WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.240
 Let's bow our heads in prayer before we look at the Word.

00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:07.560
 Let's pray.

00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:15.099
 Father, we thank you, Father, that you call people out of every tribe and nation on the planet.

00:00:15.220 --> 00:00:18.420
 We give you thanks and praise, even though we're just a small congregation,

00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:23.140
 that today, Father, whether it's been in Australia, South Korea,

00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:28.980
 whether it's been in Singapore, whether it's been Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, Argentina,

00:00:28.980 --> 00:00:34.619
 London, England, Paris, France, Manhattan, or here.

00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:41.039
 Father, your people gather on the Lord's Day to be in your presence,

00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.920
 to come to the throne of grace, to receive grace from your hands,

00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:48.340
 to pour out our hearts to you and respond in a worthy manner.

00:00:49.019 --> 00:00:50.780
 And so, Father, we thank you that we are together,

00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:54.320
 and we ask that the Holy Spirit would move with gentle power amongst us,

00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:57.880
 that we might hear you speak deep into our hearts,

00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:03.160
 knowing, Father, that your speaking into our hearts is deeply good for us

00:01:03.160 --> 00:01:07.159
 and fits us for heaven and for a joyful life of following here.

00:01:07.659 --> 00:01:11.060
 And we ask all these things in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Saviour.

00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:11.799
 Amen.

00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:13.320
 Please be seated.

00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:14.319
 Amen.

00:01:16.319 --> 00:01:20.779
 So, a couple of months ago, I was in one of my favourite coffee shops.

00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:22.579
 I have several favourite coffee shops.

00:01:23.399 --> 00:01:25.439
 And I was in one of my favourite coffee shops,

00:01:25.599 --> 00:01:27.979
 and I was working on my sermon, actually.

00:01:28.559 --> 00:01:33.139
 And there's this fellow who came in that I know slightly.

00:01:33.699 --> 00:01:36.879
 He's a really nice guy, and he's a Christian.

00:01:37.299 --> 00:01:38.979
 And he saw me working.

00:01:38.980 --> 00:01:41.540
 His wife went up to order, and he saw me working.

00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:43.200
 He came up, and he said,

00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:44.079
 Hi, and he said,

00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:45.159
 You working on your sermon?

00:01:45.240 --> 00:01:46.100
 And I said, Yes.

00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:47.300
 And he said to me,

00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:48.840
 It's going to be easy to do.

00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:51.280
 And I looked at him,

00:01:51.560 --> 00:01:53.800
 because often I don't find the sermons easy to do.

00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:57.020
 Like, my wife would tell you that it's not unusual that on a Friday,

00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:58.060
 even on a Saturday,

00:01:58.600 --> 00:01:59.760
 I will say something like,

00:01:59.820 --> 00:02:02.520
 I could do an hour and a half lecture on this Bible text.

00:02:02.620 --> 00:02:04.420
 I don't know how to make it into a sermon.

00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:07.579
 And sometimes on a Monday when I look at the scripture text,

00:02:07.700 --> 00:02:08.780
 I'll come home to Louise and say,

00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:11.620
 I have no idea what on earth I'm going to say about this text.

00:02:12.599 --> 00:02:13.979
 Anyway, so he said to me,

00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:14.920
 It's going to be easy.

00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:16.039
 And then he said,

00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:16.400
 Why?

00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:18.180
 Because Jesus says,

00:02:18.479 --> 00:02:21.259
 My yoke is easy and my burden is light.

00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.840
 And if you're doing what he wants you to do,

00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:24.699
 it will be easy.

00:02:25.439 --> 00:02:27.960
 He's a power of positive thinking type of guy.

00:02:28.420 --> 00:02:29.620
 Had a big smile.

00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:31.920
 Like he was sort of one of those,

00:02:31.939 --> 00:02:33.500
 you know, used car salesman types.

00:02:33.500 --> 00:02:34.639
 No, I'm just, that's being bad.

00:02:34.900 --> 00:02:36.120
 He's a really, really nice guy.

00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:37.819
 So I looked at him because, in fact,

00:02:37.939 --> 00:02:40.520
 I wasn't having an easy time working on the sermon,

00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:41.560
 which sort of means,

00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:42.919
 if you think about it for a second,

00:02:43.000 --> 00:02:44.460
 if you're not having an easy time,

00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:46.039
 you're sinning somehow.

00:02:46.199 --> 00:02:46.840
 I don't know, right?

00:02:46.900 --> 00:02:48.120
 Because if you were really with Jesus,

00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:49.060
 it should be easy.

00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:51.240
 So I looked at him and said,

00:02:51.659 --> 00:02:57.740
 How does that advice help people to combat the narcissism in their life?

00:02:58.979 --> 00:03:00.780
 Where they think they're so wonderful,

00:03:00.939 --> 00:03:02.939
 they can just write down a few thoughts.

00:03:02.939 --> 00:03:03.560
 And I said,

00:03:03.659 --> 00:03:06.919
 How does that advice that you give help people do hard things?

00:03:07.659 --> 00:03:09.359
 Like, don't you think that advice just means

00:03:09.359 --> 00:03:11.340
 they'll always turn away from doing a hard thing

00:03:11.340 --> 00:03:12.159
 to do an easy thing?

00:03:14.120 --> 00:03:16.060
 Now you know why I don't have more friends.

00:03:17.919 --> 00:03:20.680
 So he just looked at me a bit funny,

00:03:20.819 --> 00:03:21.219
 and he said,

00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:23.759
 Well, I think I need to go up and help my wife with the order.

00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:25.599
 And as he left,

00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:27.239
 he smiled,

00:03:27.419 --> 00:03:28.739
 but he muttered at me and said,

00:03:28.799 --> 00:03:31.639
 I'm not going to give Bible verses to pastors anymore

00:03:31.639 --> 00:03:32.679
 to encourage them.

00:03:34.280 --> 00:03:36.579
 The Bible text that we're going to look at today,

00:03:36.659 --> 00:03:37.079
 in fact,

00:03:37.179 --> 00:03:40.579
 actually does help us to do hard things

00:03:40.579 --> 00:03:41.879
 and deals with narcissism.

00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:44.919
 It's a very helpful text for that

00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:47.460
 at a very deep and abiding level.

00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:49.219
 So let's have a look at it.

00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:53.539
 And we're going back to preaching through the book of Mark.

00:03:53.539 --> 00:03:54.519
 Last week,

00:03:54.699 --> 00:03:57.699
 after our sort of Christmassy New Year's break,

00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:01.280
 and last week we read Mark chapter 13, 1 to 27,

00:04:01.459 --> 00:04:04.539
 and today we're going to look at Mark 13, 24 to 27.

00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:05.599
 We're going to read,

00:04:05.699 --> 00:04:06.819
 I mean, 24 to 37.

00:04:06.939 --> 00:04:08.899
 We're going to read that little bit twice

00:04:08.899 --> 00:04:10.840
 because it sort of explains,

00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:13.840
 24 to 27 explains that which goes before

00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:15.060
 and that which comes after.

00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:17.699
 It sort of needs to be read twice.

00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:20.439
 And so the context is,

00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:21.259
 just before this,

00:04:21.339 --> 00:04:22.639
 if you're using these booklets,

00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:23.759
 I'm back to these booklets.

00:04:23.839 --> 00:04:25.180
 I forgot to bring it last Sunday.

00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:27.159
 It's page 82,

00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:29.879
 or you can look on screen.

00:04:30.699 --> 00:04:32.399
 And the context of all of this

00:04:32.399 --> 00:04:34.379
 is that Jesus was leaving the temple.

00:04:34.959 --> 00:04:35.779
 He's in Jerusalem.

00:04:36.339 --> 00:04:38.039
 And the temple at that time,

00:04:38.180 --> 00:04:39.860
 the Jewish temple at that time,

00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:42.120
 was one of the wonders of the ancient world.

00:04:43.259 --> 00:04:45.000
 Even, you know,

00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:46.560
 pagans would comment about

00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:48.439
 how it was an unbelievable building.

00:04:48.519 --> 00:04:52.240
 I think some of the stones were 67 feet long.

00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:55.240
 I meant to actually pace off the stage,

00:04:55.379 --> 00:04:56.600
 know if the stage is 67.

00:04:56.939 --> 00:04:58.000
 Imagine a stone,

00:04:58.540 --> 00:05:00.220
 basically the length of the stage,

00:05:00.280 --> 00:05:01.800
 I don't know if that's 67 feet,

00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:03.980
 and like 10 feet higher than me

00:05:03.980 --> 00:05:04.740
 and like 12 feet,

00:05:04.819 --> 00:05:06.360
 how did they move things like that

00:05:06.360 --> 00:05:07.060
 to build a building?

00:05:07.139 --> 00:05:08.040
 It was remarkable,

00:05:08.280 --> 00:05:09.980
 and it was white and gold,

00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:10.860
 and it was beautiful.

00:05:11.340 --> 00:05:12.480
 And so they're leaving the temple,

00:05:12.480 --> 00:05:13.780
 and they just express,

00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:14.920
 like just, you know,

00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:15.840
 Jewish pride,

00:05:16.220 --> 00:05:19.200
 and just the awe we all feel at buildings,

00:05:19.300 --> 00:05:19.860
 and says, you know,

00:05:19.939 --> 00:05:21.060
 Jesus isn't this

00:05:21.060 --> 00:05:22.319
 the most spectacular building.

00:05:22.840 --> 00:05:24.819
 And Jesus makes a bit of a casual remark,

00:05:24.819 --> 00:05:25.560
 and says, you know,

00:05:25.740 --> 00:05:27.560
 not one stone of this building

00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:28.960
 will be standing on its own.

00:05:29.080 --> 00:05:29.840
 The time will come

00:05:29.840 --> 00:05:31.220
 when this building

00:05:31.220 --> 00:05:32.360
 will be completely destroyed.

00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:34.660
 So later on,

00:05:34.900 --> 00:05:35.960
 and that's the context,

00:05:36.160 --> 00:05:37.920
 they're now on the Mount of Olives.

00:05:38.139 --> 00:05:41.379
 If you've ever been to the Holy Land,

00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:43.180
 if you're on the correct side

00:05:43.180 --> 00:05:43.699
 of the Mount of Olives,

00:05:43.740 --> 00:05:45.580
 you have a very good view

00:05:45.580 --> 00:05:46.879
 of the city of Jerusalem.

00:05:47.020 --> 00:05:47.879
 You have a very good view

00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:48.819
 of the temple.

00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:50.379
 Now the dome of the mosque

00:05:50.379 --> 00:05:51.360
 went back in the temple.

00:05:52.100 --> 00:05:54.020
 And so four of the disciples come.

00:05:54.220 --> 00:05:55.400
 Jesus is there with his disciples,

00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:58.300
 and they ask him two questions.

00:05:59.259 --> 00:06:00.220
 When's it going to happen?

00:06:00.220 --> 00:06:02.540
 And what will be the signs

00:06:02.540 --> 00:06:03.300
 that it's going to happen?

00:06:03.940 --> 00:06:04.760
 And last week,

00:06:04.800 --> 00:06:05.860
 we looked at that,

00:06:06.020 --> 00:06:07.540
 how Jesus began to answer it.

00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:08.500
 And most of his answer

00:06:08.500 --> 00:06:10.380
 was that there will be non-signs,

00:06:10.760 --> 00:06:11.920
 that life is going to be

00:06:11.920 --> 00:06:12.720
 very difficult,

00:06:12.940 --> 00:06:13.560
 that there's going to be

00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:15.060
 a movement in his name.

00:06:15.080 --> 00:06:16.160
 It's going to be very difficult,

00:06:16.160 --> 00:06:17.420
 but the Holy Spirit

00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:18.820
 will still be in action,

00:06:18.920 --> 00:06:19.960
 and the good news of him

00:06:19.960 --> 00:06:21.080
 will go to the ends of the earth.

00:06:21.500 --> 00:06:22.440
 And he also mentioned

00:06:22.440 --> 00:06:23.160
 the abomination

00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:24.440
 that causes desolation

00:06:24.440 --> 00:06:26.500
 in a time of particular tribulation.

00:06:27.100 --> 00:06:28.400
 And now here is where

00:06:28.400 --> 00:06:29.380
 the story continues.

00:06:29.380 --> 00:06:30.060
 Verse 24.

00:06:30.220 --> 00:06:31.800
 This is Jesus still answering

00:06:31.800 --> 00:06:33.760
 those original two questions.

00:06:34.280 --> 00:06:35.260
 When's it going to happen,

00:06:35.320 --> 00:06:36.120
 and what are the signs?

00:06:36.880 --> 00:06:38.520
 And here's how he continues to answer.

00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:40.660
 But in those days,

00:06:40.740 --> 00:06:41.500
 verse 24.

00:06:42.420 --> 00:06:43.300
 But in those days,

00:06:43.380 --> 00:06:44.680
 after that tribulation,

00:06:45.360 --> 00:06:47.280
 the sun will be darkened,

00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:50.140
 and the moon will not give its light,

00:06:50.660 --> 00:06:53.440
 and the stars will be falling from heaven,

00:06:53.900 --> 00:06:56.160
 and the powers in the heaven

00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:57.160
 will be shaken.

00:06:57.160 --> 00:06:59.200
 And then they will see

00:06:59.200 --> 00:07:00.000
 the Son of Man

00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:01.040
 coming in clouds

00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:02.660
 with great power and glory,

00:07:02.660 --> 00:07:05.120
 and then he will send out

00:07:05.120 --> 00:07:05.800
 the angels

00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:07.460
 and gather his elect

00:07:07.460 --> 00:07:09.120
 from the four winds

00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:10.700
 from the ends of the earth

00:07:10.700 --> 00:07:11.680
 to the ends of heaven.

00:07:13.760 --> 00:07:14.940
 Now, many people,

00:07:15.260 --> 00:07:16.360
 when they hear that,

00:07:16.820 --> 00:07:17.120
 go,

00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:19.280
 whoa,

00:07:19.940 --> 00:07:20.720
 George,

00:07:21.340 --> 00:07:22.840
 stars can't fall from heaven.

00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:25.339
 Like,

00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:26.759
 doesn't Jesus know any science?

00:07:27.339 --> 00:07:27.560
 Like,

00:07:27.619 --> 00:07:28.879
 why should we trust a man

00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:29.839
 who doesn't even know

00:07:29.839 --> 00:07:30.899
 elementary science?

00:07:31.799 --> 00:07:33.419
 He just knows the science

00:07:33.419 --> 00:07:34.199
 of that day.

00:07:34.819 --> 00:07:35.799
 Because if he knew

00:07:35.799 --> 00:07:36.899
 the science of today,

00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:38.819
 we might think of some reason

00:07:38.819 --> 00:07:40.000
 why the moon could be dark,

00:07:40.059 --> 00:07:40.199
 you know,

00:07:40.199 --> 00:07:41.279
 the sun could be darkened

00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:42.359
 and the moon would be darkened,

00:07:42.419 --> 00:07:42.559
 you know,

00:07:42.579 --> 00:07:43.679
 maybe clouds

00:07:43.679 --> 00:07:44.579
 or something like that,

00:07:44.620 --> 00:07:46.120
 but the stars don't fall from heaven.

00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:49.959
 And that's aside from the fact,

00:07:50.040 --> 00:07:50.199
 George,

00:07:50.240 --> 00:07:51.139
 you said this is going to be

00:07:51.139 --> 00:07:52.620
 a help against narcissism.

00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:53.439
 Like,

00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:54.600
 it says right there

00:07:54.600 --> 00:07:56.040
 that Jesus is going to gather up

00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:56.639
 his elect.

00:07:57.100 --> 00:07:58.579
 What could be more encouraging

00:07:58.579 --> 00:07:59.660
 of narcissism

00:07:59.660 --> 00:08:00.939
 than calling Christians,

00:08:01.019 --> 00:08:01.160
 like,

00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:02.319
 you think you're the elect?

00:08:02.699 --> 00:08:02.920
 Like,

00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:05.019
 that's like narcissism 100.

00:08:05.340 --> 00:08:05.639
 Like,

00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:06.980
 I'm the elect.

00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:07.360
 No.

00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:07.720
 Like,

00:08:08.120 --> 00:08:08.379
 George,

00:08:08.379 --> 00:08:09.340
 what's going on there?

00:08:10.459 --> 00:08:11.939
 And we can be a little bit

00:08:11.939 --> 00:08:13.840
 uneasy with it.

00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:14.799
 And the direction

00:08:14.799 --> 00:08:16.279
 that many Christians take,

00:08:16.519 --> 00:08:16.659
 well,

00:08:16.719 --> 00:08:17.039
 first of all,

00:08:17.079 --> 00:08:18.019
 they don't even want to think

00:08:18.019 --> 00:08:19.359
 about the second coming of Christ

00:08:19.359 --> 00:08:19.899
 because it's,

00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:21.919
 as we talked about last week

00:08:21.919 --> 00:08:22.359
 a little bit,

00:08:22.399 --> 00:08:22.939
 it's kooky

00:08:22.939 --> 00:08:24.819
 to the modern world.

00:08:25.159 --> 00:08:25.819
 It's kooky.

00:08:26.719 --> 00:08:27.739
 And so we get a little bit

00:08:27.739 --> 00:08:29.179
 uncomfortable talking about it.

00:08:30.359 --> 00:08:30.439
 And,

00:08:30.579 --> 00:08:31.919
 but the other thing is,

00:08:31.939 --> 00:08:33.379
 is that often people end up saying,

00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:33.600
 well,

00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:34.159
 it's sort of,

00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:34.299
 you know,

00:08:34.319 --> 00:08:35.220
 part like a metaphor,

00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:36.879
 it's some analogies,

00:08:37.019 --> 00:08:37.100
 and,

00:08:37.500 --> 00:08:37.639
 you know,

00:08:37.659 --> 00:08:38.220
 the stars from,

00:08:38.339 --> 00:08:38.980
 it's all,

00:08:39.579 --> 00:08:39.879
 okay,

00:08:40.059 --> 00:08:40.860
 so I just want to say

00:08:40.860 --> 00:08:42.100
 a couple of things about this

00:08:42.100 --> 00:08:43.019
 to help us

00:08:43.019 --> 00:08:44.639
 to press in

00:08:44.639 --> 00:08:45.779
 to hear Jesus' words

00:08:45.779 --> 00:08:46.220
 because they're,

00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:47.159
 they're very,

00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:47.519
 very,

00:08:47.600 --> 00:08:47.860
 very,

00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:49.159
 very helpful and profound

00:08:49.159 --> 00:08:50.639
 and they're really worth

00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:52.159
 memorizing

00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:53.600
 and meditating upon

00:08:53.600 --> 00:08:54.740
 on a regular basis.

00:08:55.460 --> 00:08:56.860
 The first of all thing is,

00:08:56.899 --> 00:08:58.079
 is that Jesus intended

00:08:58.079 --> 00:08:59.899
 the heart of this text

00:08:59.899 --> 00:09:00.899
 to be taken literally.

00:09:02.299 --> 00:09:03.299
 I believe,

00:09:03.539 --> 00:09:06.939
 as all faithful Christians,

00:09:07.199 --> 00:09:08.319
 that there will come a time

00:09:08.319 --> 00:09:10.340
 when Jesus will publicly return

00:09:10.340 --> 00:09:12.299
 in power and glory.

00:09:12.299 --> 00:09:13.799
 It will be a universal event.

00:09:13.919 --> 00:09:14.659
 Everybody will know

00:09:14.659 --> 00:09:15.399
 that he's come

00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:17.379
 and he will come

00:09:17.379 --> 00:09:19.159
 and he will gather his elect

00:09:19.159 --> 00:09:20.919
 and I'm not embarrassed

00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:21.419
 about that

00:09:21.419 --> 00:09:22.259
 or ashamed about it.

00:09:22.319 --> 00:09:23.120
 I believe it

00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:23.819
 because I believe

00:09:23.819 --> 00:09:24.620
 and trust Jesus.

00:09:25.959 --> 00:09:26.139
 Now,

00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:27.559
 the second thing is,

00:09:27.620 --> 00:09:28.099
 even when I say

00:09:28.099 --> 00:09:29.120
 that it's believed,

00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:30.339
 we can believe it literally,

00:09:30.819 --> 00:09:31.539
 we need to sort of

00:09:31.539 --> 00:09:32.319
 have a bit of a,

00:09:32.620 --> 00:09:33.099
 by the way,

00:09:33.120 --> 00:09:33.699
 I'm going to talk about

00:09:33.699 --> 00:09:34.759
 the elect bit later,

00:09:34.939 --> 00:09:35.179
 okay,

00:09:35.419 --> 00:09:36.139
 but not right.

00:09:36.179 --> 00:09:36.379
 In fact,

00:09:36.699 --> 00:09:37.719
 if by the end of the sermon

00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:38.460
 and I haven't talked

00:09:38.460 --> 00:09:39.460
 about the elect again,

00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:40.980
 start waving at me

00:09:40.980 --> 00:09:43.139
 and I'll say something

00:09:43.139 --> 00:09:43.860
 about the elect.

00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.300
 In terms of taking it literally,

00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:47.860
 the big mistake that we make

00:09:47.860 --> 00:09:50.320
 is to misunderstand the Bible.

00:09:50.779 --> 00:09:52.899
 The Bible never uses

00:09:52.899 --> 00:09:54.259
 scientific language.

00:09:54.259 --> 00:09:56.740
 It uses observational language.

00:09:57.820 --> 00:09:58.600
 And that means,

00:09:58.860 --> 00:09:59.560
 in a sense,

00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:01.180
 the Bible can never be

00:10:01.180 --> 00:10:02.660
 contradicted or wrong.

00:10:02.659 --> 00:10:05.139
 It is always true

00:10:05.139 --> 00:10:06.319
 at an unscientific,

00:10:06.419 --> 00:10:07.620
 just observational level

00:10:07.620 --> 00:10:08.659
 that the sun rises

00:10:08.659 --> 00:10:09.360
 every morning.

00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:11.459
 That's just

00:10:11.459 --> 00:10:13.059
 observationally true.

00:10:14.079 --> 00:10:16.100
 And the Bible never ties

00:10:16.100 --> 00:10:17.219
 what Jesus says

00:10:17.219 --> 00:10:18.659
 to the current scientific,

00:10:18.939 --> 00:10:19.819
 like it's not as if

00:10:19.819 --> 00:10:21.699
 that there's a little footnote

00:10:21.699 --> 00:10:22.500
 that goes here

00:10:22.500 --> 00:10:23.100
 and then underneath

00:10:23.100 --> 00:10:23.740
 the footnote

00:10:23.740 --> 00:10:24.559
 you get in a sense

00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:26.000
 the Wikipedia page

00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:27.559
 of how they would have understood

00:10:27.559 --> 00:10:28.360
 what was going on

00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:28.860
 in the heavens

00:10:28.860 --> 00:10:29.639
 in those days.

00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:30.720
 In some ways,

00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:31.539
 a star was just

00:10:31.539 --> 00:10:32.579
 certain types of lights

00:10:32.580 --> 00:10:33.400
 that were in the sky.

00:10:33.500 --> 00:10:34.139
 And there would, of course,

00:10:34.180 --> 00:10:35.060
 have been different theories

00:10:35.060 --> 00:10:35.980
 about what they were

00:10:35.980 --> 00:10:36.680
 and what they meant

00:10:36.680 --> 00:10:38.060
 and what they were represented by.

00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:39.560
 But it's just simple

00:10:39.560 --> 00:10:40.759
 observational language.

00:10:41.700 --> 00:10:42.520
 What I'm saying is

00:10:42.520 --> 00:10:43.160
 it's actually seen

00:10:43.160 --> 00:10:44.000
 more profound

00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:45.960
 than scientific language.

00:10:46.400 --> 00:10:47.340
 If we were to look

00:10:47.340 --> 00:10:48.060
 at the current

00:10:48.060 --> 00:10:49.840
 Wikipedia page

00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:50.820
 on stars

00:10:50.820 --> 00:10:52.540
 and we were to take

00:10:52.540 --> 00:10:53.720
 a screenshot of it

00:10:53.720 --> 00:10:54.800
 and then

00:10:54.800 --> 00:10:55.920
 if Jesus tarries

00:10:55.920 --> 00:10:56.960
 and doesn't come back

00:10:56.960 --> 00:10:58.020
 we show our

00:10:58.020 --> 00:10:59.400
 great-grandchild that

00:10:59.400 --> 00:11:00.640
 and let's say

00:11:00.640 --> 00:11:01.480
 our great-grandchild

00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:02.560
 has become an astronomer

00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:03.859
 an astrophysicist,

00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:04.659
 they would probably

00:11:04.659 --> 00:11:05.099
 look at that

00:11:05.099 --> 00:11:06.439
 Wikipedia page

00:11:06.439 --> 00:11:07.079
 and they'd laugh.

00:11:08.619 --> 00:11:09.259
 They'd laugh

00:11:09.259 --> 00:11:10.000
 because science

00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:10.639
 is developed

00:11:10.639 --> 00:11:11.699
 over time

00:11:11.699 --> 00:11:12.799
 and with the development

00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:13.819
 of science over time

00:11:13.819 --> 00:11:14.500
 there'd be all sorts

00:11:14.500 --> 00:11:15.099
 of things we say

00:11:15.099 --> 00:11:16.019
 about stars now

00:11:16.019 --> 00:11:16.799
 that are just wrong.

00:11:16.979 --> 00:11:17.139
 I mean,

00:11:17.179 --> 00:11:17.819
 there are bits and pieces

00:11:17.819 --> 00:11:18.219
 that are right

00:11:18.219 --> 00:11:18.579
 and other things

00:11:18.579 --> 00:11:19.299
 that are just wrong

00:11:19.299 --> 00:11:21.139
 because science marches on.

00:11:21.899 --> 00:11:22.399
 But the fact

00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:23.199
 that there's stars

00:11:23.199 --> 00:11:24.279
 that you can see

00:11:24.279 --> 00:11:25.879
 are just an observational truth

00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:26.879
 which is always true.

00:11:27.799 --> 00:11:28.519
 And so what I think

00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:29.279
 is happening here

00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:29.740
 is this

00:11:29.740 --> 00:11:31.139
 and this is my

00:11:31.139 --> 00:11:31.839
 great confidence.

00:11:32.519 --> 00:11:34.480
 If when Jesus returns

00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:37.059
 he gives to his people

00:11:37.059 --> 00:11:39.299
 a copy of the book of Mark

00:11:39.299 --> 00:11:41.659
 and he says

00:11:41.659 --> 00:11:43.740
 look at verses 24 to 27

00:11:43.740 --> 00:11:46.139
 and we'll look at what happened

00:11:46.139 --> 00:11:47.019
 and you know what we'll say?

00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:48.539
 We'll say he nailed it.

00:11:49.199 --> 00:11:50.679
 Like, he nailed it.

00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:52.759
 Like, that's exactly

00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:53.500
 what we see.

00:11:54.240 --> 00:11:55.720
 That's exactly what we see.

00:11:55.720 --> 00:11:58.160
 Now, there's another thing

00:11:58.160 --> 00:11:58.480
 in here

00:11:58.480 --> 00:11:59.620
 which I won't have time

00:11:59.620 --> 00:12:00.139
 to go into

00:12:00.139 --> 00:12:01.460
 but it's part of the great truth

00:12:01.460 --> 00:12:02.220
 of this text.

00:12:02.660 --> 00:12:03.320
 I talked about it

00:12:03.320 --> 00:12:04.399
 a little bit last week

00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:06.120
 and I talked about how

00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:07.700
 what the Bible says

00:12:07.700 --> 00:12:08.160
 and by the way

00:12:08.160 --> 00:12:09.200
 I forgot to mention

00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:10.180
 the sermon last week.

00:12:10.300 --> 00:12:11.100
 Those of you who saw

00:12:11.100 --> 00:12:11.620
 the sermon

00:12:11.620 --> 00:12:12.519
 or heard the sermon

00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:15.220
 if you saw the little diagram

00:12:15.220 --> 00:12:15.759
 I did

00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:16.279
 that had I think

00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:17.060
 some pink in it

00:12:17.060 --> 00:12:18.120
 I got that originally

00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:19.560
 from Tim Keller

00:12:19.560 --> 00:12:20.519
 who got it

00:12:20.519 --> 00:12:22.240
 from some Dutch theologian

00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:23.879
 who wrote 150 years ago.

00:12:24.379 --> 00:12:25.340
 I didn't come up

00:12:25.340 --> 00:12:26.500
 with that diagram myself.

00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:27.740
 That came from Keller

00:12:27.740 --> 00:12:28.300
 who got it

00:12:28.300 --> 00:12:29.420
 from a Dutch theologian

00:12:29.420 --> 00:12:31.320
 of 150 years ago.

00:12:32.259 --> 00:12:33.360
 But one of the things

00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:33.720
 to understand

00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:34.460
 is we have the way

00:12:34.460 --> 00:12:35.580
 the world works right now

00:12:35.580 --> 00:12:36.340
 which is not the way

00:12:36.340 --> 00:12:37.600
 the world was intended to be

00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:38.379
 and there's evil

00:12:38.379 --> 00:12:39.519
 and dissolution

00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:41.060
 that happens in the world

00:12:41.060 --> 00:12:42.280
 and what happens

00:12:42.280 --> 00:12:42.940
 with the resurrection

00:12:42.940 --> 00:12:43.680
 of Jesus

00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:44.980
 is in a sense

00:12:44.980 --> 00:12:46.540
 the resurrection of Jesus

00:12:46.540 --> 00:12:48.080
 is the life

00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:49.700
 of the world to come

00:12:49.700 --> 00:12:50.700
 now coming into

00:12:50.700 --> 00:12:51.560
 our created order.

00:12:52.620 --> 00:12:54.060
 Our disordered order.

00:12:54.059 --> 00:12:56.519
 And we live in a time

00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:57.219
 when in a sense

00:12:57.219 --> 00:12:58.659
 the current world order

00:12:58.659 --> 00:12:59.859
 continues to exist

00:12:59.859 --> 00:13:02.319
 but at the same time

00:13:02.319 --> 00:13:02.899
 hidden

00:13:02.899 --> 00:13:04.859
 is this resurrection life

00:13:04.859 --> 00:13:05.699
 which goes on.

00:13:06.579 --> 00:13:07.799
 And this resurrection life

00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:08.719
 is basically seen

00:13:08.719 --> 00:13:09.539
 in human beings.

00:13:11.319 --> 00:13:12.619
 When I gave my life

00:13:12.619 --> 00:13:13.159
 to Christ

00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:14.799
 when Christ took me

00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:15.319
 as his own

00:13:15.319 --> 00:13:17.019
 he actually comes

00:13:17.019 --> 00:13:18.079
 and lives within me.

00:13:18.259 --> 00:13:19.899
 My sins are forgiven.

00:13:20.059 --> 00:13:21.219
 My shame is put away.

00:13:21.220 --> 00:13:22.620
 I am clothed

00:13:22.620 --> 00:13:23.820
 with the righteousness

00:13:23.820 --> 00:13:24.680
 and accomplishments

00:13:24.680 --> 00:13:25.379
 of Christ

00:13:25.379 --> 00:13:26.080
 but another thing

00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:26.580
 that happens

00:13:26.580 --> 00:13:27.960
 is the actual life

00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:28.560
 of Christ

00:13:28.560 --> 00:13:29.800
 enters into me

00:13:29.800 --> 00:13:31.840
 which is why

00:13:31.840 --> 00:13:33.180
 the moment of my death

00:13:33.180 --> 00:13:34.960
 if Jesus tarries

00:13:34.960 --> 00:13:35.899
 is also the moment

00:13:35.899 --> 00:13:36.720
 of my awakening.

00:13:39.160 --> 00:13:40.720
 And that resurrection life

00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:41.940
 in me cannot be destroyed.

00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:44.779
 And in a sense

00:13:44.779 --> 00:13:45.460
 then what you see

00:13:45.460 --> 00:13:46.160
 is we live in this

00:13:46.160 --> 00:13:47.300
 in-between time

00:13:47.300 --> 00:13:48.040
 where there's things

00:13:48.040 --> 00:13:49.000
 of the world to come.

00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:49.639
 There's the work

00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:50.539
 of the Holy Spirit.

00:13:50.740 --> 00:13:51.279
 There's answered

00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:52.399
 all these things

00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:52.940
 that are in a sense

00:13:52.940 --> 00:13:53.539
 part of the life

00:13:53.539 --> 00:13:54.419
 of the world to come

00:13:54.419 --> 00:13:55.519
 that are currently

00:13:55.519 --> 00:13:56.659
 in the middle of

00:13:56.659 --> 00:13:57.740
 this current life

00:13:57.740 --> 00:13:58.820
 and what we see here

00:13:58.820 --> 00:13:59.559
 described

00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.419
 in verses 24 to 27

00:14:02.419 --> 00:14:03.320
 is that moment

00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:04.820
 where the resurrection life

00:14:04.820 --> 00:14:06.279
 overwhelms

00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:07.960
 this order

00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:09.259
 with the coming of Christ.

00:14:10.580 --> 00:14:11.720
 Another way to understand

00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:12.500
 it would be this.

00:14:12.940 --> 00:14:14.000
 You make bridges

00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:15.480
 and bridges are designed

00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:16.460
 in a particular way

00:14:16.460 --> 00:14:17.460
 and they're all tethered.

00:14:17.539 --> 00:14:17.960
 I mean hopefully

00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:18.960
 they're tethered

00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.820
 to solid bedrock

00:14:21.820 --> 00:14:23.000
 and some of you

00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:23.879
 you've seen pictures

00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:24.700
 YouTube videos

00:14:24.700 --> 00:14:25.379
 and new videos

00:14:25.379 --> 00:14:26.720
 of when there's a flood

00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:27.540
 and the waters

00:14:27.540 --> 00:14:28.420
 all of a sudden

00:14:28.420 --> 00:14:29.400
 lift the bridge

00:14:29.400 --> 00:14:30.320
 from its moorings

00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:31.700
 and it floats away

00:14:31.700 --> 00:14:33.560
 and that's what's going

00:14:33.560 --> 00:14:34.600
 to happen with the stars.

00:14:35.379 --> 00:14:36.180
 The flood

00:14:36.180 --> 00:14:37.740
 of the resurrection life

00:14:37.740 --> 00:14:39.259
 enters into this world order

00:14:39.259 --> 00:14:40.920
 and stars

00:14:40.920 --> 00:14:42.740
 and the moon

00:14:42.740 --> 00:14:43.320
 and the sun

00:14:43.320 --> 00:14:46.379
 are unmoored

00:14:46.379 --> 00:14:47.180
 from this order

00:14:47.180 --> 00:14:48.340
 because of a new order

00:14:48.340 --> 00:14:48.980
 that's come in

00:14:48.980 --> 00:14:50.900
 and that's what the Bible

00:14:50.900 --> 00:14:51.520
 is teaching

00:14:51.520 --> 00:14:53.740
 and that I believe.

00:14:53.740 --> 00:14:58.220
 But some of you

00:14:58.220 --> 00:14:58.600
 might say

00:14:58.600 --> 00:14:59.500
 George I've been watching

00:14:59.500 --> 00:15:00.759
 some TikTok videos

00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:01.720
 and I've been looking

00:15:01.720 --> 00:15:02.180
 at YouTube

00:15:02.180 --> 00:15:02.799
 and I've watched

00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:03.860
 some YouTube videos

00:15:03.860 --> 00:15:05.039
 by people

00:15:05.039 --> 00:15:06.379
 who've deconverted

00:15:06.379 --> 00:15:08.980
 and ex-evangelicals

00:15:08.980 --> 00:15:10.000
 and George

00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:10.740
 you know what the thing is

00:15:10.740 --> 00:15:11.340
 that you're really

00:15:11.340 --> 00:15:13.279
 hiding or misrepresenting?

00:15:13.419 --> 00:15:14.440
 The fact of the matter is

00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:15.560
 okay so you sort of

00:15:15.560 --> 00:15:15.860
 understand

00:15:15.860 --> 00:15:16.560
 you explain that

00:15:16.560 --> 00:15:17.340
 scientific bit

00:15:17.340 --> 00:15:18.299
 okay but the fact of the matter

00:15:18.299 --> 00:15:19.700
 is Jesus got it wrong.

00:15:19.700 --> 00:15:22.660
 Like that's the truth

00:15:22.660 --> 00:15:24.920
 that Christians hide

00:15:24.920 --> 00:15:27.780
 that Jesus got it wrong.

00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:29.820
 Well let's

00:15:29.820 --> 00:15:31.280
 it's a very very common thing

00:15:31.280 --> 00:15:31.980
 if you're familiar

00:15:31.980 --> 00:15:32.600
 with some of those

00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:33.640
 YouTube videos

00:15:33.640 --> 00:15:34.780
 and from the YouTube videos

00:15:34.780 --> 00:15:35.620
 TikToks

00:15:35.620 --> 00:15:37.200
 where very serious people

00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:38.580
 give you a stern lecture

00:15:38.580 --> 00:15:39.440
 and talking to

00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:40.200
 it looks like

00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:41.220
 Greta Thunberg

00:15:41.220 --> 00:15:42.640
 only less smiley

00:15:42.640 --> 00:15:43.680
 as they give you

00:15:43.680 --> 00:15:45.480
 a very serious talking to

00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:46.420
 about how you're wrong.

00:15:46.840 --> 00:15:48.240
 So let's look

00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:49.000
 at the text

00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:49.940
 the text

00:15:49.940 --> 00:15:50.779
 that they would use

00:15:50.779 --> 00:15:52.279
 to say that Jesus is wrong.

00:15:52.940 --> 00:15:53.759
 Continue reading

00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:55.039
 at verse 28.

00:15:55.960 --> 00:15:57.519
 I better get the right chapter

00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:58.519
 otherwise I'll read

00:15:58.519 --> 00:15:59.039
 the wrong verses.

00:15:59.240 --> 00:16:00.840
 Mark 13 verse 28.

00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:02.659
 From the fig tree

00:16:02.659 --> 00:16:04.019
 learn its lesson.

00:16:04.659 --> 00:16:06.240
 As soon as its branch

00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:07.220
 becomes tender

00:16:07.220 --> 00:16:08.940
 and puts out its leaves

00:16:08.940 --> 00:16:11.039
 you know that summer is near.

00:16:11.779 --> 00:16:13.059
 So also when you see

00:16:13.059 --> 00:16:14.440
 these things taking place

00:16:14.440 --> 00:16:15.539
 you know that he is near

00:16:15.539 --> 00:16:16.340
 at the very gates.

00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:18.100
 Truly I say to you

00:16:18.100 --> 00:16:19.500
 this generation

00:16:19.500 --> 00:16:20.800
 will not pass away

00:16:20.800 --> 00:16:21.840
 until these things

00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:22.580
 take place.

00:16:23.700 --> 00:16:24.920
 And the TikTok person

00:16:24.920 --> 00:16:26.500
 has their mic drop moment

00:16:26.500 --> 00:16:28.300
 stand like this

00:16:28.300 --> 00:16:30.460
 and I'm supposed to

00:16:30.460 --> 00:16:32.200
 curl up

00:16:32.200 --> 00:16:33.940
 in tears

00:16:33.940 --> 00:16:36.019
 because I've just been

00:16:36.019 --> 00:16:37.040
 massively refuted.

00:16:38.040 --> 00:16:38.519
 Well

00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.480
 we don't have to do that.

00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:43.940
 like many things

00:16:43.940 --> 00:16:44.720
 in the New Testament

00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:46.240
 and Bible in general

00:16:46.240 --> 00:16:47.659
 the solution is usually

00:16:47.659 --> 00:16:48.800
 if you read the context.

00:16:50.019 --> 00:16:51.039
 If you read the context.

00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:53.620
 Now just as an aside

00:16:53.620 --> 00:16:54.539
 if you go to something

00:16:54.539 --> 00:16:55.740
 like the English Standard Version

00:16:55.740 --> 00:16:56.480
 Study Bible

00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:57.300
 they'll very quickly

00:16:57.300 --> 00:16:58.899
 outline five different ways

00:16:58.899 --> 00:17:00.320
 that people understand

00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:01.300
 and explain this verse.

00:17:01.379 --> 00:17:01.860
 But I'll give you

00:17:01.860 --> 00:17:02.659
 a very simple

00:17:02.659 --> 00:17:04.039
 commonsensical answer

00:17:04.039 --> 00:17:05.000
 as to how to explain

00:17:05.000 --> 00:17:06.519
 understand this verse.

00:17:06.620 --> 00:17:07.180
 And it all comes

00:17:07.180 --> 00:17:08.019
 from the context.

00:17:08.019 --> 00:17:09.900
 And the context is this.

00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:11.160
 First of all

00:17:11.160 --> 00:17:11.900
 remember that it's

00:17:11.900 --> 00:17:12.839
 very significant

00:17:12.839 --> 00:17:13.980
 that

00:17:13.980 --> 00:17:16.220
 these things

00:17:16.220 --> 00:17:17.339
 that Jesus is saying

00:17:17.339 --> 00:17:19.119
 are probably taking place

00:17:19.119 --> 00:17:20.579
 either Thursday morning

00:17:20.579 --> 00:17:23.059
 or Thursday early after

00:17:23.059 --> 00:17:24.859
 Thursday like before lunch

00:17:24.859 --> 00:17:26.359
 or sometime on the Wednesday.

00:17:27.059 --> 00:17:28.240
 And on Thursday night

00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:29.460
 Jesus will be captured

00:17:29.460 --> 00:17:30.180
 by the Romans

00:17:30.180 --> 00:17:31.379
 and on Friday

00:17:31.379 --> 00:17:32.200
 he's going to die.

00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:35.960
 Like that's the context

00:17:35.960 --> 00:17:37.059
 of these statements

00:17:37.059 --> 00:17:37.799
 by Jesus.

00:17:39.660 --> 00:17:40.900
 It's very interesting

00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:41.880
 that it's not as if

00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:43.340
 Jesus says these things

00:17:43.340 --> 00:17:44.420
 like in his

00:17:44.420 --> 00:17:45.220
 like you know

00:17:45.220 --> 00:17:46.360
 his ministry began

00:17:46.360 --> 00:17:47.660
 at around the three year mark

00:17:47.660 --> 00:17:48.700
 and it's not as if

00:17:48.700 --> 00:17:50.140
 he says these things

00:17:50.140 --> 00:17:50.640
 at first

00:17:50.640 --> 00:17:52.539
 at the three year mark

00:17:52.539 --> 00:17:53.319
 and then he sort of

00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:53.940
 hopes that people

00:17:53.940 --> 00:17:54.779
 forget about this

00:17:54.779 --> 00:17:55.440
 sort of foolish

00:17:55.440 --> 00:17:56.140
 you know thing.

00:17:56.759 --> 00:17:58.140
 Like our Muslim friends

00:17:58.140 --> 00:17:59.360
 get around the mistake

00:17:59.360 --> 00:18:00.779
 that the many many many

00:18:00.779 --> 00:18:01.640
 mistakes that

00:18:01.640 --> 00:18:03.160
 that are in the Quran

00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:04.940
 by saying that

00:18:04.940 --> 00:18:06.300
 the later revelations

00:18:06.300 --> 00:18:07.600
 clarify the

00:18:07.600 --> 00:18:08.740
 the things

00:18:08.740 --> 00:18:09.880
 which are not correct

00:18:09.880 --> 00:18:10.460
 in the beginning.

00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:11.540
 And it's

00:18:11.540 --> 00:18:12.220
 but it's not like

00:18:12.220 --> 00:18:12.900
 Jesus is doing

00:18:12.900 --> 00:18:13.360
 something like that

00:18:13.360 --> 00:18:14.340
 and he actually puts it

00:18:14.340 --> 00:18:15.680
 right right before

00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:16.540
 he dies.

00:18:18.060 --> 00:18:18.840
 And and and so

00:18:18.840 --> 00:18:19.580
 one of the things

00:18:19.580 --> 00:18:20.960
 you need to ask yourself

00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:22.279
 is why do we remember

00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:23.080
 his words?

00:18:25.140 --> 00:18:25.400
 Like

00:18:25.400 --> 00:18:28.240
 he's not like

00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:28.880
 Muhammad

00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:29.980
 who launched

00:18:29.980 --> 00:18:30.779
 a successful

00:18:30.779 --> 00:18:32.040
 military campaign

00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:32.720
 that changed

00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:33.639
 the geopolitical

00:18:33.639 --> 00:18:34.240
 structure

00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:35.539
 of the Middle East

00:18:35.539 --> 00:18:36.240
 and then eventually

00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:37.639
 large parts of the world.

00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:40.420
 He's not powerful.

00:18:40.700 --> 00:18:40.720
 He

00:18:40.720 --> 00:18:42.539
 the obscurity of him

00:18:42.539 --> 00:18:43.119
 like why is it

00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:44.180
 we remember his words?

00:18:44.259 --> 00:18:45.039
 And the only reason

00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:46.259
 that we remember his words

00:18:46.259 --> 00:18:48.119
 is because he said

00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:49.200
 and this is yet

00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:49.839
 another time

00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:50.440
 where he says

00:18:50.440 --> 00:18:51.319
 he's going to die

00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:52.000
 and he's going to rise

00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:52.559
 from the dead.

00:18:53.099 --> 00:18:53.879
 And the only reason

00:18:53.879 --> 00:18:54.920
 to remember his words

00:18:54.920 --> 00:18:56.259
 is because the grave

00:18:56.259 --> 00:18:56.839
 was empty.

00:18:57.599 --> 00:18:58.180
 His enemies

00:18:58.180 --> 00:18:59.359
 and his doubters

00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:00.680
 could never find the body.

00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:02.240
 his grave

00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:02.840
 was empty

00:19:02.840 --> 00:19:05.140
 and he appeared

00:19:05.140 --> 00:19:05.740
 alive.

00:19:06.940 --> 00:19:07.900
 It's only because

00:19:07.900 --> 00:19:08.620
 of the resurrection

00:19:08.620 --> 00:19:09.480
 that we still

00:19:09.480 --> 00:19:10.500
 remember these words.

00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:13.400
 And and because

00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:14.279
 of that it means

00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:14.940
 that we should look

00:19:14.940 --> 00:19:15.519
 a little bit more

00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:16.580
 carefully always

00:19:16.580 --> 00:19:18.140
 when we see

00:19:18.140 --> 00:19:19.240
 things like this

00:19:19.240 --> 00:19:20.000
 that supposedly

00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:21.140
 are just so easily

00:19:21.140 --> 00:19:23.060
 said to be wrong.

00:19:23.759 --> 00:19:24.299
 And the answer

00:19:24.299 --> 00:19:24.660
 as I said

00:19:24.660 --> 00:19:25.259
 comes in the

00:19:25.259 --> 00:19:26.460
 in the second

00:19:26.460 --> 00:19:27.779
 aspect of the context

00:19:27.779 --> 00:19:29.279
 and that's this

00:19:29.279 --> 00:19:31.240
 when Jesus answers

00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:32.379
 the original question

00:19:32.379 --> 00:19:33.240
 right

00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:34.139
 the stones

00:19:34.139 --> 00:19:34.480
 when are they

00:19:34.480 --> 00:19:35.099
 going to fall

00:19:35.099 --> 00:19:36.139
 when are they

00:19:36.139 --> 00:19:36.599
 all going to be

00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:37.000
 knocked out

00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:37.379
 when's this

00:19:37.379 --> 00:19:37.920
 going to happen

00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:39.099
 and if you look

00:19:39.099 --> 00:19:39.579
 then I think

00:19:39.579 --> 00:19:40.440
 it's from verse 5

00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:40.920
 right through

00:19:40.920 --> 00:19:41.899
 verse 37

00:19:41.899 --> 00:19:43.139
 Jesus is sort of

00:19:43.139 --> 00:19:44.339
 answering that

00:19:44.339 --> 00:19:44.940
 question

00:19:44.940 --> 00:19:46.079
 and he also

00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:46.740
 is answering

00:19:46.740 --> 00:19:47.700
 other questions

00:19:47.700 --> 00:19:48.480
 that would follow

00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:49.180
 if they thought

00:19:49.180 --> 00:19:49.559
 about it

00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:50.119
 like how is

00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:51.839
 how is life

00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:52.579
 going to continue

00:19:52.579 --> 00:19:53.539
 on if the temple

00:19:53.539 --> 00:19:54.039
 is gone

00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:55.039
 like how

00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:55.619
 how will

00:19:55.619 --> 00:19:56.439
 how can there

00:19:56.439 --> 00:19:57.099
 be any hope

00:19:57.099 --> 00:19:57.639
 if the temple

00:19:57.639 --> 00:19:58.099
 is gone

00:19:58.099 --> 00:19:59.039
 and if Jesus

00:19:59.039 --> 00:19:59.659
 if you die

00:19:59.659 --> 00:20:00.459
 how can there

00:20:00.459 --> 00:20:01.039
 be any hope

00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:01.579
 like what on earth

00:20:01.579 --> 00:20:02.539
 does that ever mean

00:20:02.539 --> 00:20:04.219
 so Jesus is in a sense

00:20:04.219 --> 00:20:05.199
 answering several

00:20:05.199 --> 00:20:06.279
 questions at the same

00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:07.079
 time as he gives

00:20:07.079 --> 00:20:07.659
 his answer

00:20:07.659 --> 00:20:09.639
 and it's just as if

00:20:09.639 --> 00:20:10.619
 if you've ever been

00:20:10.619 --> 00:20:11.559
 out in the west coast

00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:13.799
 and maybe if you've

00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:14.959
 taken a bit of a boat

00:20:14.959 --> 00:20:15.859
 or something like that

00:20:15.859 --> 00:20:16.719
 and you look at the

00:20:16.719 --> 00:20:17.500
 mountain ranges

00:20:17.500 --> 00:20:18.679
 off you know

00:20:18.679 --> 00:20:19.879
 on in BC

00:20:19.879 --> 00:20:21.399
 and if you look

00:20:21.399 --> 00:20:22.000
 at the mountains

00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:23.159
 it might look like

00:20:23.159 --> 00:20:23.839
 there's only one

00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:24.619
 mountain range

00:20:24.619 --> 00:20:25.399
 but if you actually

00:20:25.399 --> 00:20:25.819
 were to go

00:20:25.819 --> 00:20:26.599
 into a helicopter

00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:27.179
 you'd realize

00:20:27.179 --> 00:20:27.679
 that what you're

00:20:27.679 --> 00:20:28.159
 seeing are two

00:20:28.159 --> 00:20:28.819
 or three mountain

00:20:28.819 --> 00:20:29.579
 ranges that just

00:20:29.579 --> 00:20:30.339
 look like one

00:20:30.339 --> 00:20:31.419
 from your point

00:20:31.419 --> 00:20:31.759
 of view

00:20:31.759 --> 00:20:33.339
 and so what

00:20:33.339 --> 00:20:34.139
 Jesus is doing

00:20:34.139 --> 00:20:34.959
 is he's answering

00:20:34.959 --> 00:20:36.339
 a double question

00:20:36.339 --> 00:20:37.559
 with one single

00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:37.879
 word

00:20:37.879 --> 00:20:39.239
 he's referring

00:20:39.239 --> 00:20:40.019
 to two

00:20:40.019 --> 00:20:40.739
 of this

00:20:40.739 --> 00:20:41.399
 generations

00:20:41.399 --> 00:20:42.500
 on one hand

00:20:42.500 --> 00:20:44.459
 his first prophecy

00:20:44.459 --> 00:20:46.399
 is spectacularly

00:20:46.399 --> 00:20:46.819
 correct

00:20:46.819 --> 00:20:48.479
 Jesus died

00:20:48.479 --> 00:20:49.199
 according to how

00:20:49.199 --> 00:20:49.679
 you sort of

00:20:49.679 --> 00:20:50.159
 figure out

00:20:50.159 --> 00:20:51.159
 a couple of

00:20:51.159 --> 00:20:51.399
 things

00:20:51.399 --> 00:20:52.119
 he either died

00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:53.359
 in early April

00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:54.279
 of the year 30

00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:55.660
 or early April

00:20:55.660 --> 00:20:56.599
 of the year 33

00:20:56.599 --> 00:20:58.379
 that would be

00:20:58.379 --> 00:20:58.980
 agreed to

00:20:58.980 --> 00:20:59.799
 by scholars

00:20:59.799 --> 00:21:02.359
 and the destruction

00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:02.940
 of Jerusalem

00:21:02.940 --> 00:21:04.299
 was in the year 70

00:21:04.299 --> 00:21:06.059
 Jerusalem was destroyed

00:21:06.059 --> 00:21:06.980
 and the temple

00:21:06.980 --> 00:21:07.519
 was destroyed

00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:08.200
 in the year 70

00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:09.039
 and in Jewish

00:21:09.039 --> 00:21:09.519
 tradition

00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:10.200
 40 years

00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:10.960
 is a generation

00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:11.899
 40 years or less

00:21:11.899 --> 00:21:13.139
 and so Jesus

00:21:13.139 --> 00:21:13.799
 was correct

00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:14.680
 this generation

00:21:14.680 --> 00:21:16.039
 will not pass away

00:21:16.039 --> 00:21:17.000
 before that original

00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:18.099
 question is answered

00:21:18.099 --> 00:21:20.339
 and he's also

00:21:20.339 --> 00:21:21.599
 looking down the road

00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:23.339
 after the tribulation

00:21:23.339 --> 00:21:25.000
 and he's saying

00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:25.759
 that once those

00:21:25.759 --> 00:21:26.399
 first things

00:21:26.399 --> 00:21:27.259
 start to happen

00:21:27.259 --> 00:21:28.099
 it's going to happen

00:21:28.099 --> 00:21:29.159
 relatively quickly

00:21:29.159 --> 00:21:30.619
 and that that

00:21:30.619 --> 00:21:31.379
 it's not going to be

00:21:31.379 --> 00:21:32.119
 as if when these

00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:32.719
 things happen

00:21:32.719 --> 00:21:34.419
 the abomination

00:21:34.419 --> 00:21:35.000
 that causes

00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:35.639
 desolation

00:21:35.639 --> 00:21:36.279
 the tribulation

00:21:36.279 --> 00:21:36.579
 then you're going

00:21:36.579 --> 00:21:36.919
 to have to wait

00:21:36.919 --> 00:21:37.099
 another

00:21:37.099 --> 00:21:37.659
 no no no

00:21:37.659 --> 00:21:38.459
 once that starts

00:21:38.459 --> 00:21:38.859
 to happen

00:21:38.859 --> 00:21:39.559
 it's going to happen

00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:40.699
 everybody in that

00:21:40.699 --> 00:21:41.139
 generation

00:21:41.139 --> 00:21:41.959
 he's answering

00:21:41.959 --> 00:21:43.339
 two questions

00:21:43.339 --> 00:21:44.659
 with one phrase

00:21:44.659 --> 00:21:46.759
 that's a very

00:21:46.759 --> 00:21:47.639
 very simple way

00:21:47.639 --> 00:21:49.059
 to understand it

00:21:49.059 --> 00:21:50.179
 it's a double answer

00:21:50.179 --> 00:21:53.319
 now the next

00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:53.859
 little bit

00:21:53.859 --> 00:21:56.039
 helps to explain

00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:56.639
 why it is

00:21:56.639 --> 00:21:57.220
 that I would

00:21:57.220 --> 00:21:58.759
 want to press in

00:21:58.759 --> 00:22:00.339
 to think through

00:22:00.339 --> 00:22:00.819
 the answer

00:22:00.819 --> 00:22:01.419
 to the questions

00:22:01.419 --> 00:22:02.159
 before quickly

00:22:02.159 --> 00:22:03.259
 dismissing things

00:22:03.259 --> 00:22:04.939
 and just before

00:22:04.939 --> 00:22:05.539
 I read these

00:22:05.539 --> 00:22:06.539
 this very very

00:22:06.539 --> 00:22:07.899
 important next verse

00:22:07.899 --> 00:22:08.579
 next verse

00:22:08.579 --> 00:22:09.319
 verse 31

00:22:09.319 --> 00:22:10.019
 and I'll read

00:22:10.019 --> 00:22:11.079
 I think maybe 32

00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:12.139
 just shortly after that

00:22:12.140 --> 00:22:13.720
 but it's this

00:22:13.720 --> 00:22:16.460
 we're if you're

00:22:16.460 --> 00:22:17.160
 watching online

00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:18.500
 you might not know

00:22:18.500 --> 00:22:20.800
 that we're sort of

00:22:20.800 --> 00:22:21.759
 a more inner city

00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:23.259
 we meet in the

00:22:23.259 --> 00:22:23.820
 inner city

00:22:23.820 --> 00:22:25.240
 and we come from

00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:25.580
 all over

00:22:25.580 --> 00:22:27.000
 we're both a church

00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:27.780
 where people can

00:22:27.780 --> 00:22:28.460
 walk here

00:22:28.460 --> 00:22:29.940
 and we're also a

00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:30.560
 church that people

00:22:30.560 --> 00:22:31.540
 drive from all over

00:22:31.540 --> 00:22:32.060
 to come here

00:22:32.060 --> 00:22:32.680
 but if you come

00:22:32.680 --> 00:22:33.740
 downtown to Ottawa

00:22:33.740 --> 00:22:34.800
 one of the things

00:22:34.800 --> 00:22:35.180
 that you see

00:22:35.180 --> 00:22:35.980
 are street people

00:22:35.980 --> 00:22:37.720
 and so this past

00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:38.740
 Monday I was in

00:22:38.740 --> 00:22:39.380
 one of my favorite

00:22:39.380 --> 00:22:40.180
 coffee shops

00:22:40.180 --> 00:22:41.880
 and I'm sitting

00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:42.620
 there actually

00:22:42.620 --> 00:22:43.140
 trying to get

00:22:43.140 --> 00:22:43.560
 some of my

00:22:43.560 --> 00:22:44.440
 emails caught up

00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:45.000
 on some of you

00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:46.060
 know I'm very slow

00:22:46.060 --> 00:22:47.000
 I can be very slow

00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:47.640
 at responding to

00:22:47.640 --> 00:22:48.160
 emails I'm trying

00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:48.600
 to get caught up

00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:49.180
 on my emails

00:22:49.180 --> 00:22:49.720
 in my favorite

00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:50.300
 coffee shop

00:22:50.300 --> 00:22:51.540
 a homeless man

00:22:51.540 --> 00:22:53.200
 enters and he's

00:22:53.200 --> 00:22:54.120
 talking to himself

00:22:54.120 --> 00:22:55.700
 muttering to himself

00:22:55.700 --> 00:22:56.700
 sometimes just quiet

00:22:56.700 --> 00:22:57.280
 under his breath

00:22:57.280 --> 00:22:58.120
 and sometimes quite

00:22:58.120 --> 00:22:58.880
 loud as if he's

00:22:58.880 --> 00:22:59.640
 talking to another

00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:01.160
 person and he's

00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:02.300
 all disheveled

00:23:02.300 --> 00:23:03.040
 and he's dirty

00:23:03.040 --> 00:23:04.200
 and he has piles

00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:05.300
 of layers of clothing

00:23:05.300 --> 00:23:06.060
 and he has several

00:23:06.060 --> 00:23:07.440
 bags and he gets

00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:08.460
 a free glass of

00:23:08.460 --> 00:23:09.160
 water from the

00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:09.880
 coffee shop and

00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:10.500
 then he goes and

00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:11.279
 sort of takes up

00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:12.920
 a corner of the

00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:14.579
 coffee shop talking

00:23:14.579 --> 00:23:15.440
 away to himself

00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:16.279
 and occasionally

00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:17.180
 he'd start to walk

00:23:17.180 --> 00:23:17.579
 around

00:23:17.579 --> 00:23:19.000
 now I have to

00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.259
 confess I'm not

00:23:21.259 --> 00:23:22.119
 a brave person

00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:23.059
 but he would

00:23:23.059 --> 00:23:24.259
 often stand behind

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:25.079
 me and talk

00:23:25.079 --> 00:23:26.660
 and I have to

00:23:26.660 --> 00:23:27.200
 confess it made

00:23:27.200 --> 00:23:27.940
 me a bit nervous

00:23:27.940 --> 00:23:30.839
 but you know

00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:32.660
 if Andrew or

00:23:32.660 --> 00:23:33.460
 Shershear stood

00:23:33.460 --> 00:23:34.299
 behind me I

00:23:34.299 --> 00:23:35.759
 wouldn't like feel

00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:36.539
 nervous maybe I

00:23:36.539 --> 00:23:37.119
 should I don't

00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:37.819
 know but I

00:23:37.819 --> 00:23:38.480
 wouldn't I don't

00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:39.759
 feel nervous and

00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:40.660
 I want to extend

00:23:40.660 --> 00:23:41.400
 to street people

00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:42.180
 the dignity of

00:23:42.180 --> 00:23:43.120
 being human beings

00:23:43.120 --> 00:23:44.980
 and not treat them

00:23:44.980 --> 00:23:45.799
 as if they're like

00:23:45.799 --> 00:23:47.079
 terrible so I

00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:47.660
 didn't look I

00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:48.779
 inwardly I'm a bit

00:23:48.779 --> 00:23:49.680
 nervous why is this

00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:50.539
 guy muttering to

00:23:50.539 --> 00:23:51.380
 himself saying who

00:23:51.380 --> 00:23:51.920
 knows what's

00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:52.480
 standing directly

00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:54.099
 behind me eventually

00:23:54.099 --> 00:23:54.900
 he came and stood

00:23:54.900 --> 00:23:55.559
 right in front of

00:23:55.559 --> 00:23:57.059
 me got within this

00:23:57.059 --> 00:23:58.240
 this close to me and

00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:59.220
 started to speak to

00:23:59.220 --> 00:24:00.920
 me and his eyes

00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:01.819
 would be both very

00:24:01.819 --> 00:24:02.700
 direct and then dart

00:24:02.700 --> 00:24:03.599
 off and dart off and

00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:04.480
 then very direct and

00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:05.480
 dart off and dart off

00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:06.059
 and look at me

00:24:06.059 --> 00:24:07.259
 directly saying

00:24:07.259 --> 00:24:09.220
 gibberish just

00:24:09.220 --> 00:24:10.000
 saying gibberish

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:11.980
 and in fact he was

00:24:11.980 --> 00:24:12.980
 so in my face that

00:24:12.980 --> 00:24:14.039
 the manager got up

00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:15.259
 and had a word with

00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:16.740
 him about the

00:24:16.740 --> 00:24:17.940
 whole thing now

00:24:17.940 --> 00:24:18.919
 keep this image in

00:24:18.919 --> 00:24:19.740
 mind those of us

00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:21.059
 who come here know

00:24:21.059 --> 00:24:22.099
 we're very familiar

00:24:22.099 --> 00:24:23.259
 with street people

00:24:23.259 --> 00:24:24.480
 like this and

00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:25.139
 listen to the very

00:24:25.139 --> 00:24:25.899
 next thing Jesus

00:24:25.899 --> 00:24:26.679
 has just said

00:24:26.679 --> 00:24:29.619
 verse 30 truly I

00:24:29.619 --> 00:24:30.139
 say to you this

00:24:30.139 --> 00:24:30.899
 generation will not

00:24:30.899 --> 00:24:31.740
 pass away until all

00:24:31.740 --> 00:24:32.440
 these things take

00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:33.019
 place and then

00:24:33.019 --> 00:24:34.779
 listen this is the

00:24:34.779 --> 00:24:35.519
 thing that should

00:24:35.519 --> 00:24:36.619
 get people bothered

00:24:36.619 --> 00:24:38.379
 is this verse

00:24:38.379 --> 00:24:40.799
 heaven and earth

00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:41.740
 will pass away

00:24:41.740 --> 00:24:42.480
 verse 31

00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:43.359
 heaven and earth

00:24:43.359 --> 00:24:44.240
 will pass away

00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:45.559
 but my words

00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:46.879
 will not pass away

00:24:46.879 --> 00:24:48.059
 I'll say it again

00:24:48.059 --> 00:24:49.700
 heaven and earth

00:24:49.700 --> 00:24:51.039
 will pass away

00:24:51.039 --> 00:24:52.799
 but my words

00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:53.740
 will not

00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:54.819
 pass

00:24:54.819 --> 00:24:55.619
 away

00:24:55.619 --> 00:24:59.940
 now

00:24:59.940 --> 00:25:00.900
 let's be

00:25:00.900 --> 00:25:01.359
 frank

00:25:01.359 --> 00:25:05.679
 in any context

00:25:05.679 --> 00:25:06.759
 other than one

00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:09.119
 this is the talk

00:25:09.119 --> 00:25:10.079
 of a mentally

00:25:10.079 --> 00:25:10.779
 ill man

00:25:10.779 --> 00:25:13.879
 this is exactly

00:25:13.879 --> 00:25:14.859
 the sort of thing

00:25:14.859 --> 00:25:16.000
 that you would

00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:16.579
 expect

00:25:16.579 --> 00:25:18.399
 that street person

00:25:18.399 --> 00:25:18.819
 to say

00:25:18.819 --> 00:25:20.579
 I have had

00:25:20.579 --> 00:25:21.639
 street people

00:25:21.639 --> 00:25:22.799
 say to me

00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:24.500
 as they sit there

00:25:24.500 --> 00:25:25.839
 in all their stench

00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:27.339
 that if I knew

00:25:27.339 --> 00:25:28.139
 who they really were

00:25:28.139 --> 00:25:28.819
 I would fall down

00:25:28.819 --> 00:25:29.539
 and worship them

00:25:29.539 --> 00:25:30.339
 I'm not making

00:25:30.339 --> 00:25:30.599
 that up

00:25:30.599 --> 00:25:31.099
 I've had that

00:25:31.099 --> 00:25:31.819
 I've had people

00:25:31.819 --> 00:25:32.259
 tell me

00:25:32.259 --> 00:25:32.859
 with a very

00:25:32.859 --> 00:25:33.339
 solemn

00:25:33.339 --> 00:25:34.240
 straight face

00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:35.740
 because they

00:25:35.740 --> 00:25:36.240
 believe it

00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:36.839
 to the depths

00:25:36.839 --> 00:25:37.319
 of whatever

00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:37.839
 their depths

00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:38.119
 are

00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:39.720
 and to say

00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:40.579
 that my words

00:25:40.579 --> 00:25:41.259
 heaven and earth

00:25:41.259 --> 00:25:41.960
 will pass away

00:25:41.960 --> 00:25:42.680
 but my words

00:25:42.680 --> 00:25:43.639
 will not pass away

00:25:43.639 --> 00:25:45.599
 on any account

00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:46.240
 other than one

00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:46.899
 it is the sound

00:25:46.899 --> 00:25:48.000
 of a crazy person

00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:50.180
 now

00:25:50.180 --> 00:25:51.519
 see here's the thing

00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:54.539
 by and large

00:25:54.539 --> 00:25:57.799
 the Christian faith

00:25:57.799 --> 00:25:58.779
 hasn't been rejected

00:25:58.779 --> 00:25:59.759
 in our culture

00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:01.339
 because people

00:26:01.339 --> 00:26:02.019
 have engaged

00:26:02.019 --> 00:26:02.859
 in a serious

00:26:02.859 --> 00:26:04.359
 intellectual search

00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:05.700
 and looked at

00:26:05.700 --> 00:26:06.460
 Christianity

00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:08.599
 very deeply

00:26:08.599 --> 00:26:09.539
 I don't mean

00:26:09.539 --> 00:26:10.039
 to offend

00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:10.720
 but generally

00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:11.180
 speaking

00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:12.039
 people have been

00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:12.500
 involved

00:26:12.500 --> 00:26:13.720
 in a serious

00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:14.900
 intellectual search

00:26:14.900 --> 00:26:16.500
 and then rejected

00:26:16.500 --> 00:26:16.980
 it because

00:26:16.980 --> 00:26:17.759
 there's far better

00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:18.599
 answers to the

00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:19.359
 different riddles

00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:19.940
 and puzzles

00:26:19.940 --> 00:26:20.740
 that it poses

00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:23.319
 I mean the fact

00:26:23.319 --> 00:26:23.759
 is

00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:25.180
 whether it's

00:26:25.180 --> 00:26:25.579
 somebody like

00:26:25.579 --> 00:26:26.279
 a Bart Ehrman

00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:27.980
 who's a skeptic

00:26:27.980 --> 00:26:28.500
 and he would be

00:26:28.500 --> 00:26:28.900
 a person

00:26:28.900 --> 00:26:29.299
 who's a bit

00:26:29.299 --> 00:26:29.720
 different

00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:31.380
 obviously because

00:26:31.380 --> 00:26:32.000
 of his background

00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:32.640
 he has studied

00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:33.319
 these things

00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.200
 but there's never

00:26:36.200 --> 00:26:37.319
 been an adequate

00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:38.240
 explanation

00:26:38.240 --> 00:26:38.839
 other than

00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:39.799
 the Christian one

00:26:39.799 --> 00:26:40.599
 as to why

00:26:40.599 --> 00:26:40.940
 on earth

00:26:40.940 --> 00:26:41.900
 anybody even

00:26:41.900 --> 00:26:42.420
 knows who

00:26:42.420 --> 00:26:43.160
 Jesus is

00:26:43.160 --> 00:26:44.120
 hundreds of

00:26:44.120 --> 00:26:44.700
 thousands of

00:26:44.700 --> 00:26:45.200
 people died

00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:46.259
 by crucifixion

00:26:46.259 --> 00:26:49.200
 hundreds of

00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:49.960
 thousands of

00:26:49.960 --> 00:26:50.200
 them

00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:53.200
 why is it

00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:53.660
 that anybody

00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:54.240
 remembers

00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:54.640
 Jesus'

00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:55.279
 words

00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:56.080
 how is there

00:26:56.080 --> 00:26:56.420
 a better

00:26:56.420 --> 00:26:56.900
 explanation

00:26:56.900 --> 00:26:57.680
 for that

00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:58.500
 than the fact

00:26:58.500 --> 00:26:58.819
 that the

00:26:58.819 --> 00:26:59.259
 grave was

00:26:59.259 --> 00:26:59.819
 he died

00:26:59.819 --> 00:27:00.360
 on a cross

00:27:00.360 --> 00:27:00.819
 the grave

00:27:00.819 --> 00:27:01.240
 is empty

00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:01.740
 he appeared

00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:02.160
 alive

00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:03.160
 like what's

00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:03.460
 a better

00:27:03.460 --> 00:27:04.039
 explanation

00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:04.360
 of it

00:27:04.360 --> 00:27:04.759
 than that

00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:05.759
 there isn't

00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:06.000
 one

00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.500
 and what's

00:27:08.500 --> 00:27:08.779
 a better

00:27:08.779 --> 00:27:09.360
 explanation

00:27:09.360 --> 00:27:09.660
 of it

00:27:09.660 --> 00:27:10.000
 the fact

00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:10.279
 that we

00:27:10.279 --> 00:27:10.840
 do have

00:27:10.840 --> 00:27:11.519
 a good

00:27:11.519 --> 00:27:12.140
 historical

00:27:12.140 --> 00:27:12.539
 record

00:27:12.539 --> 00:27:13.120
 of Jesus

00:27:13.120 --> 00:27:13.660
 even

00:27:13.660 --> 00:27:14.539
 Bart Ehrman

00:27:14.539 --> 00:27:15.839
 that great

00:27:15.839 --> 00:27:16.659
 skeptic

00:27:16.659 --> 00:27:17.720
 would say

00:27:17.720 --> 00:27:18.299
 that in

00:27:18.299 --> 00:27:18.599
 fact

00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:18.960
 there is

00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:19.339
 lots

00:27:19.339 --> 00:27:19.579
 that we

00:27:19.579 --> 00:27:19.740
 know

00:27:19.740 --> 00:27:20.039
 about

00:27:20.039 --> 00:27:20.379
 Jesus

00:27:20.379 --> 00:27:20.960
 that he's

00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:21.220
 in fact

00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:21.460
 one of

00:27:21.460 --> 00:27:21.799
 the best

00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:22.119
 known

00:27:22.119 --> 00:27:23.319
 figures

00:27:23.319 --> 00:27:23.899
 in the

00:27:23.899 --> 00:27:24.200
 ancient

00:27:24.200 --> 00:27:24.639
 world

00:27:24.639 --> 00:27:26.079
 and how

00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:26.539
 is it

00:27:26.539 --> 00:27:29.619
 that Jesus

00:27:29.619 --> 00:27:30.099
 can say

00:27:30.099 --> 00:27:30.720
 something like

00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:31.059
 this

00:27:31.059 --> 00:27:31.720
 and the fact

00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:32.039
 the matter

00:27:32.039 --> 00:27:32.420
 is

00:27:32.420 --> 00:27:33.640
 these men

00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:34.259
 who recorded

00:27:34.259 --> 00:27:34.720
 this

00:27:34.720 --> 00:27:36.680
 they'd spent

00:27:36.680 --> 00:27:37.259
 three years

00:27:37.259 --> 00:27:37.980
 with Jesus

00:27:37.980 --> 00:27:39.720
 mental illness

00:27:39.720 --> 00:27:40.279
 existed

00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:40.819
 back in

00:27:40.819 --> 00:27:41.559
 those days

00:27:41.559 --> 00:27:42.759
 there's even

00:27:42.759 --> 00:27:43.220
 if you go

00:27:43.220 --> 00:27:43.400
 back

00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:43.819
 there's a very

00:27:43.819 --> 00:27:44.259
 interesting

00:27:44.259 --> 00:27:44.980
 story about

00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:45.680
 King David

00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:46.700
 it's when

00:27:46.700 --> 00:27:47.079
 he'd been

00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:47.640
 fleeing from

00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:47.980
 Saul

00:27:47.980 --> 00:27:48.319
 if you're

00:27:48.319 --> 00:27:48.640
 outside

00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:49.759
 you're not

00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:50.059
 familiar

00:27:50.059 --> 00:27:50.380
 if you're

00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:50.880
 watching this

00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:51.480
 as a seeker

00:27:51.480 --> 00:27:52.400
 it's a story

00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:52.900
 in what our

00:27:52.900 --> 00:27:53.420
 Jewish friends

00:27:53.420 --> 00:27:53.900
 call the

00:27:53.900 --> 00:27:55.140
 Old Testament

00:27:55.140 --> 00:27:55.680
 it's a story

00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:56.140
 about King

00:27:56.140 --> 00:27:56.480
 David

00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:57.460
 that he was

00:27:57.460 --> 00:27:57.880
 fleeing

00:27:57.880 --> 00:27:58.579
 and so he

00:27:58.579 --> 00:27:59.019
 spent some

00:27:59.019 --> 00:27:59.440
 time in a

00:27:59.440 --> 00:28:00.120
 pagan nation

00:28:00.120 --> 00:28:00.720
 and he started

00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:01.400
 to understand

00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:01.700
 that the

00:28:01.700 --> 00:28:02.799
 pagan king

00:28:02.799 --> 00:28:03.279
 and his

00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:03.740
 court were

00:28:03.740 --> 00:28:04.100
 maybe going

00:28:04.100 --> 00:28:04.960
 to kill

00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:05.160
 him

00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:06.180
 and so

00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:06.580
 to get

00:28:06.580 --> 00:28:06.860
 out of

00:28:06.860 --> 00:28:07.319
 the problem

00:28:07.319 --> 00:28:07.960
 he pretended

00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:08.299
 he was

00:28:08.299 --> 00:28:08.740
 insane

00:28:08.740 --> 00:28:10.799
 and so

00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:11.160
 there's this

00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:11.900
 very interesting

00:28:11.900 --> 00:28:12.440
 line where

00:28:12.440 --> 00:28:12.799
 the king

00:28:12.799 --> 00:28:13.180
 says

00:28:13.180 --> 00:28:14.120
 don't I

00:28:14.120 --> 00:28:14.580
 have enough

00:28:14.580 --> 00:28:15.319
 crazy people

00:28:15.319 --> 00:28:15.620
 in my

00:28:15.620 --> 00:28:15.980
 country

00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:16.480
 why do I

00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:16.900
 need another

00:28:16.900 --> 00:28:17.100
 one

00:28:17.100 --> 00:28:17.500
 kick them

00:28:17.500 --> 00:28:17.779
 out of

00:28:17.779 --> 00:28:18.000
 here

00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:18.960
 and so

00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:19.299
 David

00:28:19.299 --> 00:28:20.039
 was able

00:28:20.039 --> 00:28:20.380
 to live

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:20.759
 to another

00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:21.039
 day

00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:21.380
 so they

00:28:21.380 --> 00:28:21.840
 had mentally

00:28:21.840 --> 00:28:22.380
 ill people

00:28:22.380 --> 00:28:23.640
 and we

00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:23.960
 all know

00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:24.400
 what mentally

00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:24.880
 ill people

00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:25.380
 are like

00:28:25.380 --> 00:28:26.960
 like we

00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:27.319
 all know

00:28:27.319 --> 00:28:27.559
 them

00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:28.759
 why is it

00:28:28.759 --> 00:28:29.100
 that these

00:28:29.100 --> 00:28:29.880
 three these

00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:30.400
 men spent

00:28:30.400 --> 00:28:30.920
 three years

00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:31.420
 with Jesus

00:28:31.420 --> 00:28:31.920
 and never

00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:32.440
 once did

00:28:32.440 --> 00:28:33.140
 mental illness

00:28:33.140 --> 00:28:33.580
 come into

00:28:33.580 --> 00:28:33.940
 their mind

00:28:33.940 --> 00:28:34.519
 and how is it

00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:35.000
 that we can

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:35.500
 read these

00:28:35.500 --> 00:28:36.460
 words and

00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:37.060
 there's nothing

00:28:37.060 --> 00:28:37.600
 about the

00:28:37.600 --> 00:28:38.039
 words of

00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:38.640
 Jesus that

00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:39.680
 suggest mental

00:28:39.680 --> 00:28:40.680
 illness and

00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:41.279
 the only other

00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:41.900
 option would be

00:28:41.900 --> 00:28:42.700
 that he lies

00:28:42.700 --> 00:28:43.860
 but there's no

00:28:43.860 --> 00:28:44.580
 reason to think

00:28:44.580 --> 00:28:45.340
 like why would he

00:28:45.340 --> 00:28:46.400
 lie about that

00:28:46.400 --> 00:28:47.000
 like there's no

00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:47.580
 reason to think

00:28:47.580 --> 00:28:48.160
 he's lying

00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:49.779
 the only explanation

00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:49.800
 the only explanation

00:28:49.800 --> 00:28:50.640
 for his words

00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:51.380
 are that he's

00:28:51.380 --> 00:28:51.759
 God

00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:55.140
 that he's

00:28:55.140 --> 00:28:55.560
 God

00:28:55.560 --> 00:28:57.620
 he's not

00:28:57.620 --> 00:28:58.120
 crazy

00:28:58.120 --> 00:28:59.860
 and it's this

00:28:59.860 --> 00:29:00.500
 statement by

00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:01.160
 Jesus that

00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:01.940
 grounds the

00:29:01.940 --> 00:29:02.420
 Christians

00:29:02.420 --> 00:29:03.320
 confidence in

00:29:03.320 --> 00:29:03.580
 the New

00:29:03.580 --> 00:29:04.000
 Testament

00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:04.940
 sort of beyond

00:29:04.940 --> 00:29:05.440
 the purpose

00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:05.779
 of this

00:29:05.779 --> 00:29:06.100
 sermon

00:29:06.100 --> 00:29:07.340
 but this

00:29:07.340 --> 00:29:07.779
 promise

00:29:07.779 --> 00:29:08.420
 this solemn

00:29:08.420 --> 00:29:09.000
 promise

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:09.680
 by God

00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:10.080
 the son

00:29:10.080 --> 00:29:10.600
 of God

00:29:10.600 --> 00:29:12.680
 that his

00:29:12.680 --> 00:29:13.320
 words

00:29:13.320 --> 00:29:14.500
 who he is

00:29:14.500 --> 00:29:15.320
 his words

00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:15.899
 his work

00:29:15.899 --> 00:29:16.399
 his mission

00:29:16.399 --> 00:29:16.960
 his promises

00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:17.319
 that they

00:29:17.319 --> 00:29:17.639
 would be

00:29:17.639 --> 00:29:18.139
 remembered

00:29:18.139 --> 00:29:18.919
 that that's

00:29:18.919 --> 00:29:19.559
 that they

00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:20.019
 would not

00:29:20.019 --> 00:29:20.559
 pass away

00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:21.039
 that's what

00:29:21.039 --> 00:29:21.720
 grounds our

00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:22.419
 confidence

00:29:22.419 --> 00:29:22.899
 in the New

00:29:22.899 --> 00:29:23.279
 Testament

00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:23.839
 is that

00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:24.539
 witness

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:25.539
 to the

00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:25.960
 ministry

00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:26.579
 and mission

00:29:26.579 --> 00:29:27.259
 and intention

00:29:27.259 --> 00:29:27.939
 and purposes

00:29:27.939 --> 00:29:28.899
 of Jesus

00:29:28.899 --> 00:29:33.279
 but some

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:34.179
 people ask

00:29:34.179 --> 00:29:35.439
 okay

00:29:35.439 --> 00:29:38.879
 George you

00:29:38.879 --> 00:29:39.359
 went in

00:29:39.359 --> 00:29:40.779
 like unexpected

00:29:40.779 --> 00:29:41.679
 directions

00:29:41.679 --> 00:29:44.119
 okay but

00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:44.819
 here's the

00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:46.319
 here's the

00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:46.740
 problem

00:29:46.740 --> 00:29:47.759
 like remember

00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:48.139
 you just

00:29:48.139 --> 00:29:48.819
 explained how

00:29:48.819 --> 00:29:49.399
 to understand

00:29:49.399 --> 00:29:50.119
 verse 30

00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:51.359
 you know

00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:52.079
 this generation

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:52.439
 will not

00:29:52.439 --> 00:29:53.139
 pass away

00:29:53.139 --> 00:29:54.740
 like if

00:29:54.740 --> 00:29:55.619
 it's actually

00:29:55.619 --> 00:29:56.700
 God's word

00:29:56.700 --> 00:29:58.519
 if it's actually

00:29:58.519 --> 00:29:59.579
 God speaking

00:29:59.579 --> 00:30:00.299
 why is it

00:30:00.299 --> 00:30:00.779
 that it's so

00:30:00.779 --> 00:30:01.240
 hard to

00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:01.700
 interpret

00:30:01.700 --> 00:30:02.500
 verse 30

00:30:02.500 --> 00:30:03.279
 like why is

00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:03.779
 it that people

00:30:03.779 --> 00:30:04.659
 get that wrong

00:30:04.659 --> 00:30:05.799
 if it's actually

00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:06.559
 God who's

00:30:06.559 --> 00:30:07.200
 speaking why

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:07.639
 aren't these

00:30:07.639 --> 00:30:08.119
 words like

00:30:08.119 --> 00:30:08.759
 sort of simple

00:30:08.759 --> 00:30:09.359
 and easy to

00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:10.019
 understand

00:30:10.019 --> 00:30:12.539
 well that's a

00:30:12.539 --> 00:30:12.919
 very good

00:30:12.919 --> 00:30:13.460
 question

00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:15.480
 and I

00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:15.779
 need to

00:30:15.779 --> 00:30:16.680
 watch my

00:30:16.680 --> 00:30:17.140
 time and

00:30:17.140 --> 00:30:17.319
 I'm going

00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:17.759
 to answer

00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:18.259
 it by

00:30:18.259 --> 00:30:19.019
 actually making

00:30:19.019 --> 00:30:19.579
 it harder

00:30:19.579 --> 00:30:21.140
 first and

00:30:21.140 --> 00:30:21.920
 when I make

00:30:21.920 --> 00:30:22.420
 it harder

00:30:22.420 --> 00:30:23.860
 first it's

00:30:23.860 --> 00:30:24.279
 easier to

00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:26.319
 understand the

00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:26.759
 answer to the

00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:27.420
 question look

00:30:27.420 --> 00:30:28.360
 at verse 32

00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:30.539
 but concerning

00:30:30.539 --> 00:30:31.199
 that day or

00:30:31.199 --> 00:30:31.779
 that hour

00:30:31.779 --> 00:30:33.219
 no one knows

00:30:33.219 --> 00:30:34.019
 not even the

00:30:34.019 --> 00:30:34.659
 angels in

00:30:34.659 --> 00:30:35.319
 heaven nor

00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:36.359
 the son but

00:30:36.359 --> 00:30:36.899
 only the

00:30:36.899 --> 00:30:37.319
 father

00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:38.059
 what

00:30:38.059 --> 00:30:41.479
 how could

00:30:41.479 --> 00:30:42.939
 by the way

00:30:42.939 --> 00:30:43.699
 here this is a

00:30:43.699 --> 00:30:44.679
 profound claim

00:30:44.679 --> 00:30:45.500
 by Jesus of

00:30:45.500 --> 00:30:46.159
 divinity he

00:30:46.159 --> 00:30:46.699
 refers to

00:30:46.699 --> 00:30:47.299
 himself as

00:30:47.299 --> 00:30:48.039
 the son

00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:49.539
 of God

00:30:49.539 --> 00:30:50.219
 the son of

00:30:50.219 --> 00:30:50.740
 the father

00:30:50.740 --> 00:30:53.359
 but how

00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:54.359
 could it be

00:30:54.359 --> 00:30:55.079
 that his

00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:55.559
 words will

00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:56.079
 not pass

00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:56.539
 away that

00:30:56.539 --> 00:30:57.479
 he's God

00:30:57.480 --> 00:30:58.779
 and he

00:30:58.779 --> 00:30:59.500
 doesn't know

00:30:59.500 --> 00:31:00.500
 something

00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:05.960
 so

00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:10.339
 the answer

00:31:10.339 --> 00:31:11.799
 is the

00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:12.460
 most important

00:31:12.460 --> 00:31:13.339
 Christian virtue

00:31:13.339 --> 00:31:15.220
 and the

00:31:15.220 --> 00:31:16.059
 answer comes

00:31:16.059 --> 00:31:16.480
 down to

00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:16.960
 humility

00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:22.640
 I told a

00:31:22.640 --> 00:31:24.140
 gay friend

00:31:24.140 --> 00:31:25.200
 once when

00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:25.579
 he said

00:31:25.579 --> 00:31:26.460
 asked me

00:31:26.460 --> 00:31:27.519
 he wasn't

00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:27.900
 trying to get

00:31:27.900 --> 00:31:28.120
 me in

00:31:28.120 --> 00:31:28.519
 trouble he

00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:28.819
 was sort

00:31:28.819 --> 00:31:29.620
 of laughing

00:31:29.620 --> 00:31:30.500
 he said

00:31:30.500 --> 00:31:30.880
 why don't

00:31:30.880 --> 00:31:31.400
 you celebrate

00:31:31.400 --> 00:31:32.019
 gay pride

00:31:32.019 --> 00:31:32.579
 day and

00:31:32.579 --> 00:31:32.880
 I caught

00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:33.160
 him by

00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:33.799
 surprise by

00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:34.240
 saying well

00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:34.759
 pride is

00:31:34.759 --> 00:31:36.500
 considered a

00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:36.779
 sin

00:31:36.779 --> 00:31:38.940
 why would

00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:39.259
 I walk

00:31:39.259 --> 00:31:39.680
 in a sin

00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:40.779
 day he

00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:41.220
 was expecting

00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:41.500
 me to say

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:41.960
 something about

00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:42.640
 gay it

00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:43.039
 caught him by

00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:43.559
 surprise when I

00:31:43.559 --> 00:31:43.940
 talked about

00:31:43.940 --> 00:31:44.319
 pride I

00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:44.539
 said the

00:31:44.539 --> 00:31:45.019
 great Christian

00:31:45.019 --> 00:31:45.519
 virtue is

00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:45.859
 humility

00:31:45.859 --> 00:31:47.200
 I said so

00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:47.519
 I don't know

00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:47.960
 maybe if you

00:31:47.960 --> 00:31:48.279
 called it

00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:48.859
 gay humility

00:31:48.859 --> 00:31:49.779
 day maybe I

00:31:49.779 --> 00:31:50.079
 don't know

00:31:50.079 --> 00:31:50.659
 it would be

00:31:50.659 --> 00:31:51.279
 different and

00:31:51.279 --> 00:31:53.259
 conversation moved

00:31:53.259 --> 00:31:53.740
 on because he

00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:54.059
 was just

00:31:54.059 --> 00:31:54.819
 joshing with me

00:31:54.819 --> 00:31:55.339
 trying to pull

00:31:55.339 --> 00:31:55.899
 my chain

00:31:55.899 --> 00:31:57.440
 the answer is

00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:58.359
 humility this

00:31:58.359 --> 00:31:58.960
 great Christian

00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:00.099
 virtue that the

00:32:00.099 --> 00:32:01.619
 gospel forms in

00:32:01.619 --> 00:32:02.279
 us that there's

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:03.019
 stories like this

00:32:03.019 --> 00:32:03.879
 format us in a

00:32:03.879 --> 00:32:04.599
 different way that

00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:05.559
 it draws us to

00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:06.519
 and grounds and

00:32:06.519 --> 00:32:07.819
 pushes us towards

00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:09.159
 see the fact the

00:32:09.159 --> 00:32:10.019
 matter is is that

00:32:10.019 --> 00:32:10.940
 when Jesus says

00:32:10.940 --> 00:32:11.940
 and he also says

00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:12.839
 in other places that

00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:13.480
 in a sense when you

00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:13.940
 read the Old

00:32:13.940 --> 00:32:14.460
 Testament you

00:32:14.460 --> 00:32:14.880
 hear God

00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:16.340
 speaking and in

00:32:16.340 --> 00:32:16.880
 a sense he's

00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:17.680
 looking down a

00:32:17.680 --> 00:32:18.320
 few years and

00:32:18.320 --> 00:32:18.799
 saying when you

00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:19.220
 read the New

00:32:19.220 --> 00:32:19.900
 Testament you're

00:32:19.900 --> 00:32:20.420
 hearing me

00:32:20.420 --> 00:32:21.039
 speaking you're

00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:21.539
 hearing God

00:32:21.539 --> 00:32:22.720
 speaking just

00:32:22.720 --> 00:32:23.519
 because those

00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:24.120
 words are

00:32:24.120 --> 00:32:25.140
 inspired doesn't

00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:26.680
 mean my mind is

00:32:26.680 --> 00:32:27.440
 perfect and

00:32:27.440 --> 00:32:29.559
 inspired in fact it

00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:30.400
 should tell me the

00:32:30.400 --> 00:32:32.740
 opposite it should

00:32:32.740 --> 00:32:33.799
 tell me that I

00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:34.920
 have to constantly

00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.440
 be humble before

00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.100
 God's word that I

00:32:40.100 --> 00:32:41.019
 have to bow to

00:32:41.019 --> 00:32:43.519
 it that this

00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:44.559
 promise of Jesus

00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:45.559
 about his word is

00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:46.299
 not a promise

00:32:46.299 --> 00:32:47.539
 about my mind

00:32:47.539 --> 00:32:49.079
 but a promise

00:32:49.079 --> 00:32:49.920
 about his word

00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:52.279
 and that I have

00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:53.139
 to humble myself

00:32:53.139 --> 00:32:53.940
 before the word

00:32:53.940 --> 00:32:55.319
 and humble myself

00:32:55.319 --> 00:32:56.099
 means that I will

00:32:56.099 --> 00:32:56.839
 come to realize

00:32:56.839 --> 00:32:57.799
 that I wasn't

00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:58.660
 right at different

00:32:58.660 --> 00:32:59.660
 times I got some

00:32:59.660 --> 00:33:00.539
 of the interpretations

00:33:00.539 --> 00:33:02.420
 wrong you see

00:33:02.420 --> 00:33:04.379
 if it is from in

00:33:04.379 --> 00:33:05.139
 fact if you think

00:33:05.139 --> 00:33:05.660
 about it for a

00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:06.220
 second if it

00:33:06.220 --> 00:33:07.240
 actually is God

00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:09.119
 speaking and it

00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:10.259
 never says hard

00:33:10.259 --> 00:33:11.160
 things or never

00:33:11.160 --> 00:33:12.580
 gives things which

00:33:12.580 --> 00:33:13.000
 are hard to

00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:13.779
 understand then

00:33:13.779 --> 00:33:14.400
 why should we

00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:14.920
 really actually

00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:15.620
 believe that it's

00:33:15.620 --> 00:33:20.519
 from God or is

00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:21.140
 that just like a

00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:22.860
 fantasy like why

00:33:22.860 --> 00:33:23.440
 is it that it

00:33:23.440 --> 00:33:24.300
 comes from God

00:33:24.300 --> 00:33:25.420
 therefore it has to

00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:26.019
 be easy to

00:33:26.019 --> 00:33:26.779
 understand like that

00:33:26.779 --> 00:33:27.440
 doesn't make any

00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:29.900
 sense that's all

00:33:29.900 --> 00:33:31.040
 part of our desire

00:33:31.040 --> 00:33:32.060
 to make ourselves

00:33:32.060 --> 00:33:33.460
 like God's but to

00:33:33.460 --> 00:33:34.259
 actually hear the

00:33:34.259 --> 00:33:35.300
 real true living

00:33:35.300 --> 00:33:36.680
 God who's created

00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:37.460
 and sustained all

00:33:37.460 --> 00:33:38.040
 things and to

00:33:38.040 --> 00:33:38.680
 realize that you're

00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:39.360
 coming and to hear

00:33:39.359 --> 00:33:40.039
 his word that

00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:41.199
 should humble me

00:33:41.199 --> 00:33:43.279
 and humble you

00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:44.599
 and the other

00:33:44.599 --> 00:33:45.339
 thing is and this

00:33:45.339 --> 00:33:46.219
 is so completely

00:33:46.219 --> 00:33:46.759
 and utterly

00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:47.719
 counterintuitive

00:33:47.719 --> 00:33:50.039
 because if I was

00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:51.459
 God I'd want you

00:33:51.459 --> 00:33:54.819
 to know and

00:33:54.819 --> 00:33:55.740
 frankly I'd like a

00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:56.219
 little bit more

00:33:56.219 --> 00:33:58.579
 respect and I'd

00:33:58.579 --> 00:33:59.179
 like a little bit

00:33:59.179 --> 00:34:01.579
 more deference and

00:34:01.579 --> 00:34:02.740
 I'd like a few more

00:34:02.740 --> 00:34:05.219
 toys and that's

00:34:05.219 --> 00:34:05.500
 what it would be

00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:06.299
 like if I was even

00:34:06.299 --> 00:34:07.819
 a demigod or a

00:34:07.819 --> 00:34:10.960
 semi-God what puzzles

00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:12.360
 us is the humble

00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:15.659
 God it goes against

00:34:15.659 --> 00:34:17.460
 everything within us

00:34:17.460 --> 00:34:19.940
 on one level to

00:34:19.940 --> 00:34:20.920
 think that God might

00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:22.619
 humble himself for

00:34:22.619 --> 00:34:25.599
 us and so the

00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:26.259
 answer is very

00:34:26.259 --> 00:34:27.860
 simple in coming

00:34:27.860 --> 00:34:29.819
 to earth God the

00:34:29.819 --> 00:34:30.900
 son of God remained

00:34:30.900 --> 00:34:31.779
 in his full nature

00:34:31.779 --> 00:34:32.819
 as God but he set

00:34:32.819 --> 00:34:34.599
 aside his appearance

00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:35.980
 and all sorts of

00:34:35.980 --> 00:34:37.579
 things and as we

00:34:37.579 --> 00:34:38.400
 see in his earthly

00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:39.699
 life he was content

00:34:39.699 --> 00:34:41.059
 to know what his

00:34:41.059 --> 00:34:42.159
 father revealed to

00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:45.319
 him he was content

00:34:45.319 --> 00:34:49.319
 to depend upon his

00:34:49.319 --> 00:34:54.639
 father and I should

00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:55.960
 learn to be content

00:34:55.960 --> 00:35:01.639
 to trust him too I

00:35:01.639 --> 00:35:02.559
 need to learn to be

00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:04.579
 content to trust him

00:35:04.579 --> 00:35:06.239
 and what he reveals

00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:06.820
 to me what he

00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:07.799
 doesn't reveal to me

00:35:07.799 --> 00:35:09.900
 and in fact actually

00:35:09.900 --> 00:35:10.820
 if you think about it

00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:13.259
 for a second this

00:35:13.259 --> 00:35:14.599
 also explains a

00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:15.380
 little bit about the

00:35:15.380 --> 00:35:16.480
 elect and what's

00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:17.219
 going on here with

00:35:17.219 --> 00:35:20.519
 the text what

00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:22.139
 Jesus by Jesus yet

00:35:22.139 --> 00:35:22.960
 again in two

00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:23.900
 different ways within

00:35:23.900 --> 00:35:24.920
 just a few words

00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:25.719
 revealing that he is

00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:26.659
 God that he is the

00:35:26.659 --> 00:35:28.559
 son that he is saying

00:35:28.559 --> 00:35:29.719
 that doing something

00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:31.059
 only God can do that

00:35:31.059 --> 00:35:32.139
 his words would never

00:35:32.139 --> 00:35:33.679
 pass away and so

00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:34.559
 what that means whether

00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:35.679
 it's Wednesday afternoon

00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:36.539
 or early Thursday

00:35:36.539 --> 00:35:37.900
 morning and he's going

00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:38.779
 to die on the cross

00:35:38.779 --> 00:35:40.159
 on Friday that means

00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:41.500
 God dies on that

00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:45.940
 cross God dies on

00:35:45.940 --> 00:35:49.920
 that cross and this

00:35:49.920 --> 00:35:51.380
 is very very humbling

00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:53.259
 you see the fact the

00:35:53.259 --> 00:35:54.880
 matter is if God needs

00:35:54.880 --> 00:35:57.199
 to die in my place for

00:35:57.199 --> 00:35:58.219
 me to be right with

00:35:58.219 --> 00:36:01.079
 God that means that I

00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:02.980
 am in vastly worse

00:36:02.980 --> 00:36:04.319
 mess than I could

00:36:04.319 --> 00:36:06.480
 possibly imagine that

00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:08.559
 my doom is deeper my

00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:10.559
 lostness is higher and

00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:11.779
 more thorough and more

00:36:11.779 --> 00:36:12.980
 extensive and more

00:36:12.980 --> 00:36:15.239
 deeply more deep than I

00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:18.439
 can possibly imagine in a

00:36:18.439 --> 00:36:20.359
 sense it's almost as if

00:36:20.359 --> 00:36:21.659
 apart from the gospel

00:36:21.659 --> 00:36:22.639
 when you have those

00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:23.419
 three o'clock in the

00:36:23.419 --> 00:36:24.379
 morning and four o'clock

00:36:24.379 --> 00:36:25.599
 in the morning times when

00:36:25.599 --> 00:36:26.980
 you have those days that

00:36:26.980 --> 00:36:27.940
 you can hardly get out of

00:36:27.940 --> 00:36:28.920
 bed because you're so

00:36:28.920 --> 00:36:30.380
 depressed and you have

00:36:30.380 --> 00:36:31.480
 that voice in your ear

00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:32.460
 telling you you are a

00:36:32.460 --> 00:36:33.659
 bad person you are a

00:36:33.659 --> 00:36:34.940
 stupid person you are a

00:36:34.940 --> 00:36:36.860
 failure you are you are a

00:36:36.860 --> 00:36:38.579
 constant disaster and you

00:36:38.579 --> 00:36:40.000
 have that voice speaking in

00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:41.000
 your ears and if you're in

00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:42.760
 Christ you can take this

00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:44.139
 text and say you don't

00:36:44.139 --> 00:36:46.340
 know anything I'm vastly

00:36:46.340 --> 00:36:47.559
 worse than anything you

00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:51.000
 say I'm vastly worse

00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:54.980
 because my situation was so

00:36:54.980 --> 00:36:56.199
 desperate that it could only

00:36:56.199 --> 00:36:57.820
 be fixed by God the son of

00:36:57.820 --> 00:37:02.739
 God dying in my place and

00:37:02.739 --> 00:37:04.659
 why is this good news because

00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:06.000
 of the other thing that says

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:12.000
 is that if love himself died

00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:16.380
 in my place that not only

00:37:16.380 --> 00:37:18.280
 means that my situation is

00:37:18.280 --> 00:37:20.519
 vastly worse than I have ever

00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:22.320
 imagined and it also means

00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:26.280
 that I am loved more deeply

00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:29.680
 more extensively more thoroughly

00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:33.180
 than I can ever possibly

00:37:33.180 --> 00:37:34.920
 imagine on this side of the

00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.780
 grave that love himself would

00:37:37.780 --> 00:37:40.440
 die for the unlovely me that

00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:42.940
 love himself died for the

00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:45.920
 loveless that loved and lovely I

00:37:45.920 --> 00:37:50.700
 might be that you might be I am

00:37:50.700 --> 00:37:56.820
 vastly more loved in Christ and

00:37:56.820 --> 00:37:57.780
 what does that term the elect

00:37:57.780 --> 00:38:01.599
 mean all that means is chosen you

00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:05.440
 know what it means that Jesus

00:38:05.440 --> 00:38:08.880
 chose me before I chose him and

00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:10.599
 so when you see that word can you

00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:12.099
 say to yourself you know George all

00:38:12.099 --> 00:38:14.360
 my life I've been always rejected I

00:38:14.360 --> 00:38:16.059
 don't get the promotions I don't get

00:38:16.059 --> 00:38:17.880
 the romance I haven't had the kids I

00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:19.160
 wanted I don't I don't have the

00:38:19.160 --> 00:38:20.740
 job I don't have the money I've

00:38:20.740 --> 00:38:22.360
 always been rejected I've always I've

00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:25.460
 always been a failure my coaches said

00:38:25.460 --> 00:38:26.820
 that my parents have said that my

00:38:26.820 --> 00:38:28.400
 siblings have said that my friends

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:31.079
 joke about it and and I and and and

00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:33.380
 and George how on earth how could

00:38:33.380 --> 00:38:35.680
 God God couldn't love me how could

00:38:35.680 --> 00:38:38.400
 does he know does he know the the

00:38:38.400 --> 00:38:40.059
 things in my life that I've done that

00:38:40.059 --> 00:38:41.260
 are wrong the things I should have

00:38:41.260 --> 00:38:42.360
 done to help others and I didn't I

00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:44.400
 didn't I didn't do them and does he

00:38:44.400 --> 00:38:46.780
 does he he know does he know those

00:38:46.780 --> 00:38:48.019
 things in me that I want to keep

00:38:48.019 --> 00:38:50.280
 unbelievably hidden and and and and

00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.500
 this wonderful profound word elect

00:38:52.500 --> 00:39:00.559
 says yes he does yes he does in fact

00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:05.400
 you're worse than you think and you're

00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.480
 more loved than you never possibly

00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:13.139
 imagine love himself died for the

00:39:13.139 --> 00:39:15.800
 unlovely and loveless you that loved

00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:20.679
 and lovely you might be and all you

00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:23.119
 can do is it it that is a term that

00:39:23.119 --> 00:39:25.139
 means that you are profoundly humbled

00:39:25.139 --> 00:39:27.139
 because all you can do is receive

00:39:27.139 --> 00:39:31.679
 him choosing you

00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:40.519
 just in closing I watch my time

00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:44.579
 see this grounds us doing things

00:39:44.579 --> 00:39:46.339
 sometimes the things we do are easy

00:39:46.339 --> 00:39:49.400
 we're always to do everything in

00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:51.159
 light of the fact that Jesus is going

00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:53.279
 to return and we don't know when

00:39:53.279 --> 00:39:56.279
 so I was talking about last week it

00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:57.480
 might be that for all we know the

00:39:57.480 --> 00:39:59.040
 tribulation is happening right now to

00:39:59.040 --> 00:40:01.980
 believers in in Korea and Iran and we

00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:04.540
 just don't recognize it and and I you

00:40:04.540 --> 00:40:06.140
 know we just Jesus can return at any

00:40:06.140 --> 00:40:08.560
 time and and maybe we've missed it but

00:40:08.560 --> 00:40:10.200
 we can return at any time but you know

00:40:10.200 --> 00:40:13.980
 when the gospel grounds you when you

00:40:13.980 --> 00:40:16.940
 know that the destiny is that he he will

00:40:16.940 --> 00:40:19.720
 see you and he will make you know that

00:40:19.720 --> 00:40:21.500
 you've been loved and you will be loved

00:40:21.500 --> 00:40:23.320
 for all eternity and that he's made you

00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:26.600
 lovely and it's his work not yours and

00:40:26.600 --> 00:40:28.519
 nothing can stop that and nothing can

00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:30.780
 frustrate that and it's his gift to you

00:40:30.780 --> 00:40:33.260
 that you just received by grace and he

00:40:33.260 --> 00:40:36.480
 walks with you every day love walks with

00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.320
 you hope walks with you and gives you a

00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:39.160
 hope of love

00:40:39.160 --> 00:40:44.059
 and you are vastly worse and vastly more

00:40:44.059 --> 00:40:47.480
 loved it gives you the power to to face

00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:49.100
 those things in your conscience that you

00:40:49.100 --> 00:40:51.559
 are afraid of and face your shames and

00:40:51.559 --> 00:40:54.980
 your fears as the gospel becomes more

00:40:54.980 --> 00:40:57.840
 real to real to it it grounds you in a

00:40:57.840 --> 00:40:59.920
 humility and a dependence upon him and a

00:40:59.920 --> 00:41:03.559
 gratitude and thankfulness in him and

00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:06.460
 it grounds you to to do simple things and

00:41:06.460 --> 00:41:09.519
 and daily things like care for children

00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:12.059
 and also maybe hard things like stand up

00:41:12.059 --> 00:41:15.539
 to a tyrant or bear witness in a in a

00:41:15.539 --> 00:41:18.099
 form that will cause you to be abused and

00:41:18.099 --> 00:41:22.639
 ignored it it grounds you to do hard things

00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:24.500
 and easy things without making you a

00:41:24.500 --> 00:41:26.319
 narcissist but to make you humble

00:41:26.319 --> 00:41:28.360
 invite you to stand

00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:33.239
 just want to say if you're here or if

00:41:33.239 --> 00:41:36.639
 you're watching online if you feel and

00:41:36.639 --> 00:41:38.500
 you've never given your your life to

00:41:38.500 --> 00:41:40.440
 christ the christian life begins when

00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:42.319
 you you hear the gospel and you say i

00:41:42.319 --> 00:41:45.380
 wish that was true for me and if you're

00:41:45.380 --> 00:41:47.019
 saying right now i wish that was true

00:41:47.019 --> 00:41:49.079
 for me it means that he's chosen you

00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:51.880
 if you feel at all a bit of a pressure

00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:53.720
 or longing for that it means that he's

00:41:53.720 --> 00:41:54.519
 chosen you

00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:58.760
 it's him knocking at your door right now

00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:00.840
 and all i want to say is stop listening

00:42:00.840 --> 00:42:03.579
 to me and just say jesus i open the door

00:42:03.579 --> 00:42:05.380
 please come in thank you that you chose

00:42:05.380 --> 00:42:05.720
 me

00:42:05.720 --> 00:42:09.539
 be my savior in your lord and he will not

00:42:09.539 --> 00:42:10.260
 turn you away

00:42:10.260 --> 00:42:14.680
 you will be his his forever if you take

00:42:14.680 --> 00:42:17.260
 that step let us know not because we

00:42:17.260 --> 00:42:18.740
 want to boast or anything but if you're

00:42:18.740 --> 00:42:20.240
 in ottawa we'd love to connect you you

00:42:20.240 --> 00:42:20.540
 need to

00:42:20.540 --> 00:42:22.700
 walk with others as you walk with the

00:42:22.700 --> 00:42:24.340
 one who's making you loved and lovely

00:42:24.340 --> 00:42:27.020
 and if you live in another city let us

00:42:27.020 --> 00:42:28.420
 know and we'll try to connect you to a

00:42:28.420 --> 00:42:29.000
 good church

00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.200
 but stop listening to me and turn to him

00:42:31.200 --> 00:42:33.220
 and ask him

00:42:33.220 --> 00:42:36.160
 to do what he wants which is to come into

00:42:36.160 --> 00:42:37.840
 you and make you loved and lovely

00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:40.860
 let's bow our heads in prayer father

00:42:40.860 --> 00:42:42.460
 thank you so much for the gospel

00:42:42.460 --> 00:42:45.039
 father you know how hard it is for us to

00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.000
 for it to be real to our hearts and we

00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:49.519
 ask that your word would speak into our

00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:51.380
 hearts in the depths of who we are that

00:42:51.380 --> 00:42:54.920
 it would have a just a bigger hold of

00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:57.640
 our imagination and our memory and our

00:42:57.640 --> 00:43:00.140
 feelings and our hopes and our and our

00:43:00.140 --> 00:43:02.500
 thinking and our longing that it will

00:43:02.500 --> 00:43:04.440
 become more real to us we ask that your

00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:05.519
 holy spirit would do that

00:43:05.519 --> 00:43:09.099
 we thank you father that jesus died for

00:43:09.099 --> 00:43:10.460
 us unloved and

00:43:10.460 --> 00:43:15.059
 love and and and not lovely and that he

00:43:15.059 --> 00:43:16.900
 died so that loved and lovely we will

00:43:16.900 --> 00:43:17.219
 be

00:43:17.219 --> 00:43:19.619
 and that that is the end of our story

00:43:19.619 --> 00:43:24.019
 in christ we thank and ask all these

00:43:24.019 --> 00:43:25.639
 things in the name of jesus your son and

00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:27.320
 our savior amen

00:43:35.519 --> 00:43:36.739
 story of jesus your chemo Bless & Wash your

00:43:36.739 --> 00:43:36.840
 highly

00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:40.940
 ay RNA

00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:47.300
 main

00:43:47.300 --> 00:43:48.960
 fire

00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:49.860
 ship

00:43:49.940 --> 00:43:50.699
 and

00:43:50.699 --> 00:43:51.400
 people

00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:52.179
 go

00:43:52.179 --> 00:43:52.800
 go

00:43:52.900 --> 00:43:53.059
 go