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 Father, this is your word.

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 It's your word to us.

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 It's not our word about you, but it's your word to us.

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 And we confess before you, Father, that we have our own criteria,

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 and if we're not careful, we judge your word.

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 But we ask, Father, that you humble us before your word

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 and help us to hear your word

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 so that your word will judge the desires of our hearts

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 and our thoughts and our plans

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 that we might hear your views and your perspective

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 and your good and gracious word to us

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 in the midst of our preoccupations.

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 Father, speak to us by your word.

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 Pour out your Holy Spirit with gentle but deep power

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 upon our mind, upon our wills, upon our hearts, upon our souls,

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 to the center of who we are.

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 Pour out your Holy Spirit upon us

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 and that we might hear your word and bring you glory.

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 And this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son,

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 and our Savior.

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 Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 So today we're going to talk about

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 why Christians should be the principal relativists in Canada.

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 And we're also going to talk about the meaning of life.

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 But before we do that,

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 I want to talk to you about something which is sort of relevant

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 and you sort of need to have your Bibles.

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 It's something that happened to me on Friday.

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 And when I was in the Starbucks where I was working on my sermon.

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 So if you get your Bibles and turn to Luke chapter 17,

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 it's sort of, there's something really cool

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 about this particular text in the Bible.

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 So on, on, on, there's a fellow in this one Starbucks

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 that I go to most mornings now.

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 My schedule has changed a little bit.

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 And he was in one of my,

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 he was in the very first church that I served in.

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 And he still goes to a liberal church.

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 And, and so he sees me many times in the week

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 working on my sermon.

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 So on Friday, he came up to me and said,

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 have you finished your sermon yet, George?

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 And I said, no, I haven't finished my sermon yet.

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 And then he said to me, George, you know,

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 I don't know how you do it.

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 Having to say something every week, I'd, I'd, I'd find it really hard.

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 And, and I said to him, well, uh, yeah, it's actually a bit easier

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 if you have to do it every week because you get into a bit of a rhythm.

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 But, you know, the main thing is that if I,

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 and here I was sort of making a little tiny bit of a dig at, at, at, uh, at his church.

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 I, I said that, uh, if I had to, if, if, if what I did on Sunday

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 was just get up and share my wisdom with the congregation,

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 uh, after three weeks, I would be in trouble.

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 And so would the congregation because I would have exhausted my wisdom

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 after three weeks.

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 But if what I try to do is just, we read a passage in the Bible

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 and then I, in a sense, hold the Bible like this to the congregation

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 and just try to help them understand what the Bible says.

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 Well, then every week there's a different Bible passage.

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 So there's always, I mean, it can still be hard to understand and all,

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 but there's just a different passage that I can point people to

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 and help them to understand it.

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 Now I know that he's read, uh, a couple of, um, of the critical types of books

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 about the Bible.

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 And I could tell from his expression that when I said that what I would try to do

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 would be to try to sort of just open the Bible to the congregation

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 and just try to help them understand.

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 I, I knew I could tell by the look in his eyes that he sort of thought,

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 well, you know, who knows what the Bible really is and, and, and, you know,

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 and who knows if it's even accurate.

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 So I said to him, uh, I almost said his name to him,

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 which wouldn't have been good.

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 I said, you know, listen, you just come over here for a second.

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 I want to show you something really cool, which I'm going to show you

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 something really cool about the Bible.

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 So I, we got the Bible.

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 And if you look to the end of chapter 17, look, you'll see that there's verse 34.

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 And then you look and see there's verse 35.

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 And then after that is verse 37.

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 If you have a modern Bible, if you have an old King James version of the Bible,

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 it might not do that.

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 But if you have a modern Bible, that's probably what it does.

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 I said, verse 34, there's verse 35, verse 35, and then verse 37.

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 And I said, you know, I almost said his name again.

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 We'll call him Fred.

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 That's not his name.

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 So I said, Fred, you know, here's the thing about the text.

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 I said, virtually every modern version of the text, I said,

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 there are thousands and thousands and thousands of,

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 literally thousands and thousands of manuscripts of,

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 of the New Testament that go back to very close to the time that it was actually written.

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 And I said, there's actually a scientific discipline whereby scholars

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 will compare the different manuscripts.

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 And when there's differences in the manuscripts,

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 they have a different, a way, a scientific way of trying to go back

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 and actually figure out what the original text probably was.

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 And I said, as archaeology discovers more text,

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 as archaeologists discover more text,

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 it gets easier and easier to try to be more confident

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 that we're actually reading the older text.

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 And I said, so, like when the King James Version

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 and the medieval age when they were developing the verse system,

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 there was a verse here which we now would say that wasn't there.

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 And he said, really?

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 I said, yeah.

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 And he looked and he saw, yeah.

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 And I said, you know, you go back and you get a good modern translation.

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 They'll all mention that.

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 And at the bottom, there'll be a little note

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 that'll tell you what the, you know, the verse was that was left out.

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 And I said, there's another thing.

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 I said, you just have to sort of take my word on it.

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 But he, every, this particular day, I still had the book open.

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 I was reading volume two of a commentary on Luke that was,

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 volume two is this fat and volume one is that fat.

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 So he sees me going through this commentary.

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 And I said, do you know that when there's two places in this text

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 where there's a little bit of a difference in the manuscripts,

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 and do you know that what scholars do, I said,

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 it's completely opposite to what you hear on PBS and TVO

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 and reading Globe and Mail and The Citizen,

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 they'll all tell you this thing and it's completely,

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 they're actually all wrong.

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 I said, when there's a difference between two manuscripts

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 and they're not sure what to take,

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 I can tell you that in every modern translation

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 that's worth its salt, which is most of them,

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 they choose the difficult and awkward version

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 that makes complications in the text not the easy version.

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 Because the translators know that human nature is such

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 that if a copyist is going to make a mistake,

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 they're more likely to try to smooth over a difficulty

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 rather than to create a difficulty.

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 And so that's what they do.

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 And I said, you see, that's why we can be very confident,

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 whether you believe it or not,

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 whether you think it's God's word or not,

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 you can be very confident that what you're reading here

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 is very close to what Luke actually wrote.

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 So here's the first point for the morning.

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 And it actually is relevant to the rest of the things

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 that we're going to talk about,

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 although it might seem a bit odd.

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 But here's the first point.

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 So if the true and living God really speaks to humans,

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 it is only wise to want to hear him clearly.

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 Isn't it?

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 If the true and living God really speaks

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 or has really spoken to humans,

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 it is only wise to want to hear him clearly.

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 And that's why, you know,

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 there's always been a branch of Christianity.

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 There's always been some Christians

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 who are very fearful of the truth

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 and don't want to really ask these hard questions.

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 But, you know, really, at the end of the day,

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 we as Christians believe these aren't our words,

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 but this is God speaking to us,

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 that God was the one who caused these words to be written,

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 that he is speaking to us.

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 And so it's only wise to want to hear him clearly

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 and not get other people adding their own opinions.

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 We spend all day listening to people's opinions.

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 And if we're not listening to people's opinions,

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 we're listening to our own opinion in our head.

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 But surely, if God really speaks,

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 you want to hear him clearly.

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 And it's very, very interesting.

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 It'll become obvious as we go through the text.

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 One of the profound differences

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 between the Christian faith and Islam

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 is that in Islam,

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 there is no critical examination

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 as to what the original Koran was.

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 Because they're terrified of it.

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 And part of it has to do with the nature of God.

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 You see, it's a very, in a sense,

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 an autocratic God who's portrayed in Islam.

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 And you can still fall in love with autocrats,

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 and I'm not saying that there aren't many Muslims

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 who don't sort of fall in love with God,

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 but it's a type of autocratic God,

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 and a distant God, right?

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 Because even in the Koran,

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 God speaks to Gabriel,

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 and Gabriel speaks to Muhammad,

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 and Muhammad speaks to his followers,

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 and his followers write it down.

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 But in Christian faith,

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 like the one who is speaking here now

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 is one who dies for us.

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 There's a different understanding

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 of the nature of God,

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 that God is love.

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 And so we have this interesting concept

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 that as we have a clearer sense

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 that God is love,

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 it frees us up to look

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 and try to hear more clearly

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 what it is that God actually says.

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 And that's reflected then

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 in Christian scholars

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 who work with non-Christian scholars,

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 non-Christian archaeologists,

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 is to try to actually have the text

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 be as accurate and clear

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 as we possibly can get it.

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 So that's the first thing,

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 is that if the true and living God

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 really speaks to humans,

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 it is only wise to want to hear him clearly.

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 Now, I said to you,

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 some of you might remember,

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 I said that this text

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 is a perfect example

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 of why it is that Christians

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 should be the principal relativists.

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 We should be far more relativistic

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 than any other person,

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 than any other group in our culture.

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 Christians are often thought of

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 as being sort of narrow-minded,

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 as being absolutists,

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 but we should really be

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 the principal relativists.

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 And so let's look at the text

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 and we'll start to see

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 why that is the case.

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 So you hopefully still have your Bibles.

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 It's Luke chapter 17.

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 We'll begin at verse 20.

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 And here's how it goes.

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 Being asked by the Pharisees

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 when the kingdom of God would come,

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 Jesus answered them,

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 the kingdom of God is not coming

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 with signs to be observed,

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 nor will they say,

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 look, here it is,

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 or there.

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 For behold,

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 the kingdom of God

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 is in the midst of you.

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 Now, some of you,

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 and this often happens to me

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 when I talk to people at Starbucks,

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 is that they'll tell me

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 that the Bible is filled

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 with contradictions.

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 And some of you

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 might be thinking,

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 if you know a little bit

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 about what goes on

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 actually in Luke's gospel,

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 because in a couple of chapters,

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 Jesus is going to talk about signs

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 of his second coming.

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 In Luke's gospel,

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 three times he talks about

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 the second coming.

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 And this is the second time.

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 And in, I think,

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 it's two chapters from now,

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 he's going to talk about

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 the second coming again.

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 And he's going to say

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 these are some of the signs.

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 And some of you

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 might be familiar

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 with John's gospel.

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 And John's gospel

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 is organized

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 around significant signs.

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 And so,

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 is Jesus contradicting himself?

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 Is the Bible contradicting itself

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 when it says here,

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 the kingdom of God,

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 when Jesus says,

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 the kingdom of God

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 is not coming with signs

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 to be observed,

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 nor will they say,

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 look, here it is,

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 or there,

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 for behold,

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 the kingdom of God

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 is in the midst of you.

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 Well,

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 sort of two things.

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 In the New Testament,

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 there's two different words

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 in Greek

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 that are translated as sign.

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 And in this particular case,

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 it's one word,

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 and later on in chapter 19

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 and in John's gospel,

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 it's a different word.

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 And the two different words,

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 they're both signs,

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 but they have a specifically

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 different connotation.

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 So,

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 here's the difference.

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 Here's this first one.

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 The first one could really

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 be translated as

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 looking for symptoms.

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 That's what Jesus

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 is really saying.

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 And here's the significance

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 of it.

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 A couple of years ago,

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 my doctor retired.

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 It was sort of traumatic

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 for me.

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 I'd had him for a long time.

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 I had to find a new doctor.

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 And then I found a new doctor

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 about two years ago.

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 And this doctor believes

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 that people my age,

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 men my age,

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 should have a yearly checkup.

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 So,

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 this past Friday,

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 I went for my yearly checkup.

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 And it's an odd situation.

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 We go into this tiny little room

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 and I sit down.

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 He says,

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 don't sit down for very long.

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 I'm a doctor.

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 Take your clothes off.

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 That feels very funny,

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 taking your clothes off.

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 He's dressed.

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 Actually,

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 it would be weirder

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 if he wasn't.

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 Then I wouldn't.

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 But it just feels pretty funny,

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 right?

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 And I take my clothes off

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 and he said,

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 you know,

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 I'm asking you to do this

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 not just to make,

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 not to make,

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 not because I want to make you

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 uncomfortable,

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 but he said,

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 you know,

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 he asked me to turn around

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 and he's looking to see

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 if I have funny looking moles.

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 And he's looking to see

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 if I have,

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 I don't know,

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 rashes or bruises

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 or cuts or scars

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 or something else.

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 He's examining me.

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 He stands,

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 in a sense,

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 in judgment

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 in a good sense.

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 I trust him.

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 He seems like a really good doctor

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 and he's standing

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 to observe symptoms

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 or signs

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 that according to his criteria

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 allow him

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 to make judgments

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 about my health.

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 And that's the image here.

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 So the Pharisees,

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 Jesus knows

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 that the Pharisees

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 want to be like a doctor

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 judging God's kingdom.

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 kingdom.

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 And they're saying,

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 Jesus is saying,

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 you folks

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 have your criteria,

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 your criteria

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 to judge

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 whether something

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 is God's

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 of God or not

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 and of the kingdom

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 or not.

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 And you are asking me,

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 according to your criteria,

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 what are the different signs

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 that are going to come?

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 And I'm telling you

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 what Jesus is saying is,

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 God's ignoring your criteria.

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 God doesn't give a hoot

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 about your criteria.

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 You can keep your criteria

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 if you want,

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 but if you keep your criteria,

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 you're going to miss

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 the kingdom of God.

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 You're going to miss it

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 completely and utterly.

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 You see,

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 God is relativizing

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 your criteria

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 to judge.

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 Because you know what?

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 And it's a common problem here.

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 What is it about us

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 when we try to judge

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 the kingdom of God?

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 Well, in our culture,

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 if it really is going to be

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 God's kingdom,

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 well, it has to have

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 this particular view

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 of human sexuality.

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 Or it has to have

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 this particular view

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 about how markets,

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 financial markets work

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 and the power of the state.

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 Or it has to have

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 this particular connection

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 to the teaching of evolution.

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 Or it has to have

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 this particular criteria

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 in terms of science.

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 Or it has to have

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 this particular criteria

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 in terms of how emotional it is.

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 Or it has to have

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 this particular criteria

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 in terms of how mystical it is.

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 And in our culture,

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 we have a whole range

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 of criteria

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 that we hold to

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 very, very firmly

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 that we use

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 to judge

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 whether something

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 might be God's kingdom.

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 And just like the Pharisees,

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 they're different criteria

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 than the Pharisees,

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 but it's the exact same

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 human drive.

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 And Jesus says,

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 God's going to ignore

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 all of them.

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 I mean,

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 that's actually a bit

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 striking.

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 But Jesus says,

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 God's going to ignore

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 your criteria.

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 Those aren't his criteria.

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 And in fact,

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 because you hold on

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 to your criteria

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 and aren't actually,

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 if God actually speaks,

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 isn't it wise

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 to hear him clearly

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 and listen

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 for his criteria

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 rather than yours?

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 And isn't that

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 the wise thing

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 to do?

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 And in fact,

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 he says,

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 and here's the next point.

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 And the first point,

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 in the original language,

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 if you translate it,

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 it actually has Jesus

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 sounding a little bit

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 like he's Yoda.

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 Okay?

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 Because what actually

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 it says,

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 when Jesus says,

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 like if they were

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 to translate it literally,

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 therefore,

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 there,

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 sorry,

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 it says,

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 for the kingdom of God

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 is in the midst of you,

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 it actually is saying,

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 Jesus is actually saying,

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 the kingdom of God

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 among you is.

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 Sounds like Yoda,

00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:01.360
 right?

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 The kingdom of God

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 among you is.

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 And it's sort of

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 ungrammatical.

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 It's sort of funny.

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 I mean,

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 this translation

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 was done after Yoda.

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 They could probably

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 get away with it,

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 you know,

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 as a Yoda-ish type

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 of thing that Jesus says.

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 But, you know,

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 what Jesus is saying

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 is here you're,

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 if you go back

00:16:18.100 --> 00:16:18.559
 and read just

00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:19.519
 what happened before,

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 Jesus has performed

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 a remarkable miracle.

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 And the implication

00:16:24.259 --> 00:16:25.500
 of the miracle is

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 that part of the reason

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 that the men knew

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 that they had been

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 healed of leprosy,

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 the implication is,

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 is that,

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 you know,

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 lepers,

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 because they lose

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 their sense of,

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 they lose any sense

00:16:37.620 --> 00:16:38.220
 of pain,

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 and so they eventually

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 lose things like

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 their eyes get gouged out,

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 they don't realize

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 they have something

00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:44.139
 in there ruining

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 their eye,

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 they have,

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 they can have their,

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 you know,

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 things can fall

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 on their finger,

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 they can cut their finger,

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 they can burn their finger,

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 they don't know

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 that that's happening,

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 so they end up

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 losing fingers.

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 And the implication

00:16:53.139 --> 00:16:55.060
 is that in the miracle

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 that part of the reason

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 that they knew

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 that they were healed

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 is that things like

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 fingers probably grew back.

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 All because of a miracle

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 by Jesus.

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 And,

00:17:05.279 --> 00:17:05.740
 and you see,

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 what we're going to see

00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:06.660
 in,

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 in,

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 in Luke 19 or 20,

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 whatever it is

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 where he talks about,

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 what we see in,

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 in the Gospel of John

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 is that Jesus says,

00:17:13.240 --> 00:17:14.500
 God is giving you

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 all sorts of signs

00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:19.380
 that the Messiah

00:17:19.380 --> 00:17:20.160
 has come.

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 Like,

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 surely to a reasonable person,

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 a finger coming back

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 is a sign.

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 But it's not to them,

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 it's not their criteria,

00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:31.640
 right?

00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:33.920
 And so Jesus is saying,

00:17:34.019 --> 00:17:34.279
 here he is,

00:17:34.339 --> 00:17:35.539
 he's surrounded by Pharisees,

00:17:35.980 --> 00:17:36.440
 he says,

00:17:36.539 --> 00:17:37.460
 the kingdom of God

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 among you is,

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 and the original language,

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 the is,

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 is emphatic,

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 which is why I've sort of,

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 in this case,

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 I've made it higher,

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 I mean,

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 I capitalized it,

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 to try to,

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 is,

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 and Jesus is saying,

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 I,

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 when I came,

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 I have started

00:17:53.859 --> 00:17:54.619
 to bring the kingdom,

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 the kingdom of God

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 is inaugurated

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 in your midst,

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 by my ministry,

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 by who I am,

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 and by my disciples

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 who put their trust in me.

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 That's,

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 that's what's going on here.

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 And now Jesus is going to

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 then go on

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 and talk about the fact

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 that,

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 um,

00:18:13.599 --> 00:18:14.740
 that God,

00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:16.119
 in his sovereign wisdom,

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 has decided to,

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 to bring all things right

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 in a,

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 in a way which doesn't fit

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 with the way that we would

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 want to do it,

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 but it's the way that God

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 wants to do it,

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 out of his sovereign love.

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 That it's going to involve,

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 first,

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 the Son of Man,

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 Jesus,

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 uh,

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 coming and dying upon the cross

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 to redeem and to save

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 and to call to himself

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 a community of people,

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 a community of people

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 that's,

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 uh,

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 relativizes geography,

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 relativizes human institutions,

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 relativizes the nation,

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 state,

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 relativizes people,

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 groups,

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 that he's going to call

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 to himself out of

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 every people group,

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 out of every language group,

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 out of every religious

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 and spiritual group,

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 he's going to call people

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 out of these groups

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 that we think are important,

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 but the kingdom of God

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 is going to relativize,

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 and he is going to call people

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 out of all of these groups

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 into a community

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 centered around his Son,

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 a community,

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 uh,

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 of blessing

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 and of enablement

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 that blesses and enables.

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 that's,

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 that's what the gospels

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 are talking about.

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 Now,

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 some of you might say,

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 George,

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 I remember you reading this,

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 you just read this text

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 a few moments ago,

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 and,

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 you know,

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 okay,

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 George,

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 I know you've just said

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 that God doesn't sort of

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 use our criteria,

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 but it sounds,

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 I mean,

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 where the corpses are,

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 the vultures will gather,

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 I mean,

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 George,

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 that sounds like a really,

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 I don't know if I can

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 even possibly accept

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 any type of view of God

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 or any type of view

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 of the future

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 that's going to involve

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 such death and,

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 and chaos and,

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 and mayhem.

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 Well,

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 let's look and see what it,

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 see what the text says.

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 Verse,

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 you see,

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 so now Jesus has talked about

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 the fact that he's here,

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 and the,

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 the disciples are sort of

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 a bit confused about it,

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 and so Jesus is going to

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 talk to them,

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 really start talking about

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 his second coming

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 and what happens in between,

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 and,

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 and he's,

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 and,

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 and in the course of that,

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 he's going to talk about some,

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 he's going to give some

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 gruesome images.

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 So let's look,

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 verse 22.

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 And Jesus said to the disciples,

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 right,

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 now he's not talking,

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 he's talking to the disciples,

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 not the Pharisees,

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 the days are coming

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 when you will desire

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 to see one of the days

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 of the Son of Man,

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 and you will not see it,

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 and will say to you,

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 and they will say to you,

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 look there,

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 or look here,

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 do not go out

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 or follow them,

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 for as the lightning flashes

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 and lights up the sky

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 from one side to the other,

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 so will the Son of Man

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 be in his day.

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 But first,

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 he must suffer many things

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 and be rejected

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 by this generation.

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 And just sort of

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 pause there.

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 You know,

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 it's really an interesting thing here.

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 Look at,

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 again,

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 at verse 22.

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 The days are coming

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 when you will desire

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 to see one of the days

00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:55.639
 of the Son of Man.

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 And the Son of Man,

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 it's an image,

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 in this particular case,

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 it goes back to the book of Daniel.

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 It would have been recognized

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 by the Jewish people

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 as something that talks about

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 the end,

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 the end of the end of the end.

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 And he's saying that

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 you're going to,

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 the days are going to come

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 when you would desire

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 to see this future thing,

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 to desire to know

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 and to see

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 and have the future arrive.

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 And you know,

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 it's a very,

00:21:17.700 --> 00:21:18.399
 very common

00:21:18.399 --> 00:21:19.819
 human desire

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 to see the future

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 and to know the future.

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 It's a very,

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 very common

00:21:25.200 --> 00:21:26.740
 human desire.

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 like in,

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 when we talk about

00:21:29.900 --> 00:21:31.240
 people being progressives

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 in our society,

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 there's this sense of,

00:21:34.059 --> 00:21:35.400
 there's a future

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 that things are progressing towards.

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 And it's a very,

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 very deeply ingrained thing

00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.339
 within our culture.

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 And it's not just those

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 who are considered

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 to be progressives.

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 We all fundamentally desire

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 and have a hope

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 that the future is,

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 there's going to be something

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 good for us in the future.

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 And unless we're complete

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 and utter narcissists,

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 we not only want there

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 to be something good

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 for ourselves,

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 but to be good

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 for others as well.

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 That we want,

00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:03.600
 we want to have a sense

00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:04.600
 that things are going

00:22:04.600 --> 00:22:05.280
 to get better

00:22:05.280 --> 00:22:06.200
 in our economy,

00:22:06.320 --> 00:22:06.800
 that things are going

00:22:06.800 --> 00:22:07.980
 to get better politically,

00:22:08.120 --> 00:22:08.620
 that things are going

00:22:08.620 --> 00:22:09.880
 to get better in Canada,

00:22:10.220 --> 00:22:10.860
 and things are going

00:22:10.860 --> 00:22:11.440
 to get better

00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:12.220
 in other places.

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 And it's going to get

00:22:13.740 --> 00:22:14.500
 generally better

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 and it's also going

00:22:15.100 --> 00:22:16.280
 to be better for us,

00:22:16.680 --> 00:22:18.720
 for me as a particular individual

00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:19.680
 or for my family

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 and my friends.

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 And it's a very,

00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:21.880
 very powerful,

00:22:22.240 --> 00:22:23.320
 powerful desire.

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 If you watch movies,

00:22:25.500 --> 00:22:26.840
 in many movies,

00:22:27.700 --> 00:22:27.980
 I just,

00:22:28.080 --> 00:22:28.640
 I just read,

00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:29.420
 because I have Netflix,

00:22:29.600 --> 00:22:31.160
 I just re-watched Armageddon,

00:22:31.320 --> 00:22:32.340
 a Bruce Willis flick

00:22:32.340 --> 00:22:33.280
 from the 90s.

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 And there's a huge asteroid

00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:38.940
 the size of Texas

00:22:38.940 --> 00:22:40.700
 hurtling towards the Earth.

00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:42.860
 And when it hits the Earth,

00:22:42.920 --> 00:22:44.380
 it's going to be something

00:22:44.380 --> 00:22:45.120
 that will completely

00:22:45.120 --> 00:22:46.400
 and utterly destroy the Earth.

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 And when they say,

00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:49.820
 when they have the behind-the-scenes

00:22:49.820 --> 00:22:51.140
 thing about the White House

00:22:51.140 --> 00:22:52.800
 and them not wanting

00:22:52.800 --> 00:22:53.840
 to tell people

00:22:53.840 --> 00:22:54.740
 that it's coming,

00:22:55.340 --> 00:22:55.759
 why?

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 Because it will cause panic.

00:22:58.600 --> 00:22:58.700
 Right?

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 And nobody,

00:23:00.580 --> 00:23:01.600
 it's not when they say that

00:23:01.600 --> 00:23:01.960
 in the movie,

00:23:02.020 --> 00:23:02.980
 and there's lots of other movies,

00:23:03.220 --> 00:23:04.480
 similar types of themes,

00:23:04.580 --> 00:23:04.800
 right?

00:23:05.259 --> 00:23:06.340
 Is that you don't,

00:23:06.600 --> 00:23:06.620
 we,

00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:08.520
 because they understand

00:23:08.520 --> 00:23:09.960
 that partly what holds,

00:23:10.220 --> 00:23:11.660
 the glue that holds

00:23:11.660 --> 00:23:13.020
 whatever type of order

00:23:13.020 --> 00:23:14.000
 there is in society,

00:23:14.140 --> 00:23:15.240
 a big part of it

00:23:15.240 --> 00:23:16.540
 is with the idea

00:23:16.540 --> 00:23:17.800
 that there's a future.

00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:21.079
 some type of a future,

00:23:21.339 --> 00:23:22.359
 not only for myself

00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:23.019
 as an individual,

00:23:23.180 --> 00:23:23.899
 but for the culture

00:23:23.899 --> 00:23:24.399
 as a whole.

00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:25.879
 There's a very interesting

00:23:25.879 --> 00:23:27.960
 series of detective novels

00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:28.359
 that are called

00:23:28.359 --> 00:23:29.240
 The Last Detective.

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 And in it,

00:23:30.759 --> 00:23:30.940
 it,

00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:32.700
 I think it's by Ben Winters

00:23:32.700 --> 00:23:33.740
 or something like that.

00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:34.659
 And in it,

00:23:34.779 --> 00:23:36.359
 there's an asteroid coming

00:23:36.359 --> 00:23:37.139
 that's going to destroy

00:23:37.139 --> 00:23:38.000
 the entire Earth

00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:39.059
 and scientists know

00:23:39.059 --> 00:23:39.940
 the exact second

00:23:39.940 --> 00:23:40.740
 it's going to come.

00:23:41.099 --> 00:23:41.759
 But in this case,

00:23:41.839 --> 00:23:42.500
 people know of it

00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:43.680
 several years in advance.

00:23:44.079 --> 00:23:44.839
 And the books

00:23:44.839 --> 00:23:46.039
 talk about

00:23:46.039 --> 00:23:47.559
 how does society

00:23:47.559 --> 00:23:48.299
 hold together

00:23:48.299 --> 00:23:49.379
 when we all know

00:23:49.379 --> 00:23:50.139
 that everything

00:23:50.139 --> 00:23:50.940
 is going to end

00:23:50.940 --> 00:23:51.659
 in two years

00:23:51.659 --> 00:23:52.379
 or whatever it is

00:23:52.379 --> 00:23:53.180
 or a year and a half.

00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:54.180
 In fact,

00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:55.099
 the preface,

00:23:55.480 --> 00:23:56.759
 the interesting dilemma

00:23:56.759 --> 00:23:58.000
 of all of the three books

00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:58.879
 is worked out

00:23:58.879 --> 00:23:59.799
 in each case,

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 he's,

00:24:00.879 --> 00:24:01.879
 like police forces,

00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:02.379
 you know,

00:24:02.399 --> 00:24:03.440
 nobody shows up to work,

00:24:03.579 --> 00:24:04.920
 things all start breaking down,

00:24:05.059 --> 00:24:06.099
 people are committing suicide,

00:24:06.579 --> 00:24:07.460
 and in the midst of it,

00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:09.099
 a cop wants to solve a murder.

00:24:10.940 --> 00:24:12.099
 And the thing

00:24:12.099 --> 00:24:13.220
 which helps to drive

00:24:13.220 --> 00:24:13.920
 the novel

00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:16.060
 is why would you bother

00:24:16.060 --> 00:24:18.080
 trying to solve a murder

00:24:18.080 --> 00:24:20.980
 when everything's going

00:24:20.980 --> 00:24:22.180
 to end in a year?

00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:25.800
 And his co-workers

00:24:25.800 --> 00:24:26.759
 think he's nuts.

00:24:28.080 --> 00:24:29.100
 And the novels

00:24:29.100 --> 00:24:30.400
 discuss this very

00:24:30.400 --> 00:24:31.480
 interesting possibility

00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:32.160
 of everything

00:24:32.160 --> 00:24:33.420
 is going to end.

00:24:34.259 --> 00:24:34.480
 Like,

00:24:34.580 --> 00:24:36.200
 how do you live together?

00:24:36.840 --> 00:24:38.200
 And what is it you do?

00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:41.640
 And so we all have

00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:43.080
 this instinctive sense

00:24:43.080 --> 00:24:44.819
 that the future matters,

00:24:44.900 --> 00:24:45.680
 that we desire

00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:46.519
 to know something

00:24:46.519 --> 00:24:47.360
 about the future,

00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.660
 and that we desire

00:24:48.660 --> 00:24:49.600
 to have this sense

00:24:49.600 --> 00:24:50.240
 that the future

00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:50.960
 is going to be

00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:52.840
 something worthwhile,

00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:54.720
 good for myself

00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:56.059
 and good for more than me.

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 And that's a fundamental desire.

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 And in fact,

00:25:00.620 --> 00:25:01.400
 within that,

00:25:02.340 --> 00:25:03.019
 like the same,

00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:04.080
 you know,

00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:04.819
 if you were one

00:25:04.819 --> 00:25:05.340
 wondering about

00:25:05.340 --> 00:25:06.340
 why is it that this text

00:25:06.340 --> 00:25:06.920
 is going to talk about

00:25:06.920 --> 00:25:07.860
 these gruesome details,

00:25:07.960 --> 00:25:08.860
 the funny thing is

00:25:08.860 --> 00:25:10.820
 that within our own views

00:25:10.820 --> 00:25:11.740
 of the future,

00:25:13.259 --> 00:25:13.840
 and it's going to be

00:25:13.840 --> 00:25:14.400
 different if you're

00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:14.779
 on the left

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 and different if you're

00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:15.820
 on the right,

00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:16.700
 but whether you're

00:25:16.700 --> 00:25:17.640
 on the left or the right,

00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:18.820
 depending on our view

00:25:18.820 --> 00:25:19.380
 of the future,

00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:20.600
 we have this sense

00:25:20.600 --> 00:25:21.840
 of judgment

00:25:21.840 --> 00:25:22.820
 that will come

00:25:22.820 --> 00:25:24.600
 if we don't heed

00:25:24.600 --> 00:25:26.140
 our view of the future

00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:27.240
 and act appropriately.

00:25:28.340 --> 00:25:29.180
 And so it is,

00:25:29.360 --> 00:25:30.340
 if we don't heed,

00:25:30.580 --> 00:25:31.200
 I'm not making

00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:32.060
 political points here,

00:25:32.100 --> 00:25:32.680
 I really am not,

00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:33.539
 and I hope I don't

00:25:33.539 --> 00:25:34.300
 lose you all

00:25:34.300 --> 00:25:34.980
 as to wondering

00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:35.580
 whether George

00:25:35.580 --> 00:25:36.440
 is a global warming

00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:37.360
 skeptic or not,

00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:37.559
 okay,

00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:39.100
 but just bear me out.

00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:40.240
 You know,

00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.460
 it's a very,

00:25:41.559 --> 00:25:42.460
 very common type

00:25:42.460 --> 00:25:43.000
 of view that,

00:25:43.080 --> 00:25:43.279
 you know,

00:25:43.320 --> 00:25:44.920
 the earth is warming

00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:46.140
 because of human activity

00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:46.860
 and if we don't deal

00:25:46.860 --> 00:25:47.120
 with it,

00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:47.960
 there's going to be floods,

00:25:48.080 --> 00:25:48.860
 there's going to be hurricanes,

00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:50.380
 there's going to be tornadoes,

00:25:50.500 --> 00:25:51.519
 there's going to be earthquakes,

00:25:51.660 --> 00:25:52.279
 there's going to be

00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:53.059
 mass death,

00:25:53.120 --> 00:25:53.539
 there's going to be

00:25:53.539 --> 00:25:54.440
 mass starvation.

00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:55.460
 What are we saying?

00:25:55.840 --> 00:25:57.039
 If we don't follow

00:25:57.039 --> 00:25:58.840
 our understanding

00:25:58.840 --> 00:25:59.920
 of how to live,

00:25:59.980 --> 00:26:00.620
 which is connected

00:26:00.620 --> 00:26:01.840
 to a good future,

00:26:02.279 --> 00:26:03.480
 lots of people

00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:04.279
 will die.

00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:06.420
 And on the right,

00:26:07.779 --> 00:26:08.139
 you know,

00:26:08.220 --> 00:26:09.500
 if we intervene

00:26:09.500 --> 00:26:10.279
 with markets

00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:11.119
 in the wrong way,

00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:12.639
 if we tax too much,

00:26:12.660 --> 00:26:13.259
 if we do this,

00:26:13.299 --> 00:26:14.039
 if we do that,

00:26:14.099 --> 00:26:14.619
 then there's going

00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:15.799
 to be deforestation,

00:26:16.259 --> 00:26:17.500
 there's going to be poverty,

00:26:17.619 --> 00:26:18.059
 there's going to be

00:26:18.059 --> 00:26:18.619
 unemployment,

00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:19.319
 there's going to be

00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:20.619
 wars connected to it,

00:26:20.859 --> 00:26:22.599
 and there's going to be

00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:24.099
 all sorts of people dying.

00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:25.500
 And it's very,

00:26:25.639 --> 00:26:26.180
 very funny

00:26:26.180 --> 00:26:27.500
 that on one hand,

00:26:27.539 --> 00:26:28.059
 it's a very,

00:26:28.180 --> 00:26:29.000
 very common idea,

00:26:29.119 --> 00:26:30.079
 apart from the Bible,

00:26:30.379 --> 00:26:31.299
 that if you don't

00:26:31.299 --> 00:26:31.940
 sort of do

00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:32.980
 certain types of things,

00:26:32.980 --> 00:26:34.000
 all sorts of people

00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:34.759
 will die,

00:26:35.819 --> 00:26:36.880
 but when it comes

00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:37.440
 to the Bible

00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:38.299
 and we see that

00:26:38.299 --> 00:26:40.440
 the future could involve

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:41.079
 a judgment

00:26:41.079 --> 00:26:41.920
 that involves death,

00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:42.160
 we say,

00:26:42.200 --> 00:26:42.940
 I have a hard time

00:26:42.940 --> 00:26:43.360
 with that.

00:26:45.180 --> 00:26:46.220
 I have a hard time

00:26:46.220 --> 00:26:46.599
 with it.

00:26:48.559 --> 00:26:49.259
 But you see,

00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:50.099
 here's the profound

00:26:50.099 --> 00:26:51.019
 difference between

00:26:51.019 --> 00:26:51.680
 whether it's this

00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:52.759
 global warming view

00:26:52.759 --> 00:26:54.420
 or a more right-wing

00:26:54.420 --> 00:26:55.160
 type of view,

00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:58.660
 is that in both

00:26:58.660 --> 00:26:59.460
 of those cases,

00:26:59.579 --> 00:27:00.279
 it's completely

00:27:00.279 --> 00:27:01.720
 and utterly impersonal.

00:27:02.980 --> 00:27:04.160
 And there really

00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:04.779
 isn't a sense

00:27:04.779 --> 00:27:05.319
 no hope

00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:06.460
 unless you toe the line.

00:27:07.900 --> 00:27:08.839
 But in the Bible,

00:27:08.980 --> 00:27:09.960
 as we're going to see,

00:27:10.180 --> 00:27:12.180
 it's a personal God

00:27:12.180 --> 00:27:12.860
 who judges,

00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:14.680
 but who doesn't

00:27:14.680 --> 00:27:15.680
 just judge,

00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:17.380
 he does something

00:27:17.380 --> 00:27:19.259
 vastly more remarkable

00:27:19.259 --> 00:27:21.579
 than the ideologies

00:27:21.579 --> 00:27:22.539
 and the common

00:27:22.539 --> 00:27:23.660
 viewpoints of our day.

00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:24.279
 If you could put

00:27:24.279 --> 00:27:24.860
 the point up,

00:27:24.960 --> 00:27:25.120
 Andrew,

00:27:25.259 --> 00:27:27.500
 this is what

00:27:27.500 --> 00:27:28.740
 Jesus is teaching us.

00:27:29.299 --> 00:27:29.920
 The judgment

00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:30.960
 of the living God

00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:31.840
 must fall

00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:32.880
 and will fall

00:27:32.880 --> 00:27:33.960
 on every person.

00:27:34.680 --> 00:27:35.380
 The question

00:27:35.380 --> 00:27:36.640
 before me is,

00:27:37.220 --> 00:27:38.120
 will it fall

00:27:38.120 --> 00:27:39.559
 on me as I deserve

00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:40.340
 or,

00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:41.940
 by God's grace,

00:27:42.640 --> 00:27:43.259
 will it fall

00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:43.759
 on Jesus

00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:44.579
 in my place?

00:27:46.940 --> 00:27:47.819
 The judgment

00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:48.700
 of the living God

00:27:48.700 --> 00:27:49.380
 must fall

00:27:49.380 --> 00:27:50.259
 and will fall

00:27:50.259 --> 00:27:51.340
 on every person.

00:27:51.860 --> 00:27:52.340
 The question

00:27:52.340 --> 00:27:53.360
 before me is,

00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:54.120
 will it fall

00:27:54.120 --> 00:27:55.100
 on me as I deserve

00:27:55.100 --> 00:27:55.840
 or,

00:27:55.940 --> 00:27:56.779
 by God's grace,

00:27:57.140 --> 00:27:57.840
 will it fall

00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:58.319
 on Jesus

00:27:58.319 --> 00:27:59.179
 in my place?

00:28:01.099 --> 00:28:01.339
 I mean,

00:28:01.419 --> 00:28:02.220
 everything that we

00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:02.939
 are to hear

00:28:02.939 --> 00:28:03.779
 about,

00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:04.419
 see,

00:28:04.500 --> 00:28:05.179
 and that comes out

00:28:05.179 --> 00:28:06.359
 in verse 25,

00:28:06.539 --> 00:28:07.139
 it's the fifth

00:28:07.139 --> 00:28:08.279
 of the six times

00:28:08.279 --> 00:28:10.399
 in the gospel

00:28:10.399 --> 00:28:11.079
 of Luke

00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:11.599
 where Jesus

00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:12.579
 talks about the fact

00:28:12.579 --> 00:28:13.119
 that he's going

00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:13.679
 to Jerusalem

00:28:13.679 --> 00:28:14.259
 to die.

00:28:15.419 --> 00:28:15.579
 Right?

00:28:15.759 --> 00:28:16.439
 Come here just about

00:28:16.439 --> 00:28:16.980
 every week,

00:28:17.159 --> 00:28:18.039
 every part we're

00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:18.740
 reading right now

00:28:18.740 --> 00:28:19.879
 from chapter 9 on,

00:28:19.980 --> 00:28:21.019
 every part is to be

00:28:21.019 --> 00:28:22.000
 understood as Jesus

00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:23.279
 is going to Jerusalem

00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:23.959
 to die.

00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:25.980
 He's going to Jerusalem

00:28:25.980 --> 00:28:27.179
 to die upon the cross.

00:28:27.180 --> 00:28:29.060
 That looms over

00:28:29.060 --> 00:28:30.820
 everything in his teaching.

00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:32.340
 And we Christians

00:28:32.340 --> 00:28:33.240
 understand that

00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:34.560
 unlike the left wing

00:28:34.560 --> 00:28:35.259
 or right wing

00:28:35.259 --> 00:28:37.299
 or historical other views

00:28:37.299 --> 00:28:38.160
 which tend to be

00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:38.920
 impersonal

00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:40.600
 and tend to all involve

00:28:40.600 --> 00:28:41.660
 us in some way

00:28:41.660 --> 00:28:43.140
 keeping the party line

00:28:43.140 --> 00:28:44.240
 of those who are

00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:45.460
 predicting some type

00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:46.920
 of future calamity,

00:28:47.900 --> 00:28:49.440
 Jesus is going

00:28:49.440 --> 00:28:50.900
 to Jerusalem to die.

00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:52.400
 God will bring

00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:53.400
 all things to an end

00:28:53.400 --> 00:28:54.400
 but before that

00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:55.180
 in mercy,

00:28:55.980 --> 00:28:56.580
 the judgment

00:28:56.579 --> 00:28:57.359
 that you and I

00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:58.460
 deserve will fall

00:28:58.460 --> 00:28:59.220
 on Jesus.

00:28:59.819 --> 00:29:01.000
 That's the gospel.

00:29:02.859 --> 00:29:03.919
 And it has

00:29:03.919 --> 00:29:04.819
 no parallel

00:29:04.819 --> 00:29:06.699
 with our

00:29:06.699 --> 00:29:07.980
 other types

00:29:07.980 --> 00:29:08.759
 of cultural

00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:09.919
 understandings

00:29:09.919 --> 00:29:10.419
 of doom

00:29:10.419 --> 00:29:11.099
 of the future.

00:29:11.339 --> 00:29:12.199
 Rather than

00:29:12.199 --> 00:29:13.079
 having to

00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:13.939
 toe the line,

00:29:15.179 --> 00:29:15.639
 Jesus

00:29:15.639 --> 00:29:19.019
 walks in our

00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:19.319
 stead

00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:20.339
 and dies

00:29:20.339 --> 00:29:21.359
 in our stead.

00:29:21.359 --> 00:29:23.419
 and if we

00:29:23.419 --> 00:29:24.059
 put our faith

00:29:24.059 --> 00:29:24.539
 and trust

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:25.059
 in him,

00:29:25.779 --> 00:29:26.579
 then the judgment

00:29:26.579 --> 00:29:27.679
 that I deserve

00:29:27.679 --> 00:29:29.000
 by grace

00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:29.619
 will fall

00:29:29.619 --> 00:29:30.219
 on Jesus.

00:29:31.459 --> 00:29:31.579
 See,

00:29:31.679 --> 00:29:32.519
 that's the gospel.

00:29:32.679 --> 00:29:33.139
 That's why,

00:29:33.939 --> 00:29:34.119
 see,

00:29:34.179 --> 00:29:34.619
 one of the things

00:29:34.619 --> 00:29:35.419
 that the Pharisees

00:29:35.419 --> 00:29:35.899
 were thinking

00:29:35.899 --> 00:29:36.740
 is that they do

00:29:36.740 --> 00:29:37.199
 all of these

00:29:37.199 --> 00:29:38.439
 particular good works

00:29:38.439 --> 00:29:39.419
 and then God's kingdom

00:29:39.419 --> 00:29:39.859
 will come

00:29:39.859 --> 00:29:40.500
 and they just sort of

00:29:40.500 --> 00:29:41.000
 enter in

00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:41.819
 and Jesus

00:29:41.819 --> 00:29:42.640
 understands that

00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:43.440
 no amount of

00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:44.039
 good works

00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:45.099
 done in advance

00:29:45.099 --> 00:29:46.400
 will be something

00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:47.140
 that then means

00:29:47.140 --> 00:29:47.819
 that now Jesus

00:29:47.819 --> 00:29:48.599
 accepts you

00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:49.259
 and whatever he's

00:29:49.259 --> 00:29:49.960
 done on the cross

00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:50.240
 will be,

00:29:50.519 --> 00:29:51.700
 it can't be that.

00:29:51.779 --> 00:29:53.119
 The whole judgment

00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:54.319
 on my life

00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:55.660
 falls on Jesus

00:29:55.660 --> 00:29:56.799
 and I cannot

00:29:56.799 --> 00:29:57.980
 lessen that

00:29:57.980 --> 00:29:58.880
 in any way

00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:00.000
 by my actions.

00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:01.640
 I need to accept

00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:02.660
 that the judgment

00:30:02.660 --> 00:30:03.940
 that I deserve

00:30:03.940 --> 00:30:05.640
 falls on Jesus

00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:06.779
 in my stead.

00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:08.480
 and when I turn

00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:09.180
 to God

00:30:09.180 --> 00:30:09.960
 and accept

00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:10.960
 the power

00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:11.779
 of God

00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:12.639
 for salvation

00:30:12.639 --> 00:30:13.940
 that he offers,

00:30:15.220 --> 00:30:16.139
 then I am his.

00:30:17.119 --> 00:30:17.920
 Then I am his.

00:30:18.899 --> 00:30:19.879
 So as we're reading

00:30:19.879 --> 00:30:20.420
 all of these

00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:21.379
 other things,

00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:22.440
 we read them

00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:23.720
 in light of verse 25

00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:25.039
 of Jesus

00:30:25.039 --> 00:30:26.359
 bearing our judgment

00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:28.160
 upon ourselves.

00:30:29.539 --> 00:30:30.339
 So you see,

00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:30.799
 that's why

00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:31.799
 on one hand,

00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:32.319
 see,

00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:33.160
 again,

00:30:33.740 --> 00:30:35.220
 is that grace

00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:36.539
 is profoundly

00:30:36.539 --> 00:30:37.559
 relativizing.

00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:39.220
 It relativizes

00:30:39.220 --> 00:30:40.519
 all human religion

00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:41.299
 and all human

00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:41.879
 spirituality

00:30:41.879 --> 00:30:43.079
 because all human

00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:43.960
 religion and all

00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:44.659
 spirituality

00:30:44.659 --> 00:30:45.700
 is an attempt,

00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:46.839
 different sets

00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:47.680
 of advice

00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:48.920
 about how to

00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:49.759
 live your life

00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:50.639
 and how to,

00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:51.119
 in a sense,

00:30:51.480 --> 00:30:52.680
 merit God's favor

00:30:52.680 --> 00:30:53.759
 or bring in

00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:54.700
 God's rule

00:30:54.700 --> 00:30:55.559
 or bring God

00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:56.019
 down

00:30:56.019 --> 00:30:57.659
 or into our sphere

00:30:57.659 --> 00:30:58.680
 or whatever it is,

00:30:58.819 --> 00:30:59.519
 but it's always

00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:00.279
 advice.

00:31:01.379 --> 00:31:02.259
 And the gospel

00:31:02.259 --> 00:31:03.519
 is not advice,

00:31:03.819 --> 00:31:04.740
 it's news.

00:31:04.740 --> 00:31:07.420
 It's news

00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:08.539
 of a power

00:31:08.539 --> 00:31:09.099
 of God

00:31:09.099 --> 00:31:09.920
 for salvation

00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:10.900
 that comes in

00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:11.839
 and relativizes

00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:12.759
 all natural

00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:13.480
 human religion

00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:14.779
 and all natural

00:31:14.779 --> 00:31:15.960
 human spirituality,

00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:17.140
 all attempts

00:31:17.140 --> 00:31:18.079
 to toe the line.

00:31:18.539 --> 00:31:19.420
 It relativizes

00:31:19.420 --> 00:31:20.099
 all of this

00:31:20.099 --> 00:31:20.880
 with the news,

00:31:20.980 --> 00:31:21.720
 the announcement,

00:31:22.319 --> 00:31:23.420
 that the power

00:31:23.420 --> 00:31:23.859
 of God

00:31:23.859 --> 00:31:24.599
 for salvation

00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:25.420
 has arrived

00:31:25.420 --> 00:31:26.500
 if we are willing

00:31:26.500 --> 00:31:27.359
 to set aside

00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:28.519
 our criteria

00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:30.200
 and to accept

00:31:30.200 --> 00:31:30.660
 what God

00:31:30.660 --> 00:31:31.079
 has done.

00:31:31.079 --> 00:31:35.099
 So let's look

00:31:35.099 --> 00:31:36.579
 a little bit more

00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:37.539
 at this relativizing

00:31:37.539 --> 00:31:38.119
 because it's going

00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:38.779
 to get sort of

00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:40.379
 deeper into the text

00:31:40.379 --> 00:31:41.960
 in a very clear way.

00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:43.000
 Look at verse 26.

00:31:43.799 --> 00:31:44.519
 Just as it was

00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:45.339
 in the days of Noah,

00:31:45.439 --> 00:31:45.980
 so will it be

00:31:45.980 --> 00:31:46.399
 in the days

00:31:46.399 --> 00:31:47.240
 of the Son of Man.

00:31:49.299 --> 00:31:50.240
 They were eating

00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:50.759
 and drinking

00:31:50.759 --> 00:31:51.419
 and marrying

00:31:51.419 --> 00:31:53.319
 and being given

00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:53.839
 in marriage

00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:54.579
 until the day

00:31:54.579 --> 00:31:55.259
 when Noah

00:31:55.259 --> 00:31:56.139
 entered the ark

00:31:56.139 --> 00:31:56.879
 and the flood

00:31:56.879 --> 00:31:57.599
 came and destroyed

00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:57.960
 them all.

00:31:57.960 --> 00:31:58.340
 Likewise,

00:31:58.579 --> 00:31:59.200
 just as it was

00:31:59.200 --> 00:31:59.620
 in the days

00:31:59.620 --> 00:32:00.160
 of Lot,

00:32:00.819 --> 00:32:01.579
 they were eating

00:32:01.579 --> 00:32:02.059
 and drinking,

00:32:02.259 --> 00:32:02.920
 buying and selling,

00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:03.920
 planting and building,

00:32:04.480 --> 00:32:05.420
 but on the day

00:32:05.420 --> 00:32:06.000
 when Lot

00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:06.340
 went out

00:32:06.340 --> 00:32:07.160
 from Sodom,

00:32:08.259 --> 00:32:09.279
 fire and sulfur

00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:09.980
 rained down

00:32:09.980 --> 00:32:10.600
 from heaven

00:32:10.600 --> 00:32:11.259
 and destroyed

00:32:11.259 --> 00:32:11.680
 them all.

00:32:12.840 --> 00:32:13.539
 So will it be

00:32:13.539 --> 00:32:14.140
 on the day

00:32:14.140 --> 00:32:15.420
 when the Son of Man

00:32:15.420 --> 00:32:16.140
 is revealed.

00:32:16.940 --> 00:32:17.420
 It's going to be

00:32:17.420 --> 00:32:18.279
 a day of judgment.

00:32:19.340 --> 00:32:20.000
 Jesus dies

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:20.799
 on the cross

00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:22.039
 to save,

00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:23.640
 but, you know,

00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:24.000
 in that point,

00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:24.420
 the judgment

00:32:24.420 --> 00:32:25.319
 of the living God

00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:26.259
 must fall

00:32:26.259 --> 00:32:27.140
 and will fall

00:32:27.140 --> 00:32:28.180
 on every person.

00:32:28.680 --> 00:32:29.160
 The question

00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:29.759
 before me

00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:30.220
 is will it

00:32:30.220 --> 00:32:30.759
 fall on me

00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:31.440
 as I deserve

00:32:31.440 --> 00:32:32.900
 or by God's grace

00:32:32.900 --> 00:32:33.420
 will it fall

00:32:33.420 --> 00:32:33.859
 on Jesus

00:32:33.859 --> 00:32:34.680
 in my place?

00:32:36.460 --> 00:32:37.140
 Continue reading

00:32:37.140 --> 00:32:37.859
 in verse 31.

00:32:37.980 --> 00:32:38.539
 On that day

00:32:38.539 --> 00:32:39.480
 let the one

00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:40.460
 who was on the housetop

00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:41.000
 with his goods

00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:41.440
 in the house

00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:42.160
 not come down

00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:43.019
 to take them away

00:32:43.019 --> 00:32:43.640
 and likewise

00:32:43.640 --> 00:32:44.420
 let the one

00:32:44.420 --> 00:32:45.099
 who was in the field

00:32:45.099 --> 00:32:45.940
 not turn back.

00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:46.440
 In other words,

00:32:46.859 --> 00:32:47.940
 don't turn towards

00:32:47.940 --> 00:32:48.359
 the world.

00:32:48.500 --> 00:32:48.839
 Don't think

00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:49.619
 you can sort of hide.

00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:50.119
 Don't think

00:32:50.119 --> 00:32:50.619
 that it's going to

00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:51.660
 all be about you

00:32:51.660 --> 00:32:52.940
 being able to,

00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:53.640
 you know,

00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:54.500
 live in your bunker.

00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:55.700
 Here's the right wing

00:32:55.700 --> 00:32:56.500
 version of judgment.

00:32:56.620 --> 00:32:57.019
 You're going to be able

00:32:57.019 --> 00:32:57.860
 to live in your bunker

00:32:57.860 --> 00:32:59.259
 and outlast the apocalypse

00:32:59.259 --> 00:33:00.680
 and then emerge

00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:01.460
 on the other side

00:33:01.460 --> 00:33:02.580
 after the radiation's

00:33:02.580 --> 00:33:03.059
 gone away

00:33:03.059 --> 00:33:04.779
 to have a triumphant

00:33:04.779 --> 00:33:06.600
 white earth future

00:33:06.600 --> 00:33:08.420
 or whatever it's going to be.

00:33:08.539 --> 00:33:10.100
 Don't bother thinking

00:33:10.100 --> 00:33:11.660
 any of those types of terms.

00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:14.180
 Remember Lot's wife.

00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:16.039
 Whoever seeks

00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:17.059
 to preserve his life

00:33:17.059 --> 00:33:17.680
 will lose it

00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:19.940
 but whoever loses his life

00:33:19.940 --> 00:33:20.660
 will keep it.

00:33:21.220 --> 00:33:21.779
 Jesus means

00:33:21.779 --> 00:33:22.500
 loses his life

00:33:22.500 --> 00:33:23.500
 when he gives his life

00:33:23.500 --> 00:33:23.900
 to me.

00:33:23.900 --> 00:33:25.200
 I tell you

00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:25.840
 in that night

00:33:25.840 --> 00:33:26.360
 there will be

00:33:26.360 --> 00:33:27.300
 two in one bed.

00:33:27.420 --> 00:33:28.200
 One will be taken

00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:28.880
 in the other left.

00:33:28.980 --> 00:33:29.360
 There will be

00:33:29.360 --> 00:33:30.759
 two women grinding together.

00:33:31.120 --> 00:33:31.940
 One will be taken

00:33:31.940 --> 00:33:32.700
 in the other left.

00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:34.240
 And they said to him

00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:34.860
 where Lord?

00:33:35.220 --> 00:33:35.940
 He said to them

00:33:35.940 --> 00:33:37.080
 where the corpse is

00:33:37.080 --> 00:33:38.100
 there the vultures

00:33:38.100 --> 00:33:38.680
 will gather.

00:33:39.620 --> 00:33:40.360
 But notice those

00:33:40.360 --> 00:33:41.160
 last few verses

00:33:41.160 --> 00:33:42.340
 34 and 35

00:33:42.340 --> 00:33:42.900
 and that night

00:33:42.900 --> 00:33:43.840
 the judgment

00:33:43.840 --> 00:33:44.480
 will come.

00:33:45.420 --> 00:33:46.440
 Like we tend to

00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:47.060
 how do we tend

00:33:47.060 --> 00:33:47.800
 to judge the world?

00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:48.840
 We tend to judge people

00:33:48.840 --> 00:33:49.640
 by whether they're

00:33:49.640 --> 00:33:50.060
 you know

00:33:50.059 --> 00:33:51.359
 you know

00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:52.539
 Caucasian

00:33:52.539 --> 00:33:53.899
 or African

00:33:53.899 --> 00:33:54.639
 Canadian

00:33:54.639 --> 00:33:56.319
 or Asian.

00:33:56.919 --> 00:33:58.240
 We tend to judge

00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:58.919
 people by

00:33:58.919 --> 00:34:00.179
 economics

00:34:00.179 --> 00:34:01.539
 by social class.

00:34:01.659 --> 00:34:02.339
 We tend to judge

00:34:02.339 --> 00:34:02.740
 people

00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:04.200
 by education.

00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:05.740
 We tend to think

00:34:05.740 --> 00:34:06.460
 things like

00:34:06.460 --> 00:34:07.279
 the family

00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:08.860
 or marriage

00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:09.460
 are really

00:34:09.460 --> 00:34:09.719
 really

00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:11.019
 family is really

00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:11.519
 important

00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:12.279
 or the tribe

00:34:12.279 --> 00:34:13.159
 is really important

00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:13.799
 or the clan

00:34:13.799 --> 00:34:14.699
 is really important

00:34:14.699 --> 00:34:15.360
 or economic

00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:15.900
 arrangements

00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:16.820
 are really important.

00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:18.099
 And Jesus says

00:34:18.099 --> 00:34:18.539
 that you're going to

00:34:18.539 --> 00:34:19.139
 have two people

00:34:19.139 --> 00:34:19.779
 lying together

00:34:19.779 --> 00:34:20.320
 whether it's

00:34:20.320 --> 00:34:21.019
 you know

00:34:21.019 --> 00:34:21.860
 a mother

00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:22.659
 with her kids

00:34:22.659 --> 00:34:23.500
 or a husband

00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:24.039
 and a wife

00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:25.179
 or you know

00:34:25.179 --> 00:34:26.380
 a gay relationship

00:34:26.380 --> 00:34:26.880
 or whatever

00:34:26.880 --> 00:34:28.000
 one will be taken

00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:28.699
 and one will be left.

00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:29.239
 Those things

00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:29.759
 that we think

00:34:29.759 --> 00:34:30.619
 are most important

00:34:30.619 --> 00:34:31.420
 and most absolute

00:34:31.420 --> 00:34:32.900
 are relativized

00:34:32.900 --> 00:34:33.519
 by the judgment

00:34:33.519 --> 00:34:33.960
 of God.

00:34:34.320 --> 00:34:35.360
 That the image

00:34:35.360 --> 00:34:36.159
 of the two women

00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:37.099
 grinding together

00:34:37.099 --> 00:34:37.920
 it's an image

00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:39.340
 of the family

00:34:39.340 --> 00:34:40.019
 of the clan

00:34:40.019 --> 00:34:40.739
 of the tribe

00:34:40.739 --> 00:34:41.860
 of the economic unit

00:34:41.860 --> 00:34:42.980
 of the social class

00:34:42.980 --> 00:34:44.079
 things that we think

00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:44.779
 are so important

00:34:44.779 --> 00:34:45.800
 when we judge each other

00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:46.639
 and when we evaluate

00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:47.159
 each other

00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:48.360
 and one will be taken

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:49.019
 in the other left

00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:50.480
 that once again

00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:51.800
 the things in this world

00:34:51.800 --> 00:34:53.500
 by which we rate people

00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:55.260
 that we rate ourselves

00:34:55.260 --> 00:34:56.260
 which we think

00:34:56.260 --> 00:34:57.079
 are so important

00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:58.519
 is he slim?

00:34:58.900 --> 00:34:59.780
 Is he fat?

00:34:59.980 --> 00:35:01.500
 Is he smart?

00:35:01.660 --> 00:35:02.420
 Is he good looking?

00:35:02.700 --> 00:35:03.880
 Is he ugly?

00:35:04.019 --> 00:35:04.780
 Is he successful?

00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:05.880
 All of these things

00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:06.519
 that we think

00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:07.340
 are so important

00:35:07.340 --> 00:35:08.120
 that we use

00:35:08.120 --> 00:35:09.260
 to judge ourselves

00:35:09.260 --> 00:35:10.760
 the Bible here says

00:35:10.760 --> 00:35:12.000
 the judgment of God

00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:12.980
 will completely

00:35:12.980 --> 00:35:13.760
 and utterly

00:35:13.760 --> 00:35:14.920
 relativize.

00:35:15.700 --> 00:35:16.760
 They don't matter.

00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:22.720
 We live in a world

00:35:22.720 --> 00:35:24.620
 where all sorts of things

00:35:24.620 --> 00:35:25.080
 are treated

00:35:25.080 --> 00:35:26.080
 as the basis

00:35:26.080 --> 00:35:26.760
 of judgment

00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:28.600
 and from the perspective

00:35:28.600 --> 00:35:29.200
 of Jesus

00:35:29.200 --> 00:35:29.980
 and of his word

00:35:29.980 --> 00:35:30.980
 they do not matter

00:35:30.980 --> 00:35:31.580
 and they are not

00:35:31.580 --> 00:35:32.600
 the basis of judgment.

00:35:34.040 --> 00:35:34.980
 It won't be

00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:35.540
 that heaven

00:35:35.540 --> 00:35:36.740
 is filled

00:35:36.740 --> 00:35:38.300
 with rich successful people

00:35:38.300 --> 00:35:39.720
 and all the poor people

00:35:39.720 --> 00:35:40.480
 not.

00:35:42.220 --> 00:35:43.400
 There will be poor

00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:44.300
 there will be rich

00:35:44.300 --> 00:35:45.500
 there will be well educated

00:35:45.500 --> 00:35:46.340
 there will be people

00:35:46.340 --> 00:35:47.360
 who are not well educated

00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:48.099
 there will be people

00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:49.019
 with high IQs

00:35:49.019 --> 00:35:49.679
 there will be people

00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:51.860
 with very very low IQs.

00:35:54.219 --> 00:35:56.280
 The Bible relativizes

00:35:56.280 --> 00:35:57.719
 all of that.

00:35:59.159 --> 00:35:59.920
 See here's the

00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:01.659
 here's the thing

00:36:01.659 --> 00:36:05.460
 Canadian moral relativism

00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:07.800
 robs life

00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:09.199
 of true meaning.

00:36:09.199 --> 00:36:11.719
 biblical relativism

00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:13.079
 clarifies

00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:14.559
 and reveals

00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:16.159
 true meaning

00:36:16.159 --> 00:36:16.759
 in life.

00:36:16.919 --> 00:36:17.359
 If you could put

00:36:17.359 --> 00:36:18.000
 that point up.

00:36:19.439 --> 00:36:21.779
 Canadian moral relativism

00:36:21.779 --> 00:36:23.219
 robs life

00:36:23.219 --> 00:36:24.139
 of true meaning.

00:36:25.019 --> 00:36:26.599
 Biblical relativism

00:36:26.599 --> 00:36:27.539
 clarifies

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:28.359
 and reveals

00:36:28.359 --> 00:36:29.299
 true meaning

00:36:29.299 --> 00:36:30.099
 in life.

00:36:30.939 --> 00:36:32.519
 See Canadian moral relativism

00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:33.919
 is usually around

00:36:33.919 --> 00:36:35.139
 matters of sexuality

00:36:35.139 --> 00:36:36.679
 and certain other types

00:36:36.679 --> 00:36:37.799
 of religious

00:36:37.799 --> 00:36:39.179
 and spiritual practices

00:36:39.179 --> 00:36:40.759
 and it leaches

00:36:40.759 --> 00:36:41.699
 into basically

00:36:41.699 --> 00:36:43.259
 just a relativism

00:36:43.259 --> 00:36:44.099
 around morals

00:36:44.099 --> 00:36:44.940
 what's right

00:36:44.940 --> 00:36:45.619
 and what's wrong

00:36:45.619 --> 00:36:48.699
 and it really

00:36:48.699 --> 00:36:49.599
 ends up just creating

00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:50.299
 that it's sort of

00:36:50.299 --> 00:36:50.899
 up to me

00:36:50.899 --> 00:36:51.639
 to make all of those

00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:52.579
 types of decisions

00:36:52.579 --> 00:36:54.899
 and I'm the one

00:36:54.899 --> 00:36:55.940
 who sets the criteria

00:36:55.940 --> 00:36:57.099
 about the type of end

00:36:57.099 --> 00:36:58.099
 and about the type

00:36:58.099 --> 00:36:59.059
 of what's right and wrong

00:36:59.059 --> 00:36:59.739
 and it's right and wrong

00:36:59.739 --> 00:37:00.159
 for me

00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:01.319
 and it's really

00:37:01.319 --> 00:37:02.119
 in a sense

00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:02.679
 like

00:37:02.679 --> 00:37:03.839
 I don't know

00:37:03.839 --> 00:37:04.519
 if you've ever done this

00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:05.259
 with little kids

00:37:05.259 --> 00:37:06.579
 and you say

00:37:06.579 --> 00:37:07.639
 can you hit the bullseye

00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:08.360
 in this pond

00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:09.579
 and you know

00:37:09.579 --> 00:37:11.079
 it's a very very still pond

00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:11.980
 or something

00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:13.440
 and they might look

00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:14.059
 at you quizzical

00:37:14.059 --> 00:37:15.099
 and you take a rock

00:37:15.099 --> 00:37:16.039
 and you throw the rock

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:17.179
 and it lands

00:37:17.179 --> 00:37:18.099
 in the still pond

00:37:18.099 --> 00:37:19.079
 and then there's

00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:19.980
 the ripples that go out

00:37:19.980 --> 00:37:21.039
 and it looks like a bullseye

00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:22.079
 and wherever the stone lands

00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:22.960
 you've hit the bullseye.

00:37:23.699 --> 00:37:24.380
 Pretty cool eh?

00:37:26.519 --> 00:37:27.079
 And you know

00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:27.599
 so a little kid

00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:28.320
 might throw that

00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:28.599
 you know

00:37:28.599 --> 00:37:29.119
 and it goes into

00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:29.900
 the still pond

00:37:29.900 --> 00:37:30.739
 and there's a bullseye

00:37:30.739 --> 00:37:31.460
 they hit the bullseye

00:37:31.460 --> 00:37:32.059
 every time

00:37:32.059 --> 00:37:32.679
 but that's really

00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:34.259
 what Canadian moral relativism

00:37:34.259 --> 00:37:34.599
 says

00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:35.239
 and you know what

00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:36.480
 that's sort of fine

00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:37.079
 when you're a kid

00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:37.679
 but ultimately

00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:38.599
 it's sort of boring

00:37:38.599 --> 00:37:42.099
 and it only works

00:37:42.099 --> 00:37:42.840
 while we're being

00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:43.900
 very successful

00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:45.659
 and while we're young

00:37:45.659 --> 00:37:47.259
 and part of the desire

00:37:47.259 --> 00:37:48.119
 and drive

00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:49.000
 part of it

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:49.599
 not all of it

00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:50.500
 but part of the drive

00:37:50.500 --> 00:37:51.380
 for state assistance

00:37:51.380 --> 00:37:52.159
 for doctors

00:37:52.159 --> 00:37:53.619
 to be able to have

00:37:53.619 --> 00:37:55.119
 the right to kill people

00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:56.659
 when we ask

00:37:56.659 --> 00:37:58.420
 or when our loved ones ask

00:37:58.420 --> 00:38:00.519
 which is a whole

00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:01.360
 dark corridor

00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:02.880
 of that whole projection

00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:04.099
 is because we

00:38:04.099 --> 00:38:05.579
 are in control

00:38:05.579 --> 00:38:07.200
 of our meaning project

00:38:07.200 --> 00:38:08.960
 and we are fine

00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:09.360
 with it

00:38:09.360 --> 00:38:10.039
 when we're

00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:11.400
 you know

00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:13.039
 sexually desirable

00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:15.079
 and economically viable

00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:16.720
 and able to entertain

00:38:16.720 --> 00:38:17.720
 and amuse ourselves

00:38:17.720 --> 00:38:19.360
 and once that goes

00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:20.200
 there's no meaning

00:38:20.200 --> 00:38:20.740
 to life.

00:38:22.720 --> 00:38:25.039
 Biblical relativism

00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:25.960
 by relativizing

00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:26.960
 all of those things

00:38:26.960 --> 00:38:27.539
 one of the things

00:38:27.539 --> 00:38:28.000
 it does

00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:28.500
 is it says

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:29.000
 that the meaning

00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:29.519
 of life

00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:30.920
 is not found

00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:32.219
 in space and time

00:38:32.219 --> 00:38:34.539
 that if you follow

00:38:34.539 --> 00:38:35.659
 the different longings

00:38:35.659 --> 00:38:36.139
 and yearnings

00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:36.820
 of our life

00:38:36.820 --> 00:38:37.360
 and you follow

00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:38.099
 that trajectory

00:38:38.099 --> 00:38:38.699
 you realize

00:38:38.699 --> 00:38:39.259
 that the meaning

00:38:39.259 --> 00:38:39.639
 of life

00:38:39.639 --> 00:38:40.599
 has to be outside

00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:41.599
 of space and time

00:38:41.599 --> 00:38:42.519
 but have relevance

00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:44.460
 to space and time

00:38:44.460 --> 00:38:45.340
 and that's what

00:38:45.340 --> 00:38:46.039
 Jesus says

00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:46.800
 he says

00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:47.279
 that the kingdom

00:38:47.279 --> 00:38:47.739
 of God

00:38:47.739 --> 00:38:48.340
 in the midst

00:38:48.340 --> 00:38:49.159
 of you is

00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:50.719
 that God

00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:51.259
 is calling

00:38:51.259 --> 00:38:51.960
 to himself

00:38:51.960 --> 00:38:52.800
 by all who put

00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:53.259
 their faith

00:38:53.259 --> 00:38:53.699
 and trust

00:38:53.699 --> 00:38:54.159
 in Jesus

00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:54.860
 it doesn't matter

00:38:54.860 --> 00:38:55.219
 if you've been

00:38:55.219 --> 00:38:56.019
 a street person

00:38:56.019 --> 00:38:56.820
 or if you're

00:38:56.820 --> 00:38:57.840
 a high tech executive

00:38:57.840 --> 00:38:59.200
 if you're a soccer mom

00:38:59.200 --> 00:39:00.620
 if you're a gay activist

00:39:00.620 --> 00:39:02.120
 if you're an iman

00:39:02.120 --> 00:39:03.480
 in a mosque

00:39:03.480 --> 00:39:04.820
 it doesn't matter

00:39:04.820 --> 00:39:05.680
 if any of those things

00:39:05.680 --> 00:39:06.780
 if you heed the call

00:39:06.780 --> 00:39:07.300
 of Jesus

00:39:07.300 --> 00:39:08.180
 to come to him

00:39:08.180 --> 00:39:09.240
 he will in no wise

00:39:09.240 --> 00:39:09.900
 you know

00:39:09.900 --> 00:39:10.660
 come to me

00:39:10.660 --> 00:39:11.500
 all who labor

00:39:11.500 --> 00:39:12.559
 and who labor

00:39:12.559 --> 00:39:13.200
 and are heavy laden

00:39:13.200 --> 00:39:14.120
 and I will give you rest

00:39:14.120 --> 00:39:15.400
 take my yoke upon you

00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:19.460
 and my yoke is easy

00:39:19.460 --> 00:39:20.260
 and my burden is light

00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:21.380
 I will bring you peace

00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:23.440
 and Jesus will take anybody

00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:24.980
 and when they come to him

00:39:24.980 --> 00:39:25.460
 in repentance

00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:26.099
 and faith

00:39:26.099 --> 00:39:28.380
 he calls us

00:39:28.380 --> 00:39:29.139
 into a community

00:39:29.139 --> 00:39:29.860
 of meaning

00:39:29.860 --> 00:39:31.440
 a community

00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:32.199
 centered around

00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:33.019
 the living God

00:39:33.019 --> 00:39:33.760
 a community

00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:35.260
 to bless

00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:37.199
 to enable

00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:39.539
 for us to do

00:39:39.539 --> 00:39:40.420
 good works

00:39:40.420 --> 00:39:42.780
 of love

00:39:42.780 --> 00:39:43.460
 for people

00:39:43.460 --> 00:39:44.599
 with eternal meaning

00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:47.320
 and for us

00:39:47.320 --> 00:39:47.860
 to do things

00:39:47.860 --> 00:39:48.440
 that actually

00:39:48.440 --> 00:39:49.800
 bring God glory

00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:51.019
 I mean one of the

00:39:51.019 --> 00:39:51.740
 interesting things

00:39:51.740 --> 00:39:52.139
 is when you

00:39:52.139 --> 00:39:53.119
 you look at the other

00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:53.960
 Pauline epistles

00:39:53.960 --> 00:39:56.300
 Paul gives advice

00:39:56.300 --> 00:39:57.559
 to slaves

00:39:57.559 --> 00:39:59.220
 about even though

00:39:59.220 --> 00:40:00.699
 they're economically

00:40:00.699 --> 00:40:02.220
 and politically

00:40:02.220 --> 00:40:03.179
 and legally

00:40:03.179 --> 00:40:03.900
 completely

00:40:03.900 --> 00:40:05.320
 and utterly bound

00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:06.639
 the epistles

00:40:06.639 --> 00:40:08.559
 are dynamite

00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:09.860
 to the slave

00:40:09.860 --> 00:40:10.740
 empires

00:40:10.740 --> 00:40:11.900
 of the world

00:40:11.900 --> 00:40:12.400
 because

00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:13.940
 Paul says

00:40:13.940 --> 00:40:14.820
 you can belong

00:40:14.820 --> 00:40:15.559
 to Jesus

00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:17.639
 and there are ways

00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:18.800
 that you can act

00:40:18.800 --> 00:40:19.599
 as a follower

00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:20.280
 of Jesus

00:40:20.280 --> 00:40:21.880
 even as a slave

00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:22.940
 that bring

00:40:22.940 --> 00:40:24.860
 God glory

00:40:24.860 --> 00:40:29.240
 the world

00:40:29.240 --> 00:40:29.760
 says

00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:30.559
 you belong

00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:31.119
 to me

00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:31.800
 you are

00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:32.280
 under

00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:33.840
 my foot

00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:35.820
 and Jesus

00:40:35.820 --> 00:40:36.360
 says

00:40:36.360 --> 00:40:37.200
 come to me

00:40:37.200 --> 00:40:37.820
 all who are

00:40:37.820 --> 00:40:38.240
 burdened

00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:38.900
 and heavy laden

00:40:38.900 --> 00:40:39.380
 and I will

00:40:39.380 --> 00:40:40.000
 give you rest

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:40.680
 take my yoke

00:40:40.680 --> 00:40:41.180
 upon you

00:40:41.180 --> 00:40:41.519
 and learn

00:40:41.519 --> 00:40:41.920
 from me

00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:42.240
 for I am

00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:42.559
 gentle

00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:43.079
 and lowly

00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:43.460
 of heart

00:40:43.460 --> 00:40:44.400
 and you

00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:45.280
 will find

00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:45.880
 rest

00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:46.720
 for your soul

00:40:46.720 --> 00:40:47.480
 for my yoke

00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:47.980
 is easy

00:40:47.980 --> 00:40:48.700
 and my burden

00:40:48.700 --> 00:40:49.180
 is light

00:40:49.180 --> 00:40:49.980
 and even though

00:40:49.980 --> 00:40:50.720
 you are a slave

00:40:50.719 --> 00:40:51.259
 in the eyes

00:40:51.259 --> 00:40:51.759
 of the world

00:40:51.759 --> 00:40:52.839
 I will accept

00:40:52.839 --> 00:40:53.379
 you as mine

00:40:53.379 --> 00:40:53.859
 you are part

00:40:53.859 --> 00:40:54.519
 of my community

00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:55.339
 and there is a way

00:40:55.339 --> 00:40:55.980
 for you to live

00:40:55.980 --> 00:40:56.759
 where you are

00:40:56.759 --> 00:40:58.139
 bound as you are

00:40:58.139 --> 00:40:59.159
 that will bring me

00:40:59.159 --> 00:40:59.559
 glory

00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:02.239
 your life has worth

00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:02.739
 and value

00:41:02.739 --> 00:41:03.179
 and meaning

00:41:03.179 --> 00:41:06.739
 just to bring this

00:41:06.739 --> 00:41:07.379
 all home now

00:41:07.379 --> 00:41:08.159
 with the 40 minutes

00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:08.899
 here's the

00:41:08.899 --> 00:41:09.579
 if you could put up

00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:10.299
 the next point

00:41:10.299 --> 00:41:11.579
 Andrew

00:41:11.579 --> 00:41:13.379
 and then I'm going

00:41:13.379 --> 00:41:13.919
 to just give you

00:41:13.919 --> 00:41:14.739
 three prayers

00:41:14.739 --> 00:41:16.079
 to pray

00:41:16.079 --> 00:41:16.819
 to help make it

00:41:16.819 --> 00:41:17.419
 sort of

00:41:17.419 --> 00:41:18.059
 bring it home

00:41:18.059 --> 00:41:18.859
 here's the first thing

00:41:18.860 --> 00:41:19.980
 here's what we are

00:41:19.980 --> 00:41:20.640
 to understand

00:41:20.640 --> 00:41:21.519
 when we become

00:41:21.519 --> 00:41:22.400
 a child of God

00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:23.340
 we can say

00:41:23.340 --> 00:41:24.539
 I am the adopted

00:41:24.539 --> 00:41:25.900
 and reconciled child

00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:27.780
 of the crucified king

00:41:27.780 --> 00:41:29.780
 who walks with me now

00:41:29.780 --> 00:41:31.500
 and who will come again

00:41:31.500 --> 00:41:33.280
 so good things

00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:34.539
 with eternal meaning

00:41:34.539 --> 00:41:36.220
 can be done today

00:41:36.220 --> 00:41:37.420
 and tomorrow

00:41:37.420 --> 00:41:38.860
 and every day

00:41:38.860 --> 00:41:39.920
 until the end

00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:41.880
 we can say that

00:41:41.880 --> 00:41:43.660
 I am the adopted

00:41:43.660 --> 00:41:44.820
 and reconciled child

00:41:44.820 --> 00:41:46.039
 of the crucified king

00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:47.740
 who walks with me now

00:41:47.740 --> 00:41:48.700
 walks with me today

00:41:48.699 --> 00:41:49.879
 and who will come again

00:41:49.879 --> 00:41:51.359
 so good things

00:41:51.359 --> 00:41:52.319
 with eternal meaning

00:41:52.319 --> 00:41:53.599
 can be done today

00:41:53.599 --> 00:41:54.219
 and tomorrow

00:41:54.219 --> 00:41:55.079
 and every day

00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:56.000
 until the end

00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:57.779
 and this doesn't just mean

00:41:57.779 --> 00:41:58.939
 spiritual things

00:41:58.939 --> 00:42:00.679
 it means good things

00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:02.119
 it means good things

00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:03.019
 it means good things

00:42:03.019 --> 00:42:03.739
 where you work

00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:05.539
 it means good things

00:42:05.539 --> 00:42:06.159
 in your neighborhood

00:42:06.159 --> 00:42:06.960
 it means good things

00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:07.639
 with your family

00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:08.519
 it means good things

00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:09.019
 that will help

00:42:09.019 --> 00:42:10.039
 to spread the gospel

00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:13.039
 and relieve suffering

00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:15.480
 and it means good things

00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:17.500
 in terms of music

00:42:17.500 --> 00:42:18.579
 or poetry

00:42:18.579 --> 00:42:19.300
 or art

00:42:19.300 --> 00:42:20.219
 or scholarship

00:42:20.219 --> 00:42:21.639
 and it just means

00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:23.159
 that there's this whole world

00:42:23.159 --> 00:42:24.179
 of good things

00:42:24.179 --> 00:42:25.019
 that it's possible

00:42:25.019 --> 00:42:25.699
 for us to do

00:42:25.699 --> 00:42:26.800
 that it's possible

00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:27.280
 every day

00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:27.900
 as I'm going to show you

00:42:27.900 --> 00:42:28.219
 in a moment

00:42:28.219 --> 00:42:28.840
 to wake up

00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:29.480
 and say to God

00:42:29.480 --> 00:42:31.159
 what good things

00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:32.699
 would you have me do today

00:42:32.699 --> 00:42:36.199
 for the good of people

00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:37.199
 and for your glory

00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:39.780
 and as a follower of Jesus

00:42:39.780 --> 00:42:41.440
 this is not an absurd question

00:42:41.440 --> 00:42:42.360
 it's a real question

00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:43.380
 and you might say

00:42:43.380 --> 00:42:43.840
 well I don't know

00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:44.680
 I'm going to spend my day

00:42:44.680 --> 00:42:45.380
 in a cubicle

00:42:45.380 --> 00:42:46.720
 looking at a screen

00:42:46.720 --> 00:42:48.300
 but the question still is

00:42:48.300 --> 00:42:49.620
 not to have the cubicle

00:42:49.620 --> 00:42:51.000
 and the screen define you

00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:51.960
 but to say to God

00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:53.700
 what good things

00:42:53.700 --> 00:42:55.160
 can I do today

00:42:55.160 --> 00:42:56.539
 to love people

00:42:56.539 --> 00:42:57.440
 and to bring you glory

00:42:57.440 --> 00:42:59.840
 and you can pray that to God

00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:00.700
 I'm not going to tell you

00:43:00.700 --> 00:43:00.980
 what it is

00:43:00.980 --> 00:43:02.340
 but you can pray that to God

00:43:02.340 --> 00:43:03.380
 that your life

00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:05.260
 has meaning and direction

00:43:05.260 --> 00:43:06.019
 that there's one

00:43:06.019 --> 00:43:07.460
 that you can talk to

00:43:07.460 --> 00:43:09.360
 and bring to

00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:10.059
 and a community

00:43:10.059 --> 00:43:10.760
 that you can bring

00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:11.460
 those things to

00:43:11.460 --> 00:43:12.240
 and you can address them

00:43:12.240 --> 00:43:13.039
 in your small groups

00:43:13.039 --> 00:43:13.680
 or other places

00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:14.179
 in terms of

00:43:14.179 --> 00:43:15.460
 what are the good things

00:43:15.460 --> 00:43:16.079
 that I can do

00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:16.599
 where I am

00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:17.500
 that will love people

00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:18.460
 and bring God glory

00:43:18.460 --> 00:43:21.399
 that's the heart

00:43:21.399 --> 00:43:22.279
 of this text

00:43:22.279 --> 00:43:23.779
 is that when we come

00:43:23.779 --> 00:43:24.319
 to Jesus

00:43:24.319 --> 00:43:25.119
 because he has

00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:26.519
 taken upon himself

00:43:26.519 --> 00:43:27.099
 the judgment

00:43:27.099 --> 00:43:27.839
 that we deserve

00:43:27.839 --> 00:43:29.279
 you see

00:43:29.279 --> 00:43:30.960
 no amount

00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:32.019
 of good works

00:43:32.019 --> 00:43:33.079
 or success

00:43:33.079 --> 00:43:34.639
 makes us more

00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:35.819
 attractive to Jesus

00:43:35.819 --> 00:43:37.579
 it's not as if

00:43:37.579 --> 00:43:37.980
 we can say

00:43:37.980 --> 00:43:38.480
 okay Jesus

00:43:38.480 --> 00:43:39.159
 you only have to die

00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:40.239
 for 97%

00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:40.819
 of my sins

00:43:40.820 --> 00:43:41.420
 because I've sort of

00:43:41.420 --> 00:43:41.840
 covered it

00:43:41.840 --> 00:43:43.000
 these 3%

00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:43.780
 with my actions

00:43:43.780 --> 00:43:45.660
 but once we become

00:43:45.660 --> 00:43:47.039
 a follower of Jesus

00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:49.059
 the automatic question

00:43:49.059 --> 00:43:49.620
 is

00:43:49.620 --> 00:43:50.780
 by grace

00:43:50.780 --> 00:43:51.860
 what good things

00:43:51.860 --> 00:43:52.539
 can I do

00:43:52.539 --> 00:43:54.519
 to love people

00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:55.480
 and bring you glory

00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:56.600
 so that's why

00:43:56.600 --> 00:43:57.300
 our mission statement

00:43:57.300 --> 00:43:57.600
 is

00:43:57.600 --> 00:43:59.000
 making disciples

00:43:59.000 --> 00:43:59.620
 of Jesus

00:43:59.620 --> 00:44:01.200
 gripped by the gospel

00:44:01.200 --> 00:44:02.820
 living for his glory

00:44:02.820 --> 00:44:04.400
 so here's three prayers

00:44:04.400 --> 00:44:05.160
 the first one

00:44:05.160 --> 00:44:05.500
 Andrew

00:44:05.500 --> 00:44:08.420
 there's

00:44:08.420 --> 00:44:09.960
 no point

00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:11.099
 talking about all of this

00:44:11.099 --> 00:44:11.780
 if you haven't given

00:44:11.780 --> 00:44:12.619
 your life to Jesus

00:44:12.619 --> 00:44:14.480
 and I just want to urge you

00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:15.199
 if you haven't given

00:44:15.199 --> 00:44:16.059
 your life to Jesus

00:44:16.059 --> 00:44:17.099
 there's no better time

00:44:17.099 --> 00:44:18.099
 than to do it right now

00:44:18.099 --> 00:44:20.460
 you don't have to say

00:44:20.460 --> 00:44:20.920
 George

00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:21.539
 if you know how much

00:44:21.539 --> 00:44:22.019
 pornography

00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:23.039
 I've just looked at

00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:23.980
 before I came here

00:44:23.980 --> 00:44:25.019
 if you know how

00:44:25.019 --> 00:44:26.739
 bad I'm doing in school

00:44:26.739 --> 00:44:27.639
 if you know how bad

00:44:27.639 --> 00:44:28.880
 my finances were

00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:29.760
 George

00:44:29.760 --> 00:44:30.579
 if you knew that

00:44:30.579 --> 00:44:31.219
 you'd know I have to

00:44:31.219 --> 00:44:32.239
 I have to get these things

00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:32.860
 under control

00:44:32.860 --> 00:44:33.940
 before I can come to Jesus

00:44:33.940 --> 00:44:35.420
 and that's not the case at all

00:44:35.420 --> 00:44:37.519
 it's not the case at all

00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:39.240
 there's no better time

00:44:39.240 --> 00:44:39.760
 than now

00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:40.659
 if you've never made

00:44:40.659 --> 00:44:41.579
 that transaction

00:44:41.579 --> 00:44:42.920
 to use a prayer like this

00:44:42.920 --> 00:44:43.220
 and say

00:44:43.220 --> 00:44:44.320
 Jesus of Nazareth

00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:45.740
 Son of the living God

00:44:45.740 --> 00:44:46.320
 Messiah

00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:48.320
 have mercy upon me

00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:50.220
 and be my only Savior

00:44:50.220 --> 00:44:51.440
 and my only Lord

00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:52.579
 today and to eternity

00:44:52.579 --> 00:44:55.619
 and if you pray that prayer

00:44:55.619 --> 00:44:56.720
 with your heart

00:44:56.720 --> 00:44:59.139
 Jesus will come in

00:44:59.139 --> 00:44:59.880
 and be your Savior

00:44:59.880 --> 00:45:00.460
 and your Lord

00:45:00.460 --> 00:45:02.840
 and for those of us

00:45:02.840 --> 00:45:03.760
 who've prayed that prayer

00:45:03.760 --> 00:45:04.320
 if you could put up

00:45:04.320 --> 00:45:05.019
 the second prayer

00:45:05.019 --> 00:45:05.380
 Andrew

00:45:05.380 --> 00:45:06.280
 these things will all

00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:07.019
 be on the web page

00:45:07.019 --> 00:45:07.559
 if you want to write

00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:08.200
 them down later

00:45:08.200 --> 00:45:09.400
 every day

00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:10.400
 we could wake up

00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:11.920
 and say something like this

00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:12.260
 Jesus

00:45:12.260 --> 00:45:13.960
 what good things

00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:16.019
 will you have me do today

00:45:16.019 --> 00:45:17.579
 for the good of people

00:45:17.579 --> 00:45:19.000
 and for your glory

00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.440
 the kingdom of God

00:45:21.440 --> 00:45:22.340
 in the midst of you

00:45:22.340 --> 00:45:22.880
 is

00:45:22.880 --> 00:45:24.680
 I will return

00:45:24.680 --> 00:45:27.680
 and the returning

00:45:27.680 --> 00:45:28.200
 doesn't mean

00:45:28.200 --> 00:45:28.840
 that we no longer

00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:30.000
 have economic

00:45:30.000 --> 00:45:31.079
 that we don't have jobs

00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:32.039
 or we don't have families

00:45:32.039 --> 00:45:32.660
 but it means that

00:45:32.660 --> 00:45:33.680
 when we're in our jobs

00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:34.599
 and in our families

00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:35.460
 and in our cities

00:45:35.460 --> 00:45:36.699
 and in our communities

00:45:36.699 --> 00:45:37.739
 every day

00:45:37.739 --> 00:45:38.659
 what's

00:45:38.659 --> 00:45:39.419
 there's a book

00:45:39.419 --> 00:45:40.039
 that I'm reading right now

00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:40.599
 which is really good

00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:41.819
 what's best next

00:45:41.819 --> 00:45:43.159
 Jesus

00:45:43.159 --> 00:45:44.199
 what's best

00:45:44.199 --> 00:45:44.940
 next

00:45:44.940 --> 00:45:46.339
 that you would have me do

00:45:46.339 --> 00:45:47.379
 Jesus

00:45:47.379 --> 00:45:48.919
 as I'm going into this day

00:45:48.919 --> 00:45:49.739
 as I'm going to work

00:45:49.739 --> 00:45:50.759
 what good things

00:45:50.759 --> 00:45:52.000
 will you have me do today

00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:53.079
 for the good of people

00:45:53.079 --> 00:45:54.159
 and for your glory

00:45:54.159 --> 00:45:55.299
 for the good of the job

00:45:55.299 --> 00:45:56.519
 for the good of my boss

00:45:56.519 --> 00:45:57.639
 for the good of the employees

00:45:57.639 --> 00:45:58.799
 for the good of this city

00:45:58.799 --> 00:46:00.019
 for the good of my family

00:46:00.019 --> 00:46:01.599
 for the good of my neighbors

00:46:01.599 --> 00:46:02.599
 for the good of my church

00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:03.719
 for the good of the kingdom

00:46:03.719 --> 00:46:05.659
 and here's the third prayer

00:46:05.659 --> 00:46:07.519
 put up

00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:08.400
 Jesus

00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:09.340
 help me to do

00:46:09.340 --> 00:46:09.840
 small

00:46:09.840 --> 00:46:11.420
 thankless acts of love

00:46:11.420 --> 00:46:13.039
 in light of your presence

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:13.800
 in your return

00:46:13.800 --> 00:46:16.039
 I mean

00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:16.440
 isn't that

00:46:16.440 --> 00:46:17.820
 a great prayer

00:46:17.820 --> 00:46:18.679
 to pray

00:46:18.679 --> 00:46:21.519
 there's all sorts

00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:22.559
 of thankless things

00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:23.420
 that have to be done

00:46:23.420 --> 00:46:24.300
 I don't know

00:46:24.300 --> 00:46:24.699
 how often

00:46:24.699 --> 00:46:25.559
 we thank the people

00:46:25.559 --> 00:46:26.420
 who are hosts

00:46:26.420 --> 00:46:27.099
 in the morning

00:46:27.099 --> 00:46:28.360
 we didn't have a host

00:46:28.360 --> 00:46:29.119
 at the door

00:46:29.119 --> 00:46:29.940
 handing the line

00:46:29.940 --> 00:46:30.219
 to people

00:46:30.219 --> 00:46:30.859
 and we wouldn't be able

00:46:30.859 --> 00:46:31.420
 to rent the Ottawa

00:46:31.420 --> 00:46:31.900
 little theater

00:46:31.900 --> 00:46:32.239
 I don't know

00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:33.059
 how often we thank

00:46:33.059 --> 00:46:33.819
 the people

00:46:33.819 --> 00:46:34.799
 who care for children

00:46:34.799 --> 00:46:35.440
 or how often

00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:36.400
 we thank the people

00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:38.579
 who do the coffee

00:46:38.579 --> 00:46:39.980
 there's all sorts

00:46:39.980 --> 00:46:40.519
 of tasks

00:46:40.519 --> 00:46:41.319
 that Amy does

00:46:41.319 --> 00:46:41.779
 just sort of

00:46:41.779 --> 00:46:42.380
 in the office

00:46:42.380 --> 00:46:43.400
 in terms of our books

00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:43.839
 so we get our

00:46:43.839 --> 00:46:45.059
 income tax receipts

00:46:45.059 --> 00:46:45.920
 there's small

00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:47.199
 thankless acts of love

00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:49.099
 of Barbara

00:46:49.099 --> 00:46:50.059
 and others

00:46:50.059 --> 00:46:50.719
 there's small

00:46:50.719 --> 00:46:52.079
 thankless acts of love

00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:53.099
 and maybe we don't

00:46:53.099 --> 00:46:53.940
 thank each other enough

00:46:53.940 --> 00:46:54.440
 but you know what

00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:55.359
 the doctrine

00:46:55.359 --> 00:46:56.299
 of the second coming

00:46:56.299 --> 00:46:56.719
 of Jesus

00:46:56.719 --> 00:46:57.699
 that he will return

00:46:57.699 --> 00:46:58.359
 will mean that

00:46:58.360 --> 00:46:59.360
 there's no small

00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:00.160
 act of love

00:47:00.160 --> 00:47:00.740
 that we do

00:47:00.740 --> 00:47:01.519
 that right now

00:47:01.519 --> 00:47:02.340
 is not thankless

00:47:02.340 --> 00:47:03.220
 but that will one day

00:47:03.220 --> 00:47:04.160
 receive the thanks

00:47:04.160 --> 00:47:05.940
 of the one who really matters

00:47:05.940 --> 00:47:07.099
 when God says

00:47:07.099 --> 00:47:08.280
 I'm so thankful

00:47:08.280 --> 00:47:09.260
 I'm so glad

00:47:09.260 --> 00:47:10.220
 that you did this

00:47:10.220 --> 00:47:11.680
 that you did

00:47:11.680 --> 00:47:12.400
 these small

00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:13.400
 thankless acts

00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:13.920
 of love

00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:15.480
 for the good of people

00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:16.800
 and for my glory

00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:19.660
 let's stand

00:47:19.659 --> 00:47:25.920
 father

00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:25.960
 father

00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:27.639
 if there's any here

00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:28.440
 who have not yet

00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:29.159
 given their lives

00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:29.699
 to Jesus

00:47:29.699 --> 00:47:30.440
 to trust him

00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:31.099
 as their savior

00:47:31.099 --> 00:47:31.719
 and follow him

00:47:31.719 --> 00:47:32.059
 as lord

00:47:32.059 --> 00:47:32.719
 I ask father

00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:33.639
 that you'd help them

00:47:33.639 --> 00:47:35.159
 to pray that prayer

00:47:35.159 --> 00:47:36.219
 which was up there

00:47:36.219 --> 00:47:37.099
 a few moments ago

00:47:37.099 --> 00:47:38.839
 that they would call out

00:47:38.839 --> 00:47:39.299
 to Jesus

00:47:39.299 --> 00:47:40.299
 to be their savior

00:47:40.299 --> 00:47:40.960
 and their lord

00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:42.379
 and father

00:47:42.379 --> 00:47:42.779
 for us

00:47:42.779 --> 00:47:43.659
 who are your people

00:47:43.659 --> 00:47:45.480
 we know

00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:46.199
 that you have not

00:47:46.199 --> 00:47:46.819
 redeemed us

00:47:46.820 --> 00:47:47.800
 because we have

00:47:47.800 --> 00:47:49.080
 the most pure lives

00:47:49.080 --> 00:47:50.380
 the most holy lives

00:47:50.380 --> 00:47:51.920
 the most successful lives

00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:52.960
 the richest lives

00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:54.220
 the smartest lives

00:47:54.220 --> 00:47:56.559
 the most fit lives

00:47:56.559 --> 00:47:57.660
 or any other type

00:47:57.660 --> 00:47:58.580
 of criteria

00:47:58.580 --> 00:47:59.400
 which is important

00:47:59.400 --> 00:47:59.960
 in Canada

00:47:59.960 --> 00:48:01.140
 but you do not

00:48:01.140 --> 00:48:01.980
 weigh our merits

00:48:01.980 --> 00:48:03.260
 you pardon our offenses

00:48:03.260 --> 00:48:04.039
 when your son

00:48:04.039 --> 00:48:05.140
 died upon the cross

00:48:05.140 --> 00:48:05.860
 to redeem us

00:48:05.860 --> 00:48:06.480
 that he bore

00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:07.039
 the judgment

00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:07.720
 we deserve

00:48:07.720 --> 00:48:08.860
 in our place

00:48:08.860 --> 00:48:09.280
 and father

00:48:09.280 --> 00:48:09.960
 we thank you

00:48:09.960 --> 00:48:11.059
 for the power of God

00:48:11.059 --> 00:48:11.820
 for salvation

00:48:11.820 --> 00:48:12.580
 that you offer

00:48:12.580 --> 00:48:14.500
 we receive it humbly

00:48:14.500 --> 00:48:15.840
 and so father

00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:16.980
 as the child

00:48:16.980 --> 00:48:17.680
 of Jesus

00:48:17.680 --> 00:48:19.640
 make us a disciple

00:48:19.640 --> 00:48:20.680
 gripped by the gospel

00:48:20.680 --> 00:48:21.720
 living for your glory

00:48:21.720 --> 00:48:22.680
 father help us

00:48:22.680 --> 00:48:23.900
 to wake each morning

00:48:23.900 --> 00:48:25.440
 to ask throughout the day

00:48:25.440 --> 00:48:27.039
 what good thing

00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:28.740
 would you have me do now

00:48:28.740 --> 00:48:30.120
 that loves people

00:48:30.120 --> 00:48:31.579
 and brings you glory

00:48:31.579 --> 00:48:32.900
 and father

00:48:32.900 --> 00:48:34.320
 some of us

00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:35.420
 really need to be encouraged

00:48:35.420 --> 00:48:36.840
 to take great big steps

00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:37.539
 of faith

00:48:37.539 --> 00:48:40.720
 but for all of us

00:48:40.720 --> 00:48:42.160
 a more pressing problem

00:48:42.160 --> 00:48:42.519
 father

00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:43.200
 is our willingness

00:48:43.200 --> 00:48:44.300
 just to do small

00:48:44.300 --> 00:48:45.660
 thankless acts of love

00:48:45.659 --> 00:48:47.259
 and so father

00:48:47.259 --> 00:48:48.139
 we ask that you

00:48:48.139 --> 00:48:48.859
 help us

00:48:48.859 --> 00:48:50.139
 to look around

00:48:50.139 --> 00:48:51.559
 and to notice

00:48:51.559 --> 00:48:52.819
 and to do these

00:48:52.819 --> 00:48:53.699
 small thankless

00:48:53.699 --> 00:48:54.579
 acts of love

00:48:54.579 --> 00:48:56.339
 mindful that Jesus

00:48:56.339 --> 00:48:57.139
 is with us

00:48:57.139 --> 00:48:58.399
 and that he will return

00:48:58.399 --> 00:48:59.859
 all these things

00:48:59.859 --> 00:49:00.819
 we ask in the name

00:49:00.819 --> 00:49:01.279
 of Jesus

00:49:01.279 --> 00:49:01.980
 your son

00:49:01.980 --> 00:49:02.799
 and our savior

00:49:02.799 --> 00:49:03.539
 amen

00:49:03.539 --> 00:49:06.759
 has been

00:49:06.759 --> 00:49:20.019
 we ask in the epitome

00:49:20.019 --> 00:49:20.860
 about Mr.

00:49:20.860 --> 00:49:21.360
 and you

00:49:21.360 --> 00:49:22.199
 can know

00:49:22.199 --> 00:49:22.519
 what

00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:23.500
 it depends on

00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:24.199
 the truth

00:49:24.199 --> 00:49:25.099
 and

00:49:25.099 --> 00:49:25.559
 you

00:49:25.559 --> 00:49:26.119
 can know

00:49:26.119 --> 00:49:26.559
 how

00:49:26.559 --> 00:49:26.880
 about

00:49:26.880 --> 00:49:27.420
 how