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 Acts chapter 8 verse 26.

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 And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

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 Now the passage of scripture that he was reading was this.

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 Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter.

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 And like a lamb before its shearer is silent.

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 So he opens not his mouth.

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 In his humiliation justice was denied him.

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 Who can describe this generation?

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 For his life is taken away from the earth.

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 And the eunuch said to Philip.

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 Philip, about whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this?

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 About himself or about someone else?

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 Then Philip opened his mouth.

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 And beginning with this scripture, he told him the good news about Jesus.

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 And as they were going along the road, they came to some water.

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 And the eunuch said, see, here is water.

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 What prevents me from being baptized?

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 And he commanded the chariot to stop.

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 And they both went down into the water, Philip and the eunuch, and he baptized him.

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 And when they came out of the water, the spirit of the Lord carried Philip away.

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 And the eunuch saw him no more and went on his way rejoicing.

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 But Philip found himself at Azotus.

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 And as he passed through, he preached the gospel to all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

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 Well, good morning, everyone.

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 Will you pray with me as we come to God's word?

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 Father, through my planned words this morning, I know that they are weak, these plans.

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 And so I pray that you might use my words to help us understand your word.

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 And that you would speak powerfully through your word and meet each one of us here this morning.

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 In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

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 Well, a man named Laman from Gambia, West Africa, moves to Newcastle.

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 And Laman, he works at Newcastle Uni, Callaghan Campus, as a professor.

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 He goes through the gruelling process of getting his permanent residency,

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 and then he becomes an Australian citizen.

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 He's allowed to wear his traditional African dress to work.

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 His colleagues smile and accept his strange-smelling lunch in the common areas.

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 He struggles a bit with cultural differences, like how individualistic we are here,

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 like how private people are.

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 Like he never gets invited to have a meal at someone's home.

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 He finds that a bit strange.

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 But there's something else.

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 The Laman's colleagues and his students keep saying,

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 as if it's self-evidently obvious,

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 that it's just subtle sometimes,

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 and sometimes it's just outright ridiculing.

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 And it makes him feel that he doesn't truly belong, and he never will.

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 Because people say and imply that empirical science is the only capital T truth,

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 that what is material is all that there is.

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 And it mocks.

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 It mocks.

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 It mocks his Africanness.

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 Because I'm basing this off a real man, not at Newcastle,

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 but Lamin Sana, before he died in 2019.

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 He's a professor at Yale University in the US.

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 And he says in his book, Whose Religion is Christianity?

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 At the heart of Africanness is to see the world as a supernatural place.

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 Good spirits, evil spirits.

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 And the problem of evil spirits is they can seduce you, they can defeat you.

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 So our secular society, the West, says,

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 come, you can live here, you can eat your food,

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 you can dress how you want,

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 but to fully belong, the message is,

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 you need to become an individualistic, anti-supernatural Westerner.

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 How often do you hear the word inclusive?

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 We say it so much in our society.

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 But imagine someone like Lamin, how he feels.

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 He's not seen.

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 He's mocked.

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 So how inclusive is Jesus?

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 What would a man like Lamin find if he rubbed shoulders with you at work?

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 If a lady like Lamin came to playgroup,

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 if they came into our church, what would they find?

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 Let me quote Lamin in his book.

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 African sense in their hearts that Jesus did not mock their respect for the sacred,

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 the way Western secular people do,

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 nor their clamour for an invincible saviour.

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 So they beat their sacred drums for him

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 until the stars skipped and danced in the skies.

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 And after that dance, the stars weren't so little anymore.

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 Christianity helped Africans become renewed Africans,

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 not remade Europeans.

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 That's how inclusive Jesus is.

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 He doesn't mock.

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 But he does renew.

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 Jesus is truly inclusive of all races,

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 but precisely because he's exclusive.

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 He says,

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 I am the way.

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 I am the truth.

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 I am the life.

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 No one comes to the Father except through me.

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 No one.

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 No one.

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 No Anglo-Saxon whites who have a lovely house and family

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 and have grown up in the church.

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 No one.

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 Comes.

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 Except through me.

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 He requires totally renewed Aussies.

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 He's totally inclusive precisely because he is exclusive.

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 I am.

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 So we meet another African in the story here today

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 and his story is so powerful,

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 not because it's easy to belong to God,

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 but precisely because it is so difficult to fully belong to God.

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 We've seen in the story so far this mass conversion,

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 this revival,

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 this amazing reconciliation

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 between north and south in Samaria.

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 And Luke now,

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 he tells us about three individuals.

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 So we've gone big picture.

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 We're introduced to three people.

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 We're going to meet Saul next week in chapter 9,

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 Saul the enemy.

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 Chapter 10, Cornelius the Roman.

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 And here,

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 we have a nameless African eunuch foreigner.

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 All three individuals show us this unstoppable Jesus

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 who leaves the 99 sheep to go after the one,

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 who breaks any ideas you and I have of who is in and who is out.

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 He's determined to go to the ends of the earth.

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 So we've met Simon,

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 the great one in Samaria.

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 He's a somebody.

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 He's at the top of his society,

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 but he has some sort of conversion.

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 And how genuine that is,

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 we're not really sure.

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 He gets baptised,

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 but it's superficial at best

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 because we find that his heart is not right with God.

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 He is still in love with his own name.

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 He's still in love with power and money and success.

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 And now we meet another great man.

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 He is at the top of his society.

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 He's at the top.

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 But this man is sincere in his search for God.

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 And so I think he presents to us as a model

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 of what true faith in Jesus looks like.

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 So what do we know about this man?

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 He's from Ethiopia,

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 which is modern day Sudan,

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 just below Egypt.

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 He's racially on the edge of the world

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 that Philip would have known.

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 Like he's,

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 as we talked about in our small group,

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 he's a Gentile Gentile.

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 He's out there.

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 He's in charge of the treasury of the kingdom.

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 He's this chief financial officer,

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 if you will.

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 He's got the big bucks.

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 He's got the power.

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 But he's also made a 1,000 mile journey

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 on horse and chariot,

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 which would have taken weeks,

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 one way,

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 to come to Jerusalem.

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 He might be risking someone back home

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 usurping his position.

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 I don't know.

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 Give me some poetic license here.

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 Maybe he's risking someone taking his top spot

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 while he's away.

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 Maybe.

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 Maybe.

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 He's definitely risking danger on the road.

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 We think our roads are dangerous.

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 It was much more dangerous to travel back then,

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 mainly from people trying to rob you

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 and hurt you.

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 So he's made this huge journey.

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 But Luke is so not PC here.

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 Five times he just says the eunuch.

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 Like, it's pretty rude.

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 Like, what's represented by the name David Bott?

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 Everything.

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 Sorry, not everything in the world.

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 That came out wrong.

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 All that I am is in that name.

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 What's in a name?

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 All I am.

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 If you just call me Shorty.

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 Look.

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 Luke.

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 The eunuch.

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 Five times.

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 The eunuch.

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 We never learn his name.

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 What is a eunuch?

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 Well, in ancient royal courts,

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 we find it in the book of Esther, Daniel,

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 when they're in exile,

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 successful men holding high positions

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 in the royal family are castrated.

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 So that there's no threat to the female royalty,

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 to the bloodline.

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 It's a high price to be at the top.

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 And what's motivated him for such a journey?

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 Well, we're told in verse 27,

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 to worship.

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 He's come to worship.

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 There's plenty of religion where he's from.

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 The Ethiopian king was thought to be the son.

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 Let me read this.

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 Child of the son.

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 There's plenty of religion.

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 But he wants to change his allegiance.

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 He's searching for the true God of Israel.

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 He's studying.

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 He's owning an expensive copy of the Bible.

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 Not everyone had a Bible.

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 Not everyone could read it.

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 How privileged we are today.

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 But he is searching.

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 It suggests this great and powerful man at the top.

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 He's got some sort of inner emptiness.

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 That he's motivated to come all the way to Jerusalem,

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 to the temple, to find God.

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 But he would have been turned away.

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 The temple doors would have been shut for him.

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 Like we saw earlier in Acts, in chapter 3,

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 the beggar sitting by the temple doors.

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 It would have been shut.

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 Because Deuteronomy 23.1 says,

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 no one whose male organ is cut off

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 shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

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 He can't receive the physical sign of conversion,

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 of circumcision.

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 He can't become a full member of God's people,

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 even if he desperately wants to.

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 He embodies someone under God's curse,

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 who's cut off.

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 He's nameless.

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 No future.

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 No place.

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 He's excluded.

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 So I think it's likely he'd been returning home

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 incredibly disillusioned

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 and more lost than ever before.

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 Now why, I think we need to pause to consider

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 why might God have forbidden eunuchs

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 from accessing him in the temple to worship.

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 It seems harsh, doesn't it?

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 Well, I think one thing to consider is

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 how harsh other nations were,

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 how brutal,

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 how depersonalising

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 that other nations would

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 castrate their servants.

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 Socially, this law was very good.

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 It prevented Israel from being like the nations,

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 treating people like that.

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 But more than that,

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 it's not just eunuchs who are excluded.

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 We won't go into all the laws,

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 but those with physical defects,

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 it teaches us that

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 God requires wholeness to be in his presence.

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 But the physical laws are really just representing

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 we need to be whole morally.

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 We need to be whole people spiritually

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 to be in God's presence.

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 We need to be whole people

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 We need to be whole people

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 We need the law

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 to show me

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 that someone who's broken

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 the Ten Commandments,

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 how difficult it is to belong,

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 that I deserve to be cut off.

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 I'm with the eunuch outside.

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 God requires,

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 he wants wholeness.

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 Now that's a good thing.

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 He wants wholeness.

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 He wants us to be whole people.

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 Spiritually, morally, physically.

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 And so his exclusion actually points,

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 it gives us a yearning,

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 a crying out,

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 God, remake,

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 remake me,

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 remake this world.

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 And that's exactly what he's promised to do.

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 So there's very good reasons for this law,

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 but the law also pushes us forward.

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 And this eunuch is reading Isaiah 53.

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 Maybe he's reading there

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 because he's read a few chapters later

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 in Isaiah 56

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 what God has promised.

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 He says in Isaiah 56,

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 let not the foreigner

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 who has joined himself to the Lord

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 say,

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 the Lord will surely separate me

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 from his people.

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 And let not the eunuch say,

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 behold,

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 I'm a dry tree.

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 For thus says the Lord,

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 to the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths,

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 who choose the things that please me

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 and hold fast my covenant,

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 I will give you in my house

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 and within my walls

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 a monument

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 and a name better

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 than sons and daughters.

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 I will give them an everlasting name

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 that shall not be cut off.

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 These I will bring to my holy mountain

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 and make them joyful

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 in my house of prayer.

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 For my house

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 shall be called a house of prayer

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 for all peoples.

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 The Lord God

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 who gathers the outcasts of Israel

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 declares,

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 I will gather yet others to him

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 besides those already gathered.

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 I wonder,

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 I just,

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 I wonder if he had read that promise

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 and that's why he's searching Isaiah.

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 Now someone in my small group this week

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 who shall remain nameless,

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 let's call him

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 Jamion.

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 Jamion rudely interrupted

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 my Bible study plans

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 and he pointed out

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 this story

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 isn't about the eunuchs

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 searching for the Lord.

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 Not primarily,

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 it's about the Lord

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 searching for

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 him.

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 That's why we're told

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 so much divine activity

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 going on here.

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 It's the Lord Jesus

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 who sends his angel

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 to Philip.

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 How Philip heard

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 this?

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 Was it in a

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 vision?

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 Was it the angel

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 showing up?

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 I don't know.

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 But don't get hung up

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 on that.

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 What's most important,

00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:22.079
 angels only turn up

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 in scripture

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 at very momentous

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 occasions.

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 This is a huge

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 occasion

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 and it's for this

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 foreigner.

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 This one

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 foreigner.

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 Angels are

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 turning up.

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 Philip,

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 leave Samaria,

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 this ministry

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 and movement

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 that's going

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 gangbusters

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 and I want you,

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 here's a plan

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 for evangelism,

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 go where you don't

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 expect anyone to be,

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 go to the desert.

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 Okay?

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 We're meant to be

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 seeing Jesus

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 driving this story.

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 He's the one,

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 he's the hero,

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 not Philip.

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 And then this

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 Jewish man

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 brought up on

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 purity laws,

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 he sees this

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 foreigner,

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 he sees this

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 sexually altered

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 man racially

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 from the edge

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 of the world

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 and then

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 Philip thinks,

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 wow,

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 what an opportunity

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 God,

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 I'll take it

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 from here.

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 No,

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 Philip's not the,

00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:17.319
 the spirit

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 has to prompt

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 him again,

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 go over

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 and join this

00:20:20.339 --> 00:20:20.740
 chariot.

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 Get close

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 to this man.

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 I'm reading

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 between the lines

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 here so

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 take this with

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 a grain of salt

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 but maybe

00:20:31.180 --> 00:20:32.100
 Philip needed

00:20:32.099 --> 00:20:32.899
 that push

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 to cross

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 everything

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 inside him

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 that kind

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 of had a

00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:37.459
 disgust

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 for this

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 man.

00:20:39.159 --> 00:20:39.980
 Spirit is

00:20:39.980 --> 00:20:40.539
 sending him.

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 Go join

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 this chariot

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 and if the

00:20:47.299 --> 00:20:48.219
 chariot's moving

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 it's kind

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 of a funny

00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:51.279
 image of him

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 just running

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 along.

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 Been reading

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 anything

00:20:53.879 --> 00:20:54.639
 interesting lately?

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 I don't know,

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 maybe it wasn't

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 moving.

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 I'm going,

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 I'm going to

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 get in trouble

00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:02.400
 for the poetic

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 license I got

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 in here today

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 but there's

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 no such thing

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 as chance

00:21:07.420 --> 00:21:08.460
 in God's

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 world.

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 What's he

00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:10.339
 reading out

00:21:10.339 --> 00:21:10.519
 loud?

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 Like if you

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 wanted to

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 start in the

00:21:12.099 --> 00:21:12.640
 Old Testament

00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:13.240
 there's a few

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 places where

00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:14.319
 you could

00:21:14.319 --> 00:21:15.259
 easily point

00:21:15.259 --> 00:21:15.720
 to Jesus.

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 Isaiah 53.

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 Wow.

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 This is not

00:21:21.339 --> 00:21:22.099
 a coincidence.

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 In that

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 very moment

00:21:25.420 --> 00:21:26.019
 for Philip

00:21:26.019 --> 00:21:26.420
 it's over

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 here.

00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:29.940
 This eunuch

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 thinks he's

00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:30.940
 searching for

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 God but

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 even his

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 failed

00:21:33.879 --> 00:21:34.460
 pilgrimage,

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 his struggle

00:21:35.859 --> 00:21:36.599
 to understand

00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:37.200
 the scriptures,

00:21:37.720 --> 00:21:38.720
 all of that

00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:40.000
 is really

00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:40.500
 the Lord

00:21:40.500 --> 00:21:41.480
 preparing him

00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:43.019
 to hear

00:21:43.019 --> 00:21:44.740
 his word

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 and the

00:21:45.299 --> 00:21:46.119
 Lord sending

00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:46.680
 his word

00:21:46.680 --> 00:21:47.119
 through his

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 people to

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 meet him

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 at the

00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:49.460
 exact moment

00:21:49.460 --> 00:21:51.019
 that he

00:21:51.019 --> 00:21:51.579
 had planned.

00:21:54.379 --> 00:21:55.200
 It's the

00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.039
 Lord searching

00:21:56.039 --> 00:21:56.700
 and sending

00:21:56.700 --> 00:21:57.240
 for him.

00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:02.279
 I find

00:22:02.279 --> 00:22:02.620
 great

00:22:02.620 --> 00:22:03.080
 encouragement

00:22:03.080 --> 00:22:03.840
 from this

00:22:03.840 --> 00:22:07.039
 in terms

00:22:07.039 --> 00:22:08.259
 of when

00:22:08.259 --> 00:22:08.700
 I just

00:22:08.700 --> 00:22:09.319
 feel like

00:22:09.319 --> 00:22:10.519
 there's an

00:22:10.519 --> 00:22:11.059
 opportunity

00:22:11.059 --> 00:22:11.779
 right now

00:22:11.779 --> 00:22:12.500
 in where

00:22:12.500 --> 00:22:13.120
 this person

00:22:13.120 --> 00:22:13.580
 is saying

00:22:13.580 --> 00:22:14.160
 something that

00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:15.200
 their heart

00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:15.819
 is yearning

00:22:15.819 --> 00:22:17.600
 and I

00:22:17.600 --> 00:22:17.840
 don't know

00:22:17.840 --> 00:22:18.120
 what to

00:22:18.120 --> 00:22:18.360
 say.

00:22:19.660 --> 00:22:19.920
 I don't

00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:20.160
 know what

00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:20.559
 to say

00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:22.139
 but the

00:22:22.139 --> 00:22:22.779
 sovereignty

00:22:22.779 --> 00:22:23.639
 of Jesus

00:22:23.639 --> 00:22:25.159
 here in

00:22:25.159 --> 00:22:25.839
 orchestrating

00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:26.339
 this moment

00:22:26.339 --> 00:22:27.000
 I find so

00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:27.700
 much encouragement

00:22:27.700 --> 00:22:28.940
 that I

00:22:28.940 --> 00:22:29.159
 don't know

00:22:29.159 --> 00:22:29.399
 what to

00:22:29.399 --> 00:22:29.940
 say but I

00:22:29.940 --> 00:22:30.919
 do know

00:22:30.919 --> 00:22:32.059
 he's so

00:22:32.059 --> 00:22:32.740
 sovereign he's

00:22:32.740 --> 00:22:33.220
 got me in

00:22:33.220 --> 00:22:33.759
 this moment.

00:22:36.099 --> 00:22:36.799
 He's been

00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:37.659
 working in

00:22:37.659 --> 00:22:38.299
 this person

00:22:38.299 --> 00:22:40.099
 long before

00:22:40.099 --> 00:22:40.819
 I got here.

00:22:41.319 --> 00:22:41.579
 He'll be

00:22:41.579 --> 00:22:42.179
 working in

00:22:42.179 --> 00:22:42.519
 them long

00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:43.179
 after I'm

00:22:43.179 --> 00:22:43.440
 gone.

00:22:44.779 --> 00:22:45.679
 It gives

00:22:45.679 --> 00:22:46.279
 us confidence

00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:47.019
 to open our

00:22:47.019 --> 00:22:47.700
 mouth I think.

00:22:48.899 --> 00:22:49.279
 We don't know

00:22:49.279 --> 00:22:49.759
 what to say

00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:52.180
 but we

00:22:52.180 --> 00:22:52.599
 know that

00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:53.139
 Jesus is

00:22:53.139 --> 00:22:53.500
 the one

00:22:53.500 --> 00:22:54.299
 who's really

00:22:54.299 --> 00:22:54.839
 searching.

00:22:58.000 --> 00:22:58.539
 I don't

00:22:58.539 --> 00:22:58.859
 know about

00:22:58.859 --> 00:22:59.339
 you if you're

00:22:59.339 --> 00:22:59.680
 a believer

00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:00.220
 but I can

00:23:00.220 --> 00:23:00.639
 look back

00:23:00.639 --> 00:23:01.200
 on my

00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:01.660
 salvation

00:23:01.660 --> 00:23:02.019
 and go

00:23:02.019 --> 00:23:04.220
 yeah it

00:23:04.220 --> 00:23:04.740
 was Jesus

00:23:04.740 --> 00:23:05.759
 finding me.

00:23:06.019 --> 00:23:06.319
 It wasn't

00:23:06.319 --> 00:23:06.819
 me finding

00:23:06.819 --> 00:23:07.339
 Jesus.

00:23:14.139 --> 00:23:14.920
 The more

00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:15.399
 we grow

00:23:15.399 --> 00:23:15.799
 in love

00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:16.519
 for Jesus

00:23:16.519 --> 00:23:18.879
 recalling

00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:19.240
 how he

00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:20.100
 found us

00:23:20.100 --> 00:23:21.460
 his

00:23:21.460 --> 00:23:21.960
 search

00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:22.220
 for the

00:23:22.220 --> 00:23:22.800
 outsider

00:23:22.800 --> 00:23:23.120
 it's

00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:23.320
 going to

00:23:23.320 --> 00:23:23.560
 become

00:23:23.560 --> 00:23:23.840
 our

00:23:23.840 --> 00:23:24.300
 search.

00:23:31.780 --> 00:23:32.520
 Well this

00:23:32.520 --> 00:23:32.880
 eunuch

00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:33.900
 he found

00:23:33.900 --> 00:23:34.980
 the full

00:23:34.980 --> 00:23:35.480
 belonging

00:23:35.480 --> 00:23:36.500
 he craved

00:23:36.500 --> 00:23:38.160
 in the

00:23:38.160 --> 00:23:38.820
 exclusive

00:23:38.820 --> 00:23:39.660
 claims of

00:23:39.660 --> 00:23:39.980
 Jesus.

00:23:39.980 --> 00:23:43.380
 he saw

00:23:43.380 --> 00:23:44.180
 the pictures

00:23:44.180 --> 00:23:46.140
 of Isaiah

00:23:46.140 --> 00:23:46.740
 53

00:23:46.740 --> 00:23:48.160
 this

00:23:48.160 --> 00:23:49.839
 servant

00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:50.120
 this

00:23:50.120 --> 00:23:50.460
 someone

00:23:50.460 --> 00:23:51.240
 sent

00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:52.220
 by God

00:23:52.220 --> 00:23:53.860
 who

00:23:53.860 --> 00:23:54.360
 entered

00:23:54.360 --> 00:23:54.900
 my

00:23:54.900 --> 00:23:55.420
 suffering

00:23:55.420 --> 00:23:57.819
 someone

00:23:57.819 --> 00:23:58.240
 who

00:23:58.240 --> 00:23:59.680
 actually

00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:00.460
 willingly

00:24:00.460 --> 00:24:01.339
 chose

00:24:01.339 --> 00:24:02.019
 to become

00:24:02.019 --> 00:24:02.860
 like me

00:24:02.860 --> 00:24:03.980
 a eunuch

00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:06.819
 because

00:24:06.819 --> 00:24:07.380
 who can

00:24:07.380 --> 00:24:07.839
 describe

00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:08.140
 his

00:24:08.140 --> 00:24:08.759
 generation

00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:10.779
 who

00:24:10.779 --> 00:24:11.420
 can

00:24:11.420 --> 00:24:12.059
 describe

00:24:12.059 --> 00:24:12.420
 his

00:24:12.420 --> 00:24:12.880
 offspring

00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:14.339
 because

00:24:14.339 --> 00:24:14.660
 he was

00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:15.259
 cut off

00:24:15.259 --> 00:24:15.980
 and he

00:24:15.980 --> 00:24:16.259
 did it

00:24:16.259 --> 00:24:16.640
 willingly

00:24:16.640 --> 00:24:17.599
 in service

00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:18.180
 of God

00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:19.200
 who is

00:24:19.200 --> 00:24:19.620
 this

00:24:19.620 --> 00:24:20.460
 figure

00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:22.599
 how is

00:24:22.599 --> 00:24:23.200
 he connected

00:24:23.200 --> 00:24:23.539
 to the

00:24:23.539 --> 00:24:23.900
 promise

00:24:23.900 --> 00:24:24.259
 a few

00:24:24.259 --> 00:24:24.579
 chapters

00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:25.000
 later

00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:28.700
 so that

00:24:28.700 --> 00:24:29.120
 me

00:24:29.120 --> 00:24:29.799
 a dry

00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:30.259
 tree

00:24:30.259 --> 00:24:31.039
 can receive

00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:31.599
 a name

00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:32.120
 better than

00:24:32.120 --> 00:24:32.640
 sons and

00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:32.960
 daughters

00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:34.420
 who is

00:24:34.420 --> 00:24:34.799
 this

00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:36.340
 who is

00:24:36.340 --> 00:24:36.940
 pierced

00:24:36.940 --> 00:24:37.440
 for my

00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.180
 transgressions

00:24:38.180 --> 00:24:38.660
 who is

00:24:38.660 --> 00:24:38.860
 this

00:24:38.860 --> 00:24:39.100
 who is

00:24:39.100 --> 00:24:39.600
 crushed

00:24:39.600 --> 00:24:40.100
 for our

00:24:40.100 --> 00:24:40.620
 iniquities

00:24:40.620 --> 00:24:43.480
 with his

00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:43.920
 wounds

00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:44.279
 we are

00:24:44.279 --> 00:24:44.720
 healed

00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:45.059
 we are

00:24:45.059 --> 00:24:45.279
 made

00:24:45.279 --> 00:24:45.740
 whole

00:24:45.740 --> 00:24:48.600
 and

00:24:48.600 --> 00:24:48.900
 Philip

00:24:48.900 --> 00:24:49.279
 says

00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:49.799
 well let

00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:50.160
 me tell

00:24:50.160 --> 00:24:50.559
 you about

00:24:50.559 --> 00:24:50.819
 him

00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:51.539
 brother

00:24:51.539 --> 00:24:57.860
 I've

00:24:57.860 --> 00:24:57.960
 been

00:24:57.960 --> 00:24:58.240
 wondering

00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:58.660
 what

00:24:58.660 --> 00:24:59.360
 everlasting

00:24:59.360 --> 00:24:59.860
 name

00:24:59.860 --> 00:25:00.279
 did

00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:01.180
 this

00:25:01.180 --> 00:25:01.660
 nameless

00:25:01.660 --> 00:25:02.079
 eunuch

00:25:02.079 --> 00:25:02.539
 receive

00:25:02.539 --> 00:25:02.779
 that

00:25:02.779 --> 00:25:03.059
 day

00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:05.940
 and why

00:25:05.940 --> 00:25:06.359
 don't we

00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:06.720
 get his

00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:07.059
 name

00:25:07.059 --> 00:25:07.359
 at this

00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:07.639
 point

00:25:07.639 --> 00:25:09.659
 once

00:25:09.659 --> 00:25:09.839
 he's

00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:10.319
 converted

00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.759
 Luke

00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:14.159
 keeps

00:25:14.159 --> 00:25:14.559
 calling

00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:14.759
 him

00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:14.920
 the

00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:15.339
 eunuch

00:25:15.339 --> 00:25:19.079
 I think

00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:19.799
 the

00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:20.480
 eunuch's

00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:21.139
 question

00:25:21.139 --> 00:25:23.799
 and then

00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:24.220
 Philip's

00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:24.799
 response

00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:26.019
 tells us

00:25:26.019 --> 00:25:26.519
 what name

00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:26.879
 he got

00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:28.800
 what

00:25:28.800 --> 00:25:29.420
 prevents

00:25:29.420 --> 00:25:29.960
 me

00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:31.140
 from

00:25:31.140 --> 00:25:31.440
 being

00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:32.060
 baptized

00:25:32.060 --> 00:25:36.860
 I don't

00:25:36.860 --> 00:25:37.100
 know about

00:25:37.100 --> 00:25:37.380
 your

00:25:37.380 --> 00:25:38.060
 baptism

00:25:38.060 --> 00:25:38.460
 if you're

00:25:38.460 --> 00:25:38.760
 a believer

00:25:38.760 --> 00:25:39.460
 but when

00:25:39.460 --> 00:25:39.720
 I got

00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:40.200
 baptized

00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:41.380
 looking back

00:25:41.380 --> 00:25:43.220
 I think I was

00:25:43.220 --> 00:25:43.600
 just thinking

00:25:43.600 --> 00:25:44.260
 about myself

00:25:44.260 --> 00:25:44.800
 really

00:25:44.800 --> 00:25:46.000
 I

00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:47.640
 thought it

00:25:47.640 --> 00:25:48.380
 I kind of

00:25:48.380 --> 00:25:48.840
 thought about

00:25:48.840 --> 00:25:49.240
 it as a

00:25:49.240 --> 00:25:49.720
 way of

00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:50.660
 declaring my

00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:51.320
 commitment

00:25:51.320 --> 00:25:52.040
 my faith

00:25:52.040 --> 00:25:53.040
 which it

00:25:53.040 --> 00:25:53.560
 is that

00:25:53.559 --> 00:25:55.139
 scripture says

00:25:55.139 --> 00:25:55.579
 it's so much

00:25:55.579 --> 00:25:55.940
 more than

00:25:55.940 --> 00:25:56.139
 that

00:25:56.139 --> 00:25:56.779
 I think I

00:25:56.779 --> 00:25:57.339
 thought of it

00:25:57.339 --> 00:25:57.579
 as like

00:25:57.579 --> 00:25:58.139
 well it's

00:25:58.139 --> 00:25:58.539
 commanded

00:25:58.539 --> 00:25:59.079
 I should

00:25:59.079 --> 00:25:59.500
 do it

00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:00.500
 which isn't

00:26:00.500 --> 00:26:02.740
 like we

00:26:02.740 --> 00:26:03.259
 should obey

00:26:03.259 --> 00:26:03.879
 God's commands

00:26:03.879 --> 00:26:04.519
 but often

00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:05.179
 God gives us

00:26:05.179 --> 00:26:05.559
 way more

00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:06.000
 motives than

00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:06.179
 that

00:26:06.179 --> 00:26:07.740
 imagine what

00:26:07.740 --> 00:26:08.960
 this man's

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:09.720
 baptism meant

00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:10.119
 for him

00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:13.960
 try and put

00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:14.419
 yourself in

00:26:14.419 --> 00:26:14.879
 his shoes

00:26:14.879 --> 00:26:15.519
 because if we

00:26:15.519 --> 00:26:16.839
 do we will

00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:17.659
 start to

00:26:17.659 --> 00:26:18.700
 feel the

00:26:18.700 --> 00:26:19.359
 wonder of

00:26:19.359 --> 00:26:19.759
 what

00:26:19.759 --> 00:26:21.000
 baptism

00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:21.799
 means and

00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:22.440
 symbolises

00:26:22.440 --> 00:26:24.559
 because it

00:26:24.559 --> 00:26:25.359
 symbolises

00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:26.599
 or imagine

00:26:26.599 --> 00:26:27.660
 imagine if the

00:26:27.660 --> 00:26:28.460
 eunuch asked

00:26:28.460 --> 00:26:29.460
 who wanted to

00:26:29.460 --> 00:26:30.319
 be converted

00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:31.940
 to the God

00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:32.339
 of Israel

00:26:32.339 --> 00:26:33.440
 what prevents

00:26:33.440 --> 00:26:34.259
 me from being

00:26:34.259 --> 00:26:35.180
 circumcised

00:26:35.180 --> 00:26:39.180
 now I know

00:26:39.180 --> 00:26:39.579
 that's a bit

00:26:39.579 --> 00:26:40.339
 crass but

00:26:40.339 --> 00:26:43.700
 everything

00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:44.420
 prevents him

00:26:44.420 --> 00:26:46.660
 he can't

00:26:46.660 --> 00:26:49.759
 and here he's

00:26:49.759 --> 00:26:50.160
 asking

00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:53.740
 the covenant

00:26:53.740 --> 00:26:55.200
 physical symbol

00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:55.820
 of belonging

00:26:55.820 --> 00:26:56.360
 to God's

00:26:56.360 --> 00:26:56.660
 people

00:26:56.660 --> 00:26:57.759
 what prevents

00:26:57.759 --> 00:26:58.160
 me from

00:26:58.160 --> 00:26:58.360
 being

00:26:58.360 --> 00:26:58.660
 baptized

00:26:58.660 --> 00:27:06.300
 if this

00:27:06.300 --> 00:27:07.000
 suffering

00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:07.480
 servant

00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:09.300
 has taken

00:27:09.300 --> 00:27:09.940
 my place

00:27:09.940 --> 00:27:10.759
 what prevents

00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:11.000
 me

00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:16.799
 because

00:27:16.799 --> 00:27:17.279
 baptism

00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:18.200
 is a

00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:18.559
 physical

00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:19.019
 symbol

00:27:19.019 --> 00:27:19.339
 of what

00:27:19.339 --> 00:27:19.880
 the spirit

00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:20.440
 has already

00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:21.019
 done in

00:27:21.019 --> 00:27:21.420
 creating

00:27:21.420 --> 00:27:22.059
 faith in

00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:22.380
 Jesus

00:27:22.380 --> 00:27:24.660
 we know

00:27:24.660 --> 00:27:25.119
 what baptism

00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:25.619
 is from

00:27:25.619 --> 00:27:26.700
 the earlier

00:27:26.700 --> 00:27:27.420
 chapters of

00:27:27.420 --> 00:27:28.220
 Acts

00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:29.180
 it is not

00:27:29.180 --> 00:27:29.880
 just baptism

00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:30.680
 in the name

00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:31.099
 of Jesus

00:27:31.099 --> 00:27:31.779
 it's actually

00:27:31.779 --> 00:27:32.680
 into the

00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:32.980
 name

00:27:32.980 --> 00:27:34.859
 of Jesus

00:27:34.859 --> 00:27:36.220
 what's in

00:27:36.220 --> 00:27:36.740
 a name

00:27:36.740 --> 00:27:37.839
 everything

00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:38.819
 in this

00:27:38.819 --> 00:27:39.079
 case

00:27:39.079 --> 00:27:39.599
 everything

00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:43.699
 all of

00:27:43.699 --> 00:27:44.039
 Jesus

00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:44.899
 is yours

00:27:44.899 --> 00:27:47.179
 you are

00:27:47.179 --> 00:27:47.459
 baptized

00:27:47.459 --> 00:27:48.539
 into the

00:27:48.539 --> 00:27:48.799
 name

00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:49.359
 of Jesus

00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:50.859
 you belong

00:27:50.859 --> 00:27:51.299
 to him

00:27:51.299 --> 00:27:52.980
 fully

00:27:52.980 --> 00:27:56.159
 I'm not

00:27:56.159 --> 00:27:56.719
 my own

00:27:56.719 --> 00:27:58.419
 his death

00:27:58.419 --> 00:27:58.980
 is my death

00:27:58.980 --> 00:27:59.659
 his resurrection

00:27:59.659 --> 00:28:00.259
 is my

00:28:00.259 --> 00:28:01.359
 resurrected life

00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:01.939
 I'm not

00:28:01.939 --> 00:28:02.359
 my own

00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:02.699
 I now

00:28:02.699 --> 00:28:03.139
 belong to

00:28:03.139 --> 00:28:03.659
 all who

00:28:03.659 --> 00:28:04.299
 are united

00:28:04.299 --> 00:28:04.879
 to Jesus

00:28:04.879 --> 00:28:05.439
 by faith

00:28:05.439 --> 00:28:06.319
 I'm part

00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:06.659
 of the

00:28:06.659 --> 00:28:07.240
 assembly

00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:12.539
 imagine

00:28:12.539 --> 00:28:13.120
 what this

00:28:13.120 --> 00:28:13.720
 meant to

00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:14.019
 him

00:28:14.019 --> 00:28:17.099
 Philip

00:28:17.099 --> 00:28:18.079
 goes down

00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:19.059
 with this

00:28:19.059 --> 00:28:19.380
 eunuch

00:28:19.380 --> 00:28:19.819
 Luke's

00:28:19.819 --> 00:28:20.099
 language

00:28:20.099 --> 00:28:20.579
 here is

00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:20.940
 almost

00:28:20.940 --> 00:28:21.480
 confusing

00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:21.819
 but I

00:28:21.819 --> 00:28:22.599
 think he

00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:23.039
 might be

00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:23.920
 trying to

00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:24.299
 emphasize

00:28:24.299 --> 00:28:26.259
 how united

00:28:26.259 --> 00:28:27.460
 this Jewish

00:28:27.460 --> 00:28:27.920
 Philip

00:28:27.920 --> 00:28:28.620
 and this

00:28:28.620 --> 00:28:29.079
 foreign

00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:29.420
 eunuch

00:28:29.420 --> 00:28:30.079
 is now

00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:31.120
 it almost

00:28:31.120 --> 00:28:31.680
 sounds like

00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:32.059
 they're going

00:28:32.059 --> 00:28:32.779
 down into

00:28:32.779 --> 00:28:33.120
 the water

00:28:33.120 --> 00:28:33.539
 together

00:28:33.539 --> 00:28:34.279
 I'm not

00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:34.660
 sure if it

00:28:34.660 --> 00:28:35.259
 actually means

00:28:35.259 --> 00:28:35.680
 that but

00:28:35.680 --> 00:28:38.480
 it pictures

00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:41.279
 this eunuch

00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:41.960
 is fully

00:28:41.960 --> 00:28:42.660
 a brother

00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:43.059
 now

00:28:43.059 --> 00:28:46.539
 this sexually

00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:47.039
 altered

00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:47.940
 foreign

00:28:47.940 --> 00:28:48.480
 man

00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:51.279
 fully

00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:51.759
 belongs

00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:52.319
 to Jesus

00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:52.720
 and his

00:28:52.720 --> 00:28:53.059
 people

00:28:53.059 --> 00:28:55.180
 simply by

00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:55.500
 faith

00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:57.160
 so what

00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:57.579
 name did

00:28:57.579 --> 00:28:58.059
 he receive

00:28:58.059 --> 00:28:58.759
 he received

00:28:58.759 --> 00:28:59.180
 a name

00:28:59.180 --> 00:28:59.660
 that's above

00:28:59.660 --> 00:29:00.259
 every name

00:29:00.259 --> 00:29:00.619
 I think

00:29:00.619 --> 00:29:03.359
 he's

00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:03.960
 received

00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:05.740
 a risen

00:29:05.740 --> 00:29:06.120
 name

00:29:06.120 --> 00:29:06.360
 that will

00:29:06.360 --> 00:29:06.559
 never

00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:06.980
 die

00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:15.100
 so how

00:29:15.100 --> 00:29:15.539
 inclusive

00:29:15.539 --> 00:29:16.259
 is Jesus

00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:16.740
 of us

00:29:16.740 --> 00:29:17.299
 here today

00:29:17.299 --> 00:29:17.779
 when

00:29:17.779 --> 00:29:18.920
 I'm not

00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:19.539
 sure how

00:29:19.539 --> 00:29:22.019
 how much

00:29:22.019 --> 00:29:22.600
 you feel

00:29:22.600 --> 00:29:22.940
 on the

00:29:22.940 --> 00:29:23.740
 edges of

00:29:23.740 --> 00:29:24.539
 the assembly

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:25.200
 of God's

00:29:25.200 --> 00:29:25.519
 people

00:29:25.519 --> 00:29:26.120
 I think

00:29:26.120 --> 00:29:26.700
 lots of

00:29:26.700 --> 00:29:27.120
 things

00:29:27.120 --> 00:29:27.779
 can make

00:29:27.779 --> 00:29:28.220
 us feel

00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:28.500
 on the

00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:28.799
 edge

00:29:28.799 --> 00:29:33.079
 a stained

00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:33.879
 conscience

00:29:33.879 --> 00:29:35.599
 of the

00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:35.980
 sin that

00:29:35.980 --> 00:29:36.259
 we do

00:29:36.259 --> 00:29:36.759
 this week

00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:37.019
 that we

00:29:37.019 --> 00:29:37.519
 did last

00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:37.799
 week

00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:39.799
 if people

00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:40.180
 knew

00:29:40.180 --> 00:29:42.480
 we know

00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:42.759
 God

00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:43.159
 knows

00:29:43.159 --> 00:29:47.519
 maybe

00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:47.700
 you've

00:29:47.700 --> 00:29:48.159
 got same

00:29:48.159 --> 00:29:48.440
 sex

00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:48.980
 attraction

00:29:48.980 --> 00:29:49.779
 and you're

00:29:49.779 --> 00:29:50.159
 fearing

00:29:50.159 --> 00:29:51.680
 what would

00:29:51.680 --> 00:29:52.079
 happen if

00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:52.440
 you told

00:29:52.440 --> 00:29:52.799
 someone

00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:54.839
 you love

00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:55.339
 Jesus

00:29:55.339 --> 00:29:55.659
 but

00:29:55.660 --> 00:29:58.140
 what would

00:29:58.140 --> 00:29:58.480
 happen

00:29:58.480 --> 00:30:02.220
 maybe you

00:30:02.220 --> 00:30:02.680
 know your

00:30:02.680 --> 00:30:03.360
 motives

00:30:03.360 --> 00:30:04.800
 when I

00:30:04.800 --> 00:30:05.620
 my zeal

00:30:05.620 --> 00:30:06.120
 for Jesus

00:30:06.120 --> 00:30:06.540
 and trying

00:30:06.540 --> 00:30:06.980
 to serve

00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:07.160
 him

00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:07.480
 gee

00:30:07.480 --> 00:30:09.380
 every step

00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:09.900
 I take

00:30:09.900 --> 00:30:10.360
 I know

00:30:10.360 --> 00:30:10.880
 there's so

00:30:10.880 --> 00:30:11.420
 much self

00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:11.940
 centred in

00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:12.180
 there

00:30:12.180 --> 00:30:17.580
 but here

00:30:17.580 --> 00:30:18.820
 in this

00:30:18.820 --> 00:30:19.340
 in this

00:30:19.340 --> 00:30:20.019
 story of

00:30:20.019 --> 00:30:22.060
 of the

00:30:22.060 --> 00:30:22.380
 eunuch

00:30:22.380 --> 00:30:23.440
 that we

00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:23.980
 learn there's

00:30:23.980 --> 00:30:24.700
 no levels

00:30:24.700 --> 00:30:25.240
 there's no

00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:26.319
 degrees of

00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:27.200
 belonging to

00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:27.500
 God's

00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:27.839
 people

00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:31.640
 we all

00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:32.480
 share fully

00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.120
 in the

00:30:33.120 --> 00:30:33.920
 one name

00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.640
 we're all

00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:38.759
 baptized

00:30:38.759 --> 00:30:40.900
 by the

00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:41.559
 spirit that

00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:42.279
 inner renewal

00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:43.019
 into the

00:30:43.019 --> 00:30:43.680
 one body

00:30:43.680 --> 00:30:44.599
 his body

00:30:44.599 --> 00:30:46.160
 we're the

00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:46.860
 one people

00:30:46.860 --> 00:30:48.019
 across all

00:30:48.019 --> 00:30:48.620
 races we're

00:30:48.620 --> 00:30:49.079
 the one

00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:51.099
 new people

00:30:51.099 --> 00:30:54.539
 there's no

00:30:54.539 --> 00:30:54.959
 levels

00:30:54.959 --> 00:30:55.439
 there's no

00:30:55.439 --> 00:30:56.059
 degrees

00:30:56.059 --> 00:30:58.179
 if you love

00:30:58.179 --> 00:30:58.819
 the fact that

00:30:58.819 --> 00:30:59.359
 Jesus was

00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:00.000
 cut off

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:00.599
 to bring

00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:01.039
 you in

00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:02.759
 you're in

00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:06.699
 you can't

00:31:06.699 --> 00:31:07.119
 add to

00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:07.439
 that

00:31:07.439 --> 00:31:08.599
 and nothing

00:31:08.599 --> 00:31:09.059
 can take

00:31:09.059 --> 00:31:09.599
 away from

00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:09.879
 that

00:31:09.879 --> 00:31:12.419
 what prevents

00:31:12.419 --> 00:31:12.779
 me from

00:31:12.779 --> 00:31:13.459
 being baptized

00:31:13.459 --> 00:31:15.679
 from fully

00:31:15.679 --> 00:31:16.319
 belonging to

00:31:16.319 --> 00:31:16.759
 the Lord

00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:17.099
 and his

00:31:17.099 --> 00:31:17.519
 people

00:31:17.519 --> 00:31:19.219
 forever and

00:31:19.219 --> 00:31:19.459
 ever

00:31:19.459 --> 00:31:20.079
 nothing

00:31:20.079 --> 00:31:21.859
 nothing at

00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:22.119
 all

00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:27.839
 I think

00:31:27.839 --> 00:31:28.220
 when Jesus

00:31:28.220 --> 00:31:28.819
 returns we'll

00:31:28.819 --> 00:31:29.240
 learn this

00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:29.919
 guy's personal

00:31:29.919 --> 00:31:30.339
 name

00:31:30.339 --> 00:31:35.819
 like he's

00:31:35.819 --> 00:31:36.439
 eternal

00:31:36.439 --> 00:31:37.299
 we'll meet

00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:37.500
 him

00:31:37.500 --> 00:31:39.720
 he's going to

00:31:39.720 --> 00:31:40.359
 be a monument

00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:41.699
 he already is a

00:31:41.699 --> 00:31:41.980
 monument

00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:42.879
 he's the first

00:31:42.879 --> 00:31:44.139
 what an

00:31:44.139 --> 00:31:44.980
 honoured place

00:31:44.980 --> 00:31:45.619
 he's been given

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:46.139
 in scripture

00:31:46.140 --> 00:31:51.740
 he had no

00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:53.180
 biological legacy

00:31:53.180 --> 00:31:53.759
 on earth

00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.540
 but don't

00:31:56.540 --> 00:31:57.100
 you wonder

00:31:57.100 --> 00:31:59.920
 who became a

00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:00.660
 child of God

00:32:00.660 --> 00:32:01.120
 through his

00:32:01.120 --> 00:32:01.920
 testimony when

00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:02.460
 he got home

00:32:02.460 --> 00:32:04.000
 how many

00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:04.740
 people have

00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:05.360
 been touched

00:32:05.360 --> 00:32:06.020
 by God

00:32:06.020 --> 00:32:06.540
 because of

00:32:06.540 --> 00:32:07.180
 this story

00:32:07.180 --> 00:32:08.160
 but maybe

00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:08.820
 God is speaking

00:32:08.820 --> 00:32:09.440
 to you today

00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:09.880
 through this

00:32:09.880 --> 00:32:10.240
 story

00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:12.140
 and in a way

00:32:12.140 --> 00:32:13.540
 all those

00:32:13.540 --> 00:32:14.080
 people are the

00:32:14.080 --> 00:32:14.700
 offspring of

00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:15.180
 this man

00:32:15.180 --> 00:32:20.819
 so I

00:32:20.819 --> 00:32:21.640
 want to

00:32:21.640 --> 00:32:23.100
 say a

00:32:23.100 --> 00:32:23.360
 word

00:32:23.360 --> 00:32:24.519
 for those

00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:24.860
 who

00:32:24.860 --> 00:32:26.460
 are

00:32:26.460 --> 00:32:26.980
 struggling

00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:27.480
 to feel

00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:27.980
 complete

00:32:27.980 --> 00:32:28.600
 maybe in

00:32:28.600 --> 00:32:28.740
 your

00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:29.279
 singleness

00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:31.080
 maybe you're

00:32:31.080 --> 00:32:31.880
 struggling to

00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:32.160
 have

00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:32.680
 children

00:32:32.680 --> 00:32:37.900
 don't say

00:32:37.900 --> 00:32:38.299
 I'm a

00:32:38.299 --> 00:32:38.920
 dry tree

00:32:38.920 --> 00:32:42.960
 Jesus has

00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:43.519
 searched for

00:32:43.519 --> 00:32:43.819
 you and

00:32:43.819 --> 00:32:44.460
 found you

00:32:44.460 --> 00:32:46.480
 he's given

00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:46.859
 you his

00:32:46.859 --> 00:32:47.379
 name

00:32:47.379 --> 00:32:49.599
 an everlasting

00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:50.720
 name even

00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:52.059
 better than

00:32:52.059 --> 00:32:52.539
 sons and

00:32:52.539 --> 00:32:52.960
 daughters

00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:58.579
 no

00:32:58.579 --> 00:33:01.059
 you have a

00:33:01.059 --> 00:33:01.539
 special

00:33:01.539 --> 00:33:02.539
 honoured place

00:33:02.539 --> 00:33:03.259
 in his

00:33:03.259 --> 00:33:04.759
 household

00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:05.220
 in his

00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:05.539
 kingdom

00:33:05.539 --> 00:33:09.859
 and I

00:33:09.859 --> 00:33:10.119
 think you

00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:10.379
 have a

00:33:10.379 --> 00:33:10.799
 unique

00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:11.920
 opportunity

00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:13.799
 in your

00:33:13.799 --> 00:33:14.259
 struggles

00:33:14.259 --> 00:33:15.059
 to say

00:33:15.059 --> 00:33:15.720
 Jesus is

00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:16.059
 enough

00:33:16.059 --> 00:33:20.879
 I fully

00:33:20.879 --> 00:33:21.319
 belong

00:33:21.319 --> 00:33:23.039
 he's

00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:23.319
 enough

00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:29.659
 how much

00:33:29.659 --> 00:33:31.720
 this man

00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:32.440
 fully belongs

00:33:32.440 --> 00:33:33.160
 I think

00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:33.799
 even the

00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:34.320
 ending of

00:33:34.320 --> 00:33:34.940
 this story

00:33:34.940 --> 00:33:36.620
 points to

00:33:36.620 --> 00:33:38.840
 what are we

00:33:38.840 --> 00:33:39.440
 to learn

00:33:39.440 --> 00:33:39.940
 that the

00:33:39.940 --> 00:33:40.400
 spirit

00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:41.880
 whisked

00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:42.440
 Philip away

00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:42.700
 at the

00:33:42.700 --> 00:33:42.980
 end

00:33:42.980 --> 00:33:45.019
 Emma reminded

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:45.519
 me that

00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:47.180
 there was this

00:33:47.180 --> 00:33:47.740
 church in

00:33:47.740 --> 00:33:48.039
 Sydney

00:33:48.039 --> 00:33:50.400
 we didn't go

00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:50.660
 to this

00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:51.000
 church

00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:51.940
 that they

00:33:51.940 --> 00:33:52.440
 were teaching

00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:53.180
 the spiritual

00:33:53.180 --> 00:33:53.779
 gift of

00:33:53.779 --> 00:33:54.680
 teleportation

00:33:54.680 --> 00:33:56.920
 it's sad

00:33:56.920 --> 00:33:57.259
 that they

00:33:57.259 --> 00:33:57.600
 were actually

00:33:57.600 --> 00:33:58.200
 taking that

00:33:58.200 --> 00:33:58.680
 seriously

00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:00.259
 that is not

00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:00.580
 what we

00:34:00.580 --> 00:34:00.799
 are to

00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:01.140
 learn

00:34:01.140 --> 00:34:02.500
 here

00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:06.820
 the word

00:34:06.820 --> 00:34:07.220
 here is

00:34:07.220 --> 00:34:08.240
 just seized

00:34:08.240 --> 00:34:09.340
 so maybe

00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:10.099
 it was very

00:34:10.099 --> 00:34:10.680
 supernatural

00:34:10.680 --> 00:34:11.740
 and just

00:34:11.740 --> 00:34:12.460
 plonked

00:34:12.460 --> 00:34:13.480
 but maybe

00:34:13.480 --> 00:34:13.840
 it was just

00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:14.599
 a conscience

00:34:14.599 --> 00:34:15.099
 filled with

00:34:15.099 --> 00:34:15.940
 just spirit

00:34:15.940 --> 00:34:16.860
 go here

00:34:16.860 --> 00:34:17.079
 now

00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:18.420
 we don't

00:34:18.420 --> 00:34:18.720
 know

00:34:18.720 --> 00:34:23.200
 permit me

00:34:23.200 --> 00:34:23.720
 one more

00:34:23.720 --> 00:34:24.059
 poetic

00:34:24.059 --> 00:34:24.559
 license

00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:27.719
 after this

00:34:27.719 --> 00:34:28.340
 sweet

00:34:28.340 --> 00:34:30.239
 moment

00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:30.639
 of

00:34:30.639 --> 00:34:31.159
 baptism

00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:34.679
 I'd be

00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:35.059
 surprised

00:34:35.059 --> 00:34:35.400
 if there

00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:35.639
 wasn't

00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:36.019
 tears

00:34:36.019 --> 00:34:36.820
 this is a

00:34:36.820 --> 00:34:37.380
 sweet

00:34:37.380 --> 00:34:37.860
 moment

00:34:37.860 --> 00:34:38.480
 of full

00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:39.000
 inclusion

00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:39.840
 in God

00:34:39.840 --> 00:34:40.400
 in Jesus

00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:41.599
 with his

00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:41.840
 brother

00:34:41.840 --> 00:34:42.239
 Philip

00:34:42.239 --> 00:34:42.820
 embracing

00:34:42.820 --> 00:34:43.179
 him

00:34:43.179 --> 00:34:44.679
 this is a

00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:44.960
 sweet

00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:45.340
 moment

00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:45.940
 and then

00:34:45.940 --> 00:34:46.219
 Philip

00:34:46.219 --> 00:34:46.840
 is taken

00:34:46.840 --> 00:34:47.199
 away

00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:51.259
 I think

00:34:51.259 --> 00:34:51.699
 it almost

00:34:51.699 --> 00:34:52.719
 seems cruel

00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:53.480
 to leave

00:34:53.480 --> 00:34:53.940
 this man

00:34:53.940 --> 00:34:54.220
 on his

00:34:54.220 --> 00:34:54.599
 own

00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:58.200
 because

00:34:58.200 --> 00:34:58.440
 Luke

00:34:58.440 --> 00:34:58.659
 says

00:34:58.659 --> 00:34:59.380
 he sees

00:34:59.380 --> 00:34:59.599
 him

00:34:59.599 --> 00:34:59.920
 no

00:34:59.920 --> 00:35:00.440
 more

00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:03.740
 but it's

00:35:03.740 --> 00:35:04.280
 not cruel

00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:04.780
 the eunuch

00:35:04.780 --> 00:35:05.380
 didn't think

00:35:05.380 --> 00:35:06.079
 it was cruel

00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:08.200
 outwardly

00:35:08.200 --> 00:35:09.320
 he's alone

00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:09.659
 again

00:35:09.659 --> 00:35:11.000
 but something

00:35:11.000 --> 00:35:12.139
 has radically

00:35:12.139 --> 00:35:12.800
 changed

00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:13.980
 he goes

00:35:13.980 --> 00:35:14.000
 he goes

00:35:14.000 --> 00:35:14.260
 on his

00:35:14.260 --> 00:35:14.480
 way

00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:15.100
 rejoicing

00:35:15.100 --> 00:35:17.820
 that

00:35:17.820 --> 00:35:18.460
 whatever

00:35:18.460 --> 00:35:18.900
 prompted

00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:19.260
 him to

00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:19.780
 search

00:35:19.780 --> 00:35:20.240
 to come

00:35:20.240 --> 00:35:20.720
 to Jerusalem

00:35:20.720 --> 00:35:21.360
 something

00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:22.300
 has changed

00:35:22.300 --> 00:35:23.880
 his emptiness

00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:24.360
 has been

00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:24.780
 filled

00:35:24.780 --> 00:35:29.280
 he knows

00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:30.280
 he fully

00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:31.300
 belongs to

00:35:31.300 --> 00:35:31.840
 the assembly

00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:32.340
 of the Lord

00:35:32.340 --> 00:35:33.060
 Jesus Christ

00:35:33.060 --> 00:35:33.580
 and so he

00:35:33.580 --> 00:35:33.760
 can

00:35:33.760 --> 00:35:35.800
 he can go

00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:36.300
 on his way

00:35:36.300 --> 00:35:37.360
 rejoicing

00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:39.039
 the search

00:35:39.039 --> 00:35:39.420
 is over

00:35:39.420 --> 00:35:43.260
 he's been

00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:43.720
 found

00:35:43.720 --> 00:35:50.840
 do you

00:35:50.840 --> 00:35:51.360
 is your

00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:51.700
 search

00:35:51.700 --> 00:35:52.000
 over

00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:56.340
 do you

00:35:56.340 --> 00:35:56.760
 know you've

00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:57.360
 been found

00:35:57.360 --> 00:36:03.700
 we're going

00:36:03.700 --> 00:36:04.180
 to sing

00:36:04.180 --> 00:36:05.099
 in a moment

00:36:05.099 --> 00:36:06.660
 and it's

00:36:06.660 --> 00:36:07.680
 the act

00:36:07.680 --> 00:36:08.079
 of singing

00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:08.539
 together

00:36:08.539 --> 00:36:09.160
 is

00:36:09.160 --> 00:36:10.180
 as we

00:36:10.180 --> 00:36:10.860
 learnt

00:36:10.860 --> 00:36:11.340
 on camp

00:36:11.340 --> 00:36:11.860
 it's actually

00:36:11.860 --> 00:36:12.480
 an expression

00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:13.019
 of that

00:36:13.019 --> 00:36:14.320
 belonging

00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:14.900
 to the

00:36:14.900 --> 00:36:15.280
 assembly

00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:15.900
 of Jesus

00:36:15.900 --> 00:36:17.140
 by faith

00:36:17.140 --> 00:36:17.440
 so we're

00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:17.860
 going to

00:36:17.860 --> 00:36:18.440
 it's going

00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:18.620
 to be

00:36:18.620 --> 00:36:20.200
 a beautiful

00:36:20.200 --> 00:36:20.760
 expression

00:36:20.760 --> 00:36:21.800
 of the fact

00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:22.300
 that Jesus

00:36:22.300 --> 00:36:23.059
 has brought

00:36:23.059 --> 00:36:23.420
 us into

00:36:23.420 --> 00:36:24.039
 his family

00:36:24.039 --> 00:36:25.620
 simply because

00:36:25.620 --> 00:36:26.420
 he was cut

00:36:26.420 --> 00:36:26.820
 off to

00:36:26.820 --> 00:36:27.160
 bring us

00:36:27.160 --> 00:36:27.340
 in

00:36:27.340 --> 00:36:29.039
 but before

00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:29.440
 we sing

00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:30.300
 can I ask

00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:30.760
 the muses

00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:31.860
 just to wait

00:36:31.860 --> 00:36:32.440
 a few minutes

00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:32.980
 and then come

00:36:32.980 --> 00:36:33.280
 on up

00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:33.920
 and lead us

00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:34.340
 in song

00:36:34.340 --> 00:36:35.900
 can I just

00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:36.460
 encourage us

00:36:36.460 --> 00:36:37.019
 all to

00:36:37.019 --> 00:36:39.160
 personally reflect

00:36:39.160 --> 00:36:39.860
 on what you

00:36:39.860 --> 00:36:41.320
 think is

00:36:41.320 --> 00:36:43.880
 holding you

00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:44.460
 out of

00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:45.100
 God's people

00:36:45.100 --> 00:36:45.780
 I'm not sure

00:36:45.780 --> 00:36:46.280
 it's going to be

00:36:46.280 --> 00:36:46.900
 different for each

00:36:46.900 --> 00:36:47.340
 one of us

00:36:47.340 --> 00:36:48.640
 so which is

00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:49.079
 why I'm just

00:36:49.079 --> 00:36:49.579
 going to ask

00:36:49.579 --> 00:36:50.300
 you to reflect

00:36:50.300 --> 00:36:50.980
 for a moment

00:36:50.980 --> 00:36:52.180
 if you already

00:36:52.180 --> 00:36:52.960
 trust Jesus

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.840
 reflect on how

00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:56.720
 fully you belong

00:36:56.720 --> 00:36:57.140
 to him

00:36:57.139 --> 00:36:59.940
 and if you

00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:00.539
 sense that

00:37:00.539 --> 00:37:01.059
 God is

00:37:01.059 --> 00:37:02.500
 finding you

00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:03.119
 searching you

00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:03.519
 out right

00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:03.879
 now

00:37:03.879 --> 00:37:07.940
 do some

00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:08.440
 business with

00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:08.679
 God

00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:09.139
 I suppose

00:37:09.139 --> 00:37:10.980
 so why don't

00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:11.219
 we do

00:37:11.219 --> 00:37:11.799
 spend a few

00:37:11.799 --> 00:37:12.299
 minutes just

00:37:12.299 --> 00:37:12.699
 reflecting

00:37:12.699 --> 00:37:13.179
 and then

00:37:13.179 --> 00:37:13.519
 we'll sing

00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.559
 oh

00:37:16.559 --> 00:37:17.019
 let's see him

00:37:17.019 --> 00:37:17.800
 again

00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:18.400
 everyone

00:37:18.400 --> 00:37:20.280
 is

00:37:20.280 --> 00:37:20.360
 going to be

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