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 Merry Christmas to everyone. Merry Christmas season, that is. I've been thinking about the

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 Christmas season, I've been thinking about Santa Claus, which you might be surprised about,

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 but I've actually been thinking about him because, well, partly because my son went to the tree

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 lighting in the New Haven Green last Thursday, and he stood in line until he got to the door,

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 and then he said, I don't want to go in, I don't want to go in, I don't want to see him, he's scary,

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 which I don't get, but because I think most of us think, who is, you know, who is Santa Claus? Santa

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 Claus is this really nice guy who has a big white beard and a big red suit, and he gives us the

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 things that we want, right? Like, what a great cultural icon of Santa, you know, what better

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 could we have than that? But then I was listening this week to the song, Santa Claus is Coming to

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 Town. Do you remember the words to it? You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout,

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 I'm telling you why. Santa Claus is coming to town. It's actually a little creepy. He knows when you're

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 sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness

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 sake. And in the hearts of many kids, and indeed even maybe in some of our own families, we use this

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 as a motivation during the Christmas season. Be good, or you'll get a coal, lump of coal in your

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 stocking this year. So kids go to sleep every night. If they've actually listened to the song

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 and overcome the cultural picture that we paint of Santa Claus, they go to bed in fear. Have I done

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 enough? Have I been good enough? Have I been good enough this year to get what I want? Friends, I wonder

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 if we do the same thing with our God. I wonder if we live wondering whether we've been good enough

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 this year. Seriously, think back to your year of 2014. Can you think of something that you're pretty

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 sure puts you on the naughty instead of the nice list? A moment of cowardice when you weren't the person

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 you want to be. An ungracious word spoken from the ugliness of your heart. Maybe a missed opportunity

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 to bless or help someone else, missed because of selfish preoccupation.

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 Maybe a failure to invest your life in this past year in the things you say. We can all start with

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 our prayer life, and that'll pretty much just bury us, right? Maybe helping others, maybe love

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 your spouse or your children or your roommates, maybe just daily Bible reading. All of us can think

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 of the things that put us not on the nice list but on the naughty list. And what do we do with that?

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 Self-condemnation rises up in our hearts. You're not good enough. It can lead us to despair.

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 Okay, I'm not good enough. I never will be. And we own that. Leads us to performance. I'm going to try

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 better. Try harder. Do better. I'm going to overcome this. I can do this. And in the midst of it all, we live

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 with this insecurity. And it's an insecurity, I think, ultimately rooted in our relationship with God

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 and if God really accepts us. But it plays itself out in all of our other relationships too. And so we look

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 at our peers and we think, will you accept me into the cool crowd at school? We look at our professional

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 peers and we think, will you accept me? Am I good enough to have your respect? We look at our spouse

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 or our families and we think, will you love me or will you leave me? So we think about our naughty list,

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 we can be buried in shame. We live a life hiding those failures, afraid to let other people see them,

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 constantly putting on a face so that others will see, won't see who we really are.

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 And so we live this life of fear and insecurity like we're on probation.

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 Probation with God, probation with everyone, wondering whether the next step, misstep, is going to

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 actually blow it for us. Well friends, this brings us to our passage this morning. We're continuing in

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 our series about the new things that have come with the advent of Christmas. We're looking at Jeremiah

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 chapter 31. I failed to get the page number, but it's in your bulletin if you want to look there.

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 Jeremiah 31, 31 through 34. And as we're looking at this, this is going to be the second in our

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 four-week series on the advent of what is new. Last week, Nick talked about Jesus coming as our new

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 king and the joy and freedom that comes from that. Next week, Greg will talk about having a new heart

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 from Ezekiel. And finally, the week before Christmas, we will talk about the new creation that Jesus will

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 bring when he will make all things new. But today, Jeremiah talks about a new covenant,

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 a new covenant between God and his people. And in it, he proclaimed something that is good news.

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 Good news to the people in their context, good news to us today. So let's read that together. Jeremiah 31,

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 verses 31 through 34.

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 Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel

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 and the house of Judah. Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them

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 by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. My covenant that they broke, though I was their

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 husband, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after

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 those days, declares the Lord. I will put my law within them and I will write it on their hearts,

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 and I will be their God and they will be my people. And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and

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 each his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me. From the least of them to the

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 greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquities and I will remember their sin

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 no more. Let's pray.

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 Lord, we thank you that your word is a book of hope. That, Lord, in the midst of the messiness

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 of our lives and the ugliness of our hearts, the ravages of sin, both in and out,

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 God, you speak words of hope. That you have not abandoned this world, but you are at work

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 redeeming this world for our good and for your glory. God, I pray that we would hear the hope of

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 the proclamation of Jeremiah this morning. God, speak it to our hearts and, Lord, may it enrich and

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 deepen our celebration of this Christmas season. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.

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 Jeremiah speaks a word of hope that God will secure for his people a certain and eternal relationship

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 with the coming of Jesus to earth. We're going to look at what Jeremiah predicted. We're going to look

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 at how Jesus accomplished it and what it means for us. So, let's do that together this morning.

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 Jeremiah, as he proclaims it, has kind of two points. He has the bad news and the good news of it.

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 The first thing that he says in verse 31, having announced, I will bring a new covenant,

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 as he says in verse 32, that the old covenant was insufficient. The old covenant was faulty.

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 He says, my people were unable to keep it, and that is why it is an old covenant that no longer will work.

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 And friends, to understand the significance of this, let me tell you a little bit about where

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 Jeremiah was speaking and to whom he was speaking. If you remember your Old Testament history,

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 going back to Abraham, God called a man and said, I will make your descendants a great nation.

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 And then through his descendants over many years, he raised them up to be a large nation. But remember,

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 they were in slavery in Egypt. So, God came and he rescued them with a mighty hand and doing great

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 things. And he delivered them out of Egypt and brought them through great trials and overcoming

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 insurmountable odds into a promised land where they were meant to be blessed and be a blessing to the

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 world. And God raised up David to be their king. And they were going to be a kingdom which displayed

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 the greatness of God. And yet they failed over and over and over again. The covenant, the old covenant

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 that was made with Moses and with the people, through Moses, with the people at Sinai as God delivered

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 them from Egypt, was the Old Testament law. It's what the book of Deuteronomy is all about and Leviticus

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 and all those things. And it was God's instructions on this is what it means for you to be my people.

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 I will be your God and you will be my people if you keep these laws and commandments and statutes that

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 I give you today. But the flaw in it is that they could not keep it. And nor could we.

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 And so God begins to bring judgment to his people.

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 And so if you remember in the nation of Israel, the northern kingdom in 722 was conquered by a pagan

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 nation. Assyria came in and those tribes no longer held that land.

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 For another, I got to do math here, about 130 years or so, the southern kingdom held on.

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 But with kings who over and over again would turn to other things rather than the Lord.

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 With people who over and over again, rather than worshiping the one true God,

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 would turn and worship the idols of their neighbors and their friends.

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 And if you read the first 30 chapters of Jeremiah, you see that it is a message of judgment.

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 My people have deserted me. They have turned away from me.

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 They have forsaken me and I will bring judgment on them.

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 And Jeremiah, if I understand the history right, spoke this word of hope to people between

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 the dates of 598 and 586.

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 Now, you may not remember what happens then.

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 598 is the first incursion of the Babylonian empire into Israel.

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 They came and they took away many of the people and many of the treasures as tribute.

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 Babylonians came and said, if you give us all these things, we won't completely wipe you out.

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 So their nation had already lost most of its glory, had become a vassal state under the Babylonian rule.

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 But there was still a puppet king in place and he rebelled.

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 And in 586, the Babylonians would come back and they would tear down the walls of the temple

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 and they would destroy the walls of the city and they would salt the fields

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 and they would make it an unlivable place.

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 The destruction was great.

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 And in the midst of it, the people must be thinking, God, where are you?

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 Have we blown it so badly that you have forsaken us forever?

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 Have we violated our probation in such a way that all we get is judgment?

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 Friends, I wonder if you ask the same question.

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 Have I blown it so badly?

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 There's no hope for me.

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 God has abandoned me.

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 There's no way that he can bring me back.

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 When you look deep at the heart of what drives you, what drives you to be a great student,

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 what drives you to be a great husband and father, what drives you to succeed in your career,

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 what drives you to please your friends in your high school,

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 is it this fear that maybe you're not good enough at all

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 and you're trying desperately to overcome it?

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 Friends, this is why what Jeremiah has to say to Israel in 590 B.C.

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 is also what he has to say to us today.

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 And he says, the old covenant is faulty,

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 but the good news is that I'm not done.

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 The good news is that there is a new covenant that will come.

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 And a covenant is the words that we don't use today,

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 but that God uses in his Bible to talk about what is the arrangement or what's the framework,

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 what are the stipulations on how God and his people relate?

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 How does that work?

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 And what God said is,

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 I know that you can't keep the old covenant.

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 I knew it when I gave it to you.

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 Go back and read Deuteronomy carefully.

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 He knew it.

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 He knew it when he gave it.

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 He said, I'm going to tell you how to do it,

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 and you're not going to be able to do it.

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 And that's why I've put in provisions for God,

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 for my gracious work to cover over your sin,

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 even in the law.

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 But as Galatians reminds us,

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 the law was given to point us to something greater than that.

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 And Jeremiah,

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 in the place of the deepest darkness and the greatest despair of the people of Israel,

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 spoke this word of hope.

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 Behold, the days are coming when I will make a new covenant.

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 I'm going to rework this relationship.

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 I'm going to reframe it in a different way.

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 What does he say that he does?

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 Let's look at it.

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 So, the new, he says,

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 I'm going to bring a new covenant that's better.

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 I'm going to bring a better plan for my people.

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 And look with me again,

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 verses 33 and 34.

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 Do you see what he says?

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 There are lots of things that he says here.

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 One thing he says is,

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 look, I'm going to change the place of the law.

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 Rather than it being something that's posted on the wall,

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 I'm going to write it on your heart.

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 Rather than being something that's simply held out for you to hold on to,

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 I'm going to actually put it inside of you so that you can actually do it.

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 Greg is going to preach on this next week,

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 so I'm not going to say a lot more about this.

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 Come back next week for the great heart transformation that God will work

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 to make his people not only able,

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 but wanting to please and honor and obey him.

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 He says it's not going to be an external ritualism anymore.

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 It's going to be this internal transformation

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 that produces the kind of people

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 who reflect the kind of God that he is.

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 He reminds them of the promise in Exodus 19.

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 Then I will be their God,

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 and they will be my people.

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 It's the exact same words

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 that he used when he established the Mosaic Covenant.

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 Here he repeats it again.

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 He says this new covenant is going to be

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 not simply overrunning the old one.

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 It's going to be fulfilling it.

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 It's going to be finally enabling this relationship to happen

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 where I will be a God to my people,

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 and they will be mine.

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 And it will give them an identity,

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 and it will give them a purpose in the world.

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 They will know that beyond anything else,

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 they are my people,

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 and that will be the most important thing about them.

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 And their purpose will be to live for my glory,

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 and that will be for their good in the world.

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 And they won't have to have other people speaking to them,

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 saying,

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 Know the Lord!

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 Know the Lord!

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 There will be no priests.

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 There will be no temple.

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 There will be no courtyards.

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 There will be no curtains.

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 But as you see in verse 34a,

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 they will all know the Lord

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 from the least to the greatest.

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 God opens up his doors.

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 That not only will his people be restored,

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 but he will open up the invitation

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 wide to the whole world.

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 And what good news that is for us,

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 because for most of us,

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 we aren't descendants of Abraham.

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 And yet he says to us,

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 Come, this new covenant is for all people,

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 for all tribes and tongues and nations.

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 But the most important thing,

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 I want you to look with me in verses 32 and 33.

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 I'm sorry, 33 and 34.

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 I want you to look at the subject and verb again.

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 This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after these days.

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 I will put my law within them.

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 I will write it on their hearts.

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 And I will be their God.

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 And they shall be my people.

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 And then skipping down to the end of 34,

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 I will forgive their sins.

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 And I will remember their sin no more.

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 Friends, the most amazing and the most wonderful thing about the new covenant

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 is that God says, I will do this.

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 In the Mosaic covenant,

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 there was this amazing mix of conditionality and unconditionality

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 where God makes great promises,

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 but then there's always this,

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 if you keep my commandments,

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 if you will obey me,

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 if you will keep my laws.

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 And constantly throughout the Old Testament,

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 you see the people wrestling with these two things,

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 the unconditionalness and the conditionalness of what God has done.

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 In the new covenant, God says,

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 I will do this.

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 I have seen your weakness.

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 I have seen your sin.

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 I've seen your failure.

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 And I know you can't be good enough.

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 I know you will never be able to measure up

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 to what is necessary to be my people.

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 And I will accomplish this.

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 I will do it.

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 I will make a new covenant with my people.

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 This is the word of hope for us.

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 Isn't it?

00:20:35.940 --> 00:20:37.059
 Because like Israel,

00:20:37.220 --> 00:20:38.559
 we know we can't keep it.

00:20:39.019 --> 00:20:44.220
 We know that if there is a cosmic list of naughty and nice,

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 we are on the naughty side.

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 Maybe not in the balance.

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 Maybe some of you are really good people,

00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:52.759
 and there's only some over on the naughty side.

00:20:52.819 --> 00:20:54.299
 There's a lot on the good side.

00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:57.340
 I know when I look into my heart,

00:20:58.160 --> 00:20:59.860
 there's as much on the naughty side

00:20:59.860 --> 00:21:00.759
 as there is in the good.

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 Probably more.

00:21:01.539 --> 00:21:05.559
 I look at my life.

00:21:05.819 --> 00:21:08.599
 I see how little I live out what I hope

00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:10.000
 and what I want to be.

00:21:14.539 --> 00:21:17.779
 But like the nation of Israel,

00:21:18.039 --> 00:21:21.759
 our personal history can hear this word of hope.

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 Because when we see that all of our trying

00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:26.940
 and all of our efforts to be good enough,

00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:28.099
 to try to measure up,

00:21:28.279 --> 00:21:29.960
 to try to get out of probation,

00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.119
 can't ever do anything

00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:34.420
 but ultimately bring us to a point of despair.

00:21:34.599 --> 00:21:35.619
 I can't do it.

00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:37.440
 I give up.

00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:41.279
 Only condemnation.

00:21:43.599 --> 00:21:45.140
 God speaks this word of hope.

00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:48.280
 I will do this for you.

00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:51.240
 I will do for you what you can't do for yourself.

00:21:54.120 --> 00:21:56.580
 Friends, this is what Christmas is all about.

00:21:57.980 --> 00:22:02.300
 This is about God initiating His plan

00:22:02.300 --> 00:22:04.300
 of establishing this covenant,

00:22:04.780 --> 00:22:08.660
 not because people had earned it or deserved it,

00:22:08.860 --> 00:22:14.320
 but simply because out of God's eternal redemptive plan,

00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:17.039
 He had determined that He would do this,

00:22:17.460 --> 00:22:20.579
 that He would show the kind of God that He is

00:22:20.579 --> 00:22:23.399
 by redeeming a people for Himself,

00:22:23.899 --> 00:22:27.319
 that He would establish this final covenant

00:22:27.319 --> 00:22:31.919
 on His own terms

00:22:31.919 --> 00:22:34.939
 and by His own work.

00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:39.659
 Friends, this is what Jeremiah predicted,

00:22:40.179 --> 00:22:43.500
 and this is what we celebrate at Christmastime.

00:22:44.319 --> 00:22:47.740
 Because Jesus, as He comes,

00:22:48.279 --> 00:22:50.139
 establishes the new covenant.

00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:57.500
 Look at verse 34b.

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 This is at the very core of it, isn't it?

00:23:02.460 --> 00:23:05.299
 Because it was their sin and their iniquity,

00:23:05.460 --> 00:23:08.119
 their inability to obey the law

00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:09.779
 that condemned Israel.

00:23:09.779 --> 00:23:12.899
 And it is our sin and our inability

00:23:12.899 --> 00:23:16.759
 to live a life of goodness perfectly

00:23:16.759 --> 00:23:19.180
 that puts us in this same place

00:23:19.180 --> 00:23:21.480
 of failure before God.

00:23:25.059 --> 00:23:27.359
 And God comes and He says,

00:23:28.180 --> 00:23:28.460
 alright,

00:23:29.460 --> 00:23:32.720
 my beloved human beings who are unable,

00:23:32.720 --> 00:23:36.220
 I will send a human being to do for you

00:23:36.220 --> 00:23:37.740
 what you can't do for yourself.

00:23:39.740 --> 00:23:42.200
 At Christmas, we celebrate the incarnation,

00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:43.960
 God become flesh.

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 Jesus really was a human being,

00:23:46.720 --> 00:23:48.660
 and it was really, really important

00:23:48.660 --> 00:23:49.660
 that He was.

00:23:50.079 --> 00:23:52.319
 Because only a human being,

00:23:52.600 --> 00:23:54.779
 living out the life that He did,

00:23:54.779 --> 00:23:59.460
 could solve this conundrum.

00:23:59.460 --> 00:24:02.100
 Jesus came

00:24:02.100 --> 00:24:05.900
 to live the perfect life

00:24:05.900 --> 00:24:07.799
 that Israel was called to live.

00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:09.460
 Jesus came

00:24:09.460 --> 00:24:11.660
 to be the perfect good human

00:24:11.660 --> 00:24:12.900
 that we long to be,

00:24:12.980 --> 00:24:13.620
 but aren't.

00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:18.400
 And He couldn't have done this

00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:20.240
 if He wasn't actually human.

00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:24.539
 Hebrews reminds us

00:24:24.539 --> 00:24:25.900
 that the blood of bulls and goats

00:24:25.900 --> 00:24:27.880
 can't deal with the problem of sin.

00:24:28.580 --> 00:24:29.460
 Sometimes, I think,

00:24:29.560 --> 00:24:30.120
 we wonder,

00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:32.760
 can't God just wave His hand?

00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:34.100
 I don't know if you know

00:24:34.100 --> 00:24:35.280
 the movie,

00:24:35.360 --> 00:24:36.120
 The Prince of Egypt,

00:24:36.800 --> 00:24:38.140
 but there's this great scene

00:24:38.140 --> 00:24:39.300
 where Moses comes back

00:24:39.300 --> 00:24:40.340
 and he sees his brother

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 and he's like,

00:24:41.080 --> 00:24:41.360
 hey,

00:24:41.780 --> 00:24:44.000
 and Moses is feeling like,

00:24:44.080 --> 00:24:45.100
 I broke the laws.

00:24:45.620 --> 00:24:46.420
 And Pharaoh says,

00:24:46.520 --> 00:24:47.720
 I am the Pharaoh,

00:24:47.840 --> 00:24:48.620
 the morning star,

00:24:48.680 --> 00:24:49.300
 and the evening sun,

00:24:49.340 --> 00:24:50.840
 and I say that it is not so.

00:24:50.940 --> 00:24:51.100
 And it's,

00:24:51.320 --> 00:24:52.760
 we wish that God would do that.

00:24:52.820 --> 00:24:53.980
 Just wave His hand

00:24:53.980 --> 00:24:54.760
 and say,

00:24:54.840 --> 00:24:55.140
 ah,

00:24:55.180 --> 00:24:56.280
 don't worry about it.

00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:00.500
 But in fact,

00:25:00.620 --> 00:25:02.040
 God had a much better plan.

00:25:03.340 --> 00:25:04.400
 Because for God,

00:25:04.600 --> 00:25:06.360
 sin is just a terrible,

00:25:06.900 --> 00:25:07.800
 terrible thing.

00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:09.780
 It is evil in the world

00:25:09.780 --> 00:25:12.180
 and it is evil in our hearts.

00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:14.200
 And He's not willing to just say,

00:25:14.300 --> 00:25:15.960
 it's not as bad as you think it is.

00:25:16.200 --> 00:25:17.540
 He's actually going to say,

00:25:17.640 --> 00:25:19.320
 it's worse than you think it is.

00:25:19.440 --> 00:25:19.960
 It is.

00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:24.759
 But the good news is

00:25:24.759 --> 00:25:27.059
 that I will take care of it for you.

00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:29.720
 And so Jesus,

00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:31.180
 this God man comes

00:25:31.180 --> 00:25:32.259
 and He lives a life

00:25:32.259 --> 00:25:33.360
 of perfect obedience

00:25:33.360 --> 00:25:35.180
 for us.

00:25:35.700 --> 00:25:37.460
 He is the perfect human.

00:25:37.660 --> 00:25:39.319
 He is the Israel

00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:40.220
 that was not,

00:25:40.299 --> 00:25:42.220
 the Son who actually followed

00:25:42.220 --> 00:25:43.920
 all of the laws.

00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:48.240
 He was tempted in every way

00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:48.960
 as we were

00:25:48.960 --> 00:25:50.140
 because He was human,

00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:51.960
 yet without sin.

00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:54.539
 And so He lives

00:25:54.539 --> 00:25:55.700
 this perfect life

00:25:55.700 --> 00:25:57.100
 for us.

00:26:00.100 --> 00:26:01.120
 And then,

00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:02.840
 having done that,

00:26:03.660 --> 00:26:05.440
 He offers Himself up

00:26:05.440 --> 00:26:07.220
 as a substitute

00:26:07.220 --> 00:26:08.800
 to pay the penalty

00:26:08.800 --> 00:26:09.660
 for our

00:26:09.660 --> 00:26:10.920
 sin.

00:26:10.920 --> 00:26:11.519
 sin.

00:26:11.940 --> 00:26:12.880
 So having lived

00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:14.039
 the perfect life for us

00:26:14.039 --> 00:26:15.400
 that we could not live,

00:26:15.660 --> 00:26:16.779
 now He does,

00:26:17.220 --> 00:26:18.140
 in His flesh,

00:26:18.320 --> 00:26:20.960
 He receives upon His body

00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:23.180
 the punishment of sin

00:26:23.180 --> 00:26:24.160
 that we deserve.

00:26:25.259 --> 00:26:27.140
 The death that we deserve.

00:26:27.759 --> 00:26:28.960
 The wrath of God

00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:30.519
 against cosmic evil

00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:32.340
 that resides in our hearts

00:26:32.340 --> 00:26:34.039
 and plays itself out

00:26:34.039 --> 00:26:34.840
 in our petty

00:26:34.840 --> 00:26:37.259
 unkindnesses

00:26:37.259 --> 00:26:38.700
 every day.

00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:43.620
 Jesus went to the cross

00:26:43.620 --> 00:26:46.300
 in our place

00:26:46.300 --> 00:26:47.960
 to remove

00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:48.960
 that

00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:50.759
 stain of sin,

00:26:51.180 --> 00:26:52.720
 to take

00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:53.720
 the punishment

00:26:53.720 --> 00:26:54.920
 for that sin,

00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:59.759
 and He could only do it

00:26:59.759 --> 00:27:00.360
 as a human.

00:27:04.940 --> 00:27:05.700
 And friends,

00:27:05.800 --> 00:27:06.779
 there's one more stage

00:27:06.779 --> 00:27:07.160
 in this,

00:27:07.180 --> 00:27:07.700
 isn't there?

00:27:07.700 --> 00:27:09.319
 because the human

00:27:09.319 --> 00:27:10.380
 who came

00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:11.539
 and lived a perfect life,

00:27:11.620 --> 00:27:12.100
 the human

00:27:12.100 --> 00:27:13.660
 who then died

00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:15.420
 the most unjust death

00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:16.000
 in the world,

00:27:16.059 --> 00:27:16.840
 is a human

00:27:16.840 --> 00:27:18.580
 who rose again

00:27:18.580 --> 00:27:19.440
 from the dead.

00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:21.299
 He rose

00:27:21.299 --> 00:27:23.039
 not as a spirit,

00:27:23.539 --> 00:27:24.340
 but as a man

00:27:24.340 --> 00:27:25.039
 with a body.

00:27:26.120 --> 00:27:26.920
 And His disciples

00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:28.400
 could put their hands

00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:29.940
 and touch

00:27:29.940 --> 00:27:31.360
 the nails,

00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:33.140
 the holes in His hands.

00:27:33.140 --> 00:27:34.140
 They could feel

00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:35.580
 the scar in His side

00:27:35.580 --> 00:27:36.759
 where He was pierced.

00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:41.839
 Jesus rose

00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:42.960
 as a man

00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:45.019
 so that

00:27:45.019 --> 00:27:46.099
 in His victory

00:27:46.099 --> 00:27:46.900
 over sin

00:27:46.900 --> 00:27:47.460
 and death,

00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:48.379
 He might then

00:27:48.379 --> 00:27:49.200
 invite us

00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:50.440
 to join

00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:51.319
 with Him.

00:27:54.740 --> 00:27:55.059
 Nick,

00:27:55.220 --> 00:27:55.400
 Greg,

00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:56.220
 this is what you guys

00:27:56.220 --> 00:27:56.960
 get to unpack

00:27:56.960 --> 00:27:58.039
 for the next two weeks.

00:27:58.220 --> 00:27:59.220
 A new heart

00:27:59.220 --> 00:28:00.819
 and a new creation.

00:28:01.819 --> 00:28:03.140
 The outworking

00:28:03.140 --> 00:28:04.240
 of the human

00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:05.099
 who rose

00:28:05.099 --> 00:28:05.899
 from the dead.

00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:07.679
 That we get

00:28:07.679 --> 00:28:08.339
 caught up

00:28:08.339 --> 00:28:09.319
 in His train.

00:28:10.379 --> 00:28:11.319
 Caught up in Him

00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:12.379
 as He establishes

00:28:12.379 --> 00:28:13.099
 this new kingdom

00:28:13.099 --> 00:28:13.980
 for us.

00:28:17.079 --> 00:28:18.559
 By rising from the dead,

00:28:18.619 --> 00:28:19.459
 He reminds us

00:28:19.459 --> 00:28:20.519
 that the old covenant

00:28:20.519 --> 00:28:21.259
 doesn't have

00:28:21.259 --> 00:28:22.199
 the last word.

00:28:23.199 --> 00:28:24.279
 But by rising

00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:24.959
 from the dead,

00:28:25.019 --> 00:28:25.699
 we now have

00:28:25.699 --> 00:28:26.779
 this new covenant.

00:28:27.179 --> 00:28:28.019
 Because do you see

00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:29.139
 what Jesus has done

00:28:29.139 --> 00:28:30.159
 through His life

00:28:30.159 --> 00:28:30.559
 and death

00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:31.259
 and resurrection?

00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:32.839
 He has now

00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:34.480
 become the guarantor

00:28:34.480 --> 00:28:35.539
 of our relationship

00:28:35.539 --> 00:28:36.259
 with God.

00:28:37.839 --> 00:28:38.740
 He comes

00:28:38.740 --> 00:28:39.359
 and He says,

00:28:39.759 --> 00:28:40.440
 I have met

00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:41.579
 all the stipulations.

00:28:41.899 --> 00:28:42.659
 I have met

00:28:42.659 --> 00:28:43.779
 all the requirements.

00:28:44.740 --> 00:28:45.559
 What God requires

00:28:46.119 --> 00:28:46.859
 of His people,

00:28:47.019 --> 00:28:47.940
 I have done.

00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:51.579
 So there's no more

00:28:51.579 --> 00:28:52.059
 probation.

00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:54.339
 There's no more

00:28:54.339 --> 00:28:55.379
 fear of,

00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:56.360
 if I blow it

00:28:56.360 --> 00:28:57.120
 this time,

00:28:58.280 --> 00:28:59.160
 will He just

00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:00.660
 cast me off?

00:29:01.980 --> 00:29:02.880
 There's no more

00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:03.460
 wondering,

00:29:03.840 --> 00:29:04.980
 can I be good enough?

00:29:06.960 --> 00:29:08.000
 Because the answer is,

00:29:08.180 --> 00:29:09.200
 no, you can't.

00:29:09.360 --> 00:29:10.520
 But He has been

00:29:10.520 --> 00:29:11.240
 for you.

00:29:16.840 --> 00:29:17.280
 Friends,

00:29:17.420 --> 00:29:18.660
 this is the last covenant

00:29:18.660 --> 00:29:19.500
 that God makes

00:29:19.500 --> 00:29:20.140
 with His people.

00:29:20.600 --> 00:29:22.000
 This is the final covenant.

00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:23.200
 This is what

00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:24.340
 the writer of the Hebrews

00:29:24.340 --> 00:29:25.000
 reminds us

00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:26.340
 is the eternal covenant.

00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:27.720
 That before the beginning

00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:28.340
 of time,

00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:29.259
 God planned

00:29:29.259 --> 00:29:31.240
 that this would be

00:29:31.240 --> 00:29:31.960
 the pinnacle

00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:33.360
 of His work

00:29:33.360 --> 00:29:33.980
 of relating

00:29:33.980 --> 00:29:34.920
 to His creation.

00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:38.340
 And that's what

00:29:38.340 --> 00:29:38.960
 we celebrate

00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:39.580
 with Christmas.

00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:42.319
 Christmas is the

00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:43.200
 opening movement

00:29:43.200 --> 00:29:45.480
 of this final work

00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:47.700
 that accomplishes

00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:49.100
 this new covenant

00:29:49.100 --> 00:29:49.799
 with God.

00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:53.339
 We've sung

00:29:53.339 --> 00:29:54.339
 this song a lot

00:29:54.339 --> 00:29:55.559
 in the last

00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:56.359
 year and a half.

00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:57.779
 What reason

00:29:57.779 --> 00:29:58.919
 have I to doubt?

00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:00.960
 Why would I dwell

00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:01.680
 in fear?

00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:04.460
 All I have known

00:30:04.460 --> 00:30:05.039
 is grace.

00:30:05.159 --> 00:30:05.779
 My future

00:30:05.779 --> 00:30:06.440
 in Christ

00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:07.099
 is clear.

00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:08.240
 My sins

00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:09.039
 have been paid

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:09.680
 in full.

00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:10.659
 There's no

00:30:10.659 --> 00:30:11.940
 condemnation here.

00:30:12.379 --> 00:30:13.399
 I live in the

00:30:13.399 --> 00:30:14.159
 good of this.

00:30:14.619 --> 00:30:15.359
 My Father

00:30:15.359 --> 00:30:16.539
 has brought me near.

00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:17.480
 I'm leaving

00:30:17.480 --> 00:30:18.259
 my fears

00:30:18.259 --> 00:30:19.559
 behind me now.

00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:20.200
 The old

00:30:20.200 --> 00:30:21.299
 is gone.

00:30:22.339 --> 00:30:22.899
 The new

00:30:22.899 --> 00:30:23.639
 has come.

00:30:24.940 --> 00:30:25.500
 What you

00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:26.179
 complete

00:30:26.179 --> 00:30:27.480
 is completely

00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:28.039
 done.

00:30:29.240 --> 00:30:29.899
 We're heirs

00:30:29.899 --> 00:30:30.500
 with Christ.

00:30:30.619 --> 00:30:31.539
 The victory won.

00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:32.819
 What you complete

00:30:32.819 --> 00:30:33.599
 is completely

00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:34.139
 done.

00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:35.259
 I don't know

00:30:35.259 --> 00:30:36.099
 what lies

00:30:36.099 --> 00:30:36.819
 ahead.

00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:38.859
 What if I

00:30:38.859 --> 00:30:39.460
 fail

00:30:39.460 --> 00:30:40.419
 again?

00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:42.599
 You are

00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:43.319
 my confidence.

00:30:44.460 --> 00:30:45.159
 You will

00:30:45.159 --> 00:30:45.740
 keep me

00:30:45.740 --> 00:30:46.960
 till the end.

00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:48.919
 The old

00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:49.519
 is gone.

00:30:50.259 --> 00:30:50.820
 The new

00:30:50.820 --> 00:30:51.539
 has come.

00:30:52.740 --> 00:30:53.500
 What you

00:30:53.500 --> 00:30:54.039
 complete

00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:54.920
 is completely

00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:55.420
 done.

00:30:56.580 --> 00:30:56.920
 Friends,

00:30:56.980 --> 00:30:57.320
 what we

00:30:57.320 --> 00:30:57.840
 celebrate

00:30:57.840 --> 00:30:58.600
 in the

00:30:58.600 --> 00:30:59.060
 coming of

00:30:59.060 --> 00:30:59.340
 Jesus

00:30:59.340 --> 00:30:59.980
 is the

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:01.220
 establishing

00:31:01.220 --> 00:31:01.720
 of this

00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:02.360
 new covenant

00:31:02.360 --> 00:31:03.600
 between God

00:31:03.600 --> 00:31:04.060
 and his

00:31:04.060 --> 00:31:04.500
 people.

00:31:06.180 --> 00:31:07.140
 God is not

00:31:07.140 --> 00:31:07.900
 out to get

00:31:07.900 --> 00:31:08.200
 you.

00:31:08.660 --> 00:31:09.240
 He's not

00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:10.820
 watching you

00:31:10.820 --> 00:31:11.320
 when you

00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:11.940
 sleep and

00:31:11.940 --> 00:31:12.380
 when you

00:31:12.380 --> 00:31:12.759
 wake,

00:31:13.259 --> 00:31:13.600
 wondering

00:31:13.600 --> 00:31:15.080
 if you'll

00:31:15.080 --> 00:31:15.600
 be naughty

00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:16.299
 or nice

00:31:16.299 --> 00:31:17.079
 anymore.

00:31:18.299 --> 00:31:19.279
 God has

00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:20.500
 come not

00:31:20.500 --> 00:31:21.019
 to get

00:31:21.019 --> 00:31:21.379
 you,

00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:22.740
 but to

00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:23.179
 make you

00:31:23.179 --> 00:31:23.619
 his.

00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:24.559
 He has

00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:25.039
 come to

00:31:25.039 --> 00:31:26.199
 rescue you

00:31:26.199 --> 00:31:27.099
 from your

00:31:27.099 --> 00:31:27.819
 insecurity,

00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:29.240
 from your

00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:29.839
 fear,

00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:30.699
 from your

00:31:30.699 --> 00:31:31.319
 performance,

00:31:32.099 --> 00:31:33.839
 from your

00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:34.319
 ritual.

00:31:35.379 --> 00:31:36.399
 He has

00:31:36.399 --> 00:31:37.179
 come to

00:31:37.179 --> 00:31:37.659
 make you

00:31:37.659 --> 00:31:38.139
 his.

00:31:38.379 --> 00:31:38.799
 And he

00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:39.179
 has done

00:31:39.179 --> 00:31:39.740
 everything

00:31:39.740 --> 00:31:41.119
 necessary for

00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:41.500
 him to

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:42.480
 make you

00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:44.839
 his in

00:31:44.839 --> 00:31:45.319
 Christ.

00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:49.000
 So if

00:31:49.000 --> 00:31:49.319
 you're here

00:31:49.319 --> 00:31:50.380
 this morning

00:31:50.380 --> 00:31:51.819
 and you're

00:31:51.819 --> 00:31:52.279
 wondering what

00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:52.640
 is this

00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:53.059
 Christianity

00:31:53.059 --> 00:31:53.660
 about,

00:31:54.380 --> 00:31:55.200
 this is

00:31:55.200 --> 00:31:55.620
 what God

00:31:55.620 --> 00:31:56.200
 calls you.

00:31:56.860 --> 00:31:57.500
 God calls

00:31:57.500 --> 00:31:57.779
 you to

00:31:57.779 --> 00:31:58.400
 look at

00:31:58.400 --> 00:31:58.980
 Jesus and

00:31:58.980 --> 00:31:59.500
 what he

00:31:59.500 --> 00:32:00.200
 has done

00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:01.339
 and consider

00:32:01.339 --> 00:32:02.220
 that he

00:32:02.220 --> 00:32:02.920
 alone has

00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:03.339
 done the

00:32:03.339 --> 00:32:03.920
 one thing

00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:04.440
 that you

00:32:04.440 --> 00:32:05.559
 need to

00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:06.120
 know God,

00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:07.920
 the one

00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:08.279
 thing that

00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:08.860
 you can't

00:32:08.860 --> 00:32:09.160
 do.

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:11.500
 And he

00:32:11.500 --> 00:32:11.900
 calls you

00:32:11.900 --> 00:32:12.480
 to come

00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:13.560
 and humble

00:32:13.560 --> 00:32:14.019
 yourself

00:32:14.019 --> 00:32:14.780
 before him

00:32:14.780 --> 00:32:15.700
 and throw

00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:16.720
 yourself on

00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:17.259
 faith,

00:32:18.180 --> 00:32:19.840
 on Christ,

00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:20.840
 what he

00:32:20.840 --> 00:32:21.360
 has done,

00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:22.660
 forsaking all

00:32:22.660 --> 00:32:23.240
 your goodness

00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:24.019
 and all the

00:32:24.019 --> 00:32:24.420
 things you're

00:32:24.420 --> 00:32:25.280
 trying to do

00:32:25.280 --> 00:32:26.700
 in hopes that

00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:27.100
 God might

00:32:27.100 --> 00:32:27.759
 accept you.

00:32:28.420 --> 00:32:28.820
 He says,

00:32:28.900 --> 00:32:29.240
 come,

00:32:29.600 --> 00:32:30.100
 enter into

00:32:30.100 --> 00:32:30.620
 this new

00:32:30.620 --> 00:32:30.980
 covenant

00:32:30.980 --> 00:32:31.680
 relationship

00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:32.560
 that I

00:32:32.560 --> 00:32:33.400
 have established

00:32:33.400 --> 00:32:33.820
 and I

00:32:33.820 --> 00:32:34.420
 have sealed.

00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:35.940
 Come and

00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:36.560
 by faith

00:32:36.560 --> 00:32:37.160
 enter in.

00:32:40.220 --> 00:32:40.780
 Friends,

00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:41.320
 for those

00:32:41.319 --> 00:32:41.759
 of you

00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:42.919
 who have

00:32:42.919 --> 00:32:43.339
 already

00:32:43.339 --> 00:32:44.379
 entered into

00:32:44.379 --> 00:32:44.639
 that

00:32:44.639 --> 00:32:45.299
 relationship,

00:32:46.419 --> 00:32:47.779
 the new

00:32:47.779 --> 00:32:48.019
 covenant

00:32:48.019 --> 00:32:48.879
 reminds us

00:32:48.879 --> 00:32:49.240
 that we

00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:49.700
 are called

00:32:49.700 --> 00:32:50.599
 to live

00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:51.279
 as his

00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.019
 people now,

00:32:52.539 --> 00:32:53.079
 to be

00:32:53.079 --> 00:32:53.720
 freed from

00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.220
 the fear

00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:54.899
 and insecurity

00:32:54.899 --> 00:32:55.679
 that consume

00:32:55.679 --> 00:32:56.019
 us,

00:32:56.079 --> 00:32:56.379
 from the

00:32:56.379 --> 00:32:56.980
 performance

00:32:56.980 --> 00:32:58.200
 that so

00:32:58.200 --> 00:32:59.279
 easily

00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:00.079
 drives

00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:00.740
 our every,

00:33:00.899 --> 00:33:02.319
 to free

00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:02.659
 us from

00:33:02.659 --> 00:33:03.579
 the despair

00:33:03.579 --> 00:33:04.439
 in the face

00:33:04.439 --> 00:33:04.759
 of our

00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:05.220
 failure

00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:06.039
 that buries

00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:06.419
 us,

00:33:06.879 --> 00:33:07.500
 we are now

00:33:07.500 --> 00:33:08.059
 free to

00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:08.500
 love,

00:33:09.179 --> 00:33:09.779
 free to

00:33:09.779 --> 00:33:10.319
 serve,

00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:11.019
 free to

00:33:11.019 --> 00:33:11.379
 worship,

00:33:11.680 --> 00:33:12.119
 free to

00:33:12.119 --> 00:33:12.599
 rest,

00:33:13.220 --> 00:33:13.700
 free to

00:33:13.700 --> 00:33:14.599
 trust and

00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:15.119
 obey,

00:33:16.819 --> 00:33:17.519
 free to

00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:18.200
 sing of

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:18.559
 a great

00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:19.839
 God who

00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:20.319
 has done

00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:20.920
 this great

00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:21.440
 thing for

00:33:21.440 --> 00:33:21.740
 me.

00:33:25.639 --> 00:33:26.220
 Celebrating

00:33:26.220 --> 00:33:26.940
 Christmas is

00:33:26.940 --> 00:33:27.399
 celebrating

00:33:27.399 --> 00:33:27.960
 this new

00:33:27.960 --> 00:33:28.339
 work.

00:33:29.480 --> 00:33:30.759
 As the

00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:31.440
 angel told

00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:32.019
 Joseph,

00:33:33.019 --> 00:33:33.700
 you shall

00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:34.139
 call his

00:33:34.139 --> 00:33:35.000
 name Jesus

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:36.119
 for he will

00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:36.559
 save his

00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:37.160
 people from

00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:37.779
 their sin.

00:33:37.779 --> 00:33:39.019
 let's pray.

00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:45.819
 Lord, we

00:33:45.819 --> 00:33:46.379
 thank you.

00:33:48.059 --> 00:33:48.779
 We thank

00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:49.379
 you that you

00:33:49.379 --> 00:33:49.940
 have done

00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:50.399
 what we

00:33:50.399 --> 00:33:50.779
 could not

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:51.079
 do.

00:33:51.779 --> 00:33:52.460
 God, what

00:33:52.460 --> 00:33:53.119
 a great

00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:55.720
 Savior we

00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:56.960
 have in

00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:57.339
 Jesus.

00:33:58.460 --> 00:33:59.139
 What a

00:33:59.139 --> 00:33:59.859
 great hope

00:33:59.859 --> 00:34:00.460
 and a great

00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:01.200
 joy we

00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:01.920
 celebrate

00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:03.319
 every Christmas

00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:03.859
 as we

00:34:03.859 --> 00:34:04.980
 remember your

00:34:04.980 --> 00:34:05.599
 initiative

00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:07.719
 that you

00:34:07.719 --> 00:34:08.219
 will do

00:34:08.219 --> 00:34:08.819
 this for

00:34:08.819 --> 00:34:09.199
 us.

00:34:12.639 --> 00:34:13.420
 God, I

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:14.639
 pray, I

00:34:14.639 --> 00:34:15.420
 pray that in

00:34:15.420 --> 00:34:16.179
 the midst of

00:34:16.179 --> 00:34:17.179
 the busyness

00:34:17.179 --> 00:34:17.739
 of our

00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:19.360
 cultural

00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:20.139
 celebration

00:34:20.139 --> 00:34:21.199
 of this

00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:21.659
 holiday,

00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:23.000
 God, that

00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:23.440
 you would

00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:24.460
 work in

00:34:24.460 --> 00:34:25.119
 our hearts,

00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:27.519
 Lord, that

00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:28.299
 a deeper,

00:34:28.300 --> 00:34:32.760
 more rich

00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:35.560
 appreciation of

00:34:35.560 --> 00:34:36.160
 what we are

00:34:36.160 --> 00:34:36.980
 celebrating when

00:34:36.980 --> 00:34:37.740
 we talk about

00:34:37.740 --> 00:34:38.539
 comfort and

00:34:38.539 --> 00:34:38.900
 joy.

00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:42.039
 Lord, that

00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:42.420
 what would

00:34:42.420 --> 00:34:43.019
 spring from

00:34:43.019 --> 00:34:43.580
 our hearts

00:34:43.580 --> 00:34:44.180
 would be a

00:34:44.180 --> 00:34:44.900
 true worship

00:34:44.900 --> 00:34:46.580
 of knowing

00:34:46.580 --> 00:34:47.140
 that we are

00:34:47.140 --> 00:34:47.880
 yours because

00:34:47.880 --> 00:34:48.539
 of what you

00:34:48.539 --> 00:34:49.039
 have done

00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:49.680
 for us.

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:51.240
 We pray this

00:34:51.240 --> 00:34:51.620
 in Jesus'

00:34:51.860 --> 00:34:52.039
 name.

00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:53.180
 Amen.

00:34:55.180 --> 00:34:55.760
 We're going

00:34:55.760 --> 00:34:56.600
 to stand and

00:34:56.600 --> 00:34:57.039
 sing,

00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:57.719
 Hark, the

00:34:57.719 --> 00:34:58.360
 herald angels

00:34:58.360 --> 00:34:58.960
 sing, and it

00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.400
 doesn't mean

00:34:59.400 --> 00:34:59.699
 that the

00:34:59.699 --> 00:35:00.259
 angel's name

00:35:00.259 --> 00:35:00.820
 is Harold.

00:35:01.139 --> 00:35:01.699
 It means

00:35:01.699 --> 00:35:02.199
 that he is

00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:02.940
 pronouncing

00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:03.380
 the good

00:35:03.380 --> 00:35:04.019
 work of

00:35:04.019 --> 00:35:05.820
 God, born

00:35:05.820 --> 00:35:06.420
 to raise

00:35:06.420 --> 00:35:06.880
 the sons

00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:07.320
 of earth,

00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:07.860
 born to

00:35:07.860 --> 00:35:08.199
 give them

00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:09.179
 second birth.

00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:09.920
 Hark, the

00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:10.519
 herald angels

00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:11.279
 sing, glory

00:35:11.279 --> 00:35:11.719
 to the

00:35:11.719 --> 00:35:12.400
 newborn king.

00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:19.259
 Hark, the

00:35:19.259 --> 00:35:20.980
 herald angels

00:35:20.980 --> 00:35:23.119
 sing, glory

00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:24.619
 to the

00:35:24.619 --> 00:35:26.340
 newborn king.

00:35:26.340 --> 00:35:51.380
 Wraith

00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:52.100
 to the