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 Good morning, everyone. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Sean, one of the pastors of Trinity Cambridge Church,

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 and it is my great honor and privilege to preach God's Word to you this morning.

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 We are in the book of Revelation. We have been going through it for almost a year.

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 And if you don't have a Bible, please raise your hand, and we'd love to bring a copy over to you that you can use.

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 We're in Revelation chapter 21, which is the second to last chapter of the book.

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 Let me now pray for the reading and preaching of God's Word.

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 Father, we confess that as we live in this world, it's so easy to lose sight of eternity and to think that all that we see is all that there is.

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 But Lord, we ask that today, by your Word, by your Spirit, that you would radically transform our perspective.

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 That you would renew our minds to think about the renewal of all creation that is coming.

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 So that we might look forward to that day and persevere toward that day with great hope, with faith, with expectancy.

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 Lord, breathe fresh hope into people who are suffering and downtrodden this morning.

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 Lift up their heads.

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 Build up your church for the glory of your name.

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 In Jesus' name we pray.

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 Amen.

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 Please stand, if you're able, for the reading of God's Word from Revelation 21, 1 to 8.

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 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.

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 For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

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 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,

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 Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.

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 He will dwell with them, and they will be his people.

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 And God himself will be with them as their God.

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 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more.

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 Neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore.

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 For the former things have passed away.

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 And he who was seated on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new.

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 Also he said, Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.

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 And he said to me, It is done.

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 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.

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 To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life, without payment.

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 The one who conquers will have this heritage.

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 And I will be his God, and he will be my son.

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 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable.

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 As for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars.

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 Their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur.

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 Which is the second death.

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 This is God's holy and authoritative word.

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 You may be seated.

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 In Western music theory, there's what we call chord resolution.

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 And notes that are called dissonant, which is unstable or incomplete.

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 It sounds like something is missing when we listen to it.

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 And notes that are, you know, consonant, that sounds complete.

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 So if you have a C scale, this piano is very out of tune, but bear with me.

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 So that's a dissonant note, the seventh interval.

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 It sounds like something is not done.

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 And it waits for resolution, and that's the consonant note.

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 The eighth note, the root note.

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 So...

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 You guys hear that?

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 You long for that resolution?

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 And so, sorry, thank you for the performance.

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 There's...

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 This passage serves to remind us that everything we see and the world that we live in right now

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 are in that discordant note.

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 That dissonant note.

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 It's like something feels wrong.

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 It's not the way it's supposed to be.

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 Something's incomplete.

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 Longing for fulfillment.

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 Longing for completion.

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 And that creates a sense of drama, expectancy, suspense, until we finally reach that resolution.

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 And that resolution is what we see here in Revelation 21.

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 Just to give an example of that tension that we're living in now, this year, earlier this year,

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 heavy monsoons in East Africa caused flooding that killed 473 people and displaced 14,000,

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 410,000 people.

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 In May, a major landslide buried over 2,000 people alive.

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 The 7.8 magnitude earthquake last year in Turkey and Syria killed 62,013 people.

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 As it says in Romans 8.22, the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth.

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 That's what we live in.

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 Creation itself is groaning in the pains of childbirth, in the buildup, the tension, and the drama and

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 suspense of that dissonant reality.

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 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, it says in Romans 8.23, we ourselves groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons,

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 the redemption of our bodies.

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 We can see this in ourselves, in our bodies.

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 Our bodies themselves are discordant.

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 It's all out of sorts.

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 In our church alone, we have had people deal with or are dealing with leukemia, diabetes,

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 autoimmune disease, where our own body's immune system attacks itself,

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 like ITP, ulcerative colitis, arthritis, lupus, lupus,

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 and various other debilitating conditions, like Turner syndrome, Dandy-Walker syndrome,

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 congenital heart defects, vasculitis, chronic back pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, among other things.

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 And not only our physical bodies, but also our sinful flesh,

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 militate against the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

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 The sinful world seduces us, ridicules us, and persecutes us.

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 The devil tempts us and lies to us and accuses us night and day.

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 And so we, along with all creation, groan.

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 How long?

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 We wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

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 If we don't keep this important reality in mind,

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 if we don't remember the fact that we are in that dissonant reality,

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 we can easily be wracked by doubts, be disillusioned, discouraged, and despair.

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 But if we wait with faith and hope for the consummation of all things,

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 a new heaven and a new earth that is surely coming,

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 then we can persevere.

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 And so the main point of our passage is this,

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 look forward to a new heaven and a new earth,

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 so that we might overcome the world with courage and faith.

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 And we're going to look at that in two parts.

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 First, we'll see the reunion.

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 Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.

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 And secondly, we'll see the renewal.

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 Behold, I am making all things new.

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 It says in verses 1 to 2,

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 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth,

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 for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,

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 and the sea was no more.

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 And I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem,

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 coming down out of heaven from God,

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 prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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 I'll talk about verse 1 a little more later in the second half of my sermon,

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 so for now let's focus on verse 2.

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 When the new heaven and the new earth comes,

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 the people of God will descend upon it,

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 out of heaven from God,

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 as the holy city, New Jerusalem,

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 prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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 The saints of God, that's us,

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 are described in two main metaphors here.

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 One is of a city,

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 and the other is of a bride.

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 This fulfillment of the New Jerusalem

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 was prophesied in Isaiah 52.1,

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 when all the saints who conquer and overcome the world

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 by their faithful endurance,

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 and by bearing witness to Jesus,

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 and holding on to the gospel of Jesus Christ,

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 will become the city of God, the new Jerusalem.

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 And what's the point of that metaphor?

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 Jesus tells us in verse 3.

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 And I heard a loud voice from the throne,

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 saying,

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 Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.

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 He will dwell with them,

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 and they will be his people.

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 And God himself will be with them as their God.

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 Twice in one verse,

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 Jesus declares that God will now dwell with his people.

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 And that's the point of the metaphor.

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 Why are we the city?

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 Because God's gonna live there.

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 He's gonna dwell with us.

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 This is the final fulfillment of the oldest drama

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 in all of history and all of scripture.

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 Because in the original creation,

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 God dwelled with man.

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 He walked in the garden alongside Adam and Eve,

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 it said in Genesis 3.

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 But because they sinned against God

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 and ate the forbidden fruit

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 from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

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 they're banished from the garden of Eden.

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 Expelled, no longer able to eat of the tree of life.

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 And the question that hovers over all of history

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 and all of the Bible

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 is will God ever dwell with his people again?

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 Will we ever be fully restored to his presence again?

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 After the exodus,

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 God partially answers that question

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 in the construction of the tabernacle.

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 The word tabernacle,

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 the Greek word behind the word dwelling place here

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 in Revelation 21.3 is literally tabernacle.

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 It was there that God promised to his people,

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 the Israelites in Exodus 29.45-46.

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 I will dwell among the people of Israel

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 and will be their God.

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 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God

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 who brought them out of the land of Egypt

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 that I might dwell among them.

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 That's why God rescued people from Egypt,

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 that he might dwell among them.

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 But even while Moses was receiving instructions

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 on the mountain for the construction of the tabernacle,

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 God's people couldn't wait

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 and they sinned, they rebelled,

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 they created a golden calf

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 and worshipped it as an idol.

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 Like a newlywed bride committing adultery

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 on the night of her wedding against her husband.

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 Then God promised,

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 but God was still faithful to his people,

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 and then God promised the land of Canaan

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 in Deuteronomy 12.9-10

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 and promised them he will make his name dwell there.

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 Maybe we'll get it this time.

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 Solomon builds a temple for it to be God's dwelling place.

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 But again, they whore after idols.

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 They leave their God, their first love,

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 so that the temple gets razed

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 and Jerusalem is ransacked

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 and they are exiled to Babylon and to Assyria.

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 But God is still faithful.

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 He keeps his promise again.

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 He sends his son, Jesus Christ,

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 to dwell with his people.

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 That's why in John 2.9-21,

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 Jesus says that his own body

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 is the temple of the holy temple of God.

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 And that's because, as Colossians 2.9 says,

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 in Jesus, the whole fullness of deity,

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 all that is divine, dwell in him bodily.

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 Jesus is God dwelling with us.

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 He is the temple of God.

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 That's why John 1.14 says that

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 Jesus, the eternal word of God,

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 the word became flesh and dwelt among us.

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 Again, that same word.

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 The word dwelt is literally to pitch a tent

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 or to make a tabernacle,

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 to tabernacle among us.

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 But we killed him.

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 People were unfaithful to him.

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 And he was resurrected,

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 he ascends to the heaven,

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 and he sends the Holy Spirit

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 so that the Holy Spirit,

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 the very presence, the Spirit of God

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 can indwell his people

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 that we might be the temple of God.

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 That's what it says in 1 Corinthians 3.16.

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 We are God's temple where God dwells.

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 But even now,

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 our fellowship God is disrupted.

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 It is partial.

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 It is imperfect because we are sinful.

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 Our objective union with God is unbreakable.

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 But our communion with God,

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 which is our ongoing experience of that union with God,

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 is disrupted daily because we sin.

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 As we confess in the confession of sin,

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 as we saw in the call to worship today,

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 we partner with lawlessness,

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 though temple of God we are.

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 We fellowship with darkness,

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 though temple of God we are.

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 We are unequally yoked with those

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 who are rebelling against God,

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 though the temple of God we are.

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 Just how many times can we mess this up,

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 ruin it all,

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 can we really ever be restored to God's presence?

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 Will God really ever dwell with us again?

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 And the resounding answer of Revelation 21 is,

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 yes, he will.

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 He will.

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 Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.

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 He will dwell with them,

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 and there will be his people,

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 and God himself will be with them as their God.

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 We are called the holy city,

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 the new Jerusalem,

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 to convey this idea of God's intimate,

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 indwelling presence.

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 Similarly, the metaphor of the bride,

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 that we are a bride adorned for the bridegroom,

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 is a fulfillment of the prophecies

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 in Isaiah 61.10 and 62.5,

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 and it communicates the same idea

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 of fellowship and presence and intimacy.

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 It's a common temptation among engaged couples nowadays

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 to spend more time stressing out about the wedding day

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 than actually preparing for their married life.

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 Weddings are fun.

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 Yes, they are fun.

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 But it's after the wedding

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 that the love life of a couple truly begins.

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 It's after the wedding

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 that the husband and wife

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 consummate their marriage physically

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 in the ecstasy of sexual intercourse.

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 It's after the wedding

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 that the husband and wife move in together

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 and make a home together.

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 It's after the wedding

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 that the husband and wife

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 have children together,

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 bear children and rear children together.

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 All the best stuff happens after the wedding.

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 Finally, on the wedding day,

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 the bride's veil is lifted

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 and the bride and the groom

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 enjoy an intimacy and fellowship

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 that they will share with no one else

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 in the whole entire world.

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 That's the point of verse two.

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 On that day, we, the church of Christ,

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 the people of God,

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 will be prepared as a bride

00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:54.780
 adorned for her husband.

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 And as we'll see next week,

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 the people of God

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 are going to be ravishing in their beauty

00:17:02.600 --> 00:17:03.780
 as the bride of Christ.

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 And we're going to be married to Jesus,

00:17:08.059 --> 00:17:09.620
 the Lamb of God, forever

00:17:09.620 --> 00:17:13.019
 and dwell with Him always in marital bliss.

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 That's why it says in verse four,

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 he will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

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 And death shall be no more.

00:17:23.099 --> 00:17:24.500
 Neither shall there be mourning,

00:17:24.819 --> 00:17:26.659
 nor crying, nor pain anymore,

00:17:26.779 --> 00:17:29.240
 for the former things have passed away.

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 And don't miss the intimacy of this promise.

00:17:34.019 --> 00:17:35.539
 It doesn't merely say that,

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 oh, we're not going to have anything

00:17:37.079 --> 00:17:38.339
 anymore to cry about.

00:17:40.059 --> 00:17:41.099
 Look at what it says.

00:17:41.159 --> 00:17:41.599
 It says,

00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:46.959
 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:52.579
 The Lord God Himself will personally wipe away our tears.

00:17:53.579 --> 00:17:56.379
 He will be the reason for our eternal happiness.

00:17:57.139 --> 00:18:00.740
 He will be the reason why all our sorrow and crying ends.

00:18:00.740 --> 00:18:02.880
 In this life,

00:18:02.980 --> 00:18:03.839
 in this fallen world,

00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:05.400
 there are many things to cry about.

00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:09.140
 But all of the problems and the pains of this world

00:18:09.140 --> 00:18:10.579
 are but symptoms

00:18:10.579 --> 00:18:12.160
 and ramifications

00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:16.299
 of our central underlying brokenness.

00:18:16.620 --> 00:18:17.920
 And that is sin.

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 And our consequence separation from God.

00:18:20.799 --> 00:18:24.859
 It's because the world and humanity

00:18:24.859 --> 00:18:28.099
 have been split asunder from God who is light,

00:18:28.539 --> 00:18:30.500
 in whom is no darkness at all,

00:18:31.079 --> 00:18:33.460
 that darkness has invaded our world.

00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.539
 It's because we have been split asunder from God

00:18:37.539 --> 00:18:38.359
 who is love,

00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:39.759
 it says in 1 John 4, 8,

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 that hatred has pervaded our world.

00:18:43.779 --> 00:18:46.480
 It's because we have been split asunder from God

00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:47.639
 who is the giver of life,

00:18:47.879 --> 00:18:49.059
 who has life in Himself,

00:18:49.059 --> 00:18:50.879
 that disease and death

00:18:50.879 --> 00:18:52.679
 have infiltrated our world.

00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:56.460
 The root of all our personal

00:18:56.460 --> 00:18:58.819
 and societal and global ills

00:18:58.819 --> 00:19:02.139
 is sin that separates us from God.

00:19:03.259 --> 00:19:04.700
 But on that day,

00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:06.279
 there will be no more sin,

00:19:06.919 --> 00:19:08.000
 no more death,

00:19:08.419 --> 00:19:10.579
 no more separation between us and God

00:19:10.579 --> 00:19:12.599
 and we will be joined to our bridegroom forever.

00:19:14.779 --> 00:19:15.879
 You guys long for that.

00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:19.320
 Most of you probably don't know this,

00:19:19.420 --> 00:19:20.180
 but my wife,

00:19:20.320 --> 00:19:21.480
 Hannah's grandfather,

00:19:21.620 --> 00:19:23.220
 is originally from North Korea.

00:19:24.340 --> 00:19:24.760
 He was,

00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:26.400
 this is a funny story,

00:19:26.540 --> 00:19:27.340
 this is really sad too,

00:19:27.380 --> 00:19:28.820
 he was literally in a bathhouse,

00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:30.100
 a public bathhouse,

00:19:30.140 --> 00:19:30.800
 taking a bath,

00:19:31.360 --> 00:19:31.860
 when he,

00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:34.060
 when North Korean's army came in,

00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:35.500
 soldiers came into the bathhouse

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 and took him forcibly

00:19:37.020 --> 00:19:38.380
 and impressed him into service

00:19:38.380 --> 00:19:39.520
 to serve in the North Korean army

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 during the Korean War.

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 And after,

00:19:43.039 --> 00:19:44.200
 after a whole bunch of fighting,

00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:45.819
 the armistice agreement

00:19:45.819 --> 00:19:47.440
 was finally signed in 1953

00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:48.799
 and North and South Korea

00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:50.539
 were officially split in two,

00:19:51.039 --> 00:19:53.919
 formally divided along the 38th parallel north,

00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:56.379
 the latitude 38 degrees north of the equator.

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 And Hannah's grandfather,

00:19:58.419 --> 00:19:58.960
 after the war,

00:19:59.059 --> 00:20:00.779
 ended up on the South Korean side,

00:20:01.419 --> 00:20:04.279
 which meant he would never see his wife

00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:06.039
 in North Korea again.

00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:10.440
 Though he didn't personally

00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.279
 get to participate in this program,

00:20:12.379 --> 00:20:13.879
 to help people like him,

00:20:14.220 --> 00:20:15.200
 in 2018,

00:20:15.879 --> 00:20:17.319
 the then South Korean president

00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:18.440
 and North Korean dictator

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 agreed to arrange a reunion

00:20:20.259 --> 00:20:21.579
 of family members

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 that are split between North and South.

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 And these relatives

00:20:25.379 --> 00:20:27.399
 hadn't seen each other for 60 years.

00:20:28.180 --> 00:20:30.379
 And with the help of some old photographs,

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 they identified one another and met.

00:20:33.099 --> 00:20:34.700
 And there's a video you guys can watch,

00:20:34.700 --> 00:20:36.620
 you can find one 92-year-old woman

00:20:36.620 --> 00:20:37.580
 saw her son.

00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:39.180
 92-year-old woman

00:20:39.180 --> 00:20:39.920
 saw her son

00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:41.160
 for the first time

00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:42.180
 since the end of the war.

00:20:42.980 --> 00:20:44.660
 She said that she lost track of her son

00:20:44.660 --> 00:20:45.400
 during the war

00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:46.740
 while they were fleeing together

00:20:46.740 --> 00:20:48.400
 when he was only four years old

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 and she didn't know

00:20:49.220 --> 00:20:50.779
 whether he was still alive or not.

00:20:51.100 --> 00:20:51.920
 And she said she spent

00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:53.220
 every single day

00:20:53.220 --> 00:20:54.120
 of the following year

00:20:54.120 --> 00:20:55.220
 just weeping

00:20:55.220 --> 00:20:56.700
 as she looked across the river.

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 And then in that video,

00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:01.799
 when she sees him,

00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:03.620
 she throws her arms around him

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 and weeps uncontrollably.

00:21:09.339 --> 00:21:09.699
 Sin,

00:21:10.419 --> 00:21:12.419
 like the war

00:21:12.419 --> 00:21:13.859
 and like the 38th parallel,

00:21:14.379 --> 00:21:15.779
 separates us from God.

00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:20.299
 And all of our pain,

00:21:20.819 --> 00:21:22.019
 all of our tears

00:21:22.019 --> 00:21:24.519
 is because of that separation.

00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.459
 But on that glorious day,

00:21:27.619 --> 00:21:28.659
 we're gonna be reunited

00:21:28.659 --> 00:21:30.359
 with our bridegroom,

00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:31.740
 we're gonna be united

00:21:31.740 --> 00:21:33.139
 with our heavenly father

00:21:33.139 --> 00:21:34.139
 forever.

00:21:35.500 --> 00:21:36.679
 And on that day,

00:21:36.759 --> 00:21:38.159
 we're not gonna see anymore

00:21:38.159 --> 00:21:39.479
 as in a mirror dimly.

00:21:40.019 --> 00:21:41.039
 We're gonna see

00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:43.319
 face to face.

00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:47.240
 We're no longer gonna just know him

00:21:47.240 --> 00:21:47.919
 partly,

00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:50.799
 imperfectly.

00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:52.939
 We're gonna know him fully.

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 And he will wipe away

00:21:57.320 --> 00:21:58.840
 all of our tears.

00:22:02.240 --> 00:22:03.660
 Brothers and sisters in Christ,

00:22:04.460 --> 00:22:06.480
 what have you been crying about

00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:06.980
 this week

00:22:06.980 --> 00:22:09.200
 or this past year?

00:22:11.380 --> 00:22:12.620
 Have you been crying

00:22:12.620 --> 00:22:14.100
 because of pain

00:22:14.100 --> 00:22:15.480
 and sickness

00:22:15.480 --> 00:22:17.200
 that you or your loved ones

00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:18.440
 are dealing with?

00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:20.799
 Cancer,

00:22:20.799 --> 00:22:22.879
 congenital heart defects,

00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:25.200
 chronic fatigue syndrome,

00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:26.599
 migraines.

00:22:27.579 --> 00:22:28.759
 There will be a day

00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:29.680
 when all those things

00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:30.299
 will be no more

00:22:30.299 --> 00:22:31.159
 and God will wipe

00:22:31.159 --> 00:22:32.799
 every tear from your eyes.

00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:37.740
 On that day,

00:22:38.059 --> 00:22:38.799
 my mother,

00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:39.839
 who's been crippled

00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:40.599
 with arthritis

00:22:40.599 --> 00:22:41.799
 and my wife,

00:22:42.059 --> 00:22:43.319
 who is always tired

00:22:43.319 --> 00:22:44.579
 and lacking energy

00:22:44.579 --> 00:22:45.759
 because of her vasculitis,

00:22:45.859 --> 00:22:46.559
 they're going to,

00:22:46.639 --> 00:22:47.240
 on that day,

00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:48.460
 leap like a deer.

00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:55.200
 Have you been crying

00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.159
 because of a death

00:22:57.159 --> 00:22:57.940
 of a loved one?

00:22:59.779 --> 00:23:00.639
 Your mother,

00:23:01.339 --> 00:23:02.180
 your baby,

00:23:02.819 --> 00:23:03.359
 your brother,

00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:05.240
 your friend.

00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:08.119
 On that day,

00:23:08.339 --> 00:23:09.559
 our last enemy,

00:23:09.859 --> 00:23:10.180
 death,

00:23:10.220 --> 00:23:11.079
 will be defeated

00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:12.740
 and we will exalt

00:23:12.740 --> 00:23:13.740
 in triumph

00:23:13.740 --> 00:23:14.220
 and say,

00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:15.180
 oh, death,

00:23:15.500 --> 00:23:16.859
 where is your sting?

00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:18.700
 Oh, death,

00:23:18.839 --> 00:23:19.980
 where is your victory?

00:23:20.799 --> 00:23:23.059
 Oh, death,

00:23:23.240 --> 00:23:24.859
 where is your sting?

00:23:24.919 --> 00:23:25.700
 It's swallowed up

00:23:25.700 --> 00:23:26.220
 in victory.

00:23:28.879 --> 00:23:30.099
 Have you been crying

00:23:30.099 --> 00:23:31.839
 because of loneliness,

00:23:33.220 --> 00:23:33.779
 anxiety,

00:23:35.099 --> 00:23:35.599
 depression,

00:23:36.899 --> 00:23:37.440
 despair?

00:23:38.879 --> 00:23:40.079
 Have you been crying

00:23:40.079 --> 00:23:41.139
 in sleepless nights,

00:23:42.319 --> 00:23:43.259
 listless days?

00:23:44.460 --> 00:23:45.519
 In a new heaven

00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:46.379
 and a new earth,

00:23:46.460 --> 00:23:47.019
 you will have

00:23:47.019 --> 00:23:48.519
 perfect communion

00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:49.279
 with God.

00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:52.000
 Loneliness

00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:52.839
 will be banished

00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:53.379
 forever.

00:23:55.779 --> 00:23:56.539
 You will have

00:23:56.539 --> 00:23:57.539
 perfect rest,

00:23:58.259 --> 00:23:59.619
 perfect security,

00:24:00.819 --> 00:24:01.819
 perfect peace.

00:24:04.420 --> 00:24:05.400
 All that you have

00:24:05.400 --> 00:24:06.299
 ever worried about

00:24:06.299 --> 00:24:07.279
 will be gone,

00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:08.279
 no more.

00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:13.259
 Or have you been crying

00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:15.059
 because of your sins?

00:24:15.059 --> 00:24:18.259
 This is what

00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:19.559
 I cry about the most

00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:21.379
 because I'm relatively

00:24:21.379 --> 00:24:21.879
 healthy,

00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:22.899
 still young.

00:24:24.980 --> 00:24:25.779
 I want to be

00:24:25.779 --> 00:24:26.339
 compassionate.

00:24:27.399 --> 00:24:27.879
 I want to be

00:24:27.879 --> 00:24:28.559
 slow to anger

00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:29.279
 like my heavenly

00:24:29.279 --> 00:24:29.700
 father.

00:24:30.980 --> 00:24:32.079
 But my tongue,

00:24:32.980 --> 00:24:33.679
 my tongue,

00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:34.220
 like it says

00:24:34.220 --> 00:24:34.799
 in James 3,

00:24:34.919 --> 00:24:35.679
 is a fire,

00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:36.659
 a world of

00:24:36.659 --> 00:24:37.059
 unrighteousness,

00:24:38.579 --> 00:24:39.579
 a restless evil

00:24:39.579 --> 00:24:40.539
 full of deadly

00:24:40.539 --> 00:24:41.000
 poison.

00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:44.480
 I want to be

00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:45.480
 gentle and

00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:46.339
 lowly in heart

00:24:46.339 --> 00:24:47.200
 like my savior

00:24:47.200 --> 00:24:47.940
 and Lord Jesus

00:24:47.940 --> 00:24:48.380
 Christ,

00:24:48.579 --> 00:24:49.160
 but instead

00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:50.180
 I'm sometimes

00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:51.839
 harsh and

00:24:51.839 --> 00:24:52.460
 haughty.

00:24:54.299 --> 00:24:55.539
 I mourn

00:24:55.539 --> 00:24:56.960
 and long

00:24:56.960 --> 00:24:57.299
 for that

00:24:57.299 --> 00:24:57.640
 that when

00:24:57.640 --> 00:24:58.259
 my sins

00:24:58.259 --> 00:24:58.619
 will be

00:24:58.619 --> 00:24:59.799
 no more.

00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:02.740
 Saints of God,

00:25:03.119 --> 00:25:03.859
 what have you

00:25:03.859 --> 00:25:04.880
 been crying

00:25:04.880 --> 00:25:05.279
 about?

00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:09.579
 A day

00:25:09.579 --> 00:25:10.559
 is surely

00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:11.019
 coming

00:25:11.019 --> 00:25:11.480
 when he

00:25:11.480 --> 00:25:12.500
 will wipe

00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:12.919
 away

00:25:12.919 --> 00:25:14.359
 every tear

00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:15.220
 from your

00:25:15.220 --> 00:25:15.619
 eyes

00:25:15.619 --> 00:25:16.159
 and death

00:25:16.159 --> 00:25:16.659
 shall be

00:25:16.659 --> 00:25:17.240
 no more

00:25:17.240 --> 00:25:18.099
 and neither

00:25:18.099 --> 00:25:18.559
 shall there

00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:19.159
 be mourning

00:25:19.159 --> 00:25:19.919
 nor crying

00:25:19.919 --> 00:25:20.879
 nor pain

00:25:20.879 --> 00:25:21.259
 anymore

00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:21.579
 for the

00:25:21.579 --> 00:25:22.179
 former things

00:25:22.179 --> 00:25:22.720
 have passed

00:25:22.720 --> 00:25:23.199
 away.

00:25:23.899 --> 00:25:24.599
 Passed

00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:25.039
 away.

00:25:25.419 --> 00:25:26.059
 That's a

00:25:26.059 --> 00:25:26.720
 wonderful word,

00:25:26.779 --> 00:25:27.059
 isn't it?

00:25:28.339 --> 00:25:29.259
 It brackets

00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:30.039
 this section,

00:25:30.119 --> 00:25:30.819
 this first section

00:25:30.819 --> 00:25:31.319
 along with

00:25:31.319 --> 00:25:31.919
 verse 1

00:25:31.919 --> 00:25:32.359
 which also

00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:32.799
 uses that

00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:33.319
 same word.

00:25:33.819 --> 00:25:34.079
 For the

00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:34.720
 first heaven

00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:35.059
 and the

00:25:35.059 --> 00:25:35.659
 first earth

00:25:35.659 --> 00:25:36.599
 had passed

00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:37.079
 away.

00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:39.119
 and then

00:25:39.119 --> 00:25:39.299
 here,

00:25:39.399 --> 00:25:39.679
 for the

00:25:39.679 --> 00:25:40.019
 former

00:25:40.019 --> 00:25:40.419
 things

00:25:40.419 --> 00:25:40.659
 have

00:25:40.659 --> 00:25:41.139
 passed

00:25:41.139 --> 00:25:41.699
 away.

00:25:43.779 --> 00:25:44.579
 The word

00:25:44.579 --> 00:25:45.000
 former

00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:45.519
 is literally

00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:46.460
 first in

00:25:46.460 --> 00:25:46.759
 Greek.

00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:47.659
 First

00:25:47.659 --> 00:25:48.059
 things

00:25:48.059 --> 00:25:48.240
 have

00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:48.480
 passed

00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:48.720
 away.

00:25:48.879 --> 00:25:49.000
 So

00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:49.960
 it matches

00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:50.519
 the first

00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:50.779
 heaven

00:25:50.779 --> 00:25:51.299
 and first

00:25:51.299 --> 00:25:51.579
 earth

00:25:51.579 --> 00:25:51.759
 that

00:25:51.759 --> 00:25:52.159
 passed

00:25:52.159 --> 00:25:52.480
 away.

00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:53.240
 All

00:25:53.240 --> 00:25:53.460
 the

00:25:53.460 --> 00:25:53.859
 things

00:25:53.859 --> 00:25:54.059
 that

00:25:54.059 --> 00:25:54.259
 were

00:25:54.259 --> 00:25:54.839
 first

00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:55.599
 will

00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:56.279
 pass

00:25:56.279 --> 00:25:56.960
 away

00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:58.099
 apart

00:25:58.099 --> 00:25:58.339
 from

00:25:58.339 --> 00:25:58.619
 God

00:25:58.619 --> 00:26:00.259
 including

00:26:00.259 --> 00:26:00.500
 our

00:26:00.500 --> 00:26:00.859
 first

00:26:00.859 --> 00:26:01.299
 death.

00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:01.720
 Yes,

00:26:01.819 --> 00:26:02.159
 we will

00:26:02.159 --> 00:26:02.399
 die

00:26:02.399 --> 00:26:02.619
 unless

00:26:02.619 --> 00:26:02.779
 the

00:26:02.779 --> 00:26:02.919
 Lord

00:26:02.919 --> 00:26:03.220
 returns

00:26:03.220 --> 00:26:03.599
 beforehand

00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:03.819
 but

00:26:03.819 --> 00:26:04.019
 that

00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:04.379
 first

00:26:04.379 --> 00:26:04.679
 death

00:26:04.680 --> 00:26:05.060
 will

00:26:05.060 --> 00:26:05.480
 pass

00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:05.860
 away

00:26:05.860 --> 00:26:06.000
 and

00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:06.120
 will

00:26:06.120 --> 00:26:06.240
 be

00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:06.600
 raised

00:26:06.600 --> 00:26:06.740
 to

00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:06.880
 new

00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:07.259
 life.

00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:08.500
 On

00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:08.740
 that

00:26:08.740 --> 00:26:08.960
 day

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:09.380
 tears

00:26:09.380 --> 00:26:09.620
 and

00:26:09.620 --> 00:26:09.880
 pains

00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:10.039
 will

00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:10.160
 be

00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:10.460
 things

00:26:10.460 --> 00:26:10.580
 of

00:26:10.580 --> 00:26:10.720
 the

00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:11.160
 past.

00:26:11.259 --> 00:26:11.340
 It

00:26:11.340 --> 00:26:11.440
 will

00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:11.539
 be

00:26:11.539 --> 00:26:11.660
 in

00:26:11.660 --> 00:26:11.759
 the

00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:11.980
 rear

00:26:11.980 --> 00:26:12.180
 view

00:26:12.180 --> 00:26:12.500
 mirror

00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:12.640
 and

00:26:12.640 --> 00:26:12.779
 will

00:26:12.779 --> 00:26:12.960
 say

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 oh

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:13.420
 yeah

00:26:13.420 --> 00:26:13.759
 those

00:26:13.759 --> 00:26:14.680
 things

00:26:14.680 --> 00:26:14.860
 that

00:26:14.860 --> 00:26:14.980
 have

00:26:14.980 --> 00:26:15.340
 passed

00:26:15.340 --> 00:26:15.799
 away.

00:26:19.400 --> 00:26:19.900
 And

00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:20.060
 that

00:26:20.060 --> 00:26:20.440
 word

00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:21.180
 first

00:26:21.180 --> 00:26:21.640
 forms

00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:22.000
 a nice

00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:22.460
 contrast

00:26:22.460 --> 00:26:22.720
 with

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 a word

00:26:23.080 --> 00:26:23.200
 that

00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:23.299
 is

00:26:23.299 --> 00:26:23.560
 repeated

00:26:23.560 --> 00:26:23.880
 four

00:26:23.880 --> 00:26:24.259
 times

00:26:24.259 --> 00:26:24.360
 in

00:26:24.360 --> 00:26:24.480
 our

00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:24.920
 passage.

00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:25.880
 New

00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:27.279
 a

00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:27.720
 new

00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:28.160
 heaven

00:26:28.160 --> 00:26:29.080
 a

00:26:29.080 --> 00:26:29.560
 new

00:26:29.560 --> 00:26:30.000
 earth

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:31.000
 new

00:26:31.000 --> 00:26:31.580
 Jerusalem

00:26:31.580 --> 00:26:31.900
 and

00:26:31.900 --> 00:26:32.200
 finally

00:26:32.200 --> 00:26:32.539
 in verse

00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:32.860
 5

00:26:32.859 --> 00:26:33.459
 behold

00:26:33.459 --> 00:26:33.799
 I

00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:33.979
 am

00:26:33.979 --> 00:26:34.459
 making

00:26:34.459 --> 00:26:35.199
 all

00:26:35.199 --> 00:26:35.859
 things

00:26:35.859 --> 00:26:36.479
 new.

00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:38.819
 This

00:26:38.819 --> 00:26:39.179
 world

00:26:39.179 --> 00:26:39.459
 is

00:26:39.459 --> 00:26:40.459
 decaying

00:26:40.459 --> 00:26:40.619
 and

00:26:40.619 --> 00:26:41.439
 disintegrating

00:26:41.439 --> 00:26:41.819
 but it

00:26:41.819 --> 00:26:42.139
 will be

00:26:42.139 --> 00:26:42.479
 made

00:26:42.479 --> 00:26:42.979
 new.

00:26:43.459 --> 00:26:43.639
 This

00:26:43.639 --> 00:26:44.099
 mortal

00:26:44.099 --> 00:26:44.819
 perishable

00:26:44.819 --> 00:26:45.039
 and

00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:45.659
 dishonorable

00:26:45.659 --> 00:26:46.159
 body

00:26:46.159 --> 00:26:46.519
 will be

00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:46.759
 made

00:26:46.759 --> 00:26:47.259
 new

00:26:47.259 --> 00:26:48.119
 immortal

00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:48.419
 and

00:26:48.419 --> 00:26:49.339
 imperishable

00:26:49.339 --> 00:26:49.979
 and

00:26:49.979 --> 00:26:50.399
 glorious.

00:26:52.399 --> 00:26:53.119
 It

00:26:53.119 --> 00:26:53.500
 will not

00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:53.919
 be a

00:26:53.919 --> 00:26:54.619
 refurbished

00:26:54.619 --> 00:26:55.000
 earth.

00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:55.559
 It

00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:55.819
 will be

00:26:55.819 --> 00:26:56.279
 new.

00:26:59.740 --> 00:27:00.079
 And

00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:00.199
 that

00:27:00.199 --> 00:27:00.539
 brings me

00:27:00.539 --> 00:27:00.799
 to my

00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:01.039
 second

00:27:01.039 --> 00:27:01.339
 point

00:27:01.339 --> 00:27:01.819
 renewal.

00:27:02.859 --> 00:27:03.459
 In

00:27:03.459 --> 00:27:03.659
 verse

00:27:03.659 --> 00:27:03.899
 3

00:27:03.899 --> 00:27:04.219
 Jesus

00:27:04.219 --> 00:27:04.779
 exclaimed

00:27:04.779 --> 00:27:05.379
 behold

00:27:05.379 --> 00:27:05.959
 the

00:27:05.959 --> 00:27:06.259
 dwelling

00:27:06.259 --> 00:27:06.639
 place

00:27:06.639 --> 00:27:06.819
 of

00:27:06.819 --> 00:27:07.059
 God

00:27:07.059 --> 00:27:07.179
 is

00:27:07.179 --> 00:27:07.379
 with

00:27:07.379 --> 00:27:07.639
 man.

00:27:07.719 --> 00:27:07.899
 Now

00:27:07.899 --> 00:27:08.059
 in

00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:08.259
 verse

00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:08.659
 4

00:27:08.659 --> 00:27:09.419
 he

00:27:09.419 --> 00:27:09.719
 who

00:27:09.719 --> 00:27:10.000
 was

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:10.299
 seated

00:27:10.299 --> 00:27:10.479
 on

00:27:10.479 --> 00:27:10.619
 the

00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:10.839
 throne

00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:11.000
 I

00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:11.119
 think

00:27:11.119 --> 00:27:11.279
 this

00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:11.399
 is

00:27:11.399 --> 00:27:11.559
 God

00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:11.719
 the

00:27:11.719 --> 00:27:11.939
 father

00:27:11.939 --> 00:27:12.259
 himself

00:27:12.259 --> 00:27:12.519
 because

00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:12.619
 he

00:27:12.619 --> 00:27:12.879
 uses

00:27:12.879 --> 00:27:13.319
 the

00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:13.559
 first

00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:13.939
 person

00:27:13.939 --> 00:27:14.579
 pronouns

00:27:14.579 --> 00:27:14.819
 instead

00:27:14.819 --> 00:27:14.939
 of

00:27:14.939 --> 00:27:15.099
 third

00:27:15.099 --> 00:27:15.299
 person

00:27:15.299 --> 00:27:15.679
 pronouns

00:27:15.679 --> 00:27:15.899
 like

00:27:15.899 --> 00:27:16.419
 Jesus

00:27:16.419 --> 00:27:16.659
 does

00:27:16.659 --> 00:27:16.779
 in

00:27:16.779 --> 00:27:16.919
 verse

00:27:16.919 --> 00:27:17.219
 3

00:27:17.219 --> 00:27:18.179
 God

00:27:18.179 --> 00:27:18.379
 the

00:27:18.379 --> 00:27:18.659
 father

00:27:18.659 --> 00:27:19.079
 himself

00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:19.619
 exclaimed

00:27:19.619 --> 00:27:20.559
 behold

00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:21.519
 I

00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:21.699
 am

00:27:21.699 --> 00:27:22.059
 making

00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:22.479
 all

00:27:22.479 --> 00:27:23.039
 things

00:27:23.039 --> 00:27:23.479
 new.

00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:25.359
 Those

00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:25.699
 words

00:27:25.699 --> 00:27:26.079
 echo

00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:26.259
 the

00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:26.619
 prophecy

00:27:26.619 --> 00:27:26.779
 of

00:27:26.779 --> 00:27:27.019
 Isaiah

00:27:27.019 --> 00:27:27.519
 43

00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:27.899
 19

00:27:27.900 --> 00:27:29.040
 and

00:27:29.040 --> 00:27:29.380
 all

00:27:29.380 --> 00:27:29.759
 things

00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:29.980
 new

00:27:29.980 --> 00:27:30.140
 of

00:27:30.140 --> 00:27:30.320
 course

00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:30.820
 includes

00:27:30.820 --> 00:27:31.240
 a new

00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:31.480
 heaven

00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:31.720
 and a

00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:31.840
 new

00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:32.060
 earth

00:27:32.060 --> 00:27:32.320
 mentioned

00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:32.480
 in

00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:32.660
 verse

00:27:32.660 --> 00:27:33.019
 1

00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:34.500
 God

00:27:34.500 --> 00:27:34.880
 makes

00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:35.180
 all

00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:35.500
 things

00:27:35.500 --> 00:27:35.759
 new

00:27:35.759 --> 00:27:36.040
 both

00:27:36.040 --> 00:27:36.360
 in a

00:27:36.360 --> 00:27:36.740
 temporal

00:27:36.740 --> 00:27:37.120
 sense

00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:37.380
 and a

00:27:37.380 --> 00:27:37.820
 qualitative

00:27:37.820 --> 00:27:38.259
 sense

00:27:38.259 --> 00:27:38.480
 it's

00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:38.640
 going to

00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:38.780
 be

00:27:38.780 --> 00:27:39.019
 new

00:27:39.019 --> 00:27:39.259
 in a

00:27:39.259 --> 00:27:39.519
 temporal

00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:39.820
 sense

00:27:39.820 --> 00:27:40.100
 because

00:27:40.100 --> 00:27:40.320
 it

00:27:40.320 --> 00:27:40.720
 comes

00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:41.600
 after

00:27:41.600 --> 00:27:42.440
 the

00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:42.860
 first

00:27:42.860 --> 00:27:43.200
 earth

00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:43.420
 and

00:27:43.420 --> 00:27:43.560
 the

00:27:43.560 --> 00:27:43.840
 first

00:27:43.840 --> 00:27:44.180
 heaven

00:27:44.180 --> 00:27:46.500
 but

00:27:46.500 --> 00:27:46.600
 it

00:27:46.600 --> 00:27:46.740
 will

00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:47.019
 also

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:47.240
 be

00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:47.460
 new

00:27:47.460 --> 00:27:47.580
 in

00:27:47.580 --> 00:27:47.680
 a

00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:48.140
 qualitative

00:27:48.140 --> 00:27:48.660
 sense

00:27:48.660 --> 00:27:48.880
 of

00:27:48.880 --> 00:27:49.180
 new

00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:49.759
 renewal

00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:50.940
 not

00:27:50.940 --> 00:27:51.280
 something

00:27:51.280 --> 00:27:51.580
 that's

00:27:51.580 --> 00:27:52.000
 old

00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:52.259
 and

00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:52.560
 worn

00:27:52.560 --> 00:27:52.840
 out

00:27:52.840 --> 00:27:53.000
 no

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:53.180
 matter

00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:53.500
 how

00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:53.759
 much

00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:53.920
 you

00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:54.279
 dress

00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:54.539
 up

00:27:54.539 --> 00:27:54.700
 and

00:27:54.700 --> 00:27:55.259
 clean

00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:55.519
 up

00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:56.039
 all

00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:56.360
 things

00:27:56.360 --> 00:27:56.500
 that

00:27:56.500 --> 00:27:56.640
 you

00:27:56.640 --> 00:27:56.980
 have

00:27:56.980 --> 00:27:57.779
 they

00:27:57.779 --> 00:27:58.000
 look

00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:58.460
 old

00:27:58.460 --> 00:27:59.940
 but

00:27:59.940 --> 00:28:00.140
 this

00:28:00.140 --> 00:28:00.360
 new

00:28:00.360 --> 00:28:00.580
 heaven

00:28:00.580 --> 00:28:00.740
 and

00:28:00.740 --> 00:28:00.880
 new

00:28:00.880 --> 00:28:01.080
 earth

00:28:01.080 --> 00:28:01.259
 will

00:28:01.259 --> 00:28:01.480
 not

00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:01.680
 be

00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:01.880
 like

00:28:01.880 --> 00:28:02.140
 that

00:28:02.140 --> 00:28:02.500
 it

00:28:02.500 --> 00:28:02.620
 will

00:28:02.620 --> 00:28:02.740
 be

00:28:02.740 --> 00:28:03.039
 new

00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:04.800
 with

00:28:04.800 --> 00:28:04.940
 the

00:28:04.940 --> 00:28:05.220
 death

00:28:05.220 --> 00:28:05.380
 and

00:28:05.380 --> 00:28:05.779
 resurrection

00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:06.200
 ascension

00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:06.380
 of

00:28:06.380 --> 00:28:06.740
 Christ

00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:06.980
 and

00:28:06.980 --> 00:28:08.019
 the

00:28:08.019 --> 00:28:08.360
 subsequent

00:28:08.360 --> 00:28:08.820
 descent

00:28:08.820 --> 00:28:08.960
 of

00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:09.060
 the

00:28:09.060 --> 00:28:09.200
 Holy

00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:09.539
 Spirit

00:28:09.539 --> 00:28:09.800
 among

00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:09.980
 his

00:28:09.980 --> 00:28:10.380
 people

00:28:10.380 --> 00:28:10.940
 the

00:28:10.940 --> 00:28:11.380
 renewal

00:28:11.380 --> 00:28:11.640
 of

00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:12.120
 creation

00:28:12.120 --> 00:28:12.700
 has

00:28:12.700 --> 00:28:13.060
 actually

00:28:13.060 --> 00:28:13.560
 already

00:28:13.560 --> 00:28:14.039
 begun

00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:15.120
 and

00:28:15.120 --> 00:28:15.240
 it

00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:15.480
 begins

00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:15.680
 with

00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:16.080
 us

00:28:16.080 --> 00:28:17.460
 that's

00:28:17.460 --> 00:28:17.660
 why

00:28:17.660 --> 00:28:17.820
 it

00:28:17.820 --> 00:28:17.980
 says

00:28:17.980 --> 00:28:18.100
 in

00:28:18.100 --> 00:28:18.380
 2nd

00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:18.700
 Corinthians

00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:18.980
 5

00:28:18.980 --> 00:28:19.400
 17

00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:19.740
 therefore

00:28:19.740 --> 00:28:20.039
 if

00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:20.560
 anyone

00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:24.200
 know

00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:24.440
 a

00:28:24.440 --> 00:28:24.980
 new

00:28:24.980 --> 00:28:26.000
 creation

00:28:26.000 --> 00:28:27.259
 the

00:28:27.259 --> 00:28:27.720
 old

00:28:27.720 --> 00:28:28.140
 has

00:28:28.140 --> 00:28:28.720
 passed

00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:29.300
 away

00:28:29.300 --> 00:28:30.480
 the

00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:30.920
 new

00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:31.920
 behold

00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:32.300
 a new

00:28:32.300 --> 00:28:32.519
 has

00:28:32.519 --> 00:28:32.860
 come

00:28:32.860 --> 00:28:33.820
 but

00:28:33.820 --> 00:28:34.019
 though

00:28:34.019 --> 00:28:34.279
 this

00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:34.680
 new

00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:35.279
 creation

00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:35.580
 was

00:28:35.580 --> 00:28:36.519
 inaugurated

00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:36.779
 by

00:28:36.779 --> 00:28:37.320
 Christ

00:28:37.320 --> 00:28:37.800
 it

00:28:37.800 --> 00:28:38.019
 has

00:28:38.019 --> 00:28:38.500
 begun

00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:38.820
 with

00:28:38.820 --> 00:28:39.259
 Christ

00:28:39.259 --> 00:28:39.759
 it

00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:39.920
 has

00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:40.180
 not

00:28:40.180 --> 00:28:40.440
 yet

00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:40.740
 been

00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:41.740
 consummated

00:28:41.740 --> 00:28:42.440
 it

00:28:42.440 --> 00:28:42.640
 has

00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:42.900
 not

00:28:42.900 --> 00:28:43.160
 yet

00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:43.420
 had

00:28:43.420 --> 00:28:43.580
 its

00:28:43.580 --> 00:28:44.140
 full

00:28:44.140 --> 00:28:44.759
 effect

00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:46.800
 but

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 in

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 the

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 new

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 heaven

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 and

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 earth

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 it

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 will

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 be

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 finished

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 this

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 is

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 such

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 a

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 guaranteed

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 and

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 certain

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 outcome

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 that

00:28:53.779 --> 00:28:53.980
 God

00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:54.220
 says

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 write

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 this

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 down

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 in

00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:55.339
 verse

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 5

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 for

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 these

00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:56.279
 words

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 are

00:28:56.460 --> 00:28:57.039
 trustworthy

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 and

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 true

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 when

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 something

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 is

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 reliable

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 and

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 true

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 we

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 often

00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:01.579
 use

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 this

00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:02.740
 expression

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 hey

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 you

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 can

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 take

00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:03.980
 that

00:29:03.980 --> 00:29:04.119
 to

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 the

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 bank

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 meaning

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 that's

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 that's

00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:06.740
 you

00:29:06.740 --> 00:29:06.899
 can

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 bank

00:29:07.180 --> 00:29:07.379
 on

00:29:07.379 --> 00:29:07.519
 that

00:29:07.519 --> 00:29:07.680
 that

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 that

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 check

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 is

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 not

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 going

00:29:08.579 --> 00:29:08.680
 to

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 bounce

00:29:09.019 --> 00:29:10.019
 but

00:29:10.019 --> 00:29:10.279
 even

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 banks

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 fail

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 in

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 times

00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:12.180
 of

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 financial

00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:13.240
 turmoil

00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:13.519
 and

00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:13.819
 stock

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 certificates

00:29:14.339 --> 00:29:14.700
 become

00:29:14.700 --> 00:29:15.180
 worthless

00:29:15.180 --> 00:29:15.539
 pieces

00:29:15.539 --> 00:29:15.720
 of

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 paper

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 and

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 hard

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 worn

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 cash

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 depreciate

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 in

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 it

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:24.899
 never

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 fails

00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:26.200
 and

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 it

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 endures

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 for

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 all

00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:27.680
 eternity

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 so

00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:28.339
 will

00:29:28.339 --> 00:29:28.879
 all

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 creation

00:29:29.399 --> 00:29:29.859
 really

00:29:29.859 --> 00:29:30.119
 be

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 made

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 new

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 yes

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 it

00:29:31.339 --> 00:29:31.759
 will

00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:32.720
 it

00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:33.039
 will

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 be

00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:33.500
 made

00:29:33.500 --> 00:29:33.740
 new

00:29:33.740 --> 00:29:34.139
 all

00:29:34.139 --> 00:29:34.559
 things

00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:34.879
 new

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 is

00:29:35.059 --> 00:29:35.279
 not

00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:35.660
 just

00:29:35.660 --> 00:29:36.039
 a

00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:36.660
 foolish

00:29:36.660 --> 00:29:37.259
 fancy

00:29:37.259 --> 00:29:37.579
 or

00:29:37.579 --> 00:29:37.819
 a

00:29:37.819 --> 00:29:38.660
 dream

00:29:38.660 --> 00:29:39.500
 or a

00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:40.000
 slogan

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:40.879
 it

00:29:40.879 --> 00:29:41.059
 is

00:29:41.059 --> 00:29:41.619
 written

00:29:41.619 --> 00:29:43.000
 unchangeably

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 and

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 inherently

00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:44.460
 and

00:29:44.460 --> 00:29:45.180
 infallibly

00:29:45.180 --> 00:29:45.539
 in the

00:29:45.539 --> 00:29:45.779
 word

00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:45.980
 of

00:29:45.980 --> 00:29:46.500
 God

00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:47.259
 it

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 will

00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:47.980
 happen

00:29:47.980 --> 00:29:51.779
 it's

00:29:51.779 --> 00:29:52.200
 trustworthy

00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:52.559
 and

00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:52.839
 true

00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:53.839
 so

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 much

00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:54.319
 so

00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:54.459
 that

00:29:54.459 --> 00:29:54.659
 God

00:29:54.659 --> 00:29:54.839
 says

00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:55.000
 in

00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:55.199
 verse

00:29:55.199 --> 00:29:55.519
 six

00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:55.879
 it

00:29:55.879 --> 00:29:56.039
 is

00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:56.519
 done

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 because

00:29:58.299 --> 00:29:58.539
 when

00:29:58.539 --> 00:29:58.899
 God

00:29:58.899 --> 00:29:59.759
 speaks

00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:00.439
 something

00:30:00.439 --> 00:30:00.679
 it

00:30:00.679 --> 00:30:00.799
 is

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 as

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 good

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 as

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 done

00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:04.779
 and

00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:04.899
 a

00:30:04.899 --> 00:30:05.220
 peculiar

00:30:05.220 --> 00:30:05.720
 feature

00:30:05.720 --> 00:30:05.939
 of

00:30:05.939 --> 00:30:06.139
 this

00:30:06.139 --> 00:30:06.319
 new

00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:06.579
 heaven

00:30:06.579 --> 00:30:06.740
 and

00:30:06.740 --> 00:30:06.980
 earth

00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:07.179
 is

00:30:07.179 --> 00:30:07.439
 that

00:30:07.439 --> 00:30:08.139
 the

00:30:08.139 --> 00:30:08.619
 sea

00:30:08.619 --> 00:30:09.019
 was

00:30:09.019 --> 00:30:09.240
 no

00:30:09.240 --> 00:30:09.619
 more

00:30:09.619 --> 00:30:09.779
 it

00:30:09.779 --> 00:30:09.919
 says

00:30:09.919 --> 00:30:10.059
 in

00:30:10.059 --> 00:30:10.199
 verse

00:30:10.199 --> 00:30:10.519
 one

00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:12.399
 in

00:30:12.399 --> 00:30:12.539
 order

00:30:12.539 --> 00:30:12.679
 to

00:30:12.679 --> 00:30:13.119
 understand

00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:13.339
 what

00:30:13.339 --> 00:30:13.500
 that

00:30:13.500 --> 00:30:13.720
 means

00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:13.859
 we

00:30:13.859 --> 00:30:13.959
 need

00:30:13.959 --> 00:30:14.119
 to

00:30:14.119 --> 00:30:14.619
 survey

00:30:14.619 --> 00:30:14.980
 the

00:30:14.980 --> 00:30:15.199
 use

00:30:15.199 --> 00:30:15.319
 of

00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:15.439
 this

00:30:15.439 --> 00:30:15.659
 word

00:30:15.659 --> 00:30:15.980
 sea

00:30:15.980 --> 00:30:16.159
 in

00:30:16.159 --> 00:30:16.379
 this

00:30:16.379 --> 00:30:16.779
 book

00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:17.980
 first

00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:18.199
 the

00:30:18.199 --> 00:30:18.500
 sea

00:30:18.500 --> 00:30:18.779
 as

00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:19.000
 I've

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:19.319
 mentioned

00:30:19.319 --> 00:30:19.740
 throughout

00:30:19.740 --> 00:30:20.019
 this

00:30:20.019 --> 00:30:20.279
 sermon

00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:20.619
 series

00:30:20.619 --> 00:30:20.819
 is

00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:20.980
 a

00:30:20.980 --> 00:30:21.319
 frequent

00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:21.779
 symbol

00:30:21.779 --> 00:30:22.019
 of

00:30:22.019 --> 00:30:22.500
 cosmic

00:30:22.500 --> 00:30:23.160
 chaos

00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:23.460
 in

00:30:23.460 --> 00:30:23.759
 scripture

00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:25.000
 because

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:25.500
 the

00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:25.720
 sea

00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:25.940
 was

00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:26.119
 one

00:30:26.119 --> 00:30:26.180
 of

00:30:26.180 --> 00:30:26.299
 the

00:30:26.299 --> 00:30:26.599
 things

00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:26.799
 that

00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:27.160
 ancient

00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:27.619
 people

00:30:27.619 --> 00:30:27.920
 and

00:30:27.920 --> 00:30:28.200
 people

00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:28.500
 to this

00:30:28.500 --> 00:30:28.720
 day

00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:29.259
 fear

00:30:29.259 --> 00:30:29.759
 the

00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:30.160
 most

00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:31.980
 because

00:30:31.980 --> 00:30:32.200
 of the

00:30:32.200 --> 00:30:32.559
 crashing

00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:33.099
 waves

00:30:33.099 --> 00:30:33.440
 and the

00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:33.779
 howling

00:30:33.779 --> 00:30:34.139
 winds

00:30:34.139 --> 00:30:34.400
 you

00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:35.059
 can't

00:30:35.059 --> 00:30:35.420
 predict

00:30:35.420 --> 00:30:35.619
 the

00:30:35.619 --> 00:30:35.799
 sea

00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:36.879
 you

00:30:36.879 --> 00:30:37.240
 can't

00:30:37.240 --> 00:30:37.759
 control

00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:38.039
 the

00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:38.240
 sea

00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:39.700
 you

00:30:39.700 --> 00:30:40.119
 can't

00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:40.579
 measure

00:30:40.579 --> 00:30:40.799
 the

00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:41.059
 length

00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:41.160
 of

00:30:41.160 --> 00:30:41.299
 the

00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:41.480
 sea

00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:41.680
 and

00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:41.819
 you

00:30:41.819 --> 00:30:42.180
 can't

00:30:42.180 --> 00:30:42.539
 plumb

00:30:42.539 --> 00:30:42.740
 the

00:30:42.740 --> 00:30:43.039
 depth

00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:43.220
 of

00:30:43.220 --> 00:30:43.379
 the

00:30:43.379 --> 00:30:43.579
 sea

00:30:43.579 --> 00:30:46.079
 according

00:30:46.079 --> 00:30:46.399
 to

00:30:46.399 --> 00:30:46.720
 the

00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:47.059
 national

00:30:47.059 --> 00:30:47.740
 oceanic

00:30:47.740 --> 00:30:48.059
 and

00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:48.679
 atmospheric

00:30:48.679 --> 00:30:49.559
 administration

00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:51.339
 95%

00:30:51.339 --> 00:30:51.799
 of the

00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:52.159
 world's

00:30:52.159 --> 00:30:52.460
 ocean

00:30:52.460 --> 00:30:52.899
 remains

00:30:52.899 --> 00:30:53.679
 unexplored

00:30:53.679 --> 00:30:54.039
 to this

00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:54.279
 day

00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:56.139
 95%

00:30:56.139 --> 00:30:59.119
 a

00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:00.000
 2022

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:00.599
 study

00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:01.240
 by the

00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:02.240
 fish

00:31:02.240 --> 00:31:03.339
 safety

00:31:03.339 --> 00:31:03.919
 foundation

00:31:03.919 --> 00:31:04.279
 commissioned

00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:04.659
 by the

00:31:04.659 --> 00:31:04.939
 Pew

00:31:04.939 --> 00:31:05.399
 charitable

00:31:05.399 --> 00:31:05.839
 trust

00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:06.740
 suggests

00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:06.939
 that

00:31:06.939 --> 00:31:07.279
 more

00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:07.659
 than

00:31:07.659 --> 00:31:08.819
 100,000

00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:09.419
 fishermen

00:31:09.419 --> 00:31:10.220
 die

00:31:10.220 --> 00:31:10.619
 while

00:31:10.619 --> 00:31:11.059
 fishing

00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:12.279
 that's

00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:12.659
 almost

00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:13.300
 300

00:31:13.300 --> 00:31:13.759
 fishermen

00:31:13.759 --> 00:31:14.120
 per

00:31:14.120 --> 00:31:14.480
 day

00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:15.000
 that's

00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:15.300
 annually

00:31:15.300 --> 00:31:15.900
 100,000

00:31:15.900 --> 00:31:16.259
 fishermen

00:31:16.259 --> 00:31:17.880
 that's

00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:18.000
 the

00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:18.380
 highest

00:31:18.380 --> 00:31:18.920
 fatality

00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:19.240
 rate

00:31:19.240 --> 00:31:19.580
 among

00:31:19.580 --> 00:31:20.160
 all

00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:20.779
 professions

00:31:20.779 --> 00:31:22.680
 far

00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:23.040
 higher

00:31:23.040 --> 00:31:23.200
 than

00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:23.320
 the

00:31:23.320 --> 00:31:23.620
 fatality

00:31:23.620 --> 00:31:23.880
 rates

00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:24.060
 among

00:31:24.060 --> 00:31:24.660
 firefighters

00:31:24.660 --> 00:31:24.920
 and

00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:25.140
 police

00:31:25.140 --> 00:31:25.540
 officers

00:31:25.540 --> 00:31:27.620
 it's

00:31:27.620 --> 00:31:27.759
 the

00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:27.960
 most

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:28.360
 dangerous

00:31:28.360 --> 00:31:28.740
 profession

00:31:28.740 --> 00:31:28.980
 in the

00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:29.240
 world

00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:31.279
 it's

00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:31.540
 fitting

00:31:31.540 --> 00:31:31.940
 for that

00:31:31.940 --> 00:31:32.240
 reason

00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:32.460
 that

00:31:32.460 --> 00:31:32.700
 in the

00:31:32.700 --> 00:31:32.860
 old

00:31:32.860 --> 00:31:33.200
 testament

00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:33.460
 the

00:31:33.460 --> 00:31:33.960
 sea

00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:34.340
 is

00:31:34.340 --> 00:31:34.880
 represented

00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:35.180
 as

00:31:35.180 --> 00:31:35.320
 the

00:31:35.320 --> 00:31:35.759
 abode

00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:36.120
 of

00:31:36.120 --> 00:31:36.519
 the

00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:37.019
 ancient

00:31:37.019 --> 00:31:37.740
 serpent

00:31:37.740 --> 00:31:39.120
 leviathan

00:31:39.120 --> 00:31:39.440
 the

00:31:39.440 --> 00:31:39.660
 sea

00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:40.019
 dragon

00:31:40.019 --> 00:31:41.640
 which

00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:41.740
 is

00:31:41.740 --> 00:31:41.880
 a

00:31:41.880 --> 00:31:42.100
 symbol

00:31:42.100 --> 00:31:42.279
 of

00:31:42.279 --> 00:31:42.700
 satan

00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:43.759
 this

00:31:43.759 --> 00:31:43.899
 is

00:31:43.899 --> 00:31:44.339
 why

00:31:44.339 --> 00:31:44.599
 in

00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:44.920
 revelation

00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:45.259
 12

00:31:45.259 --> 00:31:45.680
 17

00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:45.879
 and

00:31:45.879 --> 00:31:46.200
 13

00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:46.559
 1

00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:47.039
 both

00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:47.220
 the

00:31:47.220 --> 00:31:47.559
 dragon

00:31:47.559 --> 00:31:47.700
 and

00:31:47.700 --> 00:31:47.819
 the

00:31:47.819 --> 00:31:48.180
 beast

00:31:48.180 --> 00:31:48.399
 are

00:31:48.399 --> 00:31:48.859
 described

00:31:48.859 --> 00:31:49.079
 as

00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:49.519
 emerging

00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:49.940
 out

00:31:49.940 --> 00:31:50.480
 of

00:31:50.480 --> 00:31:50.619
 the

00:31:50.619 --> 00:31:51.000
 sea

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:51.879
 so

00:31:51.879 --> 00:31:52.079
 that's

00:31:52.079 --> 00:31:52.200
 the

00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:52.460
 first

00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:52.720
 use

00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:52.819
 of

00:31:52.819 --> 00:31:52.920
 the

00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:53.059
 word

00:31:53.059 --> 00:31:53.319
 sea

00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:54.139
 and

00:31:54.139 --> 00:31:54.259
 the

00:31:54.259 --> 00:31:54.500
 second

00:31:54.500 --> 00:31:54.720
 use

00:31:54.720 --> 00:31:54.799
 of

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:54.879
 the

00:31:54.879 --> 00:31:55.059
 word

00:31:55.059 --> 00:31:55.240
 sea

00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:55.399
 we

00:31:55.399 --> 00:31:55.539
 see

00:31:55.539 --> 00:31:55.639
 in

00:31:55.639 --> 00:31:56.019
 revelation

00:31:56.019 --> 00:31:56.279
 is

00:31:56.279 --> 00:31:56.379
 in

00:31:56.379 --> 00:31:56.639
 revelation

00:31:56.639 --> 00:31:57.000
 20

00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:57.200
 verse

00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:57.639
 13

00:31:57.639 --> 00:31:58.559
 the

00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:59.000
 sea

00:31:59.000 --> 00:31:59.379
 there

00:31:59.379 --> 00:31:59.680
 is

00:31:59.680 --> 00:31:59.839
 a

00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:00.240
 realm

00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:00.559
 of

00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:00.700
 the

00:32:00.700 --> 00:32:01.099
 dead

00:32:01.099 --> 00:32:02.099
 associated

00:32:02.099 --> 00:32:02.680
 with

00:32:02.680 --> 00:32:03.160
 death

00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:03.379
 and

00:32:03.379 --> 00:32:03.819
 Hades

00:32:03.819 --> 00:32:05.839
 so

00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:06.079
 then

00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:06.319
 what

00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:06.579
 does it

00:32:06.579 --> 00:32:06.680
 mean

00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:06.819
 that

00:32:06.819 --> 00:32:36.799
 the

00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:39.159
 the

00:32:39.159 --> 00:32:39.619
 final

00:32:39.619 --> 00:32:40.319
 destruction

00:32:40.319 --> 00:32:40.859
 of

00:32:40.859 --> 00:32:41.159
 this

00:32:41.159 --> 00:32:41.500
 sea

00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:41.799
 in

00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:41.899
 the

00:32:41.899 --> 00:32:42.059
 new

00:32:42.059 --> 00:32:42.500
 creation

00:32:42.500 --> 00:32:43.259
 fits

00:32:43.259 --> 00:32:43.480
 the

00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:43.960
 pattern

00:32:43.960 --> 00:32:44.220
 of

00:32:44.220 --> 00:32:44.899
 God's

00:32:44.899 --> 00:32:45.419
 creative

00:32:45.419 --> 00:32:45.799
 work

00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:45.960
 and

00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:46.500
 redemptive

00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:46.799
 work

00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:47.159
 throughout

00:32:47.159 --> 00:32:47.779
 all of

00:32:47.779 --> 00:32:48.200
 history

00:32:48.200 --> 00:32:50.440
 in

00:32:50.440 --> 00:32:50.759
 Genesis

00:32:50.759 --> 00:32:51.139
 1

00:32:51.139 --> 00:32:51.359
 9

00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:51.500
 to

00:32:51.500 --> 00:32:51.700
 10

00:32:51.700 --> 00:32:51.839
 at

00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:51.960
 the

00:32:51.960 --> 00:32:52.379
 creation

00:32:52.379 --> 00:32:52.559
 of

00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:52.659
 the

00:32:52.659 --> 00:32:52.960
 world

00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:53.419
 God

00:32:53.419 --> 00:32:53.960
 gathered

00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:54.240
 into

00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:54.579
 one

00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:55.180
 place

00:32:55.180 --> 00:32:55.440
 the

00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:55.879
 waters

00:32:55.879 --> 00:32:56.159
 under

00:32:56.159 --> 00:32:56.359
 the

00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:56.740
 heavens

00:32:56.740 --> 00:32:57.539
 to

00:32:57.539 --> 00:32:57.799
 let

00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:58.019
 the

00:32:58.019 --> 00:32:58.379
 dry

00:32:58.379 --> 00:32:58.779
 land

00:32:58.779 --> 00:32:59.139
 appear

00:32:59.139 --> 00:32:59.399
 as

00:32:59.399 --> 00:32:59.519
 a

00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:00.180
 habitation

00:33:00.180 --> 00:33:00.980
 fit

00:33:00.980 --> 00:33:01.159
 for

00:33:01.159 --> 00:33:01.599
 humanity

00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:03.200
 and

00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:03.299
 then

00:33:03.299 --> 00:33:03.419
 he

00:33:03.419 --> 00:33:03.639
 called

00:33:03.639 --> 00:33:03.759
 the

00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:04.000
 dry

00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:04.240
 land

00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:04.639
 earth

00:33:04.639 --> 00:33:04.879
 and

00:33:04.879 --> 00:33:05.039
 the

00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:05.480
 waters

00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:05.940
 that

00:33:05.940 --> 00:33:06.059
 were

00:33:06.059 --> 00:33:06.279
 gathered

00:33:06.279 --> 00:33:06.519
 together

00:33:06.519 --> 00:33:06.879
 called

00:33:06.879 --> 00:33:07.440
 seas

00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:09.339
 similarly

00:33:09.339 --> 00:33:10.019
 after the

00:33:10.019 --> 00:33:10.279
 flood

00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:10.599
 judgment

00:33:10.599 --> 00:33:10.879
 during

00:33:10.879 --> 00:33:11.299
 Noah's

00:33:11.299 --> 00:33:11.599
 day

00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:12.220
 kind of

00:33:12.220 --> 00:33:12.920
 uncreated

00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:13.139
 or

00:33:13.139 --> 00:33:13.879
 decreated

00:33:13.879 --> 00:33:14.039
 the

00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:14.379
 world

00:33:14.379 --> 00:33:15.099
 God

00:33:15.099 --> 00:33:15.359
 in a

00:33:15.359 --> 00:33:15.599
 sense

00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:16.539
 recreated

00:33:16.539 --> 00:33:16.759
 the

00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:17.019
 world

00:33:17.019 --> 00:33:17.240
 by

00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:17.559
 making

00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:17.759
 the

00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:18.200
 waters

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:18.900
 recede

00:33:18.900 --> 00:33:19.180
 from

00:33:19.180 --> 00:33:19.400
 the

00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:19.779
 earth

00:33:19.779 --> 00:33:20.639
 continually

00:33:20.639 --> 00:33:21.379
 until

00:33:21.379 --> 00:33:21.639
 the

00:33:21.639 --> 00:33:22.139
 waters

00:33:22.139 --> 00:33:22.359
 it

00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:22.559
 says

00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:22.740
 were

00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:23.279
 dried

00:33:23.279 --> 00:33:23.740
 off

00:33:23.740 --> 00:33:23.960
 from

00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:24.119
 the

00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:24.400
 earth

00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:24.819
 and

00:33:24.819 --> 00:33:24.960
 the

00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:25.259
 ground

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:25.480
 was

00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:25.900
 dry

00:33:25.900 --> 00:33:26.139
 so

00:33:26.139 --> 00:33:26.339
 that

00:33:26.339 --> 00:33:26.639
 Noah

00:33:26.639 --> 00:33:26.839
 and

00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:26.980
 his

00:33:26.980 --> 00:33:27.279
 family

00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:27.500
 can

00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:27.799
 inhabit

00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:28.019
 the

00:33:28.019 --> 00:33:28.180
 earth

00:33:28.180 --> 00:33:28.460
 once

00:33:28.460 --> 00:33:28.859
 more

00:33:28.859 --> 00:33:29.339
 and

00:33:29.339 --> 00:33:29.779
 continue

00:33:29.779 --> 00:33:30.019
 the

00:33:30.019 --> 00:33:30.279
 line

00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:30.400
 of

00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:30.859
 humanity

00:33:30.859 --> 00:33:33.180
 and

00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:33.559
 Isaiah

00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:34.119
 51

00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:34.559
 10

00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:34.720
 to

00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:35.039
 11

00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:35.639
 describes

00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:36.040
 God's

00:33:36.040 --> 00:33:36.580
 deliverance

00:33:36.580 --> 00:33:36.820
 of his

00:33:36.820 --> 00:33:37.080
 people

00:33:37.080 --> 00:33:37.320
 at

00:33:37.320 --> 00:33:37.500
 the

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:38.000
 exodus

00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:38.540
 using

00:33:38.540 --> 00:33:38.880
 this

00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:39.280
 same

00:33:39.280 --> 00:33:39.880
 language

00:33:39.880 --> 00:33:40.140
 of

00:33:40.140 --> 00:33:40.400
 God

00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:41.100
 creating

00:33:41.100 --> 00:33:41.280
 a

00:33:41.280 --> 00:33:41.720
 habitation

00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:41.940
 for

00:33:41.940 --> 00:33:42.080
 his

00:33:42.080 --> 00:33:42.360
 people

00:33:42.360 --> 00:33:42.580
 by

00:33:42.580 --> 00:33:43.140
 drying

00:33:43.140 --> 00:33:43.780
 the

00:33:43.780 --> 00:33:44.280
 waters

00:33:44.280 --> 00:33:45.300
 he

00:33:45.300 --> 00:33:45.500
 says

00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:45.720
 in

00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:46.040
 Isaiah

00:33:46.040 --> 00:33:46.440
 51

00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:46.680
 10

00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:46.800
 to

00:33:46.800 --> 00:33:47.100
 11

00:33:47.100 --> 00:33:47.740
 was

00:33:47.740 --> 00:33:47.860
 it

00:33:47.860 --> 00:33:48.080
 not

00:33:48.080 --> 00:33:48.320
 you

00:33:48.320 --> 00:33:48.520
 who

00:33:48.520 --> 00:33:49.080
 dried

00:33:49.080 --> 00:33:49.380
 up

00:33:49.380 --> 00:33:49.600
 the

00:33:49.600 --> 00:33:50.120
 sea

00:33:50.120 --> 00:33:51.000
 the

00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:51.380
 waters

00:33:51.380 --> 00:33:51.560
 of

00:33:51.560 --> 00:33:51.700
 the

00:33:51.700 --> 00:33:51.940
 great

00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:52.259
 deep

00:33:52.259 --> 00:33:52.480
 who

00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:52.759
 made

00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:52.940
 the

00:33:52.940 --> 00:33:53.259
 depths

00:33:53.259 --> 00:33:53.400
 of

00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:53.540
 the

00:33:53.540 --> 00:33:53.740
 sea

00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:54.160
 away

00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:54.420
 for

00:33:54.420 --> 00:33:54.540
 the

00:33:54.540 --> 00:33:54.860
 redeemed

00:33:54.860 --> 00:33:55.020
 to

00:33:55.020 --> 00:33:55.280
 pass

00:33:55.280 --> 00:33:55.600
 over

00:33:55.600 --> 00:33:56.320
 and

00:33:56.320 --> 00:33:56.460
 the

00:33:56.460 --> 00:33:56.860
 ransomed

00:33:56.860 --> 00:33:56.980
 of

00:33:56.980 --> 00:33:57.120
 the

00:33:57.120 --> 00:33:57.320
 Lord

00:33:57.320 --> 00:33:57.560
 shall

00:33:57.560 --> 00:33:57.980
 return

00:33:57.980 --> 00:33:58.180
 and

00:33:58.180 --> 00:33:58.360
 come

00:33:58.360 --> 00:33:58.540
 to

00:33:58.539 --> 00:33:58.879
 Zion

00:33:58.879 --> 00:33:59.119
 with

00:33:59.119 --> 00:33:59.480
 singing

00:33:59.480 --> 00:34:00.359
 everlasting

00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:00.899
 joy

00:34:00.899 --> 00:34:01.159
 shall

00:34:01.159 --> 00:34:01.279
 be

00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:01.500
 upon

00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:01.720
 their

00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:02.039
 heads

00:34:02.039 --> 00:34:02.440
 they

00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:02.619
 shall

00:34:02.619 --> 00:34:02.980
 obtain

00:34:02.980 --> 00:34:03.659
 gladness

00:34:03.659 --> 00:34:03.839
 and

00:34:03.839 --> 00:34:04.159
 joy

00:34:04.159 --> 00:34:04.440
 and

00:34:04.440 --> 00:34:04.799
 sorrow

00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:05.059
 and

00:34:05.059 --> 00:34:05.720
 sighing

00:34:05.720 --> 00:34:06.379
 shall

00:34:06.379 --> 00:34:06.779
 flee

00:34:06.779 --> 00:34:07.240
 away

00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:09.739
 again

00:34:09.739 --> 00:34:10.360
 and again

00:34:10.360 --> 00:34:11.039
 throughout the

00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:11.440
 scriptures

00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:12.880
 God is seen

00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:14.139
 drying up

00:34:14.139 --> 00:34:14.840
 the seas

00:34:14.840 --> 00:34:16.000
 that's how he

00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:16.639
 rescues his

00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:16.940
 people

00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:20.619
 in order to

00:34:20.619 --> 00:34:21.259
 create a place

00:34:21.259 --> 00:34:22.039
 where he can dwell

00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:22.539
 with his

00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:22.840
 people

00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:24.680
 so

00:34:24.680 --> 00:34:25.059
 likewise

00:34:25.059 --> 00:34:25.500
 in this

00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:26.019
 ultimate

00:34:26.019 --> 00:34:26.519
 new

00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:26.980
 creation

00:34:26.980 --> 00:34:27.340
 this is

00:34:27.340 --> 00:34:27.500
 the

00:34:27.500 --> 00:34:27.860
 final

00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:28.360
 time

00:34:28.360 --> 00:34:28.840
 the

00:34:28.840 --> 00:34:29.440
 consummation

00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:29.740
 of all

00:34:29.740 --> 00:34:30.120
 things

00:34:30.120 --> 00:34:30.480
 the

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:30.800
 sea

00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:31.180
 will

00:34:31.180 --> 00:34:31.620
 be

00:34:31.620 --> 00:34:32.180
 no

00:34:32.180 --> 00:34:32.519
 more

00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:34.960
 in

00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:35.160
 this

00:34:35.160 --> 00:34:35.380
 way

00:34:35.380 --> 00:34:35.559
 God

00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:35.700
 will

00:34:35.700 --> 00:34:35.960
 make

00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:36.100
 the

00:34:36.100 --> 00:34:36.500
 last

00:34:36.500 --> 00:34:36.820
 things

00:34:36.820 --> 00:34:37.100
 as

00:34:37.100 --> 00:34:37.260
 the

00:34:37.260 --> 00:34:37.620
 first

00:34:37.620 --> 00:34:38.160
 just

00:34:38.160 --> 00:34:38.320
 as

00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:38.640
 God

00:34:38.640 --> 00:34:39.240
 spoke

00:34:39.240 --> 00:34:39.480
 the

00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:39.760
 first

00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:40.140
 creation

00:34:40.140 --> 00:34:40.320
 into

00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:40.519
 being

00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:40.680
 he

00:34:40.680 --> 00:34:40.820
 will

00:34:40.820 --> 00:34:41.100
 surely

00:34:41.100 --> 00:34:41.380
 bring

00:34:41.380 --> 00:34:41.600
 about

00:34:41.600 --> 00:34:41.800
 the

00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:41.980
 new

00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:42.420
 creation

00:34:42.420 --> 00:34:43.260
 and

00:34:43.260 --> 00:34:43.620
 all

00:34:43.620 --> 00:34:43.920
 that

00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:44.440
 separates

00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:44.720
 us

00:34:44.720 --> 00:34:44.920
 from

00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:45.240
 God

00:34:45.240 --> 00:34:46.559
 all

00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:46.880
 that

00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:47.640
 dampens

00:34:47.640 --> 00:34:47.920
 our

00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:48.360
 communion

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:48.600
 with

00:34:48.600 --> 00:34:48.900
 God

00:34:48.900 --> 00:34:49.760
 all

00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:50.019
 that

00:34:50.019 --> 00:34:50.579
 drowns

00:34:50.579 --> 00:34:50.720
 out

00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:50.880
 the

00:34:50.880 --> 00:34:51.200
 worship

00:34:51.200 --> 00:34:51.440
 of

00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:51.740
 heaven

00:34:51.739 --> 00:34:52.299
 around

00:34:52.299 --> 00:34:52.699
 us

00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:53.779
 will

00:34:53.779 --> 00:34:54.159
 be

00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:54.979
 no

00:34:54.979 --> 00:34:55.279
 more

00:34:55.279 --> 00:34:58.139
 and

00:34:58.139 --> 00:34:58.359
 God

00:34:58.359 --> 00:34:58.799
 declares

00:34:58.799 --> 00:34:59.519
 climactically

00:34:59.519 --> 00:34:59.859
 in verse

00:34:59.859 --> 00:35:00.159
 6

00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:00.699
 it is

00:35:00.699 --> 00:35:01.299
 done

00:35:01.299 --> 00:35:04.279
 it is

00:35:04.279 --> 00:35:04.639
 done

00:35:04.639 --> 00:35:07.619
 this

00:35:07.619 --> 00:35:08.039
 echoes

00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:08.579
 the words

00:35:08.579 --> 00:35:08.699
 of

00:35:08.699 --> 00:35:09.000
 Revelation

00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:09.459
 15

00:35:09.459 --> 00:35:09.759
 1

00:35:09.759 --> 00:35:09.899
 and

00:35:09.899 --> 00:35:10.239
 16

00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:10.759
 17

00:35:10.759 --> 00:35:11.439
 where

00:35:11.439 --> 00:35:11.779
 after

00:35:11.779 --> 00:35:12.139
 all

00:35:12.139 --> 00:35:12.259
 of

00:35:12.259 --> 00:35:12.619
 God's

00:35:12.619 --> 00:35:12.939
 judgments

00:35:12.939 --> 00:35:13.219
 are

00:35:13.219 --> 00:35:13.579
 finished

00:35:13.579 --> 00:35:13.819
 he

00:35:13.819 --> 00:35:14.119
 says

00:35:14.119 --> 00:35:14.299
 it

00:35:14.299 --> 00:35:14.500
 is

00:35:14.500 --> 00:35:15.199
 done

00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:15.879
 it

00:35:15.879 --> 00:35:16.099
 is

00:35:16.099 --> 00:35:16.839
 finished

00:35:16.839 --> 00:35:18.179
 it's

00:35:18.179 --> 00:35:18.299
 the

00:35:18.299 --> 00:35:18.519
 same

00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:18.879
 words

00:35:18.879 --> 00:35:19.179
 because

00:35:19.179 --> 00:35:19.639
 these

00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:19.899
 two

00:35:19.899 --> 00:35:20.339
 things

00:35:20.339 --> 00:35:20.579
 the

00:35:20.579 --> 00:35:21.000
 judgment

00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:21.460
 of

00:35:21.460 --> 00:35:21.800
 God

00:35:21.800 --> 00:35:22.699
 over

00:35:22.699 --> 00:35:22.880
 the

00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:23.119
 world

00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:23.320
 and

00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:23.460
 the

00:35:23.460 --> 00:35:23.639
 new

00:35:23.639 --> 00:35:24.119
 creation

00:35:24.119 --> 00:35:25.000
 are

00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:25.780
 flip

00:35:25.780 --> 00:35:26.179
 sides

00:35:26.179 --> 00:35:26.340
 of

00:35:26.340 --> 00:35:26.460
 the

00:35:26.460 --> 00:35:26.760
 same

00:35:26.760 --> 00:35:27.199
 coin

00:35:27.199 --> 00:35:27.840
 the

00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:28.139
 new

00:35:28.139 --> 00:35:28.380
 heaven

00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:28.539
 and

00:35:28.539 --> 00:35:28.699
 new

00:35:28.699 --> 00:35:28.900
 earth

00:35:28.900 --> 00:35:29.179
 cannot

00:35:29.179 --> 00:35:29.780
 come

00:35:29.780 --> 00:35:30.179
 until

00:35:30.179 --> 00:35:30.420
 the

00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:31.000
 first

00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:31.300
 heaven

00:35:31.300 --> 00:35:31.400
 and

00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:31.500
 the

00:35:31.500 --> 00:35:31.719
 first

00:35:31.719 --> 00:35:32.000
 earth

00:35:32.000 --> 00:35:32.380
 are

00:35:32.380 --> 00:35:32.719
 passed

00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:33.099
 away

00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:35.460
 and so

00:35:35.460 --> 00:35:35.679
 let me

00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:36.139
 ask you

00:35:36.139 --> 00:35:37.059
 if you're

00:35:37.059 --> 00:35:37.360
 here

00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:41.059
 what

00:35:41.059 --> 00:35:41.699
 words

00:35:41.699 --> 00:35:42.840
 will be

00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:43.260
 proclaimed

00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:43.659
 over

00:35:43.659 --> 00:35:44.079
 you

00:35:44.079 --> 00:35:45.239
 at the

00:35:45.239 --> 00:35:45.380
 end

00:35:45.380 --> 00:35:45.559
 of the

00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:45.920
 world

00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:49.220
 will

00:35:49.220 --> 00:35:49.340
 it

00:35:49.340 --> 00:35:49.559
 be

00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:49.880
 the

00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:50.420
 wrath

00:35:50.420 --> 00:35:50.680
 of

00:35:50.680 --> 00:35:51.099
 God

00:35:51.099 --> 00:35:51.380
 is

00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:51.860
 hereby

00:35:51.860 --> 00:35:52.400
 finished

00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:52.659
 it

00:35:52.659 --> 00:35:52.820
 is

00:35:52.820 --> 00:35:53.099
 done

00:35:53.099 --> 00:35:55.760
 you

00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:56.440
 be

00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:56.960
 objects

00:35:56.960 --> 00:35:57.099
 of

00:35:57.099 --> 00:35:57.360
 God's

00:35:57.360 --> 00:35:57.659
 wrath

00:35:57.659 --> 00:35:58.760
 or

00:35:58.760 --> 00:35:58.940
 will

00:35:58.940 --> 00:35:59.059
 it

00:35:59.059 --> 00:35:59.380
 be

00:35:59.380 --> 00:36:00.860
 new

00:36:00.860 --> 00:36:01.220
 heaven

00:36:01.220 --> 00:36:01.519
 and a

00:36:01.519 --> 00:36:01.659
 new

00:36:01.659 --> 00:36:02.039
 earth

00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:03.220
 it

00:36:03.220 --> 00:36:03.360
 is

00:36:03.360 --> 00:36:03.659
 done

00:36:03.659 --> 00:36:08.320
 that

00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:08.760
 depends

00:36:08.760 --> 00:36:09.200
 on your

00:36:09.200 --> 00:36:09.820
 answer

00:36:09.820 --> 00:36:11.460
 to the

00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:11.900
 question

00:36:11.900 --> 00:36:12.840
 who do

00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:13.380
 you believe

00:36:13.380 --> 00:36:13.800
 Jesus

00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:14.539
 to be

00:36:14.539 --> 00:36:16.699
 what do

00:36:16.699 --> 00:36:17.119
 you believe

00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:17.779
 that Jesus

00:36:17.779 --> 00:36:18.159
 has done

00:36:18.159 --> 00:36:18.559
 for you

00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:20.800
 do you

00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:21.099
 believe

00:36:21.099 --> 00:36:21.619
 that Jesus

00:36:21.619 --> 00:36:22.039
 is a

00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:22.380
 son of

00:36:22.380 --> 00:36:22.579
 God

00:36:22.579 --> 00:36:23.039
 who became

00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:23.420
 a son

00:36:23.420 --> 00:36:23.820
 of man

00:36:23.820 --> 00:36:24.460
 lived a

00:36:24.460 --> 00:36:24.739
 perfect

00:36:24.739 --> 00:36:25.019
 life

00:36:25.019 --> 00:36:25.500
 of

00:36:25.500 --> 00:36:25.900
 obedience

00:36:25.900 --> 00:36:26.259
 to his

00:36:26.259 --> 00:36:26.559
 father

00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:27.539
 and died

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:28.219
 on the

00:36:28.219 --> 00:36:28.639
 cross

00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:29.360
 not for

00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:29.920
 his own

00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:30.159
 sins

00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:30.579
 but for

00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:31.360
 the sins

00:36:31.360 --> 00:36:31.599
 of his

00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.019
 people

00:36:32.019 --> 00:36:33.340
 to pay

00:36:33.340 --> 00:36:33.739
 the penalty

00:36:33.739 --> 00:36:34.219
 for our

00:36:34.219 --> 00:36:34.539
 sins

00:36:34.539 --> 00:36:35.000
 and absorb

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:35.420
 the wrath

00:36:35.420 --> 00:36:35.900
 of God

00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:37.179
 in himself

00:36:37.179 --> 00:36:38.300
 so that

00:36:38.300 --> 00:36:38.579
 he might

00:36:38.579 --> 00:36:39.539
 redeem us

00:36:39.539 --> 00:36:40.259
 to

00:36:40.259 --> 00:36:40.980
 for himself

00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:41.599
 for God

00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:44.339
 do you

00:36:44.339 --> 00:36:44.619
 believe

00:36:44.619 --> 00:36:45.099
 that Jesus

00:36:45.099 --> 00:36:45.739
 was raised

00:36:45.739 --> 00:36:46.159
 from the

00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:46.380
 dead

00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:46.679
 on the

00:36:46.679 --> 00:36:46.860
 third

00:36:46.860 --> 00:36:47.059
 day

00:36:47.059 --> 00:36:47.460
 and has

00:36:47.460 --> 00:36:47.960
 ascended

00:36:47.960 --> 00:36:48.279
 to the

00:36:48.279 --> 00:36:48.539
 heavens

00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:48.839
 at the

00:36:48.839 --> 00:36:49.139
 right hand

00:36:49.139 --> 00:36:49.319
 of the

00:36:49.319 --> 00:36:49.599
 father

00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:50.259
 and he

00:36:50.259 --> 00:36:50.679
 is right

00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:50.940
 now

00:36:50.940 --> 00:36:51.400
 reigning

00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:51.739
 there

00:36:51.739 --> 00:36:52.099
 and making

00:36:52.099 --> 00:36:52.679
 intercession

00:36:52.679 --> 00:36:53.339
 for us

00:36:53.339 --> 00:36:55.460
 if you

00:36:55.460 --> 00:36:56.079
 believe

00:36:56.079 --> 00:36:56.839
 that

00:36:56.839 --> 00:36:57.599
 if you

00:36:57.599 --> 00:36:57.940
 know

00:36:57.940 --> 00:36:58.480
 Jesus

00:36:58.480 --> 00:36:59.079
 and follow

00:36:59.079 --> 00:36:59.480
 him

00:36:59.480 --> 00:36:59.980
 as your

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:00.440
 Lord

00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:02.440
 then

00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:03.139
 what Jesus

00:37:03.139 --> 00:37:03.639
 said on

00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:04.079
 the cross

00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:04.579
 as he

00:37:04.579 --> 00:37:04.880
 was

00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:05.739
 breathing

00:37:05.739 --> 00:37:06.279
 his last

00:37:06.279 --> 00:37:06.699
 breath

00:37:06.699 --> 00:37:07.199
 in John

00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:07.480
 19

00:37:07.480 --> 00:37:07.759
 30

00:37:07.759 --> 00:37:08.179
 applies

00:37:08.179 --> 00:37:08.639
 to you

00:37:08.639 --> 00:37:09.380
 it is

00:37:09.380 --> 00:37:09.940
 finished

00:37:09.940 --> 00:37:11.460
 it is

00:37:11.460 --> 00:37:11.980
 done

00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:13.260
 wrath

00:37:13.260 --> 00:37:13.619
 of God

00:37:13.619 --> 00:37:13.780
 is

00:37:13.780 --> 00:37:14.179
 finished

00:37:14.179 --> 00:37:15.380
 for you

00:37:15.380 --> 00:37:20.559
 after

00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:21.059
 declaring

00:37:21.059 --> 00:37:21.380
 it is

00:37:21.380 --> 00:37:21.679
 done

00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:21.940
 God

00:37:21.940 --> 00:37:22.340
 continues

00:37:22.340 --> 00:37:22.700
 in verse

00:37:22.700 --> 00:37:23.000
 six

00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:23.700
 I am

00:37:23.700 --> 00:37:24.639
 the alpha

00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:25.440
 and the omega

00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:26.099
 the beginning

00:37:26.099 --> 00:37:26.800
 and the end

00:37:26.800 --> 00:37:28.159
 to the thirsty

00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:28.740
 I will give

00:37:28.740 --> 00:37:29.360
 from the spring

00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:29.840
 of the water

00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:30.220
 of life

00:37:30.220 --> 00:37:30.579
 without

00:37:30.579 --> 00:37:31.460
 payment

00:37:31.460 --> 00:37:33.000
 many of you

00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:33.500
 already know

00:37:33.500 --> 00:37:34.079
 that alpha

00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:35.260
 is the first

00:37:35.260 --> 00:37:35.659
 letter

00:37:35.659 --> 00:37:36.260
 in the Greek

00:37:36.260 --> 00:37:36.599
 alphabet

00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:38.159
 and that

00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:38.519
 omega

00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:39.240
 is the last

00:37:39.240 --> 00:37:39.500
 letter

00:37:39.500 --> 00:37:40.019
 in the Greek

00:37:40.019 --> 00:37:40.599
 alphabet

00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:40.960
 so it's

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:41.460
 like Jesus

00:37:41.460 --> 00:37:41.980
 is saying

00:37:41.980 --> 00:37:42.760
 I am

00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:43.260
 the A

00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:44.199
 to the Z

00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:46.380
 it means

00:37:46.380 --> 00:37:46.820
 that God

00:37:46.820 --> 00:37:47.619
 is the beginning

00:37:47.619 --> 00:37:49.079
 and the end

00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:51.219
 this is the second

00:37:51.219 --> 00:37:52.139
 time in the book

00:37:52.139 --> 00:37:52.599
 of Revelation

00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:53.380
 when God

00:37:53.380 --> 00:37:54.099
 the Father's

00:37:54.099 --> 00:37:54.960
 direct speech

00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:55.500
 is quoted

00:37:55.500 --> 00:37:56.880
 the first time

00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:57.260
 was at the

00:37:57.260 --> 00:37:58.039
 beginning of the book

00:37:58.039 --> 00:37:58.559
 in Revelation

00:37:58.559 --> 00:37:59.239
 1-8

00:37:59.239 --> 00:38:00.199
 when he said

00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:01.099
 I am

00:38:01.099 --> 00:38:01.920
 the alpha

00:38:01.920 --> 00:38:03.099
 and the omega

00:38:03.099 --> 00:38:04.320
 who is

00:38:04.320 --> 00:38:05.000
 and who was

00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:05.900
 and is to come

00:38:05.900 --> 00:38:06.519
 the almighty

00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:08.360
 so the placement

00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:09.320
 of these verses

00:38:09.320 --> 00:38:09.960
 at the beginning

00:38:09.960 --> 00:38:10.740
 and end

00:38:10.740 --> 00:38:11.300
 of the book

00:38:11.300 --> 00:38:11.780
 of Revelation

00:38:11.780 --> 00:38:12.620
 is no coincidence

00:38:12.620 --> 00:38:14.760
 it reinforces

00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:15.800
 the very point

00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:16.740
 that this verse

00:38:16.740 --> 00:38:17.380
 is making

00:38:17.380 --> 00:38:18.680
 that God

00:38:18.680 --> 00:38:19.760
 presides

00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:20.800
 sovereignly

00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:21.640
 over all

00:38:21.640 --> 00:38:22.500
 of human history

00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:23.440
 and of all

00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:24.080
 that is written

00:38:24.080 --> 00:38:24.500
 in the book

00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:25.039
 of Revelation

00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:25.880
 from the beginning

00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:26.920
 to the end

00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:30.920
 what do you see

00:38:30.920 --> 00:38:31.600
 at the very beginning

00:38:31.600 --> 00:38:32.100
 of the Bible

00:38:32.100 --> 00:38:33.960
 in Genesis 1-1

00:38:33.960 --> 00:38:37.320
 in the beginning

00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:38.840
 God

00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:40.400
 God

00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:40.760
 God is there

00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:41.220
 at the beginning

00:38:41.220 --> 00:38:43.220
 not humans

00:38:43.220 --> 00:38:44.860
 not Leviathan

00:38:44.860 --> 00:38:45.340
 the dragon

00:38:45.340 --> 00:38:46.579
 God is at the beginning

00:38:46.579 --> 00:38:48.440
 and what will be

00:38:48.440 --> 00:38:49.159
 at the end

00:38:49.159 --> 00:38:49.880
 God

00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:51.780
 because he is

00:38:51.780 --> 00:38:52.179
 the alpha

00:38:52.179 --> 00:38:52.800
 and the omega

00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:53.960
 this captures

00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:55.039
 the absolute

00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:55.780
 sovereignty

00:38:55.780 --> 00:38:56.760
 of God

00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:57.460
 over all

00:38:57.460 --> 00:38:58.380
 of human history

00:38:58.380 --> 00:39:00.099
 man is not

00:39:00.099 --> 00:39:00.579
 the master

00:39:00.579 --> 00:39:01.360
 of his own fate

00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:02.500
 not the captain

00:39:02.500 --> 00:39:03.940
 of his own soul

00:39:03.940 --> 00:39:05.000
 God is

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:09.019
 when we read

00:39:09.019 --> 00:39:09.760
 a good novel

00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:10.940
 we go on

00:39:10.940 --> 00:39:11.740
 a thrilling ride

00:39:11.740 --> 00:39:12.660
 and we are surprised

00:39:12.660 --> 00:39:13.780
 and there are setbacks

00:39:13.780 --> 00:39:14.460
 because we don't know

00:39:14.460 --> 00:39:15.340
 what's going on

00:39:15.340 --> 00:39:16.140
 and we don't know

00:39:16.140 --> 00:39:16.800
 what will happen

00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:18.039
 but the author

00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:18.700
 of the book

00:39:18.700 --> 00:39:19.519
 does not wring

00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:20.260
 his hands

00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:21.380
 with concern

00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:22.079
 or anxiety

00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:22.980
 as he reads

00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:23.820
 through his own book

00:39:23.820 --> 00:39:25.140
 because he knows

00:39:25.140 --> 00:39:26.039
 what's going to happen

00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:26.640
 in the end

00:39:26.640 --> 00:39:28.000
 he wrote it

00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:31.300
 God is the author

00:39:31.300 --> 00:39:32.800
 of all creation

00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:34.200
 and all of human history

00:39:34.200 --> 00:39:36.940
 because he is the alpha

00:39:36.940 --> 00:39:37.480
 and the omega

00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:37.980
 the beginning

00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:38.620
 and the end

00:39:38.620 --> 00:39:41.160
 at the peak

00:39:41.160 --> 00:39:42.080
 of our lives

00:39:42.080 --> 00:39:43.160
 is God

00:39:43.160 --> 00:39:44.640
 at the rock bottom

00:39:44.640 --> 00:39:45.320
 of our lives

00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:45.960
 is God

00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:47.200
 at our birth

00:39:47.200 --> 00:39:48.320
 is God

00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:49.160
 at our death

00:39:49.160 --> 00:39:50.120
 there is God

00:39:50.120 --> 00:39:51.539
 in eternity past

00:39:51.539 --> 00:39:52.300
 there is God

00:39:52.300 --> 00:39:53.760
 in eternity future

00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:54.640
 there is God

00:39:54.640 --> 00:39:56.440
 he is the uncreated one

00:39:56.440 --> 00:39:57.740
 the eternal one

00:39:57.740 --> 00:39:59.220
 the ancient of days

00:39:59.219 --> 00:40:00.919
 have you reckoned

00:40:00.919 --> 00:40:02.179
 with this God

00:40:02.179 --> 00:40:05.099
 it is the first

00:40:05.099 --> 00:40:06.759
 business of human being

00:40:06.759 --> 00:40:07.480
 which is a creature

00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:08.019
 of God

00:40:08.019 --> 00:40:10.259
 to reckon with

00:40:10.259 --> 00:40:11.179
 its creator

00:40:11.179 --> 00:40:13.599
 have you done that

00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:15.319
 you cannot hide

00:40:15.319 --> 00:40:15.839
 from God

00:40:15.839 --> 00:40:17.159
 you cannot run

00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:17.719
 from God

00:40:17.719 --> 00:40:18.859
 you are accountable

00:40:18.859 --> 00:40:19.480
 to God

00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:21.119
 even after all

00:40:21.119 --> 00:40:21.919
 that humanity

00:40:21.919 --> 00:40:22.759
 has done

00:40:22.759 --> 00:40:23.899
 throughout history

00:40:23.899 --> 00:40:24.859
 to run away

00:40:24.859 --> 00:40:25.359
 from God

00:40:25.359 --> 00:40:25.959
 and to rebel

00:40:25.959 --> 00:40:26.859
 against God

00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:28.019
 at the end

00:40:28.019 --> 00:40:28.620
 of history

00:40:28.620 --> 00:40:30.220
 it will still

00:40:30.220 --> 00:40:31.000
 be God

00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:35.120
 so don't worry

00:40:35.120 --> 00:40:35.800
 if you don't know

00:40:35.800 --> 00:40:36.380
 where your life

00:40:36.380 --> 00:40:37.240
 is headed right now

00:40:37.240 --> 00:40:38.940
 don't worry

00:40:38.940 --> 00:40:39.579
 if you don't know

00:40:39.579 --> 00:40:40.460
 how long you will live

00:40:40.460 --> 00:40:41.000
 if you don't know

00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:41.800
 what's going to happen

00:40:41.800 --> 00:40:42.480
 to your child

00:40:42.480 --> 00:40:43.079
 if you don't know

00:40:43.079 --> 00:40:44.140
 what's going to happen

00:40:44.140 --> 00:40:45.000
 to your career

00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:46.539
 God is there

00:40:46.539 --> 00:40:47.140
 from the beginning

00:40:47.140 --> 00:40:47.760
 to the end

00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:50.200
 so don't worry

00:40:50.200 --> 00:40:50.960
 when your life

00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:51.660
 as a Christian

00:40:51.660 --> 00:40:52.340
 is hard

00:40:52.340 --> 00:40:54.280
 when your life

00:40:54.280 --> 00:40:55.240
 is full of sorrow

00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:56.099
 and suffering

00:40:56.099 --> 00:40:57.339
 and you wonder

00:40:57.339 --> 00:40:58.759
 is this worth it

00:40:58.759 --> 00:41:00.799
 when you're caricatured

00:41:00.799 --> 00:41:01.419
 by the world

00:41:01.419 --> 00:41:02.039
 and persecuted

00:41:02.039 --> 00:41:03.059
 for your faith

00:41:03.059 --> 00:41:05.839
 remember that it's our God

00:41:05.839 --> 00:41:07.199
 and not our detractors

00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:08.139
 and persecutors

00:41:08.139 --> 00:41:08.979
 who is the alpha

00:41:08.979 --> 00:41:09.659
 and the omega

00:41:09.659 --> 00:41:13.919
 the last person standing

00:41:13.919 --> 00:41:15.799
 will be God

00:41:15.799 --> 00:41:21.259
 I know you all believe this

00:41:21.259 --> 00:41:21.959
 in your heads

00:41:21.959 --> 00:41:23.339
 if you're a Christian

00:41:23.339 --> 00:41:24.319
 you believe this

00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:26.180
 but do you really

00:41:26.180 --> 00:41:27.720
 believe this

00:41:27.720 --> 00:41:28.980
 in your heart

00:41:28.980 --> 00:41:31.780
 do you really know

00:41:31.780 --> 00:41:33.000
 the sovereignty of God

00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:34.180
 in your bones

00:41:34.180 --> 00:41:36.280
 does it actually

00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:37.580
 function in your life

00:41:37.580 --> 00:41:38.340
 when things are not

00:41:38.340 --> 00:41:39.100
 going your way

00:41:39.100 --> 00:41:40.740
 because if it did

00:41:40.740 --> 00:41:41.900
 when we are weak

00:41:41.900 --> 00:41:42.960
 need and faltering

00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:44.059
 this doctrine

00:41:44.059 --> 00:41:45.660
 will brace us up

00:41:45.660 --> 00:41:49.160
 and give us peace

00:41:49.159 --> 00:41:53.719
 and listen to this

00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:54.440
 wonderful promise

00:41:54.440 --> 00:41:55.039
 from the alpha

00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:55.399
 and omega

00:41:55.399 --> 00:41:56.119
 in verse 6

00:41:56.119 --> 00:41:57.219
 to the thirsty

00:41:57.219 --> 00:41:58.239
 I will give

00:41:58.239 --> 00:41:58.960
 from the spring

00:41:58.960 --> 00:41:59.659
 of the water

00:41:59.659 --> 00:42:00.179
 of life

00:42:00.179 --> 00:42:01.519
 without payment

00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:05.259
 this echoes

00:42:05.259 --> 00:42:05.739
 the promise

00:42:05.739 --> 00:42:06.579
 of Isaiah 55

00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:07.399
 1-2

00:42:07.399 --> 00:42:08.719
 come everyone

00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:09.819
 who thirsts

00:42:09.819 --> 00:42:10.940
 come to the waters

00:42:10.940 --> 00:42:12.119
 and he who has no money

00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:13.039
 come buy

00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:13.500
 and eat

00:42:13.500 --> 00:42:14.559
 buy wine

00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:15.000
 and milk

00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:15.739
 without money

00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:17.379
 and without price

00:42:17.380 --> 00:42:20.780
 this is the water

00:42:20.780 --> 00:42:21.079
 of life

00:42:21.079 --> 00:42:21.579
 that we see

00:42:21.579 --> 00:42:22.400
 in Revelation 22

00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:22.900
 17

00:42:22.900 --> 00:42:23.760
 it's the river

00:42:23.760 --> 00:42:24.940
 of the water

00:42:24.940 --> 00:42:25.480
 of life

00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:26.160
 that flows

00:42:26.160 --> 00:42:26.940
 brightest crystal

00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:27.640
 from the throne

00:42:27.640 --> 00:42:28.180
 of God

00:42:28.180 --> 00:42:29.539
 where the father

00:42:29.539 --> 00:42:30.180
 and the son

00:42:30.180 --> 00:42:30.599
 the lamb

00:42:30.599 --> 00:42:31.300
 are seated

00:42:31.300 --> 00:42:33.519
 it's the Holy Spirit

00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:34.700
 John 7

00:42:34.700 --> 00:42:35.160
 37

00:42:35.160 --> 00:42:35.539
 39

00:42:35.539 --> 00:42:36.280
 tells us exactly

00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:36.780
 what this living

00:42:36.780 --> 00:42:37.260
 water is

00:42:37.260 --> 00:42:38.119
 Jesus cried out

00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:39.519
 if anyone thirsts

00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:41.380
 if anyone thirsts

00:42:41.380 --> 00:42:42.619
 let him come to me

00:42:42.619 --> 00:42:43.240
 and drink

00:42:43.240 --> 00:42:44.099
 whoever believes

00:42:44.099 --> 00:42:44.619
 in me

00:42:44.619 --> 00:42:45.240
 as the scripture

00:42:45.240 --> 00:42:45.740
 has said

00:42:45.739 --> 00:42:46.639
 out of his heart

00:42:46.639 --> 00:42:47.559
 will flow rivers

00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:48.500
 of living water

00:42:48.500 --> 00:42:49.699
 now this

00:42:49.699 --> 00:42:50.799
 he said about the spirit

00:42:50.799 --> 00:42:52.000
 whom those who believed

00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:52.979
 in him were to receive

00:42:52.979 --> 00:42:54.119
 for as yet the spirit

00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:54.919
 had not been given

00:42:54.919 --> 00:42:55.479
 because Jesus

00:42:55.479 --> 00:42:56.859
 was not yet glorified

00:42:56.859 --> 00:42:58.719
 it is the spirit

00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:00.139
 who gives life

00:43:00.139 --> 00:43:02.719
 Acts 2 38

00:43:02.719 --> 00:43:03.259
 promises

00:43:03.259 --> 00:43:05.179
 all people

00:43:05.179 --> 00:43:06.199
 repent

00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:07.419
 repent of your sins

00:43:07.419 --> 00:43:08.839
 and be baptized

00:43:08.839 --> 00:43:09.739
 which is

00:43:09.739 --> 00:43:10.359
 an outward

00:43:10.359 --> 00:43:11.259
 profession

00:43:11.259 --> 00:43:12.619
 of our inward faith

00:43:12.619 --> 00:43:13.539
 in Jesus Christ

00:43:13.539 --> 00:43:14.239
 repent

00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:14.419
 repent

00:43:14.419 --> 00:43:15.119
 and be baptized

00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:16.159
 every one of you

00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:16.819
 in the name

00:43:16.819 --> 00:43:17.579
 of Jesus Christ

00:43:17.579 --> 00:43:18.219
 for the forgiveness

00:43:18.219 --> 00:43:18.959
 of your sins

00:43:18.959 --> 00:43:19.819
 and you

00:43:19.819 --> 00:43:21.159
 will receive

00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:21.899
 the gift

00:43:21.899 --> 00:43:23.599
 of the Holy Spirit

00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:27.139
 our Lord Jesus Christ

00:43:27.139 --> 00:43:29.199
 decisively crushed

00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:29.979
 the head of the serpent

00:43:29.979 --> 00:43:30.659
 on the cross

00:43:30.659 --> 00:43:33.159
 and then

00:43:33.159 --> 00:43:34.239
 because of that

00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:35.419
 because he did that

00:43:35.419 --> 00:43:36.479
 as a risen

00:43:36.479 --> 00:43:37.279
 and ascended Lord

00:43:37.279 --> 00:43:38.159
 he was able to send

00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:38.919
 the Holy Spirit

00:43:38.919 --> 00:43:40.159
 down to us

00:43:40.159 --> 00:43:41.419
 and the Holy Spirit

00:43:41.419 --> 00:43:42.579
 who indwells us

00:43:42.579 --> 00:43:43.980
 and flows in us

00:43:43.980 --> 00:43:45.559
 like rivers of living water

00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:47.539
 is like the antivenom

00:43:47.539 --> 00:43:49.460
 that courses through

00:43:49.460 --> 00:43:50.719
 our figurative veins

00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:51.799
 to undo

00:43:51.799 --> 00:43:52.940
 and to expel

00:43:52.940 --> 00:43:53.860
 and to destroy

00:43:53.860 --> 00:43:55.319
 every single bit

00:43:55.319 --> 00:43:55.960
 of the lie

00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:56.539
 of the serpent

00:43:56.539 --> 00:43:57.139
 and the Satan

00:43:57.139 --> 00:43:58.279
 and all of

00:43:58.279 --> 00:43:59.119
 every single one

00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:00.119
 of its ill effects

00:44:00.119 --> 00:44:04.139
 and that spirit of life

00:44:04.139 --> 00:44:04.819
 will eventually

00:44:04.819 --> 00:44:05.500
 overflow

00:44:05.500 --> 00:44:06.639
 and envelop

00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:08.199
 and all of us

00:44:08.199 --> 00:44:09.719
 and until we have

00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:11.019
 resurrection bodies

00:44:11.019 --> 00:44:14.379
 forever in the new heaven

00:44:14.379 --> 00:44:15.059
 and the new earth

00:44:15.059 --> 00:44:20.039
 it's a staggering promise

00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:21.980
 and how do you

00:44:21.980 --> 00:44:23.779
 how do you receive that

00:44:23.779 --> 00:44:26.179
 the only condition

00:44:26.179 --> 00:44:26.719
 is this

00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:28.500
 that you are thirsty

00:44:28.500 --> 00:44:33.000
 to the thirsty

00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:34.299
 I will give

00:44:34.299 --> 00:44:35.279
 from the spring of water

00:44:35.279 --> 00:44:36.239
 the water of life

00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:37.159
 without payment

00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:38.439
 you don't need money

00:44:38.440 --> 00:44:40.539
 you just need to be thirsty

00:44:40.539 --> 00:44:42.519
 what does that mean

00:44:42.519 --> 00:44:43.900
 you need to be humble enough

00:44:43.900 --> 00:44:44.619
 to recognize

00:44:44.619 --> 00:44:46.300
 your own sinfulness

00:44:46.300 --> 00:44:49.260
 your own spiritual deprivation

00:44:49.260 --> 00:44:50.179
 and neediness

00:44:50.179 --> 00:44:51.700
 and come to the source

00:44:51.700 --> 00:44:53.260
 of this living water

00:44:53.260 --> 00:44:57.760
 there's a rare disorder

00:44:57.760 --> 00:44:58.980
 called adipsia

00:44:58.980 --> 00:45:00.900
 where people don't feel thirst

00:45:00.900 --> 00:45:02.340
 even when they are dehydrated

00:45:02.340 --> 00:45:05.139
 so they have to be instructed

00:45:05.139 --> 00:45:06.860
 and commanded

00:45:06.860 --> 00:45:08.059
 to take water

00:45:08.059 --> 00:45:09.440
 or else they die

00:45:09.440 --> 00:45:12.840
 this condition

00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:13.960
 which is really rare

00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:14.759
 in the physical world

00:45:14.759 --> 00:45:15.799
 is unfortunately

00:45:15.799 --> 00:45:17.179
 very common

00:45:17.179 --> 00:45:18.139
 in the spiritual world

00:45:18.139 --> 00:45:23.179
 the self-righteous

00:45:23.179 --> 00:45:25.079
 and the self-sufficient

00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:27.279
 never enter

00:45:27.279 --> 00:45:28.299
 the kingdom of God

00:45:28.299 --> 00:45:29.279
 never

00:45:29.279 --> 00:45:32.980
 they will not partake

00:45:32.980 --> 00:45:33.539
 in the new heaven

00:45:33.539 --> 00:45:34.159
 and the new earth

00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:37.480
 but if you know

00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:38.199
 that you have

00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:38.859
 no money

00:45:38.859 --> 00:45:41.179
 if you know

00:45:41.179 --> 00:45:42.440
 that you can't buy

00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:43.219
 this living water

00:45:43.219 --> 00:45:44.339
 with whatever

00:45:44.339 --> 00:45:45.179
 you've ever done

00:45:45.179 --> 00:45:46.980
 that all your good works

00:45:46.980 --> 00:45:47.619
 are insufficient

00:45:47.619 --> 00:45:49.159
 that your sins

00:45:49.159 --> 00:45:49.699
 are many

00:45:49.699 --> 00:45:51.440
 if you're a needy sinner

00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:52.219
 who recognizes

00:45:52.219 --> 00:45:53.420
 his or her own need

00:45:53.420 --> 00:45:54.039
 for forgiveness

00:45:54.039 --> 00:45:55.539
 if you are poor

00:45:55.539 --> 00:45:56.219
 in spirit

00:45:56.219 --> 00:45:57.339
 if you hunger

00:45:57.339 --> 00:45:57.819
 and thirst

00:45:57.819 --> 00:45:58.460
 for righteousness

00:45:58.460 --> 00:45:59.659
 then Jesus says

00:45:59.659 --> 00:46:00.859
 you will be satisfied

00:46:00.860 --> 00:46:05.840
 and there's only one source

00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:06.820
 of this water of life

00:46:06.820 --> 00:46:08.019
 and that's Jesus

00:46:08.019 --> 00:46:11.160
 to what

00:46:11.160 --> 00:46:11.980
 or to whom

00:46:11.980 --> 00:46:13.019
 are you turning

00:46:13.019 --> 00:46:15.320
 to satisfy

00:46:15.320 --> 00:46:16.740
 your soul thirst

00:46:16.740 --> 00:46:18.000
 your eternal longing

00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:18.920
 that can only be satisfied

00:46:18.920 --> 00:46:19.539
 by God

00:46:19.539 --> 00:46:21.940
 money

00:46:21.940 --> 00:46:23.720
 sex

00:46:23.720 --> 00:46:25.440
 fame

00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:28.820
 people's approval

00:46:28.820 --> 00:46:29.700
 or acclaim

00:46:29.700 --> 00:46:32.180
 a successful career

00:46:32.180 --> 00:46:33.720
 do you think

00:46:33.720 --> 00:46:34.500
 that getting married

00:46:34.500 --> 00:46:35.340
 or having a child

00:46:35.340 --> 00:46:36.700
 will satisfy you

00:46:36.700 --> 00:46:39.160
 do you think

00:46:39.160 --> 00:46:40.539
 getting into your dream school

00:46:40.539 --> 00:46:41.760
 will satisfy you

00:46:41.760 --> 00:46:43.940
 do you think

00:46:43.940 --> 00:46:44.920
 early retirement

00:46:44.920 --> 00:46:46.000
 and permanent vacation

00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:47.580
 will satisfy you

00:46:47.580 --> 00:46:51.200
 if you turn

00:46:51.200 --> 00:46:52.059
 to these things

00:46:52.059 --> 00:46:53.620
 or to any other thing

00:46:53.620 --> 00:46:54.360
 that is not

00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:55.120
 Jesus Christ

00:46:55.120 --> 00:46:55.780
 to satisfy

00:46:55.780 --> 00:46:56.600
 your soul thirst

00:46:56.600 --> 00:46:57.800
 your spiritual longing

00:46:57.800 --> 00:46:59.460
 if you make them

00:46:59.460 --> 00:47:00.980
 if you make any other thing

00:47:00.980 --> 00:47:02.580
 the ultimate object

00:47:02.580 --> 00:47:03.480
 of your desire

00:47:03.480 --> 00:47:05.560
 and affection

00:47:05.560 --> 00:47:06.260
 and love

00:47:06.260 --> 00:47:08.700
 the more you drink

00:47:08.700 --> 00:47:09.940
 the more thirsty

00:47:09.940 --> 00:47:11.120
 you will get

00:47:11.120 --> 00:47:13.680
 the more dehydrated

00:47:13.680 --> 00:47:14.160
 you will get

00:47:14.160 --> 00:47:14.840
 it will be like

00:47:14.840 --> 00:47:17.180
 drinking salty seawater

00:47:17.180 --> 00:47:24.960
 our body can't process

00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:25.860
 so much salt

00:47:25.860 --> 00:47:27.599
 so in order to get rid

00:47:27.599 --> 00:47:28.039
 of the salt

00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:28.500
 in the body

00:47:28.500 --> 00:47:29.160
 you pee

00:47:29.160 --> 00:47:29.860
 and you pee

00:47:29.860 --> 00:47:30.400
 way more

00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:31.200
 than you can take in

00:47:31.200 --> 00:47:31.820
 so if you keep

00:47:31.820 --> 00:47:32.720
 drinking salt water

00:47:32.720 --> 00:47:33.780
 you die

00:47:33.780 --> 00:47:35.579
 because it will never

00:47:35.579 --> 00:47:36.740
 satisfy your thirst

00:47:36.740 --> 00:47:40.180
 that's what it's like

00:47:40.180 --> 00:47:41.019
 to turn to idols

00:47:41.019 --> 00:47:42.079
 things that are not

00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:43.079
 Jesus Christ

00:47:43.079 --> 00:47:44.240
 to satisfy you

00:47:44.240 --> 00:47:49.019
 if anyone thirsts

00:47:49.019 --> 00:47:50.019
 let him come to

00:47:50.019 --> 00:47:51.700
 me and drink

00:47:51.700 --> 00:47:52.340
 says Jesus

00:47:52.340 --> 00:47:55.140
 whoever believes

00:47:55.140 --> 00:47:56.360
 in me

00:47:56.360 --> 00:47:57.820
 shall never thirst

00:47:57.820 --> 00:47:58.900
 will you humble

00:47:58.900 --> 00:47:59.680
 yourself before

00:47:59.680 --> 00:48:00.380
 God this morning

00:48:00.380 --> 00:48:02.340
 will you acknowledge

00:48:02.340 --> 00:48:02.860
 your thirst

00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:03.440
 and cling to

00:48:03.440 --> 00:48:04.380
 Jesus alone

00:48:04.380 --> 00:48:05.039
 as the fountain

00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:05.920
 of living water

00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:09.740
 verse 7

00:48:09.740 --> 00:48:10.620
 continues the promise

00:48:10.620 --> 00:48:11.820
 the one who conquers

00:48:11.820 --> 00:48:13.200
 will have this heritage

00:48:13.200 --> 00:48:14.440
 and I will be

00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:15.059
 his God

00:48:15.059 --> 00:48:15.820
 and he will be

00:48:15.820 --> 00:48:16.680
 my son

00:48:16.680 --> 00:48:18.400
 the word conquer

00:48:18.400 --> 00:48:19.760
 is a key word

00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:20.240
 throughout the book

00:48:20.240 --> 00:48:20.760
 of Revelation

00:48:20.760 --> 00:48:22.220
 every single one

00:48:22.220 --> 00:48:23.160
 of Jesus' letters

00:48:23.160 --> 00:48:23.980
 to the seven churches

00:48:23.980 --> 00:48:25.140
 in Revelation 2 and 3

00:48:25.140 --> 00:48:27.080
 end with this promise

00:48:27.080 --> 00:48:28.720
 to those who conquer

00:48:28.720 --> 00:48:30.100
 to the one who conquers

00:48:30.100 --> 00:48:32.800
 here's a sample

00:48:32.800 --> 00:48:33.560
 from Revelation 2

00:48:33.560 --> 00:48:34.320
 10 to 11

00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:35.460
 do not fear

00:48:35.460 --> 00:48:36.080
 what you are about

00:48:36.080 --> 00:48:36.500
 to suffer

00:48:36.500 --> 00:48:37.620
 you will have tribulation

00:48:37.620 --> 00:48:39.560
 be faithful unto death

00:48:39.560 --> 00:48:40.980
 and I will give you

00:48:40.980 --> 00:48:41.980
 the crown of life

00:48:41.980 --> 00:48:44.300
 the one who conquers

00:48:44.300 --> 00:48:45.480
 will not be hurt

00:48:45.480 --> 00:48:46.420
 by the second death

00:48:46.420 --> 00:48:49.460
 similarly in Revelation 3

00:48:49.460 --> 00:48:50.619
 21 Jesus says

00:48:50.619 --> 00:48:52.940
 the one who conquers

00:48:52.940 --> 00:48:54.179
 I will grant him

00:48:54.179 --> 00:48:54.880
 to sit with me

00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:55.519
 on my throne

00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:57.019
 as I also conquered

00:48:57.019 --> 00:48:57.880
 and sat down

00:48:57.880 --> 00:48:58.440
 with my father

00:48:58.440 --> 00:48:59.159
 on his throne

00:48:59.159 --> 00:49:00.780
 and this gives us

00:49:00.780 --> 00:49:01.599
 a clue as to what

00:49:01.599 --> 00:49:02.519
 this means

00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:04.000
 that we are to conquer

00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:06.760
 Jesus conquered

00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:08.639
 it says in Revelation 5

00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:09.420
 5 to 6

00:49:09.420 --> 00:49:13.579
 not by triumphing militarily

00:49:13.579 --> 00:49:14.139
 and defeating

00:49:14.139 --> 00:49:15.400
 all his earthly enemies

00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:17.280
 but by being slain

00:49:17.280 --> 00:49:18.240
 on the cross

00:49:18.240 --> 00:49:20.760
 as the lamb of God

00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:24.580
 so then we

00:49:24.580 --> 00:49:27.100
 follow in Jesus' footsteps

00:49:27.100 --> 00:49:28.640
 we conquer

00:49:28.640 --> 00:49:29.600
 as Christians

00:49:29.600 --> 00:49:31.460
 by being faithful

00:49:31.460 --> 00:49:32.220
 witnesses

00:49:32.220 --> 00:49:33.560
 of Jesus Christ

00:49:33.560 --> 00:49:35.360
 even unto death

00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:40.240
 by holding on

00:49:40.240 --> 00:49:40.840
 to the testimony

00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:41.240
 of Jesus

00:49:41.240 --> 00:49:42.540
 that's how we are saved

00:49:42.540 --> 00:49:43.580
 so no

00:49:43.580 --> 00:49:44.900
 we are not being saved

00:49:44.900 --> 00:49:45.860
 here by our own

00:49:45.860 --> 00:49:46.400
 good works

00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:47.519
 or what we do

00:49:47.519 --> 00:49:48.840
 because ultimately

00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:49.539
 what saves us

00:49:49.539 --> 00:49:50.360
 is the testimony

00:49:50.360 --> 00:49:51.240
 of Jesus

00:49:51.240 --> 00:49:52.579
 the gospel

00:49:52.579 --> 00:49:54.160
 of Jesus Christ

00:49:54.160 --> 00:49:57.220
 that's why

00:49:57.220 --> 00:49:58.119
 it's spring of water

00:49:58.119 --> 00:49:58.740
 water of life

00:49:58.740 --> 00:49:59.700
 without payment

00:49:59.700 --> 00:50:01.240
 remember what he said

00:50:01.240 --> 00:50:02.380
 in Revelation 12

00:50:02.380 --> 00:50:02.660
 11

00:50:02.660 --> 00:50:03.180
 we are singing

00:50:03.180 --> 00:50:03.639
 about this

00:50:03.639 --> 00:50:04.079
 this morning

00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:05.579
 they have conquered

00:50:05.579 --> 00:50:07.039
 him by the blood

00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:07.940
 of the lamb

00:50:07.940 --> 00:50:08.960
 and by the word

00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:09.660
 of their testimony

00:50:09.660 --> 00:50:10.400
 for they love

00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:11.260
 not their lives

00:50:11.260 --> 00:50:12.400
 even unto death

00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:13.700
 the means

00:50:13.700 --> 00:50:14.820
 by which we conquer

00:50:14.820 --> 00:50:15.380
 is yes

00:50:15.380 --> 00:50:15.840
 of course

00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:16.740
 our testimony

00:50:16.740 --> 00:50:18.320
 but it's the testimony

00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:19.039
 of the fact

00:50:19.039 --> 00:50:20.019
 of the blood

00:50:20.019 --> 00:50:21.180
 of the slain

00:50:21.180 --> 00:50:22.139
 lamb of God

00:50:22.139 --> 00:50:27.000
 it's the same

00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:27.780
 paradox we see

00:50:27.780 --> 00:50:28.619
 elsewhere in scripture

00:50:28.619 --> 00:50:30.019
 Philippians 2

00:50:30.019 --> 00:50:30.680
 12-13

00:50:30.680 --> 00:50:31.660
 work out your own

00:50:31.660 --> 00:50:32.079
 salvation

00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:32.539
 with fear

00:50:32.539 --> 00:50:33.039
 and trembling

00:50:33.039 --> 00:50:35.400
 for it is God

00:50:35.400 --> 00:50:36.680
 who works in you

00:50:36.680 --> 00:50:38.480
 to both to will

00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:39.019
 and to work

00:50:39.019 --> 00:50:39.820
 for his good pleasure

00:50:39.820 --> 00:50:41.720
 we can work out

00:50:41.720 --> 00:50:42.380
 our own salvation

00:50:42.380 --> 00:50:43.160
 only because it is

00:50:43.160 --> 00:50:44.260
 God who's doing it

00:50:44.260 --> 00:50:47.519
 or 1 Corinthians 15-10

00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:48.600
 but by the grace

00:50:48.600 --> 00:50:49.140
 of God

00:50:49.140 --> 00:50:50.120
 I am what I am

00:50:50.120 --> 00:50:51.440
 and his grace

00:50:51.440 --> 00:50:51.860
 toward me

00:50:51.860 --> 00:50:52.500
 was not in vain

00:50:52.500 --> 00:50:53.080
 on the contrary

00:50:53.080 --> 00:50:54.420
 I worked harder

00:50:54.420 --> 00:50:55.400
 than any of them

00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:56.720
 though not I

00:50:56.720 --> 00:50:57.700
 but the grace

00:50:57.700 --> 00:50:58.019
 of God

00:50:58.019 --> 00:50:58.680
 that is with me

00:50:58.680 --> 00:50:59.920
 we work harder

00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:00.620
 than anyone else

00:51:00.620 --> 00:51:00.880
 how?

00:51:01.019 --> 00:51:01.740
 because it's the grace

00:51:01.740 --> 00:51:02.039
 of God

00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:02.880
 that's working in us

00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:06.100
 the grace of God

00:51:06.100 --> 00:51:06.980
 in the bloodshed

00:51:06.980 --> 00:51:07.920
 of Jesus Christ

00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:08.460
 on the cross

00:51:08.460 --> 00:51:09.600
 is what gives life

00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:11.699
 it's what energizes us

00:51:11.699 --> 00:51:12.880
 it's what enables us

00:51:12.880 --> 00:51:13.639
 to persevere

00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:14.880
 in faith and obedience

00:51:14.880 --> 00:51:15.739
 so yes

00:51:15.739 --> 00:51:17.019
 we have a role to play

00:51:17.019 --> 00:51:18.900
 but the decisive role

00:51:18.900 --> 00:51:19.699
 belongs to God

00:51:19.699 --> 00:51:21.719
 it's the grace of God

00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:22.719
 that justifies

00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:23.960
 and it's also the grace

00:51:23.960 --> 00:51:24.380
 of God

00:51:24.380 --> 00:51:25.519
 that sanctifies

00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:27.259
 the grace of God

00:51:27.259 --> 00:51:29.639
 simultaneously enables us

00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:30.360
 to persevere

00:51:30.360 --> 00:51:32.159
 and it itself

00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:33.719
 preserves us

00:51:33.719 --> 00:51:35.059
 to eternal life

00:51:35.059 --> 00:51:38.920
 so yes

00:51:38.920 --> 00:51:39.840
 we must endure

00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:41.900
 we must be conquerors

00:51:41.900 --> 00:51:43.740
 we must be overcomers

00:51:43.740 --> 00:51:44.940
 not succumers

00:51:44.940 --> 00:51:45.920
 but we do that

00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:46.500
 by clinging

00:51:46.500 --> 00:51:47.840
 not to our own good works

00:51:47.840 --> 00:51:48.780
 but by clinging

00:51:48.780 --> 00:51:49.480
 to the good news

00:51:49.480 --> 00:51:50.460
 of Jesus Christ

00:51:50.460 --> 00:51:52.940
 the blood of Jesus

00:51:52.940 --> 00:51:54.240
 God's son

00:51:54.240 --> 00:51:54.880
 cleanses us

00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:55.460
 from all sin

00:51:55.460 --> 00:51:58.280
 the one who is faithful

00:51:58.280 --> 00:51:58.840
 unto death

00:51:58.840 --> 00:51:59.680
 the one who conquers

00:51:59.680 --> 00:52:00.559
 by the blood of the lamb

00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:01.059
 and by the word

00:52:01.059 --> 00:52:01.599
 of the testimony

00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:02.740
 God says in verse 7

00:52:02.740 --> 00:52:04.800
 will have this heritage

00:52:04.800 --> 00:52:07.039
 and I will be his God

00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:08.640
 and he will be my son

00:52:08.640 --> 00:52:10.920
 why son?

00:52:11.640 --> 00:52:12.640
 it's not because

00:52:12.640 --> 00:52:14.100
 God saves men only

00:52:14.100 --> 00:52:15.700
 rather it's the fulfillment

00:52:15.700 --> 00:52:16.720
 of God's promise

00:52:16.720 --> 00:52:17.320
 to his people

00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:18.580
 in Hebrews 1 5

00:52:18.580 --> 00:52:20.300
 you are my son

00:52:20.300 --> 00:52:22.060
 today I have begotten you

00:52:22.060 --> 00:52:23.700
 I will be to him

00:52:23.700 --> 00:52:24.460
 a father

00:52:24.460 --> 00:52:25.700
 and he shall be to me

00:52:25.700 --> 00:52:26.500
 a son

00:52:26.500 --> 00:52:28.100
 but why a son?

00:52:28.720 --> 00:52:30.220
 because as Galatians 3 26

00:52:30.220 --> 00:52:32.200
 says for in Christ Jesus

00:52:32.199 --> 00:52:34.019
 you are all

00:52:34.019 --> 00:52:34.899
 men and women

00:52:34.899 --> 00:52:36.899
 you are all sons of God

00:52:36.899 --> 00:52:37.779
 through faith

00:52:37.779 --> 00:52:39.980
 it's because the means

00:52:39.980 --> 00:52:40.799
 by which we are saved

00:52:40.799 --> 00:52:41.619
 is not ourselves

00:52:41.619 --> 00:52:42.519
 but Jesus

00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:43.899
 the son of God

00:52:43.899 --> 00:52:45.779
 and we are in him

00:52:45.779 --> 00:52:47.279
 united to him

00:52:47.279 --> 00:52:48.179
 by faith

00:52:48.179 --> 00:52:54.000
 the fact that we are God's son

00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:54.759
 means that we have

00:52:54.759 --> 00:52:55.859
 a heritage he says

00:52:55.859 --> 00:52:57.000
 an inheritance

00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:59.819
 remember what the father says

00:52:59.819 --> 00:53:01.759
 to his elder son

00:53:01.760 --> 00:53:03.160
 in the parable of the two sons

00:53:03.160 --> 00:53:04.460
 or the parable of the prodigal son

00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:05.240
 in Luke 15

00:53:05.240 --> 00:53:06.280
 son

00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:08.880
 you are always with me

00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:11.140
 and all that is mine

00:53:11.140 --> 00:53:12.180
 is yours

00:53:12.180 --> 00:53:14.800
 that's what it means

00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:16.340
 that God calls us his son

00:53:16.340 --> 00:53:18.740
 and that we have a heritage

00:53:18.740 --> 00:53:20.980
 that means all that belongs

00:53:20.980 --> 00:53:22.420
 to God himself

00:53:22.420 --> 00:53:23.900
 the kingdom

00:53:23.900 --> 00:53:25.560
 the glory

00:53:25.560 --> 00:53:26.940
 the dominion

00:53:26.940 --> 00:53:30.100
 all belongs to us

00:53:30.099 --> 00:53:31.659
 his heirs

00:53:31.659 --> 00:53:34.279
 those who are in Jesus Christ

00:53:34.279 --> 00:53:36.000
 this is the renewal

00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:37.559
 for which we wait eagerly

00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:38.599
 our adoption as sons

00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:39.799
 redemption of our bodies

00:53:39.799 --> 00:53:42.819
 so this is my final exhortation

00:53:42.819 --> 00:53:43.199
 to you

00:53:43.199 --> 00:53:44.739
 will you be an overcomer

00:53:44.739 --> 00:53:47.059
 or will you be a suck comer

00:53:47.059 --> 00:53:51.219
 will you conquer

00:53:51.219 --> 00:53:52.319
 by the blood of the lamb

00:53:52.319 --> 00:53:53.259
 will you hold on

00:53:53.259 --> 00:53:54.059
 for dear life

00:53:54.059 --> 00:53:55.559
 to the gospel of Jesus Christ

00:53:55.559 --> 00:53:56.139
 till the end

00:53:56.139 --> 00:53:57.480
 or will you be conquered

00:53:57.480 --> 00:53:58.119
 by the dragon

00:53:58.119 --> 00:53:58.559
 the beast

00:53:58.559 --> 00:53:59.360
 and the false prophet

00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:01.059
 verse 8

00:54:01.059 --> 00:54:01.980
 concludes this passage

00:54:01.980 --> 00:54:02.599
 with a warning

00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:04.779
 but as for the cowardly

00:54:04.779 --> 00:54:06.000
 the faithless

00:54:06.000 --> 00:54:06.840
 the detestable

00:54:06.840 --> 00:54:08.099
 as for murderers

00:54:08.099 --> 00:54:09.059
 the sexually immoral

00:54:09.059 --> 00:54:09.799
 sorcerers

00:54:09.799 --> 00:54:10.380
 idolaters

00:54:10.380 --> 00:54:11.239
 and all liars

00:54:11.239 --> 00:54:12.400
 their portion

00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:13.239
 will be in the lake

00:54:13.239 --> 00:54:14.380
 that burns with fire

00:54:14.380 --> 00:54:14.799
 and sulfur

00:54:14.799 --> 00:54:16.239
 which is the second death

00:54:16.239 --> 00:54:19.000
 this is not an exhaustive

00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:19.679
 list of sins

00:54:19.679 --> 00:54:20.900
 but these sins

00:54:20.900 --> 00:54:21.739
 are representative

00:54:21.739 --> 00:54:22.779
 of all the ways

00:54:22.779 --> 00:54:23.779
 in which the early church

00:54:23.779 --> 00:54:24.860
 addressed in Revelation 2

00:54:24.860 --> 00:54:25.119
 and 3

00:54:25.119 --> 00:54:25.860
 were struggling

00:54:25.860 --> 00:54:28.140
 they were tempted

00:54:28.140 --> 00:54:29.059
 by their cultures

00:54:29.059 --> 00:54:30.059
 sexual immorality

00:54:30.059 --> 00:54:30.720
 and sorcery

00:54:30.720 --> 00:54:31.340
 and idolatry

00:54:31.340 --> 00:54:32.740
 they were tempted

00:54:32.740 --> 00:54:34.099
 to join the insincerity

00:54:34.099 --> 00:54:34.800
 of liars

00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:35.840
 whose consciences

00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:36.460
 are seared

00:54:36.460 --> 00:54:38.160
 they professed

00:54:38.160 --> 00:54:38.740
 to know God

00:54:38.740 --> 00:54:39.539
 but denied him

00:54:39.539 --> 00:54:40.400
 by their works

00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:42.280
 they faced tribulation

00:54:42.280 --> 00:54:43.019
 and poverty

00:54:43.019 --> 00:54:44.380
 suffering and imprisonment

00:54:44.380 --> 00:54:45.120
 and even death

00:54:45.120 --> 00:54:46.440
 so many people

00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:47.079
 many Christians

00:54:47.079 --> 00:54:47.599
 were tempted

00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:48.980
 to cower in fear

00:54:48.980 --> 00:54:49.880
 and to be faithless

00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:50.400
 to their Lord

00:54:50.400 --> 00:54:52.579
 but God commends them

00:54:52.579 --> 00:54:53.380
 not to fear

00:54:53.380 --> 00:54:53.960
 what they are about

00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:54.480
 to suffer

00:54:54.480 --> 00:54:55.840
 and to be courageous

00:54:55.840 --> 00:54:57.119
 and faithful

00:54:57.119 --> 00:55:04.559
 if you have

00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:05.559
 unrepentant sin

00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:06.639
 in any of these ways

00:55:06.639 --> 00:55:09.400
 your faith

00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:10.019
 will not be

00:55:10.019 --> 00:55:10.460
 the new heaven

00:55:10.460 --> 00:55:11.079
 and the new earth

00:55:11.079 --> 00:55:11.460
 it will be

00:55:11.460 --> 00:55:12.199
 the lake of fire

00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:16.320
 have you repented

00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:17.119
 of all your sins

00:55:17.119 --> 00:55:19.400
 and turned to Jesus alone

00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:21.659
 similar lists

00:55:21.659 --> 00:55:22.199
 of sins

00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:22.980
 appear later

00:55:22.980 --> 00:55:24.820
 later in this chapter

00:55:24.820 --> 00:55:25.619
 in verse 27

00:55:25.619 --> 00:55:26.320
 as well as

00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:26.980
 in chapter 22

00:55:26.980 --> 00:55:27.639
 verse 15

00:55:27.639 --> 00:55:29.079
 and both of them

00:55:29.079 --> 00:55:30.619
 end with liars

00:55:30.619 --> 00:55:32.099
 those who practice

00:55:32.099 --> 00:55:32.699
 falsehood

00:55:32.699 --> 00:55:33.900
 which is not insignificant

00:55:33.900 --> 00:55:38.139
 when every fiber

00:55:38.139 --> 00:55:39.559
 of your self-preserving

00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:41.099
 and self-serving instinct

00:55:41.099 --> 00:55:42.679
 tells you to embrace

00:55:42.679 --> 00:55:43.980
 the lies of this world

00:55:43.980 --> 00:55:45.440
 will you stand

00:55:45.440 --> 00:55:46.460
 for God's truth

00:55:46.460 --> 00:55:50.740
 when you feel

00:55:50.740 --> 00:55:51.980
 tremendous pressures

00:55:51.980 --> 00:55:54.139
 and manifold temptations

00:55:54.139 --> 00:55:55.000
 from the world

00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:56.219
 to forsake your allegiance

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 to Jesus Christ

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 will you belie

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 your profession of faith

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 and live in unrepentant sin

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 let us not choose

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 the fleeting pleasures

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 of the world

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 that is passing away

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 and miss out

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 on the new heaven

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 and the new earth

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 let's pray together

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 oh father

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 my words cannot accomplish this

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 may your word

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 just grip

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 and pierce

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 our hearts

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 this morning

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 so that that

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 new heaven

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 and new earth

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 that is coming

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 feels

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 even more real

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 to us

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 than our present

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 first heaven

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 and earth

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 preserve us

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 by your grace

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 and help us

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 to persevere

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 with courage

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 faithfulness

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 in Jesus name

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 we pray

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 amen

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 amen

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 to us