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 you communicate that the people that aren't here yet are more important than the people that have been diligent to be here on time.

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 So I don't want to do that.

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 I got my room.

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 Okay.

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 Well, if any are just joining us, though I don't think that that's the case,

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 we are in a series on Scripture.

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 And when we were together last, we observed that the Bible is at the heart of our faith,

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 yet also at the center of much controversy.

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 Specifically, it is controversial in its claim, believed and heralded by Christians, to be God's Word.

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 And as such, authoritative in all that it tells us.

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 True and trustworthy in all that it proclaims.

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 Last time, we took the entire time, and we were yet pressed,

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 to set out what we described as strong grounds for affirming this confidence in Scripture's authority.

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 For those of you then with us, you will recall that we reflected upon the Trinitarian ontology of Scripture.

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 That is, how the Father, Son, and Spirit are personally involved in the production of Scripture.

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 And what entailments this bears for the character of Scripture.

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 And we concluded that the Trinity is so profoundly involved in the being of Scripture,

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 that the character of Scripture is invested with the divine character.

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 Strong grounds, it seems to me at least, for maintaining the divine authority of Scripture.

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 And warrant for responding to the Bible just as we would to God Himself.

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 And yet, we acknowledge that at many points, the Bible is not the world's obvious candidate for divine authority.

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 True and trustworthy in all that it affirms.

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 Indeed, if we're honest, it's not always the obvious candidate for such status in Christian impression.

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 There are many a dear brother and sister in the Lord who struggle with no small anguish and confusion.

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 Who are familiar with the strong grounds for affirming the Bible's divine character.

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 Yet, at points, struggle to reconcile this conviction with what they find in its pages.

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 Perhaps at points where Scripture does not seem to comport with the confident pronouncements of modern science.

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 Or the assured results of critical historical scholarship.

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 Or perhaps with some of our most dogged moral sensibilities.

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 Or perhaps that, in parts, Scripture seem out of step with current, adamantly held, social norms.

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 Well, it is chiefly to those of us for whom such gnawing difficulties remain a reality

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 that I want to direct some comments this morning.

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 And specifically, to offer some considerations which, while acknowledging that problems will remain,

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 I hope will render any persisting problems just a little less problematic.

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 That's my hope.

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 And really, what I want to offer this morning is a single consideration for our reflection.

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 Again, time will prevent much more than suggestiveness, but hopefully this line of thought

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 will, like a pinch of yeast for your own reflections.

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 Just stick with you.

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 Here's the thought.

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 I want to suggest that what we find true of the incarnation,

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 God coming down in the flesh,

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 what we find true of the incarnation,

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 we should expect also to find true of inscripturation.

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 Okay?

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 Because it is a parallel case at the relevant point.

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 Corbyn can't miss this, so I'm going to repeat.

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 This is my thesis, okay?

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 I want to suggest that what we find true of the incarnation,

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 we should expect also to find true of inscripturation.

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 Because it is a parallel case at the relevant point.

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 Okay?

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 So, let's first consider the incarnation.

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 There is a paradox at the heart of the incarnation.

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 God coming in the flesh.

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 For God coming in the flesh was simultaneously a revealing and a concealing.

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 It was a revelation of God.

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 John 1, 14.

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 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory.

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 Revelation.

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 John 14, 9.

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 Remember when Philip queried Jesus,

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 show us the Father and it's enough.

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 He said, oh, Philip, how long have you been with me?

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 And yet do you ask, show us the Father.

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 For he who has seen me has seen the Father.

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 Revelation.

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 Revealing.

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 But precisely because the incarnation involved a revelation of God in human flesh,

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 it was also a veiling.

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 For it disguised, so to speak, deity in the garb of humanity.

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 It involved the humiliation of the Son.

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 That is, assuming the humble estate of humanity.

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 This was a stooping with respect to God's splendor.

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 As Philippians 2, 7 tells us, he, speaking of Jesus, the Word, the Son,

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 he emptied himself, taking the form of a bondservant.

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 Being made in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man,

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 he humbled himself.

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 So he emptied himself, not of his deity.

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 He remained God.

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 If one is God, one cannot cease to be God.

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 It's just not even possible for God to cease to be God.

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 He didn't empty himself of his deity,

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 but rather he emptied himself of the visible manifest marks of his glory,

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 which would have drawn conspicuous attention to his deity.

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 That had been laid aside.

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 And he looked forward to its restoration in heaven,

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 where his disciples would see it fully manifest again.

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 As he said in John 17, 24,

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 Father, in his prayer, high priestly prayer,

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 Father, I desire that they also, my disciples here with me, us subsequently,

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 Father, I desire that they also be with me where I am

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 in order that they may then behold my glory.

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 So there would be a time when his glory would be manifest.

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 But while in the flesh, the glory of the Godhead was concealed.

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 As Isaiah the prophet foretold,

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 he has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon him,

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 nor appearance that we should be attracted to him.

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 He was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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 Isaiah 53, 2 and 3.

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 Thus, and this is the point,

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 it was easy to miss of the revelation because of the veiling.

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 It was easy when God came in flesh to see only the flesh.

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 You remember the comments from those around him?

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 Is this not the carpenter's son?

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 The son of Mary?

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 Are not his brothers and sisters among us?

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 And they took offense at him.

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 Mark 6, 3.

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 They missed it.

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 They could not see beyond this Nazarene.

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 Acts 6, 14.

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 That was those who contended with Stephen,

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 how they dismissed Jesus.

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 This Nazarene.

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 As John writes,

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 he came to his own,

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 and they received him not.

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 John 1, 11.

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 When revelation came in flesh,

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 they saw simply the flesh,

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 and nothing more,

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 and were scandalized at the suggestion

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 that it was anything more.

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 Indeed, even for his closest disciples,

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 his life of humiliation,

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 culminating in the cross,

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 the bottom rung of his humiliation,

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 as Philippians 2 tells us,

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 created such an excruciating sense

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 of incongruity

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 that the status of Jesus

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 as God's anointed

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 was given up.

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 We had hoped

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 that it was he.

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 Remember those on the road to Emmaus?

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 We had hoped

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 that it was he.

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 Notice the tense.

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 Their hope was in the past.

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 Luke 24, 21.

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 Others thought the claim

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 that Christ was God's anointed,

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 appearing as he did,

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 was so abhorrent

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 that it made a mockery

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 of God's very nature,

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 and was blasphemy

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 worthy of death.

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 This was Saul of Tarsus' position,

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 and many with him.

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 Such was the veiling,

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 even as God was being revealed.

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 So, so it was

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 with the incarnation.

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 All right.

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 Well, how about

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 the parallel case

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 of inscripturation?

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 Inscripturation.

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 How about the parallel case

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 of inscripturation?

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 As inscripturation,

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 that is,

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 the word of God

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 becoming written language.

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 Inscripturation.

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 Making it into,

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 yes.

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 Yep.

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 So, good.

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 Helpful clarification.

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 Elizabeth, thank you.

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 As with the word incarnate,

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 so with the word inscripturated.

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 Both involve the same sort

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 of humiliation,

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 the same sort of emptying,

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 the kenosis,

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 the emptying,

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 the self-emptying.

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 Just as in the incarnation,

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 God's word became human flesh.

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 So, in scripture,

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 God's word comes in human words.

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 Thus, the Bible is,

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 like the incarnation,

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 deity in the garb of humanity.

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 It is the voice of deity

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 in the voice of humanity.

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 Just as God came in the flesh,

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 embedded in the culturally

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 and historically situated,

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 okay,

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 Jesus resembled Mary.

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 Oh, I see it.

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 Yes.

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 He spoke in a Galilean accent,

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 okay,

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 culturally and historically situated,

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 et cetera.

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 We could go on

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 and describe all these things.

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 So,

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 God comes in his word,

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 embedded in the culturally,

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 historically situated,

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 okay,

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 spoken through the culture

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 and in the accent

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 of a first century fisherman,

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 Peter,

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 and an eighth century B.C.

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 fig picker,

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 Amos,

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 and all the scripture writers.

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 Do you see the parallel case here?

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 And this parallel results

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 in a similar paradox.

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 While God's words

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 are revealed in scripture,

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 they are simultaneously concealed,

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 for they are disguised.

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 They come in the garb of,

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 manifestly,

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 human words.

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 And it should come

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 as no surprise

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 that just as many

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 only saw

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 the humanity of Jesus

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 and did not see it

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 as the vehicle

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 for deity

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 and were scandalized

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 at the suggestion

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 that it could be,

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 so many see

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 only the humanity

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 of scripture

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 and myths of the deity.

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 It appears to them

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 simply human,

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 all too human

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 to be any candidate

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 for divine revelation.

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 It does not come to us

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 with the appearance

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 of the divine.

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 It has no form

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 or comeliness

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 and we esteem it not.

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 Indeed,

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 there has been an impulse

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 even among those

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 who honor it

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 to deny

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 that it can be

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 lackluster

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 at any point

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 and argue

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 that at such points

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 its luminosity

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 needs to be preserved

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 through some means,

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 usually seeking

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 a deeper allegorical meaning.

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 meaning.

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 So,

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 for example,

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 a meaning

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 that would be

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 worthy of divinity.

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 So,

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 for example,

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 origin,

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 probably the,

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 certainly

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 the greatest

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 first theologian

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 that tries to put together

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 and actually creates

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 a systematic theology,

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 first one in the church

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 after the apostles,

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 let's say after Paul.

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 He just thought,

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 you know,

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 as I read scripture,

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 some parts of it

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 just seem

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 utterly unimpressive.

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 Even banal.

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 And this was just

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 utterly incongruous.

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 I can't reconcile this

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 with this being

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 God's word.

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 So,

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 I have to,

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 I have to find

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 some other way

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 to understand it.

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 So,

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 let me just understand it

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 allegorically.

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 There must be a meaning

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 that's utterly profound.

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 Here,

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 how about this one?

00:17:20.900 --> 00:17:21.100
 So,

00:17:21.180 --> 00:17:21.380
 you can,

00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:22.460
 you can see the impulse

00:17:22.460 --> 00:17:23.559
 and it derives

00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:24.140
 from the tension

00:17:24.140 --> 00:17:24.519
 of just,

00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:25.660
 just the,

00:17:25.660 --> 00:17:25.900
 the,

00:17:25.900 --> 00:17:27.720
 the pressure

00:17:27.720 --> 00:17:28.600
 to somehow

00:17:28.600 --> 00:17:29.559
 find God's word

00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:30.240
 at every point

00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:31.019
 luminous.

00:17:32.340 --> 00:17:32.500
 Okay?

00:17:32.940 --> 00:17:33.360
 Did he

00:17:33.360 --> 00:17:34.299
 passprate himself?

00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:35.920
 He did,

00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:36.340
 yes,

00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:36.820
 thank you.

00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:37.100
 I,

00:17:37.200 --> 00:17:37.660
 I would have

00:17:37.660 --> 00:17:38.360
 completely missed

00:17:38.360 --> 00:17:38.980
 mentioning that

00:17:38.980 --> 00:17:39.420
 had you not

00:17:39.420 --> 00:17:40.000
 reminded me.

00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:40.840
 Thank you.

00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:43.480
 Origins is a remarkable

00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:44.399
 story and you've

00:17:44.399 --> 00:17:45.199
 just heard the sneak

00:17:45.199 --> 00:17:45.980
 preview of the

00:17:45.980 --> 00:17:46.759
 remarkable nature

00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:47.199
 of it.

00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:50.279
 Yes,

00:17:50.399 --> 00:17:50.919
 he did.

00:17:53.419 --> 00:17:53.859
 But,

00:17:53.980 --> 00:17:55.220
 he,

00:17:56.159 --> 00:17:56.419
 yeah,

00:17:56.480 --> 00:17:56.619
 he,

00:17:56.899 --> 00:17:57.299
 well,

00:17:57.339 --> 00:17:57.459
 no,

00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:58.259
 I won't get into that.

00:17:59.259 --> 00:17:59.379
 Well,

00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:00.500
 recall Augustine,

00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:01.119
 okay?

00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:03.500
 Recall

00:18:03.500 --> 00:18:04.859
 Augustine's

00:18:04.859 --> 00:18:05.699
 barrier

00:18:05.700 --> 00:18:07.080
 to

00:18:07.080 --> 00:18:08.380
 considering

00:18:08.380 --> 00:18:09.160
 scripture

00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.519
 as God's

00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:12.160
 word

00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:14.180
 because

00:18:14.180 --> 00:18:14.960
 he found

00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:15.319
 them,

00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:15.880
 as he

00:18:15.880 --> 00:18:16.580
 puts it,

00:18:17.080 --> 00:18:17.840
 unworthy

00:18:17.840 --> 00:18:19.180
 in comparison

00:18:19.180 --> 00:18:20.480
 with the

00:18:20.480 --> 00:18:20.840
 dignity

00:18:20.840 --> 00:18:21.620
 of Cicero.

00:18:22.500 --> 00:18:22.759
 Now,

00:18:22.819 --> 00:18:23.180
 remember,

00:18:23.340 --> 00:18:23.960
 Augustine was

00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:24.680
 trained

00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:25.360
 as a

00:18:25.360 --> 00:18:26.039
 rhetorician

00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.019
 and

00:18:28.019 --> 00:18:28.860
 Cicero's

00:18:28.860 --> 00:18:29.180
 some pretty

00:18:29.180 --> 00:18:30.039
 fine Latin

00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:31.100
 and when he

00:18:31.100 --> 00:18:31.799
 first encountered

00:18:31.799 --> 00:18:32.420
 the scriptures

00:18:32.420 --> 00:18:33.259
 not yet

00:18:33.259 --> 00:18:33.759
 converted,

00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:35.259
 he looked at

00:18:35.259 --> 00:18:35.700
 that and he

00:18:35.700 --> 00:18:35.859
 said,

00:18:35.940 --> 00:18:36.279
 oh,

00:18:36.500 --> 00:18:37.160
 you've got

00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:37.599
 to be

00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:38.180
 kidding me,

00:18:38.259 --> 00:18:38.839
 you Christians.

00:18:39.799 --> 00:18:40.359
 This

00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:41.619
 is the best

00:18:41.619 --> 00:18:42.859
 God can do?

00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:44.019
 It doesn't

00:18:44.019 --> 00:18:44.740
 even match

00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:45.940
 the elegancies

00:18:45.940 --> 00:18:46.940
 of Cicero.

00:18:47.500 --> 00:18:48.460
 You must

00:18:48.460 --> 00:18:49.420
 be joking.

00:18:50.460 --> 00:18:50.799
 And he

00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:51.799
 stumbled at it.

00:18:53.420 --> 00:18:53.980
 Interestingly,

00:18:54.180 --> 00:18:54.819
 the only way

00:18:54.819 --> 00:18:55.220
 that he was

00:18:55.220 --> 00:18:55.680
 able to get

00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:56.299
 over that

00:18:56.299 --> 00:18:57.119
 was following

00:18:57.119 --> 00:18:57.700
 the cue

00:18:57.700 --> 00:18:58.759
 of Milan,

00:18:59.339 --> 00:19:00.640
 of Ambrose

00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:01.319
 of Milan,

00:19:02.220 --> 00:19:02.579
 who said,

00:19:02.660 --> 00:19:02.720
 oh,

00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:02.859
 no,

00:19:02.940 --> 00:19:03.039
 no,

00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:03.500
 Augustine,

00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:03.720
 no,

00:19:03.819 --> 00:19:03.920
 no,

00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:04.059
 no,

00:19:04.059 --> 00:19:04.180
 no,

00:19:04.180 --> 00:19:04.339
 no,

00:19:04.339 --> 00:19:04.980
 that's just

00:19:04.980 --> 00:19:05.299
 on the

00:19:05.299 --> 00:19:05.620
 surface.

00:19:06.000 --> 00:19:06.299
 You need

00:19:06.299 --> 00:19:06.940
 following

00:19:06.940 --> 00:19:07.420
 origin.

00:19:07.860 --> 00:19:08.519
 Just here,

00:19:08.620 --> 00:19:09.039
 here's the

00:19:09.039 --> 00:19:09.700
 allegorical

00:19:09.700 --> 00:19:10.039
 meaning.

00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:11.200
 So ironically,

00:19:11.519 --> 00:19:12.299
 what actually

00:19:12.299 --> 00:19:13.380
 got Augustine

00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:14.640
 over the hump

00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:15.180
 of being able

00:19:15.180 --> 00:19:15.640
 to accept

00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:16.299
 scripture was

00:19:16.299 --> 00:19:17.180
 what I think

00:19:17.180 --> 00:19:17.599
 is probably

00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:18.160
 a problematic

00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:18.880
 view of

00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:19.759
 scripture and

00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:20.819
 one that he

00:19:20.819 --> 00:19:22.200
 at least

00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:23.059
 refined.

00:19:23.140 --> 00:19:23.599
 If he didn't

00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:24.900
 completely abandon

00:19:24.900 --> 00:19:25.740
 later in life,

00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:26.200
 he at least

00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:27.079
 came to a

00:19:27.079 --> 00:19:28.180
 deeper appreciation

00:19:28.180 --> 00:19:28.620
 of scripture.

00:19:28.700 --> 00:19:29.200
 But interesting,

00:19:30.099 --> 00:19:31.360
 this was a

00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:31.980
 real problem

00:19:31.980 --> 00:19:33.759
 for Augustine.

00:19:37.759 --> 00:19:39.000
 That was a

00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:39.360
 quote from

00:19:39.360 --> 00:19:39.940
 Confessions

00:19:39.940 --> 00:19:41.740
 3.5.9

00:19:41.740 --> 00:19:42.200
 for those

00:19:42.200 --> 00:19:42.519
 of you

00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:42.920
 who are

00:19:42.920 --> 00:19:43.140
 looking.

00:19:43.420 --> 00:19:44.079
 Jerome was

00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:44.420
 the same.

00:19:44.539 --> 00:19:44.660
 I mean,

00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:45.220
 this is really

00:19:45.220 --> 00:19:45.759
 common in the

00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:46.220
 early church.

00:19:46.620 --> 00:19:47.299
 Jerome was

00:19:47.299 --> 00:19:48.180
 just so

00:19:48.180 --> 00:19:49.299
 committed to

00:19:49.299 --> 00:19:50.960
 Cicero.

00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:52.279
 He just

00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:52.819
 loved the

00:19:52.819 --> 00:19:53.279
 Latin that he

00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:53.980
 didn't even

00:19:53.980 --> 00:19:54.599
 bother to read

00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:55.120
 his Bible

00:19:55.120 --> 00:19:55.640
 very much,

00:19:55.660 --> 00:19:56.099
 even as a

00:19:56.099 --> 00:19:56.440
 Christian.

00:19:56.559 --> 00:19:56.819
 He said,

00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:58.319
 it's not

00:19:58.319 --> 00:19:59.160
 really literary.

00:19:59.160 --> 00:20:00.820
 Then he

00:20:00.820 --> 00:20:01.220
 had this

00:20:01.220 --> 00:20:02.440
 terrible dream

00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:03.740
 where he

00:20:03.740 --> 00:20:04.380
 died and

00:20:04.380 --> 00:20:04.740
 went to

00:20:04.740 --> 00:20:05.140
 heaven and

00:20:05.140 --> 00:20:05.779
 he tried to

00:20:05.779 --> 00:20:06.300
 get in and

00:20:06.300 --> 00:20:06.620
 he said,

00:20:06.720 --> 00:20:07.440
 oh no,

00:20:07.840 --> 00:20:08.700
 you're not a

00:20:08.700 --> 00:20:09.000
 Christian,

00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:09.460
 you're a

00:20:09.460 --> 00:20:10.200
 Ciceronian.

00:20:11.560 --> 00:20:12.500
 So that's

00:20:12.500 --> 00:20:12.900
 Jerome's

00:20:12.900 --> 00:20:13.080
 story.

00:20:13.320 --> 00:20:13.620
 But I

00:20:13.620 --> 00:20:13.759
 mean,

00:20:13.880 --> 00:20:14.440
 we could go

00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:14.680
 on and

00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:14.880
 on and

00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:15.019
 on,

00:20:15.120 --> 00:20:15.860
 lots of

00:20:15.860 --> 00:20:16.500
 examples of

00:20:16.500 --> 00:20:16.920
 people kind

00:20:16.920 --> 00:20:17.160
 of being

00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:18.080
 scandalized at

00:20:18.080 --> 00:20:18.920
 the plainness,

00:20:19.320 --> 00:20:20.019
 the banality,

00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:21.620
 the lack of

00:20:21.620 --> 00:20:23.380
 luminosity of

00:20:23.380 --> 00:20:23.680
 scripture.

00:20:23.900 --> 00:20:25.340
 But the

00:20:25.340 --> 00:20:26.380
 scripture is

00:20:26.380 --> 00:20:27.740
 involved in

00:20:27.740 --> 00:20:28.300
 the same

00:20:28.299 --> 00:20:30.460
 emptying as

00:20:30.460 --> 00:20:31.220
 the sun.

00:20:32.119 --> 00:20:32.700
 Again,

00:20:33.399 --> 00:20:34.079
 empties itself

00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:35.639
 not of

00:20:35.639 --> 00:20:36.419
 divinity,

00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:37.539
 rather the

00:20:37.539 --> 00:20:38.819
 visible manifest

00:20:38.819 --> 00:20:40.099
 marks of

00:20:40.099 --> 00:20:40.799
 its glory.

00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:42.359
 And to

00:20:42.359 --> 00:20:43.960
 appreciate this

00:20:43.960 --> 00:20:45.480
 is to

00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:47.639
 expect the

00:20:47.639 --> 00:20:48.079
 veiling,

00:20:49.000 --> 00:20:50.359
 to not

00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:51.819
 expect the

00:20:51.819 --> 00:20:52.639
 scriptures to

00:20:52.639 --> 00:20:54.500
 be perpetually

00:20:54.500 --> 00:20:55.899
 transfigured,

00:20:56.779 --> 00:20:58.200
 gleaming with

00:20:58.200 --> 00:20:58.860
 the evident

00:20:58.860 --> 00:20:59.680
 marks of

00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:00.299
 glory,

00:21:00.900 --> 00:21:02.140
 shimmering and

00:21:02.140 --> 00:21:03.039
 radiant in

00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:04.299
 manifest deity.

00:21:06.460 --> 00:21:07.360
 It was only

00:21:07.360 --> 00:21:08.960
 rarely so with

00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:09.840
 the word made

00:21:09.840 --> 00:21:10.960
 human flesh.

00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:12.039
 Think of

00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:12.360
 Jesus'

00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:13.420
 earthly career.

00:21:13.759 --> 00:21:14.920
 One brief

00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:15.860
 moment on the

00:21:15.860 --> 00:21:16.220
 Mount of

00:21:16.220 --> 00:21:17.220
 Transfiguration,

00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:18.740
 there,

00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:21.019
 then the

00:21:21.019 --> 00:21:21.580
 resurrection,

00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:22.640
 a couple of

00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:23.160
 hints,

00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:23.220
 moments,

00:21:24.160 --> 00:21:26.540
 this remarkable

00:21:26.540 --> 00:21:27.120
 instant,

00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:28.420
 perhaps a

00:21:28.420 --> 00:21:29.019
 momentary

00:21:29.019 --> 00:21:29.759
 unveiling.

00:21:30.180 --> 00:21:30.740
 Remember when

00:21:30.740 --> 00:21:31.759
 he was about

00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:32.400
 to be taken

00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:33.900
 captive in the

00:21:33.900 --> 00:21:34.320
 Garden of

00:21:34.320 --> 00:21:34.920
 Gethsemane?

00:21:35.540 --> 00:21:36.700
 I am he.

00:21:37.100 --> 00:21:37.360
 Boom.

00:21:38.019 --> 00:21:39.080
 Fall over

00:21:39.080 --> 00:21:39.420
 backwards.

00:21:39.820 --> 00:21:40.620
 Every once in

00:21:40.620 --> 00:21:40.720
 a while,

00:21:40.800 --> 00:21:42.500
 you get this

00:21:42.500 --> 00:21:44.220
 lightning bolt

00:21:44.220 --> 00:21:45.460
 that comes out

00:21:45.460 --> 00:21:46.320
 and shows you.

00:21:46.320 --> 00:21:47.140
 But for the

00:21:47.140 --> 00:21:47.880
 most part,

00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:50.040
 it's hidden.

00:21:53.540 --> 00:21:54.740
 As with

00:21:54.740 --> 00:21:56.120
 hidden in the

00:21:56.120 --> 00:21:56.980
 word made

00:21:56.980 --> 00:21:57.600
 human flesh,

00:21:57.740 --> 00:21:58.300
 should we

00:21:58.300 --> 00:21:59.460
 expect otherwise

00:21:59.460 --> 00:22:00.340
 with the

00:22:00.340 --> 00:22:01.040
 word made

00:22:01.040 --> 00:22:02.220
 human words?

00:22:02.220 --> 00:22:06.440
 It is no

00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:07.860
 accident that

00:22:07.860 --> 00:22:08.900
 the precursor

00:22:08.900 --> 00:22:09.620
 of the written

00:22:09.620 --> 00:22:10.180
 word,

00:22:10.620 --> 00:22:11.120
 the scriptures,

00:22:11.500 --> 00:22:12.079
 the spoken

00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:12.600
 and preached

00:22:12.600 --> 00:22:13.860
 word of

00:22:13.860 --> 00:22:14.940
 the apostles,

00:22:16.380 --> 00:22:16.880
 heralded by

00:22:16.880 --> 00:22:17.759
 the apostles who

00:22:17.759 --> 00:22:18.579
 gave us the

00:22:18.579 --> 00:22:19.140
 written word,

00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:21.000
 evoked the

00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:22.160
 same reaction

00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:23.460
 as the

00:22:23.460 --> 00:22:24.160
 incarnate

00:22:24.160 --> 00:22:24.640
 word.

00:22:25.460 --> 00:22:25.960
 Scandal.

00:22:27.460 --> 00:22:28.339
 As Paul

00:22:28.339 --> 00:22:28.740
 writes,

00:22:29.100 --> 00:22:30.299
 foolishness to

00:22:30.299 --> 00:22:31.059
 the Greeks

00:22:31.059 --> 00:22:32.339
 and a

00:22:32.339 --> 00:22:33.259
 scandal to

00:22:33.259 --> 00:22:33.919
 the Jews.

00:22:34.480 --> 00:22:35.159
 1 Corinthians

00:22:35.159 --> 00:22:35.980
 1.23

00:22:35.980 --> 00:22:37.839
 It did not

00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:39.919
 conform to

00:22:39.919 --> 00:22:41.159
 their associations

00:22:41.159 --> 00:22:43.240
 and expectations

00:22:43.240 --> 00:22:44.700
 of divinity.

00:22:45.619 --> 00:22:46.440
 It proclaimed

00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:46.980
 a God who

00:22:46.980 --> 00:22:48.099
 stoops,

00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:50.099
 not struts.

00:22:51.319 --> 00:22:52.179
 A king,

00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:53.659
 but one whose

00:22:53.659 --> 00:22:54.559
 crown was

00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:55.779
 of thorns.

00:22:56.940 --> 00:22:58.019
 Lifted high,

00:22:58.559 --> 00:22:59.359
 but not upon

00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:00.159
 a throne.

00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:01.960
 rather upon

00:23:01.960 --> 00:23:03.040
 a cross.

00:23:04.440 --> 00:23:05.160
 Triumphant,

00:23:05.540 --> 00:23:07.440
 not over

00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:08.140
 the Roman

00:23:08.140 --> 00:23:09.279
 occupiers,

00:23:09.700 --> 00:23:11.019
 but over

00:23:11.019 --> 00:23:12.100
 our spiritual

00:23:12.100 --> 00:23:13.160
 occupiers.

00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:14.500
 Sin,

00:23:14.860 --> 00:23:15.279
 death,

00:23:16.040 --> 00:23:16.500
 the devil.

00:23:17.660 --> 00:23:18.840
 Such a word

00:23:18.840 --> 00:23:19.380
 did not

00:23:19.380 --> 00:23:20.000
 impress.

00:23:21.120 --> 00:23:22.100
 It did not

00:23:22.100 --> 00:23:24.060
 conform to

00:23:24.060 --> 00:23:24.920
 their prior

00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:25.720
 judgments

00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:27.480
 of how it

00:23:27.480 --> 00:23:28.600
 ought to

00:23:28.600 --> 00:23:29.059
 be.

00:23:30.059 --> 00:23:30.480
 No,

00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:30.900
 no,

00:23:30.900 --> 00:23:32.059
 we know

00:23:32.059 --> 00:23:32.640
 the marks

00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:33.240
 of divinity

00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:35.059
 and that's

00:23:35.059 --> 00:23:35.960
 not it.

00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:38.220
 They would,

00:23:38.339 --> 00:23:38.839
 it seems,

00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:39.660
 have him

00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:40.360
 always

00:23:40.360 --> 00:23:41.200
 transfigured.

00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:43.559
 They did not

00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:44.440
 see the glory

00:23:44.440 --> 00:23:45.880
 of God

00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:46.500
 hidden

00:23:46.500 --> 00:23:47.420
 in his

00:23:47.420 --> 00:23:48.019
 countenance.

00:23:48.940 --> 00:23:49.779
 They stumbled

00:23:49.779 --> 00:23:50.539
 at the scandal.

00:23:50.539 --> 00:23:53.519
 It is

00:23:53.519 --> 00:23:54.339
 revealing that

00:23:54.339 --> 00:23:54.859
 when Paul

00:23:54.859 --> 00:23:55.440
 came to

00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:55.980
 Corinth,

00:23:57.399 --> 00:23:57.960
 many were

00:23:57.960 --> 00:23:58.639
 utterly

00:23:58.639 --> 00:24:00.559
 unimpressed

00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:01.879
 with him

00:24:01.879 --> 00:24:02.899
 as

00:24:02.899 --> 00:24:03.539
 word

00:24:03.539 --> 00:24:04.339
 bearer.

00:24:05.379 --> 00:24:06.180
 They thought

00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:06.899
 such a

00:24:06.899 --> 00:24:07.659
 word bearer

00:24:07.659 --> 00:24:09.619
 incongruous

00:24:09.619 --> 00:24:09.980
 with a

00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:10.420
 divine

00:24:10.420 --> 00:24:11.039
 message.

00:24:12.339 --> 00:24:12.740
 Surely

00:24:12.740 --> 00:24:13.200
 that should

00:24:13.200 --> 00:24:13.619
 come in

00:24:13.619 --> 00:24:14.220
 Ciceronian

00:24:14.220 --> 00:24:14.980
 prose when

00:24:14.980 --> 00:24:15.480
 it comes.

00:24:15.480 --> 00:24:17.220
 The

00:24:17.220 --> 00:24:17.740
 medium

00:24:17.740 --> 00:24:18.779
 did not

00:24:18.779 --> 00:24:19.620
 fit their

00:24:19.620 --> 00:24:20.640
 expectations

00:24:20.640 --> 00:24:21.259
 of a

00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:21.640
 divine

00:24:21.640 --> 00:24:22.220
 message.

00:24:23.360 --> 00:24:24.120
 But the

00:24:24.120 --> 00:24:24.920
 apostle knew

00:24:24.920 --> 00:24:26.240
 that God

00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:27.480
 conveyed

00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:29.420
 his,

00:24:30.240 --> 00:24:30.799
 you remember

00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:31.380
 the phrase,

00:24:31.500 --> 00:24:31.900
 wonderful,

00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:32.440
 isn't it?

00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:33.380
 Conveyed his

00:24:33.380 --> 00:24:34.319
 treasure

00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:36.160
 in earthen

00:24:36.160 --> 00:24:37.120
 vessels.

00:24:37.660 --> 00:24:38.220
 That is,

00:24:38.660 --> 00:24:39.299
 common

00:24:39.299 --> 00:24:39.920
 pots

00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:40.740
 of

00:24:40.740 --> 00:24:42.319
 unimpressive

00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:43.000
 clay.

00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:45.000
 Just the

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:45.680
 common

00:24:45.680 --> 00:24:46.420
 house

00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:46.880
 stuff

00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:47.640
 you keep

00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:48.680
 in the

00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:49.279
 garden.

00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:50.819
 2 Corinthians

00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:51.319
 4,

00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:52.259
 7.

00:24:53.700 --> 00:24:54.319
 And he,

00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:55.200
 Paul knew,

00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:56.319
 ironically,

00:24:57.079 --> 00:24:58.259
 that the

00:24:58.259 --> 00:25:00.180
 weakness,

00:25:01.339 --> 00:25:01.700
 fear,

00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:02.180
 and much

00:25:02.180 --> 00:25:03.200
 trembling in

00:25:03.200 --> 00:25:03.619
 which he

00:25:03.619 --> 00:25:04.140
 came to

00:25:04.140 --> 00:25:04.359
 them,

00:25:04.539 --> 00:25:05.059
 1 Corinthians

00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:05.359
 2,

00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:05.759
 3,

00:25:06.660 --> 00:25:07.440
 the weakness,

00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:08.380
 fear,

00:25:08.539 --> 00:25:09.240
 much trembling

00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:09.660
 of the

00:25:09.660 --> 00:25:10.079
 medium,

00:25:10.579 --> 00:25:10.940
 in his

00:25:10.940 --> 00:25:11.200
 case,

00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:12.019
 himself as

00:25:12.019 --> 00:25:12.480
 the messenger,

00:25:13.059 --> 00:25:13.680
 actually

00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:14.819
 did

00:25:14.819 --> 00:25:16.240
 comport

00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:16.879
 with the

00:25:16.879 --> 00:25:17.439
 message.

00:25:19.139 --> 00:25:20.419
 For both

00:25:20.419 --> 00:25:20.879
 were

00:25:20.879 --> 00:25:21.799
 cruciform.

00:25:23.439 --> 00:25:24.399
 And this

00:25:24.399 --> 00:25:24.839
 is the

00:25:24.839 --> 00:25:25.220
 point that

00:25:25.220 --> 00:25:25.559
 Paul makes

00:25:25.559 --> 00:25:25.879
 again and

00:25:25.879 --> 00:25:26.460
 again in

00:25:26.460 --> 00:25:27.200
 2 Corinthians.

00:25:27.500 --> 00:25:27.659
 No,

00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:27.819
 no,

00:25:27.819 --> 00:25:27.859
 no,

00:25:27.859 --> 00:25:28.839
 you think

00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:29.819
 that the

00:25:29.819 --> 00:25:30.480
 medium of

00:25:30.480 --> 00:25:30.919
 the message

00:25:30.919 --> 00:25:31.899
 is supposed

00:25:31.899 --> 00:25:32.399
 to be

00:25:32.399 --> 00:25:33.220
 all this

00:25:33.220 --> 00:25:34.359
 magnificent,

00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:35.079
 you know,

00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:36.000
 lovely

00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:37.539
 Grecian

00:25:37.539 --> 00:25:38.200
 phrases

00:25:38.200 --> 00:25:40.059
 of rhetoric.

00:25:40.379 --> 00:25:41.099
 But no,

00:25:41.379 --> 00:25:41.799
 it's

00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:42.379
 cruciform,

00:25:42.380 --> 00:25:43.280
 just like

00:25:43.280 --> 00:25:43.800
 the message

00:25:43.800 --> 00:25:44.300
 itself.

00:25:44.420 --> 00:25:45.020
 The medium

00:25:45.020 --> 00:25:46.140
 bears the

00:25:46.140 --> 00:25:46.840
 same marks

00:25:46.840 --> 00:25:47.380
 of the

00:25:47.380 --> 00:25:47.820
 message.

00:25:48.560 --> 00:25:48.860
 It's

00:25:48.860 --> 00:25:49.560
 cruciform,

00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:51.340
 both involved

00:25:51.340 --> 00:25:52.320
 and emptying.

00:25:53.580 --> 00:25:54.700
 In God's

00:25:54.700 --> 00:25:55.180
 wisdom,

00:25:55.900 --> 00:25:56.280
 he has

00:25:56.280 --> 00:25:57.440
 chosen to

00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:58.440
 use the

00:25:58.440 --> 00:25:59.700
 foolish things,

00:26:00.120 --> 00:26:00.900
 really those

00:26:00.900 --> 00:26:02.820
 apparently foolish

00:26:02.820 --> 00:26:03.580
 to us,

00:26:03.820 --> 00:26:04.780
 apparently foolish.

00:26:05.200 --> 00:26:06.220
 He has put

00:26:06.220 --> 00:26:07.060
 his treasure

00:26:07.060 --> 00:26:08.500
 in earthen

00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:08.920
 vessels.

00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:11.400
 the gospel

00:26:11.400 --> 00:26:12.420
 in the

00:26:12.420 --> 00:26:13.460
 words of

00:26:13.460 --> 00:26:14.340
 fig pickers

00:26:14.340 --> 00:26:15.820
 and fishermen.

00:26:16.300 --> 00:26:16.940
 That's what

00:26:16.940 --> 00:26:17.539
 he's chosen

00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:18.080
 to do.

00:26:19.080 --> 00:26:20.080
 A stumbling

00:26:20.080 --> 00:26:20.940
 block to

00:26:20.940 --> 00:26:21.960
 those scandalized.

00:26:22.060 --> 00:26:22.420
 Yet,

00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:23.100
 as he tells

00:26:23.100 --> 00:26:23.340
 us,

00:26:23.779 --> 00:26:24.460
 the power

00:26:24.460 --> 00:26:25.019
 of God

00:26:25.019 --> 00:26:25.960
 unto salvation

00:26:25.960 --> 00:26:27.100
 to them

00:26:27.100 --> 00:26:28.300
 that believe.

00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:29.860
 Romans

00:26:29.860 --> 00:26:30.500
 1.16,

00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:31.300
 1 Corinthians

00:26:31.300 --> 00:26:31.900
 1.18.

00:26:34.340 --> 00:26:34.700
 So,

00:26:35.960 --> 00:26:36.380
 in

00:26:36.380 --> 00:26:37.759
 some,

00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:39.579
 if we

00:26:39.579 --> 00:26:40.460
 appreciate

00:26:40.460 --> 00:26:41.420
 the

00:26:41.420 --> 00:26:42.099
 parallel

00:26:42.099 --> 00:26:43.240
 features

00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:44.420
 of

00:26:44.420 --> 00:26:45.480
 incarnation

00:26:45.480 --> 00:26:46.859
 and

00:26:46.859 --> 00:26:48.700
 inscripturation,

00:26:49.700 --> 00:26:51.059
 the word

00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:52.160
 made flesh

00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:53.039
 and the

00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:53.700
 word made

00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:54.619
 words,

00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:56.559
 and grasp

00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:57.299
 some of

00:26:57.299 --> 00:26:58.259
 the implications

00:26:58.259 --> 00:26:59.359
 of the

00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:00.240
 emptying

00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:01.500
 involved,

00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:02.960
 while this

00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:03.379
 does not

00:27:03.379 --> 00:27:03.879
 clear up

00:27:03.879 --> 00:27:04.279
 all the

00:27:04.279 --> 00:27:04.839
 problems,

00:27:04.839 --> 00:27:07.439
 it helps

00:27:07.439 --> 00:27:08.459
 us understand

00:27:08.459 --> 00:27:09.839
 why we

00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:10.879
 might expect

00:27:10.879 --> 00:27:11.199
 them,

00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:13.099
 why we

00:27:13.099 --> 00:27:14.019
 would expect

00:27:14.019 --> 00:27:14.899
 scripture's

00:27:14.899 --> 00:27:15.599
 divinity

00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:17.059
 to be

00:27:17.059 --> 00:27:17.599
 veiled

00:27:17.599 --> 00:27:18.539
 in its

00:27:18.539 --> 00:27:19.059
 humanity.

00:27:21.659 --> 00:27:22.500
 So,

00:27:22.779 --> 00:27:24.059
 will we

00:27:24.059 --> 00:27:24.659
 be led

00:27:24.659 --> 00:27:25.279
 astray

00:27:25.279 --> 00:27:26.859
 by misguided

00:27:26.859 --> 00:27:27.779
 expectations?

00:27:27.779 --> 00:27:30.440
 let us

00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:31.160
 not,

00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:32.200
 with respect

00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:32.839
 to scripture,

00:27:33.180 --> 00:27:33.500
 be as

00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:34.119
 those who

00:27:34.119 --> 00:27:35.039
 looked for

00:27:35.039 --> 00:27:35.720
 Messiah

00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:36.619
 in a

00:27:36.619 --> 00:27:37.579
 mold quite

00:27:37.579 --> 00:27:38.399
 foreign

00:27:38.399 --> 00:27:39.559
 to God's

00:27:39.559 --> 00:27:40.019
 purpose

00:27:40.019 --> 00:27:40.879
 and Christ's

00:27:40.879 --> 00:27:41.480
 reality.

00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:43.539
 Let us

00:27:43.539 --> 00:27:44.319
 not be

00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:45.039
 among those

00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:46.019
 scandalized

00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:46.480
 by the

00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:47.019
 jarring

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:47.839
 contrast

00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:49.379
 of the

00:27:49.379 --> 00:27:50.000
 Christ

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:51.539
 with their

00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:52.779
 conceptions

00:27:52.779 --> 00:27:53.579
 of what

00:27:53.579 --> 00:27:54.200
 the Christ

00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:54.920
 should

00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:55.379
 surely

00:27:55.379 --> 00:27:55.920
 be.

00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:59.560
 eke

00:27:59.560 --> 00:28:00.560
 homo,

00:28:01.740 --> 00:28:02.500
 behold

00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:03.700
 the man,

00:28:04.180 --> 00:28:04.660
 there he

00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:05.080
 was,

00:28:07.700 --> 00:28:08.460
 deity

00:28:08.460 --> 00:28:09.440
 verily

00:28:09.440 --> 00:28:10.700
 though

00:28:10.700 --> 00:28:11.200
 veiled,

00:28:13.340 --> 00:28:13.800
 eke

00:28:13.800 --> 00:28:16.440
 logos,

00:28:17.320 --> 00:28:18.039
 behold

00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:19.820
 the word,

00:28:20.740 --> 00:28:21.160
 deity

00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:22.200
 verily

00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:23.160
 though

00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:23.640
 veiled,

00:28:24.320 --> 00:28:25.039
 same

00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:25.519
 case.

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:27.800
 well,

00:28:28.200 --> 00:28:28.779
 let me

00:28:28.779 --> 00:28:29.300
 pause

00:28:29.300 --> 00:28:29.680
 there

00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:32.600
 and

00:28:32.600 --> 00:28:32.980
 throw it

00:28:32.980 --> 00:28:33.279
 open

00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:34.560
 for any

00:28:34.560 --> 00:28:35.220
 questions,

00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:37.100
 comments,

00:28:37.340 --> 00:28:38.019
 clarifications,

00:28:38.180 --> 00:28:38.920
 maybe cavils,

00:28:39.160 --> 00:28:39.560
 who knows,

00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:40.120
 that's fine

00:28:40.120 --> 00:28:40.380
 too,

00:28:40.560 --> 00:28:40.980
 that's fine

00:28:40.980 --> 00:28:41.259
 too,

00:28:41.840 --> 00:28:43.320
 and to

00:28:43.320 --> 00:28:43.720
 make sure

00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:44.820
 that we're

00:28:44.820 --> 00:28:45.460
 on the

00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:46.019
 same page

00:28:46.019 --> 00:28:46.320
 here,

00:28:46.580 --> 00:28:46.880
 or at

00:28:46.880 --> 00:28:47.360
 least see

00:28:47.360 --> 00:28:48.000
 these pages,

00:28:48.620 --> 00:28:50.420
 and then

00:28:50.420 --> 00:28:50.920
 after a little

00:28:50.920 --> 00:28:51.560
 time we'll

00:28:51.560 --> 00:28:52.279
 continue on

00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:53.440
 considering some

00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:54.300
 other practicals

00:28:54.299 --> 00:28:54.759
 of what

00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:55.099
 happens if

00:28:55.099 --> 00:28:55.359
 we still

00:28:55.359 --> 00:28:55.519
 have

00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:55.940
 problems,

00:28:55.940 --> 00:28:56.480
 what are

00:28:56.480 --> 00:28:56.639
 some

00:28:56.639 --> 00:28:57.000
 stances

00:28:57.000 --> 00:28:57.339
 that we

00:28:57.339 --> 00:28:57.599
 want to

00:28:57.599 --> 00:28:57.779
 take.

00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:58.539
 So any

00:28:58.539 --> 00:29:01.519
 comments or

00:29:01.519 --> 00:29:02.079
 questions or

00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:03.220
 clarifying,

00:29:03.460 --> 00:29:04.159
 does this make

00:29:04.159 --> 00:29:05.960
 any sense?

00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:10.240
 what you're

00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:10.920
 saying makes a

00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:11.500
 lot of sense

00:29:11.500 --> 00:29:12.160
 to me because

00:29:12.160 --> 00:29:12.600
 I really

00:29:12.600 --> 00:29:13.640
 struggle with

00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:14.799
 when you

00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:15.900
 know the

00:29:15.900 --> 00:29:16.660
 glory of

00:29:16.660 --> 00:29:16.960
 God,

00:29:17.100 --> 00:29:17.900
 I mean in

00:29:17.900 --> 00:29:18.640
 your head you

00:29:18.640 --> 00:29:19.740
 know the

00:29:19.740 --> 00:29:20.279
 glory of

00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:20.519
 God,

00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:21.519
 but you

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:22.660
 don't feel

00:29:22.660 --> 00:29:23.460
 the glory of

00:29:23.460 --> 00:29:23.660
 God,

00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:24.559
 even this

00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:24.960
 week I've

00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:25.460
 been struggling

00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:26.140
 with that all

00:29:26.140 --> 00:29:26.620
 week long,

00:29:26.700 --> 00:29:26.960
 it's like,

00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:28.100
 why do I

00:29:28.100 --> 00:29:29.579
 know how

00:29:29.579 --> 00:29:30.960
 magnificent

00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.779
 God is as

00:29:31.779 --> 00:29:32.279
 much as I

00:29:32.279 --> 00:29:32.420
 think?

00:29:32.420 --> 00:29:34.340
 But how

00:29:34.340 --> 00:29:34.759
 does it not

00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:35.640
 translate into

00:29:35.640 --> 00:29:36.720
 my soul as

00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:37.340
 well as it

00:29:37.340 --> 00:29:37.660
 should?

00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:38.420
 And I think

00:29:38.420 --> 00:29:39.140
 this is why,

00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:40.340
 so I'm really

00:29:40.340 --> 00:29:40.700
 glad.

00:29:40.860 --> 00:29:41.019
 Yeah,

00:29:41.140 --> 00:29:41.220
 yeah,

00:29:41.220 --> 00:29:41.480
 okay,

00:29:41.660 --> 00:29:41.840
 good,

00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:42.200
 yes.

00:29:42.200 --> 00:29:44.380
 He did this

00:29:44.380 --> 00:29:45.000
 on purpose

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:46.480
 so that we

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:47.820
 could come

00:29:47.820 --> 00:29:48.360
 to him,

00:29:48.840 --> 00:29:49.440
 yet bring

00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:50.279
 himself down

00:29:50.279 --> 00:29:50.600
 to our

00:29:50.600 --> 00:29:51.080
 terms,

00:29:51.279 --> 00:29:52.320
 which is

00:29:52.320 --> 00:29:53.240
 wonderful and

00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:53.759
 beautiful that

00:29:53.759 --> 00:29:54.300
 he did,

00:29:54.400 --> 00:29:55.039
 but it helps

00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:55.800
 me understand

00:29:55.800 --> 00:29:56.900
 that my

00:29:56.900 --> 00:29:57.580
 soul wants

00:29:57.580 --> 00:29:59.200
 to get

00:29:59.200 --> 00:29:59.640
 more.

00:29:59.779 --> 00:30:00.140
 Yes,

00:30:00.259 --> 00:30:00.759
 yeah.

00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:01.920
 Yeah,

00:30:02.059 --> 00:30:02.700
 absolutely.

00:30:03.140 --> 00:30:03.740
 And again,

00:30:04.140 --> 00:30:05.980
 it's probably

00:30:05.980 --> 00:30:06.619
 vital,

00:30:07.660 --> 00:30:08.700
 it's probably

00:30:08.700 --> 00:30:09.839
 necessary that

00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:10.259
 something,

00:30:10.940 --> 00:30:11.539
 you have to be

00:30:11.539 --> 00:30:12.059
 careful about

00:30:12.059 --> 00:30:12.519
 talking about

00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:13.279
 necessity when

00:30:13.279 --> 00:30:13.720
 it comes to

00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:13.980
 God,

00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:14.900
 better to say

00:30:14.900 --> 00:30:15.500
 fitting,

00:30:16.000 --> 00:30:17.279
 it seems

00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:18.759
 very fitting

00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:19.379
 and maybe

00:30:19.379 --> 00:30:20.299
 necessary.

00:30:22.859 --> 00:30:23.640
 Think again

00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:24.039
 of the parallel

00:30:24.039 --> 00:30:24.579
 case of the

00:30:24.579 --> 00:30:25.079
 incarnation.

00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:28.279
 So many,

00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:28.599
 many,

00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:29.319
 many people

00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:30.539
 will talk

00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:30.720
 about,

00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:31.000
 what they

00:30:31.000 --> 00:30:31.400
 call the

00:30:31.400 --> 00:30:31.960
 scandal

00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:32.200
 of

00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:33.220
 particularity.

00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:34.539
 They'll

00:30:34.539 --> 00:30:34.819
 say,

00:30:35.559 --> 00:30:35.700
 wait,

00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:36.059
 you

00:30:36.059 --> 00:30:36.700
 Christians

00:30:36.700 --> 00:30:37.119
 are,

00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:39.660
 you point

00:30:39.660 --> 00:30:40.279
 to something

00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:41.680
 so local

00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:43.059
 and you

00:30:43.059 --> 00:30:43.799
 suggest it's

00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:44.539
 of universal

00:30:44.539 --> 00:30:45.339
 significance.

00:30:46.420 --> 00:30:47.200
 You're

00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:48.099
 talking about

00:30:48.099 --> 00:30:49.200
 some person

00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:49.759
 who's a

00:30:49.759 --> 00:30:50.799
 Galilean,

00:30:50.900 --> 00:30:51.079
 you know,

00:30:51.140 --> 00:30:52.259
 a long time

00:30:52.259 --> 00:30:52.640
 ago,

00:30:52.740 --> 00:30:53.220
 in a place

00:30:53.220 --> 00:30:54.180
 far away,

00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:55.059
 and how can

00:30:55.059 --> 00:30:55.779
 something so

00:30:55.779 --> 00:30:56.799
 particular

00:30:56.799 --> 00:30:58.359
 be of

00:30:58.359 --> 00:30:59.059
 universal

00:30:59.059 --> 00:30:59.759
 significance?

00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:03.879
 it's what

00:31:03.879 --> 00:31:04.319
 philosophers

00:31:04.319 --> 00:31:04.759
 call the

00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:05.160
 scandal

00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:05.359
 of

00:31:05.359 --> 00:31:05.839
 particular.

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:06.920
 But if

00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:07.640
 you understand

00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:08.140
 what is

00:31:08.140 --> 00:31:09.059
 actually being

00:31:09.059 --> 00:31:09.640
 done,

00:31:10.579 --> 00:31:11.160
 it's

00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:11.839
 critical

00:31:11.839 --> 00:31:13.240
 that

00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:15.079
 Jesus

00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:17.039
 became a

00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:17.339
 true,

00:31:17.420 --> 00:31:18.220
 that the

00:31:18.220 --> 00:31:19.200
 Son became

00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:20.619
 a true

00:31:20.619 --> 00:31:21.640
 human

00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:22.220
 person.

00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:22.279
 person.

00:31:23.700 --> 00:31:24.700
 And in

00:31:24.700 --> 00:31:25.519
 order to

00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:26.400
 do that,

00:31:27.140 --> 00:31:28.640
 you have

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:29.120
 to be

00:31:29.120 --> 00:31:29.720
 particular,

00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:30.559
 because there's

00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:31.100
 no such

00:31:31.100 --> 00:31:32.220
 thing as a

00:31:32.220 --> 00:31:32.740
 generic,

00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:33.559
 universal

00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:34.160
 person.

00:31:34.839 --> 00:31:35.299
 There just

00:31:35.299 --> 00:31:35.860
 isn't.

00:31:36.360 --> 00:31:37.140
 People only

00:31:37.140 --> 00:31:38.220
 come in

00:31:38.220 --> 00:31:39.240
 particular

00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:39.860
 cases.

00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:41.299
 So insofar

00:31:41.299 --> 00:31:42.039
 as God

00:31:42.039 --> 00:31:42.559
 wants to

00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:43.160
 become a

00:31:43.160 --> 00:31:44.299
 person,

00:31:45.019 --> 00:31:46.200
 it has to

00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:46.880
 have all

00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:47.600
 the particular

00:31:47.600 --> 00:31:49.019
ities of

00:31:49.019 --> 00:31:49.559
 what people

00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:49.819
 do.

00:31:49.819 --> 00:31:50.539
 he had

00:31:50.539 --> 00:31:50.839
 to be

00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:51.079
 from

00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:51.720
 somewhere,

00:31:52.179 --> 00:31:52.639
 so he

00:31:52.639 --> 00:31:52.980
 was from

00:31:52.980 --> 00:31:53.379
 Galilee.

00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:54.019
 He had

00:31:54.019 --> 00:31:54.480
 to be a

00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:54.819
 gender,

00:31:55.299 --> 00:31:55.679
 so he

00:31:55.679 --> 00:31:56.279
 was male.

00:31:56.539 --> 00:31:57.139
 He had

00:31:57.139 --> 00:31:59.659
 to speak

00:31:59.659 --> 00:31:59.960
 some

00:31:59.960 --> 00:32:00.559
 language,

00:32:00.960 --> 00:32:01.639
 culture,

00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:02.220
 so he

00:32:02.220 --> 00:32:02.759
 had accent.

00:32:03.299 --> 00:32:03.720
 He had

00:32:03.720 --> 00:32:04.259
 body odor.

00:32:04.379 --> 00:32:04.659
 He had

00:32:04.659 --> 00:32:04.980
 all these

00:32:04.980 --> 00:32:05.159
 things.

00:32:05.619 --> 00:32:07.819
 But in

00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:08.419
 order for

00:32:08.419 --> 00:32:08.720
 him to

00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:09.679
 identify with

00:32:09.679 --> 00:32:10.059
 us as

00:32:10.059 --> 00:32:10.519
 humanity,

00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:11.559
 he had

00:32:11.559 --> 00:32:12.059
 to be

00:32:12.059 --> 00:32:12.399
 that.

00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:13.880
 so it

00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:14.500
 had to

00:32:14.500 --> 00:32:14.960
 be some

00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:16.519
 place that

00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:19.300
 seemed so

00:32:19.300 --> 00:32:20.180
 parochial.

00:32:21.600 --> 00:32:21.860
 So the

00:32:21.860 --> 00:32:23.060
 claim that

00:32:23.060 --> 00:32:23.440
 this thing

00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:24.460
 so parochial

00:32:24.460 --> 00:32:25.060
 actually has

00:32:25.060 --> 00:32:25.740
 universal

00:32:25.740 --> 00:32:26.660
 significance is

00:32:26.660 --> 00:32:27.100
 hard to

00:32:27.100 --> 00:32:27.400
 swallow.

00:32:27.540 --> 00:32:27.840
 But if you

00:32:27.840 --> 00:32:28.160
 figure out,

00:32:28.320 --> 00:32:28.900
 it had to

00:32:28.900 --> 00:32:29.320
 be that

00:32:29.320 --> 00:32:29.680
 way.

00:32:30.540 --> 00:32:30.940
 What do

00:32:30.940 --> 00:32:31.060
 you

00:32:31.060 --> 00:32:31.519
 Enlightenment

00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:32.220
 people want?

00:32:32.460 --> 00:32:33.060
 What is a

00:32:33.060 --> 00:32:33.680
 generic person?

00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:46.200
 Exactly.

00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:46.380
 He didn't

00:32:46.380 --> 00:32:46.840
 pay the

00:32:46.840 --> 00:32:47.620
 debt to

00:32:47.620 --> 00:32:47.980
 God.

00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:48.440
 Yes.

00:32:48.539 --> 00:32:49.060
 Because we

00:32:49.060 --> 00:32:49.560
 couldn't do

00:32:49.560 --> 00:32:49.680
 it.

00:32:49.700 --> 00:32:50.180
 Exactly.

00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:50.840
 Exactly.

00:32:51.100 --> 00:32:52.140
 Not Ambrose,

00:32:52.340 --> 00:32:53.000
 but Anselm.

00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:54.000
 I suffer

00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:56.240
 from depression

00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:57.620
 and I

00:32:57.620 --> 00:32:58.779
 pray or

00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:59.860
 we were on

00:32:59.860 --> 00:33:00.240
 a ride

00:33:00.240 --> 00:33:00.900
 yesterday and

00:33:00.900 --> 00:33:01.360
 we talk

00:33:01.360 --> 00:33:02.440
 godly talk

00:33:02.440 --> 00:33:03.140
 and I

00:33:03.140 --> 00:33:03.560
 gotta tell

00:33:03.560 --> 00:33:03.660
 you,

00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:04.240
 after our

00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:04.779
 walk and

00:33:04.779 --> 00:33:05.220
 after our

00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:05.460
 lunch,

00:33:05.539 --> 00:33:05.960
 I still

00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:06.440
 felt like

00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:06.820
 garbage.

00:33:08.320 --> 00:33:09.120
 Gotta find

00:33:09.120 --> 00:33:09.360
 a better

00:33:09.360 --> 00:33:09.660
 friend,

00:33:09.779 --> 00:33:09.920
 Raul,

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:10.279
 who can

00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:16.060
 I don't

00:33:16.060 --> 00:33:16.660
 feel good

00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:17.000
 all that.

00:33:17.080 --> 00:33:17.600
 Sometimes I

00:33:17.600 --> 00:33:18.180
 go to church

00:33:18.180 --> 00:33:18.480
 and I

00:33:18.480 --> 00:33:19.519
 leave flat.

00:33:20.980 --> 00:33:21.759
 That's God

00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:22.340
 working in

00:33:22.340 --> 00:33:23.660
 that sanctification.

00:33:24.620 --> 00:33:24.779
 Yeah.

00:33:25.060 --> 00:33:25.259
 Yeah.

00:33:25.779 --> 00:33:26.080
 Yeah.

00:33:27.060 --> 00:33:27.539
 Yeah.

00:33:27.660 --> 00:33:27.820
 Yeah.

00:33:28.320 --> 00:33:28.640
 Oh,

00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:29.299
 let me just

00:33:29.299 --> 00:33:32.220
 notice the

00:33:32.220 --> 00:33:32.680
 incarnation,

00:33:32.840 --> 00:33:32.900
 the

00:33:32.900 --> 00:33:33.500
 particularity,

00:33:33.500 --> 00:33:33.900
 but again,

00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:34.559
 in

00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:35.279
 scripturation,

00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:36.680
 if you're

00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:37.380
 gonna put

00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:37.799
 it in

00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:38.440
 a human

00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:39.099
 language,

00:33:40.460 --> 00:33:41.279
 it's gotta

00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:42.400
 go into,

00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:43.480
 we don't

00:33:43.480 --> 00:33:44.180
 have generic

00:33:44.180 --> 00:33:44.500
 language,

00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:44.720
 you know,

00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:45.059
 what's an

00:33:45.059 --> 00:33:45.720
 angelic language,

00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:46.140
 how is an

00:33:46.140 --> 00:33:47.039
 angelic language

00:33:47.039 --> 00:33:47.359
 gonna go,

00:33:47.420 --> 00:33:47.579
 you know,

00:33:47.640 --> 00:33:47.900
 I don't,

00:33:47.900 --> 00:33:48.120
 what,

00:33:48.120 --> 00:33:48.140
 what,

00:33:48.140 --> 00:33:48.160
 what,

00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:48.720
 what,

00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:49.500
 it's gotta

00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:50.200
 go into

00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:51.259
 something that

00:33:51.259 --> 00:33:51.460
 is,

00:33:51.560 --> 00:33:51.960
 that is

00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:52.460
 particular.

00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:54.220
 It's gonna

00:33:54.220 --> 00:33:55.460
 be in

00:33:55.460 --> 00:33:56.040
 some sort

00:33:56.040 --> 00:33:56.560
 of cultural,

00:33:56.740 --> 00:33:57.280
 historical,

00:33:57.800 --> 00:33:58.180
 you know,

00:33:58.240 --> 00:34:00.140
 limitations of

00:34:00.140 --> 00:34:01.519
 fig pickers and

00:34:01.519 --> 00:34:02.100
 fishermen,

00:34:02.360 --> 00:34:02.440
 or,

00:34:02.580 --> 00:34:02.800
 you know,

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:03.580
 that's the,

00:34:03.900 --> 00:34:04.640
 it's gotta be in

00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:04.980
 some,

00:34:05.280 --> 00:34:06.120
 so that's gonna

00:34:06.120 --> 00:34:06.680
 scandal,

00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:07.960
 it's gonna

00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:09.000
 scandal everybody

00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:09.480
 coming from

00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:10.079
 some vantage

00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:10.320
 point,

00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:10.740
 and that's the

00:34:10.740 --> 00:34:10.880
 way,

00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:11.360
 if you're gonna

00:34:11.360 --> 00:34:11.860
 put it in

00:34:11.860 --> 00:34:12.420
 human words,

00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:12.880
 those are

00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:13.619
 human words,

00:34:13.619 --> 00:34:14.259
 you know,

00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:15.039
 so,

00:34:15.319 --> 00:34:15.920
 I won't forget

00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:16.099
 you,

00:34:16.259 --> 00:34:16.279
 but,

00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:17.019
 oops,

00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:17.239
 sorry,

00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:17.920
 once,

00:34:17.980 --> 00:34:18.420
 once I get

00:34:18.420 --> 00:34:18.639
 Matt,

00:34:18.739 --> 00:34:19.559
 you were just

00:34:19.559 --> 00:34:20.119
 beaten out by

00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:20.519
 Susie here,

00:34:20.579 --> 00:34:20.900
 but I'll come

00:34:20.900 --> 00:34:21.299
 back to you

00:34:21.299 --> 00:34:21.619
 as a second

00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:21.759
 Matt,

00:34:21.819 --> 00:34:21.980
 yeah,

00:34:22.259 --> 00:34:22.480
 yeah,

00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:22.619
 yeah,

00:34:22.619 --> 00:34:22.699
 yeah,

00:34:22.699 --> 00:34:22.859
 yeah.

00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:23.639
 So,

00:34:23.940 --> 00:34:24.519
 you talked

00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:25.259
 about how

00:34:25.259 --> 00:34:26.079
 both in

00:34:26.079 --> 00:34:26.920
 incarnation and

00:34:26.920 --> 00:34:27.539
 scripturation,

00:34:27.859 --> 00:34:28.739
 God's glory,

00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:29.859
 that God

00:34:29.859 --> 00:34:30.440
 removed the

00:34:30.440 --> 00:34:31.059
 visible marks

00:34:31.059 --> 00:34:31.559
 of his glory,

00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:33.480
 but isn't it

00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:34.440
 kind of paradoxical

00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:35.380
 when he also

00:34:35.380 --> 00:34:36.739
 removes his

00:34:36.739 --> 00:34:37.460
 marks of glory,

00:34:37.900 --> 00:34:38.559
 but also,

00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:40.079
 I guess,

00:34:40.799 --> 00:34:41.739
 asks us,

00:34:42.219 --> 00:34:43.099
 or requires us

00:34:43.099 --> 00:34:45.779
 to fear God and re-fear God's glory.

00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:50.119
 Like, yeah, I was just wondering

00:34:50.119 --> 00:34:52.759
 how can we then fear God

00:34:52.759 --> 00:34:54.759
 when God is...

00:34:54.759 --> 00:34:56.639
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:58.159
 Right.

00:34:58.500 --> 00:35:03.400
 Well, it is not that we have no access

00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:04.279
 to his glory,

00:35:04.279 --> 00:35:10.599
 but that becomes this progressive process

00:35:10.599 --> 00:35:13.299
 that his spirit works.

00:35:13.839 --> 00:35:15.159
 So if you were...

00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:17.199
 A good passage maybe to look at

00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:19.679
 would be in 2 Corinthians 3

00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:21.380
 where he talks about

00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:26.039
 how the spirit removes the veil.

00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:27.400
 Remember?

00:35:27.980 --> 00:35:29.639
 And a veil is over...

00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:32.299
 And it's talking about when reading Scripture

00:35:32.299 --> 00:35:33.559
 or seeing Jesus.

00:35:33.779 --> 00:35:35.039
 It's actually in this context.

00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:37.579
 And that the Holy Spirit removes a veil.

00:35:38.059 --> 00:35:39.360
 So what is actually there

00:35:39.360 --> 00:35:40.780
 but has been concealed

00:35:40.780 --> 00:35:43.820
 becomes more manifest to us.

00:35:44.140 --> 00:35:46.480
 And then he uses this image.

00:35:46.539 --> 00:35:46.780
 He says,

00:35:47.160 --> 00:35:51.380
 it is as if we gaze at Christ

00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:52.840
 as in a mirror.

00:35:53.099 --> 00:35:57.960
 And we take on that image of glory

00:35:57.960 --> 00:35:59.519
 from one degree of glory to the next.

00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:06.900
 So that as we behold his glory,

00:36:07.860 --> 00:36:12.599
 we become more and more like that

00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:14.800
 as we behold the glory of God

00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:16.599
 in the face of Jesus Christ.

00:36:16.820 --> 00:36:20.360
 So there is this progressive revealing to us.

00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:21.280
 And some of it,

00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:23.199
 again, it's an unveiling.

00:36:24.259 --> 00:36:26.679
 Maybe we didn't see any glory in the cross.

00:36:26.679 --> 00:36:27.599
 I mean, how could you?

00:36:27.659 --> 00:36:29.519
 It's not evident how that would be glorious.

00:36:30.399 --> 00:36:31.919
 But as we come to appreciate

00:36:31.919 --> 00:36:34.500
 and the spirit actually takes the veils off our eyes

00:36:34.500 --> 00:36:36.940
 and we see that that actually,

00:36:37.460 --> 00:36:38.099
 the cross.

00:36:38.739 --> 00:36:41.239
 When Jesus says in John 17, 3,

00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:42.039
 he says,

00:36:42.299 --> 00:36:43.960
 Father, glorify me now.

00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:47.119
 He's actually talking about the cross.

00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:49.440
 Not that after the cross,

00:36:49.579 --> 00:36:50.559
 I'm going to get through that

00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:51.859
 and that's not going to be very glorious.

00:36:51.860 --> 00:36:53.720
 Then I'll be glorified.

00:36:54.300 --> 00:36:56.980
 But the cross is actually the apogee,

00:36:57.240 --> 00:36:59.320
 the high point of his glory.

00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:01.880
 That's the most concentrated manifestation

00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:03.640
 of what God is like.

00:37:04.820 --> 00:37:08.420
 But we wouldn't see that as glorious at first,

00:37:08.500 --> 00:37:10.260
 certainly not in the culture in which it happened.

00:37:10.820 --> 00:37:12.900
 You wouldn't even speak of crucifixion

00:37:12.900 --> 00:37:13.820
 in polite company.

00:37:13.820 --> 00:37:18.660
 But as the spirit gives us eyes to see,

00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:21.460
 kind of like he did Saul of Tarsus,

00:37:22.080 --> 00:37:24.380
 and that thing that was so contemptible and horrid

00:37:24.380 --> 00:37:26.280
 and even blasphemous at the suggestion

00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:29.500
 became something in which he gloried in.

00:37:30.019 --> 00:37:31.860
 Glory alone in the cross of Christ.

00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:34.440
 So that's kind of how that works.

00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:35.440
 Matt, you had one.

00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:39.900
 Your class so far has reminded me

00:37:39.900 --> 00:37:44.679
 of a type of stumbling block for some people.

00:37:45.579 --> 00:37:48.960
 Oh, scripture just seems so banal or mundane

00:37:48.960 --> 00:37:52.519
 or doesn't relate to anything I care about.

00:37:53.079 --> 00:37:54.960
 And somebody might point, for example,

00:37:55.099 --> 00:37:57.980
 to a lot of the book of Leviticus.

00:37:58.619 --> 00:37:59.920
 Do this with the liver.

00:38:00.099 --> 00:38:00.860
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:38:01.720 --> 00:38:03.380
 How can this be the word of God?

00:38:03.380 --> 00:38:04.039
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:06.259
 So I appreciate that.

00:38:07.059 --> 00:38:09.500
 Though that's not what I typically think about.

00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:13.619
 I, you know, wrestle in this regard more with,

00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:15.880
 I'll use an example of Genesis 1,

00:38:16.059 --> 00:38:17.380
 which is I look at it,

00:38:17.460 --> 00:38:21.079
 oh, you know, very beautiful poem

00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:22.960
 or a piece of literature,

00:38:23.759 --> 00:38:27.259
 you know, that Cicero, you know.

00:38:27.279 --> 00:38:27.880
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:30.719
 I don't have any problem with the formula

00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:32.039
 like I do with Leviticus.

00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:33.779
 My problem is with the context.

00:38:33.780 --> 00:38:34.519
 Right, right, right, right.

00:38:34.540 --> 00:38:36.880
 How can this be the word of God?

00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:40.880
 So I think of those as two different stumbling blocks

00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:42.880
 that different people might have.

00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:43.120
 Right.

00:38:43.360 --> 00:38:46.160
 And again, content, I mean, form and content.

00:38:46.740 --> 00:38:50.260
 Some of the things that Jesus said were scandalous.

00:38:50.500 --> 00:38:53.000
 There's the content, too, not just his appearance.

00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:55.160
 Appearance is the total.

00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:56.839
 You know, so I don't want to,

00:38:57.079 --> 00:39:01.319
 I don't think that these principles ignore content at all.

00:39:01.699 --> 00:39:05.940
 I think that they take up content also.

00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:11.759
 But let me just pick up a couple more points.

00:39:12.259 --> 00:39:13.799
 Within this framework,

00:39:14.259 --> 00:39:17.759
 how might we respond when we encounter difficulties?

00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:20.880
 In other words, when Scripture seems not at all divine,

00:39:21.940 --> 00:39:24.300
 but merely human, all too human,

00:39:25.180 --> 00:39:28.480
 how do we respond when we find ourselves there?

00:39:28.720 --> 00:39:31.300
 Well, I want to propose that we respond with,

00:39:31.860 --> 00:39:33.940
 first, faith.

00:39:35.580 --> 00:39:36.480
 Trust him,

00:39:37.820 --> 00:39:40.540
 even in the midst of unanswered questions.

00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:45.019
 May our attitude be as the anguished father

00:39:45.019 --> 00:39:46.980
 of the demon-possessed boy.

00:39:47.880 --> 00:39:49.059
 I believe, Lord.

00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:52.920
 Help me overcome my unbelief.

00:39:53.619 --> 00:39:54.699
 Mark 9, 24.

00:39:56.779 --> 00:39:59.820
 And there is a way to question

00:39:59.820 --> 00:40:03.360
 within a framework of faith,

00:40:03.900 --> 00:40:07.960
 as with Mary to the angel at the Annunciation.

00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:09.139
 Remember?

00:40:09.139 --> 00:40:09.259
 Remember?

00:40:09.879 --> 00:40:11.440
 How can these things be?

00:40:11.859 --> 00:40:13.980
 She said, Luke 1, 34.

00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:16.079
 Full of faith,

00:40:16.699 --> 00:40:18.619
 despite honest questions.

00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:20.719
 How can these things be?

00:40:21.259 --> 00:40:21.539
 It's interesting.

00:40:21.879 --> 00:40:25.920
 Virtually the same question was uttered by Sarah,

00:40:27.139 --> 00:40:28.679
 Abraham and Sarah, Sarah,

00:40:29.159 --> 00:40:30.279
 in Genesis 18.

00:40:30.659 --> 00:40:30.980
 Remember?

00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:31.940
 You will bear a child.

00:40:32.019 --> 00:40:32.920
 Ha ha, she laughs.

00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:35.400
 That's never going to happen.

00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:37.879
 Or Zachariah.

00:40:37.880 --> 00:40:40.039
 Remember when it's revealed

00:40:40.039 --> 00:40:43.700
 that Elizabeth is going to bear a child.

00:40:44.500 --> 00:40:49.440
 And they're reproved for their attitude.

00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:52.000
 So there is a way that you can ask questions

00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:53.119
 within a framework of faith.

00:40:53.260 --> 00:40:57.440
 And then there's a way that is different from that.

00:40:57.440 --> 00:41:00.440
 So when the...

00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:03.740
 So do you think that in Luke,

00:41:03.880 --> 00:41:07.099
 Zachariah asked the angel along the way,

00:41:07.320 --> 00:41:09.500
 and then Mary did it the right way?

00:41:09.500 --> 00:41:09.800
 Yes.

00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:11.300
 Because he was made mute,

00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:12.380
 but she wasn't.

00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:12.800
 Yes.

00:41:12.900 --> 00:41:15.579
 And both of them questioned what was happening.

00:41:15.720 --> 00:41:16.039
 Yes.

00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:17.539
 And they never understood that.

00:41:17.599 --> 00:41:18.260
 Yeah, yeah.

00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:19.559
 It's a different attitude.

00:41:19.780 --> 00:41:21.440
 One comes from faith.

00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:22.659
 A faith.

00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:24.679
 And again, with Sarah,

00:41:24.800 --> 00:41:26.320
 hey, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, Sarah,

00:41:27.320 --> 00:41:29.079
 nothing's impossible with God.

00:41:30.860 --> 00:41:31.579
 So...

00:41:31.579 --> 00:41:35.639
 And I think Mary knew that and trusted

00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:37.260
 if you read the Magnificat,

00:41:37.700 --> 00:41:38.840
 you know, what she says,

00:41:38.900 --> 00:41:39.940
 it becomes clear.

00:41:40.099 --> 00:41:40.599
 But she just said,

00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:41.559
 okay, how?

00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:42.480
 What am I supposed to do?

00:41:42.579 --> 00:41:43.980
 I mean, I am a virgin.

00:41:44.980 --> 00:41:46.860
 So, yeah, very different attitude.

00:41:46.860 --> 00:41:48.760
 So we can ask our questions,

00:41:48.920 --> 00:41:51.140
 but within a framework of faith.

00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:55.240
 And, you know,

00:41:55.340 --> 00:41:57.180
 when the Bible seems nothing but human

00:41:57.180 --> 00:41:59.360
 and we can't see the divine,

00:41:59.780 --> 00:42:01.740
 don't be scandalized and stumble.

00:42:02.400 --> 00:42:03.740
 As Jesus says,

00:42:04.099 --> 00:42:06.700
 blessed is he who does not stumble at me.

00:42:07.260 --> 00:42:08.380
 Matthew 11, 6.

00:42:09.480 --> 00:42:12.220
 So when we find ourselves standing in a fog

00:42:12.220 --> 00:42:13.820
 that we can't see through,

00:42:13.820 --> 00:42:17.559
 let's remember ourselves

00:42:17.559 --> 00:42:21.500
 that we stand upon rock.

00:42:22.120 --> 00:42:23.720
 His word to us.

00:42:24.080 --> 00:42:24.980
 Matthew 7, what is it?

00:42:25.019 --> 00:42:25.480
 22.

00:42:26.059 --> 00:42:27.059
 You know, his words.

00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:28.240
 That's the rock.

00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:31.400
 And remember, in his case,

00:42:33.320 --> 00:42:35.460
 the verily amen

00:42:35.460 --> 00:42:41.660
 was not uttered by his hearers in judgment.

00:42:41.659 --> 00:42:46.259
 That judgment he has already rendered.

00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:49.399
 Remember, Jesus often says,

00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:50.819
 contrary to the custom,

00:42:51.859 --> 00:42:52.659
 verily amen,

00:42:53.159 --> 00:42:55.259
 surely, assuredly, I say to you,

00:42:55.379 --> 00:42:56.299
 and we all, you know,

00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:58.000
 and then he'd make a statement.

00:42:58.599 --> 00:43:00.099
 Usually somebody would make a statement,

00:43:00.319 --> 00:43:01.159
 and if people, you know,

00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:02.019
 we kind of do this now,

00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:02.559
 and if people thought,

00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:03.359
 yeah, that seems right,

00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:05.199
 amen, verily, it's true.

00:43:06.359 --> 00:43:07.639
 Jesus does it differently.

00:43:08.099 --> 00:43:09.379
 He just starts his statement,

00:43:09.699 --> 00:43:10.480
 verily amen,

00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:11.800
 and then just says it.

00:43:12.139 --> 00:43:13.360
 You know, the judgment's

00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:14.079
 already been rendered,

00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:16.320
 and we just need to remember that.

00:43:17.380 --> 00:43:18.300
 Let's trust him,

00:43:19.159 --> 00:43:20.760
 the one so worthy of our trust.

00:43:21.480 --> 00:43:22.980
 Surely, Peter's response

00:43:22.980 --> 00:43:25.519
 is well adapted to this question, too.

00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:28.599
 To whom would we go instead?

00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:30.619
 Who's more worthy of our trust?

00:43:31.820 --> 00:43:33.780
 For he alone has the words of life.

00:43:34.139 --> 00:43:35.159
 John 6, 68.

00:43:35.159 --> 00:43:39.599
 So, in our doubt-ridden quandaries,

00:43:39.879 --> 00:43:41.460
 respond in faith.

00:43:42.539 --> 00:43:44.960
 But also, let's respond in hope.

00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:46.599
 Hope.

00:43:47.739 --> 00:43:50.799
 Remember the eschatological reality

00:43:50.799 --> 00:43:52.719
 of where we are.

00:43:53.759 --> 00:43:58.119
 Now, we see through a glass darkly,

00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:00.079
 1 Corinthians 13, 12.

00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:04.199
 We see darkly.

00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:06.579
 Realize that our problems

00:44:06.579 --> 00:44:09.199
 are a calendar issue.

00:44:10.460 --> 00:44:12.759
 They will one day be resolved.

00:44:14.019 --> 00:44:17.159
 Don't demand that all be revealed

00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:20.019
 and unveiled now.

00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:22.420
 Don't demand that the Bible

00:44:22.420 --> 00:44:23.900
 be transfigured.

00:44:23.900 --> 00:44:27.579
 its glory made manifest now.

00:44:28.519 --> 00:44:29.920
 That, remember,

00:44:30.220 --> 00:44:32.940
 that was Satan's temptation

00:44:32.940 --> 00:44:36.240
 to Jesus at the temple top.

00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:39.420
 Remember, unveil yourself now.

00:44:41.200 --> 00:44:44.079
 But Jesus kept God's calendar.

00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:46.139
 Kept God's calendar.

00:44:47.139 --> 00:44:48.619
 And sometimes we can show

00:44:48.619 --> 00:44:51.760
 the Corinthian immaturity.

00:44:51.900 --> 00:44:52.460
 Can we not?

00:44:52.460 --> 00:44:56.639
 They thought it was time of glory,

00:44:57.380 --> 00:44:58.380
 not suffering.

00:44:59.000 --> 00:45:00.039
 Have what theologians call

00:45:00.039 --> 00:45:02.460
 an over-realized eschatology.

00:45:02.980 --> 00:45:06.960
 And we can have over-realized expectations

00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:08.500
 about the word.

00:45:09.980 --> 00:45:10.940
 It, the word,

00:45:11.059 --> 00:45:13.599
 is in its sojourn of suffering.

00:45:14.400 --> 00:45:15.079
 It's kenosis.

00:45:16.039 --> 00:45:18.360
 It will have its vindication.

00:45:18.619 --> 00:45:20.699
 It will have its exaltation.

00:45:20.699 --> 00:45:23.859
 When it will be truly glorified.

00:45:24.480 --> 00:45:26.099
 But that is not yet.

00:45:27.819 --> 00:45:30.139
 So let's wait in hope.

00:45:31.019 --> 00:45:33.559
 Abide till I come, Jesus says.

00:45:34.199 --> 00:45:36.299
 And suffer now.

00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:37.079
 That's right.

00:45:37.859 --> 00:45:39.299
 As Jesus told his disciples,

00:45:39.300 --> 00:45:41.360
 what I am doing,

00:45:41.360 --> 00:45:41.380
 what I am doing,

00:45:41.720 --> 00:45:44.660
 you do not now understand.

00:45:45.180 --> 00:45:46.100
 But afterwards,

00:45:46.340 --> 00:45:47.700
 you will understand.

00:45:48.280 --> 00:45:49.660
 John 13, 7.

00:45:50.460 --> 00:45:52.539
 And might we not equally,

00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:53.460
 at times,

00:45:53.660 --> 00:45:54.019
 say,

00:45:54.780 --> 00:45:57.140
 what you have written,

00:45:57.300 --> 00:45:58.560
 I don't now understand.

00:45:58.559 --> 00:46:01.440
 But let's,

00:46:01.500 --> 00:46:02.219
 at such times,

00:46:02.340 --> 00:46:04.019
 remember the but afterward.

00:46:04.539 --> 00:46:05.340
 But afterward.

00:46:05.940 --> 00:46:06.539
 Afterward.

00:46:07.019 --> 00:46:07.779
 An afterward

00:46:07.779 --> 00:46:10.000
 of full understanding

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:10.579
 to come.

00:46:11.279 --> 00:46:12.139
 And be patient,

00:46:12.539 --> 00:46:13.840
 awaiting that coming day.

00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:15.840
 We can do that.

00:46:15.840 --> 00:46:17.720
 So,

00:46:17.860 --> 00:46:19.280
 we respond in faith,

00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:20.620
 and in hope,

00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:21.500
 but also,

00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:22.680
 in love.

00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:26.220
 We got problems

00:46:26.220 --> 00:46:26.740
 with the Bible.

00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:27.519
 We got issues.

00:46:27.660 --> 00:46:27.820
 Okay,

00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:28.700
 that's fine.

00:46:28.760 --> 00:46:29.200
 We all do.

00:46:29.900 --> 00:46:31.200
 Busy yourself,

00:46:32.120 --> 00:46:33.140
 loving God,

00:46:33.300 --> 00:46:33.880
 and neighbor.

00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:37.100
 This is the best environment

00:46:37.100 --> 00:46:38.960
 for truth

00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:40.320
 to prevail

00:46:40.320 --> 00:46:41.240
 and get rooted

00:46:41.240 --> 00:46:42.019
 in your life.

00:46:42.019 --> 00:46:43.800
 certainly,

00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:44.679
 it doesn't happen

00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:45.840
 by obsessing

00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:46.920
 over the problem.

00:46:48.780 --> 00:46:50.320
 2 Timothy 1, 13

00:46:50.320 --> 00:46:51.420
 is relevant here,

00:46:51.759 --> 00:46:52.360
 where he says,

00:46:52.739 --> 00:46:54.179
 retain the standard

00:46:54.179 --> 00:46:55.079
 of sound words,

00:46:55.139 --> 00:46:56.179
 he's talking about truth,

00:46:57.139 --> 00:46:57.739
 in,

00:46:57.739 --> 00:46:58.739
 in,

00:46:58.739 --> 00:46:59.420
 in,

00:46:59.420 --> 00:47:01.199
 the faith and love

00:47:01.199 --> 00:47:03.619
 which are in Christ Jesus.

00:47:04.619 --> 00:47:05.340
 In other words,

00:47:05.780 --> 00:47:06.639
 the sphere

00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:08.300
 or the environment

00:47:08.300 --> 00:47:10.579
 in which truth

00:47:10.579 --> 00:47:11.920
 is nourished

00:47:11.920 --> 00:47:14.240
 is the community

00:47:14.240 --> 00:47:15.039
 of faith

00:47:15.039 --> 00:47:17.380
 where mutual love

00:47:17.380 --> 00:47:18.280
 is at work.

00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:22.079
 And part of this,

00:47:22.300 --> 00:47:22.700
 I think,

00:47:22.940 --> 00:47:24.119
 is that there

00:47:24.119 --> 00:47:26.720
 we will be constantly

00:47:26.720 --> 00:47:28.480
 witnessing the power

00:47:28.480 --> 00:47:30.760
 of the faith

00:47:30.760 --> 00:47:31.519
 and love

00:47:31.519 --> 00:47:34.059
 born of the gospel word

00:47:34.059 --> 00:47:36.320
 that keeps transforming lives

00:47:36.320 --> 00:47:37.460
 all around us.

00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:38.639
 And that helps

00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:39.900
 to give us confidence

00:47:39.900 --> 00:47:40.619
 in that word,

00:47:40.619 --> 00:47:41.299
 even where we,

00:47:41.359 --> 00:47:42.440
 we don't quite understand

00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:43.039
 or have problems

00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:43.500
 with it.

00:47:44.819 --> 00:47:45.539
 And this,

00:47:45.940 --> 00:47:47.079
 seeing how the word

00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:48.440
 just dramatically

00:47:48.440 --> 00:47:50.139
 changed people's lives.

00:47:51.139 --> 00:47:51.659
 It's,

00:47:51.659 --> 00:47:51.699
 it's,

00:47:51.699 --> 00:47:54.039
 it's a proleptic

00:47:54.039 --> 00:47:55.380
 vindication.

00:47:55.559 --> 00:47:55.960
 In other words,

00:47:56.019 --> 00:47:56.279
 it's a,

00:47:56.400 --> 00:47:57.579
 it's a little vindication

00:47:57.579 --> 00:47:58.699
 in advance

00:47:58.699 --> 00:47:59.819
 of the final invocation.

00:47:59.960 --> 00:48:00.659
 It's kind of a sneak

00:48:00.659 --> 00:48:01.480
 preview

00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:02.739
 of the vindication

00:48:02.739 --> 00:48:04.179
 that the word

00:48:04.179 --> 00:48:05.380
 will have.

00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:06.300
 little,

00:48:06.300 --> 00:48:08.680
 little transfigurations

00:48:08.680 --> 00:48:10.559
 where the divine

00:48:10.559 --> 00:48:11.800
 shows through

00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:12.599
 the human

00:48:12.599 --> 00:48:14.000
 in advance

00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:15.440
 of the great unveiling.

00:48:18.119 --> 00:48:18.660
 In,

00:48:18.740 --> 00:48:19.440
 in the days

00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:20.500
 when biblical criticism

00:48:20.500 --> 00:48:21.420
 was harrowing

00:48:21.420 --> 00:48:21.860
 the faith

00:48:21.860 --> 00:48:22.980
 of many a Yale student

00:48:22.980 --> 00:48:24.280
 and questions

00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:25.019
 were many

00:48:25.019 --> 00:48:25.780
 and urgent

00:48:25.780 --> 00:48:26.680
 and answers

00:48:26.680 --> 00:48:27.320
 were few

00:48:27.320 --> 00:48:28.660
 and pretty slow

00:48:28.660 --> 00:48:29.280
 of arrival,

00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:31.340
 Henry B. Wright,

00:48:32.120 --> 00:48:32.700
 after whom

00:48:32.700 --> 00:48:33.340
 Wright Hall

00:48:33.340 --> 00:48:33.560
 is,

00:48:33.560 --> 00:48:34.080
 is named.

00:48:34.220 --> 00:48:35.160
 He's kind of a minister

00:48:35.160 --> 00:48:35.660
 on campus

00:48:35.660 --> 00:48:36.200
 godly man.

00:48:36.560 --> 00:48:37.580
 He observed

00:48:37.580 --> 00:48:39.400
 that amidst

00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:40.720
 all this solvents

00:48:40.720 --> 00:48:41.320
 to their faith,

00:48:41.440 --> 00:48:42.460
 what most kept

00:48:42.460 --> 00:48:43.019
 the faith

00:48:43.019 --> 00:48:43.960
 of Yale students

00:48:43.960 --> 00:48:44.700
 intact

00:48:44.700 --> 00:48:47.060
 was their involvement

00:48:47.060 --> 00:48:49.320
 in Yale Hope

00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:50.040
 Mission.

00:48:51.220 --> 00:48:52.320
 Yale Hope Mission

00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:53.180
 was where

00:48:53.180 --> 00:48:54.280
 they busied

00:48:54.280 --> 00:48:54.900
 themselves

00:48:54.900 --> 00:48:56.480
 in reaching out

00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:58.200
 in loving service

00:48:58.199 --> 00:48:59.559
 and gospel witness

00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:00.819
 to the down

00:49:00.819 --> 00:49:01.500
 and outers

00:49:01.500 --> 00:49:02.079
 as they called

00:49:02.079 --> 00:49:02.319
 them then.

00:49:02.379 --> 00:49:02.879
 We would say

00:49:02.879 --> 00:49:04.099
 the underprivileged.

00:49:04.519 --> 00:49:04.639
 Okay?

00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:07.119
 Many of whose lives

00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:08.299
 were dramatically

00:49:08.299 --> 00:49:09.339
 transformed,

00:49:10.179 --> 00:49:11.480
 just wonderfully

00:49:11.480 --> 00:49:12.239
 reclaimed.

00:49:12.859 --> 00:49:13.960
 And in the process,

00:49:14.879 --> 00:49:15.739
 the faith

00:49:15.739 --> 00:49:16.899
 of the witness

00:49:16.899 --> 00:49:17.579
 bearers

00:49:17.579 --> 00:49:18.839
 was fortified.

00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:20.559
 And it gave

00:49:20.559 --> 00:49:21.719
 them some ballast

00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:22.759
 and staying power

00:49:22.759 --> 00:49:23.839
 amidst all this

00:49:23.839 --> 00:49:24.659
 German higher

00:49:24.659 --> 00:49:25.239
 criticism

00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:25.939
 that was coming

00:49:25.939 --> 00:49:26.779
 in like a flood

00:49:26.779 --> 00:49:28.000
 and dislodging

00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:28.539
 their footing.

00:49:30.099 --> 00:49:30.679
 It was kind

00:49:30.679 --> 00:49:31.000
 of like

00:49:31.000 --> 00:49:34.440
 the man

00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:35.099
 more blind.

00:49:35.440 --> 00:49:36.059
 He's asked

00:49:36.059 --> 00:49:36.940
 all these questions

00:49:36.940 --> 00:49:39.159
 by the cross

00:49:39.159 --> 00:49:39.880
 examination.

00:49:40.219 --> 00:49:41.360
 I don't know,

00:49:41.699 --> 00:49:42.559
 but I do know

00:49:42.559 --> 00:49:43.039
 this.

00:49:43.519 --> 00:49:44.679
 I once was blind

00:49:44.679 --> 00:49:45.679
 and now I see.

00:49:46.139 --> 00:49:46.900
 And that gives you

00:49:46.900 --> 00:49:47.500
 some pretty good

00:49:47.500 --> 00:49:48.079
 ballast

00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:48.880
 in the midst

00:49:48.880 --> 00:49:49.480
 of unanswered

00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:49.980
 questions.

00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:51.019
 And if we see

00:49:51.019 --> 00:49:52.000
 that more and more

00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:52.860
 as we're busy

00:49:52.860 --> 00:49:53.780
 about loving others

00:49:53.780 --> 00:49:54.239
 and God

00:49:54.239 --> 00:49:55.179
 and the transformation

00:49:55.179 --> 00:49:56.019
 that that brings,

00:49:56.179 --> 00:49:56.699
 it'll give us

00:49:56.699 --> 00:49:57.319
 some ballast.

00:49:58.939 --> 00:49:59.339
 So,

00:49:59.439 --> 00:49:59.739
 love.

00:50:00.339 --> 00:50:00.500
 So,

00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:02.239
 faith,

00:50:02.500 --> 00:50:02.719
 hope,

00:50:02.919 --> 00:50:03.279
 love,

00:50:03.799 --> 00:50:04.859
 and finally,

00:50:05.619 --> 00:50:06.480
 humility.

00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:11.359
 Our judgments,

00:50:12.079 --> 00:50:12.259
 I mean,

00:50:12.299 --> 00:50:13.219
 we were born yesterday.

00:50:13.279 --> 00:50:14.059
 I always tell my daughters,

00:50:14.299 --> 00:50:14.779
 what do you know?

00:50:14.839 --> 00:50:15.699
 You were born yesterday.

00:50:15.819 --> 00:50:16.539
 Listen to your father.

00:50:16.539 --> 00:50:17.439
 But, you know,

00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:18.500
 our judgments

00:50:18.500 --> 00:50:19.340
 and they roll their own,

00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:20.260
 oh, gee.

00:50:20.760 --> 00:50:21.960
 Our judgments

00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:23.780
 are finite

00:50:23.780 --> 00:50:24.860
 and fallible

00:50:24.860 --> 00:50:26.340
 and deeply

00:50:26.340 --> 00:50:27.000
 dyed

00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:28.739
 by our sinfulness.

00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:31.360
 Accordingly,

00:50:32.159 --> 00:50:33.679
 epistemic humility

00:50:33.679 --> 00:50:34.679
 becomes us.

00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:35.880
 Humility about

00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:36.679
 what we can know

00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:37.760
 and how we know things.

00:50:37.980 --> 00:50:39.079
 It becomes us.

00:50:40.079 --> 00:50:41.039
 I can't see

00:50:41.039 --> 00:50:41.599
 how to solve

00:50:41.599 --> 00:50:42.760
 this particular question.

00:50:43.860 --> 00:50:44.420
 But,

00:50:44.619 --> 00:50:45.980
 why would I think

00:50:45.980 --> 00:50:47.179
 that I should be able to?

00:50:47.179 --> 00:50:48.440
 You know,

00:50:48.639 --> 00:50:49.199
 okay,

00:50:49.619 --> 00:50:50.039
 I guess,

00:50:50.199 --> 00:50:50.919
 God,

00:50:50.980 --> 00:50:51.699
 I don't need to know,

00:50:51.779 --> 00:50:52.699
 at least right now.

00:50:53.440 --> 00:50:53.639
 You know?

00:50:55.139 --> 00:50:55.619
 And,

00:50:55.719 --> 00:50:57.519
 realize that

00:50:57.519 --> 00:50:58.960
 part of our frustration

00:50:58.960 --> 00:51:00.419
 may come

00:51:00.419 --> 00:51:01.659
 from presumption.

00:51:03.339 --> 00:51:04.179
 I was just talking

00:51:04.179 --> 00:51:04.440
 to you

00:51:04.440 --> 00:51:05.579
 the other day

00:51:05.579 --> 00:51:06.039
 and,

00:51:06.239 --> 00:51:06.599
 you know,

00:51:06.619 --> 00:51:07.000
 we were talking

00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:07.559
 about the problem

00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:07.919
 of evil.

00:51:08.480 --> 00:51:08.659
 You know?

00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:09.339
 He said,

00:51:09.859 --> 00:51:10.799
 I can see

00:51:10.799 --> 00:51:11.919
 no good reason

00:51:11.919 --> 00:51:12.599
 why God

00:51:12.599 --> 00:51:13.039
 would act

00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:13.480
 or speak

00:51:13.480 --> 00:51:14.139
 in this way.

00:51:14.139 --> 00:51:16.199
 therefore,

00:51:16.359 --> 00:51:17.159
 he must have none.

00:51:18.799 --> 00:51:19.119
 Therefore,

00:51:19.199 --> 00:51:19.839
 he must have none.

00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:22.559
 I tried to gently

00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:23.460
 point this out.

00:51:24.879 --> 00:51:25.400
 But,

00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:26.579
 note

00:51:26.579 --> 00:51:27.279
 how

00:51:27.279 --> 00:51:28.400
 breathtaking

00:51:28.400 --> 00:51:30.359
 is the hidden

00:51:30.359 --> 00:51:31.319
 premise there.

00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:33.559
 God

00:51:33.559 --> 00:51:34.900
 could have

00:51:34.900 --> 00:51:35.859
 no good

00:51:35.859 --> 00:51:36.519
 reasons

00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:37.279
 for anything

00:51:37.279 --> 00:51:38.480
 that I would not

00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:39.480
 be acquainted with.

00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:41.159
 That's the hidden

00:51:41.159 --> 00:51:41.559
 premise.

00:51:41.559 --> 00:51:41.960
 you think,

00:51:42.340 --> 00:51:44.239
 that really

00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:45.259
 is breathtaking

00:51:45.259 --> 00:51:46.820
 an assumption,

00:51:47.139 --> 00:51:48.019
 a premise.

00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:49.559
 So,

00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:50.579
 sisters and brothers,

00:51:51.079 --> 00:51:52.119
 surely in these

00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:52.739
 matters,

00:51:53.159 --> 00:51:53.900
 as in most

00:51:53.900 --> 00:51:54.519
 matters,

00:51:55.039 --> 00:51:55.500
 humility

00:51:55.500 --> 00:51:56.759
 becomes us.

00:51:57.440 --> 00:51:57.820
 Humility

00:51:57.820 --> 00:51:58.739
 becomes us.

00:51:59.579 --> 00:52:00.360
 As David

00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:00.860
 reflected,

00:52:01.460 --> 00:52:02.139
 oh Lord,

00:52:02.279 --> 00:52:02.920
 my heart

00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:04.079
 is not lifted up.

00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:05.799
 My eyes

00:52:05.799 --> 00:52:06.539
 are not raised

00:52:06.539 --> 00:52:07.219
 too high.

00:52:08.299 --> 00:52:09.119
 I do not

00:52:09.119 --> 00:52:10.099
 occupy myself

00:52:10.099 --> 00:52:10.860
 with things

00:52:10.860 --> 00:52:11.860
 too great

00:52:11.860 --> 00:52:12.299
 and too

00:52:12.299 --> 00:52:12.900
 marvelous

00:52:12.900 --> 00:52:13.779
 for me.

00:52:15.059 --> 00:52:15.539
 But,

00:52:16.059 --> 00:52:16.940
 what I can do,

00:52:17.099 --> 00:52:17.920
 I can't do those

00:52:17.920 --> 00:52:18.119
 things,

00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:18.759
 but what I can do,

00:52:19.079 --> 00:52:20.139
 I have calmed

00:52:20.139 --> 00:52:21.360
 and quieted

00:52:21.360 --> 00:52:21.980
 my soul

00:52:21.980 --> 00:52:23.460
 like a weaned

00:52:23.460 --> 00:52:24.259
 child with its

00:52:24.259 --> 00:52:24.519
 mother,

00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:25.619
 like a weaned

00:52:25.619 --> 00:52:26.779
 child is my

00:52:26.779 --> 00:52:28.099
 soul within me.

00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:29.440
 Psalm 131.

00:52:30.920 --> 00:52:31.539
 So,

00:52:31.759 --> 00:52:32.739
 these four

00:52:32.739 --> 00:52:33.339
 qualities

00:52:33.339 --> 00:52:34.519
 befit us

00:52:34.519 --> 00:52:36.039
 as soul

00:52:36.039 --> 00:52:36.900
 vesture.

00:52:36.900 --> 00:52:38.400
 when we

00:52:38.400 --> 00:52:38.860
 encounter

00:52:38.860 --> 00:52:39.559
 difficulties,

00:52:39.720 --> 00:52:40.400
 stumbling blocks

00:52:40.400 --> 00:52:40.940
 in scripture,

00:52:41.220 --> 00:52:41.980
 which puzzle,

00:52:42.180 --> 00:52:42.680
 perplex,

00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:43.380
 perhaps even

00:52:43.380 --> 00:52:44.059
 pain us,

00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:46.099
 put on

00:52:46.099 --> 00:52:47.260
 faith,

00:52:47.760 --> 00:52:48.160
 hope,

00:52:48.740 --> 00:52:49.160
 love,

00:52:49.160 --> 00:52:50.519
 and humility.

00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:54.720
 But,

00:52:55.180 --> 00:52:55.940
 quickly,

00:52:56.240 --> 00:52:57.280
 there may be

00:52:57.280 --> 00:52:58.360
 some in our

00:52:58.360 --> 00:52:58.880
 company

00:52:58.880 --> 00:53:00.639
 for whom

00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:02.039
 an additional

00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:02.860
 response

00:53:02.860 --> 00:53:03.740
 might be

00:53:03.740 --> 00:53:04.039
 fitting.

00:53:04.039 --> 00:53:07.059
 that of

00:53:07.059 --> 00:53:07.980
 stewardship.

00:53:09.500 --> 00:53:10.259
 Stewardship.

00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:13.440
 For,

00:53:13.579 --> 00:53:14.440
 there may

00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:15.420
 be some

00:53:15.420 --> 00:53:16.259
 among us

00:53:16.259 --> 00:53:17.619
 whom God

00:53:17.619 --> 00:53:19.000
 has gifted

00:53:19.000 --> 00:53:21.500
 to grapple

00:53:21.500 --> 00:53:22.119
 with these

00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:22.699
 conundra,

00:53:23.639 --> 00:53:24.059
 who,

00:53:24.380 --> 00:53:24.460
 like

00:53:24.460 --> 00:53:25.739
 Odysseus,

00:53:26.119 --> 00:53:26.699
 have the

00:53:26.699 --> 00:53:27.219
 strength

00:53:27.219 --> 00:53:28.460
 and skill

00:53:28.460 --> 00:53:30.099
 to string

00:53:30.099 --> 00:53:30.940
 the bow,

00:53:31.539 --> 00:53:32.699
 pulling together

00:53:32.699 --> 00:53:33.379
 the limbs

00:53:33.379 --> 00:53:33.839
 of that

00:53:33.839 --> 00:53:34.119
 bow,

00:53:34.539 --> 00:53:35.139
 word

00:53:35.139 --> 00:53:36.500
 and world,

00:53:37.819 --> 00:53:38.839
 harmonizing

00:53:38.839 --> 00:53:39.279
 the books

00:53:39.279 --> 00:53:40.039
 of scripture

00:53:40.039 --> 00:53:41.579
 and nature,

00:53:42.819 --> 00:53:43.619
 unifying

00:53:43.619 --> 00:53:44.339
 doctrine

00:53:44.339 --> 00:53:45.299
 and data,

00:53:45.839 --> 00:53:46.460
 which seem

00:53:46.460 --> 00:53:47.319
 disparate.

00:53:48.439 --> 00:53:49.259
 One thinks

00:53:49.259 --> 00:53:49.519
 of an

00:53:49.519 --> 00:53:50.079
 Augustine,

00:53:50.859 --> 00:53:51.639
 an Aquinas,

00:53:52.099 --> 00:53:52.779
 an Edwards,

00:53:53.460 --> 00:53:54.500
 or a Sayers,

00:53:54.619 --> 00:53:55.619
 Dorothy Sayers.

00:53:56.759 --> 00:53:57.480
 Those

00:53:57.480 --> 00:53:58.359
 among God's

00:53:58.359 --> 00:53:59.119
 people who

00:53:59.119 --> 00:53:59.779
 have taken

00:53:59.779 --> 00:54:00.460
 up these

00:54:00.460 --> 00:54:00.980
 haunting

00:54:00.980 --> 00:54:01.759
 questions,

00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:02.620
 disturbing

00:54:02.620 --> 00:54:03.320
 questions,

00:54:03.440 --> 00:54:04.160
 so difficult,

00:54:04.440 --> 00:54:05.180
 and applied

00:54:05.180 --> 00:54:06.140
 themselves with

00:54:06.140 --> 00:54:07.060
 patient

00:54:07.060 --> 00:54:08.220
 thoughtfulness

00:54:08.220 --> 00:54:09.300
 to answering

00:54:09.300 --> 00:54:09.620
 them.

00:54:10.880 --> 00:54:11.620
 A favorite

00:54:11.620 --> 00:54:12.060
 image of

00:54:12.060 --> 00:54:12.660
 mine is

00:54:12.660 --> 00:54:14.020
 Botticelli's

00:54:14.020 --> 00:54:14.940
 Augustine

00:54:14.940 --> 00:54:15.440
 in his

00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:15.900
 study.

00:54:16.020 --> 00:54:16.280
 I wonder

00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:16.600
 if you've

00:54:16.600 --> 00:54:16.860
 seen it.

00:54:16.880 --> 00:54:17.200
 Go back

00:54:17.200 --> 00:54:17.580
 and Google

00:54:17.580 --> 00:54:17.740
 it.

00:54:17.780 --> 00:54:18.160
 Some Google

00:54:18.160 --> 00:54:18.520
 images.

00:54:19.080 --> 00:54:19.400
 It's a

00:54:19.400 --> 00:54:19.880
 great one.

00:54:21.640 --> 00:54:22.200
 Brow

00:54:22.200 --> 00:54:23.060
 furled

00:54:23.060 --> 00:54:23.820
 and thought.

00:54:24.420 --> 00:54:25.100
 He's bent

00:54:25.100 --> 00:54:25.600
 over his

00:54:25.600 --> 00:54:25.980
 desk,

00:54:26.160 --> 00:54:26.520
 pen in

00:54:26.520 --> 00:54:26.780
 hand,

00:54:26.940 --> 00:54:27.700
 ready pen.

00:54:28.540 --> 00:54:29.300
 The floor

00:54:29.300 --> 00:54:29.740
 around him,

00:54:29.760 --> 00:54:30.180
 this is my

00:54:30.180 --> 00:54:30.720
 favorite bit,

00:54:30.719 --> 00:54:31.339
 the floor

00:54:31.339 --> 00:54:31.819
 around him

00:54:31.819 --> 00:54:32.539
 strewn with

00:54:32.539 --> 00:54:33.259
 crumpled bits

00:54:33.259 --> 00:54:33.899
 of paper,

00:54:34.839 --> 00:54:35.579
 the discarded

00:54:35.579 --> 00:54:36.500
 relics of his

00:54:36.500 --> 00:54:37.879
 cogitations as

00:54:37.879 --> 00:54:38.219
 he keeps

00:54:38.219 --> 00:54:38.959
 upgrading them.

00:54:39.959 --> 00:54:40.579
 It's a

00:54:40.579 --> 00:54:41.719
 fantastic image.

00:54:43.099 --> 00:54:44.500
 Could yours,

00:54:44.739 --> 00:54:45.379
 I wonder,

00:54:46.339 --> 00:54:47.179
 be a similar

00:54:47.179 --> 00:54:48.939
 stewardship of

00:54:48.939 --> 00:54:50.599
 kingdom thinker?

00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:53.860
 I think of a

00:54:53.860 --> 00:54:54.819
 previous student

00:54:54.819 --> 00:54:55.619
 of the college

00:54:55.619 --> 00:54:56.219
 hard buy,

00:54:56.779 --> 00:54:58.159
 who as an

00:54:58.159 --> 00:54:58.639
 undergrad

00:54:58.639 --> 00:54:59.980
 resolved,

00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:01.480
 this is

00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:02.279
 resolution number

00:55:02.279 --> 00:55:02.579
 11,

00:55:02.659 --> 00:55:03.099
 I think he had

00:55:03.099 --> 00:55:03.920
 72 of them,

00:55:04.980 --> 00:55:06.000
 when I think

00:55:06.000 --> 00:55:06.779
 of any

00:55:06.779 --> 00:55:07.900
 difficulty in

00:55:07.900 --> 00:55:08.860
 divinity to

00:55:08.860 --> 00:55:09.659
 be solved,

00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:10.400
 in other words,

00:55:10.460 --> 00:55:10.940
 a problem,

00:55:11.719 --> 00:55:13.400
 immediately to

00:55:13.400 --> 00:55:14.779
 do what I can

00:55:14.779 --> 00:55:15.679
 towards solving

00:55:15.679 --> 00:55:16.039
 it.

00:55:16.039 --> 00:55:19.219
 He was just

00:55:19.219 --> 00:55:19.800
 a young teen

00:55:19.800 --> 00:55:20.340
 at the time,

00:55:20.519 --> 00:55:21.239
 Jonathan Edwards.

00:55:22.059 --> 00:55:24.019
 There is a

00:55:24.019 --> 00:55:24.519
 sense of

00:55:24.519 --> 00:55:25.420
 stewardship,

00:55:26.420 --> 00:55:27.139
 of a

00:55:27.139 --> 00:55:27.619
 gifting,

00:55:28.420 --> 00:55:29.420
 and calling,

00:55:29.659 --> 00:55:30.539
 to apply

00:55:30.539 --> 00:55:31.440
 oneself to

00:55:31.440 --> 00:55:32.460
 engaging these

00:55:32.460 --> 00:55:33.079
 difficulties,

00:55:33.460 --> 00:55:34.320
 and stumbling

00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:34.920
 blocks,

00:55:36.119 --> 00:55:37.039
 and so

00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:38.440
 blessing and

00:55:38.440 --> 00:55:39.099
 bearing the

00:55:39.099 --> 00:55:39.619
 burdens of the

00:55:39.619 --> 00:55:40.380
 people of God.

00:55:40.920 --> 00:55:41.639
 The sheep that

00:55:41.639 --> 00:55:42.360
 are so harrowed

00:55:42.360 --> 00:55:43.119
 by these wolves.

00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:44.039
 Well, some of

00:55:44.039 --> 00:55:44.420
 you can go

00:55:44.420 --> 00:55:45.179
 after these.

00:55:45.539 --> 00:55:46.099
 Some of you

00:55:46.099 --> 00:55:46.900
 can do this.

00:55:47.139 --> 00:55:47.719
 Might be your

00:55:47.719 --> 00:55:48.099
 calling.

00:55:48.739 --> 00:55:49.299
 Okay, so this

00:55:49.299 --> 00:55:49.759
 might be a

00:55:49.759 --> 00:55:50.119
 stewardship.

00:55:53.440 --> 00:55:55.059
 And finally,

00:55:56.259 --> 00:55:57.420
 a closing

00:55:57.420 --> 00:55:58.279
 word to those

00:55:58.279 --> 00:55:58.900
 who perhaps

00:55:58.900 --> 00:55:59.659
 do not

00:55:59.659 --> 00:56:00.759
 themselves deal

00:56:00.759 --> 00:56:02.139
 with doubts,

00:56:02.859 --> 00:56:03.920
 but who may

00:56:03.920 --> 00:56:04.839
 deal with those

00:56:04.839 --> 00:56:05.980
 who do deal

00:56:05.980 --> 00:56:06.759
 with doubts.

00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:10.719
 Jude tells

00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:11.079
 us,

00:56:11.079 --> 00:56:13.400
 have mercy

00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:14.880
 on those

00:56:14.880 --> 00:56:15.860
 who doubt.

00:56:16.340 --> 00:56:17.380
 Jude 22,

00:56:17.819 --> 00:56:18.739
 have mercy

00:56:18.739 --> 00:56:19.599
 on those

00:56:19.599 --> 00:56:21.119
 who doubt.

00:56:22.000 --> 00:56:22.900
 Let us

00:56:22.900 --> 00:56:23.699
 as Christians

00:56:23.699 --> 00:56:24.960
 not be

00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:25.880
 an army

00:56:25.880 --> 00:56:27.960
 that shoots

00:56:27.960 --> 00:56:28.799
 our wounded.

00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:31.619
 And this is

00:56:31.619 --> 00:56:31.940
 going to be

00:56:31.940 --> 00:56:32.519
 really,

00:56:32.719 --> 00:56:33.619
 really important

00:56:33.619 --> 00:56:35.039
 if they're

00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:35.299
 going to be

00:56:35.299 --> 00:56:35.920
 that previous

00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:36.440
 group who

00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:37.380
 take it on

00:56:37.380 --> 00:56:38.019
 the stewardship

00:56:38.019 --> 00:56:38.599
 to try to

00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:39.119
 wrestle with

00:56:39.119 --> 00:56:39.880
 these questions,

00:56:39.880 --> 00:56:41.099
 and sometimes

00:56:41.099 --> 00:56:42.220
 you fall over

00:56:42.220 --> 00:56:42.720
 on one side

00:56:42.720 --> 00:56:43.119
 of the horse

00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:43.460
 and then the

00:56:43.460 --> 00:56:43.980
 other trying

00:56:43.980 --> 00:56:44.360
 to work

00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:44.800
 these things

00:56:44.800 --> 00:56:45.220
 out.

00:56:46.140 --> 00:56:46.340
 And if

00:56:46.340 --> 00:56:48.860
 it's troubling

00:56:48.860 --> 00:56:49.460
 to try to

00:56:49.460 --> 00:56:49.840
 work these

00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:50.240
 things out,

00:56:50.480 --> 00:56:51.200
 we need to

00:56:51.200 --> 00:56:51.599
 be very

00:56:51.599 --> 00:56:52.260
 compassionate

00:56:52.260 --> 00:56:53.300
 toward these

00:56:53.300 --> 00:56:54.700
 people who

00:56:54.700 --> 00:56:55.700
 wade into

00:56:55.700 --> 00:56:56.340
 the depths of

00:56:56.340 --> 00:56:56.960
 these problems

00:56:56.960 --> 00:56:57.660
 and challenges.

00:56:58.539 --> 00:56:59.680
 Don't shoot

00:56:59.680 --> 00:57:00.519
 our wounded.

00:57:01.619 --> 00:57:02.140
 We should

00:57:02.140 --> 00:57:03.059
 not react

00:57:03.059 --> 00:57:03.500
 to them

00:57:03.500 --> 00:57:04.200
 with horror

00:57:04.199 --> 00:57:05.739
 or shun

00:57:05.739 --> 00:57:06.019
 them.

00:57:07.279 --> 00:57:08.059
 And I

00:57:08.059 --> 00:57:09.099
 fear some

00:57:09.099 --> 00:57:10.119
 are lost

00:57:10.119 --> 00:57:12.179
 by harshness

00:57:12.179 --> 00:57:14.500
 who might

00:57:14.500 --> 00:57:16.279
 be reconciled

00:57:16.279 --> 00:57:17.439
 by gentleness.

00:57:18.539 --> 00:57:19.599
 And it is

00:57:19.599 --> 00:57:20.819
 right that we

00:57:20.819 --> 00:57:21.559
 show mercy

00:57:21.559 --> 00:57:22.599
 for we

00:57:22.599 --> 00:57:23.559
 recognize that

00:57:23.559 --> 00:57:24.539
 we all

00:57:24.539 --> 00:57:25.000
 are the

00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:25.980
 recipients of

00:57:25.980 --> 00:57:26.719
 mercy as

00:57:26.719 --> 00:57:27.460
 believers in

00:57:27.460 --> 00:57:27.960
 Christ.

00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:31.480
 And it is

00:57:31.480 --> 00:57:32.399
 mercy that we

00:57:32.399 --> 00:57:33.379
 all await.

00:57:34.199 --> 00:57:34.759
 The very

00:57:34.759 --> 00:57:35.619
 next, no,

00:57:35.679 --> 00:57:35.939
 it's the

00:57:35.939 --> 00:57:36.359
 verse right

00:57:36.359 --> 00:57:37.179
 above where

00:57:37.179 --> 00:57:38.259
 Jude says,

00:57:38.460 --> 00:57:38.879
 have mercy

00:57:38.879 --> 00:57:39.259
 on those

00:57:39.259 --> 00:57:39.559
 who doubt.

00:57:39.619 --> 00:57:39.919
 He talks

00:57:39.919 --> 00:57:40.359
 about all

00:57:40.359 --> 00:57:40.679
 of us

00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:41.799
 awaiting that

00:57:41.799 --> 00:57:42.399
 mercy from

00:57:42.399 --> 00:57:43.460
 Christ our

00:57:43.460 --> 00:57:43.739
 Lord.

00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:45.859
 Well, let

00:57:45.859 --> 00:57:46.480
 me, that

00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:46.859
 would be a

00:57:46.859 --> 00:57:47.359
 good way to

00:57:47.359 --> 00:57:48.519
 conclude with

00:57:48.519 --> 00:57:48.939
 Jude's

00:57:48.939 --> 00:57:49.480
 benediction.

00:57:51.099 --> 00:57:52.059
 If we

00:57:52.059 --> 00:57:53.019
 struggle with

00:57:53.019 --> 00:57:53.639
 doubts,

00:57:54.679 --> 00:57:55.699
 don't be

00:57:55.699 --> 00:57:56.419
 afraid, little

00:57:56.419 --> 00:57:56.939
 flock.

00:57:57.719 --> 00:57:58.139
 Don't be

00:57:58.139 --> 00:57:58.599
 afraid.

00:57:58.980 --> 00:57:59.659
 The good

00:57:59.659 --> 00:58:02.219
 shepherd has

00:58:02.219 --> 00:58:02.960
 you well

00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:03.699
 in hand.

00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:05.359
 And his

00:58:05.359 --> 00:58:05.980
 hand is in

00:58:05.980 --> 00:58:06.579
 the Father's

00:58:06.579 --> 00:58:07.059
 hand, we're

00:58:07.059 --> 00:58:07.739
 told in

00:58:07.739 --> 00:58:08.659
 John 10.

00:58:09.199 --> 00:58:09.779
 And no

00:58:09.779 --> 00:58:10.219
 one shall

00:58:10.219 --> 00:58:10.639
 pluck us

00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:11.000
 out of the

00:58:11.000 --> 00:58:11.460
 Father's

00:58:11.460 --> 00:58:11.839
 hand.

00:58:12.679 --> 00:58:13.480
 Those tender

00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:13.939
 almighty

00:58:13.939 --> 00:58:14.559
 hands.

00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:16.739
 So as

00:58:16.739 --> 00:58:17.259
 Jude puts

00:58:17.259 --> 00:58:19.199
 it, and

00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:19.639
 we'll finish

00:58:19.639 --> 00:58:20.239
 with this,

00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:21.939
 now unto

00:58:21.939 --> 00:58:23.119
 him who

00:58:23.119 --> 00:58:24.699
 is able to

00:58:24.699 --> 00:58:25.179
 keep you

00:58:25.179 --> 00:58:25.939
 from stumbling

00:58:25.939 --> 00:58:27.519
 and to

00:58:27.519 --> 00:58:28.079
 present you

00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:28.819
 blameless

00:58:28.819 --> 00:58:29.359
 before the

00:58:29.359 --> 00:58:29.899
 presence of

00:58:29.899 --> 00:58:30.399
 his glory

00:58:30.399 --> 00:58:31.099
 with great

00:58:31.099 --> 00:58:32.539
 joy to the

00:58:32.539 --> 00:58:33.039
 only God

00:58:33.039 --> 00:58:33.519
 our Savior

00:58:33.519 --> 00:58:33.820
 through

00:58:33.820 --> 00:58:34.199
 Jesus

00:58:34.199 --> 00:58:34.599
 Christ

00:58:34.599 --> 00:58:35.059
 our Lord

00:58:35.059 --> 00:58:36.340
 be glory,

00:58:36.619 --> 00:58:37.059
 majesty,

00:58:37.279 --> 00:58:37.679
 dominion,

00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:38.199
 and authority

00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:39.579
 before all

00:58:39.579 --> 00:58:40.699
 time and

00:58:40.699 --> 00:58:41.139
 now and

00:58:41.139 --> 00:58:41.460
 forever.

00:58:42.340 --> 00:58:42.739
 Amen.

00:58:42.739 --> 00:58:42.880
 Amen.

00:58:47.880 --> 00:58:48.519
 Well,

00:58:48.519 --> 00:58:49.739
 God's

00:58:49.739 --> 00:58:51.340
 God is

00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:13.239
關 노

00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:14.199
 God is