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 I think that clock's fast, but I'm slow.

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 Welcome, friends.

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 Our topic this morning is the fountain pulse of witness bearing.

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 There's a bit of an outline there for you.

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 The late and beloved Tim Keller, in his final public written words

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 addressed to the state of the evangelical church in America.

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 Where are we? How did we get here? And where do we go from here?

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 And among his seminal points, for me, most vivid and arresting

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 was his diagnosis of a troubling malady.

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 A malady which alarmingly touches us at one of our vital organs as a people of God.

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 The gravity of Tim's assessment was this.

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 We are sickest where we need to be most healthy.

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 Well, what was this vital organ so afflicted?

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 In Tim's mind, it was our ability graciously to engage

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 unbelievers around us with the gospel.

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 Well, I've become persuaded that Tim's diagnosis is on the mark.

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 And if it's so, what more burning topic to take up than this?

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 So with this sense of supreme saliency, let's take it up together, team.

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 So how do we hope to do so in these next four weeks,

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 should you come along for the journey?

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 Well, here's a map of where we're headed.

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 Today, we'll begin by asking,

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 how does witness bearing fit into our Christian life?

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 What place does it have?

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 And what calls it forth and sustains it?

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 Our witness, that is.

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 Next, we'll ask the fundamental question.

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 So in the next session, Lord willing,

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 what is the message we bear?

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 And there we'll explore what we mean by calling the gospel good news.

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 What is the significance of it being news?

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 And what's so good about it anyway?

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 Then on the third session,

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 we'll identify some of the common barriers and obstacles to our witness bearing

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 and explore how we might overcome them.

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 And then with resolute determination,

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 my wife Anita always helps me on this.

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 We want to be really practical.

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 And we will follow up with a kind of a top 10 helps for sharing our faith.

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 And finally conclude with some suggestions as the first steps as to how to get started.

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 So that's our excursion prospectus.

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 So let's begin our tour by turning to our divine guide

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 and beseech his traveling mercies.

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 Father, we do crave your blessing presence with us in this endeavor as we're together.

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 Spirit, take these things of Christ and give them to us,

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 just as Christ promised you would do,

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 that we might both will and do your good pleasure.

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 And we want you, Christ, to be exalted in our lives together as your people of God,

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 such that when Christ is exalted, you have said you will call many to yourself.

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 So do it, Lord.

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 We ask for your glory.

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 In Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 All right.

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 So let's turn to the question,

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 how does witness bearing fit in to our Christian life?

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 What are its fountainheads and its energies?

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 And I want to propose five fueling dynamics of our witness bearing.

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 And here they are.

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 It flows from the commission of our King.

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 It reflects an attunement to the great drama.

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 It's impelled by love of neighbor.

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 It's central to our praise of the Savior.

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 And it arises out of a spirit.

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 And it arises out of a spurring of the Spirit.

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 So first, the commission of our King.

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 Our witness.

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 Well, what commission is that?

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 Well, it's been called the Great Commission.

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 And it's recorded by each of the gospel writers.

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 Every single one of them.

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 The Matthew account is probably most familiar.

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 Where Matthew writes, recording Jesus' saying,

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 All authority on heaven and earth has been given to me.

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 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations,

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 baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit,

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 and teaching them to observe all the things that I have commanded you.

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 And behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

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 Matthew 28, 18.

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 Go.

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 Actually, it might be better rendered going or as you go.

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 And that's to say, as we go about, wherever it is that it takes us,

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 always and everywhere, let gospel witness accompany our goings.

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 And we quickly get the impression that it's far deeper than a task.

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 As great as the task is, it might even be regarded in some sense as an identity.

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 Think of yourselves as ambassadors.

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 The term is Paul's from 2 Corinthians 5.

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 You are always and everywhere representing me to the world.

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 Ever being my embassy, calling a world to be reconciled.

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 I can pull back.

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 We can put some chairs up in front if we need to.

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 That's fine.

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 My commission is that you be the one through whom I make my appeal to a lost and a dying world.

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 As it says in 2 Corinthians 5, where we drew that term ambassador.

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 2 Corinthians 5, 18 through 20.

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 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.

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 That is, in Christ, God is reconciling the world to himself.

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 And he is making his appeal through us.

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 Therefore, we are ambassadors.

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 We implore on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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 Now, some have suggested, yeah, yeah, that's only the apostle.

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 That's what he was supposed to do.

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 He's really only talking about himself.

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 You know, the we and the us, that's the royal we and the royal us.

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 That's what's going on there.

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 But this is a grievous mistake because it's impossible.

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 As clearly, this is God's plan for reconciling not a little portion of the Mediterranean around the first century,

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 which Paul might have managed to do on himself, you know, because as remarkable as a fellow he is.

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 No, no, but this is God's strategy for reconciling what?

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 Non-rhetorical.

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 The whole world, yeah.

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 The whole world.

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 The whole world.

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 So, you know, that's something that it's going to take a whole village, the whole people of God to pull off, not just one apostle.

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 So, it's going to involve more than that, as impressive as Paul is.

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 And as to verse 20, I don't know, people don't, well, if you have your Bible open, verse 20, and you happen to have a pencil,

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 cross out the U, cross out the U, cross out the U in verse 20.

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 It's not there in the Greek.

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 You see, Paul is not making an appeal to the Corinthians.

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 Be reconciled.

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 You know, I beseech you, you should be reconciled to Christ.

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 No, they already were reconciled.

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 They were believers.

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 What he is doing is explaining what we, as reconciled believers, do.

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 We all implore, be reconciled to Christ.

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 He's just given us our job description.

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 So, our witness bearing flows from our marching orders.

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 We are under the King's commission.

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 With all authority on heaven and earth, he sends us on this errand.

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 He appoints us as ambassadors.

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 And this is quite an authorization.

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 Now, think of Christ's words to us as his disciples for a moment as an authorization.

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 An authorization.

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 An authorization.

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 All authority is given to me.

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 And it's wonderful to know of your authorization.

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 When you feel your presence or activity may be exposed to some challenge.

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 What are you doing here?

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 You've no right.

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 This is not called for.

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 This is unwanted.

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 This is an offense.

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 I remember when I was a graduate student in Cambridge.

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 The colleges would have a number of gardens.

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 Lovely gardens.

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 But they were stratified.

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 And you could only use certain ones if you had certain authorization.

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 Each required its own authorization to set foot in.

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 And whenever I'd go into certain gardens.

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 Say that might have been gardens of another one of the colleges.

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 There was always this low-grade anxiety.

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 That somehow my authorization would be challenged.

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 There was a palpable difference in my cadence when I was in my own college garden.

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 Knowing my indisputable authorization to be there.

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 So brothers and sisters, if ever there were an indisputable and all-conquering authorization,

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 surely it is this one given to us by the King of Kings and the Heir of all things.

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 So may that put a confidence in our step wherever we go, wherever we happen to be.

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 As the Lord said to Gideon, Judges 6.14,

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 Go in this your strength.

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 Have I not commanded you?

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 Have I not sent you?

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 So our witness flows from the commission of the King.

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 But also our witness reflects an attunement to the great drama.

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 You see, all of us find meaning in the story that our lives are a part of.

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 And no human being can live without implotment.

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 And for the Christian disciple, that governing plot is supplied by the great drama of redemption.

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 It just pulses progressively through the whole of Scripture.

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 And one place where the drama and its implication for our lives surfaces vividly

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 is from the pen of the Apostle in his letter to the 1 Corinthians.

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 Again, if you have your Bibles, take a look if you'd like.

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 1 Corinthians 7, 29 through 31.

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 And the context of this instruction is Paul's answering some questions about marriage and singleness.

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 But we won't look into those.

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 But I want us to catch the framework as to how he answers this question.

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 So the framework.

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 This is what he writes.

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 Pick it up in 29.

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 This is what I mean, brothers and sisters.

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 The appointed time has grown very short.

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 From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none.

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 And those who mourn as if they were not mourning.

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 And those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing.

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 And those who buy as though they had no goods.

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 And those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it.

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 For the present form of this world is passing away.

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 Notice that for Paul, something has happened which radically alters the way we are in the world as believers.

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 This event absolutely conditions the way we now live.

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 We might be married.

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 But because of this event, we don't simply settle into our domestic routines.

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 Yes, like others, we weep and we rejoice.

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 But not as if those emotional highs and lows were somehow decisive.

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 Now, our engagement with the world cannot be our engrossment with it.

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 Why not?

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 What is this all conditioning reality?

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 Well, the key to understanding why not is the Apostle's phrase,

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 The time has been shortened.

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 Verse 29.

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 The word for time there is not chronos, just kind of chronological duration, one moment after another.

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 But rather the word kairos.

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 That is the specific quality of a particular period of time.

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 A critical moment in which much is at stake.

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 A time of opportunity that will not last indefinitely.

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 What is the great event that has charged time, which injects drama into this drama?

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 And what are the great events that have become bookends that bound our time and animate it,

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 energize it, electrify it?

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 Well, those events are the coming of Christ and his coming again.

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 There is cross and resurrection and with them a call for all everywhere to repent and believe

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 and his imminent return as judge of all.

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 That's what bounds time.

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 And notice that the Apostle also supplies the ground for this radical living.

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 For the present form of this world is passing away.

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 Verse 31.

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 What does he mean by the present form of this world?

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 Well, not the created order itself,

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 but rather the created order in rebellion.

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 The world that has judged Jesus on the cross by nailing him to it.

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 But of course, the world's judgment of Christ was its own self-judgment.

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 The judgment of the cross means that this present world order is passing away.

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 So, in light of this saving act of God in Jesus and his imminent return as judge,

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 and in light of the verdict that lies over this present world,

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 to live a life utterly absorbed in other things is to be completely out of touch with the grand drama that we live in.

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 Out of touch with the nature of this limited critical moment

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 and the fleeting kairos opportunity for bearing witness to the saving event of Christ

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 and a calling of a world passing away under judgment

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 to align itself to God's saving Messiah, Christ.

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 So, what does it mean for us to be attuned to the grand drama?

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 Well, it means that the chemist cannot be exclusively consumed with her experiments,

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 nor the artist be forever absorbed with her canvases,

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 nor the geologist with her rocks,

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 nor the historian with manuscripts, Kevin,

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 nor the philosopher with their puzzles,

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 for such would be utterly out of touch

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 with the supreme fact that we are caught up in a grand drama.

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 And so, the Christian baker cannot simply coax out the treasure of wheat, rye, barley, and yeast,

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 but will also herald the news that Jesus is the bread of life.

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 Neither may the Christian electrician simply install light bulbs,

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 though she will attempt to do them well,

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 she will also testify to the light of the world, Christ.

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 Nor must the Christian cobbler merely make shoes,

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 make them well as he will.

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 His feet must be shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.

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 Anything less would be to be completely out of step with the drama that we inhabit.

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 And what of our witness-bearing role in the drama?

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 I mean, should we think of it as an insignificant role, really?

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 Or is it a leading role in the drama?

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 Well, let's think in terms of the unfolding drama of witness to Christ

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 and our place in that story.

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 Let's think of some of the protagonists together.

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 Who are some of the great witness-bearers to Christ the Messiah?

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 Well, there was Moses,

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 who testified of one who would come after him

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 and speak God's words to the people.

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 In Deuteronomy 18, 15.

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 There's the prophet Micah in 5.2,

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 indicating where the Christ, the coming Christ, would be born.

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 It was that prophecy that led the wise men to Bethlehem.

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 The star just got him to the general region.

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 It was actually the scriptures that lead you.

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 Isaiah spoke of him as a suffering, sin-bearing servant, Isaiah 53.

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 These and many other Old Testament prophets

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 bore witness to the Christ who would come.

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 And the final, the final Old Testament prophet,

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 John the Baptist, Jesus identified,

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 this is Matthew 11, verse 11,

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 Jesus identified as the greatest of all the prophets.

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 Greatest in the sense of his witness to Christ.

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 You see, all the other former prophets

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 had a witness that was connotative.

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 The Christ that comes will be like this,

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 and like this, and like this,

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 and this will be true of him.

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 It was all connotative.

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 But John's witness was denitative.

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 This is he.

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 This is he.

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 Compared to all of his forebearers,

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 John's witness was the clearest,

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 and thus the greatest.

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 But remarkably, does anybody remember

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 what Jesus goes on to say after that?

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 Remember?

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 Remember?

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 He says,

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 John the Baptist,

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 the greatest of all of the prophets,

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 but the least in the kingdom of God

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 is greater than he.

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 What?

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 The least in the kingdom of God?

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 The least of us,

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 New Testament saints,

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 greater than John the Baptist?

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 In what sense?

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 In what sense?

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 In what sense could we be greater than John the Baptist?

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 Well, in the same sense in which

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 John the Baptist was greater than all the other prophets?

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 In terms of the articulateness of his witness to Christ.

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 And Jesus is telling us that the least of us,

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 New Testament saints,

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 because of where we are in the unfolding drama,

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 and what we know about Christ in his great salvation,

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 we can give witness to Christ more articulate than John the Baptist,

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 and all of the preceding prophets.

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 Oh, friends, does this not give us strong encouragement to bear our witness?

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 May our attunement to the great drama energize us in our testimony to Christ.

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 Let's live in that drama.

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 Let it deep die our consciousness and shape our imaginaries.

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 And there will be a natural and inevitable flow of witness as it does.

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 So, attunement to the great drama, from that flows our witness.

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 But also, our witness is impelled by our love of neighbor.

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 Impelled by our love of neighbor.

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 Friends, we follow a master who is full of compassion and love for the lost.

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 Matthew records in 9.37,

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 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them,

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 because they were harassed and helpless,

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 like sheep without a shepherd.

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 And this description of spiritual destitution of the lost

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 is cast in such vivid language.

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 The word rendered here in our translation, harassed,

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 originally meant flayed, mangled,

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 and came to indicate vexed with weariness and sorrow and worry.

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 In B.B. Warfield's classic work,

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 The Emotional Life of Our Lord,

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 much of the discussion of that long essay

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 is devoted to Jesus' remarkable compassion and love for the lost.

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 To his disciples,

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 after the encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well,

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 he urges,

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 Look up, I tell you.

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 Lift up your eyes

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 and see that the fields are white for the harvest.

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 John 4.35,

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 So often I confess that I see,

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 or I think I see,

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 not the whiteness of readiness for harvest,

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 rather the darkness of hardness of heart,

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 the opposition of devotion to sin in my neighbors,

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 rather than the oppression of the devastation of sin.

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 You see the difference?

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 What is my impulsive heart response to my lost neighbors?

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 What catches my eye and holds my gaze?

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 One of our daughters, I won't name which one,

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 when young, would sit on our stairs,

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 concealed there,

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 and listen to the conversations that we would have

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 in our living room with those who were present.

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 And when the guests left,

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 she'd finally come down,

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 and then she'd go around just from memory

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 by the different voices

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 and characterize each speaker that she had overheard.

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 And quite insightfully and incisively,

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 but often very critically.

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 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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 Whoa, daughter.

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 She was very young.

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 Whoa, daughter.

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 What is fundamentally true

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 about each one of our guests

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 who are here with us tonight?

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 They're sinners, Daddy.

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 More fundamental.

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 More fundamental than that.

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 All right, Dad.

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 They're in the image of God.

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 Yes, daughter.

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 Dearest daughter.

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 Make it your practice

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 when you encounter a son of Adam

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 or a daughter of Eve

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 to spend the first ten minutes

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 discovering and delighting

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 delighting in how they reflect the image of God.

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 It will make your encounters

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 much more fruitful

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 and your life much more joyful

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 if you do so.

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 I'm struck by a phrase in Mark's account

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 of Jesus' encounter with a rich young ruler.

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 Do you remember it?

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 Mark 10, 21, Mark says,

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 Jesus, looking at him, loved him.

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 He saw something lovely in him

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 and his heart went out to him.

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 Brothers and sisters,

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 I fear that sometimes this is not us

00:26:27.059 --> 00:26:28.619
 at our best.

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 We have not lately been known for love

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 when it comes to the unbelievers around us.

00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:41.639
 I remember asking some of my unbelieving

00:26:41.639 --> 00:26:43.279
 new friends at the gym,

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:47.519
 hey, if you could ask

00:26:47.519 --> 00:26:50.099
 evangelical Christians

00:26:50.099 --> 00:26:53.019
 anything you would want to ask,

00:26:53.619 --> 00:26:55.139
 what would you want to ask them

00:26:55.139 --> 00:26:56.379
 if you had a question for them?

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 And one of them immediately responded,

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 I'd ask them,

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 why do you hate us so much?

00:27:03.159 --> 00:27:04.759
 Why do you hate us so much?

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 Isn't that sad?

00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:13.599
 I recently asked a sauna full of unbelievers,

00:27:13.920 --> 00:27:16.279
 hey, if you could take all of your experiences,

00:27:16.400 --> 00:27:18.720
 all your encounters with Christians,

00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:21.740
 kind of squeeze into a Rorschach ink blotch,

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 and then just freely associate,

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 what would you see?

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 Come on, tell me, what would you see?

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 You know, I can't even repeat it.

00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:32.579
 It was so unflattering.

00:27:32.579 --> 00:27:36.059
 Now, this is not everybody,

00:27:36.179 --> 00:27:37.819
 and I know there are just luminous,

00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:39.839
 luminous exceptions of this.

00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:41.679
 Just this morning,

00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:44.460
 I was praying that my widowed mother,

00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:46.179
 who was running into some hard times,

00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:47.619
 would find a way to church,

00:27:47.740 --> 00:27:48.500
 it would be a new church,

00:27:48.579 --> 00:27:50.279
 and someone would befriend her.

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 And when I called her,

00:27:51.939 --> 00:27:53.539
 she was at someone's house from the church

00:27:53.539 --> 00:27:55.279
 who had invited her to lunch,

00:27:55.299 --> 00:27:56.099
 and they were sitting down

00:27:56.099 --> 00:27:58.279
 for a nice roast beef Sunday dinner.

00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:00.119
 So, oh, people of God,

00:28:00.460 --> 00:28:02.240
 you do it so well.

00:28:02.740 --> 00:28:03.799
 You do it so well.

00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:07.220
 But let's try to abound still more

00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:09.379
 in this area.

00:28:11.759 --> 00:28:13.660
 What if, instead,

00:28:14.339 --> 00:28:16.039
 we were to gain the reputation

00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:18.819
 for having a keen eye

00:28:18.819 --> 00:28:21.759
 for the virtues of others around us,

00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:24.079
 and a readiness to affirm them?

00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:26.679
 What if we became known

00:28:26.679 --> 00:28:29.240
 for speaking over our neighbors

00:28:29.240 --> 00:28:31.939
 their love-worthy qualities,

00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:34.859
 and sincerely and routinely

00:28:34.859 --> 00:28:37.720
 complimenting them whenever we can?

00:28:39.699 --> 00:28:41.960
 Shall we despise them

00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:44.619
 for their waywardness and sinfulness?

00:28:45.619 --> 00:28:48.720
 Wait, but doesn't our understanding of grace

00:28:48.720 --> 00:28:53.259
 forbid looking down on any sinner?

00:28:53.259 --> 00:28:58.799
 For what causes us to differ

00:28:58.799 --> 00:29:00.059
 from anyone else,

00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:01.019
 presses the apostle.

00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:03.200
 And what do you have?

00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:04.579
 What do we have

00:29:04.579 --> 00:29:06.400
 that we have not received?

00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:07.839
 1 Corinthians 4.7.

00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:10.279
 Or 1 Corinthians 15.

00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:10.839
 Paul says,

00:29:11.059 --> 00:29:12.240
 By the grace of God,

00:29:12.299 --> 00:29:13.279
 I am what I am.

00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:16.259
 John Newton, in his memoirs,

00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:18.440
 impresses this same point

00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:21.220
 with a vivid illustration.

00:29:22.019 --> 00:29:22.839
 He writes this.

00:29:23.259 --> 00:29:26.379
 Speaking of our relation to unbelievers,

00:29:27.119 --> 00:29:28.460
 those who believe

00:29:28.460 --> 00:29:30.619
 the doctrines of sovereign grace

00:29:30.619 --> 00:29:33.180
 act inconsistently

00:29:33.180 --> 00:29:34.259
 with their own principles

00:29:34.259 --> 00:29:35.759
 when they are angry

00:29:35.759 --> 00:29:37.720
 at the defects of others.

00:29:38.720 --> 00:29:39.879
 A company of travelers

00:29:39.879 --> 00:29:40.799
 fall into a pit.

00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:42.799
 One of them gets a passerby

00:29:42.799 --> 00:29:44.460
 to draw him out.

00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:47.000
 Now, he would not be angry

00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:48.500
 with the rest for falling in,

00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:51.379
 nor because they are not yet out,

00:29:51.380 --> 00:29:52.280
 as he is.

00:29:52.280 --> 00:29:54.680
 He didn't pull himself out.

00:29:55.600 --> 00:29:56.420
 Instead, therefore,

00:29:56.540 --> 00:29:58.240
 of approaching them,

00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:00.300
 he should show them pity.

00:30:01.300 --> 00:30:02.280
 In the same way,

00:30:02.360 --> 00:30:03.060
 Newton continues,

00:30:03.300 --> 00:30:04.760
 a truly saved one

00:30:04.760 --> 00:30:07.280
 will no more despise others

00:30:07.280 --> 00:30:08.580
 than blind Bartimaeus,

00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:10.260
 after his own eyes were opened,

00:30:10.520 --> 00:30:12.140
 would take a stick

00:30:12.140 --> 00:30:15.020
 and beat every blind man he met.

00:30:15.019 --> 00:30:18.119
 Yeah, it's true.

00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:21.240
 But, we might object,

00:30:21.379 --> 00:30:23.559
 this is not Newton anymore.

00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:24.519
 We might object,

00:30:24.619 --> 00:30:26.339
 yeah, but these unbelievers

00:30:26.339 --> 00:30:28.660
 live immoral and misdirected lives,

00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:30.319
 which deserve God's judgment.

00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:34.339
 Yes, God's judgment,

00:30:35.299 --> 00:30:36.079
 not ours.

00:30:37.019 --> 00:30:38.619
 We're not to judge outsiders.

00:30:38.619 --> 00:30:41.619
 And would ourselves

00:30:41.619 --> 00:30:43.679
 only deserve God's judgment

00:30:43.679 --> 00:30:45.659
 as outsiders to Christ?

00:30:47.179 --> 00:30:49.179
 As the apostle writes to the Corinthians,

00:30:49.339 --> 00:30:50.899
 in 1 Corinthians 5, 12,

00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:54.199
 for what do I have to do

00:30:54.199 --> 00:30:55.899
 with judging outsiders?

00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:00.779
 Is it not those inside the church

00:31:00.779 --> 00:31:02.279
 whom we are to judge?

00:31:02.899 --> 00:31:05.819
 God judges those outside.

00:31:05.819 --> 00:31:09.759
 So, how do we engage

00:31:09.759 --> 00:31:10.960
 our unbelieving neighbors?

00:31:11.779 --> 00:31:14.419
 I love to generate an image

00:31:14.419 --> 00:31:17.319
 from Psalm 126, verse 6.

00:31:18.259 --> 00:31:21.200
 We go about them weeping,

00:31:22.259 --> 00:31:23.740
 bearing our seed for sowing.

00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:26.759
 We sow the seed of our witness,

00:31:27.019 --> 00:31:29.179
 and we water that seed

00:31:29.179 --> 00:31:32.059
 with our tears of compassion and love,

00:31:32.819 --> 00:31:34.679
 in the hope, indeed confidence,

00:31:34.680 --> 00:31:36.900
 that the powerful work

00:31:36.900 --> 00:31:38.299
 of the Spirit

00:31:38.299 --> 00:31:39.759
 shall one,

00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:41.320
 as a result of that,

00:31:41.580 --> 00:31:43.900
 we shall one day come home

00:31:43.900 --> 00:31:45.820
 with shouts of joy,

00:31:47.120 --> 00:31:49.480
 surrounded by the sheaves

00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:50.920
 of a great harvest

00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:54.000
 that the great Lord of the harvest

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:56.460
 has wrought among us.

00:31:57.700 --> 00:31:58.060
 So,

00:31:58.640 --> 00:31:59.460
 we,

00:32:00.060 --> 00:32:00.880
 our witness flows

00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:03.160
 from love of our neighbor.

00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:06.240
 our witness is also

00:32:06.240 --> 00:32:08.380
 a central aspect,

00:32:08.500 --> 00:32:09.060
 four,

00:32:09.580 --> 00:32:12.360
 of our praise

00:32:12.360 --> 00:32:13.759
 of our Savior.

00:32:14.580 --> 00:32:15.800
 Our praise of our Savior.

00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:17.500
 As Peter wrote,

00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:18.680
 mightily encouraging

00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:19.920
 the exiled believers,

00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:22.880
 you are a chosen race,

00:32:23.060 --> 00:32:24.000
 a royal priesthood,

00:32:24.140 --> 00:32:25.019
 a holy nation,

00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:26.700
 a people for his own possession,

00:32:27.100 --> 00:32:29.000
 that you may proclaim

00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:30.860
 the excellencies of him

00:32:30.859 --> 00:32:32.659
 who has called you out of darkness

00:32:32.659 --> 00:32:35.819
 and into his marvelous light.

00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:37.779
 First Peter 2.9.

00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:40.959
 We are to proclaim

00:32:40.959 --> 00:32:42.659
 the excellencies of him

00:32:42.659 --> 00:32:43.879
 who called us out of darkness

00:32:43.879 --> 00:32:45.939
 and into his marvelous light.

00:32:47.399 --> 00:32:48.279
 Isn't that interesting?

00:32:48.479 --> 00:32:48.699
 Why,

00:32:48.779 --> 00:32:49.819
 that seems like

00:32:49.819 --> 00:32:51.000
 a simultaneous

00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:52.719
 description

00:32:52.719 --> 00:32:54.579
 of gospel witness

00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:55.939
 proclaiming him

00:32:55.940 --> 00:32:57.480
 and praise

00:32:57.480 --> 00:32:58.980
 his excellencies.

00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:01.799
 Hard to pull him apart there.

00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:03.200
 And,

00:33:03.320 --> 00:33:04.400
 that's no surprise,

00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:05.960
 for we rightly

00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:06.900
 think

00:33:06.900 --> 00:33:08.380
 of our declaration

00:33:08.380 --> 00:33:08.960
 of Christ

00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:09.860
 as Savior,

00:33:10.080 --> 00:33:10.380
 that is,

00:33:10.660 --> 00:33:11.480
 witness bearing,

00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:13.059
 as a species

00:33:13.059 --> 00:33:15.240
 or a family member

00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:16.740
 of praise.

00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:17.980
 It's praise.

00:33:18.980 --> 00:33:20.360
 It exalts Christ.

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:22.259
 It holds him forth

00:33:22.259 --> 00:33:24.660
 by holding him up.

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:26.460
 And,

00:33:26.539 --> 00:33:27.200
 is this not

00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:27.940
 the natural,

00:33:28.039 --> 00:33:28.660
 one might say

00:33:28.660 --> 00:33:30.319
 even irrepressible,

00:33:30.980 --> 00:33:32.059
 bubbling up

00:33:32.059 --> 00:33:33.720
 of testimony?

00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:34.819
 And,

00:33:34.879 --> 00:33:35.279
 if you feel

00:33:35.279 --> 00:33:36.539
 the Lord has done

00:33:36.539 --> 00:33:37.900
 great things for us

00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:39.099
 and we are filled

00:33:39.099 --> 00:33:40.000
 with joy,

00:33:40.420 --> 00:33:41.039
 it's hard not

00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:42.099
 to express that joy

00:33:42.099 --> 00:33:43.559
 in praise.

00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:50.359
 And,

00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:53.399
 this is,

00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:54.439
 this sort of

00:33:54.439 --> 00:33:55.419
 natural,

00:33:55.779 --> 00:33:56.419
 irrepressible,

00:33:56.599 --> 00:33:57.059
 bubbling up

00:33:57.059 --> 00:33:57.759
 of testimony.

00:33:58.919 --> 00:34:00.039
 Why did I say that?

00:34:01.259 --> 00:34:01.959
 Think of,

00:34:02.219 --> 00:34:02.719
 think of

00:34:02.719 --> 00:34:03.539
 having just been

00:34:03.539 --> 00:34:04.219
 delivered

00:34:04.219 --> 00:34:05.119
 from the bondage

00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:05.639
 of Egypt

00:34:05.639 --> 00:34:06.500
 through a

00:34:06.500 --> 00:34:07.559
 Red Sea escape.

00:34:08.279 --> 00:34:08.799
 Isn't it

00:34:08.799 --> 00:34:10.420
 kind of instinctive

00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:11.739
 that like Miriam,

00:34:12.219 --> 00:34:13.119
 we just look around

00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:14.279
 and grab the timbrel

00:34:14.279 --> 00:34:15.139
 and then

00:34:15.139 --> 00:34:16.619
 take up the dance

00:34:16.619 --> 00:34:18.079
 and take up a song?

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:18.920
 It just,

00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:20.079
 just seems natural

00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:20.799
 to do this.

00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:21.380
 And,

00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:22.299
 witness bearing,

00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:23.880
 it's the

00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:25.619
 bubbling up

00:34:25.619 --> 00:34:26.739
 of the

00:34:26.739 --> 00:34:27.799
 fizz

00:34:27.799 --> 00:34:29.440
 of wonder

00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:31.079
 and joy

00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:32.940
 at God's

00:34:32.940 --> 00:34:33.699
 salvation.

00:34:34.980 --> 00:34:35.980
 Here's how

00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:36.719
 Spurgeon

00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:37.599
 expressed it.

00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:39.960
 When the Lord

00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:40.739
 first pardoned

00:34:40.739 --> 00:34:41.400
 my sin,

00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:43.019
 I was so

00:34:43.019 --> 00:34:43.699
 joyous,

00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:45.279
 I could scarce

00:34:45.279 --> 00:34:46.139
 refrain from

00:34:46.139 --> 00:34:46.639
 dancing.

00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:48.099
 I thought

00:34:48.099 --> 00:34:48.679
 on my road

00:34:48.679 --> 00:34:49.119
 home from

00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:49.519
 the house

00:34:49.519 --> 00:34:49.879
 where I had

00:34:49.879 --> 00:34:50.179
 been set

00:34:50.179 --> 00:34:50.539
 at liberty

00:34:50.539 --> 00:34:51.519
 that I

00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:52.339
 must tell

00:34:52.339 --> 00:34:53.539
 the stones

00:34:53.539 --> 00:34:54.619
 in the street

00:34:54.619 --> 00:34:55.879
 the story

00:34:55.879 --> 00:34:56.259
 of my

00:34:56.259 --> 00:34:56.900
 deliverance.

00:34:57.739 --> 00:34:58.859
 So full

00:34:58.859 --> 00:34:59.400
 was my

00:34:59.400 --> 00:35:00.079
 soul of

00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:00.519
 joy

00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:01.500
 that I

00:35:01.500 --> 00:35:02.099
 wanted to

00:35:02.099 --> 00:35:02.440
 tell

00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:04.199
 every snowflake

00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:04.539
 that was

00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:05.420
 falling from

00:35:05.420 --> 00:35:05.719
 heaven

00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:06.519
 of the

00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:07.119
 wondrous

00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:07.839
 love of

00:35:07.839 --> 00:35:08.239
 Jesus

00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:09.440
 who had

00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:09.879
 blotted

00:35:09.879 --> 00:35:10.420
 out the

00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:10.819
 sins

00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:11.860
 of one

00:35:11.860 --> 00:35:12.120
 of the

00:35:12.120 --> 00:35:12.559
 chief

00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:12.760
 of

00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:13.160
 rebels.

00:35:14.059 --> 00:35:14.380
 This is

00:35:14.380 --> 00:35:14.660
 from his

00:35:14.660 --> 00:35:15.080
 morning and

00:35:15.080 --> 00:35:15.380
 evening

00:35:15.380 --> 00:35:16.120
 February

00:35:16.120 --> 00:35:17.140
 1st.

00:35:18.140 --> 00:35:18.620
 Praise

00:35:18.620 --> 00:35:20.280
 and with

00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:21.180
 it witness

00:35:21.180 --> 00:35:21.680
 bearing

00:35:21.680 --> 00:35:23.400
 is inner

00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:24.220
 joy

00:35:24.220 --> 00:35:25.500
 made audible.

00:35:26.059 --> 00:35:26.580
 Inner

00:35:26.580 --> 00:35:27.220
 joy

00:35:27.220 --> 00:35:28.580
 made audible.

00:35:29.960 --> 00:35:30.539
 And my

00:35:30.539 --> 00:35:30.960
 aim here

00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:31.559
 is not

00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:32.140
 to make

00:35:32.140 --> 00:35:32.920
 anyone

00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:33.660
 among us

00:35:33.660 --> 00:35:34.280
 feel bad

00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:34.660
 if we don't

00:35:34.660 --> 00:35:35.300
 have much

00:35:35.300 --> 00:35:35.760
 of this,

00:35:35.820 --> 00:35:36.559
 many bubbles

00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:37.180
 if you will.

00:35:37.660 --> 00:35:38.380
 Rather it's

00:35:38.380 --> 00:35:38.920
 just to

00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:39.860
 point out

00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:40.519
 the bubbling

00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:41.460
 spring.

00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:43.340
 And some

00:35:43.340 --> 00:35:43.740
 of us,

00:35:43.780 --> 00:35:44.260
 I know I

00:35:44.260 --> 00:35:44.760
 do often,

00:35:44.980 --> 00:35:45.740
 I just go

00:35:45.740 --> 00:35:47.340
 around dehydrated

00:35:47.340 --> 00:35:49.820
 and I need

00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:50.340
 to drink

00:35:50.340 --> 00:35:50.960
 deeply

00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:52.420
 from God's

00:35:52.420 --> 00:35:53.519
 saving grace

00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:54.980
 in my

00:35:54.980 --> 00:35:55.500
 life.

00:35:56.599 --> 00:35:57.579
 So let's

00:35:57.579 --> 00:35:58.599
 carry around

00:35:58.599 --> 00:35:59.559
 the picture

00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:00.220
 of our

00:36:00.220 --> 00:36:00.820
 beloved

00:36:00.820 --> 00:36:01.860
 in the

00:36:01.860 --> 00:36:02.460
 locket

00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:02.980
 of our

00:36:02.980 --> 00:36:03.559
 memories

00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:05.940
 and often

00:36:05.940 --> 00:36:06.860
 open it

00:36:06.860 --> 00:36:08.039
 up to

00:36:08.039 --> 00:36:09.079
 gaze upon

00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:09.380
 him.

00:36:09.860 --> 00:36:11.579
 I have

00:36:11.579 --> 00:36:13.720
 someone's

00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:14.200
 picture on

00:36:14.200 --> 00:36:14.640
 my cell

00:36:14.640 --> 00:36:14.920
 phone

00:36:14.920 --> 00:36:17.680
 and when

00:36:17.680 --> 00:36:18.380
 I see

00:36:18.380 --> 00:36:19.039
 that picture

00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:19.820
 my heart

00:36:19.820 --> 00:36:20.640
 leaps

00:36:20.640 --> 00:36:22.160
 and it's

00:36:22.160 --> 00:36:23.260
 hard not

00:36:23.260 --> 00:36:23.940
 to muse

00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:24.700
 about her

00:36:24.700 --> 00:36:25.820
 which puts

00:36:25.820 --> 00:36:26.260
 me in a

00:36:26.260 --> 00:36:27.039
 frame to

00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:27.400
 want to

00:36:27.400 --> 00:36:28.340
 speak about

00:36:28.340 --> 00:36:28.640
 her.

00:36:29.240 --> 00:36:29.519
 And when

00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:30.200
 I do

00:36:30.200 --> 00:36:31.140
 what comes

00:36:31.140 --> 00:36:31.780
 across

00:36:31.780 --> 00:36:32.480
 is that

00:36:32.480 --> 00:36:33.360
 it's

00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:34.860
 really easy

00:36:34.860 --> 00:36:35.480
 to like

00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:36.640
 her and

00:36:36.640 --> 00:36:37.680
 it's hard

00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:38.919
 not to

00:36:38.919 --> 00:36:39.480
 love her.

00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:40.879
 And in

00:36:40.879 --> 00:36:41.679
 this respect

00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:43.359
 praise

00:36:43.359 --> 00:36:44.579
 and its

00:36:44.579 --> 00:36:45.859
 family member

00:36:45.859 --> 00:36:46.500
 witness

00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:46.980
 bearing

00:36:46.980 --> 00:36:48.619
 is not

00:36:48.619 --> 00:36:49.019
 just

00:36:49.019 --> 00:36:50.079
 natural

00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:51.319
 but it's

00:36:51.319 --> 00:36:52.059
 self-

00:36:52.059 --> 00:36:53.460
 energizing

00:36:53.460 --> 00:36:55.000
 and self-

00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:56.339
 accentuating.

00:36:56.339 --> 00:36:57.019
 It just gets

00:36:57.019 --> 00:36:57.779
 richer and

00:36:57.779 --> 00:36:58.099
 deeper

00:36:58.099 --> 00:36:59.099
 the more

00:36:59.099 --> 00:36:59.500
 we give

00:36:59.500 --> 00:36:59.919
 it vent.

00:36:59.920 --> 00:37:01.659
 What C.S. Lewis

00:37:01.659 --> 00:37:02.579
 writes of

00:37:02.579 --> 00:37:04.360
 praise is

00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:05.280
 also true

00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:06.300
 of witness

00:37:06.300 --> 00:37:06.680
 bearing.

00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:07.079
 Again,

00:37:07.380 --> 00:37:08.220
 same species.

00:37:09.000 --> 00:37:10.480
 It augments

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:11.639
 our delight

00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:12.400
 in Christ.

00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:13.200
 It helps

00:37:13.200 --> 00:37:14.180
 to compound

00:37:14.180 --> 00:37:16.099
 and even

00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:17.539
 complete it.

00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:19.260
 Lewis writes,

00:37:19.380 --> 00:37:20.119
 and this is from

00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:20.680
 his reflections

00:37:20.680 --> 00:37:21.360
 on the Psalms,

00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:23.260
 I think

00:37:23.260 --> 00:37:24.380
 we delight

00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:25.099
 to praise

00:37:25.099 --> 00:37:25.579
 what we

00:37:25.579 --> 00:37:26.360
 enjoy

00:37:26.360 --> 00:37:28.000
 because the

00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:28.340
 praise

00:37:28.340 --> 00:37:29.519
 not merely

00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:30.880
 expresses

00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:32.519
 but

00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:33.500
 completes

00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:34.340
 the

00:37:34.340 --> 00:37:34.840
 enjoyment.

00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:36.500
 It is

00:37:36.500 --> 00:37:36.680
 its

00:37:36.680 --> 00:37:37.240
 appointed

00:37:37.240 --> 00:37:38.340
 consummation.

00:37:39.380 --> 00:37:40.099
 It's not

00:37:40.099 --> 00:37:40.420
 out of

00:37:40.420 --> 00:37:40.920
 compliment

00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:41.559
 that lovers

00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:42.180
 keep telling

00:37:42.180 --> 00:37:42.640
 one another

00:37:42.640 --> 00:37:43.400
 how beautiful

00:37:43.400 --> 00:37:44.059
 they are.

00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:45.720
 The delight

00:37:45.720 --> 00:37:46.640
 is incomplete

00:37:46.640 --> 00:37:47.440
 till it

00:37:47.440 --> 00:37:48.480
 is expressed.

00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:50.720
 It's

00:37:50.719 --> 00:37:51.419
 frustrating

00:37:51.419 --> 00:37:52.039
 to have

00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:52.519
 discovered

00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:52.859
 a new

00:37:52.859 --> 00:37:53.299
 author,

00:37:53.439 --> 00:37:54.059
 Lewis writes,

00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:54.699
 and not

00:37:54.699 --> 00:37:55.059
 to be able

00:37:55.059 --> 00:37:55.439
 to tell

00:37:55.439 --> 00:37:55.759
 anyone

00:37:55.759 --> 00:37:56.239
 how good

00:37:56.239 --> 00:37:56.899
 he is.

00:37:57.719 --> 00:37:58.219
 To come

00:37:58.219 --> 00:37:58.599
 suddenly

00:37:58.599 --> 00:37:58.879
 at the

00:37:58.879 --> 00:37:59.119
 turn of

00:37:59.119 --> 00:37:59.419
 a road

00:37:59.419 --> 00:37:59.699
 upon

00:37:59.699 --> 00:38:00.179
 some

00:38:00.179 --> 00:38:00.439
 mountain

00:38:00.439 --> 00:38:00.759
 valley

00:38:00.759 --> 00:38:00.919
 of

00:38:00.919 --> 00:38:01.819
 unexpected

00:38:01.819 --> 00:38:02.519
 grandeur

00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:03.459
 and then

00:38:03.459 --> 00:38:03.719
 to have

00:38:03.719 --> 00:38:04.000
 to keep

00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:04.439
 silent

00:38:04.439 --> 00:38:04.739
 because

00:38:04.739 --> 00:38:05.139
 the

00:38:05.139 --> 00:38:05.480
 people

00:38:05.480 --> 00:38:05.719
 with

00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:05.859
 you

00:38:05.859 --> 00:38:06.379
 care

00:38:06.379 --> 00:38:06.699
 for it

00:38:06.699 --> 00:38:07.239
 no more

00:38:07.239 --> 00:38:07.399
 than

00:38:07.399 --> 00:38:07.779
 for a

00:38:07.779 --> 00:38:08.019
 tin

00:38:08.019 --> 00:38:08.339
 can

00:38:08.339 --> 00:38:08.519
 in

00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:08.679
 the

00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:09.159
 ditch.

00:38:10.419 --> 00:38:10.779
 To hear

00:38:10.779 --> 00:38:11.059
 a good

00:38:11.059 --> 00:38:11.419
 joke

00:38:11.419 --> 00:38:11.939
 and to

00:38:11.939 --> 00:38:12.079
 find

00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:12.579
 no one

00:38:12.579 --> 00:38:12.959
 to share

00:38:12.959 --> 00:38:13.119
 it

00:38:13.119 --> 00:38:13.480
 with.

00:38:16.159 --> 00:38:16.639
 Michael

00:38:16.639 --> 00:38:17.159
 Green

00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:17.500
 in his

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:18.399
 classic

00:38:18.399 --> 00:38:18.699
 work

00:38:18.699 --> 00:38:19.599
 Evangelism

00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:19.839
 in the

00:38:19.839 --> 00:38:20.079
 early

00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:20.500
 church

00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:21.300
 speaks

00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:21.639
 of the

00:38:21.639 --> 00:38:21.880
 first

00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:22.460
 Christians

00:38:22.460 --> 00:38:23.940
 gossiping

00:38:23.940 --> 00:38:24.139
 the

00:38:24.139 --> 00:38:24.579
 gospel.

00:38:25.380 --> 00:38:25.960
 What a

00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:26.519
 great

00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:27.340
 phrase.

00:38:27.599 --> 00:38:28.400
 Gossiping

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:28.599
 the

00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:29.039
 gospel.

00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:29.760
 The

00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:30.239
 gospel

00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:30.800
 just

00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:31.639
 bubbled

00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:32.079
 up

00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:33.139
 everywhere

00:38:33.139 --> 00:38:34.380
 for their

00:38:34.380 --> 00:38:35.059
 witness

00:38:35.059 --> 00:38:35.420
 bearing

00:38:35.420 --> 00:38:36.099
 was a

00:38:36.099 --> 00:38:36.639
 form of

00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:37.440
 praise.

00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:38.199
 The

00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:38.519
 wonder

00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:39.079
 and joy

00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:39.900
 of their

00:38:39.900 --> 00:38:40.579
 Savior

00:38:40.579 --> 00:38:41.099
 just

00:38:41.099 --> 00:38:41.719
 ever

00:38:41.719 --> 00:38:42.480
 vesting.

00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:43.360
 Ever

00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:43.820
 vesting.

00:38:43.820 --> 00:38:45.760
 What

00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:46.019
 they were

00:38:46.019 --> 00:38:46.240
 doing

00:38:46.240 --> 00:38:46.400
 was

00:38:46.400 --> 00:38:46.700
 just

00:38:46.700 --> 00:38:47.019
 simply

00:38:47.019 --> 00:38:47.680
 praising

00:38:47.680 --> 00:38:48.080
 God

00:38:48.080 --> 00:38:48.260
 in

00:38:48.260 --> 00:38:48.720
 public.

00:38:49.400 --> 00:38:49.640
 That

00:38:49.640 --> 00:38:49.840
 was

00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:50.080
 their

00:38:50.080 --> 00:38:50.519
 witness.

00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:53.280
 So

00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:54.539
 our

00:38:54.539 --> 00:38:55.140
 witness

00:38:55.140 --> 00:38:55.900
 flows

00:38:55.900 --> 00:38:56.160
 from

00:38:56.160 --> 00:38:56.680
 praise

00:38:56.680 --> 00:38:57.000
 of the

00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:57.280
 Savior.

00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:58.440
 And

00:38:58.440 --> 00:38:58.940
 finally

00:38:58.940 --> 00:39:00.059
 our

00:39:00.059 --> 00:39:01.220
 witness

00:39:01.220 --> 00:39:01.740
 bearing

00:39:01.740 --> 00:39:02.900
 arises

00:39:02.900 --> 00:39:03.460
 out

00:39:03.460 --> 00:39:03.920
 of

00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:04.640
 a

00:39:04.640 --> 00:39:05.280
 stirring

00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:05.780
 or a

00:39:05.780 --> 00:39:06.519
 spurring

00:39:06.519 --> 00:39:07.480
 of the

00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:07.880
 Spirit.

00:39:08.680 --> 00:39:08.940
 A

00:39:08.940 --> 00:39:09.240
 spurring

00:39:09.240 --> 00:39:09.539
 of the

00:39:09.539 --> 00:39:09.880
 Spirit.

00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:11.619
 The

00:39:11.619 --> 00:39:11.820
 Holy

00:39:11.820 --> 00:39:12.320
 Spirit's

00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:12.460
 a

00:39:12.460 --> 00:39:12.880
 missionary.

00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:14.079
 A

00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:14.420
 missionary

00:39:14.420 --> 00:39:15.340
 comes

00:39:15.340 --> 00:39:15.740
 from the

00:39:15.740 --> 00:39:15.960
 Latin

00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:16.900
 missio

00:39:16.900 --> 00:39:17.500
 to

00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:18.180
 send.

00:39:19.380 --> 00:39:19.820
 The

00:39:19.820 --> 00:39:20.160
 Spirit

00:39:20.160 --> 00:39:20.440
 was

00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:20.980
 sent

00:39:20.980 --> 00:39:21.559
 among

00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:22.300
 other

00:39:22.300 --> 00:39:23.079
 things

00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:23.500
 to

00:39:23.500 --> 00:39:23.860
 send

00:39:23.860 --> 00:39:24.300
 us

00:39:24.300 --> 00:39:24.680
 out

00:39:24.680 --> 00:39:24.980
 on

00:39:24.980 --> 00:39:25.440
 our

00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:25.900
 mission.

00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:27.440
 And

00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:27.619
 this

00:39:27.619 --> 00:39:27.760
 is

00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:28.019
 clear

00:39:28.019 --> 00:39:28.200
 from

00:39:28.200 --> 00:39:28.320
 the

00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:28.579
 opening

00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:28.740
 of

00:39:28.740 --> 00:39:29.160
 Acts

00:39:29.160 --> 00:39:29.559
 where

00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:29.940
 Jesus

00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:30.340
 tells

00:39:30.340 --> 00:39:30.559
 his

00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:31.099
 disciples

00:39:31.099 --> 00:39:31.599
 Acts

00:39:31.599 --> 00:39:32.039
 1-8

00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:32.599
 you

00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:32.860
 will

00:39:32.860 --> 00:39:33.280
 receive

00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:33.980
 power

00:39:33.980 --> 00:39:34.519
 when

00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:34.660
 the

00:39:34.660 --> 00:39:34.840
 Holy

00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:35.160
 Spirit

00:39:35.160 --> 00:39:35.360
 has

00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:35.559
 come

00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:35.860
 upon

00:39:35.860 --> 00:39:36.079
 you

00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:36.599
 and

00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:37.019
 you

00:39:37.019 --> 00:39:37.260
 will

00:39:37.260 --> 00:39:37.480
 be

00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:37.820
 my

00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:38.539
 witnesses.

00:39:38.539 --> 00:39:39.920
 Now

00:39:39.920 --> 00:39:40.279
 notice

00:39:40.279 --> 00:39:40.759
 that

00:39:40.759 --> 00:39:41.400
 link

00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:41.840
 between

00:39:41.840 --> 00:39:42.279
 the

00:39:42.279 --> 00:39:42.880
 Spirit's

00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:43.559
 empowering

00:39:43.559 --> 00:39:44.679
 and

00:39:44.679 --> 00:39:45.099
 witness

00:39:45.099 --> 00:39:45.460
 bearing.

00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:47.039
 And

00:39:47.039 --> 00:39:47.239
 this

00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:47.920
 pledge

00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:48.079
 of

00:39:48.079 --> 00:39:48.500
 the

00:39:48.500 --> 00:39:49.259
 empowering

00:39:49.259 --> 00:39:50.239
 witness

00:39:50.239 --> 00:39:50.980
 energizing

00:39:50.980 --> 00:39:51.639
 Spirit

00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:52.300
 was

00:39:52.300 --> 00:39:52.619
 made

00:39:52.619 --> 00:39:52.980
 good

00:39:52.980 --> 00:39:53.239
 at

00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:53.900
 Pentecost.

00:39:54.699 --> 00:39:55.059
 In

00:39:55.059 --> 00:39:55.480
 explanation

00:39:55.480 --> 00:39:56.000
 of that

00:39:56.000 --> 00:39:56.259
 event

00:39:56.259 --> 00:39:56.860
 Peter

00:39:56.860 --> 00:39:58.500
 references

00:39:58.500 --> 00:39:59.039
 the

00:39:59.039 --> 00:39:59.519
 prophecy

00:39:59.519 --> 00:39:59.779
 of

00:39:59.779 --> 00:40:00.480
 Joel

00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:01.259
 back

00:40:01.259 --> 00:40:01.440
 from

00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:02.039
 Joel 2

00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:02.559
 this is

00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:02.920
 in Acts

00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:03.480
 2

00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:05.139
 17-18

00:40:05.139 --> 00:40:06.340
 where

00:40:06.340 --> 00:40:06.840
 he

00:40:06.840 --> 00:40:07.400
 explains

00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:08.099
 this is

00:40:08.099 --> 00:40:08.639
 Peter

00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:09.679
 kind of

00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:10.079
 quoting

00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:10.980
 Joel's

00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:11.440
 prophecy

00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:12.500
 he says

00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:13.360
 and in

00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:13.920
 the last

00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:14.319
 days

00:40:14.319 --> 00:40:14.960
 it shall

00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:15.500
 be

00:40:15.500 --> 00:40:16.279
 God

00:40:16.279 --> 00:40:16.799
 declares

00:40:16.799 --> 00:40:18.259
 that I

00:40:18.259 --> 00:40:18.880
 will pour

00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:19.319
 out my

00:40:19.319 --> 00:40:19.759
 spirit

00:40:19.759 --> 00:40:20.719
 on all

00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:21.299
 flesh

00:40:21.299 --> 00:40:21.940
 and your

00:40:21.940 --> 00:40:22.579
 sons and

00:40:22.579 --> 00:40:22.920
 daughters

00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:23.199
 shall

00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:23.819
 prophesy

00:40:23.819 --> 00:40:25.179
 and your

00:40:25.179 --> 00:40:25.799
 young men

00:40:25.799 --> 00:40:26.159
 shall see

00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:26.619
 visions

00:40:26.619 --> 00:40:27.139
 and your

00:40:27.139 --> 00:40:27.579
 old men

00:40:27.579 --> 00:40:27.759
 shall

00:40:27.759 --> 00:40:28.179
 dream

00:40:28.179 --> 00:40:29.099
 dreams

00:40:29.099 --> 00:40:30.299
 even

00:40:30.299 --> 00:40:30.819
 on my

00:40:30.819 --> 00:40:31.159
 male

00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:31.599
 servants

00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:32.380
 and female

00:40:32.380 --> 00:40:33.239
 servants

00:40:33.239 --> 00:40:33.960
 in those

00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:34.299
 days

00:40:34.299 --> 00:40:35.099
 I will

00:40:35.099 --> 00:40:35.699
 pour out

00:40:35.699 --> 00:40:35.980
 my

00:40:35.980 --> 00:40:36.440
 spirit

00:40:36.440 --> 00:40:37.240
 and they

00:40:37.240 --> 00:40:37.920
 all

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:38.260
 shall

00:40:38.260 --> 00:40:39.079
 prophesy

00:40:39.079 --> 00:40:41.500
 so

00:40:41.500 --> 00:40:41.940
 Peter

00:40:41.940 --> 00:40:42.760
 recognized

00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:43.500
 Pentecost

00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:44.099
 the beginning

00:40:44.099 --> 00:40:44.360
 of the

00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:44.679
 church

00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:45.360
 our age

00:40:45.360 --> 00:40:46.880
 as the

00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:47.240
 beginning

00:40:47.240 --> 00:40:47.519
 of the

00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:48.019
 fulfillment

00:40:48.019 --> 00:40:48.619
 of this

00:40:48.619 --> 00:40:49.059
 vision

00:40:49.059 --> 00:40:49.800
 and this

00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:50.960
 helps us

00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:51.440
 in our

00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:52.059
 grasp

00:40:52.059 --> 00:40:52.800
 of Peter's

00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:53.700
 understanding

00:40:53.700 --> 00:40:54.780
 of how

00:40:54.780 --> 00:40:55.420
 God's

00:40:55.420 --> 00:40:56.220
 spirit

00:40:56.220 --> 00:40:57.000
 animated

00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:57.800
 new

00:40:57.800 --> 00:40:58.119
 covenant

00:40:58.119 --> 00:40:58.599
 people

00:40:58.599 --> 00:40:58.900
 would

00:40:58.900 --> 00:40:59.780
 prophesy

00:40:59.780 --> 00:41:01.680
 and

00:41:01.680 --> 00:41:02.040
 Peter

00:41:02.040 --> 00:41:04.160
 clearly

00:41:04.160 --> 00:41:04.700
 thinks

00:41:04.700 --> 00:41:05.080
 that this

00:41:05.080 --> 00:41:05.600
 prophesying

00:41:05.600 --> 00:41:06.260
 is important

00:41:06.260 --> 00:41:07.019
 as he

00:41:07.019 --> 00:41:07.620
 doubles

00:41:07.620 --> 00:41:08.500
 the single

00:41:08.500 --> 00:41:08.920
 reference

00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:09.340
 in Joel

00:41:09.340 --> 00:41:09.860
 and Joel's

00:41:09.860 --> 00:41:10.180
 text

00:41:10.180 --> 00:41:10.780
 prophesying

00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:11.160
 only comes

00:41:11.160 --> 00:41:11.640
 up once

00:41:11.640 --> 00:41:12.540
 when he

00:41:12.540 --> 00:41:12.940
 quotes it

00:41:12.940 --> 00:41:13.400
 he doubles

00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:14.040
 it

00:41:14.040 --> 00:41:15.780
 what did

00:41:15.780 --> 00:41:16.120
 Peter

00:41:16.120 --> 00:41:16.660
 take

00:41:16.660 --> 00:41:17.620
 prophesying

00:41:17.620 --> 00:41:18.960
 to mean

00:41:18.960 --> 00:41:21.060
 Peter's

00:41:21.060 --> 00:41:21.460
 citation

00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:22.000
 of Joel

00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:23.060
 stresses

00:41:23.060 --> 00:41:23.740
 you noted

00:41:23.740 --> 00:41:25.300
 that the

00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:25.920
 activity

00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:26.360
 of the

00:41:26.360 --> 00:41:26.960
 spirit

00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:27.800
 is on

00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:29.280
 all

00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:29.940
 of God's

00:41:29.940 --> 00:41:30.360
 people

00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:31.599
 sons

00:41:31.599 --> 00:41:32.380
 and daughters

00:41:32.380 --> 00:41:33.000
 young

00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:33.860
 and old

00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:34.500
 even

00:41:34.500 --> 00:41:35.440
 servants

00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:36.079
 implying

00:41:36.079 --> 00:41:36.800
 not simply

00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:37.119
 for the

00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:37.500
 special

00:41:37.500 --> 00:41:39.019
 everybody

00:41:39.019 --> 00:41:40.079
 in these

00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:41.000
 last days

00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:41.900
 all

00:41:41.900 --> 00:41:42.840
 God's

00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:43.159
 people

00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:43.800
 will have

00:41:43.800 --> 00:41:44.179
 his Holy

00:41:44.179 --> 00:41:44.500
 Spirit

00:41:44.500 --> 00:41:45.519
 and all

00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:46.300
 shall

00:41:46.300 --> 00:41:46.760
 prophesy

00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:47.380
 now

00:41:47.380 --> 00:41:48.179
 if we

00:41:48.179 --> 00:41:48.820
 understand

00:41:48.820 --> 00:41:49.579
 prophecy

00:41:49.579 --> 00:41:50.240
 here

00:41:50.240 --> 00:41:51.579
 as simply

00:41:51.579 --> 00:41:53.820
 foretelling

00:41:53.820 --> 00:41:54.960
 some sort

00:41:54.960 --> 00:41:55.559
 of future

00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:56.220
 event

00:41:56.219 --> 00:41:56.779
 as it

00:41:56.779 --> 00:41:57.459
 is commonly

00:41:57.459 --> 00:41:58.059
 taken

00:41:58.059 --> 00:41:59.659
 the obstacle

00:41:59.659 --> 00:42:00.399
 to understanding

00:42:00.399 --> 00:42:01.119
 it that way

00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:01.959
 is that

00:42:01.959 --> 00:42:02.980
 in Acts

00:42:02.980 --> 00:42:03.459
 that goes

00:42:03.459 --> 00:42:03.859
 on being

00:42:03.859 --> 00:42:04.279
 a witness

00:42:04.279 --> 00:42:05.219
 to what

00:42:05.219 --> 00:42:05.879
 was fulfilled

00:42:05.879 --> 00:42:06.579
 in Joel's

00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:06.959
 prophecy

00:42:06.959 --> 00:42:08.000
 in Acts

00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:09.019
 there are only

00:42:09.019 --> 00:42:09.739
 a few

00:42:09.739 --> 00:42:10.359
 occasions

00:42:10.359 --> 00:42:10.879
 where people

00:42:10.879 --> 00:42:11.379
 are actually

00:42:11.379 --> 00:42:12.019
 foretelling

00:42:12.019 --> 00:42:12.519
 things

00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:13.779
 four to be

00:42:13.779 --> 00:42:14.239
 specific

00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:15.199
 11 27

00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:16.059
 13 1

00:42:16.059 --> 00:42:16.799
 15 32

00:42:16.799 --> 00:42:17.559
 21 10

00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:18.899
 you can

00:42:18.899 --> 00:42:19.379
 just read

00:42:19.379 --> 00:42:19.619
 the whole

00:42:19.619 --> 00:42:19.939
 book

00:42:19.939 --> 00:42:22.259
 no

00:42:22.259 --> 00:42:23.859
 Peter

00:42:23.860 --> 00:42:24.440
 means

00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:24.940
 by

00:42:24.940 --> 00:42:26.360
 prophesying

00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:27.760
 not

00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:29.400
 exclusively

00:42:29.400 --> 00:42:30.000
 or not

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:30.840
 primarily

00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:32.280
 foretelling

00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:33.559
 but rather

00:42:33.559 --> 00:42:34.720
 forth

00:42:34.720 --> 00:42:35.660
 telling

00:42:35.660 --> 00:42:36.539
 of the

00:42:36.539 --> 00:42:37.059
 wonderful

00:42:37.059 --> 00:42:37.579
 news

00:42:37.579 --> 00:42:38.500
 of God's

00:42:38.500 --> 00:42:38.780
 saving

00:42:38.780 --> 00:42:39.200
 action

00:42:39.200 --> 00:42:39.680
 in Christ

00:42:39.680 --> 00:42:40.280
 he's

00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:40.720
 speaking

00:42:40.720 --> 00:42:41.480
 here about

00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:42.140
 witness

00:42:42.140 --> 00:42:42.539
 bearing

00:42:42.539 --> 00:42:44.240
 and the

00:42:44.240 --> 00:42:44.700
 outpoured

00:42:44.700 --> 00:42:45.519
 spirit

00:42:45.519 --> 00:42:46.340
 enables

00:42:46.340 --> 00:42:46.940
 each

00:42:46.940 --> 00:42:47.320
 and

00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:48.180
 every

00:42:48.180 --> 00:42:49.079
 disciple

00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:50.579
 powerfully

00:42:50.579 --> 00:42:51.519
 to bear

00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:51.900
 such

00:42:51.900 --> 00:42:52.519
 witness

00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:54.779
 solid

00:42:54.779 --> 00:42:55.199
 ground

00:42:55.199 --> 00:42:55.460
 here

00:42:55.460 --> 00:42:55.900
 solid

00:42:55.900 --> 00:42:56.259
 ground

00:42:56.259 --> 00:42:56.920
 exegetically

00:42:56.920 --> 00:42:58.299
 what does

00:42:58.299 --> 00:42:58.619
 that look

00:42:58.619 --> 00:42:58.920
 like

00:42:58.920 --> 00:42:59.960
 well the

00:42:59.960 --> 00:43:00.519
 whole book

00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:00.960
 of Acts

00:43:00.960 --> 00:43:01.639
 gives us

00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:02.279
 a picture

00:43:02.279 --> 00:43:02.940
 but we'll

00:43:02.940 --> 00:43:03.340
 just take

00:43:03.340 --> 00:43:04.599
 one glimpse

00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:05.179
 of one

00:43:05.179 --> 00:43:05.460
 little

00:43:05.460 --> 00:43:06.019
 instance

00:43:06.019 --> 00:43:06.440
 and only

00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:06.699
 that

00:43:06.699 --> 00:43:07.219
 partially

00:43:07.219 --> 00:43:08.880
 Philip

00:43:08.880 --> 00:43:09.880
 in his

00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:10.480
 connecting

00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:11.420
 with the

00:43:11.420 --> 00:43:12.099
 Ethiopian

00:43:12.099 --> 00:43:12.659
 in Acts

00:43:12.659 --> 00:43:13.480
 chapter 8

00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:15.420
 if you

00:43:15.420 --> 00:43:16.039
 turn up

00:43:16.039 --> 00:43:16.259
 there

00:43:16.259 --> 00:43:16.519
 if you

00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:16.940
 have it

00:43:16.940 --> 00:43:17.360
 Acts

00:43:17.360 --> 00:43:17.980
 chapter 8

00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:18.619
 I'll pick

00:43:18.619 --> 00:43:18.960
 up in

00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:20.320
 verse 26

00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:20.860
 we won't

00:43:20.860 --> 00:43:21.139
 read the

00:43:21.139 --> 00:43:21.539
 whole thing

00:43:21.539 --> 00:43:21.880
 we don't

00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:22.599
 have time

00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:23.280
 but I

00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:23.699
 commend it

00:43:23.699 --> 00:43:24.420
 to you

00:43:24.420 --> 00:43:25.380
 Acts 8

00:43:25.380 --> 00:43:25.960
 26

00:43:25.960 --> 00:43:26.940
 now an

00:43:26.940 --> 00:43:27.320
 angel of

00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:27.880
 the Lord

00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:29.199
 said to

00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:29.679
 Philip

00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:31.599
 rise and

00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:32.059
 go toward

00:43:32.059 --> 00:43:32.679
 the south

00:43:32.679 --> 00:43:33.380
 to the

00:43:33.380 --> 00:43:33.860
 road that

00:43:33.860 --> 00:43:34.440
 goes down

00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:35.039
 from Jerusalem

00:43:35.039 --> 00:43:35.619
 to Gaza

00:43:35.619 --> 00:43:37.019
 this is a

00:43:37.019 --> 00:43:37.900
 desert place

00:43:37.900 --> 00:43:40.139
 and incidentally

00:43:40.139 --> 00:43:41.119
 the angel of

00:43:41.119 --> 00:43:41.460
 the Lord

00:43:41.460 --> 00:43:42.699
 here is

00:43:42.699 --> 00:43:43.380
 subsequently

00:43:43.380 --> 00:43:44.579
 identified as

00:43:44.579 --> 00:43:45.199
 the Holy

00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:45.719
 Spirit

00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:46.219
 in verse

00:43:46.219 --> 00:43:46.659
 29

00:43:46.659 --> 00:43:47.460
 it's clear

00:43:47.460 --> 00:43:48.000
 that that's

00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:48.380
 what he

00:43:48.380 --> 00:43:48.599
 means

00:43:48.599 --> 00:43:49.119
 angel

00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:49.599
 messenger

00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:50.099
 of the

00:43:50.099 --> 00:43:50.300
 Lord

00:43:50.300 --> 00:43:52.539
 so

00:43:52.539 --> 00:43:53.280
 notice

00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:54.139
 the Holy

00:43:54.139 --> 00:43:55.480
 Spirit's

00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:56.500
 direct

00:43:56.500 --> 00:43:57.820
 prompting

00:43:57.820 --> 00:43:59.220
 initiative

00:43:59.220 --> 00:44:01.840
 with

00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:02.139
 Philip

00:44:02.139 --> 00:44:04.460
 the life

00:44:04.460 --> 00:44:04.880
 of a

00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:05.260
 witness

00:44:05.260 --> 00:44:06.240
 bearer

00:44:06.240 --> 00:44:07.019
 is one

00:44:07.019 --> 00:44:07.800
 open to

00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:08.800
 the promptings

00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:09.860
 of the

00:44:09.860 --> 00:44:10.500
 Holy Spirit

00:44:10.500 --> 00:44:12.300
 I wonder

00:44:12.300 --> 00:44:12.639
 if you've

00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:12.840
 ever

00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:13.579
 experienced

00:44:13.579 --> 00:44:13.960
 such

00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:14.679
 promptings

00:44:14.679 --> 00:44:16.219
 do you

00:44:16.219 --> 00:44:16.819
 recognize

00:44:16.819 --> 00:44:17.440
 them

00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:18.460
 as the

00:44:18.460 --> 00:44:18.940
 Lord's

00:44:18.940 --> 00:44:19.559
 messengers

00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:21.440
 and such

00:44:21.440 --> 00:44:21.960
 promptings

00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:22.579
 need not

00:44:22.579 --> 00:44:23.299
 be communicated

00:44:23.299 --> 00:44:23.719
 in an

00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:24.159
 audible

00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:24.899
 voice

00:44:24.899 --> 00:44:25.539
 external

00:44:25.539 --> 00:44:27.339
 perhaps

00:44:27.339 --> 00:44:28.000
 they just

00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:28.319
 present

00:44:28.319 --> 00:44:28.699
 themselves

00:44:28.699 --> 00:44:29.059
 as a

00:44:29.059 --> 00:44:29.659
 distinct

00:44:29.659 --> 00:44:30.259
 inward

00:44:30.259 --> 00:44:31.059
 sense

00:44:31.059 --> 00:44:31.519
 that we

00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:32.000
 identify

00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:32.759
 as divinely

00:44:32.759 --> 00:44:33.119
 given

00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:35.480
 how do we

00:44:35.480 --> 00:44:35.839
 do with

00:44:35.839 --> 00:44:36.099
 these

00:44:36.099 --> 00:44:36.759
 promptings

00:44:36.759 --> 00:44:37.639
 well Luke

00:44:37.639 --> 00:44:38.119
 tells us

00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:38.819
 of Philip

00:44:38.819 --> 00:44:40.039
 verse 27

00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:41.719
 Spirit

00:44:41.719 --> 00:44:42.099
 prompted

00:44:42.099 --> 00:44:42.340
 him

00:44:42.340 --> 00:44:43.039
 and he

00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:43.259
 rose

00:44:43.259 --> 00:44:43.500
 and he

00:44:43.500 --> 00:44:43.779
 went

00:44:43.779 --> 00:44:44.500
 it's

00:44:44.500 --> 00:44:44.779
 actually

00:44:44.779 --> 00:44:45.019
 quite

00:44:45.019 --> 00:44:45.460
 astonishing

00:44:45.460 --> 00:44:45.779
 we don't

00:44:45.779 --> 00:44:46.039
 have time

00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:46.279
 to look

00:44:46.279 --> 00:44:46.500
 at it

00:44:46.500 --> 00:44:46.679
 now

00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:46.840
 but

00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:48.599
 to

00:44:48.599 --> 00:44:49.000
 actually

00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:49.579
 respond

00:44:49.579 --> 00:44:49.840
 and to

00:44:49.840 --> 00:44:50.000
 go

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:50.279
 he had

00:44:50.279 --> 00:44:50.400
 to

00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:50.779
 overcome

00:44:50.779 --> 00:44:51.440
 all kinds

00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:51.900
 of

00:44:51.900 --> 00:44:52.900
 implausibilities

00:44:52.900 --> 00:44:53.500
 whoa

00:44:53.500 --> 00:44:53.719
 whoa

00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:53.880
 whoa

00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:53.920
 whoa

00:44:53.920 --> 00:44:54.860
 that's

00:44:54.860 --> 00:44:55.079
 like

00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:56.139
 that's

00:44:56.139 --> 00:44:56.380
 like a

00:44:56.380 --> 00:44:56.619
 desert

00:44:56.619 --> 00:44:56.960
 road

00:44:56.960 --> 00:44:57.559
 why would

00:44:57.559 --> 00:44:57.659
 I

00:44:57.659 --> 00:44:57.920
 expect

00:44:57.920 --> 00:44:58.199
 to see

00:44:58.199 --> 00:44:58.440
 anyone

00:44:58.440 --> 00:44:58.779
 there

00:44:58.779 --> 00:45:00.320
 it

00:45:00.320 --> 00:45:01.079
 goes

00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:01.380
 for a

00:45:01.380 --> 00:45:01.539
 long

00:45:01.539 --> 00:45:01.779
 way

00:45:01.779 --> 00:45:01.920
 it

00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:02.079
 goes

00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:02.259
 80

00:45:02.259 --> 00:45:02.579
 miles

00:45:02.579 --> 00:45:02.739
 all

00:45:02.739 --> 00:45:02.820
 the

00:45:02.820 --> 00:45:02.900
 way

00:45:02.900 --> 00:45:03.000
 to

00:45:03.000 --> 00:45:03.279
 Gaza

00:45:03.279 --> 00:45:03.440
 I

00:45:03.440 --> 00:45:03.519
 mean

00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:03.779
 that's

00:45:03.779 --> 00:45:04.000
 kind

00:45:04.000 --> 00:45:04.099
 of

00:45:04.099 --> 00:45:04.739
 that's

00:45:04.739 --> 00:45:04.900
 that's

00:45:04.900 --> 00:45:05.079
 kind

00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:05.659
 open-ended

00:45:05.659 --> 00:45:07.159
 oh

00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:07.519
 and by

00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:08.079
 the way

00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:08.819
 you know

00:45:08.819 --> 00:45:09.000
 it's

00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:10.139
 toward

00:45:10.139 --> 00:45:10.599
 the south

00:45:10.599 --> 00:45:10.860
 it could

00:45:10.860 --> 00:45:11.420
 also be

00:45:11.420 --> 00:45:12.259
 translated

00:45:12.259 --> 00:45:12.759
 noon

00:45:12.759 --> 00:45:13.199
 could be

00:45:13.199 --> 00:45:13.460
 rendered

00:45:13.460 --> 00:45:13.840
 noon

00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:14.539
 that is

00:45:14.539 --> 00:45:15.360
 the least

00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:16.920
 the hottest

00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:17.460
 time of the day

00:45:17.460 --> 00:45:18.340
 nobody traveled

00:45:18.340 --> 00:45:18.960
 at noon

00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:20.079
 in the desert

00:45:20.079 --> 00:45:21.460
 you die

00:45:21.460 --> 00:45:23.019
 so it's

00:45:23.019 --> 00:45:23.539
 an implausible

00:45:23.539 --> 00:45:23.920
 time

00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:24.219
 it's an

00:45:24.219 --> 00:45:24.579
 implausible

00:45:24.579 --> 00:45:25.239
 place

00:45:25.239 --> 00:45:27.559
 all

00:45:27.559 --> 00:45:28.500
 kinds

00:45:28.500 --> 00:45:28.659
 of

00:45:28.659 --> 00:45:29.340
 and

00:45:29.340 --> 00:45:30.179
 where would

00:45:30.179 --> 00:45:30.400
 he have

00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:30.519
 been

00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:30.799
 called

00:45:30.799 --> 00:45:31.079
 from

00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:31.840
 he was

00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:31.980
 in the

00:45:31.980 --> 00:45:32.139
 middle

00:45:32.139 --> 00:45:32.420
 of a

00:45:32.420 --> 00:45:33.840
 massive

00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:34.579
 evangelistic

00:45:34.579 --> 00:45:35.199
 crusade

00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:35.380
 in

00:45:35.380 --> 00:45:35.819
 Samaria

00:45:35.819 --> 00:45:36.739
 baptizing

00:45:36.739 --> 00:45:37.079
 hundreds

00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:37.460
 and hundreds

00:45:37.460 --> 00:45:37.940
 and hundreds

00:45:37.940 --> 00:45:38.739
 what he's

00:45:38.739 --> 00:45:38.920
 going to

00:45:38.920 --> 00:45:39.480
 leave that

00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:40.440
 to respond

00:45:40.440 --> 00:45:40.699
 to

00:45:40.699 --> 00:45:41.319
 this

00:45:41.319 --> 00:45:41.819
 prompting

00:45:41.819 --> 00:45:42.719
 so all

00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:43.179
 these things

00:45:43.179 --> 00:45:43.400
 that he

00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:43.639
 had

00:45:43.639 --> 00:45:44.400
 to overcome

00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:45.039
 but

00:45:45.039 --> 00:45:46.759
 we

00:45:46.759 --> 00:45:47.559
 we

00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:48.019
 notice

00:45:48.019 --> 00:45:50.519
 how does

00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:51.199
 he respond

00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:52.039
 verse 27

00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:53.000
 he rose

00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:53.579
 and went

00:45:53.579 --> 00:45:54.619
 he rose

00:45:54.619 --> 00:45:55.039
 and went

00:45:55.039 --> 00:45:55.980
 and subsequent

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:56.299
 in the

00:45:56.299 --> 00:45:56.679
 narrative

00:45:56.679 --> 00:45:57.739
 the spirit

00:45:57.739 --> 00:45:58.139
 prompts

00:45:58.139 --> 00:45:58.400
 Philip

00:45:58.400 --> 00:45:58.840
 again

00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:00.219
 it says

00:46:00.219 --> 00:46:00.799
 in verse

00:46:00.799 --> 00:46:01.259
 29

00:46:01.259 --> 00:46:01.960
 and the

00:46:01.960 --> 00:46:02.259
 spirit

00:46:02.259 --> 00:46:02.719
 said to

00:46:02.719 --> 00:46:02.920
 Philip

00:46:02.920 --> 00:46:03.299
 go

00:46:03.300 --> 00:46:05.220
 he says

00:46:05.220 --> 00:46:05.680
 so

00:46:05.680 --> 00:46:06.000
 Philip

00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:06.519
 ran

00:46:06.519 --> 00:46:08.860
 don't you

00:46:08.860 --> 00:46:09.500
 like that

00:46:09.500 --> 00:46:11.760
 what a

00:46:11.760 --> 00:46:12.240
 wonderful

00:46:12.240 --> 00:46:12.800
 picture

00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:13.600
 of the

00:46:13.600 --> 00:46:14.200
 disciples

00:46:14.200 --> 00:46:14.980
 alacrity

00:46:14.980 --> 00:46:15.539
 the Lord

00:46:15.539 --> 00:46:16.039
 says go

00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:16.300
 and you

00:46:16.300 --> 00:46:16.480
 just

00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:17.039
 you run

00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:18.500
 so

00:46:18.500 --> 00:46:19.440
 let's

00:46:19.440 --> 00:46:20.200
 expect

00:46:20.200 --> 00:46:21.240
 the spirit's

00:46:21.240 --> 00:46:21.880
 promptings

00:46:21.880 --> 00:46:23.039
 here's a

00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:24.080
 good prayer

00:46:24.080 --> 00:46:24.700
 to pray

00:46:24.700 --> 00:46:25.400
 as we

00:46:25.400 --> 00:46:25.600
 enter

00:46:25.600 --> 00:46:26.380
 society

00:46:26.380 --> 00:46:27.420
 whether

00:46:27.420 --> 00:46:27.660
 the

00:46:27.660 --> 00:46:28.300
 cafeteria

00:46:28.300 --> 00:46:29.160
 the gym

00:46:29.160 --> 00:46:29.440
 or the

00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:30.220
 shuttle bus

00:46:30.219 --> 00:46:32.480
 what if

00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:32.679
 we were

00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:32.980
 to pray

00:46:32.980 --> 00:46:33.579
 holy

00:46:33.579 --> 00:46:34.299
 spirit

00:46:34.299 --> 00:46:34.899
 I'm

00:46:34.899 --> 00:46:35.459
 available

00:46:35.459 --> 00:46:37.239
 I will

00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:37.419
 be

00:46:37.419 --> 00:46:38.019
 listening

00:46:38.019 --> 00:46:38.899
 to your

00:46:38.899 --> 00:46:39.799
 promptings

00:46:39.799 --> 00:46:41.299
 guide me

00:46:41.299 --> 00:46:42.239
 and grant

00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:42.879
 me occasion

00:46:42.879 --> 00:46:43.299
 to bear

00:46:43.299 --> 00:46:43.679
 witness

00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:44.059
 to your

00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:44.480
 saving

00:46:44.480 --> 00:46:44.859
 works

00:46:44.859 --> 00:46:45.639
 about

00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:46.199
 Jesus

00:46:46.199 --> 00:46:48.459
 so the

00:46:48.459 --> 00:46:48.819
 spirit

00:46:48.819 --> 00:46:49.359
 prompts

00:46:49.359 --> 00:46:49.599
 our

00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:50.099
 witness

00:46:50.099 --> 00:46:51.059
 what a

00:46:51.059 --> 00:46:51.679
 blessed

00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:52.799
 experience

00:46:52.799 --> 00:46:54.699
 and there's

00:46:54.699 --> 00:46:55.079
 a further

00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:55.599
 work of the

00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:55.879
 spirit

00:46:55.879 --> 00:46:56.500
 in operation

00:46:56.500 --> 00:46:57.000
 in our

00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:57.299
 witness

00:46:57.299 --> 00:46:57.639
 bearing

00:46:57.639 --> 00:46:59.679
 not only

00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:00.420
 does the

00:47:00.420 --> 00:47:00.839
 spirit

00:47:00.839 --> 00:47:01.779
 prompt

00:47:01.779 --> 00:47:02.960
 us

00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:05.179
 he also

00:47:05.179 --> 00:47:06.339
 prepares

00:47:06.339 --> 00:47:06.739
 the

00:47:06.739 --> 00:47:07.799
 hearer

00:47:07.799 --> 00:47:09.599
 not only

00:47:09.599 --> 00:47:09.940
 is the

00:47:09.940 --> 00:47:10.219
 spirit

00:47:10.219 --> 00:47:10.679
 behind

00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:10.920
 the

00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:11.659
 go

00:47:11.659 --> 00:47:13.440
 he's

00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:13.759
 also

00:47:13.759 --> 00:47:14.299
 behind

00:47:14.299 --> 00:47:14.579
 the

00:47:14.579 --> 00:47:15.839
 behold

00:47:15.839 --> 00:47:16.559
 in the

00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:16.960
 text

00:47:16.960 --> 00:47:17.799
 did you

00:47:17.799 --> 00:47:18.259
 catch that

00:47:18.259 --> 00:47:18.539
 text

00:47:18.539 --> 00:47:18.719
 where

00:47:18.719 --> 00:47:19.619
 okay

00:47:19.619 --> 00:47:20.059
 I'll go

00:47:20.059 --> 00:47:20.319
 down to

00:47:20.319 --> 00:47:20.420
 the

00:47:20.420 --> 00:47:20.519
 middle

00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:20.699
 of the

00:47:20.699 --> 00:47:20.940
 desert

00:47:20.940 --> 00:47:21.219
 he says

00:47:21.219 --> 00:47:21.460
 it goes

00:47:21.460 --> 00:47:21.639
 in the

00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:21.739
 middle

00:47:21.739 --> 00:47:21.920
 of the

00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:22.159
 desert

00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:22.420
 in the

00:47:22.420 --> 00:47:22.539
 middle

00:47:22.539 --> 00:47:22.719
 of the

00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:23.000
 day

00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:23.519
 and

00:47:23.519 --> 00:47:24.299
 behold

00:47:24.299 --> 00:47:25.940
 there's

00:47:25.940 --> 00:47:26.259
 somebody

00:47:26.259 --> 00:47:26.859
 here

00:47:26.860 --> 00:47:28.099
 as if

00:47:28.099 --> 00:47:28.539
 who

00:47:28.539 --> 00:47:28.800
 would

00:47:28.800 --> 00:47:28.940
 have

00:47:28.940 --> 00:47:29.320
 fought

00:47:29.320 --> 00:47:29.740
 that

00:47:29.740 --> 00:47:30.039
 who

00:47:30.039 --> 00:47:30.240
 could

00:47:30.240 --> 00:47:30.620
 imagine

00:47:30.620 --> 00:47:30.980
 that

00:47:30.980 --> 00:47:31.660
 the

00:47:31.660 --> 00:47:32.120
 spirit

00:47:32.120 --> 00:47:33.280
 is behind

00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:33.960
 the

00:47:33.960 --> 00:47:34.380
 behold

00:47:34.380 --> 00:47:34.860
 also

00:47:34.860 --> 00:47:35.840
 the

00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:36.599
 extraordinary

00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:37.539
 providence

00:47:37.539 --> 00:47:38.340
 of a

00:47:38.340 --> 00:47:38.599
 ready

00:47:38.599 --> 00:47:39.480
 hearer

00:47:39.480 --> 00:47:40.059
 appearing

00:47:40.059 --> 00:47:40.460
 in the

00:47:40.460 --> 00:47:40.860
 desert

00:47:40.860 --> 00:47:41.539
 whose

00:47:41.539 --> 00:47:42.000
 heart

00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:42.260
 was

00:47:42.260 --> 00:47:42.900
 receptive

00:47:42.900 --> 00:47:44.160
 that's

00:47:44.160 --> 00:47:44.360
 the

00:47:44.360 --> 00:47:45.019
 spirit's

00:47:45.019 --> 00:47:45.760
 orchestration

00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:47.280
 as

00:47:47.280 --> 00:47:47.460
 Luke

00:47:47.460 --> 00:47:47.840
 tells us

00:47:47.840 --> 00:47:48.340
 of Lydia

00:47:48.340 --> 00:47:48.840
 in Acts

00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:49.460
 16

00:47:49.460 --> 00:47:50.019
 the

00:47:50.019 --> 00:47:50.539
 Lord

00:47:50.539 --> 00:47:51.019
 opened

00:47:51.019 --> 00:47:51.260
 her

00:47:51.260 --> 00:47:51.820
 heart

00:47:51.820 --> 00:47:52.700
 to

00:47:52.700 --> 00:47:53.400
 respond

00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:53.660
 to

00:47:53.660 --> 00:47:53.840
 the

00:47:53.840 --> 00:47:54.340
 things

00:47:54.340 --> 00:47:55.120
 that

00:47:55.120 --> 00:47:55.440
 Paul

00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:55.760
 said

00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:56.220
 to her

00:47:56.219 --> 00:47:58.679
 is

00:47:58.679 --> 00:47:58.980
 this

00:47:58.980 --> 00:47:59.239
 not

00:47:59.239 --> 00:47:59.819
 wonderful

00:47:59.819 --> 00:48:00.480
 encouragement

00:48:00.480 --> 00:48:01.759
 that

00:48:01.759 --> 00:48:01.980
 the

00:48:01.980 --> 00:48:02.299
 spirit

00:48:02.299 --> 00:48:02.939
 not

00:48:02.939 --> 00:48:03.419
 only

00:48:03.419 --> 00:48:04.000
 goes

00:48:04.000 --> 00:48:04.799
 with

00:48:04.799 --> 00:48:05.739
 us

00:48:05.739 --> 00:48:06.619
 prompting

00:48:06.619 --> 00:48:07.019
 us

00:48:07.019 --> 00:48:07.779
 and

00:48:07.779 --> 00:48:08.219
 empowering

00:48:08.219 --> 00:48:08.459
 our

00:48:08.459 --> 00:48:08.879
 witness

00:48:08.879 --> 00:48:09.559
 but he

00:48:09.559 --> 00:48:09.819
 also

00:48:09.819 --> 00:48:10.179
 goes

00:48:10.179 --> 00:48:11.039
 before

00:48:11.039 --> 00:48:11.319
 us

00:48:11.319 --> 00:48:11.459
 in

00:48:11.459 --> 00:48:11.859
 front

00:48:11.859 --> 00:48:12.039
 of

00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:12.319
 us

00:48:12.319 --> 00:48:13.279
 bringing

00:48:13.279 --> 00:48:14.119
 to

00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:14.579
 us

00:48:14.579 --> 00:48:15.139
 God's

00:48:15.139 --> 00:48:15.699
 elect

00:48:15.699 --> 00:48:16.359
 who

00:48:16.359 --> 00:48:16.679
 will

00:48:16.679 --> 00:48:17.339
 respond

00:48:17.339 --> 00:48:17.599
 in

00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:18.039
 faith

00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:19.259
 as

00:48:19.259 --> 00:48:19.519
 many

00:48:19.519 --> 00:48:19.719
 as

00:48:19.719 --> 00:48:19.839
 are

00:48:19.839 --> 00:48:20.179
 chosen

00:48:20.179 --> 00:48:20.599
 as

00:48:20.599 --> 00:48:20.819
 Luke

00:48:20.819 --> 00:48:21.219
 writes

00:48:21.219 --> 00:48:21.419
 of

00:48:21.419 --> 00:48:21.719
 Paul's

00:48:21.719 --> 00:48:22.000
 witness

00:48:22.000 --> 00:48:22.199
 in

00:48:22.199 --> 00:48:22.899
 Antioch

00:48:22.899 --> 00:48:23.939
 Acts

00:48:23.939 --> 00:48:24.459
 13

00:48:24.459 --> 00:48:24.899
 48

00:48:24.900 --> 00:48:25.840
 and

00:48:25.840 --> 00:48:25.980
 when

00:48:25.980 --> 00:48:26.160
 the

00:48:26.160 --> 00:48:26.680
 Gentiles

00:48:26.680 --> 00:48:26.920
 heard

00:48:26.920 --> 00:48:27.220
 this

00:48:27.220 --> 00:48:27.400
 this

00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:27.539
 was

00:48:27.539 --> 00:48:27.700
 the

00:48:27.700 --> 00:48:28.079
 gospel

00:48:28.079 --> 00:48:28.599
 announcement

00:48:28.599 --> 00:48:29.380
 they

00:48:29.380 --> 00:48:29.880
 began

00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:30.740
 rejoicing

00:48:30.740 --> 00:48:31.840
 and glorifying

00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:32.200
 the word

00:48:32.200 --> 00:48:32.440
 of the

00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:32.700
 Lord

00:48:32.700 --> 00:48:33.440
 and as

00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:33.820
 many

00:48:33.820 --> 00:48:34.160
 as

00:48:34.160 --> 00:48:34.340
 were

00:48:34.340 --> 00:48:34.840
 appointed

00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:35.220
 to

00:48:35.220 --> 00:48:35.599
 eternal

00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:36.079
 life

00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:37.000
 believed

00:48:37.000 --> 00:48:39.400
 God

00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:39.900
 has

00:48:39.900 --> 00:48:40.500
 a

00:48:40.500 --> 00:48:41.099
 great

00:48:41.099 --> 00:48:41.820
 harvest

00:48:41.820 --> 00:48:42.760
 that

00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:42.920
 the

00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:43.160
 Holy

00:48:43.160 --> 00:48:43.579
 Spirit

00:48:43.579 --> 00:48:44.079
 is

00:48:44.079 --> 00:48:44.900
 ripening

00:48:44.900 --> 00:48:45.639
 and

00:48:45.639 --> 00:48:46.619
 readying

00:48:46.619 --> 00:48:47.200
 for us

00:48:47.200 --> 00:48:47.780
 to gather

00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:48.220
 in

00:48:48.220 --> 00:48:49.660
 and even

00:48:49.660 --> 00:48:50.079
 when our

00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:50.519
 hearers

00:48:50.519 --> 00:48:51.039
 don't

00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:51.559
 immediately

00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:52.119
 seem

00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:52.480
 very

00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:53.179
 ripe

00:48:53.179 --> 00:48:53.339
 or

00:48:53.339 --> 00:48:53.579
 ready

00:48:53.579 --> 00:48:55.659
 the

00:48:55.659 --> 00:48:56.000
 Spirit

00:48:56.000 --> 00:48:56.279
 is

00:48:56.279 --> 00:48:56.679
 still

00:48:56.679 --> 00:48:57.380
 pursuing

00:48:57.380 --> 00:48:57.779
 the

00:48:57.779 --> 00:48:58.259
 harvest

00:48:58.259 --> 00:48:58.839
 he's

00:48:58.839 --> 00:48:59.299
 pursuing

00:48:59.299 --> 00:48:59.539
 the

00:48:59.539 --> 00:48:59.920
 harvest

00:48:59.920 --> 00:49:00.960
 and

00:49:00.960 --> 00:49:01.099
 as

00:49:01.099 --> 00:49:01.219
 the

00:49:01.219 --> 00:49:01.420
 Lord

00:49:01.420 --> 00:49:01.659
 said

00:49:01.659 --> 00:49:01.839
 to

00:49:01.839 --> 00:49:02.139
 Paul

00:49:02.139 --> 00:49:02.599
 in

00:49:02.599 --> 00:49:02.779
 the

00:49:02.779 --> 00:49:03.319
 tough

00:49:03.319 --> 00:49:03.559
 and

00:49:03.559 --> 00:49:03.940
 gritty

00:49:03.940 --> 00:49:04.279
 town

00:49:04.279 --> 00:49:04.460
 of

00:49:04.460 --> 00:49:04.880
 Corinth

00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:06.000
 we

00:49:06.000 --> 00:49:06.219
 might

00:49:06.219 --> 00:49:06.440
 say

00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:06.619
 the

00:49:06.619 --> 00:49:06.940
 Las

00:49:06.940 --> 00:49:07.359
 Vegas

00:49:07.359 --> 00:49:08.000
 of

00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:08.159
 its

00:49:08.159 --> 00:49:08.559
 day

00:49:08.559 --> 00:49:10.440
 Acts

00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:10.980
 18

00:49:10.980 --> 00:49:11.519
 9

00:49:11.519 --> 00:49:11.659
 and

00:49:11.659 --> 00:49:11.940
 10

00:49:11.940 --> 00:49:12.739
 so

00:49:12.739 --> 00:49:13.239
 Paul

00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:14.619
 do

00:49:14.619 --> 00:49:14.960
 not

00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:15.199
 be

00:49:15.199 --> 00:49:15.739
 afraid

00:49:15.739 --> 00:49:16.559
 but

00:49:16.559 --> 00:49:16.839
 go

00:49:16.839 --> 00:49:17.319
 on

00:49:17.319 --> 00:49:17.880
 speaking

00:49:17.880 --> 00:49:18.420
 and

00:49:18.420 --> 00:49:18.699
 do

00:49:18.699 --> 00:49:18.940
 not

00:49:18.940 --> 00:49:19.199
 be

00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:19.759
 silent

00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:21.200
 for I

00:49:21.200 --> 00:49:21.520
 am

00:49:21.520 --> 00:49:21.860
 with

00:49:21.860 --> 00:49:22.240
 you

00:49:22.240 --> 00:49:22.980
 and

00:49:22.980 --> 00:49:23.240
 no

00:49:23.240 --> 00:49:23.400
 one

00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:23.580
 will

00:49:23.580 --> 00:49:23.980
 attack

00:49:23.980 --> 00:49:24.140
 you

00:49:24.140 --> 00:49:24.300
 to

00:49:24.300 --> 00:49:24.580
 harm

00:49:24.580 --> 00:49:24.880
 you

00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:26.020
 for

00:49:26.020 --> 00:49:26.380
 I

00:49:26.380 --> 00:49:26.680
 have

00:49:26.680 --> 00:49:27.340
 many

00:49:27.340 --> 00:49:27.660
 in

00:49:27.660 --> 00:49:27.940
 this

00:49:27.940 --> 00:49:28.360
 city

00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.200
 who

00:49:30.200 --> 00:49:30.320
 I

00:49:30.320 --> 00:49:30.460
 have

00:49:30.460 --> 00:49:30.760
 chosen

00:49:30.760 --> 00:49:30.920
 to

00:49:30.920 --> 00:49:31.040
 be

00:49:31.040 --> 00:49:31.300
 my

00:49:31.300 --> 00:49:31.700
 people

00:49:31.700 --> 00:49:34.080
 brothers

00:49:34.080 --> 00:49:34.360
 and

00:49:34.360 --> 00:49:34.740
 sisters

00:49:34.740 --> 00:49:35.860
 as

00:49:35.860 --> 00:49:36.360
 witness

00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:37.040
 bearers

00:49:37.040 --> 00:49:37.580
 together

00:49:37.580 --> 00:49:38.400
 we

00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:38.800
 are

00:49:38.800 --> 00:49:39.200
 on

00:49:39.200 --> 00:49:39.440
 an

00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:40.160
 adventure

00:49:40.160 --> 00:49:41.560
 that

00:49:41.560 --> 00:49:42.920
 assuredly

00:49:42.920 --> 00:49:43.160
 will

00:49:43.160 --> 00:49:43.420
 bear

00:49:43.420 --> 00:49:44.000
 fruit

00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:44.840
 for

00:49:44.840 --> 00:49:45.020
 the

00:49:45.020 --> 00:49:45.440
 Father

00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:45.700
 has

00:49:45.700 --> 00:49:45.980
 given

00:49:45.980 --> 00:49:46.200
 to

00:49:46.200 --> 00:49:46.420
 the

00:49:46.420 --> 00:49:46.720
 Son

00:49:46.720 --> 00:49:47.240
 a

00:49:47.240 --> 00:49:47.580
 number

00:49:47.580 --> 00:49:47.820
 that

00:49:47.820 --> 00:49:48.200
 no

00:49:48.200 --> 00:49:48.440
 one

00:49:48.440 --> 00:49:48.660
 can

00:49:48.660 --> 00:49:49.180
 count

00:49:49.179 --> 00:49:49.759
 from

00:49:49.759 --> 00:49:50.039
 every

00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:50.299
 tongue

00:49:50.299 --> 00:49:50.639
 tribe

00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:50.779
 and

00:49:50.779 --> 00:49:51.099
 nation

00:49:51.099 --> 00:49:51.759
 who

00:49:51.759 --> 00:49:52.279
 the

00:49:52.279 --> 00:49:52.639
 Spirit

00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:52.859
 is

00:49:52.859 --> 00:49:53.539
 drawing

00:49:53.539 --> 00:49:54.879
 and

00:49:54.879 --> 00:49:55.239
 we

00:49:55.239 --> 00:49:56.399
 by

00:49:56.399 --> 00:49:56.699
 bearing

00:49:56.699 --> 00:49:56.940
 our

00:49:56.940 --> 00:49:57.299
 gospel

00:49:57.299 --> 00:49:57.759
 witness

00:49:57.759 --> 00:49:58.339
 just

00:49:58.339 --> 00:49:58.719
 sowing

00:49:58.719 --> 00:49:58.960
 our

00:49:58.960 --> 00:49:59.379
 seed

00:49:59.379 --> 00:50:00.259
 simply

00:50:00.259 --> 00:50:01.059
 tossing

00:50:01.059 --> 00:50:01.219
 out

00:50:01.219 --> 00:50:01.440
 the

00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:01.859
 seed

00:50:01.859 --> 00:50:03.219
 maybe

00:50:03.219 --> 00:50:03.559
 almost

00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:03.819
 even

00:50:03.819 --> 00:50:04.559
 mechanically

00:50:04.559 --> 00:50:05.899
 the

00:50:05.899 --> 00:50:06.259
 soil

00:50:06.259 --> 00:50:06.419
 that

00:50:06.419 --> 00:50:06.519
 he

00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:06.659
 has

00:50:06.659 --> 00:50:07.139
 prepared

00:50:07.139 --> 00:50:08.079
 will

00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:08.219
 be

00:50:08.219 --> 00:50:08.399
 able

00:50:08.399 --> 00:50:08.619
 to

00:50:08.619 --> 00:50:09.119
 show

00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:10.179
 life

00:50:10.179 --> 00:50:11.379
 we

00:50:11.379 --> 00:50:11.859
 render

00:50:11.859 --> 00:50:12.500
 visible

00:50:12.500 --> 00:50:12.779
 with

00:50:12.779 --> 00:50:12.940
 our

00:50:12.940 --> 00:50:13.399
 witness

00:50:13.399 --> 00:50:14.000
 the

00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:14.619
 secret

00:50:14.619 --> 00:50:15.359
 inner

00:50:15.359 --> 00:50:15.859
 drawing

00:50:15.859 --> 00:50:16.259
 work

00:50:16.259 --> 00:50:16.419
 of

00:50:16.419 --> 00:50:16.599
 the

00:50:16.599 --> 00:50:17.000
 Spirit

00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:18.539
 what

00:50:18.539 --> 00:50:18.719
 a

00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:19.340
 privilege

00:50:19.340 --> 00:50:20.239
 what

00:50:20.239 --> 00:50:20.440
 a

00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:20.880
 joy

00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:22.179
 so

00:50:22.179 --> 00:50:22.679
 as

00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:22.920
 we

00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:23.380
 go

00:50:23.380 --> 00:50:24.179
 wherever

00:50:24.179 --> 00:50:24.559
 we

00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:24.940
 go

00:50:24.940 --> 00:50:25.779
 let

00:50:25.779 --> 00:50:26.119
 us

00:50:26.119 --> 00:50:26.460
 be

00:50:26.460 --> 00:50:27.559
 responsive

00:50:27.559 --> 00:50:28.019
 to

00:50:28.019 --> 00:50:28.219
 the

00:50:28.219 --> 00:50:28.719
 Spirit's

00:50:28.719 --> 00:50:29.360
 promptings

00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:30.599
 and

00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:31.199
 attentive

00:50:31.199 --> 00:50:32.519
 to

00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:32.719
 the

00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:33.239
 Spirit's

00:50:33.239 --> 00:50:33.880
 providences

00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:35.820
 perhaps

00:50:35.820 --> 00:50:36.300
 an

00:50:36.300 --> 00:50:36.800
 application

00:50:36.800 --> 00:50:37.619
 might be

00:50:37.619 --> 00:50:37.820
 the

00:50:37.820 --> 00:50:38.199
 regular

00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:38.820
 prayer

00:50:38.820 --> 00:50:40.300
 Holy

00:50:40.300 --> 00:50:41.000
 Spirit

00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:42.980
 you

00:50:42.980 --> 00:50:43.179
 were

00:50:43.179 --> 00:50:43.539
 sent

00:50:43.539 --> 00:50:43.860
 to

00:50:43.860 --> 00:50:44.320
 send

00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:45.719
 here

00:50:45.719 --> 00:50:46.059
 am I

00:50:46.059 --> 00:50:46.340
 send

00:50:46.340 --> 00:50:46.699
 me

00:50:46.699 --> 00:50:47.879
 open

00:50:47.879 --> 00:50:48.139
 my

00:50:48.139 --> 00:50:48.579
 eyes

00:50:48.579 --> 00:50:48.739
 to

00:50:48.739 --> 00:50:48.879
 your

00:50:48.879 --> 00:50:49.579
 promptings

00:50:49.579 --> 00:50:50.980
 and

00:50:50.980 --> 00:50:51.419
 open

00:50:51.419 --> 00:50:51.799
 sorry

00:50:51.799 --> 00:50:52.099
 open

00:50:52.099 --> 00:50:52.299
 my

00:50:52.299 --> 00:50:52.659
 ears

00:50:52.659 --> 00:50:52.859
 to

00:50:52.859 --> 00:50:53.000
 your

00:50:53.000 --> 00:50:53.519
 promptings

00:50:53.519 --> 00:50:54.119
 and

00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:54.419
 open

00:50:54.419 --> 00:50:54.679
 my

00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:55.299
 eyes

00:50:55.299 --> 00:50:55.799
 to

00:50:55.799 --> 00:50:55.960
 your

00:50:55.960 --> 00:50:56.500
 providences

00:50:56.500 --> 00:50:58.799
 shall

00:50:58.799 --> 00:50:59.099
 we not

00:50:59.099 --> 00:50:59.719
 pray that

00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:00.500
 together

00:51:00.500 --> 00:51:01.899
 and see

00:51:01.899 --> 00:51:03.079
 how God

00:51:03.079 --> 00:51:03.539
 delights

00:51:03.539 --> 00:51:04.019
 to answer

00:51:04.019 --> 00:51:04.279
 it

00:51:04.279 --> 00:51:05.000
 wouldn't

00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:05.460
 that be

00:51:05.460 --> 00:51:06.039
 exciting

00:51:06.039 --> 00:51:08.239
 one

00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:08.819
 final thing

00:51:08.819 --> 00:51:09.159
 to note

00:51:09.159 --> 00:51:10.099
 Luke

00:51:10.099 --> 00:51:11.000
 concludes

00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:11.460
 the

00:51:11.460 --> 00:51:12.039
 episode

00:51:12.039 --> 00:51:13.399
 but

00:51:13.399 --> 00:51:13.659
 Philip

00:51:13.659 --> 00:51:13.899
 found

00:51:13.899 --> 00:51:14.219
 himself

00:51:14.219 --> 00:51:14.339
 in

00:51:14.339 --> 00:51:14.799
 Azotus

00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:15.460
 and

00:51:15.460 --> 00:51:15.580
 as

00:51:15.580 --> 00:51:15.700
 he

00:51:15.700 --> 00:51:16.060
 passed

00:51:16.060 --> 00:51:16.300
 through

00:51:16.300 --> 00:51:16.660
 he

00:51:16.660 --> 00:51:16.980
 preached

00:51:16.980 --> 00:51:17.140
 the

00:51:17.140 --> 00:51:17.440
 gospel

00:51:17.440 --> 00:51:17.640
 to

00:51:17.640 --> 00:51:17.900
 all

00:51:17.900 --> 00:51:18.080
 the

00:51:18.080 --> 00:51:18.360
 towns

00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:18.600
 until

00:51:18.600 --> 00:51:18.760
 he

00:51:18.760 --> 00:51:18.920
 came

00:51:18.920 --> 00:51:19.080
 to

00:51:19.080 --> 00:51:19.460
 Caesarea

00:51:19.460 --> 00:51:19.800
 that's

00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:19.980
 verse

00:51:19.980 --> 00:51:20.340
 40

00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:21.980
 interesting

00:51:21.980 --> 00:51:22.840
 no mention

00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:23.780
 is here

00:51:23.780 --> 00:51:24.220
 made of

00:51:24.220 --> 00:51:24.460
 any

00:51:24.460 --> 00:51:25.360
 special

00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:25.960
 promptings

00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:26.140
 of the

00:51:26.140 --> 00:51:26.320
 Holy

00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:26.720
 Spirit

00:51:26.720 --> 00:51:27.200
 in

00:51:27.200 --> 00:51:27.539
 regard

00:51:27.539 --> 00:51:27.740
 to

00:51:27.740 --> 00:51:28.100
 Philip's

00:51:28.100 --> 00:51:28.539
 witness

00:51:28.539 --> 00:51:30.019
 he

00:51:30.019 --> 00:51:30.340
 seems

00:51:30.340 --> 00:51:31.000
 just as

00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:31.320
 happily

00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:31.660
 willing

00:51:31.660 --> 00:51:31.860
 to

00:51:31.860 --> 00:51:32.280
 proceed

00:51:32.280 --> 00:51:32.880
 simply

00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:33.240
 on the

00:51:33.240 --> 00:51:33.580
 strength

00:51:33.580 --> 00:51:33.860
 of the

00:51:33.860 --> 00:51:34.160
 king's

00:51:34.160 --> 00:51:34.560
 commission

00:51:34.560 --> 00:51:35.840
 you

00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:36.039
 shall

00:51:36.039 --> 00:51:36.160
 be

00:51:36.160 --> 00:51:36.360
 my

00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:36.800
 witnesses

00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:38.100
 preaching

00:51:38.100 --> 00:51:38.300
 the

00:51:38.300 --> 00:51:38.620
 gospel

00:51:38.620 --> 00:51:39.320
 as

00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:39.460
 he

00:51:39.460 --> 00:51:39.860
 passed

00:51:39.860 --> 00:51:40.240
 through

00:51:40.240 --> 00:51:40.920
 all

00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:42.300
 perhaps

00:51:42.300 --> 00:51:42.519
 there's

00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:42.660
 even

00:51:42.660 --> 00:51:42.820
 a

00:51:42.820 --> 00:51:43.260
 suggestion

00:51:43.260 --> 00:51:44.220
 of a

00:51:44.220 --> 00:51:44.780
 systematic

00:51:44.800 --> 00:51:45.240
 approach

00:51:45.240 --> 00:51:45.420
 to

00:51:45.420 --> 00:51:45.780
 witness

00:51:45.780 --> 00:51:46.620
 in

00:51:46.620 --> 00:51:46.740
 the

00:51:46.740 --> 00:51:47.039
 words

00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:47.480
 in

00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:47.800
 all

00:51:47.800 --> 00:51:47.980
 the

00:51:47.980 --> 00:51:48.500
 towns

00:51:48.500 --> 00:51:49.940
 as if

00:51:49.940 --> 00:51:50.080
 he

00:51:50.080 --> 00:51:50.600
 flipped

00:51:50.600 --> 00:51:50.820
 out

00:51:50.820 --> 00:51:51.060
 his

00:51:51.060 --> 00:51:51.300
 little

00:51:51.300 --> 00:51:51.840
 map

00:51:51.840 --> 00:51:52.000
 and

00:51:52.000 --> 00:51:52.260
 figured

00:51:52.260 --> 00:51:52.460
 out

00:51:52.460 --> 00:51:52.580
 how

00:51:52.580 --> 00:51:52.720
 he

00:51:52.720 --> 00:51:52.920
 would

00:51:52.920 --> 00:51:53.120
 catch

00:51:53.120 --> 00:51:53.380
 all

00:51:53.380 --> 00:51:53.500
 of

00:51:53.500 --> 00:51:53.640
 them

00:51:53.640 --> 00:51:55.660
 certainly

00:51:55.660 --> 00:51:56.519
 the

00:51:56.519 --> 00:51:57.019
 personal

00:51:57.019 --> 00:51:57.580
 prompting

00:51:57.580 --> 00:51:57.760
 of the

00:51:57.760 --> 00:51:57.940
 Holy

00:51:57.940 --> 00:51:58.400
 Spirit

00:51:58.400 --> 00:51:59.220
 is a

00:51:59.220 --> 00:51:59.560
 great

00:51:59.560 --> 00:52:00.140
 blessing

00:52:00.140 --> 00:52:00.320
 in

00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:00.440
 our

00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:00.720
 witness

00:52:00.720 --> 00:52:01.019
 spirit

00:52:01.019 --> 00:52:01.580
 but

00:52:01.580 --> 00:52:02.880
 no

00:52:02.880 --> 00:52:03.380
 need

00:52:03.380 --> 00:52:03.720
 to

00:52:03.720 --> 00:52:04.080
 remain

00:52:04.080 --> 00:52:05.180
 quietistically

00:52:05.180 --> 00:52:05.880
 inert

00:52:05.880 --> 00:52:06.960
 apart

00:52:06.960 --> 00:52:07.860
 from

00:52:07.860 --> 00:52:08.160
 such

00:52:08.160 --> 00:52:08.320
 a

00:52:08.320 --> 00:52:08.820
 prompting

00:52:08.820 --> 00:52:09.620
 go

00:52:09.620 --> 00:52:09.940
 down

00:52:09.940 --> 00:52:10.140
 into

00:52:10.140 --> 00:52:10.260
 the

00:52:10.260 --> 00:52:10.580
 desert

00:52:10.580 --> 00:52:11.460
 no

00:52:11.460 --> 00:52:12.360
 and

00:52:12.360 --> 00:52:12.620
 neither

00:52:12.620 --> 00:52:12.960
 should

00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:13.480
 we

00:52:13.480 --> 00:52:14.460
 think

00:52:14.460 --> 00:52:14.659
 that

00:52:14.659 --> 00:52:14.960
 pulling

00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:15.179
 out

00:52:15.179 --> 00:52:15.300
 a

00:52:15.300 --> 00:52:15.559
 map

00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:15.699
 and

00:52:15.699 --> 00:52:15.920
 making

00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:16.099
 a

00:52:16.099 --> 00:52:16.500
 strategy

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:16.780
 or a

00:52:16.780 --> 00:52:17.159
 plan

00:52:17.159 --> 00:52:18.300
 should

00:52:18.300 --> 00:52:18.500
 be

00:52:18.500 --> 00:52:19.360
 contrasted

00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:20.019
 with the

00:52:20.019 --> 00:52:20.500
 work that

00:52:20.500 --> 00:52:20.659
 the

00:52:20.659 --> 00:52:21.019
 spirit

00:52:21.019 --> 00:52:21.740
 impels

00:52:21.740 --> 00:52:22.139
 and

00:52:22.139 --> 00:52:22.720
 sustains

00:52:22.720 --> 00:52:23.400
 no

00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:24.679
 both

00:52:24.679 --> 00:52:25.159
 the

00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:25.500
 king's

00:52:25.500 --> 00:52:25.880
 commission

00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:26.659
 and

00:52:26.659 --> 00:52:26.880
 the

00:52:26.880 --> 00:52:27.220
 spirit

00:52:27.220 --> 00:52:27.900
 spurring

00:52:27.900 --> 00:52:28.900
 impel

00:52:28.900 --> 00:52:29.199
 us

00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:29.779
 let

00:52:29.779 --> 00:52:29.799
 let

00:52:29.799 --> 00:52:30.159
 stop

00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:30.399
 there

00:52:30.399 --> 00:52:30.739
 I

00:52:30.739 --> 00:52:31.139
 haven't

00:52:31.139 --> 00:52:31.299
 left

00:52:31.299 --> 00:52:31.480
 too

00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:31.679
 much

00:52:31.679 --> 00:52:32.039
 time

00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:32.719
 but

00:52:32.719 --> 00:52:33.599
 yes

00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:33.779
 if

00:52:33.779 --> 00:52:33.899
 there

00:52:33.899 --> 00:52:33.939
 are

00:52:33.939 --> 00:52:34.079
 any

00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:34.519
 questions

00:52:34.519 --> 00:52:34.759
 or

00:52:34.759 --> 00:52:35.379
 comments

00:52:35.379 --> 00:52:36.460
 I

00:52:36.460 --> 00:52:36.619
 would

00:52:36.619 --> 00:52:36.779
 love

00:52:36.779 --> 00:52:36.899
 to

00:52:36.899 --> 00:52:37.179
 entertain

00:52:37.179 --> 00:52:37.359
 them

00:52:37.359 --> 00:52:37.500
 for

00:52:37.500 --> 00:52:37.819
 probably

00:52:37.819 --> 00:52:38.000
 no

00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:38.159
 more

00:52:38.159 --> 00:52:38.299
 than

00:52:38.299 --> 00:52:38.659
 five

00:52:38.659 --> 00:52:39.000
 minutes

00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:39.419
 alas

00:52:39.419 --> 00:52:39.719
 but

00:52:39.719 --> 00:52:40.159
 I'll

00:52:40.159 --> 00:52:40.259
 do

00:52:40.259 --> 00:52:40.480
 better

00:52:40.480 --> 00:52:40.719
 next

00:52:40.719 --> 00:52:40.980
 time

00:52:40.980 --> 00:52:41.279
 I'll

00:52:41.279 --> 00:52:41.500
 work

00:52:41.500 --> 00:52:41.639
 on

00:52:41.639 --> 00:52:41.859
 that

00:52:41.859 --> 00:52:42.539
 don't

00:52:42.539 --> 00:52:42.839
 hold

00:52:42.839 --> 00:52:42.960
 me

00:52:42.960 --> 00:52:43.079
 to

00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:43.179
 it

00:52:43.179 --> 00:52:43.299
 that

00:52:43.299 --> 00:52:43.519
 might

00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:43.639
 be

00:52:43.639 --> 00:52:43.719
 a

00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:43.919
 rash

00:52:43.919 --> 00:52:44.159
 vow

00:52:44.159 --> 00:52:44.399
 but

00:52:44.399 --> 00:52:44.579
 I

00:52:44.579 --> 00:52:45.480
 will

00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:46.000
 try

00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:47.399
 yeah

00:52:47.399 --> 00:52:49.659
 questions

00:52:49.659 --> 00:52:55.799
 yeah

00:52:55.799 --> 00:53:03.159
 well

00:53:03.159 --> 00:53:05.319
 yes

00:53:05.319 --> 00:53:05.899
 the

00:53:05.899 --> 00:53:06.399
 Bible

00:53:06.399 --> 00:53:06.719
 when the

00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:07.000
 Bible

00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:07.519
 uses

00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:08.399
 judgment

00:53:08.399 --> 00:53:09.639
 it

00:53:09.639 --> 00:53:10.339
 it

00:53:10.339 --> 00:53:10.639
 uses

00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:11.059
 judgment

00:53:11.059 --> 00:53:11.359
 in a

00:53:11.359 --> 00:53:11.539
 couple

00:53:11.539 --> 00:53:11.659
 of

00:53:11.659 --> 00:53:11.899
 different

00:53:11.899 --> 00:53:12.460
 ways

00:53:12.460 --> 00:53:13.420
 and

00:53:13.420 --> 00:53:14.079
 sometimes

00:53:14.079 --> 00:53:14.899
 if we're

00:53:14.899 --> 00:53:15.039
 not

00:53:15.039 --> 00:53:15.339
 careful

00:53:15.339 --> 00:53:15.599
 about

00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:15.879
 that

00:53:15.879 --> 00:53:16.179
 it

00:53:16.179 --> 00:53:16.460
 can

00:53:16.460 --> 00:53:16.679
 be

00:53:16.679 --> 00:53:17.259
 confusing

00:53:17.259 --> 00:53:18.319
 so

00:53:18.319 --> 00:53:18.559
 one

00:53:18.559 --> 00:53:18.679
 of

00:53:18.679 --> 00:53:18.799
 them

00:53:18.799 --> 00:53:19.000
 is

00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:19.139
 a

00:53:19.139 --> 00:53:19.359
 sense

00:53:19.359 --> 00:53:19.519
 of

00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:19.719
 being

00:53:19.719 --> 00:53:20.559
 judged

00:53:20.559 --> 00:53:20.779
 or

00:53:20.779 --> 00:53:21.059
 under

00:53:21.059 --> 00:53:21.639
 judgment

00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:22.099
 or

00:53:22.099 --> 00:53:22.599
 under

00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:24.039
 condemnation

00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:25.460
 and

00:53:25.460 --> 00:53:25.559
 it

00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:25.739
 is

00:53:25.739 --> 00:53:25.980
 true

00:53:25.980 --> 00:53:26.199
 that

00:53:26.199 --> 00:53:26.579
 outside

00:53:26.579 --> 00:53:26.859
 of

00:53:26.859 --> 00:53:27.440
 Christ

00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:28.599
 we

00:53:28.599 --> 00:53:30.559
 are

00:53:30.559 --> 00:53:30.779
 all

00:53:30.779 --> 00:53:31.059
 under

00:53:31.059 --> 00:53:31.739
 condemnation

00:53:31.739 --> 00:53:31.980
 for

00:53:31.980 --> 00:53:32.139
 our

00:53:32.139 --> 00:53:32.339
 sin

00:53:32.339 --> 00:53:32.839
 and

00:53:32.839 --> 00:53:32.980
 the

00:53:32.980 --> 00:53:33.219
 only

00:53:33.219 --> 00:53:33.819
 shelter

00:53:33.819 --> 00:53:34.099
 from

00:53:34.099 --> 00:53:34.279
 the

00:53:34.279 --> 00:53:34.599
 storm

00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:34.779
 of

00:53:34.779 --> 00:53:35.159
 just

00:53:35.159 --> 00:53:35.659
 judgment

00:53:35.659 --> 00:53:36.579
 is

00:53:36.579 --> 00:53:37.019
 in

00:53:37.019 --> 00:53:37.699
 Christ

00:53:37.699 --> 00:53:38.659
 but

00:53:38.659 --> 00:53:38.900
 there's

00:53:38.900 --> 00:53:39.400
 also

00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:40.400
 sometimes

00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:40.679
 the

00:53:40.679 --> 00:53:40.900
 scripture

00:53:40.900 --> 00:53:41.279
 does

00:53:41.279 --> 00:53:41.819
 use

00:53:41.819 --> 00:53:42.259
 a

00:53:42.259 --> 00:53:42.440
 word

00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:42.579
 that

00:53:42.579 --> 00:53:42.699
 we

00:53:42.699 --> 00:53:42.980
 render

00:53:42.980 --> 00:53:43.699
 judgment

00:53:43.699 --> 00:53:44.739
 in

00:53:44.739 --> 00:53:45.039
 terms

00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:45.219
 of

00:53:45.219 --> 00:53:45.359
 an

00:53:45.359 --> 00:53:46.039
 evaluation

00:53:46.039 --> 00:53:47.379
 and

00:53:47.379 --> 00:53:47.500
 you

00:53:47.500 --> 00:53:47.659
 can

00:53:47.659 --> 00:53:47.859
 see

00:53:47.859 --> 00:53:48.019
 how

00:53:48.019 --> 00:53:48.139
 they

00:53:48.139 --> 00:53:48.319
 be

00:53:48.319 --> 00:53:48.759
 connected

00:53:48.760 --> 00:53:49.560
 and

00:53:49.560 --> 00:53:49.660
 it

00:53:49.660 --> 00:53:49.860
 is

00:53:49.860 --> 00:53:50.420
 true

00:53:50.420 --> 00:53:51.300
 that

00:53:51.300 --> 00:53:51.920
 believers

00:53:51.920 --> 00:53:52.580
 are

00:53:52.580 --> 00:53:53.300
 evaluated

00:53:53.300 --> 00:53:53.820
 for

00:53:53.820 --> 00:53:54.040
 their

00:53:54.040 --> 00:53:54.420
 life

00:53:54.420 --> 00:53:54.880
 but

00:53:54.880 --> 00:53:55.680
 not

00:53:55.680 --> 00:53:56.760
 not

00:53:56.760 --> 00:53:57.300
 to

00:53:57.300 --> 00:53:57.660
 see

00:53:57.660 --> 00:53:58.160
 if

00:53:58.160 --> 00:53:58.460
 they've

00:53:58.460 --> 00:53:58.660
 done

00:53:58.660 --> 00:53:58.960
 well

00:53:58.960 --> 00:53:59.260
 enough

00:53:59.260 --> 00:53:59.480
 to

00:53:59.480 --> 00:53:59.920
 secure

00:53:59.920 --> 00:54:00.460
 God's

00:54:00.460 --> 00:54:00.840
 favor

00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:01.860
 but

00:54:01.860 --> 00:54:02.340
 rather

00:54:02.340 --> 00:54:02.840
 as

00:54:02.840 --> 00:54:03.480
 evidential

00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:04.080
 support

00:54:04.080 --> 00:54:04.920
 that

00:54:04.920 --> 00:54:05.260
 they

00:54:05.260 --> 00:54:05.560
 have

00:54:05.560 --> 00:54:05.940
 been

00:54:05.940 --> 00:54:06.580
 truly

00:54:06.580 --> 00:54:07.120
 in a

00:54:07.120 --> 00:54:07.520
 fruitful

00:54:07.520 --> 00:54:08.100
 union

00:54:08.100 --> 00:54:08.360
 with

00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:08.640
 Christ

00:54:08.640 --> 00:54:09.140
 and

00:54:09.140 --> 00:54:09.480
 every

00:54:09.480 --> 00:54:09.920
 union

00:54:09.920 --> 00:54:10.180
 with

00:54:10.180 --> 00:54:10.540
 Christ

00:54:10.540 --> 00:54:10.780
 is

00:54:10.780 --> 00:54:11.260
 fruitful

00:54:11.260 --> 00:54:12.460
 so

00:54:12.460 --> 00:54:12.620
 there

00:54:12.620 --> 00:54:12.800
 will

00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:13.500
 inevitably

00:54:13.500 --> 00:54:14.040
 be a

00:54:14.040 --> 00:54:14.440
 fruitfulness

00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:15.060
 of life

00:54:15.060 --> 00:54:15.560
 that

00:54:15.560 --> 00:54:15.860
 then you

00:54:15.860 --> 00:54:16.040
 can

00:54:16.040 --> 00:54:16.380
 point

00:54:16.380 --> 00:54:16.680
 to

00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:16.839
 and

00:54:16.839 --> 00:54:16.919
 it

00:54:16.919 --> 00:54:17.039
 could

00:54:17.039 --> 00:54:17.239
 say

00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:17.759
 ah

00:54:17.759 --> 00:54:18.539
 this

00:54:18.539 --> 00:54:18.919
 person

00:54:18.919 --> 00:54:19.099
 is

00:54:19.099 --> 00:54:19.299
 in

00:54:19.299 --> 00:54:19.839
 Christ

00:54:19.839 --> 00:54:20.659
 look

00:54:20.659 --> 00:54:20.799
 at

00:54:20.799 --> 00:54:20.960
 the

00:54:20.960 --> 00:54:21.239
 fruit

00:54:21.239 --> 00:54:21.399
 of

00:54:21.399 --> 00:54:21.719
 this

00:54:21.719 --> 00:54:22.139
 look

00:54:22.139 --> 00:54:22.219
 at

00:54:22.219 --> 00:54:22.339
 the

00:54:22.339 --> 00:54:22.559
 love

00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:22.819
 joy

00:54:22.819 --> 00:54:23.099
 peace

00:54:23.099 --> 00:54:23.399
 patience

00:54:23.399 --> 00:54:23.839
 so

00:54:23.839 --> 00:54:24.019
 they

00:54:24.019 --> 00:54:24.319
 are

00:54:24.319 --> 00:54:24.960
 evaluated

00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:25.440
 to

00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:25.960
 affirm

00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:26.339
 the

00:54:26.339 --> 00:54:26.960
 reality

00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:27.500
 the

00:54:27.500 --> 00:54:28.000
 visible

00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:28.639
 reality

00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:29.799
 that

00:54:29.799 --> 00:54:30.019
 they

00:54:30.019 --> 00:54:30.259
 are

00:54:30.259 --> 00:54:30.460
 in

00:54:30.460 --> 00:54:30.799
 union

00:54:30.799 --> 00:54:31.019
 with

00:54:31.019 --> 00:54:31.379
 Christ

00:54:31.379 --> 00:54:31.539
 and

00:54:31.539 --> 00:54:31.599
 it

00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:31.699
 is

00:54:31.699 --> 00:54:31.880
 that

00:54:31.880 --> 00:54:32.420
 union

00:54:32.420 --> 00:54:32.699
 with

00:54:32.699 --> 00:54:33.179
 Christ

00:54:33.179 --> 00:54:33.739
 that

00:54:33.739 --> 00:54:34.259
 keeps

00:54:34.259 --> 00:54:34.500
 us

00:54:34.500 --> 00:54:34.699
 from

00:54:34.699 --> 00:54:35.019
 being

00:54:35.019 --> 00:54:35.699
 condemned

00:54:35.699 --> 00:54:36.519
 because

00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:36.800
 as

00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:37.019
 well

00:54:37.019 --> 00:54:37.179
 as

00:54:37.179 --> 00:54:37.360
 we

00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:37.679
 might

00:54:37.679 --> 00:54:38.219
 do

00:54:38.219 --> 00:54:38.599
 in

00:54:38.599 --> 00:54:38.759
 our

00:54:38.759 --> 00:54:39.340
 fruit

00:54:39.340 --> 00:54:39.820
 bearing

00:54:39.820 --> 00:54:40.759
 we

00:54:40.759 --> 00:54:41.320
 still

00:54:41.320 --> 00:54:41.559
 have

00:54:41.559 --> 00:54:41.800
 not

00:54:41.800 --> 00:54:42.039
 loved

00:54:42.039 --> 00:54:42.259
 God

00:54:42.259 --> 00:54:42.420
 without

00:54:42.420 --> 00:54:42.579
 our

00:54:42.579 --> 00:54:42.759
 heart

00:54:42.759 --> 00:54:42.900
 soul

00:54:42.900 --> 00:54:43.099
 mind

00:54:43.099 --> 00:54:43.199
 and

00:54:43.199 --> 00:54:43.460
 strength

00:54:43.460 --> 00:54:43.599
 our

00:54:43.599 --> 00:54:43.800
 neighbor

00:54:43.800 --> 00:54:43.960
 as

00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:44.420
 ourselves

00:54:44.420 --> 00:54:44.940
 who

00:54:44.940 --> 00:54:45.199
 Christ

00:54:45.199 --> 00:54:45.420
 alone

00:54:45.420 --> 00:54:45.559
 has

00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:45.759
 done

00:54:45.759 --> 00:54:46.340
 which

00:54:46.340 --> 00:54:46.480
 is

00:54:46.480 --> 00:54:46.759
 what's

00:54:46.759 --> 00:54:47.360
 required

00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:59.279
 I

00:54:59.280 --> 00:54:59.680
 I

00:54:59.680 --> 00:55:00.220
 think

00:55:00.220 --> 00:55:01.019
 that's

00:55:01.019 --> 00:55:01.160
 so

00:55:01.160 --> 00:55:01.340
 if

00:55:01.340 --> 00:55:01.480
 we

00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:02.540
 remember

00:55:02.540 --> 00:55:03.560
 that

00:55:03.560 --> 00:55:04.660
 you know

00:55:04.660 --> 00:55:05.440
 what

00:55:05.440 --> 00:55:06.680
 causes

00:55:06.680 --> 00:55:07.060
 me to

00:55:07.060 --> 00:55:07.240
 differ

00:55:07.240 --> 00:55:07.460
 from

00:55:07.460 --> 00:55:07.640
 someone

00:55:07.640 --> 00:55:07.860
 else

00:55:07.860 --> 00:55:08.440
 I'm

00:55:08.440 --> 00:55:08.640
 just

00:55:08.640 --> 00:55:09.220
 I

00:55:09.220 --> 00:55:09.460
 am

00:55:09.460 --> 00:55:09.720
 a

00:55:09.720 --> 00:55:09.980
 sinner

00:55:09.980 --> 00:55:10.460
 just

00:55:10.460 --> 00:55:10.700
 as

00:55:10.700 --> 00:55:10.880
 all

00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:11.580
 but

00:55:11.580 --> 00:55:11.840
 for

00:55:11.840 --> 00:55:11.960
 the

00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:12.160
 grace

00:55:12.160 --> 00:55:12.340
 of

00:55:12.340 --> 00:55:12.580
 God

00:55:12.580 --> 00:55:12.840
 there

00:55:12.840 --> 00:55:13.100
 go

00:55:13.100 --> 00:55:13.480
 I

00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:14.860
 absolutely

00:55:14.860 --> 00:55:15.220
 I

00:55:15.220 --> 00:55:15.660
 think

00:55:15.660 --> 00:55:15.860
 that

00:55:15.860 --> 00:55:16.140
 that

00:55:16.140 --> 00:55:16.540
 is

00:55:16.540 --> 00:55:17.060
 a

00:55:17.060 --> 00:55:17.620
 healthy

00:55:17.620 --> 00:55:18.820
 truth

00:55:18.820 --> 00:55:19.160
 to

00:55:19.160 --> 00:55:19.519
 remember

00:55:19.519 --> 00:55:19.720
 a

00:55:19.720 --> 00:55:19.980
 spiritual

00:55:19.980 --> 00:55:20.420
 truth

00:55:20.420 --> 00:55:20.940
 to

00:55:20.940 --> 00:55:21.280
 remember

00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:22.200
 yes

00:55:22.200 --> 00:55:26.660
 yep

00:55:26.660 --> 00:55:27.019
 okay

00:55:27.019 --> 00:55:27.840
 last

00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:28.019
 one

00:55:28.019 --> 00:55:28.300
 go

00:55:28.300 --> 00:55:28.500
 ahead

00:55:28.500 --> 00:55:28.760
 yeah

00:55:28.760 --> 00:55:29.639
 sure

00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:30.380
 I

00:55:30.380 --> 00:55:30.760
 believe

00:55:30.760 --> 00:55:30.980
 what

00:55:30.980 --> 00:55:31.099
 you

00:55:31.099 --> 00:55:31.860
 outlined

00:55:31.860 --> 00:55:32.300
 here

00:55:32.300 --> 00:55:32.980
 is

00:55:32.980 --> 00:55:33.480
 a

00:55:33.480 --> 00:55:33.820
 description

00:55:33.820 --> 00:55:34.260
 of

00:55:34.260 --> 00:55:34.699
 our

00:55:34.699 --> 00:55:35.340
 general

00:55:35.340 --> 00:55:35.980
 commission

00:55:35.980 --> 00:55:37.820
 would

00:55:37.820 --> 00:55:37.980
 you

00:55:37.980 --> 00:55:38.360
 have

00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:38.699
 another

00:55:38.699 --> 00:55:39.059
 talk

00:55:39.059 --> 00:55:39.500
 prepared

00:55:39.500 --> 00:55:40.019
 for

00:55:40.019 --> 00:55:40.699
 discerning

00:55:40.699 --> 00:55:40.940
 your

00:55:40.940 --> 00:55:41.440
 specific

00:55:41.440 --> 00:55:42.139
 commission

00:55:42.139 --> 00:55:42.960
 well

00:55:42.960 --> 00:55:45.559
 that

00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:46.260
 is

00:55:46.260 --> 00:55:47.940
 we'll

00:55:47.940 --> 00:55:48.380
 talk a

00:55:48.380 --> 00:55:48.539
 little

00:55:48.539 --> 00:55:48.739
 bit

00:55:48.739 --> 00:55:49.119
 about

00:55:49.119 --> 00:55:50.280
 that

00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:50.519
 I

00:55:50.519 --> 00:55:50.980
 think

00:55:50.980 --> 00:55:51.739
 when

00:55:51.739 --> 00:55:51.980
 we

00:55:51.980 --> 00:55:52.599
 ask

00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:53.460
 how

00:55:53.460 --> 00:55:53.639
 do

00:55:53.639 --> 00:55:53.780
 I

00:55:53.780 --> 00:55:54.300
 begin

00:55:54.300 --> 00:55:55.000
 where

00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:55.159
 do

00:55:55.159 --> 00:55:55.360
 I

00:55:55.360 --> 00:55:56.000
 start

00:55:56.000 --> 00:55:57.099
 because

00:55:57.099 --> 00:55:58.679
 we'll

00:55:58.679 --> 00:55:59.019
 spend

00:55:59.019 --> 00:55:59.319
 some

00:55:59.319 --> 00:55:59.480
 on

00:55:59.480 --> 00:55:59.679
 talking

00:55:59.679 --> 00:55:59.839
 about

00:55:59.839 --> 00:56:00.019
 what

00:56:00.019 --> 00:56:00.159
 is

00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:00.299
 the

00:56:00.299 --> 00:56:00.679
 gospel

00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:01.159
 so

00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:01.400
 that's

00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:01.559
 the

00:56:01.559 --> 00:56:02.000
 content

00:56:02.000 --> 00:56:02.179
 of

00:56:02.179 --> 00:56:02.279
 the

00:56:02.279 --> 00:56:02.739
 message

00:56:02.739 --> 00:56:03.579
 but

00:56:03.579 --> 00:56:03.739
 then

00:56:03.739 --> 00:56:03.980
 another

00:56:03.980 --> 00:56:04.259
 really

00:56:04.259 --> 00:56:04.619
 important

00:56:04.619 --> 00:56:04.900
 thing

00:56:04.900 --> 00:56:05.059
 is

00:56:05.059 --> 00:56:05.619
 you

00:56:05.619 --> 00:56:06.019
 gesture

00:56:06.019 --> 00:56:06.400
 at

00:56:06.400 --> 00:56:06.980
 is

00:56:06.980 --> 00:56:07.360
 what

00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:07.659
 is

00:56:07.659 --> 00:56:07.839
 the

00:56:07.839 --> 00:56:08.559
 context

00:56:08.559 --> 00:56:09.299
 for me

00:56:09.299 --> 00:56:09.559
 having

00:56:09.559 --> 00:56:10.039
 a chance

00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:10.460
 to share

00:56:10.460 --> 00:56:10.679
 some

00:56:10.679 --> 00:56:10.880
 of the

00:56:10.880 --> 00:56:11.360
 content

00:56:11.360 --> 00:56:12.139
 and

00:56:12.139 --> 00:56:12.400
 that's

00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:12.559
 going

00:56:12.559 --> 00:56:12.799
 to be

00:56:12.799 --> 00:56:13.099
 probably

00:56:13.099 --> 00:56:13.420
 pretty

00:56:13.420 --> 00:56:13.860
 peculiar

00:56:13.860 --> 00:56:14.199
 and

00:56:14.199 --> 00:56:14.920
 personalized

00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:15.480
 to each

00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:15.920
 person

00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:16.920
 what

00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:17.199
 is

00:56:17.199 --> 00:56:17.380
 the

00:56:17.380 --> 00:56:17.900
 context

00:56:17.900 --> 00:56:18.279
 in

00:56:18.279 --> 00:56:18.440
 which

00:56:18.440 --> 00:56:18.699
 I

00:56:18.699 --> 00:56:18.940
 might

00:56:18.940 --> 00:56:19.339
 have

00:56:19.339 --> 00:56:19.880
 most

00:56:19.880 --> 00:56:20.519
 natural

00:56:20.519 --> 00:56:21.559
 and

00:56:21.559 --> 00:56:22.559
 fruitful

00:56:22.559 --> 00:56:22.980
 potentially

00:56:22.980 --> 00:56:23.360
 fruitful

00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:23.880
 opportunity

00:56:23.880 --> 00:56:24.460
 so

00:56:24.460 --> 00:56:25.239
 absolutely

00:56:25.239 --> 00:56:26.139
 we will

00:56:26.139 --> 00:56:26.360
 touch

00:56:26.360 --> 00:56:26.660
 on some

00:56:26.660 --> 00:56:27.160
 of that

00:56:27.160 --> 00:56:27.539
 yes

00:56:27.539 --> 00:56:28.579
 a team

00:56:28.579 --> 00:56:28.960
 I think

00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:29.700
 we best

00:56:29.700 --> 00:56:30.420
 probably

00:56:30.420 --> 00:56:30.800
 break

00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:32.320
 please

00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:34.380
 safely

00:56:34.380 --> 00:56:35.480
 haste

00:56:35.480 --> 00:56:36.079
 to

00:56:36.079 --> 00:56:36.360
 to

00:56:36.360 --> 00:56:36.660
 to

00:56:36.660 --> 00:56:37.039
 to

00:56:37.039 --> 00:56:37.360
 worship

00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:37.880
 don't trip

00:56:37.880 --> 00:56:38.200
 on the

00:56:38.200 --> 00:56:38.559
 stairs

00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:38.920
 but

00:56:38.920 --> 00:56:39.740
 I

00:56:39.740 --> 00:56:40.620
 I

00:56:40.620 --> 00:56:40.940
 don't

00:56:40.940 --> 00:56:41.240
 want to

00:56:41.240 --> 00:56:41.480
 sink

00:56:41.480 --> 00:56:41.720
 my

00:56:41.720 --> 00:56:42.220
 reputation

00:56:42.220 --> 00:56:42.519
 even

00:56:42.519 --> 00:56:42.940
 further

00:56:42.940 --> 00:56:45.500
 thank you

00:56:45.500 --> 00:56:45.700
 and

00:56:45.700 --> 00:56:46.280
 Lord

00:56:46.280 --> 00:56:46.559
 willing

00:56:46.559 --> 00:56:46.900
 we'll

00:56:46.900 --> 00:56:47.820
 see you

00:56:47.820 --> 00:56:48.039
 next

00:56:48.039 --> 00:56:48.360
 week

00:56:48.360 --> 00:56:52.360
 I