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 Father, idols affect us in many, many different and very powerful ways, and we don't even think about it most of the time.

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 We're not even a category that we think of.

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 But Father, your word makes clear that the more that idols grip our heart, the harder it is for us to take you at your word.

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 So we ask, Father, that you would continue to show mercy and grace to us this morning and pour out the Holy Spirit deeply upon us

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 so that your word might grip us and we might take you at your word, that we might know Jesus, that we might know you, and we might be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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 Father, this we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 So I have a couple of apologies.

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 Last week I messed up my sermon in two ways.

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 One of the ways, those of you who are here, and by the way, if you've listened to my sermon online, you won't know this because Andrew fixed it.

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 But I got my 10,000 and 20,000 all mixed up, and I'm sure it was confusing to some of you that the analogy didn't make sense.

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 The other thing was, and pray for me all the time that I don't make those mistakes.

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 Some of you know I'll say Moses when it should have been Joshua or something else.

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 I can get things like that mixed up.

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 So pray for me all the time.

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 I know many of you do, and I really appreciate it.

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 The other mistake I made, it's sort of a mild one because I didn't talk about it in an inflammatory way,

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 but one of the things we talked about last Sunday was rape, actually, because it's in the biblical text.

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 And I was thinking about it while I was driving home that, I mean, that's not an abstract.

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 Like for me as a guy, I can talk about it.

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 But for women, many women, maybe even women who are here, that you might have experienced a rape.

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 And I should have probably just said a little bit about that just before I talked about it in case it was triggering anything.

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 Today, I know that there are people here who have been affected by genocide.

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 And we're going to talk about genocide a little bit this morning.

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 And some of you, if you're a guest, you're a bit surprised that a church would talk about such things.

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 But that's one of the benefits you get of preaching through books in the Bible.

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 You look at topics that, if it was up to me, I'd probably never talk about.

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 I'd probably just give you a few positive thoughts on leadership or attitude maintenance and send you off on your way.

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 But the Bible makes us look at things.

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 And the wonderful thing about the Bible is the same thing that catches many Canadians by surprise,

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 is that the Bible is so realistic about the world that it catches readers by surprise.

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 They're expecting something religious and spiritual.

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 Those of you who've seen the Netflix series, The Messiah, which I'm not recommending,

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 you expect the Bible to talk a little bit like him.

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 But the Bible talks about real life, but it's never cynical.

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 It's never cynical.

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 It talks about the real world in the context of the living God.

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 And it talks about the real world in a redemptive way that we would call out to him.

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 So today, we are going to be mentioning genocide a little bit

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 because the text talks about it.

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 And, you know, one of those things, we should just know that the Bible brings these things to our mind,

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 that we can know Jesus better.

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 So it begins.

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 We're looking at Joshua 6, verse 1.

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 I announced that at the beginning.

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 Some of it, if not all of the text, will be up on the screen

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 if you don't have your own Bibles.

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 But it's really good to bring your own Bibles.

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 And this is how the story begins.

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 The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

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 And the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.

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 Now, just pause.

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 Some of you who have been going through this series with me

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 know that it seems like every new story begins with something like that.

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 They do evil, and the Lord delivers them into the hand of some people group.

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 And so, well, first of all, just, I say it every week,

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 but it's important to remember, doing evil means in particular that they,

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 and we're going to talk about this more in a moment,

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 that they start serving other gods and goddesses, and they serve idols.

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 So they depart from the Lord.

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 And the giving to them is actually a profound expression of human freedom,

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 is that the punishment that they get is getting what they want.

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 The punishment isn't not getting what they want.

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 That's usually when people think about God, the God, the triune God of the Bible.

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 They think the triune God of the Bible is a big meanie who is the no-fun God,

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 no-pleasure God, no-joy God.

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 And he looks around and sees things that make people happy and says,

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 na-na-na-na-na.

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 No, that's not the God of the Bible, actually.

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 Like, this is a shocking thing, and the book of Judges will slowly unpack it.

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 But often his judgment is allowing you to have what you want,

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 like respecting your freedom.

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 But a lot of what we want will devour us.

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 And that's what happens here.

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 They go after the gods of the people, and the gods of the people,

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 the people who worship that gods, devour them.

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 Now, there's one other important thing here,

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 and I'm not going to spend a long time on it,

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 but this is actually one of the big ideas of the entire book of Judges.

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 And I might now put it in every couple of weeks,

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 because it helps you to understand the whole book of Judges

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 and every individual text.

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 In Canada, many people say that all paths lead to God.

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 But the Bible says, Christians would say, Jesus would say,

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 it is not true that all paths lead to God.

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 But it is true that the triune God uses many paths to bring people to himself.

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 And that's one of the things that you're going to see.

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 It's not that God constantly is locked into a particular pattern.

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 He uses a prophetess and a woman with a tent peg,

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 and he uses a warrior,

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 and then he uses a completely and utterly debauched person like Samson later on.

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 And he uses Gideon.

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 And the pattern keeps changing.

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 And it's the same thing, you know,

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 if we were to take some time and break up into small groups,

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 and those of us who are Christians,

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 we were to share how we became Christians,

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 we'd be surprised at the many different ways

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 that God has used to bring people to himself.

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 And that's part of the big story of Judges,

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 is that God doesn't keep working the exact same way.

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 He works different ways every time.

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 And so how is it going to be different in this particular time?

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 Well, let's start to read the story.

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 Verse 2 of chapter 6.

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 Verse 2 of chapter 6.

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 And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel.

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 And because of Midian,

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 the people of Israel made for themselves

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 the dens that are in the mountains

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 and the caves and the strongholds.

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 For whenever the Israelites planted crops,

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 the Midianites and the Amalekites

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 and the people of the east

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 would come up against them.

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 They would encamp against them

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 and devour the produce...

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 I skipped it too quick.

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 They would encamp against them

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 and devour the produce of the land as far as Gaza

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 and leave no sustenance in Israel

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 and no sheep or ox or donkey.

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 Now we're up on the screen.

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 It should be the right verse.

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 For they would come up with their livestock

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 and their tents.

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 They would come like locusts in number.

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 Both they and their camels could not be counted

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 so that they laid waste the land as they came in.

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 And Israel was brought very low because of Midian.

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 And the people of Israel cried out for help to the Lord.

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 Now just sort of pause here for a second.

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 What's going on here is genocide,

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 attempted genocide of the people of Israel.

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 It's not that a foreign power has come in to conquer.

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 It isn't that a foreign power has come in

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 to merely live there, to occupy the land.

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 They're doing something very, very, very different.

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 And it's very significant.

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 I didn't plan it,

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 that just recently we've been remembering

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 the anniversary of the Holocaust.

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 There's been newspaper and other media outlets around that.

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 The closest I came to it was as a young kid,

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 10, 11, 12-year-old boy.

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 I was a Boy Scout.

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 And I remember being in the car one day

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 with my Boy Scout leader.

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 And I lived in an all-Jewish neighborhood.

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 And as I'm driving, I look over

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 and I notice for the first time

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 tattooed numbers on the arm of my Scoutmaster.

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 And I asked him what it was about.

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 And he got teary-eyed.

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 And his wife said,

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 well, and then she told me,

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 he was in the camps.

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 He is a survivor.

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 He was a survivor of the Holocaust.

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 And even just as relevant,

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 maybe more relevant in this particular case,

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 some of you might know of something

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 which is very familiar to Ukrainians,

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 is that in the 1930s,

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 the Soviet Union created a forced famine

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 in the Ukraine to punish the Ukrainians.

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 And as a result of that forced famine,

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 millions and millions and millions of people died.

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 And it's remembered by Ukrainians.

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 It's a double tragedy

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 because all of the leading lights

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 of North America and Western civilization

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 were praising Soviet Union

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 for being a great,

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 a perfect place to live.

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 At the same time that they were praising them,

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 they were creating a forced famine

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 to literally kill millions and millions

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 of Ukrainians.

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 So what's happening here in this story

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 is that Midian comes in,

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 they steal the animals,

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 they steal the food,

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 and after they've stolen

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 all they can carry

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 and all they can consume,

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 they destroy everything else.

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 They destroy everything else.

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 And this is very hard for us in Canada

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 to understand right now.

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 Like I'm old enough

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 that I remember

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 when there were certain fruits

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 you didn't get all year round.

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 Like I remember

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 when all of a sudden

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 it was exciting

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 that there was fruit in the stores again

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 in the spring.

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 But, you know,

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 for much of the world,

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 one bad crop means

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 hundreds if not thousands

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 of people die.

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 And this was an intentional policy

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 by the Midianites.

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 And its only purpose

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 would have been

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 to destroy

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 the people of Israel.

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 And that's the situation

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 which they're in.

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 So,

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 how is God going to respond?

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 So you see in the text up there

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 they cry out to the Lord for help.

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 It's all part of the normal pattern.

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 So how is God going to respond to this?

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 Well,

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 he breaks the pattern.

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 He does something

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 which is a little bit different.

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 He sends them a sermon.

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 Not what they were expecting.

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 Not what they were wanting.

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 But if you just pause

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 and think about it for a second.

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 I just said how kids

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 at a certain age

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 when they lose it

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 they just lose it.

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 Their poor little brains

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 aren't developed enough.

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 They just,

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 their brains aren't developed enough.

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 You know,

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 like

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 all you can do

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 is try to

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 comfort them

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 and quiet them

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 in some type of way.

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 But when the kids get older,

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 like every single one of us

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 who has kids

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 this is what we do.

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 It's not just that they

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 you know,

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 they mess up,

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 they do something

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 really, really wrong

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 and you have to end up

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 either, you know,

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 both disciplining them

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 and maybe rescuing them.

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 But the other thing

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 that every parent does

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 is you want them

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 to understand

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 that it's wrong.

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 And hopefully

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 you do that

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 in a good way.

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 I remember being

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 in a Starbucks

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 and a parent

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 was trying to discipline

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 her five-year-old kid

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 and the way she said it is

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 she's kept doing bad things.

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 It was in a Starbucks

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 connected to a chapter

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 of Indigo Books

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 and she kept going

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 and taking books

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 and sort of wrecking them.

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 And she said,

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 it's how she tried

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 to teach the kid

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 right and wrong.

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 You're making mommy unhappy.

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 I thought,

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 what?

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 I almost went over

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 and said,

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 that's not how you tell a kid

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 not to do something wrong.

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 You're making me unhappy.

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 You know,

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 anyway,

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 there you go.

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 I mean,

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 Lord have mercy

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 upon that parent

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 and the poor little kid,

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 however they're going to develop.

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 But the fact of the matter

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 is that we all try to explain.

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 And so what happens here

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 isn't what,

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 and nobody usually wants

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 to have that happen to them,

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 but at the end of the day

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 that's how we hopefully learn

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 how to be vaguely moral,

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 if not well,

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 you know,

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 more moral individuals.

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 And so that's what happens here.

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 God this time

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 doesn't just deliver them.

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 He sends them a sermon.

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 So here you see

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 verse 7 and 8.

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 When the people of Israel

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 cried out to the Lord

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 on account of the Midianites,

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 the Lord sent a prophet

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 to the people of Israel

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 and he said to them,

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 and here's the summary

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 of the message.

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 So we had a,

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 God sends a prophet

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 that wanders around

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 the people of Israel

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 and this is the summary

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 of his message.

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 Thus says the Lord,

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 the God of Israel,

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 I led you up from Egypt

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 and brought you out

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 of the house of slavery

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 and I delivered you

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 from the hand of the Egyptians

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 and from the hand

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 of all who oppressed you

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 and drove them out before you

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 and gave you their land.

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 And I said to you,

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 I am the Lord your God.

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 You shall not fear

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 the gods of the Amorites

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 in whose land you dwell,

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 but you have not

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 obeyed my voice.

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 Now,

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 this is very,

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 very,

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 very significant

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 what he says.

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 I'm going to put this up.

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 This was a very slow lesson

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 for Israel to learn

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 and obviously

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 they didn't learn

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 about the triune God

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 until Jesus came,

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 although all of the hints

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 of the fact

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 that God is triune

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 are all the way

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 through the Old Testament.

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 But unlike idols,

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 the triune God is love

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 and he loves ordinary people

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 like you.

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 Unlike idols,

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 the triune God is love

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 and he loves ordinary people

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 like you.

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 If you do a bit of research

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 about the gods

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 of the world at that time,

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 the reason they created

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 human beings

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 was to feed them,

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 not for the gods

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 to feed human beings,

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 but for the human beings

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 to feed the gods.

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 In a sense,

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 a human being

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 was just a type of slave

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 for the God,

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 a servant of the God.

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 But the Bible teaches

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 something radically,

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 radically different

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 and it's caught

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 in this scripture text.

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 I'll just put back

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 to the scripture text.

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 We lose the full significance

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 of reveal.

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 You know,

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 we go to a bank machine

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 and we stick our bank card

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 in the machine

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 and it knows our name

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 and it reveals

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 that it's the right bank machine

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 by all of its signs

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 and we just think of that

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 as being something

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 mechanical

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 and something automatic.

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 But,

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 if you understand

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 that from all eternity,

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 before there was any human being

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 that was ever made,

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 that God the Father

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 loved the Son

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 and the Son

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 loved the Father

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 and the Holy Spirit

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 is both the love

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 between the Father

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 and the Son

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 and the Son

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 between the Father

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 and the Holy Spirit

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 is a person

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 himself

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 and also is love

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 and that all things

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 were created

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 out of God's love

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 for human beings

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 and only

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 the triune God

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 can account

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 for the fact

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 that we value

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 love so highly.

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 The idols don't love

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 but God loves.

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 He creates all things

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 out of love

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 and it's out of love

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 that he delivers them

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 out of Egypt.

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 It's out of love

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 that he delivers them

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 constantly from their oppressors

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 and it's out of love

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 that he reveals himself.

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 Think of it this way.

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 When I do,

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 when somebody asks me

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 to do their wedding ceremony,

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 I almost always say,

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 how did you meet?

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 Everybody meets

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 somehow or another.

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 You know,

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 maybe some of you met

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 when you were in grade 5

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 or grade 6

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 or grade 7

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 or grade 8

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 or some of you met

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 far later than that

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 but everybody meets

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 the other some way

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 and in many cases,

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 I know it's a bit different now

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 because you can meet people online

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 but even then

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 there must be something

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 that's a little bit like that

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 is that what happens

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 when you meet somebody

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 that you're going to start,

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 you're going to fall in love

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 is the other,

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 for the whole process

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 to happen,

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 the other person

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 has to,

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 you have to reveal

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 a little bit about the fact

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 that you like the person

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 and they have to reveal

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 back to you a little bit

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 about the fact

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 that they like you

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 and a little bit

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 about who they are.

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 That's how it works.

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 I mean,

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 for my wife and I,

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 it begins,

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 we're sitting at the same

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 library table

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 and you glance over

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 and there's glances

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 and there's glances

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 and mine was the second

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 type of glance

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 not the first type of glance

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 and she glances back

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 and because I was

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 pathologically shy

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 around women

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 and the more attractive

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 the woman was,

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 the more pathologically shy

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 and embarrassed

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 and awkward I would be.

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 You know,

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 if there is a purgatory,

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 purgatory for me

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 would be showing

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 everybody films

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 of what I was like

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 in the presence

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 of such a woman

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 and that would be

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 purgatory for me

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 amongst other types

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 of things.

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 Amusing for all of you,

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 cringeworthy

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 and embarrassing

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 for me.

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 Anyway,

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 but eventually

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 at some point in time

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 despite my pathological shyness

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 it goes from glances

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 to high

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 to which

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 the other person

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 can either

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 give the very powerful

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 signals,

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 what is this creep

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 doing talking to me

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 or they can say

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 hi back.

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 Right?

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 And we don't think

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 about it much

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 but that's what happens

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 is you go through

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 a process of revealing

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 yourself to the other person

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 and the other person

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 revealing themselves

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 to you.

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 And that's what's

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 going on here.

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 That's what's going on.

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 That's what's so

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 completely and utterly

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 stunning about

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 the book of Exodus.

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 It's what's so stunning

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 about everything

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 in the Bible

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 and it's just so stunning

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 that we don't get it

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 because we think of this

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 as a mechanical

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 type of process

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 but what God does

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 is he said

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 listen

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 I delivered you

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 out of slavery

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 in Egypt

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 I deliver you

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 from your oppressors

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 and I revealed

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 myself to you

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 I made myself

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 known to you

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 to show you

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 that I love you

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 that I want to be

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 in a relationship

00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:42.300
 with you

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 and I want you

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 I'm hoping

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 that you respond

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 by my acts

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 of mighty love

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 and my love

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 of revealing myself

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 to you

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 that you would

00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:51.780
 reveal yourself

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 to me

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 and love me.

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 and instead

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 about not

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 worshiping other gods

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 I mean

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 if next Sunday

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 Louise came in

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 and said to you folks

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 one on one

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 drink coffee

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 by the way

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 George has

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 affections

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 towards another woman

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 he's in love

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 with another woman

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 as well as with me

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 every single one

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 of you would

00:18:18.120 --> 00:18:19.039
 side with her

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 and you'd be right

00:18:21.480 --> 00:18:22.620
 to side with her

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 because you know

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 that just doesn't

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 work with love

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 and so if you

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 think about it

00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:31.599
 within that context

00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:32.519
 that God is love

00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:33.279
 from all eternity

00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:34.059
 is out of the

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 overflow of his love

00:18:35.939 --> 00:18:36.779
 that he creates

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 and that human beings

00:18:38.139 --> 00:18:38.759
 in rebellion

00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:39.339
 against God

00:18:39.339 --> 00:18:40.059
 want to become

00:18:40.059 --> 00:18:41.139
 their own God

00:18:41.139 --> 00:18:42.339
 and turn against him

00:18:42.339 --> 00:18:44.239
 and all the things

00:18:44.239 --> 00:18:44.619
 that happen

00:18:44.619 --> 00:18:45.519
 and God delivers

00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:46.139
 out of slavery

00:18:46.139 --> 00:18:47.219
 delivers out of oppression

00:18:47.219 --> 00:18:48.339
 delivers us

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 from our sins

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 and delivers us

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 and delivers us

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 and reveals himself

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 in such a way

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 that we would

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 know who he is

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 just like

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 you know

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 at some point in time

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 Louise revealed

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 herself to me

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 and I reveal myself

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 to her

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 and because we're

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 finite human beings

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 that's a process

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 that goes on

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 for good

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 and sometimes

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 really well

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 and sometimes

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 not very well

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 for all of the

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 time that you're

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 together

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 and then God

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 says all I ask

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 is that you don't

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 worship other gods

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 and what does the

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 prophet say

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 but you have not

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 listened to my voice

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 you have not

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 listened to my voice

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 now what we're

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 going to see next

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 is we're going to

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 meet the first

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 Canadian in the

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 Bible

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 you didn't know

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 that but the

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 first Canadian

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 who could fit

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 into any coffee

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 I mean any

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 coffee shop

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 whether it's

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 Tim Hortons

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 or a hipster

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 place or something

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 like Starbucks

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 which isn't hipster

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 you'd

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 you could meet

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 this character

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 and his name

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 is Gideon

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 and here's

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 here's what

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 happens with

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 Gideon

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 remember the

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 prophet's been

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 going giving

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 this message

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 verse 11

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 God isn't

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 just giving

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 a sermon

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 he's going

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 to deliver

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 the people

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 of Israel

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 verse 11

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 now the

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 angel of

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 the Lord

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 came and

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 sat under

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 the terebinth

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 at Ophrah

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 which belonged

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 to Joash

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 the Abizrite

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 while his

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 son Gideon

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 was beating

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 out wheat

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 in the wine

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 press to

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 hide it

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 from the

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 Midianites

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 and the

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 angel of

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 the Lord

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 appeared to

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 him and

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 said to

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 him

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 the Lord

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 is with

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 you

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 almighty

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 man of

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 valor

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 now just

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 before I

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 go to

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 the next

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 verse

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 he's not

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 a man of

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 valor

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 he's hiding

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 normally when

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 you're going

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 to be

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 harvesting

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 bringing the

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 wheat to

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 that point

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 in time

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 you go to

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 something which

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 is like a

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 stage compared

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 to the floor

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 higher up

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 maybe not as

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 high as this

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 but nice and

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 flat and high

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 where when you

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 beat it and

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 then you throw

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 it up and the

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 wind will blow

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 away the stuff

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 you don't need

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 and the wheat

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 which is heavier

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 falls to the

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 ground and that's

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 how you separate

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 the wheat from

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 the chaff

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 wine presses

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 you dig

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 something down

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 in the ground

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 and it has

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 both a lower

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 part and a

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 higher part

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 but it's still

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 low and so

00:20:52.959 --> 00:20:53.959
 what Gideon is

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 doing is he's

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 not up there

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 on the threshing

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 floor he's

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 hiding in the

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 wine press and

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 trying to make

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 the whole thing

00:20:59.959 --> 00:21:00.699
 work where there's

00:21:00.699 --> 00:21:02.359
 no breeze and

00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:02.979
 he's doing it

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 not because he's

00:21:03.919 --> 00:21:04.519
 a mighty man of

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 valor but because

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 he's in fact

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 hiding from the

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 Midianites and

00:21:07.939 --> 00:21:08.919
 God is as we'll

00:21:08.919 --> 00:21:09.519
 see in a moment

00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:10.459
 in Gideon's

00:21:10.459 --> 00:21:12.639
 response God

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 is

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 is

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 is both

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 saying something

00:21:15.059 --> 00:21:15.819
 prophetic about

00:21:15.819 --> 00:21:16.980
 the future but

00:21:16.980 --> 00:21:17.799
 he's also saying

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 something that's

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 going to try to

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 get his attention

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 and bring something

00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:22.400
 out to develop the

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 relationship with

00:21:23.379 --> 00:21:24.200
 Gideon remember I

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 said to you that

00:21:24.859 --> 00:21:26.019
 the Lord does it

00:21:26.019 --> 00:21:26.480
 not it's not that

00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:27.279
 all paths lead to

00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:27.960
 God but the Lord

00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:28.799
 uses many many

00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:30.519
 different paths to

00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:31.220
 bring people to

00:21:31.220 --> 00:21:32.119
 himself the thing

00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:33.019
 that began my

00:21:33.019 --> 00:21:34.099
 journey that led

00:21:34.099 --> 00:21:34.859
 me becoming a

00:21:34.859 --> 00:21:35.640
 Christian was seeing

00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:36.660
 an advertisement on

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 a telephone pole on

00:21:37.819 --> 00:21:38.579
 Elgin Street

00:21:38.579 --> 00:21:41.079
 that's what first got

00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:41.700
 my attention

00:21:41.700 --> 00:21:43.099
 didn't happen any of

00:21:43.099 --> 00:21:43.919
 you probably that's

00:21:43.919 --> 00:21:44.480
 what happened with

00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:45.879
 me God uses

00:21:45.879 --> 00:21:46.740
 different things with

00:21:46.740 --> 00:21:48.659
 different people but

00:21:48.659 --> 00:21:49.779
 Gideon's response is

00:21:49.779 --> 00:21:50.759
 this verse 13

00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.219
 here's where we see

00:21:53.219 --> 00:21:54.079
 that he's a very very

00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:55.639
 typical Canadian

00:21:55.639 --> 00:21:58.419
 and Gideon said to

00:21:58.419 --> 00:21:58.619
 him

00:21:58.619 --> 00:22:00.579
 please sir

00:22:00.579 --> 00:22:02.759
 if the Lord is with

00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:04.740
 us if the Lord is

00:22:04.740 --> 00:22:05.759
 with us why then is

00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:06.639
 all this happened to

00:22:06.639 --> 00:22:06.919
 us

00:22:06.919 --> 00:22:08.240
 where all his

00:22:08.240 --> 00:22:09.159
 wonderful deeds

00:22:09.159 --> 00:22:10.919
 their fathers recounted

00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:12.200
 to us saying did not

00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:13.560
 the Lord bring us up

00:22:13.560 --> 00:22:14.560
 up from Egypt

00:22:14.560 --> 00:22:16.400
 but now the Lord has

00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:17.880
 forsaken us given us

00:22:17.880 --> 00:22:19.140
 into the hand of

00:22:19.140 --> 00:22:19.480
 Midian

00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:25.080
 how is this like a

00:22:25.080 --> 00:22:26.019
 typical Canadian

00:22:26.019 --> 00:22:29.440
 here's what the

00:22:29.440 --> 00:22:30.240
 typical Canadian

00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:30.800
 thinks

00:22:30.800 --> 00:22:32.180
 C.S. Lewis I think

00:22:32.180 --> 00:22:33.019
 it was in the 40s

00:22:33.019 --> 00:22:34.420
 wrote a an essay

00:22:34.420 --> 00:22:35.259
 called God in the

00:22:35.259 --> 00:22:36.480
 Dark and he was

00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:37.580
 referring to something

00:22:37.579 --> 00:22:38.399
 that he'd noticed

00:22:38.399 --> 00:22:39.939
 and as a classical

00:22:39.939 --> 00:22:41.119
 scholar he realized

00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:42.019
 that the way that

00:22:42.019 --> 00:22:43.759
 average English people

00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:45.019
 and Scottish and

00:22:45.019 --> 00:22:46.119
 Irish and Welch were

00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:47.359
 thinking back in the

00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:49.539
 40s was very different

00:22:49.539 --> 00:22:50.359
 than how most of the

00:22:50.359 --> 00:22:51.379
 world thought and was

00:22:51.379 --> 00:22:52.179
 very different than

00:22:52.179 --> 00:22:53.599
 how people had thought

00:22:53.599 --> 00:22:54.279
 throughout most of

00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:56.619
 human history and for

00:22:56.619 --> 00:22:58.119
 modern English people

00:22:58.119 --> 00:22:58.819
 and he's talking about

00:22:58.819 --> 00:23:00.019
 the 40s it's even more

00:23:00.019 --> 00:23:02.240
 true today God is on in

00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:02.960
 the dark in other words

00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:04.699
 God's on trial for the

00:23:04.699 --> 00:23:06.220
 average modern person

00:23:06.220 --> 00:23:08.319
 it's like this the

00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:10.700
 triune God listen the

00:23:10.700 --> 00:23:11.600
 triune God we have a

00:23:11.600 --> 00:23:13.000
 whole list of charges

00:23:13.000 --> 00:23:15.120
 against him he is

00:23:15.120 --> 00:23:16.240
 offended against us

00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:18.019
 he's homophobic he's

00:23:18.019 --> 00:23:19.900
 racist he's in favor of

00:23:19.900 --> 00:23:21.440
 slavery he's in favor of

00:23:21.440 --> 00:23:22.799
 power he hates

00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:24.940
 transgender people he

00:23:24.940 --> 00:23:26.519
 only wants to spoil us

00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:27.779
 and have fun he's

00:23:27.779 --> 00:23:29.420
 patriarchal he's this

00:23:29.420 --> 00:23:31.120
 he's that he's all of

00:23:31.120 --> 00:23:32.019
 these types of things

00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:33.299
 and there's we have

00:23:33.299 --> 00:23:34.559
 brought charges against

00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:36.899
 God and any human

00:23:36.899 --> 00:23:38.319
 being who wants to go

00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:40.039
 and try to defend God

00:23:40.039 --> 00:23:42.079
 is a reprehensible human

00:23:42.079 --> 00:23:44.000
 being who does not he's

00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:45.240
 not able to think he's

00:23:45.240 --> 00:23:45.980
 not aware of what's

00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:46.899
 really going on in life

00:23:46.899 --> 00:23:47.879
 but we have brought

00:23:47.879 --> 00:23:49.919
 charges against God and

00:23:49.919 --> 00:23:51.139
 God we are the

00:23:51.139 --> 00:23:52.759
 prosecutors we are the

00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:54.440
 judge it is like a show

00:23:54.440 --> 00:23:56.859
 trial God is guilty he

00:23:58.899 --> 00:24:00.480
 has no defense against the

00:24:00.480 --> 00:24:02.399
 charges that we can bring

00:24:02.400 --> 00:24:03.640
 against him for evil

00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:08.640
 homophobia denying women

00:24:08.640 --> 00:24:09.440
 the right to do what

00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:10.040
 they want with their

00:24:10.040 --> 00:24:11.620
 body opposed to people

00:24:11.620 --> 00:24:12.620
 being able to have a

00:24:12.620 --> 00:24:13.920
 doctor ask them to kill

00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:16.660
 them or us being able to

00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:17.780
 ask the doctor to kill one

00:24:17.780 --> 00:24:19.160
 of our loved ones God is

00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:23.120
 guilty and it is just what

00:24:23.120 --> 00:24:24.720
 everybody knows everybody

00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:26.780
 knows that God is guilty

00:24:26.779 --> 00:24:28.539
 and he has no possible

00:24:28.539 --> 00:24:29.139
 defense

00:24:29.139 --> 00:24:33.099
 that's what Gideon says

00:24:33.099 --> 00:24:35.200
 he talks like a modern

00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:37.180
 Canadian he talks like most

00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:38.160
 of the people that are your

00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:39.039
 neighbors and your

00:24:39.039 --> 00:24:40.240
 co-workers and maybe how many

00:24:40.240 --> 00:24:41.440
 of you maybe how some of you

00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:41.799
 think

00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:50.279
 you know the older I get

00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:53.519
 the more I believe that

00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:55.879
 Genesis 3 and Romans 1 is

00:24:55.879 --> 00:24:58.960
 empirically true if you go

00:24:58.960 --> 00:24:59.859
 back and read the beginning

00:24:59.859 --> 00:25:02.440
 of Genesis 3 it is that the

00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:04.359
 average human being desires to

00:25:04.359 --> 00:25:08.359
 be like God and when that

00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:11.039
 causes their life to get

00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.519
 messed up when Adam confronts

00:25:15.519 --> 00:25:17.180
 God confronts Adam Adam says

00:25:17.180 --> 00:25:19.240
 not my fault Eve

00:25:19.240 --> 00:25:21.799
 God speaks to Eve

00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:23.019
 not my fault

00:25:23.019 --> 00:25:23.859
 the snake

00:25:23.859 --> 00:25:26.220
 and that is

00:25:26.220 --> 00:25:28.920
 so much how we're hardwired

00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:30.640
 and if you go back and read

00:25:30.640 --> 00:25:32.279
 Romans 1 later on yourself

00:25:32.279 --> 00:25:34.680
 and after verse 16 and 17

00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:35.880
 which says sort of the theme

00:25:35.880 --> 00:25:36.740
 of the whole book you read

00:25:36.740 --> 00:25:38.180
 from Romans 1 18 to the end

00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:38.759
 of the chapter

00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:41.980
 the book talks about the fact

00:25:41.980 --> 00:25:42.940
 that we are innately

00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:44.620
 worshipers and we've exchanged

00:25:44.620 --> 00:25:46.120
 worshiping of God who

00:25:46.120 --> 00:25:46.940
 we

00:25:46.940 --> 00:25:49.200
 at some fundamental level we know

00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:50.980
 that the triune God exists for

00:25:50.980 --> 00:25:52.660
 worshiping other things and

00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:54.140
 and then one of the things

00:25:54.140 --> 00:25:55.360
 which is so significant is

00:25:55.360 --> 00:25:56.880
 when it gives at the end of

00:25:56.880 --> 00:25:58.480
 Romans 1 it gives evidence of

00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:00.720
 the fact that there is in fact a

00:26:00.720 --> 00:26:02.200
 God and that we are under his

00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:04.299
 judgment the way it describes

00:26:04.299 --> 00:26:05.720
 that the last little bit of it

00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:07.680
 is partly it is the reality of

00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:07.980
 evil

00:26:07.980 --> 00:26:13.400
 that every time we experience evil

00:26:13.400 --> 00:26:14.299
 on one level

00:26:14.299 --> 00:26:15.299
 it is God

00:26:15.299 --> 00:26:18.400
 we experience in a very very tiny way

00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:20.200
 God's judgment in advance

00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:23.240
 and the way we experience God's judgment

00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:25.700
 in advance is by actually experiencing

00:26:25.700 --> 00:26:27.259
 murder and lies

00:26:27.259 --> 00:26:31.559
 and hatred and sloth and envy and gluttony

00:26:31.559 --> 00:26:34.879
 and sexual sin

00:26:34.879 --> 00:26:36.919
 and sins of the mind

00:26:36.919 --> 00:26:38.539
 and selfishness

00:26:38.539 --> 00:26:41.159
 that in some way sin

00:26:41.159 --> 00:26:45.419
 is its own punishment

00:26:45.419 --> 00:26:47.339
 even though we choose it

00:26:47.339 --> 00:26:52.099
 and friends that is just so deeply

00:26:52.099 --> 00:26:53.799
 psychologically true

00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:57.480
 but we are like Gideon

00:26:57.480 --> 00:26:59.639
 who thinks that

00:26:59.639 --> 00:27:01.919
 the pain that we experience

00:27:01.919 --> 00:27:03.319
 as a result of the sin

00:27:03.319 --> 00:27:04.700
 that we willingly pursue

00:27:04.700 --> 00:27:07.539
 is somehow a sign that God

00:27:07.539 --> 00:27:08.619
 does not exist

00:27:08.619 --> 00:27:11.539
 that it is somehow his fault

00:27:11.539 --> 00:27:16.339
 and we don't see the darkness

00:27:16.339 --> 00:27:18.379
 that has come over our own mind

00:27:18.379 --> 00:27:19.819
 to understand that

00:27:19.819 --> 00:27:22.460
 all of that pain

00:27:22.460 --> 00:27:24.500
 is to help us to understand

00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:25.919
 many things

00:27:25.919 --> 00:27:26.919
 but one of those things

00:27:26.919 --> 00:27:28.399
 is that the world is broken

00:27:28.399 --> 00:27:31.419
 that I am broken

00:27:31.419 --> 00:27:35.359
 and even to be able to articulate broken

00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:37.980
 implies that there is something unbroken

00:27:37.980 --> 00:27:41.200
 someone who made it unbroken

00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.259
 in this broken world

00:27:43.259 --> 00:27:46.480
 and this wonderful message of the Bible

00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:47.619
 is the world is broken

00:27:47.619 --> 00:27:48.980
 you are broken

00:27:48.980 --> 00:27:50.680
 I still love you

00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:52.420
 I have delivered you

00:27:52.420 --> 00:27:53.500
 from the house of Egypt

00:27:53.500 --> 00:27:54.500
 I have delivered you

00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:55.559
 from your oppressors

00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:57.019
 my common grace

00:27:57.019 --> 00:27:58.259
 restrains your evil

00:27:58.259 --> 00:27:59.860
 and I have sent my son

00:27:59.860 --> 00:28:01.019
 to die upon the cross

00:28:01.019 --> 00:28:01.759
 for you

00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:02.740
 and we will talk about that

00:28:02.740 --> 00:28:03.400
 more in a moment

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.220
 I have to be careful

00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:08.240
 of my time here

00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:14.140
 how does Gideon respond?

00:28:16.259 --> 00:28:16.759
 well he is

00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:18.140
 so first of all

00:28:18.140 --> 00:28:18.880
 it is very interesting

00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:19.720
 the angel of the Lord

00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:21.100
 who is this very interesting figure

00:28:21.100 --> 00:28:21.759
 in the Old Testament

00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.600
 it is not clear whether it is a theophany

00:28:23.600 --> 00:28:25.500
 which means an appearance of God

00:28:25.500 --> 00:28:27.400
 it is not clear whether it is an angel

00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:28.460
 who is a special angel

00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:29.620
 that represents the Lord

00:28:29.620 --> 00:28:31.380
 it is not even clear whether

00:28:31.380 --> 00:28:32.280
 in fact it might be

00:28:32.280 --> 00:28:33.920
 a pre-incarnate Jesus

00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:35.660
 and it is very uncertain

00:28:36.220 --> 00:28:36.980
 about what it is

00:28:36.980 --> 00:28:37.720
 in the Old Testament

00:28:37.720 --> 00:28:39.140
 but you will see that

00:28:39.140 --> 00:28:40.420
 the person speaking

00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:41.660
 is the same as the Lord

00:28:41.660 --> 00:28:43.100
 speaking all the way through the text

00:28:43.100 --> 00:28:44.020
 it is part of the mystery

00:28:44.020 --> 00:28:44.960
 of what is going on here

00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:46.519
 that is never actually explained

00:28:46.519 --> 00:28:47.940
 but in verse 4

00:28:47.940 --> 00:28:50.100
 so the Lord actually never defends himself

00:28:50.100 --> 00:28:52.180
 why does he have to defend himself?

00:28:52.360 --> 00:28:53.100
 he is love

00:28:53.100 --> 00:28:56.519
 and you know

00:28:56.519 --> 00:28:57.360
 here is the other thing

00:28:57.360 --> 00:28:58.120
 not only

00:28:58.120 --> 00:28:59.000
 is it only

00:28:59.000 --> 00:29:00.240
 the triune God

00:29:00.240 --> 00:29:02.720
 that can actually be a loving God

00:29:02.720 --> 00:29:04.160
 but it is actually only

00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:05.100
 the triune God

00:29:05.100 --> 00:29:06.079
 who can be good

00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:08.359
 you see

00:29:08.359 --> 00:29:08.919
 if there is only

00:29:08.919 --> 00:29:10.339
 a singular God

00:29:10.339 --> 00:29:11.779
 then

00:29:11.779 --> 00:29:13.079
 how can he be good?

00:29:13.159 --> 00:29:13.939
 there is just him

00:29:13.939 --> 00:29:15.740
 unless there is something

00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:16.559
 other than him

00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:17.579
 you can't actually know

00:29:17.579 --> 00:29:18.279
 if he is good

00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:20.119
 it is only

00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:21.519
 the triune God

00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:22.119
 that

00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:23.259
 you can really see

00:29:23.259 --> 00:29:24.359
 that God is love

00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:25.539
 and that God is good

00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:26.579
 that there is this goodness

00:29:26.579 --> 00:29:27.199
 and love

00:29:27.199 --> 00:29:27.859
 that has existed

00:29:27.859 --> 00:29:29.399
 even before there was creation

00:29:29.399 --> 00:29:31.059
 and even before there was the fall

00:29:31.059 --> 00:29:34.759
 he does not defend himself to us

00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:36.680
 he is going to redeem them

00:29:36.680 --> 00:29:38.519
 he is not going to defend himself

00:29:38.519 --> 00:29:39.940
 verse 14

00:29:39.940 --> 00:29:41.740
 and the Lord turned to Gideon

00:29:41.740 --> 00:29:42.119
 and said

00:29:42.119 --> 00:29:43.640
 go in this might of yours

00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:44.339
 and save Israel

00:29:44.339 --> 00:29:45.259
 from the hand of Midian

00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:46.599
 but then

00:29:46.599 --> 00:29:47.700
 do not I send you

00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:49.940
 and Gideon said to him

00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:50.700
 please Lord

00:29:50.700 --> 00:29:51.819
 how can I save Israel

00:29:51.819 --> 00:29:52.879
 behold

00:29:52.879 --> 00:29:55.539
 my clan is the weakest in Manasseh

00:29:55.539 --> 00:29:57.299
 and I am the least in my father's house

00:29:57.299 --> 00:29:58.980
 and the Lord said to him

00:29:58.980 --> 00:29:59.980
 but I will be with you

00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:01.799
 and you shall strike the Midianites

00:30:01.799 --> 00:30:02.819
 as one man

00:30:02.819 --> 00:30:03.960
 in other words

00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:05.240
 even though the Midianites

00:30:05.240 --> 00:30:06.200
 are like locusts

00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:07.059
 that completely and utterly

00:30:07.059 --> 00:30:07.980
 cover the land

00:30:07.980 --> 00:30:09.380
 and completely overwhelm them

00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:10.319
 and even though the Israelites

00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:11.180
 have been humbled

00:30:11.180 --> 00:30:12.819
 and they've been in the process

00:30:12.819 --> 00:30:13.539
 seven years

00:30:13.539 --> 00:30:15.160
 into a genocidal process

00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:16.779
 so that they are deeply removed

00:30:16.779 --> 00:30:18.220
 deeply reduced

00:30:18.220 --> 00:30:20.380
 that God will make the battle

00:30:20.380 --> 00:30:20.920
 with Midian

00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:21.319
 as if

00:30:21.319 --> 00:30:22.480
 as if all of Israel

00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:23.519
 is fighting one man

00:30:23.519 --> 00:30:24.980
 that's what the original language means

00:30:24.980 --> 00:30:25.860
 as if all of Israel

00:30:25.860 --> 00:30:27.039
 is just fighting one person

00:30:27.039 --> 00:30:35.180
 and Gideon said to him

00:30:35.180 --> 00:30:36.980
 if now I have found favor in your eyes

00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:38.039
 then show me a sign

00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:39.480
 that it is you who speak with me

00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:41.819
 please do not depart from here

00:30:41.819 --> 00:30:42.639
 until I come to you

00:30:42.639 --> 00:30:43.159
 and bring you

00:30:43.159 --> 00:30:44.339
 out my present

00:30:44.339 --> 00:30:44.980
 or my offering

00:30:44.980 --> 00:30:45.940
 and set it before you

00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:47.720
 and the angel of the Lord said

00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:48.319
 I will stay

00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:49.180
 until you return

00:30:49.180 --> 00:30:49.819
 I'm going to

00:30:49.819 --> 00:30:50.899
 sort of fast forward

00:30:50.899 --> 00:30:52.319
 through this next little bit

00:30:52.319 --> 00:30:54.000
 what you're going to see

00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:55.339
 if you go on and read

00:30:55.339 --> 00:30:56.519
 because I'm going to jump down

00:30:56.519 --> 00:30:58.139
 to a very very important part

00:30:58.139 --> 00:30:58.699
 of the story

00:30:58.699 --> 00:31:00.059
 what you're going to see here

00:31:00.059 --> 00:31:01.059
 is that God does

00:31:01.059 --> 00:31:02.439
 a remarkable miracle

00:31:02.439 --> 00:31:04.439
 Gideon is so paganized

00:31:04.439 --> 00:31:05.539
 so canaanized

00:31:05.539 --> 00:31:07.379
 that when he brings an offering

00:31:07.379 --> 00:31:08.819
 to the angel of the Lord

00:31:08.819 --> 00:31:09.899
 he doesn't bring an offering

00:31:09.899 --> 00:31:11.220
 according to the Mosaic law

00:31:11.220 --> 00:31:11.759
 what he does

00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:12.899
 is he brings an offering

00:31:12.899 --> 00:31:13.879
 as if he's going to be

00:31:13.879 --> 00:31:14.980
 worshipping Baha'al

00:31:14.980 --> 00:31:16.199
 or the Asherah

00:31:16.199 --> 00:31:18.579
 he brings a whole goat

00:31:18.579 --> 00:31:20.279
 and he brings enough bread

00:31:20.279 --> 00:31:22.659
 if you take 22 pounds of flour

00:31:22.659 --> 00:31:24.159
 and make bread

00:31:24.159 --> 00:31:25.199
 that's how much bread

00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:25.940
 he brings

00:31:25.940 --> 00:31:27.720
 and he brings this broth

00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:29.200
 and the angel says

00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:30.559
 the angel of the Lord says

00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:31.539
 put it all on a rock

00:31:31.539 --> 00:31:33.500
 and then Gideon does that

00:31:33.500 --> 00:31:35.000
 and the angel of the Lord

00:31:35.000 --> 00:31:35.559
 touches it

00:31:35.559 --> 00:31:37.480
 and a fire comes from the rock

00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:38.720
 and consumes the whole thing

00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:40.779
 and it's like a whoa moment

00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:42.779
 and then Gideon

00:31:42.779 --> 00:31:44.100
 who has both

00:31:44.100 --> 00:31:44.799
 within his heart

00:31:44.799 --> 00:31:45.380
 and his mind

00:31:45.380 --> 00:31:46.279
 is both a worshipper

00:31:46.279 --> 00:31:46.860
 of Baal

00:31:46.860 --> 00:31:47.900
 and Baal

00:31:47.900 --> 00:31:48.720
 and the Asherah

00:31:48.720 --> 00:31:49.620
 but he also knows

00:31:49.620 --> 00:31:50.580
 things about the Lord

00:31:50.580 --> 00:31:52.220
 and so he now worries

00:31:52.220 --> 00:31:53.059
 that he's going to die

00:31:53.059 --> 00:31:53.759
 because he's seen

00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:55.080
 the Lord face to face

00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:56.039
 and the Lord speaks to him

00:31:56.039 --> 00:31:57.019
 and says you're not going to die

00:31:57.019 --> 00:31:59.119
 and so Gideon is relieved

00:31:59.119 --> 00:31:59.879
 and makes an altar

00:31:59.879 --> 00:32:01.039
 saying the Lord is peace

00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:02.539
 and then the Lord says to him

00:32:02.539 --> 00:32:03.839
 you need to go to your father's house

00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:04.639
 and then we discover

00:32:04.639 --> 00:32:05.819
 that his father

00:32:05.819 --> 00:32:06.939
 is the custodian

00:32:06.939 --> 00:32:07.579
 and the sponsor

00:32:07.579 --> 00:32:08.119
 and the patron

00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:09.279
 of the worship of Baal

00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:09.939
 and Asherah

00:32:09.939 --> 00:32:10.659
 in that region

00:32:10.659 --> 00:32:12.439
 and he says to Gideon

00:32:12.439 --> 00:32:13.480
 you've got to go Gideon

00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:15.640
 and what I want you to do

00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:15.660
 and what I want you to do

00:32:15.660 --> 00:32:16.720
 is I'd like you to

00:32:16.720 --> 00:32:18.400
 because you're just worshipping me

00:32:18.400 --> 00:32:19.319
 there's no other gods

00:32:19.319 --> 00:32:20.380
 I want you to

00:32:20.380 --> 00:32:22.099
 go and tear down

00:32:22.099 --> 00:32:22.960
 the altar to Baal

00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:24.660
 tear down the Asherah

00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:25.420
 kill a bull

00:32:25.420 --> 00:32:26.200
 and significant

00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:27.519
 because bull is the way

00:32:27.519 --> 00:32:29.860
 the Baal is imaged

00:32:29.860 --> 00:32:31.360
 the image of the Baal

00:32:31.360 --> 00:32:31.839
 is a bull

00:32:31.839 --> 00:32:33.120
 and so I want you

00:32:33.120 --> 00:32:34.019
 to take a bull

00:32:34.019 --> 00:32:35.339
 and after you've cut down

00:32:35.339 --> 00:32:36.180
 the Asherah pole

00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:37.240
 and destroyed the altar

00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:38.380
 on top of the fortress

00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:39.740
 that helps to protect

00:32:39.740 --> 00:32:40.240
 the gods

00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:41.059
 and the goddesses

00:32:41.059 --> 00:32:42.019
 I want you to make

00:32:42.019 --> 00:32:42.980
 the Lord's altar

00:32:42.980 --> 00:32:43.740
 and I want you to

00:32:43.740 --> 00:32:44.799
 using the wood

00:32:44.799 --> 00:32:45.759
 from the Asherah pole

00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:46.339
 I want you to

00:32:46.339 --> 00:32:47.319
 sacrifice the bull

00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:48.899
 but you sacrifice it to me

00:32:48.899 --> 00:32:49.740
 and Gideon does it

00:32:49.740 --> 00:32:50.279
 but he's afraid

00:32:50.279 --> 00:32:50.819
 he does it in the middle

00:32:50.819 --> 00:32:51.179
 of the night

00:32:51.179 --> 00:32:52.359
 and the next morning

00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:53.779
 people come up

00:32:53.779 --> 00:32:54.859
 they see that the altar

00:32:54.859 --> 00:32:55.500
 is destroyed

00:32:55.500 --> 00:32:57.240
 they see that the Asherah pole

00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:57.700
 is gone

00:32:57.700 --> 00:32:58.559
 they see that the bull

00:32:58.559 --> 00:32:59.539
 has been all cut up

00:32:59.539 --> 00:33:00.779
 they do an inquiry

00:33:00.779 --> 00:33:02.059
 and the result of the inquiry

00:33:02.059 --> 00:33:03.399
 is that they go

00:33:03.399 --> 00:33:05.379
 to Gideon's father

00:33:05.379 --> 00:33:06.139
 because he's still

00:33:06.139 --> 00:33:06.879
 under the head

00:33:06.879 --> 00:33:07.559
 of the family

00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:09.639
 and they say to him

00:33:09.639 --> 00:33:10.839
 Gideon has to die

00:33:10.839 --> 00:33:11.980
 and even though

00:33:11.980 --> 00:33:13.559
 the dad is the patron

00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:14.119
 of Baal

00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:14.740
 and the patron

00:33:14.740 --> 00:33:15.519
 of the Asherah

00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:16.459
 the fact of the matter

00:33:16.459 --> 00:33:17.099
 is he's not going

00:33:17.099 --> 00:33:17.679
 to let his boy

00:33:17.679 --> 00:33:18.779
 die over this

00:33:18.779 --> 00:33:19.859
 I mean it's his boy

00:33:19.859 --> 00:33:22.759
 idols are one thing

00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:23.599
 your kid is another

00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:25.139
 right

00:33:25.139 --> 00:33:27.699
 so he says

00:33:27.699 --> 00:33:29.019
 if you could skip ahead

00:33:29.019 --> 00:33:30.220
 to I think it's verse 31

00:33:30.220 --> 00:33:31.539
 that would be very helpful

00:33:31.539 --> 00:33:33.399
 there you go

00:33:33.399 --> 00:33:35.179
 but Joash said

00:33:35.179 --> 00:33:38.159
 but Joash said

00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:39.360
 where we are

00:33:39.360 --> 00:33:40.120
 my own bible

00:33:40.120 --> 00:33:40.960
 but Joash said

00:33:40.960 --> 00:33:41.660
 to all who stood

00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:42.080
 against him

00:33:42.080 --> 00:33:42.820
 will you contend

00:33:42.820 --> 00:33:43.360
 for Baal

00:33:43.360 --> 00:33:45.060
 or will you save him

00:33:45.060 --> 00:33:46.660
 whoever contends

00:33:46.660 --> 00:33:47.080
 for him

00:33:47.080 --> 00:33:48.040
 shall be put to death

00:33:48.040 --> 00:33:48.620
 by morning

00:33:48.620 --> 00:33:50.620
 if he is a god

00:33:50.620 --> 00:33:51.500
 let him contend

00:33:51.500 --> 00:33:52.180
 for himself

00:33:52.180 --> 00:33:53.779
 because his altar

00:33:53.779 --> 00:33:54.460
 has been broken

00:33:54.460 --> 00:33:56.759
 therefore on that day

00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.540
 Gideon was called

00:33:57.540 --> 00:33:58.160
 Jeroboam

00:33:58.160 --> 00:33:59.320
 that is to say

00:33:59.320 --> 00:34:00.000
 let Baal

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:01.019
 contend against him

00:34:01.019 --> 00:34:01.640
 because he broke

00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:02.860
 down his altar

00:34:02.859 --> 00:34:04.699
 I need to wrap

00:34:04.699 --> 00:34:05.579
 it all up

00:34:05.579 --> 00:34:09.940
 let me see here

00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:12.359
 oh back there

00:34:12.359 --> 00:34:16.179
 here's the thing

00:34:16.179 --> 00:34:16.799
 about idols

00:34:16.799 --> 00:34:18.579
 and of course

00:34:18.579 --> 00:34:19.480
 power is one

00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:20.359
 of the main idols

00:34:20.359 --> 00:34:22.199
 that we all face

00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.440
 power kills

00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:26.539
 to protect itself

00:34:26.539 --> 00:34:29.059
 love will die

00:34:29.059 --> 00:34:30.279
 for the beloved

00:34:30.280 --> 00:34:40.400
 one of the things

00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:41.000
 that struck me

00:34:41.000 --> 00:34:41.580
 when I was reading

00:34:41.580 --> 00:34:42.180
 this story

00:34:42.180 --> 00:34:43.780
 about Joash's

00:34:43.780 --> 00:34:44.820
 speech to the people

00:34:44.820 --> 00:34:46.240
 is he puts out

00:34:46.240 --> 00:34:47.040
 this very very

00:34:47.040 --> 00:34:48.060
 very stark

00:34:48.060 --> 00:34:49.200
 challenge

00:34:49.200 --> 00:34:53.540
 if Baal is a god

00:34:53.540 --> 00:34:55.040
 he can defend himself

00:34:55.040 --> 00:34:57.500
 now what struck me

00:34:57.500 --> 00:34:58.100
 the first time

00:34:58.100 --> 00:34:58.960
 I read this this week

00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.360
 and I don't know

00:34:59.360 --> 00:35:00.000
 if it struck any

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:00.440
 of you

00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:01.239
 is that something

00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:01.980
 very similar

00:35:01.980 --> 00:35:02.679
 happens in the

00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:03.300
 gospels

00:35:03.300 --> 00:35:04.659
 what do three

00:35:04.659 --> 00:35:05.400
 of the gospels

00:35:05.400 --> 00:35:05.960
 record

00:35:05.960 --> 00:35:07.460
 that Jesus

00:35:07.460 --> 00:35:08.239
 is hanging

00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:09.019
 on the cross

00:35:09.019 --> 00:35:11.019
 and

00:35:11.019 --> 00:35:13.199
 he's all bloody

00:35:13.199 --> 00:35:13.619
 he's been

00:35:13.619 --> 00:35:14.480
 completely and utterly

00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:14.820
 whipped

00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:15.500
 he's surrounded

00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:16.239
 by soldiers

00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:16.900
 he's hanging

00:35:16.900 --> 00:35:17.539
 on the cross

00:35:17.539 --> 00:35:18.039
 he's dying

00:35:18.039 --> 00:35:18.920
 a criminal's death

00:35:18.920 --> 00:35:21.679
 and all the leaders

00:35:21.679 --> 00:35:23.679
 the intellectuals

00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:24.500
 the religious

00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:25.360
 the spiritual

00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:26.039
 types

00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:27.639
 the cultural

00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:28.500
 influencers

00:35:28.500 --> 00:35:30.519
 they all say

00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:31.940
 he saves

00:35:31.940 --> 00:35:32.400
 others

00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:33.639
 let him save

00:35:33.639 --> 00:35:34.260
 himself

00:35:34.260 --> 00:35:37.900
 come down

00:35:37.900 --> 00:35:38.679
 from the cross

00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:39.719
 show us that you

00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:40.739
 can save yourself

00:35:40.739 --> 00:35:42.059
 if you are God

00:35:42.059 --> 00:35:43.079
 if you are the

00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:43.440
 savior

00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:47.960
 now Jesus

00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:48.760
 doesn't come down

00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:49.320
 from the cross

00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:50.360
 he stays on the cross

00:35:50.360 --> 00:35:51.059
 and he dies

00:35:51.059 --> 00:35:54.320
 but we understand

00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:54.840
 that

00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:55.980
 not to be a

00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:56.639
 defeat of

00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:57.039
 Jesus

00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:59.059
 but to in fact

00:35:59.059 --> 00:36:00.039
 be his victory

00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:02.139
 a victory

00:36:02.139 --> 00:36:02.779
 which matters

00:36:02.779 --> 00:36:03.400
 to us

00:36:03.400 --> 00:36:04.960
 and we only

00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:05.400
 begin to

00:36:05.400 --> 00:36:06.199
 understand it

00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:06.980
 if we understand

00:36:06.980 --> 00:36:07.579
 that God is

00:36:07.579 --> 00:36:07.940
 love

00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:09.380
 that the triune

00:36:09.380 --> 00:36:10.219
 God is love

00:36:10.219 --> 00:36:10.779
 from all

00:36:10.779 --> 00:36:11.279
 eternity

00:36:11.279 --> 00:36:11.799
 the father

00:36:11.799 --> 00:36:12.099
 is love

00:36:12.099 --> 00:36:12.480
 the son

00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:12.820
 and the son

00:36:12.820 --> 00:36:13.079
 is love

00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:13.619
 the father

00:36:13.619 --> 00:36:15.000
 and the father

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:16.179
 desires to have

00:36:16.179 --> 00:36:17.019
 ordinary people

00:36:17.019 --> 00:36:17.739
 like you and me

00:36:17.739 --> 00:36:18.379
 know him

00:36:18.379 --> 00:36:18.899
 so that we

00:36:18.899 --> 00:36:19.759
 will love him

00:36:19.759 --> 00:36:21.059
 and experience

00:36:21.059 --> 00:36:21.899
 his love

00:36:21.899 --> 00:36:23.799
 and we can

00:36:23.799 --> 00:36:24.579
 love him

00:36:24.579 --> 00:36:25.619
 not because

00:36:25.619 --> 00:36:26.399
 he needs love

00:36:26.399 --> 00:36:26.899
 he has the

00:36:26.899 --> 00:36:27.639
 love of the son

00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:28.119
 and the holy

00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:28.879
 spirit from all

00:36:28.879 --> 00:36:29.299
 eternity

00:36:29.299 --> 00:36:30.399
 but it is the

00:36:30.399 --> 00:36:31.279
 nature of love

00:36:31.279 --> 00:36:32.459
 to love

00:36:32.459 --> 00:36:33.259
 and to receive

00:36:33.259 --> 00:36:33.619
 love

00:36:33.619 --> 00:36:34.299
 and to give

00:36:34.299 --> 00:36:35.159
 and to be good

00:36:35.159 --> 00:36:36.479
 and it's the

00:36:36.479 --> 00:36:36.959
 very nature

00:36:36.959 --> 00:36:37.579
 of power

00:36:37.579 --> 00:36:38.779
 to sacrifice

00:36:38.779 --> 00:36:39.419
 others

00:36:39.419 --> 00:36:40.039
 so that no

00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:41.239
 power is lost

00:36:41.239 --> 00:36:42.319
 and so for

00:36:42.319 --> 00:36:42.699
 Baal

00:36:42.699 --> 00:36:43.519
 who's all about

00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:44.079
 power

00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:44.639
 for him not

00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:45.119
 to defend

00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:45.599
 himself

00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:46.699
 is in fact

00:36:46.699 --> 00:36:47.500
 an indictment

00:36:47.500 --> 00:36:48.159
 against him

00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:49.619
 but

00:36:49.619 --> 00:36:51.179
 the cultural

00:36:51.179 --> 00:36:51.619
 leaders

00:36:51.619 --> 00:36:52.539
 and the influencers

00:36:52.539 --> 00:36:54.360
 and the intellectuals

00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:55.639
 and the religious

00:36:55.639 --> 00:36:56.400
 leaders

00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:57.539
 who at the end

00:36:57.539 --> 00:36:57.980
 of the day

00:36:57.980 --> 00:36:58.619
 do not know

00:36:58.619 --> 00:36:59.460
 that God is love

00:36:59.460 --> 00:37:00.559
 but worship power

00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:01.480
 for them

00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:02.039
 what they want

00:37:02.039 --> 00:37:02.360
 to see

00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:03.079
 is a display

00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:03.779
 of power

00:37:03.779 --> 00:37:04.880
 and they do not

00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:05.239
 know

00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:06.259
 that they know

00:37:06.259 --> 00:37:07.099
 that if power

00:37:07.099 --> 00:37:07.679
 is real

00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:08.199
 that power

00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:08.719
 will act

00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:09.179
 to defend

00:37:09.179 --> 00:37:09.539
 itself

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:10.039
 but they do

00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:10.719
 not understand

00:37:10.719 --> 00:37:11.339
 that if love

00:37:11.339 --> 00:37:11.739
 is real

00:37:11.739 --> 00:37:12.579
 love will die

00:37:12.579 --> 00:37:13.259
 for the beloved

00:37:13.259 --> 00:37:15.279
 many of you

00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:15.800
 heard the story

00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:16.140
 I'm just going

00:37:16.140 --> 00:37:16.540
 to tell part

00:37:16.540 --> 00:37:16.880
 of it right

00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:17.060
 now

00:37:17.060 --> 00:37:18.060
 my wife

00:37:18.060 --> 00:37:18.740
 and six

00:37:18.740 --> 00:37:19.200
 or seven

00:37:19.200 --> 00:37:19.700
 of my kids

00:37:19.700 --> 00:37:20.200
 at the time

00:37:20.200 --> 00:37:20.740
 were in a house

00:37:20.740 --> 00:37:21.100
 fire

00:37:21.100 --> 00:37:22.000
 caught on the

00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:22.720
 second floor

00:37:22.720 --> 00:37:24.180
 first floor

00:37:24.180 --> 00:37:25.340
 consumed with

00:37:25.340 --> 00:37:26.400
 flames

00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:27.600
 in the middle

00:37:27.600 --> 00:37:27.940
 of the night

00:37:27.940 --> 00:37:28.540
 Louise woke

00:37:28.540 --> 00:37:28.980
 up and she

00:37:28.980 --> 00:37:29.320
 woke up

00:37:29.320 --> 00:37:29.680
 the kids

00:37:29.680 --> 00:37:30.120
 and she woke

00:37:30.120 --> 00:37:30.640
 up her mom

00:37:30.640 --> 00:37:31.140
 and Louise

00:37:31.140 --> 00:37:32.180
 was able to

00:37:32.180 --> 00:37:32.880
 open a bathroom

00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:33.320
 window

00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:34.220
 which there

00:37:34.220 --> 00:37:34.780
 was enough room

00:37:34.780 --> 00:37:35.540
 about three feet

00:37:35.540 --> 00:37:36.220
 down into the

00:37:36.220 --> 00:37:36.540
 side

00:37:36.540 --> 00:37:37.260
 a shed

00:37:37.260 --> 00:37:38.360
 and I can tell

00:37:38.360 --> 00:37:38.800
 you right now

00:37:38.800 --> 00:37:39.220
 who was the

00:37:39.220 --> 00:37:39.780
 last one out

00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:40.380
 of the house

00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:41.860
 Louise

00:37:41.860 --> 00:37:43.460
 why

00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:44.400
 she opened

00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:44.760
 the window

00:37:44.760 --> 00:37:45.320
 she hands

00:37:45.320 --> 00:37:45.780
 the kids

00:37:45.780 --> 00:37:46.099
 out

00:37:46.099 --> 00:37:47.200
 she gets

00:37:47.200 --> 00:37:47.639
 the kids

00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:47.920
 out

00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:49.059
 and whenever

00:37:49.059 --> 00:37:50.000
 kid is out

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:50.840
 she leaves

00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:52.360
 and if she

00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:52.900
 had died

00:37:52.900 --> 00:37:53.500
 not being able

00:37:53.500 --> 00:37:53.860
 to get all

00:37:53.860 --> 00:37:54.240
 of the kids

00:37:54.240 --> 00:37:54.380
 out

00:37:54.380 --> 00:37:54.960
 she would not

00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:55.220
 have viewed

00:37:55.220 --> 00:37:55.980
 herself as a

00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:56.240
 failure

00:37:56.240 --> 00:37:56.780
 because she

00:37:56.780 --> 00:37:57.300
 got all of

00:37:57.300 --> 00:37:57.700
 her kids

00:37:57.700 --> 00:37:58.039
 out

00:37:58.039 --> 00:38:00.440
 it's a nature

00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:01.059
 of love

00:38:01.059 --> 00:38:02.280
 to be willing

00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:02.880
 to die

00:38:02.880 --> 00:38:09.059
 idol

00:38:09.059 --> 00:38:09.079
 idol

00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:09.640
 worshipers

00:38:09.640 --> 00:38:09.940
 go to

00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:10.500
 great lengths

00:38:10.500 --> 00:38:11.360
 to save

00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:12.099
 their idols

00:38:12.099 --> 00:38:13.800
 but the

00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:14.260
 Lord went

00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:14.920
 to great lengths

00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:15.480
 to save

00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:15.940
 and deliver

00:38:15.940 --> 00:38:16.320
 you

00:38:16.320 --> 00:38:18.920
 think of

00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:19.599
 the lengths

00:38:19.599 --> 00:38:19.880
 that we

00:38:19.880 --> 00:38:20.119
 go

00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:20.559
 those of

00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:20.900
 us who

00:38:20.900 --> 00:38:21.220
 worship

00:38:21.220 --> 00:38:21.760
 beauty

00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:22.340
 the lengths

00:38:22.340 --> 00:38:22.920
 we go

00:38:22.920 --> 00:38:23.860
 as our

00:38:23.860 --> 00:38:24.119
 beauty

00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:24.700
 fades

00:38:24.700 --> 00:38:26.420
 I know

00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:26.800
 a woman

00:38:26.800 --> 00:38:27.320
 who asked

00:38:27.320 --> 00:38:27.820
 a doctor

00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:28.380
 to kill

00:38:28.380 --> 00:38:28.720
 her

00:38:28.720 --> 00:38:29.720
 because

00:38:29.720 --> 00:38:30.140
 she was

00:38:30.140 --> 00:38:30.340
 in

00:38:30.340 --> 00:38:30.660
 she'd

00:38:30.660 --> 00:38:31.140
 always

00:38:31.140 --> 00:38:31.579
 been

00:38:31.579 --> 00:38:31.880
 very

00:38:31.880 --> 00:38:32.160
 very

00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:32.480
 very

00:38:32.480 --> 00:38:32.760
 very

00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:32.980
 very

00:38:32.980 --> 00:38:33.000
 very

00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:35.420
 well

00:38:35.420 --> 00:38:35.720
 made

00:38:35.720 --> 00:38:35.960
 up

00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:36.240
 and

00:38:36.240 --> 00:38:36.400
 she

00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:36.579
 could

00:38:36.579 --> 00:38:36.780
 no

00:38:36.780 --> 00:38:37.100
 longer

00:38:37.100 --> 00:38:37.400
 look

00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:37.920
 beautiful

00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:38.880
 and she

00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:39.079
 wanted

00:38:39.079 --> 00:38:39.579
 to die

00:38:39.579 --> 00:38:43.079
 her idol

00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:43.539
 devoured

00:38:43.539 --> 00:38:43.760
 her

00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.380
 and we

00:38:46.380 --> 00:38:46.720
 worship

00:38:46.720 --> 00:38:47.120
 money

00:38:47.120 --> 00:38:47.720
 and the

00:38:47.720 --> 00:38:47.960
 money

00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:48.320
 starts

00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:48.780
 to fail

00:38:48.780 --> 00:38:48.980
 us

00:38:48.980 --> 00:38:49.360
 but we

00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:49.579
 don't

00:38:49.579 --> 00:38:49.780
 say

00:38:49.780 --> 00:38:50.140
 money

00:38:50.140 --> 00:38:50.280
 is

00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:50.420
 a

00:38:50.420 --> 00:38:50.640
 failure

00:38:50.640 --> 00:38:50.940
 no

00:38:50.940 --> 00:38:51.240
 we

00:38:51.240 --> 00:38:52.059
 save

00:38:52.059 --> 00:38:52.260
 it

00:38:52.260 --> 00:38:52.400
 we

00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:52.559
 say

00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:52.700
 no

00:38:52.700 --> 00:38:52.840
 no

00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:52.980
 no

00:38:52.980 --> 00:38:53.100
 no

00:38:53.100 --> 00:38:53.640
 the

00:38:53.640 --> 00:38:53.960
 market

00:38:53.960 --> 00:38:54.160
 will

00:38:54.160 --> 00:38:54.500
 correct

00:38:54.500 --> 00:38:54.800
 itself

00:38:54.800 --> 00:38:55.039
 it'll

00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:55.300
 work

00:38:55.300 --> 00:38:55.500
 it'll

00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:55.760
 work

00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:55.960
 it'll

00:38:55.960 --> 00:38:56.200
 work

00:38:56.200 --> 00:38:56.400
 it'll

00:38:56.400 --> 00:38:56.800
 work

00:38:56.800 --> 00:39:01.200
 and what

00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:01.600
 we see

00:39:01.600 --> 00:39:01.820
 throughout

00:39:01.820 --> 00:39:02.039
 this

00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:02.420
 entire

00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:02.840
 text

00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:03.220
 is that

00:39:03.220 --> 00:39:03.519
 God

00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:03.920
 comes

00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:04.140
 to

00:39:04.140 --> 00:39:04.519
 Gideon

00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:04.720
 when

00:39:04.720 --> 00:39:05.140
 Gideon

00:39:05.140 --> 00:39:05.519
 is still

00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:06.060
 worshipping

00:39:06.060 --> 00:39:06.500
 Baal

00:39:06.500 --> 00:39:07.140
 and Asherah

00:39:07.140 --> 00:39:08.019
 and here's

00:39:08.019 --> 00:39:08.220
 what we

00:39:08.220 --> 00:39:08.519
 learn in

00:39:08.519 --> 00:39:08.980
 the gospel

00:39:08.980 --> 00:39:09.500
 while you

00:39:09.500 --> 00:39:09.900
 were still

00:39:09.900 --> 00:39:10.220
 giving

00:39:10.220 --> 00:39:10.640
 yourself

00:39:10.640 --> 00:39:11.280
 to idols

00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:11.960
 Messiah

00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:12.500
 Jesus

00:39:12.500 --> 00:39:13.060
 died

00:39:13.060 --> 00:39:13.760
 for you

00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:21.360
 if you

00:39:21.360 --> 00:39:21.720
 go back

00:39:21.720 --> 00:39:22.000
 and read

00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:22.260
 the rest

00:39:22.260 --> 00:39:22.480
 of the

00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:22.740
 story

00:39:22.740 --> 00:39:23.200
 of Gideon

00:39:23.200 --> 00:39:23.380
 it's

00:39:23.380 --> 00:39:23.840
 after this

00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:24.100
 it even

00:39:24.100 --> 00:39:24.440
 always had

00:39:24.440 --> 00:39:25.080
 a remarkable

00:39:25.080 --> 00:39:25.680
 miracle

00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:26.619
 of the

00:39:26.619 --> 00:39:26.960
 equivalent

00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:27.440
 of how

00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:27.599
 many

00:39:27.599 --> 00:39:27.940
 bread

00:39:27.940 --> 00:39:28.079
 you

00:39:28.079 --> 00:39:28.239
 could

00:39:28.239 --> 00:39:28.419
 make

00:39:28.419 --> 00:39:28.579
 from

00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:28.980
 22

00:39:28.980 --> 00:39:29.419
 pounds

00:39:29.419 --> 00:39:29.619
 of

00:39:29.619 --> 00:39:30.059
 flour

00:39:30.059 --> 00:39:30.419
 and a

00:39:30.419 --> 00:39:30.859
 whole

00:39:30.859 --> 00:39:32.319
 goat

00:39:32.319 --> 00:39:33.339
 and all

00:39:33.339 --> 00:39:33.539
 the

00:39:33.539 --> 00:39:33.879
 broth

00:39:33.879 --> 00:39:34.379
 all just

00:39:34.379 --> 00:39:34.899
 taken up

00:39:34.899 --> 00:39:35.679
 in fire

00:39:35.679 --> 00:39:36.839
 and the

00:39:36.839 --> 00:39:37.419
 Holy Spirit

00:39:37.419 --> 00:39:38.099
 comes upon

00:39:38.099 --> 00:39:38.279
 him

00:39:38.279 --> 00:39:39.000
 and he's

00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:39.279
 able

00:39:39.279 --> 00:39:39.659
 with the

00:39:39.659 --> 00:39:40.199
 Holy Spirit's

00:39:40.199 --> 00:39:40.379
 power

00:39:40.379 --> 00:39:40.879
 to rally

00:39:40.879 --> 00:39:41.339
 the people

00:39:41.339 --> 00:39:41.719
 of Israel

00:39:41.719 --> 00:39:42.059
 to fight

00:39:42.059 --> 00:39:42.359
 against

00:39:42.359 --> 00:39:42.839
 Midianites

00:39:42.839 --> 00:39:43.579
 and still

00:39:43.579 --> 00:39:45.079
 Gideon

00:39:45.079 --> 00:39:46.039
 can't believe

00:39:46.039 --> 00:39:46.519
 that God

00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:47.000
 has actually

00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:47.659
 spoken to him

00:39:47.659 --> 00:39:48.159
 and promised

00:39:48.159 --> 00:39:48.619
 to him

00:39:48.619 --> 00:39:49.219
 and so

00:39:49.219 --> 00:39:49.559
 there's the

00:39:49.559 --> 00:39:50.259
 famous story

00:39:50.259 --> 00:39:50.599
 of the

00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:50.960
 fleece

00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:51.599
 that could

00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:51.960
 you make

00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:52.699
 the fleece

00:39:52.699 --> 00:39:53.199
 wet

00:39:53.199 --> 00:39:53.440
 and the

00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:54.179
 ground dry

00:39:54.179 --> 00:39:54.539
 and then

00:39:54.539 --> 00:39:55.259
 God does

00:39:55.260 --> 00:39:55.600
 it and then

00:39:55.600 --> 00:39:55.960
 he says

00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:56.300
 oh just

00:39:56.300 --> 00:39:56.680
 one more

00:39:56.680 --> 00:39:56.980
 time

00:39:56.980 --> 00:39:57.260
 could you

00:39:57.260 --> 00:39:57.620
 make the

00:39:57.620 --> 00:39:58.300
 ground wet

00:39:58.300 --> 00:39:58.740
 and the

00:39:58.740 --> 00:39:59.120
 fleece

00:39:59.120 --> 00:39:59.440
 die

00:39:59.440 --> 00:40:00.540
 and the

00:40:00.540 --> 00:40:00.860
 problem

00:40:00.860 --> 00:40:01.160
 is that

00:40:01.160 --> 00:40:01.460
 that's not

00:40:01.460 --> 00:40:01.840
 a story

00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:02.360
 about seeking

00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:02.740
 God's

00:40:02.740 --> 00:40:02.840
 will

00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:03.140
 he already

00:40:03.140 --> 00:40:03.480
 knows

00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:03.880
 God's

00:40:03.880 --> 00:40:04.060
 will

00:40:04.060 --> 00:40:04.440
 God's

00:40:04.440 --> 00:40:04.740
 told him

00:40:04.740 --> 00:40:05.120
 time and

00:40:05.120 --> 00:40:05.400
 time and

00:40:05.400 --> 00:40:05.740
 time again

00:40:05.740 --> 00:40:05.920
 you're

00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:06.060
 going to

00:40:06.060 --> 00:40:06.420
 go fight

00:40:06.420 --> 00:40:07.500
 Midian and

00:40:07.500 --> 00:40:07.720
 I'm going

00:40:07.720 --> 00:40:08.220
 to destroy

00:40:08.220 --> 00:40:08.380
 them

00:40:08.380 --> 00:40:08.560
 he doesn't

00:40:08.560 --> 00:40:08.760
 need to

00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:08.900
 know

00:40:08.900 --> 00:40:09.280
 God's

00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:09.660
 will

00:40:09.660 --> 00:40:10.460
 he just

00:40:10.460 --> 00:40:10.800
 can't

00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:11.200
 believe

00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:12.380
 that God's

00:40:12.380 --> 00:40:12.600
 word

00:40:12.600 --> 00:40:13.340
 is true

00:40:13.340 --> 00:40:17.340
 you see

00:40:17.340 --> 00:40:17.820
 the more

00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:18.380
 an idol

00:40:18.380 --> 00:40:19.040
 grips your

00:40:19.040 --> 00:40:19.540
 heart

00:40:19.540 --> 00:40:20.840
 the harder

00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:21.420
 it is to

00:40:21.420 --> 00:40:21.720
 believe

00:40:21.720 --> 00:40:22.060
 that the

00:40:22.060 --> 00:40:22.580
 Lord keeps

00:40:22.580 --> 00:40:23.060
 his word

00:40:25.260 --> 00:40:32.940
 friends

00:40:32.940 --> 00:40:34.280
 gathering

00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:34.900
 together on

00:40:34.900 --> 00:40:35.460
 the Lord's

00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:35.940
 day to

00:40:35.940 --> 00:40:36.300
 worship

00:40:36.300 --> 00:40:36.840
 together

00:40:36.840 --> 00:40:37.920
 is a

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:38.640
 chance for

00:40:38.640 --> 00:40:39.040
 us to

00:40:39.040 --> 00:40:39.660
 say Lord

00:40:39.660 --> 00:40:40.980
 those idols

00:40:40.980 --> 00:40:41.420
 have gotten

00:40:41.420 --> 00:40:42.180
 really powerful

00:40:42.180 --> 00:40:42.900
 in my heart

00:40:42.900 --> 00:40:43.560
 this week

00:40:43.560 --> 00:40:46.000
 and I

00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:46.440
 have a hard

00:40:46.440 --> 00:40:47.080
 time believing

00:40:47.080 --> 00:40:47.540
 you keep

00:40:47.540 --> 00:40:48.120
 your word

00:40:48.120 --> 00:40:50.020
 and it's a

00:40:50.020 --> 00:40:50.640
 time for us

00:40:50.640 --> 00:40:51.080
 to remember

00:40:51.080 --> 00:40:51.660
 the gospel

00:40:51.660 --> 00:40:52.240
 because the

00:40:52.240 --> 00:40:53.000
 Lord has

00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:53.380
 given us

00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:53.940
 something far

00:40:53.940 --> 00:40:54.320
 better than

00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:54.980
 a fleece

00:40:54.980 --> 00:40:56.059
 he's given

00:40:56.059 --> 00:40:56.380
 us

00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:57.179
 Jesus

00:40:57.179 --> 00:40:57.559
 dying

00:40:57.559 --> 00:40:57.800
 on a

00:40:57.800 --> 00:40:58.179
 cross

00:40:58.179 --> 00:40:59.460
 and he's

00:40:59.460 --> 00:40:59.780
 given us

00:40:59.780 --> 00:41:00.380
 the resurrection

00:41:00.380 --> 00:41:01.340
 and it's

00:41:01.340 --> 00:41:01.860
 time for us

00:41:01.860 --> 00:41:02.179
 to come

00:41:02.179 --> 00:41:02.639
 and remind

00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:02.900
 of the

00:41:02.900 --> 00:41:03.139
 gospel

00:41:03.139 --> 00:41:03.400
 we have

00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:03.840
 the Lord's

00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:04.000
 supper

00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:04.280
 what do

00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:04.740
 we remember

00:41:04.740 --> 00:41:05.719
 the new

00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:06.079
 covenant

00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:06.820
 the fact

00:41:06.820 --> 00:41:07.059
 that he

00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:07.420
 died

00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:08.000
 for us

00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:09.139
 and it's

00:41:09.139 --> 00:41:09.579
 time for

00:41:09.579 --> 00:41:09.920
 us to

00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:10.599
 once again

00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:11.420
 come back

00:41:11.420 --> 00:41:11.940
 and reset

00:41:11.940 --> 00:41:12.300
 and say

00:41:12.300 --> 00:41:12.699
 Lord I

00:41:12.699 --> 00:41:13.340
 so need

00:41:13.340 --> 00:41:14.019
 to remember

00:41:14.019 --> 00:41:14.460
 what you

00:41:14.460 --> 00:41:14.900
 did for

00:41:14.900 --> 00:41:15.179
 me

00:41:15.179 --> 00:41:15.760
 on the

00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:16.139
 cross

00:41:16.139 --> 00:41:16.639
 that while

00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:17.320
 I still

00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:17.740
 worship

00:41:17.740 --> 00:41:18.300
 idols

00:41:18.300 --> 00:41:19.199
 and I

00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:19.500
 was not

00:41:19.500 --> 00:41:19.760
 even

00:41:19.760 --> 00:41:20.320
 thinking of

00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:20.440
 you

00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:21.099
 you died

00:41:21.099 --> 00:41:21.760
 for me

00:41:21.760 --> 00:41:22.679
 knowing

00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:23.679
 the depth

00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:24.340
 that idols

00:41:24.340 --> 00:41:25.300
 have on my

00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:25.620
 heart

00:41:25.620 --> 00:41:26.340
 you died

00:41:26.340 --> 00:41:26.880
 for me

00:41:26.880 --> 00:41:27.579
 and you

00:41:27.579 --> 00:41:28.300
 died for me

00:41:28.300 --> 00:41:28.900
 knowing that

00:41:28.900 --> 00:41:29.519
 even today

00:41:29.519 --> 00:41:30.400
 even after I've

00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:30.900
 come to a

00:41:30.900 --> 00:41:31.460
 faith in you

00:41:31.460 --> 00:41:32.820
 how powerful it

00:41:32.820 --> 00:41:33.760
 is for me to

00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:34.539
 return to the

00:41:34.539 --> 00:41:35.539
 idols of money

00:41:35.539 --> 00:41:36.220
 or sex

00:41:36.220 --> 00:41:37.920
 or of race

00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:38.760
 or of ethnicity

00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:39.960
 or of politics

00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:40.900
 or of ideology

00:41:40.900 --> 00:41:42.120
 or myself

00:41:42.120 --> 00:41:43.160
 or my family

00:41:43.160 --> 00:41:43.960
 or my house

00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:45.039
 or my car

00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:46.700
 or my looks

00:41:46.700 --> 00:41:47.680
 or whatever it is

00:41:47.680 --> 00:41:48.700
 that I give my

00:41:48.700 --> 00:41:49.640
 heart to time

00:41:49.640 --> 00:41:50.079
 and time

00:41:50.079 --> 00:41:50.680
 and time again

00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:51.000
 and you

00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:51.399
 knew

00:41:51.399 --> 00:41:52.339
 all of that

00:41:52.339 --> 00:41:53.099
 and still

00:41:53.099 --> 00:41:54.000
 you died

00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:54.739
 for me

00:41:54.739 --> 00:41:55.679
 still

00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:56.440
 you died

00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:57.259
 for me

00:41:57.259 --> 00:41:59.759
 not weighing

00:41:59.759 --> 00:42:00.059
 my

00:42:00.059 --> 00:42:02.500
 my wonders

00:42:02.500 --> 00:42:03.339
 but pardoning

00:42:03.339 --> 00:42:04.099
 my offenses

00:42:04.099 --> 00:42:04.659
 not

00:42:04.659 --> 00:42:07.059
 knowing how

00:42:07.059 --> 00:42:07.799
 religious and

00:42:07.799 --> 00:42:08.519
 spiritual and

00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:09.119
 pure I am

00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:09.599
 but knowing

00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:10.579
 how far I am

00:42:10.579 --> 00:42:11.000
 for that

00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:11.799
 still you

00:42:11.799 --> 00:42:12.799
 died for

00:42:12.799 --> 00:42:13.319
 me

00:42:13.319 --> 00:42:16.319
 and so

00:42:16.319 --> 00:42:17.819
 we are

00:42:17.819 --> 00:42:18.219
 gathered

00:42:18.219 --> 00:42:19.819
 to call out

00:42:19.819 --> 00:42:20.419
 to the Lord

00:42:20.419 --> 00:42:21.539
 to say

00:42:21.539 --> 00:42:22.019
 Lord take

00:42:22.019 --> 00:42:22.579
 those idols

00:42:22.579 --> 00:42:23.039
 from my

00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:23.379
 heart

00:42:23.379 --> 00:42:25.459
 because those

00:42:25.459 --> 00:42:26.139
 idols get

00:42:26.139 --> 00:42:26.799
 close to my

00:42:26.799 --> 00:42:27.059
 heart

00:42:27.059 --> 00:42:27.759
 your word

00:42:27.759 --> 00:42:28.379
 seems

00:42:28.379 --> 00:42:29.119
 untrue

00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:30.179
 invite you

00:42:30.179 --> 00:42:30.719
 to stand

00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:36.480
 just bow our

00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:36.819
 heads in

00:42:36.819 --> 00:42:37.139
 prayer

00:42:37.139 --> 00:42:39.639
 Father

00:42:39.639 --> 00:42:42.099
 we thank you

00:42:42.099 --> 00:42:42.639
 so much

00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:42.919
 that you

00:42:42.919 --> 00:42:43.419
 call us

00:42:43.419 --> 00:42:44.039
 to gather

00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:44.980
 once a week

00:42:44.980 --> 00:42:45.279
 on the

00:42:45.279 --> 00:42:45.719
 Lord's

00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:46.059
 day

00:42:46.059 --> 00:42:47.779
 to

00:42:47.779 --> 00:42:48.500
 celebrate

00:42:48.500 --> 00:42:49.199
 the Lord's

00:42:49.199 --> 00:42:49.500
 supper

00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:50.279
 to remember

00:42:50.279 --> 00:42:50.880
 Jesus

00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:51.219
 and what

00:42:51.219 --> 00:42:51.440
 he did

00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:51.699
 for us

00:42:51.699 --> 00:42:51.940
 on the

00:42:51.940 --> 00:42:52.360
 cross

00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:52.940
 until he

00:42:52.940 --> 00:42:53.460
 returns

00:42:53.460 --> 00:42:54.659
 that we

00:42:54.659 --> 00:42:55.079
 get to

00:42:55.079 --> 00:42:55.480
 read your

00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:55.820
 word

00:42:55.820 --> 00:42:56.119
 and be

00:42:56.119 --> 00:42:56.599
 reminded of

00:42:56.599 --> 00:42:57.179
 the gospel

00:42:57.179 --> 00:42:57.699
 that you

00:42:57.699 --> 00:42:57.960
 are the

00:42:57.960 --> 00:42:58.400
 God

00:42:58.400 --> 00:42:58.820
 Father

00:42:58.820 --> 00:42:59.000
 who

00:42:59.000 --> 00:42:59.440
 delivered

00:42:59.440 --> 00:43:00.380
 your

00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:00.779
 people

00:43:00.779 --> 00:43:01.059
 who's

00:43:01.059 --> 00:43:01.380
 delivered

00:43:01.380 --> 00:43:01.860
 us

00:43:01.860 --> 00:43:02.219
 who are

00:43:02.219 --> 00:43:02.420
 your

00:43:02.420 --> 00:43:02.840
 people

00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:03.719
 who reveals

00:43:03.719 --> 00:43:04.239
 yourself

00:43:04.239 --> 00:43:05.000
 to us

00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:06.739
 idol

00:43:06.739 --> 00:43:07.320
 worshipers

00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:07.539
 like

00:43:07.539 --> 00:43:08.019
 ourselves

00:43:08.019 --> 00:43:08.460
 and we

00:43:08.460 --> 00:43:08.699
 ask

00:43:08.699 --> 00:43:09.059
 Father

00:43:09.059 --> 00:43:09.460
 that the

00:43:09.460 --> 00:43:09.639
 Holy

00:43:09.639 --> 00:43:10.079
 Spirit

00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:10.279
 would

00:43:10.279 --> 00:43:10.559
 both

00:43:10.559 --> 00:43:10.980
 grip us

00:43:10.980 --> 00:43:11.299
 with the

00:43:11.299 --> 00:43:11.739
 gospel

00:43:11.739 --> 00:43:12.880
 if there

00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:13.000
 are any

00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:13.179
 here

00:43:13.179 --> 00:43:13.480
 Father

00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:13.759
 who have

00:43:13.759 --> 00:43:14.199
 not yet

00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:15.059
 come to

00:43:15.059 --> 00:43:15.199
 know

00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:15.500
 Jesus

00:43:15.500 --> 00:43:16.019
 as Savior

00:43:16.019 --> 00:43:16.659
 and Lord

00:43:16.659 --> 00:43:17.019
 may the

00:43:17.019 --> 00:43:17.179
 Holy

00:43:17.179 --> 00:43:17.500
 Spirit

00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:17.759
 Father

00:43:17.759 --> 00:43:18.039
 move

00:43:18.039 --> 00:43:18.280
 in their

00:43:18.280 --> 00:43:18.659
 lives

00:43:18.659 --> 00:43:18.960
 that they

00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:19.480
 might call

00:43:19.480 --> 00:43:19.800
 out to

00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:19.940
 you

00:43:19.940 --> 00:43:20.199
 and say

00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:20.599
 Jesus

00:43:20.599 --> 00:43:21.179
 be my

00:43:21.179 --> 00:43:21.619
 Savior

00:43:21.619 --> 00:43:22.940
 deliver me

00:43:22.940 --> 00:43:23.360
 from my

00:43:23.360 --> 00:43:23.780
 idols

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 be my

00:43:24.259 --> 00:43:24.739
 Savior

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 and Lord

00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:25.699
 forever

00:43:25.699 --> 00:43:27.280
 thank you

00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:27.519
 Lord

00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:28.119
 that you

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 keep your

00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:28.860
 word

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 and you

00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:30.000
 will come

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 and take

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 that man

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 or woman

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 to yourself

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 and Father

00:43:33.860 --> 00:43:34.360
 for us

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 you know

00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:35.239
 the idols

00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:35.719
 that are so

00:43:35.719 --> 00:43:36.199
 close to

00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:36.619
 our heart

00:43:36.619 --> 00:43:37.019
 that make

00:43:37.019 --> 00:43:37.480
 you seem

00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:37.920
 distant

00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:38.259
 and your

00:43:38.259 --> 00:43:38.679
 word

00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:40.699
 seem

00:43:40.699 --> 00:43:41.659
 not

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 powerful

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 and true

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 and we

00:43:44.619 --> 00:43:44.940
 ask

00:43:44.940 --> 00:43:45.539
 once again

00:43:45.539 --> 00:43:45.940
 Father

00:43:45.940 --> 00:43:46.539
 that your

00:43:46.539 --> 00:43:47.179
 Holy Spirit

00:43:47.179 --> 00:43:47.559
 would both

00:43:47.559 --> 00:43:47.960
 grip us

00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:48.420
 with who

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 Jesus is

00:43:49.139 --> 00:43:49.400
 and what

00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:49.619
 he did

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 for us

00:43:49.900 --> 00:43:50.139
 on the

00:43:50.139 --> 00:43:50.500
 cross

00:43:50.500 --> 00:43:51.679
 but that

00:43:51.679 --> 00:43:51.980
 you would

00:43:51.980 --> 00:43:52.400
 help us

00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:52.679
 Father

00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:53.099
 to turn

00:43:53.099 --> 00:43:53.739
 from idols

00:43:53.739 --> 00:43:55.719
 to turn

00:43:55.719 --> 00:43:56.340
 from idols

00:43:56.340 --> 00:43:56.900
 to you

00:43:56.900 --> 00:43:57.779
 and we

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 thank you

00:43:58.219 --> 00:43:58.559
 Father

00:43:58.559 --> 00:43:59.059
 that where

00:43:59.059 --> 00:44:00.179
 you are

00:44:00.179 --> 00:44:00.579
 there is

00:44:00.579 --> 00:44:01.039
 freedom

00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:02.259
 that where

00:44:02.259 --> 00:44:02.659
 you are

00:44:02.659 --> 00:44:03.019
 there is

00:44:03.019 --> 00:44:03.400
 love

00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:03.739
 where you

00:44:03.739 --> 00:44:03.920
 are

00:44:03.920 --> 00:44:04.259
 there is

00:44:04.259 --> 00:44:04.639
 goodness

00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:05.079
 where you

00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:05.380
 are

00:44:05.380 --> 00:44:06.059
 there is

00:44:06.059 --> 00:44:06.420
 truth

00:44:06.420 --> 00:44:06.880
 Father

00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:07.500
 make us

00:44:07.500 --> 00:44:08.059
 people of

00:44:08.059 --> 00:44:08.460
 truth

00:44:08.460 --> 00:44:10.059
 of justice

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 of lovers

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 of the

00:44:12.240 --> 00:44:12.599
 good

00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:13.019
 and of

00:44:13.019 --> 00:44:13.360
 beauty

00:44:13.360 --> 00:44:15.000
 lovers

00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:15.420
 of you

00:44:15.420 --> 00:44:17.019
 and all

00:44:17.019 --> 00:44:17.320
 God's

00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:17.920
 people said

00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:18.860
 Amen