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 Do turn with me to Act 17. I've got a week's holiday next week. And so I'm Arthur, he's

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! going to preach for you in the morning and then George Parsons at night. But we're in

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! the third sermon in Act 17. And if you were here last Sunday, if you can remember way

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 back seven days, we saw that it was important that we have our thinking straight about God.

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 And that's where you have to begin. It is the gospel of God that we preach. It's good

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 news, Christianity primarily concerning God. God is the subject of every statement in this

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 sermon in Acts 17. But almost as important is for us to have a proper understanding of

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 man, men and women, human beings. What is man? What is woman?

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 Why do you matter? What is it about you, about human beings that is different? And there

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 are three things about human beings that all begin with D, alright? That we're going to

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 see. The first thing is I want you to see the dignity of human beings. I'm going to lapse,

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 I think, quite a lot into speaking about man. I don't mean to be sexist in that at all.

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 It's just a lot easier when you're talking than using the word human beings. Don't be offended

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 about it. If you're offended about it, feel free to come and see me socially distanced this

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 week, alright? But I'm going to kind of lapse into that. So the dignity of human beings.

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 And there's three things from verse 26. First of all, he tells us that man, human beings,

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 have been made by God. Look at verse 26. He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all

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 the face of the earth. So the first thing we see about the dignity of man is he was made by God.

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 He tells us, secondly, that man has been made like God, that we are offspring made in his image.

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 And then he says we've been made for God. And those three things tell us wonderfully about the dignity

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 of who you are. That you are a creature. You've been made by God. And that's where your true dignity

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 lies. In the fact that you've been made by God. You've not evolved from some kind of primeval sludge.

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 You've not evolved from the animal kingdom. You've been made by God. And the Genesis account is really

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 interesting here. Genesis 1 and 2 are interesting because there are some that say, well, actually,

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 when you read Genesis 1 and when you read Genesis 2, and they are contradictory accounts of creation,

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 you've probably heard that. Well, of course, when you look at Genesis 1 and 2, it's very clear that

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 they're not contradictory. So come with me to the start of the Bible. They're not contradictory.

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 They are complementary. And so in Genesis 1, the stress is on human beings' affinity, human beings' likeness

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 with the rest of creation. And that shouldn't embarrass you. In the accounts of creation, Genesis 1

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 stresses the affinity and the likeness that you have to the rest of creation.

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 And there are similarities between human beings and apes. There are similarities between human beings

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 and animals. That's not surprising. Why is it not surprising? Because we've been made by the same

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 creator. In fact, we were made on the same day of creation. Human beings and animals have been made to

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 live in the same environment, to breathe the same oxygen. We were made out of the same dust. And of course,

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 that there are similarities. That shouldn't surprise us at all in the slightest. And Genesis 1 stresses

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 there is an affinity between humans and the rest of creation. But even in Genesis 1, there's something

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 very special in the way that man is made. So look at verses chapter 1 and verse 24. And that tells us

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 how the animals were made. How God made the animals. And how he made animals and man on the same day.

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 And he made the beasts of the field, in verse 24, can you see it? According to their kinds.

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 The end of verse 24, according to their kinds. Verse 25, he made the beasts of the earth according to their

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 kinds. 25, according to their kind. He made everything that creeps on the ground according to their kind.

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 And then look at verse 26. Verse 26, God says,

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 Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And it's almost as if, according to their kind,

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 according to their kind, according to their kind, and God, on the threshold of making man, he pauses.

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 There's a formula, isn't there? But the formula changes. And man is made on the same day as the animals,

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 but he's not made in the same way as the animals. And when God makes animals, he says,

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 Let the earth bring forth the cattle and the creeping things. But when God wants to make man,

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 he doesn't say anything to anything, bring it forth. He doesn't say, Let the land bring forth.

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 No, he makes man directly. Man, human beings are a special act of creation.

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 And before God makes human beings, it's as if God takes counsel. It's as almost as if he pauses,

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 and within the Godhead, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, they agree, let us make man.

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 It's a different formula. Let us make man in our own image and our own likeness. There's something

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 very special about the creation of humanity. Because God is involved in it immediately.

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 And directly. And that comes out in chapter 2, verse 7, where you've got a zoom lens of what happened.

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 When God created human beings, then the Lord God, chapter 2, verse 7, formed the man of dust of the ground,

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 and he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

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 The distinctive thing about human beings is not that they became a living soul.

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 I think sometimes we can teach it like that, but man isn't different because he's got a soul.

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 Although that's true, that isn't what the passage says.

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 What it's saying is, the verse is saying that human beings became animate.

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 They became living beings.

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 We share that with all the animals, don't we? Of course.

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 But the distinctive thing about you is not that you're a living soul, or that you're a living being.

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 The distinctive thing about human beings is the way that you became a living being.

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 How did man become a living being?

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 Well, God kissed him.

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 Do you see that there?

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 God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.

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 And he became a living being.

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 How did man come into existence?

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 Well, with a kiss from God.

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 Is there anything that could emphasize the specialness of the creation of man more than that?

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 Here's the answer.

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 To what people believe today about man.

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 He is special.

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 Human beings are made by God.

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 Acts 17, verse 26.

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 He's made from one man, from one blood, literally.

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 Every nation of men and women to dwell on the face of the earth.

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 Here's the answer to racism.

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 There are not different races.

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 There is only one race.

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 And that is the human race.

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 He made, according to the apostle, of one blood, one man, all the nations of the earth.

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 We're told, we're not different races.

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 We're not black races or white races, Aryan races.

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 There is one race with one common ancestor.

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 Adam.

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 And because that is true, we are all of equal worth.

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 Because God is made of one blood.

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 One stock.

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 All the nations of the earth.

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 And we need to understand that.

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 We live, don't we, in a divided society more so than any time that I can remember.

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 A divided nation.

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 And we need to hear this.

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 As much as those who were in first century Athens needed to hear it.

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 Because the people that listened to this sermon, the Athenians,

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 they divided the world up into all sorts of people.

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 They divided the world up into Greeks and barbarians.

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 They were really class conscious.

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 The Athenians thought that they were cut above all the other Greeks.

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 There is something special about being from Athens.

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 They'd love to have been a fly on the wall when Paul preached this sermon.

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 God has made of one man all the nations of the earth.

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 They were so proud of being Greek.

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 And as far as they were concerned, the whole world could be summed up.

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 Well, in this division of barbarian and Greek.

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 The Jews were the same, of course.

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 The Jews were the special people of God, they thought.

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 And everyone else, everyone else was what?

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 Well, Gentile dogs.

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 It's a total misunderstanding of their role in history.

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 Because when God chose Adam, Abraham, and he made those promises to Abraham and his descendants,

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 it was not to make them into a master race.

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 It was to make them into a servant people that would spread across the world the glory of God.

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 So here is the dignity of man.

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 You see, the fact that you have been made in a very special way by God, in a very direct way.

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 That he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.

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 And every single human being in this world has worth because God made him or her.

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 Second thing, not only did God make man, but we've been made, not only have we been made by God,

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 but Paul tells us we've been made like God.

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 So can you see that in verse 28?

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 Go back to Acts 17.

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 In verse 28, it says,

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 Do you see what he's saying?

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 He's saying you've got it completely the wrong way around.

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 You can't make God in your likeness.

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 He's made you in his likeness.

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 That's what he's saying.

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 We are God's offspring.

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 That is, God has made us in his image, in his likeness, and that's what makes us so different from the animals.

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 Emil Brunner, who's a funny theologian, put it like this.

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 He says,

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 The animal possesses understanding, no doubt, but not reason.

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 It is no doubt the beginnings of civilization, but no culture.

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 It probably has curiosity and knows many things, but it has no science.

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 It probably plays, but it has no art.

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 It knows herds, but not fellowship.

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 It probably fears punishment, but has no conscience.

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 It probably realizes the superiority of man, but it knows nothing of the Lord or the world.

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 It's not that you're a moral, rational creature.

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 We've been made in the image and likeness of God, and that's where our worth lies.

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 We have no intrinsic worth of our own.

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 We're just an amalgam, aren't we?

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 We have carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, calcium, sulfur, iron, phosphorus.

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 We are the dust of the earth.

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 That's what the dust of the earth is.

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 We have no intrinsic value as human beings.

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 Our value comes from the fact that we bear the image of the one who made us.

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 So let's say you have a picture of a loved one.

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 You have a picture of your husband or your wife or your parents.

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 And you've printed it out, and you have it on paper.

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 But that paper has no intrinsic value, does it?

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 It's just a bit of paper.

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 That's all it is.

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 But it has value to you.

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 Why does it have value to you?

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 Because it bears the image of the one that you love.

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 So you love that photograph.

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 And we need to understand that really clearly.

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 We live in a time, don't we, when there's massive confusion about self-esteem and self-worth.

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 And we're told, listen, your problem is your self-image.

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 And your problem is you've got a lack of self-esteem.

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 And that's why we have so many of our problems, we're told.

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 But that isn't the biblical perspective at all.

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 Because humans are valuable only in as much as they bear the image of their maker.

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 And we know, don't we, very clearly from looking around this world, that that image has been tarnished and defaced and broken.

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 There's a famous quote in English literature.

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 I don't give you great English literature often, but I read it in a book, so I thought I'd give it to you.

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 Robert South, who you know, I'm sure, puts it like this.

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 All those arts, rarities, and inventions, which vulgar minds gaze at, the ingenious pursue and all admire,

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 are but the relics of an intellect defaced with sin and time.

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 And Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of paradise.

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 Man bears the image and likeness of God, but that image is tarnished and broken.

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 Man is a ruin.

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 Women are a ruin.

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 They are a magnificent ruin.

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 And that's the tragedy of the human race.

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 It isn't that we haven't arrived yet.

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 That's not the tragedy.

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 That we're still trying to get our act together.

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 No, the tragedy is we have fallen from what we were created to be.

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 So when you drive through the countryside, and sometimes you see a ruin or an abbey or something,

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 and you get out of the car and you go and look at the abbey, and it's awe-inspiring.

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 And you wander around the ruins of an abbey, and you wonder,

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 what must this have been like in its heyday?

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 But according to the Bible, that's exactly with human beings.

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 We are ruins, magnificent ruins.

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 I think it's hard for you and I to conceive what Adam and Eve would have been like when they were created.

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 And yet, and yet, and yet, man has a dignity, women have a dignity in their sin and in their fallenness.

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 There's a dignity about a human being.

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 And the tragedy is we are not what we were meant to be.

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 That image in which we've been created has been marred and shattered.

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 It's scarcely recognizable.

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 But it's not eradicated.

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 It's still there.

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 But you can scarcely see it.

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 And there are times, aren't there, when you can scarcely distinguish human beings from animals.

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 And we need to remind ourselves that not only have we been made by God, but we've been made like God.

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 And thirdly, Paul tells us that we've been made for God.

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 Look at verse 26.

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 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth,

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 having determined a lot of periods and boundaries of their dwelling place.

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 That they should seek God and perhaps feel their way towards him and find him.

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 Yet he's actually not far from each one of us.

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 And that's the reason for your existence.

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 That you would find God.

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 One writer has described life as a country where there are no signposts because there's nowhere to go.

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 Paul says, human beings, you have somewhere to go.

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 You've a reason for living.

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 You've a reason for being cured.

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 That God has made you in order that you might seek after and you might find God.

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 And so you have a purpose and a meaning to life.

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 You've been made by God.

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 You've been made like God.

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 You've been made for God.

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 That's man's dignity.

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 So secondly, let's see man's destiny.

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 What's man's destiny?

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 Verse 31.

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 Because he's fixed the day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he's appointed.

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 And of this he's given assurance by raising him from the dead.

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 And there's nothing uncertain about where we're heading as humans.

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 There's a great deal of uncertainty today, isn't there?

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 But there really is no uncertainty about where we're heading.

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 There's nothing uncertain about your destiny.

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 You might feel there's great uncertainty about tomorrow.

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 But there's nothing uncertain about your destiny.

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 It's not a random affair.

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 It's not left a chance.

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 Paul tells us that God has fixed the day.

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 When he's going to judge the world in righteousness.

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 And you and I are going to be judged.

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 And that is the human destiny.

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 Men and women, boys and girls, made in the image and likeness of God will be judged.

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 And that is good news.

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 Why is it good news?

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 It's good news because it tells you that everything is meaningful and everything is significant.

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 We live in an age, don't we, which is apathetic.

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 People shrug their shoulders and say, well, is it worth it?

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 Nothing means anything.

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 People don't care.

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 Apathy.

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 The apostle says, no, no.

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 He says God is going to judge.

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 And that means that everything, everything actually matters.

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 Everything you've ever thought or done or said is going to be brought into judgment.

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 The very idea of judgment invests the whole of your life with significance.

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 That God is going to judge the world and he'll judge the world in righteousness.

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 And we take this so much for granted, don't we?

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 But for most people in the world, justice is a real luxury.

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 To have justice without having to bribe your way into it.

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 To guarantee that justice will be fair.

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 And we've got that to a degree.

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 A fair system.

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 But in so many of the parts of the world, this would be good news.

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 Indeed, it was to the Athenians.

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 Somebody has said that if the gods of ancient Greece were to be alive today,

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 some of them would be in prison.

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 They were an immoral bunch.

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 And so you entrust your destiny to these gods.

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 And here comes Paul into the midst of that.

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 And all that superstition.

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 And all the different temples.

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 And all the different gods.

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 And everything going on.

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 And all the immorality to the different shrines.

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 And Paul comes into the midst of it and says,

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 God has appointed a day when he will judge the whole world in righteousness.

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 And that is good news.

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 That your destiny,

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 your destiny is tied up with a God who is going to be fair.

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 And a God who you can rely on to do the right thing.

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 And so when people say to us,

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 well, what is God going to do about this?

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 What is God going to do about that?

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 We say he'll do the right thing.

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 He will judge the world in righteousness.

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 He's fixed the day when all injustices will be put right.

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 When all equalities will be ironed out.

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 And that isn't some pious hope and some uncertainty.

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 It is certain that God has fixed the day when he will judge the world in righteousness.

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 And so there will be no mistakes on that day.

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 And no unsolved mysteries.

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 And all the files in Scotland Yard that are unsolved and undealt with will be in a moment sorted.

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 Because he's fixed the day and he will judge the world in righteousness.

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 And he tells us, if you notice in verse 31,

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 that he's not only fixed the day,

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 but he's appointed the judge because he's fixed the day on which he will judge the world in righteousness

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 by a man whom he has appointed.

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 And there's mercy there, isn't there?

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 There's mercy even in God's judgment because Jesus is not a vindictive judge, is he?

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 The one whom God has appointed the judge of the human race

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 is the one who so loved the world that he came into this world to die for sinners.

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 And if you're afraid of getting a fair hearing on the day of judgment,

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 you've got nothing to be afraid of because you'll get a fair hearing

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 because the one whom God has appointed the judge

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 is the woman who came and died because he loves human beings.

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 And he loves those whom he created.

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 And he came to die for sinners that they might be reconciled to God.

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 And it is the same Jesus who is going to judge the world at the end of time.

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 And that's a remarkable thing.

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 Imagine I was to stand here and tell you that if you listen carefully to what I have to say this morning,

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 and you listen very carefully to my words,

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 that your eternal destiny depends on it.

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 And one day I'm going to come back at the end of the world,

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 and I'm going to come back to judge you and your fate.

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 It will be settled in obedience according to your obedience to my words.

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 And if I started talking like that, you'd probably call a psychiatrist or the police.

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 But that is exactly how Jesus talked in the Sermon on the Mount.

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 He says in Matthew 7,

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 He doesn't say,

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 Not everyone who says to God, does he?

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 But he says,

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 Everyone who says to me,

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 Not everyone who says to me,

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 Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven.

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 Many will say to me on that day,

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 Lord, have we not prophesied in your name,

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 or cast out demons in your name,

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 and done many wonders in your name,

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 and then I will declare to them,

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 I never knew you, depart from me.

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 Get away from me.

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 You who practice lawlessness.

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 Well, somebody who says that,

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 is either a raving madman,

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 or they're speaking the truth.

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 Somebody who makes those claims about themselves,

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 is either a lunatic,

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 a megalomaniac,

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 or they're telling the truth.

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 For someone to say,

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 They are the arbiter of human history,

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 and human destiny,

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 and I'm coming back at the end of the world,

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 and your fate depends on how you respond to me.

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 They're either mad,

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 or speaking the truth.

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 And so do you really believe,

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 that Jesus is a madman this morning?

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 The sanest teacher in the world,

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 the teacher of the Sermon on the Mount.

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 He claims to be the one who will judge you,

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 and the arbiter of human destiny.

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 And so that means that you and I,

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 will actually meet this man,

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 Jesus,

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 and you will speak to him,

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 and he will speak to you,

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 and every single human being,

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 will meet with Jesus.

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 He's the man whom God has appointed,

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 to judge the world in righteousness.

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 Does that terrify you?

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 If you're a Christian,

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 that doesn't terrify you,

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 because the one who is coming to be your judge,

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 has died to be your saviour.

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 And you know that,

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 and the day of judgment holds no terrors,

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 because the sin question has already been dealt with,

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 at Calvary.

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 And so you can say with the hymn writer,

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 No condemnation,

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 now I dread.

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 Jesus,

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 and all in him,

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 is mine.

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 And not only,

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 is Jesus coming to judge,

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 but Paul is saying here,

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 Jesus is a standard by which we're judged.

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 Do you notice what he says?

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 He says that he's fixed a day,

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 when he will judge the world in righteousness,

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 by a man whom he has appointed.

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 The judgment will be absolutely fair.

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 And you and I,

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 are going to be judged,

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 not by a kind of alien standard.

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 We're going to be judged,

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 by what it means to be fully alive.

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 We're going to be judged,

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 by what it means to be properly human.

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 The standard will be man,

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 human beings,

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 as they're meant to be.

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 The standard of judgment is Jesus.

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 And all have sinned,

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 and fallen short of the glory of God.

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 But where do you see the glory of God?

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 You see the glory of God,

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 in the face of Jesus.

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 And that will be the standard of judgment.

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 Because if I compare myself with you,

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 or you compare yourself with me,

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 we'll feel quite good.

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 But on the day of judgment,

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 the standard will be Jesus,

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 and his love will show up my lovelessness,

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 his unselfishness will show up my greed,

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 his purity will show up my uncleanness,

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 his integrity will show up my conceit,

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 and we will be compared with him.

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 So here's our destiny.

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 It's appointed unto you once to die,

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 and after death,

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 the judgment.

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 And you and I have an appointment

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 to keep the other side of the grave.

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 And according to Paul,

00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:07.660
 God has given you due notice.

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 He's given you due notice

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 that this is happening

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 by raising Jesus from the dead.

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 He's arguing, isn't he,

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 from a past certainty

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 to a future reality.

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 And people didn't find it

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 any easier to believe in judgment

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 then than they do now.

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 They would have said,

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 wouldn't they,

00:27:28.460 --> 00:27:29.480
 when they heard Paul say,

00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:31.059
 nobody believes this sort of thing.

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 And Paul says,

00:27:33.460 --> 00:27:34.299
 okay, let me prove it to you.

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 Let me assure you

00:27:35.339 --> 00:27:36.180
 that this is going to happen.

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 Do you want to know

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 why it's going to happen

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 and why it's not just my opinion?

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 Why he says,

00:27:44.019 --> 00:27:45.819
 I'm not here just to debate with you

00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:47.099
 and toss around a few ideas.

00:27:47.219 --> 00:27:48.219
 If you want assurance

00:27:48.219 --> 00:27:49.939
 that this is your destiny,

00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:51.279
 that this is where

00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:52.279
 the human race is heading,

00:27:52.679 --> 00:27:53.859
 if you want assurance

00:27:53.859 --> 00:27:56.240
 of this in time and space,

00:27:57.839 --> 00:27:58.659
 well, something happened.

00:27:58.819 --> 00:28:00.599
 A man died in Jerusalem.

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 And on the third day,

00:28:03.379 --> 00:28:04.359
 he came back from the dead

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 and God raised him from the dead.

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 And just as likely as that was,

00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:13.519
 it happened.

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 And just as certainly as it happened,

00:28:17.240 --> 00:28:18.419
 one day God is going to judge

00:28:18.419 --> 00:28:19.319
 the world in righteousness

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 by that same man.

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 Made by God,

00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:24.719
 made like God,

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 made for God.

00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:26.859
 That is our dignity.

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 There will be a day of judgment

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 and that day is already fixed

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 and that is our destiny.

00:28:33.439 --> 00:28:33.859
 And thirdly,

00:28:33.899 --> 00:28:34.459
 and really briefly,

00:28:34.460 --> 00:28:35.440
 what is our duty?

00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:36.920
 It's there in verse 30, isn't it?

00:28:41.779 --> 00:28:42.860
 The times of ignorance

00:28:42.860 --> 00:28:43.519
 got overlooked,

00:28:43.759 --> 00:28:44.579
 but now he commands

00:28:44.579 --> 00:28:45.779
 all people everywhere

00:28:45.779 --> 00:28:46.900
 to repent.

00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:53.700
 20 centuries after these words,

00:28:53.819 --> 00:28:54.880
 people still study

00:28:54.880 --> 00:28:57.299
 Greek literature,

00:28:57.420 --> 00:28:57.680
 don't they?

00:28:57.880 --> 00:28:58.700
 And Roman literature.

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 People go to university,

00:29:03.819 --> 00:29:04.899
 certain types of universities,

00:29:04.899 --> 00:29:06.099
 and they study the classics,

00:29:06.839 --> 00:29:07.799
 which is not only

00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:08.599
 Fools and Horses

00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:11.319
 or 1970s comedy.

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 It's Greek literature,

00:29:14.139 --> 00:29:14.439
 isn't it?

00:29:14.539 --> 00:29:15.119
 Roman literature.

00:29:17.220 --> 00:29:18.059
 And into the heyday

00:29:18.059 --> 00:29:19.039
 of Greek literature

00:29:19.039 --> 00:29:19.720
 and Roman literature

00:29:19.720 --> 00:29:20.819
 comes along a little Jew

00:29:20.819 --> 00:29:23.279
 who wasn't very impressive.

00:29:23.579 --> 00:29:24.519
 He was a small man,

00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:26.099
 didn't look particularly attractive,

00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:26.619
 it would seem.

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 And he comes into the middle

00:29:28.879 --> 00:29:29.919
 of Athens

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 and he's surrounded

00:29:31.419 --> 00:29:33.419
 by the towering intellectuals

00:29:33.419 --> 00:29:33.979
 of his day

00:29:33.979 --> 00:29:36.099
 and he refers to the golden age

00:29:36.099 --> 00:29:36.619
 of literature

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 and look what he says about it.

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 Verse 30.

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 God overlooks such ignorance.

00:29:46.959 --> 00:29:48.239
 God overlooks such ignorance

00:29:48.239 --> 00:29:49.500
 that the world is so impressed by.

00:29:49.500 --> 00:29:53.759
 In the old authorised version,

00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:54.660
 the King James version,

00:29:55.539 --> 00:29:56.400
 those of you familiar with it,

00:29:56.500 --> 00:29:57.539
 you'll know that

00:29:57.539 --> 00:29:58.220
 in this verse

00:29:58.220 --> 00:29:59.200
 it's translated quite differently.

00:29:59.720 --> 00:30:00.000
 It says,

00:30:00.799 --> 00:30:03.079
 the times of ignorance,

00:30:03.299 --> 00:30:04.339
 it says that God overlooked,

00:30:04.700 --> 00:30:05.240
 but in the A.V.

00:30:05.279 --> 00:30:06.539
 it says God winks at it.

00:30:10.140 --> 00:30:10.660
 You know,

00:30:10.740 --> 00:30:11.500
 there are parents

00:30:12.119 --> 00:30:13.000
 and the children

00:30:13.000 --> 00:30:13.779
 are being silly

00:30:13.779 --> 00:30:16.980
 and dad looks at mum

00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:19.240
 and he winks at her.

00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:22.019
 And he means by that wink,

00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:23.200
 don't worry,

00:30:23.660 --> 00:30:24.400
 they'll grow out of it

00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:24.940
 at some point.

00:30:27.980 --> 00:30:28.920
 They'll grow out of it.

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 You wink at it.

00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:35.140
 And the Greeks,

00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:36.099
 they are so proud

00:30:36.099 --> 00:30:36.720
 of their culture

00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:37.460
 and learning

00:30:37.460 --> 00:30:38.619
 and Greek mythology

00:30:38.619 --> 00:30:39.900
 and their Greek civilisation

00:30:39.900 --> 00:30:40.940
 and Paul says,

00:30:42.019 --> 00:30:43.460
 there have been times

00:30:43.460 --> 00:30:43.900
 of ignorance

00:30:43.900 --> 00:30:45.119
 but not so from now on.

00:30:46.480 --> 00:30:47.400
 There's no longer

00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:48.200
 any excuse

00:30:48.200 --> 00:30:49.160
 for groping around

00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:49.740
 in the dark.

00:30:51.539 --> 00:30:52.440
 There is a word

00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:53.019
 from God

00:30:53.019 --> 00:30:54.039
 and a clear revelation

00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:55.120
 and now God commands

00:30:55.120 --> 00:30:56.240
 all men everywhere

00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:56.799
 to repent.

00:30:58.940 --> 00:30:59.840
 To turn around,

00:30:59.980 --> 00:31:01.240
 to admit they were wrong

00:31:01.240 --> 00:31:02.799
 and going in the wrong direction

00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:04.080
 and to serve the living

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 and true God

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 and depart from idols

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 and God commands that.

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 God commands you

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 and God commands you

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 to enter into a dialogue

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 with him.

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 He doesn't invite,

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 he doesn't invite you

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 to consider his claims.

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 Just look how strong it is.

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 He says he commands

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 all people everywhere

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 to repent,

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 to submit to his claim.

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 And so do you see

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 how he preaches the gospel?

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 It's very interesting

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 to go through the book of Acts

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 and see how Paul

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 and particularly Peter

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 preached the gospel.

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 We say to you,

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 listen,

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 it's over to you.

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 You need to make a response.

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 Don't rush

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 to make the response.

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 Come back next week.

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 No, no,

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 says Paul,

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 it's not like that at all.

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 He says God has fixed the day

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 and it's already fixed

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 and it's not a case of

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 respond when it's convenient

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 to you.

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 He says no,

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 you've got to come into line

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 with what God has done.

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 Let me tell you

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 what God has done.

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 God has raised his son

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 from the dead

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 and fixed the day

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 when he's going to judge

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 the world in righteousness

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 and what are you going

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 to do about it?

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 God commands all people

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 everywhere to repent.

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 Pleasure loving

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 Epicureans.

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 Hard working,

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 conscientious Stoics.

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 Africans,

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 Americans,

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 Brits,

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 Europeans,

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 Asians.

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 Doesn't make any difference

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 because all have sinned

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 and fallen short

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 of the glory of God.

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 And God commands

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 all people everywhere

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 to repent.

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 What are you going

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 to do about it?

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 Let's pray.

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 Let's pray.

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