with rain

00:28:59.779 --> 00:29:00.439
 he said there was

00:29:00.439 --> 00:29:01.779
 more water in the car

00:29:01.779 --> 00:29:02.359
 than there was

00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:03.299
 outside the car

00:29:03.299 --> 00:29:04.839
 because he was

00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:05.779
 so convicted

00:29:05.779 --> 00:29:06.879
 you know

00:29:06.879 --> 00:29:07.799
 tears rolling down

00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:08.479
 his face.

00:29:09.479 --> 00:29:10.199
 And it came through

00:29:10.199 --> 00:29:12.319
 the example

00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:12.899
 of a guy

00:29:12.899 --> 00:29:13.519
 just living

00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:14.279
 like a believer

00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:14.959
 and that's the sort

00:29:14.959 --> 00:29:15.219
 of thing

00:29:15.219 --> 00:29:16.079
 that you can do.

00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:17.639
 And the way

00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:18.020
 you live

00:29:18.020 --> 00:29:18.960
 amongst your people

00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:19.700
 just asking

00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:20.100
 the Lord

00:29:20.100 --> 00:29:20.620
 to help you

00:29:20.620 --> 00:29:21.420
 to be distinctive

00:29:21.420 --> 00:29:23.300
 is so important

00:29:23.300 --> 00:29:25.160
 and you've no idea

00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:26.120
 where it will lead.

00:29:27.520 --> 00:29:28.540
 The last words

00:29:28.540 --> 00:29:29.380
 in chapter 14

00:29:29.380 --> 00:29:29.940
 have to do

00:29:29.940 --> 00:29:31.060
 with tithing

00:29:31.060 --> 00:29:33.020
 and basically

00:29:33.020 --> 00:29:33.980
 it's just teaching

00:29:33.980 --> 00:29:34.720
 the community

00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:35.380
 that they're not

00:29:35.380 --> 00:29:36.720
 just to be grasping

00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:37.460
 people

00:29:37.460 --> 00:29:39.000
 but giving people.

00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:40.940
 And

00:29:40.940 --> 00:29:42.780
 that's of course

00:29:42.780 --> 00:29:43.780
 what the gospel does

00:29:43.780 --> 00:29:44.280
 doesn't it?

00:29:44.280 --> 00:29:45.040
 It changes you

00:29:45.040 --> 00:29:45.759
 from being just

00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.379
 a taker

00:29:46.379 --> 00:29:48.680
 and there's

00:29:48.680 --> 00:29:49.879
 nothing so satisfying

00:29:49.879 --> 00:29:50.819
 as seeing the gospel

00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:51.839
 change somebody's

00:29:51.839 --> 00:29:52.480
 heart so that

00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:52.940
 they become

00:29:52.940 --> 00:29:54.359
 spontaneously generous.

00:29:55.180 --> 00:29:55.859
 I'm working

00:29:55.859 --> 00:29:56.619
 in a little church

00:29:56.619 --> 00:29:57.579
 in the eastern suburbs

00:29:57.579 --> 00:29:58.379
 I've just been there

00:29:58.379 --> 00:29:58.900
 for a year

00:29:58.900 --> 00:29:59.920
 it's a building

00:29:59.920 --> 00:30:01.200
 that holds 600 people

00:30:01.200 --> 00:30:02.099
 there's about 40

00:30:02.099 --> 00:30:02.680
 who come

00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:04.259
 and it's

00:30:04.259 --> 00:30:05.200
 kind of shocked

00:30:05.200 --> 00:30:05.940
 me to realise

00:30:05.940 --> 00:30:06.379
 that probably

00:30:06.379 --> 00:30:07.279
 35 of them

00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:08.119
 are not believers

00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:10.339
 and the giving

00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:11.359
 is kind of nothing.

00:30:12.259 --> 00:30:13.099
 People are literally

00:30:13.099 --> 00:30:14.259
 getting out two coins

00:30:14.259 --> 00:30:14.980
 and putting it

00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:16.319
 in the offertory bag

00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:18.160
 because their heart

00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:19.279
 has not been changed

00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:20.819
 but when the heart

00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:21.700
 gets changed

00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:23.859
 everything is opened

00:30:23.859 --> 00:30:24.700
 and freed

00:30:24.700 --> 00:30:26.379
 and generosity

00:30:26.379 --> 00:30:27.140
 flows.

00:30:28.379 --> 00:30:29.579
 I just want to point out

00:30:29.579 --> 00:30:30.400
 to you one unusual

00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:31.819
 verse 1421

00:30:31.819 --> 00:30:32.980
 which has always

00:30:32.980 --> 00:30:34.079
 intrigued me

00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:34.920
 and I've now worked

00:30:34.920 --> 00:30:35.799
 out what it is

00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:37.039
 and so I'm going

00:30:37.039 --> 00:30:37.700
 to tell you

00:30:37.700 --> 00:30:38.940
 and this will be

00:30:38.940 --> 00:30:39.500
 a groundbreaking

00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:40.940
 moment for all of you

00:30:40.940 --> 00:30:42.559
 it's a small joke

00:30:42.559 --> 00:30:44.659
 1421

00:30:44.659 --> 00:30:45.500
 you shall not eat

00:30:45.500 --> 00:30:45.940
 anything

00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:47.919
 what does he say

00:30:47.919 --> 00:30:48.399
 at the end

00:30:48.399 --> 00:30:48.839
 at the end

00:30:48.839 --> 00:30:49.519
 of verse 21

00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:50.299
 you shall not

00:30:50.299 --> 00:30:51.799
 boil a young goat

00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:53.799
 in its mother's milk

00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:55.159
 you shall not

00:30:55.159 --> 00:30:57.039
 boil a young goat

00:30:57.039 --> 00:30:57.919
 in its mother's milk

00:30:57.919 --> 00:30:59.200
 and believe it or not

00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:00.079
 commentators have

00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:01.000
 agonised

00:31:01.000 --> 00:31:01.639
 over what this

00:31:01.639 --> 00:31:02.299
 was all about

00:31:02.299 --> 00:31:04.399
 and I think

00:31:04.399 --> 00:31:05.119
 it's a proverb

00:31:05.119 --> 00:31:07.460
 I think

00:31:07.460 --> 00:31:08.339
 it represents

00:31:08.339 --> 00:31:09.200
 a saying

00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:09.899
 which is something

00:31:09.899 --> 00:31:10.599
 like this

00:31:10.599 --> 00:31:11.919
 don't take

00:31:11.919 --> 00:31:13.039
 what is meant

00:31:13.039 --> 00:31:13.659
 to

00:31:13.659 --> 00:31:16.059
 be good

00:31:16.059 --> 00:31:16.619
 for you

00:31:16.619 --> 00:31:18.059
 and turn it

00:31:18.059 --> 00:31:18.659
 into something

00:31:18.659 --> 00:31:19.139
 which

00:31:19.139 --> 00:31:20.639
 kills you

00:31:20.639 --> 00:31:22.599
 don't turn

00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:23.679
 perhaps the law

00:31:23.679 --> 00:31:24.099
 of God

00:31:24.099 --> 00:31:24.679
 which is meant

00:31:24.679 --> 00:31:25.539
 to bless you

00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:27.299
 and make it

00:31:27.299 --> 00:31:27.659
 something

00:31:27.659 --> 00:31:28.179
 which will

00:31:28.179 --> 00:31:29.039
 destroy you

00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:30.619
 don't take

00:31:30.619 --> 00:31:31.159
 the milk

00:31:31.159 --> 00:31:31.699
 of a mother

00:31:31.699 --> 00:31:32.319
 which is meant

00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:33.339
 to feed a baby

00:31:33.339 --> 00:31:35.059
 and cook

00:31:35.059 --> 00:31:35.759
 that baby

00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:36.519
 in the milk

00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:37.959
 the baby kid

00:31:37.959 --> 00:31:38.959
 I think

00:31:38.959 --> 00:31:39.319
 that's what

00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:39.659
 it's about

00:31:39.659 --> 00:31:40.039
 I think

00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:40.460
 at the end

00:31:40.460 --> 00:31:40.960
 of the chapter

00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:42.240
 that Moses

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:42.960
 is saying

00:31:42.960 --> 00:31:43.939
 don't mix

00:31:43.939 --> 00:31:44.799
 up the categories

00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:45.439
 of God

00:31:45.439 --> 00:31:47.659
 and end up

00:31:47.659 --> 00:31:48.639
 destroying yourself

00:31:48.639 --> 00:31:49.319
 with what should

00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:49.899
 help you

00:31:49.899 --> 00:31:52.019
 so that's the

00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:53.039
 second command

00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:53.579
 we're looking at

00:31:53.579 --> 00:31:54.200
 the third one

00:31:54.200 --> 00:31:55.339
 chapter 20

00:31:55.339 --> 00:31:57.399
 which I've

00:31:57.399 --> 00:31:58.119
 called

00:31:58.119 --> 00:32:00.539
 commandment

00:32:00.539 --> 00:32:01.099
 6

00:32:01.099 --> 00:32:03.579
 and it's

00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:04.240
 got to do

00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:05.359
 with going

00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:05.980
 to war

00:32:05.980 --> 00:32:06.700
 and it's just

00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:07.359
 worth looking at

00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:08.139
 especially in the

00:32:08.139 --> 00:32:08.559
 light of what's

00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:09.119
 happening in the

00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:09.639
 north of the

00:32:09.639 --> 00:32:10.200
 world at the

00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:10.500
 moment

00:32:10.500 --> 00:32:11.500
 because some

00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:11.980
 people may

00:32:11.980 --> 00:32:13.079
 say and

00:32:13.079 --> 00:32:13.700
 think well

00:32:13.700 --> 00:32:14.259
 this is the

00:32:14.259 --> 00:32:14.779
 sort of thing

00:32:14.779 --> 00:32:15.419
 that God

00:32:15.419 --> 00:32:16.240
 does

00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:19.659
 I preached

00:32:19.659 --> 00:32:20.379
 on Deuteronomy

00:32:20.379 --> 00:32:21.139
 20 in my

00:32:21.139 --> 00:32:21.759
 church and a

00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:22.519
 couple left

00:32:22.519 --> 00:32:23.139
 the church

00:32:23.139 --> 00:32:23.759
 after the

00:32:23.759 --> 00:32:24.119
 sermon

00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:24.779
 forever

00:32:24.779 --> 00:32:26.759
 because they

00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:27.579
 were offended

00:32:27.579 --> 00:32:28.859
 by the chapter

00:32:28.859 --> 00:32:30.559
 and they said

00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:31.240
 we don't believe

00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:32.059
 God could do

00:32:32.059 --> 00:32:32.579
 this

00:32:32.579 --> 00:32:35.139
 in Deuteronomy

00:32:35.139 --> 00:32:35.579
 19

00:32:35.579 --> 00:32:36.559
 we're told

00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:37.099
 there are to

00:32:37.099 --> 00:32:37.579
 be safe

00:32:37.579 --> 00:32:38.000
 cities

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.419
 where you

00:32:38.419 --> 00:32:38.899
 can run

00:32:38.899 --> 00:32:39.659
 to if

00:32:39.659 --> 00:32:40.259
 you commit

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:41.319
 manslaughter

00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:42.319
 before you

00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:43.299
 get tried

00:32:43.299 --> 00:32:45.039
 in chapter 21

00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:45.539
 there's

00:32:45.539 --> 00:32:46.859
 instruction about

00:32:46.859 --> 00:32:47.279
 what to do

00:32:47.279 --> 00:32:47.720
 if you find

00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:48.139
 a body

00:32:48.139 --> 00:32:48.839
 in a field

00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:50.039
 but in

00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:50.759
 chapter 20

00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:51.240
 there is

00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:52.759
 the will

00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:53.220
 of God

00:32:53.220 --> 00:32:53.559
 for the

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:54.039
 taking of

00:32:54.039 --> 00:32:54.500
 the promised

00:32:54.500 --> 00:32:54.919
 land

00:32:54.919 --> 00:32:55.839
 and as I

00:32:55.839 --> 00:32:56.259
 mentioned to

00:32:56.259 --> 00:32:56.679
 you before

00:32:56.679 --> 00:32:57.639
 this taking

00:32:57.639 --> 00:32:58.119
 of the promised

00:32:58.119 --> 00:32:58.779
 land is a

00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:59.159
 one-off

00:32:59.159 --> 00:32:59.799
 never to be

00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:00.199
 repeated

00:33:00.199 --> 00:33:00.859
 invasion

00:33:00.859 --> 00:33:02.579
 it just

00:33:02.579 --> 00:33:03.259
 doesn't come

00:33:03.259 --> 00:33:03.679
 up again

00:33:03.679 --> 00:33:04.000
 and again

00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.199
 in the

00:33:04.199 --> 00:33:04.359
 Bible

00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:04.759
 it's just

00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:05.399
 a one-off

00:33:05.399 --> 00:33:08.139
 and we

00:33:08.139 --> 00:33:08.479
 need to

00:33:08.479 --> 00:33:08.799
 remember

00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:09.159
 when we

00:33:09.159 --> 00:33:09.539
 think about

00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:09.779
 God

00:33:09.779 --> 00:33:10.199
 taking the

00:33:10.199 --> 00:33:10.459
 promised

00:33:10.459 --> 00:33:10.679
 land

00:33:10.679 --> 00:33:10.979
 remember

00:33:10.979 --> 00:33:11.139
 there are

00:33:11.139 --> 00:33:11.279
 a lot

00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:11.519
 of people

00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:11.839
 in the

00:33:11.839 --> 00:33:12.119
 promised

00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:12.399
 land

00:33:12.399 --> 00:33:12.699
 we need

00:33:12.699 --> 00:33:13.079
 to remember

00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:13.579
 first that

00:33:13.579 --> 00:33:13.799
 God

00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:14.199
 owned the

00:33:14.199 --> 00:33:14.500
 promised

00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:14.899
 land

00:33:14.899 --> 00:33:15.959
 as I

00:33:15.959 --> 00:33:16.240
 said to

00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:16.579
 you last

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:16.819
 night

00:33:16.819 --> 00:33:17.279
 he waited

00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:18.119
 four centuries

00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:18.559
 for the

00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:18.979
 people to

00:33:18.979 --> 00:33:19.379
 turn to

00:33:19.379 --> 00:33:19.639
 him

00:33:19.639 --> 00:33:20.479
 but they

00:33:20.479 --> 00:33:21.439
 didn't

00:33:21.439 --> 00:33:22.179
 he

00:33:22.179 --> 00:33:22.879
 communicated

00:33:22.879 --> 00:33:23.359
 to the

00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:23.799
 whole of

00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:24.399
 the land

00:33:24.399 --> 00:33:25.500
 because you

00:33:25.500 --> 00:33:25.779
 remember

00:33:25.779 --> 00:33:26.379
 Rahab the

00:33:26.379 --> 00:33:26.959
 prostitute

00:33:26.959 --> 00:33:27.500
 said we've

00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:27.859
 all heard

00:33:27.859 --> 00:33:28.099
 about

00:33:28.099 --> 00:33:28.519
 Yahweh

00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:29.379
 we've

00:33:29.379 --> 00:33:29.699
 heard about

00:33:29.700 --> 00:33:29.819
 the

00:33:29.819 --> 00:33:30.180
 exodus

00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:30.460
 we've

00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:30.740
 heard about

00:33:30.740 --> 00:33:31.120
 the crossing

00:33:31.120 --> 00:33:31.400
 of the

00:33:31.400 --> 00:33:31.840
 Red Sea

00:33:31.840 --> 00:33:33.580
 this is a

00:33:33.580 --> 00:33:33.860
 God of

00:33:33.860 --> 00:33:34.420
 justice

00:33:34.420 --> 00:33:35.640
 it's time

00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:36.380
 for justice

00:33:36.380 --> 00:33:38.000
 there's a

00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:38.480
 time for

00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:39.019
 justice

00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:40.240
 but he's

00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:40.960
 also merciful

00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:41.559
 because he

00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:42.259
 says you're

00:33:42.259 --> 00:33:42.660
 to go to

00:33:42.660 --> 00:33:43.140
 the towns

00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:43.860
 around and

00:33:43.860 --> 00:33:44.559
 still offer

00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:44.920
 them

00:33:44.920 --> 00:33:46.580
 mercy

00:33:46.580 --> 00:33:49.180
 but of

00:33:49.180 --> 00:33:49.580
 course God

00:33:49.580 --> 00:33:49.940
 is a God

00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:50.299
 who keeps

00:33:50.299 --> 00:33:50.840
 his promises

00:33:50.840 --> 00:33:51.380
 and he's

00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:51.920
 promised in

00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:52.220
 the end

00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:52.480
 that he

00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:52.819
 will bring

00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:53.039
 his

00:33:53.039 --> 00:33:53.500
 judgment

00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:54.620
 can't

00:33:54.620 --> 00:33:54.960
 escape

00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:55.380
 that

00:33:55.380 --> 00:33:56.360
 he's a

00:33:56.360 --> 00:33:56.819
 judge

00:33:56.819 --> 00:33:57.860
 he's a

00:33:57.860 --> 00:33:58.480
 good judge

00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:59.980
 and he

00:33:59.980 --> 00:34:00.299
 obviously

00:34:00.299 --> 00:34:01.000
 is providing

00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:01.420
 for his

00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:01.880
 people a

00:34:01.880 --> 00:34:02.440
 promised land

00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:02.720
 as he

00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:03.140
 said he

00:34:03.140 --> 00:34:03.420
 would

00:34:03.420 --> 00:34:04.420
 and this

00:34:04.420 --> 00:34:05.339
 is also a

00:34:05.339 --> 00:34:05.860
 preview of

00:34:05.860 --> 00:34:06.220
 the glory

00:34:06.220 --> 00:34:06.759
 to come

00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:07.880
 so Deuteronomy

00:34:07.880 --> 00:34:08.519
 20 is the

00:34:08.519 --> 00:34:09.380
 most amazing

00:34:09.380 --> 00:34:10.740
 procedure for

00:34:10.740 --> 00:34:12.420
 an invasion

00:34:12.420 --> 00:34:13.820
 look at

00:34:13.820 --> 00:34:14.559
 chapter 20

00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:15.179
 verse 1

00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:16.300
 Moses says

00:34:16.300 --> 00:34:17.039
 don't be afraid

00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:17.820
 God is with

00:34:17.820 --> 00:34:18.240
 you

00:34:18.240 --> 00:34:19.659
 can you

00:34:19.659 --> 00:34:20.039
 imagine

00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:20.960
 world war

00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:21.880
 one chaplains

00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:23.599
 going up to

00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:24.059
 the troops

00:34:24.059 --> 00:34:24.699
 or world war

00:34:24.699 --> 00:34:25.400
 two chaplains

00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:26.559
 or Afghani

00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:27.079
 chaplains

00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:27.619
 going up

00:34:27.619 --> 00:34:28.019
 and saying

00:34:28.019 --> 00:34:28.340
 to the

00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:28.700
 troops

00:34:28.700 --> 00:34:29.920
 let's

00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:30.920
 remember

00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:31.420
 that God

00:34:31.420 --> 00:34:31.760
 is with

00:34:31.760 --> 00:34:32.160
 us

00:34:32.160 --> 00:34:33.579
 you wouldn't

00:34:33.579 --> 00:34:33.900
 dare to

00:34:33.900 --> 00:34:34.360
 do that

00:34:34.360 --> 00:34:36.019
 what you

00:34:36.019 --> 00:34:36.440
 could do

00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:36.800
 is say

00:34:36.800 --> 00:34:37.300
 let's pray

00:34:37.300 --> 00:34:37.740
 that God

00:34:37.740 --> 00:34:38.119
 would be

00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:38.680
 with us

00:34:38.680 --> 00:34:40.220
 but this

00:34:40.220 --> 00:34:40.800
 is God's

00:34:40.800 --> 00:34:41.139
 war

00:34:41.139 --> 00:34:42.139
 and so

00:34:42.139 --> 00:34:43.380
 the priest

00:34:43.380 --> 00:34:44.059
 is to say

00:34:44.059 --> 00:34:44.460
 God is

00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:44.940
 with you

00:34:44.940 --> 00:34:46.019
 then he

00:34:46.019 --> 00:34:46.440
 says in

00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:46.960
 verses 2

00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:47.320
 to 4

00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:47.700
 you're going

00:34:47.700 --> 00:34:47.900
 to be

00:34:47.900 --> 00:34:48.420
 victorious

00:34:48.420 --> 00:34:50.180
 so don't

00:34:50.180 --> 00:34:50.480
 let your

00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:50.940
 heart faint

00:34:50.940 --> 00:34:51.320
 don't be

00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:51.599
 afraid

00:34:51.599 --> 00:34:52.639
 don't tremble

00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:53.340
 don't be

00:34:53.340 --> 00:34:53.680
 terrified

00:34:53.680 --> 00:34:54.039
 the Lord

00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:54.360
 your God

00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:54.700
 is with

00:34:54.700 --> 00:34:54.860
 you

00:34:54.860 --> 00:34:55.280
 to fight

00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:55.519
 for you

00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:55.760
 against

00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:56.220
 your enemies

00:34:56.220 --> 00:34:56.800
 to save

00:34:56.800 --> 00:34:56.960
 you

00:34:56.960 --> 00:34:57.519
 he's going

00:34:57.519 --> 00:34:57.800
 to win

00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:58.200
 this war

00:34:58.200 --> 00:34:58.620
 it's a

00:34:58.620 --> 00:34:58.940
 winning

00:34:58.940 --> 00:34:59.599
 war

00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:01.940
 third he

00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:02.420
 says go

00:35:02.420 --> 00:35:02.940
 home if

00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:03.300
 you've got

00:35:03.300 --> 00:35:03.559
 a new

00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:03.960
 house

00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:04.420
 and you'd

00:35:04.420 --> 00:35:04.700
 like to

00:35:04.700 --> 00:35:05.039
 work on

00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:05.460
 the house

00:35:05.460 --> 00:35:07.019
 go home

00:35:07.019 --> 00:35:07.360
 if you've

00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:07.760
 got a new

00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:08.140
 vineyard

00:35:08.140 --> 00:35:08.420
 and you'd

00:35:08.420 --> 00:35:08.800
 like to

00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:09.539
 pick some

00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:10.160
 grapes

00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:10.700
 go home

00:35:10.700 --> 00:35:11.039
 if you've

00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:11.300
 got a

00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:11.579
 new

00:35:11.579 --> 00:35:12.260
 fiance

00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:13.920
 go home

00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:14.280
 if you

00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:14.500
 feel

00:35:14.500 --> 00:35:15.019
 frightened

00:35:15.019 --> 00:35:17.780
 kind of

00:35:17.780 --> 00:35:18.079
 gives you

00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:18.500
 plenty of

00:35:18.500 --> 00:35:18.840
 escape

00:35:18.840 --> 00:35:19.180
 doesn't

00:35:19.180 --> 00:35:19.480
 it

00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:20.880
 in other

00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:21.140
 words

00:35:21.140 --> 00:35:21.519
 God is

00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:21.700
 not

00:35:21.700 --> 00:35:22.099
 dependent

00:35:22.099 --> 00:35:22.539
 on the

00:35:22.539 --> 00:35:22.900
 numbers

00:35:22.900 --> 00:35:23.240
 for the

00:35:23.240 --> 00:35:23.539
 battle

00:35:23.539 --> 00:35:25.119
 if he's

00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:25.480
 left with

00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:26.039
 ten people

00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:26.440
 he'll do

00:35:26.440 --> 00:35:26.679
 it with

00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:26.940
 ten

00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:27.259
 if he's

00:35:27.259 --> 00:35:27.400
 got

00:35:27.400 --> 00:35:28.000
 ten thousand

00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:28.400
 he'll do

00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:28.639
 it with

00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:29.300
 ten thousand

00:35:29.300 --> 00:35:31.599
 and then

00:35:31.599 --> 00:35:32.159
 verse ten

00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:32.500
 of chapter

00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:32.860
 twenty

00:35:32.860 --> 00:35:33.500
 offer peace

00:35:33.500 --> 00:35:33.820
 to the

00:35:33.820 --> 00:35:34.099
 cities

00:35:34.099 --> 00:35:34.500
 nearby

00:35:34.500 --> 00:35:34.980
 but there'll

00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:35.380
 be no

00:35:35.380 --> 00:35:35.900
 peace for

00:35:35.900 --> 00:35:36.579
 the cities

00:35:36.579 --> 00:35:36.960
 in the

00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:37.340
 midst of

00:35:37.340 --> 00:35:37.460
 the

00:35:37.460 --> 00:35:37.759
 promised

00:35:37.759 --> 00:35:38.239
 land

00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:40.259
 and

00:35:40.259 --> 00:35:40.619
 this

00:35:40.619 --> 00:35:41.779
 battle

00:35:41.779 --> 00:35:42.179
 that is

00:35:42.179 --> 00:35:42.579
 to take

00:35:42.579 --> 00:35:42.979
 place

00:35:42.979 --> 00:35:43.599
 is a

00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:44.379
 really

00:35:44.379 --> 00:35:45.219
 serious

00:35:45.219 --> 00:35:45.879
 sobering

00:35:45.879 --> 00:35:46.239
 battle

00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:47.559
 but it's

00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:48.199
 not as

00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:48.559
 serious

00:35:48.559 --> 00:35:49.059
 as the

00:35:49.059 --> 00:35:49.359
 battle

00:35:49.359 --> 00:35:49.699
 that's

00:35:49.699 --> 00:35:50.139
 described

00:35:50.139 --> 00:35:50.379
 in

00:35:50.379 --> 00:35:50.879
 revelation

00:35:50.879 --> 00:35:53.079
 which is

00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:53.599
 a massive

00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:54.159
 global

00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:54.639
 battle

00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:56.279
 a

00:35:56.279 --> 00:35:56.659
 judgment

00:35:56.659 --> 00:35:57.199
 of very

00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:57.519
 great

00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:58.159
 proportions

00:35:58.159 --> 00:36:00.639
 remember

00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:01.019
 that the

00:36:01.019 --> 00:36:01.319
 Bible

00:36:01.319 --> 00:36:02.259
 is descriptive

00:36:02.259 --> 00:36:03.500
 of invasion

00:36:03.500 --> 00:36:04.799
 not

00:36:04.799 --> 00:36:05.899
 prescriptive

00:36:05.900 --> 00:36:07.280
 does that

00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:07.760
 make sense

00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:08.700
 the Bible

00:36:08.700 --> 00:36:09.500
 describes

00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:09.860
 this

00:36:09.860 --> 00:36:10.360
 invasion

00:36:10.360 --> 00:36:11.660
 it does

00:36:11.660 --> 00:36:11.940
 not

00:36:11.940 --> 00:36:12.680
 prescribe

00:36:12.680 --> 00:36:13.079
 an

00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:13.579
 invasion

00:36:13.579 --> 00:36:15.220
 the

00:36:15.220 --> 00:36:15.700
 Quran

00:36:15.700 --> 00:36:16.720
 prescribes

00:36:16.720 --> 00:36:17.000
 an

00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:17.519
 invasion

00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:20.000
 the

00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:20.220
 Bible

00:36:20.220 --> 00:36:20.480
 does

00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:20.820
 not

00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:22.720
 and at

00:36:22.720 --> 00:36:22.980
 the very

00:36:22.980 --> 00:36:23.300
 end of

00:36:23.300 --> 00:36:23.780
 Deuteronomy

00:36:23.780 --> 00:36:24.139
 20

00:36:24.139 --> 00:36:25.019
 we're told

00:36:25.019 --> 00:36:25.320
 that they

00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:25.519
 are to

00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:25.960
 look after

00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:26.400
 the fruit

00:36:26.400 --> 00:36:26.720
 trees

00:36:26.720 --> 00:36:27.000
 of the

00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:27.220
 land

00:36:27.220 --> 00:36:27.700
 don't

00:36:27.700 --> 00:36:28.340
 attack

00:36:28.340 --> 00:36:29.059
 the fruit

00:36:29.059 --> 00:36:29.440
 trees

00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:29.740
 of the

00:36:29.740 --> 00:36:29.960
 land

00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:30.300
 what a

00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:30.460
 funny

00:36:30.460 --> 00:36:30.700
 thing

00:36:30.700 --> 00:36:31.139
 to say

00:36:31.139 --> 00:36:33.000
 why does

00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:33.700
 Moses say

00:36:33.700 --> 00:36:34.200
 don't attack

00:36:34.200 --> 00:36:34.559
 the fruit

00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:34.780
 trees

00:36:34.780 --> 00:36:34.980
 of the

00:36:34.980 --> 00:36:35.099
 land

00:36:35.099 --> 00:36:35.260
 well

00:36:35.260 --> 00:36:35.500
 because

00:36:35.500 --> 00:36:35.700
 you're

00:36:35.699 --> 00:36:35.819
 going to

00:36:35.819 --> 00:36:36.139
 be living

00:36:36.139 --> 00:36:36.460
 there

00:36:36.460 --> 00:36:38.460
 and

00:36:38.460 --> 00:36:38.699
 therefore

00:36:38.699 --> 00:36:39.019
 if you

00:36:39.019 --> 00:36:39.219
 need

00:36:39.219 --> 00:36:39.460
 wood

00:36:39.460 --> 00:36:39.739
 don't

00:36:39.739 --> 00:36:39.899
 cut

00:36:39.899 --> 00:36:40.059
 down

00:36:40.059 --> 00:36:40.199
 the

00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:40.399
 fruit

00:36:40.399 --> 00:36:40.619
 trees

00:36:40.619 --> 00:36:40.859
 cut

00:36:40.859 --> 00:36:41.059
 down

00:36:41.059 --> 00:36:41.199
 the

00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:41.379
 other

00:36:41.379 --> 00:36:41.739
 trees

00:36:41.739 --> 00:36:41.919
 but

00:36:41.919 --> 00:36:42.159
 don't

00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:42.359
 cut

00:36:42.359 --> 00:36:42.559
 down

00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:42.719
 the

00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:42.919
 fruit

00:36:42.919 --> 00:36:43.219
 trees

00:36:43.219 --> 00:36:43.419
 because

00:36:43.419 --> 00:36:43.599
 you're

00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:43.719
 going to

00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:43.819
 be

00:36:43.819 --> 00:36:44.079
 living

00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:44.379
 there

00:36:44.379 --> 00:36:46.019
 and

00:36:46.019 --> 00:36:46.159
 the

00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:46.399
 fruit

00:36:46.399 --> 00:36:46.719
 trees

00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:46.879
 of

00:36:46.879 --> 00:36:47.000
 the

00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:47.279
 Bible

00:36:47.279 --> 00:36:47.500
 are

00:36:47.500 --> 00:36:47.839
 such

00:36:47.839 --> 00:36:48.000
 a

00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.319
 beautiful

00:36:48.319 --> 00:36:48.739
 theme

00:36:48.739 --> 00:36:48.899
 in

00:36:48.899 --> 00:36:49.000
 the

00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:49.239
 Bible

00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:49.460
 you've

00:36:49.460 --> 00:36:49.599
 got

00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:49.879
 fruit

00:36:49.879 --> 00:36:50.159
 trees

00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:50.419
 in

00:36:50.419 --> 00:36:50.839
 Genesis

00:36:50.839 --> 00:36:52.759
 and

00:36:52.759 --> 00:36:52.879
 then

00:36:52.879 --> 00:36:53.059
 you've

00:36:53.059 --> 00:36:53.199
 got

00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:53.439
 fruit

00:36:53.439 --> 00:36:53.739
 trees

00:36:53.739 --> 00:36:53.899
 in

00:36:53.899 --> 00:36:54.019
 the

00:36:54.019 --> 00:36:54.299
 promised

00:36:54.299 --> 00:36:54.779
 land

00:36:54.779 --> 00:36:56.079
 and

00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:56.219
 then

00:36:56.219 --> 00:36:56.339
 at

00:36:56.339 --> 00:36:56.460
 the

00:36:56.460 --> 00:36:56.599
 end

00:36:56.599 --> 00:36:56.679
 of

00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:56.779
 the

00:36:56.779 --> 00:36:57.019
 Bible

00:37:05.699 --> 00:37:05.899
 chapter

00:37:05.899 --> 00:37:06.259
 is

00:37:06.259 --> 00:37:07.679
 if

00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:07.799
 you

00:37:07.799 --> 00:37:07.899
 were

00:37:07.899 --> 00:37:08.059
 to

00:37:08.059 --> 00:37:08.379
 preach

00:37:08.379 --> 00:37:08.659
 it

00:37:08.659 --> 00:37:09.619
 I

00:37:09.619 --> 00:37:09.759
 think

00:37:09.759 --> 00:37:09.879
 it

00:37:09.879 --> 00:37:09.939
 would

00:37:09.939 --> 00:37:10.059
 be

00:37:10.059 --> 00:37:10.299
 very

00:37:10.299 --> 00:37:10.719
 important

00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:11.039
 to

00:37:11.039 --> 00:37:11.500
 explain

00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:11.659
 to

00:37:11.659 --> 00:37:11.939
 people

00:37:11.939 --> 00:37:12.159
 that

00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:12.359
 this

00:37:12.359 --> 00:37:12.599
 was

00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:12.739
 a

00:37:12.739 --> 00:37:13.199
 one-off

00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:14.960
 that

00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:15.059
 it

00:37:15.059 --> 00:37:15.179
 was

00:37:15.179 --> 00:37:15.339
 a

00:37:15.339 --> 00:37:15.519
 piece

00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:15.699
 of

00:37:15.699 --> 00:37:16.299
 justice

00:37:16.299 --> 00:37:17.779
 following

00:37:17.779 --> 00:37:18.019
 a

00:37:18.019 --> 00:37:18.299
 great

00:37:18.299 --> 00:37:18.559
 deal

00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:18.719
 of

00:37:18.719 --> 00:37:19.059
 mercy

00:37:19.059 --> 00:37:20.739
 and

00:37:20.739 --> 00:37:20.879
 that

00:37:20.879 --> 00:37:21.019
 in

00:37:21.019 --> 00:37:21.139
 the

00:37:21.139 --> 00:37:21.259
 end

00:37:21.259 --> 00:37:21.379
 the

00:37:21.379 --> 00:37:21.559
 Lord

00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:21.879
 Jesus

00:37:21.879 --> 00:37:22.179
 has

00:37:22.179 --> 00:37:22.359
 won

00:37:22.359 --> 00:37:22.500
 a

00:37:22.500 --> 00:37:22.739
 much

00:37:22.739 --> 00:37:23.059
 bigger

00:37:23.059 --> 00:37:23.480
 victory

00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:24.639
 which

00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:24.839
 we

00:37:24.839 --> 00:37:25.000
 can

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:25.259
 take

00:37:25.259 --> 00:37:25.579
 part

00:37:25.579 --> 00:37:25.779
 in

00:37:25.779 --> 00:37:25.960
 and

00:37:25.960 --> 00:37:26.399
 escape

00:37:26.399 --> 00:37:27.019
 justice

00:37:27.019 --> 00:37:27.500
 and

00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:27.839
 receive

00:37:27.839 --> 00:37:28.259
 mercy

00:37:28.259 --> 00:37:30.699
 and

00:37:30.699 --> 00:37:30.819
 then

00:37:30.819 --> 00:37:30.960
 the

00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:31.199
 last

00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:31.539
 command

00:37:31.539 --> 00:37:31.699
 I

00:37:31.699 --> 00:37:31.819
 was

00:37:31.819 --> 00:37:32.059
 thinking

00:37:32.059 --> 00:37:32.239
 of

00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:32.439
 looking

00:37:32.440 --> 00:37:32.659
 at

00:37:32.659 --> 00:37:32.820
 is

00:37:32.820 --> 00:37:33.440
 command

00:37:33.440 --> 00:37:34.000
 number

00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:34.440
 seven

00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:34.740
 which

00:37:34.740 --> 00:37:35.019
 is

00:37:35.019 --> 00:37:35.720
 chapters

00:37:35.720 --> 00:37:36.099
 21

00:37:36.099 --> 00:37:36.260
 to

00:37:36.260 --> 00:37:36.619
 24

00:37:36.619 --> 00:37:36.780
 and

00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:36.900
 I'll

00:37:36.900 --> 00:37:37.059
 just

00:37:37.059 --> 00:37:37.260
 say

00:37:37.260 --> 00:37:37.500
 very

00:37:37.500 --> 00:37:37.880
 quickly

00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:38.480
 that

00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:38.679
 when

00:37:38.679 --> 00:37:38.820
 you

00:37:38.820 --> 00:37:39.099
 read

00:37:39.099 --> 00:37:39.360
 these

00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:39.800
 chapters

00:37:39.800 --> 00:37:40.039
 that

00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:40.240
 have

00:37:40.240 --> 00:37:40.400
 to

00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:40.619
 do

00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:40.960
 with

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:41.900
 taking

00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:42.159
 of

00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:42.820
 slaves

00:37:42.820 --> 00:37:44.139
 or

00:37:44.139 --> 00:37:44.820
 taking

00:37:44.820 --> 00:37:45.400
 captive

00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:45.900
 people

00:37:45.900 --> 00:37:46.159
 who've

00:37:46.159 --> 00:37:46.340
 been

00:37:46.340 --> 00:37:46.820
 conquered

00:37:46.820 --> 00:37:47.079
 in

00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:47.360
 battle

00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:47.559
 it

00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:47.740
 all

00:37:47.740 --> 00:37:47.960
 looks

00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:48.360
 terrible

00:37:48.360 --> 00:37:48.619
 to

00:37:48.619 --> 00:37:48.980
 us

00:37:48.980 --> 00:37:50.700
 but

00:37:50.700 --> 00:37:51.019
 actually

00:37:51.019 --> 00:37:51.200
 it

00:37:51.200 --> 00:37:51.360
 was

00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:51.980
 revolutionary

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:52.519
 in

00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:52.659
 the

00:37:52.659 --> 00:37:52.980
 warfare

00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:53.900
 if

00:37:53.900 --> 00:37:54.039
 you

00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:54.159
 were

00:37:54.159 --> 00:37:54.360
 a

00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:54.679
 pagan

00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:55.139
 and

00:37:55.139 --> 00:37:55.320
 you

00:37:55.320 --> 00:37:55.920
 conquered

00:37:55.920 --> 00:37:57.139
 another

00:37:57.139 --> 00:37:57.679
 country

00:37:57.679 --> 00:37:59.099
 you

00:37:59.099 --> 00:37:59.380
 did

00:37:59.380 --> 00:37:59.639
 whatever

00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:00.059
 you

00:38:00.059 --> 00:38:00.440
 wanted

00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:00.720
 with

00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:00.940
 those

00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:01.340
 people

00:38:01.340 --> 00:38:01.960
 and

00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:02.099
 I

00:38:02.099 --> 00:38:02.320
 mean

00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:02.800
 whatever

00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:03.039
 you

00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:03.460
 wanted

00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:05.079
 but

00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:05.340
 God

00:38:05.340 --> 00:38:05.639
 says

00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:05.940
 no

00:38:05.940 --> 00:38:07.199
 when

00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:07.400
 you

00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:07.760
 find

00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:08.119
 people

00:38:08.119 --> 00:38:08.380
 who

00:38:08.380 --> 00:38:08.679
 are

00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:08.860
 the

00:38:08.860 --> 00:38:09.260
 victims

00:38:09.260 --> 00:38:09.519
 of

00:38:09.519 --> 00:38:09.900
 war

00:38:09.900 --> 00:38:10.720
 you're

00:38:10.720 --> 00:38:10.840
 to

00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:11.039
 look

00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:11.320
 after

00:38:11.320 --> 00:38:11.599
 them

00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:12.380
 you're

00:38:12.380 --> 00:38:12.539
 not

00:38:12.539 --> 00:38:12.699
 to

00:38:12.699 --> 00:38:13.099
 abuse

00:38:13.099 --> 00:38:13.400
 them

00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:13.760
 you're

00:38:13.760 --> 00:38:13.840
 to

00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:14.099
 care

00:38:14.099 --> 00:38:14.300
 for

00:38:14.300 --> 00:38:14.539
 them

00:38:14.539 --> 00:38:15.000
 you're

00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:15.099
 to

00:38:15.099 --> 00:38:15.500
 dress

00:38:15.500 --> 00:38:15.840
 them

00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:16.320
 you're

00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:16.400
 to

00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:16.639
 treat

00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:16.820
 them

00:38:16.820 --> 00:38:17.019
 with

00:38:17.019 --> 00:38:17.500
 dignity

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:17.860
 they're

00:38:17.860 --> 00:38:18.059
 not

00:38:18.059 --> 00:38:18.260
 your

00:38:18.260 --> 00:38:18.679
 property

00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:20.119
 a

00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:20.480
 wife

00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:20.639
 is

00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:20.880
 not

00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:21.039
 to

00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:21.179
 be

00:38:21.179 --> 00:38:21.460
 just

00:38:21.460 --> 00:38:22.099
 grabbed

00:38:22.099 --> 00:38:23.139
 or

00:38:23.139 --> 00:38:24.079
 humiliated

00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:25.139
 and

00:38:25.139 --> 00:38:25.280
 if

00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:25.400
 you

00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:25.599
 do

00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:25.900
 take

00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:26.000
 her

00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:26.119
 for

00:38:26.119 --> 00:38:26.260
 a

00:38:26.260 --> 00:38:26.480
 wife

00:38:26.480 --> 00:38:26.619
 and

00:38:26.619 --> 00:38:26.780
 there

00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:26.960
 is

00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:27.099
 a

00:38:27.099 --> 00:38:27.460
 divorce

00:38:27.460 --> 00:38:27.699
 to

00:38:27.699 --> 00:38:28.039
 follow

00:38:28.039 --> 00:38:28.940
 she's

00:38:28.940 --> 00:38:29.199
 not

00:38:29.199 --> 00:38:29.420
 your

00:38:29.420 --> 00:38:29.860
 property

00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:30.519
 you've

00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:30.619
 got

00:38:30.619 --> 00:38:30.739
 to

00:38:30.739 --> 00:38:30.920
 look

00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:31.259
 after

00:38:31.259 --> 00:38:31.579
 her

00:38:31.579 --> 00:38:32.159
 it's

00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:32.400
 quite

00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:33.079
 revolutionary

00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:36.420
 I

00:38:36.420 --> 00:38:36.559
 think

00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:36.779
 that's

00:38:36.779 --> 00:38:37.000
 probably

00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:37.380
 enough

00:38:37.380 --> 00:38:41.759
 I

00:38:41.759 --> 00:38:41.920
 think

00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:42.139
 that's

00:38:42.139 --> 00:38:42.360
 probably

00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:42.739
 enough

00:38:42.739 --> 00:38:43.139
 there

00:38:43.139 --> 00:38:43.279
 are

00:38:43.279 --> 00:38:43.480
 the

00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:44.179
 little

00:38:44.179 --> 00:38:44.599
 tastes

00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:44.799
 of

00:38:44.799 --> 00:38:44.940
 the

00:38:44.940 --> 00:38:45.360
 commandments

00:38:45.360 --> 00:38:45.799
 being

00:38:45.799 --> 00:38:46.839
 unpacked

00:38:46.839 --> 00:38:47.219
 in

00:38:47.219 --> 00:38:47.880
 Deuteronomy

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:49.740
 looking

00:38:49.740 --> 00:38:50.019
 at

00:38:50.019 --> 00:38:50.320
 the

00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:50.720
 practical

00:38:50.720 --> 00:38:51.280
 details

00:38:51.280 --> 00:38:51.579
 of

00:38:51.579 --> 00:38:51.820
 living

00:38:51.820 --> 00:38:52.220
 for

00:38:52.220 --> 00:38:52.559
 him

00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:54.160
 okay

00:38:54.160 --> 00:38:54.400
 it's

00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:54.599
 12

00:38:54.599 --> 00:38:54.840
 o'clock

00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:55.059
 on the

00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:55.220
 dot

00:38:55.220 --> 00:38:55.559
 what time

00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:55.800
 was I

00:38:55.800 --> 00:38:55.940
 meant

00:38:55.940 --> 00:38:56.059
 to

00:38:56.059 --> 00:38:56.400
 finish

00:38:56.400 --> 00:39:01.119
 okay

00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:02.200
 okay

00:39:02.200 --> 00:39:02.660
 I'll

00:39:02.660 --> 00:39:02.960
 pray a

00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.119
 short

00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:03.400
 prayer

00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:03.800
 and then

00:39:03.800 --> 00:39:04.000
 I'll

00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:04.180
 just

00:39:04.180 --> 00:39:04.340
 see

00:39:04.340 --> 00:39:04.460
 if

00:39:04.460 --> 00:39:04.599
 you've

00:39:04.599 --> 00:39:04.700
 got

00:39:04.700 --> 00:39:04.840
 any

00:39:04.840 --> 00:39:05.180
 questions

00:39:05.180 --> 00:39:05.460
 that

00:39:05.460 --> 00:39:05.579
 you

00:39:05.579 --> 00:39:05.700
 would

00:39:05.700 --> 00:39:05.880
 like

00:39:05.880 --> 00:39:06.019
 to

00:39:06.019 --> 00:39:06.280
 ask

00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:06.539
 about

00:39:06.539 --> 00:39:06.860
 any

00:39:06.860 --> 00:39:07.180
 of

00:39:07.180 --> 00:39:07.519
 this

00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:08.460
 or

00:39:08.460 --> 00:39:08.760
 whether

00:39:08.760 --> 00:39:09.200
 anybody

00:39:09.200 --> 00:39:09.500
 lives

00:39:09.500 --> 00:39:09.720
 on

00:39:09.720 --> 00:39:10.019
 Jupiter

00:39:10.019 --> 00:39:11.380
 okay

00:39:11.380 --> 00:39:11.840
 let's

00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:12.119
 pray

00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:16.559
 heavenly

00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:16.940
 father

00:39:16.940 --> 00:39:17.500
 we thank

00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:17.700
 you

00:39:17.699 --> 00:39:18.119
 for the

00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:18.419
 very

00:39:18.419 --> 00:39:18.980
 wise

00:39:18.980 --> 00:39:19.179
 and

00:39:19.179 --> 00:39:19.719
 wonderful

00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:20.460
 words

00:39:20.460 --> 00:39:20.719
 that

00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:20.859
 you

00:39:20.859 --> 00:39:21.179
 gave

00:39:21.179 --> 00:39:21.359
 to

00:39:21.359 --> 00:39:21.539
 your

00:39:21.539 --> 00:39:22.000
 people

00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:23.079
 about

00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:23.539
 living

00:39:23.539 --> 00:39:24.599
 for

00:39:24.599 --> 00:39:25.079
 you

00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:26.399
 in

00:39:26.399 --> 00:39:26.619
 the

00:39:26.619 --> 00:39:26.960
 promised

00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:27.480
 land

00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:28.759
 we

00:39:28.759 --> 00:39:29.059
 thank

00:39:29.059 --> 00:39:29.219
 you

00:39:29.219 --> 00:39:29.419
 that

00:39:29.419 --> 00:39:29.619
 you

00:39:29.619 --> 00:39:29.919
 give

00:39:29.919 --> 00:39:30.119
 to

00:39:30.119 --> 00:39:30.359
 us

00:39:30.359 --> 00:39:30.619
 not

00:39:30.619 --> 00:39:31.039
 just

00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:32.439
 instructions

00:39:32.439 --> 00:39:34.019
 but

00:39:34.019 --> 00:39:34.199
 you

00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:34.419
 give

00:39:34.419 --> 00:39:34.599
 to

00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:34.779
 us

00:39:34.779 --> 00:39:35.500
 transformation

00:39:35.500 --> 00:39:36.219
 through

00:39:36.219 --> 00:39:36.419
 the

00:39:36.419 --> 00:39:36.619
 Lord

00:39:36.619 --> 00:39:36.980
 Jesus

00:39:36.980 --> 00:39:39.119
 and

00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:39.299
 we

00:39:39.299 --> 00:39:39.519
 pray

00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:39.759
 that

00:39:39.759 --> 00:39:39.859
 you

00:39:39.859 --> 00:39:40.000
 would

00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:40.279
 work

00:39:40.279 --> 00:39:40.480
 in

00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:40.699
 our

00:39:40.699 --> 00:39:41.279
 hearts

00:39:41.279 --> 00:39:42.559
 that

00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:42.719
 we

00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:42.980
 might

00:39:42.980 --> 00:39:43.239
 be

00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:44.000
 inwardly

00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:44.559
 not

00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:44.879
 just

00:39:44.879 --> 00:39:45.339
 new

00:39:45.339 --> 00:39:45.859
 people

00:39:45.859 --> 00:39:46.619
 but

00:39:46.619 --> 00:39:46.779
 in

00:39:46.779 --> 00:39:46.980
 your

00:39:46.980 --> 00:39:47.420
 goodness

00:39:47.420 --> 00:39:47.980
 faithful

00:39:47.980 --> 00:39:49.559
 and

00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:49.840
 even

00:39:49.840 --> 00:39:50.340
 fruitful

00:39:50.340 --> 00:39:51.159
 we

00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:51.440
 ask

00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:51.599
 it

00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:51.780
 in

00:39:51.780 --> 00:39:52.059
 Jesus

00:39:52.059 --> 00:39:52.539
 name

00:39:52.539 --> 00:39:53.199
 amen

00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:55.280
 okay

00:39:55.280 --> 00:39:55.599
 any

00:39:55.599 --> 00:39:55.820
 quick

00:39:55.820 --> 00:39:56.260
 thoughts

00:39:56.260 --> 00:40:05.460
 okay

00:40:05.460 --> 00:40:05.840
 so

00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:06.020
 the

00:40:06.020 --> 00:40:06.240
 first

00:40:06.240 --> 00:40:06.480
 one

00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:06.880
 there's

00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:07.300
 eight

00:40:07.300 --> 00:40:07.720
 questions

00:40:07.720 --> 00:40:07.920
 here

00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:08.120
 so

00:40:08.120 --> 00:40:08.380
 we'll

00:40:08.380 --> 00:40:09.200
 maybe

00:40:09.200 --> 00:40:09.420
 not

00:40:09.420 --> 00:40:09.600
 how

00:40:09.600 --> 00:40:09.780
 much

00:40:09.780 --> 00:40:09.980
 time

00:40:09.980 --> 00:40:10.080
 do

00:40:10.080 --> 00:40:10.160
 we

00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:10.400
 have

00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:14.180
 all

00:40:14.180 --> 00:40:14.280
 right

00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:14.560
 somebody

00:40:14.560 --> 00:40:15.000
 keep

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:15.340
 a time

00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:15.640
 for me

00:40:15.640 --> 00:40:15.840
 then

00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:17.160
 okay

00:40:17.160 --> 00:40:17.620
 so

00:40:17.620 --> 00:40:18.280
 I've

00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:18.420
 got

00:40:18.420 --> 00:40:19.460
 names

00:40:19.460 --> 00:40:19.920
 but I

00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:20.060
 won't

00:40:20.060 --> 00:40:20.300
 mention

00:40:20.300 --> 00:40:20.460
 the

00:40:20.460 --> 00:40:20.780
 names

00:40:20.780 --> 00:40:22.380
 so

00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:22.680
 if

00:40:22.680 --> 00:40:22.760
 you

00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:22.840
 can

00:40:22.840 --> 00:40:22.980
 just

00:40:22.980 --> 00:40:23.140
 go

00:40:23.140 --> 00:40:23.340
 back

00:40:23.340 --> 00:40:23.440
 to

00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:23.800
 chapter

00:40:23.800 --> 00:40:24.380
 five

00:40:24.380 --> 00:40:24.700
 verse

00:40:24.700 --> 00:40:25.400
 two

00:40:25.400 --> 00:40:25.580
 to

00:40:25.580 --> 00:40:25.880
 start

00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:26.220
 with

00:40:26.220 --> 00:40:27.240
 and

00:40:27.240 --> 00:40:27.400
 while

00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:27.580
 you're

00:40:27.580 --> 00:40:27.840
 doing

00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:28.100
 that

00:40:28.100 --> 00:40:28.620
 I'll

00:40:28.620 --> 00:40:28.860
 read

00:40:28.860 --> 00:40:29.140
 one

00:40:29.140 --> 00:40:29.580
 question

00:40:29.580 --> 00:40:29.980
 here

00:40:29.980 --> 00:40:31.280
 but

00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:31.400
 I'm

00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:31.500
 going

00:40:31.500 --> 00:40:31.600
 to

00:40:31.600 --> 00:40:31.820
 break

00:40:31.820 --> 00:40:32.019
 the

00:40:32.019 --> 00:40:32.360
 rule

00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.180
 so

00:40:34.180 --> 00:40:34.360
 the

00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:34.540
 first

00:40:34.540 --> 00:40:34.980
 question

00:40:34.980 --> 00:40:35.320
 is

00:40:35.320 --> 00:40:37.000
 have

00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:37.120
 you

00:40:37.120 --> 00:40:37.320
 ever

00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:37.560
 eaten

00:40:37.560 --> 00:40:37.740
 a

00:40:37.740 --> 00:40:38.100
 shark

00:40:38.100 --> 00:40:39.380
 now

00:40:39.380 --> 00:40:40.480
 I

00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:40.620
 was

00:40:40.620 --> 00:40:40.740
 going

00:40:40.740 --> 00:40:40.840
 to

00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:41.019
 leave

00:40:41.019 --> 00:40:41.200
 these

00:40:41.200 --> 00:40:41.540
 anonymous

00:40:41.540 --> 00:40:41.920
 but

00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:42.280
 Elise

00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:42.660
 Smith

00:40:42.660 --> 00:40:42.900
 can

00:40:42.900 --> 00:40:43.040
 you

00:40:43.040 --> 00:40:43.280
 stand

00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:43.480
 up

00:40:43.480 --> 00:40:43.860
 please

00:40:43.860 --> 00:40:47.180
 stand

00:40:47.180 --> 00:40:47.420
 up

00:40:47.420 --> 00:40:47.620
 so

00:40:47.620 --> 00:40:48.000
 Simon

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:48.220
 can

00:40:48.220 --> 00:40:48.420
 see

00:40:48.420 --> 00:40:48.720
 you

00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:51.519
 so

00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:51.739
 he

00:40:51.739 --> 00:40:51.899
 will

00:40:51.899 --> 00:40:52.119
 deal

00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:52.339
 with

00:40:52.339 --> 00:40:52.519
 you

00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:52.839
 be it

00:40:52.839 --> 00:40:53.099
 ever

00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:53.379
 so

00:40:53.379 --> 00:40:53.819
 severely

00:40:53.819 --> 00:40:57.259
 and

00:40:57.259 --> 00:40:57.579
 we

00:40:57.579 --> 00:40:57.919
 will

00:40:57.919 --> 00:40:58.319
 encourage

00:40:58.319 --> 00:40:58.500
 him

00:40:58.500 --> 00:40:58.799
 to

00:40:58.799 --> 00:40:59.239
 think

00:40:59.239 --> 00:40:59.500
 more

00:40:59.500 --> 00:40:59.919
 justice

00:40:59.919 --> 00:41:00.259
 than

00:41:00.259 --> 00:41:00.579
 mercy

00:41:00.579 --> 00:41:00.799
 at

00:41:00.799 --> 00:41:00.959
 this

00:41:00.959 --> 00:41:01.199
 point

00:41:01.199 --> 00:41:01.519
 okay

00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:01.980
 so

00:41:01.980 --> 00:41:03.759
 all

00:41:03.759 --> 00:41:03.980
 right

00:41:03.980 --> 00:41:04.959
 first

00:41:04.959 --> 00:41:05.359
 question

00:41:05.359 --> 00:41:05.980
 I'm

00:41:05.980 --> 00:41:06.079
 going

00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:06.159
 to

00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:06.299
 read

00:41:06.299 --> 00:41:06.399
 it

00:41:06.399 --> 00:41:06.639
 out

00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:07.019
 so

00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:07.299
 people

00:41:07.299 --> 00:41:07.559
 can

00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:07.819
 get

00:41:07.819 --> 00:41:07.939
 a

00:41:07.939 --> 00:41:08.099
 gist

00:41:08.099 --> 00:41:08.199
 of

00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:08.319
 it

00:41:08.319 --> 00:41:08.500
 and

00:41:08.500 --> 00:41:08.739
 give

00:41:08.739 --> 00:41:09.079
 you

00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:09.579
 30

00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:09.919
 seconds

00:41:09.919 --> 00:41:10.099
 to

00:41:10.099 --> 00:41:10.359
 think

00:41:10.359 --> 00:41:11.539
 in

00:41:11.539 --> 00:41:11.659
 the

00:41:11.659 --> 00:41:12.119
 analogy

00:41:12.119 --> 00:41:12.399
 with

00:41:12.399 --> 00:41:12.759
 children

00:41:12.759 --> 00:41:13.000
 being

00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:13.419
 secured

00:41:13.419 --> 00:41:13.539
 in

00:41:13.539 --> 00:41:13.639
 a

00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:14.379
 trip

00:41:14.379 --> 00:41:15.439
 being

00:41:15.439 --> 00:41:16.019
 salvation

00:41:16.019 --> 00:41:16.619
 without

00:41:16.619 --> 00:41:17.259
 obedience

00:41:17.259 --> 00:41:17.980
 still

00:41:17.980 --> 00:41:18.379
 resulting

00:41:18.380 --> 00:41:18.519
 in

00:41:18.519 --> 00:41:18.820
 eternal

00:41:18.820 --> 00:41:19.300
 life

00:41:19.300 --> 00:41:20.720
 isn't

00:41:20.720 --> 00:41:20.940
 this

00:41:20.940 --> 00:41:21.619
 contradictory

00:41:21.619 --> 00:41:22.260
 with

00:41:22.260 --> 00:41:22.460
 where

00:41:22.460 --> 00:41:22.619
 it

00:41:22.619 --> 00:41:22.840
 says

00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:22.980
 that

00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:23.099
 if

00:41:23.099 --> 00:41:23.220
 you

00:41:23.220 --> 00:41:23.680
 disobey

00:41:23.680 --> 00:41:23.900
 the

00:41:23.900 --> 00:41:24.440
 cursing

00:41:24.440 --> 00:41:26.559
 will

00:41:26.559 --> 00:41:26.860
 fall

00:41:26.860 --> 00:41:26.980
 on

00:41:26.980 --> 00:41:27.099
 the

00:41:27.099 --> 00:41:27.500
 Israelites

00:41:27.500 --> 00:41:28.240
 from

00:41:28.240 --> 00:41:28.340
 the

00:41:28.340 --> 00:41:28.480
 Old

00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:28.820
 Testament

00:41:28.820 --> 00:41:30.420
 alternatively

00:41:30.420 --> 00:41:30.579
 in the

00:41:30.579 --> 00:41:30.800
 Bible

00:41:30.800 --> 00:41:31.099
 where it

00:41:31.099 --> 00:41:31.500
 warns about

00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:31.860
 falling

00:41:31.860 --> 00:41:32.280
 away

00:41:32.280 --> 00:41:33.079
 just

00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:33.400
 interested

00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:33.780
 to hear

00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:33.980
 your

00:41:33.980 --> 00:41:34.300
 opinion

00:41:34.300 --> 00:41:34.700
 on the

00:41:34.700 --> 00:41:35.000
 bounds

00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:35.140
 of

00:41:35.140 --> 00:41:35.440
 scripture

00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:35.660
 with

00:41:35.660 --> 00:41:35.800
 this

00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:36.119
 topic

00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:40.280
 that is

00:41:40.280 --> 00:41:40.539
 a great

00:41:40.539 --> 00:41:40.900
 question

00:41:40.900 --> 00:41:41.340
 I'm so

00:41:41.340 --> 00:41:41.720
 glad you

00:41:41.720 --> 00:41:42.119
 raised

00:41:42.119 --> 00:41:42.860
 it

00:41:42.860 --> 00:41:45.539
 in

00:41:45.539 --> 00:41:46.160
 Deuteronomy

00:41:46.160 --> 00:41:46.460
 you've

00:41:46.460 --> 00:41:46.820
 got the

00:41:46.820 --> 00:41:47.960
 promise of

00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:48.280
 blessing

00:41:48.280 --> 00:41:48.720
 and you've

00:41:48.720 --> 00:41:48.940
 got the

00:41:48.940 --> 00:41:49.380
 warning of

00:41:49.380 --> 00:41:49.820
 cursing

00:41:49.820 --> 00:41:50.559
 and in

00:41:50.559 --> 00:41:50.780
 the book

00:41:50.780 --> 00:41:50.940
 of

00:41:50.940 --> 00:41:51.340
 Hebrews

00:41:51.340 --> 00:41:52.079
 you've

00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:52.500
 got some

00:41:52.500 --> 00:41:53.019
 tremendous

00:41:53.019 --> 00:41:53.539
 promises

00:41:53.539 --> 00:41:54.240
 and some

00:41:54.240 --> 00:41:55.119
 very serious

00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:55.619
 warnings

00:41:55.619 --> 00:41:58.119
 I think

00:41:58.119 --> 00:41:58.760
 my question

00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:00.119
 is how

00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:00.679
 do we

00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:02.059
 consider these

00:42:02.059 --> 00:42:02.860
 promises and

00:42:02.860 --> 00:42:04.240
 warnings within

00:42:04.240 --> 00:42:04.900
 the covenant

00:42:04.900 --> 00:42:05.539
 people of

00:42:05.539 --> 00:42:05.940
 God

00:42:05.940 --> 00:42:08.199
 we can't

00:42:08.199 --> 00:42:08.840
 say that the

00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:09.639
 blessings will

00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:10.320
 make you

00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:11.619
 in a higher

00:42:11.619 --> 00:42:12.420
 position with

00:42:12.420 --> 00:42:14.280
 God than

00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:15.000
 Jesus has

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:15.480
 given you

00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:15.980
 already

00:42:15.980 --> 00:42:17.179
 and we

00:42:17.179 --> 00:42:17.699
 can't say

00:42:17.699 --> 00:42:18.079
 that the

00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:18.699
 cursing

00:42:18.699 --> 00:42:20.400
 will put

00:42:20.400 --> 00:42:20.800
 you in a

00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:21.480
 lower position

00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:22.340
 or remove

00:42:22.340 --> 00:42:22.780
 you from

00:42:22.780 --> 00:42:23.199
 the people

00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:23.760
 of God

00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:25.219
 and we

00:42:25.219 --> 00:42:25.740
 desperately

00:42:25.740 --> 00:42:26.400
 need

00:42:26.400 --> 00:42:27.079
 promises

00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:27.860
 and warnings

00:42:27.860 --> 00:42:29.240
 they both

00:42:29.240 --> 00:42:29.760
 come from

00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:30.119
 a loving

00:42:30.119 --> 00:42:30.639
 God

00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:32.099
 my point

00:42:32.099 --> 00:42:32.659
 is simply

00:42:32.659 --> 00:42:33.619
 that we

00:42:33.619 --> 00:42:34.000
 have to

00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:34.840
 see both

00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:35.559
 of these

00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:36.760
 as coming

00:42:36.760 --> 00:42:37.199
 to the

00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:37.699
 family

00:42:37.699 --> 00:42:40.300
 on which

00:42:40.300 --> 00:42:40.699
 your

00:42:40.699 --> 00:42:41.519
 position

00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:42.179
 doesn't

00:42:42.179 --> 00:42:42.659
 hang

00:42:42.659 --> 00:42:44.059
 but the

00:42:44.059 --> 00:42:44.599
 way God

00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:45.440
 deals with

00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:46.539
 you in

00:42:46.539 --> 00:42:47.699
 assurance or

00:42:47.699 --> 00:42:48.299
 discipline

00:42:48.299 --> 00:42:49.899
 could follow

00:42:49.899 --> 00:42:51.079
 so it's a

00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:51.779
 very loaded

00:42:51.779 --> 00:42:53.059
 question and

00:42:53.059 --> 00:42:53.659
 I completely

00:42:53.659 --> 00:42:54.219
 agree the

00:42:54.219 --> 00:42:54.819
 person who

00:42:54.819 --> 00:42:56.179
 says I'm

00:42:56.179 --> 00:42:56.659
 going to be

00:42:56.659 --> 00:42:57.519
 disobedient

00:42:57.519 --> 00:42:59.059
 let's say

00:42:59.059 --> 00:43:00.039
 in the area

00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:02.039
 of greed

00:43:02.039 --> 00:43:03.819
 I'm going to

00:43:03.819 --> 00:43:04.699
 pursue greed

00:43:04.699 --> 00:43:05.339
 forever

00:43:05.339 --> 00:43:07.799
 well the

00:43:07.799 --> 00:43:08.440
 apostle Paul

00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:08.940
 would say

00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:09.480
 you've just

00:43:09.480 --> 00:43:10.239
 taken a road

00:43:10.239 --> 00:43:10.779
 that leads

00:43:10.779 --> 00:43:11.299
 you away

00:43:11.300 --> 00:43:11.740
 from the

00:43:11.740 --> 00:43:12.080
 kingdom

00:43:12.080 --> 00:43:13.900
 but I

00:43:13.900 --> 00:43:14.360
 wouldn't want

00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:14.640
 to fall

00:43:14.640 --> 00:43:15.039
 into the

00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:15.480
 trap of

00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:16.019
 saying you've

00:43:16.019 --> 00:43:16.460
 now just

00:43:16.460 --> 00:43:16.980
 lost your

00:43:16.980 --> 00:43:17.400
 salvation

00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:17.960
 because you

00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:18.480
 went on a

00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:18.960
 detour

00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:21.180
 I think I

00:43:21.180 --> 00:43:21.560
 would want to

00:43:21.560 --> 00:43:21.940
 say to the

00:43:21.940 --> 00:43:22.519
 person you've

00:43:22.519 --> 00:43:23.039
 gone on a

00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:23.800
 detour if you

00:43:23.800 --> 00:43:24.539
 keep that up it

00:43:24.539 --> 00:43:25.140
 looks like you're

00:43:25.140 --> 00:43:25.660
 not a believer

00:43:25.660 --> 00:43:29.240
 but somehow in

00:43:29.240 --> 00:43:29.980
 the providence of

00:43:29.980 --> 00:43:30.840
 God he may bring

00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:31.560
 you back so

00:43:31.560 --> 00:43:32.400
 we're always

00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:33.100
 walking a

00:43:33.100 --> 00:43:34.180
 careful twosome

00:43:34.180 --> 00:43:35.920
 promises and

00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:37.720
 warnings and I

00:43:37.720 --> 00:43:38.039
 don't want to

00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:38.660
 give the impression

00:43:38.660 --> 00:43:39.580
 to the people of

00:43:39.580 --> 00:43:40.940
 God that

00:43:40.940 --> 00:43:41.720
 their security

00:43:41.720 --> 00:43:42.539
 hangs on their

00:43:42.539 --> 00:43:43.320
 performance I

00:43:43.320 --> 00:43:43.780
 want them to

00:43:43.780 --> 00:43:44.220
 know it hangs

00:43:44.220 --> 00:43:44.519
 on the

00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:45.200
 performance of

00:43:45.200 --> 00:43:47.360
 Jesus but I

00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:48.019
 do want them to

00:43:48.019 --> 00:43:48.539
 know that how

00:43:48.539 --> 00:43:49.380
 God will treat

00:43:49.380 --> 00:43:49.900
 them as a

00:43:49.900 --> 00:43:51.400
 father has got

00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:51.940
 a lot to do

00:43:51.940 --> 00:43:52.940
 with the fact of

00:43:52.940 --> 00:43:53.480
 whether they want

00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:53.980
 to walk with

00:43:53.980 --> 00:43:54.519
 him or walk

00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:56.920
 against him and

00:43:56.920 --> 00:43:57.460
 I think we would

00:43:57.460 --> 00:43:58.099
 say that to our

00:43:58.099 --> 00:43:58.679
 children wouldn't

00:43:58.679 --> 00:43:59.639
 we I mean if we

00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:00.159
 want to say to

00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:01.480
 our children we

00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:02.119
 love you whatever

00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:03.800
 happens sometimes

00:44:03.800 --> 00:44:04.679
 our love will look

00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:05.400
 like this sometimes

00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:06.159
 our love will look

00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:08.099
 like this I think

00:44:08.099 --> 00:44:08.619
 that's what I'm

00:44:08.619 --> 00:44:09.139
 trying to grapple

00:44:09.139 --> 00:44:10.079
 with come back if

00:44:10.079 --> 00:44:10.639
 that's not clear

00:44:10.639 --> 00:44:11.920
 I did want to

00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:12.379
 say a lot more

00:44:12.379 --> 00:44:13.079
 on eating shark

00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:13.559
 but I'll just

00:44:13.559 --> 00:44:14.039
 leave that for

00:44:14.039 --> 00:44:14.599
 another time

00:44:14.599 --> 00:44:18.039
 okay so I got

00:44:18.039 --> 00:44:18.819
 the questions out

00:44:18.819 --> 00:44:19.299
 of order there

00:44:19.299 --> 00:44:20.000
 again but now

00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:20.480
 go back to

00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:21.279
 chapter 5 verse

00:44:21.279 --> 00:44:23.199
 2 or verse 3

00:44:23.199 --> 00:44:24.900
 sorry because the

00:44:24.900 --> 00:44:25.519
 question is around

00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:26.539
 that verse and the

00:44:26.539 --> 00:44:27.259
 question reads like

00:44:27.259 --> 00:44:29.279
 this if I heard

00:44:29.279 --> 00:44:30.599
 Simon correctly this

00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:31.500
 morning reading

00:44:31.500 --> 00:44:32.420
 from Deuteronomy

00:44:32.420 --> 00:44:33.839
 5 3 he said

00:44:33.839 --> 00:44:35.480
 the Lord did not

00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:36.299
 make this covenant

00:44:36.299 --> 00:44:37.420
 just with our

00:44:37.420 --> 00:44:38.739
 fathers but with

00:44:38.739 --> 00:44:40.239
 us even us all

00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:40.659
 of us here

00:44:40.659 --> 00:44:42.919
 alive today and

00:44:42.919 --> 00:44:43.759
 then commented

00:44:43.759 --> 00:44:44.639
 that this clearly

00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:45.379
 indicated the

00:44:45.379 --> 00:44:46.119
 covenant was very

00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:48.099
 long-standing so

00:44:48.099 --> 00:44:48.699
 then it goes on

00:44:48.699 --> 00:44:50.179
 to say my

00:44:50.179 --> 00:44:51.000
 Bible in fact all

00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:51.559
 the Bibles I

00:44:51.559 --> 00:44:52.159
 have in phone

00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:53.439
 don't have the

00:44:53.439 --> 00:44:55.299
 word just the

00:44:55.299 --> 00:44:56.619
 insertion of just

00:44:56.619 --> 00:44:57.599
 completely changes

00:44:57.599 --> 00:44:59.579
 the meaning was

00:44:59.579 --> 00:45:00.359
 the covenant made

00:45:00.359 --> 00:45:01.079
 with the fathers

00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:04.139
 if so why do so

00:45:04.139 --> 00:45:05.079
 many Bibles leave

00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:12.099
 out just I don't

00:45:12.099 --> 00:45:12.940
 have the Hebrew

00:45:12.940 --> 00:45:13.880
 text in front of

00:45:13.880 --> 00:45:16.199
 me but I think

00:45:16.199 --> 00:45:17.500
 the word just is

00:45:17.500 --> 00:45:19.239
 the meaning of the

00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:21.119
 verse even if it's

00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:22.219
 not the language of

00:45:22.219 --> 00:45:24.980
 the verse so are

00:45:24.980 --> 00:45:25.900
 we meant to assume

00:45:25.900 --> 00:45:26.980
 that the Lord didn't

00:45:26.980 --> 00:45:27.819
 make the covenant

00:45:27.819 --> 00:45:29.079
 with the fathers I

00:45:29.079 --> 00:45:30.519
 don't see that we

00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:32.299
 can do that I

00:45:32.299 --> 00:45:32.940
 think we have to

00:45:32.940 --> 00:45:33.739
 say that at Mount

00:45:33.739 --> 00:45:34.860
 Sinai he was making

00:45:34.860 --> 00:45:35.900
 a covenant with his

00:45:35.900 --> 00:45:36.799
 people it was like a

00:45:36.799 --> 00:45:37.659
 marriage ceremony

00:45:37.659 --> 00:45:39.980
 but Moses is simply

00:45:39.980 --> 00:45:40.860
 making the point I

00:45:40.860 --> 00:45:42.000
 think in 5 3 that

00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:43.159
 this covenant is not

00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:45.159
 only with them but

00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:46.019
 with us in other

00:45:46.019 --> 00:45:47.199
 words we mustn't

00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:48.059
 imagine that what

00:45:48.059 --> 00:45:48.799
 took place in the

00:45:48.799 --> 00:45:50.000
 past has been lost

00:45:50.000 --> 00:45:51.880
 it's for us we must

00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:52.779
 take it seriously

00:45:52.779 --> 00:45:54.059
 and in the next

00:45:54.059 --> 00:45:54.860
 section that we'll

00:45:54.860 --> 00:45:55.719
 look at he actually

00:45:55.719 --> 00:45:57.659
 asks them to enter

00:45:57.659 --> 00:45:58.619
 into the covenant

00:45:58.619 --> 00:46:01.119
 which I don't

00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:02.079
 think means become

00:46:02.079 --> 00:46:03.139
 believers or become

00:46:03.139 --> 00:46:03.980
 the people of God I

00:46:03.980 --> 00:46:04.639
 think it means he

00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:05.599
 wants them to ink it

00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:07.199
 in or he wants them

00:46:07.199 --> 00:46:08.539
 to sign their names

00:46:08.539 --> 00:46:11.179
 in so it's a it's a

00:46:11.179 --> 00:46:12.519
 again it's it's a

00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:13.400
 great question and

00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:13.980
 it's a delicate

00:46:13.980 --> 00:46:15.299
 balance I think the

00:46:15.299 --> 00:46:17.119
 point of the verse is

00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:18.139
 that it's the past

00:46:18.139 --> 00:46:19.259
 people and the present

00:46:19.259 --> 00:46:21.679
 people and of course

00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:22.380
 as you know the

00:46:22.380 --> 00:46:23.659
 covenant unfolds like

00:46:23.659 --> 00:46:25.679
 an opening door so

00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:26.380
 you've got a covenant

00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:28.160
 with creation and

00:46:28.160 --> 00:46:28.760
 then you've got a

00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:29.660
 covenant that takes

00:46:29.660 --> 00:46:30.680
 place pretty well with

00:46:30.680 --> 00:46:32.019
 Adam and Eve and

00:46:32.019 --> 00:46:32.559
 then you've got a

00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:33.599
 covenant with Abraham

00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:34.880
 and then you've got a

00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:36.019
 covenant with Moses and

00:46:36.019 --> 00:46:37.660
 the people at Sinai and

00:46:37.660 --> 00:46:38.240
 then you've got a

00:46:38.240 --> 00:46:40.099
 covenant with David for

00:46:40.099 --> 00:46:41.340
 a kingdom and then

00:46:41.340 --> 00:46:42.599
 you've got in Jeremiah a

00:46:42.599 --> 00:46:43.760
 new covenant which will

00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:45.059
 reach the heart and

00:46:45.059 --> 00:46:46.019
 then you come to Jesus

00:46:46.019 --> 00:46:46.980
 sitting around the table

00:46:46.980 --> 00:46:48.220
 at the last supper and

00:46:48.220 --> 00:46:49.460
 he says this is the new

00:46:49.460 --> 00:46:51.380
 covenant in my blood it's

00:46:51.980 --> 00:46:53.599
 that's the security of the

00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:55.139
 covenant so it's an

00:46:55.139 --> 00:46:56.519
 unfolding covenant

00:46:56.519 --> 00:46:59.980
 so sorry are you

00:46:59.980 --> 00:47:00.839
 saying then that the

00:47:00.839 --> 00:47:02.019
 difference in this

00:47:02.019 --> 00:47:03.460
 verse is a differentiation

00:47:03.460 --> 00:47:04.779
 of the audience so it

00:47:04.779 --> 00:47:06.380
 wasn't it wasn't Abraham

00:47:06.380 --> 00:47:07.539
 Isaac and Jacob listening

00:47:07.539 --> 00:47:08.779
 to it it was the people

00:47:08.779 --> 00:47:09.639
 there around them it was

00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:10.279
 one covenant

00:47:10.279 --> 00:47:11.659
 differentiated is that

00:47:11.659 --> 00:47:11.860
 what you

00:47:11.860 --> 00:47:15.860
 I think I'm saying that

00:47:15.860 --> 00:47:17.659
 the people who Moses was

00:47:17.659 --> 00:47:20.639
 speaking to were God's

00:47:20.639 --> 00:47:23.339
 people being told that

00:47:23.339 --> 00:47:24.539
 this unfolding covenant

00:47:24.539 --> 00:47:25.679
 which had come to their

00:47:25.679 --> 00:47:27.460
 fathers at Mount Sinai was

00:47:27.460 --> 00:47:30.679
 very much for them but I'd

00:47:30.679 --> 00:47:31.739
 be glad to if somebody

00:47:31.739 --> 00:47:32.759
 wants to come back at it

00:47:32.759 --> 00:47:34.759
 please do because I I have

00:47:34.759 --> 00:47:37.379
 lots to learn and if

00:47:37.379 --> 00:47:38.559
 somebody thinks that it

00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:40.279
 wasn't to the forefathers

00:47:40.279 --> 00:47:41.739
 but it is only to Moses

00:47:41.739 --> 00:47:43.839
 people I'd be interested to

00:47:43.839 --> 00:47:45.039
 hear your thoughts on that

00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:48.359
 but I'm myself persuaded

00:47:48.360 --> 00:47:52.320
 Yes

00:47:52.320 --> 00:47:58.280
 Thank you

00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:00.120
 Thank you

00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:24.039
 No, no, the Abraham covenant was that he would bless the earth.

00:48:24.219 --> 00:48:28.719
 And then the Sinai covenant was that he would be the distinctive people of the earth.

00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:32.899
 And then, of course, the David covenant was that there would be a kingdom.

00:48:33.619 --> 00:48:35.500
 And then Jeremiah that it would be inward.

00:48:35.699 --> 00:48:37.819
 And then Jesus that it would be sealed in blood.

00:48:38.679 --> 00:48:39.959
 So I think that's how it unfolds.

00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:42.399
 It's a developing, wonderful covenant.

00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:47.159
 Okay, I hope that didn't confuse.

00:48:47.480 --> 00:48:49.599
 And I'll be glad to hear more if you've got thoughts.

00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:55.939
 Okay, next question then is, how do you see the world addressed to you, Simon?

00:48:55.940 --> 00:49:00.019
 How do you see the world and the church still attempting to manipulate God today?

00:49:00.200 --> 00:49:02.920
 And that's referenced in Deuteronomy 14, 1 and 2.

00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:12.240
 Well, as we know, the world is polarizing.

00:49:12.539 --> 00:49:16.639
 So there is a great movement away from God.

00:49:16.639 --> 00:49:19.539
 And there is a very religious world.

00:49:19.659 --> 00:49:21.179
 And they're both intensifying.

00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:23.480
 It isn't one without the other.

00:49:24.259 --> 00:49:31.359
 And I presume in the Western world, with this sort of rise of sophisticated atheism,

00:49:32.500 --> 00:49:41.359
 that God is treated as non-existent or irrelevant until everything goes wrong.

00:49:41.360 --> 00:49:49.640
 And so the Western world thinks of itself as being on the QE2 and can manage everything.

00:49:50.440 --> 00:49:55.559
 Whereas the Bible says we're on the Titanic and we need quick help.

00:49:56.579 --> 00:50:04.340
 And the church follows quite quickly and is not always very good at tackling the opposition of the world.

00:50:04.340 --> 00:50:20.460
 And so I would say the world which is scoffing at God is dangerously causing the church in the present to be apologetic, defensive, reactionary,

00:50:21.120 --> 00:50:26.620
 and at worst, changing the mission to make sure that nobody scoffs at us.

00:50:26.619 --> 00:50:39.079
 And whenever God has done a great work in the church, it's to raise up people who just speak the truth with confidence

00:50:39.079 --> 00:50:45.000
 and look at the position of the world as desperate.

00:50:45.839 --> 00:50:50.500
 I think I've told you that I worked for a guy in the UK called Dick Lucas who's about to turn 97.

00:50:50.500 --> 00:50:57.059
 And he's one of those people the Lord raises up every now and again who's just incredibly convicted.

00:50:58.480 --> 00:51:03.679
 And it was no wonder people were glad to be with him because he was so sure of his faith.

00:51:03.739 --> 00:51:09.860
 And I think a lot of it came from being on his knees with God and seeing carefully what was important.

00:51:10.699 --> 00:51:16.000
 And when I went to work with him, I left Bondi Beach in Sydney and I went over as a 28-year-old dope

00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:24.000
 and went into his office, which was above his house, which was in the middle of London, very near the Bank of England,

00:51:24.179 --> 00:51:27.539
 surrounded by all the business houses, Lloyds of London.

00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.260
 Everybody was running around on the street.

00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:35.199
 I was looking down on the second level and they were all running around with their pinstripe suits

00:51:35.199 --> 00:51:37.300
 and they had their bowler hats and their umbrellas.

00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:41.139
 And I said to my new boss, who I'd just met for one minute, I said,

00:51:41.199 --> 00:51:42.260
 do you feel a bit irrelevant?

00:51:42.260 --> 00:51:46.840
 And he said, lemmings.

00:51:50.520 --> 00:51:51.080
 Lemmings.

00:51:52.100 --> 00:51:54.360
 The little animals that just run over a cliff.

00:51:55.420 --> 00:51:59.760
 And he looked on the world around him as in desperate need.

00:52:01.040 --> 00:52:04.840
 And he looked on his ministry as being desperately important.

00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:07.380
 And that is a great perspective.

00:52:08.880 --> 00:52:10.800
 And that's what we need to recover again.

00:52:12.260 --> 00:52:17.620
 The next question is also on chapter 14, verse 1.

00:52:19.900 --> 00:52:27.320
 Do you think that Deuteronomy chapter 14, verse 1 might also suggest the concept of soul sleep is wrong?

00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:35.700
 You shall not cut yourselves nor shave the front of your head for the dead.

00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:42.940
 I'm not really sure what to say.

00:52:43.059 --> 00:52:49.180
 It looks to me like this is a drastic action against your body.

00:52:49.179 --> 00:52:53.319
 Would somebody like to unpack the question?

00:52:56.399 --> 00:52:56.819
 Yeah.

00:52:56.820 --> 00:52:58.280
 I'll ask the question.

00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:09.400
 Well, I'm thinking if the deaths that they've all put together is so bad by it.

00:53:11.400 --> 00:53:13.280
 Obviously, the struggle is going to be different.

00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:18.920
 At this point, you don't have the same attitude.

00:53:18.920 --> 00:53:19.920
 Okay.

00:53:19.920 --> 00:53:20.920
 Okay.

00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:36.800
 So, John is raising the question whether this reaction is for people who are committed to a soul sleep idea.

00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:42.600
 Well, not just that, but the struggle is included.

00:53:43.060 --> 00:53:43.360
 Okay.

00:53:44.100 --> 00:53:44.360
 Okay.

00:53:44.860 --> 00:53:54.640
 So, behind this, this could be people who believe in soul sleep and respond with cutting and shaving of head?

00:53:55.500 --> 00:53:56.100
 Yes.

00:53:56.440 --> 00:53:57.760
 They're depressed.

00:53:58.539 --> 00:53:58.860
 Okay.

00:53:58.860 --> 00:53:59.860
 They die.

00:54:00.780 --> 00:54:03.620
 They don't think they're all in their tablets.

00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:05.000
 They're jacking them away.

00:54:05.000 --> 00:54:06.079
 Yeah.

00:54:06.599 --> 00:54:06.840
 Okay.

00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:08.820
 They don't think they're all in their tablets.

00:54:11.820 --> 00:54:17.280
 My difficulty with the question, John, is it looks as though you're saying these people have a hope called soul sleep.

00:54:17.760 --> 00:54:20.260
 But it looks as though this reaction is hopeless.

00:54:21.420 --> 00:54:21.559
 Yeah.

00:54:22.539 --> 00:54:28.679
 So, I don't think we know exactly, but it looks as though this is a reaction of despair.

00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:35.379
 And I think in the face of that, the people of God are called to something different.

00:54:36.000 --> 00:54:38.980
 But there's a PhD waiting to be done on this verse.

00:54:40.399 --> 00:54:41.460
 In your retirement.

00:54:41.460 --> 00:54:58.720
 Thank you.

00:54:58.719 --> 00:55:00.719
 Okay.

00:55:00.719 --> 00:55:01.719
 Okay.

00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:05.619
 Now we're going to go to chapter 12, verse 16.

00:55:05.939 --> 00:55:11.419
 In that chapter, it deals with the instructions for worship and framework around that.

00:55:11.420 --> 00:55:14.920
 And the verse says, only you shall not eat the blood.

00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:18.380
 So, it's in the context of what they can eat and what they can't eat.

00:55:19.740 --> 00:55:20.860
 But don't eat the blood.

00:55:20.980 --> 00:55:26.079
 You may not eat the blood, but you shall pour it out on the earth like water.

00:55:26.519 --> 00:55:26.880
 Question.

00:55:26.880 --> 00:55:32.980
 Is there any significance or symbolism in pouring the animal's blood out on the ground?

00:55:36.140 --> 00:55:39.200
 The blood, as you know, is the symbol for the life.

00:55:40.300 --> 00:55:45.460
 And therefore, I think the Lord taught them not to despise the life.

00:55:46.720 --> 00:55:53.460
 And in some of the more earthy verses of Leviticus, there's a fair discussion of sort of bodily fluids

00:55:53.460 --> 00:55:56.559
 that have got a lot to do with life as well.

00:55:56.880 --> 00:56:03.240
 And they are all to be treated very sort of reverently and respectfully, not sort of flippantly or carelessly.

00:56:04.099 --> 00:56:07.420
 And so, pouring the blood onto the ground, I think, was a way of saying,

00:56:08.059 --> 00:56:10.140
 the life is gone from this animal.

00:56:10.940 --> 00:56:14.559
 But we are able to take the flesh for food.

00:56:14.780 --> 00:56:22.500
 But we're not going to play with or muck around with the actual life which only God can give.

00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:23.360
 Something like that.

00:56:23.460 --> 00:56:24.680
 I think that was the gist of it.

00:56:26.880 --> 00:56:27.380
 Okay.

00:56:29.300 --> 00:56:30.140
 Next question.

00:56:31.019 --> 00:56:36.940
 Why such an extensive list of things to keep in the law if it is designed to highlight sin

00:56:36.940 --> 00:56:38.880
 and our inability to keep the law?

00:56:39.740 --> 00:56:42.640
 Surely even a single command would highlight this.

00:56:43.680 --> 00:56:47.380
 Does the extent of the law actually diminish its ability to point out our sin,

00:56:47.380 --> 00:56:51.619
 i.e. more excuse because it's so hard to keep up?

00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:54.960
 Do you want to read that again?

00:56:55.119 --> 00:56:55.460
 No, no.

00:56:55.539 --> 00:56:56.240
 I think that's helpful.

00:56:56.599 --> 00:57:01.800
 I think when it comes to the animals and birds and fish that could be eaten and couldn't be eaten,

00:57:01.900 --> 00:57:03.119
 that was all pretty manageable.

00:57:03.840 --> 00:57:07.980
 You just had to go down your shopping list and make sure you didn't take this, but you did take this.

00:57:07.980 --> 00:57:11.659
 But the moral law is much more penetrating.

00:57:12.659 --> 00:57:16.280
 So when you're dealing with the actual commandments, as Jesus said,

00:57:16.679 --> 00:57:22.000
 if you think through the anger law to its end point, you will be convicted.

00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:27.239
 And that's why, of course, the New Testament tells us the moral law is meant to lead us to Christ.

00:57:27.440 --> 00:57:31.199
 It doesn't, of course, pick us up and take us to Christ.

00:57:31.260 --> 00:57:31.780
 It's helpless.

00:57:32.260 --> 00:57:34.500
 But it tells us that we need a saviour.

00:57:34.980 --> 00:57:41.699
 So the law in the Bible acts like an x-ray machine which doesn't solve anything except tell us we have a problem.

00:57:42.579 --> 00:57:47.019
 And into that problem comes the surgeon who is Christ, who fixes.

00:57:47.019 --> 00:57:54.219
 So I think the law that is in, say, Deuteronomy 14 is a manageable list, not too difficult.

00:57:54.840 --> 00:57:55.639
 Pick and choose.

00:57:56.119 --> 00:58:00.900
 But the moral law was meant to be much more convicting and in God's goodness converting.

00:58:04.980 --> 00:58:08.820
 Okay, so I think there must be one person out there getting a little bit tired of questions.

00:58:09.380 --> 00:58:11.800
 The other question is, are there sharks on Jupiter?

00:58:11.800 --> 00:58:11.880
 Jupiter?

00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:17.039
 And you may well.

00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:22.600
 I just have to work this out because somebody hasn't sent me a message before because their name doesn't come up on my screen.

00:58:22.700 --> 00:58:23.720
 But I will work it out.

00:58:23.720 --> 00:58:27.620
 No, just press call.

00:58:34.980 --> 00:58:36.640
 Somebody just fell off their chest.

00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:42.639
 They've had time to put it on silent.

00:58:42.879 --> 00:58:44.199
 No, while I...

00:58:44.199 --> 00:58:45.480
 Yeah, all right.

00:58:45.879 --> 00:58:46.239
 Oh, no.

00:58:47.379 --> 00:58:47.739
 Okay.

00:58:47.980 --> 00:58:48.920
 All right, we'll stop this.

00:58:49.259 --> 00:58:49.500
 It's your what?

00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:50.319
 No.

00:58:51.460 --> 00:58:53.059
 No, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be her.

00:58:54.219 --> 00:58:55.319
 Okay, where are we up to then?

00:58:56.659 --> 00:58:57.980
 Right, back to here then.

00:58:58.079 --> 00:58:58.379
 Okay.

00:58:58.379 --> 00:58:58.460
 Okay.

00:58:58.460 --> 00:59:06.380
 So this is chapter 14, commandment 2.

00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:09.780
 Don't give credence to pagan practices.

00:59:10.820 --> 00:59:20.500
 How does this impact upon pagan introduced practices such as formal communion, hot cross bands, sun god celebration, stuff like that?

00:59:20.500 --> 00:59:32.500
 Don't we, in reference to communion, don't we malpractice this as a directive was to reflect every time we eat or have communion, every time we gather to eat and drink, so each meal.

00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:34.739
 So let's...

00:59:34.739 --> 00:59:35.480
 Did that make it...

00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:36.500
 I didn't read that very well.

00:59:36.539 --> 00:59:37.139
 No, no, that's good.

00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:38.559
 That's a very thoughtful question.

00:59:38.940 --> 00:59:40.739
 I hope this isn't getting too heavy, everybody.

00:59:41.880 --> 00:59:43.260
 These are great questions.

00:59:43.639 --> 00:59:47.760
 I think the question that's just been asked is a little bit like Christmas and Santa.

00:59:47.760 --> 01:00:06.200
 I don't know what your views are, but it seems to me that the believer has the opportunity of getting the best of both worlds in the best sense, and that we can have the hot cross bun, but we're looking for an opportunity to say the top of this bun is more significant than you realise.

01:00:06.720 --> 01:00:12.640
 I mean, are we not able to despoil the Egyptians and have the treasures?

01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:26.599
 But the important thing is that we don't mentally settle for the temporary, but that we're experiencing and enjoying the temporary and even using it to help people appreciate the eternal.

01:00:27.420 --> 01:00:33.960
 I was about to get into the Santa question, but I realised that this is a reformed church, and I thought that might be too scary.

01:00:33.960 --> 01:00:45.199
 But I think I'll just tell you that from our point of view, we would say to our children, Santa is not real, but there will be some presence at the end of your bed, and Jesus is more wonderful than Santa.

01:00:45.940 --> 01:00:51.740
 So that was kind of, we grabbed what we could and we offered what we couldn't.

01:00:55.860 --> 01:00:56.820
 Santa's not real?

01:00:56.820 --> 01:01:26.800
 Santa's not real?

01:01:26.880 --> 01:01:28.100
 Santa's not real?

01:01:28.280 --> 01:01:39.980
 Santa's not real?

01:01:41.980 --> 01:01:42.640
 Santa's not real?

01:01:42.640 --> 01:01:43.000
 Santa's not real?

01:01:43.000 --> 01:01:45.320
 Santa's not real?

01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:47.039
 Santa's not real, Santa and ma'amma's real?

01:01:48.400 --> 01:01:55.220
 Santa's not real?

01:01:55.219 --> 01:01:57.239
 when we read the Bible, is we're looking at the text,

01:01:57.419 --> 01:02:01.139
 we're then asking ourselves, where does this fit in the context?

01:02:01.419 --> 01:02:04.379
 Ah, it's about a battle, invading a promised land.

01:02:05.219 --> 01:02:06.639
 But this is a one-off.

01:02:07.559 --> 01:02:09.199
 And therefore we might ask the question,

01:02:09.619 --> 01:02:11.539
 how has Jesus changed everything?

01:02:12.379 --> 01:02:15.919
 Well, a much bigger victory, a much bigger battle,

01:02:17.000 --> 01:02:18.459
 a much bigger success.

01:02:19.099 --> 01:02:20.839
 What's the message for today?

01:02:21.839 --> 01:02:24.559
 Be thankful for what God did for his people,

01:02:24.559 --> 01:02:25.559
 keeping his promises,

01:02:26.340 --> 01:02:30.000
 be especially thankful for what the Lord Jesus has done for us

01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:32.039
 and take refuge in him.

01:02:32.980 --> 01:02:36.519
 So we're looking carefully, reading our Bible with our brains

01:02:36.519 --> 01:02:40.480
 to make sure that we have either seen something

01:02:40.480 --> 01:02:44.259
 which is just for a particular period and learned from it

01:02:44.259 --> 01:02:46.579
 or whether we've seen something which is forever

01:02:46.579 --> 01:02:49.039
 and tried to be obedient to it.

01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:52.420
 But there needs to be some sense as we read our Bible.

01:02:54.559 --> 01:02:56.579
 Next question.

01:02:57.079 --> 01:03:01.199
 You emphasized Israel's response of obedience to the law

01:03:01.199 --> 01:03:05.199
 as following Israel's salvation, i.e. God's grace came first.

01:03:06.099 --> 01:03:07.000
 And the question is,

01:03:07.340 --> 01:03:10.699
 how do you square that with the conditional nature of the law

01:03:10.699 --> 01:03:13.779
 which Paul contrasts with the gospel in Galatians 3?

01:03:14.940 --> 01:03:17.039
 Doesn't Deuteronomy emphasize that for Israel,

01:03:17.840 --> 01:03:20.940
 life and blessing were conditional on their obedience?

01:03:20.940 --> 01:03:24.820
 I want to say again,

01:03:24.940 --> 01:03:26.880
 and we'll see this in the session after lunch,

01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:28.700
 that when Moses says,

01:03:28.820 --> 01:03:29.639
 if you disobey,

01:03:30.000 --> 01:03:32.159
 the curses of God will come down on you

01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:34.119
 and you'll be sent out of the land

01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:35.740
 and you'll be in exile,

01:03:35.860 --> 01:03:37.179
 all of that took place.

01:03:38.320 --> 01:03:39.700
 My question is,

01:03:40.700 --> 01:03:44.039
 when God is speaking to his people,

01:03:44.539 --> 01:03:47.360
 who he knows are his forever people,

01:03:47.360 --> 01:03:51.220
 we know that he's also going to cause them

01:03:51.220 --> 01:03:52.780
 to be repentant

01:03:52.780 --> 01:03:55.519
 and to be restored

01:03:55.519 --> 01:03:57.380
 and to receive mercy.

01:03:58.420 --> 01:03:59.720
 And so all the time,

01:03:59.820 --> 01:04:02.920
 we're dealing with this covenant faithfulness of God,

01:04:03.539 --> 01:04:05.559
 not wanting to give the impression

01:04:05.559 --> 01:04:10.000
 that behavior is a tightrope that you must walk,

01:04:10.300 --> 01:04:12.079
 which is really precarious,

01:04:12.740 --> 01:04:14.559
 but teaching that the people of God

01:04:14.559 --> 01:04:17.299
 are very much secure on the rock.

01:04:18.579 --> 01:04:19.440
 But of course,

01:04:19.480 --> 01:04:20.360
 if we drift,

01:04:21.159 --> 01:04:23.079
 we may go a long way.

01:04:23.500 --> 01:04:25.500
 We may go into a great deal of harm.

01:04:26.880 --> 01:04:29.699
 And the Bible won't play the game of saying,

01:04:30.579 --> 01:04:31.799
 doesn't matter what you do,

01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:35.860
 because it's always dealing with promises

01:04:35.860 --> 01:04:37.380
 and warnings at the same time.

01:04:37.440 --> 01:04:39.039
 So you cannot get assurance

01:04:39.039 --> 01:04:40.900
 built into a bumper sticker,

01:04:40.900 --> 01:04:44.099
 because God won't say to a person,

01:04:44.260 --> 01:04:45.119
 do what you like.

01:04:46.440 --> 01:04:47.360
 He'll say,

01:04:48.240 --> 01:04:49.099
 you're my people

01:04:49.099 --> 01:04:51.740
 and I'm going to give you eternal life.

01:04:52.260 --> 01:04:53.700
 But if you turn away

01:04:53.700 --> 01:04:55.660
 and walk a long way away,

01:04:56.599 --> 01:04:58.700
 does that begin to show

01:04:58.700 --> 01:05:01.059
 that you were never a person with life?

01:05:02.639 --> 01:05:03.940
 Because we need the promises

01:05:03.940 --> 01:05:04.920
 and we need the warnings.

01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:06.360
 And if we remove the promises,

01:05:07.099 --> 01:05:07.820
 we'll be desperate.

01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:09.000
 If we remove the warnings,

01:05:09.139 --> 01:05:09.740
 we'll be stupid.

01:05:10.900 --> 01:05:12.700
 And so he very carefully shepherds us

01:05:12.700 --> 01:05:13.539
 with the two of them.

01:05:14.980 --> 01:05:16.820
 I don't know if I've explained that very well.

01:05:16.880 --> 01:05:19.740
 I think it was R.C. Sproul

01:05:19.740 --> 01:05:20.519
 who said,

01:05:20.960 --> 01:05:25.000
 if you have eternal life,

01:05:25.059 --> 01:05:26.500
 you never lose eternal life.

01:05:27.539 --> 01:05:29.139
 If you lose eternal life,

01:05:29.200 --> 01:05:30.500
 you never had eternal life.

01:05:31.880 --> 01:05:33.220
 And that's the careful,

01:05:34.579 --> 01:05:36.220
 systematic theology

01:05:36.220 --> 01:05:38.380
 of assurance, I think.

01:05:38.380 --> 01:05:39.180
 Yeah.

01:05:40.940 --> 01:05:42.340
 I probably confused you there,

01:05:42.380 --> 01:05:43.099
 but I didn't mean to.

01:05:46.099 --> 01:05:47.340
 There's a number of other questions

01:05:47.340 --> 01:05:48.320
 that have come in,

01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:49.099
 but I think we'll make this

01:05:49.099 --> 01:05:50.200
 the last one at 1227.

01:05:50.900 --> 01:05:51.840
 So this question is,

01:05:52.059 --> 01:05:54.320
 you spoke about showing our lives

01:05:54.320 --> 01:05:55.740
 as being followers of Christ

01:05:55.740 --> 01:05:57.539
 in simple honesty and witness.

01:05:58.640 --> 01:06:00.680
 As teachers of children and youth,

01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:02.680
 how do you recommend we develop that

01:06:02.680 --> 01:06:03.960
 in our children and youth?

01:06:03.960 --> 01:06:08.320
 Great question.

01:06:08.519 --> 01:06:09.639
 And without a doubt,

01:06:10.300 --> 01:06:12.159
 you want your youth and children

01:06:12.159 --> 01:06:15.420
 to keep hearing how wonderful Jesus is.

01:06:16.539 --> 01:06:19.139
 It's a big mistake in the ministry

01:06:19.139 --> 01:06:20.500
 with youth and children,

01:06:21.139 --> 01:06:23.099
 whether you're parents or teachers

01:06:23.099 --> 01:06:25.099
 or youth leaders or Sunday school teachers,

01:06:25.099 --> 01:06:27.920
 to keep moralising your children

01:06:27.920 --> 01:06:30.219
 to the point where they just feel

01:06:30.219 --> 01:06:32.079
 as though the whole thing is impossible.

01:06:33.480 --> 01:06:35.279
 We want people at the end of a talk

01:06:35.279 --> 01:06:36.380
 to go away saying,

01:06:36.500 --> 01:06:37.599
 Jesus is wonderful.

01:06:38.019 --> 01:06:39.779
 We want people at the end of a youth night

01:06:39.779 --> 01:06:40.539
 to go home saying,

01:06:40.639 --> 01:06:41.699
 Jesus is wonderful.

01:06:42.360 --> 01:06:43.440
 We want people at the end

01:06:43.440 --> 01:06:44.460
 of a Sunday school class

01:06:44.460 --> 01:06:45.219
 to go home saying,

01:06:45.319 --> 01:06:46.400
 Jesus is wonderful.

01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:47.500
 You know,

01:06:47.539 --> 01:06:49.000
 if you're teaching on Jonah and the whale,

01:06:49.059 --> 01:06:50.400
 you don't want to say to a little kid

01:06:50.400 --> 01:06:51.219
 at a class

01:06:51.219 --> 01:06:53.239
 or as you're tucking them into bed,

01:06:54.139 --> 01:06:55.259
 Jonah ran away

01:06:55.259 --> 01:06:57.639
 and a whale ate him.

01:06:58.739 --> 01:07:00.779
 If you ever run away,

01:07:01.279 --> 01:07:04.439
 I will pray for a whale to eat you.

01:07:05.859 --> 01:07:07.039
 Now sleep well

01:07:07.039 --> 01:07:08.219
 and I'll see you in the morning.

01:07:09.879 --> 01:07:11.219
 You don't want to do that.

01:07:11.939 --> 01:07:13.919
 You want to say something like this,

01:07:14.179 --> 01:07:15.500
 how wonderful is God?

01:07:16.319 --> 01:07:17.819
 He cared about those people

01:07:17.819 --> 01:07:18.939
 nobody cared about.

01:07:18.940 --> 01:07:22.119
 He even changed his servant

01:07:22.119 --> 01:07:23.920
 who didn't care either

01:07:23.920 --> 01:07:25.900
 and he made sure

01:07:25.900 --> 01:07:27.820
 that they were all hearing the good news

01:07:27.820 --> 01:07:29.720
 and we have somebody like that

01:07:29.720 --> 01:07:30.519
 called Jesus

01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:32.960
 and he cares about us

01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:34.679
 and he's made it possible

01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:36.079
 for us to be safe.

01:07:37.360 --> 01:07:38.559
 That's what you want to say.

01:07:39.659 --> 01:07:41.000
 David and Goliath.

01:07:42.119 --> 01:07:43.579
 David was very brave.

01:07:45.099 --> 01:07:46.179
 He got a rock

01:07:46.179 --> 01:07:47.400
 and killed a giant.

01:07:48.940 --> 01:07:50.599
 When you get to school tomorrow

01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:53.920
 and you see that bully,

01:07:55.280 --> 01:07:56.320
 find a sling,

01:07:57.059 --> 01:07:58.000
 get a rock,

01:07:59.059 --> 01:08:00.119
 be a brave boy.

01:08:01.940 --> 01:08:02.780
 Now sleep well

01:08:02.780 --> 01:08:03.880
 and I'll see you in the morning.

01:08:05.059 --> 01:08:05.179
 No.

01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:06.539
 No.

01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:08.500
 How great is God

01:08:08.500 --> 01:08:10.800
 raises up somebody

01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:13.500
 so the enemy is defeated

01:08:13.500 --> 01:08:15.760
 and all God's people

01:08:15.760 --> 01:08:16.319
 are safe.

01:08:17.279 --> 01:08:18.520
 How blessed are we?

01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:20.479
 God raises up somebody,

01:08:20.659 --> 01:08:20.939
 Jesus,

01:08:21.359 --> 01:08:22.539
 who wins a victory

01:08:22.539 --> 01:08:24.380
 and we belong to him.

01:08:25.539 --> 01:08:26.840
 That's what we need to be doing.

01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:28.819
 That's how we need to be helping

01:08:28.819 --> 01:08:30.420
 children, youth and adults

01:08:30.420 --> 01:08:31.260
 to be thankful

01:08:31.260 --> 01:08:34.340
 and thankfulness will be a huge part

01:08:34.340 --> 01:08:35.840
 of staying close.

01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:38.340
 Okay?

01:08:42.340 --> 01:08:43.340
 I'm very tempted

01:08:43.340 --> 01:08:44.720
 to do one more.

01:08:52.400 --> 01:08:54.279
 Are David's sandals

01:08:54.279 --> 01:08:56.100
 vintage Israelite

01:08:56.100 --> 01:08:59.739
 the magic kind

01:08:59.739 --> 01:09:00.779
 that I've never worn out?

01:09:00.779 --> 01:09:05.599
 Thank you for that.

01:09:08.539 --> 01:09:09.719
 So I'm going to hand it back

01:09:09.719 --> 01:09:10.059
 to Andrew

01:09:10.059 --> 01:09:10.880
 but can I just say

01:09:10.880 --> 01:09:12.019
 one comment

01:09:12.019 --> 01:09:13.079
 on all these questions?

01:09:13.859 --> 01:09:15.359
 When we come to camps

01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:16.119
 and things like this,

01:09:16.340 --> 01:09:17.739
 our minds just fill

01:09:17.739 --> 01:09:18.359
 with questions.

01:09:18.579 --> 01:09:19.939
 We spend a bit of time

01:09:19.939 --> 01:09:20.719
 studying the scripture

01:09:20.719 --> 01:09:21.500
 and there's just

01:09:21.500 --> 01:09:22.659
 questions arise

01:09:22.659 --> 01:09:24.800
 and those are good things

01:09:24.800 --> 01:09:26.179
 but here's the problem for us.

01:09:26.239 --> 01:09:27.380
 We go away from camp

01:09:27.380 --> 01:09:28.759
 and then we just fall

01:09:28.759 --> 01:09:29.679
 into slumber again.

01:09:29.680 --> 01:09:32.140
 We need to,

01:09:32.500 --> 01:09:33.659
 the scriptures are

01:09:33.659 --> 01:09:35.980
 just rich treasures for us.

01:09:36.440 --> 01:09:38.100
 God speaks with a clear

01:09:38.100 --> 01:09:39.079
 single message.

01:09:39.200 --> 01:09:39.760
 He doesn't speak

01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:40.480
 with a forked tongue.

01:09:40.600 --> 01:09:42.180
 His idea is not to confuse us.

01:09:43.240 --> 01:09:45.400
 We have the resources we need.

01:09:45.539 --> 01:09:46.320
 We've got brains,

01:09:46.460 --> 01:09:47.119
 we've got the spirit

01:09:47.119 --> 01:09:47.880
 working within us,

01:09:47.960 --> 01:09:48.700
 we've got the word,

01:09:49.180 --> 01:09:50.039
 we've got cross-reference,

01:09:50.260 --> 01:09:52.000
 we've got hundreds of years

01:09:52.000 --> 01:09:53.500
 worth of scholarly literature

01:09:53.500 --> 01:09:54.400
 that's been accumulated

01:09:54.400 --> 01:09:55.640
 for us by God's grace

01:09:55.640 --> 01:09:58.220
 and we can answer

01:09:58.220 --> 01:09:59.260
 a lot of our own questions

01:09:59.260 --> 01:10:00.900
 with some serious-minded

01:10:00.900 --> 01:10:02.100
 study of scripture.

01:10:02.940 --> 01:10:04.100
 So can I encourage you

01:10:04.100 --> 01:10:05.560
 to pursue your own questions,

01:10:06.079 --> 01:10:07.380
 pursue them deeply

01:10:07.380 --> 01:10:08.039
 in the word,

01:10:08.480 --> 01:10:09.239
 ask somebody

01:10:09.239 --> 01:10:10.460
 if you get stuck,

01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:12.239
 cross-reference,

01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:14.720
 but for goodness sake,

01:10:14.900 --> 01:10:17.239
 let's take some responsibility

01:10:17.239 --> 01:10:19.039
 and learn, study,

01:10:19.440 --> 01:10:20.600
 dive into God's word

01:10:20.600 --> 01:10:22.020
 and we will find riches

01:10:22.020 --> 01:10:23.159
 and maturity

01:10:23.159 --> 01:10:25.060
 waiting for us

01:10:25.060 --> 01:10:26.400
 in doing that.

01:10:26.399 --> 01:10:27.879
 So, Ryland,

01:10:28.359 --> 01:10:28.960
 while it's good

01:10:28.960 --> 01:10:29.539
 to have a speaker

01:10:29.539 --> 01:10:30.619
 to answer our questions,

01:10:30.979 --> 01:10:32.019
 it's not necessary.

01:10:32.420 --> 01:10:34.299
 He's not a cultic figure.

01:10:34.639 --> 01:10:35.359
 I don't mean that

01:10:35.359 --> 01:10:36.119
 with any disrespect.

01:10:37.019 --> 01:10:38.359
 We don't have cultic figures.

01:10:38.460 --> 01:10:39.179
 We have the word

01:10:39.179 --> 01:10:40.019
 that's immediate

01:10:40.019 --> 01:10:42.219
 and will give life

01:10:42.219 --> 01:10:43.579
 and vitality to us

01:10:43.579 --> 01:10:45.059
 if we will dig into it

01:10:45.059 --> 01:10:45.679
 and live in it.

01:10:46.460 --> 01:10:46.799
 Andrew.

01:10:46.799 --> 01:10:46.899
 Andrew.

01:10:47.460 --> 01:10:47.859
 Andrew.

01:10:47.859 --> 01:10:48.259
 Andrew.

01:10:48.259 --> 01:10:48.460
 Andrew.

01:10:48.460 --> 01:10:48.939
 Andrew.

01:10:48.939 --> 01:10:48.960
 Andrew.

01:10:48.960 --> 01:10:49.420
 Andrew.

01:10:49.420 --> 01:10:49.439
 Andrew.

01:10:49.439 --> 01:10:49.460
 Andrew.

01:10:49.460 --> 01:10:50.420
 Andrew.

01:10:50.420 --> 01:10:50.859
 Andrew.

01:10:50.859 --> 01:10:50.899
 Andrew.

01:10:50.899 --> 01:10:50.920
 Andrew.

01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:50.939
 Andrew.

01:10:50.939 --> 01:10:51.420
 Andrew.

01:10:51.420 --> 01:10:51.439
 Andrew.

01:10:51.439 --> 01:10:51.479
 Andrew.

01:10:51.479 --> 01:10:51.899
 Andrew.

01:10:51.899 --> 01:10:51.979
 Andrew.

01:10:51.979 --> 01:10:52.420
 Andrew.