WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.400 Father, we ask that you would gently but deeply pour out the Holy Spirit upon us at this time. 00:00:08.320 --> 00:00:19.240 Father, your word reveals things which are hard for us, and we confess before you, Father, 00:00:19.500 --> 00:00:25.620 that we want to try to solve these things by our own categories and in our own way 00:00:25.620 --> 00:00:33.140 and in our own strength and not just listen to your word and believe it and to trust it 00:00:33.140 --> 00:00:35.020 and to have it bear fruit in our lives. 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:40.579 So, Father, we ask for a deep work of your Holy Spirit in our lives as we open your word. 00:00:41.219 --> 00:00:47.460 And, Father, we want to lift Jesus high this morning here, and we want to lift him high in our daily lives. 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:52.240 We want to lift him high in this city, and we want to lift him high to the ends of the earth. 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:55.740 So, Father, please be gracious and kind. 00:00:55.940 --> 00:00:56.920 Pour out your Holy Spirit. 00:00:57.060 --> 00:00:58.140 In Jesus' name we pray. 00:00:58.640 --> 00:00:58.940 Amen. 00:01:00.120 --> 00:01:00.900 Please be seated. 00:01:02.160 --> 00:01:06.099 So, occasionally I do this with a sermon. 00:01:06.219 --> 00:01:07.159 I give a bit of a warning. 00:01:07.780 --> 00:01:12.340 I guess I should maybe have had a bit of an R symbol up there because it's a bit of a restricted sermon, 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:16.420 not because I'm going to talk about sexual stuff, but I'm going to talk about the devil. 00:01:16.420 --> 00:01:23.260 So, if you're a guest here this morning or you've been here for a while and you're a bit of a seeker, 00:01:23.960 --> 00:01:28.500 I just want to let you know we're going to talk about the devil because it's sort of in the scripture text. 00:01:29.060 --> 00:01:32.799 And I know that when I say in Canada that we're going to talk about the devil, 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:36.520 there's sort of nowadays there's sort of two types of reactions. 00:01:36.780 --> 00:01:39.280 For many Canadians to say that I'm going to talk about the devil, 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:43.780 I have just revealed that I am an anti-intellectual kook. 00:01:43.780 --> 00:01:47.700 I've just revealed that to you folks. 00:01:47.840 --> 00:01:49.519 For many Canadians, that's what it would be. 00:01:49.620 --> 00:01:50.540 The eyes would roll. 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:52.320 They'd go, oh, good grief. 00:01:53.180 --> 00:01:57.099 And for others, increasing numbers, maybe even the majority of Canadians, 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:58.200 they'd say, well, that's interesting. 00:01:58.260 --> 00:01:59.219 I wonder what he has to say. 00:01:59.320 --> 00:02:04.920 I wonder if it fits in with how I understand demons and devils to work. 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:08.580 So, wherever you are, that's what we're going to look at today amongst other things. 00:02:08.659 --> 00:02:12.479 Of course, it's not the main thing in the text, but it's a big part of the text. 00:02:12.479 --> 00:02:16.619 It's a bit of an iceberg or an elephant in the text, and we're going to look at it. 00:02:16.639 --> 00:02:17.500 We're not going to avoid it. 00:02:17.899 --> 00:02:19.439 So, if you have your Bibles, let's see. 00:02:19.620 --> 00:02:23.120 I mean, it doesn't jump right into talking about the devil right away, but it's going to get there. 00:02:23.219 --> 00:02:27.399 So, if you have your Bibles, turn in them to John 8, verse 31. 00:02:28.340 --> 00:02:30.839 John 8, verse 31. 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:35.439 And here's how... 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.759 Remember, when I was introducing this text before I read it, I said, 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:41.280 this is part of a longer conversation of Jesus. 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:47.379 And so, some of the things that are in the text, we sort of talked about last week, 00:02:47.480 --> 00:02:50.099 but John 8, verse 31, here's how it goes. 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:55.000 So, Jesus said to the Jews, it's both the leaders and the people who had believed him. 00:02:55.780 --> 00:03:00.219 And notice, by the way, it says believed him, not believed in him, but believed him. 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:02.479 They've started to believe some of the things he's said, 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.439 but they haven't quite reached the point of having a trust in him. 00:03:06.240 --> 00:03:08.319 It's all the way through John's Gospel. 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:11.599 It's a very subtle difference, but it's a very important difference. 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:15.659 Since I've introduced the topic of demons in another place in the Bible, 00:03:15.659 --> 00:03:23.120 it says, Jesus says, the demons believe in God and tremble. 00:03:23.719 --> 00:03:26.359 They don't have a saving belief, but they have a knowledge. 00:03:27.139 --> 00:03:29.159 So, this is the way here it's been referred to. 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:31.740 There's some knowledge that what Jesus is saying is true. 00:03:32.680 --> 00:03:34.240 So, I'll read it again, verse 31. 00:03:34.379 --> 00:03:37.259 So, Jesus said to the Jewish people who had believed him, 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:41.379 if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 00:03:41.379 --> 00:03:45.400 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. 00:03:46.120 --> 00:03:47.979 And we're just going to camp there just for a few seconds. 00:03:48.099 --> 00:03:50.439 Andrew, if you could put that up on the screen. 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:52.919 It's a really important verse. 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:57.060 It's one of those verses that Christians should try to memorize if they possibly can. 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:00.500 In a very interesting way, by memorizing the scripture, 00:04:00.659 --> 00:04:02.500 you're abiding and continuing in the word, right? 00:04:03.419 --> 00:04:05.939 It's also part of how you just meditate upon the word 00:04:05.939 --> 00:04:08.000 and have it try to come into your life. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.580 Some of your versions will say not abide, but continue. 00:04:11.819 --> 00:04:15.840 And both are very good words to translate the original idea in the original language. 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:18.579 Abide sort of means to live there. 00:04:18.779 --> 00:04:23.180 Continue means also has that same type of idea that you listen, 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:28.120 and then you continue to listen and continue to have it to have some type of role in your life. 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:31.180 Well worth memorizing. 00:04:31.980 --> 00:04:35.139 And so, once again, I'm going in and out. 00:04:35.180 --> 00:04:36.500 Is that just my imagination? 00:04:36.500 --> 00:04:36.740 Imagination? 00:04:37.379 --> 00:04:38.459 Nope, it's not my imagination. 00:04:39.339 --> 00:04:44.019 Anyway, so it's a very, very powerful, wonderful verse. 00:04:45.300 --> 00:04:49.600 We're going to return to it at the end, but just in case I lose you, put you all to sleep. 00:04:50.660 --> 00:04:58.459 This is a very, very, very powerful set of four ideas that are all linked in the scripture. 00:04:58.459 --> 00:05:03.839 And you need to have all four of them to have any part of it work. 00:05:04.599 --> 00:05:08.859 So there's this first thing that Jesus says, you need to abide in my word. 00:05:09.259 --> 00:05:14.639 And if you abide in my word, if you continue in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 00:05:15.419 --> 00:05:19.139 And his word here is opening the door to a far bigger thing. 00:05:19.219 --> 00:05:23.599 The historic understanding of Christians is that when we read the New Testament, 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:28.180 we're reading ultimately the apostolic testimony to what Jesus said. 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:36.700 And Jesus is in chapter 7 said how when you listen to the Old Testament, you're listening to the Father speak. 00:05:36.699 --> 00:05:42.459 So it's not only Jesus talking about the gospel that you have to believe and be gripped by the gospel, 00:05:42.599 --> 00:05:46.860 but you have to be gripped by the gospel, the message that God has sent his son. 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:49.759 And how does he put it in John chapter 3, verse 16? 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:56.120 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son to the end that all who believe in him will not perish, 00:05:56.300 --> 00:05:57.560 but have eternal life. 00:05:58.139 --> 00:06:01.959 And so it's not only the message of the gospel, but the writings of the New Testament 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.399 that we are to abide in and continue. 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:07.139 And if we do that, we truly are his disciples, 00:06:07.779 --> 00:06:11.539 truly are ones who have been saved by him and are following him. 00:06:12.299 --> 00:06:13.759 And then what's the next linked idea? 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:15.939 If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples. 00:06:16.299 --> 00:06:17.279 And what will happen? 00:06:17.359 --> 00:06:18.299 You will know the truth. 00:06:20.079 --> 00:06:21.159 You will know the truth. 00:06:21.259 --> 00:06:22.259 You won't know lies. 00:06:23.039 --> 00:06:24.240 You won't know ambiguity. 00:06:25.359 --> 00:06:27.620 You won't know illusion. 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:29.179 You will know the truth. 00:06:29.179 --> 00:06:31.799 You will be delivered from lies. 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:32.979 And illusions. 00:06:33.399 --> 00:06:34.159 And delusions. 00:06:34.699 --> 00:06:35.479 To know the truth. 00:06:36.060 --> 00:06:39.459 That's God's desire for human beings. 00:06:39.560 --> 00:06:40.819 Is that we know the truth. 00:06:41.319 --> 00:06:44.019 Not only the truth about God, but the truth. 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:46.060 That's his heart. 00:06:46.180 --> 00:06:47.060 That's his desire. 00:06:47.219 --> 00:06:49.679 That's one of the implications of the gospel. 00:06:50.379 --> 00:06:54.339 One of the implications of the gospel is that as it grips you, 00:06:54.679 --> 00:06:59.000 and as you now, in light of the gospel, continue in the word, 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:03.560 that that basic creational purpose that God has always had for us, 00:07:03.620 --> 00:07:06.360 to know the truth, that that will happen. 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.220 And part of how we will, one of the consequences of abiding in the word, 00:07:11.620 --> 00:07:13.160 and being the disciple of Jesus, 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:14.620 and knowing the truth, 00:07:14.779 --> 00:07:16.579 is that the truth will make us free. 00:07:17.660 --> 00:07:19.100 Drugs don't make us free. 00:07:19.900 --> 00:07:21.640 Getting drunk doesn't make us free. 00:07:22.340 --> 00:07:23.840 Lies don't make us free. 00:07:24.740 --> 00:07:27.580 I mean, we might sort of think that they sort of get us out of some trouble, 00:07:27.700 --> 00:07:30.820 but lies ultimately always damage and hurt us. 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:33.600 Illusion doesn't make, delusion doesn't, 00:07:33.820 --> 00:07:35.320 the truth will set you free. 00:07:35.820 --> 00:07:37.939 That's his powerful statement of Jesus. 00:07:38.080 --> 00:07:39.960 So even if you now fall asleep, 00:07:40.020 --> 00:07:41.780 I lose you for the next 30 minutes, 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:43.960 hopefully that will grip you, 00:07:44.020 --> 00:07:45.600 and you'll want to memorize the scripture. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.020 But here's the problem. 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:50.060 If we're honest, and all of a sudden now, 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:51.680 because, you know, it's, 00:07:51.840 --> 00:07:54.520 we live in Canada, 00:07:54.700 --> 00:07:56.800 unless you're a guest here this morning from another country, 00:07:56.879 --> 00:07:59.180 if so, we're really glad you came to join us. 00:08:00.460 --> 00:08:03.500 But if we breathe the cultural air of Canada, 00:08:04.100 --> 00:08:04.939 and in Canada, 00:08:05.960 --> 00:08:07.560 well, Andrew, could you put up the next slide? 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:08.980 I'm not sure what it's going to look like, 00:08:09.400 --> 00:08:10.879 because I gave Andrew some options. 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:13.560 In Canada, 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:17.120 we've taken part of Jesus' words 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:20.480 and cut out the rest. 00:08:21.560 --> 00:08:23.480 This is a very Canadian statement. 00:08:24.060 --> 00:08:24.939 Know the truth, 00:08:25.459 --> 00:08:26.819 and the truth will set you free. 00:08:26.899 --> 00:08:28.860 Isn't that like a very, very Canadian statement? 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:30.600 Jesus says, 00:08:31.500 --> 00:08:33.279 if you abide in my word, 00:08:33.820 --> 00:08:35.519 if you abide in my word, 00:08:35.620 --> 00:08:36.980 you are truly my disciples, 00:08:37.200 --> 00:08:38.179 and you will know the truth, 00:08:38.220 --> 00:08:39.440 and the truth will set you free. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:40.280 But in Canada, 00:08:40.500 --> 00:08:42.420 we've gotten rid of 00:08:42.420 --> 00:08:43.760 abiding, 00:08:44.060 --> 00:08:46.260 abiding in the word, 00:08:47.080 --> 00:08:48.420 being a disciple of Jesus. 00:08:49.320 --> 00:08:51.740 And we've taken all of that part out of the scripture, 00:08:52.180 --> 00:08:53.440 and in some ways, 00:08:53.500 --> 00:08:55.760 this is a bit of a motto for the average Canadian. 00:08:55.900 --> 00:08:56.500 Know the truth, 00:08:56.540 --> 00:08:57.800 and the truth will set you free. 00:08:58.120 --> 00:08:59.020 Which means then, 00:08:59.080 --> 00:09:00.080 for the average Canadian, 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:02.200 why do you need to add Jesus to the equation? 00:09:05.900 --> 00:09:06.300 Like, 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:07.560 know the truth, 00:09:07.620 --> 00:09:08.820 and the truth will set you free. 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:09.960 I mean, 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:11.560 that's why we buy the self-help books, 00:09:11.620 --> 00:09:11.920 isn't it? 00:09:13.140 --> 00:09:13.580 That's, 00:09:13.580 --> 00:09:13.740 that's, 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:15.420 why, 00:09:16.680 --> 00:09:17.640 that's just basically, 00:09:17.740 --> 00:09:18.000 it's like, 00:09:18.100 --> 00:09:18.480 it's so, 00:09:18.860 --> 00:09:19.960 in some ways, 00:09:20.340 --> 00:09:22.480 part of the history of Canadian culture 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:23.440 is that shift. 00:09:23.860 --> 00:09:24.300 It's actually, 00:09:24.400 --> 00:09:24.780 what if just, 00:09:24.860 --> 00:09:25.760 it's the enlightenment here. 00:09:25.880 --> 00:09:26.220 Sorry, 00:09:26.300 --> 00:09:28.300 a little bit of an intellectual geek moment. 00:09:28.780 --> 00:09:29.040 Sorry, 00:09:29.240 --> 00:09:29.720 time out. 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:31.040 Intellectual geek moment. 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:32.440 The switch, 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:34.080 from what Jesus said to that, 00:09:34.140 --> 00:09:35.360 is the beginning of the enlightenment. 00:09:36.080 --> 00:09:37.300 It's the enlightenment project. 00:09:37.299 --> 00:09:39.099 That's what it is. 00:09:40.419 --> 00:09:40.659 And, 00:09:40.740 --> 00:09:41.639 and so, 00:09:41.699 --> 00:09:42.679 for the average Canadian, 00:09:43.019 --> 00:09:43.439 they say, 00:09:43.500 --> 00:09:43.919 one moment, 00:09:44.359 --> 00:09:45.459 you just know the truth, 00:09:45.500 --> 00:09:46.500 and the truth will set you free. 00:09:46.620 --> 00:09:48.419 How on earth does knowing Jesus 00:09:48.419 --> 00:09:50.579 add anything to that project whatsoever? 00:09:51.079 --> 00:09:51.620 In fact, 00:09:51.679 --> 00:09:52.899 for the average Canadian, 00:09:53.779 --> 00:09:55.179 the average Canadian, 00:09:55.359 --> 00:09:55.899 they'd say, 00:09:56.459 --> 00:09:57.279 in fact, 00:09:57.359 --> 00:09:58.699 actually moving towards, 00:09:59.099 --> 00:10:00.819 what Jesus actually said, 00:10:00.819 --> 00:10:02.459 about abiding in the Bible, 00:10:02.460 --> 00:10:04.580 and, 00:10:04.580 --> 00:10:07.100 and actually being a follower of Jesus, 00:10:07.100 --> 00:10:11.220 that actually is a movement away from knowing the truth. 00:10:11.480 --> 00:10:13.519 It's a movement away from freedom. 00:10:15.280 --> 00:10:17.379 That's the cultural area we live in. 00:10:18.660 --> 00:10:22.800 Knowing Jesus only messes this project up, 00:10:22.840 --> 00:10:24.700 which is deeply ingrained in us. 00:10:26.519 --> 00:10:27.120 So, 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:27.720 what do we do? 00:10:27.960 --> 00:10:28.139 Well, 00:10:28.180 --> 00:10:28.540 it's very, 00:10:28.660 --> 00:10:29.320 very interesting. 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:29.440 interesting. 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:31.320 The, 00:10:31.400 --> 00:10:34.360 the Bible is actually going to deal with this. 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:36.920 Believe it or not, 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:38.860 how Jesus talks about this afterwards, 00:10:39.260 --> 00:10:39.600 it's, 00:10:40.220 --> 00:10:43.800 it's one of the many ways that I really believe that the Bible is inspired, 00:10:44.260 --> 00:10:44.800 because, 00:10:45.460 --> 00:10:45.660 the, 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:47.480 the words are just slightly different, 00:10:47.720 --> 00:10:50.660 but Jesus in the conversation anticipates the problem. 00:10:50.720 --> 00:10:51.640 But before we get, 00:10:52.300 --> 00:10:53.680 to what Jesus says, 00:10:53.700 --> 00:10:56.060 I just want to throw out a bit of a challenge to us. 00:10:56.059 --> 00:10:56.500 So, 00:10:56.500 --> 00:10:58.199 for the average Canadian, 00:10:58.359 --> 00:10:58.959 this is true. 00:10:59.059 --> 00:11:00.039 Know the truth and we'll set, 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:01.339 and the truth will set you free. 00:11:01.439 --> 00:11:02.699 And the question to Canada is, 00:11:02.759 --> 00:11:04.019 how's that working for us? 00:11:06.579 --> 00:11:06.939 Like, 00:11:06.959 --> 00:11:07.719 how's that working? 00:11:07.899 --> 00:11:08.039 Like, 00:11:08.099 --> 00:11:08.259 just, 00:11:08.339 --> 00:11:09.599 just be real for a second. 00:11:10.119 --> 00:11:11.759 When you look at Canada right now, 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:13.279 do you think Canadians generally, 00:11:13.439 --> 00:11:14.779 because this is what they believe, 00:11:14.859 --> 00:11:17.719 do you think there's a lot more freedom in Canada now than there used to be? 00:11:18.379 --> 00:11:19.699 Do you think that in Canada, 00:11:20.019 --> 00:11:22.259 more and more people are able to think well? 00:11:22.259 --> 00:11:27.080 Do you think in Canada there are fewer lies that people believe? 00:11:29.139 --> 00:11:34.980 Do you think in Canada that people generally are highly motivated by knowing what's true and real? 00:11:36.259 --> 00:11:36.639 Like, 00:11:36.659 --> 00:11:38.279 how's that going in Canada right now? 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:45.279 Is it going so well that we can say that maybe you don't need what Jesus said, 00:11:45.360 --> 00:11:46.539 but you just need to listen to that? 00:11:46.600 --> 00:11:47.799 Let's just be honest for a second. 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:48.899 It's not really going very well, 00:11:48.899 --> 00:11:49.200 is it? 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:50.780 I mean, 00:11:50.860 --> 00:11:52.500 who reads Twitter for the truth? 00:11:57.320 --> 00:11:58.660 Maybe you have been. 00:11:58.840 --> 00:11:59.280 Sorry. 00:11:59.980 --> 00:12:00.259 But, 00:12:00.780 --> 00:12:03.200 it's a bad place to get the truth. 00:12:03.780 --> 00:12:05.000 It's good to get yelling. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:07.000 And innuendo. 00:12:07.540 --> 00:12:10.100 And people having their feelings hurt. 00:12:11.460 --> 00:12:11.720 In fact, 00:12:11.780 --> 00:12:12.020 actually, 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:12.300 you know, 00:12:12.940 --> 00:12:14.500 for many Canadians now, 00:12:14.820 --> 00:12:16.960 it's actually more from know the truth, 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.340 and the truth will set you free, 00:12:18.340 --> 00:12:19.940 is to know your feelings, 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:22.580 and your feelings will set you free. 00:12:22.639 --> 00:12:26.980 And that's working even worse than knowing the truth. 00:12:28.160 --> 00:12:28.480 Now, 00:12:28.540 --> 00:12:29.580 some of you might say, 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:30.700 okay, 00:12:30.800 --> 00:12:31.040 George, 00:12:31.100 --> 00:12:31.220 well, 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:32.120 that's actually a very, 00:12:32.220 --> 00:12:34.060 very clever point you just made, 00:12:34.620 --> 00:12:36.660 but I'm going to push it right back at you. 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:37.080 George, 00:12:37.139 --> 00:12:39.639 how on earth can what Jesus said, 00:12:39.680 --> 00:12:40.879 if you abide in my word, 00:12:41.139 --> 00:12:42.379 you are truly my disciples, 00:12:42.519 --> 00:12:43.940 and you will know the truth, 00:12:43.980 --> 00:12:45.040 and the truth will set you free? 00:12:45.039 --> 00:12:45.219 Like, 00:12:45.259 --> 00:12:45.439 George, 00:12:45.500 --> 00:12:47.299 how dare you get up there and say that, 00:12:47.959 --> 00:12:49.459 that that's somehow a better thing. 00:12:49.620 --> 00:12:49.959 George, 00:12:50.419 --> 00:12:52.539 I mean, 00:12:52.599 --> 00:12:52.879 you know, 00:12:53.199 --> 00:12:53.500 George, 00:12:53.539 --> 00:12:57.959 you're going to be going to a conference at Southern Seminary in a couple of weeks, 00:12:58.779 --> 00:13:00.099 sort of a continuing ed thing. 00:13:00.179 --> 00:13:00.459 George, 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:01.659 Southern Seminary, 00:13:01.779 --> 00:13:03.039 great place of learning, 00:13:03.179 --> 00:13:03.579 but you know what, 00:13:03.599 --> 00:13:04.480 that was segregated. 00:13:04.599 --> 00:13:07.079 It was racist up until just a few decades ago. 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:07.440 Like, 00:13:07.500 --> 00:13:09.580 what about apartheid? 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:12.160 All those good reformed Christians in South Africa, 00:13:12.580 --> 00:13:13.800 practicing apartheid. 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:17.100 What about Christians in slavery? 00:13:17.400 --> 00:13:17.940 What about just, 00:13:18.400 --> 00:13:18.740 George, 00:13:19.920 --> 00:13:20.240 okay, 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:20.500 yeah, 00:13:20.560 --> 00:13:20.700 yeah, 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:22.840 so maybe the project's not going very well in Canada, 00:13:22.980 --> 00:13:23.480 but George, 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:28.000 given Christianity's terrible history connected to racism, 00:13:29.040 --> 00:13:30.080 and apartheid, 00:13:32.040 --> 00:13:32.220 like, 00:13:33.280 --> 00:13:34.920 how is that any better? 00:13:35.680 --> 00:13:35.860 Now, 00:13:35.900 --> 00:13:36.379 by the way, 00:13:36.379 --> 00:13:39.899 that's a really good question for a non-Christian to ask us. 00:13:40.519 --> 00:13:43.860 That's a completely and utterly fair question. 00:13:43.939 --> 00:13:46.000 It might not be a question we feel comfortable with, 00:13:46.059 --> 00:13:47.139 but it's a great question. 00:13:48.120 --> 00:13:48.460 And here, 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:49.000 by the way, 00:13:49.439 --> 00:13:50.039 because as you know, 00:13:50.100 --> 00:13:51.000 I have notes here, 00:13:51.059 --> 00:13:52.500 but a lot of times I don't look at them. 00:13:52.580 --> 00:13:55.220 If I forget to come back and answer the question, 00:13:56.039 --> 00:13:58.179 please shout at me and say, 00:13:58.240 --> 00:13:58.519 George, 00:13:58.559 --> 00:13:59.679 you didn't answer the question, 00:13:59.840 --> 00:14:01.259 because we are. 00:14:02.019 --> 00:14:03.200 So let's look at the Bible. 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:03.600 Actually, 00:14:03.820 --> 00:14:05.419 what Jesus says 00:14:05.419 --> 00:14:06.799 is very, 00:14:06.959 --> 00:14:07.719 very contemporary. 00:14:08.019 --> 00:14:09.439 He's going to address these issues. 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:10.599 So if you, 00:14:10.659 --> 00:14:11.679 if you turn in your Bibles, 00:14:11.839 --> 00:14:13.360 get your Bibles back open. 00:14:13.459 --> 00:14:14.240 John chapter eight, 00:14:14.319 --> 00:14:14.899 verse 31. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:15.699 I'll read it again, 00:14:15.700 --> 00:14:17.640 and we'll see what happens next. 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:22.040 So Jesus said to the Jewish people who had believed him, 00:14:22.140 --> 00:14:23.320 if you abide in my word, 00:14:23.400 --> 00:14:24.740 you are truly my disciples, 00:14:24.740 --> 00:14:26.600 and you will know the truth, 00:14:26.840 --> 00:14:28.420 and the truth will set you free. 00:14:28.980 --> 00:14:30.140 They answered him, 00:14:30.340 --> 00:14:32.100 we are offspring of Abraham 00:14:32.100 --> 00:14:34.360 and have never been enslaved to anyone. 00:14:34.360 --> 00:14:35.940 How is it that you say 00:14:35.940 --> 00:14:37.279 you will become free? 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:39.060 All you need to change in that is 00:14:39.060 --> 00:14:41.639 we are Canadians. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:44.700 We are Canadians. 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:46.600 We've never been enslaved by anyone. 00:14:47.300 --> 00:14:48.720 How on earth can you say 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:49.800 that 00:14:49.800 --> 00:14:51.919 you will become free? 00:14:53.919 --> 00:14:55.360 And Jesus answered them, 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:57.539 and here's the first thing. 00:14:57.580 --> 00:14:58.580 We're going to camp in this 00:14:58.580 --> 00:14:59.659 for just a couple of minutes, 00:14:59.820 --> 00:15:00.259 but here's, 00:15:00.580 --> 00:15:00.740 see, 00:15:00.740 --> 00:15:01.899 Jesus is going to say 00:15:01.899 --> 00:15:03.960 that this enlightenment project 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:05.879 that most Canadians believe in 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:08.480 completely and utterly ignores 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:10.320 two important realities. 00:15:11.340 --> 00:15:13.159 That if you don't understand 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:14.840 these two important realities, 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:16.680 that's why this doesn't work. 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.320 And why what Jesus says 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:22.340 will work. 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:26.419 And the first is right here in verse 34. 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:28.240 Jesus answered them, 00:15:28.379 --> 00:15:29.060 truly, truly, 00:15:29.180 --> 00:15:29.940 I say to you, 00:15:29.940 --> 00:15:32.080 everyone who practices sin 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.480 is a slave to sin. 00:15:37.740 --> 00:15:38.560 What this 00:15:38.560 --> 00:15:41.020 doesn't take into account of 00:15:41.020 --> 00:15:41.620 is sin. 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:43.520 Human sin. 00:15:44.560 --> 00:15:44.920 You see, 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:46.240 in the enlightenment project, 00:15:46.500 --> 00:15:48.080 in what most Canadians think of, 00:15:48.160 --> 00:15:49.700 they think that all we need to do 00:15:49.700 --> 00:15:51.100 to sort of fix this 00:15:51.100 --> 00:15:52.440 is, 00:15:52.820 --> 00:15:54.400 the problem is we're finite. 00:15:55.780 --> 00:15:57.740 And so what we need to fix, 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:58.880 how we need to fix this 00:15:58.879 --> 00:15:59.679 is we just need to have 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:00.759 a bit better philosophy. 00:16:01.059 --> 00:16:01.240 We need, 00:16:01.340 --> 00:16:02.019 and in particular, 00:16:02.019 --> 00:16:03.580 we need better technology. 00:16:05.320 --> 00:16:05.460 You know, 00:16:05.519 --> 00:16:06.480 like maybe what we need 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:07.539 to know the truth more 00:16:07.539 --> 00:16:08.419 is to have something 00:16:08.419 --> 00:16:09.580 that you can just carry around 00:16:09.580 --> 00:16:10.220 in your hand 00:16:10.220 --> 00:16:11.360 that will access virtually 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:12.059 all of the knowledge 00:16:12.059 --> 00:16:12.659 on the planet 00:16:12.659 --> 00:16:13.259 because that one, 00:16:13.379 --> 00:16:13.700 one moment, 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:14.620 that doesn't work at all 00:16:14.620 --> 00:16:14.960 right now, 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:15.399 does it? 00:16:17.700 --> 00:16:18.059 Like, 00:16:18.100 --> 00:16:18.360 in fact, 00:16:18.439 --> 00:16:18.679 actually, 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:19.659 that's made it worse, 00:16:19.840 --> 00:16:20.439 hasn't it? 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:21.560 I mean, 00:16:21.640 --> 00:16:22.720 if you're honest with it, 00:16:22.780 --> 00:16:22.980 right? 00:16:23.680 --> 00:16:25.280 The internet hasn't made us 00:16:25.280 --> 00:16:25.700 smarter, 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:26.260 wiser, 00:16:26.420 --> 00:16:27.520 more pursuing of truth. 00:16:27.640 --> 00:16:29.300 It's made us want to look 00:16:29.300 --> 00:16:30.840 at cat videos and porn 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:34.900 and believe the latest rantings 00:16:34.900 --> 00:16:36.020 and ravings of people 00:16:36.020 --> 00:16:36.700 who are fools. 00:16:38.340 --> 00:16:38.860 Right? 00:16:39.640 --> 00:16:40.200 I mean, 00:16:40.220 --> 00:16:41.080 that's what's happened. 00:16:42.580 --> 00:16:43.060 But, 00:16:43.260 --> 00:16:43.520 you know, 00:16:43.580 --> 00:16:43.860 in our, 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.140 for us in Canada, 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:46.940 we're so committed to this, 00:16:47.060 --> 00:16:48.220 to making sure that Jesus 00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:49.759 has nothing to do with anything. 00:16:50.220 --> 00:16:51.060 We think that, 00:16:51.180 --> 00:16:51.300 okay, 00:16:51.379 --> 00:16:52.639 if the tools are better, 00:16:52.740 --> 00:16:53.980 if the technique is better, 00:16:54.560 --> 00:16:56.639 if society is just better, 00:16:56.740 --> 00:16:58.620 if we elect the right leader, 00:16:58.740 --> 00:17:00.060 if we elect a really good 00:17:00.060 --> 00:17:01.460 progressive prime minister, 00:17:02.340 --> 00:17:02.720 one moment, 00:17:02.800 --> 00:17:03.560 how's that going? 00:17:04.380 --> 00:17:05.460 Didn't we just do that? 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:08.839 Like, 00:17:09.000 --> 00:17:11.120 it's not going very well. 00:17:11.180 --> 00:17:12.079 We did it in Ontario. 00:17:12.079 --> 00:17:12.600 I mean, 00:17:12.660 --> 00:17:12.900 it's not, 00:17:13.140 --> 00:17:13.440 it just, 00:17:14.200 --> 00:17:14.519 you see, 00:17:14.600 --> 00:17:15.539 what Jesus says is 00:17:15.539 --> 00:17:16.799 the problem isn't that 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:18.200 we don't have the best tools, 00:17:18.220 --> 00:17:19.799 or the best philosophy yet, 00:17:20.140 --> 00:17:21.620 or the best social structure. 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:23.539 He says the problem is us. 00:17:24.420 --> 00:17:26.299 The problem is that human beings 00:17:26.299 --> 00:17:33.579 are bent and fallen. 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.440 And when the Bible talks about sin, 00:17:37.539 --> 00:17:37.880 by the way, 00:17:37.900 --> 00:17:38.759 if you're a guest here, 00:17:38.819 --> 00:17:39.360 it's not a, 00:17:39.360 --> 00:17:41.400 it's not a code word for sex. 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:45.740 Sex isn't sinful. 00:17:46.299 --> 00:17:46.500 I mean, 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:47.859 there's a way that sex is sinful, 00:17:47.940 --> 00:17:49.539 sexual knowing and stimulation 00:17:49.539 --> 00:17:50.099 is sinful, 00:17:50.099 --> 00:17:51.180 but it's not a code word. 00:17:51.180 --> 00:17:51.420 It's, 00:17:51.420 --> 00:17:53.819 it's referring to Genesis chapter three. 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:54.039 It's, 00:17:54.120 --> 00:17:56.640 it's referring to the great lie that, 00:17:57.059 --> 00:17:57.759 but before that, 00:17:57.839 --> 00:17:59.299 that God had made all things good 00:17:59.299 --> 00:17:59.859 for us to, 00:18:00.000 --> 00:18:01.160 to know God 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:02.259 and to be known by God 00:18:02.259 --> 00:18:03.359 and to be transparent 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:03.940 and to, 00:18:04.339 --> 00:18:05.759 and to live in our home 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:07.779 and to develop the home 00:18:07.779 --> 00:18:08.680 and to make the whole, 00:18:08.819 --> 00:18:09.960 the whole earth 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:11.599 like a beautiful garden 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:12.459 and, 00:18:12.459 --> 00:18:13.519 and have God provide 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:14.240 all of our needs. 00:18:14.339 --> 00:18:15.139 But instead of that, 00:18:15.199 --> 00:18:17.459 we chose to not believe God 00:18:17.459 --> 00:18:17.980 and to, 00:18:18.179 --> 00:18:18.439 in fact, 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:19.039 to say that, 00:18:19.219 --> 00:18:19.639 that God, 00:18:19.719 --> 00:18:20.539 I don't believe any of, 00:18:20.579 --> 00:18:21.659 I don't believe what you're saying 00:18:21.659 --> 00:18:22.179 is true 00:18:22.179 --> 00:18:23.439 and I don't trust you. 00:18:23.719 --> 00:18:25.359 And I want to be God. 00:18:25.459 --> 00:18:26.859 I want to be just as much 00:18:26.859 --> 00:18:27.740 a God as, 00:18:27.819 --> 00:18:28.500 as you. 00:18:28.819 --> 00:18:30.899 And I want to become the center 00:18:30.899 --> 00:18:33.039 and I want to be in control. 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:34.919 And in that fundamental break 00:18:34.919 --> 00:18:36.139 to be like God 00:18:36.139 --> 00:18:38.639 bent human beings. 00:18:39.600 --> 00:18:41.040 And if you read Genesis 3, 00:18:41.120 --> 00:18:42.200 the result of it is, 00:18:42.220 --> 00:18:42.780 is that human, 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:43.540 all of a sudden, 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:44.160 Adam and Eve 00:18:44.160 --> 00:18:45.220 didn't talk each other, 00:18:45.380 --> 00:18:46.640 trust each other anymore 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:47.820 and they passed blame 00:18:47.820 --> 00:18:48.540 and, 00:18:48.620 --> 00:18:50.400 and they hated transparency 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.040 and, 00:18:52.120 --> 00:18:53.380 and we want to hide. 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:55.140 And the Bible says 00:18:55.140 --> 00:18:56.240 that's the human problem. 00:18:56.320 --> 00:18:57.320 That's what Jesus says. 00:18:57.360 --> 00:18:58.220 That's the problem with, 00:18:59.120 --> 00:18:59.440 it's, 00:18:59.440 --> 00:18:59.860 it's not, 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:00.100 and, 00:19:00.100 --> 00:19:01.740 and God in his common grace 00:19:01.740 --> 00:19:03.640 made sure that everything 00:19:03.640 --> 00:19:04.759 didn't completely and utterly 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:05.980 fall apart, 00:19:06.380 --> 00:19:08.320 but the fall is just present 00:19:08.319 --> 00:19:08.740 with us. 00:19:08.859 --> 00:19:10.119 Sin is present with us. 00:19:11.500 --> 00:19:12.439 And that's why 00:19:12.439 --> 00:19:14.139 just merely knowing the truth 00:19:14.139 --> 00:19:17.259 and the truth will set you free, 00:19:17.299 --> 00:19:18.220 it just doesn't work 00:19:18.220 --> 00:19:19.339 because it doesn't deal 00:19:19.339 --> 00:19:20.899 with the fact that human beings 00:19:20.899 --> 00:19:22.579 are fundamentally bent. 00:19:24.539 --> 00:19:25.399 And by the way, 00:19:25.419 --> 00:19:26.419 when I say this, 00:19:26.419 --> 00:19:27.419 I'm not saying that 00:19:27.419 --> 00:19:28.659 those who are Christians 00:19:28.659 --> 00:19:29.819 aren't bent and fallen 00:19:29.819 --> 00:19:31.139 and non-Christians are. 00:19:32.879 --> 00:19:34.720 I'm a fallen human being too. 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:38.259 And by the way, 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:39.059 here when, 00:19:39.100 --> 00:19:40.380 when Jesus is saying, 00:19:41.740 --> 00:19:41.839 and, 00:19:41.900 --> 00:19:42.019 and, 00:19:42.019 --> 00:19:42.319 and, 00:19:42.319 --> 00:19:43.200 you know, 00:19:43.240 --> 00:19:43.720 there's a, 00:19:44.539 --> 00:19:45.620 and we're bent in our, 00:19:45.620 --> 00:19:46.480 our spirituality 00:19:46.480 --> 00:19:47.480 and our religion, 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:49.440 we're bent in our technology, 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:51.000 we're bent in our philosophy, 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:52.539 we're bent in our emotions, 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:53.860 we're bent in our thinking. 00:19:53.859 --> 00:19:57.299 So, 00:19:57.419 --> 00:19:59.079 now that I've just depressed you all, 00:20:00.819 --> 00:20:01.000 well, 00:20:01.059 --> 00:20:02.519 Jesus goes on to say something 00:20:02.519 --> 00:20:03.519 which gives us hope. 00:20:03.899 --> 00:20:04.099 Like, 00:20:04.159 --> 00:20:04.799 what is it he says? 00:20:04.859 --> 00:20:05.899 Look at verse 35. 00:20:07.779 --> 00:20:09.439 He uses a bit of an analogy 00:20:09.439 --> 00:20:10.399 about how, 00:20:11.399 --> 00:20:13.439 that the analogy sort of works by, 00:20:13.679 --> 00:20:15.379 you know, 00:20:15.539 --> 00:20:16.979 a slave would say, 00:20:17.399 --> 00:20:19.639 I'm a slave in this house. 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:23.520 Whereas a son or a daughter would say, 00:20:23.720 --> 00:20:25.220 I live in this house. 00:20:26.360 --> 00:20:26.860 Sort of the, 00:20:26.860 --> 00:20:27.380 the different, 00:20:27.540 --> 00:20:27.940 the very, 00:20:28.040 --> 00:20:29.300 very different worldview. 00:20:30.360 --> 00:20:31.000 Very different, 00:20:31.280 --> 00:20:32.500 they both can inhabit 00:20:32.500 --> 00:20:34.040 right beside each other 00:20:34.040 --> 00:20:35.400 but their status is different, 00:20:35.520 --> 00:20:37.280 how they understand things is different, 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:39.040 their freedom is different, 00:20:39.500 --> 00:20:40.780 their power is different, 00:20:41.620 --> 00:20:42.820 everything is different. 00:20:43.060 --> 00:20:43.080 So, 00:20:43.160 --> 00:20:43.680 verse 35, 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:45.420 the slave, 00:20:45.580 --> 00:20:45.680 so, 00:20:45.840 --> 00:20:47.020 verse 34 again, 00:20:47.120 --> 00:20:47.340 truly, 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:47.660 truly, 00:20:47.780 --> 00:20:48.240 I say to you, 00:20:48.300 --> 00:20:49.500 everyone who practices sin 00:20:49.500 --> 00:20:50.599 as a slave to sin, 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:53.519 the slave does not remain 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:54.440 in the house forever. 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:57.240 The son remains forever. 00:20:57.400 --> 00:20:57.519 So, 00:20:57.619 --> 00:20:58.740 if the son sets you free, 00:20:58.819 --> 00:20:59.819 you will be free indeed. 00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:03.299 If the son sets you free, 00:21:04.339 --> 00:21:05.619 you will be free indeed. 00:21:07.299 --> 00:21:07.579 You know, 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:08.039 if, 00:21:08.140 --> 00:21:10.740 if the son sets you free, 00:21:11.660 --> 00:21:12.940 you will be free indeed. 00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:15.140 See, 00:21:15.220 --> 00:21:16.000 that's going to start, 00:21:16.099 --> 00:21:16.960 point back a little bit 00:21:16.960 --> 00:21:17.660 about what it means 00:21:17.660 --> 00:21:19.400 to actually believe in Jesus 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:21.740 and to abide in his word 00:21:21.740 --> 00:21:23.380 and to follow him 00:21:23.380 --> 00:21:26.720 because it is for freedom 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:28.700 that Christ has set us free. 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:31.740 And it's for a freedom 00:21:31.740 --> 00:21:33.100 that Christ has set us free 00:21:33.100 --> 00:21:33.960 that's true 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:35.720 and in the truth. 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:40.660 that's why he set us free. 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:42.539 Then he says, 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:43.299 in verse 37, 00:21:43.380 --> 00:21:44.019 I know that you are 00:21:44.019 --> 00:21:45.420 the offspring of Abraham, 00:21:45.620 --> 00:21:46.860 yet you seek to kill me. 00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:48.400 We talked about that more last week 00:21:48.400 --> 00:21:49.700 because my word 00:21:49.700 --> 00:21:51.799 finds no place in you. 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:54.120 I speak of what I have seen 00:21:54.120 --> 00:21:55.400 with my father 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:57.059 and you do 00:21:57.059 --> 00:21:58.420 what you have heard 00:21:58.420 --> 00:21:59.740 from your father. 00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:00.920 Now, 00:22:00.980 --> 00:22:02.120 just sort of pause here. 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:03.920 Those of you who are looking 00:22:03.920 --> 00:22:04.740 a little bit ahead, 00:22:04.900 --> 00:22:06.300 Jesus is now going to begin 00:22:06.300 --> 00:22:07.539 into this second thing. 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:07.840 Remember, 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:09.060 why does know the truth 00:22:09.060 --> 00:22:10.320 and the truth will set you free 00:22:10.320 --> 00:22:10.800 not work? 00:22:10.880 --> 00:22:11.759 The first thing is, 00:22:12.380 --> 00:22:13.259 Jesus says, 00:22:13.500 --> 00:22:14.380 very wisely 00:22:14.380 --> 00:22:15.380 and correctly, 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:16.300 is that we haven't 00:22:16.300 --> 00:22:17.060 taken into account 00:22:17.060 --> 00:22:18.240 the fact that every human being 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:18.820 has sinned. 00:22:19.380 --> 00:22:20.480 And what's the second thing? 00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:22.060 The second thing is, 00:22:22.340 --> 00:22:23.019 is that the world 00:22:23.019 --> 00:22:24.300 hasn't taken into account 00:22:24.300 --> 00:22:25.360 that the devil is real 00:22:25.360 --> 00:22:26.060 and exists. 00:22:29.460 --> 00:22:30.460 Look at what he goes on 00:22:30.460 --> 00:22:31.640 to say in verse 39. 00:22:32.940 --> 00:22:33.840 They answered him, 00:22:34.500 --> 00:22:35.660 Abraham is our father. 00:22:36.019 --> 00:22:36.500 In other words, 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:37.700 that's the lineage 00:22:37.700 --> 00:22:38.759 that they come from. 00:22:39.380 --> 00:22:40.460 And Jesus said to them, 00:22:40.519 --> 00:22:42.880 if you were Abraham's children, 00:22:43.500 --> 00:22:44.519 you would be doing 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:46.079 the works 00:22:46.079 --> 00:22:47.039 that Abraham did. 00:22:47.120 --> 00:22:48.160 But now you seek 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:49.059 to kill me, 00:22:49.480 --> 00:22:50.160 which is actually 00:22:50.160 --> 00:22:51.299 what's happening. 00:22:51.840 --> 00:22:52.920 A man who has told you 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:53.620 the truth 00:22:53.620 --> 00:22:55.000 that I heard from God. 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:56.579 This is not what Abraham did. 00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:57.539 You are doing the works 00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:58.639 that you're doing 00:22:58.639 --> 00:22:59.859 the works your father did. 00:23:00.659 --> 00:23:01.599 They said to him, 00:23:01.720 --> 00:23:02.519 we were not born 00:23:02.519 --> 00:23:03.980 in sexual immorality. 00:23:04.940 --> 00:23:05.859 Probably a little bit 00:23:05.859 --> 00:23:06.460 of a dig 00:23:06.460 --> 00:23:07.920 that they would have said 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:08.920 that Jesus was born 00:23:08.920 --> 00:23:10.099 of sexual immorality. 00:23:11.700 --> 00:23:12.960 We have one father, 00:23:13.059 --> 00:23:13.799 even God. 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:15.379 Jesus said to them, 00:23:15.420 --> 00:23:16.659 if God were your father, 00:23:17.180 --> 00:23:18.399 you would love me. 00:23:18.980 --> 00:23:20.240 For I came from God 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:21.039 and I am here. 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:22.639 I came not 00:23:22.639 --> 00:23:24.200 of my own accord, 00:23:24.659 --> 00:23:25.579 but he sent me. 00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:27.079 Why do you not 00:23:27.079 --> 00:23:28.159 understand what I say? 00:23:28.299 --> 00:23:28.939 It is because 00:23:28.939 --> 00:23:30.799 you cannot bear my word. 00:23:31.919 --> 00:23:33.159 You are of your father, 00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:33.679 the devil, 00:23:34.379 --> 00:23:35.559 and your will 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:36.359 is to do 00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:37.500 your father's desires. 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:39.480 He was a murderer 00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:40.319 from the beginning 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:42.259 and does not stand 00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:43.039 in the truth 00:23:43.039 --> 00:23:44.679 because there is 00:23:44.679 --> 00:23:45.799 no truth in him. 00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:47.839 When he speaks, 00:23:48.099 --> 00:23:48.359 sorry, 00:23:48.439 --> 00:23:49.319 when he lies, 00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:50.759 he speaks out 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:51.679 of his own character, 00:23:52.179 --> 00:23:53.639 for he is a liar 00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:55.320 and the father 00:23:55.320 --> 00:23:56.500 of lies. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:23:57.800 I'm going to read 00:23:57.800 --> 00:23:59.080 that verse 44 again. 00:23:59.180 --> 00:23:59.660 It's a very, 00:23:59.800 --> 00:24:01.060 very powerful verse. 00:24:02.020 --> 00:24:02.920 You are of your father, 00:24:03.040 --> 00:24:03.500 the devil, 00:24:04.500 --> 00:24:05.400 and your will 00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:05.820 is to do 00:24:05.820 --> 00:24:06.960 your father's desires. 00:24:08.180 --> 00:24:09.220 He was a murderer 00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:10.100 from the beginning 00:24:10.100 --> 00:24:11.960 and does not stand 00:24:11.960 --> 00:24:12.620 in the truth 00:24:12.620 --> 00:24:14.300 because there is 00:24:14.300 --> 00:24:15.400 no truth in him. 00:24:16.120 --> 00:24:17.259 When he lies, 00:24:17.640 --> 00:24:18.720 he speaks out 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:19.680 of his own character, 00:24:19.820 --> 00:24:20.680 for he is a liar 00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:21.540 and the father 00:24:21.540 --> 00:24:22.180 of lies. 00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:23.259 Andrew, 00:24:23.340 --> 00:24:23.799 if you could 00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:26.600 put the next point 00:24:26.600 --> 00:24:27.160 up, please. 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:29.560 The devil desires 00:24:29.560 --> 00:24:30.539 you to die 00:24:30.539 --> 00:24:32.220 in the unending 00:24:32.220 --> 00:24:33.380 grip of lies. 00:24:34.820 --> 00:24:36.180 The devil desires 00:24:36.180 --> 00:24:37.019 you to die 00:24:37.019 --> 00:24:39.160 in the unending 00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:41.160 grip of lies. 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:43.039 So, 00:24:43.400 --> 00:24:48.620 remember I said 00:24:48.620 --> 00:24:49.259 that when I first 00:24:49.259 --> 00:24:50.480 introduced this sermon, 00:24:50.600 --> 00:24:51.120 I said just a bit 00:24:51.119 --> 00:24:51.579 of a warning, 00:24:51.679 --> 00:24:52.259 a heads up. 00:24:53.459 --> 00:24:54.239 We're going to talk 00:24:54.239 --> 00:24:54.679 about the devil 00:24:54.679 --> 00:24:55.099 a little bit 00:24:55.099 --> 00:24:55.619 this morning. 00:24:56.379 --> 00:24:57.419 And for many Canadians, 00:24:57.539 --> 00:24:58.159 I've just revealed 00:24:58.159 --> 00:24:59.279 myself as an 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:00.459 unintelligent, 00:25:00.979 --> 00:25:02.259 unread kook. 00:25:03.239 --> 00:25:05.519 And for other Canadians 00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:07.019 who sort of 00:25:07.019 --> 00:25:10.519 through a variety 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:11.000 of reasons 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:11.500 have come to 00:25:11.500 --> 00:25:12.419 basically accept 00:25:12.419 --> 00:25:12.819 that there's 00:25:12.819 --> 00:25:14.319 a supernatural world 00:25:14.319 --> 00:25:16.039 and I'm now 00:25:16.039 --> 00:25:16.879 sort of just curious 00:25:16.879 --> 00:25:17.459 as to whether 00:25:17.459 --> 00:25:18.000 I'm going to talk 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:18.379 about whether 00:25:18.380 --> 00:25:18.700 you can have 00:25:18.700 --> 00:25:19.380 little boxes 00:25:19.380 --> 00:25:20.280 that can capture 00:25:20.280 --> 00:25:21.280 demons or something 00:25:21.280 --> 00:25:21.820 like that 00:25:21.820 --> 00:25:22.200 or what the 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:23.340 right spells are 00:25:23.340 --> 00:25:24.380 or the difference 00:25:24.380 --> 00:25:25.020 between white 00:25:25.020 --> 00:25:25.940 and black magic. 00:25:26.400 --> 00:25:27.020 The Bible has 00:25:27.020 --> 00:25:27.800 a lot more to say 00:25:27.800 --> 00:25:28.580 about the demonic 00:25:28.580 --> 00:25:29.520 than this, 00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:31.180 but I've disappointed 00:25:31.180 --> 00:25:33.540 everyone in Canada 00:25:33.540 --> 00:25:36.080 virtually outside 00:25:36.080 --> 00:25:37.600 of those who are 00:25:37.600 --> 00:25:38.580 disciples of Jesus 00:25:38.580 --> 00:25:40.040 with our description 00:25:40.040 --> 00:25:41.780 of the devil's work 00:25:41.780 --> 00:25:42.200 right now 00:25:42.200 --> 00:25:42.940 because this isn't 00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:43.700 very sexy, 00:25:43.860 --> 00:25:44.120 is it? 00:25:47.059 --> 00:25:47.799 It's just 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:49.059 this sense 00:25:49.059 --> 00:25:50.519 that the Bible 00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:51.779 says is that 00:25:51.779 --> 00:25:52.220 the devil, 00:25:52.460 --> 00:25:53.420 that every single 00:25:53.420 --> 00:25:54.220 human being 00:25:54.220 --> 00:25:55.240 has an experience 00:25:55.240 --> 00:25:55.980 of the devil 00:25:55.980 --> 00:25:57.759 and their experience 00:25:57.759 --> 00:25:58.360 of the devil 00:25:58.360 --> 00:25:59.240 is when they lie. 00:26:02.740 --> 00:26:03.559 And that's not 00:26:03.559 --> 00:26:04.320 very sexy. 00:26:06.059 --> 00:26:06.680 You see, 00:26:06.779 --> 00:26:07.440 part of the thing 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:08.120 that this text 00:26:08.120 --> 00:26:08.700 is revealing, 00:26:08.840 --> 00:26:09.799 for many Canadians, 00:26:09.799 --> 00:26:12.359 we sort of almost 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:14.119 believe that 00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:16.419 we live in a 00:26:16.419 --> 00:26:17.700 naked public square. 00:26:17.879 --> 00:26:18.399 But what I mean 00:26:18.399 --> 00:26:19.319 by a naked public 00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:20.139 square here 00:26:20.139 --> 00:26:20.779 is that 00:26:20.779 --> 00:26:22.119 all we see 00:26:22.119 --> 00:26:24.579 is what is. 00:26:24.680 --> 00:26:25.539 If we don't see it, 00:26:25.579 --> 00:26:26.359 it doesn't exist. 00:26:26.500 --> 00:26:27.180 And then what we see 00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:28.200 is we see stores, 00:26:28.419 --> 00:26:29.180 we see buildings, 00:26:29.319 --> 00:26:30.079 we see people. 00:26:30.539 --> 00:26:31.339 But the Bible 00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:32.059 paints a very, 00:26:32.180 --> 00:26:32.619 very different 00:26:32.619 --> 00:26:33.440 world picture 00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:34.279 that there are, 00:26:34.419 --> 00:26:34.619 in fact, 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:35.639 angels and demons 00:26:35.639 --> 00:26:36.919 and we walk 00:26:36.919 --> 00:26:38.339 amidst unseen 00:26:38.339 --> 00:26:39.460 beings. 00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:42.379 that's what, 00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:42.759 in fact, 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:43.619 we walk amongst. 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:47.579 And that the devils, 00:26:48.099 --> 00:26:49.039 so to speak, 00:26:49.940 --> 00:26:52.519 they whisper in our ears 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:54.399 and to our hearts 00:26:54.399 --> 00:26:55.359 and to our minds. 00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:57.399 And one of the things 00:26:57.399 --> 00:26:58.720 which is sort of shocking 00:26:58.720 --> 00:27:00.599 about what Jesus is saying, 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:02.379 he's saying many things 00:27:02.379 --> 00:27:03.019 that are shocking, 00:27:03.639 --> 00:27:05.259 is that if we do tend 00:27:05.259 --> 00:27:07.039 to think that there are 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:07.960 things like devils, 00:27:08.039 --> 00:27:08.879 we sort of imagine 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:09.500 ourselves 00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:11.060 that there's 00:27:11.060 --> 00:27:12.820 God 00:27:12.820 --> 00:27:15.640 and there's sort of 00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:16.760 devils 00:27:16.760 --> 00:27:17.740 and where devils 00:27:17.740 --> 00:27:19.100 have lots of influence 00:27:19.100 --> 00:27:20.780 and we're sort of 00:27:20.780 --> 00:27:22.400 somewhere in between. 00:27:23.520 --> 00:27:25.500 And we can sort of 00:27:25.500 --> 00:27:26.580 be lured this way 00:27:26.580 --> 00:27:27.780 to where there's devils 00:27:27.780 --> 00:27:28.820 or we can be lured 00:27:28.820 --> 00:27:29.700 this way towards 00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:30.580 where there's God, 00:27:30.579 --> 00:27:33.039 but it's very powerful 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:34.000 for most of us 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:34.799 unless we've had 00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:36.179 a terrible experience 00:27:36.179 --> 00:27:38.399 with demonic oppression 00:27:38.399 --> 00:27:40.259 and possession. 00:27:40.500 --> 00:27:41.839 It's very common 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:42.519 for us to think 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:43.000 that somehow 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:43.740 we are in a bit 00:27:43.740 --> 00:27:44.639 of a neutral area 00:27:44.639 --> 00:27:45.659 between these two. 00:27:46.139 --> 00:27:46.980 But what the Bible 00:27:46.980 --> 00:27:47.559 is revealing 00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:48.839 is that that entire image 00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:49.460 is wrong. 00:27:51.399 --> 00:27:52.480 Every human being 00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:54.919 lives here. 00:27:54.920 --> 00:28:00.080 Every human being 00:28:00.080 --> 00:28:00.720 lives here. 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:03.740 And it's in fact 00:28:03.740 --> 00:28:04.759 out of here 00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:06.060 that Christ 00:28:06.060 --> 00:28:06.980 has redeemed us. 00:28:06.980 --> 00:28:08.759 It is out of here 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:10.100 that Christ 00:28:10.100 --> 00:28:10.860 has saved us. 00:28:10.980 --> 00:28:12.460 It is out of here 00:28:12.460 --> 00:28:14.180 that Jesus 00:28:14.180 --> 00:28:15.039 adopts us 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:15.900 as his child. 00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:17.320 It is out of here 00:28:17.320 --> 00:28:18.920 that we are, 00:28:19.100 --> 00:28:19.600 in the words 00:28:19.600 --> 00:28:20.940 of verse 31, 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:21.840 that we are to 00:28:21.839 --> 00:28:23.379 abide in his word 00:28:23.379 --> 00:28:24.859 and you are truly 00:28:24.859 --> 00:28:25.819 my disciples 00:28:25.819 --> 00:28:27.000 and you will know 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:27.679 the truth 00:28:27.679 --> 00:28:28.720 and the truth 00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:29.799 will set you free. 00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:31.299 We are to hear that 00:28:31.299 --> 00:28:32.399 while we're here. 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:35.480 Not in some neutral places 00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:36.480 if we're gods. 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:38.159 That's the original lie. 00:28:38.939 --> 00:28:39.899 I am a creature, 00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:41.839 not a god. 00:28:43.819 --> 00:28:44.699 In heaven, 00:28:44.980 --> 00:28:46.059 I will be a creature, 00:28:46.439 --> 00:28:47.579 not a god. 00:28:48.799 --> 00:28:49.319 Although, 00:28:50.019 --> 00:28:50.720 as C.S. Lewis 00:28:50.720 --> 00:28:52.059 so wonderfully put it, 00:28:52.640 --> 00:28:54.579 if a creature 00:28:54.579 --> 00:28:55.500 who is now 00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:56.160 in the new heaven 00:28:56.160 --> 00:28:57.019 and the new earth 00:28:57.019 --> 00:28:58.400 was to come 00:28:58.400 --> 00:28:59.640 to what is now 00:28:59.640 --> 00:29:00.319 the earth, 00:29:01.940 --> 00:29:02.759 the glory 00:29:02.759 --> 00:29:04.000 would be so deep 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:04.880 and so wonderful 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:07.039 that in fact 00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:07.740 we could hardly 00:29:07.740 --> 00:29:08.680 bear to look 00:29:08.680 --> 00:29:10.120 at such a creature 00:29:10.120 --> 00:29:11.079 and would be tempted 00:29:11.079 --> 00:29:12.480 to worship him or her. 00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:14.740 But we are not 00:29:14.740 --> 00:29:15.339 in the new heaven 00:29:15.339 --> 00:29:16.200 and the new earth yet. 00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:20.160 We are here. 00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:21.519 We dwell among 00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:21.920 a people 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:22.880 of unclean lips. 00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:24.160 I, Lord, 00:29:24.259 --> 00:29:24.620 as well 00:29:24.620 --> 00:29:25.140 have such 00:29:25.140 --> 00:29:25.960 unclean lips. 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:33.400 So, 00:29:33.600 --> 00:29:36.019 why be a Christian 00:29:36.019 --> 00:29:36.519 if we're all 00:29:36.519 --> 00:29:37.420 in the same boat? 00:29:39.059 --> 00:29:39.720 If the devil 00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:40.660 also whispers 00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:41.400 to us, 00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:42.140 well, 00:29:42.299 --> 00:29:42.880 Jesus is going 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:43.740 to talk about this. 00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:44.360 He's going to talk 00:29:44.360 --> 00:29:45.940 about the great deliverance 00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:46.799 that God has done 00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:47.200 and he's going 00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:47.960 to put everything 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:49.079 in a radically 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:50.059 different context. 00:29:50.180 --> 00:29:50.819 Look at what he does 00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:51.740 and how he begins 00:29:51.740 --> 00:29:52.519 to deal with this 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:53.480 in verse 45. 00:29:54.420 --> 00:29:55.340 I've just paused 00:29:55.340 --> 00:29:55.840 to make sure 00:29:55.840 --> 00:29:56.620 we heard this 00:29:56.620 --> 00:29:57.420 important teaching 00:29:57.420 --> 00:29:58.340 in verse 44, 00:29:58.500 --> 00:29:59.019 but listen to what 00:29:59.019 --> 00:29:59.319 happened. 00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:00.120 He keeps going. 00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:02.079 But because I tell 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:03.000 you the truth, 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:04.759 because I tell 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:05.500 the truth, 00:30:05.840 --> 00:30:06.740 you do not believe me. 00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:07.360 Isn't that interesting? 00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:07.980 Because I tell 00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:08.500 the truth, 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.579 you do not believe me. 00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:15.960 verse 46, 00:30:16.059 --> 00:30:16.539 which of you 00:30:16.539 --> 00:30:17.759 convicts me of sin? 00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:21.000 That's an astounding 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:21.659 statement. 00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:22.299 Listen, 00:30:22.379 --> 00:30:23.339 if I told you 00:30:23.339 --> 00:30:23.799 which of you 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:24.759 convict me of sin, 00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:25.899 my wife and kids 00:30:25.899 --> 00:30:27.079 would start to snicker 00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:28.619 and laugh. 00:30:29.439 --> 00:30:30.619 They know I'm a sinner. 00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:32.740 Either that 00:30:32.740 --> 00:30:33.259 or they'd start 00:30:33.259 --> 00:30:33.659 to worry 00:30:33.659 --> 00:30:34.460 that I had become 00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:35.659 completely and utterly 00:30:35.659 --> 00:30:36.539 deranged 00:30:36.539 --> 00:30:37.799 and unhinged 00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:39.940 to actually stand 00:30:39.940 --> 00:30:40.500 in front of you 00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:40.799 and say, 00:30:40.879 --> 00:30:41.659 who can convict me 00:30:41.659 --> 00:30:42.139 of a sin? 00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:44.480 And then the staff 00:30:44.480 --> 00:30:45.339 would start laughing 00:30:45.339 --> 00:30:46.279 and all of you would. 00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:47.019 Maybe those of you 00:30:47.019 --> 00:30:47.639 who have just met me 00:30:47.639 --> 00:30:47.779 think, 00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:47.919 oh, 00:30:47.919 --> 00:30:48.500 he hasn't sinned 00:30:48.500 --> 00:30:49.519 since I've met him, 00:30:49.599 --> 00:30:49.740 you know, 00:30:49.779 --> 00:30:50.960 but I'm a sinner. 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:53.339 And Jesus gets there 00:30:53.339 --> 00:30:54.180 and with a completely 00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:55.200 and utterly straight face 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:55.379 says, 00:30:55.460 --> 00:30:56.000 which one of you 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.159 can convict me of sin? 00:30:59.099 --> 00:30:59.259 Well, 00:30:59.299 --> 00:31:00.159 what an arrogant thing 00:31:00.159 --> 00:31:00.899 to say unless 00:31:00.899 --> 00:31:01.599 something else 00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:02.339 is going on. 00:31:02.659 --> 00:31:04.159 Look at verse 46 again. 00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:05.039 Which one of you 00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:05.980 convicts me of sin? 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:07.339 If I tell the truth, 00:31:07.339 --> 00:31:08.419 why do you not 00:31:08.419 --> 00:31:09.119 believe me? 00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:10.879 Whoever's of God 00:31:10.879 --> 00:31:12.099 hears the words of God. 00:31:12.179 --> 00:31:12.819 The reason why 00:31:12.819 --> 00:31:13.939 you do not hear them 00:31:13.939 --> 00:31:15.839 is that you're not of God. 00:31:16.959 --> 00:31:18.339 The Jews answered him, 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.459 are we not right 00:31:19.459 --> 00:31:20.039 in saying that you 00:31:20.039 --> 00:31:20.779 are Samaritan 00:31:20.779 --> 00:31:21.639 and have a demon? 00:31:22.599 --> 00:31:23.339 Verse 49, 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:24.079 Jesus answered, 00:31:24.179 --> 00:31:25.039 I do not have a demon, 00:31:25.179 --> 00:31:26.240 but I honor my father 00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:27.439 and you dishonor me. 00:31:28.139 --> 00:31:29.000 Yet I do not 00:31:29.000 --> 00:31:30.179 seek my own glory. 00:31:30.699 --> 00:31:31.279 There is one 00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:32.059 who seeks it 00:31:32.059 --> 00:31:33.059 and he is the judge. 00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:34.059 Truly, 00:31:34.339 --> 00:31:34.619 truly, 00:31:34.619 --> 00:31:35.759 I say to you, 00:31:35.879 --> 00:31:36.519 if anyone 00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.119 keeps my word, 00:31:39.099 --> 00:31:40.639 he will never 00:31:40.639 --> 00:31:42.759 see death. 00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:45.720 Now, 00:31:46.220 --> 00:31:46.660 Jesus, 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:47.920 you know, 00:31:47.940 --> 00:31:48.279 one of the things 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:49.299 which is very interesting 00:31:49.299 --> 00:31:49.839 here in this, 00:31:50.259 --> 00:31:50.799 if you read 00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:51.720 John chapter 8, 00:31:51.859 --> 00:31:52.579 verse 12, 00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:53.279 right to the end 00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:53.839 of chapter 8, 00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:54.839 12 times 00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:55.680 Jesus is 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:57.220 rebutted. 00:31:57.980 --> 00:31:58.759 12 times. 00:31:59.299 --> 00:32:00.339 This isn't him 00:32:00.339 --> 00:32:01.039 with a group 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:02.279 of his groupies 00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:03.400 who hang on 00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:04.180 as every word. 00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:05.480 This is Jesus 00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:06.340 talking in the midst 00:32:06.340 --> 00:32:06.840 of conflict. 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:07.780 12 times 00:32:07.780 --> 00:32:08.440 people either 00:32:08.440 --> 00:32:09.440 push back at him, 00:32:09.560 --> 00:32:10.240 tell him he's wrong, 00:32:10.380 --> 00:32:11.180 tell him he's a Samaritan, 00:32:11.300 --> 00:32:12.400 tell him he's demon-possessed. 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:13.460 12 times. 00:32:13.820 --> 00:32:14.600 And this is part of it. 00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:16.400 These are hard-headed 00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:17.580 Canadians, 00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:19.200 in a sense, 00:32:20.160 --> 00:32:20.600 who aren't going 00:32:20.600 --> 00:32:21.320 to take guff 00:32:21.320 --> 00:32:22.700 from somebody. 00:32:24.080 --> 00:32:24.720 And so, 00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:26.000 verse 52, 00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:26.980 the Jews said to him, 00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:27.579 now we know 00:32:27.579 --> 00:32:28.480 that you have a demon. 00:32:29.140 --> 00:32:30.079 Abraham died 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:31.420 as did the prophets. 00:32:32.220 --> 00:32:32.819 Yet you say, 00:32:32.900 --> 00:32:34.099 if anyone keeps my word, 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:35.420 he will never taste death. 00:32:36.220 --> 00:32:36.859 Are you greater 00:32:36.859 --> 00:32:37.960 than our father Abraham 00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:38.720 who died 00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:40.500 and the prophets died? 00:32:41.079 --> 00:32:41.900 Who do you make yourself 00:32:41.900 --> 00:32:42.539 out to be? 00:32:43.099 --> 00:32:43.579 I'm just sort of 00:32:43.579 --> 00:32:44.400 pause there for a second. 00:32:44.460 --> 00:32:45.519 What Jesus is claiming? 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:46.880 He is claiming 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:47.559 that he is greater 00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:48.140 than death. 00:32:51.220 --> 00:32:52.140 And they got it. 00:32:52.339 --> 00:32:52.960 He is claiming 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:53.720 that he is greater 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.319 than death. 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:57.279 And the claim 00:32:57.279 --> 00:32:57.819 that he is greater 00:32:57.819 --> 00:32:58.279 than death 00:32:58.279 --> 00:32:59.140 means that he is also 00:32:59.140 --> 00:33:00.220 greater than sin 00:33:00.220 --> 00:33:01.440 which causes death. 00:33:02.920 --> 00:33:04.480 It's an unbelievably 00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:06.799 powerful claim. 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:08.680 And you also notice 00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:09.740 that they actually 00:33:09.740 --> 00:33:11.160 changed Jesus' words. 00:33:11.299 --> 00:33:11.900 He never says 00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:13.059 that he won't taste death. 00:33:13.900 --> 00:33:15.259 He says that the people 00:33:15.259 --> 00:33:16.400 will never see death. 00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:17.400 Although, 00:33:17.619 --> 00:33:18.200 as we are going to see 00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:18.559 in a moment, 00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:19.559 we are going to loop back 00:33:19.559 --> 00:33:20.680 around this in a couple of minutes. 00:33:20.779 --> 00:33:21.440 It's actually almost 00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:22.480 like a prophetic thing. 00:33:22.579 --> 00:33:23.160 They have caught up 00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:24.299 a sense of Jesus 00:33:24.299 --> 00:33:25.579 which they deny. 00:33:25.579 --> 00:33:26.179 But in fact, 00:33:26.259 --> 00:33:27.559 Jesus will taste death. 00:33:28.679 --> 00:33:29.519 He will taste 00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:31.279 my death for me 00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:33.899 so that death 00:33:33.899 --> 00:33:35.199 no longer has a hold 00:33:35.199 --> 00:33:35.899 on me. 00:33:36.899 --> 00:33:37.720 And he does that 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:38.579 for you too, friend. 00:33:41.179 --> 00:33:42.379 So continue reading. 00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:43.139 It's going to get 00:33:43.139 --> 00:33:44.159 even more remarkable. 00:33:44.379 --> 00:33:44.480 Like, 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:44.960 how on earth 00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:45.759 could anybody say 00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:46.359 that they're greater 00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:47.039 than death? 00:33:47.539 --> 00:33:48.359 Verse 54, 00:33:48.359 --> 00:33:49.839 Jesus answered, 00:33:49.919 --> 00:33:51.099 if I glorify myself, 00:33:51.199 --> 00:33:52.159 my glory is nothing. 00:33:52.259 --> 00:33:53.079 It is my Father 00:33:53.079 --> 00:33:54.099 who glorifies me 00:33:54.099 --> 00:33:54.839 of whom you say 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:56.059 he is our God. 00:33:56.679 --> 00:33:57.539 But you have not 00:33:57.539 --> 00:33:58.079 known him. 00:33:58.179 --> 00:33:58.819 I know him. 00:33:58.859 --> 00:33:59.599 And if I were to say 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:00.579 that I do not know him, 00:34:00.619 --> 00:34:01.899 I would be a liar like you. 00:34:01.979 --> 00:34:02.919 But I do know him 00:34:02.919 --> 00:34:03.859 and I keep his word. 00:34:04.419 --> 00:34:05.539 Your father Abraham 00:34:05.539 --> 00:34:06.779 rejoiced that he would 00:34:06.779 --> 00:34:07.519 see my day. 00:34:07.619 --> 00:34:09.000 He saw it and was glad. 00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:11.099 So the Jews said to him, 00:34:11.259 --> 00:34:12.159 you are not yet 00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:13.539 50 years old. 00:34:13.539 --> 00:34:15.259 And you, 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:16.880 have you seen Abraham? 00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:18.500 Jesus said to them, 00:34:18.639 --> 00:34:19.300 truly, truly, 00:34:19.380 --> 00:34:20.179 I say to you, 00:34:20.739 --> 00:34:22.139 before Abraham was, 00:34:22.980 --> 00:34:23.480 I am. 00:34:25.340 --> 00:34:26.340 He pronounces 00:34:26.340 --> 00:34:27.159 the divine name. 00:34:27.259 --> 00:34:28.139 He says he's God. 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:31.980 For the Jewish people, 00:34:32.179 --> 00:34:33.119 it's to say, 00:34:33.320 --> 00:34:34.699 to use the divine name, 00:34:35.340 --> 00:34:36.320 to use the divine, 00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:36.739 you know, 00:34:37.059 --> 00:34:37.480 it's actually, 00:34:37.579 --> 00:34:38.820 this is true. 00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:39.219 They, 00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:40.400 in all the way 00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:40.880 through the, 00:34:41.119 --> 00:34:41.619 most like, 00:34:41.659 --> 00:34:42.079 I think in the 00:34:42.079 --> 00:34:43.139 English Standard Version, 00:34:43.139 --> 00:34:43.839 if you see in the 00:34:43.839 --> 00:34:44.379 Old Testament, 00:34:44.539 --> 00:34:45.259 the word for God, 00:34:45.379 --> 00:34:45.639 Lord, 00:34:45.779 --> 00:34:46.460 and if it's four 00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:47.379 capital letters, 00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:47.920 it's the, 00:34:48.519 --> 00:34:50.739 it's four Hebrew letters. 00:34:51.279 --> 00:34:53.400 And because the Jewish 00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:54.339 people thought that 00:34:54.339 --> 00:34:55.559 the actual name of God 00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:56.460 was so holy, 00:34:56.599 --> 00:34:57.339 they thought that it 00:34:57.339 --> 00:34:58.279 was wrong to even 00:34:58.279 --> 00:34:58.980 say it. 00:35:00.059 --> 00:35:01.219 And it's actually now, 00:35:01.420 --> 00:35:01.440 they, 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:01.920 no longer, 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:03.440 people no longer know, 00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:04.259 because they took out, 00:35:04.379 --> 00:35:05.219 there's no vowels, 00:35:05.359 --> 00:35:06.279 they no longer know 00:35:06.279 --> 00:35:07.119 how to say it. 00:35:07.739 --> 00:35:08.319 They don't know 00:35:08.319 --> 00:35:08.980 how it was pronounced. 00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:12.259 And in common language, 00:35:12.260 --> 00:35:13.220 back then, 00:35:13.220 --> 00:35:13.980 when they were coming 00:35:13.980 --> 00:35:15.100 to the word Lord, 00:35:15.580 --> 00:35:16.820 they would use another 00:35:16.820 --> 00:35:17.540 word instead, 00:35:17.740 --> 00:35:18.440 so they wouldn't say 00:35:18.440 --> 00:35:19.140 the divine name. 00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:20.200 It is literally a word 00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:20.880 that they no longer 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:21.920 know how it was 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:23.060 originally pronounced. 00:35:24.040 --> 00:35:25.460 And Jesus not only 00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:26.380 says the word, 00:35:26.460 --> 00:35:27.200 but he says that 00:35:27.200 --> 00:35:28.160 that's who he is, 00:35:28.720 --> 00:35:29.560 that he's God. 00:35:29.820 --> 00:35:31.100 And they recognize it 00:35:31.100 --> 00:35:31.940 because look what happened. 00:35:32.040 --> 00:35:33.060 So they picked up stones 00:35:33.060 --> 00:35:33.780 to throw at him, 00:35:33.860 --> 00:35:34.980 but Jesus hid himself 00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:36.000 and went out of the temple. 00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:38.320 Now, 00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:41.360 where are we with this? 00:35:41.380 --> 00:35:42.059 Let's wrap it up. 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:42.699 If you could put up 00:35:42.699 --> 00:35:43.280 the next point, 00:35:43.380 --> 00:35:43.579 Andrew, 00:35:43.619 --> 00:35:44.219 that would be very, 00:35:44.340 --> 00:35:44.860 very helpful. 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:46.840 The first thing for us 00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:47.280 to remember, 00:35:47.380 --> 00:35:48.139 having said all this, 00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:49.360 is that Jesus is 00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:51.699 infinitely greater 00:35:51.699 --> 00:35:52.400 than the devil. 00:35:52.920 --> 00:35:54.260 And I mean infinitely 00:35:54.260 --> 00:35:55.719 in the literal sense. 00:35:56.739 --> 00:35:57.880 The devil is a creature. 00:35:59.619 --> 00:36:00.619 Jesus is God. 00:36:00.619 --> 00:36:05.719 God is an infinite being, 00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:07.519 the only infinite being 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:08.940 that exists. 00:36:09.980 --> 00:36:11.460 Everything else is finite. 00:36:13.059 --> 00:36:15.099 So this talk 00:36:15.099 --> 00:36:15.940 that's so common 00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:16.500 in our culture 00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:17.960 as if there's yin and yang 00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:19.319 and light and darkness 00:36:19.319 --> 00:36:22.819 and opposing spiritual forces, 00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:24.299 there are opposing forces, 00:36:24.539 --> 00:36:24.900 obviously, 00:36:25.059 --> 00:36:26.380 but they're not equal. 00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:28.440 They're not at all the same. 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:31.440 Jesus is infinitely greater 00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:32.460 than the devil. 00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:36.480 Infinitely greater 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:37.639 than the devil. 00:36:38.900 --> 00:36:41.059 And that gives us great hope. 00:36:41.139 --> 00:36:41.720 If you could put up 00:36:41.720 --> 00:36:42.440 the next slide, 00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:43.440 Andrew, 00:36:43.500 --> 00:36:44.360 that would be great. 00:36:44.880 --> 00:36:46.619 Because he is God, 00:36:46.960 --> 00:36:47.900 by grace, 00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:49.980 Jesus tasted death 00:36:49.980 --> 00:36:50.840 for everyone 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.720 to save everyone 00:36:53.720 --> 00:36:55.099 who trusts in him. 00:36:56.179 --> 00:36:57.679 That's from the book 00:36:57.679 --> 00:36:58.300 of Hebrews. 00:36:58.440 --> 00:36:59.039 In other parts 00:36:59.039 --> 00:36:59.860 in the New Testament 00:36:59.860 --> 00:37:01.039 is that 00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:03.139 because he is God, 00:37:03.240 --> 00:37:03.700 by grace, 00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:05.500 when Jesus tasted death, 00:37:05.800 --> 00:37:07.159 when he tasted death, 00:37:07.400 --> 00:37:08.720 he can taste death 00:37:08.720 --> 00:37:09.920 for everyone. 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.000 He dies my death for me. 00:37:13.059 --> 00:37:14.340 We talked about it last week. 00:37:14.500 --> 00:37:14.760 Is that 00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:17.019 when you put your faith 00:37:17.019 --> 00:37:17.980 and trust in Jesus, 00:37:18.300 --> 00:37:19.460 then your sin 00:37:19.460 --> 00:37:21.240 dies before you 00:37:21.240 --> 00:37:22.519 because it dies 00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:23.920 on him. 00:37:25.280 --> 00:37:26.300 But when you don't put 00:37:26.300 --> 00:37:27.059 your faith and trust 00:37:27.059 --> 00:37:27.500 in Jesus, 00:37:27.500 --> 00:37:29.239 you die in your own sin. 00:37:30.900 --> 00:37:31.519 That's why he's 00:37:31.519 --> 00:37:32.639 such a wonderful savior. 00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:35.400 He tasted death 00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:36.279 for everyone 00:37:36.279 --> 00:37:40.039 because in grace 00:37:40.039 --> 00:37:40.599 and mercy, 00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:42.079 he wants to save 00:37:42.079 --> 00:37:44.360 all who put their faith 00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:45.139 and trust in him. 00:37:45.219 --> 00:37:46.380 He wants to save you, 00:37:46.940 --> 00:37:47.699 brother and sister. 00:37:48.599 --> 00:37:50.079 He wants to save you. 00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:52.880 And if you could put up 00:37:52.880 --> 00:37:53.539 the next point, 00:37:53.619 --> 00:37:54.599 that would be very great. 00:37:56.259 --> 00:37:57.159 Only Jesus 00:37:57.159 --> 00:37:58.179 can silence 00:37:58.179 --> 00:37:59.099 the hissing 00:37:59.099 --> 00:38:00.559 lies of the serpent 00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:02.239 so that you 00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:02.940 can truly 00:38:02.940 --> 00:38:04.000 listen to God 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:05.179 and freely think. 00:38:07.380 --> 00:38:07.819 Remember, 00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:08.940 this all goes back 00:38:08.940 --> 00:38:10.139 in the Enlightenment 00:38:10.139 --> 00:38:10.699 project, 00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:12.179 which now we Canadians 00:38:12.179 --> 00:38:13.099 are an heir of. 00:38:13.099 --> 00:38:14.079 we know the truth 00:38:14.079 --> 00:38:14.539 and the truth 00:38:14.539 --> 00:38:15.259 will set us free. 00:38:15.420 --> 00:38:16.579 And now turn into 00:38:16.579 --> 00:38:17.699 you will know 00:38:17.699 --> 00:38:18.380 your feelings 00:38:18.380 --> 00:38:19.059 and your feelings 00:38:19.059 --> 00:38:19.860 will set you free. 00:38:19.940 --> 00:38:20.980 But what did Jesus say? 00:38:21.299 --> 00:38:22.199 If you abide 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:23.079 in my word, 00:38:23.639 --> 00:38:24.259 you are truly 00:38:24.259 --> 00:38:25.119 my disciples 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:26.440 and you will know 00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:27.000 the truth 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:27.900 and the truth 00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:28.739 will set you free. 00:38:29.299 --> 00:38:30.299 Only Jesus 00:38:30.299 --> 00:38:32.000 can silence 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:33.440 the hissing 00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:34.339 lies 00:38:34.339 --> 00:38:35.339 of the serpent 00:38:35.339 --> 00:38:37.019 so that you 00:38:37.019 --> 00:38:37.739 can truly 00:38:37.739 --> 00:38:39.299 listen to God 00:38:39.299 --> 00:38:40.719 and freely 00:38:40.719 --> 00:38:41.739 think. 00:38:41.739 --> 00:38:43.059 You see, 00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:45.139 that's one of the things 00:38:45.139 --> 00:38:46.039 which is common 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:47.079 to every human being. 00:38:47.859 --> 00:38:48.679 Are you rich 00:38:48.679 --> 00:38:50.379 or are you poor? 00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:51.359 For both, 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:53.059 there are the hissing 00:38:53.059 --> 00:38:53.979 lies of the serpent 00:38:53.979 --> 00:38:54.759 in your ears. 00:38:55.219 --> 00:38:56.359 Are you Chinese? 00:38:57.159 --> 00:38:58.379 Are you Rwandan? 00:38:59.399 --> 00:39:00.539 Are you from 00:39:00.539 --> 00:39:01.359 Mississippi? 00:39:03.299 --> 00:39:04.539 Are you from Peru? 00:39:05.319 --> 00:39:05.839 Doesn't matter 00:39:05.839 --> 00:39:06.500 where you're from. 00:39:06.859 --> 00:39:07.779 The hissing lies 00:39:07.779 --> 00:39:08.399 of the serpent 00:39:08.399 --> 00:39:10.559 is in your ears. 00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:11.840 Do you have 00:39:11.840 --> 00:39:12.759 a very high IQ 00:39:12.759 --> 00:39:13.920 or a low IQ? 00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:15.659 Are you really 00:39:15.659 --> 00:39:16.259 good looking 00:39:16.259 --> 00:39:17.219 or are you not 00:39:17.219 --> 00:39:18.019 very good looking? 00:39:18.659 --> 00:39:19.659 Are you very athletic 00:39:19.659 --> 00:39:20.659 or not very athletic? 00:39:20.799 --> 00:39:21.279 Are you a male 00:39:21.279 --> 00:39:21.840 or a female? 00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:24.679 We're all united 00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:26.039 in the hissing 00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:27.079 lies of the serpents 00:39:27.079 --> 00:39:27.799 in our ears. 00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:30.380 And only Jesus 00:39:30.380 --> 00:39:31.920 can begin 00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:32.659 to silence 00:39:32.659 --> 00:39:33.539 the hissing 00:39:33.539 --> 00:39:34.119 lies 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:34.960 of the serpent 00:39:34.960 --> 00:39:35.860 in our ears. 00:39:37.579 --> 00:39:38.360 And you know what? 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:39.079 You can't think 00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:39.799 without listening. 00:39:39.940 --> 00:39:40.639 That's one of the things 00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:41.940 which is so profound 00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:44.440 in what Jesus says. 00:39:44.539 --> 00:39:45.199 It's like modern 00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:46.000 psychologists, 00:39:46.860 --> 00:39:47.759 if you read books 00:39:47.759 --> 00:39:48.480 like that, 00:39:48.539 --> 00:39:48.860 I can't remember 00:39:48.860 --> 00:39:49.139 the name of that, 00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:49.739 psychologists, 00:39:49.980 --> 00:39:50.940 anyway, 00:39:51.099 --> 00:39:52.000 but thinking fast 00:39:52.000 --> 00:39:52.559 and slow 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:53.460 or something like that 00:39:53.460 --> 00:39:53.639 is, 00:39:54.019 --> 00:39:54.880 it's increasingly 00:39:54.880 --> 00:39:56.239 understood by psychologists. 00:39:56.699 --> 00:39:57.360 Just what Jesus 00:39:57.360 --> 00:39:58.139 says right here 00:39:58.139 --> 00:39:58.759 is that thinking 00:39:58.759 --> 00:39:59.239 is connected 00:39:59.239 --> 00:39:59.920 to listening. 00:40:02.759 --> 00:40:03.380 What is it 00:40:03.380 --> 00:40:04.019 Jesus says? 00:40:04.019 --> 00:40:05.219 if you abide 00:40:05.219 --> 00:40:06.099 in my word, 00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:07.280 if you listen, 00:40:07.380 --> 00:40:07.900 in other words, 00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:08.579 to my word, 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:09.719 and you not only listen 00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:10.440 but you bring it 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:11.019 into you 00:40:11.019 --> 00:40:11.820 and you continue 00:40:11.820 --> 00:40:13.119 listening to my word, 00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:14.460 you are truly 00:40:14.460 --> 00:40:15.619 my disciples 00:40:15.619 --> 00:40:17.340 and you will know 00:40:17.340 --> 00:40:18.000 the truth 00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:19.420 and the truth 00:40:19.420 --> 00:40:20.440 will set you free. 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:24.199 And if you could 00:40:24.199 --> 00:40:25.179 put up the final point, 00:40:25.280 --> 00:40:25.500 Andrew, 00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:26.340 that would be great. 00:40:27.659 --> 00:40:28.880 Continue in the gospel 00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:30.019 and God's word written. 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.739 Abide in it 00:40:32.739 --> 00:40:34.519 in your day-to-day life. 00:40:36.879 --> 00:40:37.719 And Christians 00:40:37.719 --> 00:40:39.059 aren't just lone rangers, 00:40:39.279 --> 00:40:40.219 we're also to be part 00:40:40.219 --> 00:40:41.159 of a local church. 00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:41.819 So I added 00:40:41.819 --> 00:40:42.979 that pray and plan 00:40:42.979 --> 00:40:43.839 that your church, 00:40:43.959 --> 00:40:44.759 that our church, 00:40:45.519 --> 00:40:46.939 continues in the gospel 00:40:46.939 --> 00:40:48.000 and God's word written, 00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:49.359 abiding in it 00:40:49.359 --> 00:40:50.939 in all that it does. 00:40:52.939 --> 00:40:53.859 So I'd mention 00:40:53.859 --> 00:40:54.559 apartheid 00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:55.759 and racism. 00:40:56.979 --> 00:40:57.379 See, 00:40:57.439 --> 00:40:57.839 one of the things 00:40:57.839 --> 00:40:58.719 which is so important 00:40:58.719 --> 00:40:59.279 about this 00:40:59.279 --> 00:40:59.899 is the Bible 00:40:59.899 --> 00:41:00.679 doesn't say 00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:01.639 that the second 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:02.539 you become a Christian, 00:41:02.739 --> 00:41:03.599 that the devil 00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:04.799 stops hissing 00:41:04.799 --> 00:41:05.519 in your ears. 00:41:09.399 --> 00:41:11.039 And we Christians 00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:13.359 share in the human problem. 00:41:13.979 --> 00:41:15.019 The difference is 00:41:15.019 --> 00:41:15.839 that we have 00:41:15.839 --> 00:41:16.559 a mighty Savior. 00:41:18.239 --> 00:41:19.699 We have a mighty Savior. 00:41:20.699 --> 00:41:22.139 And this mighty Savior 00:41:22.139 --> 00:41:23.959 is God, 00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:24.899 the Son of God, 00:41:25.219 --> 00:41:26.299 who is true, 00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:28.779 who is only truth, 00:41:29.500 --> 00:41:30.859 who only speaks truth 00:41:30.860 --> 00:41:31.760 and wants us to live 00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:32.800 and abide in truth. 00:41:33.380 --> 00:41:34.099 And Jesus came 00:41:34.099 --> 00:41:34.880 to save us 00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:35.559 from the lie 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:36.220 and save us 00:41:36.220 --> 00:41:37.059 from lies. 00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:39.660 And as we abide 00:41:39.660 --> 00:41:40.240 in his word, 00:41:40.420 --> 00:41:41.500 humbly coming to him 00:41:41.500 --> 00:41:41.820 and saying, 00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:42.160 Jesus, 00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:42.880 you are God, 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:43.519 I am not. 00:41:43.640 --> 00:41:44.320 You are infinite, 00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:45.079 I am not. 00:41:45.620 --> 00:41:46.500 You are perfect, 00:41:46.660 --> 00:41:47.500 I am fallen, 00:41:47.720 --> 00:41:48.440 I am broken. 00:41:48.860 --> 00:41:49.559 You do not need 00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:49.940 a Savior, 00:41:50.120 --> 00:41:50.980 I need a Savior. 00:41:51.200 --> 00:41:52.460 As we come to him 00:41:52.460 --> 00:41:52.940 humbly 00:41:52.940 --> 00:41:53.500 and abiding 00:41:53.500 --> 00:41:54.220 in his word, 00:41:54.340 --> 00:41:55.640 there is the possibility 00:41:55.640 --> 00:41:57.300 that the hissing lies 00:41:57.300 --> 00:41:58.120 of the serpents 00:41:58.120 --> 00:41:58.940 are silence 00:41:58.940 --> 00:41:59.880 and we can start 00:41:59.880 --> 00:42:00.840 to actually listen 00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:01.320 to God 00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:02.560 and know the truth 00:42:02.560 --> 00:42:03.560 about human beings 00:42:03.560 --> 00:42:04.860 and know the truth 00:42:04.860 --> 00:42:05.680 about ourselves. 00:42:06.360 --> 00:42:07.320 And this isn't just 00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:08.600 sort of an irrelevant thing 00:42:08.600 --> 00:42:09.560 because as we begin 00:42:09.560 --> 00:42:10.320 to hear the truth 00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:10.820 from God, 00:42:10.900 --> 00:42:11.720 it becomes easier 00:42:11.720 --> 00:42:12.060 and easier 00:42:12.060 --> 00:42:12.740 to hear the truth 00:42:12.740 --> 00:42:13.660 in other places, 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:14.820 to hear the truth 00:42:14.820 --> 00:42:15.400 in the world 00:42:15.400 --> 00:42:15.880 and the truth 00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:16.500 in science 00:42:16.500 --> 00:42:17.600 and the truth 00:42:17.600 --> 00:42:18.240 in terms of how 00:42:18.240 --> 00:42:19.220 human beings move 00:42:19.220 --> 00:42:20.200 and work and act. 00:42:20.600 --> 00:42:21.539 It's something 00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:22.760 which is far-reaching. 00:42:22.940 --> 00:42:23.940 It's not just purely 00:42:23.940 --> 00:42:25.860 and merely spiritual truth, 00:42:25.860 --> 00:42:27.059 but truth. 00:42:27.500 --> 00:42:27.820 Jesus, 00:42:28.280 --> 00:42:28.740 the Father, 00:42:28.860 --> 00:42:29.559 wants us to know 00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:30.539 truth in general 00:42:30.539 --> 00:42:31.340 and what happens 00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:32.000 in apartheid 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:33.360 is we listen to lies. 00:42:33.579 --> 00:42:34.800 What happens in racism, 00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:36.220 we listen to lies. 00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:37.860 And here's the thing. 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:39.220 You know, 00:42:39.320 --> 00:42:40.360 I would say, 00:42:40.700 --> 00:42:42.380 I might lose you with this, 00:42:42.460 --> 00:42:43.539 but I say that the problem 00:42:43.539 --> 00:42:44.480 with the Koran 00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:45.920 is it needs to be corrected. 00:42:46.140 --> 00:42:47.300 I would say that the problem 00:42:47.300 --> 00:42:48.120 with Hinduism 00:42:48.120 --> 00:42:49.700 is it needs to be corrected 00:42:49.700 --> 00:42:50.320 from outside. 00:42:50.500 --> 00:42:51.480 I would say that the problem 00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:52.000 with Buddhism 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:53.640 is it needs to be corrected 00:42:53.640 --> 00:42:54.420 from outside. 00:42:54.700 --> 00:42:55.539 But I would say 00:42:55.539 --> 00:42:56.480 when it comes to things 00:42:56.480 --> 00:42:57.099 like racism, 00:42:57.360 --> 00:42:58.779 anyone who has listened 00:42:58.779 --> 00:42:59.380 to the fact 00:42:59.380 --> 00:43:00.460 that Jesus dies 00:43:00.460 --> 00:43:01.579 for every person 00:43:01.579 --> 00:43:02.880 and that every person 00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:04.380 is made in the image of God 00:43:04.380 --> 00:43:06.119 should never be a racist. 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:09.420 It is completely 00:43:09.420 --> 00:43:11.259 and utterly rebuked. 00:43:11.500 --> 00:43:12.840 And not only is it rebuked 00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:13.440 in the Word, 00:43:13.539 --> 00:43:14.340 it is rebuked 00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:15.559 by His shed blood. 00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:18.119 He died for that. 00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:19.239 Crap. 00:43:23.239 --> 00:43:23.679 Crap. 00:43:25.539 --> 00:43:26.539 And I know that there are 00:43:26.539 --> 00:43:27.179 some of you here 00:43:27.179 --> 00:43:28.000 who have been complicit 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:28.599 in abortion, 00:43:28.759 --> 00:43:29.639 and I don't say this 00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:30.679 to make you feel guilty. 00:43:30.820 --> 00:43:31.960 Everything in God's Word, 00:43:32.340 --> 00:43:33.559 if it confronts us of sin, 00:43:33.619 --> 00:43:34.500 it's because God wants 00:43:34.500 --> 00:43:35.980 to connect to you 00:43:35.980 --> 00:43:36.659 and to me 00:43:36.659 --> 00:43:37.440 that we would come 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:38.440 to Him for healing. 00:43:38.559 --> 00:43:40.000 But we live in a culture 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:41.139 filled with lies. 00:43:41.539 --> 00:43:42.559 There are many churches 00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:43.840 that the denomination 00:43:43.840 --> 00:43:44.719 that we left 00:43:44.719 --> 00:43:46.340 was very, very weak 00:43:46.340 --> 00:43:47.380 on things like abortion, 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:48.500 very, very weak 00:43:48.500 --> 00:43:49.440 on euthanasia, 00:43:49.500 --> 00:43:50.559 and those are lies. 00:43:50.679 --> 00:43:51.539 You cannot kill 00:43:51.539 --> 00:43:52.619 innocent human life. 00:43:52.619 --> 00:43:53.940 And science, 00:43:54.019 --> 00:43:55.199 it's not a religious doctrine. 00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:56.480 Science teaches us 00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:57.179 that human life 00:43:57.179 --> 00:43:58.199 begins at conception. 00:43:58.380 --> 00:44:00.599 That's a scientific fact. 00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:03.139 And the fact that 00:44:03.139 --> 00:44:04.159 Christians are pro-life 00:44:04.159 --> 00:44:04.900 isn't because 00:44:04.900 --> 00:44:05.839 we deny science. 00:44:05.940 --> 00:44:07.219 We just believe the science 00:44:07.219 --> 00:44:07.920 and know you can't 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:09.099 take innocent human life. 00:44:09.900 --> 00:44:10.940 And no church 00:44:10.940 --> 00:44:11.819 should be complicit 00:44:11.819 --> 00:44:13.119 in the culture of death. 00:44:13.699 --> 00:44:14.559 And we don't need 00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:16.000 outside advice or wisdom. 00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:16.940 We just need to open 00:44:16.940 --> 00:44:17.539 the Scriptures. 00:44:17.759 --> 00:44:19.019 We need to become 00:44:19.019 --> 00:44:20.019 more deeply and fully 00:44:20.019 --> 00:44:21.460 disciples of Jesus Christ. 00:44:21.460 --> 00:44:25.179 the care for the poor 00:44:25.179 --> 00:44:26.220 all the way 00:44:26.220 --> 00:44:27.119 through the Bible. 00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:30.500 The deconstructing 00:44:30.500 --> 00:44:31.340 of the claims 00:44:31.340 --> 00:44:32.159 of the powerful 00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:32.940 all the way 00:44:32.940 --> 00:44:33.599 through the Bible. 00:44:33.740 --> 00:44:34.440 We do not need 00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:35.320 to read Derrida 00:44:35.320 --> 00:44:37.360 or Mark's. 00:44:38.240 --> 00:44:39.099 We need to be 00:44:39.099 --> 00:44:40.119 disciples of Jesus. 00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:43.840 So just in closing, 00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:49.039 continue in the gospel 00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:50.119 and God's word written. 00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:51.219 Abide in it 00:44:51.219 --> 00:44:52.239 in your day-to-day life 00:44:52.239 --> 00:44:53.339 and pray and plan 00:44:53.339 --> 00:44:54.380 that we as a church 00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:55.179 and if you're a visitor 00:44:55.179 --> 00:44:56.139 here from another church 00:44:56.139 --> 00:44:56.839 that your church 00:44:56.839 --> 00:44:58.339 will continue in the gospel 00:44:58.339 --> 00:45:00.119 and God's word written 00:45:00.119 --> 00:45:01.079 abiding in it 00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:03.139 in all that it does. 00:45:03.940 --> 00:45:04.500 And friends, 00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:05.380 if you are here 00:45:05.380 --> 00:45:06.139 and you have not yet 00:45:06.139 --> 00:45:07.339 given your life to Jesus, 00:45:08.420 --> 00:45:09.359 please consider 00:45:09.359 --> 00:45:10.079 to do it today. 00:45:10.179 --> 00:45:11.159 There's no better time 00:45:11.159 --> 00:45:11.859 than right now. 00:45:12.059 --> 00:45:12.759 It won't be better 00:45:12.759 --> 00:45:14.000 tomorrow or next week. 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:16.239 I just really invite 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:17.099 and encourage you 00:45:17.099 --> 00:45:18.340 to just to say 00:45:18.340 --> 00:45:19.239 something like this 00:45:19.239 --> 00:45:19.780 right now, 00:45:19.860 --> 00:45:20.500 maybe even just 00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:21.239 as I'm saying it, 00:45:21.260 --> 00:45:22.019 just to say amen 00:45:22.019 --> 00:45:22.739 to everyone. 00:45:24.619 --> 00:45:25.059 Father, 00:45:25.179 --> 00:45:26.320 I've believed the lie 00:45:26.320 --> 00:45:27.860 and I believe lies. 00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:30.760 And I am powerless 00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:31.900 to save myself. 00:45:33.579 --> 00:45:34.019 Jesus, 00:45:34.260 --> 00:45:34.679 thank you 00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:35.400 that you came 00:45:35.400 --> 00:45:36.360 to save me 00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:38.199 if I put my trust 00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:38.539 in you. 00:45:38.539 --> 00:45:41.300 I give myself 00:45:41.300 --> 00:45:41.800 to you. 00:45:42.659 --> 00:45:43.659 Be my Savior 00:45:43.659 --> 00:45:44.579 and my Lord. 00:45:48.059 --> 00:45:48.920 Come and live 00:45:48.920 --> 00:45:49.759 within me forever. 00:45:50.719 --> 00:45:51.639 I encourage you 00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:52.820 to say that prayer today. 00:45:53.739 --> 00:45:54.599 Please stand. 00:46:03.539 --> 00:46:03.980 Father, 00:46:04.099 --> 00:46:05.219 we thank you 00:46:05.219 --> 00:46:06.300 that you are 00:46:06.300 --> 00:46:07.400 infinitely greater 00:46:07.400 --> 00:46:07.980 than the devil. 00:46:08.179 --> 00:46:08.420 Father, 00:46:08.539 --> 00:46:10.000 the devil can tempt us 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:10.639 but he can't 00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:11.519 make anything. 00:46:12.360 --> 00:46:13.800 He can break things, 00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:14.139 Father, 00:46:14.239 --> 00:46:15.000 but he can't 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:15.820 make anything. 00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:16.219 Father, 00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:17.519 we thank and praise you 00:46:17.519 --> 00:46:19.039 that you give us 00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:19.840 eternal life 00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:21.159 when we put our faith 00:46:21.159 --> 00:46:21.820 and trust in you. 00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:22.519 That you 00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:24.039 have the power, 00:46:24.159 --> 00:46:25.159 the right power 00:46:25.159 --> 00:46:26.039 for salvation 00:46:26.039 --> 00:46:27.019 for all who put 00:46:27.019 --> 00:46:27.900 their faith and trust 00:46:27.900 --> 00:46:28.219 in you. 00:46:28.539 --> 00:46:28.719 That, 00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:28.960 Father, 00:46:29.099 --> 00:46:30.179 you have the ability 00:46:30.179 --> 00:46:31.159 to adopt us 00:46:31.159 --> 00:46:31.860 as your sons 00:46:31.860 --> 00:46:32.519 and daughters. 00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:34.159 You have the ability 00:46:34.159 --> 00:46:35.039 to grip us 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:35.699 so that we will 00:46:35.699 --> 00:46:36.779 never be let go 00:46:36.779 --> 00:46:37.619 and that you will 00:46:37.619 --> 00:46:38.039 bring us 00:46:38.039 --> 00:46:38.679 to the new heaven 00:46:38.679 --> 00:46:39.300 and the new earth. 00:46:39.739 --> 00:46:40.840 You have the power 00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:41.579 to silence 00:46:41.579 --> 00:46:42.179 the hissing 00:46:42.179 --> 00:46:42.820 of the serpent 00:46:42.820 --> 00:46:43.639 that we might 00:46:43.639 --> 00:46:44.440 begin to listen 00:46:44.440 --> 00:46:44.820 to you 00:46:44.820 --> 00:46:45.599 and listen to each 00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:46.159 other and know 00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:46.659 the truth 00:46:46.659 --> 00:46:47.739 so that we are 00:46:47.739 --> 00:46:48.440 free, 00:46:48.699 --> 00:46:48.980 Father, 00:46:50.019 --> 00:46:50.739 that we begin 00:46:50.739 --> 00:46:51.779 to know freedom. 00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:52.360 Father, 00:46:52.500 --> 00:46:53.340 only you, 00:46:53.500 --> 00:46:54.259 only Jesus, 00:46:54.500 --> 00:46:55.500 only the gospel. 00:46:55.739 --> 00:46:55.920 Father, 00:46:56.000 --> 00:46:56.679 we thank you 00:46:56.679 --> 00:46:57.219 for Jesus. 00:46:57.219 --> 00:46:58.139 We thank you 00:46:58.139 --> 00:47:00.099 for your word 00:47:00.099 --> 00:47:00.500 written, 00:47:00.739 --> 00:47:02.399 for his word. 00:47:02.539 --> 00:47:02.779 Father, 00:47:02.859 --> 00:47:03.619 we thank you 00:47:03.619 --> 00:47:04.139 for the gift 00:47:04.139 --> 00:47:05.079 of the Holy Spirit. 00:47:05.279 --> 00:47:05.599 Father, 00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:07.399 make us confident 00:47:07.399 --> 00:47:08.019 in Jesus 00:47:08.019 --> 00:47:08.779 in the gospel. 00:47:08.980 --> 00:47:09.899 Make us joyful 00:47:09.899 --> 00:47:10.460 in Jesus 00:47:10.460 --> 00:47:11.139 in the gospel. 00:47:11.319 --> 00:47:12.239 Make us disciples 00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:12.960 of Jesus 00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:13.940 who are gripped 00:47:13.940 --> 00:47:14.839 by the gospel, 00:47:15.339 --> 00:47:16.519 who are day by day 00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:17.699 learning to abide 00:47:17.699 --> 00:47:18.480 in your word 00:47:18.480 --> 00:47:19.879 as your disciples 00:47:19.879 --> 00:47:21.000 gripped by the gospel 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:22.059 so that we might 00:47:22.059 --> 00:47:23.000 know the truth 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:24.480 and be free, 00:47:24.920 --> 00:47:26.380 free to love, 00:47:26.860 --> 00:47:28.440 free to bring you glory 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:29.539 in this city 00:47:29.539 --> 00:47:30.199 and to the ends 00:47:30.199 --> 00:47:30.639 of the earth. 00:47:30.780 --> 00:47:31.000 Father, 00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:31.719 we ask this 00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:32.679 in the name of Jesus. 00:47:33.239 --> 00:47:33.599 Amen.