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 Good morning, everyone.

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 It's amazing how God works,

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!

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 And they were the same words that we sang as we came over to Hong Kong.

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 I mean, if you really think about those lyrics,

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 I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back.

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 And not just believe in Jesus.

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 We've always talked about that.

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 There's a difference between believer of Jesus and follower of Jesus.

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 He's called us to follow him.

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 We believe and have eternal life and won't perish,

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 but we should follow him.

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 But so many of us in the church are stuck at that stage of believe him, right?

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 信頭和門頭和分別

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 And so how can we be followers of Jesus?

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 I've decided to follow him, no turning back, no turning back.

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 And as I was praying this morning, I was looking through Acts.

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 You know what?

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 This whole series on Acts has been doing something to me.

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 Because I look at the way these people are responding,

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 and I'm just like, I'm not there.

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 I look at Philip in Acts 8, where he goes.

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 He's kicked out of his own home in Jerusalem.

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 He goes to Samaria, where he shouldn't really be going,

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 and continues to spread the good news.

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 And then his church's ministry builds,

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 and then boom, the Spirit says,

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 you, go into the desert road and hang out there for a while.

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 Meet an Ethiopian and run beside the chariot.

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 And he just does it.

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 He leaves his thriving ministry and he just goes.

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 I'm like, man, I don't have that.

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 Saul, just going on his way to drag people to prison, to kill them,

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 ends up meeting Jesus, gets blinded,

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 and completely does a 180 and goes the other way.

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 Peter, in Acts 10,

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 doesn't really want to hang out with the Gentiles.

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 Not him personally, I guess, in some way,

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 because he's built up that way.

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 He's been taught all these years to stay away from those people,

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 and yet in a prayer he says, boom,

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 the Holy Spirit says, go, you must go and reach these people,

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 and he does it.

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 And to see, how they react is just so different to how I react to things.

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 And last week I shared with you,

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 talk about homework,

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 and after,

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 last week I shared with you one of my favorite books,

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 which is the boy, the mole, the fox, the horse,

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 and one of the quotes I gave was,

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 one of the greatest freedoms in life is how you,

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 anyone,

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 react.

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 How you react tells you where you're at.

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 Husbands, if I may extend a little bit of sincere advice to you,

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 how your wife reacts

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 to the seemingly most small and trivial things,

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 but in the most strongest kind of way,

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 will tell you where she's at,

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 will tell you that she's bad.

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 Not about the thing that she's reacting to,

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 but about many other things

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 that she might be thinking of and remembering.

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 How you react tells you where you're at.

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 I find myself,

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 Christina and I have this terminology,

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 it's like, how big is your inner space right now?

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 Because if your inner space is large,

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 and you come home from work,

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 and you have a large inner space,

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 it means you can tolerate a lot.

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 So you can see the toys on the floor,

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 you can see this there,

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 and your husband left the toothbrush on the wrong side of the sink,

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 all these kind of things,

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 you have a large inner space,

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 you can tolerate it,

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 and you can react in a kind, friendly, gracious way.

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 But when you come home and you have a small inner space,

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 then the smallest thing,

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 the air conditioning not being on at the right temperature,

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 will trigger you into a different space.

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 How you react tells you where you're at,

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 and thank you, Queenie.

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 So I quoted that book last week,

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 and then she, so kind,

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 said that, told me about his second book,

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 the sequel that's come out,

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 which is The Boy, the Mole,

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 The Fox, The Horse, and The Storm.

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 So it's taking a lot of self-control for me

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 to have this right here,

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 and not want to read it immediately.

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 But highly recommend,

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 and if you need to know where to find it,

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 Queenie is the person to go to.

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 How you react tells you where you're at.

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 How you react and how you respond to the gospel

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 will tell you how you respond to the mission.

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 Some of us are struggling with responding to God's call

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 to go, to scatter, to share the good news.

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 Why?

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 Because I think maybe we haven't responded accordingly

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 to the gospel itself.

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 I think we haven't really truly understood

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 what the gospel actually means.

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 We haven't truly understood that this is genuinely good news.

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 We don't realize that we are actually living in bad news,

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 and because we don't truly understand the gospel,

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 we're not reacting to that appropriately,

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 and therefore we're not responding to the call

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 of the mission of God appropriately.

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 Does that make sense?

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 And you see here in the book of Acts,

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 people are constantly just reacting in a way

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 that I look at this and go,

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 I don't know if I'm reacting this way.

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 Last week we talked in Acts 13 about the Holy Spirit.

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 No one else, not some uncle with a great eyebrow idea,

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 the Holy Spirit himself,

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 whilst the church are praying and fasting,

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 he says, set apart these two people to go on this mission.

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 I don't know.

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 If I was sat in that prayer meeting,

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 and I heard the Holy Spirit say,

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 these two people are going to go and do this thing,

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 I would be like, well,

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 that's going to be a really important thing.

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 That thing is going to take off,

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 and it's going to succeed,

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 and it's going to be great.

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 But what happens?

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 Mixed results.

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 Mixed results.

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 Some people like it.

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 Some people don't like it.

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 Sometimes I find,

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 even when it comes to ministry,

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 I'm doing these things,

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 I'm like, some people like what we do,

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 and some people don't like what we do,

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 and then I find myself reacting in ways that I'm like,

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 I don't think that's how Paul and Barnabas would have reacted.

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 That's not how Peter would have reacted.

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 Why?

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 Because Christ is enough for them.

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 Nothing else.

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 He is all they need.

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 The question that we're going to look at today is,

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 how are we actually reacting to different things?

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 More specifically,

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 I shared a little bit with our leaders last night,

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 which is,

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 how do we react to praise and criticism?

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 Because in this next chapter is this fascinating thing,

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 where within the one chapter,

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 Paul and Barnabas are told that they are gods.

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 And in the very next passage,

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 they're stoned nearly to death.

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 Isn't that crazy?

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 It tells you a little bit about just the fickleness of the human heart,

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 and how people could just turn on you.

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 They'll crown you one moment,

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 and then cancel you the next.

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 But how do we respond to either of those things?

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 It will tell you a lot about where you're at.

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 How I react to different things will tell me where I'm at.

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 And so we're going to read Acts 14.

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 I've invited my dear friend Matthew to come and minister to us

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 with reading the word of God to us.

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 So can I invite you to stand for the word of the Lord?

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 Acts chapter 14.

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 Alright, Acts chapter 14.

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 Now at Arconium, they entered together into the Jewish synagogue

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 and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

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 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles

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 and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

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 So they remained for a long time,

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 speaking boldly for the Lord,

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 who bore witness to the word of his grace,

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 granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.

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 But the people of the city were divided.

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 Some sided with the Jews,

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 and some sided with the apostles.

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 When an attempt was made by both Gentiles and the Jews

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 with their rulers to minister to them and to stone them,

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 they learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe,

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 cities of Lyakonia.

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 To the surrounding countries.

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 And there they continued to preach the gospel.

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 Now at Lystra, there was a man sitting who could not use his feet.

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 He was crippled from birth and had never walked.

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 He listened to Paul speaking,

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 and Paul, looking intently at him,

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 seeing that he had faith to be made well,

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 said in a loud voice,

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 stand upright on your feet.

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 And he sprung up and began walking.

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 And when the crowd saw that Paul had done,

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 they lifted up their voices,

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 saying in Lyconian,

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 the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men.

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 Barnabas, they called Zeus and Paul Hermes.

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 But he was the chief speaker.

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 Sorry, because he was the chief speaker.

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 And the priest of Zeus,

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 whose temple was at the entrance to the city,

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 brought oxen and garland to the gates

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 and wanted to offer sacrifice with the crowds.

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 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it,

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 they tore their garments and rushed out to the crowds,

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 crying out,

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 Men, why are you doing these things?

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 We are also men of like nature with you.

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 And we bring you good news,

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 that you should turn from these vain things to a living God,

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 who made the heavens and the earth,

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 the seas and all that is in them.

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 In the past generations,

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 he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

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 Yet he did not leave himself without witness.

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 For he did good by giving you rains from heaven

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 and fruitful seasons,

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 satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.

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 Even with those words,

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 they scarcely restrained the people

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 from offering sacrifice to them.

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 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium

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 and having persuaded the crowd,

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 they stone-palled and dragged him out of the city,

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 supposing that he was dead.

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 But when the disciples gathered about him,

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 he rose up and entered the city.

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 And on the next day,

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 he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

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 When they had preached the gospel to the city,

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 they had made disciples,

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 many disciples,

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 they returned to Lystra and Iconium and to Antioch,

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 strengthening the souls of disciples,

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 encouraging them to continue in the faith

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 and saying that through many tribulations,

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 we must enter the kingdom of God.

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 And when they had appointed elders for them in every church

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 with prayer and fasting,

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 they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

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 Then they passed through Pisidia

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 and came to Pamphylia.

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 And when they had spoken the word in Perga,

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 they went down to Italia.

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 And from there,

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 they sailed to Antioch,

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 where they had commended to the grace of God

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 for the work that they had fulfilled.

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 And when they arrived and gathered the church together,

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 they declared all that the Lord has done for them

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 and how he had opened a door of faith to the Gentiles

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 and they had remained no little time with the disciples.

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 This is the word of the Lord.

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 Praise be to God.

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 Please take a seat.

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 Thank you, Matthew.

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 You did well with all those hard words.

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 Whenever it's hard words,

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 I always like to make sure someone else reads it for me.

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 So you did really well.

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 How do you react when things are going well?

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 Like when work is going well,

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 when someone says,

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 hey, well done, well done.

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 You did a really good job there.

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 How do you feel?

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 And when someone says,

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 oh, it's not so good.

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 How does it feel?

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 Last week I talked about Acts 13.

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 Some people were so ecstatic and happy about the sermon.

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 They came and said,

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 please come back.

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 Thank you for the few of you

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 who actually listened to my subtle cry for affirmation.

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 Janice, I remember you.

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 Thank you for coming to say that my sermon was good.

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 You didn't invite the whole city to come back though.

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 That's what I hold against you.

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 But how do you feel when people do these kinds of things?

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 I find it's really interesting.

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 I mean, I'm not saying you should do this.

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 Please don't do this.

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 If you, a hundred of you come up to me

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 straight after this sermon and go,

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 well, James, that was such a good sermon.

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 By the way, and people like J1 know this,

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 if you come and tell me that that was a good sermon,

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 what's the next question I'm going to ask you?

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 Well, I was like, why did God speak to you?

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 What did God speak to you about?

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 Don't just come and tell me that it was good

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 and that you liked my jokes

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 and my passive aggressiveness.

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 But tell me why it was good for you in terms,

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 because the only way it is good

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 is if God speaks to you.

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 That's it.

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 If you take something away from God,

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 that's why it's a good sermon.

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 A mentor of mine,

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 she doesn't care when she goes to speak.

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 She has no,

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 she has complete disregard

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 for how people felt it went.

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 She doesn't even ask about it.

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 You know, sometimes we do this.

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 We do something,

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 well, hey, how was it for you?

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 And you're kind of fishing for compliments.

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 Like I played basketball with Trevor

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 yesterday morning

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 and he could have come up to me and say,

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 hey, how was it?

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 How do you think I played?

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 He doesn't fish for compliments

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 because I wouldn't give him any.

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 But we do that, right?

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 But these guys,

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 just zero,

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 zero regard

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 for how people are responding.

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 They know that one of the greatest freedoms

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 that we have

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 is how we react to the gospel.

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 But how other people respond,

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 none of our business.

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 None of our business.

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 I can come here,

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 I can preach the word of God,

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 I can stay as faithful as I can to the text,

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 I can speak to the people

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 that I think is what you need to hear,

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 and then I should be able to be at a point

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 where I don't need any compliments,

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 I can just let go.

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 God has done his work,

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 I can move on.

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 That, though,

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 is predicated on how I'm responding

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 to the gospel,

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 to the good news of who I am.

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 In my Bible study group this week,

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 I'm going to put him on the spot,

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 Nathan does these great reflections

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 when he looks at scripture.

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 We've been going through the book of John

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 and one of the things he said,

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 and actually we're going to hear him

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 speak a little bit next week,

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 him and Jay actually,

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 is actually he realizes

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 sometimes he doesn't respond

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 to Jesus' sacrifice

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 in the most appropriate way.

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 We kind of just take it for granted.

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 Someone died for you, Teresa.

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 Whoa, what?

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 And we say, yeah, cool, cool.

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 It's a cool story.

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 But he actually died for us

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 because he loved us.

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 We didn't have to do that.

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 He took the place on the cross

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 where we should have been.

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 And if you don't let that

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 seep into your heart,

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 then you won't really respond

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 in the appropriate way

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 to who Jesus is

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 and to what he did.

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 And you won't really live out

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 the way that he wants you to live.

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 These guys.

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 So they start.

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 They go to Iconium

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 at verse one and two.

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 Now at Iconium,

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 they enter together

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 into the Jewish synagogue.

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 Remember, that's their MO.

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 They go to the Jews first

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 and then they speak.

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 And a great number of both

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 Jews and Greeks believed,

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 yes, the ministry is growing.

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 They're doing well.

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 They're good at doing

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 what they're doing.

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 The ministry is growing.

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 But then the very next verse,

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 but the unbelieving Jews

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 stirred up the Gentiles

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 and poisoned their minds

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 against the brothers.

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 There is always,

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 there is always opposition.

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 As you share the gospel,

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 there will always be people

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 who say no.

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 There will always be people

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 who say I disagree.

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 There will always be people

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 who say I don't really care.

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 I'm not that interested.

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 And yet,

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 they just keep going.

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 It's funny.

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 That happens.

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 So people are being poisoned

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 against them.

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 So they remain for a long time.

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 In case you haven't noticed,

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 a long time in the book of Acts

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 could be a long time.

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 We're talking actually

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 since Paul's conversion

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 in Acts 9 to now,

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 it's probably been about 10 years already.

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 There's been a few chapters for us,

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 but it's been 10 years for him.

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 So in light of that mixed success,

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 that mixed response,

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 they decide we're going to stay.

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 We're going to stay

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 and we're going to keep teaching.

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 But the people of the city

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 were divided.

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 Verse 4.

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 Some sided with the Jews

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 and some with the apostles.

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 Isn't that interesting?

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 That in a room like this,

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 there would have been a group of people

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 who say,

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 I agree with what they're saying.

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 This makes sense.

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 And there would have been another group

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 that would be like,

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 nope.

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 And actually,

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 Greek culture at that time

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 would be a lot of discussion

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 and philosophical debate.

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 So there would have been people

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 who say,

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 I disagree.

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 And they're actually talking

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 about these things.

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 It would have been a pretty tough crowd

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 to be in.

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 And yet,

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 they decide to stay

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 continuing to engage.

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 And then what happens

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 after that is,

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 well,

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 they try to kill them.

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 Let me just stop there

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 for a second.

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 As we're wondering,

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 how do I scatter?

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 How do I go out

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 and go to my office

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 and share the gospel?

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 What happens?

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 What's the worst that could happen

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 is what I want to ask you.

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 Like someone would look at you

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 and go,

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 oh,

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 okay.

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 Who was it?

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 Shigala last week said,

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 Shigala is just that person

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 who talks a lot about Jesus.

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 That's the worst that could happen

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 most of the time.

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 Right?

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 That's it.

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 These guys got stones

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 thrown at them.

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 Stones.

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 Has anyone had stones

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 being thrown at them before?

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 Stones.

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 And yet we're scared

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 of the smallest thing.

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 We're scared of just someone

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 going,

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 oh,

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 you're weird.

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 We're scared of someone

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 saying,

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 oh,

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 don't talk to them.

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 Don't invite them

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 to that thing

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 because they're a Christian.

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 Happens every time

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 when I,

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 okay,

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 so I admit

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 I don't look like

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 your typical pastor,

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 especially in Hong Kong.

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 I'm about 20 years

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 too young.

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 It's really funny.

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 Bless her.

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 This lady

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 in my apartment block,

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 we went into the lift together

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 and she started to say,

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 oh,

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 what floor do you live on?

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 I haven't seen you.

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 I've been here 20 years

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 and this is my first time

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 seeing you.

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 I'm on the second floor.

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 She's like,

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 oh,

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 I don't say

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 for people outside

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 they don't.

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 I'm like,

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 she's like,

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 oh.

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 I was like,

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 at ease,

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 your sins are forgiven.

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 I'm like,

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 I'm like,

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 of course,

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 on the basketball court

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 where I don't always

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 play with holy

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 and righteous people

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 like Trevor.

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 I play with all kinds

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 of different people

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 who use all kinds

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 of different language

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 and I've shared this all

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 and sometimes

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 I play with them

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 for many years

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 and they use

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 many kind words

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 and many unkind words

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 to themselves

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 and to everyone else

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 and as soon as they find out

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 I'm a pastor,

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 I shouldn't have sworn

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 when I was playing.

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 I was like,

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 it's okay,

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 it's cool.

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 I sometimes swear

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 in my head

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 and then ask

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 for forgiveness afterwards.

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 We can't control

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 how people really

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 respond to us

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 but we can control

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 how we respond

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 to the gospel

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 and there's really

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 only one way

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 to respond to the gospel.

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 This is good news

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 and I must share it

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 with you.

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 I don't know

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 whether you're going

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 to take it or not

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 and I know

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 because I can see

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 the best,

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 the most prolific

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 church planter

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 in the history

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 of the church

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 got a divided response,

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 got a mixed response.

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 So if we even

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 go into our office,

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 go into our family,

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 go into our friendship circles

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 and go,

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 hey,

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 I might even be able

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 to only just get one person

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 to have a decent conversation

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 with me,

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 then that's it.

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 I'd encourage you

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 that would be

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 all that is enough.

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 Now,

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 after that,

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 verse 5,

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 when an attempt

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 was made by both

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 Gentiles and Jews

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 with their rulers

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 to mistreat them

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 and to stone them,

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 they learned of it

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 and they fled.

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 So they did leave.

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 Sometimes it's okay to go

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 and sometimes it's okay

00:17:41.679 --> 00:17:42.019
 to stay.

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 You see this in the book

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 of Acts

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 where some people

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 are called to leave Jerusalem

00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:46.179
 and some people

00:17:46.179 --> 00:17:47.119
 are scattering and staying.

00:17:47.399 --> 00:17:48.240
 All that really matters

00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:48.980
 is actually wherever

00:17:48.980 --> 00:17:49.819
 God tells you to go,

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 you go.

00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:51.480
 Now,

00:17:51.579 --> 00:17:52.460
 and I did say last week

00:17:52.460 --> 00:17:52.859
 that actually,

00:17:53.180 --> 00:17:54.200
 more often than not,

00:17:54.299 --> 00:17:55.039
 he tells you to leave

00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:55.640
 your comfort zone.

00:17:56.120 --> 00:17:56.559
 He rarely,

00:17:56.700 --> 00:17:57.460
 rarely ever tells you,

00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:57.620
 hey,

00:17:57.680 --> 00:17:58.299
 just stay at home.

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 Continue to watch Netflix.

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 The show's really good.

00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:02.019
 Stay on that couch.

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 It's so rare.

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 And if you've heard

00:18:05.059 --> 00:18:06.700
 that call from God,

00:18:06.779 --> 00:18:07.559
 please come and talk to me.

00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:09.279
 That's a good call.

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 I'd like to share

00:18:10.140 --> 00:18:10.539
 in that call.

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 But on the most part,

00:18:12.740 --> 00:18:13.380
 whether it's Jerusalem

00:18:13.380 --> 00:18:13.880
 or Samaria,

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 whether it's

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 to stay or to go,

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 discomfort is part

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 of the package.

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 Just FYI.

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 So,

00:18:20.940 --> 00:18:21.359
 they leave

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 and they go to another place.

00:18:22.660 --> 00:18:23.000
 Verse 8,

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 now at Lystra

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 there was a man sitting

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 who could not use his feet.

00:18:25.619 --> 00:18:26.440
 That was an understatement.

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 He was crippled from birth

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 and had never walked.

00:18:30.399 --> 00:18:31.639
 He listened to Paul speaking

00:18:31.639 --> 00:18:32.079
 and Paul,

00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:33.000
 looking intently at him

00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:33.940
 and seeing that he had faith

00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:34.559
 to be made well,

00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:35.299
 said in a loud voice,

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 stand upright

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 on your feet.

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 So,

00:18:38.259 --> 00:18:39.059
 this has happened before.

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 Jesus had this happen.

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 Peter and Paul

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 had this happen.

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 Where there's a guy

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 who knows

00:18:45.259 --> 00:18:46.439
 of his own weakness,

00:18:46.740 --> 00:18:47.819
 knows how helpless

00:18:47.819 --> 00:18:48.579
 he is,

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 is looking and going,

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 I want that power.

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 I need that power.

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 That's all.

00:18:52.899 --> 00:18:53.439
 That's the only thing

00:18:53.439 --> 00:18:53.939
 I can hope for.

00:18:54.059 --> 00:18:54.459
 And then Peter

00:18:54.459 --> 00:18:55.059
 and Paul,

00:18:55.119 --> 00:18:55.279
 sorry,

00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:56.359
 notices and says,

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 hey,

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 stand up.

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 And this miracle happens

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 in front of everyone's eyes.

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 And then the response

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 is something new.

00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:03.519
 So,

00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:04.259
 we carry on here.

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 And when the crowds,

00:19:05.879 --> 00:19:06.319
 verse 11,

00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:08.399
 saw what Paul had done,

00:19:08.619 --> 00:19:09.659
 they lifted up their voices,

00:19:09.779 --> 00:19:10.980
 saying in Lyconian,

00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:12.599
 the gods have come down to us

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 in the likeness of men.

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 Barnabas,

00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:15.559
 they called Zeus,

00:19:15.859 --> 00:19:16.480
 and Paul,

00:19:16.579 --> 00:19:16.879
 Hermes,

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 because he was the chief speaker.

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 And the priest of Zeus,

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 whose temple was at the entrance

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 of the city,

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 brought out oxen and garlands

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 to the gates

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 and wanted to offer sacrifice

00:19:25.819 --> 00:19:26.779
 with the crowds.

00:19:28.779 --> 00:19:29.679
 Their impact,

00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:30.299
 their teaching,

00:19:30.460 --> 00:19:31.319
 that moment there

00:19:31.319 --> 00:19:32.359
 where they brought that guy

00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:33.139
 up to his feet

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 was so incredible.

00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:35.740
 Something that people

00:19:35.740 --> 00:19:36.519
 had never seen before.

00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:36.839
 They're like,

00:19:36.920 --> 00:19:38.359
 that is a god.

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 And they try to,

00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:43.440
 they start to worship him.

00:19:44.059 --> 00:19:45.799
 They get all the wild adulation.

00:19:46.220 --> 00:19:46.339
 Now,

00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:46.799
 there's a little bit

00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:47.599
 of context here,

00:19:47.660 --> 00:19:47.839
 actually.

00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:49.420
 Bearing in mind,

00:19:49.539 --> 00:19:50.200
 they've just stepped

00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.019
 into a very pluralistic society.

00:19:52.539 --> 00:19:52.660
 Okay?

00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:53.920
 The gospel is going out.

00:19:54.220 --> 00:19:55.400
 It's not in Jerusalem anymore.

00:19:55.500 --> 00:19:56.359
 It's not with the Jews anymore.

00:19:56.660 --> 00:19:57.279
 It's with people

00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:57.799
 who believed

00:19:57.799 --> 00:19:58.900
 a whole ton of different things.

00:19:59.099 --> 00:19:59.700
 And one of them

00:19:59.700 --> 00:20:00.359
 is just actually

00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:01.059
 the Greek legend.

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 The legend would go,

00:20:02.500 --> 00:20:03.200
 and actually the people

00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:04.259
 listening and seeing this

00:20:04.259 --> 00:20:05.379
 would have known this,

00:20:05.740 --> 00:20:07.000
 that actually Zeus and Hermes

00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:09.259
 had actually become humans

00:20:09.259 --> 00:20:11.119
 and walked among the people

00:20:11.119 --> 00:20:11.799
 of this town.

00:20:12.059 --> 00:20:12.700
 This is the legend.

00:20:12.819 --> 00:20:12.980
 Okay?

00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:14.160
 So they would have all known this.

00:20:14.420 --> 00:20:15.140
 And that time,

00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:15.859
 they all walked

00:20:15.859 --> 00:20:17.279
 and no one would let them

00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:17.920
 into their houses.

00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:18.980
 They were not welcomed

00:20:18.980 --> 00:20:19.819
 by this town,

00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:22.000
 apart from one modest

00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:23.000
 elderly couple.

00:20:23.859 --> 00:20:24.619
 So what happened

00:20:24.619 --> 00:20:25.440
 is these two gods

00:20:25.440 --> 00:20:26.440
 ended up basically

00:20:26.440 --> 00:20:27.379
 killing the rest

00:20:27.379 --> 00:20:27.980
 of this town,

00:20:28.299 --> 00:20:29.259
 but giving this couple

00:20:29.799 --> 00:20:31.440
 a palace to live in.

00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:32.539
 And so that's how

00:20:32.539 --> 00:20:33.420
 the legend would go.

00:20:34.940 --> 00:20:36.039
 So now you know

00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:36.580
 that story.

00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:37.279
 Now you know

00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:38.059
 what they were thinking.

00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:39.799
 They see these two men

00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:42.240
 perform this miracle.

00:20:43.140 --> 00:20:44.140
 What's your response

00:20:44.140 --> 00:20:44.660
 if you were them?

00:20:45.860 --> 00:20:46.840
 This is part two.

00:20:47.580 --> 00:20:48.320
 This is the sequel.

00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:49.580
 We best learn

00:20:49.580 --> 00:20:51.059
 because we don't want to die

00:20:51.059 --> 00:20:52.820
 and we really want a palace.

00:20:54.080 --> 00:20:55.320
 Let's worship these two.

00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:55.980
 These two.

00:20:55.980 --> 00:20:56.880
 That line there,

00:20:57.019 --> 00:20:58.600
 and later we'll come back to it.

00:20:58.599 --> 00:20:59.939
 The gods have come down to us

00:20:59.939 --> 00:21:01.719
 in the likeness of men.

00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:04.719
 Sometimes when people

00:21:04.719 --> 00:21:05.619
 see us doing things

00:21:05.619 --> 00:21:05.799
 that are,

00:21:05.879 --> 00:21:06.699
 oh, that's really impressive,

00:21:07.379 --> 00:21:08.500
 we get the praise,

00:21:09.819 --> 00:21:11.819
 almost the adulation

00:21:11.819 --> 00:21:13.059
 that maybe even

00:21:13.059 --> 00:21:14.039
 Paul and Barnabas

00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:14.619
 get here.

00:21:15.279 --> 00:21:16.219
 But their reaction,

00:21:16.339 --> 00:21:16.939
 their reaction

00:21:16.939 --> 00:21:18.159
 says everything.

00:21:18.459 --> 00:21:19.399
 And I sit here and go,

00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:20.500
 I don't know

00:21:20.500 --> 00:21:21.399
 if I would have

00:21:21.399 --> 00:21:22.299
 the same reaction.

00:21:22.980 --> 00:21:23.859
 What's that reaction?

00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:26.839
 Verse 14.

00:21:27.099 --> 00:21:27.899
 But when the apostles,

00:21:27.900 --> 00:21:28.460
 the apostles,

00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:29.560
 Barnabas and Paul,

00:21:29.620 --> 00:21:30.019
 heard of it,

00:21:30.340 --> 00:21:31.320
 they tore their garments

00:21:31.320 --> 00:21:32.100
 and rushed out

00:21:32.100 --> 00:21:32.700
 into the crowd,

00:21:32.860 --> 00:21:33.380
 crying out,

00:21:33.460 --> 00:21:33.740
 men,

00:21:33.940 --> 00:21:34.980
 why are you doing

00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:35.500
 these things?

00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:37.259
 So their response

00:21:37.259 --> 00:21:38.940
 to this wild adulation

00:21:38.940 --> 00:21:40.880
 was to tear their clothes,

00:21:41.580 --> 00:21:41.660
 which,

00:21:42.300 --> 00:21:43.280
 stay calm.

00:21:43.940 --> 00:21:45.120
 This isn't happening today.

00:21:46.860 --> 00:21:48.080
 But they would do this

00:21:48.080 --> 00:21:49.019
 because they're saying,

00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:50.980
 they're distressed,

00:21:51.100 --> 00:21:51.800
 they're devastated.

00:21:52.420 --> 00:21:53.660
 This is not the point

00:21:53.660 --> 00:21:54.800
 of why we are here.

00:21:55.259 --> 00:21:56.180
 You've missed the point.

00:21:56.180 --> 00:21:57.720
 Can you see how precious

00:21:57.720 --> 00:21:58.380
 it was for them

00:21:58.380 --> 00:21:59.660
 to share only one name,

00:21:59.840 --> 00:22:00.519
 the name of Jesus?

00:22:01.060 --> 00:22:01.680
 And so the moment

00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:02.660
 they saw that people

00:22:02.660 --> 00:22:03.320
 were led astray,

00:22:03.400 --> 00:22:04.460
 almost by this act,

00:22:04.700 --> 00:22:05.600
 they were just devastated.

00:22:05.740 --> 00:22:06.860
 They would tear their sackcloth,

00:22:07.220 --> 00:22:07.980
 is the term that would

00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:08.440
 be used here.

00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:09.720
 And they were just

00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:10.640
 completely shocked.

00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:15.480
 I wonder whether actually

00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:16.500
 our response

00:22:16.500 --> 00:22:17.279
 when we get praised

00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:18.900
 actually is nothing

00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:19.460
 like this either.

00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:21.200
 Sometimes when we get praised,

00:22:21.200 --> 00:22:22.480
 what happens

00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:23.819
 when someone tells you,

00:22:24.299 --> 00:22:24.920
 when someone tells,

00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:25.880
 Sam doesn't do this,

00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:26.259
 he's actually

00:22:26.259 --> 00:22:27.600
 a fairly humble guy.

00:22:28.019 --> 00:22:28.840
 When I tell Sam,

00:22:28.980 --> 00:22:30.000
 that was the best

00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:31.039
 piano player, right?

00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:32.660
 And then Sam

00:22:32.660 --> 00:22:33.319
 just does his thing

00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:33.680
 just kind of,

00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:37.120
 but others are like,

00:22:37.220 --> 00:22:38.019
 but we've also seen,

00:22:38.120 --> 00:22:38.259
 I mean,

00:22:38.299 --> 00:22:39.000
 we're all Chinese people

00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:39.900
 so it's a safe space

00:22:39.900 --> 00:22:40.720
 where we all play the piano.

00:22:41.180 --> 00:22:42.059
 You play really well.

00:22:42.600 --> 00:22:43.000
 They say,

00:22:43.019 --> 00:22:43.680
 oh, you're so good

00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:44.000
 on the piano.

00:22:44.080 --> 00:22:44.259
 It's like,

00:22:44.299 --> 00:22:45.720
 oh, no, no, no.

00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:47.380
 Not really.

00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:47.920
 I'm terrible.

00:22:50.080 --> 00:22:50.840
 False humility.

00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:52.339
 No, I'm terrible.

00:22:52.779 --> 00:22:53.099
 Terrible.

00:22:53.199 --> 00:22:54.799
 Only got 96% in the test.

00:22:57.379 --> 00:22:58.799
 They are genuinely devastated

00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:00.839
 that people had missed the point.

00:23:03.740 --> 00:23:04.839
 How do we respond?

00:23:05.619 --> 00:23:06.740
 And maybe if I have time

00:23:06.740 --> 00:23:07.039
 at the end,

00:23:07.099 --> 00:23:07.720
 I don't know if we will,

00:23:08.059 --> 00:23:09.319
 I'll come up with a few tips

00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:10.039
 that I've learned

00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:10.519
 over the years

00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:11.699
 of what we should do

00:23:11.699 --> 00:23:13.039
 when we respond to praise.

00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:13.679
 But for now,

00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:15.799
 let's keep to the passage here.

00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:17.379
 You see Paul and Barnabas,

00:23:17.439 --> 00:23:18.179
 they're just deflecting.

00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:19.559
 This isn't about us.

00:23:20.419 --> 00:23:21.839
 Now, these are courageous people.

00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:23.159
 You wouldn't think gentle

00:23:23.159 --> 00:23:24.039
 and humble immediately

00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:24.720
 when you would have looked

00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:25.399
 to these two people

00:23:25.399 --> 00:23:26.299
 because they were pretty brave

00:23:26.299 --> 00:23:26.919
 to do what they do.

00:23:27.159 --> 00:23:27.579
 Bearing in mind,

00:23:27.659 --> 00:23:28.460
 people had just tried

00:23:28.460 --> 00:23:29.000
 to stone them.

00:23:29.619 --> 00:23:29.720
 Okay?

00:23:29.919 --> 00:23:31.259
 So these are pretty brave

00:23:31.259 --> 00:23:31.940
 and courageous people,

00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:32.859
 yet there was a humility

00:23:32.859 --> 00:23:33.759
 that was so fierce

00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.440
 that was underlying.

00:23:35.220 --> 00:23:36.179
 Reminds me of John the Baptist

00:23:36.179 --> 00:23:36.839
 in John 3.

00:23:37.259 --> 00:23:38.500
 Just the way he talks,

00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:39.839
 wearing the clothes

00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:40.240
 that he wore,

00:23:40.299 --> 00:23:41.079
 living out in the wilderness,

00:23:41.299 --> 00:23:41.859
 shouting the way

00:23:41.859 --> 00:23:42.419
 he would have done.

00:23:43.659 --> 00:23:44.200
 And he's like,

00:23:44.379 --> 00:23:45.539
 it's not about me.

00:23:45.659 --> 00:23:46.359
 He must increase.

00:23:46.419 --> 00:23:47.059
 I must decrease.

00:23:47.059 --> 00:23:48.279
 I'm filled with joy now

00:23:48.279 --> 00:23:49.259
 because the main character

00:23:49.259 --> 00:23:49.659
 is here

00:23:49.659 --> 00:23:50.759
 and the main character

00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:51.299
 isn't me.

00:23:52.259 --> 00:23:53.419
 My joy is complete,

00:23:54.240 --> 00:23:55.059
 is what John the Baptist

00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:55.480
 would say.

00:23:57.599 --> 00:23:58.740
 Paul and Barnabas here

00:23:58.740 --> 00:24:00.039
 know that actually

00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:01.679
 no human can bear

00:24:01.679 --> 00:24:02.579
 the weight of the glory

00:24:02.579 --> 00:24:03.779
 that is only reserved for God.

00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:05.139
 Don't,

00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:05.980
 do not,

00:24:06.179 --> 00:24:06.980
 please do not

00:24:06.980 --> 00:24:08.299
 even think that I'm God.

00:24:08.539 --> 00:24:09.480
 I've met him

00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:10.919
 and I was blinded by him.

00:24:12.039 --> 00:24:13.480
 Don't associate me with him.

00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:14.480
 I am not him.

00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:15.860
 What does John the Baptist say?

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 I can't,

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 I'm not even allowed

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 to untie Jesus' sandals.

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 Is that ridiculous?

00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.180
 When you catch sight

00:24:22.180 --> 00:24:22.839
 of who God is

00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:23.480
 and you react

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 appropriately

00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:25.539
 and accordingly,

00:24:25.980 --> 00:24:26.740
 it will change

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 the way you react

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 to praise and criticism

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 on earth.

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 It will completely

00:24:31.579 --> 00:24:32.440
 change it.

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 And then he jumps

00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:34.180
 into a sermon,

00:24:34.299 --> 00:24:35.039
 a very short sermon.

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 There's four verses,

00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:37.480
 which maybe some of you

00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:38.000
 are hoping mine

00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:38.860
 is a very short one too.

00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:39.480
 And so,

00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:40.839
 actually this is a different

00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:41.599
 kind of sermon though

00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:42.599
 because up until now

00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:43.259
 Peter's sermons

00:24:43.259 --> 00:24:43.779
 and Paul's sermons

00:24:43.779 --> 00:24:44.400
 were to the Jews.

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 So what they would do

00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:46.019
 is they would cite

00:24:46.019 --> 00:24:46.559
 the Old Testament

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 and they would say,

00:24:47.220 --> 00:24:47.339
 hey,

00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:49.240
 you guys know the scriptures.

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:50.860
 You know Psalm 2

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 and you know Psalm 16.

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 You know that he said

00:24:53.140 --> 00:24:54.099
 that Jesus,

00:24:54.400 --> 00:24:54.960
 that actually God,

00:24:55.059 --> 00:24:56.140
 we're waiting for the Messiah

00:24:56.140 --> 00:24:56.980
 who is God's son

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 and he won't die

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 and he will save us all.

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 And so he's citing things

00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:01.799
 that they would know.

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 But this sermon is different.

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 This is the first time

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 he tells a sermon

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 to a group of people

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 who don't know

00:25:07.500 --> 00:25:08.360
 the Bible,

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 the Old Testament.

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 And he goes on

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 a completely different tangent.

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 He goes in a completely

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 different direction

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 which tells me one thing.

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 When you speak to people

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 about the gospel,

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 you do need to speak

00:25:17.079 --> 00:25:17.539
 in the language

00:25:17.539 --> 00:25:18.240
 that they understand.

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 You do need to speak,

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 most importantly,

00:25:21.779 --> 00:25:23.819
 to where you think

00:25:23.819 --> 00:25:24.699
 is the heart of the problem.

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 As leaders yesterday,

00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:29.319
 we were talking about

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 just the idea of false narratives

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 that we have all experienced

00:25:32.340 --> 00:25:33.000
 in our lives,

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 whether from childhood,

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 just this one voice

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 that we've heard someone say

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 at some point to us

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 that's just been ringing

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 in our ears this whole time,

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 whether it's,

00:25:40.539 --> 00:25:41.080
 I am not enough

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 or whether I am alone,

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 whatever it is.

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 We need to be able

00:25:45.539 --> 00:25:46.799
 to listen out carefully,

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 genuinely caring

00:25:48.420 --> 00:25:49.100
 for these people,

00:25:49.940 --> 00:25:50.059
 going,

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 actually,

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 what is it that's really

00:25:51.180 --> 00:25:52.000
 holding on to you?

00:25:52.940 --> 00:25:53.880
 Paul seems to know

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 because he jumps

00:25:54.500 --> 00:25:55.079
 into this sermon

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 and maybe I'll read it first

00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.539
 and then I'll break it down afterwards.

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 Verse 15,

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 Men,

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 why are you doing these things?

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 We also are men

00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:02.880
 of like nature with you

00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.460
 and we bring you good news

00:26:04.460 --> 00:26:05.460
 that you should turn

00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:06.359
 from these vain things

00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:07.099
 to a living God

00:26:07.099 --> 00:26:07.980
 who made the heaven

00:26:07.980 --> 00:26:08.519
 and the earth

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 and the sea

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 and all that is in them.

00:26:10.220 --> 00:26:11.039
 In past generations,

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 he allowed all the nations

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 to walk in their own ways,

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 yet he did not leave himself

00:26:14.380 --> 00:26:14.940
 without witness,

00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:15.920
 for he did good

00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:16.839
 by giving you rains

00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:17.240
 from heaven

00:26:17.240 --> 00:26:18.099
 and fruitful seasons,

00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:19.480
 satisfying your hearts

00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:20.980
 with food and gladness.

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 Such a different kind of message

00:26:23.339 --> 00:26:24.059
 to one we've just

00:26:24.059 --> 00:26:25.720
 been more accustomed to now

00:26:25.720 --> 00:26:26.319
 as we've been looking

00:26:26.319 --> 00:26:27.140
 through the book of Acts

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 because what Paul knows

00:26:29.500 --> 00:26:30.839
 he's gone into new territory here.

00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:31.460
 He's not talking

00:26:31.460 --> 00:26:32.220
 to the Jews anymore.

00:26:32.299 --> 00:26:33.019
 He's talking to a bunch

00:26:33.019 --> 00:26:33.519
 of Gentiles

00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:34.620
 who believe in all kinds

00:26:34.620 --> 00:26:35.160
 of different gods.

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 It was a pluralistic society

00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:37.900
 because it was basically

00:26:37.900 --> 00:26:39.079
 anyone can believe any God

00:26:39.079 --> 00:26:39.819
 because there will be

00:26:39.819 --> 00:26:40.259
 different gods,

00:26:40.339 --> 00:26:40.920
 one for fertility,

00:26:41.140 --> 00:26:41.620
 one for farming,

00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:43.120
 one for money.

00:26:43.819 --> 00:26:44.900
 So he's saying,

00:26:45.019 --> 00:26:45.140
 hey,

00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:47.360
 don't hold on

00:26:47.360 --> 00:26:48.099
 to those things.

00:26:48.299 --> 00:26:48.400
 He's like,

00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:49.200
 why are you thinking

00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:49.940
 that I'm God?

00:26:50.600 --> 00:26:52.140
 I'm just like you.

00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:55.160
 I am just like you.

00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:56.440
 I am just the same as you.

00:26:56.519 --> 00:26:57.640
 We are of like nature

00:26:57.640 --> 00:26:58.440
 with you

00:26:58.440 --> 00:26:59.580
 and we bring you good news.

00:27:00.080 --> 00:27:00.800
 You should turn

00:27:00.800 --> 00:27:01.860
 from these vain things

00:27:01.860 --> 00:27:04.420
 to a living God.

00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:05.720
 He realized

00:27:05.720 --> 00:27:06.840
 the biggest problem

00:27:06.840 --> 00:27:07.580
 in their lives,

00:27:07.660 --> 00:27:08.180
 in their hearts,

00:27:08.280 --> 00:27:08.700
 were idols.

00:27:09.600 --> 00:27:10.320
 What's an idol?

00:27:12.320 --> 00:27:12.920
 What's an idol?

00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:14.280
 Jay,

00:27:14.340 --> 00:27:14.940
 on our call recently,

00:27:15.040 --> 00:27:15.560
 you quoted,

00:27:16.220 --> 00:27:17.200
 paraphrased Keller's quote

00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:18.100
 on what an idol is.

00:27:18.099 --> 00:27:18.359
 Do you remember

00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:18.799
 what it is?

00:27:19.419 --> 00:27:20.459
 What is an idol?

00:27:20.579 --> 00:27:21.779
 It's when your mind

00:27:21.779 --> 00:27:25.379
 automatically wanders

00:27:25.379 --> 00:27:25.919
 somewhere

00:27:25.919 --> 00:27:26.719
 when you have nothing

00:27:26.719 --> 00:27:27.419
 else to think about.

00:27:27.959 --> 00:27:29.099
 That thing that your mind

00:27:29.099 --> 00:27:29.899
 goes to,

00:27:30.579 --> 00:27:31.419
 that essentially

00:27:31.419 --> 00:27:32.259
 is the thing

00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:33.079
 that you care

00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:33.719
 the most about.

00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:35.819
 That is your idol.

00:27:37.879 --> 00:27:38.519
 Paul knows

00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:39.579
 that they have idols here.

00:27:40.159 --> 00:27:40.959
 Why do you think

00:27:40.959 --> 00:27:41.919
 they responded to them

00:27:41.919 --> 00:27:42.500
 in such a way?

00:27:42.500 --> 00:27:44.259
 Is it because

00:27:44.259 --> 00:27:44.799
 they genuinely

00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:45.619
 wanted to worship

00:27:45.619 --> 00:27:46.299
 these two gods,

00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:46.940
 Zeus and Hermes?

00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:47.140
 No.

00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:48.539
 They wanted the things

00:27:48.539 --> 00:27:49.160
 that come from

00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:49.859
 these two gods.

00:27:50.420 --> 00:27:51.599
 They wanted to not die.

00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:53.119
 They wanted to not be destroyed.

00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:54.259
 They wanted the palace.

00:27:56.259 --> 00:27:57.160
 This world is driven

00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:58.079
 by idols

00:27:58.079 --> 00:27:58.960
 and he knew about

00:27:58.960 --> 00:27:59.940
 the idols in those days.

00:28:00.359 --> 00:28:00.920
 I quote Keller

00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:01.400
 all the time

00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:01.940
 because Keller,

00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:02.700
 I think,

00:28:02.900 --> 00:28:03.819
 is one of those pastors

00:28:03.819 --> 00:28:04.660
 in the modern day

00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:05.640
 who was so good

00:28:05.640 --> 00:28:06.180
 at speaking

00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:07.579
 into the context

00:28:07.579 --> 00:28:08.240
 of cities

00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:09.880
 and context

00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:10.759
 of looking at the cities

00:28:10.759 --> 00:28:11.120
 and going,

00:28:11.539 --> 00:28:12.599
 these cities are all

00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:13.880
 made or filled

00:28:13.880 --> 00:28:14.960
 with idols.

00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:17.319
 What are the idols?

00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:18.259
 Idols are the things

00:28:18.259 --> 00:28:19.359
 that control you,

00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:19.980
 that you worship.

00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:21.160
 Now, of course,

00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:22.980
 we live in a pluralistic society

00:28:22.980 --> 00:28:23.420
 here.

00:28:24.480 --> 00:28:25.359
 Just go up the roads

00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:25.620
 to,

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.460
 what road is Union Church on?

00:28:28.980 --> 00:28:29.640
 Kennedy Road.

00:28:30.819 --> 00:28:31.900
 Has anyone been

00:28:31.900 --> 00:28:32.599
 to Union Church?

00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:34.319
 Beautiful,

00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:35.099
 beautiful building.

00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:36.240
 What's across the road

00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:37.660
 from Union Church?

00:28:38.240 --> 00:28:38.819
 The headquarters

00:28:38.819 --> 00:28:39.859
 of the Freemasons.

00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:42.400
 Another beautiful church

00:28:42.400 --> 00:28:43.079
 just down the road

00:28:43.079 --> 00:28:43.539
 that way

00:28:43.539 --> 00:28:44.180
 towards Wan Chai,

00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:45.839
 Methodist International Church,

00:28:45.900 --> 00:28:46.180
 MIC,

00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:47.900
 on Queens Road.

00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:49.039
 Queens Road.

00:28:49.900 --> 00:28:50.640
 If you keep walking

00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:52.059
 down towards Queens Road

00:28:52.059 --> 00:28:53.519
 to the end

00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:54.420
 of that Kennedy Road,

00:28:54.519 --> 00:28:54.920
 what is it?

00:28:54.980 --> 00:28:56.079
 Just this beautiful

00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:56.640
 Sikh temple.

00:28:57.980 --> 00:28:59.859
 We live in a place

00:28:59.859 --> 00:29:00.940
 where people

00:29:00.940 --> 00:29:02.299
 have all these

00:29:02.299 --> 00:29:03.359
 different kinds of gods

00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:04.500
 and obvious ones

00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:05.480
 with beautiful temples

00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:08.220
 but very subtle ones

00:29:08.220 --> 00:29:09.620
 that don't have temples

00:29:09.620 --> 00:29:10.920
 but have shiny buildings

00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:12.120
 all surrounding

00:29:12.120 --> 00:29:12.680
 in Central

00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:13.940
 and Quarry Bay

00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:14.539
 and Taiku

00:29:14.539 --> 00:29:16.819
 and Kowloon Bay now.

00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:18.680
 Money.

00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:20.400
 Capitalism.

00:29:21.220 --> 00:29:21.819
 That's an idol.

00:29:22.960 --> 00:29:23.420
 Beauty

00:29:23.420 --> 00:29:24.240
 is an idol

00:29:24.240 --> 00:29:25.620
 in some cultures.

00:29:25.619 --> 00:29:28.519
 Has politics become

00:29:28.519 --> 00:29:28.919
 an idol

00:29:28.919 --> 00:29:30.279
 in some places?

00:29:31.899 --> 00:29:32.619
 These things

00:29:32.619 --> 00:29:33.239
 that our minds

00:29:33.239 --> 00:29:34.119
 just effortlessly

00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:34.779
 wander to

00:29:34.779 --> 00:29:35.199
 when we have

00:29:35.199 --> 00:29:35.639
 nothing else

00:29:35.639 --> 00:29:36.199
 on our minds.

00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:37.819
 That is your God.

00:29:38.859 --> 00:29:39.439
 That is

00:29:39.439 --> 00:29:40.539
 our God.

00:29:40.779 --> 00:29:41.439
 And Paul says,

00:29:41.579 --> 00:29:41.679
 hey,

00:29:41.739 --> 00:29:42.459
 don't hold on

00:29:42.459 --> 00:29:43.359
 to those vain things.

00:29:43.459 --> 00:29:43.579
 Why?

00:29:43.659 --> 00:29:44.739
 Because those vain things

00:29:44.739 --> 00:29:45.519
 have no...

00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:46.599
 They won't help you.

00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:48.659
 But you and I both know

00:29:48.659 --> 00:29:49.579
 we love holding on

00:29:49.579 --> 00:29:51.059
 to those vain things.

00:29:51.619 --> 00:29:52.079
 They're the things

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:52.899
 that give us comfort.

00:29:53.879 --> 00:29:54.619
 They don't have to be

00:29:54.619 --> 00:29:55.379
 super sinister.

00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:56.459
 You don't have to go

00:29:56.459 --> 00:29:57.359
 into a Satan

00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:58.139
 worshipping temple.

00:29:58.819 --> 00:29:59.599
 You just need to

00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:00.059
 doom scroll

00:30:00.059 --> 00:30:00.719
 on YouTube.

00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:03.059
 That's enough.

00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:06.139
 We can zoom.

00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:07.559
 We can just scroll

00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:08.559
 ourselves to death.

00:30:09.899 --> 00:30:10.959
 And that is our idol.

00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:13.200
 John Calvin says

00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:14.460
 that the human heart

00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:16.779
 is a factory

00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:17.460
 for idols.

00:30:19.460 --> 00:30:20.420
 We just create them

00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:20.900
 constantly.

00:30:21.039 --> 00:30:21.819
 We churn them out.

00:30:22.660 --> 00:30:22.980
 And you see,

00:30:23.039 --> 00:30:23.779
 it's interesting here

00:30:23.779 --> 00:30:25.960
 because Paul calls it out

00:30:25.960 --> 00:30:26.880
 but in a really gentle,

00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:27.200
 loving,

00:30:27.400 --> 00:30:28.100
 positive kind of way.

00:30:28.180 --> 00:30:28.420
 He's saying,

00:30:28.519 --> 00:30:28.620
 hey,

00:30:28.819 --> 00:30:30.079
 don't focus on these

00:30:30.079 --> 00:30:30.539
 vain things.

00:30:30.620 --> 00:30:31.079
 They're not going to

00:30:31.079 --> 00:30:31.720
 come out any good.

00:30:31.860 --> 00:30:32.660
 And it's really interesting

00:30:32.660 --> 00:30:33.319
 because we are all

00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:33.940
 on this rat race.

00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:34.559
 We've all heard about

00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:34.980
 the rat race.

00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:35.539
 We're trying to climb

00:30:35.539 --> 00:30:35.920
 this ladder.

00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.059
 Those of us sat here,

00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:39.180
 more than likely

00:30:39.180 --> 00:30:39.759
 is that you know

00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:40.460
 that this rat race

00:30:40.460 --> 00:30:40.940
 doesn't head anywhere.

00:30:41.600 --> 00:30:42.960
 And we see time

00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:43.519
 and time again,

00:30:43.640 --> 00:30:44.180
 people who reach

00:30:44.180 --> 00:30:44.900
 the top of the ladder,

00:30:45.100 --> 00:30:45.980
 they end up falling off

00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:46.480
 and they realize

00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:46.980
 nothing's there.

00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:47.799
 And so it's just crushing.

00:30:48.840 --> 00:30:49.600
 And all of us

00:30:49.600 --> 00:30:50.319
 at the bottom of the ladder,

00:30:50.420 --> 00:30:51.279
 we actually know this.

00:30:51.819 --> 00:30:52.440
 And yet somehow,

00:30:52.600 --> 00:30:53.220
 we subconsciously

00:30:53.220 --> 00:30:54.299
 still keep climbing the ladder

00:30:54.299 --> 00:30:55.660
 because we still have

00:30:55.660 --> 00:30:56.720
 those idols in our hearts.

00:30:57.799 --> 00:30:58.360
 And so you see,

00:30:58.600 --> 00:30:59.299
 Paul's saying here,

00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:00.200
 don't follow them.

00:31:00.259 --> 00:31:01.240
 So in a negative way,

00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:02.140
 what he's actually saying is,

00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:02.319
 hey,

00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:03.700
 there is a futility

00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:04.759
 as you follow these idols.

00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:06.600
 And they won't lead you anywhere.

00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:07.539
 They are vain things.

00:31:07.819 --> 00:31:08.980
 But in a more positive sense,

00:31:09.019 --> 00:31:10.360
 he's not just rebuking them

00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:11.879
 for their idols.

00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:13.179
 He's actually pointing them

00:31:13.179 --> 00:31:13.879
 to the living God.

00:31:14.919 --> 00:31:15.240
 And he's saying,

00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:15.359
 hey,

00:31:15.439 --> 00:31:16.319
 I know you are chasing

00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:16.740
 these things

00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:17.319
 and they are vain.

00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:18.240
 And I am not it.

00:31:18.339 --> 00:31:18.959
 I am not he.

00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:21.759
 But the living God.

00:31:22.079 --> 00:31:23.000
 And it's really interesting

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:25.960
 how he basically emphasizes

00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:26.819
 this living God

00:31:26.819 --> 00:31:27.759
 is he talks about something

00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:28.000
 called,

00:31:28.059 --> 00:31:28.660
 what I think is called

00:31:28.660 --> 00:31:29.200
 common grace.

00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:30.140
 He's saying,

00:31:30.220 --> 00:31:30.359
 actually,

00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:31.299
 you've known this God.

00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:32.539
 You have experienced this God.

00:31:32.599 --> 00:31:32.720
 Why?

00:31:32.819 --> 00:31:34.019
 Because you've experienced rain.

00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:35.200
 You've lived on this earth.

00:31:35.259 --> 00:31:36.279
 You are living and breathing

00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:37.759
 because of this God.

00:31:38.299 --> 00:31:39.500
 The fact that you are living

00:31:39.500 --> 00:31:40.680
 is because there is a living God

00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:42.039
 that is sustaining you.

00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:43.240
 He says,

00:31:43.299 --> 00:31:44.039
 I have good news for you

00:31:44.039 --> 00:31:44.619
 that you should turn

00:31:44.619 --> 00:31:45.319
 from these vain things

00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:46.000
 to a living God

00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:46.720
 who made the heaven

00:31:46.720 --> 00:31:47.200
 and the earth

00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:47.880
 and the sea

00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:48.700
 that is all in them.

00:31:48.779 --> 00:31:49.700
 Yet he did not leave himself

00:31:49.700 --> 00:31:50.279
 without witness.

00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:51.240
 How is he proving

00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:52.660
 that he's here and he's good?

00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:53.579
 For he did good

00:31:53.579 --> 00:31:54.759
 by giving you rains from heaven

00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:55.619
 and fruitful seasons,

00:31:55.980 --> 00:31:56.799
 satisfying your hearts

00:31:56.799 --> 00:31:57.759
 with food and gladness.

00:31:57.799 --> 00:31:58.460
 He's feeding you.

00:31:58.660 --> 00:31:59.299
 You are the reason

00:31:59.299 --> 00:32:00.039
 why he's alive.

00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:01.799
 Paul is pointing them

00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:03.359
 away from the futility

00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:04.319
 of idolatry,

00:32:04.619 --> 00:32:05.819
 away from the vain things

00:32:05.819 --> 00:32:06.460
 that are meaningless

00:32:06.460 --> 00:32:07.859
 that won't actually satisfy you.

00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:08.539
 And he's saying,

00:32:08.639 --> 00:32:09.420
 there is a living God

00:32:09.420 --> 00:32:09.960
 right here,

00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:10.740
 right now,

00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:12.019
 who has been providing

00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:13.200
 for you all along.

00:32:14.940 --> 00:32:16.160
 That's a positive message.

00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:18.099
 That's the good news.

00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:19.639
 Of course,

00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:21.140
 he doesn't just finish there.

00:32:21.340 --> 00:32:22.720
 He continues likely

00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:23.580
 to talk about

00:32:23.580 --> 00:32:24.700
 why is it so offensive

00:32:24.700 --> 00:32:25.620
 because this good God

00:32:25.620 --> 00:32:26.100
 actually,

00:32:26.320 --> 00:32:26.860
 you talk about,

00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:27.080
 hey,

00:32:27.140 --> 00:32:27.900
 you think I'm God

00:32:27.900 --> 00:32:29.140
 that came in the likeness of men?

00:32:29.460 --> 00:32:29.580
 Well,

00:32:29.600 --> 00:32:29.780
 actually,

00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:30.620
 funny you say that

00:32:30.620 --> 00:32:32.300
 because there was God.

00:32:32.500 --> 00:32:33.920
 There was a moment recently

00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:35.400
 where God really did come

00:32:35.400 --> 00:32:36.660
 and become the likeness of men.

00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:37.580
 He really did move

00:32:37.580 --> 00:32:38.680
 into our neighborhood

00:32:38.680 --> 00:32:40.580
 and he really did come

00:32:40.580 --> 00:32:41.180
 and show you

00:32:41.180 --> 00:32:42.340
 how good he truly is.

00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:44.040
 And his redemptive work

00:32:44.040 --> 00:32:45.900
 reaches its divine climax

00:32:45.900 --> 00:32:47.520
 in Jesus.

00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:50.019
 That's the good news.

00:32:50.519 --> 00:32:51.480
 That is the good news.

00:32:52.259 --> 00:32:53.119
 He reminds them

00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:53.799
 of his humanity,

00:32:53.940 --> 00:32:54.180
 actually.

00:32:54.879 --> 00:32:55.139
 He said,

00:32:55.180 --> 00:32:55.259
 hey,

00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:55.960
 I'm just like you.

00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:57.779
 You may have just seen me

00:32:57.779 --> 00:32:58.359
 do this

00:32:58.359 --> 00:32:59.319
 when I'm actually

00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:00.019
 just like you.

00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:02.039
 He actually appeals to them

00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:02.279
 saying,

00:33:02.379 --> 00:33:02.519
 hey,

00:33:02.740 --> 00:33:03.500
 you and I

00:33:03.500 --> 00:33:04.259
 are not different.

00:33:05.639 --> 00:33:06.740
 I think that's beautiful

00:33:06.740 --> 00:33:08.559
 considering what he just did.

00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:10.319
 He's like,

00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:10.879
 we're the same.

00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:12.639
 You could do this too

00:33:12.639 --> 00:33:13.660
 because it's not me

00:33:13.660 --> 00:33:14.160
 that's doing it.

00:33:14.160 --> 00:33:14.599
 It's the power

00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:15.460
 that's working through me

00:33:15.460 --> 00:33:16.000
 that's doing it.

00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:17.960
 How exciting is that?

00:33:18.660 --> 00:33:19.380
 So he reminds them

00:33:19.380 --> 00:33:19.980
 of common grace.

00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:21.180
 He shows them humility.

00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:22.279
 He calls them away

00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:23.000
 from the vain gods

00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:24.460
 to this living God.

00:33:24.700 --> 00:33:25.019
 And you think,

00:33:25.100 --> 00:33:25.319
 oh,

00:33:25.500 --> 00:33:26.299
 what a great message,

00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:26.539
 Paul.

00:33:26.779 --> 00:33:27.740
 They finally get it.

00:33:28.299 --> 00:33:29.019
 And actually,

00:33:29.380 --> 00:33:29.960
 Luke says here,

00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:30.500
 verse 18,

00:33:30.819 --> 00:33:31.600
 even with these words,

00:33:31.700 --> 00:33:32.600
 they scarcely restrain

00:33:32.600 --> 00:33:33.460
 the people from offering

00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:34.279
 sacrifice to them.

00:33:36.019 --> 00:33:36.519
 So basically,

00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:36.960
 they're saying,

00:33:37.100 --> 00:33:37.319
 okay,

00:33:37.420 --> 00:33:37.579
 okay,

00:33:37.579 --> 00:33:37.720
 cool,

00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:37.860
 cool,

00:33:37.860 --> 00:33:37.960
 cool.

00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:38.259
 I get it.

00:33:38.259 --> 00:33:38.539
 I get it.

00:33:38.539 --> 00:33:38.840
 I get it.

00:33:38.840 --> 00:33:39.039
 Okay,

00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:40.120
 is this God here?

00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:40.860
 He's the one who gives,

00:33:40.860 --> 00:33:42.039
 he's the reason why we're alive.

00:33:42.299 --> 00:33:42.759
 That's good.

00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:43.519
 But actually,

00:33:43.579 --> 00:33:44.420
 we still want to worship you.

00:33:44.500 --> 00:33:45.480
 Would you take my yuju

00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:46.799
 and let me worship you?

00:33:48.440 --> 00:33:49.579
 And we're kind of just

00:33:49.579 --> 00:33:50.039
 sat there going,

00:33:50.140 --> 00:33:50.259
 well,

00:33:50.339 --> 00:33:50.579
 guys,

00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:51.779
 how stupid can you get?

00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:53.579
 He's made it so clear to you

00:33:53.579 --> 00:33:54.440
 that he's not God.

00:33:54.779 --> 00:33:56.119
 He's made it so clear to you

00:33:56.119 --> 00:33:57.720
 what grace really is.

00:33:57.799 --> 00:33:58.980
 And he's made it so clear to you

00:33:58.980 --> 00:33:59.740
 about who Jesus is.

00:33:59.779 --> 00:33:59.980
 And yet,

00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:00.759
 here you are still

00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:01.500
 worshiping him,

00:34:02.460 --> 00:34:04.480
 still trying to appease them,

00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:05.900
 trying to give them

00:34:05.900 --> 00:34:06.900
 everything that you have

00:34:06.900 --> 00:34:08.039
 so that they will give you

00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:08.639
 even more,

00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:09.699
 like that old,

00:34:09.880 --> 00:34:10.400
 modest couple

00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:11.119
 in the legend.

00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:13.219
 And just before

00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:14.839
 I go too far in going,

00:34:14.980 --> 00:34:15.839
 they are so stupid,

00:34:16.219 --> 00:34:18.559
 I'll ask you the same question.

00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:19.960
 How stupid are you?

00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:22.719
 How long have you been

00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:23.579
 in church

00:34:23.579 --> 00:34:24.539
 listening to the gospel

00:34:24.539 --> 00:34:25.239
 of Jesus?

00:34:25.839 --> 00:34:26.559
 The good news

00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:27.859
 of grace

00:34:27.859 --> 00:34:29.279
 that is undeserved,

00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:30.380
 that there is nothing

00:34:30.380 --> 00:34:31.460
 that you need to do

00:34:31.460 --> 00:34:33.199
 to make God love you more.

00:34:34.059 --> 00:34:34.880
 And there is nothing

00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:35.659
 that you can do

00:34:35.659 --> 00:34:36.400
 that will cause God

00:34:36.400 --> 00:34:37.279
 to love you less.

00:34:37.839 --> 00:34:38.119
 And yet,

00:34:38.259 --> 00:34:38.759
 you and I,

00:34:38.859 --> 00:34:39.440
 still trapped

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:40.500
 in the same places

00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:41.079
 of bondage

00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:41.820
 where we are thinking

00:34:41.820 --> 00:34:43.059
 we have to prove ourselves,

00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:44.000
 we have to show

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:45.260
 that we are good Christians,

00:34:45.519 --> 00:34:46.740
 when there is no such thing

00:34:46.740 --> 00:34:48.159
 as a good Christian,

00:34:48.340 --> 00:34:49.019
 only a Christian

00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:49.700
 who recognizes

00:34:49.700 --> 00:34:50.440
 that they are bad

00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:51.139
 and they are in need

00:34:51.139 --> 00:34:51.639
 of a savior.

00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:53.360
 How long have we sat

00:34:53.360 --> 00:34:54.300
 and listened to messages

00:34:54.300 --> 00:34:55.320
 about the gospel,

00:34:55.659 --> 00:34:56.200
 the good news,

00:34:56.260 --> 00:34:57.480
 but not really let it

00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:59.840
 seep into our hearts?

00:35:00.420 --> 00:35:01.740
 And so we still focus

00:35:01.740 --> 00:35:03.320
 on how do we become better?

00:35:03.659 --> 00:35:04.940
 How do we serve more?

00:35:06.240 --> 00:35:07.700
 How do we become enough?

00:35:07.699 --> 00:35:08.699
 How do we belong?

00:35:10.259 --> 00:35:11.299
 Do you still have that?

00:35:11.899 --> 00:35:12.799
 I still have that,

00:35:12.859 --> 00:35:13.379
 which makes me

00:35:13.379 --> 00:35:13.960
 just as stupid

00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:14.879
 as these people here.

00:35:15.819 --> 00:35:16.619
 Because I am still

00:35:16.619 --> 00:35:17.659
 trying to appease God

00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:18.539
 with my sacrifices.

00:35:19.039 --> 00:35:19.559
 And God is saying,

00:35:19.659 --> 00:35:20.259
 it is not about

00:35:20.259 --> 00:35:20.960
 your sacrifices.

00:35:23.019 --> 00:35:24.079
 It is like my daughter

00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:24.399
 Alicia

00:35:24.399 --> 00:35:25.799
 continually trying

00:35:25.799 --> 00:35:26.339
 to draw me

00:35:26.339 --> 00:35:27.099
 the best picture

00:35:27.099 --> 00:35:27.839
 that she can draw.

00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:30.199
 She is unable

00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:31.379
 to draw me

00:35:31.379 --> 00:35:31.819
 a picture

00:35:31.819 --> 00:35:32.719
 that I will not like.

00:35:34.759 --> 00:35:35.119
 Parents,

00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:35.579
 do you agree?

00:35:35.579 --> 00:35:37.500
 when your kids

00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:38.119
 come up to you

00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:38.519
 with a picture

00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:39.440
 that you have no idea

00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:39.960
 what it is?

00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:41.019
 Oh,

00:35:41.099 --> 00:35:42.340
 so beautiful.

00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:44.239
 What is it?

00:35:47.139 --> 00:35:48.099
 But am I proud?

00:35:48.819 --> 00:35:49.219
 Yes.

00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:51.819
 Thomas Merton says,

00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:52.519
 the very desire

00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:53.099
 to please God

00:35:53.099 --> 00:35:53.960
 is what pleases God.

00:35:55.319 --> 00:35:56.279
 You being willing

00:35:56.279 --> 00:35:57.159
 to believe in Him.

00:35:58.039 --> 00:35:58.500
 That God,

00:35:58.599 --> 00:35:59.039
 I am nothing.

00:35:59.179 --> 00:35:59.679
 That in you,

00:35:59.940 --> 00:36:00.860
 I have everything.

00:36:01.199 --> 00:36:02.340
 That is the only thing

00:36:02.340 --> 00:36:02.900
 that we need.

00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:04.099
 That is the only message

00:36:04.099 --> 00:36:04.839
 He wants to tell us

00:36:04.839 --> 00:36:06.000
 and yet time and time again

00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:06.839
 we keep thinking,

00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.639
 what can I do?

00:36:08.179 --> 00:36:09.019
 What can I do

00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:09.579
 to be better?

00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:11.339
 Or,

00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:12.759
 I can never be good enough.

00:36:15.759 --> 00:36:16.619
 I think it is just

00:36:16.619 --> 00:36:17.139
 the same here.

00:36:18.259 --> 00:36:18.819
 So then,

00:36:18.940 --> 00:36:19.500
 they move on.

00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:21.460
 Verse 19,

00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:22.679
 but Jews came from Antioch,

00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:23.599
 so things are going

00:36:23.599 --> 00:36:24.519
 kind of well,

00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:24.880
 I guess,

00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:25.460
 but the people

00:36:25.460 --> 00:36:26.339
 still aren't getting the point.

00:36:26.799 --> 00:36:27.239
 But then,

00:36:27.299 --> 00:36:27.839
 it gets worse.

00:36:28.139 --> 00:36:28.639
 Verse 19,

00:36:28.739 --> 00:36:29.779
 but the Jews came from Antioch

00:36:29.779 --> 00:36:30.299
 and Iconium

00:36:30.299 --> 00:36:31.319
 and having persuaded

00:36:31.319 --> 00:36:31.799
 the crowds,

00:36:31.799 --> 00:36:32.679
 they stoned Paul

00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:33.339
 and dragged him out

00:36:33.339 --> 00:36:33.699
 of the city,

00:36:33.799 --> 00:36:34.779
 supposing that he was dead.

00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:35.779
 I mean,

00:36:35.819 --> 00:36:36.899
 that's just such a casual line

00:36:36.899 --> 00:36:37.059
 there,

00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:37.460
 verse 19,

00:36:37.539 --> 00:36:38.279
 supposing he was dead.

00:36:38.339 --> 00:36:38.619
 That means,

00:36:39.059 --> 00:36:40.119
 he was left for dead.

00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:41.440
 That means the stones

00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:42.099
 actually hit him.

00:36:43.059 --> 00:36:43.639
 And that means

00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:44.500
 he's actually lying there

00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:44.960
 and they thought,

00:36:45.079 --> 00:36:45.219
 okay,

00:36:45.259 --> 00:36:45.679
 we've done it,

00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:46.259
 we've killed him.

00:36:48.839 --> 00:36:50.159
 Isn't the crowds,

00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:51.000
 seriously,

00:36:51.859 --> 00:36:52.359
 at this point,

00:36:52.399 --> 00:36:52.559
 you're like,

00:36:52.619 --> 00:36:52.719
 okay,

00:36:52.759 --> 00:36:53.699
 some of you really got it

00:36:53.699 --> 00:36:54.559
 and then another of you

00:36:54.559 --> 00:36:55.359
 could just be turned

00:36:55.359 --> 00:36:56.199
 just in an instant,

00:36:56.839 --> 00:36:57.579
 going from crowding

00:36:57.579 --> 00:36:58.099
 to cancelling

00:36:58.099 --> 00:36:58.719
 just like that

00:36:58.719 --> 00:36:59.559
 and hurling stones.

00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:02.360
 But what's Paul's reaction

00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:03.980
 to this near-death experience?

00:37:04.739 --> 00:37:05.920
 It's just as ridiculous

00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:07.119
 as him being told

00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:07.719
 that he's a god.

00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:09.179
 Verse 20,

00:37:09.279 --> 00:37:10.579
 so they suppose he was dead,

00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:11.480
 his disciples,

00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:12.019
 well,

00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:12.779
 they all drag him

00:37:12.779 --> 00:37:13.259
 out of the city.

00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:14.019
 Verse 20,

00:37:14.099 --> 00:37:14.840
 but when the disciples

00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:15.719
 gathered about him,

00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:16.679
 he rose up

00:37:16.679 --> 00:37:17.579
 and entered the city.

00:37:18.579 --> 00:37:19.259
 Hold up.

00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:21.739
 Paul,

00:37:21.799 --> 00:37:22.960
 they tried to kill you,

00:37:23.139 --> 00:37:24.239
 you're lying on the floor,

00:37:24.460 --> 00:37:25.460
 bruised and bleeding,

00:37:25.900 --> 00:37:27.599
 they drag you out of the city,

00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:29.059
 we're trying to hang out

00:37:29.059 --> 00:37:29.539
 and just see

00:37:29.539 --> 00:37:30.619
 if you're still alive.

00:37:31.619 --> 00:37:32.839
 By some kind of miracle

00:37:32.839 --> 00:37:34.480
 is all I can really assume here.

00:37:34.759 --> 00:37:35.400
 At some point,

00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:36.639
 he manages to come back

00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:37.679
 to consciousness,

00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:39.400
 stands back up

00:37:39.400 --> 00:37:41.239
 and the next thing you do,

00:37:41.299 --> 00:37:42.159
 are you kidding me?

00:37:42.799 --> 00:37:43.500
 Is you're going to run

00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:44.460
 straight back into the city

00:37:44.460 --> 00:37:45.940
 and continue to spread the gospel.

00:37:46.599 --> 00:37:48.380
 In face of the most extreme

00:37:48.380 --> 00:37:49.099
 kind of persecution

00:37:49.099 --> 00:37:50.659
 and criticism,

00:37:51.539 --> 00:37:52.380
 he runs straight back

00:37:52.380 --> 00:37:52.900
 to the problem,

00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:55.440
 which is the exact opposite

00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:56.279
 of what I would do.

00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:57.940
 If you come and say,

00:37:58.019 --> 00:37:58.380
 hey James,

00:37:58.480 --> 00:37:59.140
 that message wasn't

00:37:59.140 --> 00:37:59.760
 really too good.

00:38:00.340 --> 00:38:01.460
 Yeah, I thought this was wrong,

00:38:01.500 --> 00:38:01.820
 this was wrong,

00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:02.200
 this was wrong.

00:38:02.980 --> 00:38:04.040
 Yeah, I'm probably going to

00:38:04.040 --> 00:38:04.940
 try and avoid you next week.

00:38:05.880 --> 00:38:06.360
 I'm probably going to,

00:38:06.460 --> 00:38:07.600
 I can see them.

00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:10.440
 Paul runs straight back in

00:38:10.440 --> 00:38:11.160
 to the place

00:38:11.160 --> 00:38:11.960
 that tried to kill him.

00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:14.480
 How we respond

00:38:14.480 --> 00:38:15.860
 tells us where we're at.

00:38:16.580 --> 00:38:17.880
 How we respond to criticism

00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:18.720
 tells us where we're at.

00:38:18.780 --> 00:38:20.019
 How we respond to praise

00:38:20.019 --> 00:38:20.840
 and compliments

00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:21.740
 tell us where we're at.

00:38:21.740 --> 00:38:22.760
 And we've all been there,

00:38:22.840 --> 00:38:23.180
 probably,

00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:24.540
 where a hundred people

00:38:24.540 --> 00:38:25.820
 tell you that you're really good,

00:38:25.820 --> 00:38:26.620
 but all it takes

00:38:26.620 --> 00:38:27.480
 is that one person

00:38:27.480 --> 00:38:27.840
 to say,

00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:28.380
 meh.

00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:30.720
 They don't even have

00:38:30.720 --> 00:38:31.240
 to say anything.

00:38:32.220 --> 00:38:32.960
 And suddenly you think

00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:33.700
 of all these other things,

00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:34.460
 they're things that they're

00:38:34.460 --> 00:38:35.600
 trying to be critical of,

00:38:35.620 --> 00:38:35.780
 right?

00:38:36.019 --> 00:38:37.160
 And it ruins everything

00:38:37.160 --> 00:38:37.680
 and you forget

00:38:37.680 --> 00:38:38.980
 the 100 compliments you get

00:38:38.980 --> 00:38:39.600
 because you're only

00:38:39.600 --> 00:38:40.480
 focusing on that one.

00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:41.700
 And that's what

00:38:41.700 --> 00:38:42.260
 Tim Keller says,

00:38:42.320 --> 00:38:43.860
 if you live for praise,

00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:45.300
 you will die from criticism.

00:38:46.500 --> 00:38:47.680
 If you live for praise,

00:38:47.720 --> 00:38:48.920
 you will die from criticism.

00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:50.760
 If you let praise

00:38:50.760 --> 00:38:51.580
 inflate you,

00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:52.559
 when criticism comes,

00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:53.719
 it will crush you

00:38:53.719 --> 00:38:55.659
 and it will tell you

00:38:55.659 --> 00:38:56.340
 what your idol is.

00:38:56.500 --> 00:38:57.840
 Your idol is self-worth.

00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:00.119
 If everyone tells you,

00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:01.119
 every time someone tells you

00:39:01.119 --> 00:39:02.159
 something that you've done well,

00:39:02.299 --> 00:39:03.059
 it puffs you up,

00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:03.579
 it makes you think,

00:39:03.659 --> 00:39:04.460
 I am so worthy.

00:39:05.219 --> 00:39:06.199
 I am as a God.

00:39:06.980 --> 00:39:07.659
 But the moment

00:39:07.659 --> 00:39:08.279
 someone tells you

00:39:08.279 --> 00:39:08.779
 something bad,

00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:09.059
 you're like,

00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:10.099
 I am worthless.

00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:12.460
 If you live for praise,

00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:13.599
 you will die

00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:14.799
 from criticism.

00:39:15.759 --> 00:39:16.619
 But if you have

00:39:16.619 --> 00:39:17.619
 the heart of Paul

00:39:17.619 --> 00:39:19.099
 and Barnabas,

00:39:19.799 --> 00:39:20.719
 despite the praise,

00:39:20.839 --> 00:39:21.679
 despite the criticism,

00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:23.179
 they run straight back in

00:39:23.179 --> 00:39:23.739
 to do whatever

00:39:23.739 --> 00:39:24.799
 the Lord called them to do.

00:39:25.139 --> 00:39:25.659
 That is it.

00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:26.179
 There's something else

00:39:26.179 --> 00:39:27.279
 that I find really interesting here

00:39:27.279 --> 00:39:27.779
 and those of you

00:39:27.779 --> 00:39:28.839
 who may be in ministry,

00:39:28.940 --> 00:39:29.739
 I know that Young Life

00:39:29.739 --> 00:39:31.059
 talks a lot about this,

00:39:31.139 --> 00:39:32.239
 is how do we raise leaders?

00:39:32.759 --> 00:39:33.559
 How do we have it

00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:34.159
 so that it's not just

00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:35.679
 about us doing everything?

00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:38.279
 And it's fascinating

00:39:38.279 --> 00:39:39.380
 because in the next few verses,

00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:40.339
 you see that actually

00:39:40.339 --> 00:39:41.880
 one of Paul's greatest traits

00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:43.019
 isn't actually his preaching,

00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.179
 isn't actually his courage.

00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:46.900
 It's the way he raises

00:39:46.900 --> 00:39:47.700
 up people around him.

00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:48.320
 There are disciples

00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:49.240
 that are surrounding him,

00:39:49.539 --> 00:39:50.300
 gathered about him.

00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:51.579
 He rose up and entered the city.

00:39:51.900 --> 00:39:52.380
 And by the way,

00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:53.360
 if I was one of those people,

00:39:53.420 --> 00:39:53.800
 I'll be saying,

00:39:53.860 --> 00:39:55.280
 Paul, let's not do that again.

00:39:55.900 --> 00:39:56.980
 Like some of those stones

00:39:56.980 --> 00:39:57.619
 that they threw at you,

00:39:57.700 --> 00:39:58.340
 they nearly hit me.

00:39:59.220 --> 00:40:00.760
 Can we not go back in there?

00:40:00.860 --> 00:40:02.039
 Let's just move to the next place,

00:40:02.059 --> 00:40:03.119
 just like we did earlier

00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:03.700
 in the chapter.

00:40:04.780 --> 00:40:05.599
 Let's show people

00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:06.519
 that it's responsible

00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:07.420
 to stay safe.

00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:09.579
 I would have been

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:10.200
 one of those people.

00:40:10.300 --> 00:40:10.420
 I'd say,

00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:11.360
 that's not a good idea.

00:40:11.840 --> 00:40:12.920
 And yet he raises disciples

00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:14.139
 who just had so much faith,

00:40:14.220 --> 00:40:14.940
 they were willing to follow.

00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:15.579
 Verse 21,

00:40:15.660 --> 00:40:16.240
 and when they had preached

00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:17.059
 the gospel to that city

00:40:17.059 --> 00:40:19.279
 and had made many disciples,

00:40:19.719 --> 00:40:20.059
 note,

00:40:20.259 --> 00:40:21.419
 they had made many disciples,

00:40:21.579 --> 00:40:22.519
 not disciples of Paul

00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:23.000
 or Barnabas,

00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:24.219
 but disciples of Jesus.

00:40:25.419 --> 00:40:26.479
 More and more people

00:40:26.479 --> 00:40:27.239
 were willing

00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:28.319
 to not just believe,

00:40:28.439 --> 00:40:29.019
 but to follow

00:40:29.019 --> 00:40:30.279
 in the footsteps of Jesus.

00:40:30.919 --> 00:40:31.119
 Now,

00:40:31.399 --> 00:40:31.679
 of course,

00:40:31.739 --> 00:40:32.759
 following Jesus is hard,

00:40:32.819 --> 00:40:33.199
 which is why

00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:34.000
 at another point

00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:34.959
 in 1 Corinthians 11,

00:40:35.099 --> 00:40:35.500
 Paul says,

00:40:35.579 --> 00:40:35.679
 hey,

00:40:35.959 --> 00:40:36.679
 imitate me

00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:37.679
 as I imitate Christ.

00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:39.559
 If you can't quite see Jesus yet,

00:40:39.559 --> 00:40:40.159
 like I've seen him,

00:40:40.219 --> 00:40:40.619
 don't worry.

00:40:40.879 --> 00:40:41.359
 Look at me.

00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:43.280
 Because I am so confident

00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:44.620
 that in my own gaze

00:40:44.620 --> 00:40:45.420
 is focused on him.

00:40:45.500 --> 00:40:46.140
 If you follow me,

00:40:46.180 --> 00:40:47.120
 you'll end up following Christ.

00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:48.680
 How beautiful is that?

00:40:48.980 --> 00:40:49.920
 And so you have these leaders

00:40:49.920 --> 00:40:50.700
 that he raises

00:40:50.700 --> 00:40:52.200
 who are then strengthened.

00:40:52.340 --> 00:40:53.059
 So he goes there

00:40:53.059 --> 00:40:53.800
 and he goes to,

00:40:53.880 --> 00:40:54.539
 returns to Lystra

00:40:54.539 --> 00:40:55.420
 and to Iconium

00:40:55.420 --> 00:40:56.140
 and to Antioch

00:40:56.140 --> 00:40:57.380
 and then he does a few things.

00:40:57.660 --> 00:40:58.420
 Leadership development

00:40:58.420 --> 00:40:58.900
 right here.

00:40:59.000 --> 00:40:59.180
 One,

00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:00.160
 he strengthens the souls

00:41:00.160 --> 00:41:00.820
 of his disciples.

00:41:01.099 --> 00:41:02.039
 He encourages them

00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:02.599
 in their faith.

00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:03.559
 He reminds them

00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:04.180
 that actually,

00:41:04.539 --> 00:41:05.539
 in order to get into the kingdom,

00:41:05.700 --> 00:41:06.460
 there will be trouble.

00:41:06.840 --> 00:41:07.980
 So please don't be shocked

00:41:07.980 --> 00:41:09.240
 when you spread the gospel

00:41:09.240 --> 00:41:10.619
 because just like me,

00:41:10.980 --> 00:41:11.940
 you might be stoned

00:41:11.940 --> 00:41:12.940
 or at the very least,

00:41:13.019 --> 00:41:14.179
 you will have divided response.

00:41:15.340 --> 00:41:16.079
 That's okay.

00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:17.219
 And then he appoints

00:41:17.219 --> 00:41:17.960
 and commits elders

00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:19.360
 and he prays for these people

00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:21.420
 because he realizes

00:41:21.420 --> 00:41:22.360
 his job

00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:23.579
 is not to build

00:41:23.579 --> 00:41:24.599
 his whole empire.

00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:26.059
 His job is to simply

00:41:26.059 --> 00:41:27.420
 do whatever the Spirit asks him

00:41:27.420 --> 00:41:28.579
 and what the Spirit is doing

00:41:28.579 --> 00:41:30.000
 is raising people.

00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:31.860
 That's our prayer here.

00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:34.039
 That's our prayer

00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:35.219
 and I've cited a few times

00:41:35.219 --> 00:41:36.760
 what we spent some time

00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:37.960
 as a small group of leaders

00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:38.280
 yesterday.

00:41:38.460 --> 00:41:38.820
 That's,

00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:40.699
 that's the heart.

00:41:41.960 --> 00:41:43.300
 That you wouldn't come in here

00:41:43.300 --> 00:41:43.720
 week in,

00:41:43.780 --> 00:41:44.179
 week out

00:41:44.179 --> 00:41:44.940
 and you think,

00:41:45.019 --> 00:41:45.099
 okay,

00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:45.860
 well I'm here to just

00:41:45.860 --> 00:41:46.740
 hear a sermon,

00:41:46.880 --> 00:41:47.539
 sing a few songs

00:41:47.539 --> 00:41:48.360
 and then leave.

00:41:48.579 --> 00:41:49.159
 But that actually

00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:50.119
 you would be ignited

00:41:50.119 --> 00:41:51.240
 and that I could disappear

00:41:51.240 --> 00:41:52.220
 and then you would do

00:41:52.220 --> 00:41:53.380
 whatever God's called you to do.

00:41:53.679 --> 00:41:55.280
 And if this closes down tomorrow

00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:56.960
 but you have received

00:41:56.960 --> 00:41:57.340
 from the Lord

00:41:57.340 --> 00:41:57.820
 what he's,

00:41:58.159 --> 00:41:59.240
 the next marching orders,

00:41:59.360 --> 00:42:00.059
 the next instruction,

00:42:00.199 --> 00:42:00.659
 that that is,

00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:01.519
 that is it.

00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:03.820
 That's all that's needed.

00:42:05.699 --> 00:42:06.820
 Christ says enough for me.

00:42:06.820 --> 00:42:08.160
 everything I need

00:42:08.160 --> 00:42:09.140
 is in you.

00:42:09.580 --> 00:42:10.440
 I have decided

00:42:10.440 --> 00:42:11.539
 to follow Jesus.

00:42:11.660 --> 00:42:12.260
 No turning back.

00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:13.140
 The cross before me.

00:42:13.539 --> 00:42:15.120
 The world behind me.

00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:17.340
 And so he appoints

00:42:17.340 --> 00:42:17.720
 these leaders

00:42:17.720 --> 00:42:19.059
 and he goes.

00:42:20.900 --> 00:42:22.019
 But just for a second there,

00:42:22.059 --> 00:42:23.039
 just imagine the emotions

00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:23.640
 of the people

00:42:23.640 --> 00:42:24.380
 who are getting prayed for.

00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:25.039
 These leaders

00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:25.660
 who have chosen

00:42:25.660 --> 00:42:26.360
 to follow Paul.

00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:27.940
 They know

00:42:27.940 --> 00:42:28.940
 that he was just stoned

00:42:28.940 --> 00:42:29.580
 and left for dead.

00:42:29.579 --> 00:42:32.059
 at some point

00:42:32.059 --> 00:42:32.500
 they'll know

00:42:32.500 --> 00:42:33.000
 that actually

00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:33.739
 their leader

00:42:33.739 --> 00:42:34.239
 has been killed.

00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:37.599
 Just imagine this.

00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:38.659
 Imagine here,

00:42:38.819 --> 00:42:39.619
 here we are living

00:42:39.619 --> 00:42:41.000
 in a place

00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:41.420
 where actually

00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:42.019
 you being here

00:42:42.019 --> 00:42:42.480
 is actually

00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:43.199
 quite dangerous.

00:42:44.340 --> 00:42:45.239
 And imagine then,

00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:46.920
 I say imagine

00:42:46.920 --> 00:42:48.039
 but I also want us

00:42:48.039 --> 00:42:48.500
 to know

00:42:48.500 --> 00:42:49.559
 deep in our hearts

00:42:49.559 --> 00:42:49.860
 and souls

00:42:49.860 --> 00:42:51.079
 that this is happening

00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.099
 in places around the world.

00:42:52.940 --> 00:42:53.139
 Okay?

00:42:53.539 --> 00:42:54.299
 So this is not

00:42:54.299 --> 00:42:55.239
 just a hypothetical

00:42:55.239 --> 00:42:56.639
 mind exercise.

00:42:57.019 --> 00:42:57.940
 This is actually happening.

00:42:57.940 --> 00:43:00.400
 Imagine you've been coming

00:43:00.400 --> 00:43:01.139
 week in, week out

00:43:01.139 --> 00:43:02.200
 and you're wondering

00:43:02.200 --> 00:43:03.139
 okay, I believe in Jesus.

00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:03.840
 I'm going to try

00:43:03.840 --> 00:43:04.360
 and follow him.

00:43:04.920 --> 00:43:05.760
 And the next week

00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:06.200
 you show up

00:43:06.200 --> 00:43:06.840
 and I'm not here

00:43:06.840 --> 00:43:09.059
 because the authorities

00:43:09.059 --> 00:43:09.760
 have taken me away

00:43:09.760 --> 00:43:10.920
 and I'm actually,

00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:11.639
 I've gone.

00:43:16.619 --> 00:43:17.900
 What's your next reaction then?

00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:21.940
 Well you,

00:43:22.139 --> 00:43:23.579
 I've not passed away yet.

00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:24.420
 Maybe I'm in prison

00:43:24.420 --> 00:43:25.059
 and I'm stoned

00:43:25.059 --> 00:43:26.880
 and I'm not as good looking

00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:27.619
 as I currently am.

00:43:27.940 --> 00:43:30.159
 And then we're like

00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:30.920
 we need new leaders.

00:43:33.179 --> 00:43:33.880
 In that moment

00:43:33.880 --> 00:43:34.619
 what's your response?

00:43:37.099 --> 00:43:37.659
 It would be

00:43:37.659 --> 00:43:38.440
 completely understandable

00:43:38.440 --> 00:43:40.360
 if they've taken him down

00:43:40.360 --> 00:43:41.820
 like I'm going to lay low.

00:43:43.340 --> 00:43:43.800
 Actually I,

00:43:43.960 --> 00:43:44.900
 you know what,

00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:45.980
 I feel the Lord

00:43:45.980 --> 00:43:47.059
 calling me back to my couch

00:43:47.059 --> 00:43:48.119
 and then I'll do church online.

00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:53.960
 But imagine some of you say

00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:55.059
 alright,

00:43:56.059 --> 00:43:58.819
 the church needs leaders,

00:43:59.139 --> 00:43:59.559
 I'm up.

00:44:01.480 --> 00:44:02.440
 Imagine Danny saying

00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:03.019
 okay, well

00:44:03.019 --> 00:44:04.199
 I guess James is gone now,

00:44:05.179 --> 00:44:07.279
 I'll do it.

00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:10.579
 Imagine how Grace would feel.

00:44:11.659 --> 00:44:12.880
 Imagine what he has to go through

00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:14.619
 regarding Grace and Audrey.

00:44:14.619 --> 00:44:19.659
 the courage.

00:44:20.859 --> 00:44:22.059
 I don't think we're anywhere near.

00:44:22.460 --> 00:44:23.299
 As I said at the beginning,

00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:24.460
 I look at the book of Acts

00:44:24.460 --> 00:44:24.799
 and I'm like

00:44:24.799 --> 00:44:26.619
 I don't know if I'm anywhere close

00:44:26.619 --> 00:44:28.500
 to how these people are reacting.

00:44:28.960 --> 00:44:30.239
 And I pray in my heart

00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:31.139
 that I would respond

00:44:31.139 --> 00:44:32.219
 to the good news of Jesus

00:44:32.219 --> 00:44:34.119
 in the appropriate way.

00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:37.559
 Because these people

00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:38.319
 clearly are.

00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:39.480
 So I'll finish here with this.

00:44:39.480 --> 00:44:41.699
 What's your biggest idol?

00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:45.780
 It might not to be

00:44:45.780 --> 00:44:46.360
 explicitly

00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:47.559
 I want to be a God.

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:51.039
 With that said,

00:44:51.699 --> 00:44:53.300
 are you trying to be

00:44:53.300 --> 00:44:54.400
 the God of your own life?

00:44:55.719 --> 00:44:56.579
 Isn't that what really

00:44:56.579 --> 00:44:57.340
 Adam and Eve were doing?

00:44:58.519 --> 00:44:59.639
 Did he really say that?

00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:00.460
 Why don't you just

00:45:00.460 --> 00:45:01.199
 take over the reins?

00:45:01.260 --> 00:45:02.119
 Why don't you have the apple

00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:02.740
 and then you'll know

00:45:02.740 --> 00:45:03.280
 what's best?

00:45:04.019 --> 00:45:04.960
 Isn't that essentially

00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:05.960
 the original sin of

00:45:05.960 --> 00:45:07.199
 I want to be God?

00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:08.119
 I want to know

00:45:08.119 --> 00:45:09.980
 as God knows.

00:45:10.939 --> 00:45:11.460
 Isn't that

00:45:11.460 --> 00:45:13.219
 the first mistake?

00:45:14.039 --> 00:45:15.179
 Isn't that the original sin?

00:45:16.059 --> 00:45:17.199
 Isn't that what we carry

00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:18.199
 when we go to work

00:45:18.199 --> 00:45:18.559
 and you say

00:45:18.559 --> 00:45:22.079
 I want to try and keep

00:45:22.079 --> 00:45:23.279
 my job.

00:45:23.339 --> 00:45:24.159
 I want to try and impress

00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:24.799
 my boss.

00:45:27.460 --> 00:45:28.339
 If we're being honest

00:45:28.339 --> 00:45:29.159
 we're just trying to take

00:45:29.159 --> 00:45:30.199
 control of our own lives.

00:45:30.619 --> 00:45:31.799
 If we're being very honest

00:45:31.799 --> 00:45:32.939
 we're just trying to be

00:45:32.939 --> 00:45:33.819
 God.

00:45:33.820 --> 00:45:33.860
 God.

00:45:36.340 --> 00:45:37.519
 So I lovingly

00:45:37.519 --> 00:45:38.220
 hopefully gently

00:45:38.220 --> 00:45:39.360
 call you out

00:45:39.360 --> 00:45:40.240
 like Paul did here

00:45:40.240 --> 00:45:41.000
 with the people

00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:41.780
 that he knew.

00:45:44.080 --> 00:45:44.860
 Empty yourself

00:45:44.860 --> 00:45:46.519
 of those vain things.

00:45:47.680 --> 00:45:48.840
 Cue the spooky music

00:45:48.840 --> 00:45:49.640
 because this is important.

00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:55.440
 Who is your God?

00:45:58.380 --> 00:45:59.380
 I think there are

00:45:59.380 --> 00:46:01.220
 idols in each of our hearts

00:46:01.220 --> 00:46:02.140
 that we need to surrender.

00:46:02.139 --> 00:46:04.599
 Most of that

00:46:04.599 --> 00:46:05.339
 might be to do with

00:46:05.339 --> 00:46:06.279
 how addicted to praise

00:46:06.279 --> 00:46:06.619
 we are

00:46:06.619 --> 00:46:09.039
 and how crushed

00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:10.159
 by criticism we get.

00:46:11.519 --> 00:46:12.519
 John Piper says this

00:46:12.519 --> 00:46:13.519
 and I love this quote

00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:15.039
 When you're praised

00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:16.219
 let it pass through

00:46:16.219 --> 00:46:17.159
 you to God.

00:46:18.199 --> 00:46:19.359
 When you're criticised

00:46:19.359 --> 00:46:20.279
 let it pass through

00:46:20.279 --> 00:46:21.239
 God to you.

00:46:22.400 --> 00:46:23.279
 When you're praised

00:46:23.279 --> 00:46:24.000
 let it pass through

00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:24.879
 you to God.

00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:25.539
 I'm saying

00:46:25.539 --> 00:46:26.480
 if you praise me

00:46:26.480 --> 00:46:28.039
 this all goes to God.

00:46:28.319 --> 00:46:29.480
 I boast in only one thing

00:46:29.480 --> 00:46:30.219
 I'm only alive

00:46:30.219 --> 00:46:30.779
 because of him.

00:46:30.780 --> 00:46:32.000
 it's all God.

00:46:33.200 --> 00:46:34.720
 But when you are criticised

00:46:34.720 --> 00:46:35.820
 let it pass through

00:46:35.820 --> 00:46:36.480
 God to you.

00:46:36.560 --> 00:46:37.580
 What does that even mean?

00:46:37.840 --> 00:46:38.640
 What that means

00:46:38.640 --> 00:46:40.400
 is remember the cross.

00:46:42.900 --> 00:46:44.120
 Remember the cross.

00:46:44.360 --> 00:46:45.180
 Remember the work

00:46:45.180 --> 00:46:45.640
 of Jesus.

00:46:45.780 --> 00:46:46.760
 The cross sets you free

00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:47.820
 from the approval of man.

00:46:47.920 --> 00:46:48.780
 Galatians 1.10

00:46:48.780 --> 00:46:50.380
 It sets you free from it

00:46:50.380 --> 00:46:51.160
 because you realise

00:46:51.160 --> 00:46:51.820
 someone died

00:46:51.820 --> 00:46:52.820
 in your place.

00:46:53.040 --> 00:46:54.080
 You realise there was one

00:46:54.080 --> 00:46:55.300
 who did come.

00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:56.760
 A God who did come

00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:57.940
 in the likeness of man

00:46:57.940 --> 00:46:59.220
 and took our place

00:46:59.220 --> 00:47:00.079
 on the cross.

00:47:03.200 --> 00:47:04.200
 And so when we get

00:47:04.200 --> 00:47:04.579
 criticism

00:47:04.579 --> 00:47:05.500
 we can go straight

00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:05.960
 to the cross

00:47:05.960 --> 00:47:06.579
 and go he did

00:47:06.579 --> 00:47:08.119
 he experienced worse.

00:47:08.820 --> 00:47:09.740
 It allows us

00:47:09.740 --> 00:47:10.579
 that we can take

00:47:10.579 --> 00:47:11.840
 any offence

00:47:11.840 --> 00:47:12.720
 from anyone

00:47:12.720 --> 00:47:13.700
 because Jesus

00:47:13.700 --> 00:47:14.519
 took on the ultimate

00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:15.320
 offence for us.

00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:17.860
 That's what it means.

00:47:18.220 --> 00:47:19.139
 So you won't be

00:47:19.139 --> 00:47:19.900
 crushed by criticism

00:47:19.900 --> 00:47:20.760
 because you will let

00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:21.519
 that flow through

00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:22.619
 the cross to you.

00:47:22.780 --> 00:47:23.820
 And when you get praise

00:47:23.820 --> 00:47:24.599
 you'll just pass it

00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:25.159
 straight through

00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:25.960
 to God.

00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:28.339
 Let the cross

00:47:28.339 --> 00:47:28.799
 be the thing

00:47:28.799 --> 00:47:29.539
 that anchors us.

00:47:31.059 --> 00:47:31.799
 When we're praised

00:47:31.799 --> 00:47:32.539
 remember the cross

00:47:32.539 --> 00:47:33.059
 and his grace.

00:47:33.179 --> 00:47:33.899
 When we're criticised

00:47:33.899 --> 00:47:34.980
 you swap your shame

00:47:34.980 --> 00:47:36.119
 with the crown

00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:36.920
 that is now yours

00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:37.559
 with the robe

00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:38.299
 that is now yours

00:47:38.299 --> 00:47:39.159
 because of what

00:47:39.159 --> 00:47:39.859
 he did for you.

00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:41.599
 So now you are not

00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:42.059
 an orphan.

00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:43.219
 You are not isolated.

00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:44.119
 You are not alone.

00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:45.000
 You are a co-heir

00:47:45.000 --> 00:47:45.859
 with Christ

00:47:45.859 --> 00:47:47.500
 member of the household

00:47:47.500 --> 00:47:48.460
 of God.

00:47:50.379 --> 00:47:51.119
 That changes.

00:47:51.619 --> 00:47:52.539
 I challenge you

00:47:52.539 --> 00:47:53.319
 this week

00:47:53.319 --> 00:47:54.480
 whenever you get praise

00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:55.079
 check your heart

00:47:55.079 --> 00:47:55.840
 how am I reacting

00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:56.619
 to this

00:47:56.619 --> 00:47:57.239
 because that will

00:47:57.239 --> 00:47:57.659
 tell you where

00:47:57.659 --> 00:47:58.039
 you're at.

00:47:58.480 --> 00:47:58.900
 And then don't feel

00:47:58.900 --> 00:47:59.440
 guilty of where

00:47:59.440 --> 00:47:59.779
 you're at

00:47:59.779 --> 00:48:00.239
 if you're loving

00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:00.579
 the praise

00:48:00.579 --> 00:48:01.159
 and just acknowledge

00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:01.639
 okay whoa

00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:02.960
 God I have that

00:48:02.960 --> 00:48:03.259
 in me.

00:48:03.480 --> 00:48:03.920
 When someone

00:48:03.920 --> 00:48:04.920
 compliments me

00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:05.639
 I get inflated.

00:48:06.759 --> 00:48:07.239
 Acknowledge that

00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:07.619
 and go okay

00:48:07.619 --> 00:48:08.039
 but I'm going to

00:48:08.039 --> 00:48:08.539
 try and pass it

00:48:08.539 --> 00:48:09.199
 through to you.

00:48:10.539 --> 00:48:11.079
 And then it will

00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:11.679
 be really fun

00:48:11.679 --> 00:48:12.019
 when you get

00:48:12.019 --> 00:48:12.599
 criticised

00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:13.219
 when you can

00:48:13.219 --> 00:48:13.619
 do the same

00:48:13.619 --> 00:48:13.840
 thing.

00:48:15.500 --> 00:48:16.079
 When you can

00:48:16.079 --> 00:48:16.619
 let it pass

00:48:16.619 --> 00:48:17.179
 through God

00:48:17.179 --> 00:48:17.619
 to you

00:48:17.619 --> 00:48:19.039
 you can't

00:48:19.039 --> 00:48:19.860
 put shame

00:48:19.860 --> 00:48:20.219
 on me.

00:48:20.380 --> 00:48:20.739
 You can't

00:48:20.739 --> 00:48:21.059
 put guilt

00:48:21.059 --> 00:48:21.259
 on me.

00:48:21.299 --> 00:48:21.579
 You can't

00:48:21.579 --> 00:48:22.099
 strike fear

00:48:22.099 --> 00:48:22.500
 into me

00:48:22.500 --> 00:48:23.119
 because the cross

00:48:23.119 --> 00:48:23.619
 already dealt

00:48:23.619 --> 00:48:24.179
 with all of that.

00:48:25.639 --> 00:48:26.619
 How you react

00:48:26.619 --> 00:48:27.219
 to praise

00:48:27.219 --> 00:48:27.619
 and criticism

00:48:27.619 --> 00:48:28.359
 will tell you

00:48:28.359 --> 00:48:29.500
 where you are at.

00:48:29.799 --> 00:48:30.219
 The idols

00:48:30.219 --> 00:48:31.799
 that these people

00:48:31.799 --> 00:48:32.579
 were holding on to

00:48:32.579 --> 00:48:33.480
 demanded everything

00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:33.960
 but would give

00:48:33.960 --> 00:48:34.659
 nothing in return

00:48:34.659 --> 00:48:35.819
 and yet we have

00:48:35.819 --> 00:48:36.679
 God the living

00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:38.420
 God who gave

00:48:38.420 --> 00:48:39.319
 everything to us.

00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:41.980
 That's the difference.

00:48:42.079 --> 00:48:42.779
 That's why he says

00:48:42.779 --> 00:48:43.400
 worship me.

00:48:45.019 --> 00:48:45.699
 Don't worship

00:48:45.699 --> 00:48:47.019
 money because

00:48:47.019 --> 00:48:47.699
 that will control

00:48:47.699 --> 00:48:48.400
 you and corrupt

00:48:48.400 --> 00:48:48.719
 you.

00:48:50.539 --> 00:48:51.299
 Worship me

00:48:51.299 --> 00:48:51.659
 and I will

00:48:51.659 --> 00:48:52.299
 complete you.

00:48:53.619 --> 00:48:54.659
 is what he's

00:48:54.659 --> 00:48:54.859
 saying.

00:48:57.480 --> 00:48:58.199
 So would we

00:48:58.199 --> 00:48:58.779
 come now

00:48:58.779 --> 00:48:59.759
 before him

00:48:59.759 --> 00:49:01.239
 and say

00:49:01.239 --> 00:49:01.480
 God

00:49:01.480 --> 00:49:04.559
 I'll trade you.

00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:05.440
 I'll give you

00:49:05.440 --> 00:49:05.859
 my empty

00:49:05.859 --> 00:49:06.139
 vein

00:49:06.139 --> 00:49:07.259
 idols

00:49:07.259 --> 00:49:09.099
 and living

00:49:09.099 --> 00:49:09.339
 God

00:49:09.339 --> 00:49:10.159
 Holy Spirit

00:49:10.159 --> 00:49:10.519
 would you

00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:11.159
 come straight

00:49:11.159 --> 00:49:11.359
 through

00:49:11.359 --> 00:49:11.699
 and fill

00:49:11.699 --> 00:49:11.880
 me.

00:49:13.359 --> 00:49:13.779
 Fill

00:49:13.779 --> 00:49:14.079
 me with

00:49:14.079 --> 00:49:14.440
 courage.

00:49:16.460 --> 00:49:16.880
 Fill

00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:17.199
 me with

00:49:17.199 --> 00:49:17.679
 faith

00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:18.699
 that you

00:49:18.699 --> 00:49:19.079
 truly are

00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:19.319
 living

00:49:19.319 --> 00:49:20.480
 that I am

00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:20.900
 sat here

00:49:20.900 --> 00:49:21.259
 because of

00:49:21.259 --> 00:49:21.679
 your grace

00:49:21.679 --> 00:49:23.019
 because of

00:49:23.019 --> 00:49:23.219
 what you

00:49:23.219 --> 00:49:23.500
 did on

00:49:23.500 --> 00:49:23.779
 the cross

00:49:23.779 --> 00:49:24.119
 for me.

00:49:26.039 --> 00:49:26.219
 And so

00:49:26.219 --> 00:49:26.500
 actually

00:49:26.500 --> 00:49:27.399
 whether it's

00:49:27.399 --> 00:49:28.159
 praise or

00:49:28.159 --> 00:49:28.559
 criticism

00:49:28.559 --> 00:49:29.399
 it really

00:49:29.399 --> 00:49:29.960
 matters not.

00:49:30.039 --> 00:49:30.319
 There's only

00:49:30.319 --> 00:49:30.779
 one name

00:49:30.779 --> 00:49:31.279
 that matters.

00:49:32.460 --> 00:49:33.039
 The name

00:49:33.039 --> 00:49:33.419
 of Jesus.

00:49:36.399 --> 00:49:36.899
 A few

00:49:36.899 --> 00:49:37.299
 quick tips

00:49:37.299 --> 00:49:37.719
 before we

00:49:37.719 --> 00:49:38.159
 respond

00:49:38.159 --> 00:49:40.579
 in worship.

00:49:41.460 --> 00:49:42.099
 If you're in

00:49:42.099 --> 00:49:42.500
 that space

00:49:42.500 --> 00:49:42.739
 you'll get

00:49:42.739 --> 00:49:43.239
 I struggle

00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:43.699
 with praise

00:49:43.699 --> 00:49:44.339
 and I struggle

00:49:44.339 --> 00:49:44.799
 with criticism.

00:49:44.940 --> 00:49:45.279
 Just a few

00:49:45.279 --> 00:49:45.819
 quick things

00:49:45.819 --> 00:49:46.980
 that I think

00:49:46.980 --> 00:49:47.359
 have really

00:49:47.359 --> 00:49:47.719
 helped me.

00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:48.519
 First of all

00:49:48.519 --> 00:49:49.639
 confession.

00:49:50.259 --> 00:49:50.559
 These are

00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:50.820
 not new

00:49:50.820 --> 00:49:51.179
 things by

00:49:51.179 --> 00:49:51.420
 the way.

00:49:51.900 --> 00:49:52.259
 Confession.

00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:52.679
 If you're

00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:52.940
 able to

00:49:52.940 --> 00:49:53.500
 even articulate

00:49:53.500 --> 00:49:53.960
 that out

00:49:53.960 --> 00:49:54.480
 and say

00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:55.320
 that's the

00:49:55.320 --> 00:49:55.599
 thing that's

00:49:55.599 --> 00:49:55.960
 holding on

00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:56.199
 to me.

00:49:56.860 --> 00:49:57.199
 So when

00:49:57.199 --> 00:49:57.559
 someone

00:49:57.559 --> 00:49:58.179
 criticizes

00:49:58.179 --> 00:49:58.460
 you and

00:49:58.460 --> 00:49:58.659
 you're like

00:49:58.659 --> 00:49:59.219
 oh I've

00:49:59.219 --> 00:49:59.519
 got all

00:49:59.519 --> 00:49:59.940
 these feelings

00:49:59.940 --> 00:50:00.280
 and if

00:50:00.280 --> 00:50:00.559
 you say

00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:01.559
 I realize

00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:01.900
 what this

00:50:01.900 --> 00:50:02.119
 is.

00:50:02.300 --> 00:50:02.519
 I'm

00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:02.679
 actually

00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:03.119
 trying to

00:50:03.119 --> 00:50:03.480
 seek the

00:50:03.480 --> 00:50:03.759
 approval

00:50:03.759 --> 00:50:04.039
 of this

00:50:04.039 --> 00:50:04.360
 person.

00:50:05.380 --> 00:50:05.820
 God I

00:50:05.820 --> 00:50:07.239
 repent of

00:50:07.239 --> 00:50:07.340
 that.

00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:07.780
 I surrender

00:50:07.780 --> 00:50:08.019
 that.

00:50:08.739 --> 00:50:09.079
 That's

00:50:09.079 --> 00:50:09.300
 huge.

00:50:10.500 --> 00:50:10.840
 And find

00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:11.199
 someone to

00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:11.500
 deal with.

00:50:11.539 --> 00:50:11.780
 That's even

00:50:11.780 --> 00:50:12.079
 better.

00:50:13.079 --> 00:50:13.280
 The book

00:50:13.280 --> 00:50:13.579
 of James

00:50:13.579 --> 00:50:14.000
 says confess

00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:14.000


00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:14.340
 Your sins

00:50:14.340 --> 00:50:14.340


00:50:14.340 --> 00:50:14.599
 And be

00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:15.119
 healed from

00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:15.380
 that.

00:50:15.699 --> 00:50:15.880
 So you

00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:16.179
 no longer

00:50:16.179 --> 00:50:16.480
 be under

00:50:16.480 --> 00:50:17.079
 that bondage

00:50:17.079 --> 00:50:17.960
 of trying

00:50:17.960 --> 00:50:18.559
 to appease

00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:19.239
 that person.

00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:21.480
 That's number

00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:21.659
 one.

00:50:21.860 --> 00:50:22.380
 Number two

00:50:22.380 --> 00:50:24.139
 is solitude.

00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:26.199
 This doesn't

00:50:26.199 --> 00:50:26.759
 seem to be a

00:50:26.759 --> 00:50:27.179
 direct link

00:50:27.179 --> 00:50:28.279
 but I promise

00:50:28.279 --> 00:50:28.980
 you I swear

00:50:28.980 --> 00:50:29.339
 it is.

00:50:30.900 --> 00:50:31.219
 And I

00:50:31.219 --> 00:50:31.659
 quote this

00:50:31.659 --> 00:50:32.219
 all the time

00:50:32.219 --> 00:50:32.460
 there's a

00:50:32.460 --> 00:50:32.980
 French philosopher

00:50:32.980 --> 00:50:33.699
 Pascal who

00:50:33.699 --> 00:50:34.500
 says all

00:50:34.500 --> 00:50:35.099
 of humanity's

00:50:35.099 --> 00:50:35.619
 problems come

00:50:35.619 --> 00:50:36.159
 from man's

00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:36.880
 inability to

00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:37.559
 be alone

00:50:37.559 --> 00:50:38.420
 in a room

00:50:38.420 --> 00:50:38.679
 on their

00:50:38.679 --> 00:50:38.880
 own.

00:50:39.539 --> 00:50:40.019
 What does

00:50:40.019 --> 00:50:40.299
 he mean?

00:50:40.460 --> 00:50:40.880
 When you

00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:41.619
 are alone

00:50:41.619 --> 00:50:42.900
 on your

00:50:42.900 --> 00:50:43.139
 own

00:50:43.139 --> 00:50:44.380
 you

00:50:44.380 --> 00:50:44.659
 actually

00:50:44.659 --> 00:50:45.039
 shrink

00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:45.639
 back to

00:50:45.639 --> 00:50:45.960
 the

00:50:45.960 --> 00:50:46.279
 right

00:50:46.279 --> 00:50:46.719
 size

00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:49.440
 or you

00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:49.940
 come back

00:50:49.940 --> 00:50:50.500
 up to

00:50:50.500 --> 00:50:50.819
 the right

00:50:50.819 --> 00:50:51.139
 size.

00:50:51.500 --> 00:50:51.980
 When you

00:50:51.980 --> 00:50:52.539
 sit alone

00:50:52.539 --> 00:50:52.819
 and you

00:50:52.819 --> 00:50:53.319
 sit under

00:50:53.319 --> 00:50:54.460
 the weight

00:50:54.460 --> 00:50:55.039
 of who

00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:55.539
 God is

00:50:55.539 --> 00:50:56.739
 if you

00:50:56.739 --> 00:50:57.039
 have any

00:50:57.039 --> 00:50:57.460
 pride

00:50:57.460 --> 00:50:58.799
 from the

00:50:58.799 --> 00:50:59.139
 praise that

00:50:59.139 --> 00:50:59.400
 you've had

00:50:59.400 --> 00:50:59.739
 you will

00:50:59.739 --> 00:51:00.159
 shrink back

00:51:00.159 --> 00:51:00.380
 to the

00:51:00.380 --> 00:51:00.579
 right size

00:51:00.579 --> 00:51:00.960
 there's no

00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:01.460
 other voices

00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:01.819
 there's no

00:51:01.819 --> 00:51:02.239
 other noise

00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:03.039
 get yourself

00:51:03.039 --> 00:51:03.339
 into that

00:51:03.339 --> 00:51:03.679
 place where

00:51:03.679 --> 00:51:03.940
 I'm like

00:51:03.940 --> 00:51:04.859
 I have

00:51:04.859 --> 00:51:05.339
 nothing else

00:51:05.339 --> 00:51:05.539
 that I

00:51:05.539 --> 00:51:05.900
 care for

00:51:05.900 --> 00:51:06.139
 God

00:51:06.139 --> 00:51:06.759
 apart from

00:51:06.759 --> 00:51:06.940
 you

00:51:06.940 --> 00:51:07.739
 I promise

00:51:07.739 --> 00:51:07.960
 you that

00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:08.299
 will shrink

00:51:08.299 --> 00:51:08.599
 you back

00:51:08.599 --> 00:51:08.839
 to the

00:51:08.839 --> 00:51:09.199
 right size

00:51:09.199 --> 00:51:09.599
 that helps

00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:09.799
 me

00:51:09.799 --> 00:51:10.400
 solitude

00:51:10.400 --> 00:51:12.480
 and if

00:51:12.480 --> 00:51:12.639
 you're

00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:12.960
 struggling

00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:14.019
 not with

00:51:14.019 --> 00:51:14.220
 pride

00:51:14.220 --> 00:51:14.559
 but maybe

00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:15.079
 of insecurity

00:51:15.079 --> 00:51:15.500
 even though

00:51:15.500 --> 00:51:15.820
 last week

00:51:15.820 --> 00:51:16.059
 I said

00:51:16.059 --> 00:51:16.500
 they're kind

00:51:16.500 --> 00:51:16.680
 of the

00:51:16.680 --> 00:51:16.820
 same

00:51:16.820 --> 00:51:17.139
 thing

00:51:17.139 --> 00:51:18.940
 go into

00:51:18.940 --> 00:51:19.119
 that

00:51:19.119 --> 00:51:19.500
 solitude

00:51:19.500 --> 00:51:19.860
 and be

00:51:19.860 --> 00:51:20.139
 with God

00:51:20.139 --> 00:51:20.360
 and say

00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:20.619
 God

00:51:20.619 --> 00:51:23.240
 let me

00:51:23.240 --> 00:51:23.639
 only hear

00:51:23.639 --> 00:51:24.160
 your voice

00:51:24.160 --> 00:51:26.000
 may you

00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:26.300
 be the

00:51:26.300 --> 00:51:26.760
 only one

00:51:26.760 --> 00:51:26.940
 that's

00:51:26.940 --> 00:51:27.160
 enough

00:51:27.160 --> 00:51:27.500
 for me

00:51:27.500 --> 00:51:29.320
 confession

00:51:29.320 --> 00:51:30.619
 solitude

00:51:30.619 --> 00:51:31.340
 and

00:51:31.340 --> 00:51:31.700
 Sabbath

00:51:31.700 --> 00:51:32.559
 rest

00:51:32.559 --> 00:51:33.700
 those of

00:51:33.700 --> 00:51:33.960
 you who

00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:34.240
 struggle

00:51:34.240 --> 00:51:34.860
 with rest

00:51:34.860 --> 00:51:36.220
 it's so

00:51:36.220 --> 00:51:37.000
 so important

00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:38.480
 remember

00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:39.059
 rest

00:51:39.059 --> 00:51:39.660
 the

00:51:39.660 --> 00:51:39.940
 Sabbath

00:51:39.940 --> 00:51:40.800
 is not

00:51:40.800 --> 00:51:41.700
 reward

00:51:41.700 --> 00:51:42.240
 for finishing

00:51:42.240 --> 00:51:42.599
 work

00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:43.619
 that's not

00:51:43.619 --> 00:51:44.220
 the rest

00:51:44.220 --> 00:51:46.380
 the rest

00:51:46.380 --> 00:51:47.220
 the real rest

00:51:47.220 --> 00:51:48.000
 is rescuing

00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:48.760
 from unfinished

00:51:48.760 --> 00:51:49.179
 work

00:51:49.179 --> 00:51:51.240
 so many of us

00:51:51.240 --> 00:51:51.940
 I will rest

00:51:51.940 --> 00:51:53.440
 only when I die

00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:56.099
 I will rest

00:51:56.099 --> 00:51:57.000
 only when the job

00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:57.539
 is completed

00:51:57.539 --> 00:51:59.480
 that's not the rest

00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:00.099
 that God wants

00:52:00.099 --> 00:52:00.480
 for you

00:52:00.480 --> 00:52:01.500
 the rest that God

00:52:01.500 --> 00:52:02.079
 wants for you

00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:02.780
 is that he would

00:52:02.780 --> 00:52:03.500
 rescue you from

00:52:03.500 --> 00:52:04.000
 the unfinished

00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:04.300
 work

00:52:04.300 --> 00:52:05.059
 recognizing that

00:52:05.059 --> 00:52:05.780
 actually you will

00:52:05.780 --> 00:52:06.460
 never finish the

00:52:06.460 --> 00:52:06.619
 work

00:52:06.619 --> 00:52:07.039
 there was only

00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:07.480
 one who

00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:07.900
 finished the

00:52:07.900 --> 00:52:08.139
 work

00:52:08.139 --> 00:52:09.199
 so would

00:52:09.199 --> 00:52:09.500
 you pull

00:52:09.500 --> 00:52:09.839
 yourself

00:52:09.839 --> 00:52:10.299
 away from

00:52:10.299 --> 00:52:10.699
 that and

00:52:10.699 --> 00:52:11.000
 stop

00:52:11.000 --> 00:52:12.119
 because if

00:52:12.119 --> 00:52:12.519
 we're honest

00:52:12.519 --> 00:52:12.960
 when we say

00:52:12.960 --> 00:52:13.339
 we're busy

00:52:13.339 --> 00:52:13.759
 when we say

00:52:13.759 --> 00:52:14.179
 we can't

00:52:14.179 --> 00:52:14.460
 stop

00:52:14.460 --> 00:52:15.119
 it's because

00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:15.480
 we're trying

00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:15.819
 to work

00:52:15.819 --> 00:52:16.039
 for the

00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:16.319
 approval

00:52:16.319 --> 00:52:16.679
 of man

00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:19.159
 we'll work

00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:19.579
 ourselves to

00:52:19.579 --> 00:52:19.940
 the ground

00:52:19.940 --> 00:52:20.379
 to please

00:52:20.379 --> 00:52:20.799
 our boss

00:52:20.799 --> 00:52:23.119
 we will

00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:23.539
 struggle to

00:52:23.539 --> 00:52:23.980
 rest because

00:52:23.980 --> 00:52:24.279
 we're trying

00:52:24.279 --> 00:52:24.699
 to show our

00:52:24.699 --> 00:52:25.159
 parents that

00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:25.460
 we're hard

00:52:25.460 --> 00:52:25.779
 working

00:52:25.779 --> 00:52:28.779
 our idol

00:52:28.779 --> 00:52:29.259
 shows up

00:52:29.259 --> 00:52:29.619
 once and

00:52:29.619 --> 00:52:29.879
 again

00:52:29.879 --> 00:52:33.400
 I'm going to

00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:34.019
 spend just a few

00:52:34.019 --> 00:52:34.519
 moments now

00:52:34.519 --> 00:52:35.219
 I'll invite the

00:52:35.219 --> 00:52:35.859
 team to come

00:52:35.859 --> 00:52:36.239
 back up

00:52:36.239 --> 00:52:40.099
 what idols

00:52:40.099 --> 00:52:40.659
 do you have

00:52:40.659 --> 00:52:42.519
 and I'll

00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:42.879
 spend this

00:52:42.879 --> 00:52:43.339
 time asking

00:52:43.339 --> 00:52:43.719
 myself

00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:44.239
 what idols

00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:44.879
 do I have

00:52:44.879 --> 00:52:46.000
 I look at

00:52:46.000 --> 00:52:46.339
 my life

00:52:46.339 --> 00:52:46.659
 I look at

00:52:46.659 --> 00:52:46.899
 how I

00:52:46.899 --> 00:52:47.959
 if you still

00:52:47.959 --> 00:52:48.500
 don't really

00:52:48.500 --> 00:52:48.919
 quite know

00:52:48.919 --> 00:52:49.239
 what your

00:52:49.239 --> 00:52:49.719
 idols are

00:52:49.719 --> 00:52:50.099
 again

00:52:50.099 --> 00:52:50.599
 how you

00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:51.019
 react

00:52:51.019 --> 00:52:52.519
 to things

00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:52.819
 will tell

00:52:52.819 --> 00:52:53.119
 you where

00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:53.500
 you're at

00:52:53.500 --> 00:52:56.659
 how do you

00:52:56.659 --> 00:52:57.259
 react when

00:52:57.259 --> 00:52:57.659
 things go

00:52:57.659 --> 00:52:57.879
 well

00:52:57.879 --> 00:52:59.099
 how do you

00:52:59.099 --> 00:52:59.519
 react when

00:52:59.519 --> 00:52:59.879
 things do

00:52:59.879 --> 00:53:00.179
 not go

00:53:00.179 --> 00:53:00.419
 well

00:53:00.419 --> 00:53:01.619
 that will

00:53:01.619 --> 00:53:01.959
 tell you

00:53:01.959 --> 00:53:02.239
 exactly

00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:02.599
 that is the

00:53:02.599 --> 00:53:03.159
 most honest

00:53:03.159 --> 00:53:03.619
 way to

00:53:03.619 --> 00:53:04.219
 assess where

00:53:04.219 --> 00:53:04.639
 you're at

00:53:04.639 --> 00:53:06.219
 when you

00:53:06.219 --> 00:53:06.759
 lose something

00:53:06.759 --> 00:53:07.239
 that you

00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:08.279
 you've been

00:53:08.279 --> 00:53:09.000
 caring for

00:53:09.000 --> 00:53:11.900
 when the

00:53:11.900 --> 00:53:12.119
 thing that

00:53:12.119 --> 00:53:12.440
 you're holding

00:53:12.440 --> 00:53:12.739
 on to

00:53:12.739 --> 00:53:12.960
 gets

00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:13.379
 threatened

00:53:13.379 --> 00:53:16.039
 pull on

00:53:16.039 --> 00:53:16.420
 that thread

00:53:16.420 --> 00:53:16.699
 and you'll

00:53:16.699 --> 00:53:17.019
 find your

00:53:17.019 --> 00:53:17.239
 idol

00:53:17.239 --> 00:53:18.719
 continue to

00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:19.000
 pull on

00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:19.219
 it more

00:53:19.219 --> 00:53:19.519
 and you'll

00:53:19.519 --> 00:53:19.779
 see that

00:53:19.779 --> 00:53:19.960
 it is

00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:20.179
 vain

00:53:20.179 --> 00:53:20.460
 you'll

00:53:20.460 --> 00:53:20.759
 see that

00:53:20.759 --> 00:53:20.940
 it is

00:53:20.940 --> 00:53:21.179
 empty

00:53:21.179 --> 00:53:21.440
 you'll

00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:21.719
 see that

00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:21.920
 it is

00:53:21.920 --> 00:53:22.219
 meaningless

00:53:22.219 --> 00:53:23.379
 and then

00:53:23.379 --> 00:53:23.839
 point yourself

00:53:23.839 --> 00:53:24.279
 back to

00:53:24.279 --> 00:53:24.599
 the grace

00:53:24.599 --> 00:53:24.879
 of God

00:53:24.879 --> 00:53:25.359
 the goodness

00:53:25.359 --> 00:53:25.679
 of God

00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:25.980
 the one

00:53:25.980 --> 00:53:26.139
 who's

00:53:26.139 --> 00:53:26.460
 provided

00:53:26.460 --> 00:53:26.920
 for you

00:53:26.920 --> 00:53:27.559
 since the

00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:27.779
 moment

00:53:27.779 --> 00:53:28.099
 you were

00:53:28.099 --> 00:53:28.279
 born

00:53:28.279 --> 00:53:31.000
 because

00:53:31.000 --> 00:53:31.279
 he is

00:53:31.279 --> 00:53:31.500
 good

00:53:31.500 --> 00:53:33.579
 he is

00:53:33.579 --> 00:53:33.839
 living

00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:36.160
 and he

00:53:36.160 --> 00:53:36.519
 completes

00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:36.700
 us

00:53:36.700 --> 00:53:36.940
 and he

00:53:36.940 --> 00:53:37.200
 is the

00:53:37.200 --> 00:53:37.480
 only

00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:37.820
 name

00:53:37.820 --> 00:53:38.620
 the only

00:53:38.620 --> 00:53:39.000
 voice

00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:40.260
 the only

00:53:40.260 --> 00:53:40.559
 one

00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:41.200
 that

00:53:41.200 --> 00:53:41.500
 matters

00:53:41.500 --> 00:53:42.420
 Christ

00:53:42.420 --> 00:53:43.440
 is

00:53:43.440 --> 00:53:43.740
 enough

00:53:43.740 --> 00:53:45.000
 there is

00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:45.280
 no other

00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:45.539
 name

00:53:45.539 --> 00:53:46.420
 let's

00:53:46.420 --> 00:53:46.620
 pray

00:53:46.619 --> 00:54:02.779
 Jesus

00:54:02.779 --> 00:54:03.159
 we come

00:54:03.159 --> 00:54:03.639
 before you

00:54:03.639 --> 00:54:04.039
 the living

00:54:04.039 --> 00:54:04.319
 God

00:54:04.319 --> 00:54:05.019
 the only

00:54:05.019 --> 00:54:05.339
 God

00:54:05.339 --> 00:54:12.299
 and declare

00:54:12.299 --> 00:54:12.619
 that there

00:54:12.619 --> 00:54:12.859
 is no

00:54:12.859 --> 00:54:13.259
 other name

00:54:13.260 --> 00:54:15.060
 because

00:54:15.060 --> 00:54:15.360
 no one

00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:15.560
 else

00:54:15.560 --> 00:54:15.720
 did

00:54:15.720 --> 00:54:15.880
 what

00:54:15.880 --> 00:54:15.980
 you

00:54:15.980 --> 00:54:16.460
 did

00:54:16.460 --> 00:54:21.600
 no one

00:54:21.600 --> 00:54:21.800
 else

00:54:21.800 --> 00:54:22.180
 of divine

00:54:22.180 --> 00:54:22.480
 nature

00:54:22.480 --> 00:54:22.800
 emptied

00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:23.240
 themselves

00:54:23.240 --> 00:54:24.460
 becoming

00:54:24.460 --> 00:54:24.620
 the

00:54:24.620 --> 00:54:24.920
 likeness

00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:25.240
 of men

00:54:25.240 --> 00:54:27.960
 and being

00:54:27.960 --> 00:54:28.360
 found in

00:54:28.360 --> 00:54:28.580
 human

00:54:28.580 --> 00:54:28.940
 form

00:54:28.940 --> 00:54:29.380
 humbled

00:54:29.380 --> 00:54:30.420
 yourself

00:54:30.420 --> 00:54:31.540
 even to

00:54:31.540 --> 00:54:31.800
 the point

00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:32.180
 of death

00:54:32.180 --> 00:54:32.860
 even death

00:54:32.860 --> 00:54:33.120
 on the

00:54:33.120 --> 00:54:33.360
 cross

00:54:33.360 --> 00:54:35.800
 therefore

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 there is

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 now no

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 other name

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 in heaven

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 and on

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 earth

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 and we

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 know that

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 one day

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 every knee

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 will bow

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 and every

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 tongue

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 will confess

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 at that

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 name

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 because you

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 did what

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 no one

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 else could

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 do

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 you

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 defeated

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 death

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 you

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 paid the

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 price

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 and so

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 we swap

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 our

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 vain

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 idols

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 we swap

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 our

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 yearning

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 for the

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 approval

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 of man

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 and in

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 exchange

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 we ask

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 for your

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 approval

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 and just

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 even as I

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 say that

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 I'm reminded

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 before Jesus

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 did a single

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 thing

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 God

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 you said

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 this is my

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 son with

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 whom I

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 am well

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 pleased

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 and what

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 is true

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 of Jesus

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 is true

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 of us

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 some trust

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 in horses

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 some trust

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 in chariots

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 some trust

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 in work

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 some trust

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 in connections

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 but as for

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 us

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 we trust

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 in the name

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 of Jesus

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 Amen.