WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.400 If you've got Romans 12 open, that will help you and it will help me. 00:00:06.980 --> 00:00:09.339 Let me pray and we'll have a look at it together. 00:00:10.419 --> 00:00:15.599 Dear Father, we thank you that your word has been preserved so that we can look at it together. 00:00:16.240 --> 00:00:18.240 We can learn from it together. 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:24.000 And that your spirit will speak to us through it. 00:00:24.539 --> 00:00:29.699 So I pray that this morning I'll be able to get out of the way as you speak into our hearts. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:30.480 Amen. 00:00:32.619 --> 00:00:39.380 I do confirmations pretty much every week, but that doesn't stop them from being special. 00:00:39.500 --> 00:00:45.500 Every time I lead a service where I meet people who've decided they want to stand up 00:00:45.500 --> 00:00:51.039 and declare to all their friends and family, their church that they belong to, 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:54.579 that they want to follow Jesus for the rest of their life, it's exciting. 00:00:54.780 --> 00:00:55.600 It's really encouraging. 00:00:55.820 --> 00:00:57.439 It is the best part of my job. 00:00:57.519 --> 00:00:58.600 There's no question about that. 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:04.799 But I kind of, as I do it, I keep thinking, I wonder if people have thought about it. 00:01:05.219 --> 00:01:08.560 What does a Christian look like? 00:01:09.299 --> 00:01:12.460 I mean, we know where they're going to stand up in a minute. 00:01:12.519 --> 00:01:13.280 We're going to look at them. 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:21.740 But what does a saved Christian person, someone who's saved from their sins, what do they look like? 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:22.840 What does a saved person look like? 00:01:23.019 --> 00:01:25.180 So I thought I'd get some photos. 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:28.859 I don't know whether they're on the PowerPoint or they should be. 00:01:29.340 --> 00:01:32.379 I've got some pictures here of saved people. 00:01:32.780 --> 00:01:33.620 Can we have the first one? 00:01:34.780 --> 00:01:35.480 That's not it. 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.620 That's transformed. 00:01:39.859 --> 00:01:40.439 Oh, there we are. 00:01:41.859 --> 00:01:44.340 Which person in this picture do you think is saved? 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:46.540 I'll give you the clue. 00:01:46.980 --> 00:01:48.800 It's the old guy with his mouth open. 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:49.659 Tony Bullimore. 00:01:49.780 --> 00:01:50.460 Do you remember him? 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:52.300 Anybody remember Tony Bullimore? 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:53.859 Come on, please help me. 00:01:54.260 --> 00:01:54.439 Yeah. 00:01:55.080 --> 00:01:55.659 Thank you. 00:01:55.659 --> 00:02:05.539 Tony Bullimore was sailing around the world in a solo yacht race and he was doing pretty well but not in front and he wanted to win. 00:02:06.219 --> 00:02:19.500 He worked out that if he left the south of Africa and cut across the southern ocean, really close to Antarctica, he could get to the bottom of South America quicker than the others in the race. 00:02:19.500 --> 00:02:31.199 The risk is that the seas down there are massive and they were and they not only smashed his mast, they took the keel off his yacht. 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:39.400 If you have a boat in the southern ocean without a keel and without a mast, you are basically doomed and he thought he was. 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:40.420 He thought he was going to die. 00:02:40.419 --> 00:02:54.060 He let off his emergency beacon and the RAAF and the Royal Australian Navy put a mission together where they found him in the southern ocean bobbing around in his yacht. 00:02:54.139 --> 00:02:58.199 It was basically like being on a cork in the ocean. 00:02:58.739 --> 00:03:00.659 They found him and they rescued him. 00:03:00.959 --> 00:03:05.459 He met the guy who was flying the helicopter and he hugged him and kissed him. 00:03:05.739 --> 00:03:06.279 Next photo. 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:11.000 Which person in this shot do you think has just been saved? 00:03:12.379 --> 00:03:14.699 You know, the guy coming out of the cage. 00:03:15.500 --> 00:03:17.199 Do you remember the Beaconsfield mine? 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:18.520 Yeah. 00:03:18.900 --> 00:03:19.659 Remember that? 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:27.080 They had been cramped and trapped in a mine in Tasmania for nine days. 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:30.020 They could hardly walk. 00:03:30.020 --> 00:03:44.480 But when he came up in the lift, having been rescued, and he saw his wife, he threw his arms in the hair and he raced over and burst into tears and hugged her. 00:03:44.920 --> 00:03:45.860 What a surprise, right? 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:47.500 No surprise, really. 00:03:48.160 --> 00:03:48.980 Well, this next picture. 00:03:49.780 --> 00:03:55.300 More recently, only a few weeks ago, this man was in a cave mining. 00:03:55.300 --> 00:04:04.240 Mining is dangerous, but they usually have mines, particularly in Australia, have engineers that tell you how the mine can be built. 00:04:04.780 --> 00:04:07.600 In Laos, they're mining in caves. 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:08.920 No engineering. 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.500 The cave flooded and they were trapped. 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:23.100 But through the heroic rescue work of people, doctors and swimmers and cave dwellers, I don't know what they... 00:04:23.100 --> 00:04:24.459 They rescued this man. 00:04:24.500 --> 00:04:25.620 He came racing out. 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:31.000 He'd been down there without food, water, or anything and ran straight to his family. 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:35.980 There was no guessing which person had been saved. 00:04:36.180 --> 00:04:42.860 So I want to ask you in the question again, what does a baptised, confirmed, saved person look like? 00:04:42.860 --> 00:04:49.060 It's pretty easy in those photos to work out who's been saved because of their response. 00:04:49.580 --> 00:04:54.860 They jump, they scream, they cry, they hug, they are affectionate and they let everybody know. 00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:56.860 They let everybody know. 00:04:57.860 --> 00:05:01.199 But what does a baptised, confirmed and saved person look like? 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:05.740 Because I've got to tell you, I do confirmations every week. 00:05:06.620 --> 00:05:11.620 And most times they're the people who timidly, shyly, quietly stand on stage in front of everybody going, 00:05:11.620 --> 00:05:13.680 can I sit down? 00:05:14.420 --> 00:05:15.259 But what about you? 00:05:15.740 --> 00:05:16.920 Are you a saved person? 00:05:17.740 --> 00:05:18.819 What do you look like? 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:21.780 Do you look exactly the same as your neighbours? 00:05:23.340 --> 00:05:26.439 Do you live the same way as everybody else? 00:05:27.300 --> 00:05:30.620 Because you see, Romans chapter 12 is where Paul says, 00:05:30.860 --> 00:05:33.259 actually, if you're a saved person, 00:05:33.620 --> 00:05:37.620 you can't live like everybody else. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:40.040 Let me take you again to those first couple of verses. 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:42.080 I want to urge you, says Paul, 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:45.580 in view of God's mercies. 00:05:46.580 --> 00:05:50.400 If you've got your own Bible there and it says mercy, singular, 00:05:51.200 --> 00:05:53.680 I can tell you now with all the authority of a bishop, 00:05:54.060 --> 00:05:55.920 you can cross that out and put in mercies. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:56.500 It's plural. 00:05:57.100 --> 00:05:58.980 I don't know why the translators put it as singular. 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:02.860 In view of all the things that God has done, 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.400 the incredible actions that he has taken, 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:09.159 in view of all of God's mercies, 00:06:09.719 --> 00:06:14.299 I appeal to you to live differently. 00:06:16.759 --> 00:06:18.799 Your worship, your life, 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:21.019 holy and pleasing to God. 00:06:22.379 --> 00:06:23.179 And then he goes on. 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:23.899 See in verse 2? 00:06:23.899 --> 00:06:31.339 Don't conform any longer to the pattern of this world. 00:06:32.359 --> 00:06:33.099 Be different. 00:06:33.699 --> 00:06:34.659 Don't look the same. 00:06:35.219 --> 00:06:36.519 So I want to ask you again, 00:06:37.099 --> 00:06:40.339 what does a saved person look like? 00:06:41.339 --> 00:06:43.799 What does a rescued person do? 00:06:45.579 --> 00:06:46.339 It's different. 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:47.279 We live differently. 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.019 And I want to say to all of you people who are standing up to be confirmed, 00:06:50.119 --> 00:06:52.779 I want to encourage you to live differently, 00:06:53.479 --> 00:06:54.339 to be different. 00:06:56.159 --> 00:06:58.719 But to really get an understanding of what Paul's doing here, 00:06:58.739 --> 00:07:00.319 I want to go all the way back to chapter 1. 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:02.979 You're thinking, 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:04.359 how long are we going to be here? 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:07.460 We've only just got into two verses of chapter 12, 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:09.639 and already he's taken us all the way back to chapter 1. 00:07:10.060 --> 00:07:13.540 It's because I want you to understand why Paul says, 00:07:14.460 --> 00:07:15.319 you need to be different. 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.920 It's because of what God has done. 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:20.160 And back in chapter 1, 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:23.379 we see what we are by nature. 00:07:24.060 --> 00:07:26.300 By nature, we ignore God. 00:07:26.420 --> 00:07:27.080 By nature, 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.480 we don't give him any time at all. 00:07:31.480 --> 00:07:35.080 And in chapters 1 and chapter 2 and chapter 3 of Romans, 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:36.600 Paul lays that out. 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:37.020 He says, 00:07:37.080 --> 00:07:37.520 by nature, 00:07:37.600 --> 00:07:39.920 what you'll do is you'll go and make idols. 00:07:40.960 --> 00:07:46.740 You'll go and make other things that will fill the place that belongs to me, 00:07:47.140 --> 00:07:47.800 says God. 00:07:48.420 --> 00:07:50.100 And you can see that in the world. 00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:50.439 People, 00:07:50.700 --> 00:07:53.960 they've literally done it in terms of carving timbers and woods 00:07:53.960 --> 00:07:59.040 or making statues out of all kinds of metals or stone, 00:07:59.040 --> 00:08:00.439 and then they worship it. 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:05.079 I've travelled around the world and seen it in temples and in buildings, 00:08:05.180 --> 00:08:06.139 in India or in Asia. 00:08:08.339 --> 00:08:10.560 I've even seen it in restaurants around here. 00:08:11.300 --> 00:08:12.339 People have got little idols. 00:08:14.500 --> 00:08:15.199 But you know what? 00:08:16.819 --> 00:08:20.060 We don't even need those to have idols. 00:08:20.300 --> 00:08:22.339 We can make an idol out of anything. 00:08:22.339 --> 00:08:26.560 Because an idol is anything that takes God's place. 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:28.319 And by nature, 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:30.899 we will do that. 00:08:31.039 --> 00:08:34.480 We will put things in God's place and we ignore him. 00:08:34.939 --> 00:08:36.959 And the evidence of that is often seen 00:08:36.959 --> 00:08:39.720 when people only think of God either at Christmas and Easter, 00:08:39.860 --> 00:08:40.199 maybe. 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:42.259 Quite often at funerals, 00:08:42.299 --> 00:08:42.860 I've discovered. 00:08:43.699 --> 00:08:44.120 Otherwise, 00:08:44.299 --> 00:08:45.980 he doesn't figure in their life at all. 00:08:45.980 --> 00:08:48.539 He has no place, 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:49.620 no time. 00:08:51.879 --> 00:08:54.800 But by the time Paul gets to chapter 5, 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.720 there's an incredible change that's happened. 00:08:58.899 --> 00:08:59.840 By nature, 00:08:59.960 --> 00:09:01.080 we've pushed God out, 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:04.259 either by putting somebody else deliberately in its place, 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:05.039 rock, 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:05.560 stone, 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:06.200 gold, 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:06.560 whatever, 00:09:06.559 --> 00:09:09.319 or ignoring him entirely. 00:09:10.019 --> 00:09:10.959 But in chapter 5, 00:09:11.059 --> 00:09:16.479 we discover that God doesn't ignore us. 00:09:17.539 --> 00:09:19.459 It's really clear in chapter 5, 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:20.000 Paul says, 00:09:20.119 --> 00:09:20.759 by nature, 00:09:21.119 --> 00:09:22.299 we ignore God. 00:09:23.139 --> 00:09:24.319 And by doing that, 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:25.819 we become his enemies. 00:09:27.719 --> 00:09:33.159 But God doesn't treat us like enemies. 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:35.239 He shows us mercy. 00:09:35.240 --> 00:09:36.100 Now, 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:37.419 I've said that before at churches, 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:39.100 and some people have been really offended. 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:40.259 They've said to me, 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:41.320 look, 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.320 I think you're overstating it a bit. 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:45.860 People may ignore God, 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:46.600 but they don't make, 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:48.740 it's not an enemy situation. 00:09:49.879 --> 00:09:50.120 Well, 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:53.159 let me say, 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:55.000 with the greatest respect, 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:57.139 I'm only repeating what Paul said, 00:09:58.120 --> 00:09:58.840 and actually, 00:09:59.960 --> 00:10:01.659 who said you could be the judge of 00:10:01.659 --> 00:10:03.919 what is the enemy or not? 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:05.360 It's a bit like my grandfather 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:06.399 was in World War I, 00:10:06.899 --> 00:10:07.079 right? 00:10:07.439 --> 00:10:09.039 My grandfather was in World War I. 00:10:09.719 --> 00:10:11.419 He was fighting on the Western Front 00:10:11.419 --> 00:10:13.039 in northern France 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:13.639 and in Belgium. 00:10:14.479 --> 00:10:15.719 He was in trench warfare, 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:16.839 and they would go from one trench 00:10:16.839 --> 00:10:17.299 to the other. 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:18.839 And there was one moment 00:10:18.839 --> 00:10:21.879 where he was carrying a machine gun. 00:10:22.019 --> 00:10:22.620 He was in the Vickers, 00:10:22.719 --> 00:10:23.339 Machine Gunners, 00:10:23.559 --> 00:10:25.179 and he was going over the top, 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:26.759 carrying the machine gun with his, 00:10:27.179 --> 00:10:28.500 there was two of them who carried it, 00:10:28.860 --> 00:10:30.219 jumped into the next trench, 00:10:30.220 --> 00:10:32.759 right on top of a German soldier. 00:10:33.160 --> 00:10:34.360 And the guy was there 00:10:34.360 --> 00:10:35.940 and just threw his hands in the air. 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:38.360 And in the clearest English said, 00:10:38.500 --> 00:10:39.120 I surrender. 00:10:39.420 --> 00:10:39.840 In fact, 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:40.840 he had a British accent, 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:43.120 but he was wearing a German uniform. 00:10:43.940 --> 00:10:44.740 And my grandfather, 00:10:44.740 --> 00:10:45.879 who had a machine gun, 00:10:45.980 --> 00:10:46.940 but no sidearms, 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:47.480 just said, 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:47.700 well, 00:10:48.120 --> 00:10:48.660 you're captured. 00:10:49.779 --> 00:10:50.920 And so he said, 00:10:50.960 --> 00:10:51.100 yeah, 00:10:51.160 --> 00:10:51.940 I give in. 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:54.600 And they started chatting to him. 00:10:54.660 --> 00:10:54.820 They said, 00:10:54.900 --> 00:10:56.500 your English is very good. 00:10:56.540 --> 00:10:56.700 He said, 00:10:56.760 --> 00:10:57.720 I studied at Cambridge, 00:10:57.840 --> 00:10:59.600 but I was born in Germany 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:00.960 and grew up there. 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:01.440 And so, 00:11:01.900 --> 00:11:03.500 although I was educated in Cambridge, 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:04.920 I've gone back to Germany 00:11:04.920 --> 00:11:06.900 and I'm a cook. 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:07.920 They said, 00:11:07.980 --> 00:11:08.520 a cook? 00:11:09.660 --> 00:11:09.860 No, 00:11:09.900 --> 00:11:11.360 the Australians didn't have a cook. 00:11:11.520 --> 00:11:12.960 They used to eat terrible food. 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:13.680 So they thought, 00:11:13.780 --> 00:11:14.120 a cook? 00:11:14.560 --> 00:11:16.360 So they got him to take his jacket off 00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:17.960 and they put an Australian jacket on him 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:20.340 and they included him in their group. 00:11:20.420 --> 00:11:21.000 He was harmless. 00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:22.020 He was a nice guy. 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:22.840 In fact, 00:11:22.900 --> 00:11:23.780 they called him Smitty. 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:29.059 When their British officer came around 00:11:29.059 --> 00:11:30.179 and did a head count, 00:11:30.839 --> 00:11:32.439 he noticed the numbers had gone up, 00:11:33.000 --> 00:11:34.939 which is unusual in war. 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.779 And he was trying to work out 00:11:39.779 --> 00:11:40.659 what was going on 00:11:40.659 --> 00:11:43.179 and they came to name off 00:11:43.179 --> 00:11:43.819 and they said, 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:44.419 oh, no, Smitty, 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:44.839 he's been, 00:11:44.899 --> 00:11:45.319 no, Smitty, 00:11:45.439 --> 00:11:46.000 he's a great bloke. 00:11:46.059 --> 00:11:47.399 He's been with us for ages. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:48.179 No, he's a good bloke, 00:11:48.240 --> 00:11:48.600 good bloke, 00:11:48.659 --> 00:11:49.019 good bloke. 00:11:50.059 --> 00:11:51.699 When the officer discovered 00:11:51.699 --> 00:11:52.500 he was an enemy, 00:11:52.500 --> 00:11:55.240 he treated him as an enemy. 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:57.659 He was arrested and taken off 00:11:57.659 --> 00:11:59.600 because he was an enemy. 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.340 It's not up to my grandfather to decide. 00:12:02.460 --> 00:12:03.679 It's not up to me to decide. 00:12:04.179 --> 00:12:06.360 God says the way we ignore him 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:08.360 makes us his enemy. 00:12:08.899 --> 00:12:10.340 Now, what can we do about that? 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:12.679 Well, Smitty could cook, 00:12:12.679 --> 00:12:14.839 but even his good deeds 00:12:14.839 --> 00:12:16.279 didn't make him an Australian. 00:12:17.500 --> 00:12:18.939 What could make him? 00:12:20.259 --> 00:12:21.959 The only way that could happen 00:12:21.959 --> 00:12:23.539 is a declaration from the king 00:12:23.539 --> 00:12:26.599 and that's what Paul says happens for us. 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:28.519 There's a declaration made 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:29.579 by the king of kings 00:12:29.579 --> 00:12:30.620 and the lord of lords 00:12:30.620 --> 00:12:33.519 that you can stop being my enemy 00:12:33.519 --> 00:12:35.479 and become my friend. 00:12:36.299 --> 00:12:36.839 No, no, actually, 00:12:36.959 --> 00:12:37.620 it's more than that. 00:12:37.899 --> 00:12:38.539 Chapter five 00:12:38.539 --> 00:12:40.839 and into chapter eight, 00:12:41.199 --> 00:12:42.879 you don't just become God's friend, 00:12:43.699 --> 00:12:45.360 you become a member 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:47.179 of the royal family. 00:12:48.139 --> 00:12:49.959 Can you imagine that? 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.679 Being taken from being an enemy 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:55.659 and given the status 00:12:55.659 --> 00:12:57.299 of the family 00:12:57.299 --> 00:12:59.139 of the king of kings. 00:12:59.139 --> 00:13:01.659 Wow. 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:03.379 But that's the promise 00:13:03.379 --> 00:13:04.539 that Romans chapter eight, 00:13:04.600 --> 00:13:05.299 verse one has. 00:13:05.819 --> 00:13:07.259 If you are in Christ, 00:13:08.039 --> 00:13:09.139 there is no longer 00:13:09.139 --> 00:13:11.439 any condemnation for you. 00:13:12.679 --> 00:13:14.439 So believe in Jesus. 00:13:16.019 --> 00:13:17.319 What an incredible mercy. 00:13:17.439 --> 00:13:18.559 And Paul in chapter nine 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.539 makes it abundantly clear 00:13:21.539 --> 00:13:24.139 that that change in status 00:13:24.139 --> 00:13:25.860 from being an enemy 00:13:25.860 --> 00:13:27.860 to being a family member 00:13:27.860 --> 00:13:29.460 doesn't happen 00:13:29.460 --> 00:13:31.220 because of anything 00:13:31.220 --> 00:13:32.100 we have done. 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:32.759 In fact, 00:13:32.860 --> 00:13:33.399 chapter nine, 00:13:33.460 --> 00:13:34.080 verse 16 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:35.600 makes it abundantly clear 00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.539 that it's through God's mercy, 00:13:39.360 --> 00:13:41.360 not our desire 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:43.659 or by our effort. 00:13:44.379 --> 00:13:45.539 And if you've never noticed 00:13:45.539 --> 00:13:46.220 that verse, 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:47.980 I reckon it's one of the greatest 00:13:47.980 --> 00:13:48.899 verses in scriptures. 00:13:49.300 --> 00:13:50.220 So if you've got your Bible 00:13:50.220 --> 00:13:50.820 there again, 00:13:50.899 --> 00:13:51.820 open to chapter nine 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:52.740 and underline it. 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:54.639 Highlight it. 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:56.500 Tell somebody about it 00:13:56.500 --> 00:13:57.039 this week. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:58.919 I've discovered 00:13:58.919 --> 00:13:59.939 the test of a sermon 00:13:59.939 --> 00:14:01.480 is really by Wednesday. 00:14:01.699 --> 00:14:02.419 If on Wednesday 00:14:02.419 --> 00:14:03.679 you can remember 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:06.079 something that I said, 00:14:06.599 --> 00:14:09.439 then we've both done pretty well. 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:11.159 Probably you better than me. 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:12.219 But I reckon 00:14:12.219 --> 00:14:13.219 if you can remember 00:14:13.219 --> 00:14:14.000 by Wednesday 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:14.980 to remind someone 00:14:14.980 --> 00:14:16.659 of Romans 9.16, 00:14:17.419 --> 00:14:19.219 it's not by my effort, 00:14:19.379 --> 00:14:20.259 my desires, 00:14:20.459 --> 00:14:21.599 but by God's mercy 00:14:21.599 --> 00:14:22.500 that I'm saved. 00:14:23.299 --> 00:14:23.980 What a good thing 00:14:23.980 --> 00:14:24.779 to say to someone. 00:14:25.379 --> 00:14:26.539 Try it by Wednesday. 00:14:26.539 --> 00:14:27.519 There's your homework. 00:14:28.379 --> 00:14:29.219 There's a challenge. 00:14:29.620 --> 00:14:30.659 See how you go with that. 00:14:32.980 --> 00:14:35.000 And it's that mercy 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:37.939 that transforms everything. 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:39.879 There's the rescue 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:41.019 that's taken place. 00:14:41.860 --> 00:14:42.579 And that's why 00:14:42.579 --> 00:14:44.019 Paul starts chapter 12 00:14:44.019 --> 00:14:45.179 and says, 00:14:45.819 --> 00:14:46.799 in verse 1, 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:59.179 in view of God's love 00:14:59.179 --> 00:15:01.399 that has been lavished upon you, 00:15:01.439 --> 00:15:02.219 in view of all of that, 00:15:02.479 --> 00:15:03.819 don't stay the same. 00:15:04.199 --> 00:15:05.879 Don't live like everybody else. 00:15:06.439 --> 00:15:07.740 Don't be like your neighbours. 00:15:07.939 --> 00:15:08.659 Be different. 00:15:08.659 --> 00:15:11.579 So what does being different 00:15:11.579 --> 00:15:12.439 look like? 00:15:13.379 --> 00:15:14.699 What does it look like? 00:15:15.079 --> 00:15:16.000 And that's where, 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:17.159 if you move in 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:18.719 to verses 3 to 8, 00:15:18.779 --> 00:15:19.439 you'll see 00:15:19.439 --> 00:15:20.919 what it is 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:22.519 to look differently. 00:15:23.899 --> 00:15:24.659 Paul says, 00:15:24.659 --> 00:15:26.379 by the grace given to me, 00:15:26.439 --> 00:15:27.459 I say to every one of you, 00:15:27.579 --> 00:15:28.659 don't think of yourself 00:15:28.659 --> 00:15:30.079 more highly than you should. 00:15:31.339 --> 00:15:31.980 Guess what? 00:15:33.319 --> 00:15:34.620 That's not the message 00:15:34.620 --> 00:15:36.059 that you hear 00:15:36.059 --> 00:15:37.439 on podcasts, 00:15:37.579 --> 00:15:38.159 in the media, 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:39.819 and in literature today. 00:15:40.699 --> 00:15:41.159 It's actually, 00:15:41.500 --> 00:15:42.259 you should think 00:15:42.259 --> 00:15:43.819 well of yourself. 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:45.259 It's very bad 00:15:45.259 --> 00:15:46.039 for your mental health 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:46.679 if you don't. 00:15:47.459 --> 00:15:48.500 So is Paul saying something 00:15:48.500 --> 00:15:49.759 to damage your mental health? 00:15:50.059 --> 00:15:50.199 No, 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:51.059 what he's saying is, 00:15:51.719 --> 00:15:53.279 don't put yourself first. 00:15:54.179 --> 00:15:55.980 That's a fundamental error. 00:15:56.659 --> 00:15:57.639 It is the mistake 00:15:57.639 --> 00:15:58.600 that the world makes. 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:00.799 Look after number one. 00:16:01.839 --> 00:16:03.039 But God is number one. 00:16:04.839 --> 00:16:06.519 Look after others. 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:08.460 consider others 00:16:08.460 --> 00:16:09.740 better than you. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:11.919 It's not to think 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:13.480 that you're the worst. 00:16:14.939 --> 00:16:16.480 That's not what Paul is saying. 00:16:17.179 --> 00:16:17.699 It's actually, 00:16:18.039 --> 00:16:19.120 he even goes on to say, 00:16:19.259 --> 00:16:20.460 have sober judgment. 00:16:20.659 --> 00:16:21.259 Think of yourself 00:16:21.259 --> 00:16:22.279 in the right way. 00:16:22.740 --> 00:16:24.279 C.S. Lewis put it brilliantly. 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:25.039 He said, 00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:28.220 it's not that you think 00:16:28.220 --> 00:16:30.100 less of yourself, 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:32.659 but you think of yourself 00:16:32.659 --> 00:16:33.539 less. 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:36.100 That's clever, isn't it? 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:37.659 It's not that you think 00:16:37.659 --> 00:16:38.980 less of yourself, 00:16:39.559 --> 00:16:41.860 but you think about yourself 00:16:41.860 --> 00:16:42.779 less. 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:44.299 Because you're thinking 00:16:44.299 --> 00:16:45.659 of others before yourself. 00:16:45.759 --> 00:16:46.939 You're thinking of others' needs, 00:16:47.259 --> 00:16:47.919 others' concerns, 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:48.679 others' cares. 00:16:49.139 --> 00:16:50.220 You're thinking of other people. 00:16:50.620 --> 00:16:50.980 Why? 00:16:51.299 --> 00:16:52.259 Because that's exactly 00:16:52.259 --> 00:16:53.939 what God does with us. 00:16:55.939 --> 00:16:57.980 God did not 00:16:57.980 --> 00:16:59.659 hesitate 00:16:59.659 --> 00:17:01.100 to send Jesus 00:17:01.100 --> 00:17:01.919 into the world. 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:03.699 Jesus did not hesitate. 00:17:03.700 --> 00:17:05.559 In fact, 00:17:05.819 --> 00:17:07.000 he didn't cling on 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:08.559 to what was rightfully his, 00:17:09.019 --> 00:17:09.819 but instead, 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:11.920 he put us first. 00:17:12.299 --> 00:17:13.660 Have a look at Philippians 2. 00:17:13.840 --> 00:17:14.799 It puts it beautifully. 00:17:16.580 --> 00:17:18.080 What else does it look like 00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:19.620 to be a rescued person? 00:17:20.420 --> 00:17:20.660 Well, 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:21.400 he goes on 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:22.000 and he says, 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:23.440 serve. 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:25.940 You've been involved 00:17:25.940 --> 00:17:28.059 in this new family. 00:17:28.059 --> 00:17:30.220 you've become a member 00:17:30.220 --> 00:17:31.740 of a new body. 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:32.579 And he says, 00:17:32.639 --> 00:17:33.179 let me use that 00:17:33.179 --> 00:17:34.019 as an illustration. 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:35.500 And being in a body 00:17:35.500 --> 00:17:36.379 means you've got 00:17:36.379 --> 00:17:37.259 a role to play. 00:17:38.259 --> 00:17:39.240 Is there one part 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:39.639 of the body 00:17:39.639 --> 00:17:40.460 that's more important 00:17:40.460 --> 00:17:41.000 than the other? 00:17:41.500 --> 00:17:41.899 No. 00:17:42.200 --> 00:17:43.139 We all fit together. 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:44.099 We all work together. 00:17:44.399 --> 00:17:45.579 We have different roles 00:17:45.579 --> 00:17:46.019 to do. 00:17:46.139 --> 00:17:46.539 Absolutely. 00:17:48.119 --> 00:17:48.480 But 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:50.460 we belong together. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:52.179 I want to say 00:17:52.179 --> 00:17:52.599 that people 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:53.359 who are standing up 00:17:53.359 --> 00:17:54.139 to be confirmed 00:17:54.139 --> 00:17:54.859 this morning, 00:17:55.399 --> 00:17:56.220 find your place 00:17:56.220 --> 00:17:56.779 in the body. 00:17:57.339 --> 00:17:58.299 Work out where to serve. 00:17:58.360 --> 00:17:58.960 You've probably already 00:17:58.960 --> 00:17:59.779 started doing it. 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:00.839 Let me encourage you 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:02.039 to continue to do it 00:18:02.039 --> 00:18:03.079 and to continue 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:04.120 to find new places 00:18:04.120 --> 00:18:04.660 to do it. 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:05.839 There will be seasons 00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:06.900 where you're good 00:18:06.900 --> 00:18:07.420 at one thing 00:18:07.420 --> 00:18:08.240 and then another thing 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:08.960 will come along. 00:18:09.360 --> 00:18:10.259 The thing to continue 00:18:10.259 --> 00:18:11.380 to do is to see 00:18:11.380 --> 00:18:12.259 where God wants you 00:18:12.259 --> 00:18:12.900 to serve. 00:18:13.480 --> 00:18:14.120 And usually 00:18:14.120 --> 00:18:15.819 it will be by seeing 00:18:15.819 --> 00:18:16.980 where there's a gap. 00:18:18.039 --> 00:18:19.000 Where can I help? 00:18:19.120 --> 00:18:20.000 Where can I fill in? 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:21.480 What can I do 00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:23.279 to be useful 00:18:23.279 --> 00:18:24.460 in this body? 00:18:26.220 --> 00:18:26.600 But again, 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:27.259 that's different 00:18:27.259 --> 00:18:27.640 to the way 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:28.380 the world sees things 00:18:28.380 --> 00:18:29.339 because to do 00:18:29.339 --> 00:18:30.019 that sort of thing 00:18:30.019 --> 00:18:30.860 usually you get 00:18:30.860 --> 00:18:31.400 a reward, 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:32.059 a payment. 00:18:32.860 --> 00:18:33.000 Well, 00:18:33.019 --> 00:18:33.640 this is not 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:34.360 to get a payment. 00:18:34.539 --> 00:18:35.059 This is not 00:18:35.059 --> 00:18:35.559 to get a reward. 00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:36.079 In fact, 00:18:36.120 --> 00:18:36.620 it's because 00:18:36.620 --> 00:18:37.319 you've been given 00:18:37.319 --> 00:18:38.480 something that is 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:39.799 incredibly precious, 00:18:40.259 --> 00:18:41.559 a place in God's family, 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:43.740 that you take part 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:44.360 in this body, 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:45.680 in this life. 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:47.380 In fact, 00:18:47.500 --> 00:18:48.559 work out what it is 00:18:48.559 --> 00:18:49.400 that you do 00:18:49.400 --> 00:18:50.980 and do it. 00:18:52.600 --> 00:18:53.460 So what does it 00:18:53.460 --> 00:18:54.160 look like 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:55.620 to be a saved person? 00:18:56.220 --> 00:18:57.299 It means 00:18:57.299 --> 00:18:58.660 to live differently, 00:18:59.600 --> 00:19:00.720 speak differently, 00:19:01.360 --> 00:19:02.059 be motivated 00:19:02.059 --> 00:19:02.819 by different things, 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:03.600 to be motivated 00:19:03.600 --> 00:19:05.700 by what God has done. 00:19:06.779 --> 00:19:08.160 How can you do that? 00:19:09.500 --> 00:19:10.920 How can you know 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:12.519 what is good 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:14.079 that we should cling to 00:19:14.079 --> 00:19:14.819 and pursue? 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:16.440 How do you know 00:19:16.440 --> 00:19:17.299 what God likes? 00:19:18.720 --> 00:19:18.920 Well, 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:19.500 let me say, 00:19:20.299 --> 00:19:21.000 I think 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:22.440 there are a number 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:23.420 of things you can do, 00:19:23.420 --> 00:19:25.800 but the foundational, 00:19:26.440 --> 00:19:27.740 most significant one 00:19:27.740 --> 00:19:29.340 is to read your Bible. 00:19:30.140 --> 00:19:31.380 I encourage you 00:19:31.380 --> 00:19:32.400 to read your Bible 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.019 every day. 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:36.240 When I was about 15, 00:19:36.300 --> 00:19:37.180 I went to a conference 00:19:37.180 --> 00:19:38.200 and the speaker 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:38.920 at the conference 00:19:38.920 --> 00:19:41.480 was really challenging us 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:42.920 to read our Bibles 00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:43.539 every day. 00:19:44.080 --> 00:19:44.680 And he said, 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:45.200 I'm going to call 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:46.039 on everybody here 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:46.860 to make a covenant 00:19:46.860 --> 00:19:47.840 between themselves 00:19:47.840 --> 00:19:48.500 and the Lord. 00:19:49.099 --> 00:19:49.960 And this is the covenant. 00:19:50.579 --> 00:19:51.220 No Bible, 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:52.539 no breakfast. 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:54.819 Stand where you are 00:19:54.819 --> 00:19:56.160 and covenant now 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:56.920 Lord 00:19:56.920 --> 00:19:58.140 that if you don't 00:19:58.140 --> 00:19:58.720 read your Bible, 00:19:59.200 --> 00:19:59.940 you will not 00:19:59.940 --> 00:20:00.640 eat breakfast. 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:02.279 I couldn't do it. 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:03.119 I couldn't stand up 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:03.680 and say that 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:05.099 because I love breakfast 00:20:05.099 --> 00:20:06.140 and I know 00:20:06.140 --> 00:20:07.140 how hopeless I am. 00:20:07.259 --> 00:20:08.099 Sometimes I get up, 00:20:08.339 --> 00:20:09.039 I've slept in, 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:09.900 I'm running late, 00:20:10.059 --> 00:20:10.640 have breakfast, 00:20:10.779 --> 00:20:11.460 get out and go. 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:12.539 I can catch up. 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:13.859 I can read it late. 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:14.740 So I didn't stand up. 00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:15.539 There was about 00:20:15.539 --> 00:20:16.599 500 people there 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:17.219 and I reckon 00:20:17.219 --> 00:20:17.719 there's only about 00:20:17.719 --> 00:20:18.539 four or five of us 00:20:18.539 --> 00:20:19.519 that didn't stand up. 00:20:20.259 --> 00:20:22.159 I felt so guilty 00:20:22.159 --> 00:20:23.399 after that 00:20:23.399 --> 00:20:24.879 that every morning 00:20:24.879 --> 00:20:25.439 when I was going 00:20:25.439 --> 00:20:26.059 to have breakfast 00:20:26.059 --> 00:20:26.559 I had to go 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:27.199 and read my Bible. 00:20:30.199 --> 00:20:31.199 And you know what? 00:20:32.419 --> 00:20:33.419 Reading my Bible 00:20:33.419 --> 00:20:34.159 every day 00:20:34.159 --> 00:20:35.740 has been so helpful. 00:20:37.539 --> 00:20:38.819 When I was very little, 00:20:40.019 --> 00:20:40.639 the Sunday school 00:20:40.639 --> 00:20:41.159 I went to, 00:20:41.219 --> 00:20:42.179 which is led by my mum, 00:20:42.839 --> 00:20:43.879 we learned 00:20:43.879 --> 00:20:45.619 memory verses 00:20:45.619 --> 00:20:47.139 so that we could 00:20:47.139 --> 00:20:47.799 remember 00:20:47.799 --> 00:20:49.139 what the Bible said. 00:20:49.639 --> 00:20:50.239 Anybody here 00:20:50.239 --> 00:20:50.899 do memory verses? 00:20:51.639 --> 00:20:52.500 We did it with 00:20:52.500 --> 00:20:53.859 one for every letter 00:20:53.859 --> 00:20:54.500 of the alphabet. 00:20:55.139 --> 00:20:55.419 A, 00:20:56.099 --> 00:20:56.699 all of sin 00:20:56.699 --> 00:20:57.179 and fall short 00:20:57.179 --> 00:20:58.059 of the glory of God. 00:20:58.139 --> 00:20:58.979 Romans 3.23. 00:20:59.159 --> 00:20:59.359 B, 00:20:59.459 --> 00:21:00.119 believe in the Lord 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:00.699 Jesus Christ 00:21:00.699 --> 00:21:01.439 and you'll be saved, 00:21:01.519 --> 00:21:02.159 you and your household. 00:21:02.500 --> 00:21:03.079 Acts 16. 00:21:03.339 --> 00:21:03.559 C, 00:21:03.659 --> 00:21:04.179 come to me 00:21:04.179 --> 00:21:05.059 all you who labour 00:21:05.059 --> 00:21:05.959 and are heavy laden 00:21:05.959 --> 00:21:07.259 and I'll give you rest. 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:08.119 Matthew 11.28. 00:21:08.259 --> 00:21:09.139 I can go through 00:21:09.139 --> 00:21:10.059 the alphabet still. 00:21:10.379 --> 00:21:10.879 I learned that 00:21:10.879 --> 00:21:11.899 when I was about six. 00:21:13.659 --> 00:21:15.500 I went to theological college. 00:21:16.579 --> 00:21:17.539 Cramming my head 00:21:17.539 --> 00:21:18.699 full of theologians 00:21:18.699 --> 00:21:19.519 and commentaries 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:20.099 and books 00:21:20.099 --> 00:21:20.859 and lecturers 00:21:20.859 --> 00:21:22.599 sitting in an exam. 00:21:23.579 --> 00:21:24.339 I went straight back 00:21:24.339 --> 00:21:25.099 to my memory verses 00:21:25.099 --> 00:21:25.899 from when I was six. 00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:28.459 How good it is 00:21:28.459 --> 00:21:29.819 to know the word of God 00:21:29.819 --> 00:21:31.219 to understand 00:21:31.219 --> 00:21:32.179 what pleases him. 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:34.119 Because another thing 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:35.259 my dear mum said to me 00:21:35.259 --> 00:21:35.459 was, 00:21:35.559 --> 00:21:35.879 Christopher, 00:21:36.359 --> 00:21:37.000 garbage in, 00:21:37.099 --> 00:21:37.759 garbage out. 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:40.079 If you fill your time 00:21:40.079 --> 00:21:40.719 with television, 00:21:41.059 --> 00:21:42.099 guess what you're going to know? 00:21:43.539 --> 00:21:44.479 And to my shame, 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:46.240 I can sing to you 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:47.880 word perfect 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:50.039 the beginning of 00:21:50.039 --> 00:21:51.519 Gilligan's Island, 00:21:52.839 --> 00:21:54.000 the Beverly Hillbillies. 00:21:55.059 --> 00:21:56.180 All those years 00:21:56.180 --> 00:21:57.140 of watching television 00:21:57.140 --> 00:21:57.980 have got in. 00:21:59.059 --> 00:22:00.259 Do not think 00:22:00.259 --> 00:22:02.079 that spending time 00:22:02.079 --> 00:22:03.620 with television, 00:22:04.380 --> 00:22:05.039 podcasts, 00:22:05.900 --> 00:22:06.319 media 00:22:06.319 --> 00:22:07.640 will not influence you. 00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:08.400 It will. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:10.480 So counter that 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:11.720 by being in the word 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:12.980 of God regularly. 00:22:13.600 --> 00:22:14.019 Daily. 00:22:14.560 --> 00:22:15.000 Daily. 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:15.400 Daily. 00:22:15.560 --> 00:22:15.800 Daily. 00:22:15.800 --> 00:22:16.200 Daily. 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:16.600 Daily. 00:22:16.600 --> 00:22:17.000 Daily. 00:22:17.000 --> 00:22:17.380 Daily. 00:22:17.380 --> 00:22:17.440 Daily. 00:22:17.580 --> 00:22:17.880 Daily. 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:20.040 I didn't give the emphasis 00:22:20.040 --> 00:22:21.060 to you, 00:22:21.140 --> 00:22:21.320 Sauron, 00:22:21.380 --> 00:22:22.420 just because I'm picking on you. 00:22:25.360 --> 00:22:27.400 But because it's so important 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:29.480 to look at God's word 00:22:29.480 --> 00:22:30.680 every day. 00:22:31.220 --> 00:22:32.420 To know his will 00:22:32.420 --> 00:22:32.920 for you. 00:22:34.380 --> 00:22:35.160 So with all that, 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:37.220 we're going to call 00:22:37.220 --> 00:22:37.980 these people up 00:22:37.980 --> 00:22:39.480 to see if they look 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:40.019 any different. 00:22:40.620 --> 00:22:41.640 And let me say right now, 00:22:41.779 --> 00:22:42.360 they won't. 00:22:44.380 --> 00:22:45.600 Not on the outside. 00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:48.480 But the way that they live, 00:22:48.560 --> 00:22:49.519 I pray for you 00:22:49.519 --> 00:22:50.920 that you will 00:22:50.920 --> 00:22:51.720 live differently 00:22:51.720 --> 00:22:52.840 and you won't conform 00:22:52.840 --> 00:22:53.440 any longer 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:54.480 to the patterns 00:22:54.480 --> 00:22:55.000 of this world. 00:22:55.080 --> 00:22:55.820 Let me pray for them. 00:22:56.380 --> 00:22:56.960 Heavenly Father, 00:22:57.040 --> 00:22:57.700 we do thank you 00:22:57.700 --> 00:22:58.320 for your word, 00:22:58.980 --> 00:23:00.259 for the assurance 00:23:00.259 --> 00:23:00.880 that we can 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.120 trust in the work 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:04.159 that Jesus has done 00:23:04.159 --> 00:23:04.759 to take us 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:05.379 from being 00:23:05.379 --> 00:23:07.199 an enemy of yours 00:23:07.199 --> 00:23:07.759 to being 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:09.099 not only a friend 00:23:09.099 --> 00:23:10.000 but in your family. 00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:11.299 We thank you 00:23:11.299 --> 00:23:12.259 for that good news. 00:23:13.099 --> 00:23:13.559 And I pray 00:23:13.559 --> 00:23:14.199 that in view 00:23:14.199 --> 00:23:15.339 of that good news, 00:23:16.079 --> 00:23:16.859 we would never 00:23:16.859 --> 00:23:17.679 stay the same. 00:23:18.379 --> 00:23:18.679 Amen.