WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:11.839 Well, welcome. It's so impressive that you have made it this morning, despite all the inclement weather. 00:00:13.700 --> 00:00:20.719 So, that's some perseverance. And be of good cheer. The Bibles say that perseverance is a sign of election. 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.039 So, be of good cheer. 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:37.000 Well, one of my family's favorite movies is The Princess Bride. 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:40.200 I wonder if any of you have seen that. 00:00:40.599 --> 00:00:47.039 And one of our favorite scenes in The Princess Bride is atop the cliffs of insanity. 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:57.820 There, the Spaniard, Inigo Montoya, is engaged in this epic sword fight with the dread pirate Roberts. 00:00:59.100 --> 00:01:10.000 And after spectacular sword play, each brandishing their swords left-handed, the Spaniard says in the midst of their fray, 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:13.859 Ah, I admit it, you are better than I am. 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:17.900 To which the dread pirate inquires, 00:01:18.420 --> 00:01:24.180 Then why are you still smiling if I am better than you are? 00:01:25.260 --> 00:01:28.120 And Inigo Montoya responds, 00:01:28.680 --> 00:01:31.500 Because I know something that you do not know. 00:01:32.620 --> 00:01:33.859 And what is that? 00:01:34.620 --> 00:01:37.340 I am not left-handed. 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:41.060 And then he switches over, and then the thing continues. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.900 So, great scene. 00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:48.740 Well, I want to give you three things this morning. 00:01:49.260 --> 00:01:54.159 Things that as Christ's disciples, we can know. 00:01:54.719 --> 00:02:01.340 And that if we know these things, they should keep us smiling, like the Spaniard. 00:02:01.820 --> 00:02:05.320 Even in the midst of the toughest of circumstances. 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:06.919 Okay? 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:08.659 Here's the first. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:10.060 Here's the first. 00:02:12.459 --> 00:02:16.659 No matter what the bad is in your life, 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:19.500 If you are a disciple of Christ, 00:02:20.079 --> 00:02:24.459 The good will always outweigh the bad. 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:25.539 Okay? 00:02:25.719 --> 00:02:27.719 No matter what the bad is in your life, 00:02:27.939 --> 00:02:30.019 If you are a disciple of Christ, 00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:34.560 The good will always outweigh the bad. 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:40.820 Now, we all know that a lot of bad can happen to us in this world. 00:02:41.160 --> 00:02:48.140 Maybe you've read of Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. 00:02:48.520 --> 00:02:50.840 I don't know if you have that children's book. 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:56.180 Well, from the moment he wakes up, stuff goes wrong. 00:02:56.980 --> 00:03:01.400 The chewing gum that kind of starts out in his mouth ends up in his hair. 00:03:02.039 --> 00:03:03.920 He trips on the skateboard. 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:06.840 He gets his sweater wet in the sink. 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:11.219 His brothers, Nick and Anthony, find prizes in their cereal. 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:14.640 And he only finds cereal in his cereal. 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:21.839 So, a concatenation of calamities and a myriad of misfortunes. 00:03:22.299 --> 00:03:28.079 And, I don't know, maybe you've had such terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days 00:03:28.079 --> 00:03:31.979 With stuff a lot worse than gum in your hair. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:33.979 Pets die. 00:03:34.979 --> 00:03:36.099 Friends leave. 00:03:36.919 --> 00:03:38.299 Tests get failed. 00:03:39.099 --> 00:03:42.259 You don't get into that grad college that you would hope to, 00:03:42.259 --> 00:03:43.439 Or even any of them. 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:45.219 Any number of things. 00:03:45.919 --> 00:03:46.939 But here's the thing. 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:49.099 And is this not true? 00:03:50.299 --> 00:03:52.879 If you have put your trust in Christ, 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:55.599 Whatever the bad, 00:03:56.659 --> 00:04:00.680 What is the good that is true of you? 00:04:02.299 --> 00:04:05.859 Well, the bad stuff may feel crushing, 00:04:05.860 --> 00:04:13.220 But really, Jesus has taken away the things that can really crush you. 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:20.280 You see, Jesus has gone up against your truly deadly enemies. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:23.580 You think you've got problems? 00:04:24.580 --> 00:04:26.720 I'll tell you what your real problem is. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:28.060 And it's mine too. 00:04:28.060 --> 00:04:34.759 We have failed to love God as He deserves. 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:38.860 With all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:41.360 We've enjoyed His gifts, 00:04:41.899 --> 00:04:43.259 But all too often, 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:45.199 We've ignored the giver. 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:49.100 We have robbed the God of the universe, 00:04:49.699 --> 00:04:51.699 Of His rightful place in our life. 00:04:51.699 --> 00:04:56.680 We've pushed Him off center stage, 00:04:56.740 --> 00:04:57.579 Where He belongs. 00:04:57.819 --> 00:04:59.319 Off into the wings. 00:05:01.060 --> 00:05:02.699 We owe Him our worship. 00:05:03.599 --> 00:05:06.399 Worship from recognizing His worth, 00:05:06.500 --> 00:05:07.579 His worthiness. 00:05:10.439 --> 00:05:11.579 Yet we don't. 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:13.980 We value other things more. 00:05:14.699 --> 00:05:16.839 As Jeremiah, the prophet, puts it, 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.579 We have forsaken God, 00:05:19.579 --> 00:05:22.779 The spring of living water, 00:05:23.419 --> 00:05:25.199 And dug for ourselves, 00:05:25.779 --> 00:05:26.439 Cisterns. 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:28.319 Broken cisterns. 00:05:29.139 --> 00:05:30.579 That cannot hold water. 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.139 Or as the prophet Isaiah puts it, 00:05:34.500 --> 00:05:35.560 All we like sheep, 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:37.319 Have gone astray. 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:40.959 Each one has turned to his own way. 00:05:41.959 --> 00:05:43.259 And so, 00:05:43.500 --> 00:05:45.319 We are rightly, 00:05:46.219 --> 00:05:46.879 Justly, 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:47.879 Destined, 00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:49.339 For a terrible, 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:50.680 Well-deserved judgment. 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:52.439 Condemnation, 00:05:52.959 --> 00:05:53.379 Death, 00:05:53.540 --> 00:05:54.180 And hell, 00:05:54.540 --> 00:05:56.319 Is our just due. 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:58.240 But, 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:01.079 For everyone in Christ, 00:06:01.719 --> 00:06:02.980 Wonder of wonders. 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:04.819 As Isaiah continues, 00:06:05.579 --> 00:06:08.439 But the Lord has laid on Him, 00:06:08.980 --> 00:06:09.459 Christ, 00:06:10.139 --> 00:06:11.639 The iniquity of us all. 00:06:11.639 --> 00:06:15.519 He has taken hell for us, 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:16.379 And so, 00:06:16.500 --> 00:06:17.939 Taken it out of the way. 00:06:19.099 --> 00:06:20.839 He took our death, 00:06:21.180 --> 00:06:21.579 And so, 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.479 Death will not be for us, 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:26.120 The final chapter. 00:06:27.479 --> 00:06:30.319 He took on and overcame for us, 00:06:30.419 --> 00:06:30.899 The devil. 00:06:31.620 --> 00:06:32.800 Our accuser. 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:34.620 The enemy of our soul. 00:06:35.379 --> 00:06:37.019 Who we could never, 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:38.800 Have taken on ourselves. 00:06:39.219 --> 00:06:40.639 Never overcome ourselves. 00:06:40.639 --> 00:06:42.759 He took our, 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:44.579 Rightful condemnation. 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:46.959 He heard those words, 00:06:47.719 --> 00:06:49.120 Depart from me. 00:06:49.740 --> 00:06:52.860 So that we are in His place, 00:06:53.019 --> 00:06:54.060 Welcomed, 00:06:54.419 --> 00:06:55.279 Forever. 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:57.079 In short, 00:06:57.919 --> 00:07:00.279 Jesus took our worst, 00:07:01.099 --> 00:07:01.759 Sin, 00:07:02.300 --> 00:07:03.000 Shame, 00:07:03.519 --> 00:07:03.939 Debt, 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:04.819 Death, 00:07:05.219 --> 00:07:05.899 Treachery, 00:07:06.219 --> 00:07:06.979 Rebellion, 00:07:06.980 --> 00:07:09.200 And in exchange, 00:07:09.660 --> 00:07:10.980 He gave us, 00:07:11.660 --> 00:07:12.780 His best. 00:07:13.740 --> 00:07:15.160 Acceptance with God, 00:07:15.660 --> 00:07:16.960 A perfect record, 00:07:17.640 --> 00:07:19.819 Adoption as sons and daughters, 00:07:20.300 --> 00:07:21.680 The promise of resurrection, 00:07:22.640 --> 00:07:24.700 A place in the renewed earth, 00:07:25.100 --> 00:07:27.660 Where there will be no more death, 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:29.060 No more mourning, 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:30.500 No more pain, 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:31.960 And no more sorrow. 00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:34.359 And where He Himself, 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:36.000 Will wipe away, 00:07:36.419 --> 00:07:37.699 Every tear. 00:07:38.699 --> 00:07:38.899 Oh, 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:39.719 Now, 00:07:40.779 --> 00:07:41.919 You throw, 00:07:42.180 --> 00:07:43.419 That good, 00:07:44.060 --> 00:07:45.299 Into the balance, 00:07:46.299 --> 00:07:47.479 And I don't care, 00:07:47.740 --> 00:07:48.679 What you have, 00:07:48.899 --> 00:07:50.240 In the bad scale. 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.240 It's just not, 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:53.219 Going to tip it. 00:07:53.740 --> 00:07:54.279 It can't, 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:54.899 It can't, 00:07:55.099 --> 00:07:55.819 It can't. 00:07:55.819 --> 00:07:57.659 You remember, 00:07:58.019 --> 00:07:59.639 The apostle Paul's balance, 00:07:59.899 --> 00:08:00.339 Remember the, 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:01.259 Light, 00:08:01.740 --> 00:08:03.019 Momentary affliction, 00:08:03.779 --> 00:08:04.019 Which, 00:08:04.860 --> 00:08:06.439 Phrase uses, 00:08:06.779 --> 00:08:08.199 To kind of sum up, 00:08:08.240 --> 00:08:09.500 Anything that we might, 00:08:09.779 --> 00:08:10.839 Might be aggrieved by, 00:08:10.959 --> 00:08:11.480 Light, 00:08:11.779 --> 00:08:12.759 Momentary affliction, 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:13.680 Versus, 00:08:13.860 --> 00:08:14.860 The eternal, 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:16.279 Weight of glory, 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:18.300 Eternal weight of glory, 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:20.060 And, 00:08:20.139 --> 00:08:22.000 This is, 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.139 Assuredly true, 00:08:23.420 --> 00:08:24.500 For the one, 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:25.039 For whom, 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:26.540 Christ is the Savior. 00:08:27.760 --> 00:08:29.860 No matter what the bad is, 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:30.520 In your life, 00:08:31.340 --> 00:08:32.019 The good, 00:08:32.300 --> 00:08:34.139 Will always, 00:08:34.539 --> 00:08:35.500 Outweigh the bad. 00:08:36.940 --> 00:08:38.220 And if you know that, 00:08:38.580 --> 00:08:39.080 Really, 00:08:39.420 --> 00:08:40.019 Deep down, 00:08:40.120 --> 00:08:41.180 You know that, 00:08:41.700 --> 00:08:43.039 Like the Spaniard, 00:08:43.440 --> 00:08:44.740 Even in the midst, 00:08:45.300 --> 00:08:45.980 Of the bad, 00:08:47.019 --> 00:08:48.259 You will keep smiling. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:49.740 You'll keep smiling. 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:51.440 I mean, 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:52.180 Uh, 00:08:52.340 --> 00:08:54.080 How bad could things get? 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:55.560 How bad can things get, 00:08:55.620 --> 00:08:56.139 In our life? 00:08:56.240 --> 00:08:56.520 Well, 00:08:57.300 --> 00:08:57.759 Um, 00:08:58.100 --> 00:08:59.480 Your problem could, 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:00.280 Kill you. 00:09:00.780 --> 00:09:01.920 Say that's pretty bad. 00:09:02.139 --> 00:09:03.280 Problem could kill you. 00:09:03.680 --> 00:09:03.980 But, 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:04.259 Uh, 00:09:04.540 --> 00:09:05.440 As we said, 00:09:05.700 --> 00:09:07.259 Christ has trampled down death. 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:09.300 So death will not be the end. 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:10.080 Uh, 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:10.660 We will, 00:09:10.659 --> 00:09:12.659 Merely pass through it, 00:09:12.659 --> 00:09:14.079 Into a deeper, 00:09:14.379 --> 00:09:15.179 Fuller life. 00:09:15.939 --> 00:09:16.500 Death, 00:09:16.959 --> 00:09:18.459 No longer a dungeon, 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:20.360 But a doorway to eternity. 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:21.799 Thus, 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:23.559 Even the ultimate threat, 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:25.959 Is neutralized for the believer. 00:09:26.959 --> 00:09:27.339 Uh, 00:09:27.339 --> 00:09:27.980 The Romans, 00:09:28.259 --> 00:09:29.879 Who persecuted the early Christians, 00:09:30.259 --> 00:09:32.659 Discovered this to their astonishment, 00:09:32.659 --> 00:09:34.839 As they would try to threaten, 00:09:34.839 --> 00:09:36.879 The early Christians, 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:37.740 With the sword, 00:09:38.059 --> 00:09:40.319 Which was kind of their ultimate threat. 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:41.159 Um, 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:42.339 Uh, 00:09:42.339 --> 00:09:43.079 The Christians, 00:09:43.319 --> 00:09:45.559 Responded to the Romans, 00:09:45.980 --> 00:09:46.279 Uh, 00:09:46.319 --> 00:09:47.839 And to their great befuddlement. 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:49.360 The Christians would say, 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:51.240 You can't hurt us. 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:53.579 All you can do is kill us. 00:09:54.539 --> 00:09:55.959 And the Romans would think, 00:09:56.100 --> 00:09:56.439 What? 00:09:56.779 --> 00:09:57.039 Wait, 00:09:57.259 --> 00:09:57.899 Say that again? 00:09:58.399 --> 00:09:58.799 Uh, 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.059 You see, 00:10:00.439 --> 00:10:01.099 They knew, 00:10:01.579 --> 00:10:03.219 However bad the bad, 00:10:03.899 --> 00:10:04.699 The good, 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:05.659 For the Christian, 00:10:06.099 --> 00:10:07.859 Always outweighs it. 00:10:08.179 --> 00:10:09.559 It always outweighs it. 00:10:10.079 --> 00:10:11.759 So they just kept smiling. 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:12.240 Uh, 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:15.539 To the great irritation of the Romans. 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:16.899 They just kept smiling. 00:10:18.179 --> 00:10:19.899 So there's the first thing we know. 00:10:21.019 --> 00:10:22.199 There's the first thing we know. 00:10:23.379 --> 00:10:24.859 And here's the second thing. 00:10:26.839 --> 00:10:28.079 Not only, 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:30.240 Does the good, 00:10:30.740 --> 00:10:31.720 For the believer, 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:34.400 Always outweigh the bad. 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:35.680 But, 00:10:35.820 --> 00:10:36.759 For the believer, 00:10:37.540 --> 00:10:40.820 God actually works the bad, 00:10:41.520 --> 00:10:42.520 For, 00:10:43.300 --> 00:10:44.100 Our good. 00:10:44.600 --> 00:10:45.920 For our good. 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:47.600 Uh, 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:51.259 This is the plain and prized promise of scripture. 00:10:52.140 --> 00:10:52.379 Uh, 00:10:52.379 --> 00:10:53.300 Paul writes in, 00:10:53.340 --> 00:10:53.580 In, 00:10:53.620 --> 00:10:55.240 In Romans 8.28. 00:10:56.020 --> 00:10:57.480 Some of you may know this. 00:10:58.080 --> 00:10:59.900 I'm sure it's precious to you if you do. 00:11:00.480 --> 00:11:01.740 And we know, 00:11:01.860 --> 00:11:02.440 Writes Paul. 00:11:02.860 --> 00:11:03.160 Notice, 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:04.120 Not surmise, 00:11:04.240 --> 00:11:05.080 Or conjecture, 00:11:05.160 --> 00:11:05.680 Or presume, 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:06.639 Or speculate, 00:11:06.920 --> 00:11:07.600 Or hope. 00:11:07.980 --> 00:11:09.300 We know. 00:11:10.300 --> 00:11:11.360 We know, 00:11:11.360 --> 00:11:12.019 That God, 00:11:12.019 --> 00:11:12.620 That God, 00:11:12.620 --> 00:11:14.419 That God causes all things, 00:11:14.419 --> 00:11:15.879 To work together, 00:11:15.879 --> 00:11:17.800 For the good of those, 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:19.000 Who love him, 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:21.399 And are called according to his purpose. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:22.500 That's us. 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:24.419 That's those who have put their trust, 00:11:24.560 --> 00:11:25.340 In Christ. 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:27.899 God causes all things, 00:11:28.620 --> 00:11:30.820 Including the bad things. 00:11:30.820 --> 00:11:32.520 The things, 00:11:32.520 --> 00:11:32.540 The things, 00:11:32.540 --> 00:11:33.879 So bad, 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:35.200 That, 00:11:35.420 --> 00:11:36.540 We think, 00:11:36.940 --> 00:11:37.100 Well, 00:11:37.260 --> 00:11:38.600 Nothing good, 00:11:38.680 --> 00:11:39.900 Could possibly, 00:11:39.900 --> 00:11:40.860 Come out of this. 00:11:41.900 --> 00:11:42.580 Yes, 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:43.940 Those things too, 00:11:44.760 --> 00:11:45.420 God causes, 00:11:45.940 --> 00:11:47.440 To work for our good. 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:49.320 Now, 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:50.460 This is not to say, 00:11:50.980 --> 00:11:53.100 That the bad things aren't bad. 00:11:53.640 --> 00:11:54.260 They are. 00:11:54.640 --> 00:11:55.140 They are. 00:11:55.139 --> 00:11:57.600 But God uses them, 00:11:57.679 --> 00:11:58.740 In our life, 00:11:59.460 --> 00:12:00.919 To produce, 00:12:01.539 --> 00:12:02.059 Good. 00:12:03.259 --> 00:12:04.960 Remember the story of Joseph. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:06.620 The terrible, 00:12:06.819 --> 00:12:07.039 Horrible, 00:12:07.139 --> 00:12:07.500 No good, 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:08.620 Very bad stuff, 00:12:08.740 --> 00:12:09.620 That happened to him. 00:12:10.100 --> 00:12:12.039 His brothers sell him into slavery. 00:12:12.500 --> 00:12:13.899 He's falsely accused. 00:12:14.279 --> 00:12:15.620 He's sent to prison. 00:12:16.139 --> 00:12:18.220 The guy who was supposed to help him, 00:12:18.539 --> 00:12:19.980 By remembering him, 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:21.259 And putting in a good word for him, 00:12:21.399 --> 00:12:22.019 Forgets him. 00:12:22.659 --> 00:12:23.139 Completely. 00:12:23.860 --> 00:12:24.639 And on and on. 00:12:25.139 --> 00:12:25.939 But, 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:26.980 God uses, 00:12:27.439 --> 00:12:27.980 All of you, 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:29.759 All these bad things, 00:12:29.919 --> 00:12:31.659 To get him to a place, 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.220 Where he was able to save his family. 00:12:35.439 --> 00:12:36.559 As he, 00:12:36.759 --> 00:12:37.039 Joseph, 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:38.059 Told his brothers, 00:12:38.220 --> 00:12:39.699 Kind of at the unfolding of this, 00:12:40.379 --> 00:12:42.639 You intended it for evil, 00:12:43.620 --> 00:12:44.899 But God, 00:12:45.259 --> 00:12:46.679 Intended it for good, 00:12:47.159 --> 00:12:48.519 And for a great, 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:49.799 Great rescue. 00:12:53.360 --> 00:12:54.039 Okay, 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:54.500 You say, 00:12:54.500 --> 00:12:54.759 Well, 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:56.639 In that case, 00:12:57.200 --> 00:12:59.419 God was able to work good out of it. 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:01.240 But, 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:05.019 Is he really able to do it with all things? 00:13:06.019 --> 00:13:08.960 Can he really turn every bad, 00:13:09.340 --> 00:13:10.659 Into some good, 00:13:11.019 --> 00:13:11.779 For us, 00:13:12.340 --> 00:13:12.980 His people? 00:13:13.980 --> 00:13:14.659 I mean, 00:13:14.779 --> 00:13:16.539 Some things are so bad, 00:13:16.820 --> 00:13:18.259 We just can't imagine, 00:13:18.460 --> 00:13:20.259 Any good at all coming out of it. 00:13:20.340 --> 00:13:21.179 We just can't imagine. 00:13:21.179 --> 00:13:22.219 Okay, 00:13:22.219 --> 00:13:22.259 Okay, 00:13:22.439 --> 00:13:23.639 So let's take, 00:13:24.039 --> 00:13:25.899 As our test case, 00:13:26.139 --> 00:13:30.219 The absolute worst bad, 00:13:30.939 --> 00:13:31.939 The greatest, 00:13:32.139 --> 00:13:34.199 Most horrific evil, 00:13:34.699 --> 00:13:36.519 In all human history. 00:13:37.219 --> 00:13:37.799 Okay, 00:13:38.139 --> 00:13:39.659 That'll be our test case. 00:13:40.059 --> 00:13:40.479 Now, 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:41.539 The worst evil, 00:13:41.819 --> 00:13:42.739 Is not, 00:13:43.219 --> 00:13:44.120 The holocaust, 00:13:44.120 --> 00:13:45.259 It's not, 00:13:45.259 --> 00:13:46.399 It's not mass genocide, 00:13:47.039 --> 00:13:48.440 It's not ethnic cleansing, 00:13:49.139 --> 00:13:50.779 It's not lynchings, 00:13:50.980 --> 00:13:52.679 It's not sex trafficking, 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:54.519 Not infanticide, 00:13:54.860 --> 00:13:55.580 Terrible, 00:13:56.100 --> 00:13:56.960 And horrific, 00:13:57.179 --> 00:13:58.779 As all these things are. 00:13:59.779 --> 00:14:00.060 No, 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:02.379 Indisputably, 00:14:02.379 --> 00:14:04.580 The worst evil, 00:14:05.419 --> 00:14:06.879 Is when God, 00:14:07.259 --> 00:14:08.740 Out of love, 00:14:09.139 --> 00:14:11.259 Sent His only son, 00:14:11.419 --> 00:14:12.539 Into the world, 00:14:13.259 --> 00:14:14.179 The only, 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:15.360 Truly, 00:14:16.019 --> 00:14:16.799 Innocent, 00:14:17.279 --> 00:14:18.600 All good person, 00:14:19.019 --> 00:14:20.159 That there ever was, 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:21.720 And we, 00:14:22.139 --> 00:14:23.820 Hated him without cause, 00:14:24.539 --> 00:14:25.600 And screamed, 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:26.740 Crucify him, 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:28.980 And nailed him to a cross, 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:30.559 Torturing him, 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:32.059 Until he died. 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:33.620 I mean, 00:14:33.700 --> 00:14:34.299 That's, 00:14:34.299 --> 00:14:35.320 The plus, 00:14:35.500 --> 00:14:36.620 Ultra evil, 00:14:37.019 --> 00:14:38.299 The above and beyond evil, 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:40.860 That there could ever be, 00:14:40.939 --> 00:14:41.860 That there ever was. 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:44.500 So, 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:45.340 I ask you, 00:14:45.740 --> 00:14:47.299 And let's take sober stock, 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:49.779 Was God, 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:50.419 Able, 00:14:50.700 --> 00:14:52.419 To bring any good out of it? 00:14:53.299 --> 00:14:55.080 The crucifixion of his son. 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:57.080 You know, 00:14:57.159 --> 00:14:57.559 I'm sure, 00:14:57.940 --> 00:14:59.000 That the disciples, 00:14:59.200 --> 00:14:59.799 And the devotees, 00:15:00.259 --> 00:15:01.139 Around the cross, 00:15:01.139 --> 00:15:02.740 All thought, 00:15:03.199 --> 00:15:04.000 As they watched, 00:15:04.299 --> 00:15:06.319 Jesus expire on the cross. 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:07.139 There is, 00:15:07.259 --> 00:15:08.220 Nothing, 00:15:08.899 --> 00:15:09.340 Good, 00:15:10.039 --> 00:15:11.220 That could come out of this. 00:15:11.460 --> 00:15:12.120 No way. 00:15:12.500 --> 00:15:13.120 Now this is, 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:14.419 Unmitigated, 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:16.199 Irredeemable, 00:15:16.519 --> 00:15:17.319 Tragedy. 00:15:18.379 --> 00:15:18.960 And you know, 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:21.259 You couldn't fault them, 00:15:21.259 --> 00:15:22.160 For thinking so, 00:15:22.620 --> 00:15:23.320 Could you? 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:26.379 But they were wrong. 00:15:27.720 --> 00:15:28.879 So wrong. 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:32.580 For out of the most horrendous evil, 00:15:33.019 --> 00:15:35.560 God brought an unspeakable good. 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:38.379 The eternal rescue of his people. 00:15:38.940 --> 00:15:40.820 A number that no one can count. 00:15:41.100 --> 00:15:42.500 The salvation of the world. 00:15:42.500 --> 00:15:45.940 And that's the kind of God he is. 00:15:46.440 --> 00:15:48.379 Who brings good out of evil. 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.259 And he has promised to do just that. 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:53.679 For his people. 00:15:54.220 --> 00:15:56.500 To work every bad. 00:15:57.360 --> 00:15:59.240 For the good of those who love him. 00:16:00.460 --> 00:16:02.000 As Jonathan Edwards, 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:04.200 An American theologian, 00:16:04.259 --> 00:16:04.519 Actually, 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:04.899 Yealy. 00:16:04.899 --> 00:16:07.860 As he expressed it. 00:16:09.159 --> 00:16:11.899 Every atom in the universe, 00:16:12.759 --> 00:16:15.179 Is managed by Christ, 00:16:15.539 --> 00:16:18.879 So as to be most to the advantage, 00:16:19.419 --> 00:16:20.079 Of the Christian. 00:16:20.179 --> 00:16:20.759 Did you get that? 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:22.439 Every atom of the universe. 00:16:23.379 --> 00:16:26.059 Every particle of air. 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:28.840 Or every ray of the sun. 00:16:29.220 --> 00:16:31.199 So that the Christian, 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:33.019 In the other world, 00:16:33.019 --> 00:16:35.100 When he comes to see it, 00:16:35.699 --> 00:16:37.159 Shall sit and enjoy 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:39.460 All this vast inheritance, 00:16:39.980 --> 00:16:41.500 With surprising, 00:16:42.179 --> 00:16:43.639 Amazing joy. 00:16:44.299 --> 00:16:45.419 Isn't that wonderful? 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:48.059 That some of the chief delight 00:16:48.059 --> 00:16:49.919 And felicity of heaven, 00:16:50.279 --> 00:16:51.319 Some of it, 00:16:51.860 --> 00:16:52.679 Will be seeing 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.879 All of the incredible unfolding of good 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:56.919 That he has brought out 00:16:56.919 --> 00:16:57.819 Of all the suffering 00:16:57.819 --> 00:16:59.419 That we went through. 00:17:00.500 --> 00:17:01.919 So knowing this, 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.440 That the bad in our life, 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:06.139 God works for good, 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:10.960 We can carry an indestructible smile 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:11.700 In our hearts 00:17:11.700 --> 00:17:14.980 For what possible upheaval 00:17:14.980 --> 00:17:16.859 Could dislodge it 00:17:16.859 --> 00:17:18.579 If we remember this. 00:17:19.740 --> 00:17:20.420 So, 00:17:20.879 --> 00:17:23.099 No matter what the bad, 00:17:23.700 --> 00:17:24.899 For the believer, 00:17:25.859 --> 00:17:28.460 The good always outweighs the bad. 00:17:28.460 --> 00:17:29.740 And, 00:17:29.740 --> 00:17:32.019 Even the bad, 00:17:32.360 --> 00:17:33.059 For the believer, 00:17:33.279 --> 00:17:34.980 God works for good. 00:17:36.019 --> 00:17:36.500 And, 00:17:36.579 --> 00:17:37.279 Finally, 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:40.140 One more thing we know, 00:17:40.980 --> 00:17:42.920 For the believer, 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:47.160 No matter how good the good, 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:49.120 In her life, 00:17:49.380 --> 00:17:51.120 The best, 00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:53.480 Is always ahead. 00:17:53.480 --> 00:17:56.299 No matter how good the good, 00:17:56.360 --> 00:17:57.000 In your life, 00:17:57.519 --> 00:17:58.759 The best, 00:17:59.299 --> 00:18:01.420 Is always ahead. 00:18:02.380 --> 00:18:02.980 You know, 00:18:03.099 --> 00:18:06.079 Some moments or seasons in our lives, 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:08.519 Are unspeakably wonderful. 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:11.599 Golden moments. 00:18:12.420 --> 00:18:12.819 And, 00:18:13.079 --> 00:18:16.799 We wonder if it will ever be so good again. 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:22.000 Will a wistful nostalgia be our lot? 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.220 A looking back with longing, 00:18:26.220 --> 00:18:30.960 Where the very best has for us come and gone? 00:18:32.119 --> 00:18:32.559 You know, 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:33.159 In our culture, 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:35.299 We might be influenced to think so. 00:18:36.259 --> 00:18:38.339 As youth slips away, 00:18:39.339 --> 00:18:40.839 And as beauty fades, 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:44.119 We might think we would reach a time 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:46.339 When our glory days were behind us. 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:50.259 But it can never be so, 00:18:50.480 --> 00:18:51.180 For the believer. 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:54.039 For however good the good, 00:18:54.759 --> 00:18:57.379 The best is always ahead for her. 00:18:58.779 --> 00:18:59.419 Indeed, 00:18:59.579 --> 00:19:02.039 Our very best moments, 00:19:02.859 --> 00:19:04.240 Of beauty, 00:19:05.059 --> 00:19:06.079 Of ecstasy, 00:19:06.279 --> 00:19:07.139 Of epiphany, 00:19:07.980 --> 00:19:09.440 Are couriers, 00:19:10.339 --> 00:19:12.200 From a far off country, 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:15.359 The home to which we are heading. 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.719 And this nostalgia for these moments, 00:19:20.039 --> 00:19:22.659 Should not face us back, 00:19:23.439 --> 00:19:26.359 But should face us ahead. 00:19:27.819 --> 00:19:28.619 Nostalgia. 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:29.939 Literally, 00:19:30.079 --> 00:19:31.240 The word literally means, 00:19:31.599 --> 00:19:33.799 A pain for home. 00:19:34.519 --> 00:19:35.799 A pain for home. 00:19:36.659 --> 00:19:37.740 And that home, 00:19:37.859 --> 00:19:40.319 For which we so poignantly yearn, 00:19:40.659 --> 00:19:42.119 Is ahead of us. 00:19:42.479 --> 00:19:43.899 It's not behind us. 00:19:43.900 --> 00:19:46.660 These joys, 00:19:46.780 --> 00:19:49.140 That are strewn along our way, 00:19:50.080 --> 00:19:52.740 Are whispers from a home, 00:19:53.440 --> 00:19:55.120 That is beckoning us. 00:19:56.180 --> 00:19:56.900 There, 00:19:57.460 --> 00:19:59.259 In that far country, 00:19:59.360 --> 00:20:00.320 Which comes us, 00:20:00.840 --> 00:20:03.780 Through these pangs of beauty, 00:20:04.280 --> 00:20:04.880 Joy, 00:20:05.220 --> 00:20:05.900 And love, 00:20:05.900 --> 00:20:07.080 There, 00:20:07.080 --> 00:20:11.060 All these bits and beams of glory, 00:20:12.060 --> 00:20:13.740 Shall come together, 00:20:14.980 --> 00:20:16.080 In us, 00:20:16.300 --> 00:20:18.560 Around us, 00:20:19.019 --> 00:20:20.320 And before us. 00:20:20.660 --> 00:20:21.720 In us, 00:20:21.840 --> 00:20:22.720 Around us, 00:20:22.860 --> 00:20:24.220 And before us. 00:20:25.220 --> 00:20:26.500 In us. 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:28.480 Duh. 00:20:28.480 --> 00:20:30.980 It was said of the king of Rohan, 00:20:31.299 --> 00:20:32.599 In the Lord of the Rings, 00:20:32.700 --> 00:20:33.599 I wonder if you've, 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:34.559 Read that, 00:20:34.819 --> 00:20:36.779 That upon his brow, 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:38.700 In death, 00:20:39.559 --> 00:20:40.339 Was united, 00:20:41.059 --> 00:20:42.500 The beauty of youth, 00:20:43.420 --> 00:20:45.240 The vigor of manhood, 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:47.759 And the wisdom of old age, 00:20:48.059 --> 00:20:51.660 Upon his funeral pyre, 00:20:52.299 --> 00:20:52.599 You know, 00:20:52.660 --> 00:20:53.299 These things, 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:55.059 Barely meet, 00:20:55.519 --> 00:20:58.099 Are only tantalizingly so, 00:20:58.220 --> 00:20:59.140 In this life. 00:20:59.700 --> 00:21:00.039 Just, 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:01.420 Maybe meet in passing. 00:21:01.920 --> 00:21:04.480 By the time we have a little bit of the vigor of manhood, 00:21:04.539 --> 00:21:06.319 The beauty of youth is almost gone, 00:21:06.579 --> 00:21:08.759 And the wisdom is still a ways away. 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:09.160 But, 00:21:10.359 --> 00:21:12.039 Don't we sense, 00:21:12.819 --> 00:21:14.640 That our true flourishing, 00:21:15.259 --> 00:21:18.319 Shall be when all of those come together, 00:21:18.819 --> 00:21:20.640 Which they shall, 00:21:21.500 --> 00:21:22.359 At the last. 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:25.619 As the apostle John writes, 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:28.660 1 John 3, 2, 00:21:29.660 --> 00:21:31.759 What we shall be, 00:21:32.379 --> 00:21:33.559 Has not yet appeared. 00:21:34.539 --> 00:21:36.140 So we look forward, 00:21:36.140 --> 00:21:37.759 To a glory, 00:21:38.320 --> 00:21:39.259 In us, 00:21:39.259 --> 00:21:40.860 That is still ahead. 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:43.140 And this glory, 00:21:43.620 --> 00:21:45.060 Shall also be, 00:21:45.540 --> 00:21:47.100 All around us. 00:21:48.500 --> 00:21:49.720 Heaven on earth. 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:52.620 Heaven and earth, 00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:54.300 Come together. 00:21:55.300 --> 00:21:56.780 As Paul describes it, 00:21:57.220 --> 00:21:57.920 Creation, 00:21:58.420 --> 00:21:59.860 Set free, 00:22:00.360 --> 00:22:02.040 From its bondage to corruption. 00:22:02.780 --> 00:22:03.780 There in Romans 8, 00:22:03.840 --> 00:22:04.340 To 21. 00:22:04.339 --> 00:22:07.539 And do we not, 00:22:07.740 --> 00:22:08.359 Catch, 00:22:08.619 --> 00:22:09.980 Glimpses of it, 00:22:10.539 --> 00:22:11.079 Nature, 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:11.919 Creation, 00:22:12.439 --> 00:22:14.459 Straining to break out, 00:22:15.059 --> 00:22:17.019 In the streaks of a sunset, 00:22:17.419 --> 00:22:17.679 Or the, 00:22:17.679 --> 00:22:19.819 Or the gurgle of a stream. 00:22:20.899 --> 00:22:21.839 Its glory, 00:22:22.439 --> 00:22:23.679 And splendor, 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:25.519 Will be all around us. 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:27.679 But, 00:22:28.199 --> 00:22:29.399 Supremely, 00:22:30.299 --> 00:22:31.559 Supremely, 00:22:31.939 --> 00:22:33.740 It will be before us. 00:22:34.339 --> 00:22:37.480 As the apostle says, 00:22:38.099 --> 00:22:38.619 Then, 00:22:39.179 --> 00:22:40.379 Face to face, 00:22:40.919 --> 00:22:42.299 Face to face, 00:22:42.799 --> 00:22:44.279 1 Corinthians 13, 00:22:45.059 --> 00:22:46.539 Face to face, 00:22:46.939 --> 00:22:48.339 With the one, 00:22:48.740 --> 00:22:50.199 Whose whispers, 00:22:51.359 --> 00:22:52.119 Were these, 00:22:52.539 --> 00:22:53.759 Pangs of beauty, 00:22:54.259 --> 00:22:54.939 And joy, 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:55.899 All along, 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:57.539 They were his whispers. 00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:58.539 Then, 00:22:58.539 --> 00:23:01.460 Then we shall discover, 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:03.740 That it was his face, 00:23:04.180 --> 00:23:05.599 That we yearned for, 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:07.980 In all of our earthly longings. 00:23:08.539 --> 00:23:10.299 They were but shadows, 00:23:10.940 --> 00:23:12.159 Of which, 00:23:12.680 --> 00:23:14.059 He is the substance. 00:23:14.819 --> 00:23:17.259 They but the scattered beams, 00:23:18.619 --> 00:23:19.700 He the sun. 00:23:19.700 --> 00:23:23.700 The earthly delights, 00:23:23.700 --> 00:23:25.340 Were but the streams, 00:23:25.779 --> 00:23:26.920 The little rivulets, 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:28.700 But he, 00:23:29.080 --> 00:23:30.240 Is the ocean. 00:23:31.900 --> 00:23:33.759 But not only shall there be, 00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:34.660 In, 00:23:35.460 --> 00:23:36.519 The far country, 00:23:36.660 --> 00:23:37.600 To which we head, 00:23:37.940 --> 00:23:39.940 A coming together, 00:23:40.700 --> 00:23:42.200 Of all the bits, 00:23:42.200 --> 00:23:43.660 And beams of glory, 00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:45.400 That we have, 00:23:46.539 --> 00:23:47.319 That we have, 00:23:47.319 --> 00:23:47.580 That have, 00:23:47.580 --> 00:23:49.600 That have caressed us, 00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:51.740 And sometimes ravished us, 00:23:51.799 --> 00:23:52.360 In our hearts, 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:53.140 In this life. 00:23:54.059 --> 00:23:54.660 There, 00:23:55.220 --> 00:23:57.080 Will also be, 00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:58.960 A continued, 00:23:59.660 --> 00:24:01.819 An eternally continued, 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:03.420 Culmination, 00:24:04.140 --> 00:24:05.860 Of all of these joys. 00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:06.400 Welcome. 00:24:09.019 --> 00:24:11.220 A forever drinking, 00:24:11.220 --> 00:24:14.019 Of what shall forever, 00:24:14.019 --> 00:24:15.579 Quench our thirst, 00:24:16.700 --> 00:24:18.200 But in ever deeper, 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:19.200 Drafts, 00:24:19.339 --> 00:24:21.200 Of an ever fuller, 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:21.799 Quenching. 00:24:24.059 --> 00:24:24.920 Do you, 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:26.279 Remember how, 00:24:26.839 --> 00:24:27.440 C.S. Lewis, 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:28.380 Put it, 00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:30.420 At the end of his last book, 00:24:30.500 --> 00:24:31.740 In the Narnia series, 00:24:33.120 --> 00:24:34.299 Went like this, 00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:35.539 From his last battle. 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:39.160 Now at last, 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:41.039 They were beginning, 00:24:41.220 --> 00:24:42.860 Chapter one, 00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:45.500 Of the great story, 00:24:45.819 --> 00:24:47.079 Which no one on earth, 00:24:47.140 --> 00:24:47.799 Has read, 00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:50.360 Which goes on forever, 00:24:51.420 --> 00:24:52.120 In which, 00:24:52.700 --> 00:24:53.819 Every chapter, 00:24:54.819 --> 00:24:55.500 Is better, 00:24:56.200 --> 00:24:57.319 Than the one before. 00:24:58.920 --> 00:25:00.720 Is that not wonderful? 00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:02.460 Is that not, 00:25:02.460 --> 00:25:04.579 Full of wonder? 00:25:04.579 --> 00:25:06.859 That for the Christian, 00:25:07.639 --> 00:25:08.779 However good, 00:25:08.859 --> 00:25:09.819 Their experience, 00:25:10.460 --> 00:25:11.259 The best, 00:25:11.579 --> 00:25:12.799 Will always, 00:25:13.139 --> 00:25:13.740 Be ahead, 00:25:14.579 --> 00:25:15.059 Forever, 00:25:16.059 --> 00:25:17.679 Theirs, 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:18.740 Ours, 00:25:19.579 --> 00:25:20.659 Will be, 00:25:20.779 --> 00:25:22.699 An ever fuller, 00:25:23.179 --> 00:25:23.779 Deeper, 00:25:24.059 --> 00:25:25.159 More expansive, 00:25:25.159 --> 00:25:25.859 Joy. 00:25:25.859 --> 00:25:28.919 If it had not been told, 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:32.899 As it had not been told, 00:25:32.899 --> 00:25:33.639 Something so, 00:25:33.639 --> 00:25:36.099 Unimaginably fantastic, 00:25:36.099 --> 00:25:38.799 As the apostle writes, 00:25:38.919 --> 00:25:39.980 In first Corinthians 2, 00:25:40.019 --> 00:25:40.299 Nine, 00:25:40.699 --> 00:25:42.099 I has not seen, 00:25:42.679 --> 00:25:44.240 Nor has ear heard, 00:25:44.639 --> 00:25:46.299 Nor has the heart of man, 00:25:46.379 --> 00:25:47.500 Imagined, 00:25:48.159 --> 00:25:49.759 What God has prepared, 00:25:49.879 --> 00:25:50.459 For those, 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:51.799 Who love him. 00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:54.659 Oh friends, 00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:55.200 If you can, 00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:56.539 If you can put, 00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:57.539 These truths, 00:25:57.819 --> 00:25:58.740 These three truths, 00:25:58.879 --> 00:26:00.339 Into your soul's pocket, 00:26:01.460 --> 00:26:03.879 Even if your present sword fights, 00:26:03.980 --> 00:26:05.460 Seem to be going against you, 00:26:06.579 --> 00:26:08.639 You can yet smile, 00:26:09.180 --> 00:26:10.200 Like the Spaniard, 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:13.159 Because there is something, 00:26:13.159 --> 00:26:14.519 That you know, 00:26:15.099 --> 00:26:17.480 That makes all the difference, 00:26:17.559 --> 00:26:18.119 In the world. 00:26:20.419 --> 00:26:21.599 Both in this one, 00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:23.899 And in the one to come. 00:26:26.779 --> 00:26:28.319 However bad the bad, 00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:31.019 For the one in Christ, 00:26:31.639 --> 00:26:33.039 The good, 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:35.940 Will always outweigh the bad. 00:26:37.099 --> 00:26:37.619 And, 00:26:38.019 --> 00:26:40.019 For those in Christ, 00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:41.899 The bad in their lives, 00:26:42.379 --> 00:26:44.299 God works for good, 00:26:44.539 --> 00:26:44.960 For them. 00:26:47.039 --> 00:26:49.200 And no matter how good the good, 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:50.940 Gets in this life, 00:26:50.940 --> 00:26:52.779 For the one in Christ, 00:26:53.059 --> 00:26:53.980 The best, 00:26:54.700 --> 00:26:56.180 Is always ahead. 00:26:57.620 --> 00:26:59.279 Wear these truths, 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:01.400 As a garland about your head, 00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:02.920 And no one, 00:27:02.980 --> 00:27:03.799 Or nothing, 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:06.080 Can take away your smile. 00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:06.879 Well, 00:27:06.879 --> 00:27:10.159 We've, 00:27:10.159 --> 00:27:11.899 We've said, 00:27:12.019 --> 00:27:13.579 Get these truths, 00:27:13.579 --> 00:27:14.899 Into your soul's pocket, 00:27:15.299 --> 00:27:16.819 And carry them with you. 00:27:18.199 --> 00:27:19.240 A brief, 00:27:19.379 --> 00:27:20.759 And concluding word, 00:27:20.859 --> 00:27:22.019 On how to do so. 00:27:24.699 --> 00:27:25.779 And these truths, 00:27:25.919 --> 00:27:26.639 Are of course, 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:28.559 Simply a bit, 00:27:28.559 --> 00:27:30.559 Of the architecture, 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:32.440 Of the edifice, 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:35.339 That is God's story, 00:27:35.779 --> 00:27:37.019 Given to us, 00:27:37.019 --> 00:27:38.460 In the scriptures. 00:27:39.460 --> 00:27:40.500 And let me, 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:42.240 Let me call you, 00:27:42.619 --> 00:27:43.940 To do two things. 00:27:44.899 --> 00:27:45.740 First, 00:27:46.099 --> 00:27:48.339 Steep yourself, 00:27:48.899 --> 00:27:50.159 In the story. 00:27:51.099 --> 00:27:52.079 Steep yourself, 00:27:52.179 --> 00:27:52.980 In the story. 00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:55.099 Attend, 00:27:55.579 --> 00:27:57.240 And absorb, 00:27:57.579 --> 00:27:58.799 Its majestic, 00:27:58.799 --> 00:27:59.759 Sweep. 00:28:00.019 --> 00:28:00.700 Creation, 00:28:01.019 --> 00:28:01.620 Fall, 00:28:01.819 --> 00:28:02.579 Incarnation, 00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:03.339 Cross, 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:04.039 Resurrection, 00:28:04.460 --> 00:28:06.180 Renewal of all things. 00:28:07.180 --> 00:28:08.440 It's a story, 00:28:08.579 --> 00:28:09.980 So full of wonder. 00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:11.220 Peter tells us, 00:28:11.420 --> 00:28:12.500 That the very angels, 00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:14.279 Long to look into it. 00:28:14.660 --> 00:28:15.900 They're ravished by it. 00:28:15.960 --> 00:28:17.120 First Peter 1.12. 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:20.179 So let this story, 00:28:20.279 --> 00:28:21.500 God's wonderful story, 00:28:21.939 --> 00:28:22.799 Supply, 00:28:23.079 --> 00:28:24.879 Your categories of thought. 00:28:25.559 --> 00:28:26.519 Let it, 00:28:26.639 --> 00:28:27.279 This story, 00:28:27.559 --> 00:28:28.979 Shape your imaginary. 00:28:30.639 --> 00:28:32.619 Be captivated by it. 00:28:33.819 --> 00:28:35.219 Let it become, 00:28:35.339 --> 00:28:36.439 The lens, 00:28:36.779 --> 00:28:37.919 Through which you see, 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:38.879 All things. 00:28:40.739 --> 00:28:41.559 Let, 00:28:41.739 --> 00:28:42.859 The word of Christ, 00:28:43.179 --> 00:28:44.459 This word about Christ, 00:28:44.579 --> 00:28:45.179 The story, 00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:46.299 As Paul tells us, 00:28:46.299 --> 00:28:47.019 Come, 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:49.000 To dwell in you, 00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:50.539 Make its home in you, 00:28:50.739 --> 00:28:51.579 Richly, 00:28:51.939 --> 00:28:52.500 Richly. 00:28:52.879 --> 00:28:54.079 Colossians 3.16. 00:28:55.099 --> 00:28:56.379 Pray its truths, 00:28:56.639 --> 00:28:58.199 Down into your heart, 00:28:58.559 --> 00:29:00.179 Until they catch fire, 00:29:00.859 --> 00:29:02.239 And it becomes for you, 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:03.259 The burning bush, 00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:05.379 In which the presence of God, 00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:07.179 Is made known to you. 00:29:08.239 --> 00:29:09.919 Steep yourself in the story. 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:11.979 Steep yourself in the story. 00:29:12.979 --> 00:29:13.859 And second, 00:29:13.859 --> 00:29:15.639 I propose, 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:19.900 Give yourself to the story. 00:29:21.100 --> 00:29:23.820 Let it be your drama, 00:29:24.020 --> 00:29:26.700 From which you discover your role. 00:29:27.700 --> 00:29:29.200 And answer it, 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:30.440 What it calls you. 00:29:30.800 --> 00:29:32.540 Go where it sends you. 00:29:33.259 --> 00:29:34.780 Live in the story. 00:29:34.779 --> 00:29:38.599 If you live the story, 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:41.160 You will experience its truth. 00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:43.299 It is, 00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:45.279 As you launch out, 00:29:45.619 --> 00:29:46.819 And live it, 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:48.240 Live it as a disciple, 00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:50.759 That you will come to know, 00:29:51.399 --> 00:29:52.660 The story's truth. 00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:54.819 In all of its splendor. 00:29:54.819 --> 00:29:58.279 If you abide in my word, 00:29:58.419 --> 00:29:58.960 Says Jesus, 00:29:59.159 --> 00:30:00.839 You will know the truth. 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:02.460 John 8.31.32. 00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:05.960 Living this story, 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:07.019 Jesus once said, 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:08.619 Is like food. 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:10.919 My food, 00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:13.039 Is to do the Father's will. 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:14.819 John 4.34. 00:30:15.019 --> 00:30:15.519 Food. 00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:18.000 That is what nourishes, 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:20.000 And satisfies our soul. 00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:20.559 Soul. 00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:23.700 So come. 00:30:24.539 --> 00:30:25.640 Taste and see. 00:30:26.460 --> 00:30:27.839 Give yourself to the story. 00:30:29.599 --> 00:30:31.700 And the one who is its center, 00:30:31.819 --> 00:30:32.240 An author. 00:30:33.579 --> 00:30:35.140 Steep yourself in the story. 00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:37.000 Give yourself to it. 00:30:38.059 --> 00:30:40.119 That's how you get these things, 00:30:40.119 --> 00:30:40.960 Into, 00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:43.200 And carry them around, 00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:44.339 In your soul's pocket. 00:30:44.339 --> 00:30:46.759 Do that. 00:30:47.419 --> 00:30:48.699 And your heart, 00:30:49.199 --> 00:30:49.899 Will never, 00:30:50.299 --> 00:30:51.759 Lack for a smile. 00:30:52.959 --> 00:30:54.539 Never lack for a smile. 00:30:56.659 --> 00:30:57.299 Well, 00:30:57.579 --> 00:30:57.980 This, 00:30:58.059 --> 00:30:59.939 Concludes our series, 00:31:00.179 --> 00:31:01.559 On the fundamentals, 00:31:01.699 --> 00:31:02.699 Of following Christ. 00:31:03.059 --> 00:31:04.319 For those of you, 00:31:04.439 --> 00:31:05.399 Who have persevered, 00:31:05.439 --> 00:31:06.779 In this adventure, 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:08.480 You will recall, 00:31:08.899 --> 00:31:10.299 That we commenced with, 00:31:10.619 --> 00:31:12.079 The call of the disciple. 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:13.699 The call, 00:31:13.700 --> 00:31:15.319 To launch out, 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:16.319 Into the deep, 00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:17.420 At Christ's bidding, 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:19.580 And to cast out a net, 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:21.039 For a catch. 00:31:22.600 --> 00:31:23.420 Then we, 00:31:23.740 --> 00:31:24.340 Considered, 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:25.180 The course, 00:31:25.980 --> 00:31:26.819 Of the disciple. 00:31:27.819 --> 00:31:28.819 What is, 00:31:28.980 --> 00:31:29.819 The path, 00:31:30.080 --> 00:31:31.200 That this call, 00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.840 Casts us upon. 00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:34.539 And we discovered, 00:31:34.539 --> 00:31:36.400 That it was a path, 00:31:37.180 --> 00:31:39.539 Of an ongoing death, 00:31:40.100 --> 00:31:40.799 To self. 00:31:41.420 --> 00:31:41.860 And yet, 00:31:42.259 --> 00:31:43.039 Simultaneously, 00:31:43.039 --> 00:31:44.319 And paradoxically, 00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:46.659 Of an upwelling life, 00:31:47.379 --> 00:31:48.740 The Christ life, 00:31:49.099 --> 00:31:49.680 Through us. 00:31:50.940 --> 00:31:51.619 We then, 00:31:52.039 --> 00:31:53.019 Soberly confronted, 00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:54.119 The conflict, 00:31:55.119 --> 00:31:55.920 Of the disciple. 00:31:56.819 --> 00:31:58.700 That fearsome fight, 00:31:58.819 --> 00:32:00.099 Of our fallen flesh, 00:32:00.460 --> 00:32:01.359 Which hankers, 00:32:01.460 --> 00:32:02.539 To be indulged, 00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:04.039 And is only, 00:32:04.180 --> 00:32:05.579 Successfully engaged, 00:32:05.879 --> 00:32:06.639 As we walk, 00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:07.220 In the power, 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:08.059 Of the Holy Spirit. 00:32:08.059 --> 00:32:09.500 And we unfolded that. 00:32:11.179 --> 00:32:12.359 And then we took up, 00:32:12.399 --> 00:32:14.279 Consideration of the, 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:15.599 Contemplation, 00:32:16.079 --> 00:32:16.899 Of the disciple. 00:32:18.339 --> 00:32:18.980 That, 00:32:18.980 --> 00:32:20.559 Discipline at the very, 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:21.419 Heart, 00:32:21.419 --> 00:32:23.339 Of our spiritual health. 00:32:24.339 --> 00:32:24.899 Meditation. 00:32:26.899 --> 00:32:27.740 In the, 00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:28.559 Conquering, 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:29.619 Of the disciple, 00:32:29.619 --> 00:32:31.139 We doubled down, 00:32:31.139 --> 00:32:31.539 On the, 00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:33.279 Concrete practicals, 00:32:33.279 --> 00:32:34.319 Of sin slaying. 00:32:34.959 --> 00:32:35.419 And the, 00:32:35.419 --> 00:32:36.639 Indispensable, 00:32:36.779 --> 00:32:37.299 Rule, 00:32:37.899 --> 00:32:38.779 Of scripture, 00:32:39.259 --> 00:32:40.239 In that slaying, 00:32:40.299 --> 00:32:40.639 Of sin. 00:32:40.899 --> 00:32:42.219 If by the spirit, 00:32:42.399 --> 00:32:43.119 You put to death, 00:32:43.199 --> 00:32:44.039 The deeds of the body. 00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:44.819 That is, 00:32:45.099 --> 00:32:45.959 Using scripture. 00:32:46.899 --> 00:32:47.779 And finally, 00:32:47.859 --> 00:32:49.000 We concluded this morning, 00:32:49.459 --> 00:32:51.259 With the great comfort, 00:32:51.719 --> 00:32:52.519 Of the disciple. 00:32:53.459 --> 00:32:55.099 The treasured truths, 00:32:55.099 --> 00:32:56.459 That will keep, 00:32:56.699 --> 00:32:57.299 A smile, 00:32:57.879 --> 00:32:59.159 Upon the soul's heart, 00:32:59.639 --> 00:33:00.839 For every follower, 00:33:00.959 --> 00:33:01.419 Of Christ. 00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:02.559 Well, 00:33:02.679 --> 00:33:03.740 In the time that remains, 00:33:03.939 --> 00:33:04.219 And, 00:33:04.299 --> 00:33:06.119 I shall be happy, 00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:07.419 To take up, 00:33:07.579 --> 00:33:08.659 Any questions you have, 00:33:08.859 --> 00:33:09.519 On this, 00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:10.500 Or any of the, 00:33:10.579 --> 00:33:11.599 The topics. 00:33:11.779 --> 00:33:12.839 I finally was able, 00:33:12.899 --> 00:33:13.919 To be good to my promise, 00:33:14.019 --> 00:33:14.740 To leave some time, 00:33:14.819 --> 00:33:15.299 For questions, 00:33:15.539 --> 00:33:15.980 And answers. 00:33:17.480 --> 00:33:17.959 So, 00:33:18.099 --> 00:33:19.259 Thank you for your, 00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:20.219 Gracious attendance, 00:33:20.399 --> 00:33:21.079 And your attention. 00:33:21.859 --> 00:33:23.719 And may the good seed, 00:33:23.720 --> 00:33:25.600 That is sown, 00:33:25.819 --> 00:33:27.279 Produce an abundant, 00:33:27.700 --> 00:33:28.160 Harvest, 00:33:28.900 --> 00:33:29.680 In your life, 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:31.299 For the glory of Christ. 00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:32.839 Thank you. 00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:34.000 Any, 00:33:34.120 --> 00:33:35.120 Any questions, 00:33:35.299 --> 00:33:36.299 Or comments, 00:33:36.519 --> 00:33:37.380 About these or anything? 00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:42.500 We've got a good, 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:43.319 Ten minutes. 00:33:43.460 --> 00:33:43.920 Yes, 00:33:44.019 --> 00:33:44.299 Matt! 00:33:45.100 --> 00:33:46.019 I agree, 00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:47.900 With your three points today. 00:33:47.980 --> 00:33:48.180 Oh, 00:33:48.240 --> 00:33:48.480 Good. 00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:49.220 I'm glad. 00:33:49.339 --> 00:33:50.180 That encourages me. 00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:53.240 I was sweating there, 00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:53.799 For a moment, 00:33:53.859 --> 00:33:54.620 When you raised your hand. 00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:54.940 I'm smiling. 00:33:58.599 --> 00:33:59.240 Is it, 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:00.859 It seems to me, 00:34:00.940 --> 00:34:02.120 That the Bible makes clear, 00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:04.859 That God doesn't expect us, 00:34:04.859 --> 00:34:06.720 To always have a smile on it. 00:34:06.720 --> 00:34:07.000 Yeah, 00:34:07.140 --> 00:34:07.920 Good question. 00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:08.300 Yeah, 00:34:08.300 --> 00:34:08.539 Yeah, 00:34:08.539 --> 00:34:08.619 Yeah, 00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:11.139 Great point. 00:34:11.420 --> 00:34:11.539 Yeah. 00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:12.679 So Matt, 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:13.960 Yeah, 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:14.579 Great question. 00:34:14.940 --> 00:34:16.480 And here's an amazing thing. 00:34:17.039 --> 00:34:18.480 In the world, 00:34:19.380 --> 00:34:20.079 Typically, 00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.400 Our sorrow, 00:34:21.819 --> 00:34:23.539 And our happiness, 00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:25.960 Are mutually displacing. 00:34:26.819 --> 00:34:27.340 Why, 00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:28.559 If we get sad, 00:34:28.619 --> 00:34:30.460 Or something makes us sad, 00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:32.079 We lose our joy, 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:33.219 Our happiness. 00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:34.360 And, 00:34:34.420 --> 00:34:35.019 So, 00:34:35.319 --> 00:34:35.539 You know, 00:34:35.579 --> 00:34:36.639 It's either one or the other. 00:34:36.860 --> 00:34:37.840 But the wonder, 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:39.779 That the Bible gives us, 00:34:40.099 --> 00:34:41.239 Is that these things, 00:34:41.319 --> 00:34:42.079 Can exist, 00:34:42.440 --> 00:34:43.559 Simultaneously. 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:46.139 I'm sorry? 00:34:46.639 --> 00:34:46.980 No, 00:34:47.099 --> 00:34:48.059 You just really preach. 00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:49.000 Oh, 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:49.219 Well, 00:34:49.219 --> 00:34:49.480 Thank you. 00:34:49.500 --> 00:34:50.199 I was in the back, 00:34:50.279 --> 00:34:50.599 Listening. 00:34:51.019 --> 00:34:51.179 Oh, 00:34:51.279 --> 00:34:51.500 Good. 00:34:52.259 --> 00:34:53.059 Keep listening. 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:53.519 Let me just, 00:34:53.659 --> 00:34:54.079 Let me just, 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:55.079 Just let me finish this, 00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:56.559 Because he's got a good question going here. 00:34:56.659 --> 00:34:56.779 I don't, 00:34:56.880 --> 00:34:57.179 It's a, 00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:57.679 So, 00:34:58.019 --> 00:34:58.619 So, 00:34:58.619 --> 00:34:58.980 Paul, 00:34:59.299 --> 00:35:01.980 Paul has this marvelous phrase, 00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:03.400 Sorrowful, 00:35:03.980 --> 00:35:05.179 Yet rejoicing. 00:35:06.019 --> 00:35:06.460 So, 00:35:06.759 --> 00:35:07.699 We can be, 00:35:07.980 --> 00:35:08.480 We are, 00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:09.699 We're in the midst, 00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:10.860 Of tribulation, 00:35:11.380 --> 00:35:11.579 And, 00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:11.840 And, 00:35:11.840 --> 00:35:13.000 And that's a reality. 00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:13.920 And, 00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:15.099 And Jesus says, 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:16.139 In this world, 00:35:16.380 --> 00:35:18.279 You shall have much tribulation, 00:35:18.699 --> 00:35:19.400 But, 00:35:19.599 --> 00:35:20.679 Be of good cheer, 00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:22.659 For I have overcome the world. 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:23.239 So, 00:35:23.420 --> 00:35:24.279 He's suggesting, 00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:27.099 That even in the midst of tribulation, 00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:30.079 Because of this hope that we have, 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:31.400 And because these truths, 00:35:31.679 --> 00:35:32.759 That we know, 00:35:33.259 --> 00:35:36.039 We can even have a joy, 00:35:36.940 --> 00:35:38.440 Even in the midst of our tribulation. 00:35:38.539 --> 00:35:39.239 And I think, 00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:39.679 Matt, 00:35:40.279 --> 00:35:41.239 That this, 00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:43.599 This allows us, 00:35:44.779 --> 00:35:46.859 This gives us a heavier keel, 00:35:47.219 --> 00:35:49.179 The joy that we can have, 00:35:49.399 --> 00:35:50.799 And Peter writes about this, 00:35:50.859 --> 00:35:51.859 In 1 Peter also, 00:35:52.219 --> 00:35:52.639 Where he says, 00:35:52.839 --> 00:35:54.759 Even though we've got all these hard things, 00:35:54.799 --> 00:35:55.379 That are happening, 00:35:55.500 --> 00:35:56.759 Yet we joy and rejoice, 00:35:57.399 --> 00:35:57.559 And, 00:35:57.559 --> 00:35:59.039 And that gives us a heavy keel, 00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:00.699 That allows us, 00:36:00.699 --> 00:36:02.259 To kind of go full sail, 00:36:02.340 --> 00:36:03.860 Into a lot of the hard stuff in life. 00:36:04.460 --> 00:36:05.799 We can go right in, 00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:07.360 And I think this is what Jesus means, 00:36:07.420 --> 00:36:07.799 In part, 00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:08.279 Where he says, 00:36:08.619 --> 00:36:10.039 We're to be salt, 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:11.299 That's to go in, 00:36:11.420 --> 00:36:12.719 Where things are going off, 00:36:12.779 --> 00:36:13.659 And kind of going rotten, 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:14.739 As a preservative. 00:36:15.139 --> 00:36:15.440 So, 00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:16.659 We can go in, 00:36:16.960 --> 00:36:17.119 And, 00:36:17.219 --> 00:36:18.659 And we can endure, 00:36:18.920 --> 00:36:21.059 Some of the most sorrowful things, 00:36:21.059 --> 00:36:23.900 Because we have this heavy keel, 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:25.480 This ballast of joy, 00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:27.380 That doesn't go away. 00:36:27.420 --> 00:36:28.059 It's beautiful. 00:36:28.659 --> 00:36:29.539 It is. 00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:30.279 It is. 00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:30.980 And, 00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:33.079 So that allows us to, 00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:34.699 To experience that. 00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:35.719 So then we, 00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:36.880 You know, 00:36:36.940 --> 00:36:37.960 When somebody dies, 00:36:38.420 --> 00:36:40.699 I'm heading down this afternoon, 00:36:40.820 --> 00:36:41.599 To a memorial, 00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:42.320 Of a precious, 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:43.179 Precious person. 00:36:43.739 --> 00:36:44.400 And Paul writes, 00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:46.680 We do sorrow, 00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:48.579 Yet not as those, 00:36:48.660 --> 00:36:49.660 Who have no hope. 00:36:50.380 --> 00:36:51.320 So there's always, 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:52.320 This commingling, 00:36:52.680 --> 00:36:53.780 Of joy, 00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:56.099 With whatever it is. 00:36:56.340 --> 00:36:56.539 So, 00:36:56.800 --> 00:36:58.440 Whether that expresses itself, 00:36:58.980 --> 00:36:59.780 As a smile, 00:36:59.860 --> 00:37:00.240 Or a tear, 00:37:00.300 --> 00:37:00.920 At any one moment, 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:01.760 No, 00:37:01.860 --> 00:37:02.920 You're absolutely right, 00:37:03.019 --> 00:37:03.200 Matt. 00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:03.940 I'm not, 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:05.059 I'm not talking about, 00:37:05.099 --> 00:37:05.700 That's why I said, 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:07.079 A smile in our soul. 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:10.639 Jesus wept. 00:37:11.780 --> 00:37:12.780 And there are a lot of, 00:37:12.780 --> 00:37:14.320 There are a lot of sorrowful things, 00:37:14.400 --> 00:37:15.119 And that's going to be, 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:16.320 One side of the reality, 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:17.000 You know, 00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:18.340 In a fallen world, 00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:18.980 Absolutely. 00:37:19.660 --> 00:37:20.019 Absolutely. 00:37:20.700 --> 00:37:20.960 Yeah. 00:37:21.360 --> 00:37:21.780 Yeah, 00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:22.200 Thank you. 00:37:22.240 --> 00:37:22.820 Great question. 00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:24.039 Great question. 00:37:24.300 --> 00:37:25.599 My wife always suspects, 00:37:25.740 --> 00:37:26.000 That I, 00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:27.700 I'm just happy. 00:37:28.180 --> 00:37:29.480 She thinks I'm Pollyannaish. 00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:30.000 But no, 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:30.260 No, 00:37:30.340 --> 00:37:30.519 No, 00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:31.960 It's a good keel of truths, 00:37:32.059 --> 00:37:32.440 I think. 00:37:33.980 --> 00:37:34.420 Yeah, 00:37:34.460 --> 00:37:35.820 Any other questions, 00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:36.599 Or comments? 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:37.260 Yes, 00:37:37.320 --> 00:37:37.599 Elizabeth. 00:37:37.680 --> 00:37:38.639 So how do you, 00:37:38.760 --> 00:37:40.260 You're talking with someone, 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:42.619 And they're totally in depression, 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:43.300 Poor me, 00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:43.820 Victim, 00:37:43.940 --> 00:37:44.180 Pity. 00:37:44.400 --> 00:37:44.660 Thing. 00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:46.039 How do you, 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:48.000 How can you express this, 00:37:48.320 --> 00:37:48.700 Quickly, 00:37:49.220 --> 00:37:49.660 Yeah, 00:37:49.860 --> 00:37:51.420 And convincingly, 00:37:51.539 --> 00:37:52.519 To such a person? 00:37:52.860 --> 00:37:53.160 Mm-hmm, 00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:53.680 Mm-hmm. 00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:54.119 Um, 00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:55.039 Um, 00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:56.879 Well, 00:37:57.179 --> 00:37:57.899 I think, 00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:58.359 Um, 00:37:58.859 --> 00:37:59.639 Sometimes, 00:38:00.519 --> 00:38:01.099 Uh, 00:38:01.239 --> 00:38:01.839 You do, 00:38:01.980 --> 00:38:02.460 You don't want, 00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:03.599 You don't want to trivialize it. 00:38:03.779 --> 00:38:05.239 If I just start talking about, 00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:06.099 Good, 00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:06.419 True, 00:38:06.579 --> 00:38:07.559 Wonderful things, 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:08.619 Uh, 00:38:08.899 --> 00:38:09.419 And it doesn't, 00:38:09.419 --> 00:38:09.839 It doesn't, 00:38:10.099 --> 00:38:11.500 Then it doesn't feel like, 00:38:11.539 --> 00:38:12.859 I've really entered into, 00:38:12.860 --> 00:38:15.180 The reality of their sorrow, 00:38:15.179 --> 00:38:16.379 And that's true, 00:38:16.379 --> 00:38:16.399 And that's true, 00:38:16.719 --> 00:38:17.679 So it's fine, 00:38:17.759 --> 00:38:19.219 You can't understand this, 00:38:19.319 --> 00:38:20.960 You don't know what depression is, 00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:22.579 It's not just feeling sad, 00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:23.019 It's, 00:38:23.019 --> 00:38:24.779 The chemical imbalance, 00:38:24.980 --> 00:38:25.239 You know, 00:38:25.299 --> 00:38:26.199 On and on they go. 00:38:26.239 --> 00:38:26.480 Could, 00:38:26.579 --> 00:38:28.639 Could be any number of those things, 00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.119 So I think it's fine, 00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:31.119 To sit with them, 00:38:31.480 --> 00:38:31.920 And don't, 00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:33.259 Don't feel like you have to, 00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:35.980 You have to put in a salutary word right away, 00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:37.420 Maybe just sit with them, 00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:38.420 In the sorrow of it, 00:38:38.819 --> 00:38:39.099 Uh, 00:38:39.099 --> 00:38:39.279 For, 00:38:39.440 --> 00:38:39.599 For, 00:38:39.699 --> 00:38:40.480 For some time, 00:38:40.819 --> 00:38:42.739 Maybe even just the gift of your presence, 00:38:43.519 --> 00:38:43.759 Uh, 00:38:43.759 --> 00:38:44.179 A, 00:38:44.179 --> 00:38:45.859 A wordless presence, 00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:46.960 And just hug them, 00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:47.139 Or, 00:38:47.139 --> 00:38:48.319 Or hold their hand, 00:38:48.420 --> 00:38:48.519 And, 00:38:48.619 --> 00:38:48.799 And, 00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:49.099 And, 00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:51.259 This is part of the sorrow, 00:38:51.420 --> 00:38:51.599 Of, 00:38:51.699 --> 00:38:52.739 Of this life, 00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:53.739 But, 00:38:53.900 --> 00:38:56.159 It's not the final word, 00:38:56.779 --> 00:38:58.460 We do not weep, 00:38:58.460 --> 00:38:59.360 As those who have, 00:38:59.380 --> 00:39:00.199 We do not sorrow, 00:39:00.260 --> 00:39:01.599 As those who have no hope, 00:39:02.019 --> 00:39:02.340 So, 00:39:02.699 --> 00:39:03.220 The hope, 00:39:03.639 --> 00:39:03.920 Uh, 00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:05.260 The hope should, 00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:06.559 Should tinge this, 00:39:07.019 --> 00:39:08.139 The hope should tinge this, 00:39:08.539 --> 00:39:08.860 Um, 00:39:09.220 --> 00:39:09.579 So, 00:39:10.179 --> 00:39:10.599 Um, 00:39:11.260 --> 00:39:11.860 I, 00:39:12.019 --> 00:39:12.280 Uh, 00:39:13.099 --> 00:39:13.519 Um, 00:39:13.760 --> 00:39:14.760 Sometimes, 00:39:15.500 --> 00:39:17.019 I'll just read scripture, 00:39:17.019 --> 00:39:18.019 Uh, 00:39:18.579 --> 00:39:19.119 To them, 00:39:19.380 --> 00:39:21.019 These glorious passages, 00:39:21.240 --> 00:39:21.900 Romans 8, 00:39:22.059 --> 00:39:22.659 What have you, 00:39:22.900 --> 00:39:23.740 But sometimes, 00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:25.579 We're as deaf as an adder, 00:39:25.940 --> 00:39:26.099 Yeah, 00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:26.760 I, 00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:27.139 Uh, 00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:27.760 Uh, 00:39:27.760 --> 00:39:28.380 I sometimes, 00:39:28.460 --> 00:39:28.920 We'll come, 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:30.159 And I'll sit next to somebody, 00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:32.240 And I'll try to tell them the encouraging things, 00:39:32.340 --> 00:39:33.900 And they just can't hear a word of it, 00:39:34.380 --> 00:39:34.800 Uh, 00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:35.240 You know, 00:39:35.320 --> 00:39:35.440 They, 00:39:35.780 --> 00:39:36.079 It's like, 00:39:36.179 --> 00:39:36.380 Uh, 00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:37.019 It's like, 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:37.280 Uh, 00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:38.179 John 4, 00:39:38.420 --> 00:39:38.699 You know, 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:40.300 The well is deep, 00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:40.800 John, 00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:42.480 And you have nothing to draw with, 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:43.500 You know, 00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:43.800 So, 00:39:44.400 --> 00:39:44.639 Uh, 00:39:44.740 --> 00:39:45.360 But, 00:39:45.500 --> 00:39:47.579 I can trust that God's word will, 00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:49.139 And that if he, 00:39:49.539 --> 00:39:50.639 Touches people, 00:39:51.139 --> 00:39:52.539 He's the God of all comfort, 00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:54.320 Who comforts us in our afflictions, 00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:56.039 But he delights to use us, 00:39:56.300 --> 00:39:56.840 So, 00:39:57.079 --> 00:39:57.739 We try, 00:39:57.980 --> 00:39:59.239 We just seek to be faithful, 00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:01.199 And try to give them truths, 00:40:01.320 --> 00:40:02.179 Encouragingly, 00:40:02.500 --> 00:40:02.759 That, 00:40:03.079 --> 00:40:03.300 That, 00:40:03.360 --> 00:40:03.880 That can, 00:40:04.159 --> 00:40:05.480 And don't let them, 00:40:05.579 --> 00:40:05.719 See, 00:40:05.779 --> 00:40:06.679 What the problem is for, 00:40:06.779 --> 00:40:07.440 For many is, 00:40:07.820 --> 00:40:09.500 They just let their souls, 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:10.599 Uh, 00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:11.960 They just listen to their souls, 00:40:11.960 --> 00:40:13.420 And we need to, 00:40:13.500 --> 00:40:13.579 Like, 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:14.940 Like David does in the Psalms, 00:40:15.059 --> 00:40:16.699 We need to speak to our soul, 00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:18.320 Say to your soul, 00:40:18.460 --> 00:40:18.760 Soul, 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:19.820 Are you, 00:40:19.940 --> 00:40:21.539 Are you right to be downcast? 00:40:21.800 --> 00:40:23.019 Or as God says to Jonah, 00:40:23.079 --> 00:40:23.940 Do you have a right? 00:40:24.139 --> 00:40:25.679 Does this make sense? 00:40:26.159 --> 00:40:26.800 Given this, 00:40:27.099 --> 00:40:28.579 The way he speaks to, 00:40:28.940 --> 00:40:29.280 Um, 00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:30.039 Uh, 00:40:30.039 --> 00:40:31.039 To Job also, 00:40:31.179 --> 00:40:31.820 So we need to, 00:40:31.820 --> 00:40:34.139 We shouldn't just listen to our souls, 00:40:34.619 --> 00:40:36.240 We should speak, 00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:37.960 Speak to our souls, 00:40:38.059 --> 00:40:39.119 And process that. 00:40:39.820 --> 00:40:39.980 Uh, 00:40:40.240 --> 00:40:41.679 A lot of times, 00:40:41.679 --> 00:40:42.359 Uh, 00:40:42.500 --> 00:40:42.879 You know, 00:40:42.980 --> 00:40:43.159 The, 00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:44.019 The world will say, 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:44.500 Um, 00:40:44.819 --> 00:40:45.059 We, 00:40:45.259 --> 00:40:45.579 These, 00:40:45.579 --> 00:40:45.859 These, 00:40:45.859 --> 00:40:48.119 These emotions that we have, 00:40:48.519 --> 00:40:48.779 That are, 00:40:48.919 --> 00:40:49.539 That are just, 00:40:49.739 --> 00:40:51.000 Just so titanic, 00:40:51.339 --> 00:40:51.919 And massive, 00:40:52.319 --> 00:40:52.539 Uh, 00:40:52.619 --> 00:40:53.359 The world says, 00:40:53.519 --> 00:40:54.619 Vent those things, 00:40:54.919 --> 00:40:56.539 Just spew them, 00:40:56.839 --> 00:40:57.419 Spew them. 00:40:58.179 --> 00:40:58.619 Sometimes, 00:40:58.879 --> 00:41:00.500 I think a mistaken piety can say, 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:00.639 Well, 00:41:00.659 --> 00:41:01.539 That's irreverent, 00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:03.139 So you gotta stuff it, 00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:04.440 You gotta stuff it. 00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:05.359 Uh, 00:41:05.699 --> 00:41:06.079 Well, 00:41:06.099 --> 00:41:07.279 That's not right either. 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:07.619 You know, 00:41:07.639 --> 00:41:08.519 You look at the Psalms, 00:41:08.539 --> 00:41:08.940 And it seems, 00:41:09.279 --> 00:41:10.819 We don't just spew, 00:41:11.399 --> 00:41:11.659 Okay, 00:41:11.960 --> 00:41:13.099 Neither do we stuff, 00:41:13.419 --> 00:41:14.019 What we do is, 00:41:14.299 --> 00:41:14.579 Like the, 00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:14.759 You know, 00:41:15.059 --> 00:41:15.319 Um, 00:41:15.699 --> 00:41:16.659 King Hezekiah, 00:41:16.819 --> 00:41:17.480 He gets the letter, 00:41:17.659 --> 00:41:19.659 And he spreads it before the Lord. 00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:21.239 So our sorrows, 00:41:21.359 --> 00:41:21.739 We take it, 00:41:21.819 --> 00:41:23.159 And we don't spew it, 00:41:23.179 --> 00:41:23.579 Or stuff it, 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:24.559 But we spread it. 00:41:24.619 --> 00:41:24.940 That is, 00:41:25.219 --> 00:41:25.359 We, 00:41:25.359 --> 00:41:25.579 We, 00:41:25.579 --> 00:41:27.619 We process it before the Lord, 00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:29.259 And in the light of his reality, 00:41:29.699 --> 00:41:31.000 We speak to our soul, 00:41:31.259 --> 00:41:31.759 And that, 00:41:32.059 --> 00:41:32.239 You know, 00:41:32.259 --> 00:41:33.579 Often when you're going through the Psalms, 00:41:34.139 --> 00:41:35.119 They'll start out, 00:41:35.199 --> 00:41:35.460 In a, 00:41:35.460 --> 00:41:36.019 In a nader, 00:41:36.139 --> 00:41:36.500 But they'll, 00:41:36.819 --> 00:41:38.879 They'll move to another place, 00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:41.300 And you're processing these things, 00:41:41.300 --> 00:41:41.960 Uh, 00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:42.640 Before, 00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:43.500 Before God, 00:41:43.539 --> 00:41:44.640 And I think that that's, 00:41:44.720 --> 00:41:45.640 Right, 00:41:46.160 --> 00:41:46.380 Uh, 00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:46.619 The, 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:47.440 Uh, 00:41:47.500 --> 00:41:47.960 The, 00:41:48.019 --> 00:41:50.400 The academic work on emotions, 00:41:51.160 --> 00:41:52.539 Thinks of them, 00:41:52.539 --> 00:41:55.800 Is something that we just kind of passively experience, 00:41:56.279 --> 00:41:58.759 And that's not how the Bible speaks about emotions, 00:41:59.239 --> 00:41:59.440 You know, 00:41:59.460 --> 00:42:00.420 You think of things like, 00:42:00.420 --> 00:42:00.639 Uh, 00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:01.440 The command, 00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:02.679 Don't be afraid, 00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:03.980 Oh, 00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:04.259 Well, 00:42:04.320 --> 00:42:05.300 Emotions of fear, 00:42:05.659 --> 00:42:06.059 And yet, 00:42:06.320 --> 00:42:06.840 We're commanded, 00:42:06.900 --> 00:42:07.320 In other words, 00:42:07.460 --> 00:42:08.920 We can't just be totally passive, 00:42:09.019 --> 00:42:10.199 There's something we can do, 00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:11.500 And it's, 00:42:12.259 --> 00:42:12.619 Uh, 00:42:12.619 --> 00:42:13.500 Uh, 00:42:13.500 --> 00:42:14.159 Uh, 00:42:14.699 --> 00:42:15.380 Uh, 00:42:15.380 --> 00:42:15.739 Uh, 00:42:15.739 --> 00:42:16.019 An, 00:42:16.019 --> 00:42:17.920 An emotion involves a, 00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:18.699 A concerned, 00:42:18.940 --> 00:42:20.619 It's a concerned construal, 00:42:20.619 --> 00:42:24.500 We're only going to be emotional about something that concerns us, 00:42:24.500 --> 00:42:27.500 But then there's a construal that we put on it, 00:42:27.759 --> 00:42:30.380 And we can challenge both of those things, 00:42:31.279 --> 00:42:33.639 Why am I so concerned about this? 00:42:33.719 --> 00:42:35.819 Why am I so concerned about death? 00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:37.239 Why am I so afraid about this? 00:42:37.259 --> 00:42:38.759 I can talk myself back from the ledge, 00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:39.339 Okay, 00:42:39.400 --> 00:42:39.960 If I die, 00:42:40.179 --> 00:42:41.000 He'll raise me up, 00:42:41.380 --> 00:42:41.639 Eh, 00:42:41.819 --> 00:42:42.400 No biggie, 00:42:42.859 --> 00:42:43.179 All right, 00:42:43.420 --> 00:42:44.480 Over concerned here, 00:42:45.079 --> 00:42:48.139 What sort of construal am I putting on, 00:42:48.199 --> 00:42:48.980 On these things? 00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:49.619 Yeah, 00:42:49.699 --> 00:42:50.199 We miscon, 00:42:50.199 --> 00:42:50.399 We, 00:42:50.399 --> 00:42:52.179 We misconstrue these things, 00:42:52.439 --> 00:42:52.879 Exactly, 00:42:52.980 --> 00:42:55.679 Yeah, 00:42:55.939 --> 00:42:56.139 Yeah, 00:42:56.139 --> 00:42:56.339 Yeah, 00:42:56.339 --> 00:42:58.239 So we need to put a right construal, 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.539 As we're thinking about these things, 00:43:01.019 --> 00:43:01.419 And what, 00:43:01.659 --> 00:43:01.739 And what, 00:43:01.739 --> 00:43:01.779 And what, 00:43:01.779 --> 00:43:01.799 And what, 00:43:01.799 --> 00:43:01.859 And what, 00:43:01.859 --> 00:43:02.000 And what, 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:02.299 And what, 00:43:02.299 --> 00:43:02.619 And what, 00:43:02.619 --> 00:43:02.919 And what, 00:43:02.919 --> 00:43:03.299 Yes, 00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:05.379 How does truth frame this? 00:43:05.419 --> 00:43:06.980 So I put the right construal on these things, 00:43:07.319 --> 00:43:07.739 And then, 00:43:07.879 --> 00:43:09.579 Our emotions will, 00:43:09.579 --> 00:43:11.579 Will be rightly adjusted, 00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:13.899 To these spiritual realities that should, 00:43:14.139 --> 00:43:16.599 So sometimes we can walk people through these things, 00:43:16.899 --> 00:43:17.719 And that can be helpful, 00:43:17.799 --> 00:43:18.379 Yeah, 00:43:18.379 --> 00:43:19.339 So, 00:43:19.340 --> 00:43:21.320 They know how that works, 00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:21.880 They are, 00:43:21.940 --> 00:43:22.260 Pastor, 00:43:22.400 --> 00:43:23.200 I never heard your name, 00:43:23.579 --> 00:43:23.960 John, 00:43:24.160 --> 00:43:24.579 John, 00:43:24.579 --> 00:43:25.160 Nice to meet you, 00:43:25.160 --> 00:43:25.480 John, 00:43:25.660 --> 00:43:27.059 It's good to meet you, 00:43:27.059 --> 00:43:27.620 It's my first time here, 00:43:27.740 --> 00:43:27.960 Well, 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:28.480 You're welcome, 00:43:28.600 --> 00:43:29.460 We're glad you're here, 00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:30.539 Any other, 00:43:30.900 --> 00:43:31.860 I guess we got a couple, 00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:33.120 Maybe one more question, 00:43:33.220 --> 00:43:34.760 If anybody has a question, 00:43:35.579 --> 00:43:36.140 Yes, 00:43:36.139 --> 00:43:38.599 I'd like to thank you, 00:43:38.599 --> 00:43:38.619 Thank you, 00:43:38.619 --> 00:43:39.819 You're welcome, 00:43:39.819 --> 00:43:41.699 For being a teacher, 00:43:42.379 --> 00:43:42.659 But, 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:44.819 Tell me your, 00:43:44.819 --> 00:43:45.440 Tell me your name, 00:43:45.799 --> 00:43:46.119 Harry, 00:43:46.299 --> 00:43:46.579 Harry, 00:43:46.739 --> 00:43:48.019 I know we all, 00:43:48.179 --> 00:43:49.059 Here, 00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:50.179 Are for me, 00:43:50.279 --> 00:43:50.519 With, 00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:52.179 The last room, 00:43:52.179 --> 00:43:54.859 If I said, 00:43:54.940 --> 00:43:55.359 The last room, 00:43:55.539 --> 00:43:55.719 Well, 00:43:55.940 --> 00:43:56.819 I want you to feel it home, 00:43:56.960 --> 00:43:59.219 You know it by the power, 00:44:00.359 --> 00:44:01.159 The feel it home power, 00:44:01.539 --> 00:44:02.279 But the workers, 00:44:02.859 --> 00:44:04.259 We know it by the last room, 00:44:04.500 --> 00:44:04.940 The last room, 00:44:04.940 --> 00:44:06.339 Because it was the last room, 00:44:06.639 --> 00:44:07.539 That you'd be in, 00:44:08.219 --> 00:44:08.980 Before you, 00:44:10.699 --> 00:44:11.099 Or put, 00:44:11.379 --> 00:44:12.559 Your presence was put away, 00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:12.919 Yep, 00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:13.179 Yep, 00:44:13.179 --> 00:44:13.519 You know, 00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:14.719 And in that room, 00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:16.399 You hear, 00:44:16.699 --> 00:44:17.480 The workers, 00:44:17.859 --> 00:44:18.699 That was my job, 00:44:19.099 --> 00:44:20.319 To keep it straight up, 00:44:20.579 --> 00:44:21.579 And you hear, 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:23.839 About these conflicts, 00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:25.159 In life, 00:44:26.019 --> 00:44:26.599 And everything, 00:44:26.959 --> 00:44:27.599 While you're there, 00:44:27.799 --> 00:44:28.159 You know, 00:44:28.879 --> 00:44:29.779 Because I'm in the background, 00:44:30.439 --> 00:44:31.239 And you hear, 00:44:31.839 --> 00:44:32.419 We have to, 00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:33.099 We have to think, 00:44:33.359 --> 00:44:34.000 The conflict, 00:44:34.419 --> 00:44:35.039 The comfort, 00:44:35.859 --> 00:44:37.179 And the conqueror thing, 00:44:37.599 --> 00:44:38.439 That you hear, 00:44:38.719 --> 00:44:39.779 In people's lives, 00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:41.379 That they are saying, 00:44:42.319 --> 00:44:42.959 To you, 00:44:43.219 --> 00:44:43.819 Which dad, 00:44:43.820 --> 00:44:45.640 They let you know, 00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:47.460 What comfort you brought to them, 00:44:47.800 --> 00:44:48.960 And things like this right here, 00:44:49.160 --> 00:44:49.539 That, 00:44:49.539 --> 00:44:49.940 That, 00:44:49.940 --> 00:44:51.460 That you never would get to, 00:44:51.580 --> 00:44:52.160 To know, 00:44:52.680 --> 00:44:53.080 Unless, 00:44:53.660 --> 00:44:54.620 You have a position, 00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:55.740 To just hear it, 00:44:55.980 --> 00:44:56.100 From, 00:44:56.460 --> 00:44:57.760 Hear it from people talking, 00:44:58.300 --> 00:44:59.320 To your presence, 00:44:59.660 --> 00:44:59.680 Yeah, 00:44:59.980 --> 00:45:00.220 Yeah, 00:45:00.300 --> 00:45:00.880 Their presence, 00:45:01.220 --> 00:45:03.539 What a great vantage point in life, 00:45:03.680 --> 00:45:03.820 Harry, 00:45:03.920 --> 00:45:04.940 To be right there, 00:45:05.059 --> 00:45:06.780 In the midst of reality of death, 00:45:07.260 --> 00:45:07.600 Uh, 00:45:07.820 --> 00:45:08.420 That, 00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:08.960 Is, 00:45:09.059 --> 00:45:10.200 A wonderful blessing, 00:45:10.320 --> 00:45:10.700 I think, 00:45:10.780 --> 00:45:12.059 Because it's easy for us, 00:45:12.140 --> 00:45:12.500 To just, 00:45:12.940 --> 00:45:13.660 Imagine that, 00:45:13.659 --> 00:45:15.239 That's such a distant reality, 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:16.379 And that's an illusion, 00:45:16.779 --> 00:45:17.719 So, 00:45:18.339 --> 00:45:18.619 Yeah, 00:45:18.779 --> 00:45:19.139 Great, 00:45:19.460 --> 00:45:21.119 Wonderful team, 00:45:21.179 --> 00:45:22.259 Well thank you so much, 00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:22.839 Um, 00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:23.319 And, 00:45:23.379 --> 00:45:24.579 God bless, 00:45:24.659 --> 00:45:25.139 And we will, 00:45:25.779 --> 00:45:25.980 I, 00:45:26.039 --> 00:45:27.159 I don't know what the next, 00:45:27.219 --> 00:45:27.440 Uh, 00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:28.559 Series is to announce, 00:45:28.699 --> 00:45:29.500 But I'm sure that you'll, 00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:30.599 I'm sure it will be, 00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:31.799 Announced soon enough, 00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:32.140 Thank you, 00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:32.420 Alright, 00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:33.380 Master John, 00:45:33.380 --> 00:46:03.360 Thank you.