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 It's good to be with you all this morning. My name is Jonathan. I've been with you all many times in the past, but if you're new, as Andy mentioned, I work as a college pastor here in Colorado Springs. I grew up here in Colorado Springs.

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 And I work mostly on Colorado College and University of Colorado Springs as a Presbyterian minister with the campus ministry wing of the Presbyterian Church. It's called Reformed University Fellowship.

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 It's always a treat to be with you. I hope you all had a happy new year. I hope you all had a happy Christmas, happy holidays.

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 Anyways, we are, first of all, welcome to all of you, particularly if you're new. Maybe you're stumbling in here with new year resolutions to come to church and you don't know exactly why you're here.

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 Particularly welcome to you. We're really, really glad that you're here. Coming to church can be a really intimidating thing, and we're glad you would spend your time with us.

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 There's a lot of other things you can do on a Sunday morning, so we hope that this is a safe and welcoming place for you.

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 Turn your Bibles to Judges chapter 19. Judges chapter 19. This is, I don't know if there's, there's no universe where this is a great sermon to start our New Year's off with.

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 One of you came up and said to me while we were getting, while we were doing our greet time, and says, you have your work cut out for you.

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 This is a challenging passage that we are going to look at, and there's a reason why.

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 The last time I was with you, Matthew asked me to walk through evangelism, sharing our faith, sharing the Christian faith with our friends who do not know Jesus yet as their Savior, King, Lord, Priest.

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 And he says it was well received and asked me to continue this theme, asked me to do more of this.

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 And so today and next week, I'll be with you again, and we'll look at this same idea again, different passage.

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 But to continue the thread of how do we share our faith, or how is the Christian faith good news in 2026?

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 Maybe that's the only way I can think about a New Year's sermon is how do we share our faith?

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 The reality, here's the reality. There's two things that are happening in our world.

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 The good news is there is a deep spiritual searching happening in this country on a level that we haven't seen since most of us have been alive.

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 You can read pretty much any of the thought pieces, newspapers, anybody, even movies.

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 I just watched a movie last night that was radically different from a movie that you would have made 10 years ago about how it thinks about religion and the pasture and all these.

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 Something is happening. Something's in the air.

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 There is a deep spiritual searching.

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 The cows are coming home from secularism, this attempt to live our life apart from God, and it's not working.

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 So that's the good news.

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 The challenge is that our world, our friends, still have deep suspicion of organized religion and of the Christian faith in particular.

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 They still are not persuaded.

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 They still think Christianity is dangerous, is hard on minorities, is bad for our world.

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 And so evangelism is simultaneously more necessary than it's ever been and also very challenging.

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 And you've experienced this if you've ever tried to share your faith with someone who doesn't know Jesus yet.

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 Family members, kids who've walked away from the Lord, neighbors, coworkers.

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 It's just challenging.

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 You can go back and look at the YouTube channels on what I talked about last time.

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 We talked about this.

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 We're going to look at it again from another angle today.

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 And we're going to look at easily what I think is one of the most challenging passages in the Bible.

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 It is, this is a doozy.

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 I know that Matthew just finished preaching on the book of Judges.

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 And we're going to look at it again, but from an angle of how do we share our faith.

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 And if you're here today and you would say, I am not a Christian.

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 I don't know why I'm here.

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 I have deep questions of the Christian faith.

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 Then in particular, I would say this is for you.

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 I would ask you to wrestle rigorously with us as we think about what the Christian faith offers to our world.

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 What this is is a passage that shows us that when humans do terrible things, God still intervenes to save us.

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 That's what this passage is about.

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 When humans do terrible things, God still intervenes to save us.

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 I'm going to set the stage for a little bit and then we'll read it.

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 The background of Judges is that Israel had been in a covenantal relationship with God.

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 Israel is in a covenantal relationship with God, which is a lot like a marriage

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 where they promised to worship and love and obey God completely in the same way that we would vow fidelity to our spouse.

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 They would obey God.

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 And the tragedy is they never did it.

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 They never followed through fully on this promise.

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 And as a matter of fact, they consistently, repeatedly run away from God and reject his rule, reject his covenant,

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 and turn to pretty much anything else, power, money, other religions, anything else other than God.

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 And Judges, the book of Judges is, in a sense, it's the social and spiritual critique of their failure to worship God.

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 That's what Judges is.

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 It's turning the mirror on them and saying this is what happens to your hearts, to your society, to your world when you don't follow God.

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 And then the book is a slow deterioration.

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 It's a slow, the drain coming out and showing us how bad it can get.

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 And this is graphic, but if you are doing your dishes after, you know, a big meal,

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 you start washing the dishes in the sink, and the top water of the dirty dishwasher is not that bad.

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 You open up the drain, and all the bottom stuff starts circling to the bottom, right?

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 All this gross stuff.

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 That's what the book of Judges is, is the drain is circling, and all the bad stuff's at the bottom.

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 And here we are at the end of this book, and it's all the bad stuff.

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 It's the worst of the worst.

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 And so I'm going to read this for us.

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 I've written, I've chosen a long passage, so spare with us.

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 And I would also warn you that this is a very hard passage.

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 It does, I would say, this is a trigger warning.

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 This passage does involve assault, sexual assault, and rape.

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 And so please prepare yourself for that.

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 If you need to step out, there's no shame, no foul in that.

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 I'll try to deal with it as gently as I can, but I'll let you know that it's there.

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 Okay, so this is Judges 19.

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 This is God's word.

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 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim,

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 who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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 And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah,

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 and was there for four months.

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 Then her husband arose and went after her to speak kindly to her and to bring her back.

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 He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys, and she brought him into her father's house.

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 And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.

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 And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days.

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 So they ate and drank and spent the night there.

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 And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go.

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 But the girl's father said to his son-in-law,

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 Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.

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 So the two of them sat and ate and drank together.

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 And the girl's father said to the man,

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 Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.

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 And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him till he spent the night there again.

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 And on the fifth day he rose early in the morning to depart.

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 And the girl's father said, Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines.

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 So they ate, both of them.

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 And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him,

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 Behold, now the day has waned toward evening.

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 Please spend the night.

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 And behold, the day draws to its close.

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 Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey and go home.

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 But the man would not spend the night.

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 He rose up and departed and arrived opposite Jabez, that is, Jerusalem.

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 He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.

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 And when they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servants said to his master,

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 Come now, let us turn aside to the city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.

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 And his master said to him, We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners who do not belong to the people of Israel,

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 but we will pass on to Gibeah.

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 And he said to his young man, Come and let us draw near to one of the places and spend the night at Gibeah, or in Ramah.

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 So they passed on and went their way, and the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

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 And they turned aside there to go in and spend the night at Gibeah.

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 And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.

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 Verse 16.

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 And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field that evening.

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 The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah.

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 The men of the place were Benjamites.

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 And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city.

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 And the old man said, Where are you going, and where do you come from?

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 And he said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem and Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come.

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 And I went to Bethlehem and Judah, and I am going to the house of the Lord.

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 But no one has taken me into his house.

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 We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant, and the young man with your servants.

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 There is no lack of anything.

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 And the old man said, Peace be with you.

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 I will care for all your wants.

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 Only do not spend the night in the square.

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 So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed.

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 And they washed their feet and ate and drank.

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 As they were making their hearts merry, behold, men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door.

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 And they said to the old man, the master of the house, Bring out the man who has come into your house, that we may know him.

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 And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them,

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 No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.

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 Since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.

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 Behold, here is my virgin daughter and her concubine.

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 Let me bring them out now.

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 Violate them and do to them what seems good to you.

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 But against this man, do not do this outrageous thing.

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 But the men would not listen to him.

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 So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to him.

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 And they knew her and abused her all night until morning.

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 And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.

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 And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was until it was light.

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 And the man rose up in the morning.

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 And when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house with her hands on the threshold.

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 He said to her, Get up.

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 Let us be going.

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 But there was no answer.

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 Then he put her on the donkey and the man rose up and went away to his home.

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 And when he entered his house, he took a knife and taking hold of his concubine, he divided her limb by limb into 12 pieces and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.

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 And all who saw it said, Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day.

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 Consider it.

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 Take counsel and speak.

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 Take.

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 As far as God's word.

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 Let's pray.

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 Lord in heaven, we come now to your word and we need you to give us strength and your spirit.

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 Equip us now as we study it, that we would know you know your grace and love in Jesus.

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 And we would hope and we would bring that hope to others.

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 It's in Jesus name that we pray.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 So what has just happened in this passage?

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 I'll recap it briefly.

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 a man takes a sexual partner.

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 He goes with her, and she eventually leaves him,

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 spends five days to try and get her back,

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 and as he starts for home, they stop at a town,

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 and no one takes them in.

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 An old man says ominously, don't spend the night here.

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 At least come into my house.

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 And a group of, as while he's in his home,

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 a group of worthless fellows, the text says,

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 comes demanding to essentially have the man sexually.

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 And the man instead gives the concubine,

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 and they proceed to effectively abuse her to death.

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 And the original man takes her body

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 and sends it throughout the country.

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 And thus ends our passage.

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 It's incredibly disturbing.

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 It's incredibly unnerving.

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 And we are left asking,

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 what in the world do we do with a passage like this?

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 What do we do with this?

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 In fact, we read something like this,

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 and we say, everything's wrong here.

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 And in fact, we don't even know the half of everything that's wrong.

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 We could spend a whole sermon discussing layers upon layers upon layers

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 of things that have gone deeply wrong in this society.

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 Things like a concubine.

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 Things like a Levite.

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 Things like having a woman like this.

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 Things like sexual infidelity.

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 Irresponsible parting.

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 Inhospility to countrymen.

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 Homosexual lust.

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 Oppression of women.

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 Gang rape.

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 Human slaughter.

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 We didn't even read the part where we get to civil war and genocide.

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 It just spirals, and it's all woven together,

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 and the whole scene is brutal and horrible.

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 And we're left wondering, what do we make of this?

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 What do we make of this?

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 And actually, we're very used to thinking about,

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 we're actually quite, we're used to thinking about things like this.

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 There's a popular TV genre that most of us,

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 at least, watch something like this,

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 and these are these Vice shows that are very similar to this.

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 I'm thinking of shows like Breaking Bad or Ozark or Yellowstone,

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 and they put their character in a world that doesn't have restraints,

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 where they are free to let their vices run wild.

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 And they're basically asking, how bad can humanity get?

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 How bad can this character deteriorate?

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 How quickly can a vice destroy a society?

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 And these shows are fascinating to us.

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 It's kind of like when you drive past a car wreck.

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 You say you just want everybody to pass it,

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 but then as soon as you get to it, we're all looking at it too,

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 the same way.

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 We want to see, we know it's horrible, but we can't look away.

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 And it's stories like this, it's shows like this,

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 where they fix the camera on the philosophical

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 and existential questions of the human nature.

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 Don't flinch, don't look away,

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 and force us to ask, what is humanity?

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 What is wrong with our world?

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 And that is a place that is ripe for sharing our faith.

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 It is ripe for sharing our faith.

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 This text asks, what is wrong with our world?

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 And it shows us.

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 It shows us what is deeply wrong with our world.

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 Let me show you.

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 There's a phrase that was repeated at the very beginning of chapter 19,

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 but then it shows up several times throughout Judges.

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 You see at the very beginning of chapter 19, verse 1,

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 in those days there was no king in Israel.

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 In those days there was no king in Israel.

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 And it's actually repeated several times.

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 In chapter 17, verse 6, it says,

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 in those days there was no king in Israel.

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 Then it adds another line.

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 It says, and everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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 Same thing in chapter 18.

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 In those days there was no king in Israel.

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 And then as a sort of inclusio to end this whole story,

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 if we were to keep reading chapters 19 and 21,

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 we read the continued deterioration that ends, like I said,

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 in genocide and civil war.

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 The very last words of the book of Judges are,

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 in those days there was no king in Israel,

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 and everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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 So three, four times the text repeats this refrain,

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 and that repeated line is the interpretation.

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 It explains what is going wrong.

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 We're faced with this horrible, horrible situation

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 that just is gut-wrenching.

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 And the text tells us, what is wrong with this?

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 There's no king and everyone does what is right in his own eyes.

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 Judges tells us that what is wrong with our world,

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 what is wrong in this situation,

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 the oppression and the violence

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 that we see percolating, spreading out

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 throughout this story, throughout the human experience,

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 is that there is no king,

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 and everyone does what is right in his own eyes.

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 And in this, it points us back

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 to what we confessed in our confession of faith,

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 which is, what is sin?

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 Sin

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 is a declaration

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 of I would have no king

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 but myself.

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 I would do what is right

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 in my own eyes.

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 What did we confess?

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 Sin

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 is any

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 transgression

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 of the law

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 of God.

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 Anytime we look at God

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 and say,

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 you as king

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 have no authority

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 in my life,

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 I will do

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 and I will discern

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 what is right

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 for myself.

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 I will be

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 my own king.

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 This is what we confess

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 when we say,

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 what is sin?

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 It is the want of conformity unto

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 and transgression

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 of God's law.

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 It is looking at God

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 who is our creator

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 and king

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 and saying,

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 not you,

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 I will do

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 what I would do.

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 And this,

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 the text says here,

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 Judges 19,

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 Judges,

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 the whole book says,

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 the source

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 of the violence

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 and the abuse,

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 that gut sucker punch

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 that you feel

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 when you read this text

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 is the rejection

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 of God

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 and the claim

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 of this individual autonomy.

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 I will do

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 what is right

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 in my own eyes.

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 And this leads

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 to the pain

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 that we feel

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 as we read this story.

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 There's a great

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 theologian philosopher,

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 a guy named Christopher Walken,

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 he says this,

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 when every man

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 deciding for himself

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 what is good and evil

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 sets a high value

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 on himself

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 and demands

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 that everyone else

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 value him

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 in the same way,

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 then human beings

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 are in a perpetual

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 and unrelenting war

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 with each other.

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 Autonomy

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 and the ethic

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 of violence

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 are a natural fit

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 for one another.

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 Autonomy

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 and an ethic

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 of violence

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 are a natural fit

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 for one another.

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 And so Judges 19,

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 this passage

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 shows us

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 that the problem

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 for humanity

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 is autonomy,

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 rejection of God

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 and his rule.

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 The story

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 of the Bible

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 is exposing

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 our hearts

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 as deep

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 rebels

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 against God.

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 And the conclusion,

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 here's the conclusion,

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 is that unrestrained

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 sin,

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 that is unrestrained

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 autonomy,

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 leads inevitably

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 to total

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 societal breakdown.

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 Unrestrained

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 sin leads

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 to weak

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 parts of our world

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 being hurt.

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 when autonomy,

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 everyone doing

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 what is right

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 in his own eyes

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 runs its course,

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 then the most vulnerable

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 get the most hurt.

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 Now,

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 how in the world

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 does this begin

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 to apply

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 to sharing our faith?

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 Let me show you.

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 I've read this passage

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 many times

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 with non-Christians

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 and they will say

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 something like this,

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 see,

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 how can the Bible

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 have this passage

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 in it?

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 How does the Bible,

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 how can your God

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 possibly let this happen?

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 This is awful.

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 Don't you see?

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 This is what's wrong

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 with religion.

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 This is what's wrong.

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 This is why we,

00:20:08.619 --> 00:20:09.739
 this is why I'm not a Christian

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 is because this is

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 in the Bible.

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 Today's passage

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 is a lot of things

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 but you can't look at this

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 and accuse it

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 of shying away

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 from the darkest parts

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 of the human experience.

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 You cannot help

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 but feel outrage

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 and grief

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 and anger

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 at verse 28.

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 Oh my gosh.

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 going to her

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 he said,

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 get up

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 and be going

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 and there was

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 no answer.

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 That woman

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 alone,

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 abandoned,

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 in utter

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 soul torment

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 dies

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 and what we get

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 to do

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 is as we read

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 this with our

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 friends,

00:20:47.119 --> 00:20:47.419
 we say

00:20:47.419 --> 00:20:48.439
 that's exactly

00:20:48.439 --> 00:20:49.279
 what the Bible

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 wants you to feel

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 in this situation.

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 You get,

00:20:53.159 --> 00:20:53.740
 we must,

00:20:53.740 --> 00:20:54.559
 if you're here

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 and you're searching

00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:56.180
 and you feel

00:20:56.180 --> 00:20:56.920
 indignation,

00:20:57.019 --> 00:20:57.620
 how can this

00:20:57.620 --> 00:20:58.339
 be in the Bible?

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 The Bible

00:20:59.440 --> 00:20:59.960
 would say

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 exactly.

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 That's the point.

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 You are feeling

00:21:05.539 --> 00:21:06.819
 what you should feel.

00:21:06.819 --> 00:21:07.720
 You should be

00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:08.500
 outraged

00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:09.460
 by this.

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 You should be

00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:10.980
 furious

00:21:10.980 --> 00:21:11.920
 by this.

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 It challenges us

00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:17.200
 because it says

00:21:17.200 --> 00:21:17.759
 the outrage

00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:18.680
 that you feel,

00:21:18.980 --> 00:21:19.960
 the source of it

00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:20.620
 is sin.

00:21:20.980 --> 00:21:22.279
 Sin is the problem.

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 And frankly,

00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:25.500
 we live in the same

00:21:25.500 --> 00:21:26.940
 world as Judges 19

00:21:26.940 --> 00:21:27.539
 today.

00:21:28.099 --> 00:21:28.819
 We have a fancier

00:21:28.819 --> 00:21:29.639
 world for everyone

00:21:29.639 --> 00:21:30.619
 doing what is right

00:21:30.619 --> 00:21:31.720
 in their own eyes.

00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:33.819
 A famous sociologist,

00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:34.680
 a guy named Robert

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 Bella,

00:21:35.579 --> 00:21:36.259
 coined a term

00:21:36.259 --> 00:21:37.180
 called expressive

00:21:37.180 --> 00:21:38.420
 individualism,

00:21:38.960 --> 00:21:39.680
 which is a fancy

00:21:39.680 --> 00:21:40.200
 way of saying

00:21:40.200 --> 00:21:40.779
 everyone does

00:21:40.779 --> 00:21:41.220
 what is right

00:21:41.220 --> 00:21:41.980
 in his own eyes.

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 Which,

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 it means

00:21:45.019 --> 00:21:45.740
 that we live

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 in a world

00:21:46.339 --> 00:21:47.200
 where everyone

00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:48.079
 has the individual

00:21:48.079 --> 00:21:49.399
 right to express

00:21:49.399 --> 00:21:50.399
 their own

00:21:50.399 --> 00:21:51.220
 individuality,

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 express their

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 own feelings.

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 And in fact,

00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:54.220
 we are taught,

00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:54.680
 trained,

00:21:54.839 --> 00:21:55.779
 incentivized,

00:21:56.539 --> 00:21:57.359
 catechized,

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 to look within us,

00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:00.099
 to be our most

00:22:00.099 --> 00:22:01.059
 authentic self,

00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:02.099
 and then to live

00:22:02.099 --> 00:22:03.019
 that out on the

00:22:03.019 --> 00:22:04.079
 world as a stage.

00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:05.379
 And this starts

00:22:05.379 --> 00:22:06.279
 from as young

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 as childhood.

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 Think about

00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:09.019
 every single

00:22:09.019 --> 00:22:09.759
 Disney movie.

00:22:10.839 --> 00:22:11.559
 Every single

00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:12.059
 Disney movie.

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 I let my kids

00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:13.379
 watch Disney,

00:22:13.539 --> 00:22:14.039
 I grew up

00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:14.680
 watching Disney,

00:22:14.980 --> 00:22:16.639
 and this is

00:22:16.639 --> 00:22:17.180
 what we hear.

00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:17.779
 And it's

00:22:17.779 --> 00:22:18.379
 unavoidable.

00:22:18.480 --> 00:22:18.980
 Even if you don't

00:22:18.980 --> 00:22:19.440
 let your kids

00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:19.980
 watch Disney,

00:22:20.099 --> 00:22:21.099
 it is in the air

00:22:21.099 --> 00:22:21.799
 we breathe.

00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:23.259
 But every single

00:22:23.259 --> 00:22:24.259
 one is a sugar-coated

00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:25.059
 Broadway version

00:22:25.059 --> 00:22:25.819
 of everyone do

00:22:25.819 --> 00:22:26.359
 what is right

00:22:26.359 --> 00:22:27.059
 in your own eyes.

00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:27.439
 Think about

00:22:27.439 --> 00:22:28.199
 the movie Frozen.

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 What does Elsa

00:22:29.259 --> 00:22:30.219
 sing in Let It Go?

00:22:30.299 --> 00:22:31.219
 It is an expression.

00:22:31.719 --> 00:22:32.639
 It is a song

00:22:32.639 --> 00:22:33.980
 of self-expression.

00:22:34.159 --> 00:22:34.339
 Listen,

00:22:34.679 --> 00:22:35.059
 she says,

00:22:35.159 --> 00:22:35.919
 the fears that

00:22:35.919 --> 00:22:36.919
 once controlled me

00:22:36.919 --> 00:22:37.839
 can't get to me

00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:38.219
 at all.

00:22:38.500 --> 00:22:39.359
 It's time to see

00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:40.199
 what I can do

00:22:40.199 --> 00:22:41.179
 to test the limits

00:22:41.179 --> 00:22:41.879
 and break through.

00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:42.659
 No right,

00:22:42.740 --> 00:22:43.139
 no wrong,

00:22:43.219 --> 00:22:44.059
 no rules for me.

00:22:44.119 --> 00:22:44.899
 I'm free.

00:22:45.279 --> 00:22:46.079
 Let it go.

00:22:46.379 --> 00:22:47.039
 Let it go.

00:22:47.039 --> 00:22:51.259
 This is the

00:22:51.259 --> 00:22:52.299
 guiding vision

00:22:52.299 --> 00:22:53.119
 of the sexual

00:22:53.119 --> 00:22:53.700
 revolution

00:22:53.700 --> 00:22:55.379
 from 1968

00:22:55.379 --> 00:22:56.200
 to now.

00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:58.599
 This is how

00:22:58.599 --> 00:22:59.139
 we are trained

00:22:59.139 --> 00:22:59.680
 to think about

00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:00.299
 our money

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 in our economics.

00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:02.619
 This is the vision

00:23:02.619 --> 00:23:04.240
 of capitalism.

00:23:05.019 --> 00:23:05.940
 No one can tell me

00:23:05.940 --> 00:23:06.879
 how to spend my money.

00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:07.779
 I get to choose

00:23:07.779 --> 00:23:08.500
 what I do with it.

00:23:08.619 --> 00:23:09.299
 And we've created

00:23:09.299 --> 00:23:10.519
 a whole online

00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:12.139
 internet market system

00:23:12.139 --> 00:23:12.819
 that will have

00:23:12.819 --> 00:23:13.579
 your products

00:23:13.579 --> 00:23:14.539
 to let you

00:23:14.539 --> 00:23:16.240
 curate your own life

00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:17.759
 within eight hours

00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:18.259
 or less.

00:23:18.380 --> 00:23:18.940
 You can have

00:23:18.940 --> 00:23:19.559
 any product

00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:19.980
 you want

00:23:19.980 --> 00:23:20.940
 at your front door.

00:23:22.539 --> 00:23:23.220
 This is how

00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:24.339
 we treat our politics.

00:23:24.500 --> 00:23:25.259
 Michael Sandel,

00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:26.140
 who's a preeminent

00:23:26.140 --> 00:23:27.099
 political philosopher,

00:23:27.500 --> 00:23:28.680
 says that liberalism,

00:23:28.779 --> 00:23:29.680
 liberalism is the

00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:30.559
 political philosophy

00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:31.660
 that undergirds

00:23:31.660 --> 00:23:32.019
 how we,

00:23:32.299 --> 00:23:32.759
 the American

00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:34.079
 political experience,

00:23:34.700 --> 00:23:35.859
 the vision of democracy,

00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:36.539
 says this,

00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:38.019
 liberalism is a

00:23:38.019 --> 00:23:39.299
 plurality of persons,

00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:40.480
 each with his own

00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:41.480
 interests, aims,

00:23:41.579 --> 00:23:42.440
 and conceptions

00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:43.299
 of the good.

00:23:43.960 --> 00:23:44.620
 Liberalism and

00:23:44.620 --> 00:23:45.579
 democracy

00:23:45.579 --> 00:23:47.259
 maximize the

00:23:47.259 --> 00:23:47.619
 political,

00:23:47.899 --> 00:23:48.139
 social,

00:23:48.259 --> 00:23:48.819
 and economic

00:23:48.819 --> 00:23:49.519
 rights of the

00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:50.099
 individual

00:23:50.099 --> 00:23:51.220
 to live their

00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:52.079
 lives as they

00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:52.639
 choose.

00:23:54.460 --> 00:23:55.339
 In our world

00:23:55.339 --> 00:23:55.559
 today,

00:23:55.639 --> 00:23:56.699
 we have perfected

00:23:56.699 --> 00:23:57.220
 the art

00:23:57.220 --> 00:23:59.099
 of everyone

00:23:59.099 --> 00:23:59.720
 does what is

00:23:59.720 --> 00:24:00.299
 right in their

00:24:00.299 --> 00:24:00.839
 own eyes.

00:24:02.460 --> 00:24:03.179
 Robert Bella

00:24:03.179 --> 00:24:03.939
 says it this way,

00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:05.299
 in the absence

00:24:05.299 --> 00:24:06.359
 of any objective

00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:07.579
 criteria of right

00:24:07.579 --> 00:24:08.059
 or wrong,

00:24:08.179 --> 00:24:08.859
 good or evil,

00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:09.799
 the self

00:24:09.799 --> 00:24:11.500
 and its feelings

00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:12.939
 become its own

00:24:12.939 --> 00:24:13.699
 moral guide.

00:24:13.700 --> 00:24:14.900
 and there

00:24:14.900 --> 00:24:15.700
 each individual

00:24:15.700 --> 00:24:16.660
 is entitled

00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:17.360
 to his or

00:24:17.360 --> 00:24:18.860
 her own

00:24:18.860 --> 00:24:19.880
 bit of space

00:24:19.880 --> 00:24:21.080
 and is utterly

00:24:21.080 --> 00:24:22.440
 free with its

00:24:22.440 --> 00:24:22.799
 boundaries.

00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:24.720
 This is the world

00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:25.200
 we live in.

00:24:25.600 --> 00:24:26.539
 It's unavoidable.

00:24:27.259 --> 00:24:28.100
 And here's the

00:24:28.100 --> 00:24:28.380
 trick.

00:24:28.740 --> 00:24:29.799
 It's killing us.

00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:32.019
 And everyone

00:24:32.019 --> 00:24:32.660
 knows it.

00:24:33.019 --> 00:24:33.880
 This is why I say

00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:34.519
 we have more

00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:35.340
 opportunities to

00:24:35.340 --> 00:24:36.180
 share the gospel

00:24:36.180 --> 00:24:37.180
 than we have in

00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:37.840
 80 years.

00:24:38.380 --> 00:24:39.340
 Everyone looks

00:24:39.340 --> 00:24:40.059
 around us right

00:24:40.059 --> 00:24:40.779
 now and says,

00:24:40.779 --> 00:24:42.119
 whatever we're

00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:42.859
 doing right now

00:24:42.859 --> 00:24:43.720
 ain't working.

00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:45.460
 This ain't it.

00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:47.680
 If this is what

00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.879
 living life is,

00:24:49.099 --> 00:24:49.859
 I don't want to

00:24:49.859 --> 00:24:50.579
 be a part of it.

00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:51.759
 If this is what

00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:52.980
 society does,

00:24:53.139 --> 00:24:53.879
 I don't want a

00:24:53.879 --> 00:24:54.500
 piece of it.

00:24:56.399 --> 00:24:57.700
 It's killing us.

00:24:58.660 --> 00:25:00.160
 And like this

00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:00.700
 story,

00:25:01.019 --> 00:25:02.019
 it's particularly

00:25:02.019 --> 00:25:02.839
 hurting the

00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:03.539
 weakest members

00:25:03.539 --> 00:25:04.299
 of our world,

00:25:04.700 --> 00:25:05.299
 the poor,

00:25:06.099 --> 00:25:06.779
 women with

00:25:06.779 --> 00:25:09.180
 weaker bodies.

00:25:09.180 --> 00:25:11.880
 people with

00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:12.500
 dark skin.

00:25:13.060 --> 00:25:13.860
 It hurts them

00:25:13.860 --> 00:25:14.340
 most.

00:25:14.900 --> 00:25:15.360
 Many of you

00:25:15.360 --> 00:25:15.560
 know,

00:25:15.620 --> 00:25:15.960
 I was just

00:25:15.960 --> 00:25:16.940
 sitting in on

00:25:16.940 --> 00:25:18.840
 Scott Sage's

00:25:18.840 --> 00:25:19.500
 AI class.

00:25:19.580 --> 00:25:19.940
 Many of you

00:25:19.940 --> 00:25:20.279
 know there's

00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:20.900
 an AI tool

00:25:20.900 --> 00:25:21.660
 called Grok.

00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:22.539
 It's Twitter

00:25:22.539 --> 00:25:23.200
 and X's

00:25:23.200 --> 00:25:24.259
 AR platform.

00:25:24.360 --> 00:25:24.860
 It's a powerful

00:25:24.860 --> 00:25:25.200
 tool.

00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:26.340
 Last week I was

00:25:26.340 --> 00:25:27.420
 reading a story

00:25:27.420 --> 00:25:28.920
 about how it is

00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:29.740
 being used by

00:25:29.740 --> 00:25:31.460
 men to deep

00:25:31.460 --> 00:25:32.080
 fake women.

00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:32.960
 And so it can

00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:33.720
 take a single

00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:34.320
 picture of a

00:25:34.320 --> 00:25:34.560
 woman,

00:25:35.539 --> 00:25:36.140
 any woman,

00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:37.960
 and you can

00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:38.539
 essentially turn

00:25:38.539 --> 00:25:39.160
 any picture into

00:25:39.180 --> 00:25:39.600
 pornography.

00:25:40.620 --> 00:25:41.180
 And there's

00:25:41.180 --> 00:25:41.600
 nothing that we

00:25:41.600 --> 00:25:42.039
 can do about

00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:42.240
 it.

00:25:43.340 --> 00:25:43.799
 Women are

00:25:43.799 --> 00:25:44.360
 scrolling the

00:25:44.360 --> 00:25:44.820
 internet and

00:25:44.820 --> 00:25:45.380
 they will find a

00:25:45.380 --> 00:25:45.740
 picture of

00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:46.340
 themselves that

00:25:46.340 --> 00:25:46.980
 has been deep

00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:48.720
 faked into a

00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:49.400
 sexually explicit

00:25:49.400 --> 00:25:49.779
 image.

00:25:50.759 --> 00:25:51.360
 And they will

00:25:51.360 --> 00:25:52.140
 call the police

00:25:52.140 --> 00:25:52.720
 and say,

00:25:52.820 --> 00:25:53.200
 what will you

00:25:53.200 --> 00:25:53.840
 do about this?

00:25:53.880 --> 00:25:54.360
 And they'll say,

00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:55.019
 there's nothing

00:25:55.019 --> 00:25:55.740
 we can do.

00:25:56.980 --> 00:25:57.420
 Why?

00:25:58.700 --> 00:25:59.440
 Because we live

00:25:59.440 --> 00:26:00.400
 in a land where

00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:01.180
 the First Amendment,

00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:02.160
 I'm pro-First

00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:03.940
 Amendment, but this

00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:05.680
 is free speech and

00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:06.299
 there's nothing we

00:26:06.299 --> 00:26:06.680
 can do.

00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:09.880
 there is no

00:26:09.880 --> 00:26:10.500
 king in the

00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:11.640
 land and everyone

00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:12.420
 does what is right

00:26:12.420 --> 00:26:12.799
 in their own

00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:13.960
 eyes and the

00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:14.600
 most vulnerable

00:26:14.600 --> 00:26:15.360
 are hurt the

00:26:15.360 --> 00:26:15.740
 most.

00:26:17.140 --> 00:26:17.759
 And here's what's

00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:18.279
 true, our

00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:18.759
 non-Christian

00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:19.580
 friends know that

00:26:19.580 --> 00:26:20.019
 something is

00:26:20.019 --> 00:26:20.720
 desperately wrong.

00:26:21.320 --> 00:26:22.100
 They know it,

00:26:22.600 --> 00:26:23.220
 but they can't

00:26:23.220 --> 00:26:23.980
 explain why.

00:26:24.100 --> 00:26:24.539
 And we read

00:26:24.539 --> 00:26:25.560
 Judges 19 to

00:26:25.560 --> 00:26:26.200
 them and we

00:26:26.200 --> 00:26:27.380
 let it sink in

00:26:27.380 --> 00:26:27.820
 and we let them

00:26:27.820 --> 00:26:28.720
 feel outrage.

00:26:29.039 --> 00:26:29.640
 We let them feel

00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:30.460
 how terrible it

00:26:30.460 --> 00:26:31.100
 is and we say,

00:26:31.360 --> 00:26:32.140
 do you not see

00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:32.880
 this is the world

00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:33.560
 we live in?

00:26:33.559 --> 00:26:34.019
 And they say,

00:26:34.159 --> 00:26:35.159
 yes, I see it

00:26:35.159 --> 00:26:35.980
 and I hate it.

00:26:36.940 --> 00:26:37.759
 And we get to

00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:38.159
 say, you know

00:26:38.159 --> 00:26:38.700
 what the reason

00:26:38.700 --> 00:26:39.299
 is?

00:26:39.639 --> 00:26:40.359
 It's because of

00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:40.819
 sin.

00:26:42.700 --> 00:26:44.000
 It's because we

00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:44.500
 live in a world

00:26:44.500 --> 00:26:44.940
 where everyone

00:26:44.940 --> 00:26:45.500
 does what is

00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:45.940
 right in their

00:26:45.940 --> 00:26:46.940
 own eyes and

00:26:46.940 --> 00:26:47.659
 you know it's

00:26:47.659 --> 00:26:48.279
 killing us.

00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:49.480
 I know it's

00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:50.139
 killing us.

00:26:51.460 --> 00:26:52.240
 Don't you see

00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:53.179
 that listening to

00:26:53.179 --> 00:26:54.559
 your heart leads

00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:55.799
 to oppression and

00:26:55.799 --> 00:26:56.759
 abuse and

00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:57.220
 injustice?

00:26:57.220 --> 00:26:59.980
 this is where

00:26:59.980 --> 00:27:00.640
 we can reason

00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:01.240
 with our friends

00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:01.559
 and say,

00:27:01.640 --> 00:27:02.339
 would you agree

00:27:02.339 --> 00:27:03.220
 that our world

00:27:03.220 --> 00:27:03.920
 tells us to

00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:04.500
 listen to our

00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:05.440
 hearts, to

00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:06.120
 express our

00:27:06.120 --> 00:27:07.519
 individuality, to

00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:08.579
 use our freedoms

00:27:08.579 --> 00:27:09.539
 to make our own

00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:11.100
 name great, to

00:27:11.100 --> 00:27:12.120
 buy what we want

00:27:12.120 --> 00:27:13.079
 when we want, to

00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:13.900
 vote in a way

00:27:13.900 --> 00:27:14.700
 that makes my

00:27:14.700 --> 00:27:15.660
 life better?

00:27:17.059 --> 00:27:17.660
 Well, yes, I

00:27:17.660 --> 00:27:18.240
 would say that's

00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:18.799
 the way we live.

00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:19.319
 That's the world,

00:27:19.380 --> 00:27:19.779
 that's a good

00:27:19.779 --> 00:27:20.480
 world to live in.

00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:21.220
 But don't you

00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:22.819
 see that if

00:27:22.819 --> 00:27:23.819
 everyone does this

00:27:23.819 --> 00:27:25.120
 wholesale, the

00:27:25.120 --> 00:27:26.100
 result is

00:27:26.100 --> 00:27:26.819
 oppression.

00:27:27.220 --> 00:27:28.620
 Pain, abuse,

00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:30.059
 Judges 19, it's

00:27:30.059 --> 00:27:30.759
 unavoidable.

00:27:31.720 --> 00:27:32.380
 This is what we

00:27:32.380 --> 00:27:32.880
 live in.

00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:34.279
 And here's why

00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:35.600
 this passage, here's

00:27:35.600 --> 00:27:36.440
 why stories like

00:27:36.440 --> 00:27:37.120
 this are so

00:27:37.120 --> 00:27:37.539
 amazing.

00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:38.600
 People will read

00:27:38.600 --> 00:27:39.079
 this and say,

00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:39.660
 this is in the

00:27:39.660 --> 00:27:40.299
 Bible, this is

00:27:40.299 --> 00:27:41.339
 outrageous, how

00:27:41.339 --> 00:27:41.960
 can this be?

00:27:42.259 --> 00:27:42.860
 And the Bible

00:27:42.860 --> 00:27:43.920
 says exactly.

00:27:44.339 --> 00:27:45.579
 It shocks us, it

00:27:45.579 --> 00:27:47.079
 offends us, it

00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:47.779
 shows us how

00:27:47.779 --> 00:27:48.900
 threatening human

00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:50.519
 nature is separated

00:27:50.519 --> 00:27:51.240
 from God.

00:27:51.600 --> 00:27:52.240
 And we can

00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:53.460
 slingshot off of

00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:54.259
 this and say we

00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:55.559
 need someone to

00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:56.480
 save us.

00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:58.200
 you know that.

00:27:59.039 --> 00:27:59.920
 Let me show you

00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:00.720
 who he is.

00:28:03.819 --> 00:28:04.559
 Back to our

00:28:04.559 --> 00:28:04.860
 story.

00:28:04.960 --> 00:28:05.740
 It gets worse.

00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:06.720
 I wish I could

00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:07.099
 say it gets

00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:07.360
 better.

00:28:07.900 --> 00:28:08.880
 I won't read the

00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:09.160
 rest.

00:28:09.259 --> 00:28:09.799
 You can go read

00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:10.380
 it on your own.

00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:11.620
 The Levite

00:28:11.620 --> 00:28:12.259
 retrieves his

00:28:12.259 --> 00:28:12.839
 concubine.

00:28:13.539 --> 00:28:14.400
 He's not willing

00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.680
 to intercede on

00:28:17.680 --> 00:28:18.299
 his own, but he

00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:19.799
 sends her body

00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:21.620
 throughout the land

00:28:21.620 --> 00:28:22.480
 and shows what

00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:23.059
 has been done to

00:28:23.059 --> 00:28:23.220
 her.

00:28:23.220 --> 00:28:24.240
 And to us, this

00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:25.299
 feels extremely

00:28:25.299 --> 00:28:26.299
 hyperreactive.

00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:27.059
 At the time, it

00:28:27.059 --> 00:28:27.680
 was a version of

00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:28.480
 basically photo

00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:28.960
 journalism.

00:28:29.799 --> 00:28:30.240
 Photojournalists

00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:30.720
 would go to the

00:28:30.720 --> 00:28:31.559
 Vietnam War, take

00:28:31.559 --> 00:28:32.220
 pictures of what

00:28:32.220 --> 00:28:33.360
 was happening, and

00:28:33.360 --> 00:28:34.100
 send them back.

00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:35.380
 This is photo

00:28:35.380 --> 00:28:36.120
 journalism at its

00:28:36.120 --> 00:28:36.779
 most graphic.

00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:39.059
 And it incenses the

00:28:39.059 --> 00:28:39.440
 nation.

00:28:39.980 --> 00:28:40.500
 You read in

00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.600
 chapter 20, at the

00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:42.140
 end of the 20,

00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:42.839
 everyone says,

00:28:42.920 --> 00:28:43.460
 nothing like this

00:28:43.460 --> 00:28:44.100
 has ever been done

00:28:44.100 --> 00:28:44.539
 before.

00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:45.460
 What are we going

00:28:45.460 --> 00:28:46.140
 to do about it?

00:28:46.140 --> 00:28:48.180
 So the rest of the

00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:49.259
 Israelite nation

00:28:49.259 --> 00:28:50.440
 gathers a giant

00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:51.900
 army, 400,000

00:28:51.900 --> 00:28:52.920
 soldiers, and goes

00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:53.720
 and attacks the

00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:54.220
 Benjamites.

00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:55.400
 And there is a

00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:57.540
 multi-day civil war

00:28:57.540 --> 00:28:58.880
 between all the

00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:00.259
 11 tribes against

00:29:00.259 --> 00:29:00.960
 the Benjamites.

00:29:01.100 --> 00:29:01.800
 And eventually, the

00:29:01.800 --> 00:29:02.380
 Benjamites are

00:29:02.380 --> 00:29:03.759
 utterly obliterated.

00:29:04.560 --> 00:29:05.540
 All the men are

00:29:05.540 --> 00:29:05.800
 killed.

00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:08.840
 And effectively, a

00:29:08.840 --> 00:29:09.700
 tribe is almost

00:29:09.700 --> 00:29:10.480
 wiped out.

00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:12.420
 And the passage

00:29:12.420 --> 00:29:14.779
 ends with

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:15.640
 essentially stealing

00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:16.640
 more women to

00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:17.140
 give to the

00:29:17.140 --> 00:29:17.819
 Benjamites who are

00:29:17.819 --> 00:29:18.599
 almost gone so

00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:19.500
 that they can still

00:29:19.500 --> 00:29:20.019
 be around.

00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:21.440
 And so the passage

00:29:21.440 --> 00:29:23.620
 ends, even worse,

00:29:24.099 --> 00:29:26.360
 civil war and

00:29:26.360 --> 00:29:27.440
 genocide, killing

00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:28.200
 an entire people

00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:28.519
 group.

00:29:29.759 --> 00:29:30.819
 And it ends

00:29:30.819 --> 00:29:32.980
 saying, there was

00:29:32.980 --> 00:29:33.500
 no king in the

00:29:33.500 --> 00:29:34.079
 land and everyone

00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:35.099
 does what is right

00:29:35.099 --> 00:29:35.920
 in his own eyes.

00:29:36.120 --> 00:29:36.700
 And the human

00:29:36.700 --> 00:29:37.460
 predicament apart

00:29:37.460 --> 00:29:38.900
 from God is cold,

00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:40.319
 nasty, brutish, and

00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:40.599
 short.

00:29:42.919 --> 00:29:43.740
 So what do we do

00:29:43.740 --> 00:29:44.159
 with this?

00:29:44.460 --> 00:29:44.899
 What do we do

00:29:44.899 --> 00:29:45.200
 with this?

00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:46.539
 Well, there's a few

00:29:46.539 --> 00:29:46.799
 things.

00:29:46.879 --> 00:29:47.460
 First, we have to

00:29:47.460 --> 00:29:48.839
 acknowledge that God

00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:49.779
 cares deeply about

00:29:49.779 --> 00:29:50.359
 this story.

00:29:51.439 --> 00:29:52.460
 God cares deeply

00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:52.819
 about it.

00:29:52.819 --> 00:29:54.000
 He does not approve

00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:54.899
 of this evil.

00:29:55.359 --> 00:29:56.460
 God is strikingly

00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:57.439
 quiet in this whole

00:29:57.439 --> 00:29:57.720
 story.

00:29:57.839 --> 00:29:59.179
 You don't see any

00:29:59.179 --> 00:29:59.980
 place where God is

00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:01.339
 approving or

00:30:01.339 --> 00:30:02.319
 condoning of any

00:30:02.319 --> 00:30:02.720
 of this.

00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:04.119
 The only time he

00:30:04.119 --> 00:30:05.779
 speaks is he just

00:30:05.779 --> 00:30:06.679
 sort of lets them

00:30:06.679 --> 00:30:08.299
 go and have this

00:30:08.299 --> 00:30:08.960
 civil war.

00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:10.559
 But nowhere does

00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:12.460
 God approve of

00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:13.840
 this violence or

00:30:13.840 --> 00:30:14.299
 abuse.

00:30:15.180 --> 00:30:15.779
 And in fact, if

00:30:15.779 --> 00:30:16.640
 that's part of your

00:30:16.640 --> 00:30:17.140
 story, which

00:30:17.140 --> 00:30:18.400
 statistically it is

00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:20.259
 in this room, hear

00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:20.940
 me say that

00:30:20.940 --> 00:30:21.440
 whatever has

00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:22.220
 happened to you,

00:30:23.100 --> 00:30:24.620
 God is as upset

00:30:24.620 --> 00:30:26.400
 with it as anyone.

00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:28.279
 And he cares

00:30:28.279 --> 00:30:29.500
 deeply for you.

00:30:30.500 --> 00:30:31.299
 And the good news

00:30:31.299 --> 00:30:32.500
 of the gospel is

00:30:32.500 --> 00:30:34.019
 that he has, is,

00:30:34.100 --> 00:30:34.840
 and will do

00:30:34.840 --> 00:30:35.799
 something about

00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:36.440
 that pain.

00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:37.980
 And we will

00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:38.759
 look at that

00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:41.240
 in a minute.

00:30:41.400 --> 00:30:42.480
 The God of the

00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:43.620
 Bible hates

00:30:43.620 --> 00:30:44.500
 injustice.

00:30:45.080 --> 00:30:45.860
 He hates

00:30:45.860 --> 00:30:46.700
 abuse.

00:30:48.100 --> 00:30:48.840
 Listen to what

00:30:48.840 --> 00:30:49.740
 Deuteronomy says.

00:30:49.820 --> 00:30:50.880
 In Deuteronomy 16,

00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:52.059
 God tells his

00:30:52.059 --> 00:30:52.900
 people, justice

00:30:52.900 --> 00:30:54.059
 and justice only

00:30:54.059 --> 00:30:55.320
 you shall, you

00:30:55.320 --> 00:30:55.900
 shall follow.

00:30:55.980 --> 00:30:56.620
 In the Psalms,

00:30:56.700 --> 00:30:58.519
 it's all over how

00:30:58.519 --> 00:30:59.299
 he cares about

00:30:59.299 --> 00:30:59.860
 justice.

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:03.240
 And then it

00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:04.200
 tells us that God

00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:05.000
 is going to do

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:05.339
 something.

00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:06.259
 The next book

00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:06.859
 in the Jewish

00:31:06.859 --> 00:31:07.980
 Bible, the next

00:31:07.980 --> 00:31:09.039
 words in the

00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:09.559
 Jewish Bible

00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:12.240
 after 2125 is

00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:12.960
 1 Samuel.

00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:15.599
 And 1 Samuel is

00:31:15.599 --> 00:31:16.880
 the story of God

00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:17.480
 beginning to

00:31:17.480 --> 00:31:18.220
 provide what?

00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:19.619
 A king.

00:31:20.579 --> 00:31:21.619
 Someone who

00:31:21.619 --> 00:31:22.799
 will come to

00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:23.799
 bring the

00:31:23.799 --> 00:31:25.000
 justice, the

00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.579
 vindication that

00:31:26.579 --> 00:31:27.960
 this story needs

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:28.960
 so badly.

00:31:29.539 --> 00:31:30.559
 And it is not

00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:31.180
 just any king,

00:31:31.259 --> 00:31:31.759
 but it is the

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.420
 king par

00:31:32.420 --> 00:31:32.799
 excellence.

00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:34.659
 David, the

00:31:34.659 --> 00:31:35.440
 king that Psalm

00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:36.339
 89 says,

00:31:36.460 --> 00:31:37.240
 righteousness and

00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:38.059
 justice are the

00:31:38.059 --> 00:31:38.879
 foundation of your

00:31:38.879 --> 00:31:39.299
 throne.

00:31:40.899 --> 00:31:42.379
 The low point of

00:31:42.379 --> 00:31:43.519
 Judges 19 rises

00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:44.680
 to a climax of

00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:46.059
 the best king in

00:31:46.059 --> 00:31:46.819
 Israel's history

00:31:46.819 --> 00:31:47.279
 where there's a

00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:48.619
 time of peace and

00:31:48.619 --> 00:31:49.720
 thriving and

00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:50.440
 justice.

00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:52.659
 But we know that

00:31:52.659 --> 00:31:53.359
 that's not even

00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:54.759
 enough because even

00:31:54.759 --> 00:31:56.220
 David would what?

00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:57.240
 Abuse a woman.

00:31:57.940 --> 00:31:58.759
 We need a better

00:31:58.759 --> 00:31:59.480
 king than even

00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:00.220
 King David.

00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:00.299
 David.

00:32:01.100 --> 00:32:02.279
 And Psalm 110

00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:03.539
 points to him and

00:32:03.539 --> 00:32:04.860
 says that there is

00:32:04.860 --> 00:32:06.200
 a son of David,

00:32:06.339 --> 00:32:07.240
 one who will come

00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:08.519
 as king, who will

00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:09.279
 be perfectly

00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:10.500
 righteous and bring

00:32:10.500 --> 00:32:11.620
 perfect justice

00:32:11.620 --> 00:32:12.380
 forever.

00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:14.579
 And later on in

00:32:14.579 --> 00:32:16.039
 Matthew 22, what

00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:16.880
 does Jesus say?

00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:18.279
 He says, Psalm 110,

00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:20.559
 David's great son,

00:32:21.200 --> 00:32:22.980
 the king that David

00:32:22.980 --> 00:32:23.920
 was supposed to be,

00:32:24.180 --> 00:32:24.779
 it's me.

00:32:25.079 --> 00:32:26.000
 I'm him, Jesus

00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:26.360
 says.

00:32:26.420 --> 00:32:27.160
 And Jesus says,

00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:28.259
 the time is at

00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:28.500
 hand.

00:32:28.500 --> 00:32:29.339
 The kingdom of

00:32:29.339 --> 00:32:30.240
 God is now at

00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:30.660
 hand.

00:32:31.519 --> 00:32:32.900
 Jesus comes and

00:32:32.900 --> 00:32:33.819
 says, everything

00:32:33.819 --> 00:32:35.039
 that was wrong in

00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:36.059
 Judges 19, this

00:32:36.059 --> 00:32:36.819
 king that you

00:32:36.819 --> 00:32:38.559
 needed, I am he.

00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:40.500
 I am the one who

00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:41.359
 will come and bring

00:32:41.359 --> 00:32:41.960
 justice.

00:32:42.259 --> 00:32:43.019
 The time that we

00:32:43.019 --> 00:32:44.140
 long for a king

00:32:44.140 --> 00:32:45.539
 where justice and

00:32:45.539 --> 00:32:46.380
 righteousness would

00:32:46.380 --> 00:32:47.319
 be integrated into

00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:48.440
 the very fabric of

00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:49.480
 our society, of our

00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:50.579
 world, Jesus says,

00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:52.299
 I will come and do

00:32:52.299 --> 00:32:52.480
 that.

00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:53.039
 And here's what's

00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:53.400
 amazing.

00:32:54.240 --> 00:32:55.099
 Jesus is the

00:32:55.099 --> 00:32:55.779
 antidote to the

00:32:55.779 --> 00:32:56.480
 sin problem.

00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:56.920
 How?

00:32:56.920 --> 00:32:58.240
 Jesus never did

00:32:58.240 --> 00:32:58.940
 what was right in

00:32:58.940 --> 00:32:59.600
 his own eyes.

00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:01.220
 He was sinless.

00:33:02.240 --> 00:33:03.100
 John tells us that

00:33:03.100 --> 00:33:04.980
 his only desire was

00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:05.640
 to do the will of

00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:06.160
 his father.

00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:08.220
 And yet, even

00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:08.960
 though he never

00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:10.140
 did what was right

00:33:10.140 --> 00:33:10.820
 in his own eyes,

00:33:10.880 --> 00:33:12.039
 what happens to

00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:13.960
 him, he suffers

00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:15.560
 the abuse of a

00:33:15.560 --> 00:33:16.960
 violent mob outside

00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:17.539
 the city.

00:33:18.259 --> 00:33:19.500
 What happens to the

00:33:19.500 --> 00:33:20.900
 concubine happens

00:33:20.900 --> 00:33:22.300
 to Jesus, brutally

00:33:22.300 --> 00:33:26.519
 murdered by a rage

00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:28.619
 filled crowd outside

00:33:28.619 --> 00:33:29.359
 of the city.

00:33:31.539 --> 00:33:32.500
 Jesus is the

00:33:32.500 --> 00:33:33.379
 sinless king who

00:33:33.379 --> 00:33:34.039
 would suffer the

00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:35.039
 abuse, the

00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:36.160
 violation, the

00:33:36.160 --> 00:33:37.279
 death at the

00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:37.720
 hands of an

00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:38.440
 abusive crowd.

00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:38.779
 How?

00:33:39.119 --> 00:33:39.420
 Why?

00:33:39.599 --> 00:33:40.200
 So that he could

00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:41.000
 crush abuse

00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:41.440
 forever.

00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:44.940
 Psalm, I mean,

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:45.900
 Isaiah 9, we

00:33:45.900 --> 00:33:46.359
 read this for

00:33:46.359 --> 00:33:46.759
 Christmas.

00:33:47.379 --> 00:33:48.539
 Of the increase of

00:33:48.539 --> 00:33:49.319
 his government,

00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:51.980
 king, and peace,

00:33:52.259 --> 00:33:53.319
 there will be no

00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:53.680
 end.

00:33:53.680 --> 00:33:54.880
 And on the throne

00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:55.740
 of David and

00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:57.019
 over his kingdom

00:33:57.019 --> 00:33:58.299
 to establish it

00:33:58.299 --> 00:33:58.900
 and uphold it

00:33:58.900 --> 00:33:59.799
 with justice and

00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:00.539
 righteousness from

00:34:00.539 --> 00:34:01.720
 this time forth and

00:34:01.720 --> 00:34:02.400
 forevermore.

00:34:02.539 --> 00:34:03.519
 David's son, the

00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:05.039
 king, will bring

00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:06.580
 true justice, true

00:34:06.580 --> 00:34:08.240
 peace to a violent

00:34:08.240 --> 00:34:09.539
 and abusive world.

00:34:11.680 --> 00:34:12.760
 Judges tells us

00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:13.480
 that we are not

00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:14.780
 okay, that we need

00:34:14.780 --> 00:34:15.720
 help, that our

00:34:15.720 --> 00:34:16.940
 world is broken, and

00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:18.599
 God sees it, he

00:34:18.599 --> 00:34:19.740
 knows, and he will

00:34:19.740 --> 00:34:20.619
 do something about

00:34:20.619 --> 00:34:20.840
 it.

00:34:21.740 --> 00:34:22.539
 And this is what we

00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:23.159
 get to tell our

00:34:23.159 --> 00:34:23.539
 friends.

00:34:24.539 --> 00:34:25.759
 We make them want

00:34:25.759 --> 00:34:26.779
 it so badly, and

00:34:26.779 --> 00:34:27.840
 then we say, and

00:34:27.840 --> 00:34:28.779
 he has come to do

00:34:28.779 --> 00:34:29.000
 it.

00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:30.340
 There's three moves

00:34:30.340 --> 00:34:30.960
 as we share our

00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:31.880
 friends, share this

00:34:31.880 --> 00:34:32.279
 with our friends.

00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:33.480
 We agree with our

00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:34.259
 non-Christian friends

00:34:34.259 --> 00:34:34.860
 that the world is

00:34:34.860 --> 00:34:35.139
 broken.

00:34:35.420 --> 00:34:37.239
 Yes, I agree with

00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:37.380
 you.

00:34:37.460 --> 00:34:38.460
 Our world is deeply

00:34:38.460 --> 00:34:38.840
 broken.

00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:39.960
 You know it, I

00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:40.380
 know it.

00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:41.360
 And then we show a

00:34:41.360 --> 00:34:42.380
 better diagnosis of

00:34:42.380 --> 00:34:42.880
 the problem.

00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:44.019
 What do you think is

00:34:44.019 --> 00:34:44.480
 the problem?

00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:45.820
 And it doesn't go

00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:46.239
 deep enough.

00:34:46.320 --> 00:34:47.039
 Let me tell you what

00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:47.759
 the deepest problem

00:34:47.759 --> 00:34:48.000
 is.

00:34:48.099 --> 00:34:48.860
 Everyone does what

00:34:48.860 --> 00:34:49.539
 is right in their

00:34:49.539 --> 00:34:50.119
 own eyes.

00:34:50.219 --> 00:34:50.860
 It's sin.

00:34:51.279 --> 00:34:51.840
 But I have a

00:34:51.840 --> 00:34:52.539
 better solution.

00:34:52.900 --> 00:34:53.720
 It's the coming

00:34:53.720 --> 00:34:54.160
 king.

00:34:54.940 --> 00:34:56.000
 It's the gospel.

00:34:56.280 --> 00:34:57.140
 It's the king who

00:34:57.140 --> 00:34:59.320
 has come and who

00:34:59.320 --> 00:35:00.960
 will come again to

00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:02.300
 right every wrong.

00:35:03.120 --> 00:35:04.039
 Jesus is the king

00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:04.559
 who will bring

00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:05.480
 perfect justice.

00:35:05.860 --> 00:35:06.700
 Will you follow him

00:35:06.700 --> 00:35:07.140
 with me?

00:35:07.820 --> 00:35:09.079
 Jesus is the king

00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:10.800
 who suffered the

00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:12.160
 abuse to crush

00:35:12.160 --> 00:35:13.000
 abuse forever.

00:35:13.240 --> 00:35:14.200
 Will you follow him

00:35:14.200 --> 00:35:14.840
 with me?

00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:16.539
 Jesus suffered in

00:35:16.539 --> 00:35:17.180
 our place.

00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:18.740
 Never did what was

00:35:18.740 --> 00:35:19.460
 right in his own

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:21.200
 eyes to fix a

00:35:21.199 --> 00:35:21.739
 broken world.

00:35:21.819 --> 00:35:22.419
 Will you follow

00:35:22.419 --> 00:35:23.159
 him with me?

00:35:25.699 --> 00:35:26.419
 This is what

00:35:26.419 --> 00:35:27.359
 evangelism is.

00:35:28.419 --> 00:35:29.099
 Slingshotting off

00:35:29.099 --> 00:35:29.859
 the pain of a

00:35:29.859 --> 00:35:31.099
 broken world and

00:35:31.099 --> 00:35:31.799
 showing them the

00:35:31.799 --> 00:35:32.579
 best and only

00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:33.139
 solution.

00:35:34.839 --> 00:35:35.599
 I'll close with

00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:35.879
 this.

00:35:36.319 --> 00:35:37.079
 Kurt Vonnegut

00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:38.779
 wrote a book

00:35:38.779 --> 00:35:39.500
 called Slaughterhouse

00:35:39.500 --> 00:35:40.259
 Five which is a

00:35:40.259 --> 00:35:41.019
 story processing

00:35:41.019 --> 00:35:42.099
 the trauma of

00:35:42.099 --> 00:35:42.699
 World War II.

00:35:43.839 --> 00:35:44.500
 It's particularly

00:35:44.500 --> 00:35:45.339
 the firebombing

00:35:45.339 --> 00:35:46.559
 of Dresden which

00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:47.279
 he describes in

00:35:47.279 --> 00:35:47.619
 the book.

00:35:47.619 --> 00:35:49.420
 He talks about a

00:35:49.420 --> 00:35:49.980
 man named Billy

00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:50.719
 Pilgrim who

00:35:50.719 --> 00:35:52.219
 becomes unstuck

00:35:52.219 --> 00:35:53.000
 in time and

00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:53.940
 can travel backwards

00:35:53.940 --> 00:35:54.659
 in time and he

00:35:54.659 --> 00:35:55.859
 sees life backwards

00:35:55.859 --> 00:35:57.259
 and he pictures

00:35:57.259 --> 00:35:58.339
 the firebombing of

00:35:58.339 --> 00:35:59.380
 Dresden backwards.

00:36:00.460 --> 00:36:01.239
 This is what he

00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:01.559
 says.

00:36:02.099 --> 00:36:03.239
 Seen backwards by

00:36:03.239 --> 00:36:03.960
 Billy the story

00:36:03.960 --> 00:36:04.719
 went like this.

00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:06.400
 American planes

00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:07.739
 full of holes and

00:36:07.739 --> 00:36:08.679
 wounded men and

00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:10.219
 corpses took off

00:36:10.219 --> 00:36:11.739
 backwards from an

00:36:11.739 --> 00:36:12.339
 airfield in

00:36:12.339 --> 00:36:12.599
 England.

00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:14.639
 Over France a few

00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:15.679
 German fighter planes

00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:16.319
 flew at them

00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:17.440
 backwards and

00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:18.780
 sucked bullets and

00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:20.160
 shell fragments from

00:36:20.160 --> 00:36:20.980
 some of the planes

00:36:20.980 --> 00:36:21.519
 and crewmen.

00:36:22.180 --> 00:36:23.120
 They did the same

00:36:23.120 --> 00:36:24.340
 for wrecked American

00:36:24.340 --> 00:36:24.980
 bombers on the

00:36:24.980 --> 00:36:26.019
 ground and those

00:36:26.019 --> 00:36:27.300
 planes flew home

00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:28.480
 backwards to join

00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:29.059
 the formation.

00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:30.680
 The formation flew

00:36:30.680 --> 00:36:31.660
 backwards over a

00:36:31.660 --> 00:36:32.600
 German city that

00:36:32.600 --> 00:36:33.620
 was on flames.

00:36:34.740 --> 00:36:35.580
 The bombers opened

00:36:35.580 --> 00:36:36.480
 their bomb bay

00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:37.500
 doors and exerted a

00:36:37.500 --> 00:36:38.860
 miraculous magnetism

00:36:38.860 --> 00:36:39.980
 which shrunk the

00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:41.140
 fires and gathered

00:36:41.140 --> 00:36:42.280
 them into cylindrical

00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:43.820
 steel tubes and

00:36:43.820 --> 00:36:44.780
 lifted these tubes

00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:45.580
 into the bellies of

00:36:45.580 --> 00:36:46.080
 the planes.

00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:47.260
 The containers were

00:36:47.260 --> 00:36:48.340
 stored neatly in

00:36:48.340 --> 00:36:48.760
 racks.

00:36:49.720 --> 00:36:50.840
 The Germans below

00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:51.640
 had miraculous

00:36:51.640 --> 00:36:52.500
 devices on their

00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:53.400
 own which were

00:36:53.400 --> 00:36:54.640
 long steel tubes.

00:36:54.980 --> 00:36:56.240
 They used them to

00:36:56.240 --> 00:36:57.260
 suck fragments from

00:36:57.260 --> 00:36:58.019
 the crewmen in the

00:36:58.019 --> 00:36:58.420
 planes.

00:36:59.580 --> 00:37:00.460
 But there were still

00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:01.380
 wounded Americans

00:37:01.380 --> 00:37:02.400
 though and some of

00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:03.059
 the bombers were in

00:37:03.059 --> 00:37:03.960
 bad repair.

00:37:04.620 --> 00:37:05.420
 Over France though

00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:06.280
 the German fighters

00:37:06.280 --> 00:37:08.039
 came up again and

00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:08.920
 made everything and

00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:10.200
 everybody as good as

00:37:10.200 --> 00:37:10.460
 new.

00:37:11.460 --> 00:37:12.360
 When the bombers got

00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:13.240
 back to base the

00:37:13.240 --> 00:37:14.320
 steel syndicals were

00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:15.220
 taken from their

00:37:15.220 --> 00:37:16.059
 racks and shipped

00:37:16.059 --> 00:37:16.920
 back to the United

00:37:16.920 --> 00:37:17.759
 States of America

00:37:17.759 --> 00:37:19.039
 where factories were

00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:20.199
 operating day and

00:37:20.199 --> 00:37:22.519
 night dismantling the

00:37:22.519 --> 00:37:23.799
 tubes and separating

00:37:23.799 --> 00:37:24.360
 the dangerous

00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:25.079
 components into

00:37:25.079 --> 00:37:25.500
 minerals.

00:37:26.279 --> 00:37:27.360
 Touchingly it was

00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:28.340
 mainly women who did

00:37:28.340 --> 00:37:28.880
 this work.

00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:30.199
 The minerals were

00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:31.320
 then shipped to

00:37:31.320 --> 00:37:32.420
 specialists in remote

00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:32.900
 areas.

00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:34.199
 It was their business

00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:35.259
 to put them deep in

00:37:35.259 --> 00:37:36.440
 the ground to hide

00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:37.679
 them cleverly so that

00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:38.739
 they could never hurt

00:37:38.739 --> 00:37:39.920
 anyone again.

00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:42.039
 The American pilots

00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:43.019
 turned in their

00:37:43.019 --> 00:37:44.460
 uniforms and became

00:37:44.460 --> 00:37:46.199
 high school kids and

00:37:46.199 --> 00:37:47.340
 Hitler was turned into

00:37:47.340 --> 00:37:48.739
 a baby Billy Pilgrim

00:37:48.739 --> 00:37:49.219
 supposed.

00:37:50.380 --> 00:37:51.820
 Billy Pilgrim saw that

00:37:51.820 --> 00:37:53.000
 everybody turned into a

00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:55.000
 baby and all humanity

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:56.259
 without exception

00:37:56.259 --> 00:37:58.519
 conspired biologically to

00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:00.039
 produce two perfect

00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:02.280
 innocent people named

00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:03.699
 Adam and Eve he

00:38:03.699 --> 00:38:04.119
 supposed.

00:38:04.119 --> 00:38:09.420
 that's what our faith

00:38:09.420 --> 00:38:10.159
 promises.

00:38:11.440 --> 00:38:13.579
 To suck all of the

00:38:13.579 --> 00:38:15.480
 pain out of our

00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:15.839
 world.

00:38:16.099 --> 00:38:17.279
 All of the abuse.

00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:19.500
 The hell that is a

00:38:19.500 --> 00:38:21.500
 firebombing of a city

00:38:21.500 --> 00:38:23.299
 and to bury it deep in

00:38:23.299 --> 00:38:23.779
 the ground.

00:38:23.780 --> 00:38:28.040
 That's what we offer to

00:38:28.040 --> 00:38:28.720
 our friends.

00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:31.680
 God sucking all the

00:38:31.680 --> 00:38:32.540
 evil out of the world

00:38:32.540 --> 00:38:34.120
 through Jesus as bad

00:38:34.120 --> 00:38:34.760
 as it gets.

00:38:35.540 --> 00:38:37.260
 Judges 19 or firebombing

00:38:37.260 --> 00:38:39.320
 Jesus the king time

00:38:39.320 --> 00:38:40.519
 working backwards to

00:38:40.519 --> 00:38:41.620
 save us from ourselves.

00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:43.260
 We offer that to our

00:38:43.260 --> 00:38:43.740
 friends.

00:38:44.840 --> 00:38:46.040
 I offer that to you.

00:38:46.960 --> 00:38:47.720
 And I say would you

00:38:47.720 --> 00:38:50.060
 follow Jesus with me?

00:38:51.860 --> 00:38:52.780
 Would you pray with me?

00:38:54.260 --> 00:38:56.120
 Father in heaven thank

00:38:56.120 --> 00:38:57.720
 you that you have are

00:38:57.720 --> 00:39:00.120
 and will suck all the

00:39:00.120 --> 00:39:01.220
 pain and the abuse and

00:39:01.220 --> 00:39:02.040
 the evil out of this

00:39:02.040 --> 00:39:02.380
 world.

00:39:03.680 --> 00:39:04.860
 And you are doing it

00:39:04.860 --> 00:39:05.280
 soon.

00:39:06.340 --> 00:39:07.600
 We pray that you would

00:39:07.600 --> 00:39:08.920
 come soon and finish the

00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:09.260
 job.

00:39:09.940 --> 00:39:11.080
 Until then give us

00:39:11.080 --> 00:39:11.600
 grace.

00:39:12.300 --> 00:39:13.160
 Give us patience.

00:39:13.320 --> 00:39:14.580
 Give us endurance to

00:39:14.580 --> 00:39:15.540
 await the day when the

00:39:15.540 --> 00:39:16.620
 kingdom finally comes.

00:39:17.880 --> 00:39:19.180
 Give us the ability to

00:39:19.180 --> 00:39:20.280
 share this good news

00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:21.900
 faithfully and patiently

00:39:21.900 --> 00:39:23.280
 with our friends and be

00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:24.019
 glorified in it.

00:39:24.120 --> 00:39:24.780
 It's in Jesus name we

00:39:24.780 --> 00:39:24.940
 pray.

00:39:25.100 --> 00:39:25.320
 Amen.

00:39:25.320 --> 00:39:28.550
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