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 Father, at this time, we invite those of us who are here and those who are entering into

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 worship as part of our online community, we ask, Father, that your Holy Spirit would do

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 a gentle but wonderful work in our hearts and help us to do what we want to do in our

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 best moments but can't do in and of our own self without the help of your Holy Spirit.

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 So, Father, we give permission, full and unreserved permission for you to rule in our hearts and speak into our hearts.

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 And we ask that you would do that this morning, that this, your word, would be brought deep into the very center of who we are

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 so that we might live lives that bring you great glory.

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 And this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 So, you don't want to go too far with analogies like this, but it's just like God to do certain types of things.

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 So, I'm going to be preaching on the Colossians text, and in the Colossians text you heard about how we have to put on compassion.

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 I shouldn't say that as if I'm making fun of it, but, well, compassion, meekness, humility, forgiveness.

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 And it sort of struck me, actually, yesterday, because, as my wife will very properly tell you, I can be very, very thick.

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 But it really struck, came home to me yesterday.

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 But it sort of came to me all week that it's just like God that in a week where every day I'm thinking about how to preach on putting on compassion, meekness, forgiveness,

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 that every single day this week I was involved in low-level conflict.

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 Like, every single day.

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 It's just like God.

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 That it wasn't as if I'm going to preach on, you know, compassion and showing mercy.

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 And so, this week, I don't know, I was at a cottage, just my wife.

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 Every day was better than the day before.

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 We were just lovey, lovey, lovey all the time.

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 And then I'd get up to come here on Sunday, and I'd get to say, oh, we all have to put on compassion and mercy and meekness and forgiveness.

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 And off we go, and I'd do it without having had to really struggle with it.

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 But actually, it's just like God.

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 Every single day this week, I was involved in low-level conflict.

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 Every day, I kept bringing to myself, one moment, I'm supposed to be putting on compassion while I'm dealing with this bleepity, bleepity, bleepity, bleep,

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 which is my flesh speaking, by the way, not the way a Christian should speak.

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 So, it's just like God.

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 That's what my week has been like.

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 Anyway, so we're going to be looking at Colossians chapter 3.

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 And it's verses, actually, we're going to begin, Andrew has from verses 10 to 14 on the screen, but we're going to begin at verse 9.

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 And that's because verses 10 and 11, and here's the other thing about this text, by the way.

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 Just when I said to you that all this week I had to struggle, I'm in low-level conflict in several different directions.

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 Every single day this week, I'm in low-level conflict.

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 But thanks be to God, I wasn't in any conflict with my wife, but I was in conflict with other people on behalf of the church and other types of things.

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 But, so every week I'm in conflict with, every day I'm in conflict with people.

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 I'm thinking about this text.

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 And the fact of the matter is that the things that Christ is asking us to put on aren't things that we would naturally put on.

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 And, in fact, they're probably not, like if you went to a management expert or a success expert, they're not what they would tell you to do.

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 There might be little bits and pieces of it, but they would warn you against this text.

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 They'd say, well, don't take it to extreme, it's all right to do that a little bit.

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 But what you need to do is you need to put on your big boy pants.

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 You need to put on your game face.

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 You need to get your shoulders back.

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 You need to be strong.

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 You need to be this.

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 You need to be that.

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 That would probably be the type of advice.

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 And just even when I said I'm praying and I, you know, in my mind I'm going to bleepity bleepity bleep.

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 I mean, that's, you know, probably a management coach would say, yeah, that's what they are.

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 Like, channel that.

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 Function.

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 Get that going.

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 Like, use that as a way to motivate how you go.

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 So, this text is going to be telling us to do something which is not really, I mean, parts of it are what Canadians would think of as are very good things,

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 but probably in every case they'd say don't take it to extremes.

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 Like, be careful or you're going to get caught.

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 You're going to become a doormat.

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 So, we're going to begin reading at verse 9, and that's because verses 10 and 11 are what I sometimes scholars call a Janus text.

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 Janus is a person in ancient mythology that was able to look at two directions at the same time.

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 And so, 10 and 11 is a really important verse.

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 It's on one hand looking back to what had just happened, and the other hand it's looking forward to what Paul is about to say.

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 And the reason it's really important as a Janus text is that what Paul had just been talking about before,

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 which was what we talked about in the sermon last week, is about a series of vices,

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 things which are bad that we have to put off, that we have to take off as clothing and throw away and not use.

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 And it's a really important thing to have a Janus text like that that summarizes the putting off before introducing the putting on,

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 because it's very easy for people to think, it's very easy to think of non-Christians to think this way about Christians,

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 and part of the reason non-Christians think this way about Christians is that this is often how Christians, in fact, talk.

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 As if the things which are most important about Christians is all the sin, all the bad things, all the things you have to stop.

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 Whether it's biblical sin or therapeutic sin or moralistic sin or religious sin, but we're often known for our don'ts.

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 At least that's how it's viewed on the outside.

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 Often the more conservative the church is, the more we're prepared to talk about the things that we shouldn't be doing.

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 But it's really important, and I have this, to summarize the don'ts by talking about the do.

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 Because, you see, if all of the Christian life is just about not doing things, well, that's completely impossible.

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 It would be as if I gave you advice to only breathe out.

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 If you only breathe out, you die.

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 Right?

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 You breathe out, and then you breathe in.

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 You breathe out, and you breathe in.

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 And so the Bible has this very, very healthy balance.

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 There's things we need to get rid of to purge from our lives.

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 But you don't just purge without clothing yourselves with something which is vastly and eternally better.

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 So if you look at it, here's how it begins in verse 9, at the end of the vice list, the sin list.

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 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices.

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 Now here's the beginning.

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 You'll see it in the original language.

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 The ESV captures it.

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 It's all part of the same sentence, in fact, right?

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 But it's now beginning to move the focus, summarizing the past, moving towards the next bit.

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 It says, and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

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 Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, but Christ is all in all.

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 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved.

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 And there's going to be a list of eight virtues.

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 Compassionate hearts.

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 Kindness.

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 Humility.

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 Meekness.

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 Another word to translate that is gentleness.

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 Patience.

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 Bearing with one another.

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 And if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

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 And above all these, put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

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 And I'm going to unpack what these are, but the last bit is very, very important.

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 And in the original language, it's seen to be not just the last thing in the list.

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 You know, as if your wife has given you or your friend has given you a shopping list.

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 And, you know, there's all the thing.

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 And the last thing on the list happens to be pick up the, you know, pepperoni or something.

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 It's just one more thing.

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 No, in the original language, it's the culmination.

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 It's a central point of the whole list.

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 And the way to understand it, and it's a really beautiful image.

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 It's part of the beauty.

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 One of the things which people from the outside of the Christian faith don't understand often is how, once you enter into the way of Christ, how emotionally satisfying it can grow into becoming.

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 And you see part of the beauty of the gospel, by the way, it has these seven virtues.

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 And then it says the love is the one that binds them all together.

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 And what you have to try to imagine is you just imagine our solar system.

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 And in our solar system, if there wasn't a sun at the center, which all of the planets spin around, then the planets would just be hurtling through space.

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 They would eventually just become, I mean, they just become very big, I guess, meteors or whatever.

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 Like just cosmic dust hurtling through the space.

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 But because the sun is at the center, it's holding all of the different planets in their orbit.

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 And that's the image which the Bible is trying to communicate here about love.

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 That love is at the very center.

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 That's what's helping you to understand what patience is going to be about, what forgiveness is about, all of these things.

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 If that's not the sun that's keeping the rest of the virtues spinning in the right way, they're all just going to go in chaotic directions.

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 Now, you can see how this is a bit of a list that could be a bit counterintuitive.

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 But let's go back to verse 10.

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 Let's go back to verse 10 to verse 10 and just try to understand a little bit about why it is that the Bible would encourage us to have such a list like this.

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 Like, why is it that would encourage me that when I'm in conflict that I should be thinking about these things?

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 And it's not just telling us to think about these things when we're in conflict.

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 Why is it that these, in a sense, make sense from the Christian worldview?

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 Well, look at it again, verse 10.

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 And have put on the new self.

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 And we're going to talk about it a little bit more in a moment, but put on as a clothing imagery.

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 And that's, if you think about it, intuitively a very good image to work with.

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 When I come home, I have a thing about shorts.

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 And so when I come home, as soon as I can, it depends.

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 Sometimes I come home and we have to eat right away.

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 But when I come home, if I have the time, you know, I put my dirty dishes, you know, I brought my food.

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 I put it in the sink.

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 And I, you know, take my gym stuff and hang it up.

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 And then I go into my room and I take off my clothes.

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 And I put on, you know, a ratty old thing to cover myself on the top.

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 And I put on these shorts that aren't really decent to be worn in public.

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 Like, I mean, they're just all ripped and everything.

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 And they're just really old and very comfortable.

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 And I'm home, right?

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 If I had to be meeting the queen, I would dress the appropriate way.

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 If you have an important interview, you dress the right way.

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 Going on a date, we have this understanding that clothes can contribute and fit with what it is you have to do.

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 In fact, they can really help you.

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 Some of you would say, how could I even go for a job interview if I'm dressed like this?

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 You know, I don't have my power stuff on to do what we have to do.

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 And so that's the image, the fundamental image which the Bible is using.

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 But it says here at verse 9, verse 10,

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 And have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

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 And this is a very, very important set of ideas.

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 The new self is the self that you get because when you give yourself to Jesus,

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 there's several things which are going on here, and they're all really important to know.

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 Remember I said that the Christian life isn't just about not doing sin.

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 Well, it's the same thing for what happens.

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 Why is Jesus so important?

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 Why is what he does on the cross so absolutely important to us?

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 Well, it's not just, as Paul talks about earlier in Colossians,

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 that you can think about the idea that every single thing that you've ever done wrong,

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 everything that anybody might accuse you of,

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 anything that you might be ashamed of,

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 anything that you accuse yourself of,

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 if one of the things that you can do is just picture that when you're thinking about Jesus on the cross,

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 just imagine that every single thing from the moment that you were able to do a wrong act

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 until no matter how far the future is,

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 that in all of these cases,

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 every single item with nothing left over was nailed above Jesus' head,

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 and he took the punishment that you deserved for every single thing on the list.

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 And that's an important aspect of why the cross is so important.

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 But the cross is important for another feature as well.

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 It's not just what Christ took away,

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 but what he clothes you with,

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 what he gives you.

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 And that's why his life is so important.

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 That's why it wouldn't be Christianity if all of a sudden,

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 just like on Palm Sunday,

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 God parachutes Jesus as a fully formed adult into the world,

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 or even better,

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 on Friday morning as a fully formed adult,

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 Jesus just gets parachuted in by God,

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 and God then has him nailed to the cross,

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 and he rises from the dead.

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 That would only be dealing with the things which are wrong.

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 It would be as if,

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 well, it just would be dealing with the things that are wrong.

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 But the other aspect of the gospel,

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 which is so unbelievably important,

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 is that God, the Son of God,

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 humbles himself by taking,

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 by setting aside his glory,

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 his prerogatives,

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 his divine splendor.

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 He, in a sense,

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 puts aside that constant unveiled fellowship

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 with the Father and the Holy Spirit,

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 and remaining fully God,

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 he takes into himself our human nature,

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 and he doesn't,

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 he becomes this one person,

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 God, the Son of God.

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 He's also fully,

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 fully human,

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 and he's humbled himself

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 even to be entering into the human story

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 as the zygote attached to his mother's womb.

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 And he lives a completely and utterly human life.

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 It's a lower working class life

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 as part of a conquered people

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 under the empire of pagans,

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 and he lives a fully human life.

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 And the Bible said he lives a fully human life

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 without ever sinning,

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 without ever having his relationship with God,

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 the Father,

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 ever broken or compromised.

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 And so what happens is,

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 when you're putting your faith and trust in Jesus,

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 when you reach out to him

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 and say,

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 Jesus be my Savior,

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 Jesus be my Lord,

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 and Jesus reaches down,

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 he crosses that infinite distance,

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 so to speak,

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 from heaven to where you are,

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 wherever you are today

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 or wherever you were

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 when you put your faith and trust in Jesus

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 or wherever you were

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 when you realized

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 that there'd never been a time in your life

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 that you hadn't had

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 your faith and trust in Jesus

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 because you grew up in a Christian home

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 and you just grew up as a Christian,

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 so to speak.

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 That not only does God take away all of your sin,

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 but Jesus' perfect life,

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 his unbroken fellowship with the Father,

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 that now becomes yours.

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 That now becomes yours.

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 And God the Father,

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 God the Son,

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 God the Holy Spirit

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 come and actually live within you

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 and in a sense you now have life.

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 It's already now present within you.

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 And so the Bible uses this image of the new self,

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 the new you, so to speak.

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 And this is where there's this,

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 I'm not going to talk about very much,

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 but there's this very important biblical idea

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 called the already not yet

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 that we need to have in our minds

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 to understand what it is exactly

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 that Christ has done for us.

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 Because on one hand,

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 you can almost sort of use the image of a seed

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 as if the seed of eternal life

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 has now been planted within who I am

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 when I put my faith and trust in Jesus.

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 The Holy Spirit now indwells me.

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 And that's the already.

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 That's the exact same life

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 that will blossom and flourish

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 in the new heaven and the new earth

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 that will allow me to spend

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 or you to spend

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 an unbroken eternity

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 in the presence of God the Father,

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 God the Son,

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 God the Holy Spirit,

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 enjoying in a sense their household,

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 their life,

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 breathing their air,

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 seeing their beauty,

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 being transformed by that.

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 And that is already in a sense yours in Christ,

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 but it's like a seed.

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 Not yet.

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 I still do sinful things.

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 I still do wrong things.

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 I still have a body

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 which is fit for this earth,

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 not for the new heaven and the new earth,

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 which is to come.

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 And that's why if you look at verse 10,

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 it says,

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 it says,

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 and put on the new self,

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 which is being renewed in knowledge

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 after the image of its creator.

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 And this is a really important

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 and wonderful truth

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 to understand why it is

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 that you should be trying

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 to put on compassion,

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 why it is that you should be trying

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 to put on humility,

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 why it is that you should be trying

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 to put all of these things on.

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 You see,

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 it's,

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 remember I said,

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 see,

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 already not yet.

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 So,

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 I'm to put this stuff,

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 I need to constantly be renewed

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 because God is working in me

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 and he is working in you

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 to prepare you for a particular destiny.

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 And what is that destiny

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 which he is preparing you for?

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 He is preparing you for that destiny

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 where,

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 as I said before,

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 you are in the presence of the Father

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 and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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 You get to actually,

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 in a sense,

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 begin to taste

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 and see

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 and experience

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 and breathe

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 and reflect

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 that unending,

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 that unending,

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 that unending,

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 eternal dance

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 whereby the Father

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 reveals himself

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 to the Son

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 and the Son reveals

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 himself to the Father

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 and the Holy Spirit

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 reveals himself

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 and there's this dance

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 and you see their goodness

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 and you see their humility,

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 you see their self-giving,

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 you see their other-centeredness,

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 you see the beauty,

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 the glory,

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 the splendor

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 and God is preparing

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 ordinary human beings

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 like you and me

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 to actually be able

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 to be in the presence of that

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 and not just to be

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 in the presence of that,

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 to know that we are home,

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 to breathe it,

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 to delight in it.

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 And so we need to be renewed.

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 And as,

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 and that's,

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 and then it goes on to say,

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 and you put off,

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 so you're going to be

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 putting on the new self

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 which we'll talk about in a moment,

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 you take off the old self

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 and have put on,

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 which has been renewed

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 in the image of its creator,

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 which means that God

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 is making you more

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 and more human

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 the way God originally

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 intended human beings to be.

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 He's not turning you

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 into an angel,

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 he's not turning you

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 into an aardvark,

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 he's turning you

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 into more and more

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 what a human being

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 is supposed to be.

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 And it gives you

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 this little tiny bit

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 of a glimpse

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 that if in fact

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 Adam and Eve

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 had not fallen,

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 it's as if

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 God's always plan

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 was not just

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 that Adam and Eve

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 would have continued

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 to be the way they are

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 but that they

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 would one day

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 be transposed,

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 be in a sense

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 elevated

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 or another stage

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 of even vaster glory

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 and splendor

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 and of being themselves.

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 And so it is

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 that we are

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 becoming more

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 as God intended us to be

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 but at the same time

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 God wants to work

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 within us

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 to make us

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 more the type of person,

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 the type of being

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 who can dwell

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 in the Trinitarian glory

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 and splendor

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 and beauty

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 and delight

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 and love

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 and joy

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 and happiness

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 and music

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 and movement

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 all embodied

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 and that's God's

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 ultimate destiny

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 for you and me.

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 And in verse 11,

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 here there is not

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 Greek and Jew

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 circumcised

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 and uncircumcised,

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 barbarian,

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 Scythian,

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 slave,

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 free,

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 but Christ

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 is all

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 in all.

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 And one of the things

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 which is so powerful

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 about this text,

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 I'm just going to say it now,

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 on a couple of Sundays

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 from now,

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 I'm going to spend

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 a whole service

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 just talking about slavery

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 because Colossians

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 is going to talk about

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 slaves and masters

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 and we're going to look at it.

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 But one of the things

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 which is so unbelievably

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 significant about this text

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 is that as this text

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 grips you,

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 slavery

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 becomes unthinkable.

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 and it becomes

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 unthinkable

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 in a way

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 that is not true

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 of secularism

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 or of atheism

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 or of any other religion.

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 That as it grips you,

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 that even the worst

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 barbarian

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 who's also completely

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 and utterly enslaved,

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 that when they hear

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 that the words

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 that Jesus has died

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 for them

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 and that his perfect life

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 is also for them

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 and that we are to have

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 an obligation

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 to tell the worst

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 barbaric slave

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 of the worst

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 barbaric slave

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 that they can hear

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 the gospel

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 and that when they receive

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 the gospel,

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 the exact same benefits

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 that I have just described

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 for you and me

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 is for them,

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 that they are being renewed

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 in the knowledge

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 of the Creator,

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 that they are being prepared

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 for eternity

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 with the Trinity.

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 The more that grips you,

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 the more slavery

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 is unthinkable,

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 which is vastly

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 more important,

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 the big problem

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 that most of our culture

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 has with the Bible

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 and slavery

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 is that our culture

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 is addicted

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 to virtue signaling.

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 Complete,

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 empty,

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 mindless,

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 self-righteous,

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 self-justifying

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 virtue signaling.

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 And they want to see

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 virtue signaling there

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 and it's not there

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 but what the Bible

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 does instead

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 is vastly more precious.

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 As this grips you

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 and slavery becomes

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 increasingly unthinkable

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 in a world

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 that just took

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 slavery

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 as part of the natural order

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 and the good order

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 of things,

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 it becomes

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 unthinkable.

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 And then we become,

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 because Christ is all in all,

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 put on then,

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 verse 12,

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 as God's chosen ones,

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 holy and beloved,

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 compassionate hearts,

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 kindness,

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 humility,

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 meekness,

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 patience,

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 bearing with one another

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 and if one has a complaint

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 against another,

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 forgiving each other

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 as the Lord has forgiven you,

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 so you also must forgive

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 and above all these,

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 put on love

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 which binds everything together

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 in perfect harmony.

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 so there's this,

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 this is the one aspect

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 of the six.

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 If you could put this up,

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 Andrew,

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 you can just look at it.

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 I'm not going to spend

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 much time on it,

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 right?

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 This is something

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 that begins at the end

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 of chapter 2

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 and it's going to go right

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 until chapter 3,

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 verse 17

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 and then it's going to be

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 shown how it works

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 itself out

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 in certain types

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 of fundamental relationships.

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 And the first,

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 and in a sense,

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 the Bible's asking you

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 not just to do one

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 but in a sense

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 to think of all six

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 as being part

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 of a single act.

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 And the first act

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 is to ask yourself

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 the fundamental question,

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 am I going to grow me

00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:47.059
 or is God going to grow me?

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 And I've talked about that.

00:23:48.059 --> 00:23:48.859
 I won't talk about it

00:23:48.859 --> 00:23:49.859
 as much right now.

00:23:49.859 --> 00:23:51.740
 And God's word

00:23:51.740 --> 00:23:52.679
 wants you to say,

00:23:53.439 --> 00:23:56.979
 if my destiny

00:23:56.979 --> 00:24:01.659
 is to be like Jesus,

00:24:02.639 --> 00:24:03.599
 then how on earth

00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:04.899
 could I possibly grow me?

00:24:05.519 --> 00:24:06.719
 Only God can grow me.

00:24:07.659 --> 00:24:08.579
 So Lord, grow me.

00:24:08.979 --> 00:24:09.799
 The second thing is

00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:11.459
 set your mind on Christ

00:24:11.459 --> 00:24:13.079
 in all his,

00:24:13.379 --> 00:24:14.379
 as I put it,

00:24:14.419 --> 00:24:15.439
 in light of the cross,

00:24:16.019 --> 00:24:17.539
 set your mind on Christ

00:24:17.539 --> 00:24:18.779
 in all his risen,

00:24:19.039 --> 00:24:19.480
 sovereign,

00:24:19.879 --> 00:24:21.019
 Trinitarian glory.

00:24:22.099 --> 00:24:22.899
 And then last week

00:24:22.899 --> 00:24:23.440
 we talked about

00:24:23.440 --> 00:24:24.279
 how you have to put off

00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:25.240
 your old self

00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:26.240
 or put off sin,

00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:27.579
 not as the world defines it

00:24:27.579 --> 00:24:28.980
 but as the Bible defines it.

00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:30.599
 And now we come here

00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:31.559
 to this next step

00:24:31.559 --> 00:24:33.200
 which is put on Christ.

00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:34.720
 Actually,

00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:35.420
 I'm going to put it as

00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:36.940
 given your destiny in Christ,

00:24:37.079 --> 00:24:38.700
 put on the biblical virtues.

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 Given your destiny in Christ,

00:24:40.420 --> 00:24:41.659
 put on the biblical virtues.

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 And then we're going to look at

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 let and do

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 which is what we're going to look at

00:24:46.460 --> 00:24:47.379
 next Sunday.

00:24:48.359 --> 00:24:48.960
 But as I said,

00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:49.960
 you look at these virtues

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 and just think,

00:24:51.220 --> 00:24:51.879
 I've been in a week

00:24:51.879 --> 00:24:53.519
 where I've had low-level conflict

00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:54.240
 all week.

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 And Daniel got to see

00:24:57.779 --> 00:24:58.879
 a little tiny bit of it

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 and, you know,

00:24:59.819 --> 00:25:01.039
 he'll know that

00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:01.579
 Daniel,

00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:02.399
 people who know me

00:25:02.399 --> 00:25:04.000
 know that I have lots of flesh.

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 Because you see,

00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:05.839
 here's the thing

00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:07.000
 about all of these six things

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 including this put on.

00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:10.859
 When we start to walk

00:25:10.859 --> 00:25:12.299
 in the path of these things,

00:25:12.960 --> 00:25:15.039
 it doesn't lead to success,

00:25:15.339 --> 00:25:17.019
 it leads us to meet our flesh.

00:25:17.539 --> 00:25:20.960
 When we try to start to walk

00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:22.220
 in the path of these things,

00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:24.399
 it doesn't lead us to success,

00:25:24.639 --> 00:25:26.779
 it leads us to meet our flesh.

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 And then there is a success,

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 by the way,

00:25:30.259 --> 00:25:30.740
 after that.

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 But first,

00:25:31.299 --> 00:25:32.639
 you constantly meet your flesh.

00:25:33.460 --> 00:25:33.740
 So,

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 for instance,

00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:35.619
 okay,

00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:36.980
 I have to put on Christ.

00:25:37.079 --> 00:25:38.159
 It's only when you think about

00:25:38.159 --> 00:25:39.019
 the fact that you need

00:25:39.019 --> 00:25:40.059
 to put on Christ,

00:25:40.619 --> 00:25:40.879
 I mean,

00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:41.720
 set your mind,

00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:42.880
 my mind on Christ

00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:44.000
 in all his risen,

00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:44.539
 sovereign,

00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:45.600
 Trinitarian glory,

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 that I realize

00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:47.480
 how many things

00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:49.019
 I already have my mind set on.

00:25:49.900 --> 00:25:51.880
 I have my mind set on rivalry.

00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:53.579
 I have my mind set

00:25:53.579 --> 00:25:54.700
 on being able to boast.

00:25:54.819 --> 00:25:55.839
 I have my mind set

00:25:55.839 --> 00:25:56.579
 on the fact

00:25:56.579 --> 00:25:57.620
 that I think I'm right

00:25:57.620 --> 00:25:58.500
 all the time.

00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:00.380
 I have my mind set

00:26:00.380 --> 00:26:01.519
 on wanting to win.

00:26:01.940 --> 00:26:03.319
 I have my mind set

00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:04.440
 on revenge.

00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:05.880
 I have my mind set

00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:06.440
 on things,

00:26:06.539 --> 00:26:07.339
 maybe that are connected

00:26:07.339 --> 00:26:07.860
 to wounds

00:26:07.860 --> 00:26:08.779
 that I've never forgiven.

00:26:08.859 --> 00:26:09.720
 I have my mind set

00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:10.839
 on all sorts of things.

00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:11.899
 And that if I want

00:26:11.899 --> 00:26:13.119
 to set my mind on Christ,

00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:14.180
 there's all that flesh

00:26:14.180 --> 00:26:15.319
 that I have to deal with.

00:26:16.879 --> 00:26:17.559
 It's the same thing

00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:18.319
 with put on.

00:26:19.000 --> 00:26:19.500
 Under Paul,

00:26:19.579 --> 00:26:20.500
 I'm putting on Christ.

00:26:20.639 --> 00:26:20.700
 Well,

00:26:20.859 --> 00:26:21.259
 the fact is,

00:26:21.299 --> 00:26:22.180
 I have all sorts of things

00:26:22.180 --> 00:26:22.899
 I'm wanting to put on.

00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:24.119
 I'm going to have this phone call

00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:24.960
 and I'm going to have

00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:25.519
 this phone call

00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.079
 and I can just feel myself

00:26:27.079 --> 00:26:28.039
 putting stuff on.

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:30.859
 I'm putting on

00:26:30.859 --> 00:26:32.000
 the things I want to say.

00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:32.899
 I'm putting on

00:26:32.899 --> 00:26:34.180
 that I'm not going to back down.

00:26:34.299 --> 00:26:35.000
 I'm putting on

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:36.059
 that I'm always right.

00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:37.039
 I'm putting on

00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:38.079
 that I'm going to be

00:26:38.079 --> 00:26:39.559
 a guy and assertive.

00:26:39.639 --> 00:26:40.159
 I'm putting on

00:26:40.159 --> 00:26:40.779
 all this stuff

00:26:40.779 --> 00:26:42.019
 and maybe I'm putting on

00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:43.119
 a fear that I can't do

00:26:43.119 --> 00:26:44.099
 all those guy things

00:26:44.099 --> 00:26:45.519
 that guys are supposed to do.

00:26:46.099 --> 00:26:47.419
 That's what I'm putting on.

00:26:48.500 --> 00:26:49.519
 And so this text

00:26:49.519 --> 00:26:50.460
 leads me

00:26:50.460 --> 00:26:51.799
 to confront my flesh.

00:26:52.839 --> 00:26:53.799
 That part of me

00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:54.539
 is a human being

00:26:54.539 --> 00:26:55.339
 which is in rebellion

00:26:55.339 --> 00:26:56.220
 against God.

00:26:57.099 --> 00:26:57.879
 That's what I come

00:26:57.879 --> 00:26:58.980
 face to face with.

00:26:58.980 --> 00:27:02.180
 And that leads

00:27:02.180 --> 00:27:02.779
 I have to be

00:27:02.779 --> 00:27:03.860
 that leads to

00:27:03.860 --> 00:27:04.799
 an analogy

00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:06.059
 for us to understand

00:27:06.059 --> 00:27:08.160
 this particular text.

00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:08.680
 These things

00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:09.579
 that we are to put on.

00:27:10.900 --> 00:27:11.900
 Means of grace

00:27:11.900 --> 00:27:13.360
 there's many things

00:27:13.360 --> 00:27:13.819
 in the Bible

00:27:13.819 --> 00:27:14.740
 which are means of grace

00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:15.700
 and these are some of them.

00:27:16.360 --> 00:27:17.079
 And in all cases

00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:18.079
 of means of grace

00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:18.860
 remember

00:27:18.860 --> 00:27:19.640
 I can't

00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:21.259
 I can't turn myself

00:27:21.259 --> 00:27:22.700
 into a person

00:27:22.700 --> 00:27:23.779
 so that when I see Jesus

00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:24.500
 I'm going to be like him.

00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:25.160
 I can't do that.

00:27:25.319 --> 00:27:26.440
 I only God

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:27.160
 can do that.

00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:28.100
 By definition

00:27:28.100 --> 00:27:28.860
 I see Christ

00:27:28.860 --> 00:27:30.120
 and he turns me

00:27:30.120 --> 00:27:32.519
 into someone like him.

00:27:32.800 --> 00:27:33.360
 That's something

00:27:33.360 --> 00:27:34.440
 that only he can do.

00:27:35.180 --> 00:27:36.340
 But the means of grace

00:27:36.340 --> 00:27:37.320
 is a posture

00:27:37.320 --> 00:27:38.700
 of obedience

00:27:38.700 --> 00:27:41.180
 to God's word

00:27:41.180 --> 00:27:42.660
 so God

00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:43.540
 can do

00:27:43.540 --> 00:27:45.060
 what only he can do.

00:27:45.660 --> 00:27:47.040
 All of the means of grace

00:27:47.040 --> 00:27:47.900
 are an invitation

00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:49.180
 to take a posture

00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:50.040
 of obedience

00:27:50.040 --> 00:27:52.380
 to do

00:27:52.380 --> 00:27:53.300
 what only

00:27:53.300 --> 00:27:54.560
 he can do.

00:27:54.559 --> 00:27:57.619
 even if that

00:27:57.619 --> 00:27:58.200
 is not

00:27:58.200 --> 00:27:58.940
 not only

00:27:58.940 --> 00:27:59.980
 not intuitive

00:27:59.980 --> 00:28:00.819
 it's

00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:01.480
 it's

00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.220
 it's not even

00:28:02.220 --> 00:28:03.200
 counterintuitive

00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:04.919
 it's just nonsense.

00:28:06.379 --> 00:28:06.839
 So

00:28:06.839 --> 00:28:07.720
 here's an

00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:08.720
 Old Testament story

00:28:08.720 --> 00:28:09.679
 which is maybe helpful

00:28:09.679 --> 00:28:10.639
 for us to get our mind

00:28:10.639 --> 00:28:11.240
 around this.

00:28:12.399 --> 00:28:13.299
 There's a story

00:28:13.299 --> 00:28:14.319
 in 1 Kings 8

00:28:14.319 --> 00:28:15.299
 it's not as well known

00:28:15.299 --> 00:28:15.859
 as it should be

00:28:15.859 --> 00:28:16.399
 but it's a very

00:28:16.399 --> 00:28:17.619
 very wonderful story.

00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:19.519
 And the nation of Israel

00:28:19.519 --> 00:28:20.460
 has come to one of its

00:28:20.460 --> 00:28:21.059
 darkest

00:28:21.059 --> 00:28:22.240
 lowest times

00:28:22.240 --> 00:28:22.819
 and God

00:28:22.819 --> 00:28:23.900
 has called Elijah

00:28:23.900 --> 00:28:25.000
 to be

00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:26.299
 a lone witness

00:28:26.299 --> 00:28:27.519
 against a culture

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:28.420
 which is completely

00:28:28.420 --> 00:28:28.859
 and utterly

00:28:28.859 --> 00:28:29.940
 abandoning God.

00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:31.759
 And to our secular

00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:32.900
 friends and to Christians

00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:34.200
 this might sound

00:28:34.200 --> 00:28:35.140
 like I'm complaining

00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:36.920
 like for many Canadians

00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:37.259
 it says

00:28:37.259 --> 00:28:37.519
 George

00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:38.079
 it's as if you're

00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:39.319
 complaining about pluralism

00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:40.039
 when you say that.

00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:40.640
 But

00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:42.099
 when you go back

00:28:42.099 --> 00:28:42.620
 and you read

00:28:42.620 --> 00:28:43.480
 the stories

00:28:43.480 --> 00:28:44.480
 in the Old Testament

00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:45.579
 what our Jewish friends

00:28:45.579 --> 00:28:46.640
 what my Jewish friends

00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:47.500
 call the Tanakh

00:28:47.500 --> 00:28:48.680
 you have to realize

00:28:48.680 --> 00:28:49.779
 what's going on

00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:50.900
 when they leave

00:28:50.900 --> 00:28:51.620
 the worship

00:28:51.620 --> 00:28:54.259
 of Yahweh

00:28:54.259 --> 00:28:54.800
 the Lord

00:28:54.800 --> 00:28:55.500
 and they start

00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:56.060
 to take up

00:28:56.060 --> 00:28:56.800
 with other gods

00:28:56.800 --> 00:28:57.600
 because it's not

00:28:57.600 --> 00:28:58.660
 just a neutral matter

00:28:58.660 --> 00:28:59.580
 it's not just

00:28:59.580 --> 00:29:00.540
 that one of you

00:29:00.540 --> 00:29:00.880
 like to

00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:01.240
 I don't know

00:29:01.240 --> 00:29:02.140
 sing praise songs

00:29:02.140 --> 00:29:02.780
 another one of you

00:29:02.780 --> 00:29:03.580
 like to sing hymns

00:29:03.580 --> 00:29:04.640
 no no it matters

00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:05.860
 why does it matter?

00:29:06.259 --> 00:29:06.660
 One of the things

00:29:06.660 --> 00:29:07.480
 which is completely

00:29:07.480 --> 00:29:08.620
 and utterly unique

00:29:08.620 --> 00:29:10.700
 about the Christian faith

00:29:10.700 --> 00:29:11.780
 about the book of Genesis

00:29:11.780 --> 00:29:12.940
 is

00:29:12.940 --> 00:29:14.540
 like all of those

00:29:14.540 --> 00:29:15.200
 other religions

00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:16.240
 that the Jewish people

00:29:16.240 --> 00:29:17.480
 are tempted to go after

00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:18.500
 and have started to go after

00:29:18.500 --> 00:29:19.160
 and by the time

00:29:19.160 --> 00:29:19.920
 Elijah has come

00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:20.900
 basically everybody

00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:21.660
 in the country

00:29:21.660 --> 00:29:24.060
 from the religious elite

00:29:24.060 --> 00:29:25.039
 to the political elite

00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:25.900
 to the cultural elite

00:29:25.900 --> 00:29:27.140
 down to the average

00:29:27.140 --> 00:29:27.860
 the poorest

00:29:27.860 --> 00:29:29.420
 the poorest person

00:29:29.420 --> 00:29:30.060
 in the culture

00:29:30.060 --> 00:29:31.759
 all of the other religions

00:29:31.759 --> 00:29:32.720
 at the very heart of them

00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:33.440
 why did they create

00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:34.259
 human beings?

00:29:35.600 --> 00:29:36.800
 in all cases

00:29:36.800 --> 00:29:37.880
 they created human beings

00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:38.640
 because the gods

00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:39.860
 wanted more slaves

00:29:39.860 --> 00:29:42.120
 human beings

00:29:42.120 --> 00:29:42.660
 were created

00:29:42.660 --> 00:29:43.500
 to be the slaves

00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:44.259
 of the gods

00:29:44.259 --> 00:29:46.360
 we already know

00:29:46.360 --> 00:29:46.800
 what it's like

00:29:46.800 --> 00:29:47.320
 in a culture

00:29:47.320 --> 00:29:47.620
 right now

00:29:47.619 --> 00:29:48.439
 there's a very major

00:29:48.439 --> 00:29:49.179
 world religion

00:29:49.179 --> 00:29:50.039
 which understands

00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:50.699
 that it's part

00:29:50.699 --> 00:29:51.500
 of the very fundamental

00:29:51.500 --> 00:29:52.699
 sense of what it means

00:29:52.699 --> 00:29:53.959
 for God to have created

00:29:53.959 --> 00:29:56.139
 how on earth

00:29:56.139 --> 00:29:56.539
 can you

00:29:56.539 --> 00:29:57.500
 what does it mean

00:29:57.500 --> 00:29:58.659
 if you have a view

00:29:58.659 --> 00:29:59.539
 that the gods

00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:00.519
 that you go to worship

00:30:00.519 --> 00:30:01.739
 that they only created

00:30:01.739 --> 00:30:02.399
 human beings

00:30:02.399 --> 00:30:03.319
 to be slaves

00:30:03.319 --> 00:30:04.479
 what does it mean

00:30:04.479 --> 00:30:05.299
 when you go

00:30:05.299 --> 00:30:06.299
 to start to worship

00:30:06.299 --> 00:30:06.979
 these gods

00:30:06.979 --> 00:30:07.679
 and goddesses

00:30:07.679 --> 00:30:08.339
 it's going to mean

00:30:08.339 --> 00:30:09.619
 that you go to the temple

00:30:09.619 --> 00:30:11.219
 to sacrifice your child

00:30:11.219 --> 00:30:12.579
 to kill your child

00:30:12.579 --> 00:30:13.980
 to appease

00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:15.039
 the wrath of God

00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:16.179
 it's going to mean

00:30:16.179 --> 00:30:16.879
 that you sell

00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:18.159
 your excess daughters

00:30:18.159 --> 00:30:19.299
 to the temple

00:30:19.299 --> 00:30:20.279
 so they can become

00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:21.099
 prostitutes

00:30:21.099 --> 00:30:22.059
 so that when you

00:30:22.059 --> 00:30:22.960
 want to go worship

00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:23.859
 you go have sex

00:30:23.859 --> 00:30:24.519
 with these women

00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:25.759
 what does it mean

00:30:25.759 --> 00:30:26.339
 in terms of

00:30:26.339 --> 00:30:27.740
 how you view children

00:30:27.740 --> 00:30:28.480
 and family

00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:29.419
 and how does it view

00:30:29.419 --> 00:30:30.179
 the whole thing

00:30:30.179 --> 00:30:32.379
 in many of those religions

00:30:32.379 --> 00:30:33.019
 it's all about

00:30:33.019 --> 00:30:34.119
 the particular power

00:30:34.119 --> 00:30:34.919
 of the man

00:30:34.919 --> 00:30:37.980
 including being able

00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:39.339
 to exercise sexual power

00:30:39.339 --> 00:30:40.259
 there's a massive

00:30:40.259 --> 00:30:42.000
 in that particular culture

00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:42.599
 the ruler

00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:44.700
 is either a god himself

00:30:44.700 --> 00:30:46.940
 or the specific agent

00:30:46.940 --> 00:30:47.619
 of the god

00:30:47.619 --> 00:30:48.559
 and so when they're

00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:49.480
 going after these things

00:30:49.480 --> 00:30:50.799
 it's not just about

00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:52.160
 well they happen to like

00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:52.980
 I don't know

00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:54.380
 wearing these types of robes

00:30:54.380 --> 00:30:54.960
 and you like having

00:30:54.960 --> 00:30:56.859
 no there's a whole worldview

00:30:56.859 --> 00:30:57.819
 there's a whole way

00:30:57.819 --> 00:30:58.940
 of ordering culture

00:30:58.940 --> 00:30:59.839
 there's a whole way

00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:01.279
 of understanding politics

00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:02.680
 which is involved

00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:05.079
 anyway so Elijah

00:31:05.079 --> 00:31:06.640
 has this contest

00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:08.940
 he's got the attention

00:31:08.940 --> 00:31:09.460
 of the people

00:31:09.460 --> 00:31:09.920
 and the king

00:31:09.920 --> 00:31:10.880
 because he's declared

00:31:10.880 --> 00:31:11.500
 that there would be

00:31:11.500 --> 00:31:11.960
 no rain

00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:12.940
 and there was no rain

00:31:12.940 --> 00:31:15.259
 and then God tells them

00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:15.859
 it's time now

00:31:15.859 --> 00:31:16.339
 that you've got

00:31:16.339 --> 00:31:16.920
 their attention

00:31:16.920 --> 00:31:17.880
 go and challenge

00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:19.460
 the gods and goddesses

00:31:19.460 --> 00:31:20.380
 of the world

00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:21.180
 of the nation

00:31:21.180 --> 00:31:23.200
 and go and challenge them

00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:24.160
 to a contest

00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:25.779
 and here's the contest

00:31:25.779 --> 00:31:27.019
 you can have your

00:31:27.019 --> 00:31:28.019
 hundreds and hundreds

00:31:28.019 --> 00:31:29.200
 and hundreds of priests

00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:30.579
 and you make a simple

00:31:30.579 --> 00:31:31.619
 make whatever altar

00:31:31.619 --> 00:31:31.960
 you want

00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:32.900
 put wood on the altar

00:31:32.900 --> 00:31:33.619
 put a sacrifice

00:31:33.619 --> 00:31:34.359
 on the altar

00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:36.680
 I all by my little lonesome

00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:37.640
 I'm going to be over here

00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:38.619
 I'm going to make an altar

00:31:38.619 --> 00:31:40.279
 and I'm going to put wood

00:31:40.279 --> 00:31:40.599
 on it

00:31:40.599 --> 00:31:41.099
 and I'm going to put

00:31:41.099 --> 00:31:42.159
 a sacrifice on it

00:31:42.159 --> 00:31:43.059
 and the contest

00:31:43.059 --> 00:31:44.000
 is very simple

00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:45.159
 whichever god

00:31:45.159 --> 00:31:46.500
 or gods

00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:47.739
 sends the fire

00:31:47.739 --> 00:31:48.819
 that's the real one

00:31:48.819 --> 00:31:50.179
 and they agree to it

00:31:50.179 --> 00:31:51.279
 and there's hundreds

00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:52.419
 and hundreds of prophets

00:31:52.419 --> 00:31:54.039
 this is in 1 Kings chapter 8

00:31:54.039 --> 00:31:55.339
 and they make

00:31:55.339 --> 00:31:56.379
 their elaborate altar

00:31:56.379 --> 00:31:57.479
 they put their sacrifice

00:31:57.479 --> 00:31:58.359
 they put their wood

00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:00.039
 they do their whole spectacle

00:32:00.039 --> 00:32:00.939
 it would be

00:32:00.939 --> 00:32:01.939
 the sort of thing

00:32:01.939 --> 00:32:02.679
 you know

00:32:02.679 --> 00:32:03.000
 listen

00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:04.000
 the YouTube video

00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:04.960
 would be on theirs

00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:06.140
 not Elijah

00:32:06.140 --> 00:32:07.279
 just by himself

00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.599
 unless he did

00:32:08.599 --> 00:32:09.259
 at the end

00:32:09.259 --> 00:32:10.160
 it would all be on Elijah

00:32:10.160 --> 00:32:10.700
 they'd been wishing

00:32:10.700 --> 00:32:11.380
 they'd film it

00:32:11.380 --> 00:32:12.559
 but you know

00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:12.859
 they have

00:32:12.859 --> 00:32:13.220
 and then

00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:14.400
 Elijah had

00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.720
 Elijah was

00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:18.720
 ornery

00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:23.460
 so by the end of the day

00:32:23.460 --> 00:32:25.420
 the gods and goddesses

00:32:25.420 --> 00:32:26.480
 aren't setting the fire

00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:26.940
 he sort of said

00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:27.440
 ah you know

00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:28.640
 maybe your gods and goddesses

00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:29.579
 are all off in the bathroom

00:32:29.579 --> 00:32:31.400
 and you just need to

00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:32.339
 be a bit louder

00:32:32.339 --> 00:32:32.959
 or something

00:32:32.959 --> 00:32:34.099
 they're having a snooze

00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:34.740
 come on

00:32:34.740 --> 00:32:35.379
 wake them up

00:32:35.379 --> 00:32:35.919
 maybe they'll come

00:32:35.919 --> 00:32:36.639
 and send the fire

00:32:36.639 --> 00:32:37.480
 nothing happens

00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:37.919
 nothing happens

00:32:37.919 --> 00:32:38.480
 nothing happens

00:32:38.480 --> 00:32:39.579
 here's the point

00:32:39.579 --> 00:32:40.159
 of the analogy

00:32:40.159 --> 00:32:41.500
 so what does Elijah do

00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:41.759
 he says

00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:42.839
 okay now it's my turn

00:32:42.839 --> 00:32:43.980
 he takes a very very

00:32:43.980 --> 00:32:45.099
 simple set of rocks

00:32:45.099 --> 00:32:46.019
 he takes the wood

00:32:46.019 --> 00:32:47.099
 he has them dig

00:32:47.099 --> 00:32:48.179
 a big trench around it

00:32:48.179 --> 00:32:49.119
 he puts the sacrifice

00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:49.980
 on top of it

00:32:49.980 --> 00:32:50.939
 and then he starts saying

00:32:50.939 --> 00:32:53.019
 pour water on the wood

00:32:53.019 --> 00:32:54.519
 and then pour more water

00:32:54.519 --> 00:32:55.059
 on the wood

00:32:55.059 --> 00:32:56.279
 and pour more water

00:32:56.279 --> 00:32:57.059
 on the wood

00:32:57.059 --> 00:32:58.279
 and then he calls out

00:32:58.279 --> 00:32:58.740
 to God

00:32:58.740 --> 00:32:59.919
 God I know you hear me

00:32:59.919 --> 00:33:01.099
 and God sends fire

00:33:01.099 --> 00:33:02.579
 and consumes the wood

00:33:02.579 --> 00:33:03.419
 and the sacrifice

00:33:03.419 --> 00:33:05.299
 now here's the point

00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:05.859
 of this analogy

00:33:05.859 --> 00:33:06.839
 if you go camping

00:33:06.839 --> 00:33:07.619
 later on

00:33:07.619 --> 00:33:09.019
 next spring

00:33:09.019 --> 00:33:10.079
 or maybe even now

00:33:10.079 --> 00:33:11.579
 and if you maybe have it

00:33:11.579 --> 00:33:12.899
 that you know

00:33:12.899 --> 00:33:13.559
 your wife says

00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:14.659
 I'm going to get this set up

00:33:14.659 --> 00:33:16.019
 you know hubby

00:33:16.019 --> 00:33:16.659
 why don't you

00:33:16.659 --> 00:33:18.559
 get the fire going

00:33:18.559 --> 00:33:19.199
 and you know

00:33:19.199 --> 00:33:20.159
 get the meat cooking

00:33:20.159 --> 00:33:22.779
 or the tofu frying

00:33:22.779 --> 00:33:23.939
 or whatever

00:33:23.939 --> 00:33:26.159
 and I always want to be sensitive

00:33:26.159 --> 00:33:27.699
 to my vegetarian friends

00:33:27.700 --> 00:33:30.380
 and then

00:33:30.380 --> 00:33:30.700
 you know

00:33:30.700 --> 00:33:31.700
 the wife turns around

00:33:31.700 --> 00:33:33.120
 and you put the wood

00:33:33.120 --> 00:33:33.620
 you know

00:33:33.620 --> 00:33:34.759
 you made a nice big pile of wood

00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:35.779
 oh it's going really well

00:33:35.779 --> 00:33:36.500
 and then the next thing

00:33:36.500 --> 00:33:37.799
 she sees is you pouring water

00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:38.400
 on the wood

00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:39.640
 she'd say

00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:41.220
 time out hubby

00:33:41.220 --> 00:33:43.580
 you really are clueless

00:33:43.580 --> 00:33:44.539
 maybe she'd say

00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:45.440
 something stronger

00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:47.759
 that's not how you make a fire

00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:49.500
 pouring wood on it

00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:50.960
 that's the wrong way

00:33:50.960 --> 00:33:51.680
 to do it

00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:52.080
 okay

00:33:52.080 --> 00:33:52.980
 so what it is

00:33:52.980 --> 00:33:53.400
 in other words

00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:54.700
 God giving this story

00:33:54.700 --> 00:33:55.440
 in 1 Kings 8

00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:55.840
 of something

00:33:55.840 --> 00:33:56.480
 which doesn't make

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:57.660
 any natural sense

00:33:57.660 --> 00:33:59.980
 and in some ways

00:33:59.980 --> 00:34:00.840
 all means of grace

00:34:00.840 --> 00:34:01.580
 are like this

00:34:01.580 --> 00:34:03.940
 okay

00:34:03.940 --> 00:34:05.460
 God

00:34:05.460 --> 00:34:06.140
 okay

00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:06.500
 God

00:34:06.500 --> 00:34:07.980
 you're telling me

00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:08.800
 that if I go into

00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:09.980
 these types of conflicts

00:34:09.980 --> 00:34:11.039
 I've got to put on

00:34:11.039 --> 00:34:12.360
 patience

00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:13.079
 meekness

00:34:13.079 --> 00:34:13.800
 compassion

00:34:13.800 --> 00:34:14.519
 humility

00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:15.500
 and forgiveness

00:34:15.500 --> 00:34:18.559
 we laugh

00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:20.059
 that we wouldn't even

00:34:20.059 --> 00:34:20.539
 think about it

00:34:20.539 --> 00:34:20.880
 because we just

00:34:20.880 --> 00:34:21.440
 plunge in

00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:21.679
 right

00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:22.920
 you know

00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:23.820
 we plunge in

00:34:23.820 --> 00:34:24.519
 Bible down

00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:25.200
 fists up

00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:28.079
 that's how we live

00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:29.879
 literally

00:34:29.879 --> 00:34:30.939
 our flesh

00:34:30.939 --> 00:34:31.719
 says George

00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:32.619
 our flesh

00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:33.339
 without even thinking

00:34:33.339 --> 00:34:33.679
 about it

00:34:33.679 --> 00:34:34.460
 Bible's down

00:34:34.460 --> 00:34:36.259
 Bible's closed

00:34:36.259 --> 00:34:37.500
 fists up

00:34:37.500 --> 00:34:41.939
 and we need to

00:34:41.939 --> 00:34:42.359
 understand

00:34:42.359 --> 00:34:43.099
 that at the heart

00:34:43.099 --> 00:34:43.839
 of all the means

00:34:43.839 --> 00:34:44.399
 of grace

00:34:44.399 --> 00:34:45.839
 is this sense

00:34:45.839 --> 00:34:47.559
 that we are

00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:48.159
 to put ourselves

00:34:48.159 --> 00:34:48.859
 in a posture

00:34:48.859 --> 00:34:49.460
 of humility

00:34:49.460 --> 00:34:50.019
 and obedience

00:34:50.019 --> 00:34:50.980
 before God

00:34:50.980 --> 00:34:52.339
 to do what only

00:34:52.339 --> 00:34:52.679
 God

00:34:52.679 --> 00:34:53.659
 so that God

00:34:53.659 --> 00:34:54.039
 can do

00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:54.679
 what only God

00:34:54.679 --> 00:34:55.179
 can do

00:34:55.179 --> 00:34:58.659
 always remembering

00:34:58.659 --> 00:34:59.159
 that he does

00:34:59.159 --> 00:34:59.839
 on one level

00:34:59.839 --> 00:35:00.819
 care about

00:35:00.819 --> 00:35:01.359
 what goes on

00:35:01.359 --> 00:35:01.819
 in the earth

00:35:01.819 --> 00:35:04.259
 but he

00:35:04.259 --> 00:35:05.019
 doesn't have to

00:35:05.019 --> 00:35:05.159
 just

00:35:05.159 --> 00:35:05.500
 he can

00:35:05.500 --> 00:35:06.319
 work on

00:35:06.319 --> 00:35:07.039
 lots of levels

00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:08.059
 at the same time

00:35:08.059 --> 00:35:09.599
 in fact

00:35:09.599 --> 00:35:10.359
 not only can he

00:35:10.359 --> 00:35:11.199
 that's what he does

00:35:11.199 --> 00:35:14.139
 we'll go to heaven

00:35:14.139 --> 00:35:14.739
 and the new heaven

00:35:14.739 --> 00:35:15.239
 and the new earth

00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:15.839
 we will just

00:35:15.839 --> 00:35:16.899
 one of the things

00:35:16.899 --> 00:35:17.339
 I think

00:35:17.339 --> 00:35:18.259
 he'll maybe do

00:35:18.259 --> 00:35:18.940
 is he'll show

00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:19.379
 the whole

00:35:19.379 --> 00:35:20.279
 of human history

00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.019
 and we can

00:35:22.019 --> 00:35:22.600
 hardly keep

00:35:22.600 --> 00:35:23.280
 more than

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:23.760
 one or two

00:35:23.760 --> 00:35:24.400
 things going

00:35:24.400 --> 00:35:24.900
 at the same

00:35:24.900 --> 00:35:25.200
 time

00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:25.660
 but he can

00:35:25.660 --> 00:35:26.260
 keep billions

00:35:26.260 --> 00:35:26.740
 of things

00:35:26.740 --> 00:35:27.120
 going on

00:35:27.120 --> 00:35:27.440
 the same

00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:27.700
 time

00:35:27.700 --> 00:35:28.100
 and he can

00:35:28.100 --> 00:35:28.740
 at one level

00:35:28.740 --> 00:35:29.380
 be working

00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:30.700
 in such a way

00:35:30.700 --> 00:35:31.320
 that George

00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:32.080
 will turn into

00:35:32.080 --> 00:35:32.620
 a being

00:35:32.620 --> 00:35:33.480
 that can be

00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:34.100
 fit for heaven

00:35:34.100 --> 00:35:34.640
 at the same

00:35:34.640 --> 00:35:35.260
 time he can

00:35:35.260 --> 00:35:35.680
 be working

00:35:35.680 --> 00:35:36.080
 in a way

00:35:36.080 --> 00:35:36.620
 that cares

00:35:36.620 --> 00:35:37.220
 for the earth

00:35:37.220 --> 00:35:37.600
 and cares

00:35:37.600 --> 00:35:38.420
 for the politics

00:35:38.420 --> 00:35:39.900
 cares for the economy

00:35:39.900 --> 00:35:41.340
 cares for others

00:35:41.340 --> 00:35:45.960
 and so in this

00:35:45.960 --> 00:35:46.940
 particular thing

00:35:46.940 --> 00:35:48.300
 given your destiny

00:35:48.300 --> 00:35:48.800
 in Christ

00:35:48.800 --> 00:35:49.480
 put on the

00:35:49.480 --> 00:35:50.400
 biblical virtues

00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:51.660
 that's verse 12

00:35:51.660 --> 00:35:52.860
 put on then

00:35:52.860 --> 00:35:53.900
 as God's chosen

00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:54.200
 one

00:35:54.200 --> 00:35:55.220
 holy and beloved

00:35:55.220 --> 00:35:57.019
 compassionate hearts

00:35:57.019 --> 00:35:59.840
 and if you're

00:35:59.840 --> 00:36:00.840
 at all visual

00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:01.780
 I meant to do

00:36:01.780 --> 00:36:02.579
 this and I forgot

00:36:02.579 --> 00:36:04.700
 I mean it might

00:36:04.700 --> 00:36:05.340
 literally be

00:36:05.340 --> 00:36:05.860
 because remember

00:36:05.860 --> 00:36:06.539
 you begin with

00:36:06.539 --> 00:36:07.100
 who's going to

00:36:07.100 --> 00:36:07.539
 grow me

00:36:07.539 --> 00:36:08.559
 where do I

00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:09.720
 set my mind

00:36:09.720 --> 00:36:10.620
 put off

00:36:10.619 --> 00:36:11.599
 put on

00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:12.579
 let

00:36:12.579 --> 00:36:13.219
 and do

00:36:13.219 --> 00:36:13.719
 and here we're

00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:14.279
 just focusing

00:36:14.279 --> 00:36:15.299
 on the put on

00:36:15.299 --> 00:36:15.619
 part

00:36:15.619 --> 00:36:16.400
 because all six

00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:17.139
 of those aspects

00:36:17.139 --> 00:36:17.880
 are very very

00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:18.420
 important

00:36:18.420 --> 00:36:19.619
 and it might be

00:36:19.619 --> 00:36:20.199
 how we begin

00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:20.500
 the day

00:36:20.500 --> 00:36:21.079
 it might be

00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:22.000
 that you

00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:22.799
 you ask the

00:36:22.799 --> 00:36:23.319
 Lord to help

00:36:23.319 --> 00:36:23.839
 you to remember

00:36:23.839 --> 00:36:24.519
 before that

00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:25.199
 phone call

00:36:25.199 --> 00:36:26.440
 that you just

00:36:26.440 --> 00:36:27.000
 pause

00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.039
 and pray

00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:29.659
 through these

00:36:29.659 --> 00:36:30.500
 types of things

00:36:30.500 --> 00:36:31.559
 and realize

00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:32.400
 okay Lord

00:36:32.400 --> 00:36:33.719
 I got to take

00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:34.400
 off this

00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:35.380
 rivalry shirt

00:36:35.380 --> 00:36:36.659
 I've got to

00:36:36.659 --> 00:36:37.839
 keep off this

00:36:37.839 --> 00:36:38.619
 that I always

00:36:38.619 --> 00:36:39.259
 have to win

00:36:39.260 --> 00:36:40.200
 I have to

00:36:40.200 --> 00:36:40.860
 take off

00:36:40.860 --> 00:36:42.760
 this layer

00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:43.340
 of clothing

00:36:43.340 --> 00:36:44.180
 that's connected

00:36:44.180 --> 00:36:44.800
 to anger

00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:45.660
 I need to

00:36:45.660 --> 00:36:46.080
 take off

00:36:46.080 --> 00:36:46.660
 this layer

00:36:46.660 --> 00:36:47.220
 of clothing

00:36:47.220 --> 00:36:47.780
 which is

00:36:47.780 --> 00:36:49.100
 composed of

00:36:49.100 --> 00:36:50.180
 being able

00:36:50.180 --> 00:36:50.720
 to use my

00:36:50.720 --> 00:36:51.460
 tongue to

00:36:51.460 --> 00:36:52.340
 abuse and to

00:36:52.340 --> 00:36:52.520
 win

00:36:52.520 --> 00:36:52.920
 I need to

00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:53.340
 take that

00:36:53.340 --> 00:36:53.720
 off

00:36:53.720 --> 00:36:55.660
 and now I

00:36:55.660 --> 00:36:56.260
 need to put

00:36:56.260 --> 00:36:56.800
 some of these

00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:57.280
 things on

00:36:57.280 --> 00:36:57.740
 and the first

00:36:57.740 --> 00:36:58.160
 thing I need

00:36:58.160 --> 00:36:58.580
 to put on

00:36:58.580 --> 00:36:59.600
 is compassion

00:36:59.600 --> 00:37:01.640
 and it might

00:37:01.640 --> 00:37:02.180
 even just help

00:37:02.180 --> 00:37:02.500
 you if you

00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:02.820
 even just

00:37:02.820 --> 00:37:03.460
 imagine that

00:37:03.460 --> 00:37:03.860
 those are

00:37:03.860 --> 00:37:04.720
 clothing

00:37:04.720 --> 00:37:05.340
 and if you

00:37:05.340 --> 00:37:06.320
 are very good

00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:06.820
 at visuals

00:37:06.820 --> 00:37:07.640
 and some of you

00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:08.279
 are you can

00:37:08.279 --> 00:37:08.839
 just imagine

00:37:08.839 --> 00:37:09.579
 how rank

00:37:09.579 --> 00:37:10.159
 it is

00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:10.579
 it looks

00:37:10.579 --> 00:37:11.199
 shiny but

00:37:11.199 --> 00:37:11.699
 it's in fact

00:37:11.699 --> 00:37:13.079
 filthy and

00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:14.179
 foul and

00:37:14.179 --> 00:37:14.779
 you're taking

00:37:14.779 --> 00:37:15.339
 it off and

00:37:15.339 --> 00:37:16.059
 you just dump

00:37:16.059 --> 00:37:17.039
 it and then

00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:17.659
 you're reaching

00:37:17.659 --> 00:37:18.359
 over maybe

00:37:18.359 --> 00:37:18.960
 imagine your

00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:19.460
 Bible on a

00:37:19.460 --> 00:37:19.739
 table like

00:37:19.739 --> 00:37:20.059
 this and

00:37:20.059 --> 00:37:20.859
 you put on

00:37:20.859 --> 00:37:22.579
 compassion

00:37:22.579 --> 00:37:24.980
 and you put

00:37:24.980 --> 00:37:25.819
 on kindness

00:37:25.819 --> 00:37:27.239
 and you put

00:37:27.239 --> 00:37:27.920
 on humility

00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:29.480
 I think we

00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:29.879
 all have a

00:37:29.879 --> 00:37:30.199
 pretty good

00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:30.639
 idea about

00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:31.219
 what kindness

00:37:31.219 --> 00:37:32.019
 and compassion

00:37:32.019 --> 00:37:33.139
 are by the

00:37:33.139 --> 00:37:33.859
 way compassion

00:37:33.859 --> 00:37:34.480
 and kindness

00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:34.980
 you're not

00:37:34.980 --> 00:37:35.819
 kind towards

00:37:35.819 --> 00:37:36.719
 evil you're

00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:37.619
 kind towards

00:37:37.619 --> 00:37:38.099
 people

00:37:38.099 --> 00:37:39.919
 you're not

00:37:39.919 --> 00:37:40.719
 compassionate

00:37:40.719 --> 00:37:42.019
 towards evil

00:37:42.019 --> 00:37:43.239
 you're compassionate

00:37:43.239 --> 00:37:44.459
 towards people

00:37:44.459 --> 00:37:46.419
 if you start

00:37:46.419 --> 00:37:46.939
 to become

00:37:46.939 --> 00:37:48.359
 kind to evil

00:37:48.359 --> 00:37:50.219
 you are moving

00:37:50.219 --> 00:37:51.059
 in a demonic

00:37:51.059 --> 00:37:51.980
 direction

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:53.679
 if you show

00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:54.399
 compassion

00:37:54.399 --> 00:37:55.339
 to evil

00:37:55.339 --> 00:37:56.219
 you are moving

00:37:56.219 --> 00:37:57.159
 in a demonic

00:37:57.159 --> 00:37:58.159
 direction

00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:01.239
 but you show

00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:01.959
 compassion

00:38:01.959 --> 00:38:02.619
 and kindness

00:38:02.619 --> 00:38:03.399
 to people

00:38:03.400 --> 00:38:07.480
 and humility

00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:08.840
 very briefly

00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:09.660
 you see all

00:38:09.660 --> 00:38:10.160
 of these things

00:38:10.160 --> 00:38:10.619
 you could do

00:38:10.619 --> 00:38:11.800
 a whole sermon

00:38:11.800 --> 00:38:12.440
 on each one

00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:12.660
 of them

00:38:12.660 --> 00:38:13.220
 but humility

00:38:13.220 --> 00:38:13.980
 is fundamentally

00:38:13.980 --> 00:38:14.880
 several types

00:38:14.880 --> 00:38:15.400
 of things

00:38:15.400 --> 00:38:16.619
 if you think

00:38:16.619 --> 00:38:17.260
 of the natural

00:38:17.260 --> 00:38:18.039
 tendency of every

00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:18.519
 human being

00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:19.019
 is to become

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:19.619
 like a black

00:38:19.619 --> 00:38:20.019
 hole

00:38:20.019 --> 00:38:22.139
 to suck in

00:38:22.139 --> 00:38:22.519
 everything

00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:23.340
 into themselves

00:38:23.340 --> 00:38:24.800
 and humility

00:38:24.800 --> 00:38:25.820
 is that ability

00:38:25.820 --> 00:38:26.700
 that virtue

00:38:26.700 --> 00:38:27.360
 where you start

00:38:27.360 --> 00:38:27.880
 to look to

00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:28.280
 the other

00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:29.780
 and we all

00:38:29.780 --> 00:38:30.360
 know that in

00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:30.940
 many ways

00:38:30.940 --> 00:38:31.599
 we are most

00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:32.240
 ourselves

00:38:32.239 --> 00:38:32.979
 and we don't

00:38:32.979 --> 00:38:33.519
 look within

00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:34.359
 but look without

00:38:34.359 --> 00:38:36.439
 if you've ever

00:38:36.439 --> 00:38:37.199
 if some of you

00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:37.859
 who dance

00:38:37.859 --> 00:38:38.519
 when you lose

00:38:38.519 --> 00:38:39.199
 yourself in the

00:38:39.199 --> 00:38:39.679
 dance

00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:41.039
 in some ways

00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:41.459
 you become

00:38:41.459 --> 00:38:42.219
 most yourself

00:38:42.219 --> 00:38:43.119
 for those of you

00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:43.559
 who are really

00:38:43.559 --> 00:38:44.439
 brilliant at art

00:38:44.439 --> 00:38:45.139
 in some ways

00:38:45.139 --> 00:38:45.739
 when you lose

00:38:45.739 --> 00:38:46.519
 yourself to the

00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:47.179
 writing or the

00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:48.019
 creativity

00:38:48.019 --> 00:38:49.459
 you become

00:38:49.459 --> 00:38:50.159
 most yourself

00:38:50.159 --> 00:38:51.159
 in friendship

00:38:51.159 --> 00:38:52.019
 when you're most

00:38:52.019 --> 00:38:52.739
 enjoying your

00:38:52.739 --> 00:38:53.099
 friend

00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:53.759
 in some ways

00:38:53.759 --> 00:38:54.199
 you're most

00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:54.619
 yourself

00:38:54.619 --> 00:38:55.559
 in love

00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:56.219
 when you are

00:38:56.219 --> 00:38:56.759
 in most

00:38:56.759 --> 00:38:58.079
 completely and

00:38:58.079 --> 00:38:58.979
 utterly enamored

00:38:58.979 --> 00:38:59.579
 with the other

00:38:59.579 --> 00:39:00.339
 in many ways

00:39:00.339 --> 00:39:00.899
 you are most

00:39:00.899 --> 00:39:01.559
 yourself

00:39:01.559 --> 00:39:03.039
 and that is

00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:03.320
 the heart

00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:03.900
 of humility

00:39:03.900 --> 00:39:06.079
 and the next

00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:06.860
 one is meekness

00:39:06.860 --> 00:39:07.440
 or sometimes

00:39:07.440 --> 00:39:08.119
 gentleness

00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:09.400
 and if we

00:39:09.400 --> 00:39:09.799
 think about

00:39:09.799 --> 00:39:10.099
 this

00:39:10.099 --> 00:39:10.880
 meekness

00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:11.299
 is not

00:39:11.299 --> 00:39:11.860
 weakness

00:39:11.860 --> 00:39:13.279
 now I know

00:39:13.279 --> 00:39:13.719
 there's a whole

00:39:13.719 --> 00:39:14.219
 range of

00:39:14.219 --> 00:39:15.880
 superhero things

00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:16.239
 that are going

00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:16.659
 on in the world

00:39:16.659 --> 00:39:17.000
 right now

00:39:17.000 --> 00:39:17.360
 but if you

00:39:17.360 --> 00:39:18.039
 think about it

00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:18.539
 at the

00:39:18.539 --> 00:39:19.000
 traditional

00:39:19.000 --> 00:39:19.679
 superheroes

00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:20.299
 at the best

00:39:20.299 --> 00:39:20.900
 all of them

00:39:20.900 --> 00:39:21.460
 are meek

00:39:21.460 --> 00:39:23.019
 because in

00:39:23.019 --> 00:39:23.460
 all of them

00:39:23.460 --> 00:39:23.880
 whether you

00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:24.179
 think of

00:39:24.179 --> 00:39:24.639
 somebody like

00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:25.420
 spider-man

00:39:25.420 --> 00:39:27.019
 or batman

00:39:27.019 --> 00:39:27.420
 or whatever

00:39:27.420 --> 00:39:28.559
 it might be

00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:29.220
 spider-man

00:39:29.220 --> 00:39:30.820
 the child

00:39:30.820 --> 00:39:31.659
 is falling

00:39:31.659 --> 00:39:33.740
 from a ledge

00:39:33.740 --> 00:39:34.800
 and what is

00:39:34.800 --> 00:39:36.220
 the meekness

00:39:36.220 --> 00:39:37.019
 of spider-man

00:39:37.019 --> 00:39:37.639
 not saying

00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:38.240
 well it sucks

00:39:38.240 --> 00:39:38.920
 to be you

00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:41.820
 or making

00:39:41.820 --> 00:39:42.800
 a really hard

00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:43.280
 landing

00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:44.000
 that actually

00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:44.680
 does almost

00:39:44.680 --> 00:39:45.119
 as much

00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:45.820
 damage to

00:39:45.820 --> 00:39:46.340
 the child

00:39:46.340 --> 00:39:46.780
 as if he

00:39:46.780 --> 00:39:47.119
 just let

00:39:47.119 --> 00:39:47.599
 him fall

00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:48.000
 no

00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:49.000
 how does

00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:49.860
 television

00:39:49.860 --> 00:39:50.659
 present it

00:39:50.659 --> 00:39:51.940
 that in a

00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:52.200
 sense

00:39:52.200 --> 00:39:53.039
 spider-man

00:39:53.039 --> 00:39:53.559
 or whatever

00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:54.619
 catches the

00:39:54.619 --> 00:39:55.420
 child in

00:39:55.420 --> 00:39:56.319
 such a way

00:39:56.319 --> 00:39:57.019
 as it is

00:39:57.019 --> 00:39:57.880
 as if gentle

00:39:57.880 --> 00:39:59.039
 hands slowly

00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:00.239
 stop the

00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:00.799
 child from

00:40:00.799 --> 00:40:01.460
 falling so

00:40:01.460 --> 00:40:02.139
 there's absolutely

00:40:02.139 --> 00:40:03.119
 no harm done

00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:03.859
 to the child

00:40:03.859 --> 00:40:06.539
 and that's

00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:07.079
 the spirit

00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:08.179
 of meekness

00:40:08.179 --> 00:40:10.119
 it goes

00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:11.079
 with strength

00:40:11.079 --> 00:40:13.159
 it's using

00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:14.259
 your strength

00:40:14.259 --> 00:40:16.420
 to not

00:40:16.420 --> 00:40:16.920
 needlessly

00:40:16.920 --> 00:40:17.519
 hurt the

00:40:17.519 --> 00:40:18.119
 person

00:40:18.119 --> 00:40:20.519
 in fact

00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:21.380
 the more

00:40:21.380 --> 00:40:21.759
 we grow

00:40:21.759 --> 00:40:22.359
 in humility

00:40:22.359 --> 00:40:23.139
 and meekness

00:40:23.139 --> 00:40:23.699
 and all of

00:40:23.699 --> 00:40:24.139
 these are

00:40:24.139 --> 00:40:24.839
 fitting us

00:40:24.839 --> 00:40:25.619
 to be with

00:40:25.619 --> 00:40:26.059
 God

00:40:26.059 --> 00:40:26.739
 from all

00:40:26.739 --> 00:40:27.319
 eternity

00:40:27.319 --> 00:40:28.759
 the easier

00:40:28.759 --> 00:40:29.179
 it is

00:40:29.179 --> 00:40:29.960
 to stand

00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:31.659
 to tyrants

00:40:31.659 --> 00:40:33.699
 and refuse

00:40:33.699 --> 00:40:35.980
 their claims

00:40:35.980 --> 00:40:39.960
 because it's

00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:40.539
 all part

00:40:40.539 --> 00:40:40.819
 of a

00:40:40.819 --> 00:40:41.920
 all part

00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:43.119
 of a

00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:43.539
 process

00:40:43.539 --> 00:40:44.420
 by which

00:40:44.420 --> 00:40:45.639
 we set

00:40:45.639 --> 00:40:46.059
 our minds

00:40:46.059 --> 00:40:46.699
 on Christ

00:40:46.699 --> 00:40:47.339
 and understand

00:40:47.339 --> 00:40:48.000
 Christ is

00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:48.299
 the hope

00:40:48.299 --> 00:40:48.879
 of glory

00:40:48.879 --> 00:40:52.359
 forgiving

00:40:52.359 --> 00:40:52.980
 each other

00:40:52.980 --> 00:40:53.559
 I've talked

00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:54.199
 bearing

00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:55.880
 with one

00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:56.179
 another

00:40:56.179 --> 00:40:56.820
 that actually

00:40:56.820 --> 00:40:57.139
 is one

00:40:57.139 --> 00:40:57.460
 that if you

00:40:57.460 --> 00:40:57.719
 understood

00:40:57.719 --> 00:40:58.179
 the image

00:40:58.179 --> 00:40:58.500
 you'd see

00:40:58.500 --> 00:40:58.820
 it as a

00:40:58.820 --> 00:40:59.340
 good thing

00:40:59.340 --> 00:41:00.719
 in a sense

00:41:00.719 --> 00:41:01.259
 the underlying

00:41:01.259 --> 00:41:01.840
 image of

00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:02.239
 bearing up

00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:02.920
 we've all

00:41:02.920 --> 00:41:03.779
 been in

00:41:03.779 --> 00:41:04.759
 situations

00:41:04.759 --> 00:41:05.500
 where everything

00:41:05.500 --> 00:41:06.079
 seems to be

00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:06.579
 falling apart

00:41:06.579 --> 00:41:07.159
 maybe it's an

00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:07.539
 office

00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:09.019
 your whole

00:41:09.019 --> 00:41:09.659
 office seems

00:41:09.659 --> 00:41:10.079
 to be in

00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:10.559
 conflict

00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:11.000
 and in

00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:11.559
 crisis

00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:12.659
 or your

00:41:12.659 --> 00:41:13.420
 family's all

00:41:13.420 --> 00:41:14.000
 in conflict

00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:14.539
 and crisis

00:41:14.539 --> 00:41:14.980
 and there's

00:41:14.980 --> 00:41:15.679
 one person

00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:16.480
 bearing up

00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:17.179
 under it

00:41:17.179 --> 00:41:17.920
 in a sense

00:41:17.920 --> 00:41:18.480
 it's the one

00:41:18.480 --> 00:41:19.079
 person who's a

00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:19.619
 bit of a voice

00:41:19.619 --> 00:41:20.299
 of sanity

00:41:20.299 --> 00:41:21.440
 and balance

00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:22.039
 while everything

00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:22.659
 seems to be

00:41:22.659 --> 00:41:23.039
 falling up

00:41:23.039 --> 00:41:23.460
 that's the

00:41:23.460 --> 00:41:24.860
 image there

00:41:24.860 --> 00:41:25.980
 to bear up

00:41:25.980 --> 00:41:26.780
 under the

00:41:26.780 --> 00:41:27.280
 conflict

00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:27.679
 which is

00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:28.139
 going on

00:41:28.139 --> 00:41:28.500
 so that

00:41:28.500 --> 00:41:28.720
 there's

00:41:28.720 --> 00:41:29.099
 in a sense

00:41:29.099 --> 00:41:29.599
 some type

00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:29.940
 of hope

00:41:29.940 --> 00:41:30.420
 for something

00:41:30.420 --> 00:41:31.179
 to be rebuilt

00:41:31.179 --> 00:41:32.519
 and then

00:41:32.519 --> 00:41:33.280
 when it says

00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:34.860
 I think we

00:41:34.860 --> 00:41:35.400
 understand a bit

00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:36.000
 patience

00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:38.500
 and forgiving

00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:39.780
 forgiving doesn't

00:41:39.780 --> 00:41:40.380
 mean forgetting

00:41:40.380 --> 00:41:41.000
 it doesn't mean

00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:41.340
 that you give

00:41:41.340 --> 00:41:42.159
 a past evil

00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:42.960
 but it's

00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:44.059
 one of those

00:41:44.059 --> 00:41:44.500
 things

00:41:44.500 --> 00:41:46.260
 unless you learn

00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:46.900
 to forgive

00:41:46.900 --> 00:41:47.700
 the wrong

00:41:47.700 --> 00:41:48.099
 that's been

00:41:48.099 --> 00:41:48.639
 done to you

00:41:48.639 --> 00:41:49.300
 will continue

00:41:49.300 --> 00:41:49.940
 to eat away

00:41:49.940 --> 00:41:50.360
 at you

00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:50.820
 and eat away

00:41:50.820 --> 00:41:51.200
 at you

00:41:51.200 --> 00:41:51.720
 and eat away

00:41:51.720 --> 00:41:52.079
 at you

00:41:52.079 --> 00:41:52.599
 and eat away

00:41:52.599 --> 00:41:53.000
 with you

00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:53.539
 and destroy

00:41:53.539 --> 00:41:53.920
 you

00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:57.039
 and then

00:41:57.039 --> 00:41:57.800
 all of these

00:41:57.800 --> 00:41:58.119
 things

00:41:58.119 --> 00:41:58.840
 love is the

00:41:58.840 --> 00:41:59.599
 center of all

00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:00.000
 of these

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:00.340
 things

00:42:00.340 --> 00:42:00.880
 a word

00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:01.300
 which was

00:42:01.300 --> 00:42:01.900
 basically

00:42:01.900 --> 00:42:03.360
 popularized

00:42:03.360 --> 00:42:03.980
 by Christians

00:42:03.980 --> 00:42:04.760
 it was popular

00:42:04.760 --> 00:42:05.340
 in Greek

00:42:05.340 --> 00:42:05.800
 literature

00:42:05.800 --> 00:42:07.240
 but not

00:42:07.240 --> 00:42:07.500
 popular

00:42:07.500 --> 00:42:08.200
 it was present

00:42:08.200 --> 00:42:08.880
 as a word

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:09.340
 in Greek

00:42:09.340 --> 00:42:10.019
 but basically

00:42:10.019 --> 00:42:10.679
 unused

00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:11.940
 it's that

00:42:11.940 --> 00:42:12.519
 complete

00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:13.079
 and utter

00:42:13.079 --> 00:42:14.139
 self-giving

00:42:14.139 --> 00:42:15.579
 for the benefit

00:42:15.579 --> 00:42:16.159
 of the other

00:42:16.159 --> 00:42:18.500
 it's in a sense

00:42:18.500 --> 00:42:19.179
 a passion

00:42:19.179 --> 00:42:20.079
 for self-giving

00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:20.639
 for the benefit

00:42:20.639 --> 00:42:21.159
 of the other

00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:23.299
 and in all

00:42:23.299 --> 00:42:24.059
 of these cases

00:42:24.059 --> 00:42:25.339
 there's never

00:42:25.339 --> 00:42:26.059
 a compromise

00:42:26.059 --> 00:42:26.980
 with evil

00:42:26.980 --> 00:42:29.239
 there's never

00:42:29.239 --> 00:42:29.940
 a compromise

00:42:29.940 --> 00:42:31.000
 with injustice

00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:32.719
 there's never

00:42:32.719 --> 00:42:33.480
 a compromise

00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:34.940
 with hatred

00:42:34.940 --> 00:42:38.059
 but it's a very

00:42:38.059 --> 00:42:38.559
 very different

00:42:38.559 --> 00:42:38.960
 way

00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:40.139
 of entering

00:42:40.139 --> 00:42:41.059
 into relationships

00:42:41.059 --> 00:42:42.019
 and trying to

00:42:42.019 --> 00:42:42.639
 deal with it

00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:43.559
 for the good

00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:44.339
 of the person

00:42:44.339 --> 00:42:45.639
 because

00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:46.599
 and here we'll end

00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:47.559
 God takes no

00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:48.219
 delight in the

00:42:48.219 --> 00:42:48.879
 death of a sinner

00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:49.360
 but rather

00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:49.880
 that they will

00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:50.360
 turn from

00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:51.000
 their wickedness

00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:51.400
 and live

00:42:51.400 --> 00:42:52.660
 said three times

00:42:52.660 --> 00:42:53.880
 basically the same

00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:54.360
 way in the book

00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:55.360
 of Ezekiel

00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:56.240
 it's one of the

00:42:56.240 --> 00:42:57.380
 heart of Anglican

00:42:57.380 --> 00:42:57.960
 spirituality

00:42:57.960 --> 00:42:58.980
 is found in

00:42:58.980 --> 00:42:59.579
 the book of

00:42:59.579 --> 00:43:00.619
 common prayer

00:43:00.619 --> 00:43:01.380
 for morning prayer

00:43:01.380 --> 00:43:02.160
 and evening prayer

00:43:02.160 --> 00:43:02.940
 that God takes

00:43:02.940 --> 00:43:03.660
 no delight

00:43:03.660 --> 00:43:04.160
 in the death

00:43:04.160 --> 00:43:04.680
 of a sinner

00:43:04.680 --> 00:43:05.660
 but rather

00:43:05.660 --> 00:43:06.160
 that they will

00:43:06.160 --> 00:43:06.660
 turn from

00:43:06.660 --> 00:43:07.280
 their wickedness

00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:07.720
 and live

00:43:07.720 --> 00:43:09.240
 it's not so much

00:43:09.240 --> 00:43:09.720
 that we win

00:43:09.720 --> 00:43:10.180
 arguments

00:43:10.180 --> 00:43:10.700
 but that we

00:43:10.700 --> 00:43:11.360
 win people

00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:12.380
 and it's not

00:43:12.380 --> 00:43:12.800
 so much

00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:13.220
 that we win

00:43:13.220 --> 00:43:13.740
 people for

00:43:13.740 --> 00:43:14.180
 ourselves

00:43:14.180 --> 00:43:14.800
 but we win

00:43:14.800 --> 00:43:15.380
 people for

00:43:15.380 --> 00:43:15.800
 Christ

00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:18.060
 that is

00:43:18.060 --> 00:43:18.980
 the Father's

00:43:18.980 --> 00:43:19.620
 heart

00:43:19.620 --> 00:43:20.380
 for you

00:43:20.380 --> 00:43:21.400
 and for me

00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:22.740
 let's stand

00:43:22.740 --> 00:43:38.340
 Father we

00:43:38.340 --> 00:43:38.900
 we know

00:43:38.900 --> 00:43:39.420
 that many

00:43:39.420 --> 00:43:40.039
 of the things

00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:40.460
 which your

00:43:40.460 --> 00:43:41.200
 word tells us

00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:41.519
 to do

00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:42.220
 are viewed

00:43:42.220 --> 00:43:43.180
 as foolishness

00:43:43.179 --> 00:43:44.239
 or even evil

00:43:44.239 --> 00:43:44.839
 in the eyes

00:43:44.839 --> 00:43:45.440
 of the world

00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:46.819
 our commitment

00:43:46.819 --> 00:43:47.559
 to life

00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:48.619
 our commitment

00:43:48.619 --> 00:43:49.759
 to love

00:43:49.759 --> 00:43:50.379
 our commitment

00:43:50.379 --> 00:43:51.159
 to your word

00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:51.699
 our commitment

00:43:51.699 --> 00:43:52.500
 to Christ

00:43:52.500 --> 00:43:54.219
 Father many

00:43:54.219 --> 00:43:54.960
 of these things

00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:55.960
 are seen

00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:57.739
 as foolishness

00:43:57.739 --> 00:44:00.139
 that we

00:44:00.139 --> 00:44:01.119
 are to learn

00:44:01.119 --> 00:44:01.819
 to try to be

00:44:01.819 --> 00:44:02.339
 committed to

00:44:02.339 --> 00:44:02.779
 humility

00:44:02.779 --> 00:44:03.440
 rather than

00:44:03.440 --> 00:44:03.839
 pride

00:44:03.839 --> 00:44:04.599
 Father these

00:44:04.599 --> 00:44:06.059
 are mysteries

00:44:06.059 --> 00:44:06.919
 and they're

00:44:06.919 --> 00:44:07.659
 mysteries to our

00:44:07.659 --> 00:44:08.460
 flesh and often

00:44:08.460 --> 00:44:09.419
 mysteries to us

00:44:09.419 --> 00:44:10.039
 and we ask

00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:10.799
 Father that

00:44:10.799 --> 00:44:12.000
 you would grip

00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:12.399
 us

00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:13.800
 grip us

00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:14.820
 grip us

00:44:14.820 --> 00:44:15.680
 with the gospel

00:44:15.680 --> 00:44:17.539
 that that the gospel

00:44:17.539 --> 00:44:18.599
 might be the narrative

00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:19.720
 by which we begin

00:44:19.720 --> 00:44:20.519
 to understand

00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:21.519
 ourselves in the

00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:21.820
 world

00:44:21.820 --> 00:44:22.680
 that you are a

00:44:22.680 --> 00:44:23.440
 God that does

00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:23.920
 exist

00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:25.619
 that you are real

00:44:25.619 --> 00:44:26.220
 and that you are

00:44:26.220 --> 00:44:26.700
 true

00:44:26.700 --> 00:44:29.059
 and that you are

00:44:29.059 --> 00:44:29.840
 sovereign and will

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:30.619
 bring all things

00:44:30.619 --> 00:44:31.320
 to their proper

00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:32.360
 order and

00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:33.139
 conclusion

00:44:33.139 --> 00:44:34.680
 and that you

00:44:34.680 --> 00:44:35.760
 know why we

00:44:35.760 --> 00:44:36.180
 were made

00:44:36.180 --> 00:44:36.800
 and how we

00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:37.240
 were made

00:44:37.240 --> 00:44:37.880
 and how we

00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:38.619
 are to thrive

00:44:38.619 --> 00:44:39.160
 and that we

00:44:39.160 --> 00:44:39.760
 would trust

00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:40.500
 your word

00:44:40.500 --> 00:44:40.920
 and your

00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:41.440
 wisdom

00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:42.800
 we would ask

00:44:42.800 --> 00:44:43.320
 questions

00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:43.840
 and that we

00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:44.159
 would come

00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:44.559
 together

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:45.099
 and pray

00:44:45.099 --> 00:44:45.500
 together

00:44:45.500 --> 00:44:46.679
 and weep

00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:47.139
 together

00:44:47.139 --> 00:44:47.800
 and rejoice

00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:48.320
 together

00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:48.980
 and question

00:44:48.980 --> 00:44:49.400
 together

00:44:49.400 --> 00:44:50.139
 as we study

00:44:50.139 --> 00:44:50.659
 your word

00:44:50.659 --> 00:44:51.380
 not doing this

00:44:51.380 --> 00:44:52.059
 by ourselves

00:44:52.059 --> 00:44:52.700
 but doing it

00:44:52.700 --> 00:44:53.220
 with others

00:44:53.220 --> 00:44:54.220
 but we ask

00:44:54.220 --> 00:44:54.960
 Father that you

00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:55.519
 would grip us

00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:56.280
 with the gospel

00:44:56.280 --> 00:44:56.880
 and grip us

00:44:56.880 --> 00:44:57.619
 with your word

00:44:57.619 --> 00:44:58.500
 and grip us

00:44:58.500 --> 00:44:59.740
 with such a deep

00:44:59.740 --> 00:45:01.000
 confidence in Jesus

00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:01.980
 and who he did

00:45:01.980 --> 00:45:02.940
 who he is

00:45:02.940 --> 00:45:03.539
 and what he did

00:45:03.539 --> 00:45:04.599
 for us on the cross

00:45:04.599 --> 00:45:05.700
 that we can look

00:45:05.700 --> 00:45:06.420
 at your word

00:45:06.420 --> 00:45:07.099
 and be willing

00:45:07.099 --> 00:45:07.539
 to say

00:45:07.539 --> 00:45:08.320
 Father I know

00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:09.019
 it goes against

00:45:09.019 --> 00:45:09.680
 my flesh

00:45:09.680 --> 00:45:10.700
 but help me

00:45:10.700 --> 00:45:11.660
 to take a posture

00:45:11.660 --> 00:45:12.340
 of obedience

00:45:12.340 --> 00:45:14.220
 trusting in your word

00:45:14.220 --> 00:45:15.840
 so that you

00:45:15.840 --> 00:45:17.580
 will bring the fire

00:45:17.580 --> 00:45:20.320
 Father from my flesh

00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:20.960
 it looks like you're

00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:21.580
 asking me to pour

00:45:21.580 --> 00:45:22.700
 water on the wood

00:45:22.700 --> 00:45:24.120
 but grant me

00:45:24.120 --> 00:45:25.120
 Father that deep

00:45:25.120 --> 00:45:25.700
 confidence

00:45:25.700 --> 00:45:26.580
 that you know

00:45:26.580 --> 00:45:27.340
 what you're doing

00:45:27.340 --> 00:45:28.340
 that you are faithful

00:45:28.340 --> 00:45:29.400
 and true to your word

00:45:29.400 --> 00:45:30.700
 and that as we take

00:45:30.700 --> 00:45:31.920
 postures of obedience

00:45:31.920 --> 00:45:34.100
 to your word

00:45:34.100 --> 00:45:34.940
 trusting in you

00:45:34.940 --> 00:45:35.720
 that you will do

00:45:35.720 --> 00:45:36.920
 that great and mighty work

00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:38.360
 that you Father

00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:39.840
 will bring the fire

00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:41.619
 as you change us

00:45:41.619 --> 00:45:42.340
 from one degree

00:45:42.340 --> 00:45:42.920
 of glory

00:45:42.920 --> 00:45:44.200
 day by day

00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:45.420
 so that one day

00:45:45.420 --> 00:45:46.360
 we will see Jesus

00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:47.280
 face to face

00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:48.940
 and we will be like him

00:45:48.940 --> 00:45:50.599
 and we will hear you say

00:45:50.599 --> 00:45:51.180
 welcome

00:45:51.180 --> 00:45:51.980
 welcome

00:45:51.980 --> 00:45:52.800
 welcome

00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:53.639
 welcome

00:45:53.639 --> 00:45:54.780
 my beloved

00:45:54.780 --> 00:45:55.820
 and chosen

00:45:55.820 --> 00:45:56.559
 one

00:45:56.559 --> 00:45:57.619
 welcome

00:45:57.619 --> 00:45:58.980
 and all these things

00:45:58.980 --> 00:45:59.860
 we ask in the name

00:45:59.860 --> 00:46:00.340
 of Jesus

00:46:00.340 --> 00:46:01.019
 your son

00:46:01.019 --> 00:46:01.760
 and our savior

00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:02.900
 amen