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 Well, thanks so much, Jackson. Buddy, I'm going to miss you a lot.

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 And I think Jackson comes to us genuinely as a wonderful example of what it is,

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 the benefit holistically that we receive when we immerse ourselves in the life of a church family.

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 It does feel like a lot longer than two years that Jackson first rocked up here.

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 But it also reminds us, doesn't it, of the call that God makes in our lives to be a multinational

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 and a multi-generation church family that welcomes people from all over the world that find their home in our city.

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 So it's with great sadness, but excitement that we say goodbye to him this morning.

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 So I just wanted to honour him and just the ways that he has served here.

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 But the ways that the Lord has taught me through him are great.

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 So Genesis 32 is where we're going to be this morning. So turn with me there.

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 Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay. You with me? Yeah?

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 Fascinating interview he did on BBC Radio 2 a couple of years ago.

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 And he was talking about the soul searching that he was doing during the COVID pandemic

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 when he had to isolate and be all by himself.

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 Remember those days? COVID's kind of back in the news, isn't it?

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 Remember those periods of being alone, of isolating, being left alone with your thoughts?

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 It seems so bizarre now, doesn't it, to think about the fact that at one time

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 we were allowed out in this country for one hour a day at its peak.

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 I wonder, what did you learn? Here's what Chris Martin said.

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 He said,

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 He said,

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 Last year was quite an eye-opener for me, reflecting back on that year.

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 I was like, who am I without Wembley Stadium saying, you're awesome?

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 So here's a guy that spent so much of his life performing to thousands of adoring fans.

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 Spending his life with people and acclaim and noise.

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 But as soon as he was alone and always stripped away,

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 he starts asking himself those big questions that we often ask ourselves in life.

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 What is life all about?

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 Who's acclaim and whose affirmation makes my life worthwhile?

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 And what do I do and who am I when no one is watching?

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 Subtext, who am I?

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 Now, we think today that that is a postmodern question.

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 And it is one that everybody's asking just now.

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 We're searching for identity.

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 But let me just say, it's not a postmodern question at all.

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 Actually, it's a question that human beings have been asking ourselves

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 ever since we were created.

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 And there's a reason for that.

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 And the reason is that we are all identity craving creatures.

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 And here is why whoever you are here today,

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 wherever you're from, whatever you think of the God of the Bible,

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 I want you to tune in to what we're going to be thinking about

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 for the next 25 minutes or so.

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 Because this is all about identity.

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 What this is today is the answer that the Bible gives the Christian

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 as to who they are and why.

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 And it's unbelievably good.

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 If I had to go as far as to say I'm pretty convinced that understanding the answer

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 to that question is the key to flourishing and growing in the Christian life

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 and enjoying the great three-in-one God who we worship.

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 So here we are in the book of Genesis and we've come to this defining moment in Jacob's life.

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 Now, if you know anything about this man Jacob, it might well be this episode.

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 And you've probably picked it up from reading it that it's as weird as it is wonderful.

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 So here's maybe an interpretive lens through which to understand the wrestling match

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 which we're about to get involved in.

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 Verse 28 is the key for us that I think unlocks the true significance of what's going on here.

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 God says to Jacob,

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 Now here's a fun fact for you about this passage.

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 I love a fun fact.

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 Here's a fun fact for you.

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 This is the first time the word Israel is used in the Bible.

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 This name that's given to identify the corporate people of God.

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 And here's what I reckon Moses as he pens this is up to.

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 Here's the purpose of this.

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 Because as he travels with this Israelite generation who are the first readers here,

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 he journeys with them in the wilderness.

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 He's probably fully aware of the conversations that are going on in the family tents, right?

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 Picture the scene, an intuitive little girl saying to her dad,

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 Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, what's our name again?

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 Dad says, our name's Israel.

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 But being an intuitive little girl, she doesn't stop there, does she?

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 No, she goes for the question that my girls love to ask me at a minute to wind me up

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 because they get me with it every time.

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 Yeah, but why are we called Israel?

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 Well, her dad would take her straight to this passage.

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 Or might have been a scroll, don't know.

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 Takes her to this encounter and he says,

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 Sweetheart, this is why we're called Israel.

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 This is what it is to be the people of God.

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 You see, Jacob's on his way to Canaan.

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 And at this point in the story, if you remember,

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 he's caught in this kind of trauma sandwich.

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 He's left his uncle Laban behind.

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 And he's got Esau, his brother, up ahead.

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 And remember, Esau's got, verse 6, look back.

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 He's got 400 men on his side.

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 And Jacob's heard that there's 400 men with Esau.

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 So he's trapped between Laban on one side, Esau on the other side.

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 And he's got no idea what Jacob and those 400 men, what their intentions are.

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 And so, verse 22, having sent his camels and his children across the stream,

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 just follow with it,

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 what happens to him?

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 What does he find himself being?

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 He finds himself all alone.

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 Now, we're not told why.

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 But we are told that the Lord meets him.

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 Now, this is a wonderful truth about the God of the Bible.

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 The initiative is always his.

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 And this is what sets apart Christianity from all the other world religions.

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 That knowing this God is not about us working ourselves up to him.

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 No, we would have no idea who this God is if he hadn't first revealed himself to us.

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 This God, he comes to meet us in our grime and in our mess.

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 This God stoops to be with us in our ash heaps and in our alone moments

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 when we have no idea where we're looking to for purpose and any kind of foundation to our lives.

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 This God steps right into the rubble.

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 And this God has come looking for a fight.

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 You didn't think wrestling was in the Bible?

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 Think again.

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 God wrestled with Jacob.

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 Now, verse 24 says a man.

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 You read a lot of commentaries.

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 They predict maybe that this was a pre-incarnate Jesus.

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 We don't know.

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 Text doesn't tell us.

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 But it does tell us, verse 30, that Jacob left this encounter, this wrestle,

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 under no illusions and in zero doubt that he'd just been in combat with the divine.

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 All right?

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 Oh, if Sky Sports were offering pay-per-view in this one, I'd be all over it.

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 Yeah?

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 50-99, I'm taking this one.

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 And the thing is that this should be God versus Jacob.

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 This should be what they call a non-contest.

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 Because it's not even an even match-up, is it?

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 No one goes toe-to-toe with the omnipotent, omniscient God.

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 The three times holy God who created the world with the power of his word.

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 No one goes toe-to-toe with Yahweh.

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 Goes sparring with him and hopes to come out on top.

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 And yet what a strange encounter this is.

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 Because at first it looks like an even match.

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 Do you see that?

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 But I guess this is a bit like when I do a rugby scrum with my six-year-old girl, Grace.

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 She loves to do a rugby scrum.

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 Big dad secret here, I do not tend to go full-on Jonah Lomu on her in the first ten seconds.

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 It's an even match.

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 And I think that's kind of what's going on here to understand it.

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 Just a touch.

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 Wrestled.

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 But just a touch from God.

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 Do you see that word there?

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 Just a touch.

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 And that's what that word means.

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 It means the slightest of touches.

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 It means what we would say today.

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 A brush.

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 Just a brush of Jacob's hip socket.

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 And he's limping for the rest of his days.

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 Now here's, there's tons of question marks I've got about this passage.

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 Can I give you my two?

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 Here's number one.

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 God says, Jacob, you've prevailed.

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 And you think to yourself, what?

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 Call a timeout.

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 You look for the var.

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 How has he prevailed in this situation?

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 The guy's hips out.

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 How has he won?

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 The wonderful truth about Christianity is that to win with this God is to admit defeat.

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 The way to victory comes when we submit ourselves to his lordship.

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 Do you see why Jacob is hanging on?

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 What's he hanging on in the fight for?

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 Do you see the word?

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 He's hanging on for God's blessing.

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 In other words, Lord, do what you said you'd do.

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 Be who you said you'd be.

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 Do what you said you'd promise.

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 Make us a people.

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 Remember God had said that promise?

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 That through Jacob and his line, he was going to create a people.

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 And not just physical people, but people who worship and know the Lord.

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 It's going to come through Jacob's line.

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 He's going to take them to a place.

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 What's so special about the place?

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 That God himself is there.

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 And more than that, what's he going to do?

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 Is those two things come together.

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 God is going to bless the nations of the world through his people.

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 It's a wonderful thing, isn't it?

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 We sit here today in Scotland.

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 Not just around the corner from where this happened.

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 Miles away.

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 We're from all over the place to see how this is God's intention, his heart, for the world, for the nations.

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 And the thing about this, Jacob says, God, give me that promise.

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 Give me that blessing.

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 The thing is, God has always committed himself to this already.

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 But now Jacob realizes, and before he was kind of hedging his bets, he was kind of half in.

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 He was kind of up and down.

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 Now he's in the place where he says, God, I see that only you can do it.

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 Only you can do it.

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 And I think, having been in this passage for a while here,

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 that this is where God wanted Jacob all along.

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 And God says to him, verse 27, he says, what is your name?

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 Now that's the second question mark I've got of this passage.

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 What is your name?

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 Why do you think it's a question mark?

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 Because surely God already knows his name.

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 Yeah?

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 Surely that goes with the territory of being the all-knowing God.

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 Surely that goes with his job description.

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 But here's what I think the Lord is up to here.

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 And get this and you'll get the very heart of Christianity.

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 Now the last time Jacob was asked that exact question was back at chapter 27.

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 Now who asked it of him then?

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 His dad.

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 Who are you, my boy?

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 Who are you, my son?

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 And Jacob says, I'm Esau.

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 He lies.

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 And so God is almost here teeing him up again.

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 Let's have a rerun.

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 Let's do it again.

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 He says, Jacob, who are you?

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 And it's almost as if God is stopping him in his tracks right there.

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 And in the moment, he's inviting him to put his hand up.

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 And come out of the shadows and say, this is who I am, Lord.

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 And inviting him to come and own his own sin.

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 And his mistakes.

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 And his hurts.

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 And his pain.

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 And his failures.

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 And put his hand up and said, I am Jacob.

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 And I'm the guy that cheated.

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 And I'm the guy that swindled.

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 And I'm the guy who deceived.

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 And I'm the guy who's the coward.

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 And I'm the guy who makes mistakes in his heart all the time.

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 And it's in that place.

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 It's the truth.

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 The light shines.

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 And the truth is out.

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 And all is exposed.

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 That God invites Jacob to step forward.

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 And say, do you see how you need saving?

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 Not from your circumstances.

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 You need saving from yourself.

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 You need me to transform your heart.

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 And right there in that place of admission and surrender.

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 The Bible would say that life is to be found.

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 A God that knows us to the bottom.

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 And a God that loves us to the sky.

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 But get this.

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 Instead of God answering.

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 And it's always a dangerous self to put yourself in the shoes of God.

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 But I tend to do it occasionally in the passage.

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 God could have answered and said, too right you are.

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 But he doesn't.

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 He says, I'm going to give you a new name.

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 Jacob is what you are by nature.

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 But Israel is what I will make you by grace.

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 Israel.

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 That name means.

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 And you see it.

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 If you've got an asterisk in your Bible there at the bottom.

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 It means you have prevailed.

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 You have overcome.

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 In other words, God is saying by grace, Jacob.

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 I am on your side.

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 So dear friends, know this today.

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 That we have a God.

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 God.

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 Who is in the business.

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 Of giving new names.

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 And he is in the business of creating in people.

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 New affections.

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 And awakening in people's hearts.

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 New desires.

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 That weren't there before.

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 And of determining for people.

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 New futures.

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 Daddy, daddy, daddy.

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 Why are we called Israel?

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 We are called Israel.

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 We are called the people of God.

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 Because our lives are by grace and by faith.

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 They're caught up in this one who God says.

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 You've overcome.

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 And you think about it.

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 Here's the question of Genesis.

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 If you remember back in Genesis 1, Genesis 2.

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 God creates this perfect world.

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 It becomes very good when Adam and Eve are made.

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 Creature, creator, living in harmony with one another.

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 Genesis 3 comes along.

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 They believe the lie of the devil.

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 They believe the lie of Satan.

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 That the good life is to be found.

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 Not by submitting and loving the Lord.

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 But actually trying to do it your own way.

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 Away from the Lord.

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 And right there is God makes a promise.

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 In Genesis 3.15.

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 That he will send somebody who will crush Satan himself.

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 And the question of the rest of the Bible story.

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 But it's certainly the Old Testament rather.

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 Is definitely the question of Genesis.

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 Is this the serpent crusher?

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 Is this the one that God promised he would send?

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 That he would raise up?

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 And you have to say.

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 Yes, God is saying they're coming from Jacob's line.

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 But it's not Jacob.

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 And yet echoes from Jacob's story are picked up.

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 As we look down the line of Jacob.

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 And we see Jesus.

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 He was saying he's going to be a man.

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 Who found himself truly alone.

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 In the garden before his death.

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 Who truly submitted his will to his father.

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 Not my will but your will be done.

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 And because of that he truly is the one who overcame.

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 He overcame our mess and our sin.

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 He died on the cross in our place.

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 So when God asks us to come clean.

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 And face up to our faults.

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 And own our mistakes.

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 He does so by saying.

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 Look at my son on the cross.

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 Paying for those mistakes and that sin.

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 Do you know it occurred to me recently.

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 That it was not nails that held Jesus on the cross.

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 Remember this was a man who stilled the storm.

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 This was a man who raised the dead.

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 It wasn't the nails that held him there.

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 It was a desire to accomplish his father's will.

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 To save his people from their sin.

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 And to give them a future and a hope with him.

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 He's overcome our sin by going to the cross.

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 And he's overcome death itself.

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 As he rose on the third day.

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 And because of that.

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 God has given him.

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 And I'll start it with this.

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 The name that is above all names.

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 And so then to be a Christian believer.

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 Is to have your life caught up with.

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 His name.

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 The king of kings.

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 The lord of lords.

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 And because of that.

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 Our names in one sense are still the same.

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 But in another sense.

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 They are profoundly different.

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 Because whereas before.

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 By nature.

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 We were spiritual orphans.

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 We were separated from God.

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 With no future other than his eternal judgment.

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 Now.

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 Because of our faith.

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 And because of his grace.

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 We're sons and daughters of the living God.

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 Melissa Kruger writing in her wonderful book.

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 Identity Theft.

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 Which I highly recommend to you.

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 Is devotional reading.

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 If you're looking for something a little bit different.

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 Reclaiming our identity in Christ.

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 She just says really simply.

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 Your identity is grounded in God's work in you.

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 Not your work for God.

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 And do you know what that means?

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 It means the living God.

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 Our father.

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 He feels the same way about us.

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 As he does his son.

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 And boy does he.

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 Adore.

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 His.

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 Son.

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 You know I've got a friend Dano.

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 Who works for Christians in sport.

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 He has this thing called the three.

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 A.

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 A.

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 M.

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 And he gets up and he's stumbling around in the pitch black.

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 Looking for the light.

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 Looking for anything.

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 And he thinks to himself.

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 Who is thinking of me in this moment?

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 Who knows where I am in this moment?

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 and in one sense nobody does

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 except his father

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 knows exactly what's going on in his life

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 knows exactly what he is

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 he thinks to himself I'm groggy

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 I don't even know what day it is

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 but he's not

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 I'm getting older

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 I can't do so many of the things I used to do

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 he's not

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 my body, my life, my times are changing

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 all around me

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 for him they're not

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 he never tires

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 of being a father

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 to his people

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 and his promises

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 to us in Christ

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 will never fail

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 and so do you see how we too

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 are Jacob by nature

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 but we are children of God by grace

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 that's the gospel

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 can I just give us one quick fire truth

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 maybe to take away from this today

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 and chew on

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 here it is

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 see with this God

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 weakness is the new strength

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 you see God's brought Jacob to this place

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 where he realizes that there's nowhere else I can go

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 and there's nowhere else I want to go

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 but to you

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 and that's a really uncomfortable place to be

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 facing up to the fact that we are not

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 in control

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 because

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 our world sells us the illusion that we are

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 right

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 Vodafone

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 power to you

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 Burger King

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 have it your way

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 what are both of those things saying

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 you're in control

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 okay

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 that's just Princess Street

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 but let me just say

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 it's a truly healthy place for us to be

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 to recognize that we're not

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 because it's here that God teaches Jacob

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 that he is

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 and you'll find this again and again

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 in the gospels

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 as people encounter

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 Jesus

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 you know friends

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 we can have all

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 we can run all the evangelistic courses

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 and we can

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 have all the evangelistic

00:23:49.679 --> 00:23:51.019
 training that we want

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 but at the end of the day

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 it's going to come down to this

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 what are we discovering right now

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 about Jesus

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 that makes our hearts sing

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 because that's what's going to come out of us

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 when people ask

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 that's what's going to come out of me tomorrow

00:24:05.099 --> 00:24:06.019
 when the parents say

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 at the school playground

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 what did you do at the weekend

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 can I give you one

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 for me just now

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 here it is

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 it's the fact that

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 his most tender

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 and compassionate words

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 are reserved for those

00:24:19.859 --> 00:24:20.879
 who realize

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 they have no hope but him

00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.180
 those who say

00:24:25.180 --> 00:24:26.660
 Lord I believe

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 help my unbelief

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 those who say

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 Lord my little girl

00:24:31.279 --> 00:24:32.240
 is dying

00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:36.599
 Jesus' heart is drawn

00:24:36.599 --> 00:24:37.159
 in love

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 to such people

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 who is it that he consistently

00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:40.679
 points to

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 as an example

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 of how life works

00:24:42.639 --> 00:24:43.480
 in his kingdom

00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:44.740
 it's not the sorted

00:24:44.740 --> 00:24:45.759
 religious types

00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:48.500
 or the rich

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 affluent sorts

00:24:49.839 --> 00:24:50.759
 who does he point to

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 he points to

00:24:51.379 --> 00:24:52.679
 little children

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 those who specialize

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 in the fact

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 that they have

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 nothing to offer you

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 other than

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 open hands

00:25:00.859 --> 00:25:01.519
 to receive

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 kind of how it works

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 with kids

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 right

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 did that

00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:05.400
 Alex did that

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 around Cameron

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 toll yesterday

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 gave them two pounds

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 and they just went

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 and spent it

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 right

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 they weren't looking

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 to pay that back

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 those who have

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 open hands

00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:15.860
 to receive

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 as God

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 weans us off

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 the self-reliance

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 that comes so

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 naturally

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 to each of us

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 and he weans us

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 onto

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 loving

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 and trusting

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 and looking

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 to him

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 and when we run

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 there

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 know that we

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 find

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 at his

00:25:31.839 --> 00:25:32.740
 throne

00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:34.740
 we find

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 grace

00:25:35.399 --> 00:25:37.139
 you know

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 as an 18 year

00:25:37.819 --> 00:25:38.000
 old

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 I couldn't

00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:38.759
 wait to get

00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:39.099
 away from

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 home

00:25:39.379 --> 00:25:41.199
 be independent

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 do it my way

00:25:42.939 --> 00:25:43.959
 because that's

00:25:43.959 --> 00:25:44.199
 when you

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 that's what you

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 do when you

00:25:45.159 --> 00:25:45.519
 grow up

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 right

00:25:45.720 --> 00:25:46.299
 you take

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 on the

00:25:46.639 --> 00:25:46.959
 world

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 the more

00:25:49.899 --> 00:25:50.319
 you go on

00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:50.599
 in life

00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:51.079
 you realize

00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:51.639
 what a fool

00:25:51.639 --> 00:25:53.480
 that actually

00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:54.079
 life is to

00:25:54.079 --> 00:25:54.659
 be found

00:25:54.659 --> 00:25:56.799
 in submitting

00:25:56.799 --> 00:25:57.259
 to this

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 Jesus

00:25:57.579 --> 00:25:58.039
 actually

00:25:58.039 --> 00:25:58.539
 maturity

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 looks like

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 not going

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 at myself

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 but running

00:26:02.380 --> 00:26:02.799
 to him

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 more

00:26:03.180 --> 00:26:04.660
 as he

00:26:04.660 --> 00:26:05.140
 calls me

00:26:05.140 --> 00:26:05.600
 to deny

00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:06.319
 myself

00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:07.039
 and to

00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:07.400
 take up

00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:07.900
 my cross

00:26:07.900 --> 00:26:08.259
 and to

00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:08.960
 follow him

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:09.700
 and in

00:26:09.700 --> 00:26:10.299
 so doing

00:26:10.299 --> 00:26:11.480
 find wonderful

00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:12.259
 and counter

00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:12.799
 cultural

00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:13.539
 rest

00:26:13.539 --> 00:26:14.539
 by living

00:26:14.539 --> 00:26:15.019
 a life

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 that's

00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:15.680
 lived

00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:16.240
 in

00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:16.900
 radical

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 independence

00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:22.299
 see if

00:26:22.299 --> 00:26:22.579
 I was to

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 give us

00:26:23.039 --> 00:26:24.440
 oh sorry

00:26:24.440 --> 00:26:24.759
 before we

00:26:24.759 --> 00:26:25.019
 get there

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:25.360
 in that

00:26:25.360 --> 00:26:25.600
 sense

00:26:25.600 --> 00:26:25.880
 do you

00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:26.539
 see how

00:26:26.539 --> 00:26:27.559
 Jacob

00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:28.259
 limping

00:26:28.259 --> 00:26:28.559
 about

00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:28.899
 for the

00:26:28.899 --> 00:26:29.119
 rest

00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:29.399
 of his

00:26:29.399 --> 00:26:29.779
 life

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 is caught

00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:31.559
 up in

00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:32.059
 this idea

00:26:32.059 --> 00:26:32.220
 of

00:26:32.220 --> 00:26:32.799
 dependence

00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:34.259
 something

00:26:34.259 --> 00:26:34.539
 that the

00:26:34.539 --> 00:26:34.839
 Israelites

00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:35.440
 mark

00:26:35.440 --> 00:26:36.019
 do you

00:26:36.019 --> 00:26:36.419
 see that

00:26:36.419 --> 00:26:36.700
 is they

00:26:36.700 --> 00:26:37.139
 don't eat

00:26:37.139 --> 00:26:37.359
 the

00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:37.899
 Sinai

00:26:37.899 --> 00:26:38.259
 of the

00:26:38.259 --> 00:26:38.579
 thigh

00:26:38.579 --> 00:26:38.940
 this is

00:26:38.940 --> 00:26:39.159
 something

00:26:39.159 --> 00:26:39.359
 that's

00:26:39.359 --> 00:26:39.599
 kind of

00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:40.200
 woven

00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:41.099
 into their

00:26:41.099 --> 00:26:41.960
 corporate

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:42.419
 life

00:26:42.419 --> 00:26:43.299
 I take

00:26:43.299 --> 00:26:43.519
 it that

00:26:43.519 --> 00:26:43.839
 every

00:26:43.839 --> 00:26:44.379
 Christian

00:26:44.379 --> 00:26:45.659
 should not

00:26:45.659 --> 00:26:46.000
 just be

00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:46.460
 walking

00:26:46.460 --> 00:26:46.879
 with a

00:26:46.879 --> 00:26:47.179
 limp

00:26:47.179 --> 00:26:48.899
 but embracing

00:26:48.899 --> 00:26:49.419
 a limp

00:26:49.419 --> 00:26:51.799
 because I

00:26:51.799 --> 00:26:52.099
 will use

00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:52.639
 my weaknesses

00:26:52.639 --> 00:26:53.579
 to magnify

00:26:53.579 --> 00:26:54.399
 his strength

00:26:54.399 --> 00:26:54.960
 I will use

00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:55.460
 everything that

00:26:55.460 --> 00:26:55.899
 comes my

00:26:55.899 --> 00:26:56.319
 way in

00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:56.659
 life

00:26:56.659 --> 00:26:57.539
 to know

00:26:57.539 --> 00:26:57.839
 that he

00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:58.379
 is sovereign

00:26:58.380 --> 00:26:58.840
 and in

00:26:58.840 --> 00:26:59.380
 control

00:26:59.380 --> 00:27:02.100
 do you

00:27:02.100 --> 00:27:02.240
 remember

00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:02.760
 Obama's

00:27:02.760 --> 00:27:03.040
 famous

00:27:03.040 --> 00:27:03.320
 phrase

00:27:03.320 --> 00:27:03.540
 that he

00:27:03.540 --> 00:27:03.740
 took

00:27:03.740 --> 00:27:04.060
 with him

00:27:04.060 --> 00:27:04.380
 on the

00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:04.740
 election

00:27:04.740 --> 00:27:05.060
 trail

00:27:05.060 --> 00:27:05.840
 in 2008

00:27:05.840 --> 00:27:06.400
 yes we

00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:06.740
 can

00:27:06.740 --> 00:27:07.820
 it's almost

00:27:07.820 --> 00:27:08.440
 as if Jesus

00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:09.080
 invites us

00:27:09.080 --> 00:27:09.560
 to say

00:27:09.560 --> 00:27:10.540
 no we

00:27:10.540 --> 00:27:11.720
 can't

00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:12.760
 but yes

00:27:12.760 --> 00:27:13.360
 you can

00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:15.520
 do you know

00:27:15.520 --> 00:27:16.020
 if there's one

00:27:16.020 --> 00:27:16.580
 word that I

00:27:16.580 --> 00:27:17.020
 pray would

00:27:17.020 --> 00:27:17.760
 come to

00:27:17.760 --> 00:27:18.360
 capture our

00:27:18.360 --> 00:27:19.260
 corporate life

00:27:19.260 --> 00:27:19.980
 together as a

00:27:19.980 --> 00:27:20.540
 church together

00:27:20.540 --> 00:27:21.080
 this year

00:27:21.080 --> 00:27:21.360
 do you know

00:27:21.360 --> 00:27:21.660
 what it would

00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:22.140
 be it would

00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:22.480
 be this

00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:22.860
 word

00:27:22.860 --> 00:27:24.640
 dependence

00:27:24.640 --> 00:27:26.820
 dependence

00:27:26.819 --> 00:27:29.000
 we cannot

00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:29.679
 do anything

00:27:29.679 --> 00:27:30.700
 we're wasting

00:27:30.700 --> 00:27:31.179
 our time

00:27:31.179 --> 00:27:31.619
 if the Lord

00:27:31.619 --> 00:27:31.980
 does not

00:27:31.980 --> 00:27:32.339
 build the

00:27:32.339 --> 00:27:32.700
 house

00:27:32.700 --> 00:27:33.399
 the labourers

00:27:33.399 --> 00:27:34.039
 labour in

00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:34.259
 vain

00:27:34.259 --> 00:27:34.980
 we look to

00:27:34.980 --> 00:27:35.279
 him

00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:37.079
 as it's seen

00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:37.619
 in our lives

00:27:37.619 --> 00:27:38.279
 in desperate

00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:38.839
 corporate

00:27:38.839 --> 00:27:39.399
 prayer

00:27:39.399 --> 00:27:40.879
 Lord would you

00:27:40.879 --> 00:27:41.259
 come

00:27:41.259 --> 00:27:42.460
 and have

00:27:42.460 --> 00:27:42.879
 your way

00:27:42.879 --> 00:27:43.220
 would you

00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:43.859
 save people

00:27:43.859 --> 00:27:44.539
 to yourself

00:27:44.539 --> 00:27:45.599
 would you

00:27:45.599 --> 00:27:46.039
 build

00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:47.639
 this house

00:27:47.639 --> 00:27:48.839
 radical

00:27:48.839 --> 00:27:49.879
 in

00:27:49.879 --> 00:27:51.619
 dependence

00:27:51.619 --> 00:27:51.879
 dependence

00:27:51.879 --> 00:27:52.479
 you know

00:27:52.479 --> 00:27:53.000
 just as we

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:53.379
 close

00:27:53.379 --> 00:27:56.000
 and she's

00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:56.279
 been in my

00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:56.579
 mind all

00:27:56.579 --> 00:27:56.959
 week this

00:27:56.959 --> 00:27:57.359
 week as I've

00:27:57.359 --> 00:27:57.719
 been thinking

00:27:57.719 --> 00:27:58.259
 about this

00:27:58.259 --> 00:27:58.699
 it was

00:27:58.699 --> 00:27:59.359
 Irene's

00:27:59.359 --> 00:27:59.899
 funeral on

00:27:59.899 --> 00:28:00.299
 Thursday

00:28:00.299 --> 00:28:01.639
 some of you

00:28:01.639 --> 00:28:02.139
 will know

00:28:02.139 --> 00:28:02.539
 Irene

00:28:02.539 --> 00:28:03.159
 she's been

00:28:03.159 --> 00:28:03.719
 part of this

00:28:03.719 --> 00:28:04.179
 church for

00:28:04.179 --> 00:28:04.739
 years

00:28:04.739 --> 00:28:06.219
 some of you

00:28:06.219 --> 00:28:06.659
 won't know

00:28:06.659 --> 00:28:07.119
 her but let

00:28:07.119 --> 00:28:07.500
 me just tell

00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:07.959
 you about her

00:28:07.959 --> 00:28:08.639
 as we close

00:28:08.639 --> 00:28:09.799
 doing her

00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:10.319
 funeral on

00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:10.639
 Thursday

00:28:10.639 --> 00:28:11.439
 three things

00:28:11.439 --> 00:28:12.099
 struck me

00:28:12.099 --> 00:28:14.219
 firstly it was

00:28:14.219 --> 00:28:14.959
 the photos

00:28:14.959 --> 00:28:17.099
 if you were

00:28:17.099 --> 00:28:17.599
 here you remember

00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:18.179
 the photos

00:28:18.179 --> 00:28:19.479
 this little

00:28:19.479 --> 00:28:19.819
 woman

00:28:19.819 --> 00:28:21.439
 five foot

00:28:21.439 --> 00:28:22.039
 nothing I'm

00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:22.359
 assuming

00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:24.099
 always smiling

00:28:24.099 --> 00:28:25.960
 always smiling

00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:29.899
 secondly it

00:28:29.899 --> 00:28:30.200
 was the

00:28:30.200 --> 00:28:30.759
 place

00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:32.179
 you know

00:28:32.179 --> 00:28:32.559
 apart from

00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:33.059
 the later

00:28:33.059 --> 00:28:33.740
 latter years

00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:34.259
 of her life

00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:34.759
 that she

00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:35.539
 lived in a

00:28:35.539 --> 00:28:35.919
 care home

00:28:35.919 --> 00:28:36.359
 just over

00:28:36.359 --> 00:28:36.559
 in the

00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:37.159
 Granger she

00:28:37.159 --> 00:28:37.639
 spent her

00:28:37.639 --> 00:28:39.539
 whole life

00:28:39.539 --> 00:28:41.619
 in a little

00:28:41.619 --> 00:28:42.659
 flat down

00:28:42.659 --> 00:28:43.220
 in Gorgie

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:45.240
 and number

00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:46.059
 three was

00:28:46.059 --> 00:28:46.720
 the words

00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:47.279
 that people

00:28:47.279 --> 00:28:48.059
 kept using

00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:48.679
 to describe

00:28:48.679 --> 00:28:48.980
 her

00:28:48.980 --> 00:28:50.140
 and it

00:28:50.140 --> 00:28:50.440
 was the

00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:50.740
 word

00:28:50.740 --> 00:28:51.759
 content

00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:54.220
 now those

00:28:54.220 --> 00:28:55.440
 three things

00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:56.299
 sorry to use

00:28:56.299 --> 00:28:56.640
 the double

00:28:56.640 --> 00:28:57.299
 negative here

00:28:57.299 --> 00:28:57.620
 but they

00:28:57.620 --> 00:28:58.200
 are not

00:28:58.200 --> 00:28:59.240
 disconnected

00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:02.360
 smiling

00:29:02.360 --> 00:29:04.860
 same place

00:29:04.860 --> 00:29:07.319
 content

00:29:07.319 --> 00:29:08.940
 and into

00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:09.440
 our world

00:29:09.440 --> 00:29:09.900
 that's always

00:29:09.900 --> 00:29:10.759
 encouraging us

00:29:10.759 --> 00:29:11.400
 to chase the

00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:12.079
 next big

00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:12.539
 thing

00:29:12.539 --> 00:29:14.480
 yeah

00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:15.279
 holiday

00:29:15.279 --> 00:29:16.400
 job

00:29:16.400 --> 00:29:17.779
 house move

00:29:17.779 --> 00:29:18.940
 etc etc

00:29:18.940 --> 00:29:19.619
 her life

00:29:19.619 --> 00:29:20.220
 cuts so

00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:20.779
 wonderfully

00:29:20.779 --> 00:29:21.379
 against the

00:29:21.379 --> 00:29:21.660
 grain

00:29:21.660 --> 00:29:23.359
 and it

00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:24.039
 reminds us

00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:24.639
 doesn't it

00:29:24.639 --> 00:29:26.180
 of how you

00:29:26.180 --> 00:29:26.839
 get there

00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:28.399
 because I'd

00:29:28.399 --> 00:29:29.000
 listened to the

00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:29.480
 stories about her

00:29:29.480 --> 00:29:29.920
 life and I thought

00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:30.399
 that's where I

00:29:30.399 --> 00:29:30.899
 want to be

00:29:30.899 --> 00:29:32.359
 how do you

00:29:32.359 --> 00:29:32.700
 get there

00:29:32.700 --> 00:29:33.279
 I take it

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:33.619
 as by

00:29:33.619 --> 00:29:34.420
 grasping

00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:36.359
 this identity

00:29:36.359 --> 00:29:36.960
 that God

00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:37.420
 gives us

00:29:37.420 --> 00:29:38.119
 by grace

00:29:38.119 --> 00:29:39.980
 who are

00:29:39.980 --> 00:29:40.539
 we

00:29:40.539 --> 00:29:42.119
 we are those

00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:42.579
 who've been

00:29:42.579 --> 00:29:43.420
 chosen

00:29:43.420 --> 00:29:44.440
 who have

00:29:44.440 --> 00:29:45.259
 been loved

00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:46.000
 who have

00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:46.880
 been redeemed

00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:47.779
 who have

00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:48.700
 been indwelt

00:29:48.700 --> 00:29:49.080
 by the

00:29:49.080 --> 00:29:49.720
 Holy Spirit

00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:50.580
 and who

00:29:50.580 --> 00:29:51.560
 are heading

00:29:51.560 --> 00:29:51.960
 home

00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:52.420
 why

00:29:52.420 --> 00:29:54.100
 because of

00:29:54.100 --> 00:29:54.660
 this God

00:29:54.660 --> 00:29:55.140
 of grace

00:29:55.140 --> 00:29:56.779
 and this

00:29:56.779 --> 00:29:57.180
 morning I

00:29:57.180 --> 00:29:57.400
 don't know

00:29:57.400 --> 00:29:57.860
 some of you

00:29:57.860 --> 00:29:58.200
 might be

00:29:58.200 --> 00:29:58.640
 here you've

00:29:58.640 --> 00:29:59.480
 never heard

00:29:59.480 --> 00:30:00.000
 this stuff

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:00.500
 before

00:30:00.500 --> 00:30:01.400
 love to

00:30:01.400 --> 00:30:01.800
 chat it

00:30:01.800 --> 00:30:02.080
 out with

00:30:02.080 --> 00:30:02.300
 you but

00:30:02.300 --> 00:30:02.820
 may today

00:30:02.820 --> 00:30:03.420
 be the day

00:30:03.420 --> 00:30:03.880
 when you put

00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:04.360
 your faith

00:30:04.360 --> 00:30:04.740
 in this

00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:05.100
 Jesus

00:30:05.100 --> 00:30:06.300
 see his

00:30:06.300 --> 00:30:06.920
 open arms

00:30:06.920 --> 00:30:07.560
 feel his

00:30:07.560 --> 00:30:08.300
 beating heart

00:30:08.300 --> 00:30:09.300
 for some of us

00:30:09.300 --> 00:30:10.779
 else today

00:30:10.779 --> 00:30:11.420
 this might be

00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:11.900
 a thing

00:30:11.900 --> 00:30:14.440
 convicted of

00:30:14.440 --> 00:30:14.860
 our self

00:30:14.860 --> 00:30:15.519
 reliance

00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:17.420
 and again

00:30:17.420 --> 00:30:18.000
 let's just

00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:18.380
 pray

00:30:18.380 --> 00:30:19.340
 come and grab

00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:19.539
 me

00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:20.080
 come and grab

00:30:20.080 --> 00:30:20.560
 anyone who

00:30:20.560 --> 00:30:20.840
 you've seen

00:30:20.840 --> 00:30:21.279
 up here

00:30:21.279 --> 00:30:21.960
 let's pray

00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:22.480
 that today

00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:22.800
 would be

00:30:22.800 --> 00:30:23.340
 the day

00:30:23.340 --> 00:30:24.460
 where God

00:30:24.460 --> 00:30:25.180
 weans us

00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:25.580
 off our

00:30:25.580 --> 00:30:26.560
 self reliance

00:30:26.560 --> 00:30:27.860
 and puts us

00:30:27.860 --> 00:30:28.700
 fully on him

00:30:28.700 --> 00:30:30.500
 will we

00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:30.740
 pray

00:30:30.740 --> 00:30:38.680
 and so

00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:39.200
 this is

00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:40.000
 the words

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.140
 of Isaiah

00:30:41.140 --> 00:30:41.900
 66

00:30:41.900 --> 00:30:43.520
 God declares

00:30:43.520 --> 00:30:44.500
 this through

00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:45.120
 Isaiah to

00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:46.180
 his generation

00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:48.360
 but this is

00:30:48.360 --> 00:30:49.040
 the one to

00:30:49.040 --> 00:30:49.660
 whom I

00:30:49.660 --> 00:30:50.400
 will look

00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:52.280
 he who

00:30:52.280 --> 00:30:53.759
 is humble

00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:55.920
 and contrite

00:30:55.920 --> 00:30:56.680
 in spirit

00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:58.780
 and who

00:30:58.780 --> 00:30:59.720
 trembles

00:30:59.720 --> 00:31:01.020
 at my

00:31:01.020 --> 00:31:01.440
 word

00:31:01.440 --> 00:31:02.900
 and so

00:31:02.900 --> 00:31:03.300
 heavenly

00:31:03.300 --> 00:31:03.960
 father we

00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:04.759
 ask lord

00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:05.300
 that you

00:31:05.300 --> 00:31:06.340
 would instill

00:31:06.340 --> 00:31:07.240
 in us

00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:09.500
 that spirit

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:10.440
 that the

00:31:10.440 --> 00:31:11.259
 disciples

00:31:11.259 --> 00:31:12.480
 just personified

00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:13.059
 as they said

00:31:13.059 --> 00:31:13.720
 lord to who

00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:14.279
 else will we

00:31:14.279 --> 00:31:14.500
 go

00:31:14.500 --> 00:31:15.059
 where else

00:31:15.059 --> 00:31:15.380
 will we

00:31:15.380 --> 00:31:15.660
 go

00:31:15.660 --> 00:31:16.880
 you have

00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:17.299
 the words

00:31:17.299 --> 00:31:17.859
 of eternal

00:31:17.859 --> 00:31:18.380
 life

00:31:18.380 --> 00:31:19.960
 father thank

00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:20.599
 you for the

00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:22.059
 upside down

00:31:22.059 --> 00:31:23.000
 topsy-turvy

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:23.759
 nature of

00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:24.779
 your kingdom

00:31:24.779 --> 00:31:26.240
 that the

00:31:26.240 --> 00:31:26.759
 first

00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:27.980
 are last

00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:29.079
 and the

00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:29.700
 last are

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:30.339
 first

00:31:30.339 --> 00:31:32.140
 father thank

00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:32.740
 you for this

00:31:32.740 --> 00:31:33.480
 morning thank

00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:33.880
 you for your

00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:34.759
 precious word

00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:35.359
 and I pray

00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:35.819
 lord that

00:31:35.819 --> 00:31:36.420
 your spirit

00:31:36.420 --> 00:31:36.799
 as your

00:31:36.799 --> 00:31:37.200
 word has

00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:38.299
 gone forth

00:31:38.299 --> 00:31:39.779
 would be at

00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:40.440
 work in each

00:31:40.440 --> 00:31:40.799
 of our

00:31:40.799 --> 00:31:41.240
 hearts

00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:42.059
 thank you

00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:42.339
 that the

00:31:42.339 --> 00:31:42.980
 holy spirit

00:31:42.980 --> 00:31:43.599
 is a way

00:31:43.599 --> 00:31:44.319
 better preacher

00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:44.759
 than I

00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:45.339
 ever will

00:31:45.339 --> 00:31:46.279
 be and I

00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:46.640
 pray that

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:47.400
 he would be

00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:47.740
 at work

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 in our

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 midst this

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 morning

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 bringing

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 comfort

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 bringing

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 encouragement

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 bringing

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 conviction

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 bringing that

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 deep sense

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 of needing

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 to change

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 but father

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 more so

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 just that

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 awareness

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 of your

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 wonderful grace

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 that's found

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 in Jesus

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 alone

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 father we

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 thank you

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 for your

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 commitment

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 to us

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 and your

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 love for us

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 in Jesus

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 and we

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 pray in his

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 wonderful name

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 amen