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 My name is Wes Selke and this is my daughter Nora.

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 I'm an elder here at Christ Church and we're part of the Oakland community.

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 Today's scripture reading is from the book of Deuteronomy chapter 29 verses 1 to 6, 9 to 19, and 29 as printed in the liturgy.

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 These are the terms of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in Moab

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 in addition to the covenant that he had made with them in Hora.

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 Moses summoned all the Israelites and said to them,

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 Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

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 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs and great wonders.

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 But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands, or eyes that see, or ears that hear.

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 Yet the Lord says,

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 It says,

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 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God,

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 A covenant the Lord is making with you this day and sealing with an oath to confirm you this day as his people,

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 That he may be your God as he promised.

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 As he promised you and as he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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 I am making this covenant with its oath, not only with you who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God,

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 but also with those who are not here today.

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 You yourselves know how he lived in Egypt and how he passed through the countries on the way here.

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 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

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 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose hearts turn away from the Lord our God

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 and go and worship the gods of those nations.

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 Make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

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 When such a person hears the words of the oath and they invoke a blessing on themselves,

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 thinking, I will be safe even though I persist in going in my own way,

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 they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

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 The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever,

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 that we may follow all the words of this law.

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 The grass withers and the flowers fade.

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 The Lord our God stands forever.

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 Good morning, Christ Church.

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 If you're new with us, my name is Jonathan.

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 I'm one of the pastors here.

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 It's a delight to have you with us.

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 The question I'm asking myself a lot these days is,

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 where are we right now?

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 As we look at our own lives as individuals, as families, as a congregation,

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 where are we right now?

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 As we look at our city, our nation, our society, where are we?

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 It's an important question.

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 It reminds me of the story of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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 They decided to go on a camping trip.

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 And after dinner, they enjoyed a bottle of wine.

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 And then they laid down for the night.

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 They went to sleep.

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 And some hours later, Holmes awoke.

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 And he nudged his faithful friend and he said,

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 Watson, look up at the sky.

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 And tell me what you see.

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 And Watson said, I see millions of stars.

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 And Holmes asked, well, what does that tell you?

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 And Watson pondered a minute.

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 He said, astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies

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 and potentially billions of planets.

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 Astrologically, I observe that Saturn is in Leo.

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 Horologically, I deduce that the time is approximately a quarter past three.

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 Theologically, I can see that God is all-powerful and that we are small and insignificant.

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 Meteorologically, I suspect that we will have a beautiful day tomorrow.

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 What does it tell you, Holmes?

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 And Holmes was silent for a minute and then he spoke,

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 Watson, you idiot.

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 Someone has stolen our tent.

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 What do you see?

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 You know, you're probably going to get a different answer based on who it is

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 and their varying understandings and perspectives of things.

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 What do you see?

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 What do you make of all this?

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 Where are we right now?

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 You know, what I see is that we're coming out of 18 months of a ridiculously disruptive pandemic.

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 Amen?

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 12 of those months, we were in total lockdown.

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 The past six months, we've been reopening everything, including Christchurch.

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 We've been looking around for six months going, okay, who's even here?

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 What do we have to work with?

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 What are we doing now?

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 And I'm asking my question as a pastor, what are we going to do in the next six months?

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 Where are we headed?

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 And I hope that you'll come join us next Sunday for our congregational meeting

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 to get more insight into where we're going.

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 But what I can see over the next six months is a renewing of Christchurch.

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 A renewing of Christchurch.

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 And I think there's a quantitative renewal of relationships that has to happen.

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 All these connections to be formed among people that are regular, people who are new,

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 people who just don't know one another very well.

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 How do we make weak ties into strong ties relationally and quantitatively?

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 But I think that's actually the easier part.

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 The harder part about renewing Christchurch is this qualitative building up of our life with God.

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 And I'm so grateful today for Deuteronomy 29 because that's the theme.

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 If you were to open your pew Bibles in front of you, you would see at the top of this chapter,

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 the heading says, Renewal of the Covenant.

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 Renewal of the Covenant.

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 Another word for renewal is revival.

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 Revival of the Covenant.

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 A revival is a season where the ordinary operations of the Holy Spirit are greatly intensified

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 to renew our spiritual vitality.

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 And so I want to think together for a minute about the dynamics of covenant renewal,

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 the dynamics of spiritual revival.

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 And what I want to say this morning is that covenant renewal is relational, personal, and sacrificial.

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 Covenant renewal is relational, personal, and sacrificial.

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 I'm going to start with covenant renewal being relational.

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 Have you ever had an experience in your life where something was easy to start but hard to sustain?

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 Anybody experienced this?

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 Maybe you started a company.

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 Maybe you started a marriage.

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 Maybe you started a church.

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 Maybe you started a family and had some kids.

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 And yeah, there were challenges in that launching phase,

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 but you had passion, you had energy, you had sheer grit to kind of get you through those early stages.

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 But, you know, you get 10 years in, 20 years in, 40 years in, you start facing complexities.

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 You start facing challenges that you just could never anticipate.

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 And so businesses find it helpful to refresh their vision and their values.

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 Couples find it helpful to renew their vows of marriage.

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 Churches find it helpful to reaffirm their beliefs and their practices.

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 And that's really the situation here with the people of God.

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 It's been 40 years since they experienced the liberating power of God in being rescued from Egypt.

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 It's been 40 years since they were at Horeb or Mount Sinai and experienced God's covenant love.

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 It's been 40 years since they received the Ten Commandments and the Torah.

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 And 40 years is a long time.

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 I'm 43 years old.

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 And a lot has happened in that span of time.

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 A lot can happen in 40 years.

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 And here the people of God are on the plains of Moab, on the edge of the promised land.

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 And they're being invited and indeed challenged to renew their covenant with the living God.

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 And what we see here is that that covenant relationship is vertical.

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 The covenant is a vertical relationship with the Lord.

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 Look at verse 2.

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 It says,

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 Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.

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 With your own eyes you saw those great trials, those signs, and great wonders.

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 When you were experiencing an oppressive bondage, you then experienced me as your liberating God.

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 That's what it says.

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 And this tells us that the gospel is not merely a good idea.

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 The gospel is good news.

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 The gospel is news about historical givens, about the wonderful works of God, about the mighty acts of God's salvation for us.

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 And it shows us that this covenant relationship is initiated outside of us and above us.

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 That a covenant is created not by us, but by a prior reality of loving kindness that wants us in a relationship.

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 It goes on in verse 5.

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 And it says,

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 It says,

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 And so that's why when you get to verse 9, it says,

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 This assumes that Yahweh has already acted to save his people by his grace.

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 That they are a people grasped and held by the strong and caring hands of the Lord.

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 And so these terms of the covenant are not the condition of a relationship.

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 They're the consequence of a relationship.

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 They are not entering in to obey the Ten Commandments to get God's love.

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 They're entering in to obey those commands because they've already received God's love.

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 And they want to show God how grateful they are in their obedience.

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 Does that make sense?

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 You guys tracking with me?

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 This covenant relationship is a vertical relationship with the Lord.

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 But also the covenant is a horizontal relationship with the people of God.

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 Look at verse 10.

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 It says,

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 This is a detailed list of the members of the people of God.

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 In fact, it's the most inclusive list in all of the Old Testament.

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 It's got leaders and followers.

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 Men and women.

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 Old people and babies.

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 Those born in Israel and those who are resident aliens.

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 Those who are rich and those who do the lowliest of jobs.

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 Chopping wood.

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 Carrying water.

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 Everyone is included.

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 And no matter who stands above whom in daily life.

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 All of them are on level ground because they're in the presence of the Lord himself.

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 And it says in verse 14.

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 It says,

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 I am making this covenant with its oath.

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 Not only with you who are standing here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God.

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 But also with those who are not here today.

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 This covenant transcends time and space.

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 It includes future generations who are not yet born.

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 Which means that it involves you and me.

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 We're the ones not yet standing here today that are being addressed.

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 And here is the heart.

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 The essence of the covenant in verse 12.

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 It says,

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 You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the Lord your God.

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 A covenant that the Lord is making with you this day.

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 And sealing with an oath to confirm you this day as his people.

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 That he may be your God.

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 As he promised you.

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 And as he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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 I will be your God.

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 And you will be my people.

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 That is the essence of a covenant relationship.

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 You will be my people of the promise.

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 You will be the children of Abraham.

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 You will be the heirs of that blessing through which all the nations of the world will be blessed.

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 And all of us are here in this covenant included together.

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 This reminds me of the words of John Donne.

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 That great poet and pastor.

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 He said,

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 No man is an island of itself.

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 Every man is a piece of the continent.

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 A part of the main.

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 Everybody is a part of this covenant.

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 It reminds me of the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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 When he wrote his letter from a Birmingham jail.

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 I think he was thinking in covenantal structures in terms of reality.

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 He said,

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 All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

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 Tied in a single garment of destiny.

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 Whatever affects one directly affects all.

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 Indirectly, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be.

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 And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

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 This is the interrelated structure of reality.

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 It's a covenant.

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 A covenant relationship.

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 And there's this organic, collective, holistic relationship that, yes, involves me, but really is about we.

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 Yes, it involves every little thread, but it's really about the whole tapestry.

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 Yes, it's about the different members of the body, but really it's about the healthy functioning of the whole body.

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 And you can see that here in verse 18.

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 Where it says,

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 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations.

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 Make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.

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 When such persons hear the words of this oath and invoke a blessing on themselves, thinking,

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 I will be safe even though I persist in going my own way, they will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

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 This covenant says,

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 Do not let there be a root of bitter poison that could destroy the whole tree.

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 Jesus and the apostles use the language of watch out for a little yeast that can corrupt the whole batch of dough.

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 This covenant relationship with the Lord can be negatively influenced by one person, one family, one group of people that thinks to themselves,

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 It's no big deal if I just go my own way.

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 It's no big deal if I kind of blend the doctrine and ethics of the scriptures with the ideologies and the practices of Canaan.

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 It won't be a big deal.

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 If I just kind of relax my grip on these inconvenient truths that make me a little bit uncomfortable from our faith, all will be well.

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 And what this actually says in this covenant, that is a complete disaster.

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 Not just for you, but for us.

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 And we need to think this way because the covenant, we're told, is relational.

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 Covenant renewal is relational.

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 You guys tracking with me?

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 Covenant renewal is not only relational, it's also personal.

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 Covenant renewal is personal.

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 In verse 10, it says,

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 All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord, your God.

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 This is a sober, serious, solemn moment of being koram deo, before the face of God.

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 They've been listening to Moses' final sermons in the last days of his life.

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 And in these sermons, Moses has been taking the Ten Commandments and he's been expounding them and illustrating them and applying them and saying,

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 This is the way.

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 This is the blueprint.

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 This is the guide for abundant life in the promised land.

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 And now it's time, having heard all of this teaching, to covenant together to live by the teaching.

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 And so every single individual here is going to take responsibility for their own relationship before God.

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 Their own relationship with God in the presence of God.

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 They're going to make an oath of allegiance.

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 They're going to swear their commitment to keep this covenant.

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 They say,

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 We are ready to be loyal to this gracious God.

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 We are fully aware of all the curses and all the disasters that will come down upon us for being disloyal to this God.

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 And so what do we see that God wants for us in this relationship?

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 He wants the relationship to be personal.

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 Listen to verse 17.

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 It says,

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 You saw among them, that is the Egyptians and all the nations they've just passed through.

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 You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

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 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations.

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 See, God wants the heart of each person turned toward him in worship.

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 And he's saying,

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 Look, you're entering into a context of endless distractions.

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 You're going into a land where you're going to be surrounded by attractive alternatives.

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 Silver and gold, shiny objects that are going to vie for your attention and turn your attention away from me and cause you to worship lesser things that are not worthy of your devotion.

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 Can you imagine living in a society, living in a place where there are these bright, shiny, luminous things wanting to control your attention and giving you a dopamine hit every time you pull it out of your pocket or off the shelf and do like this?

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 Can you imagine living in a society like that?

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 If you weren't at our August retreat, I said there that the average iPhone user touches his or her phone 2,617 times a day.

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 In contrast, the psalmist says,

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 I have set the Lord always before me.

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 What would my life be like if God touched my mind as often as I touch my phone?

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 Multi-billion dollar companies are asking themselves,

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 how do we consume as much of your time and attention as we possibly can?

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 One person said the tech industry is the largest, most standardized, and most centralized form of attentional control in human history.

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 So that continuous partial attention is now our new normal.

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 And don't get me wrong,

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 our technological devices are not the only idols in our lives that cause our hearts to turn away from the Lord.

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 They're just the most obvious.

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 They look around at everybody like this, bowing down, right, to their phones.

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 So Deuteronomy 29 is telling us how easy it is to turn our hearts away from devotion and love and worship to the Lord

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 as our highest good, as our sumum bonum.

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 And this is really a restatement of all the teaching of Deuteronomy.

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 That heart turn in verse 18 restates for us what we heard in Deuteronomy 5.

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 The Ten Commands.

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 What's the first of those Ten Commands?

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 You shall have no other gods before me.

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 But remember it says,

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 you, second person singular,

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 Jonathan, Barry, St. Clair,

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 you personally

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 should have no other gods

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 before me.

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 And then the next chapter,

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 and then the next chapter,

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 Deuteronomy 6,

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 is really a restatement of this heart turning away

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 or turning toward the Lord where it says,

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 hear, O Israel,

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 the Lord our God,

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 the Lord alone.

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 You,

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 second person singular,

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 you,

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 Jonathan,

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 Barry,

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 St. Clair,

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 you are to love the Lord your God

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 with all your heart,

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 with all your soul,

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 and with all your strength,

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 with all that you are

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 and all that you've got.

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 In the midst of this myriad of distractions

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 and all of these attention-grabbing,

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 attractive alternatives

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 that are telling you to put money

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 or sex or power at the center,

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 that are telling you to put your work

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 or your comfort

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 or approval

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 at the center of your life,

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 what we are being called to

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 in this covenant renewal

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 is for each person

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 and each family

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 and each group

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 to turn your heart toward the Lord

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 in worship.

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 One of the commentators

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 that I read this week,

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 he said,

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 Deuteronomy

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 is deeply aware

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 that Israel's faith

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 is in a context

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 of endless distractions

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 from covenantal faith.

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 The most likely candidates

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 for such seduction

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 are precisely those

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 who are comfortable

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 and complacent with God.

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 They are the ones

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 most susceptible

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 and most surely

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 to bring disaster

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 upon all of the community.

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 Seduction from covenant

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 happens among those

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 who turn a little bit

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 at a time

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 away from the Lord

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 because they are not vigilant.

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 What this is telling us

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 is that your personal

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 spiritual vigilance,

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 your personal habits

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 of the heart,

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 your personal engagement,

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 your personal quality

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 of life with the Lord

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 not only matters to God,

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 it matters to all of us

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 and our quality of life

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 as a church community.

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 And so the question

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 I'm asking is

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 how can I,

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 how can we

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 practically keep God

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 as our first love?

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 what are the predictable patterns,

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 what are the healthy habits

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 that will regularly

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 revitalize our relationship

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 with the Lord

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 so that He is my love supreme?

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 And I want to say

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 you've made a good start today.

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 You've begun the first day

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 of your week

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 here turning your heart

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 toward the Lord in worship

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 which is the fourth commandment,

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 right?

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 Observe the Sabbath

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 and keep it holy to the Lord

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 and that is a great start.

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 George Herbert,

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 the poet,

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 he says

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 seven whole days

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 not one in seven

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 I will praise thee.

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 And so my question is

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 how will we worship God

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 seven whole days this week,

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 tomorrow

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 and the next day

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 and the day after that

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 and my simple question is

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 how will you start

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 the day tomorrow

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 when you wake up

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 in the morning?

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 I love this quote

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 from C.S. Lewis

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 in his book

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 Mere Christianity.

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 He said this in 1941.

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 He said

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 the real problem

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 of the Christian life

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 comes where people

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 do not usually look for it.

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 It comes the very moment

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 you wake up each morning.

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 All your wishes

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 and hopes for the day

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 rush at you

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 like wild animals.

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 And the first job

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 each morning

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 consists simply

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 in shoving them all back

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 and listening

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 to that other voice

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 and taking that other

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 point of view,

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 letting that other

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 larger,

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 stronger life

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 come rushing in

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 and so on

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 all day long

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 he says.

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 Around that same time

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 a man

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 this

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 Lewis was in England

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 a man named

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 Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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 in Germany

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 wrote these words

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 and he would later be

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 taken and killed

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 by the Nazis

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 but he said

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 the morning prayer

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 determines the day.

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 squandered time

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 of which we are ashamed

00:26:06.380 --> 00:26:07.620
 temptations to which

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 we succumb

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 weaknesses

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 and lack of courage

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 at work

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 disorganization

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 and lack of discipline

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 in our thoughts

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 and in our conversation

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 with other men

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 all have their origin

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 most often

00:26:19.259 --> 00:26:20.820
 in the neglect

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 of morning prayer.

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 Decisions demanded

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 by work

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 become easier

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 and simpler

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 where they are made

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 not in the fear

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 of men

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 but only

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 in the sight

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 of God.

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 My goal

00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:35.460
 this week

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 is to move

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 some of you

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 from nothing

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 to something

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 to move you

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 from investing

00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:42.400
 zero minutes

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 in your personal

00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:44.420
 relationship with the Lord

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 to five minutes

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 and then ten minutes

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 and fifteen minutes

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 to investing

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 one day of your week

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 to three days

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 then four days

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 then five days

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 of your week

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 and if you're a guest

00:26:54.440 --> 00:26:55.099
 with us today

00:26:55.099 --> 00:26:56.980
 we're not normally

00:26:56.980 --> 00:26:57.700
 this practical

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 or this

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 this prescriptive

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 but I'm just realizing

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 as a pastor

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 after 18 months

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 of pandemic life

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 that we desperately

00:27:06.620 --> 00:27:07.960
 need to reestablish

00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:09.140
 healthy habits

00:27:09.140 --> 00:27:11.299
 and predictable patterns

00:27:11.299 --> 00:27:12.460
 that are gonna give us

00:27:12.460 --> 00:27:14.000
 a life with God

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 and so I've given you

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 this handout

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:18.200
 called morning prayer

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 as your insert

00:27:19.500 --> 00:27:20.080
 this morning

00:27:20.080 --> 00:27:22.059
 and I hope it will

00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:23.019
 equip you

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 with a tool

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 to help

00:27:25.340 --> 00:27:26.440
 keep God

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:27.580
 as your first love

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 in your life

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 which is what

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 Deuteronomy

00:27:29.539 --> 00:27:30.279
 is all about

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 tomorrow morning

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 you're gonna engage

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 in many habits

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 you're not even

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 gonna be thinking about

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 hopefully you're gonna

00:27:35.179 --> 00:27:35.879
 take a shower

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 we hope

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 hopefully you're gonna

00:27:37.699 --> 00:27:38.439
 put on clothes

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 we hope

00:27:39.019 --> 00:27:40.199
 hopefully you're gonna

00:27:40.199 --> 00:27:41.139
 eat and brush

00:27:41.139 --> 00:27:41.559
 your teeth

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 and I wanna invite you

00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:43.779
 to create some space

00:27:43.779 --> 00:27:44.379
 and time

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 to pray

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 at least a portion

00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:47.279
 of this

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 half of it

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 just the first words

00:27:49.299 --> 00:27:49.599
 of it

00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:50.839
 would be an absolute

00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:52.319
 victory for us

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 I think

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 if we began

00:27:55.299 --> 00:27:56.799
 this practice

00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:57.599
 of morning prayer

00:27:57.599 --> 00:27:58.519
 a revival

00:27:58.519 --> 00:28:00.019
 would break out

00:28:00.019 --> 00:28:01.240
 at Christ Church

00:28:01.240 --> 00:28:02.019
 amen

00:28:02.019 --> 00:28:03.939
 covenant renewal

00:28:03.939 --> 00:28:05.159
 is relational

00:28:05.159 --> 00:28:06.980
 and it's

00:28:06.980 --> 00:28:07.839
 personal

00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:09.619
 for each one

00:28:09.619 --> 00:28:10.159
 of us

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 but the last thing

00:28:11.740 --> 00:28:12.179
 I wanna say

00:28:12.179 --> 00:28:12.659
 is covenant

00:28:12.659 --> 00:28:13.240
 relational

00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:14.240
 covenant renewal

00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.019
 is relational

00:28:15.019 --> 00:28:15.619
 personal

00:28:15.619 --> 00:28:17.579
 and it's sacrificial

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 you know

00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:20.199
 the sad

00:28:20.199 --> 00:28:21.679
 and tragic

00:28:21.679 --> 00:28:22.659
 story of the Bible

00:28:22.659 --> 00:28:23.559
 is that

00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:24.559
 God's people

00:28:24.559 --> 00:28:26.019
 fail over and over

00:28:26.019 --> 00:28:26.779
 to be the

00:28:26.779 --> 00:28:27.980
 covenant partners

00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:28.779
 that we swear

00:28:28.779 --> 00:28:29.279
 to be

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 right

00:28:30.679 --> 00:28:31.460
 we persist

00:28:31.460 --> 00:28:32.359
 in going

00:28:32.359 --> 00:28:33.159
 our own way

00:28:33.159 --> 00:28:33.619
 as it says

00:28:33.619 --> 00:28:34.759
 in verse 19

00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:36.539
 but the sweet

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 and triumphant

00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:37.960
 story of the Bible

00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:38.720
 is that though

00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:39.859
 we fail

00:28:39.859 --> 00:28:40.619
 God's covenant

00:28:40.619 --> 00:28:41.119
 love

00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.659
 never fails us

00:28:42.659 --> 00:28:44.319
 the Lord

00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:45.339
 would send

00:28:45.339 --> 00:28:45.939
 his own

00:28:45.939 --> 00:28:46.460
 eternal

00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:47.119
 and beloved

00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:47.559
 son

00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:48.419
 Jesus

00:28:48.419 --> 00:28:49.139
 to be

00:28:49.139 --> 00:28:50.259
 this faithful

00:28:50.259 --> 00:28:51.039
 Israelite

00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:52.679
 to be the one

00:28:52.679 --> 00:28:53.119
 true

00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:54.319
 human being

00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:55.179
 to do for us

00:28:55.179 --> 00:28:55.720
 what we cannot

00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:56.899
 do for ourselves

00:28:56.899 --> 00:28:59.139
 Jesus is the

00:28:59.139 --> 00:28:59.940
 only one

00:28:59.940 --> 00:29:01.440
 whose heart

00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:02.319
 does not

00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:02.879
 turn away

00:29:02.879 --> 00:29:03.519
 from the Lord

00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:05.099
 he's the only

00:29:05.099 --> 00:29:05.539
 one

00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:06.779
 who rather

00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:07.500
 had his heart

00:29:07.500 --> 00:29:08.359
 turned toward

00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:08.919
 the Lord

00:29:08.919 --> 00:29:09.899
 every moment

00:29:09.899 --> 00:29:10.559
 of every day

00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:11.359
 of his life

00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:13.159
 and when he came

00:29:13.159 --> 00:29:13.700
 to the end

00:29:13.700 --> 00:29:14.359
 of that beautiful

00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:14.819
 life

00:29:14.819 --> 00:29:15.319
 on the night

00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:16.099
 before he was

00:29:16.099 --> 00:29:16.579
 to be

00:29:16.579 --> 00:29:17.419
 crucified

00:29:17.420 --> 00:29:18.060
 he offered

00:29:18.060 --> 00:29:18.480
 us these

00:29:18.480 --> 00:29:18.860
 gifts

00:29:18.860 --> 00:29:19.539
 of bread

00:29:19.539 --> 00:29:20.700
 and wine

00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:22.300
 and he said

00:29:22.300 --> 00:29:23.519
 this broken

00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:24.259
 bread of my

00:29:24.259 --> 00:29:24.720
 body

00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:26.539
 reveals what

00:29:26.539 --> 00:29:26.960
 I've come

00:29:26.960 --> 00:29:27.779
 to do for you

00:29:27.779 --> 00:29:28.460
 in my

00:29:28.460 --> 00:29:29.400
 incarnate

00:29:29.400 --> 00:29:29.840
 person

00:29:29.840 --> 00:29:31.660
 and this

00:29:31.660 --> 00:29:32.840
 outpoured

00:29:32.840 --> 00:29:36.240
 wine

00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:37.160
 of my

00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:37.720
 blood

00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:39.680
 is showing

00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:40.220
 you what

00:29:40.220 --> 00:29:40.600
 I've come

00:29:40.600 --> 00:29:41.240
 to do for you

00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:41.580
 in my

00:29:41.580 --> 00:29:42.039
 atoning

00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:43.220
 work

00:29:43.220 --> 00:29:43.279
 work

00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:44.579
 and what

00:29:44.579 --> 00:29:45.039
 is the

00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:45.500
 word

00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:45.980
 that Jesus

00:29:45.980 --> 00:29:46.480
 uses

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:46.819
 when he

00:29:46.819 --> 00:29:47.160
 gives us

00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:47.579
 this meal

00:29:47.579 --> 00:29:48.140
 he says

00:29:48.140 --> 00:29:49.380
 this is my

00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:49.920
 blood

00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:50.779
 of the

00:29:50.779 --> 00:29:51.220
 new

00:29:51.220 --> 00:29:54.539
 covenant

00:29:54.539 --> 00:30:00.180
 covenant

00:30:00.180 --> 00:30:01.980
 Jesus

00:30:01.980 --> 00:30:02.859
 is completing

00:30:02.859 --> 00:30:04.099
 the covenant

00:30:04.099 --> 00:30:04.740
 renewal

00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:05.879
 that began

00:30:05.879 --> 00:30:06.539
 with Israel

00:30:06.539 --> 00:30:07.000
 on the

00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:07.440
 plains

00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:08.460
 of Moab

00:30:08.460 --> 00:30:08.759
 when he

00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:09.019
 says

00:30:09.019 --> 00:30:09.879
 this blood

00:30:09.879 --> 00:30:10.799
 of the

00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:11.180
 covenant

00:30:11.180 --> 00:30:12.480
 is being

00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:13.299
 poured out

00:30:13.299 --> 00:30:14.460
 for the

00:30:14.460 --> 00:30:14.819
 forgiveness

00:30:14.819 --> 00:30:16.539
 of sins

00:30:16.539 --> 00:30:17.680
 you see

00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:18.039
 the Lord

00:30:18.039 --> 00:30:18.379
 knew

00:30:18.379 --> 00:30:18.819
 when he

00:30:18.819 --> 00:30:19.159
 entered

00:30:19.159 --> 00:30:19.680
 into

00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:20.779
 a covenant

00:30:20.779 --> 00:30:21.460
 with human

00:30:21.460 --> 00:30:21.899
 beings

00:30:21.900 --> 00:30:22.480
 like us

00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:22.759
 that it

00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:23.420
 would cost

00:30:23.420 --> 00:30:23.600
 him

00:30:23.600 --> 00:30:24.060
 dearly

00:30:24.060 --> 00:30:25.240
 that it

00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:25.500
 would be

00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:26.040
 an absolute

00:30:26.040 --> 00:30:26.980
 bloody

00:30:26.980 --> 00:30:27.840
 mess

00:30:27.840 --> 00:30:28.140
 but he

00:30:28.140 --> 00:30:28.480
 did it

00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:28.820
 anyway

00:30:28.820 --> 00:30:29.440
 because

00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:30.420
 he loves

00:30:30.420 --> 00:30:30.880
 us

00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:32.120
 he did

00:30:32.120 --> 00:30:32.640
 it knowing

00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:33.780
 that he

00:30:33.780 --> 00:30:34.380
 would take

00:30:34.380 --> 00:30:35.140
 all of the

00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:35.600
 curses

00:30:35.600 --> 00:30:36.019
 of our

00:30:36.019 --> 00:30:36.519
 breaking

00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:36.860
 of the

00:30:36.860 --> 00:30:37.160
 covenant

00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:38.420
 so that

00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:38.820
 we would

00:30:38.820 --> 00:30:39.100
 get all

00:30:39.100 --> 00:30:39.640
 the blessings

00:30:39.640 --> 00:30:40.120
 of his

00:30:40.120 --> 00:30:40.600
 keeping

00:30:40.600 --> 00:30:41.080
 the covenant

00:30:41.080 --> 00:30:41.540
 as if

00:30:41.540 --> 00:30:41.880
 we

00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:42.460
 ourselves

00:30:42.460 --> 00:30:42.940
 had kept

00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:43.460
 the covenant

00:30:43.460 --> 00:30:44.960
 Jesus

00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:45.420
 is going

00:30:45.420 --> 00:30:45.820
 to enter

00:30:45.820 --> 00:30:46.480
 in to

00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:47.400
 be torn

00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:48.000
 to pieces

00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:49.700
 the nails

00:30:49.700 --> 00:30:50.680
 the spears

00:30:50.680 --> 00:30:51.460
 the thorns

00:30:51.460 --> 00:30:52.079
 are going

00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:52.539
 to tear

00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:53.259
 him apart

00:30:53.259 --> 00:30:53.960
 why

00:30:53.960 --> 00:30:54.340
 so that

00:30:54.340 --> 00:30:54.880
 we can

00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:55.279
 have

00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:56.140
 what Paul

00:30:56.140 --> 00:30:56.480
 calls

00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:57.220
 the righteousness

00:30:57.220 --> 00:30:57.960
 peace

00:30:57.960 --> 00:30:58.880
 and joy

00:30:58.880 --> 00:30:59.220
 in the

00:30:59.220 --> 00:30:59.980
 Holy Spirit

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:02.440
 all of our

00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:02.840
 hearts

00:31:02.840 --> 00:31:03.720
 turning away

00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:04.299
 from God

00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:05.759
 all of that

00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.779
 root

00:31:06.779 --> 00:31:07.420
 of bitter

00:31:07.420 --> 00:31:08.059
 poison

00:31:08.059 --> 00:31:08.880
 that destroys

00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:09.319
 the whole

00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:09.720
 thing

00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:11.299
 all of that

00:31:11.299 --> 00:31:11.900
 disaster

00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:12.519
 that results

00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:13.360
 when I persist

00:31:13.360 --> 00:31:13.860
 in going

00:31:13.860 --> 00:31:14.559
 my own way

00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:15.579
 all of that

00:31:15.579 --> 00:31:16.240
 will be poured

00:31:16.240 --> 00:31:17.059
 out on

00:31:17.059 --> 00:31:17.420
 Jesus

00:31:17.420 --> 00:31:18.380
 on his

00:31:18.380 --> 00:31:18.920
 cross

00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:20.279
 and this

00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:20.660
 is why

00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:21.180
 the apostle

00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:21.660
 Paul

00:31:21.660 --> 00:31:22.600
 is telling

00:31:22.600 --> 00:31:22.820
 us

00:31:22.820 --> 00:31:23.800
 in Galatians

00:31:23.800 --> 00:31:24.100
 3

00:31:24.100 --> 00:31:24.600
 he says

00:31:24.600 --> 00:31:25.180
 Christ

00:31:25.180 --> 00:31:26.380
 redeemed

00:31:26.380 --> 00:31:26.900
 us

00:31:26.900 --> 00:31:28.320
 by becoming

00:31:28.320 --> 00:31:29.080
 a curse

00:31:29.080 --> 00:31:30.140
 for us

00:31:30.140 --> 00:31:31.920
 he redeemed

00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:32.320
 us that

00:31:32.320 --> 00:31:32.920
 blessing

00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:33.540
 that the

00:31:33.540 --> 00:31:33.920
 blessing

00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:34.460
 given to

00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:34.840
 Abraham

00:31:34.840 --> 00:31:35.620
 might come

00:31:35.620 --> 00:31:36.360
 to us

00:31:36.360 --> 00:31:37.160
 through

00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:38.160
 him

00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:42.240
 do you

00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:42.580
 realize

00:31:42.580 --> 00:31:43.080
 what Jesus

00:31:43.080 --> 00:31:43.640
 has done

00:31:43.640 --> 00:31:45.040
 for you

00:31:45.040 --> 00:31:47.840
 in his

00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:48.199
 perfect

00:31:48.199 --> 00:31:48.779
 life

00:31:48.779 --> 00:31:50.559
 he

00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:51.199
 completely

00:31:51.199 --> 00:31:52.139
 fulfilled

00:31:52.139 --> 00:31:53.379
 the terms

00:31:53.379 --> 00:31:54.139
 of the

00:31:54.139 --> 00:31:54.419
 covenant

00:31:54.419 --> 00:31:56.059
 and he

00:31:56.059 --> 00:31:56.599
 earned

00:31:56.599 --> 00:31:57.559
 the covenant

00:31:57.559 --> 00:31:58.159
 blessing

00:31:58.159 --> 00:31:58.599
 so that

00:31:58.599 --> 00:31:59.079
 God

00:31:59.079 --> 00:31:59.980
 could love

00:31:59.980 --> 00:32:00.240
 you

00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:01.099
 absolutely

00:32:01.099 --> 00:32:02.599
 unconditionally

00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:04.559
 and in

00:32:04.559 --> 00:32:04.799
 his

00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:05.399
 sacrificial

00:32:05.399 --> 00:32:05.819
 death

00:32:05.819 --> 00:32:06.019
 he

00:32:06.019 --> 00:32:06.619
 completely

00:32:06.619 --> 00:32:07.359
 satisfied

00:32:07.359 --> 00:32:08.000
 all the

00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:08.599
 curses

00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:09.799
 of this

00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:10.220
 covenant

00:32:10.220 --> 00:32:11.539
 so that

00:32:11.539 --> 00:32:11.879
 he could

00:32:11.879 --> 00:32:12.419
 remove it

00:32:12.419 --> 00:32:13.139
 from anyone

00:32:13.139 --> 00:32:13.619
 who would

00:32:13.619 --> 00:32:14.240
 ask them

00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:14.939
 ask him

00:32:14.939 --> 00:32:15.359
 to take

00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:16.219
 it away

00:32:16.219 --> 00:32:17.179
 from them

00:32:17.179 --> 00:32:19.240
 and friends

00:32:19.240 --> 00:32:21.019
 do you know

00:32:21.019 --> 00:32:21.459
 what Jesus

00:32:21.459 --> 00:32:22.039
 was doing

00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:22.399
 in those

00:32:22.399 --> 00:32:23.159
 final moments

00:32:23.159 --> 00:32:23.479
 on his

00:32:23.479 --> 00:32:23.919
 cross

00:32:23.919 --> 00:32:26.000
 as he

00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:26.539
 was dying

00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:26.959
 for the

00:32:26.959 --> 00:32:27.319
 sins of

00:32:27.319 --> 00:32:27.659
 the world

00:32:27.659 --> 00:32:28.419
 he turned

00:32:28.419 --> 00:32:29.500
 his heart

00:32:29.500 --> 00:32:30.179
 and worshipped

00:32:30.179 --> 00:32:30.599
 toward the

00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:30.919
 Lord

00:32:30.919 --> 00:32:32.019
 as he

00:32:32.019 --> 00:32:32.759
 was writhing

00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:33.359
 in agony

00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:34.319
 he cried

00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:34.559
 out

00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:35.179
 father

00:32:35.179 --> 00:32:36.899
 into your

00:32:36.899 --> 00:32:37.419
 hands

00:32:37.419 --> 00:32:38.619
 I commit

00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:39.379
 my spirit

00:32:39.379 --> 00:32:41.019
 father

00:32:41.019 --> 00:32:41.539
 into your

00:32:41.539 --> 00:32:41.919
 hands

00:32:41.919 --> 00:32:42.559
 I commit

00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:43.799
 my spirit

00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:44.099
 it's a

00:32:44.099 --> 00:32:44.339
 prayer

00:32:44.339 --> 00:32:44.639
 Jesus

00:32:44.639 --> 00:32:45.019
 prayed

00:32:45.019 --> 00:32:45.619
 thousands

00:32:45.619 --> 00:32:46.200
 of times

00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:46.539
 it came

00:32:46.539 --> 00:32:46.980
 straight

00:32:46.980 --> 00:32:47.819
 out of

00:32:47.819 --> 00:32:47.980
 his

00:32:47.980 --> 00:32:48.240
 prayer

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:48.440
 book

00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:48.639
 from

00:32:48.639 --> 00:32:49.000
 psalm

00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:49.579
 31

00:32:49.579 --> 00:32:50.279
 verse

00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:50.619
 five

00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:51.119
 father

00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:51.619
 into your

00:32:51.619 --> 00:32:51.980
 hands

00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:52.559
 I commit

00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:53.359
 my spirit

00:32:53.359 --> 00:32:54.879
 you know

00:32:54.879 --> 00:32:55.579
 we spend

00:32:55.579 --> 00:32:56.279
 most of our

00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:56.940
 time attempting

00:32:56.940 --> 00:32:57.319
 to get

00:32:57.319 --> 00:32:58.079
 our lives

00:32:58.079 --> 00:32:58.900
 out of

00:32:58.900 --> 00:32:59.259
 God's

00:32:59.259 --> 00:32:59.500
 hands

00:32:59.500 --> 00:32:59.839
 and into

00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:00.119
 our

00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:00.539
 hands

00:33:00.539 --> 00:33:02.779
 and in

00:33:02.779 --> 00:33:02.980
 this

00:33:02.980 --> 00:33:03.460
 dialogue

00:33:03.460 --> 00:33:04.460
 deep

00:33:04.460 --> 00:33:04.779
 in the

00:33:04.779 --> 00:33:05.079
 heart

00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:05.319
 of the

00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:05.680
 trinity

00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:05.960
 with

00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:06.319
 Jesus

00:33:06.319 --> 00:33:06.799
 on his

00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:07.299
 cross

00:33:07.299 --> 00:33:07.879
 he does

00:33:07.879 --> 00:33:08.420
 for us

00:33:08.420 --> 00:33:09.039
 what we

00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:09.420
 cannot

00:33:09.420 --> 00:33:09.879
 do

00:33:09.879 --> 00:33:11.539
 in this

00:33:11.539 --> 00:33:12.039
 one

00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:12.980
 last

00:33:12.980 --> 00:33:14.039
 confident

00:33:14.039 --> 00:33:14.960
 reckless

00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:15.639
 act

00:33:15.639 --> 00:33:16.379
 of faith

00:33:16.379 --> 00:33:17.379
 Jesus

00:33:17.379 --> 00:33:18.200
 willingly

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:19.819
 exuberantly

00:33:19.819 --> 00:33:21.379
 commends

00:33:21.379 --> 00:33:21.980
 the purpose

00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:22.359
 of his

00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:22.960
 whole

00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:23.639
 life

00:33:23.639 --> 00:33:23.940
 and his

00:33:23.940 --> 00:33:24.359
 whole

00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:25.079
 work

00:33:25.079 --> 00:33:25.480
 into the

00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:26.079
 strong

00:33:26.079 --> 00:33:26.940
 loving

00:33:26.940 --> 00:33:27.559
 hands

00:33:27.559 --> 00:33:27.899
 of his

00:33:27.899 --> 00:33:28.279
 father

00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:28.859
 father

00:33:28.859 --> 00:33:30.779
 into your

00:33:30.779 --> 00:33:31.359
 hands

00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:33.079
 I commit

00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:34.759
 my spirit

00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:36.379
 and that

00:33:36.379 --> 00:33:36.779
 I hope

00:33:36.779 --> 00:33:37.500
 becomes the

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:37.899
 prayer

00:33:37.899 --> 00:33:39.519
 for all

00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:39.819
 of us

00:33:39.819 --> 00:33:40.279
 who know

00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:41.019
 the

00:33:41.019 --> 00:33:41.480
 depths

00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:41.859
 which

00:33:41.859 --> 00:33:42.759
 Jesus

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 sacrificed

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 himself

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 to renew

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 this

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 covenant

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 for us

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 may it

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 become our

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 prayer

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 tomorrow

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 morning

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 and the

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 day after

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 that

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 father

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 into your

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 hands

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 I commit

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 my spirit

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 in the name

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 of the

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 father

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 son

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 and holy

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 spirit

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 amen

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 he

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 to pour

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 him

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 together

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 to

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 me

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 am

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 in the name