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 Father, you know the different things that we boast in, and you know that we don't recognize when we're boasting.

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 We don't recognize, Father, many of the things that we put our hope in and our trust in and that we think will give us significance.

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 So, Father, we ask that the healing medicine of your word, that your Holy Spirit would apply that to our hearts, the command centers of our lives.

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 That you would, Father, touch our memories, touch our imagination, touch our emotions, touch our hopes and our dreams.

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 Father, that we might become disciples of Jesus who are gripped by the gospel, boasting only in the cross, and learning to live for the good of people and your great glory.

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

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 Please be seated.

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 So, we've gotten maybe a little bit distracted with the singing of the Nunc Dimittis, but I don't know how many of you notice, but the Bible passage that Ken began with talked about money.

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 In fact, it was basically an exhortation for you folks to give, and not for you folks, for us folks to give lots of money.

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 And, you know, I know that one of the things which many, many non-Christians think about churches is that all we do is think about money, talk about money.

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 In fact, I think that many people who aren't Christians, and maybe even people who go to church, at least occasionally, might even think that all the greed that seems to be on display at Christmas, that's one way of understanding it.

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 It's not necessarily the way I understand it, but many people would say that the commercialism and greed evident at Christmas actually has its roots in the Christian faith because of the church's preoccupation with money.

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 And so, here you come, and maybe you're a guest, and like, bang, give lots to make sure guys like me are able to open the Bible.

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 And that's where we move on to the next topic.

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 And, you know, it's a problem passage for us, right?

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 Like, why on earth is it that the Bible seems to talk about money?

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 So, it'd be a great help if you got the Bible out, see what it said, and we're going to look at it.

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 If you don't have a Bible with you, there's some Bibles up at the front.

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 Andrea's getting one right now.

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 And it's Galatians chapter 6.

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 And for those of us who come here week in and week out, the book of Galatians, we've now finished it.

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 Next Sunday, I begin a new series on the Gospel of John.

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 But Galatians is going to be finished.

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 And Galatians chapter 6, this is how it goes.

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 Am I in darkness here, by the way?

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 It feels like I'm in darkness.

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 Just ignore the darkness?

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 Just for a moment?

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 That's fine.

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 I can do that.

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 My wife says my ability to ignore the obvious is astounding.

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 But that's a whole other sermon topic and also to be dealt with later on in prayer.

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 One more thing for you folks to pray about me.

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 Anyway, so why is it that, you know, for many, especially if you're here as a guest, you know, why is it that church sometimes seems to go on and on and on about money?

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 And here it is.

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 The Bible's talking about money.

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 It's, in fact, the first verse.

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 And I had to divide the book up some way.

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 And in many ways, this is a good place to divide up the last.

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 But here's what it says.

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 Verse 6 of chapter 6.

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 Let the one who has taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.

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 And you'll notice it says all good things.

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 And one of those good things is money.

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 So why on earth would the Bible be talking about something like this?

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 Well, it's actually goes about, it's dealing with a very, very important issue, which the Bible, the Paul has just finished talking about.

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 And we talked about last Sunday.

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 And we'll just look up at verse 5.

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 This just gives you a bit of a hint about the broader topic that Paul has just been wrestling with in the previous eight verses.

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 For each will have to bear his own load.

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 Verse 5.

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 For each will have to bear his own load.

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 And that word for load is, it would be as if you're going on a canoe trip, a solo canoe trip.

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 And it's the stuff you take in your canoe so that you can do the canoe trip.

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 Or if you're going for a long hike, it would be an overnight or several overnights.

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 It's all of the food, all of the clothes, the pots, the pans, everything that you need to go on your hike.

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 That's what your load is.

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 And it's your life.

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 So, you know, one of the things which the Bible was talking about last week, which is a very countercultural idea and a very, very powerful idea,

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 is that God never judges you in comparison to other people.

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 That was one of the main things that we looked at when we were looking at the verses just immediately before this thing, which is talking about money,

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 is that God never judges any individual by comparing them to somebody else.

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 Now, this is a very, very, very powerful idea.

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 And if we think about it, we tried to look at it a little bit last week.

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 It's almost impossible for us to think about ourselves and assess ourselves without assessing ourselves relative to other people.

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 It's almost impossible for me to think about what I am like as a husband without thinking about how I stack up compared to other husbands.

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 It's almost impossible for me to think about how I'm doing as a pastor or a preacher without thinking about how other people are doing.

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 And sometimes that depresses me and sometimes it flatters me.

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 But it's almost impossible.

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 I would suggest that it's almost impossible for any human being to merely imagine or try to think about how they stand,

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 in a sense, naked and isolated, purely themselves before the face of God.

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 Because even if we begin to do that, we think, boy, I'm doing that better than other people, aren't I?

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 Like, it's almost impossible to do it.

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 And so what this text, what Paul was talking about just before this, it's in very, not cryptic language, it's in very, like, every word counts.

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 It's like reading a poem or maybe a legal document that's been very well thought out.

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 And every single word bears a lot of weight.

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 And it's not something we rush through.

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 But if we linger with it, it's communicating to us, God never judges me and never judges you by comparing me to other people.

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 Never.

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 He just judges me as me by the situations that I have to deal with.

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 Many of you know that I was in Angola this July.

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 I'm going to talk about it a little bit more in a moment.

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 And I saw some poverty there.

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 But I have to confess, I didn't see, at least where I was, I never saw the same type of poverty as I've seen when I was in Nairobi.

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 And the first time I was in Nairobi and the time we lived out in the country and we had a place where we kept chickens.

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 And I saw restaurants, in quotation marks, and the chicken coop at our house was cleaner.

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 And just, I'd have rather eaten from in there than in that place.

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 And some of the beggars that you see in the streets of Nairobi, massive physical deformations and just heart-wrenching.

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 It's just, I can't even, words fail you.

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 Now, I don't know why it is that I was born in Ottawa.

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 And that I was born in a safe city, at a safe time, in a prosperous city.

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 And I have a job and I've never missed a meal because of not having any money.

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 And I have comparatively good health.

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 And I don't know why I'm me compared to some of the beggars that I've seen on the streets of Nairobi.

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 But here's what this very powerful message is that the Bible has been trying to teach just before this talk about money.

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 Which is, George, you're responsible for the stuff and the situations in your life.

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 You know, Billy Graham, for all the things that are in his life, he's responsible for those.

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 Ravi Zacharias, for those.

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 That beggar in the streets of Nairobi, they're responsible for those.

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 And God's going to look at your situation, your opportunities, and not compare you to other people.

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 And he's just going to judge you by yourself.

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 It's a very, very...

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 Actually, as it starts to play around in our mind and our heart, it's a very, very liberating idea to no longer live under the burden of comparing yourself to other people.

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 And that you just deal with the talents and the opportunities that you have.

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 And that's how God's going to judge you.

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 Now, it's very easy when you have an idea like that, and it's connected to other things that Paul has been going through all the way through the book of Galatians.

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 You might remember Galatians chapter 5, verse 1.

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 I encourage you to memorize this verse.

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 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.

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 Therefore, do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

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 And wherever I go, there's thunder.

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 Anyway, if we start to see lightning, then look up.

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 He's about to come.

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 No, I don't know what it'll...

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 Is there something I can do about this?

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 I've actually ordered a different mic.

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 Okay, there's nothing I can do.

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 You know what I'm going to do?

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 I'm just going to speak out of this.

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 I think it's a bit distracting for you, and I'll just have to not wander around.

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 Is this mic on now?

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 Okay.

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 I'm out of practice.

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 For many, many, many, many, many years, I wasn't able to wander around when I preached.

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 I had to sort of stay in one spot.

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 And so I used to really be lots of waving around and everything to compensate for it.

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 So you'll start to see whether that returns to me as I sort of have to just be in one spot because of the mic.

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 Where was I?

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 Oh, yes.

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 So it'd be very easy if you hear this message of for freedom Christ has set us free,

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 that Jesus, that God only judges me without comparing me to other people.

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 It's really easy to take from this an idea that God is calling us to radical individualism.

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 That that's what he's calling me be.

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 I'm free of people's opinions.

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 I'm free of their expectations.

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 I'm free of all of that stuff.

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 He's just going to judge me by me.

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 And so what other people think and what do they do?

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 You know, sucks to be them.

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 I don't give a bleep, bleep, bleep, bleep, and off we go.

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 Just a life of radical individualism.

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 And so the Bible is very wise.

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 The Bible knows the direction of our hearts, how it's very easy for us because many of us are very, very selfish.

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 And many of us don't struggle with narcissism, but we should.

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 That we're just radically in love with ourselves and think everything we do is wonderful.

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 And the Bible knows that that's our problem.

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 So the very thing it does right after this section is it returns to an earlier theme.

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 And it says, listen, you're called to a life with one another.

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 And part of the way that life with one another is going to work is it's going to involve an actual exchange of money and of other things which are good in your lives,

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 especially with those who preach the word.

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 And because, you see, look at verse, that's what it says in verse 6.

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 Verse 6, it says, let the one who is taught the word share all good things with the one who teaches.

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 Now, so actually, if you could just put up the first point.

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 This is something I've said in different times throughout the years.

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 I've just changed it very slightly, but we enter the Jesus way one by one.

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 But we walk the Jesus way with Jesus and one another.

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 And I've used this phrase one another because the Bible, if you just do a little word search someday,

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 it's amazing how many times in the New Testament the phrase one another is there.

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 It implies a certain way of walking with Jesus, that we walk with Jesus with one another in some type of a community.

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 And so why is it that it's talking about money?

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 For me, it's because, well, actually, if you could put up the next point.

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 This is going to be really weird to some of us.

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 The preaching of the gospel while preaching through the Bible is central to the life of the local church

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 and central to God's plan to make the gospel known to every people group.

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 Now, the preaching of the gospel while preaching through the Bible is central to the life of the local church

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 and central to God's plan to make the gospel known to every people group.

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 Now, obviously, there's lots of churches where it's not central.

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 But if you read the New Testament, if you read the book of Acts, and if you read the epistles,

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 you'll see that there's this constant message that God has only one plan.

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 It's plan A. He doesn't have plan B.

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 He doesn't have plan C or plan D.

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 He just has plan A.

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 And plan A is pretty outrageous.

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 It is that people, one by one, come to a faith in Jesus,

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 and God draws them together into a local church.

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 And what is to be at the center of that local church is opening the Bible,

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 teaching the Bible in such a way that the whole counsel of God is made clear,

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 but always that the gospel is made clear.

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 And that's the method by which God is going to see the gospel go to the ends of the earth.

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 That is the means by which God is going to see people in cities come to hear about Jesus

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 and come to a saving faith in Jesus.

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 That's his plan.

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 We're part of his plan.

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 And central to that plan is this opening of God's word in such a way that,

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 I mean, different things happen just as we do this,

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 that God just sovereignly draws people,

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 that God sovereignly works in our hearts,

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 that, you know, like last Sunday after church,

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 I, you know, I stopped in at one of my favorite coffee shops,

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 and there were several baristas there who didn't know me,

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 and they said, oh, you know, are you going to sit here and work for a while?

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 And I said, no, I finished my work for the day.

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 And they said, oh, really?

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 And I said, yeah, I'm a pastor of a church.

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 I mean, it was my opportunity to share with them.

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 And, you know, I say, I'm a pastor of a church.

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 And then I said, you know, do you have a religious or spiritual connection or past or heritage?

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 And I find out some things about them.

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 You know, it's just a little seed, right?

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 But it's all connected, that either God sovereignly draws people,

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 or as we leave and bear witness to Jesus,

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 that it begins conversations that will end up leading them to some local word preached and taught.

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 Sorry, I wandered away from the mic.

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 And that's separate from the other things.

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 As just as the word does its work within a congregation,

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 then congregations start to have a desire to see the gospel spread in other congregations form.

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 It's why people have left our congregation to go to places in Central Asia and Asia and Southeast Asia.

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 And we're about to share.

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 It's just going to be $100 a month.

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 But starting in January, we're going to be contributing $100 a month to helping to plant a church in Jerusalem.

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 And through the preaching of the word and the sharing of the resources that the word be preached,

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 I went to Angola.

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 We went to Angola.

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 I got to preach.

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 We got to share the gospel with a semi-nomadic tribe in the Kalahari Desert,

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 a different people group.

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 And this is God's plan A.

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 It's God's plan A.

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 He doesn't call us...

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 I mean, on one level, there is nothing like the gospel,

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 nothing like the Bible,

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 so grounds our integrity and dignity and importance as human beings.

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 Only the Bible teaches that human beings aren't a cosmic accident.

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 They're not a cosmic mistake.

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 It's not something because the gods were fighting,

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 and lo and behold, out of that fight, they created some human beings.

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 Or it's not because there's some cosmic problem way back in history

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 that now means that human beings' indifference comes to be,

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 and we have to get rid of it and get away from it.

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 It's not that there's been some plan by the gods to make human beings

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 so that we human beings can feed them and care for them and maybe be their food.

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 And it's not that we human beings are just a result of blind chance

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 where the strong eat the weak, where the strong survive,

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 and it sucks to be weak because the strong eat the weak and the strong survive.

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 And it's none of those stories.

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 It's only in the Bible that we hear that human beings,

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 every human being is made in the image and likeness of God

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 and has a dignity and integrity before God,

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 which God has given that no government can take away,

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 no economic power can take away,

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 no racial group can take away of another group,

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 that men can't take away from women,

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 and women cannot take away from men,

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 that there is this inherent dignity,

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 and nothing in the world is as powerful as speaking about

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 the dignity of the human being as the Bible is.

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 And the same word of God tells us that

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 in this world where the individual is so important,

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 yet at the same time the social is so important,

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 and the gospel brings to not only bring us individual freedom and healing,

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 and freedom from being crushed by the expectations of the tribe,

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 the culture, the coach,

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 you know, the world,

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 the markets,

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 but at the same time it calls us always into a family,

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 one another family,

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 where we walk with Jesus with one another,

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 and at the very, very center of God sharing the gospel with this world

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 is this plan of ordinary fallen human beings like you and me

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 gathering together on a regular basis on a Sunday

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 and in small groups and in mentoring things,

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 and the very center of central function

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 is the opening of God's word

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 to make the whole counsel of God plain

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 as the gospel is regularly shared.

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 That's his plan A.

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 And it's to involve the sharing of our money,

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 the sharing of our time,

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 the sharing of our imaginations

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 and our hearts and our musical gifts

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 and our gifts of hospitality

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 and our gifts of baking

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 and coffee preparation,

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 and it's a giving of ourselves

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 and of our time

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 and of our talents

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 and our imagination

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 and our creativity

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 and it involves the giving of our money

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 because it's God's plan A.

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 Now,

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 some people might say after hearing all that

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 that this is a completely and utterly crazy plan.

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 Like it's a stupid plan.

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 Like George,

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 like what a,

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 like don't you think it's a bit of a stupid plan?

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 Like don't you think nowadays

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 that music's more powerful?

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 And, you know,

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 maybe what it is

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 is we need to have,

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 like get Bach back in churches

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 or maybe it is

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 we just have to have better rock bands

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 or better indie bands

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 or better roots music.

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 And don't you think maybe

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 that far more central

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 to doing all of this

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 is that there's better use of the web

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 or there's just better use

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 of communication technology?

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 And don't you think, George,

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 that that plan that you've just described

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 that is God's plan,

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 that there's just,

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 you know,

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 if it just harnessed

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 the power of organization

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 and the power of managing resources

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 to make a profound difference in society

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 through philosophy

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 or through laws

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 or science

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 or markets,

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 you know,

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 George,

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 music,

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 culture,

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 there's so many things

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 that are way better than that.

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 And if you've thought

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 any of those things,

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 you now understand

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 why it is that Paul

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 immediately from going about

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 sharing about money

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 warns us about mocking God.

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 Because many of us

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 have a hard time believing

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 that we mock God.

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 But we do.

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 Look what verse 7 says.

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 So look at verse 6 again.

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 Let the one who has taught the word

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 share all good things

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 with the one who teaches.

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 This is all just part of this whole plan A

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 that we gather as families.

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 The word is preached

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 that this is the means

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 by which the word will go.

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 The gospel will go to the ends of the earth.

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 And then verse 7.

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 Do not be deceived.

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 God is not mocked.

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 God is not ridiculed.

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 God is not belittled.

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 God is not made fun of.

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 God is not ignored.

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 We don't flip God off.

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 Give him the bird

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 and tell him we know better.

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 For whatever one sows,

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 that will he also reap.

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 For the one who sows to his own flesh

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 will from the flesh

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 reap corruption.

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 But the one who sows to the spirit,

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 that's the Holy Spirit,

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 will from the Holy Spirit

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 reap eternal life.

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 So Paul now,

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 it's part of the brilliance

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 of how the Bible is written here

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 that Paul instantly starts

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 to slide back into another topic.

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 I mean, hopefully he's hoping

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 that the barb or the hook

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 about this call

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 to be realistic

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 in the sharing of the good things

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 in our lives

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 so that the word can be proclaimed

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 in a congregation,

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 in a city,

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 and to the ends of the world.

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 But he wants to also teach us

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 some other really important things

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 about this idea

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 that God doesn't judge us

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 compared to other people

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 and all this.

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 And if you could put up

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 the first point,

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 that would be very helpful.

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 So one of the things

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 he wants to make clear

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 about this,

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 this text,

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 is that being made right

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 with God

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 by faith in Jesus Christ crucified

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 does not mean

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 I can do whatever I want

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 with impunity.

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 Why?

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 Because I reap what I sow.

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 I reap what I sow.

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 And the Bible wants us

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 to understand

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 that that is always a principle

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 which is going on.

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 We reap what we sow.

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 You put our time,

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 your money,

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 your imagination

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 into certain types of pursuits

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 and something that is congruent

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 with that

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 is going to be the result.

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 And, you know,

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 in some ways

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 it sounds a little bit

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 like the idea of karma.

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 You reap what you sow,

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 but it's a very,

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 it's similar to karma,

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 but it's very, very different.

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 Karma is mechanical

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 and sort of linear.

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 And this isn't mechanical,

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 it's an organic image.

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 Right?

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 I mean,

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 if one of you

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 plant a corn seed

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 in your garden

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 in the spring,

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 if in the fall

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 you dig it up

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 and there's just one

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 corn seed there,

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 you know the whole thing failed.

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 If you dig it up

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 and there's three corn seeds there,

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 you think that's just weird.

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 And if you plant a corn seed

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 and a raspberry bush grows up,

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 you'd know that

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 something else has gone on.

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 I don't know,

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 maybe one of your kids

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 has dug up the corn seed

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 to play a trick on you

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 and planted something

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 that'll go raspberry thing.

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 But you know that,

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 you know,

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 it's not mechanical like karma

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 and there's always,

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 there's this extra process

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 that's involved

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 and at the end of the day

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 God is sovereign over it.

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 And so it's not like investing.

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 It's not like,

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 you know,

00:25:07.280 --> 00:25:07.980
 in some ways karma

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 is a little bit like investing.

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 You know,

00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:11.680
 you put $20 into this type of,

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 you know,

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 $2,000 into this mutual fund

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 and if you do that

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 and it's a good mutual fund

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 or a good investment in stocks,

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 you know,

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 the result will be maybe $2,200

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 a little bit later.

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 You've got a good return

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 on your investment.

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 It's a bit of a different image,

00:25:25.640 --> 00:25:26.700
 but it's like karma,

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 but it's different.

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 It's more organic.

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 It leaves God sovereign.

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 It's far more subtle

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 and supple

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 and not nearly mechanical

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 and the whole thing,

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 as we'll see in a moment,

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 leaves room for mercy.

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 But it says

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 that we sow what we reap.

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 And then it has

00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:47.539
 a terrifying image here.

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 I don't know if you caught it.

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 Look again at verse 7.

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 What does it say again?

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 Do not be deceived.

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 God is not mocked.

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 For whatever one sows,

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 that will he also reap.

00:26:01.559 --> 00:26:02.500
 For the one who sows

00:26:02.500 --> 00:26:03.619
 to his own flesh,

00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:06.039
 and the flesh here means

00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:08.559
 that part of us

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 which is in rebellion

00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:10.359
 against God,

00:26:11.079 --> 00:26:12.220
 that part of us

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 which turns our back on God,

00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:15.700
 that part of us

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 which desires to be a God,

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 ourselves.

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 If we sow to those projects,

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 we'll from the flesh,

00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:24.519
 that is,

00:26:24.659 --> 00:26:25.859
 from that part of us

00:26:25.859 --> 00:26:26.500
 that's in rebellion

00:26:26.500 --> 00:26:27.079
 against God,

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 we'll reap corruption.

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 Now,

00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:37.259
 if I was a typical Canadian,

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 I would quickly pass over this.

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 Because if there's one thing

00:26:42.680 --> 00:26:44.019
 that many Canadians

00:26:44.019 --> 00:26:45.200
 would say about the church

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 is that we go on and on

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 and on about money.

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 And another thing it would say

00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:51.059
 is that we're completely crazy

00:26:51.059 --> 00:26:51.660
 and kooky

00:26:51.660 --> 00:26:53.119
 about something called hell.

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 But this is a hell word.

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 If you could put up

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 the next point.

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 Hell is not glamorous.

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 Hell is real decay,

00:27:05.200 --> 00:27:05.880
 decomposition,

00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:08.100
 and corruption.

00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:10.660
 You see,

00:27:10.740 --> 00:27:11.820
 this word for corruption

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 is a word from the morgue.

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 It's a word

00:27:15.600 --> 00:27:16.660
 from what's left

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:17.340
 on the battlefield

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 after the battle.

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 It's the word

00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:23.600
 that refers to a corpse

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 and what happens

00:27:26.419 --> 00:27:27.279
 to a corpse.

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 It's not talking about

00:27:29.299 --> 00:27:30.339
 political corruption

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 or anything like that,

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 a mere corruption

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 of your morals

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 or anything like that.

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 It's a death word,

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 a decomposition word.

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 It's a very,

00:27:41.219 --> 00:27:42.599
 very stark warning

00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:44.799
 about how

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 if we continue

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 to invest

00:27:49.219 --> 00:27:49.599
 our imagination

00:27:50.139 --> 00:27:50.599
 and our creativity

00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:52.480
 in our God project,

00:27:52.480 --> 00:27:53.640
 in our turning

00:27:53.640 --> 00:27:54.740
 our back on God.

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 And, you know,

00:27:56.220 --> 00:27:56.799
 the thing which is

00:27:56.799 --> 00:27:57.660
 so subtle about

00:27:57.660 --> 00:27:58.240
 this teaching

00:27:58.240 --> 00:27:58.860
 in the Bible

00:27:58.860 --> 00:28:01.500
 is that

00:28:01.500 --> 00:28:02.420
 this isn't just

00:28:02.420 --> 00:28:03.460
 some lambasting

00:28:03.460 --> 00:28:04.140
 of people

00:28:04.140 --> 00:28:05.019
 who are doing

00:28:05.019 --> 00:28:06.259
 like meth heads.

00:28:07.579 --> 00:28:08.700
 This is talking

00:28:08.700 --> 00:28:09.539
 as well about

00:28:09.539 --> 00:28:10.720
 people who live

00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:12.360
 in expensive condos

00:28:12.360 --> 00:28:13.980
 and Rockcliffe.

00:28:15.620 --> 00:28:16.660
 And it's talking

00:28:16.660 --> 00:28:17.900
 about religious people

00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:19.180
 and people

00:28:19.180 --> 00:28:19.980
 who are spiritual

00:28:19.980 --> 00:28:21.200
 but not religious.

00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.700
 But at the heart

00:28:23.700 --> 00:28:24.740
 of what they're doing

00:28:24.740 --> 00:28:25.680
 is a heart

00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:26.240
 to be,

00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:28.279
 to just flip God off

00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:29.140
 and ignore God.

00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:31.400
 To be their own God.

00:28:32.279 --> 00:28:33.400
 To be the Lord

00:28:33.400 --> 00:28:34.339
 of their own domain.

00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:37.099
 And,

00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:39.660
 and Paul,

00:28:40.099 --> 00:28:40.200
 here,

00:28:40.259 --> 00:28:41.160
 the Bible says

00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:41.880
 that the result

00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:42.380
 is hell.

00:28:42.380 --> 00:28:45.380
 But look,

00:28:45.420 --> 00:28:46.360
 look at verse 8 again.

00:28:47.860 --> 00:28:48.220
 For the one

00:28:48.220 --> 00:28:49.420
 who sows to his own flesh

00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:50.280
 will from the flesh

00:28:50.280 --> 00:28:51.000
 reap corruption.

00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:52.580
 But the one

00:28:52.580 --> 00:28:54.340
 who sows to the Holy Spirit

00:28:54.340 --> 00:28:56.500
 will from the Holy Spirit

00:28:56.500 --> 00:28:57.580
 reap eternal life.

00:28:59.460 --> 00:29:00.300
 If you could put up

00:29:00.300 --> 00:29:01.120
 the next point,

00:29:02.220 --> 00:29:03.180
 when we sow

00:29:03.180 --> 00:29:04.140
 as the Holy Spirit

00:29:04.140 --> 00:29:04.740
 leads,

00:29:05.560 --> 00:29:06.560
 we will reap

00:29:06.560 --> 00:29:08.020
 an eternal

00:29:08.020 --> 00:29:09.500
 weight of glory

00:29:09.500 --> 00:29:11.320
 beyond all comparison.

00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:12.059
 I'm quoting

00:29:12.059 --> 00:29:13.279
 2 Corinthians 4.

00:29:14.500 --> 00:29:15.339
 When we sow

00:29:15.339 --> 00:29:17.079
 as the Holy Spirit

00:29:17.079 --> 00:29:17.539
 leads,

00:29:17.700 --> 00:29:18.339
 we will reap

00:29:18.339 --> 00:29:19.579
 an eternal

00:29:19.579 --> 00:29:20.399
 weight

00:29:20.399 --> 00:29:21.399
 of glory

00:29:21.399 --> 00:29:23.539
 beyond all comparison.

00:29:24.379 --> 00:29:24.919
 You see,

00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:25.359
 there's a,

00:29:25.359 --> 00:29:26.339
 there's a connection

00:29:26.339 --> 00:29:27.319
 but a difference

00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:28.139
 between sowing

00:29:28.139 --> 00:29:28.720
 and reaping,

00:29:28.779 --> 00:29:28.919
 right?

00:29:28.939 --> 00:29:29.639
 I said if you put

00:29:29.639 --> 00:29:31.399
 corn seed in the ground,

00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:32.319
 you don't get another,

00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:33.619
 and if there's a corn seed

00:29:33.619 --> 00:29:34.339
 at the end in the,

00:29:34.379 --> 00:29:34.939
 in the fall,

00:29:35.019 --> 00:29:35.639
 it didn't work.

00:29:35.639 --> 00:29:36.799
 If you get three corn seeds,

00:29:36.899 --> 00:29:37.419
 it's weird.

00:29:37.659 --> 00:29:39.279
 If it's a raspberry bush,

00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:40.639
 it's even weirder,

00:29:41.119 --> 00:29:41.440
 right?

00:29:41.940 --> 00:29:42.139
 There,

00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:44.220
 you put a corn seed in

00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:44.839
 and you get a,

00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:45.940
 a corn stalk

00:29:45.940 --> 00:29:47.980
 with ears of corn on it

00:29:47.980 --> 00:29:48.259
 and,

00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:50.720
 and you get something

00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:51.839
 similar but different.

00:29:52.019 --> 00:29:53.079
 And what Paul is saying

00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:53.599
 here is,

00:29:54.019 --> 00:29:54.940
 listen folks,

00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:58.500
 you're putting money

00:29:58.500 --> 00:29:59.539
 in the plate

00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:03.299
 to further the preaching

00:30:03.299 --> 00:30:03.980
 of the word

00:30:03.980 --> 00:30:04.680
 and the spread

00:30:04.680 --> 00:30:05.299
 of the gospel.

00:30:05.299 --> 00:30:06.119
 Like in our case,

00:30:06.159 --> 00:30:06.940
 it's what helps to,

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:08.139
 help us to go

00:30:08.139 --> 00:30:09.659
 on a Wednesday evening

00:30:09.659 --> 00:30:10.980
 and have Daniel Avitan

00:30:10.980 --> 00:30:12.240
 open the Bible

00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:13.599
 in public

00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:14.919
 at the center

00:30:14.919 --> 00:30:15.720
 of the university

00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:16.919
 and preach the Bible.

00:30:19.579 --> 00:30:20.559
 It's what our hope

00:30:20.559 --> 00:30:21.599
 is for the youth group.

00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:22.279
 It's what our hope

00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:23.319
 is for our small groups

00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:23.940
 that the word

00:30:23.940 --> 00:30:25.299
 is opened in public

00:30:25.299 --> 00:30:26.480
 and the gospel

00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:27.200
 is proclaimed.

00:30:27.879 --> 00:30:28.139
 And so,

00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:28.440
 you know,

00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:29.460
 it looks like it's money.

00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:30.339
 It looks like it's

00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:31.279
 caring for children.

00:30:31.419 --> 00:30:32.019
 It looks like

00:30:32.019 --> 00:30:33.139
 it's greeting at a door.

00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:34.359
 It looks like it's

00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:35.740
 bringing a casserole over

00:30:35.740 --> 00:30:36.699
 because you're

00:30:36.699 --> 00:30:37.799
 at a one another church.

00:30:37.959 --> 00:30:38.919
 It looks like

00:30:38.919 --> 00:30:39.599
 you're out

00:30:39.599 --> 00:30:41.119
 and being a shoulder

00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:41.740
 that a person

00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:42.659
 can cry on.

00:30:42.740 --> 00:30:43.619
 It looks as if

00:30:43.619 --> 00:30:45.179
 it's just because

00:30:45.179 --> 00:30:46.119
 you have a concern

00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:46.719
 for the world

00:30:46.719 --> 00:30:47.479
 bringing food

00:30:47.479 --> 00:30:48.099
 that we're going to give

00:30:48.099 --> 00:30:48.919
 to a food bank

00:30:48.919 --> 00:30:50.159
 and you're sowing

00:30:50.159 --> 00:30:50.819
 these things

00:30:50.819 --> 00:30:51.439
 and you're sowing

00:30:51.439 --> 00:30:51.979
 these things

00:30:51.979 --> 00:30:52.579
 and you're sowing

00:30:52.579 --> 00:30:53.279
 your life

00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:54.599
 but what comes out

00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:54.839
 of it

00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:55.699
 because you're doing

00:30:55.699 --> 00:30:56.619
 it as the Holy Spirit

00:30:56.619 --> 00:30:56.979
 leads,

00:30:57.079 --> 00:30:57.979
 as the word of God

00:30:57.979 --> 00:30:59.939
 directs you

00:30:59.939 --> 00:31:00.740
 and you're sowing

00:31:00.740 --> 00:31:01.279
 these things

00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:02.359
 but what comes out

00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:02.639
 of it

00:31:02.639 --> 00:31:03.419
 is an eternal

00:31:03.419 --> 00:31:04.219
 weight of glory.

00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:10.219
 It's an eternal

00:31:10.219 --> 00:31:11.019
 weight of glory.

00:31:16.639 --> 00:31:17.539
 And that's why

00:31:17.539 --> 00:31:18.619
 Paul goes on

00:31:18.619 --> 00:31:19.719
 in 9 and 10

00:31:19.719 --> 00:31:20.919
 to encourage us

00:31:20.919 --> 00:31:21.619
 because you know

00:31:21.619 --> 00:31:22.479
 the fact of the matter

00:31:22.479 --> 00:31:23.279
 is that sometimes

00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:23.919
 it's hard.

00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:24.599
 You get tired

00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:25.279
 of greeting at the door.

00:31:25.379 --> 00:31:26.139
 You get tired

00:31:26.139 --> 00:31:27.079
 of serving coffee.

00:31:27.219 --> 00:31:28.199
 You get tired

00:31:28.199 --> 00:31:29.199
 of opening the Bible.

00:31:29.399 --> 00:31:30.659
 You get tired

00:31:30.659 --> 00:31:31.919
 of turning the other cheek.

00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:32.639
 You get tired

00:31:32.639 --> 00:31:33.319
 of being the shoulder

00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:33.740
 to cry

00:31:33.740 --> 00:31:34.460
 and you get tired

00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:35.539
 of all these things

00:31:35.539 --> 00:31:36.399
 and so verse 9

00:31:36.399 --> 00:31:36.899
 what does it say?

00:31:37.399 --> 00:31:38.059
 And let us not

00:31:38.059 --> 00:31:38.679
 grow weary

00:31:38.679 --> 00:31:39.579
 of doing good

00:31:39.579 --> 00:31:41.919
 for in due season

00:31:41.919 --> 00:31:42.519
 and the word

00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:43.740
 due is a really good word.

00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:45.359
 It's even stronger

00:31:45.359 --> 00:31:46.439
 in the original language.

00:31:46.679 --> 00:31:47.460
 It's that

00:31:47.460 --> 00:31:49.200
 it's going to happen

00:31:49.200 --> 00:31:50.039
 in the future.

00:31:51.099 --> 00:31:52.019
 In due season

00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:52.899
 we will reap.

00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:55.059
 It's going to happen.

00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:56.240
 It's referring

00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:57.179
 to the second coming

00:31:57.179 --> 00:31:57.659
 of Jesus.

00:31:57.659 --> 00:31:59.539
 It's an eschatological word.

00:31:59.659 --> 00:31:59.759
 Sorry,

00:31:59.879 --> 00:32:00.460
 occasionally I have

00:32:00.460 --> 00:32:01.220
 to use big words.

00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:03.299
 It's guaranteed

00:32:03.299 --> 00:32:05.079
 for in due season

00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:06.660
 we will reap

00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:08.079
 if we do not give up.

00:32:08.500 --> 00:32:09.220
 So then as we have

00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:10.079
 opportunity

00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:12.700
 let us do good

00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:13.220
 to everyone

00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:13.799
 and especially

00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:14.400
 to those

00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.220
 who are of the

00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:16.059
 household of faith.

00:32:16.840 --> 00:32:17.720
 Now some of you

00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:18.140
 might say,

00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:18.500
 George,

00:32:18.620 --> 00:32:19.140
 you know this is

00:32:19.140 --> 00:32:20.559
 a very disturbing sermon.

00:32:20.819 --> 00:32:21.759
 I sort of get about

00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:22.180
 the money

00:32:22.180 --> 00:32:23.140
 and everything like that

00:32:23.140 --> 00:32:23.900
 but gosh George

00:32:23.900 --> 00:32:24.960
 this talk about hell.

00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:26.299
 You must think

00:32:26.299 --> 00:32:27.340
 you're something special.

00:32:27.339 --> 00:32:28.159
 That's one of the things

00:32:28.159 --> 00:32:30.579
 that so bugs me

00:32:30.579 --> 00:32:31.399
 about Christians.

00:32:31.639 --> 00:32:32.240
 You think

00:32:32.240 --> 00:32:33.539
 you're something special.

00:32:33.699 --> 00:32:34.359
 You think

00:32:34.359 --> 00:32:35.099
 your poop

00:32:35.099 --> 00:32:36.240
 smells better

00:32:36.240 --> 00:32:37.379
 than other people's poop.

00:32:37.659 --> 00:32:38.559
 Who are you

00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:39.279
 to think

00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:40.519
 that you go to heaven

00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:41.419
 and I'm going

00:32:41.419 --> 00:32:42.079
 to go to hell?

00:32:42.919 --> 00:32:43.480
 Who are you

00:32:43.480 --> 00:32:44.259
 to think that?

00:32:44.639 --> 00:32:45.480
 How dare you

00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:46.159
 think that?

00:32:46.379 --> 00:32:47.559
 I'm as good as you.

00:32:49.299 --> 00:32:49.619
 Like,

00:32:49.980 --> 00:32:50.259
 George,

00:32:50.339 --> 00:32:51.079
 my family's

00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:51.939
 in a better situation.

00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:52.799
 My finances

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:53.480
 are a better situation.

00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:54.359
 I have a better car.

00:32:54.459 --> 00:32:55.139
 I have more people

00:32:55.139 --> 00:32:55.980
 who like me.

00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:56.799
 Like,

00:32:56.960 --> 00:32:57.220
 I'm,

00:32:57.700 --> 00:32:58.920
 how dare you

00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:00.299
 say something like that?

00:33:01.339 --> 00:33:02.680
 How dare you say

00:33:02.680 --> 00:33:03.700
 that I live in Rockcliffe

00:33:03.700 --> 00:33:05.160
 for an expensive condo

00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:07.200
 or I'm a soccer mom

00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:08.140
 or a soccer dad

00:33:08.140 --> 00:33:08.640
 in Kanata

00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:09.480
 or a hockey mom

00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:10.259
 or a hockey dad?

00:33:10.360 --> 00:33:10.579
 I'm,

00:33:11.039 --> 00:33:12.000
 how dare you say

00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:13.039
 something like that?

00:33:20.860 --> 00:33:22.099
 It's very interesting

00:33:22.099 --> 00:33:23.019
 that Paul immediately

00:33:23.019 --> 00:33:24.039
 deals with this

00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:24.839
 although we didn't

00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:25.380
 notice it.

00:33:25.980 --> 00:33:27.259
 Look at verses 11

00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:28.180
 to 13.

00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:30.860
 Verse 11,

00:33:30.980 --> 00:33:32.319
 see with what large letters

00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:33.099
 I am writing to you

00:33:33.099 --> 00:33:33.799
 with my own hand.

00:33:33.860 --> 00:33:34.380
 That's just a bit

00:33:34.380 --> 00:33:34.980
 of an aside.

00:33:35.140 --> 00:33:35.660
 One of the things

00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:36.099
 that they did

00:33:36.099 --> 00:33:36.680
 in the ancient world,

00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:37.900
 probably most of the letters

00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:38.640
 in the New Testament,

00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:39.799
 Paul dictated them

00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:41.700
 to somebody who wrote them

00:33:41.700 --> 00:33:42.579
 as he dictated them

00:33:42.579 --> 00:33:43.720
 and it could be

00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:44.700
 because his handwriting

00:33:44.700 --> 00:33:45.519
 was terrible.

00:33:46.620 --> 00:33:47.380
 Could be,

00:33:47.860 --> 00:33:48.480
 that's me,

00:33:48.579 --> 00:33:48.940
 by the way,

00:33:49.019 --> 00:33:49.940
 I'd have to have done it

00:33:49.940 --> 00:33:51.220
 or his spelling

00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:51.880
 was terrible,

00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:52.779
 that would be me,

00:33:52.880 --> 00:33:53.960
 I'd have to dictate it

00:33:53.960 --> 00:33:55.360
 but it's just very common.

00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:56.340
 So now what he's doing

00:33:56.340 --> 00:33:57.000
 is he's showing

00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:58.279
 the letters coming

00:33:58.279 --> 00:33:58.900
 to an end.

00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:00.100
 I've been dictating

00:34:00.100 --> 00:34:00.460
 this letter

00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:00.960
 but I want to let

00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:01.920
 the people in Galatia

00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:02.380
 who know me,

00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:02.880
 I'm going to show

00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:03.700
 that it's really me

00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:04.360
 by writing these

00:34:04.360 --> 00:34:05.660
 final things

00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:06.660
 in my own handwriting.

00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:07.740
 Verse 12,

00:34:07.740 --> 00:34:09.239
 it is those who want

00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:10.179
 to make a good showing

00:34:10.179 --> 00:34:10.980
 in the flesh

00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:12.420
 who would force you

00:34:12.420 --> 00:34:13.539
 to be circumcised

00:34:13.539 --> 00:34:15.099
 and only in order

00:34:15.099 --> 00:34:16.380
 that they may be persecuted,

00:34:16.619 --> 00:34:17.739
 may not be persecuted

00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:18.659
 for the cross of Christ.

00:34:18.739 --> 00:34:19.860
 But basically what he's saying

00:34:19.860 --> 00:34:20.320
 is listen,

00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:22.159
 the religious people,

00:34:22.219 --> 00:34:22.780
 he's drawing the letter

00:34:22.780 --> 00:34:23.340
 to a close,

00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:24.300
 the religious people

00:34:24.300 --> 00:34:25.039
 in the congregation

00:34:25.039 --> 00:34:26.039
 that are causing you

00:34:26.039 --> 00:34:26.659
 all this trouble,

00:34:26.699 --> 00:34:27.300
 it's very interesting,

00:34:27.380 --> 00:34:28.000
 he doesn't go now

00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:29.579
 to talk about the meth heads

00:34:29.579 --> 00:34:31.960
 or the gun smugglers

00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:33.440
 or any of the people,

00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:33.679
 you know,

00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:34.619
 the gang members,

00:34:34.760 --> 00:34:35.780
 people who we would all

00:34:35.780 --> 00:34:36.539
 culturally say

00:34:36.539 --> 00:34:37.380
 are bad people,

00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:39.660
 he goes to the people

00:34:39.660 --> 00:34:40.360
 in the church

00:34:40.360 --> 00:34:42.019
 who are pushing religion

00:34:42.019 --> 00:34:44.000
 and pushing a whole pile

00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:44.640
 of rules

00:34:44.640 --> 00:34:47.000
 and he says in verse 12,

00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:47.860
 it is those who want

00:34:47.860 --> 00:34:48.680
 to make a good showing

00:34:48.680 --> 00:34:49.400
 in the flesh.

00:34:49.940 --> 00:34:51.220
 All they're caring about

00:34:51.220 --> 00:34:52.280
 is just showing off

00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:52.740
 to people,

00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:53.519
 that's what he's saying,

00:34:53.880 --> 00:34:54.720
 who would force you

00:34:54.720 --> 00:34:55.539
 to be circumcised,

00:34:55.640 --> 00:34:56.640
 to adopt a whole pile

00:34:56.640 --> 00:34:57.820
 of these religious rules

00:34:57.820 --> 00:34:59.180
 and only in order

00:34:59.180 --> 00:35:00.619
 that they may not be persecuted

00:35:00.619 --> 00:35:01.780
 for the cross of Christ

00:35:01.780 --> 00:35:03.180
 because religion

00:35:03.180 --> 00:35:04.619
 is always far more acceptable

00:35:04.619 --> 00:35:05.320
 than the offense

00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:05.900
 of the cross.

00:35:06.220 --> 00:35:06.900
 For even those

00:35:06.900 --> 00:35:08.019
 who are circumcised,

00:35:08.160 --> 00:35:08.920
 verse 13,

00:35:09.280 --> 00:35:10.039
 do not themselves

00:35:10.039 --> 00:35:10.820
 keep the law,

00:35:10.900 --> 00:35:11.639
 but they desire

00:35:11.639 --> 00:35:12.760
 to have you circumcised

00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:13.500
 that they may boast

00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:14.079
 in your flesh.

00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:15.519
 And so what he's just saying here,

00:35:15.680 --> 00:35:16.519
 we're going to get to this

00:35:16.519 --> 00:35:17.240
 hell thing in a moment,

00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:18.519
 he's saying all they're concerned

00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:19.700
 with is with externals,

00:35:20.220 --> 00:35:21.900
 all they're concerned with

00:35:21.900 --> 00:35:22.660
 is being able to,

00:35:22.660 --> 00:35:23.660
 to be able to go around

00:35:23.660 --> 00:35:24.599
 in a little bit of a circuit

00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:24.940
 and say,

00:35:25.019 --> 00:35:25.380
 by the way,

00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:25.800
 look at me,

00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:26.980
 I have this many conversions,

00:35:27.139 --> 00:35:28.200
 I have this many followers,

00:35:28.619 --> 00:35:29.480
 I'm really important,

00:35:29.639 --> 00:35:30.960
 my organization is growing,

00:35:31.119 --> 00:35:31.539
 look at me,

00:35:31.619 --> 00:35:32.079
 look at me,

00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:32.579
 look at me,

00:35:32.619 --> 00:35:33.739
 I'm better than other people,

00:35:34.259 --> 00:35:35.539
 and they're even,

00:35:35.759 --> 00:35:37.159
 they don't care about you,

00:35:37.219 --> 00:35:38.119
 they don't care about

00:35:38.119 --> 00:35:39.079
 your eternal destiny,

00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:40.699
 they just want to show off

00:35:40.699 --> 00:35:42.139
 and the thing they're pushing

00:35:42.139 --> 00:35:43.420
 doesn't even work.

00:35:45.259 --> 00:35:46.779
 And then in verse 14,

00:35:46.780 --> 00:35:52.560
 and it's a big but there,

00:35:53.040 --> 00:35:54.000
 you know I like saying that,

00:35:54.140 --> 00:35:55.120
 there's some big buts

00:35:55.120 --> 00:35:55.660
 in the Bible,

00:35:56.019 --> 00:35:56.740
 that's one of them,

00:35:57.540 --> 00:35:59.160
 but far be it from me

00:35:59.160 --> 00:36:00.500
 to boast,

00:36:01.380 --> 00:36:02.500
 except in the cross

00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:03.840
 of our Lord Jesus Christ,

00:36:04.519 --> 00:36:05.500
 by which the world

00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:06.960
 has been crucified to me,

00:36:07.640 --> 00:36:08.580
 and I to the world.

00:36:09.480 --> 00:36:11.000
 It's a very important verse

00:36:11.000 --> 00:36:12.460
 as he's bringing the letter

00:36:12.460 --> 00:36:12.980
 to a close,

00:36:13.080 --> 00:36:14.160
 but far be it from me

00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:15.519
 to boast except in the cross

00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:16.720
 of our Lord Jesus Christ,

00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:18.100
 by which the world

00:36:18.100 --> 00:36:19.320
 has been crucified to me,

00:36:19.360 --> 00:36:19.880
 and I to the world.

00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:21.640
 I encourage everyone here

00:36:21.640 --> 00:36:22.840
 to memorize this verse

00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:24.980
 and maybe spend some time

00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:25.900
 meditating upon

00:36:25.900 --> 00:36:26.840
 how to pray about it,

00:36:26.880 --> 00:36:27.760
 but you see here's this thing

00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:28.460
 back about hell.

00:36:30.440 --> 00:36:32.640
 I've had people in coffee shops

00:36:32.640 --> 00:36:34.180
 harangue me like this,

00:36:34.480 --> 00:36:36.140
 and I don't handle it very well

00:36:36.140 --> 00:36:37.400
 because I don't like being

00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:38.400
 the center of attention,

00:36:39.060 --> 00:36:40.440
 and it's a very culturally

00:36:40.440 --> 00:36:41.840
 acceptable harangue,

00:36:42.200 --> 00:36:43.760
 and I just probably have gotten

00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:44.820
 red and tongue-tied,

00:36:44.820 --> 00:36:45.840
 and that's just,

00:36:46.080 --> 00:36:47.140
 sometimes that's just,

00:36:47.740 --> 00:36:48.720
 you don't always win

00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:49.400
 every battle,

00:36:50.140 --> 00:36:53.660
 but what I'd say

00:36:53.660 --> 00:36:54.880
 in the face of that harangue

00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:55.500
 is I'd say,

00:36:55.580 --> 00:36:56.380
 I'm really sorry.

00:36:56.500 --> 00:36:57.900
 You misunderstand me.

00:36:57.900 --> 00:37:03.139
 You misunderstand me.

00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:06.480
 I don't think my poop

00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:07.660
 smells better than yours,

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:09.180
 and I don't think

00:37:09.180 --> 00:37:10.000
 I'm better than you.

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:15.800
 I'm saved only by what Jesus

00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:16.719
 has done for me.

00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:18.820
 I'm quite prepared to accept

00:37:18.820 --> 00:37:19.739
 that I'm way worse

00:37:19.739 --> 00:37:20.840
 in my marriage than you

00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:22.539
 or way worse in my child raising,

00:37:22.780 --> 00:37:24.119
 way worse in my finances,

00:37:24.820 --> 00:37:26.059
 way worse in every way

00:37:26.059 --> 00:37:26.780
 that you would mention.

00:37:26.920 --> 00:37:27.719
 I'm quite prepared

00:37:27.719 --> 00:37:29.139
 to acknowledge that before you,

00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.739
 but I am not made right with God

00:37:32.739 --> 00:37:34.760
 because I'm good.

00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.120
 If you could put up

00:37:37.120 --> 00:37:37.800
 the next point,

00:37:39.080 --> 00:37:40.520
 you see,

00:37:40.620 --> 00:37:41.220
 my private

00:37:41.220 --> 00:37:42.480
 and my public boasting

00:37:42.480 --> 00:37:43.960
 reveals what I believe

00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:44.920
 saves me

00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:47.540
 and gives me meaning,

00:37:47.740 --> 00:37:48.320
 significance,

00:37:48.420 --> 00:37:48.920
 and worth.

00:37:50.220 --> 00:37:50.900
 You see,

00:37:50.960 --> 00:37:51.920
 the person who makes

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:52.560
 that claim,

00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:54.300
 who would harangue

00:37:54.300 --> 00:37:54.880
 you or me,

00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:57.380
 they're saying

00:37:57.380 --> 00:37:58.220
 that they're good enough.

00:37:59.139 --> 00:37:59.919
 What's their hope?

00:38:00.439 --> 00:38:01.019
 Their boast?

00:38:03.159 --> 00:38:05.699
 I live in a million-dollar condo, George.

00:38:05.739 --> 00:38:07.159
 I live in a six-million-dollar

00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:08.139
 house in Rockcliffe.

00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:09.639
 I live on the edge

00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:11.179
 of a golf course in Canada.

00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:13.779
 I have a trophy wife.

00:38:13.879 --> 00:38:15.079
 I have trophy kids.

00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:16.980
 I have a trophy-winning dog.

00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:18.819
 I drive an Audi.

00:38:18.939 --> 00:38:20.000
 I drive a Lexus.

00:38:20.099 --> 00:38:20.919
 I drive whatever.

00:38:21.259 --> 00:38:22.019
 I'm better than you.

00:38:22.139 --> 00:38:22.359
 That's,

00:38:22.359 --> 00:38:22.679
 that's,

00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:24.119
 all Paul would say

00:38:24.119 --> 00:38:24.980
 is that's your hope

00:38:24.980 --> 00:38:25.759
 and your confidence

00:38:25.759 --> 00:38:27.059
 before Almighty God?

00:38:28.219 --> 00:38:31.899
 That's what you think

00:38:31.899 --> 00:38:33.319
 will make you right with God?

00:38:34.419 --> 00:38:36.379
 That your dog won an award?

00:38:37.359 --> 00:38:37.799
 Sorry.

00:38:38.579 --> 00:38:39.019
 Really?

00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:41.539
 That your wife

00:38:41.539 --> 00:38:42.919
 is prettier than my wife

00:38:42.919 --> 00:38:43.819
 or that you have a wife

00:38:43.819 --> 00:38:44.899
 and I don't have a wife?

00:38:46.679 --> 00:38:47.679
 Like, that's what,

00:38:48.119 --> 00:38:48.699
 really?

00:38:50.319 --> 00:38:51.579
 My hope isn't that.

00:38:52.339 --> 00:38:53.399
 You know what my hope is?

00:38:53.939 --> 00:38:55.159
 Just think of this image

00:38:55.159 --> 00:38:56.039
 of sowing.

00:38:57.199 --> 00:38:58.099
 I'll be honest,

00:38:58.099 --> 00:38:58.579
 with you.

00:38:58.759 --> 00:39:00.440
 I've sown to my flesh.

00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:02.900
 I've sown to my pride.

00:39:03.219 --> 00:39:05.079
 I've sown to my ego.

00:39:05.819 --> 00:39:07.059
 And my only hope

00:39:07.059 --> 00:39:08.119
 in the face of God

00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:08.659
 is that,

00:39:09.099 --> 00:39:10.279
 you know,

00:39:10.360 --> 00:39:11.519
 every time a seed

00:39:11.519 --> 00:39:12.319
 goes into the earth,

00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:13.360
 the Bible tells us

00:39:13.360 --> 00:39:14.420
 and biology tells us

00:39:14.420 --> 00:39:15.480
 there's a type of death

00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:16.860
 that the seed dies

00:39:16.860 --> 00:39:17.679
 in some way.

00:39:18.159 --> 00:39:18.960
 And God,

00:39:19.079 --> 00:39:19.980
 the Son of God,

00:39:20.139 --> 00:39:21.699
 sees my great need

00:39:21.699 --> 00:39:23.159
 and my great,

00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:26.219
 my great need.

00:39:28.219 --> 00:39:30.539
 And he comes to die

00:39:30.539 --> 00:39:32.439
 and be planted,

00:39:32.599 --> 00:39:33.159
 so to speak,

00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:33.799
 in the earth.

00:39:33.800 --> 00:39:37.120
 And what emerges

00:39:37.120 --> 00:39:38.420
 out of that

00:39:38.420 --> 00:39:39.760
 is resurrection.

00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:42.180
 And my only hope

00:39:42.180 --> 00:39:42.800
 is this,

00:39:43.560 --> 00:39:44.180
 that I,

00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:45.360
 who've invested

00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:46.140
 so much

00:39:46.140 --> 00:39:46.680
 of sowing

00:39:46.680 --> 00:39:47.740
 to my flesh,

00:39:48.420 --> 00:39:49.220
 and I can't

00:39:49.220 --> 00:39:50.640
 stop doing that,

00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:52.940
 that when I call out

00:39:52.940 --> 00:39:53.400
 to God

00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:54.000
 for mercy

00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:55.080
 and reach out to him

00:39:55.080 --> 00:39:56.240
 and he takes me

00:39:56.240 --> 00:39:57.120
 and it's as if

00:39:57.120 --> 00:39:57.700
 there is this

00:39:57.700 --> 00:39:59.380
 spectacular transaction

00:39:59.380 --> 00:40:01.420
 that is outside

00:40:01.420 --> 00:40:02.220
 of time,

00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:03.119
 but because God

00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:04.099
 is outside of time

00:40:04.099 --> 00:40:04.920
 and God is real,

00:40:04.980 --> 00:40:05.940
 it is still real.

00:40:06.539 --> 00:40:07.599
 And it's as if

00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:08.500
 me,

00:40:08.619 --> 00:40:09.440
 who's been sowing

00:40:09.440 --> 00:40:10.500
 my whole life

00:40:10.500 --> 00:40:11.400
 into the flesh,

00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:12.619
 that God,

00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:13.539
 the Son of God,

00:40:13.660 --> 00:40:14.660
 comes and he

00:40:14.660 --> 00:40:15.900
 surrounds me

00:40:15.900 --> 00:40:17.579
 and he holds me

00:40:17.579 --> 00:40:19.800
 and I die my death

00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:20.579
 with Jesus.

00:40:24.019 --> 00:40:25.559
 He dies my death

00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:26.079
 for me.

00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:28.660
 And what emerges

00:40:28.659 --> 00:40:30.059
 from Jesus dying

00:40:30.059 --> 00:40:33.259
 is that he reaps

00:40:33.259 --> 00:40:34.079
 eternal life.

00:40:35.739 --> 00:40:37.159
 He is the resurrected

00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:38.379
 Savior and Lord

00:40:38.379 --> 00:40:40.299
 and the Bible

00:40:40.299 --> 00:40:41.339
 in so many places

00:40:41.339 --> 00:40:42.379
 says that I am

00:40:42.379 --> 00:40:43.440
 part of his fruit

00:40:43.440 --> 00:40:45.399
 when I have allowed

00:40:45.399 --> 00:40:46.559
 myself to be

00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:47.460
 and surrounded

00:40:47.460 --> 00:40:48.299
 by him

00:40:48.299 --> 00:40:48.960
 and his mercy

00:40:48.960 --> 00:40:49.639
 and his love

00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:50.980
 so that as I die

00:40:50.980 --> 00:40:53.099
 it is him dying

00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:53.779
 for me

00:40:53.779 --> 00:40:55.059
 and I am dying

00:40:55.059 --> 00:40:55.719
 in him.

00:40:56.920 --> 00:40:57.980
 And I do not

00:40:57.980 --> 00:40:58.780
 deserve

00:40:58.780 --> 00:41:00.539
 an eternal

00:41:00.539 --> 00:41:01.360
 way to glory.

00:41:01.780 --> 00:41:02.740
 Far from it.

00:41:05.619 --> 00:41:06.599
 I deserve

00:41:06.599 --> 00:41:07.300
 the corruption

00:41:07.300 --> 00:41:09.880
 but I have

00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:10.679
 died in him.

00:41:10.780 --> 00:41:11.880
 My life is hid

00:41:11.880 --> 00:41:12.920
 in him

00:41:12.920 --> 00:41:14.159
 and so

00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:15.559
 my only hope

00:41:15.559 --> 00:41:16.440
 for salvation,

00:41:17.099 --> 00:41:18.179
 my only hope

00:41:18.179 --> 00:41:18.800
 for meaning

00:41:18.800 --> 00:41:19.699
 and significance

00:41:19.699 --> 00:41:21.859
 is in the cross

00:41:21.859 --> 00:41:22.639
 of Christ.

00:41:28.799 --> 00:41:29.879
 There is no other.

00:41:34.379 --> 00:41:35.339
 If you could put up

00:41:35.339 --> 00:41:36.519
 the next point.

00:41:37.859 --> 00:41:38.759
 As I learned

00:41:38.759 --> 00:41:39.599
 to only boast

00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:40.480
 in Jesus Christ

00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:41.059
 crucified,

00:41:41.299 --> 00:41:42.539
 the world's allure

00:41:42.539 --> 00:41:43.559
 and approval

00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:44.159
 dies

00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:46.079
 and my desire

00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:46.939
 for the world

00:41:46.939 --> 00:41:47.859
 and its approval

00:41:47.860 --> 00:41:48.460
 dies.

00:41:49.140 --> 00:41:49.980
 Maybe dims

00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:50.940
 is a better word.

00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:51.700
 It's a word

00:41:51.700 --> 00:41:52.140
 that fits.

00:41:52.240 --> 00:41:53.260
 Look at verse 14

00:41:53.260 --> 00:41:53.680
 again.

00:41:55.019 --> 00:41:55.820
 But far be it

00:41:55.820 --> 00:41:56.700
 for me to boast

00:41:56.700 --> 00:41:57.860
 except in the cross

00:41:57.860 --> 00:41:58.420
 of our Lord

00:41:58.420 --> 00:41:59.300
 Jesus Christ

00:41:59.300 --> 00:42:00.700
 by which

00:42:00.700 --> 00:42:01.380
 can also be

00:42:01.380 --> 00:42:02.079
 translated in

00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:02.920
 by whom

00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:04.160
 the world

00:42:04.160 --> 00:42:04.539
 has been

00:42:04.539 --> 00:42:05.700
 crucified to me

00:42:05.700 --> 00:42:07.460
 and I to the world.

00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:08.360
 Crucifixion

00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:09.180
 is a slow death.

00:42:10.559 --> 00:42:11.740
 It's a slow death.

00:42:12.780 --> 00:42:13.660
 It's a dimming

00:42:13.659 --> 00:42:15.480
 of life.

00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:19.420
 And then Paul

00:42:19.420 --> 00:42:20.219
 says this wonderful

00:42:20.219 --> 00:42:20.859
 thing which we'll

00:42:20.859 --> 00:42:21.420
 close with.

00:42:21.519 --> 00:42:21.920
 For neither

00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:23.299
 circumcision counts

00:42:23.299 --> 00:42:23.940
 for anything

00:42:23.940 --> 00:42:25.199
 nor uncircumcision

00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:27.019
 but a new creation.

00:42:28.299 --> 00:42:29.199
 If you could put up

00:42:29.199 --> 00:42:29.719
 the point

00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:31.299
 salvation

00:42:31.299 --> 00:42:32.659
 is not merely

00:42:32.659 --> 00:42:34.179
 a helpful idea.

00:42:35.319 --> 00:42:36.259
 God not only

00:42:36.259 --> 00:42:37.339
 saves me

00:42:37.339 --> 00:42:39.319
 he actually

00:42:39.319 --> 00:42:40.359
 makes me

00:42:40.359 --> 00:42:41.000
 a new

00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:41.879
 creation.

00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:44.740
 In John

00:42:44.740 --> 00:42:45.280
 it's talking

00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:45.840
 about being

00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:46.500
 born again.

00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:47.700
 Theologians

00:42:47.700 --> 00:42:48.220
 talk about

00:42:48.220 --> 00:42:48.640
 the word

00:42:48.640 --> 00:42:49.480
 regenerate.

00:42:50.240 --> 00:42:51.079
 It's that

00:42:51.079 --> 00:42:52.320
 God actually

00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:53.500
 does a new

00:42:53.500 --> 00:42:54.340
 work of

00:42:54.340 --> 00:42:54.980
 creation

00:42:54.980 --> 00:42:55.880
 in the one

00:42:55.880 --> 00:42:56.519
 who puts

00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:57.240
 their hands

00:42:57.240 --> 00:42:57.880
 in the hands

00:42:57.880 --> 00:42:58.440
 of Jesus

00:42:58.440 --> 00:42:59.760
 for him

00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:00.440
 to be their

00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:01.059
 savior and

00:43:01.059 --> 00:43:01.340
 Lord.

00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:02.840
 He actually

00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:04.360
 we can't

00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:04.740
 see it

00:43:04.740 --> 00:43:05.240
 but if we

00:43:05.240 --> 00:43:05.840
 could see

00:43:05.840 --> 00:43:06.539
 ourselves

00:43:06.539 --> 00:43:07.440
 from God's

00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:07.960
 eyes

00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:09.160
 God

00:43:09.160 --> 00:43:10.019
 makes

00:43:10.019 --> 00:43:10.840
 us

00:43:10.840 --> 00:43:11.720
 born

00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:12.439
 again

00:43:12.439 --> 00:43:13.279
 a new

00:43:13.279 --> 00:43:14.159
 creation

00:43:14.159 --> 00:43:15.480
 he creates

00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:16.099
 something

00:43:16.099 --> 00:43:16.739
 new

00:43:16.739 --> 00:43:17.739
 out of

00:43:17.739 --> 00:43:18.359
 the old

00:43:18.359 --> 00:43:18.799
 me

00:43:18.799 --> 00:43:19.699
 when I

00:43:19.699 --> 00:43:20.159
 put my

00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:20.719
 hand in

00:43:20.719 --> 00:43:21.059
 the hand

00:43:21.059 --> 00:43:21.500
 of Jesus

00:43:21.500 --> 00:43:22.000
 to trust

00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:22.239
 him as

00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:22.739
 my savior

00:43:22.739 --> 00:43:23.099
 and Lord.

00:43:24.399 --> 00:43:24.759
 I don't

00:43:24.759 --> 00:43:24.899
 know

00:43:24.899 --> 00:43:26.379
 this would

00:43:26.379 --> 00:43:27.179
 be arrogant

00:43:27.179 --> 00:43:27.879
 nonsense

00:43:27.879 --> 00:43:28.739
 if I just

00:43:28.739 --> 00:43:29.239
 told you

00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:29.539
 this in

00:43:29.539 --> 00:43:29.799
 my own

00:43:29.799 --> 00:43:30.219
 authority

00:43:30.219 --> 00:43:30.779
 and power

00:43:30.779 --> 00:43:34.039
 but this

00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:34.539
 comes from

00:43:34.539 --> 00:43:34.839
 God

00:43:34.839 --> 00:43:35.459
 himself.

00:43:35.460 --> 00:43:37.820
 God

00:43:37.820 --> 00:43:38.360
 wants you

00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:38.659
 and me

00:43:38.659 --> 00:43:39.139
 to know

00:43:39.139 --> 00:43:39.539
 that

00:43:39.539 --> 00:43:40.539
 as we

00:43:40.539 --> 00:43:40.960
 struggle.

00:43:42.300 --> 00:43:42.840
 Let's

00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:43.179
 stand

00:43:43.179 --> 00:43:43.659
 please.

00:43:48.440 --> 00:43:48.960
 Once

00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:49.400
 again I

00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:50.019
 just say

00:43:50.019 --> 00:43:51.579
 you know

00:43:51.579 --> 00:43:51.940
 for many

00:43:51.940 --> 00:43:52.260
 of us

00:43:52.260 --> 00:43:52.720
 maybe our

00:43:52.720 --> 00:43:53.240
 prayer right

00:43:53.240 --> 00:43:53.780
 now is

00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:54.539
 the verse

00:43:54.539 --> 00:43:55.139
 14

00:43:55.139 --> 00:43:55.619
 prayer

00:43:55.619 --> 00:43:56.059
 that

00:43:56.059 --> 00:43:57.539
 God

00:43:57.539 --> 00:43:58.159
 would help

00:43:58.159 --> 00:43:58.860
 me to

00:43:58.860 --> 00:43:59.300
 realize

00:43:59.300 --> 00:43:59.760
 that my

00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:00.380
 significance

00:44:00.380 --> 00:44:01.340
 my salvation

00:44:01.340 --> 00:44:02.200
 my meaning

00:44:02.200 --> 00:44:03.119
 comes from

00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:03.519
 being

00:44:03.519 --> 00:44:06.280
 gripped

00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:07.380
 by what

00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:08.019
 Jesus has

00:44:08.019 --> 00:44:08.420
 done for

00:44:08.420 --> 00:44:08.680
 me in

00:44:08.680 --> 00:44:09.340
 the cross

00:44:09.340 --> 00:44:12.440
 and that

00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:12.720
 as

00:44:12.720 --> 00:44:14.320
 partly what

00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:14.840
 he's done

00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:15.240
 for me in

00:44:15.240 --> 00:44:15.660
 the cross

00:44:15.660 --> 00:44:16.119
 but so

00:44:16.119 --> 00:44:16.599
 important

00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:17.160
 he actually

00:44:17.160 --> 00:44:17.800
 makes me

00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:18.119
 a new

00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:18.660
 creation

00:44:18.660 --> 00:44:19.360
 that one

00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:20.019
 day as

00:44:20.019 --> 00:44:20.660
 I sow

00:44:20.660 --> 00:44:21.480
 into that

00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:21.800
 as the

00:44:21.800 --> 00:44:22.420
 Holy Spirit

00:44:22.420 --> 00:44:23.099
 leads

00:44:23.099 --> 00:44:24.039
 and the

00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:24.640
 word makes

00:44:24.640 --> 00:44:25.160
 clear

00:44:25.160 --> 00:44:26.380
 will be

00:44:26.380 --> 00:44:27.300
 that I

00:44:27.300 --> 00:44:28.000
 will bear

00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:29.039
 not by

00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:29.820
 my own

00:44:29.820 --> 00:44:30.300
 effort

00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:30.840
 or will

00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:31.539
 or desire

00:44:31.539 --> 00:44:33.000
 but I

00:44:33.000 --> 00:44:33.580
 will bear

00:44:33.580 --> 00:44:34.440
 because God

00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:34.960
 has done

00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:35.560
 it and

00:44:35.560 --> 00:44:36.060
 he has

00:44:36.060 --> 00:44:36.560
 created

00:44:36.560 --> 00:44:37.900
 me to

00:44:37.900 --> 00:44:38.500
 bear an

00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:39.240
 eternal

00:44:39.240 --> 00:44:40.200
 weight

00:44:40.200 --> 00:44:41.340
 of glory

00:44:41.340 --> 00:44:46.820
 and if

00:44:46.820 --> 00:44:47.100
 you have

00:44:47.100 --> 00:44:47.620
 never given

00:44:47.620 --> 00:44:48.000
 your life

00:44:48.000 --> 00:44:48.640
 to Jesus

00:44:48.640 --> 00:44:49.860
 I urge

00:44:49.860 --> 00:44:50.380
 you now

00:44:50.380 --> 00:44:50.960
 to call

00:44:50.960 --> 00:44:51.320
 out to

00:44:51.320 --> 00:44:51.760
 him to

00:44:51.760 --> 00:44:52.080
 be your

00:44:52.080 --> 00:44:52.380
 savior

00:44:52.380 --> 00:44:52.660
 and your

00:44:52.660 --> 00:44:52.980
 lord

00:44:52.980 --> 00:44:53.860
 let's bow

00:44:53.860 --> 00:44:54.120
 our heads

00:44:54.120 --> 00:44:54.519
 in prayer

00:44:54.519 --> 00:44:56.680
 father

00:44:56.680 --> 00:44:58.700
 we thank

00:44:58.700 --> 00:44:58.980
 you for

00:44:58.980 --> 00:44:59.580
 your word

00:44:59.579 --> 00:45:01.579
 we thank

00:45:01.579 --> 00:45:01.900
 you for

00:45:01.900 --> 00:45:02.460
 Jesus

00:45:02.460 --> 00:45:05.519
 father

00:45:05.519 --> 00:45:06.539
 it can

00:45:06.539 --> 00:45:06.819
 be a

00:45:06.819 --> 00:45:07.099
 shock

00:45:07.099 --> 00:45:07.519
 to us

00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:07.819
 that we

00:45:07.819 --> 00:45:08.199
 mock

00:45:08.199 --> 00:45:08.380
 you

00:45:08.380 --> 00:45:08.639
 that we

00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:09.159
 ridicule

00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:09.340
 you

00:45:09.340 --> 00:45:09.739
 we think

00:45:09.739 --> 00:45:09.940
 you're

00:45:09.940 --> 00:45:10.319
 stupid

00:45:10.319 --> 00:45:11.579
 but father

00:45:11.579 --> 00:45:12.000
 your word

00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:12.460
 tells us

00:45:12.460 --> 00:45:12.819
 we do

00:45:12.819 --> 00:45:13.159
 that

00:45:13.159 --> 00:45:15.239
 father

00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:16.159
 gently

00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:16.679
 by your

00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:17.279
 Holy Spirit

00:45:17.279 --> 00:45:17.940
 reveal to

00:45:17.940 --> 00:45:18.340
 us how

00:45:18.340 --> 00:45:18.659
 we do

00:45:18.659 --> 00:45:18.980
 that

00:45:18.980 --> 00:45:21.039
 and most

00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:21.679
 important of

00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:21.860
 all

00:45:21.860 --> 00:45:22.260
 father

00:45:22.260 --> 00:45:24.199
 move in

00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:24.820
 our hearts

00:45:24.820 --> 00:45:25.440
 and minds

00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:25.820
 by the

00:45:25.820 --> 00:45:26.260
 power of

00:45:26.260 --> 00:45:26.699
 your Holy

00:45:26.699 --> 00:45:27.179
 Spirit

00:45:27.179 --> 00:45:27.760
 that we

00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:28.860
 might learn

00:45:28.860 --> 00:45:29.519
 more and

00:45:29.519 --> 00:45:30.519
 more to

00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:31.420
 boast only

00:45:31.420 --> 00:45:32.179
 in the

00:45:32.179 --> 00:45:32.679
 cross of

00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:33.000
 Christ

00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:36.179
 and from

00:45:36.179 --> 00:45:37.000
 that boasting

00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:39.940
 to sow our

00:45:39.940 --> 00:45:40.579
 money to

00:45:40.579 --> 00:45:40.960
 sow our

00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:41.639
 imagination

00:45:41.639 --> 00:45:41.960
 our

00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:42.820
 creativity

00:45:42.820 --> 00:45:44.680
 all those

00:45:44.680 --> 00:45:45.380
 things within

00:45:45.380 --> 00:45:45.940
 us that you

00:45:45.940 --> 00:45:46.640
 have given

00:45:46.640 --> 00:45:47.620
 us that we

00:45:47.620 --> 00:45:48.300
 can do

00:45:48.300 --> 00:45:49.500
 may that our

00:45:49.500 --> 00:45:50.300
 whole lives

00:45:50.300 --> 00:45:50.980
 father be

00:45:50.980 --> 00:45:51.880
 be sowed

00:45:51.880 --> 00:45:54.420
 into him

00:45:54.420 --> 00:45:55.160
 and furtherance

00:45:55.160 --> 00:45:55.880
 of his kingdom

00:45:55.880 --> 00:45:57.200
 as you make us

00:45:57.200 --> 00:45:58.080
 whole you make us

00:45:58.080 --> 00:45:58.940
 free you make us

00:45:58.940 --> 00:45:59.320
 new

00:45:59.320 --> 00:46:01.180
 and

00:46:01.179 --> 00:46:02.859
 in the world

00:46:02.859 --> 00:46:03.440
 is blessed

00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:04.440
 and the gospel

00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:04.980
 is spread

00:46:04.980 --> 00:46:05.719
 all this we

00:46:05.719 --> 00:46:06.319
 ask in the name

00:46:06.319 --> 00:46:06.759
 of Jesus

00:46:06.759 --> 00:46:07.299
 your son

00:46:07.299 --> 00:46:07.599
 and our

00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:07.940
 savior

00:46:07.940 --> 00:46:09.039
 amen