WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.120 Okay, let me pray for us as David comes to speak to us. 00:00:06.120 --> 00:00:06.540 Let's pray. 00:00:10.540 --> 00:00:13.060 Heavenly Father, we thank you that David's with us this evening, 00:00:13.060 --> 00:00:15.280 and we do pray for him and his family, 00:00:15.439 --> 00:00:17.960 that you might continue to encourage them 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:20.420 and supply them with all that they need. 00:00:20.660 --> 00:00:23.039 We want to pray just especially as he asks 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:27.519 that they might know your will and your plan for them as a family, 00:00:27.699 --> 00:00:29.580 and that you might open just the right doors 00:00:29.579 --> 00:00:32.019 for them for a fruitful service. 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.039 And we pray this evening as we consider work, 00:00:35.679 --> 00:00:37.759 we ask, Lord, that you'd help David to help us 00:00:37.759 --> 00:00:39.979 to think clearly and faithfully and biblically 00:00:39.979 --> 00:00:42.320 about the tasks that you've given us to do 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:44.299 and how we might do them for the glory of your name. 00:00:44.780 --> 00:00:45.060 Amen. 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:50.500 All right, thanks. 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:56.000 Grateful for the opportunity to speak today. 00:00:56.859 --> 00:00:58.879 Sorry that I'm going to use my MacBook, 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:03.300 but I was sort of in a frenzy, 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:09.420 and like a mad scientist was in the thick of this, 00:01:09.760 --> 00:01:11.219 and I looked at the clock, 00:01:11.320 --> 00:01:13.820 and it was like 10 till 6 p.m., 00:01:13.820 --> 00:01:14.340 and so I said, 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:17.219 I better go so that I can actually say some of this 00:01:17.219 --> 00:01:19.920 and not just study it. 00:01:20.460 --> 00:01:21.760 We're going to be in 1 Peter. 00:01:22.060 --> 00:01:23.680 That's where we're going to base ourselves. 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:28.780 And I'm going to, I know we've prayed a lot just now, 00:01:28.820 --> 00:01:29.700 but I'm going to pray again, 00:01:30.060 --> 00:01:33.680 because I'm actually not sure what of this that I've prepared 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.160 God actually wants to come out. 00:01:35.860 --> 00:01:40.219 And so I'm going to pray that he would pick and choose within there. 00:01:40.360 --> 00:01:42.320 And maybe it's something totally different, and we'll see. 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:46.219 But let's pray that God would say what he wants to say. 00:01:46.219 --> 00:01:52.560 Father, we are amazed at who you are and what you've done 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:57.299 and how you love us, 00:01:57.680 --> 00:01:59.900 how you want us to be with you, 00:02:00.180 --> 00:02:04.180 and that you've literally moved heaven and earth so that we could. 00:02:04.180 --> 00:02:09.860 Lord, I pray that whatever is said tonight, 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:12.280 whether it ends up being about work or about something else, 00:02:12.379 --> 00:02:13.319 that, Lord, it would be about you, 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:15.920 and that we would come to see you and know you better, 00:02:16.200 --> 00:02:18.560 and that we might walk out of here 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:21.939 and be able to serve you better and more. 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.980 Lord, that we would be consumed by your greatness and your glory, 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:30.020 and our lives might reflect that as we go. 00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:33.500 So, Lord, I pray you speak tonight. 00:02:33.680 --> 00:02:34.420 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:02:35.659 --> 00:02:37.340 So it's funny. 00:02:37.860 --> 00:02:39.879 I was out of... 00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:45.439 I've never taught a work-related text out of 1 Peter, 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:51.140 and the Lord put it in my heart, on my mind, to come here, 00:02:51.580 --> 00:02:53.140 and we're going to talk about priests. 00:02:53.320 --> 00:02:56.719 And then Steve brings up Jesus as the high priest 00:02:56.719 --> 00:02:58.340 and Melchizedek, which we'll talk about. 00:02:58.340 --> 00:03:01.039 And so I believe the Lord is actually at work, 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:02.640 and he's going to tell us something good. 00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:07.060 But for way back on... 00:03:07.060 --> 00:03:08.520 So, well, let me do this first, 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:10.939 because I think it'll be helpful for us. 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:16.800 Because in any conversation, any talk about work, 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:20.920 some of you, your eyes might glaze over, 00:03:20.980 --> 00:03:22.379 and you might think, this is not for me, 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:25.759 because you might not work in a traditional sense, 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:29.000 or the view of work that you think you have 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:31.439 doesn't include whatever you do in your life. 00:03:31.539 --> 00:03:34.060 So when I say work, 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:37.259 like, I want to know what we're all doing 00:03:37.259 --> 00:03:39.239 throughout the day, right? 00:03:39.319 --> 00:03:43.239 So just name some of the work that you all do. 00:03:45.579 --> 00:03:46.000 Go. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:46.079 Go. 00:03:49.299 --> 00:03:50.459 Taking care of the house. 00:03:50.959 --> 00:03:51.159 Amen. 00:03:51.620 --> 00:03:52.159 That's work. 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:53.039 What else? 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.199 What are some, like, jobs that you do? 00:03:55.500 --> 00:03:56.620 You work at a charity. 00:03:57.219 --> 00:03:58.079 Steve is a pastor. 00:03:59.659 --> 00:04:00.419 Child-minding. 00:04:01.259 --> 00:04:02.180 What else do we have? 00:04:02.539 --> 00:04:03.039 Being a dad. 00:04:03.439 --> 00:04:04.379 Being a dad. 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:04.659 Amen. 00:04:05.180 --> 00:04:05.639 That's work. 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:07.399 Being a mom, we'll just go ahead and say it. 00:04:08.079 --> 00:04:09.120 Biggest job ever. 00:04:09.519 --> 00:04:09.620 What? 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:10.719 Studying. 00:04:10.979 --> 00:04:13.419 Yes, if you're in school and you're studying. 00:04:14.219 --> 00:04:14.459 Right? 00:04:14.519 --> 00:04:16.000 I was, at one point, a banker, 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.379 and then I did some other stuff 00:04:18.379 --> 00:04:19.199 and made up some things 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:21.339 and just created jobs for myself 00:04:21.339 --> 00:04:22.620 because I didn't want to do those other ones. 00:04:23.220 --> 00:04:23.319 Right? 00:04:23.399 --> 00:04:26.079 Like, so there's work that we get paid for. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:28.279 We do a lot of different things, 00:04:28.620 --> 00:04:29.500 you know, whether it's charity, 00:04:29.639 --> 00:04:30.339 whether it's business, 00:04:30.459 --> 00:04:31.899 whether it's church work. 00:04:32.019 --> 00:04:32.259 Right? 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:34.839 And then there's work that no one pays us for. 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:36.579 Being a mom, being a dad, 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:38.339 being a student. 00:04:38.839 --> 00:04:39.100 Right? 00:04:39.439 --> 00:04:42.420 And there's work that fills in the gaps between those. 00:04:42.520 --> 00:04:43.420 All of it's work. 00:04:44.040 --> 00:04:44.280 Right? 00:04:44.340 --> 00:04:46.020 It's what we spend our time doing. 00:04:48.620 --> 00:04:49.280 Full stop. 00:04:49.660 --> 00:04:49.840 Right? 00:04:49.939 --> 00:04:53.120 And so I want you to think about everything that we say, 00:04:53.180 --> 00:04:54.420 not in the context of, 00:04:55.200 --> 00:04:58.740 well, this is my job that I get paid for. 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:00.800 And if you don't have one of those, 00:05:01.140 --> 00:05:03.420 that it doesn't apply because it does, 00:05:03.420 --> 00:05:05.780 whether you haven't had one yet 00:05:05.780 --> 00:05:08.080 or you've had one and now you've retired, 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:11.379 like there's still work for you to do. 00:05:11.539 --> 00:05:13.060 There's still work that we do. 00:05:13.159 --> 00:05:14.359 So anyway, all of that to say, 00:05:14.459 --> 00:05:16.639 I want, it helps to like think through 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:18.159 what we're talking about from, 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:19.859 from the broadest picture. 00:05:19.979 --> 00:05:24.879 And so we might start high level. 00:05:25.180 --> 00:05:26.579 I promise it'll get more practical, 00:05:27.139 --> 00:05:29.699 but good theology is the foundation of good living. 00:05:29.799 --> 00:05:32.139 And theology should not only help us understand 00:05:32.139 --> 00:05:33.299 more about who God is, 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:35.419 but help us to answer the question of how should we live. 00:05:36.420 --> 00:05:37.360 And so it's, 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:40.160 it's ultimately wrapped up in head and heart and hands 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:42.120 and it's all of life. 00:05:42.340 --> 00:05:42.780 Right? 00:05:42.840 --> 00:05:43.800 And so that's where we're going to be. 00:05:43.900 --> 00:05:44.460 So one Peter, 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:46.759 we know who Peter is. 00:05:46.819 --> 00:05:49.860 I'm going to also say that I think most of us 00:05:49.860 --> 00:05:52.360 are followers of Jesus and we're Christians. 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:55.759 And so this will help us to apply how that works. 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:57.779 if we're not, 00:05:58.079 --> 00:05:58.899 or if we're not yet, 00:05:59.199 --> 00:06:01.039 this will be helpful to think through 00:06:01.039 --> 00:06:02.240 why you might want to be that, 00:06:02.939 --> 00:06:04.319 why that might make sense for you. 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:07.620 So it doesn't matter then whether you are or not, 00:06:07.699 --> 00:06:08.099 like it's not, 00:06:08.180 --> 00:06:08.899 it's also for you. 00:06:09.159 --> 00:06:11.819 So Peter wrote one, 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:12.379 this, 00:06:12.500 --> 00:06:12.980 this letter, 00:06:13.139 --> 00:06:14.099 it says, 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:16.339 we're going to jump around in it. 00:06:16.360 --> 00:06:16.740 So there's not, 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:17.180 I'll, 00:06:17.180 --> 00:06:18.120 I'll show you where we're going, 00:06:18.199 --> 00:06:21.800 but he writes it to God's elect. 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:24.579 So that is people who have, 00:06:24.939 --> 00:06:26.759 are following Jesus. 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.259 These are Christians scattered throughout the provinces, 00:06:31.139 --> 00:06:35.900 a bunch of places in kind of the Roman world. 00:06:36.139 --> 00:06:37.000 And so they're, 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:39.840 they're kind of across Asia minor and these other different places. 00:06:40.300 --> 00:06:41.080 And then, 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:43.180 and so he's writing this to Christians. 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:45.879 He's writing it to encourage them. 00:06:47.139 --> 00:06:47.160 And, 00:06:47.740 --> 00:06:50.600 and then it kind of, 00:06:50.600 --> 00:06:53.280 this answer to this question is, 00:06:53.420 --> 00:06:53.540 you know, 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:53.700 okay, 00:06:53.740 --> 00:06:53.939 what, 00:06:54.280 --> 00:06:57.100 what are we to do once we believe, 00:06:57.960 --> 00:06:58.080 right? 00:06:58.080 --> 00:07:00.280 There's a lot of energy and effort and, 00:07:00.340 --> 00:07:02.240 and time that goes into, 00:07:02.420 --> 00:07:05.180 especially in church to talking about what you should believe. 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:06.160 You should trust Jesus. 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:08.760 You should become a follower of Christ. 00:07:08.820 --> 00:07:09.120 You should, 00:07:09.260 --> 00:07:10.000 you should see that. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:14.700 But then sometimes we forget and talk less sometimes about what we do 00:07:14.700 --> 00:07:15.000 then. 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:15.900 Right. 00:07:15.960 --> 00:07:20.580 And there's a bunch of Christians that Peter is talking to. 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:21.000 These are, 00:07:21.060 --> 00:07:22.420 these are Gentile Christians. 00:07:22.420 --> 00:07:22.939 So they, 00:07:23.080 --> 00:07:24.260 they've come to faith, 00:07:24.740 --> 00:07:25.900 come to follow Jesus, 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.420 like as adults, 00:07:28.500 --> 00:07:29.400 basically in this case. 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:33.700 And so they're part of their question is, 00:07:33.760 --> 00:07:34.460 what do I do now? 00:07:34.960 --> 00:07:35.400 Right. 00:07:35.460 --> 00:07:37.920 Like I felt that Jesus has, 00:07:37.980 --> 00:07:40.300 has come in and changed me in some way. 00:07:41.420 --> 00:07:45.000 I kind of understand that I shouldn't keep doing the things that I used to do, 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:47.200 but what do I do with these now? 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:49.879 And one Peter is sort of a letter to them in, 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:50.479 in some ways, 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:52.620 encouraging them to that answer. 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:56.180 And he addresses some specific things that they're dealing with, 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:56.379 but, 00:07:56.379 --> 00:07:59.839 but broadly you'll see that he's sort of answering this question. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:01.939 What are we to do once we believe? 00:08:02.039 --> 00:08:02.180 How, 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:03.439 how do we live? 00:08:03.459 --> 00:08:06.099 And this is what Peter says. 00:08:06.100 --> 00:08:09.180 So I'm going to paraphrase, 00:08:09.320 --> 00:08:10.920 and then we're going to look at some specific bits, 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:15.960 but the hard thing is that I want to read all five chapters, 00:08:16.140 --> 00:08:18.220 but that would ruin all the time. 00:08:18.220 --> 00:08:20.280 And then all the stuff that I don't have time for, 00:08:20.340 --> 00:08:20.660 I would never, 00:08:20.800 --> 00:08:21.520 I wouldn't get to anyway. 00:08:21.700 --> 00:08:25.040 So it might be the best thing because it's amazing stuff. 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:30.280 But Peter says to these believers, 00:08:31.400 --> 00:08:32.879 he says, 00:08:33.100 --> 00:08:36.039 you were chosen and redeemed, 00:08:36.360 --> 00:08:39.000 not to keep on living the way you did before, 00:08:39.100 --> 00:08:40.480 but he says, 00:08:40.759 --> 00:08:43.960 at the beginning of chapter two, 00:08:44.659 --> 00:08:44.980 he says, 00:08:45.539 --> 00:08:50.820 verse four, 00:08:50.980 --> 00:08:51.720 verse five says, 00:08:51.720 --> 00:08:56.100 you like living stones are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood. 00:08:56.779 --> 00:08:57.420 Hold that one. 00:08:57.860 --> 00:08:59.519 Offer spiritual sacrifices accepted, 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:01.680 acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 00:09:02.220 --> 00:09:03.879 And then go down to verse nine. 00:09:03.940 --> 00:09:04.120 He says, 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:05.440 but you're a chosen people, 00:09:05.920 --> 00:09:07.160 a royal priesthood, 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:08.180 a holy nation, 00:09:08.700 --> 00:09:16.540 God's special possession that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 00:09:17.960 --> 00:09:21.560 So you've got this piece where he's saying, 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:21.980 you know, 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:22.940 you're, 00:09:22.940 --> 00:09:23.060 you're, 00:09:23.060 --> 00:09:23.360 you're, 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:24.600 you're something new. 00:09:25.160 --> 00:09:28.300 You're God has made you and chosen you into be this thing, 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:29.259 this holy priesthood, 00:09:29.340 --> 00:09:31.019 this royal priesthood. 00:09:31.259 --> 00:09:34.620 And so then he goes on and he says, 00:09:34.620 --> 00:09:35.100 um, 00:09:37.100 --> 00:09:43.100 I didn't put the reference, 00:09:44.060 --> 00:09:44.379 but he says, 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:45.759 we'll find it. 00:09:45.759 --> 00:09:46.220 He says, 00:09:46.299 --> 00:09:52.159 I urge you to live such good lives that they, 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:56.779 the pagans may see your good deeds and glorify God. 00:09:57.240 --> 00:09:57.679 So he says, 00:09:57.740 --> 00:09:57.879 okay, 00:09:58.299 --> 00:09:58.539 you, 00:09:58.659 --> 00:09:58.840 you're, 00:09:58.879 --> 00:09:59.399 you're chosen. 00:09:59.559 --> 00:09:59.679 You're, 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:00.100 you're, 00:10:00.179 --> 00:10:01.100 you're someone new. 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:01.419 You're, 00:10:01.580 --> 00:10:03.360 you're a royal priesthood. 00:10:03.399 --> 00:10:03.500 Well, 00:10:03.500 --> 00:10:04.179 what does that mean? 00:10:04.539 --> 00:10:11.399 And it's part of that is live such good lives that they may see your good deeds and glorify God. 00:10:11.399 --> 00:10:14.039 And then it goes on. 00:10:14.079 --> 00:10:14.279 He says, 00:10:14.379 --> 00:10:15.120 as a result, 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.159 don't live your law, 00:10:18.319 --> 00:10:20.879 your earthly lives for evil human desires, 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:22.720 but for the will of God. 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:22.939 Sorry, 00:10:22.980 --> 00:10:24.679 I'm jumping all around and I didn't put the verses. 00:10:24.819 --> 00:10:25.459 You'll figure it out. 00:10:26.620 --> 00:10:27.019 Uh, 00:10:27.199 --> 00:10:29.240 and then in chapter four, 00:10:29.340 --> 00:10:30.139 we get to this, 00:10:30.139 --> 00:10:31.220 um, 00:10:32.199 --> 00:10:32.579 moment. 00:10:32.699 --> 00:10:33.720 It's chapter four, 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:34.159 verse seven. 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:34.399 It says, 00:10:34.459 --> 00:10:35.659 the end of things is near. 00:10:36.319 --> 00:10:38.500 Therefore be alert and sober of mind. 00:10:38.500 --> 00:10:40.960 And so that you might pray and above all, 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.860 love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins. 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:44.500 It says, 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:46.879 offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. 00:10:47.360 --> 00:10:48.180 And here's where it gets good. 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:58.000 Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. 00:10:58.320 --> 00:10:59.080 If anyone speaks, 00:10:59.160 --> 00:11:02.660 they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. 00:11:02.700 --> 00:11:03.800 If anyone serves, 00:11:03.900 --> 00:11:07.800 they should do so with the strength God provides so that in all things, 00:11:07.799 --> 00:11:11.399 God may be praised through Jesus Christ to him, 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:13.719 be the glory and the power forever and ever. 00:11:13.979 --> 00:11:14.120 Amen. 00:11:15.079 --> 00:11:17.559 So in summary, 00:11:18.019 --> 00:11:20.240 you were chosen and redeemed, 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.539 not to keep on living the way you did before, 00:11:22.539 --> 00:11:25.500 but to be this royal priesthood, 00:11:25.839 --> 00:11:26.860 God's special possession, 00:11:27.500 --> 00:11:30.959 and to live such good lives that they may see your good deeds and glorify God. 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:32.240 And as a result, 00:11:32.939 --> 00:11:36.500 you wouldn't do the things, 00:11:36.599 --> 00:11:37.199 the old things, 00:11:37.199 --> 00:11:38.399 you would live for the will of God, 00:11:38.399 --> 00:11:44.139 and you should use whatever you've been given to serve others and be faithful stewards of God's grace, 00:11:44.539 --> 00:11:46.179 so that in all things, 00:11:46.259 --> 00:11:47.740 God may be glorified. 00:11:48.580 --> 00:11:54.000 And so I want to pull all that together to kind of the thesis statement for this evening, 00:11:54.120 --> 00:11:54.500 which is, 00:11:54.960 --> 00:12:02.259 our calling from God has always been to do his will as his royal priests so that he would be glorified. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:07.700 And so that's what we're going to hang the rest of this talk on, right? 00:12:07.759 --> 00:12:08.539 And I told you, 00:12:08.620 --> 00:12:10.740 eventually it'll sound like something about work, 00:12:10.820 --> 00:12:11.720 but we'll get there. 00:12:12.860 --> 00:12:15.139 And so let me break that down. 00:12:15.139 --> 00:12:23.539 So our calling from God has always been to do his will as his royal priests so that he would be glorified. 00:12:24.019 --> 00:12:26.159 So this idea of always been, right? 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:29.319 God's calling on our lives is consistent. 00:12:30.779 --> 00:12:35.159 So you've got the meta-narrative of the Bible, right? 00:12:35.220 --> 00:12:37.439 The whole gospel story. 00:12:38.059 --> 00:12:39.519 There's smaller narratives, 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:42.439 but then there's a larger narrative that crosses all of scripture. 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:45.100 And it can be broken down. 00:12:45.180 --> 00:12:47.480 You've probably heard this into kind of four buckets, 00:12:47.640 --> 00:12:48.100 creation, 00:12:48.520 --> 00:12:48.820 fall, 00:12:49.020 --> 00:12:49.320 redemption, 00:12:49.660 --> 00:12:51.380 and restoration or new creation, 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:51.640 right? 00:12:52.860 --> 00:12:54.300 And in the beginning, 00:12:54.600 --> 00:12:54.860 God, 00:12:54.940 --> 00:13:01.340 God created the heaven and earth and they were united with God's presence dwelling together with man in Eden, 00:13:01.500 --> 00:13:01.760 right? 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:02.600 And, 00:13:02.680 --> 00:13:04.460 and God plants a garden in Eden. 00:13:04.460 --> 00:13:10.240 And he tells the man to work it and take care of it and to rule it and subdue it, 00:13:10.540 --> 00:13:10.759 right? 00:13:10.820 --> 00:13:12.220 He gives man a job, 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:13.440 a role. 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:16.240 And it's an, 00:13:16.560 --> 00:13:19.280 so the interesting thing about this is that garden, 00:13:19.800 --> 00:13:19.940 that, 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:21.900 that place that God made is unfinished, 00:13:23.379 --> 00:13:23.639 right? 00:13:25.580 --> 00:13:26.280 Eden is, 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:27.019 is a beautiful, 00:13:27.280 --> 00:13:28.120 amazing place. 00:13:28.220 --> 00:13:29.240 This is a garden that, 00:13:29.340 --> 00:13:32.500 that you could imagine in your mind as being just incredibly beautiful, 00:13:32.500 --> 00:13:33.320 but it's a garden, 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:35.080 a garden needs tending, 00:13:35.419 --> 00:13:36.120 a garden needs, 00:13:36.279 --> 00:13:36.879 you know, 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:37.700 cultivating, 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:38.440 right? 00:13:38.700 --> 00:13:38.820 And, 00:13:38.820 --> 00:13:39.320 and, 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:42.159 and so as we cultivate it, 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.639 it grows and changes and becomes more beautiful and better, 00:13:45.740 --> 00:13:45.919 right? 00:13:45.940 --> 00:13:47.960 And this is his intention that God, 00:13:48.320 --> 00:13:51.679 we are designed to partner with God, 00:13:51.679 --> 00:13:58.419 to build a beautiful world that proclaims his glory and where we would live in harmony with him forever, 00:13:58.960 --> 00:13:59.120 right? 00:13:59.120 --> 00:14:01.039 This is what God's intention was in creation. 00:14:01.399 --> 00:14:02.200 This is where we go. 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:03.100 But unfortunately, 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:05.379 Adam and Eve, 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:07.300 they want what God promises, 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.800 but they don't want to work for it and they don't want to wait for it. 00:14:10.800 --> 00:14:14.360 So they take a shortcut offered by the serpent. 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:16.520 And because of this, 00:14:16.580 --> 00:14:22.400 they're removed from the garden and they're no longer are they able to be in the presence of God. 00:14:22.560 --> 00:14:25.259 And so they're left here on earth, 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:27.620 separated from him, 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:28.100 right? 00:14:28.340 --> 00:14:29.540 And so they're removed. 00:14:29.539 --> 00:14:30.639 And in, 00:14:30.639 --> 00:14:30.839 in, 00:14:30.839 --> 00:14:30.879 in, 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:32.519 in the moment of that, 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:33.219 God, 00:14:33.620 --> 00:14:33.759 I mean, 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:35.399 this is all in the first three chapters of the Bible. 00:14:36.219 --> 00:14:37.259 Genesis one to three, 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:38.439 just like read it every day. 00:14:38.500 --> 00:14:38.980 It's unbelievable. 00:14:38.980 --> 00:14:41.259 So in the moment, 00:14:41.360 --> 00:14:41.620 God, 00:14:41.620 --> 00:14:44.720 he says to Eve and to, 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:45.279 to Adam, 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:48.720 as he's proclaiming the, 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:50.899 the consequences of their actions, 00:14:50.899 --> 00:14:52.840 he says in his goodness, 00:14:53.420 --> 00:14:55.800 but one day there will be, 00:14:55.940 --> 00:15:00.379 the seed will come and it will defeat the serpent and reverse this curse, 00:15:00.379 --> 00:15:01.240 right? 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:01.399 We, 00:15:01.440 --> 00:15:02.019 we know this, 00:15:02.060 --> 00:15:02.180 right? 00:15:02.319 --> 00:15:03.279 And if we don't know it, 00:15:03.319 --> 00:15:04.239 we can talk about it later, 00:15:04.299 --> 00:15:05.120 but the, 00:15:05.219 --> 00:15:07.399 this is coming in the rest of the story, 00:15:07.479 --> 00:15:08.500 the rest of the Bible, 00:15:09.359 --> 00:15:10.339 all of its stories, 00:15:10.439 --> 00:15:11.179 all of its details, 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:11.779 the people, 00:15:11.939 --> 00:15:12.959 the sacrificial system, 00:15:13.059 --> 00:15:13.819 it's saving events. 00:15:13.959 --> 00:15:19.599 It tells us how this will happen by slowly unfolding this good news, 00:15:19.719 --> 00:15:20.039 this, 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:21.019 this promise, 00:15:21.019 --> 00:15:23.120 which ultimately leads us to Christ. 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:24.860 And, 00:15:24.940 --> 00:15:26.139 and as it unfolds, 00:15:26.159 --> 00:15:29.899 Christ eventually come comes God's own son. 00:15:29.899 --> 00:15:32.860 And by his life and his death and his resurrection, 00:15:32.860 --> 00:15:35.360 the father creates this new humanity, 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:36.899 this new version, 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:39.120 which we call the church now. 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:39.299 And, 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:43.779 and we enjoy the forgiveness of sins with new hearts and access to the father by 00:15:43.779 --> 00:15:44.360 the spirit, 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:45.139 right? 00:15:45.220 --> 00:15:45.580 And, 00:15:45.580 --> 00:15:46.480 and in Christ, 00:15:47.060 --> 00:15:52.840 what the triune God originally intended crippled by the fall can now be 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:53.220 restored. 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:59.500 And in restoration at the end and final resolution of the story is that 00:15:59.500 --> 00:16:01.899 because of Jesus's death and his glorious resurrection, 00:16:02.040 --> 00:16:06.780 the earth and heaven are rejoined and restored into something that's described 00:16:06.780 --> 00:16:08.720 as the new Jerusalem and the new creation, 00:16:09.620 --> 00:16:09.740 right? 00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:11.480 And so you've got this, 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:12.519 if you can imagine it, 00:16:12.519 --> 00:16:13.560 I wanted to have this on a, 00:16:13.560 --> 00:16:14.180 on a slide, 00:16:14.280 --> 00:16:15.540 but if you can imagine it, 00:16:15.920 --> 00:16:16.060 the, 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:19.000 the timeline of history, 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:20.920 right? 00:16:20.919 --> 00:16:23.439 starts at creation and it's moving somewhere, 00:16:23.439 --> 00:16:24.500 right? 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:27.399 But then it breaks off with the fall, 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.339 but then Jesus comes in and, 00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:32.199 and brings it back to restore. 00:16:32.199 --> 00:16:32.439 And, 00:16:32.459 --> 00:16:35.479 and basically it's moving back toward the original timeline. 00:16:35.479 --> 00:16:37.579 And that's what the beauty of the gospel, 00:16:37.899 --> 00:16:38.819 the beauty of, 00:16:38.939 --> 00:16:40.939 of what God has done is that he said, 00:16:41.079 --> 00:16:42.659 this thing that you broke, 00:16:42.659 --> 00:16:44.139 I'm going to restore it. 00:16:44.139 --> 00:16:48.120 And I'm going to bring you back to experience the full glory of what I had 00:16:48.120 --> 00:16:49.080 intended in the very beginning. 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:53.320 And so even though you ran and you, 00:16:53.320 --> 00:16:56.220 you wanted the shortcut and you didn't want to do it the way that I had 00:16:56.220 --> 00:16:56.840 described, 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:01.399 I actually am good enough that I'll bring it back to the thing. 00:17:02.019 --> 00:17:02.960 So this is where we are. 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:03.919 And so, 00:17:04.339 --> 00:17:05.779 and in that end, 00:17:06.859 --> 00:17:12.700 humanity carries on partnering with God to build a beautiful world that 00:17:12.700 --> 00:17:14.539 proclaims God's glory for all of eternity. 00:17:14.539 --> 00:17:15.899 And we get to live with him in it. 00:17:16.519 --> 00:17:16.740 Right? 00:17:16.819 --> 00:17:16.940 So, 00:17:17.039 --> 00:17:21.519 so the idea from the beginning is the same idea at the end. 00:17:23.099 --> 00:17:23.500 Right? 00:17:23.500 --> 00:17:23.980 And so, 00:17:24.180 --> 00:17:32.000 so the way God created us originally is who will be in the longterm with 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:35.420 this beautiful bit of God fixing our problems in the middle. 00:17:36.139 --> 00:17:36.259 Right? 00:17:36.319 --> 00:17:36.579 And so, 00:17:36.740 --> 00:17:37.759 so this is really important. 00:17:37.899 --> 00:17:39.359 His calling is consistent. 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:39.779 His, 00:17:39.899 --> 00:17:41.200 his aim for us, 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:43.779 the way he created us is for eternity. 00:17:43.779 --> 00:17:47.359 And his plan has always been this and it will always be this. 00:17:47.440 --> 00:17:49.660 So just hold that in your mind for a bit. 00:17:49.740 --> 00:17:50.019 And I'll, 00:17:50.059 --> 00:17:52.399 I'm going to dive back in with, 00:17:52.599 --> 00:17:53.700 with some of what that means. 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:53.940 So, 00:17:54.099 --> 00:17:56.759 so in my statement, 00:17:56.940 --> 00:17:57.420 it was, 00:17:58.700 --> 00:18:02.879 our calling from God has always been to do his will as his royal priest so 00:18:02.879 --> 00:18:04.039 that he would be glorified. 00:18:04.039 --> 00:18:04.379 So what, 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:05.899 what does it mean to be royal priest? 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:06.099 Right? 00:18:06.200 --> 00:18:10.879 So Peter has this moment in chapter two, 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:11.120 he says, 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:12.060 but you're a chosen people, 00:18:12.160 --> 00:18:13.420 a royal priesthood. 00:18:17.140 --> 00:18:17.620 It's, 00:18:17.620 --> 00:18:19.280 it's not out of the blue. 00:18:19.700 --> 00:18:20.100 Uh, 00:18:20.100 --> 00:18:20.620 thankfully, 00:18:20.980 --> 00:18:22.860 Steve helped us talk about this. 00:18:22.960 --> 00:18:26.520 This idea of a priest has existed throughout this meta narrative, 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:27.380 throughout this story. 00:18:27.660 --> 00:18:28.200 Right? 00:18:28.260 --> 00:18:28.460 It's, 00:18:28.460 --> 00:18:30.380 it's part of God's consistent plan and design. 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:31.260 Um, 00:18:31.259 --> 00:18:33.700 in the beginning Bible, 00:18:34.079 --> 00:18:35.559 when the Bible introduces humanity, 00:18:35.559 --> 00:18:37.779 it's as his royal priests, 00:18:37.980 --> 00:18:38.420 right? 00:18:38.500 --> 00:18:40.960 They're ruling with God in Eden, 00:18:41.059 --> 00:18:41.240 right? 00:18:41.379 --> 00:18:42.180 But in the fall, 00:18:42.259 --> 00:18:43.359 they forfeit that calling. 00:18:43.680 --> 00:18:45.379 And so then it, 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:46.200 um, 00:18:47.019 --> 00:18:49.960 God promises that one of their descendants would be an even better priest, 00:18:50.019 --> 00:18:50.420 basically. 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:50.740 Right? 00:18:51.180 --> 00:18:54.759 And that priest would defeat evil and intervene to restore Eden. 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:55.319 And, 00:18:55.319 --> 00:18:59.180 and so then there's this part of this story going through, 00:18:59.240 --> 00:19:01.700 you see different priests and, 00:19:01.759 --> 00:19:02.039 and the, 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:07.619 the idea of a priest pop up where they can intercede for us with God. 00:19:07.619 --> 00:19:07.859 Right? 00:19:07.859 --> 00:19:09.339 So the way we've seen, 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:10.099 uh, 00:19:11.079 --> 00:19:11.700 in Hebrews, 00:19:12.059 --> 00:19:13.700 Jesus is shown as the great high priest who, 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:15.680 who perfectly intercedes for us. 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:20.220 There's pictures and types to show us what that would look like before Jesus did come. 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:22.079 And so the, 00:19:22.099 --> 00:19:23.640 the initial idea of a priest, 00:19:23.740 --> 00:19:23.900 right? 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:24.660 Um, 00:19:24.660 --> 00:19:27.340 when God creates the, 00:19:27.340 --> 00:19:27.700 the, 00:19:27.700 --> 00:19:29.240 the tabernacle and he says, 00:19:29.300 --> 00:19:29.480 look, 00:19:29.900 --> 00:19:30.300 there's a, 00:19:30.360 --> 00:19:31.720 there's a place where, 00:19:31.720 --> 00:19:32.400 uh, 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.980 only the high priest can go where this. 00:19:35.300 --> 00:19:36.300 And so he intercedes. 00:19:36.300 --> 00:19:36.720 He's the, 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:39.600 the conduit between the rest of us and with God. 00:19:39.600 --> 00:19:39.860 Right? 00:19:39.880 --> 00:19:40.560 And so that's this, 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:43.840 this idea that they represent God to us and re-represent, 00:19:44.220 --> 00:19:44.420 uh, 00:19:44.420 --> 00:19:45.600 and represent us to God. 00:19:45.600 --> 00:19:45.840 Right? 00:19:46.840 --> 00:19:47.259 And so, 00:19:47.740 --> 00:19:48.160 um, 00:19:48.740 --> 00:19:49.380 the, 00:19:49.480 --> 00:19:53.600 the first kind of expression, 00:19:53.900 --> 00:19:54.340 the, 00:19:54.340 --> 00:19:55.580 the first question of this is this guy called Melchizedek, 00:19:56.019 --> 00:19:56.740 which is, 00:19:57.340 --> 00:19:58.380 there's a whole long story, 00:19:58.380 --> 00:19:59.060 but he's, 00:19:59.140 --> 00:20:01.140 he's not in the line of Abraham. 00:20:01.140 --> 00:20:01.560 He's, 00:20:01.680 --> 00:20:04.440 he's with separate to Abraham and, 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:06.580 and sees Abraham and Abraham. 00:20:06.579 --> 00:20:08.079 There was this big battle. 00:20:08.659 --> 00:20:09.819 Lot got himself in trouble. 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:13.000 Abraham goes to save him and ends up winning. 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:15.179 And so then Melchizedek on, 00:20:15.299 --> 00:20:18.179 on the mountain that becomes Jerusalem, 00:20:18.439 --> 00:20:18.579 right? 00:20:18.819 --> 00:20:20.339 Melchizedek is the priest of Salem, 00:20:20.579 --> 00:20:21.839 which is Jerusalem. 00:20:22.519 --> 00:20:22.960 Uh, 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:24.659 and he basically, 00:20:24.899 --> 00:20:25.179 he, 00:20:25.199 --> 00:20:27.119 he does this priestly thing. 00:20:27.639 --> 00:20:28.039 Uh, 00:20:28.139 --> 00:20:30.220 and Abraham gives him 10% of what he got. 00:20:30.639 --> 00:20:31.159 And, 00:20:31.279 --> 00:20:32.079 and this is a whole, 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:35.179 this is a picture of who Jesus would be in the longer term. 00:20:35.859 --> 00:20:38.939 I was not the most theologically perfect, 00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:40.579 but it gets the point across. 00:20:40.579 --> 00:20:40.819 Right? 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.619 And then Moses is sort of this priestly figure. 00:20:44.619 --> 00:20:45.139 Um, 00:20:46.599 --> 00:20:47.059 when he, 00:20:47.139 --> 00:20:47.439 he, 00:20:47.679 --> 00:20:48.299 you know, 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:49.199 that comes back. 00:20:49.199 --> 00:20:50.720 And so we have this moment and then, 00:20:50.720 --> 00:20:53.579 and then David is this priestly King. 00:20:54.139 --> 00:20:54.579 Uh, 00:20:54.579 --> 00:20:59.319 and then he himself describes this future priestly King in Psalm 110, 00:20:59.319 --> 00:21:00.339 uh, 00:21:00.339 --> 00:21:01.740 who he describes as my Lord. 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:08.899 And all of these are types or pictures of the real high priest that would come in Jesus. 00:21:08.899 --> 00:21:18.019 And the ultimate royal priest who suffered and died for a failed humanity so that we could be restored to our original calling as royal priests. 00:21:18.459 --> 00:21:19.519 And so here we are, 00:21:19.639 --> 00:21:24.720 as Peter calls us as believers and followers of Jesus as royal priests. 00:21:24.720 --> 00:21:25.640 And, 00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:28.000 and the priest, 00:21:28.120 --> 00:21:30.500 the temple priest was responsible for caring for the temple, 00:21:30.920 --> 00:21:33.059 for offering sacrifices on behalf of the people. 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:33.960 Uh, 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:34.140 he, 00:21:34.259 --> 00:21:39.380 he announced God's blessing over the people and they represented God to the people and people to God. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:40.440 Right? 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.920 And so we, 00:21:41.980 --> 00:21:42.920 we look around though. 00:21:42.920 --> 00:21:44.100 And even now we're, 00:21:44.180 --> 00:21:44.460 we, 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:45.079 we're like, 00:21:45.140 --> 00:21:45.240 well, 00:21:45.240 --> 00:21:46.100 we're not priests. 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:48.339 We don't use that kind of terminology. 00:21:48.339 --> 00:21:49.279 We do other things, 00:21:49.279 --> 00:21:49.539 right? 00:21:49.539 --> 00:21:50.259 We're, 00:21:50.940 --> 00:21:51.440 uh, 00:21:51.539 --> 00:21:53.220 we work for charities and we, 00:21:53.539 --> 00:21:53.720 uh, 00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:57.279 our students and we're teachers and we do other things, 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:57.539 right? 00:21:57.700 --> 00:21:58.019 Um, 00:21:58.519 --> 00:21:58.720 we, 00:21:58.879 --> 00:22:01.019 we're working in the world and not in temples. 00:22:01.819 --> 00:22:02.299 Uh, 00:22:02.299 --> 00:22:05.519 and yet we can speak and behave as priests. 00:22:05.519 --> 00:22:09.559 We can believe that Jesus is the ultimate royal police ruling all of heaven and earth, 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:10.180 uh, 00:22:10.180 --> 00:22:11.019 as his temple. 00:22:11.019 --> 00:22:13.299 And we are an extension of him here on earth. 00:22:13.359 --> 00:22:14.720 We interceding for one another, 00:22:14.720 --> 00:22:15.619 as we just prayed, 00:22:15.619 --> 00:22:16.539 uh, 00:22:16.579 --> 00:22:20.119 we offering our bodies as a living sacrifice as in Romans 11. 00:22:20.519 --> 00:22:21.000 And, 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:21.299 uh, 00:22:21.299 --> 00:22:22.599 we care for the temple, 00:22:23.519 --> 00:22:25.879 his earth and creation and, 00:22:25.879 --> 00:22:29.240 and God's people as his temple where he resides. 00:22:29.419 --> 00:22:29.539 Right? 00:22:29.779 --> 00:22:32.000 And so this idea, 00:22:32.299 --> 00:22:33.700 of, 00:22:33.819 --> 00:22:35.819 of this royal priesthood is this, 00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:41.539 is part of this meta narrative that God created us in a specific way to do a specific thing. 00:22:42.079 --> 00:22:45.799 It got kind of jacked up and in his goodness, 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:48.779 he wants to bring us back to doing this work. 00:22:50.039 --> 00:22:50.619 Trust me, 00:22:50.639 --> 00:22:50.899 this will, 00:22:51.019 --> 00:22:51.639 this will make sense. 00:22:51.700 --> 00:22:51.839 Right? 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:52.759 Um, 00:22:53.059 --> 00:22:54.599 and so our job is to, 00:22:54.639 --> 00:22:54.919 to, 00:22:55.019 --> 00:22:56.700 to live for the will of God. 00:22:56.700 --> 00:22:56.940 Right? 00:22:57.039 --> 00:22:58.059 So to, 00:22:58.059 --> 00:23:02.079 to do God's will as royal priests, 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:02.379 right? 00:23:02.779 --> 00:23:07.879 And that God's will for our lives is not a secret. 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:10.199 It's explicit in the Bible. 00:23:10.439 --> 00:23:10.759 Right? 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:12.000 A lot of times we, 00:23:12.059 --> 00:23:12.599 we think about, 00:23:12.699 --> 00:23:14.079 and even as I was just thinking, 00:23:14.259 --> 00:23:14.839 just saying, 00:23:14.899 --> 00:23:15.000 like, 00:23:15.019 --> 00:23:16.819 I don't know exactly what he wants me to do. 00:23:17.679 --> 00:23:18.079 Right? 00:23:18.079 --> 00:23:18.279 I, 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:18.379 I, 00:23:18.379 --> 00:23:22.699 I've moved back to a place out of my own intention. 00:23:23.419 --> 00:23:23.699 Uh, 00:23:23.699 --> 00:23:25.699 and I don't know exactly what he wants me to do, 00:23:25.699 --> 00:23:30.119 but I do know exactly what he wants me to do in a global sense. 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:30.379 Right? 00:23:30.699 --> 00:23:31.079 Because what, 00:23:31.159 --> 00:23:32.720 what is the will of God? 00:23:32.819 --> 00:23:35.279 Peter says that we would not live for our own desires, 00:23:35.279 --> 00:23:36.299 but for the will of God. 00:23:36.839 --> 00:23:37.980 So what is the will of God? 00:23:38.059 --> 00:23:38.199 Well, 00:23:38.199 --> 00:23:39.720 God gives us a very clear direction. 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:45.220 And there are three unsubtle directions from God throughout the Bible. 00:23:45.220 --> 00:23:46.019 Uh, 00:23:46.019 --> 00:23:46.480 there are more, 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:47.839 but there are three big ones. 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.100 And the first is what I'm going to call the great collaboration. 00:23:51.700 --> 00:23:52.880 It's from Genesis one. 00:23:53.140 --> 00:23:55.799 Sometimes it's called the cultural mandate or the creation mandate, 00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:59.160 but it's what God looks at Adam and says, 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:00.140 uh, 00:24:00.140 --> 00:24:00.420 in, 00:24:00.500 --> 00:24:02.279 in Genesis one verse 26, 00:24:02.339 --> 00:24:02.680 he says, 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:04.680 let us make mankind in our image, 00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:05.960 in our likeness, 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:10.680 which makes us unique so that they might rule over the fish of the sea and the 00:24:10.680 --> 00:24:13.600 birds of the sky and over the livestock and all the wild animals and all 00:24:13.600 --> 00:24:15.180 over the creatures that move along the ground. 00:24:16.160 --> 00:24:18.019 So God created mankind in his image, 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:18.920 in the image of God, 00:24:18.980 --> 00:24:20.200 he created the male and female. 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:20.779 He created them. 00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:22.500 God blessed them and said to them, 00:24:22.779 --> 00:24:23.400 here's the thing, 00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:26.160 be fruitful and increase in number, 00:24:26.860 --> 00:24:28.339 fill the earth and subdue it, 00:24:28.779 --> 00:24:31.900 rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living 00:24:31.900 --> 00:24:33.039 creature that moves on the ground. 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:39.740 And so this is God telling humanity what his intention is. 00:24:39.740 --> 00:24:40.539 He says, 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:41.579 look, 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:41.839 your, 00:24:41.900 --> 00:24:43.160 your job is to be fruitful, 00:24:43.160 --> 00:24:44.079 to, 00:24:44.140 --> 00:24:45.279 to bear much fruit, 00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:47.120 to increase in number, 00:24:47.140 --> 00:24:47.819 to fill the earth, 00:24:47.900 --> 00:24:48.660 to subdue it. 00:24:49.059 --> 00:24:50.359 What does it mean to subdue something, 00:24:50.480 --> 00:24:50.620 to, 00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:51.380 to, 00:24:51.380 --> 00:24:53.240 to take care of it, 00:24:53.299 --> 00:24:53.559 to, 00:24:53.620 --> 00:24:54.359 um, 00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:57.579 make it work in a way that it needs to work, 00:24:57.639 --> 00:24:57.799 right? 00:24:57.799 --> 00:24:59.299 It's this idea that, 00:24:59.299 --> 00:25:00.079 um, 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:00.480 you know, 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:01.539 we're, 00:25:01.539 --> 00:25:02.980 we're cultivating something, 00:25:03.159 --> 00:25:03.339 you know, 00:25:03.339 --> 00:25:05.899 it's this culting cult culture. 00:25:06.119 --> 00:25:07.779 It's where we get agriculture. 00:25:07.779 --> 00:25:09.159 It's where we get culture, 00:25:09.259 --> 00:25:09.619 culture, 00:25:09.799 --> 00:25:10.180 right? 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:10.339 It's, 00:25:10.399 --> 00:25:11.980 it's this creation of something, 00:25:11.980 --> 00:25:12.559 uh, 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:13.419 that wasn't there, 00:25:13.419 --> 00:25:13.659 right? 00:25:13.680 --> 00:25:13.859 We're, 00:25:13.940 --> 00:25:14.740 we're taking that in. 00:25:15.079 --> 00:25:17.119 So there's this great collaboration, 00:25:17.119 --> 00:25:19.480 which he announces at the beginning. 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:21.299 And then there's the great commandment, 00:25:21.299 --> 00:25:22.379 which, 00:25:22.779 --> 00:25:23.220 uh, 00:25:23.259 --> 00:25:24.619 in Mark chapter 12, 00:25:24.619 --> 00:25:27.139 Jesus says one of the teachers of the law came and heard, 00:25:27.139 --> 00:25:27.879 uh, 00:25:27.879 --> 00:25:28.459 them debating, 00:25:28.679 --> 00:25:30.979 noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer. 00:25:31.099 --> 00:25:31.799 He asked them, 00:25:32.119 --> 00:25:32.399 well, 00:25:32.439 --> 00:25:33.259 of all the commandments, 00:25:33.379 --> 00:25:34.339 which is the most important? 00:25:35.619 --> 00:25:39.399 And Jesus answers the most important one is this hero, 00:25:39.399 --> 00:25:39.799 Israel, 00:25:39.899 --> 00:25:40.339 the Lord, 00:25:40.459 --> 00:25:41.239 our God, 00:25:41.299 --> 00:25:42.459 the Lord is one love the Lord, 00:25:42.500 --> 00:25:46.819 your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. 00:25:47.159 --> 00:25:48.059 And then he goes on. 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:49.039 The second one is like it. 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:50.359 Love your neighbor as yourself. 00:25:50.899 --> 00:25:52.679 There is no commandment greater than these. 00:25:52.680 --> 00:25:54.279 So God, 00:25:54.440 --> 00:25:56.680 Jesus gives us another specific commandment. 00:25:57.440 --> 00:25:57.620 I mean, 00:25:57.640 --> 00:25:59.200 God had given it to us a long time ago, 00:25:59.200 --> 00:25:59.640 uh, 00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:01.320 in Deuteronomy is the Shema, 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:02.680 which Jesus is quoting. 00:26:03.400 --> 00:26:03.880 Um, 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:04.480 but he's saying, 00:26:04.580 --> 00:26:07.160 love God with all your heart, 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:10.960 with everything you have and love your neighbor. 00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:16.180 So you have very clear understanding of what the will of God is. 00:26:16.580 --> 00:26:17.900 And then he gives us one more, 00:26:17.900 --> 00:26:18.580 uh, 00:26:18.640 --> 00:26:22.660 right before he ascends in the great commission in Matthew 28, 00:26:22.940 --> 00:26:23.180 he said, 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:24.080 the love of the disciples, 00:26:24.320 --> 00:26:27.300 they're in Galilee to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. 00:26:27.420 --> 00:26:28.360 And when they saw him, 00:26:28.420 --> 00:26:29.240 they worshiped him. 00:26:29.600 --> 00:26:30.240 Some doubted, 00:26:30.740 --> 00:26:31.960 but Jesus came to them and said, 00:26:32.019 --> 00:26:32.180 he said, 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:34.600 all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 00:26:34.700 --> 00:26:34.900 Therefore, 00:26:35.060 --> 00:26:37.360 go and make disciples of all nations, 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.120 baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son and the Holy spirit, 00:26:41.120 --> 00:26:43.680 and teaching them to obey everything I've commanded you. 00:26:43.680 --> 00:26:46.340 And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age. 00:26:47.339 --> 00:26:52.259 So I want you to see in these three great commands, 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:52.759 if you will, 00:26:52.819 --> 00:26:53.759 and the great collaboration, 00:26:53.919 --> 00:26:55.500 the great commandment and the great commission, 00:26:56.500 --> 00:27:02.839 that we find the will of what God has called us to. 00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:08.539 Our work is everything we do to fill the earth and subdue it. 00:27:09.099 --> 00:27:12.619 Our work is everything we do to love our neighbor and to love God. 00:27:13.000 --> 00:27:15.559 And our work is everything we do to go and to make disciples. 00:27:16.299 --> 00:27:17.699 It's not three things. 00:27:17.740 --> 00:27:18.619 It's one thing. 00:27:19.619 --> 00:27:23.019 And our work isn't just what we might get paid for. 00:27:23.139 --> 00:27:24.979 It's everything we give our time and energy to. 00:27:25.500 --> 00:27:28.039 And our role as priests on earth isn't just our spiritual life. 00:27:28.099 --> 00:27:29.500 We're priests all the time. 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:30.399 You see it? 00:27:30.639 --> 00:27:31.899 It's all one job. 00:27:32.879 --> 00:27:33.399 Our work, 00:27:33.739 --> 00:27:35.500 whether it's paid or unpaid, 00:27:35.719 --> 00:27:37.279 whether it's full time or part time, 00:27:37.379 --> 00:27:39.099 whether it's outside the home or inside the home, 00:27:39.179 --> 00:27:40.759 whether it's sacred or it's secular, 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:45.119 it's all how we love our neighbor and how we love our God. 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:48.479 It's all how we develop culture and establish society. 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:56.439 It's all how we live such good lives that they might see our good work and glorify God. 00:27:57.379 --> 00:27:58.159 All of it. 00:27:58.759 --> 00:27:59.799 It's all the same. 00:28:00.279 --> 00:28:04.399 Our work is just our life with God. 00:28:05.059 --> 00:28:05.179 Right? 00:28:05.259 --> 00:28:06.599 So whatever we're doing, 00:28:07.359 --> 00:28:09.439 we're doing it as royal priests. 00:28:09.539 --> 00:28:11.459 We're doing it as children of God. 00:28:11.539 --> 00:28:13.859 We're doing it toward his glory 00:28:13.859 --> 00:28:19.139 so that he would be glorified. 00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:19.339 Right? 00:28:19.399 --> 00:28:20.539 So this is the end of the thing. 00:28:20.639 --> 00:28:22.579 God's calling for us is to bring him glory, 00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:24.199 which is our greatest good. 00:28:24.299 --> 00:28:26.139 Peter says there in chapter four, 00:28:26.199 --> 00:28:26.359 he said, 00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:28.179 each of you should use whatever gift you have, 00:28:29.219 --> 00:28:34.299 whatever gift you've received to serve others as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:38.459 You should do it. 00:28:38.619 --> 00:28:39.519 If anyone serves, 00:28:39.579 --> 00:28:41.299 they should do it with the strength that God provides 00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:42.519 so that in all things, 00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:45.319 God might be praised through Jesus Christ. 00:28:45.439 --> 00:28:47.759 To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. 00:28:47.859 --> 00:28:48.019 Amen. 00:28:48.179 --> 00:28:48.319 Right? 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.079 Use whatever gift you have received to others. 00:28:52.139 --> 00:28:52.259 Right? 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:54.200 God has given you something. 00:28:54.539 --> 00:28:55.099 Some skill, 00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:56.919 some ability, 00:28:57.559 --> 00:28:58.679 some resource, 00:28:59.059 --> 00:28:59.779 something. 00:29:01.099 --> 00:29:02.500 Probably more than one. 00:29:03.059 --> 00:29:05.439 But let's just say you only got one. 00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:05.740 Right? 00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:07.279 He's given you it to you. 00:29:07.919 --> 00:29:08.980 Are you using it? 00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:10.659 God is only, 00:29:11.399 --> 00:29:14.639 he can only multiply what we actually put out into practice. 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:16.259 And so, 00:29:16.860 --> 00:29:18.300 whatever gift we have, 00:29:18.460 --> 00:29:19.400 we're called to use. 00:29:19.520 --> 00:29:19.620 Right? 00:29:19.680 --> 00:29:21.640 As faithful stewards, 00:29:21.820 --> 00:29:21.980 right? 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:24.560 We didn't self-generate our skill or ability. 00:29:25.120 --> 00:29:28.080 We didn't manifest it for ourselves in some capacity. 00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:30.700 God has given it to us to steward, 00:29:31.180 --> 00:29:32.320 to take care of, 00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:34.040 to use for him. 00:29:34.100 --> 00:29:34.220 Right? 00:29:34.620 --> 00:29:37.700 You get the parable of the servants and the stewards. 00:29:37.820 --> 00:29:37.940 Right? 00:29:40.940 --> 00:29:42.980 One of them gets ten and he double, 00:29:43.100 --> 00:29:44.280 or gets five and he doubles it. 00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:45.440 One of them gets two and he doubles it. 00:29:45.660 --> 00:29:47.700 One of them takes his and he kind of puts it in the soil. 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.039 And he gets chastised for it because he didn't do anything with it. 00:29:52.339 --> 00:29:53.279 God gave him something. 00:29:54.059 --> 00:29:55.279 And he just put it away. 00:29:56.059 --> 00:29:57.000 Because he's afraid, 00:29:57.200 --> 00:29:58.059 because he didn't understand. 00:29:58.139 --> 00:29:58.599 It doesn't matter. 00:29:58.779 --> 00:29:59.940 We have to do it. 00:29:59.980 --> 00:30:00.619 We're stewards. 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:04.240 Will we be a good steward? 00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:04.460 Right? 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:06.039 And so, 00:30:06.819 --> 00:30:08.519 and the verse carries on. 00:30:08.799 --> 00:30:10.000 Whatever gift you have received, 00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:11.039 use it as faithful stewards. 00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:13.019 And that if you're going to serve, 00:30:13.019 --> 00:30:15.700 you should serve with the strength that God provides. 00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:18.339 God will give us what we need. 00:30:18.660 --> 00:30:19.779 We don't have to be a super person. 00:30:19.900 --> 00:30:22.019 We don't have to understand everything about what it is. 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:25.299 The task is putting it out there so that we might, 00:30:25.779 --> 00:30:27.440 so God might use it. 00:30:28.220 --> 00:30:29.839 And so that in all things, 00:30:29.940 --> 00:30:32.299 God might be praised through Jesus Christ. 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:34.660 To him be the glory and the power forever and ever. 00:30:35.059 --> 00:30:35.779 The point 00:30:35.779 --> 00:30:38.960 of our lives, 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:39.940 the point of our work, 00:30:40.139 --> 00:30:41.879 is that God might be glorified. 00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:43.480 And, 00:30:43.559 --> 00:30:43.859 and 00:30:43.859 --> 00:30:46.839 there was a point in my life where 00:30:46.839 --> 00:30:47.759 that 00:30:47.759 --> 00:30:48.920 would be 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:50.519 unsatisfactory. 00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:51.779 That would have been, 00:30:52.460 --> 00:30:52.779 uh, 00:30:53.980 --> 00:30:56.240 God's glory? 00:30:56.460 --> 00:30:56.700 Like, 00:30:57.139 --> 00:30:58.240 is that enough? 00:30:58.319 --> 00:30:58.440 Like, 00:30:58.460 --> 00:30:59.879 is that what I'm aiming for? 00:30:59.880 --> 00:31:00.280 Like, 00:31:00.300 --> 00:31:00.960 even as a Christian, 00:31:01.140 --> 00:31:01.900 it would have been, 00:31:02.100 --> 00:31:03.900 it would have felt a little unsatisfactory 00:31:03.900 --> 00:31:05.380 because I didn't quite understand 00:31:05.380 --> 00:31:07.000 what that meant. 00:31:07.660 --> 00:31:07.840 You know, 00:31:07.940 --> 00:31:09.280 what is God's glory? 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:09.700 And, 00:31:09.780 --> 00:31:10.960 and why should I care 00:31:10.960 --> 00:31:12.480 that he gets the glory? 00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:13.760 Right? 00:31:13.840 --> 00:31:14.240 And John, 00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:14.780 John Piper, 00:31:15.280 --> 00:31:16.040 it famously, 00:31:16.280 --> 00:31:17.420 his big thing is, 00:31:17.540 --> 00:31:18.180 um, 00:31:18.180 --> 00:31:19.460 God is most glorified 00:31:19.460 --> 00:31:20.800 when we're most satisfied in him. 00:31:20.800 --> 00:31:20.980 But, 00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:22.820 he describes God's glory like this. 00:31:22.900 --> 00:31:23.840 The glory of God 00:31:23.840 --> 00:31:26.340 is the infinite beauty 00:31:26.340 --> 00:31:26.980 and greatness 00:31:26.980 --> 00:31:27.500 of his 00:31:27.500 --> 00:31:28.580 manifold 00:31:28.579 --> 00:31:29.779 perfections. 00:31:30.899 --> 00:31:31.000 Right? 00:31:31.199 --> 00:31:31.980 And describing glory 00:31:31.980 --> 00:31:33.500 is a bit like describing beauty 00:31:33.500 --> 00:31:34.480 in that 00:31:34.480 --> 00:31:35.619 you can, 00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:36.740 you can see it, 00:31:36.899 --> 00:31:37.819 you can recognize it, 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:38.939 but it's hard to put into words 00:31:38.939 --> 00:31:40.679 exactly what you mean by that 00:31:40.679 --> 00:31:41.579 because it's a little different, 00:31:41.859 --> 00:31:42.019 you know, 00:31:42.059 --> 00:31:43.460 it's not like the same thing, 00:31:43.500 --> 00:31:43.659 right? 00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:45.339 I can describe a basketball 00:31:45.339 --> 00:31:47.379 and tell you what that is 00:31:47.379 --> 00:31:48.960 so that you might recognize it 00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:50.000 and be able to tell the difference 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:50.839 between it and, 00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:51.240 you know, 00:31:51.259 --> 00:31:51.599 a football 00:31:51.599 --> 00:31:52.139 or, 00:31:52.139 --> 00:31:52.619 uh, 00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:53.240 something else. 00:31:54.379 --> 00:31:54.539 But, 00:31:54.639 --> 00:31:56.139 describing beauty 00:31:56.139 --> 00:31:56.779 is hard to do. 00:31:56.919 --> 00:31:57.819 Describing glory 00:31:57.819 --> 00:31:59.419 is hard to do. 00:31:59.779 --> 00:32:00.579 And so, 00:32:00.700 --> 00:32:01.579 it's, 00:32:01.579 --> 00:32:03.119 you know, 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:05.139 when, 00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:05.779 uh, 00:32:05.779 --> 00:32:06.859 in Isaiah chapter 6, 00:32:07.500 --> 00:32:08.039 he, 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:09.200 he enters the room 00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:09.480 and, 00:32:09.740 --> 00:32:10.919 and there are, 00:32:10.919 --> 00:32:11.339 like, 00:32:12.299 --> 00:32:13.779 wacky beings 00:32:13.779 --> 00:32:14.779 saying, 00:32:15.299 --> 00:32:15.599 holy, 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:16.000 holy, 00:32:16.139 --> 00:32:16.439 holy, 00:32:16.439 --> 00:32:17.439 right? 00:32:18.059 --> 00:32:18.859 Holy means different, 00:32:19.559 --> 00:32:19.939 unique, 00:32:20.419 --> 00:32:20.779 special, 00:32:21.099 --> 00:32:22.079 unlike anything else. 00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:23.179 And they're saying, 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:23.559 holy, 00:32:23.679 --> 00:32:23.879 holy, 00:32:24.019 --> 00:32:24.319 holy. 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:25.599 They're telling each other this. 00:32:26.539 --> 00:32:26.559 And, 00:32:26.639 --> 00:32:27.480 and Isaiah, 00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:28.200 his, 00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:29.720 his only response 00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:30.740 to being in the presence 00:32:30.740 --> 00:32:31.859 is to hit his face 00:32:31.859 --> 00:32:32.460 on the ground, 00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:33.179 to, 00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:34.379 to pray for mercy 00:32:34.379 --> 00:32:35.779 and, 00:32:35.819 --> 00:32:37.539 and believe that he's not, 00:32:37.659 --> 00:32:38.559 should not be there 00:32:38.559 --> 00:32:39.960 because he's 00:32:39.960 --> 00:32:41.619 overwhelmed. 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:42.480 And, 00:32:42.700 --> 00:32:44.039 and when he's able 00:32:44.039 --> 00:32:44.599 to describe 00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:45.639 what it's like, 00:32:45.919 --> 00:32:47.039 the only thing, 00:32:47.179 --> 00:32:47.639 he said, 00:32:47.879 --> 00:32:48.179 look, 00:32:48.419 --> 00:32:50.700 the train of his robe 00:32:50.700 --> 00:32:52.039 filled the temple. 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:53.539 Like, 00:32:53.859 --> 00:32:55.940 there's a bunch of stuff. 00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:57.359 It was unbelievable. 00:32:57.779 --> 00:32:57.940 Like, 00:32:57.980 --> 00:32:59.079 I can't describe it. 00:32:59.139 --> 00:33:00.339 The only thing I can think of 00:33:00.339 --> 00:33:00.539 to, 00:33:00.639 --> 00:33:01.579 to bring to this 00:33:01.579 --> 00:33:02.420 is that the train 00:33:02.420 --> 00:33:03.000 of his robe, 00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:03.240 right? 00:33:03.519 --> 00:33:05.220 The part that you don't care about, 00:33:05.740 --> 00:33:05.879 the, 00:33:05.940 --> 00:33:06.639 the little bit 00:33:06.639 --> 00:33:07.539 at the bottom 00:33:07.539 --> 00:33:08.200 and the back, 00:33:08.539 --> 00:33:10.019 it was so amazing. 00:33:10.159 --> 00:33:11.279 It filled the temple. 00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:13.879 This is 00:33:13.879 --> 00:33:15.579 God's glory. 00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:20.180 If you could think of, 00:33:20.259 --> 00:33:20.460 like, 00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:23.319 the best thing 00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:24.559 in the world, 00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:25.420 right? 00:33:25.480 --> 00:33:25.660 Like, 00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:26.740 riches, 00:33:27.600 --> 00:33:27.940 jewels, 00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:28.340 like, 00:33:29.340 --> 00:33:29.940 all these things, 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:30.079 right? 00:33:30.140 --> 00:33:30.240 You, 00:33:30.299 --> 00:33:30.620 you'd be like, 00:33:30.660 --> 00:33:30.779 man, 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:31.440 that would be amazing 00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:31.740 to, 00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:32.380 to have that 00:33:32.380 --> 00:33:33.100 or to be with that. 00:33:33.660 --> 00:33:33.799 Like, 00:33:33.819 --> 00:33:34.200 God is 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:37.279 infinite amounts 00:33:37.279 --> 00:33:37.779 of that 00:33:37.779 --> 00:33:40.000 forever 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:41.140 perfected. 00:33:42.380 --> 00:33:42.740 It's, 00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:43.620 it's so amazing 00:33:43.620 --> 00:33:45.319 that being 00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:46.200 in its presence 00:33:46.200 --> 00:33:48.299 not only is, 00:33:48.400 --> 00:33:48.519 like, 00:33:49.100 --> 00:33:49.680 would be just, 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:49.900 like, 00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:50.620 I just want to be, 00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:50.799 like, 00:33:50.820 --> 00:33:51.759 associated with that. 00:33:51.820 --> 00:33:52.120 You know how, 00:33:52.420 --> 00:33:52.640 like, 00:33:52.660 --> 00:33:53.799 a famous person 00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:54.320 comes by 00:33:54.320 --> 00:33:54.600 and you're like, 00:33:54.620 --> 00:33:55.519 I don't need to be them. 00:33:55.580 --> 00:33:55.980 I just want to, 00:33:55.980 --> 00:33:56.140 like, 00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:56.820 be their buddy, 00:33:57.000 --> 00:33:57.100 like, 00:33:57.140 --> 00:33:57.860 be behind them. 00:33:58.259 --> 00:33:58.779 This is, 00:33:58.880 --> 00:33:59.759 this is what we get to do 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:00.340 with God, 00:34:00.420 --> 00:34:00.580 right? 00:34:00.620 --> 00:34:00.779 So, 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:02.440 if we make much of him 00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:04.000 and we bring him glory 00:34:04.000 --> 00:34:05.060 and his glory 00:34:05.060 --> 00:34:05.820 is made known 00:34:05.820 --> 00:34:07.720 and we get to be part of it, 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:08.740 we get to be there 00:34:08.740 --> 00:34:09.180 with him 00:34:09.180 --> 00:34:11.059 and experience it 00:34:11.059 --> 00:34:12.820 and he is so good 00:34:12.820 --> 00:34:15.220 that he wants us 00:34:15.220 --> 00:34:16.380 to be in it with him, 00:34:16.460 --> 00:34:17.320 to enjoy it 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:19.000 and to be there. 00:34:19.580 --> 00:34:19.840 So, 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:20.660 our work, 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:22.200 our lives 00:34:22.200 --> 00:34:23.240 are such to, 00:34:23.240 --> 00:34:23.440 to, 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:25.220 to show that 00:34:25.220 --> 00:34:26.320 as being real 00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:29.120 so that others 00:34:29.120 --> 00:34:29.880 might see, 00:34:30.940 --> 00:34:31.080 man, 00:34:31.120 --> 00:34:31.240 that, 00:34:31.240 --> 00:34:32.600 that looks interesting, 00:34:33.140 --> 00:34:33.820 that looks good, 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:34.920 I might want to be part of that 00:34:34.920 --> 00:34:36.280 and then we get to go 00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:37.780 experience it forever. 00:34:40.180 --> 00:34:42.000 That's what the Bible is for. 00:34:42.100 --> 00:34:42.320 That's what, 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:43.100 this is what it is. 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:43.639 So, 00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:44.159 when you ask me 00:34:44.159 --> 00:34:44.960 to talk about work, 00:34:45.799 --> 00:34:46.420 I just want to talk 00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:47.019 about God 00:34:47.019 --> 00:34:49.299 because he's so good 00:34:49.299 --> 00:34:50.659 and that my life 00:34:50.659 --> 00:34:52.099 can now be spent 00:34:52.099 --> 00:34:53.699 doing stuff for him 00:34:53.699 --> 00:34:56.539 so that he gets glory 00:34:56.539 --> 00:34:59.900 and the, 00:35:00.779 --> 00:35:01.659 so how does that 00:35:01.659 --> 00:35:02.839 manifest itself 00:35:02.839 --> 00:35:03.799 into the things 00:35:03.799 --> 00:35:04.219 that I do 00:35:04.219 --> 00:35:05.000 on a daily basis? 00:35:05.839 --> 00:35:05.960 Right? 00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:06.880 And that's where, 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:07.219 like, 00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:07.639 okay, 00:35:07.699 --> 00:35:08.219 practically, 00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:08.839 what do you mean, 00:35:08.900 --> 00:35:09.119 David? 00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:09.380 Like, 00:35:09.420 --> 00:35:10.079 this is great, 00:35:10.079 --> 00:35:11.319 you know, 00:35:12.099 --> 00:35:13.139 you don't have to convince me 00:35:13.139 --> 00:35:13.759 to love Jesus, 00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:14.659 I'm already there. 00:35:15.219 --> 00:35:15.380 Well, 00:35:15.980 --> 00:35:16.219 so, 00:35:16.340 --> 00:35:17.659 so what does that mean then 00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:19.440 for us 00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:20.519 to, 00:35:20.639 --> 00:35:22.059 to go out every day, 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:23.039 to walk out of here 00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:24.920 and do something tomorrow, 00:35:24.920 --> 00:35:25.759 whether it's you get up 00:35:25.759 --> 00:35:26.460 and you actually go 00:35:26.460 --> 00:35:27.059 to an office 00:35:27.059 --> 00:35:28.460 or to some sort of workplace 00:35:28.460 --> 00:35:29.460 or, 00:35:29.539 --> 00:35:30.380 or it's something else 00:35:30.380 --> 00:35:31.059 in your life, 00:35:31.079 --> 00:35:31.259 right? 00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:31.759 What, 00:35:31.860 --> 00:35:32.960 how do I live differently 00:35:32.960 --> 00:35:33.559 tomorrow 00:35:33.559 --> 00:35:35.480 and do things in such a way 00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:37.500 that this becomes part 00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:38.139 of who I am 00:35:38.139 --> 00:35:38.719 and what I'm doing? 00:35:40.079 --> 00:35:44.619 I think 00:35:44.619 --> 00:35:46.199 the thing that 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:48.960 shifted in my life 00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:51.519 was recognizing that 00:35:51.519 --> 00:35:54.619 everything I, 00:35:54.739 --> 00:35:55.779 it's all one thing, 00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:56.699 right? 00:35:57.539 --> 00:35:59.239 So if I come here on Sunday 00:35:59.239 --> 00:36:03.059 and I am consumed, 00:36:04.059 --> 00:36:04.539 you know, 00:36:04.579 --> 00:36:06.219 singing a worship song 00:36:06.219 --> 00:36:07.619 about God 00:36:07.619 --> 00:36:08.900 and recognizing who he is 00:36:08.900 --> 00:36:09.579 and that, 00:36:10.940 --> 00:36:11.220 you know, 00:36:11.300 --> 00:36:12.220 I don't have like 00:36:12.220 --> 00:36:13.360 deep emotion, 00:36:13.539 --> 00:36:14.260 like emotionally, 00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:14.720 I'm not, 00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:15.900 I don't have like a high bandwidth, 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:17.220 but like in, 00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:18.940 in the context that I have, 00:36:19.380 --> 00:36:19.639 right, 00:36:19.680 --> 00:36:20.820 I am like consumed 00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:21.720 with emotion 00:36:21.720 --> 00:36:24.420 in recognizing God's greatness 00:36:24.420 --> 00:36:25.840 and his love for me, 00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:26.900 right? 00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:27.280 And, 00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:28.700 and so I can teach 00:36:28.700 --> 00:36:29.500 or, 00:36:29.500 --> 00:36:30.980 or do whatever I do here 00:36:30.980 --> 00:36:31.760 in this way, 00:36:32.240 --> 00:36:32.440 right? 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:34.720 if I can then translate that 00:36:34.720 --> 00:36:35.139 and, 00:36:35.179 --> 00:36:35.639 and go 00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:38.579 and do my other things 00:36:38.579 --> 00:36:39.059 in life 00:36:39.059 --> 00:36:40.079 with the same 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:44.720 stuff 00:36:44.720 --> 00:36:46.840 that I would have done 00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:48.059 in the church building, 00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:48.980 right? 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:49.159 That, 00:36:49.159 --> 00:36:50.320 that's what we're meant to do, 00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:51.460 right? 00:36:51.539 --> 00:36:51.720 The, 00:36:51.720 --> 00:36:52.639 the, 00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:56.460 the goodness 00:36:56.460 --> 00:36:57.559 and the beauty 00:36:57.559 --> 00:36:58.920 and the truth 00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:01.239 of Jesus 00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:01.980 and the gospel 00:37:01.980 --> 00:37:03.139 should 00:37:03.139 --> 00:37:04.719 transform 00:37:04.719 --> 00:37:07.559 whatever I'm doing 00:37:07.559 --> 00:37:09.759 toward 00:37:09.759 --> 00:37:11.000 his glory, 00:37:11.099 --> 00:37:11.239 right? 00:37:11.239 --> 00:37:12.339 Everything we make, 00:37:12.599 --> 00:37:13.599 everything we do 00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:14.679 are like 00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:16.400 little icons 00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:17.179 and, 00:37:17.500 --> 00:37:17.679 you know, 00:37:17.839 --> 00:37:18.420 iconography, 00:37:18.799 --> 00:37:18.980 you've, 00:37:18.980 --> 00:37:19.619 you've got our, 00:37:19.619 --> 00:37:20.599 our issues with that, 00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:21.460 but the point, 00:37:21.579 --> 00:37:22.259 the icon is to, 00:37:22.299 --> 00:37:23.039 to look at it 00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:23.579 and it, 00:37:23.619 --> 00:37:24.639 to lift our gaze 00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:25.759 to the person 00:37:25.759 --> 00:37:26.480 that it describes, 00:37:27.159 --> 00:37:27.679 right? 00:37:27.900 --> 00:37:29.639 And so everything we do, 00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:31.079 whatever you do 00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:31.920 and however you do it, 00:37:32.139 --> 00:37:32.860 it should lift 00:37:32.860 --> 00:37:33.880 the gaze 00:37:33.880 --> 00:37:35.360 of whoever looks on it 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:35.579 to, 00:37:35.839 --> 00:37:37.299 that, 00:37:37.539 --> 00:37:38.440 that's actually, 00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:40.500 what's that about? 00:37:42.819 --> 00:37:43.819 However you did that, 00:37:43.900 --> 00:37:44.839 whatever you did just there, 00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:45.239 that's, 00:37:45.299 --> 00:37:45.900 that's different 00:37:45.900 --> 00:37:47.380 than I experienced elsewhere, 00:37:48.460 --> 00:37:48.659 right? 00:37:48.759 --> 00:37:50.239 That's speaking about something 00:37:50.239 --> 00:37:51.739 that's better than 00:37:51.739 --> 00:37:53.059 what I thought it was. 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:54.479 How are you doing that? 00:37:54.539 --> 00:37:55.199 What are you doing that? 00:37:55.259 --> 00:37:56.319 How is that for? 00:37:57.579 --> 00:37:57.799 So, 00:37:58.159 --> 00:37:59.259 I'm going to, 00:37:59.299 --> 00:37:59.919 I'm going to keep rambling 00:37:59.919 --> 00:38:00.879 because I want to keep talking, 00:38:00.979 --> 00:38:01.099 but, 00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:04.259 what, 00:38:05.399 --> 00:38:07.799 I want to take questions 00:38:07.799 --> 00:38:08.539 because I, 00:38:08.539 --> 00:38:09.619 I feel like there's some people 00:38:09.619 --> 00:38:10.199 looking at me 00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:10.759 and saying like, 00:38:11.000 --> 00:38:11.799 what the heck's going on? 00:38:11.799 --> 00:38:12.299 Um, 00:38:12.300 --> 00:38:21.940 when Romans 11 says, 00:38:22.019 --> 00:38:22.640 present your body 00:38:22.640 --> 00:38:23.760 as a living sacrifice, 00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:28.000 it means give him 00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:29.120 everything you've got 00:38:29.120 --> 00:38:31.140 in every area of life 00:38:31.140 --> 00:38:32.260 for, 00:38:32.500 --> 00:38:33.440 for every, 00:38:33.580 --> 00:38:34.400 all of time 00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:35.680 such that 00:38:35.680 --> 00:38:37.360 he becomes the one thing 00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:38.220 that's most important 00:38:38.220 --> 00:38:39.900 and everything I touch, 00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:40.800 everything I do, 00:38:40.800 --> 00:38:42.820 everything I say 00:38:42.820 --> 00:38:45.220 should reflect that 00:38:45.220 --> 00:38:46.380 such that 00:38:46.380 --> 00:38:47.400 he's the one 00:38:47.400 --> 00:38:48.060 who gets the glory 00:38:48.060 --> 00:38:48.620 at the end, 00:38:48.620 --> 00:38:49.720 right? 00:38:49.760 --> 00:38:50.140 And so, 00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:51.700 if you go 00:38:51.700 --> 00:38:53.680 and you are a trash collector, 00:38:53.680 --> 00:39:00.660 might God be glorified 00:39:00.660 --> 00:39:02.000 that you are caring 00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:02.900 for his world 00:39:02.900 --> 00:39:03.700 and his temple 00:39:03.700 --> 00:39:04.640 in such a way 00:39:04.640 --> 00:39:07.180 that you're willing 00:39:07.180 --> 00:39:07.940 and able 00:39:07.940 --> 00:39:08.599 to do that 00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:10.059 with the most 00:39:10.059 --> 00:39:11.460 excitement 00:39:11.460 --> 00:39:13.539 and energy 00:39:13.539 --> 00:39:14.659 that you could do, 00:39:15.240 --> 00:39:16.320 right? 00:39:16.579 --> 00:39:18.260 As you teach 00:39:18.260 --> 00:39:19.360 children 00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:20.780 and they're 00:39:20.780 --> 00:39:21.880 driving you 00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:22.679 insane, 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:24.760 that you might 00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:25.700 teach them 00:39:25.700 --> 00:39:26.539 such 00:39:26.539 --> 00:39:27.840 that they might 00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:28.820 one day look at, 00:39:29.380 --> 00:39:29.639 say, 00:39:29.720 --> 00:39:30.579 that teacher 00:39:30.579 --> 00:39:32.000 was not like 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:32.760 every other teacher. 00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:32.880 teacher. 00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:35.080 She or he 00:39:35.080 --> 00:39:36.860 lived in a way 00:39:36.860 --> 00:39:38.020 that I can only 00:39:38.020 --> 00:39:38.660 describe 00:39:38.660 --> 00:39:40.460 as being 00:39:40.460 --> 00:39:41.480 otherworldly, 00:39:42.040 --> 00:39:43.460 right? 00:39:44.140 --> 00:39:45.400 You write code, 00:39:45.760 --> 00:39:46.960 nobody does that 00:39:46.960 --> 00:39:47.200 anymore 00:39:47.200 --> 00:39:47.700 because AI 00:39:47.700 --> 00:39:48.100 does it, 00:39:48.600 --> 00:39:49.520 but write code 00:39:49.520 --> 00:39:50.320 such that 00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:51.100 someone might 00:39:51.100 --> 00:39:51.880 describe that 00:39:51.880 --> 00:39:52.580 piece of code, 00:39:52.700 --> 00:39:53.480 that line of code 00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:54.800 as a thing 00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:55.420 of beauty 00:39:55.420 --> 00:39:57.060 and it's 00:39:57.060 --> 00:39:58.720 why would you 00:39:58.720 --> 00:39:59.460 put so much 00:39:59.460 --> 00:40:00.100 effort and time 00:40:00.100 --> 00:40:00.480 and energy 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:01.240 into something 00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:03.299 that no one 00:40:03.299 --> 00:40:04.299 will ever see 00:40:04.299 --> 00:40:07.539 but God. 00:40:08.799 --> 00:40:09.459 And this is 00:40:09.459 --> 00:40:09.879 how we live 00:40:09.879 --> 00:40:10.299 our life 00:40:10.299 --> 00:40:11.199 and all of 00:40:11.199 --> 00:40:11.779 those things 00:40:11.779 --> 00:40:12.839 are such 00:40:12.839 --> 00:40:13.179 that 00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:15.139 we can love 00:40:15.139 --> 00:40:15.579 our neighbor 00:40:15.579 --> 00:40:18.699 so that 00:40:18.699 --> 00:40:19.319 people might 00:40:19.319 --> 00:40:20.639 see 00:40:20.639 --> 00:40:21.819 what you've 00:40:21.819 --> 00:40:22.119 done 00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:23.639 and give 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:24.439 glory to 00:40:24.439 --> 00:40:24.879 the God 00:40:24.879 --> 00:40:25.219 that you 00:40:25.219 --> 00:40:25.539 serve. 00:40:26.899 --> 00:40:27.559 That's our 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:27.899 task, 00:40:27.979 --> 00:40:28.279 that's our 00:40:28.279 --> 00:40:28.719 role 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:29.859 as Christians 00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:29.980 Christians. 00:40:30.579 --> 00:40:31.079 It's not 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:31.660 about work 00:40:31.660 --> 00:40:32.880 in the sense 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:33.120 that, 00:40:33.260 --> 00:40:33.360 oh, 00:40:33.640 --> 00:40:34.019 what do I 00:40:34.019 --> 00:40:34.280 do with 00:40:34.280 --> 00:40:34.960 work over 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:35.260 here? 00:40:35.720 --> 00:40:36.880 It's life 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:38.059 as a Christian 00:40:38.059 --> 00:40:38.840 and we 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:39.320 happen to 00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:39.720 spend a lot 00:40:39.720 --> 00:40:40.000 of it 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:40.840 working 00:40:40.840 --> 00:40:42.559 and our 00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:43.280 work is 00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:44.000 building that 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:44.320 kingdom 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:45.420 on that 00:40:45.420 --> 00:40:46.200 timeline, 00:40:46.720 --> 00:40:46.980 right? 00:40:47.320 --> 00:40:48.120 We're still 00:40:48.120 --> 00:40:48.740 building toward 00:40:48.740 --> 00:40:48.940 it. 00:40:49.660 --> 00:40:51.220 Even now 00:40:51.220 --> 00:40:52.260 we're building 00:40:52.260 --> 00:40:52.599 toward it. 00:40:52.640 --> 00:40:52.780 It's going 00:40:52.780 --> 00:40:53.059 to be a 00:40:53.059 --> 00:40:53.500 renewed 00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:54.680 earth, 00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:55.200 a renewed 00:40:55.200 --> 00:40:55.960 Jerusalem 00:40:55.960 --> 00:40:57.180 that God 00:40:57.180 --> 00:40:57.420 is going 00:40:57.420 --> 00:40:57.780 to take 00:40:57.780 --> 00:40:58.180 somehow 00:40:58.180 --> 00:40:58.620 in his 00:40:58.620 --> 00:41:00.640 things that 00:41:00.640 --> 00:41:00.880 we don't 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:01.260 understand. 00:41:01.460 --> 00:41:01.660 He's going 00:41:01.660 --> 00:41:02.160 to take 00:41:02.160 --> 00:41:02.540 the things 00:41:02.540 --> 00:41:02.780 that we 00:41:02.780 --> 00:41:03.260 build now 00:41:03.260 --> 00:41:03.920 and some 00:41:03.920 --> 00:41:04.200 of them 00:41:04.200 --> 00:41:04.600 will make 00:41:04.600 --> 00:41:04.740 it. 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:05.280 Some of 00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:05.440 them, 00:41:05.620 --> 00:41:06.100 the Bible 00:41:06.100 --> 00:41:06.400 says, 00:41:06.519 --> 00:41:07.480 will not 00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:08.160 be consumed 00:41:08.160 --> 00:41:08.640 in the 00:41:08.640 --> 00:41:09.000 refining 00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:09.540 fire and 00:41:09.540 --> 00:41:10.019 will actually 00:41:10.019 --> 00:41:10.700 come out 00:41:10.700 --> 00:41:10.900 on the 00:41:10.900 --> 00:41:11.340 other side 00:41:11.340 --> 00:41:11.780 because they 00:41:11.780 --> 00:41:12.260 were worth 00:41:12.260 --> 00:41:13.240 lasting. 00:41:13.860 --> 00:41:14.440 We can 00:41:14.440 --> 00:41:14.900 build that 00:41:14.900 --> 00:41:15.160 kind of 00:41:15.160 --> 00:41:15.840 things now 00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:17.620 if we 00:41:17.620 --> 00:41:18.320 trust him 00:41:18.320 --> 00:41:18.680 to do it. 00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:20.480 Let me pray 00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:20.880 real quick 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:21.600 and then 00:41:21.600 --> 00:41:22.960 I'll be 00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:23.220 here. 00:41:23.380 --> 00:41:23.680 We can do 00:41:23.680 --> 00:41:24.120 something else. 00:41:24.340 --> 00:41:24.820 I'd love to 00:41:24.820 --> 00:41:25.360 talk more about 00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:25.600 this, 00:41:25.660 --> 00:41:26.060 as you can 00:41:26.060 --> 00:41:26.260 tell. 00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:29.700 So let 00:41:29.700 --> 00:41:29.920 me pray. 00:41:30.640 --> 00:41:31.000 Father, 00:41:31.120 --> 00:41:31.480 thank you. 00:41:33.060 --> 00:41:33.680 Thank you 00:41:33.680 --> 00:41:35.440 for being 00:41:35.440 --> 00:41:35.840 the same 00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:36.440 God that 00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:37.620 started the 00:41:37.620 --> 00:41:39.900 earth and 00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:40.300 who will 00:41:40.300 --> 00:41:41.320 be there 00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:42.040 in eternity 00:41:42.040 --> 00:41:43.280 and that 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:44.640 somehow in 00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:45.200 your goodness 00:41:45.200 --> 00:41:45.940 you saw 00:41:45.940 --> 00:41:46.720 fit to 00:41:46.720 --> 00:41:50.060 come and 00:41:50.060 --> 00:41:50.960 rescue and 00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:51.480 redeem a 00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:51.800 bunch of 00:41:51.800 --> 00:41:53.040 rebels so 00:41:53.040 --> 00:41:53.360 that we 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:53.700 might be 00:41:53.700 --> 00:41:54.160 with you. 00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:58.019 Father, 00:41:58.079 --> 00:41:58.440 I pray 00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:00.239 that as 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:01.559 we do 00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:02.819 life, 00:42:03.019 --> 00:42:03.440 as we 00:42:03.440 --> 00:42:04.139 go about 00:42:04.139 --> 00:42:04.779 the things 00:42:04.779 --> 00:42:05.099 that we 00:42:05.099 --> 00:42:05.460 have to 00:42:05.460 --> 00:42:05.920 do on a 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:06.239 day-to-day 00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:06.579 basis, 00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:07.359 that we 00:42:07.359 --> 00:42:08.019 would recognize 00:42:08.019 --> 00:42:08.819 that part 00:42:08.819 --> 00:42:09.079 of what 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:09.500 we're doing 00:42:09.500 --> 00:42:12.219 is building 00:42:12.219 --> 00:42:13.579 towards your 00:42:13.579 --> 00:42:13.819 kingdom, 00:42:13.960 --> 00:42:14.659 that we 00:42:14.659 --> 00:42:15.440 exist between 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:16.179 now and 00:42:16.179 --> 00:42:16.699 not yet, 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:18.319 and we 00:42:18.319 --> 00:42:18.980 can bring 00:42:18.980 --> 00:42:19.839 bits of 00:42:19.839 --> 00:42:20.259 the kingdom 00:42:20.259 --> 00:42:21.819 into our 00:42:21.819 --> 00:42:22.480 earth now so 00:42:22.480 --> 00:42:22.820 that you 00:42:22.820 --> 00:42:23.219 might be 00:42:23.219 --> 00:42:23.860 glorified and 00:42:23.860 --> 00:42:24.280 people might 00:42:24.280 --> 00:42:24.920 look to you 00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:25.320 and say, 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:26.260 that's 00:42:26.260 --> 00:42:26.780 something I 00:42:26.780 --> 00:42:27.119 would be 00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:27.659 willing to 00:42:27.659 --> 00:42:28.119 live for. 00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:29.920 God, 00:42:30.019 --> 00:42:31.280 would our 00:42:31.280 --> 00:42:32.920 lives proclaim 00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:33.619 the goodness 00:42:33.619 --> 00:42:34.679 of who you 00:42:34.679 --> 00:42:35.500 are and 00:42:35.500 --> 00:42:36.800 proclaim the 00:42:36.800 --> 00:42:37.400 greatness and 00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:38.099 the glory of 00:42:38.099 --> 00:42:38.500 who you are 00:42:38.500 --> 00:42:38.900 and we'll be 00:42:38.900 --> 00:42:39.860 consumed by 00:42:39.860 --> 00:42:40.780 it such that 00:42:40.780 --> 00:42:42.000 we can't 00:42:42.000 --> 00:42:43.139 even form 00:42:43.139 --> 00:42:43.659 words and 00:42:43.659 --> 00:42:44.019 we get up 00:42:44.019 --> 00:42:44.280 here and we 00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:44.659 act like a 00:42:44.659 --> 00:42:44.840 bumbling 00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:46.199 idiot because 00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:46.619 we're just 00:42:46.619 --> 00:42:47.579 amazed that 00:42:47.579 --> 00:42:48.099 you let us 00:42:48.099 --> 00:42:48.519 be part of 00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:48.659 it. 00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:50.880 So, 00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:53.019 Lord, 00:42:53.059 --> 00:42:53.320 help us 00:42:53.320 --> 00:42:53.579 to do 00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:53.719 it. 00:42:54.019 --> 00:42:54.300 Give us 00:42:54.300 --> 00:42:54.780 the strength 00:42:54.780 --> 00:42:55.059 that we 00:42:55.059 --> 00:42:55.260 need. 00:42:55.360 --> 00:42:55.480 Lord, 00:42:55.500 --> 00:42:55.760 help us 00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:56.079 to just 00:42:56.079 --> 00:42:56.320 take 00:42:56.320 --> 00:42:56.740 whatever 00:42:56.740 --> 00:42:58.460 you've 00:42:58.460 --> 00:42:59.039 given us 00:42:59.039 --> 00:42:59.639 and to 00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:00.559 offer it 00:43:00.559 --> 00:43:00.900 back to 00:43:00.900 --> 00:43:01.500 you in 00:43:01.500 --> 00:43:02.079 service to 00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:02.960 you as 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:03.599 a steward 00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:04.179 of the 00:43:04.179 --> 00:43:04.599 things you've 00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:05.059 given us. 00:43:05.559 --> 00:43:06.079 We pray 00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:06.579 in Jesus' 00:43:06.740 --> 00:43:06.900 name. 00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:07.240 Amen.