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 We're going to read God's Word together. I'm going to invite Philip up, who's going to read for us Daniel chapter 9.

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! If you've got a church Bible, it's on page 746.

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 Daniel chapter 9.

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 In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, by descent of Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans.

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 In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to the words of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet,

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 must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely 70 years.

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 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

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 I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying,

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 O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments.

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 We have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled.

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 Turning aside from your commandments and rules, we have not listened to your servants, the prophets,

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 who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land.

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 To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day to the men of Judah,

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 to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, those who are neared and those who are far away,

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 in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.

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 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

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 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him

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 and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws,

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 which he set before us by his servants, the prophets.

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 All Israel has congrressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice.

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 And the curse and oath that are written in the law of Moses, the servant of God,

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 have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.

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 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us,

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 by bringing upon us a great calamity.

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 For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem.

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 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us,

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 yet we have not entreated the favour of the Lord our God,

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 turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth.

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 Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us.

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 For the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done,

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 and we have not obeyed his voice.

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 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand,

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 and have made a name for yourself, as at this day we have sinned, we have done wickedly.

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 O Lord, according to your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem,

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 your holy hill, because of our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers.

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 Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.

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 Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant,

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 and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,

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 make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.

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 O my God, incline your ear and hear, open your eyes and see our desolations,

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 and the city that is called by your name.

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 For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness,

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 but because of your great mercy.

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 O Lord, hear. O Lord, forgive.

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 O Lord, pay attention and act.

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 Delay not for your own sake, O my God,

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 because your city and your people are called by your name.

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 O Lord, I have now come to give you insight and understanding.

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 At the beginning of your pleas for mercy, our words went out,

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 and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved.

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 Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision.

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 Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city

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 to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin,

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 and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness,

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 to seal both vision and profit, and to anoint a most holy place.

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 Know, therefore, and understand that from the going out of the word

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 to restore and build Jerusalem,

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 to the coming of an anointed one, a prince,

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 there shall be seven weeks.

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 Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again

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 with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.

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 And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off

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 and shall have nothing.

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 And the people of the prince who is to come

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 shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

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 Its end shall come with flood,

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 and to the end there shall be war.

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 Desolations are decreed,

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 and he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week.

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 And for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering.

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 And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate

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 until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator.

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 We are in the book of Daniel one last time before the Advent season starts,

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 and it's a good chapter to end on, Daniel chapter 9 for now.

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 And Daniel and his friends Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

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 are in Babylon, that ancient city.

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 And this whole book has been about how they show us

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 what it means to be faithful when being a faithful believer is risky,

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 and what it means to follow God in a place where you are in the minority,

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 in a city where you are in the minority.

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 And this is a place where if we were to update it to modern language,

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 people would say that the faith of Daniel is outdated and silly and traditionalist,

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 and we live in a not dissimilar time.

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 So it's been a really important book, I think, for us in 2025 in the city of Edinburgh.

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 Now, one of the things we have not talked about this whole series

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 is why they are in Babylon.

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 We've barely mentioned it, and this is really what the prayer is about,

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 why they are in Babylon at all.

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 And so for 400 years, God's people, Israel,

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 which were split into a northern kingdom and a southern kingdom,

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 Israel and Judah, they did not put God at the center of their lives,

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 and they followed after idol, after idol, after idol.

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 And really, they lived as if they were already in Babylon.

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 They worshipped Babylonian gods for hundreds of years before they ever got to Babylon.

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 And so what happened is God gave them to Babylon.

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 He gave them what they really wanted, and that was to be polytheists and idolaters.

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 That's the life that they had lived.

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 And so in this prayer, just if you notice verse 5,

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 we turned aside from your commands.

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 We did not listen to the prophets.

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 That's verse 6.

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 Verse 7, all of Judah, all of Israel disobeyed.

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 So there's just references to that 400 years of following idols.

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 Even verse 8, our kings, our princes, and our fathers all disobeyed.

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 And so God was really patient, and for centuries and centuries,

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 He showed mercy to them, and then eventually they were disciplined.

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 And so this is a story of their discipline,

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 that they were disciplined by God for following idols.

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 Now Daniel was a teenager when they went to Babylon.

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 He was exiled as a young teenager in 605 BC,

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 and that means that Daniel was not a part of that.

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 He was not a part of the 400 years of worshipping idol after idol.

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 And so when we get there,

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 Daniel's a man who hadn't done those things,

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 like the fathers and the princes and the kings.

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 And then in the book of Daniel, unusually for the Old Testament,

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 Daniel never has a fall story, a failure story.

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 So you think about great David, King David.

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 He was great, but he had several major failure stories.

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 And Solomon was very great, but in the end he worshipped lots of false gods.

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 Abraham was very great, but he has at least three fall stories.

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 Daniel never has one.

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 Very unusual for the Bible.

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 So he's this teenager who never worshipped idols,

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 and he's a man in this narrative that's presented without a failure story.

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 He's full of integrity and wisdom and hope.

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 He's a model of what it looks like to live in a city that thinks faith in God is silly.

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 And, you know, if you want to know what it means to know God and follow God

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 in a place where it's difficult to do that,

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 we've got these examples like Daniel and Esther and Ruth and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

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 that really show us how to do that in the Bible.

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 Yet, in Daniel 9, this prayer,

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 he pleads for the redemption of every one of the people that got him into exile.

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 And he prays really for Jerusalem, and the prayer is all about the restoration of Jerusalem.

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 Verse 16,

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 Let your wrath turn from Jerusalem.

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 Let sacrifices be restored in Israel.

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 Daniel knew, like the whole Old Testament, that as Jerusalem goes, so goes God's people.

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 So you can really tell how God's people are doing in the Old Testament by the condition of Jerusalem.

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 And so he pleads for Jerusalem and its restoration here in this prayer.

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 But even more notable, faithful Daniel, what does he say?

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 We sinned against you.

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 Faithful Daniel, a model of integrity, says, I bring my confession.

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 And, you know, see, Daniel had every right to be bitter,

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 every right to be angry about what they had done to get him into exile.

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 Sixty-six years in this passage, we learn from verse 1,

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 he's been in exile, now under Darius in 539 BC.

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 And for sixty-six years a slave.

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 And he says, Lord, forgive me.

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 And that means that Daniel is such a model of spirituality.

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 He had never had an ounce of moral superiority,

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 even though he was a man of integrity.

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 And really what we can say is in this prayer we learn his humility.

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 And this is a prayer that teaches us about spiritual formation.

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 That's really what it's about.

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 What does it mean to be so shaped by the Holy Spirit,

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 formed your spirit by the Spirit,

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 that you've been consistently, deeply changed your whole life

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 to the point where you can pray like that?

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 And Daniel's a model of spiritual formation,

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 as is Esther and Ruth in similar books.

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 We, in our philosophy of ministry here at St. C's,

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 and in our vision statement,

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 we have the language spiritual formation.

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 A lot of times we like language like that,

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 but don't really know exactly what we're getting at or what it means.

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 And all it means is that spiritual formation

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 is the recognition of a process of change

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 that has to take place in the Christian life.

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 And it's a change from where we used to not desire God

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 in the life that God calls us to,

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 and we're learning to grow into desire.

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 So spiritual formation is all about desire.

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 Jonathan Edwards, the great American theologian and pastor,

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 he said the Christian life is growing affection for God over time.

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 So a heart full of longing for God.

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 St. Augustine very famously said,

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 spiritual formation is the slow reordering of disordered loves.

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 So what he meant by that is we love the wrong things in this life.

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 Spiritual formation is the slow change of desire,

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 loving the right things.

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 Daniel, what we have here in this chapter

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 is Daniel's spirituality, spiritual formation.

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 All right, it's phenomenally unsurprising

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 what we learn here.

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 Let me give you three principles of spiritual formation

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 from Daniel's life that are for us.

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 Very simple, so basic, fundamental, so important.

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 Number one, first we learn from Daniel

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 to immerse yourself daily in God's Word

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 until it moves you to pray.

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 So Daniel teaches us first,

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 immerse yourself every day in God's Word

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 until you desire to pray.

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 So he's been here 66 years in the city of Babylon.

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 And in verse 2, he says,

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 I discerned in the books.

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 What are these books that he's looking at?

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 They are the scrolls of what we now call the Old Testament.

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 So Daniel is scouring the scrolls of the Old Testament

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 as far as he has them so far in history.

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 And he's looking for something.

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 And what he's looking for is,

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 when will this exile be over with?

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 That's what he's looking for.

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 And he finds it in the Jeremiah scroll.

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 But very simple,

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 the first thing to learn

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 is how do you live in a city

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 where the idols of Babylon are all around you

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 and you are for this place

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 and you love Edinburgh

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 and you want to see the good,

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 the common good,

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 all throughout this land.

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 And yet,

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 the idols of the city

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 don't get into you,

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 don't get into your heart.

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 You're for Babylon,

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 but Babylon doesn't get into you.

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 And how do you do that?

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 And the first thing we learn is

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 by believing that when you open the Bible,

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 God is speaking to you.

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 And it's basic

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 and it's simple

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 and it's classic

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 reformed spirituality

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 because it's biblical spirituality.

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 But you've got to be a person

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 who opens the Bible

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 and believes the Word of God is here.

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 And that you have conviction

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 that when you open the Bible,

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 God is speaking into your life.

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 And that's exactly what we see here in Daniel.

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 He opens the scrolls

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 and he knows that when he reads them,

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 he's hearing from God.

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 And what does he hear?

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 He hears from the Jeremiah scroll

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 and he's probably reading Jeremiah 25 and 29.

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 And there we learn that

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 Jeremiah prophesies

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 that Babylon would capture Judah

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 and then after 70 years

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 would send Judah back to Jerusalem.

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 And so he learns here,

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 we're told,

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 that it's going to be 70 years

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 until he gets to go back total

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 to Jerusalem.

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 So in the year 536,

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 Cyrus sends the Judahites

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 from Babylon back

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 to Jerusalem.

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 This is the year 539.

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 So he's about three to four years away

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 from this.

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 And so that immediately leads him

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 then to say,

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 70 years,

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 I need to pray.

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 I need to ask God

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 to do this

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 to actually fulfill

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 what he's said.

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 And the text,

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 the way it puts it

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 is that Daniel discerned

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 or perceived

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 the 70 years in Jeremiah.

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 And so there's this sense

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 that he understood something

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 of what was happening

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 but not all of it.

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 Because later,

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 Gabriel comes to him

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 and we'll get to this

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 at the end.

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 Gabriel comes to him

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 and explains the vision

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 of the 70 years,

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 the prophecy in detail

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 that would be absolutely impossible

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 for him to ever know.

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 Now let's,

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 basic and simple spirituality again.

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 Daniel believes that

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 when he opens God's word,

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 God is speaking to him.

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 And we learn here

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 that Daniel believes

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 that he is able to discern

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 or perceive

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 what the Bible says.

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 And it's just to say

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 that the Bible

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 is clear enough

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 to be discerned

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 and believed.

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 And when Gabriel comes

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 to explain the vision,

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 we learn

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 that there are depths

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 to the Bible

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 that only God

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 and his angels know.

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 And there are caverns

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 in a good way,

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 so deep in Scripture

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 that we will never

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 get to the bottom

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 of them in this life.

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 And that's why

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 you can come to the Bible

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 and say,

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 this is clear enough

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 for me to understand

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 what it means to be saved.

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 And I can come back

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 to the Bible

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 over and over and over again

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 and realize

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 that there are depths here

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 that I have yet to penetrate.

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 You might have had

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 this experience

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 where you,

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 if you've been in the church

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 your whole life,

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 you read the Bible

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 your whole life

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 and then you come

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 maybe listen to a preacher

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 or you meet with somebody

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 and you read the Bible

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 with them

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 and you start to see things

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 in the Bible

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 that you've never seen before.

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 And you say to your friend,

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 I've read this passage

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 so many times

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 and I've never seen that.

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 And it's because

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 the Bible is perspicuous.

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 It's clear.

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 It can be discerned

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 and perceived.

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 And there are depths

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 to it so deep

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 that only God

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 truly knows the bottom.

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 And that's exactly

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 the experience

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 that Daniel has here.

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 But he believes

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 that when he opens

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 the Bible

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 he is reading God's Word.

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 So let me put it

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 in the simplest form.

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 2 Timothy 3.16

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 All scripture

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 is breathed out

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 by God

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 and profitable.

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 And I just want to ask you

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 this morning

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 do you believe that?

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 Are you believing

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 that Monday to Saturday

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 that when you open

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 God's Word

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 the scripture

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 is breathed out

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 by God

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 and speaking

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 directly to you

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 and directly into your life

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 because the Bible

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 tells us it really is.

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 Now

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 that is at the heart

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 of biblical spirituality

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 but you may come today

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 and say

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 I've been reading

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 the Bible

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 and I don't feel that.

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 I don't

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 when I open the Bible

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 most days

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 I don't feel

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 like it's breathing

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 on me

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 and breathed out

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 by God.

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 And the one thing

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 I want to say

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 about that today

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 is that

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 part of the reason

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 for that is

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 we have to learn

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 to discern

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 what the Bible

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 is teaching

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 in order to fully

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 experience the breath

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 of scripture.

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 Jesus in John

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 chapter 5

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 he comes to a group

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 of religious leaders

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 and he said

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 you keep searching

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 the scriptures

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 because you think

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 there you will find

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 eternal life

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 and they

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 bear witness

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 about me

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 yet you refuse

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 to come to me

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 to have eternal life.

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 Now Jesus

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 is saying something

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 so striking

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 and that's

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 he's saying to them

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 the reason

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 you're not able

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 yet to discern

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 the scriptures properly

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 is because you've yet

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 to realize

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 they are all about me.

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 And in Luke 24

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 he comes to his disciples

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 and he tells them

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 in the law of Moses

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 the Torah

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 the first five books

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 and the prophets

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 most of the books

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 of the Bible

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 Old Testament

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 and the writings

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 like Daniel

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 it says that Jesus

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 spent days

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 explaining to them

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 how it was all

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 about him.

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 And one of the ways

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 maybe the Bible

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 isn't yet coming alive

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 this could be the case

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 in your life

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 is because you've yet

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 to see

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 you've yet to grow

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 as much into

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 the Christocentric

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 nature

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 of scripture

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 that the Bible

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 is actually

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 all about Jesus

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 and it's not only

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 that it points to him

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 but it all flows

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 back out from him.

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 It's like

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 looking at a bicycle wheel

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 and if you think about

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 imagine a bicycle wheel

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 the outer rim

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 of it

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 is like the books

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 of the Bible

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 and there are

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 all those spokes

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 you know

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 running into the center

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 in and back out again.

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 And at the very center

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 of that wheel

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 is the center

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 that holds it all together

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 and gives it life

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 makes it possible

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 and that is Jesus.

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 That's what he says there.

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 So you can

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 the scriptures

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 can come alive to you

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 they really are

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 God's word

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 they can come alive to you

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 when you discern

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 that Jesus is the point.

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 He's the center

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 the meaning

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 the habitus

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 that you go into

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 and back out of again

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 to understand the whole.

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 John Lennox

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 is a famous

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 Christian public intellectual

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 that many of us know about

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 and I was reading

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 recently how he was

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 preparing

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 he told the story

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 of preparing

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 to preach

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 at one of his friend's funerals

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 and this friend

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 had been with him

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 at Cambridge

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 and they were students together

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 and they were mathematics

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 students at Cambridge

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 and they were in

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 a department

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 mathematics

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 at that time

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 where they were

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 actively told

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 if you want to survive

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 in this world

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 you must make sure

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 no one thinks

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 that you're a Christian

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 you must suppress

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 the faith

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 very Babylonian

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 in that way

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 and he was sitting

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 at the deathbed

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 of his dear friend

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 who survived that

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 with him

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 and he said

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 what do you want me

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 to say at your funeral

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 and this is what

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 his friend said

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 encourage the people

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 to do what we did

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 when we were students

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 together

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 tell them

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 read the word

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 of God together

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 discuss it

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 think about it

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 pray about it

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 and wait on God

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 until his face appears

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 now

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 if you're not there yet

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 his advice was

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 get somebody

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 to read God's word

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 with

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 pray about it

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 discuss it together

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 and wait

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 until God's face appears

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 and basic

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 biblical spirituality

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 is right here

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 it's

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 get your head

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 get your heart

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 get your mind

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 get your eyes

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 on the Bible

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 until it leads you

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 to prayer

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 so that's what

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 happened secondly

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 in Daniel's life

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 he then turns to prayer

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 and again

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 this

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 Daniel 9

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 needs a sermon series

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 not a one off

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 okay

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 so we can only be

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 cursory here

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 he says here

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 that prayer

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 is seeking

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 the face of God

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 and that's what

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 we have to learn today

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 is that

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 reading the Bible

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 until it leads us

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 to prayer

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 is basic spirituality

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 and then when it

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 leads us to prayer

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 prayer is seeking

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 him

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 his face

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 is actually the language

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 here in Hebrew

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 so

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 in verse

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 back to verse 1

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 this is at the time

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 of Darius

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 and that means

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 that we're backwards

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 in chronology

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 to the time

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 between Daniel chapter 5

00:21:46.220 --> 00:21:47.220
 and Daniel chapter 6

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 this is before Daniel

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 had gone into the lion's den

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 this vision

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 and this prayer

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 and in that chapter 6

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 right before he's about

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 to go into the lion's den

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 it says that to prepare

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 for that

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 he got on his knees

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 with an open window

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 facing Jerusalem

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 to pray

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 three times a day

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 as was his custom

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 and so in the

00:22:08.340 --> 00:22:09.080
 when you read the book

00:22:09.080 --> 00:22:10.319
 you just simply realize

00:22:10.319 --> 00:22:11.640
 that Daniel prayed

00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:12.400
 habitually

00:22:12.400 --> 00:22:13.380
 three times a day

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 and he prayed

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 very much

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 in the midst

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 of crisis

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 as well

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 and we learn

00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:20.940
 from Daniel

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 the call

00:22:22.420 --> 00:22:23.080
 and the invitation

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 to spiritual formation

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 that it requires

00:22:25.740 --> 00:22:27.400
 habitual prayer

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 and especially

00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:30.059
 praying in crises

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 and that's exactly

00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:32.319
 what happens here

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 so

00:22:33.940 --> 00:22:34.860
 what does that look like

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 for him

00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:36.660
 he had read

00:22:36.660 --> 00:22:37.899
 Jeremiah 25 and 29

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 and he had heard

00:22:39.160 --> 00:22:39.980
 God say there

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 70 years

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 and then you'll get

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 to go back

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 to Jerusalem

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 it's been 66 years

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 and so he immediately

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 starts to pray

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 and you can think

00:22:49.339 --> 00:22:49.940
 of a moment

00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:50.779
 like verse 17

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 where he says

00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:52.879
 Lord make your face

00:22:52.879 --> 00:22:53.779
 shine on your

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 desolate sanctuary

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 Jerusalem temple

00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:56.899
 restore the temple

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 and then he says

00:22:57.940 --> 00:22:59.279
 for your own sake

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 now over and over

00:23:00.359 --> 00:23:00.859
 again in the prayer

00:23:00.859 --> 00:23:01.480
 he says that

00:23:01.480 --> 00:23:02.839
 do it for your sake

00:23:02.839 --> 00:23:03.079
 Lord

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 do it for your sake

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 and what he's saying

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 there is

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 you promised

00:23:07.059 --> 00:23:07.680
 in Jeremiah

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 the scroll

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 to lead us

00:23:10.099 --> 00:23:10.880
 back to Jerusalem

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 and restore the temple

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 and so do it

00:23:13.099 --> 00:23:14.119
 make good on that promise

00:23:14.119 --> 00:23:14.599
 and you see

00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:15.539
 in this prayer

00:23:15.539 --> 00:23:16.539
 he's holding

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 intention

00:23:17.380 --> 00:23:18.519
 to realities

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 number one

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 that's that

00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:21.880
 God has determined

00:23:21.880 --> 00:23:22.960
 everything that will

00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:23.440
 come to pass

00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:23.880
 in history

00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:25.140
 and he

00:23:25.140 --> 00:23:25.599
 in the Bible

00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:26.200
 even sometimes

00:23:26.200 --> 00:23:27.180
 comes and says it

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 in 70 years

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 the temple

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 will be restored

00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:32.259
 that's a promise

00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:33.059
 and then Daniel

00:23:33.059 --> 00:23:34.240
 turns in the prayer

00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:35.000
 and now says

00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:36.200
 okay well do it

00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:36.900
 do what you said

00:23:36.900 --> 00:23:37.480
 you're going to do

00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:39.079
 and so in the Bible

00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:39.759
 you've got this

00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:40.460
 tension

00:23:40.460 --> 00:23:42.220
 where God has determined

00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:43.259
 all that comes to pass

00:23:43.259 --> 00:23:44.640
 and prayer

00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:47.180
 prayer changes history

00:23:47.180 --> 00:23:49.059
 prayer works

00:23:49.059 --> 00:23:50.460
 prayer changes the world

00:23:50.460 --> 00:23:51.819
 and both of those things

00:23:51.819 --> 00:23:52.400
 fit together

00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:53.619
 there's no zero sum game

00:23:53.619 --> 00:23:55.240
 it's 100% true

00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:56.339
 and 100% true

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 and that's all

00:23:58.140 --> 00:23:58.700
 that's here

00:23:58.700 --> 00:23:59.559
 it's all throughout scripture

00:23:59.559 --> 00:24:01.200
 one writer

00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:02.480
 described it like this

00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:04.139
 and I had this experience

00:24:04.139 --> 00:24:04.899
 last Saturday

00:24:04.899 --> 00:24:05.960
 so it was very helpful

00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:06.399
 to me

00:24:06.399 --> 00:24:09.720
 where at 6.30am

00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:10.519
 7am

00:24:10.519 --> 00:24:11.339
 on a Saturday

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 my one day off a week

00:24:12.859 --> 00:24:15.200
 which is relative

00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:17.460
 6.30

00:24:17.460 --> 00:24:17.859
 7am

00:24:17.859 --> 00:24:18.980
 a child comes to the bed

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 and says

00:24:20.799 --> 00:24:23.079
 you said

00:24:23.079 --> 00:24:24.279
 on Tuesday

00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:25.559
 you would take me

00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:26.339
 swimming today

00:24:26.339 --> 00:24:29.679
 and what did he say

00:24:29.679 --> 00:24:30.019
 he said

00:24:30.019 --> 00:24:31.679
 now I'm here

00:24:31.679 --> 00:24:32.599
 to see to it

00:24:32.599 --> 00:24:33.319
 that you make good

00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:33.939
 on your promise

00:24:33.939 --> 00:24:34.720
 right

00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.619
 now I am not God

00:24:37.619 --> 00:24:40.099
 far away from that

00:24:40.099 --> 00:24:41.399
 and that means

00:24:41.399 --> 00:24:42.599
 that I am regularly

00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:43.319
 disappointing

00:24:43.319 --> 00:24:44.980
 to my kids

00:24:44.980 --> 00:24:45.799
 and they come

00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:46.359
 and they say

00:24:46.359 --> 00:24:47.319
 make good

00:24:47.319 --> 00:24:48.879
 on the swimming promise

00:24:48.879 --> 00:24:49.500
 and I say

00:24:49.500 --> 00:24:51.000
 I have a lot

00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:51.639
 to do today

00:24:51.639 --> 00:24:52.359
 and we're probably

00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:52.919
 not going to go

00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:55.140
 and

00:24:55.140 --> 00:24:57.060
 in the same way

00:24:57.060 --> 00:24:59.279
 and in a holistically

00:24:59.279 --> 00:24:59.980
 different way

00:24:59.980 --> 00:25:02.019
 prayer is coming

00:25:02.019 --> 00:25:02.920
 in childlike

00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:03.560
 dependence

00:25:03.560 --> 00:25:04.380
 and awe

00:25:04.380 --> 00:25:05.460
 to a God

00:25:05.460 --> 00:25:06.080
 to a father

00:25:06.080 --> 00:25:07.620
 who has already said

00:25:07.620 --> 00:25:09.420
 he's made the promise

00:25:09.420 --> 00:25:10.100
 and then you come

00:25:10.100 --> 00:25:10.460
 and you say

00:25:10.460 --> 00:25:11.259
 now do it

00:25:11.259 --> 00:25:12.820
 and that's exactly

00:25:12.820 --> 00:25:13.519
 what Daniel's doing here

00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:14.539
 you said 70

00:25:14.539 --> 00:25:15.660
 make it that way

00:25:15.660 --> 00:25:16.400
 Lord

00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:17.160
 but

00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:18.279
 unlike us

00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:19.279
 God will do it

00:25:19.279 --> 00:25:19.960
 and he did it

00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:21.019
 and that's exactly

00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:21.640
 what prayer is

00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:23.000
 the heart of prayer

00:25:23.000 --> 00:25:23.780
 here in this passage

00:25:23.780 --> 00:25:25.420
 the language

00:25:25.420 --> 00:25:26.040
 is the language

00:25:26.040 --> 00:25:26.680
 in verse 3

00:25:26.680 --> 00:25:27.380
 and that's

00:25:27.380 --> 00:25:28.480
 where he says

00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:29.120
 it says that

00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:29.540
 Daniel

00:25:29.540 --> 00:25:31.740
 lifted his face

00:25:31.740 --> 00:25:32.280
 to God

00:25:32.280 --> 00:25:33.220
 to seek

00:25:33.220 --> 00:25:34.100
 the face of God

00:25:34.100 --> 00:25:35.840
 so the text says

00:25:35.840 --> 00:25:37.140
 seeking him

00:25:37.140 --> 00:25:37.660
 in prayer

00:25:37.660 --> 00:25:38.500
 but the actual

00:25:38.500 --> 00:25:39.080
 Hebrew says

00:25:39.080 --> 00:25:40.540
 sought his face

00:25:40.540 --> 00:25:41.480
 and that's the language

00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:42.000
 all throughout

00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:42.580
 the Old Testament

00:25:42.580 --> 00:25:42.880
 why

00:25:42.880 --> 00:25:43.259
 because

00:25:43.259 --> 00:25:44.640
 prayer is

00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:45.380
 intimate

00:25:45.380 --> 00:25:46.280
 and relational

00:25:46.280 --> 00:25:48.460
 you lift your face

00:25:48.460 --> 00:25:48.940
 to God

00:25:48.940 --> 00:25:50.380
 to seek his face

00:25:50.380 --> 00:25:51.560
 and it's this idea

00:25:51.560 --> 00:25:52.240
 of this face

00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:52.780
 to face

00:25:52.780 --> 00:25:53.800
 with the living God

00:25:53.800 --> 00:25:54.180
 now listen

00:25:54.180 --> 00:25:55.520
 Daniel believes

00:25:55.520 --> 00:25:56.620
 that when he opens

00:25:56.620 --> 00:25:57.220
 the Bible

00:25:57.220 --> 00:25:58.700
 he hears

00:25:58.700 --> 00:25:59.640
 from God

00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:00.860
 and then he believes

00:26:00.860 --> 00:26:01.660
 that he can lift

00:26:01.660 --> 00:26:02.620
 his face to God

00:26:02.620 --> 00:26:04.300
 and look at God's face

00:26:04.300 --> 00:26:05.460
 and they have a face

00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:06.460
 to face conversation

00:26:06.460 --> 00:26:08.320
 he believes that

00:26:08.320 --> 00:26:09.960
 that is

00:26:09.960 --> 00:26:10.840
 the reality

00:26:10.840 --> 00:26:11.500
 the heart of prayer

00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:12.460
 do you believe that

00:26:12.460 --> 00:26:14.860
 that you are having

00:26:14.860 --> 00:26:15.720
 a conversation

00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:16.800
 with the living God

00:26:16.800 --> 00:26:17.740
 because he's conversed

00:26:17.740 --> 00:26:18.100
 with you

00:26:18.099 --> 00:26:18.859
 by scripture

00:26:18.859 --> 00:26:19.819
 and then you're turning

00:26:19.819 --> 00:26:21.059
 and giving your face

00:26:21.059 --> 00:26:21.319
 to him

00:26:21.319 --> 00:26:22.099
 as he gives his face

00:26:22.099 --> 00:26:22.439
 to you

00:26:22.439 --> 00:26:23.079
 in prayer

00:26:23.079 --> 00:26:23.740
 and that's exactly

00:26:23.740 --> 00:26:24.419
 what prayer is

00:26:24.419 --> 00:26:25.259
 and Daniel

00:26:25.259 --> 00:26:26.599
 very much believes

00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:27.559
 that's fundamental

00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:29.019
 to spiritual formation

00:26:29.019 --> 00:26:30.699
 and biblical spirituality

00:26:30.699 --> 00:26:31.639
 in his life

00:26:31.639 --> 00:26:32.259
 and in our lives

00:26:32.259 --> 00:26:32.559
 as well

00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:33.399
 and it's

00:26:33.399 --> 00:26:33.859
 here

00:26:33.859 --> 00:26:34.859
 it's accompanied

00:26:34.859 --> 00:26:35.679
 with these acts

00:26:35.679 --> 00:26:36.500
 of self-denial

00:26:36.500 --> 00:26:38.059
 so he fasts

00:26:38.059 --> 00:26:40.039
 he puts on sackcloth

00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:40.959
 and pours ashes

00:26:40.959 --> 00:26:41.639
 upon his head

00:26:41.639 --> 00:26:42.740
 we don't do that anymore

00:26:42.740 --> 00:26:44.039
 but I just want to note

00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:45.339
 that the fasting

00:26:45.339 --> 00:26:45.939
 we do

00:26:45.939 --> 00:26:48.379
 and spirituality

00:26:48.379 --> 00:26:49.099
 real spirituality

00:26:49.099 --> 00:26:49.899
 is accompanied

00:26:49.899 --> 00:26:50.459
 by acts

00:26:50.459 --> 00:26:51.220
 of self-denial

00:26:51.220 --> 00:26:53.459
 and fasting

00:26:53.459 --> 00:26:54.199
 is one of them

00:26:54.199 --> 00:26:55.799
 but the sackcloth

00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:56.339
 and the ashes

00:26:56.339 --> 00:26:57.000
 was really about

00:26:57.000 --> 00:26:58.220
 this whole Bible idea

00:26:58.220 --> 00:26:59.419
 of posture

00:26:59.419 --> 00:27:00.059
 and prayer

00:27:00.059 --> 00:27:00.899
 and so all throughout

00:27:00.899 --> 00:27:01.299
 the Bible

00:27:01.299 --> 00:27:02.619
 people get on their knees

00:27:02.619 --> 00:27:03.099
 to pray

00:27:03.099 --> 00:27:05.779
 in 1 Timothy 2

00:27:05.779 --> 00:27:07.220
 in the New Testament

00:27:07.220 --> 00:27:08.159
 Paul says

00:27:08.159 --> 00:27:09.139
 men of the church

00:27:09.139 --> 00:27:09.879
 when you pray

00:27:09.879 --> 00:27:11.480
 lifting holy hands

00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:11.939
 in the air

00:27:11.939 --> 00:27:12.720
 now

00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:14.160
 the Bible says

00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:16.160
 that the physical body

00:27:16.160 --> 00:27:16.740
 is important

00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:17.519
 in prayer

00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:18.860
 and that posturing

00:27:18.860 --> 00:27:19.360
 your body

00:27:19.360 --> 00:27:20.480
 teaches your soul

00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:21.559
 how to pray

00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:22.339
 and we don't lift

00:27:22.339 --> 00:27:23.140
 holy hands in prayer

00:27:23.140 --> 00:27:25.019
 here in our church

00:27:25.019 --> 00:27:26.140
 but that's culture

00:27:26.140 --> 00:27:26.759
 that's not

00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:27.440
 the Bible says

00:27:27.440 --> 00:27:28.100
 it all the time

00:27:28.100 --> 00:27:28.860
 that the body

00:27:28.860 --> 00:27:29.500
 is so important

00:27:29.500 --> 00:27:30.299
 to train the soul

00:27:30.299 --> 00:27:31.400
 and these acts

00:27:31.400 --> 00:27:32.160
 of self-denial

00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:33.039
 and fasting

00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:34.140
 and getting into the word

00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:35.200
 and then coming to prayer

00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:36.819
 is all the basics

00:27:36.819 --> 00:27:37.360
 of what it means

00:27:37.360 --> 00:27:38.360
 to have spiritual formation

00:27:38.360 --> 00:27:38.920
 in your life

00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:39.279
 and Daniel

00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:40.559
 really lives by that

00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:41.100
 and believes that

00:27:41.100 --> 00:27:41.620
 that is why

00:27:41.620 --> 00:27:42.100
 he's a man

00:27:42.099 --> 00:27:42.659
 of faith

00:27:42.659 --> 00:27:42.939
 and hope

00:27:42.939 --> 00:27:43.240
 and wisdom

00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:43.759
 and integrity

00:27:43.759 --> 00:27:44.759
 throughout the whole

00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:45.359
 of this book

00:27:45.359 --> 00:27:46.439
 and today

00:27:46.439 --> 00:27:47.459
 if you're feeling

00:27:47.459 --> 00:27:48.019
 stale

00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:49.079
 in spiritual formation

00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:50.839
 I just want to say

00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:51.539
 simply

00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:53.279
 that God

00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:54.659
 when you come to Jesus

00:27:54.659 --> 00:27:56.039
 the spirit

00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:57.259
 breaks the power

00:27:57.259 --> 00:27:58.079
 of canceled sin

00:27:58.079 --> 00:27:58.699
 in your life

00:27:58.699 --> 00:28:00.179
 it makes you able

00:28:00.179 --> 00:28:00.879
 to change

00:28:00.879 --> 00:28:02.139
 able to be transformed

00:28:02.139 --> 00:28:03.199
 and then says

00:28:03.199 --> 00:28:04.459
 now go work out

00:28:04.459 --> 00:28:05.059
 your salvation

00:28:05.059 --> 00:28:05.879
 with fear and trembling

00:28:05.879 --> 00:28:07.839
 not go get your salvation

00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:09.319
 but go flesh it out

00:28:09.319 --> 00:28:10.500
 be changed in your life

00:28:10.500 --> 00:28:11.619
 and that's just to say

00:28:11.619 --> 00:28:12.479
 that spiritual formation

00:28:12.479 --> 00:28:13.319
 is not automatic

00:28:13.319 --> 00:28:15.439
 and so if you feel

00:28:15.439 --> 00:28:16.219
 like you're not growing

00:28:16.219 --> 00:28:17.019
 and your life

00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:18.199
 your spiritual life

00:28:18.199 --> 00:28:18.859
 is stale

00:28:18.859 --> 00:28:20.859
 it's important to hear again

00:28:20.859 --> 00:28:22.099
 and see Daniel's example

00:28:22.099 --> 00:28:23.719
 that spiritual formation

00:28:23.719 --> 00:28:25.019
 is not automatic

00:28:25.019 --> 00:28:27.500
 it takes acts of self-denial

00:28:27.500 --> 00:28:28.259
 and discipline

00:28:28.259 --> 00:28:30.099
 and habitual prayer

00:28:30.099 --> 00:28:31.979
 and habitual scripture reading

00:28:31.979 --> 00:28:33.279
 and coming back to the word

00:28:33.279 --> 00:28:35.079
 this is never something

00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:36.839
 that distances you

00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:38.219
 from the justification

00:28:38.219 --> 00:28:39.119
 of forgiveness

00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:40.039
 that you have in Jesus

00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:40.819
 no not at all

00:28:40.819 --> 00:28:41.299
 never

00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:42.779
 and so you may be

00:28:42.779 --> 00:28:44.039
 I'm far away today

00:28:44.039 --> 00:28:46.199
 from acts of self-denial

00:28:46.199 --> 00:28:47.099
 from spiritual formation

00:28:47.099 --> 00:28:47.559
 in my life

00:28:47.559 --> 00:28:48.199
 being meaningful

00:28:48.199 --> 00:28:48.619
 that's

00:28:48.619 --> 00:28:50.259
 and all this is today

00:28:50.259 --> 00:28:51.019
 is an invitation

00:28:51.019 --> 00:28:52.199
 by King Jesus

00:28:52.199 --> 00:28:52.659
 to say

00:28:52.659 --> 00:28:53.339
 come back

00:28:53.339 --> 00:28:54.139
 come closer

00:28:54.139 --> 00:28:55.399
 draw near

00:28:55.399 --> 00:28:56.019
 you're forgiven

00:28:56.019 --> 00:28:56.459
 you're saved

00:28:56.459 --> 00:28:57.839
 now work out your salvation

00:28:57.839 --> 00:28:59.259
 with fear and trembling

00:28:59.259 --> 00:29:00.039
 now one way

00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:01.879
 he teaches us to do that

00:29:01.879 --> 00:29:03.299
 is through prayers

00:29:03.299 --> 00:29:04.039
 of confession

00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:06.779
 and so this whole chapter

00:29:06.779 --> 00:29:09.000
 is mostly a prayer of confession

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.740
 and there's so much in it

00:29:11.740 --> 00:29:13.200
 again we need a series

00:29:13.200 --> 00:29:15.599
 but just notice what he says

00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:16.539
 he said verse 4

00:29:16.539 --> 00:29:17.899
 I made confession

00:29:17.899 --> 00:29:18.680
 verse 5

00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:20.279
 we have sinned

00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:21.240
 we've done wrong

00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:22.500
 we've acted wickedly

00:29:22.500 --> 00:29:23.099
 we've rebelled

00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:23.839
 we've turned aside

00:29:23.839 --> 00:29:24.359
 verse 6

00:29:24.359 --> 00:29:25.319
 we didn't listen

00:29:25.319 --> 00:29:25.859
 verse 7

00:29:25.859 --> 00:29:27.420
 we are people of open shame

00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:29.879
 there are lots of different words there

00:29:29.879 --> 00:29:31.399
 for rebellion against God

00:29:31.399 --> 00:29:33.279
 every one of them means something different

00:29:33.279 --> 00:29:35.339
 lots of ways to sin against God

00:29:35.339 --> 00:29:38.259
 and then four times in the prayer

00:29:38.259 --> 00:29:40.299
 verse 7 is notable

00:29:40.299 --> 00:29:43.079
 he talks about God's righteousness

00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:45.799
 now for us as modern people

00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:47.160
 we say the word righteousness

00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.160
 and we don't say the word righteousness

00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:50.420
 you know we don't use that word

00:29:50.420 --> 00:29:52.319
 if we do use that word

00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:53.799
 we mean it as a pejorative

00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:54.539
 so we would say

00:29:54.539 --> 00:29:55.000
 you know

00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:56.639
 she is very self-righteous

00:29:56.639 --> 00:29:57.819
 he is very self-righteous

00:29:57.819 --> 00:29:58.920
 but in the Bible

00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:00.660
 righteousness is a relational term

00:30:00.660 --> 00:30:01.639
 and what it

00:30:01.639 --> 00:30:02.680
 you could translate it into

00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:03.960
 modern language like this

00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:06.320
 you do right by me

00:30:06.320 --> 00:30:07.420
 that's righteousness

00:30:07.420 --> 00:30:08.340
 it's relational

00:30:08.340 --> 00:30:10.740
 so four times he says

00:30:10.740 --> 00:30:11.279
 Lord

00:30:11.279 --> 00:30:13.140
 you sent us into exile

00:30:13.140 --> 00:30:13.700
 into Babylon

00:30:13.700 --> 00:30:15.420
 and I'm here today

00:30:15.420 --> 00:30:16.539
 in my confession to say

00:30:16.539 --> 00:30:18.340
 you did right by us

00:30:18.340 --> 00:30:20.900
 that's a very hard thing to say

00:30:20.900 --> 00:30:22.279
 but he said

00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:24.340
 when you judged us

00:30:24.340 --> 00:30:25.080
 it was righteous

00:30:25.080 --> 00:30:25.620
 it was right

00:30:25.620 --> 00:30:26.320
 you did right by us

00:30:26.320 --> 00:30:27.100
 and then

00:30:27.100 --> 00:30:28.580
 two times he says

00:30:28.580 --> 00:30:30.500
 you are righteous Lord

00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:31.619
 and in your righteousness

00:30:31.619 --> 00:30:32.900
 it belongs to you

00:30:32.900 --> 00:30:34.180
 to now show mercy

00:30:34.180 --> 00:30:34.700
 and forgiveness

00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:36.740
 now in this prayer

00:30:36.740 --> 00:30:38.640
 there's this tension

00:30:38.640 --> 00:30:40.420
 where he says

00:30:40.420 --> 00:30:41.480
 you are the righteous God

00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:42.519
 and you did right by us

00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:43.539
 to send us into exile

00:30:43.539 --> 00:30:44.339
 and judge us

00:30:44.339 --> 00:30:45.700
 and then on the other hand

00:30:45.700 --> 00:30:46.660
 you are the righteous God

00:30:46.660 --> 00:30:47.619
 and you do right

00:30:47.619 --> 00:30:48.359
 by forgiving

00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:49.799
 and showing mercy

00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:50.559
 and you say

00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:51.259
 well what is it

00:30:51.259 --> 00:30:52.779
 how could it be both

00:30:52.779 --> 00:30:54.240
 at the same time

00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:54.880
 how do you fit

00:30:54.880 --> 00:30:56.240
 those two pieces together

00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:58.539
 there's a real tension there

00:30:58.539 --> 00:31:01.700
 Paul Kingsnorth

00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:03.700
 is a famous English writer

00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:05.039
 that some folks here

00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:05.680
 will probably know

00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:06.460
 he's just published

00:31:06.460 --> 00:31:07.539
 a new book

00:31:07.539 --> 00:31:09.640
 that's been very well received

00:31:09.640 --> 00:31:11.480
 critically

00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:13.359
 and it's called

00:31:13.359 --> 00:31:14.079
 Against the Machine

00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:14.680
 it's really about

00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:15.480
 the spiritual cost

00:31:15.480 --> 00:31:17.019
 of modern technocracy

00:31:17.019 --> 00:31:18.579
 a life of technology

00:31:18.579 --> 00:31:19.140
 that we live

00:31:19.140 --> 00:31:20.839
 but Paul Kingsnorth

00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:22.460
 wrote this famous essay

00:31:22.460 --> 00:31:22.740
 called

00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:23.880
 The Cross and the Machine

00:31:23.880 --> 00:31:24.960
 and in it

00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.559
 he tells his own testimony

00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:26.920
 really

00:31:26.920 --> 00:31:28.319
 and he says that

00:31:28.319 --> 00:31:29.460
 as a teenager

00:31:29.460 --> 00:31:31.360
 he believed in science

00:31:31.360 --> 00:31:31.920
 quote

00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:32.880
 that's how he says it

00:31:32.880 --> 00:31:34.079
 and he would

00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:35.319
 he thought Christianity

00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:36.100
 was very silly

00:31:36.100 --> 00:31:37.299
 and he grew up

00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:40.120
 in rural English parish

00:31:40.120 --> 00:31:41.500
 and he did attend

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:43.539
 the Anglican church there

00:31:43.539 --> 00:31:44.140
 sometimes

00:31:44.140 --> 00:31:45.440
 but he says that

00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:45.940
 as a teenager

00:31:45.940 --> 00:31:46.640
 he and his pals

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:48.380
 would go parish to parish

00:31:48.380 --> 00:31:49.440
 into the Anglican

00:31:49.440 --> 00:31:51.000
 little parish church

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.299
 and they would open

00:31:52.299 --> 00:31:53.340
 the visitors books

00:31:53.340 --> 00:31:54.559
 and they would write

00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:56.000
 not very nice things

00:31:56.000 --> 00:31:57.200
 into the visitors books

00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:58.559
 so that on Sundays

00:31:58.559 --> 00:31:59.819
 people would flip the pages

00:31:59.819 --> 00:32:01.740
 and find not very nice things

00:32:01.740 --> 00:32:02.559
 on Sunday mornings

00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:04.179
 to the point where he said

00:32:04.179 --> 00:32:04.980
 after a while

00:32:04.980 --> 00:32:06.099
 they would return

00:32:06.099 --> 00:32:07.279
 and find there were no longer

00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:08.339
 any visitors books

00:32:08.339 --> 00:32:09.679
 at the churches

00:32:09.679 --> 00:32:10.559
 so that

00:32:10.559 --> 00:32:10.980
 he said

00:32:10.980 --> 00:32:11.519
 that's what I thought

00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:12.039
 of Christianity

00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:13.259
 later in life

00:32:13.259 --> 00:32:13.919
 he was reading

00:32:13.919 --> 00:32:14.980
 a friend of his

00:32:14.980 --> 00:32:15.639
 by the name of

00:32:15.639 --> 00:32:16.599
 John Moriarty

00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:17.940
 and he read

00:32:17.940 --> 00:32:19.279
 in John Moriarty's

00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:20.299
 book

00:32:20.299 --> 00:32:21.619
 a man who also said

00:32:21.619 --> 00:32:23.159
 I believed only in science

00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:24.779
 he said

00:32:24.779 --> 00:32:25.400
 it struck me

00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:26.100
 John Moriarty

00:32:26.100 --> 00:32:26.660
 wrote this

00:32:26.660 --> 00:32:29.040
 I believed only in science

00:32:29.040 --> 00:32:29.500
 I thought

00:32:29.500 --> 00:32:30.420
 Christianity

00:32:30.420 --> 00:32:31.140
 a myth

00:32:31.140 --> 00:32:31.880
 and then he writes

00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:33.300
 until I was ruined

00:32:33.300 --> 00:32:35.500
 until I was ruined

00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:36.940
 shattered into seeing

00:32:36.940 --> 00:32:38.519
 only prayer

00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:39.820
 became big enough

00:32:39.820 --> 00:32:40.259
 for me

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:42.540
 and then Paul

00:32:42.540 --> 00:32:43.200
 Kingsnorth

00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:44.340
 reading Moriarty

00:32:44.340 --> 00:32:45.420
 as an unbeliever

00:32:45.420 --> 00:32:45.840
 says

00:32:45.840 --> 00:32:47.600
 Moriarty wrote

00:32:47.600 --> 00:32:48.279
 this line

00:32:48.279 --> 00:32:49.540
 and it changed my life

00:32:49.539 --> 00:32:50.700
 the story of Christianity

00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:52.740
 is the story of humanity's

00:32:52.740 --> 00:32:54.000
 rebellion against God

00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.960
 he said

00:32:55.960 --> 00:32:56.980
 the one line

00:32:56.980 --> 00:32:57.940
 that changed my life

00:32:57.940 --> 00:32:59.000
 the story of Christianity

00:32:59.000 --> 00:33:00.599
 is the story of humanity's

00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:01.039
 rebellion

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:02.059
 against God

00:33:02.059 --> 00:33:03.460
 and he said

00:33:03.460 --> 00:33:04.359
 I had never thought

00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:04.920
 of that before

00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:06.740
 he told

00:33:06.740 --> 00:33:07.079
 he said

00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:08.119
 Moriarty taught me

00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:09.519
 that humanity

00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:11.059
 is a history

00:33:11.059 --> 00:33:11.599
 of rebellion

00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:12.299
 against God

00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:13.180
 and Christianity

00:33:13.180 --> 00:33:14.659
 is how God fixed it

00:33:14.659 --> 00:33:16.420
 and then he writes

00:33:16.420 --> 00:33:17.920
 this is the truth

00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:19.620
 I would later surrender to

00:33:19.620 --> 00:33:20.940
 and today Paul

00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:21.480
 is a Christian

00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:24.259
 this is a prayer of confession

00:33:24.259 --> 00:33:26.400
 and what Daniel says

00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:27.240
 the man of integrity

00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:28.400
 the man of faithfulness

00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.240
 who was sent into exile

00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:31.680
 because of other people's sins

00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:32.680
 said Lord

00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:33.759
 I too

00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:35.320
 have sinned

00:33:35.320 --> 00:33:36.700
 and every single person

00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:37.320
 here today

00:33:37.320 --> 00:33:38.620
 no matter where you are

00:33:38.620 --> 00:33:39.080
 spiritually

00:33:39.080 --> 00:33:40.420
 what religious background

00:33:40.420 --> 00:33:41.080
 you may have

00:33:41.080 --> 00:33:42.039
 what you believe in

00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:43.620
 you need confession

00:33:43.619 --> 00:33:46.219
 you need to get it

00:33:46.219 --> 00:33:47.059
 off your chest

00:33:47.059 --> 00:33:47.879
 we all do

00:33:47.879 --> 00:33:50.239
 and the Bible says

00:33:50.239 --> 00:33:51.479
 we all need to confess

00:33:51.479 --> 00:33:51.939
 to God

00:33:51.939 --> 00:33:52.979
 and to other people

00:33:52.979 --> 00:33:54.199
 our sins

00:33:54.199 --> 00:33:54.879
 and our debts

00:33:54.879 --> 00:33:56.979
 and if we don't do that

00:33:56.979 --> 00:33:57.759
 the Bible tells us

00:33:57.759 --> 00:33:59.000
 our bones are going to rot

00:33:59.000 --> 00:33:59.859
 Psalm 51

00:33:59.859 --> 00:34:01.419
 it hurts

00:34:01.419 --> 00:34:03.319
 to not be able to confess

00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:05.359
 and this man of integrity

00:34:05.359 --> 00:34:06.479
 knew

00:34:06.479 --> 00:34:07.659
 this prayer

00:34:07.659 --> 00:34:08.719
 just simply says

00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:10.039
 the history of humanity

00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:11.179
 is the history of rebellion

00:34:11.179 --> 00:34:11.799
 against God

00:34:11.799 --> 00:34:13.279
 and the story of the Bible

00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:14.280
 is how God fixed it

00:34:14.280 --> 00:34:15.340
 and that's the tension

00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:15.960
 in the prayer

00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:19.640
 so how can Daniel say

00:34:19.640 --> 00:34:21.980
 Lord we deserve this

00:34:21.980 --> 00:34:24.560
 and you do right

00:34:24.560 --> 00:34:25.640
 to forgive us

00:34:25.640 --> 00:34:26.240
 what?

00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:28.460
 and the answer is

00:34:28.460 --> 00:34:28.980
 in the final

00:34:28.980 --> 00:34:29.880
 very brief

00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:31.160
 vision here

00:34:31.160 --> 00:34:33.300
 and that's this

00:34:33.300 --> 00:34:34.080
 the third principle

00:34:34.080 --> 00:34:34.860
 we've got to learn today

00:34:34.860 --> 00:34:35.880
 is true prayer

00:34:35.880 --> 00:34:36.960
 is in the name

00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:37.720
 of the prince

00:34:37.720 --> 00:34:39.720
 how can you

00:34:39.720 --> 00:34:40.660
 how can you pray like that

00:34:40.660 --> 00:34:41.280
 because it has to be

00:34:41.280 --> 00:34:41.960
 in the name of the prince

00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:43.039
 and today

00:34:43.039 --> 00:34:44.159
 are we going to solve

00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:44.740
 the vision

00:34:44.740 --> 00:34:46.119
 at the end of this passage

00:34:46.119 --> 00:34:47.659
 62 years

00:34:47.659 --> 00:34:48.420
 one week

00:34:48.420 --> 00:34:49.220
 70 years

00:34:49.220 --> 00:34:50.000
 70 weeks

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:51.340
 the answer is no

00:34:51.340 --> 00:34:52.579
 because this passage

00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:53.340
 needs a series

00:34:53.340 --> 00:34:54.420
 and

00:34:54.420 --> 00:34:56.079
 but let me do a flyover

00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:57.139
 to say this

00:34:57.139 --> 00:34:58.659
 in verse 20

00:34:58.659 --> 00:35:00.179
 Gabriel comes to Daniel

00:35:00.179 --> 00:35:01.019
 and says

00:35:01.019 --> 00:35:02.679
 your prayer has been heard

00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:04.000
 you are greatly loved

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:05.920
 I don't think we can

00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:06.760
 over stress

00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:07.860
 over explain

00:35:07.860 --> 00:35:08.179
 or

00:35:08.179 --> 00:35:09.639
 push

00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:11.039
 what that must have

00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:11.519
 meant to Daniel

00:35:11.519 --> 00:35:12.339
 a man who's been living

00:35:12.339 --> 00:35:14.359
 in exile for 66 years

00:35:14.359 --> 00:35:16.419
 to hear an angel of God

00:35:16.419 --> 00:35:16.739
 say

00:35:16.739 --> 00:35:18.059
 you are greatly loved

00:35:18.059 --> 00:35:20.539
 the comfort that must have been

00:35:20.539 --> 00:35:21.359
 and so

00:35:21.359 --> 00:35:22.779
 to express that

00:35:22.779 --> 00:35:23.480
 he explains

00:35:23.480 --> 00:35:24.299
 Jeremiah's

00:35:24.299 --> 00:35:25.299
 prophecy

00:35:25.299 --> 00:35:26.299
 of 70 years

00:35:26.299 --> 00:35:26.579
 now

00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:27.739
 Jeremiah's prophecy

00:35:27.739 --> 00:35:28.599
 was going to be fulfilled

00:35:28.599 --> 00:35:29.599
 four years after this

00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:31.119
 Israel was going to turn

00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:32.079
 Judah was going to return

00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:32.619
 to Jerusalem

00:35:32.619 --> 00:35:34.579
 but in the prophecy

00:35:34.579 --> 00:35:36.900
 there's a complex

00:35:36.900 --> 00:35:38.119
 set of numbers

00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:39.880
 and if you read

00:35:39.880 --> 00:35:40.599
 the commentators

00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:41.659
 what they tell us

00:35:41.659 --> 00:35:42.519
 very helpfully

00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:43.639
 is that

00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:45.699
 Jeremiah's 70 years

00:35:45.699 --> 00:35:46.679
 is being listed

00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:47.299
 in the prophecy

00:35:47.299 --> 00:35:48.519
 as 70 weeks

00:35:48.519 --> 00:35:49.519
 times 7

00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:50.779
 so another way

00:35:50.779 --> 00:35:51.400
 to read it is

00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:52.659
 this angel Gabriel

00:35:52.659 --> 00:35:53.279
 is talking about

00:35:53.279 --> 00:35:54.819
 70 years

00:35:54.819 --> 00:35:55.599
 times 7

00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:56.880
 490 years

00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:57.219
 and then

00:35:57.219 --> 00:35:58.159
 there's numbers

00:35:58.159 --> 00:35:58.519
 like

00:35:58.519 --> 00:35:59.860
 62 weeks

00:35:59.860 --> 00:36:01.319
 and 7 weeks

00:36:01.319 --> 00:36:02.219
 and 1 week

00:36:02.219 --> 00:36:02.960
 and all of those

00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:03.840
 if you add 62

00:36:03.840 --> 00:36:04.400
 and 7

00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:05.100
 and 1

00:36:05.100 --> 00:36:06.660
 and I'm not good

00:36:06.660 --> 00:36:07.180
 at mathematics

00:36:07.180 --> 00:36:07.960
 but I know

00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:09.180
 that that equals 70

00:36:09.180 --> 00:36:10.820
 and so when you read

00:36:10.820 --> 00:36:11.200
 through you'll see

00:36:11.200 --> 00:36:11.760
 all these numbers

00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:12.960
 but all the numbers

00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:13.480
 if you go through

00:36:13.480 --> 00:36:13.800
 carefully

00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:14.440
 just simply

00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:15.579
 reiterate 70

00:36:15.579 --> 00:36:16.160
 70

00:36:16.160 --> 00:36:16.780
 70

00:36:16.780 --> 00:36:18.280
 and this is

00:36:18.280 --> 00:36:19.480
 figural language

00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:20.700
 and here's what

00:36:20.700 --> 00:36:21.400
 the figural language

00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:21.840
 is doing

00:36:21.840 --> 00:36:22.240
 it says

00:36:22.240 --> 00:36:22.620
 what does it say

00:36:22.620 --> 00:36:23.620
 at the end of the period

00:36:23.620 --> 00:36:24.940
 of 70 times 7

00:36:24.940 --> 00:36:26.600
 this fullness of time

00:36:26.600 --> 00:36:28.140
 this creation number

00:36:28.140 --> 00:36:29.600
 what does it say

00:36:29.600 --> 00:36:29.980
 did you

00:36:29.980 --> 00:36:31.440
 did you see the language

00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:32.100
 I will

00:36:32.100 --> 00:36:32.660
 verse 24

00:36:32.660 --> 00:36:33.300
 put an end

00:36:33.300 --> 00:36:34.100
 to transgression

00:36:34.100 --> 00:36:36.640
 a full atonement

00:36:36.640 --> 00:36:38.519
 an everlasting righteousness

00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:39.980
 an anointed one

00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:40.780
 a prince

00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:41.620
 will come

00:36:41.620 --> 00:36:42.480
 that's the word

00:36:42.480 --> 00:36:43.019
 messiah

00:36:43.019 --> 00:36:43.700
 in Hebrew

00:36:43.700 --> 00:36:45.360
 and it says

00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:46.740
 that prince will come

00:36:46.740 --> 00:36:48.000
 and he will be cut off

00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.600
 that's the language

00:36:48.600 --> 00:36:49.340
 of execution

00:36:49.340 --> 00:36:50.840
 from Isaiah 53

00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:51.320
 you see what

00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:52.380
 this prophet

00:36:52.380 --> 00:36:53.180
 it's very detailed

00:36:53.180 --> 00:36:53.880
 it's very complex

00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:55.000
 but what it's really

00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:55.600
 talking about

00:36:55.600 --> 00:36:56.740
 is that in the fullness

00:36:56.740 --> 00:36:57.240
 of time

00:36:57.240 --> 00:36:58.580
 the prince would come

00:36:58.580 --> 00:37:00.200
 and so when Daniel says

00:37:00.200 --> 00:37:01.480
 Lord you're right

00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:02.440
 to send us into exile

00:37:02.440 --> 00:37:03.380
 and you're right

00:37:03.380 --> 00:37:04.199
 to forgive us

00:37:04.199 --> 00:37:04.920
 how

00:37:04.920 --> 00:37:06.000
 and the vision says

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:07.219
 because there is

00:37:07.219 --> 00:37:08.719
 a full atonement

00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:09.219
 coming

00:37:09.219 --> 00:37:10.780
 the prince

00:37:10.780 --> 00:37:11.619
 Jesus Christ

00:37:11.619 --> 00:37:12.360
 the one who would be

00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:12.880
 cut off

00:37:12.880 --> 00:37:14.059
 the one who would be

00:37:14.059 --> 00:37:14.599
 executed

00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:16.099
 and it's by the power

00:37:16.099 --> 00:37:17.500
 of that future prince

00:37:17.500 --> 00:37:18.679
 in his death

00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:19.619
 that Daniel

00:37:19.619 --> 00:37:20.500
 in that moment

00:37:20.500 --> 00:37:21.059
 could say

00:37:21.059 --> 00:37:22.639
 now make right by us

00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:23.280
 forgive us

00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:24.099
 like you said you would

00:37:24.099 --> 00:37:25.059
 why

00:37:25.059 --> 00:37:25.860
 because he's saying

00:37:25.860 --> 00:37:26.900
 God look forward

00:37:26.900 --> 00:37:27.440
 to the prince

00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:27.980
 who is to come

00:37:27.980 --> 00:37:28.840
 and we today

00:37:28.840 --> 00:37:29.500
 look backward

00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:30.139
 and that means

00:37:30.139 --> 00:37:30.699
 this morning

00:37:30.699 --> 00:37:32.559
 when you see

00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:33.699
 this vision

00:37:33.699 --> 00:37:34.500
 and that it's actually

00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:35.099
 about Jesus

00:37:35.099 --> 00:37:37.000
 you can realize

00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:38.199
 that every single time

00:37:38.199 --> 00:37:39.059
 you pray

00:37:39.059 --> 00:37:41.639
 in Jesus name

00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:43.900
 it is not just

00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:45.059
 an angel from heaven

00:37:45.059 --> 00:37:46.000
 that God sent

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:46.840
 to Daniel

00:37:46.840 --> 00:37:47.260
 to say

00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:48.300
 you are greatly loved

00:37:48.300 --> 00:37:48.559
 when you

00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:49.000
 listen

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:49.800
 when you say

00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:50.619
 when you pray

00:37:50.619 --> 00:37:50.980
 and say

00:37:50.980 --> 00:37:52.360
 in Jesus name

00:37:52.360 --> 00:37:53.280
 you need to know

00:37:53.280 --> 00:37:54.099
 what that comes with

00:37:54.099 --> 00:37:54.960
 and here's what it comes with

00:37:54.960 --> 00:37:56.639
 you can hear

00:37:56.639 --> 00:37:57.900
 God saying to you

00:37:57.900 --> 00:37:58.739
 in that little phrase

00:37:58.739 --> 00:38:00.219
 you are greatly loved

00:38:00.219 --> 00:38:02.019
 when you pray

00:38:02.019 --> 00:38:02.699
 in Jesus name

00:38:02.699 --> 00:38:03.879
 it is the pronouncement

00:38:03.879 --> 00:38:05.739
 that you are greatly loved

00:38:05.739 --> 00:38:07.539
 God sent the prince

00:38:07.539 --> 00:38:08.359
 from heaven

00:38:08.359 --> 00:38:10.039
 so that when you make

00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:10.719
 confession

00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:11.839
 you can say

00:38:11.839 --> 00:38:12.159
 Lord

00:38:12.159 --> 00:38:12.959
 you're right

00:38:12.959 --> 00:38:13.899
 to judge me

00:38:13.899 --> 00:38:14.679
 and Lord

00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:15.679
 you are right

00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:16.919
 to forgive me

00:38:16.919 --> 00:38:17.959
 how

00:38:17.959 --> 00:38:18.919
 not by me

00:38:18.919 --> 00:38:20.359
 but because God says

00:38:20.359 --> 00:38:21.819
 I will not punish sin twice

00:38:21.819 --> 00:38:23.899
 and in the prince

00:38:23.899 --> 00:38:24.979
 he already did

00:38:24.980 --> 00:38:27.860
 every single one of us

00:38:27.860 --> 00:38:29.019
 today needs confession

00:38:29.019 --> 00:38:31.539
 how do you enter

00:38:31.539 --> 00:38:32.559
 into the Christian life

00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:33.420
 by confession

00:38:33.420 --> 00:38:35.579
 how do you live

00:38:35.579 --> 00:38:36.260
 the Christian life

00:38:36.260 --> 00:38:37.219
 by confession

00:38:37.219 --> 00:38:39.320
 Jesus says

00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:39.900
 Lord

00:38:39.900 --> 00:38:41.300
 our

00:38:41.300 --> 00:38:41.960
 to say

00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:42.579
 our father

00:38:42.579 --> 00:38:43.539
 forgive us our debts

00:38:43.539 --> 00:38:44.320
 every day

00:38:44.320 --> 00:38:45.760
 as we forgive others

00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:47.920
 the heart of spiritual formation

00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:49.460
 is confession

00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:51.800
 and God says

00:38:51.800 --> 00:38:52.900
 I will show you mercy

00:38:52.900 --> 00:38:54.360
 plead with him

00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:54.840
 this week

00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:56.300
 don't miss a day

00:38:56.300 --> 00:38:58.039
 without confessing your sins

00:38:58.039 --> 00:38:58.699
 today even

00:38:58.699 --> 00:39:01.440
 let us pray

00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:01.720
 Father

00:39:01.720 --> 00:39:02.579
 we pray

00:39:02.579 --> 00:39:04.240
 Lord have mercy

00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:05.199
 we plead for mercy

00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:06.260
 forgive us

00:39:06.260 --> 00:39:07.159
 our debts

00:39:07.159 --> 00:39:08.340
 as we forgive our debtors

00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:09.760
 our bones hurt

00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:11.539
 we deserve

00:39:11.539 --> 00:39:12.619
 your righteous judgment

00:39:12.619 --> 00:39:13.300
 yet we

00:39:13.300 --> 00:39:14.760
 are right

00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:15.780
 to be forgiven

00:39:15.780 --> 00:39:17.039
 because Jesus Christ

00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:17.500
 was condemned

00:39:17.500 --> 00:39:18.099
 and so

00:39:18.099 --> 00:39:19.519
 we make our plea

00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:20.400
 we make our confession

00:39:20.400 --> 00:39:21.840
 this morning

00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:23.420
 entirely on his basis

00:39:23.420 --> 00:39:24.760
 and we pray that in Jesus name

00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:25.639
 Amen