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 Father, we come now to study your word.

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 All of us have minds.

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 Some of us have really, really, really great minds.

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 Some of us just may be average minds or even below average.

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 But, Father, we ask that your Holy Spirit would help us to use our mind and our will

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 and our imagination and our heart to the very best of our ability to attend to your word.

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 And at the same time, Father, we ask that your Holy Spirit would humble us

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 so that we know that unless your Holy Spirit draws your word to our hearts,

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 our minds cannot truly grip your word.

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 So, Father, pour your Holy Spirit upon us and make your word alive to us at the very center of who we are.

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

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 Please be seated.

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 Every one of us know people who suck all of the oxygen out of the room.

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 You know the type of person I mean.

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 They have to be the center of attention.

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 They have to have their needs being met.

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 If the conversation starts to focus somewhere else, they get very, very uncomfortable

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 and they do something to try to bring the attention and the conversation back to themselves.

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 They just literally suck all of the oxygen out of relationships and out of the room.

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 And I'm not just talking about two-year-olds.

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 I'm talking about people who are vastly older than two.

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 And we all know people like that.

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 In fact, some of us might be that person without realizing it.

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 It's one of those things that our few remaining friends or our family just don't have the courage to tell us.

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 But we just, the people who just suck everything, all of the oxygen, all of the energy out of the room.

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 It's funny because on one level when we meet people like this, we tend not to like them.

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 Where we like them at first maybe because they're, I don't know, very witty, very charming,

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 seem to have lots of excellent qualities.

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 But once we spend some time with them and the fact that there's never any type of reciprocal thing going on,

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 they're just sucking all of the energy, all of the oxygen into themselves,

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 the room is empty, they're just sucking it, we tend not to like them.

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 But, you know, it's funny that our culture is a bit confused about this

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 because at the heart of a lot of our cultural advice, at a lot of the heart of our movies,

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 we actually encourage that behavior.

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 Without realizing that we both encourage the behavior,

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 yet when we actually meet people who suck all the oxygen out of life, we don't like them.

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 And by that I mean, I wrote a little blog this week and it sort of talks about this a little bit.

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 But if you think about it, much in our culture is taken up with what I call the three A's.

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 And that is with this quest for autonomy, a quest for authenticity, and a quest for affirmation.

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 And these three things are very, very closely connected.

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 Autonomy is this idea that at the end of the day, it has to be true for me, it has to be right for me.

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 I'm the only one who can know what's true for me.

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 I'm the only one who can know what's right for me.

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 In a sense, how dare you tell me what's right for me?

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 Like, how dare you do that?

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 Like, if we were at a party in a room and somebody was trying to tell somebody else what's right and what's true,

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 and you just, you know, everybody in the room, even if they weren't pointing their fingers,

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 you'd sense that they're pointing their fingers.

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 And it's a very, very funny thing.

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 We would say, how dare you point your finger at them while we're pointing our finger at them?

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 But we don't sort of realize that.

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 But it's a very, very common type of advice.

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 Only the individual, only I know what can be true, what is important, what is valuable, what is right, what is wrong for me.

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 And I need to be able to, in a sense, to live that and have that acknowledged.

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 And the thing which goes along often with autonomy is this quest for authenticity.

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 It's a very similar type of thing.

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 It's the idea that I'm the only one who can understand what I need to accomplish,

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 what's going to fulfill me, which is going to give my life meaning.

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 I'm the only one who knows that.

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 I'm the only one who can figure that out.

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 And how dare you try to impose your vision of happiness, your vision of the good life on me?

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 When I'm in coffee shops, I hear counseling advice between friends around this all of the time.

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 Like people saying, how on earth can your husband or how on earth can your sister or how on earth can your mother

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 or how on earth can your father be telling you you have to do these things?

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 Doesn't he know that that's not right for him to be doing those things that you need to make?

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 You need to have time for yourself.

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 You need to make space for yourself.

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 You have to put limits on what he or she is doing.

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 And you need to just grasp that only you can.

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 Like it's constant advice.

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 How many movies are based around this idea of you have maybe two friends?

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 And one of them, really, what they would love to do is they don't want to live under their father's rule

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 or their mother's influence or their wife or their husband or their circle or their coach.

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 You know, these people maybe want them to become a doctor or want them to become an engineer.

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 But in your own heart of hearts, you'd rather be a dancer or a poet or some type of an artist.

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 And then in the course of the movie, the person doesn't grasp their autonomy and their authenticity

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 and they bow to their father's rules or their coach's rules or expectations and they become that doctor.

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 And in the movie, or they become that lawyer or whatever, accountant.

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 And in the movie, the person's really good friend.

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 They're not rejoicing with them.

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 They're sad.

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 Why?

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 Because the person wasn't doing what was authentic to them.

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 And the movie will move and progress to the point that finally the person has the courage to leave law

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 or leave medicine or whatever it is to embrace dance or poetry or art or whatever it is

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 that really is going to make them authentic.

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 It's the constant advice and desire of our culture.

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 And often with all of this goes the third A, which can be called acclaim or applause or approval.

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 So, you know, once again, the same thing.

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 If I, you know, I'm sitting my own, I understand what's right.

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 I understand what's wrong for me.

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 And I understand what I need to do so that I will be the real me that I was meant to be.

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 The me that's really at the heart of my feelings and my sense of myself.

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 And only I have that proper sense of myself.

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 And I need to pursue it.

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 And you need to approve of it.

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 Like if you don't, how dare you not give me approval?

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 How dare you not applaud that?

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 How dare you not?

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 And in our culture, everybody would be with the person saying,

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 how dare you not give me that acclaim, that approval, that applause that I deserve

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 because I am pursuing authenticity and I am the captain of my own ship and my own soul

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 and I am doing that.

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 And you have to give me, must give me the acclaim and applause that I deserve.

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 The affirmation.

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 You see, it's a very, very funny thing.

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 That's the, sort of actually, by the way, the three things, the autonomy, authenticity,

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 and acclaim, applause, approval.

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 It's almost like the Trinity in Christian thought.

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 The three of them are separate, but they're one.

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 And they go in here with each other and all three of them have to be present, really,

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 for a person to really be a well-functioning Canadian.

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 But the problem is, if you think about it, that a person who really lives that

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 ends up having to be a person who sucks all the oxygen out of the room.

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 Because it's very funny in the type of advice that is found in so much counseling,

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 so much self-help books, that it's found in Hollywood, that's found in academia,

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 that's found just whether it's a Tim Hortons or a Starbucks or some other type of place

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 or not a coffee place at all, McDonald's or Subway or a high-end hipster place.

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 All of that advice is very similar.

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 But if you follow it, then how is it that, well, how is it that you relate to other people

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 in a good way?

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 If it's, in a sense, I'm the center and it's all about me and your life and your needs

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 and your autonomy and your authenticity and your need for applause,

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 it's very hard for those two things to fit in our culture.

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 Well, the text that we're going to look at today has some really interesting things to say about this dilemma.

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 And part of the thing which is also very interesting, not this dilemma,

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 just this whole cultural move of autonomy and authenticity and affirmation

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 and the problems with them.

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 And the text is easily misread and misunderstood, but it has very powerful wisdom to speak into this.

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 So it would be a great help with me if you could turn in your Bibles to John 15, verse 21.

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 There are Bibles up there at the front now.

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 The text will be up here as well, but it's really good just to have something in your hand that you can follow along.

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 So John chapter 15, sorry, John chapter 21, beginning at the 15th verse.

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 And many people are a bit confused by this text, especially if you're reading it as a new Christian or as an outsider.

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 It almost seems as if Jesus is trying to suck the oxygen out of the room.

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 I could easily imagine lots of people, if they were there, saying to Peter that Jesus is being out of line

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 in what he's asking Peter to do, that Peter needs to grasp his own autonomy, his own authenticity.

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 And so our culture helps us to not understand this and misread it.

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 So let's look at it.

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 John chapter 21, verse 15.

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 And what's happening here, the book of John is now coming to the end.

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 John is a very peculiar type of biography, but it is a biography about Jesus.

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 And what makes it peculiar is that an inordinate, far too much time compared to a modern biography

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 is spent with the last little bit of Jesus's life.

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 But that's because John understands that the last bit is so unbelievably important.

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 And John has shared how Jesus is condemned by the religious and political and cultural elites,

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 and he's sentenced to an unjust death, how he dies by crucifixion,

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 how his death is guaranteed by Rome, how he's put in a tomb,

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 how then the tomb is found empty with the grave clothes there.

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 And then John lays out a series of appearances, resurrection appearances,

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 where Jesus appears alive to people.

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 And this is the end part of a third time when he's appeared to all of the disciples.

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 And just before we start reading this on verse 15, if you have your Bibles,

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 just look up a tiny little bit to, it's not going to be able to be on the screen.

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 If you just put up a little bit to verse, I can't find it right now.

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 Oh yeah, verse 9.

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 What's just gone on before that is that Jesus is, as I said,

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 he's made a nice breakfast for them of fresh fish and fresh bread.

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 He's cooking it over in verse 9, a charcoal fire with fish laid out on it and bread.

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 And now we're going to go to verse 15.

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 And the charcoal fire is very interesting because there's only one other place in all of the Gospels

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 where a charcoal fire is mentioned.

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 And that's the very night when Peter, when Jesus has been captured,

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 and Peter's going to deny Jesus three times around a charcoal fire.

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 And many of us know that, you know, we might think that we've gotten over something.

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 We might think that we've forgiven somebody.

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 Or we might think that we've gotten over feeling embarrassed or ashamed about something.

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 But then all of a sudden we're somewhere and it comes back to us all of a sudden with great power.

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 Something triggers a memory of what had gone on in the past.

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 And one of the most powerful triggers is smell.

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 And so the very distinctive smell of a charcoal fire,

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 you just have to wonder as Peter gets out of the water and comes to see Jesus,

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 and that charcoal fire is there.

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 And the last time Peter maybe was around a charcoal fire was when he was denying Jesus three times.

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 And here he is now, that smell in his nostrils.

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 Everybody would know about the fact that Peter denied Jesus three times.

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 And now after breakfast, the story continues, verse 15.

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 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter,

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 Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?

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 Jesus said to Peter,

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 Verse 17, Jesus says to Peter the third time,

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 Simon, son of John, do you love me?

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 Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time,

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 Do you love me?

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 And Peter said to Jesus, Lord, you know everything.

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 You know that I love you.

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 And Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.

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 And just sort of pause there for a second.

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 Now, just before we get into sort of the big thing which is going on here,

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 sometimes pastors will talk about the significance that two different words for love were being used in this text.

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 Jesus uses the word agape, and Peter responds with the word philia.

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 And then the final time, Jesus finally switches the words.

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 And sometimes pastors will go out a long time talking about the significance of that.

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 There's probably no significance in the difference of the language.

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 You know, in the early centuries of the Christian church,

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 there was a lot, most people who, if they read, they read Greek.

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 And in the first four or five centuries, when people were still basically, were Greek speakers,

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 none of the original people who knew Greek, I mean, Greek was their native tongue,

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 none of the commentators on this text except origin, one person,

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 made a distinction between the two words, not one.

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 They just saw it as a stylistic difference that didn't have any substantive context.

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 So it's not as if Jesus is saying two times with this one word,

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 and Peter's not giving him the right answer,

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 and then finally, you know, Jesus switches and Peter gives the same answer.

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 It's nothing like that's going on in the text.

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 It's a very, very simple thing.

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 The English has captured it very well.

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 Do you love me? Do you love me? Do you love me?

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 And Peter says every time, you know that I love you, you know that I love you,

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 you know that I love you.

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 And every time, Jesus gives him a particular commission

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 to feed, in a sense, the young and the vulnerable,

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 to pastor people or be a shepherd to people,

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 and then to feed people who are more mature and more developed Christians.

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 The same, the English has captured it very well.

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 But here's the thing that's going on, which is very, very interesting.

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 If you found out that every time I met with one of my interns,

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 or if every time I met with the council, I began with it saying,

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 do you guys love me?

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 You'd all think that that was weird.

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 In fact, you'd say, why is George so needy?

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 Like, why is it that he has to ask his interns every time he meets with them,

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 do you guys love me? I hope you love me.

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 Sounds like it's sort of needy.

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 Or is Jesus actually doing something like what I described,

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 trying to suck all the oxygen up out of the room,

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 that he wants to make sure that Peter's given him all of the love,

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 because he's the center.

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 He has to be getting all of the attention.

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 That's what's going on here in the text.

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 Is Jesus needy?

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 Is Peter, in fact, not doing the right thing?

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 As I said earlier, should Peter have been saying,

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 listen, Jesus, it's so nice to see you,

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 but I have my own autonomy project.

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 I have my own authenticity project,

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 and I need some affirmation and acclaim as well.

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 I need you to tell me that you love me.

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 I need you to tell me doing really well.

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 Is that what's going on in the text?

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 One of the things which is so interesting about this text

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 is that it brings up at least three problems

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 with autonomy and authenticity and acclimation.

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 It brings up at least three types of problems.

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 One is it really brings to the fore

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 how if you see somebody wanting to get all of the attention,

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 all the oxygen,

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 that type of advice that we give people just so casually

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 that you have to be autonomous,

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 you have to be authentic,

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 you have to have affirmation,

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 it always ends up creating somebody

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 who is the center of attention,

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 and we don't like it.

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 We end up seeing them as being needy

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 and not, in a sense,

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 an admirable person,

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 but somebody that we feel almost pity for.

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 Just like, as I said,

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 if you found out that every time I met with my interns,

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 I asked them if they loved me.

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 If every time I met with counsel,

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 I asked them if they loved me.

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 If I made efforts to always be the center at all times,

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 you would start to not think more of me,

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 but less of me.

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 And the second thing which is going on in this text,

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 which is very, very interesting,

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 is that the very word love is used.

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 Because, you see,

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 one of the problems that we have in relationships nowadays

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 is if you have two people...

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 See, on one hand,

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 what we really want is love.

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 I was having a coffee the other day

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 at a local coffee place,

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 and the way they had organized the tips there,

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 it's a regular feature of that place,

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 is they always have two cups,

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 and you can put the tips in one of the two cups.

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 It's sort of like a little bit of a game.

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 Like one time it might be dogs,

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 and the other cup says cats.

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 So if you're going to give them a tip,

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 you put in whether you like dogs more than cats

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 or cats more than dogs.

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 And the other day,

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 the other day I was there,

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 and one of them was Lord of the Rings,

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 the other one was Star Wars.

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 But there was this time I was there getting coffee,

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 and the tip choice was between

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 Captain America and Iron Man.

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 And so I looked inside

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 to see how the vote was going,

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 and I couldn't believe it,

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 that Captain America had all of the tips,

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 and Iron Man didn't have a single tip put in the jar.

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 And I said to the baristas,

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 I said, that's just so surprising

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 that all the tips are going to Captain America,

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 and none of them are going to Iron Man.

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 And one of the two baristas said to me,

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 well, that's no surprise,

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 because Captain America is way better than Iron Man.

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 Now, I have to confess,

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 just given that Starbucks and baristas

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 and their culture and everything like that,

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 and these particular ones,

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 I would have thought they all were voting for Iron Man,

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 because Iron Man is filled with irony

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 and sort of rebellious against authority

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 and all of these things,

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 all of these sort of very Canadian types of virtues.

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 And I said to that,

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 well, I would have thought you guys

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 were all like Iron Man people.

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 And one of them instantly said,

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 no, no, like I'm a Captain America person,

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 because I mean, amongst other things,

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 Iron Man is arrogant.

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 And then this barista,

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 she actually put her hands,

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 she said she loves Captain America,

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 she actually put her hands around like this,

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 it's not only,

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 is he like a good guy,

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 but he does things for the love of a girl,

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 for the love of a woman.

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 And she put her arms on her chest like that

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 when she said it.

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 And it's so funny,

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 because I,

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 you know,

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 from the outside,

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 I wouldn't,

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 this is just me getting confused about things,

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 but,

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 like I can sometimes forget that,

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 you know,

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 beneath all the postures

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 and all the hardness

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 and all the edginess

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 that can go on in the world,

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 the fact of the matter is,

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 is that most of us,

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 what we really desire

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 is deep love relationships

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 with other people.

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 That's what we desire.

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 It's a common,

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 common human desire.

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 The problem is,

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 if we're getting all of this advice

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 about how we have to have autonomy,

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 that only I know

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 what's going to make me happy,

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 only I know what's right and wrong,

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 and only I know

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 that what's going to fulfill my desires

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 and what's going to,

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 what's going to actually make me be the me

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 that I was really meant to be

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 and I need to pursue it

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 and you need to,

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 and you need to applaud me.

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 If I'm saying this

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 and I'm trying to live this,

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 and at the same time

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 I want to be in a love relationship

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 with this other person

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 and she's saying

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 the exact same things

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 and how on earth

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 is marriage going to work?

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 Like, it's just going to cause

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 constant friction.

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 It's just going to mean

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 that it's constantly short term

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 because both want to have autonomy,

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 both want to have authenticity,

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 both want to have applause,

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 and nothing in that worldview

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 suggests reciprocity

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 or the importance

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 of serving the other person

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 or loving the other person.

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 So in a very, very interesting way,

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 this text,

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 where the language

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 is the language of love,

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 highlights part of the whole problem

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 with what's going on

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 in our culture

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 and the third way

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 that it really highlights the problem

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 is what's going on with Peter,

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 not what's going on with Jesus,

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 but what's going on with Peter.

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 You see, this is the hard part.

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 At a very, very, very, very significant,

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 in a very, very significant way,

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 in a very, very significant moment,

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 Peter was a public failure.

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 Not just a private failure,

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 but a public failure.

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 He denied his friend

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 and master in public.

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 He made claims and boasts

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 that he, everybody else,

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 all the other disciples,

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 they could all fall away,

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 they could all have their problems,

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 they would all be weak,

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 but he would be strong,

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 he would not bend,

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 he would not be broken,

00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:24.259
 he would stay with Jesus

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 and defend Jesus

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 right to the very end,

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 and after he makes

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 all these public promises,

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 he fails completely.

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 And it'd be hard not to imagine

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 that it means

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 that he loses face

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 and that he feels guilt

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 and that he feels some shame.

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 But how would you counsel Peter,

00:23:50.440 --> 00:23:52.359
 if you're a good Canadian,

00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:56.659
 how to be his own authentic self

00:23:56.659 --> 00:23:57.319
 within that?

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 See, that's the whole problem

00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:02.339
 with seeking to be authentic

00:24:02.339 --> 00:24:04.019
 and seeking to be autonomous.

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 It doesn't help us

00:24:07.119 --> 00:24:08.400
 when we go through things

00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:09.099
 in our lives

00:24:09.099 --> 00:24:10.559
 which are just really broken.

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 It doesn't help us

00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:12.519
 when we go through things

00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:13.579
 that cause us shame.

00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:15.220
 It doesn't help us

00:24:15.220 --> 00:24:16.740
 when we do things that,

00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:17.220
 you know,

00:24:17.240 --> 00:24:17.720
 it doesn't matter

00:24:17.720 --> 00:24:19.039
 what people tell us about,

00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:20.220
 but we actually feel

00:24:20.220 --> 00:24:21.819
 significant guilt about.

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 And if it's part of who we are

00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:27.460
 is a mixture of shame

00:24:27.460 --> 00:24:28.720
 and guilt

00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:29.960
 and failure

00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:31.299
 and desires

00:24:31.299 --> 00:24:32.519
 and strength

00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:34.079
 and maybe anger

00:24:34.079 --> 00:24:35.480
 at the situation

00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:38.180
 that's caused us guilt

00:24:38.180 --> 00:24:39.379
 or maybe a wish

00:24:39.379 --> 00:24:40.839
 that we could somehow repair it,

00:24:41.159 --> 00:24:42.359
 the fact of the matter is

00:24:42.359 --> 00:24:43.460
 is that our inner life

00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:45.000
 is very, very confused

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:47.059
 and all full of bits and pieces.

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 And to think that somehow or another

00:24:49.480 --> 00:24:51.200
 out of all of this brokenness

00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:52.059
 and all of the shame

00:24:52.059 --> 00:24:52.740
 and all of the guilt

00:24:52.740 --> 00:24:53.980
 that we can somehow form

00:24:53.980 --> 00:24:55.879
 an identity out of that,

00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:58.839
 well, how does that actually

00:24:58.839 --> 00:24:59.779
 make any sense?

00:24:59.779 --> 00:25:02.579
 And how does it actually deal

00:25:02.579 --> 00:25:03.500
 with the real guilt

00:25:03.500 --> 00:25:04.279
 that we feel

00:25:04.279 --> 00:25:05.119
 and the real shame

00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:05.759
 that we feel?

00:25:08.619 --> 00:25:10.399
 And so much of what passes

00:25:10.399 --> 00:25:11.779
 for wisdom in the world

00:25:11.779 --> 00:25:14.019
 doesn't actually deal

00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:16.420
 with the significant shame

00:25:16.420 --> 00:25:17.559
 or guilt that we feel

00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:18.899
 or the broken relationships

00:25:18.899 --> 00:25:21.240
 and the regrets that we feel.

00:25:21.839 --> 00:25:23.559
 Even lots of the current advice

00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:24.720
 around things like mindfulness

00:25:24.720 --> 00:25:25.240
 and stuff,

00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:26.980
 it's really just a type of a way

00:25:26.980 --> 00:25:28.980
 to give ourselves a pass

00:25:28.980 --> 00:25:29.740
 and to numb

00:25:29.740 --> 00:25:31.559
 the deep feelings

00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:32.360
 that we have.

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 And I guess what I'm just

00:25:35.380 --> 00:25:36.019
 trying to say is

00:25:36.019 --> 00:25:36.779
 if you're just thinking

00:25:36.779 --> 00:25:37.480
 of Peter there,

00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:39.259
 Peter is a mass of emotions.

00:25:40.759 --> 00:25:41.860
 He's really happy

00:25:41.860 --> 00:25:43.000
 that Jesus is alive.

00:25:43.099 --> 00:25:43.900
 He's excited.

00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:44.740
 He's pumped.

00:25:44.819 --> 00:25:45.640
 At the same time,

00:25:45.700 --> 00:25:46.620
 he feels shame.

00:25:46.880 --> 00:25:48.099
 He feels guilt.

00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:50.460
 He feels uncomfortable.

00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:54.980
 And almost all of the advice

00:25:54.980 --> 00:25:56.759
 that the Canadian culture goes

00:25:56.759 --> 00:25:57.960
 implies that somehow

00:25:57.960 --> 00:25:59.220
 or another human beings

00:25:59.220 --> 00:26:00.600
 are just this simple,

00:26:01.200 --> 00:26:02.240
 singular thing

00:26:02.240 --> 00:26:04.019
 that we can build

00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:04.980
 an identity on

00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:06.819
 and don't come to grips

00:26:06.819 --> 00:26:08.920
 with the deep complexity

00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:10.620
 and brokenness

00:26:10.620 --> 00:26:11.700
 and strength

00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:12.819
 that makes up

00:26:12.819 --> 00:26:14.600
 real human beings.

00:26:15.740 --> 00:26:16.880
 And so the advice

00:26:16.880 --> 00:26:17.539
 of autonomy

00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:18.400
 and authenticity

00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:23.220
 is inherently unstable

00:26:23.220 --> 00:26:25.700
 because it doesn't deal

00:26:25.700 --> 00:26:26.720
 with what's really

00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:27.840
 going on in a person.

00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:34.620
 So if you could put up

00:26:34.620 --> 00:26:35.340
 the first point.

00:26:38.019 --> 00:26:39.640
 Jesus does not suck

00:26:39.640 --> 00:26:40.740
 all of the oxygen

00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:41.640
 out of your life.

00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:43.740
 He is pure oxygen

00:26:43.740 --> 00:26:44.759
 and eternal life

00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:46.300
 so that you can live

00:26:46.300 --> 00:26:47.060
 whole and free.

00:26:47.059 --> 00:26:49.500
 Jesus does not suck

00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:51.139
 all of the oxygen

00:26:51.139 --> 00:26:52.319
 out of your life.

00:26:53.139 --> 00:26:53.639
 In fact,

00:26:53.759 --> 00:26:55.139
 he is pure oxygen

00:26:55.139 --> 00:26:56.299
 and eternal life

00:26:56.299 --> 00:26:57.799
 so that you can live

00:26:57.799 --> 00:26:59.879
 whole and free.

00:27:01.359 --> 00:27:02.019
 You see,

00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:03.039
 that's what's going on here

00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:04.379
 in this particular text.

00:27:05.500 --> 00:27:06.519
 This is happening

00:27:06.519 --> 00:27:07.759
 after Jesus has died

00:27:07.759 --> 00:27:08.460
 on the cross.

00:27:09.240 --> 00:27:10.359
 And what that means,

00:27:10.480 --> 00:27:11.799
 and he's risen from the dead,

00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:13.579
 and at the very,

00:27:13.720 --> 00:27:14.980
 very center of the gospel,

00:27:14.980 --> 00:27:16.299
 time and time

00:27:16.299 --> 00:27:17.440
 and time and time again

00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:18.700
 is this simple idea

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:20.539
 that God

00:27:20.539 --> 00:27:21.599
 in the person

00:27:21.599 --> 00:27:22.220
 of his son

00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:22.720
 has given

00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:23.759
 his life

00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:25.120
 for yours.

00:27:28.099 --> 00:27:29.640
 The way we human beings

00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:31.180
 keep being pulled

00:27:31.180 --> 00:27:32.220
 to try to live

00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:33.680
 is to try to be

00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:34.319
 self-centered

00:27:34.319 --> 00:27:35.180
 and be selfish.

00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:36.339
 That in a sense,

00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:37.680
 it's my,

00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:37.980
 you know,

00:27:38.079 --> 00:27:39.299
 you have to sacrifice

00:27:39.299 --> 00:27:40.240
 your life

00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:41.180
 for me.

00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:42.839
 You have to sacrifice

00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:43.940
 your life for me.

00:27:43.940 --> 00:27:44.799
 And in a sense,

00:27:44.880 --> 00:27:45.960
 lots of Canadian advice

00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:47.080
 is all centered around that.

00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:48.460
 You need to give me

00:27:48.460 --> 00:27:49.100
 the applause.

00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:50.880
 You need to give me

00:27:50.880 --> 00:27:51.460
 the approval.

00:27:51.660 --> 00:27:52.660
 You need to give me

00:27:52.660 --> 00:27:53.360
 the acclaim.

00:27:53.840 --> 00:27:54.820
 You need to give

00:27:54.820 --> 00:27:55.640
 your life

00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:56.559
 for mine.

00:27:56.900 --> 00:27:58.100
 What people often want

00:27:58.100 --> 00:27:59.100
 nowadays in marriage

00:27:59.100 --> 00:27:59.880
 is they want to find

00:27:59.880 --> 00:28:00.640
 a soul friend.

00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:01.580
 And what they often

00:28:01.580 --> 00:28:03.100
 really mean by a soul friend

00:28:03.100 --> 00:28:04.240
 is really what they mean

00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:04.980
 as a person

00:28:04.980 --> 00:28:06.500
 who as we change

00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:07.039
 and go through

00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:07.960
 the different stages

00:28:07.960 --> 00:28:09.140
 and phases of our life

00:28:09.140 --> 00:28:10.259
 that you will always

00:28:10.259 --> 00:28:11.140
 give me

00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:12.299
 your approval,

00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.240
 your acclaim,

00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:14.059
 your,

00:28:15.259 --> 00:28:16.440
 you will always

00:28:16.440 --> 00:28:17.240
 give that to me.

00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:18.859
 But that's not a recipe

00:28:18.859 --> 00:28:19.720
 for a marriage

00:28:19.720 --> 00:28:20.720
 or a relationship

00:28:20.720 --> 00:28:21.480
 or a friendship

00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:22.440
 that's going to be

00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:22.980
 enduring

00:28:22.980 --> 00:28:24.180
 or last,

00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:24.880
 which is really

00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:25.839
 what we want.

00:28:30.640 --> 00:28:31.740
 And what we see

00:28:31.740 --> 00:28:32.839
 in the person of Jesus

00:28:32.839 --> 00:28:34.640
 is that God,

00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:37.339
 the light

00:28:37.339 --> 00:28:39.819
 that made all things

00:28:39.819 --> 00:28:41.500
 came and took on flesh

00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:45.039
 and he gave,

00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:45.779
 in a sense,

00:28:45.980 --> 00:28:47.159
 his lightness

00:28:47.159 --> 00:28:49.240
 to take upon himself

00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:50.099
 our darkness.

00:28:50.839 --> 00:28:51.679
 The life

00:28:51.679 --> 00:28:52.740
 that has created

00:28:52.740 --> 00:28:53.480
 all things

00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:54.700
 takes on flesh

00:28:54.700 --> 00:28:57.200
 and he takes upon himself

00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:59.139
 our death

00:28:59.139 --> 00:29:00.259
 and illness

00:29:00.259 --> 00:29:02.159
 and gives us

00:29:02.159 --> 00:29:03.619
 his life.

00:29:04.339 --> 00:29:05.339
 The love

00:29:05.339 --> 00:29:06.619
 that has created

00:29:06.619 --> 00:29:07.399
 all things

00:29:07.400 --> 00:29:08.700
 comes and takes

00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:09.519
 on flesh

00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:11.240
 and he takes

00:29:11.240 --> 00:29:11.960
 upon himself

00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:12.660
 our hatred

00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:13.800
 and indifference

00:29:13.800 --> 00:29:15.640
 and gives us,

00:29:15.840 --> 00:29:16.320
 in a sense,

00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:17.680
 a way to be connected

00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:18.759
 to love.

00:29:20.220 --> 00:29:21.500
 Jesus describes himself

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:22.440
 as the bread

00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:23.060
 of life.

00:29:23.180 --> 00:29:24.120
 He describes himself

00:29:24.120 --> 00:29:25.220
 as the light

00:29:25.220 --> 00:29:25.900
 of the world.

00:29:26.040 --> 00:29:27.160
 He describes himself

00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:28.220
 as the one

00:29:28.220 --> 00:29:28.700
 by whom,

00:29:28.820 --> 00:29:29.540
 when you have faith,

00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:31.320
 springs of living water

00:29:31.320 --> 00:29:32.259
 will well up

00:29:32.259 --> 00:29:33.180
 from within you

00:29:33.180 --> 00:29:34.940
 when you drink

00:29:34.940 --> 00:29:35.620
 of him

00:29:35.620 --> 00:29:36.500
 and partake

00:29:36.500 --> 00:29:36.920
 of him

00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:37.559
 when you are

00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:39.160
 connected to him.

00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:42.400
 He is the source

00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:43.620
 of life

00:29:43.620 --> 00:29:44.820
 and light

00:29:44.820 --> 00:29:45.799
 and love

00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.360
 and to be connected

00:29:48.360 --> 00:29:49.039
 to him

00:29:49.039 --> 00:29:50.620
 is not

00:29:50.620 --> 00:29:51.840
 our love for him,

00:29:52.120 --> 00:29:53.580
 our desire

00:29:53.580 --> 00:29:54.940
 and affection

00:29:54.940 --> 00:29:55.480
 and moving

00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.200
 towards him

00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:57.519
 is never going

00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:58.860
 to suck all the oxygen

00:29:58.860 --> 00:29:59.840
 out of my life.

00:30:00.360 --> 00:30:01.140
 It will actually

00:30:01.140 --> 00:30:02.240
 begin to give me

00:30:02.240 --> 00:30:02.920
 oxygen

00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:04.779
 that I might be whole

00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:05.740
 and I might be free.

00:30:07.060 --> 00:30:07.800
 And if you could put up

00:30:07.800 --> 00:30:08.680
 the second point,

00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:14.680
 Jesus is also

00:30:14.680 --> 00:30:15.340
 dealing here

00:30:15.340 --> 00:30:15.800
 with another

00:30:15.800 --> 00:30:16.800
 very, very common

00:30:16.800 --> 00:30:17.400
 problem

00:30:17.400 --> 00:30:19.420
 which is that

00:30:19.420 --> 00:30:20.220
 we cut off

00:30:20.220 --> 00:30:21.480
 people who hurt us

00:30:21.480 --> 00:30:22.080
 and we never want

00:30:22.080 --> 00:30:22.900
 to see them again.

00:30:24.019 --> 00:30:25.259
 Or if we begin

00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:26.120
 to have a friend

00:30:26.120 --> 00:30:27.200
 that seems to be

00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:28.060
 very, very filled

00:30:28.060 --> 00:30:28.700
 with shame

00:30:28.700 --> 00:30:29.759
 and very, very filled

00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:30.519
 with need,

00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:32.080
 often what we do

00:30:32.079 --> 00:30:33.039
 is we want to shoot

00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:33.720
 them, we want to

00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:35.119
 just have nothing

00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:35.699
 to do with them,

00:30:35.740 --> 00:30:36.740
 we cut them off.

00:30:37.619 --> 00:30:38.460
 And so Peter

00:30:38.460 --> 00:30:41.799
 has publicly fallen

00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:44.679
 and he has

00:30:44.679 --> 00:30:45.220
 this shame

00:30:45.220 --> 00:30:45.740
 and the guilt

00:30:45.740 --> 00:30:46.359
 that he doesn't

00:30:46.359 --> 00:30:46.980
 entirely know

00:30:46.980 --> 00:30:47.679
 what to do with.

00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:51.079
 And Jesus

00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:51.819
 walks right

00:30:51.819 --> 00:30:52.419
 towards it.

00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:54.059
 Jesus always

00:30:54.059 --> 00:30:55.079
 walks towards

00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:55.579
 your sin

00:30:55.579 --> 00:30:56.299
 and your shame

00:30:56.299 --> 00:30:57.399
 to save

00:30:57.399 --> 00:30:58.279
 and restore you.

00:30:58.279 --> 00:30:59.839
 Jesus always

00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:00.720
 walks towards

00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:01.299
 your sin

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:02.180
 and your shame

00:31:02.180 --> 00:31:03.519
 to save

00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:04.639
 and restore you.

00:31:05.660 --> 00:31:06.019
 I mean,

00:31:06.059 --> 00:31:06.500
 that's what the

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:07.039
 whole gospel

00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:07.619
 is all about.

00:31:07.899 --> 00:31:08.480
 It's all about

00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:09.440
 God with us.

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:11.299
 That God,

00:31:11.399 --> 00:31:12.119
 the Son of God

00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:12.799
 sets aside

00:31:12.799 --> 00:31:13.339
 his glory

00:31:13.339 --> 00:31:14.480
 and divine splendor

00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:15.079
 and he becomes

00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:15.579
 flesh.

00:31:16.099 --> 00:31:17.119
 God comes

00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:18.500
 and is with us

00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:19.139
 in the midst

00:31:19.139 --> 00:31:19.899
 of our sin,

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:20.339
 in the midst

00:31:20.339 --> 00:31:21.019
 of our shame,

00:31:21.119 --> 00:31:21.460
 in the midst

00:31:21.460 --> 00:31:22.559
 of our death,

00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:23.440
 in the midst

00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:24.379
 of our illness,

00:31:24.879 --> 00:31:25.299
 in the midst

00:31:25.299 --> 00:31:26.059
 of our hatred,

00:31:26.299 --> 00:31:26.599
 in the midst

00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:27.519
 of our indifference,

00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:27.960
 in the midst

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:28.720
 of our strengths,

00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:29.200
 in the midst

00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:29.900
 of our glories,

00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:30.339
 in the midst

00:31:30.339 --> 00:31:31.680
 of all of the things,

00:31:31.980 --> 00:31:33.019
 all of the complicated

00:31:33.019 --> 00:31:33.839
 mess that makes

00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:34.500
 human beings,

00:31:34.920 --> 00:31:35.660
 Jesus comes

00:31:35.660 --> 00:31:36.359
 and lives

00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:37.680
 among us.

00:31:38.379 --> 00:31:38.859
 And then

00:31:38.859 --> 00:31:40.019
 that path

00:31:40.019 --> 00:31:40.660
 continues

00:31:40.660 --> 00:31:41.500
 because when

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:42.259
 Jesus dies

00:31:42.259 --> 00:31:43.079
 on the cross,

00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:44.220
 if you might

00:31:44.220 --> 00:31:45.180
 remember in the story,

00:31:45.299 --> 00:31:46.019
 it's very clear

00:31:46.019 --> 00:31:46.940
 just before Jesus

00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:47.619
 is captured

00:31:47.619 --> 00:31:48.960
 by a mere mention

00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:49.720
 of who he is,

00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:50.720
 all of the soldiers

00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:51.480
 fall down

00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:52.519
 and it helps us

00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:53.019
 to remember

00:31:53.019 --> 00:31:53.720
 that when Jesus

00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:54.579
 is on the cross,

00:31:54.859 --> 00:31:55.500
 what is holding

00:31:55.500 --> 00:31:56.240
 him on the cross

00:31:56.240 --> 00:31:57.220
 is not the nails,

00:31:57.220 --> 00:31:58.039
 is not the threat

00:31:58.039 --> 00:31:58.600
 of soldiers,

00:31:58.860 --> 00:32:00.200
 is not the condemnation,

00:32:00.299 --> 00:32:00.940
 but it's love

00:32:00.940 --> 00:32:01.559
 that holds him

00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:02.200
 on the cross.

00:32:02.660 --> 00:32:03.600
 And as he dies

00:32:03.600 --> 00:32:04.460
 upon the cross,

00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:05.559
 he is taking

00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:06.440
 into himself

00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:07.299
 our darkness,

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:08.519
 our death,

00:32:08.900 --> 00:32:10.460
 and our hatred.

00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:11.819
 He takes that

00:32:11.819 --> 00:32:13.019
 all upon himself.

00:32:13.539 --> 00:32:14.140
 He walks

00:32:14.140 --> 00:32:15.240
 towards our sin

00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:15.779
 and shame

00:32:15.779 --> 00:32:16.860
 not only to live

00:32:16.860 --> 00:32:17.440
 amongst us

00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:18.860
 but to also bear it.

00:32:19.460 --> 00:32:20.039
 And then

00:32:20.039 --> 00:32:21.759
 by bearing it,

00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:23.579
 he defeats it

00:32:23.579 --> 00:32:24.259
 for us.

00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:26.319
 But once we

00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:27.160
 are his,

00:32:28.379 --> 00:32:29.299
 like to be a Christian

00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:30.240
 is to understand

00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:31.400
 that every single

00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:32.640
 thing that

00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:34.220
 every single thing

00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:34.940
 that I have ever

00:32:34.940 --> 00:32:35.920
 done that is wrong,

00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:37.220
 all that which

00:32:37.220 --> 00:32:38.480
 causes me shame,

00:32:38.740 --> 00:32:39.579
 all of that

00:32:39.579 --> 00:32:41.379
 was laid upon him.

00:32:42.220 --> 00:32:43.720
 And he died

00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:44.900
 for me.

00:32:45.059 --> 00:32:45.660
 He died

00:32:45.660 --> 00:32:47.240
 in my place.

00:32:47.240 --> 00:32:50.660
 and his

00:32:50.660 --> 00:32:51.779
 life

00:32:51.779 --> 00:32:52.620
 and love,

00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:56.900
 his light

00:32:56.900 --> 00:32:57.519
 and love

00:32:57.519 --> 00:32:58.200
 and life

00:32:58.200 --> 00:32:59.480
 is given

00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:00.079
 to me.

00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:01.640
 He takes

00:33:01.640 --> 00:33:05.000
 my darkness,

00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:05.880
 my death,

00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:07.640
 my hatred

00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:08.519
 and indifference.

00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:11.620
 He takes that

00:33:11.620 --> 00:33:12.859
 and he gives me

00:33:12.859 --> 00:33:13.539
 life and love

00:33:13.539 --> 00:33:13.920
 and light.

00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:13.960
 Amen.

00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:18.240
 And all

00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:18.880
 that would be

00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:19.440
 against me

00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:20.519
 is borne by him

00:33:20.519 --> 00:33:21.380
 and all

00:33:21.380 --> 00:33:21.859
 that I need

00:33:21.859 --> 00:33:22.279
 to stand

00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:22.740
 in God's

00:33:22.740 --> 00:33:23.079
 presence

00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:23.519
 is given

00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:24.000
 to me.

00:33:27.500 --> 00:33:28.259
 And so

00:33:28.259 --> 00:33:28.720
 when Jesus

00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:29.319
 is talking

00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:29.900
 to Peter,

00:33:30.339 --> 00:33:31.359
 Jesus isn't

00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:31.579
 saying,

00:33:31.720 --> 00:33:32.079
 by the way,

00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:32.579
 what you did

00:33:32.579 --> 00:33:33.319
 doesn't matter.

00:33:33.539 --> 00:33:34.299
 It matters.

00:33:34.940 --> 00:33:35.559
 But what he's

00:33:35.559 --> 00:33:36.120
 doing is he's

00:33:36.120 --> 00:33:37.140
 giving Peter

00:33:37.140 --> 00:33:38.000
 an opportunity

00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:39.279
 to be restored

00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:41.980
 because Jesus

00:33:41.980 --> 00:33:42.539
 has already

00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:43.220
 paid

00:33:43.220 --> 00:33:44.180
 for Peter's

00:33:44.180 --> 00:33:44.500
 failure.

00:33:45.500 --> 00:33:46.160
 He's already

00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:46.900
 dealt with it.

00:33:47.240 --> 00:33:48.180
 But you know

00:33:48.180 --> 00:33:48.799
 what it's like.

00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:49.299
 It's hard

00:33:49.299 --> 00:33:50.759
 to be really

00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:51.440
 gripped by the

00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:51.980
 gospel and

00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:52.839
 understand that

00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:53.380
 my sin and

00:33:53.380 --> 00:33:53.859
 my shame

00:33:53.859 --> 00:33:54.400
 has been dealt

00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:55.220
 with by Jesus.

00:33:56.140 --> 00:33:56.720
 And so even

00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:57.180
 though when I

00:33:57.180 --> 00:33:57.859
 put my faith

00:33:57.859 --> 00:33:58.480
 and trust in

00:33:58.480 --> 00:33:58.700
 Jesus,

00:33:58.859 --> 00:33:59.339
 I am his

00:33:59.339 --> 00:34:00.599
 forever because

00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:01.140
 it's his

00:34:01.140 --> 00:34:01.640
 righteousness

00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:02.779
 and his

00:34:02.779 --> 00:34:04.259
 sin bearing

00:34:04.259 --> 00:34:05.460
 that makes

00:34:05.460 --> 00:34:07.339
 me right

00:34:07.339 --> 00:34:08.059
 with God.

00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:10.679
 But he

00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:11.320
 wants me

00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:12.019
 to start

00:34:12.019 --> 00:34:14.139
 to become

00:34:14.139 --> 00:34:14.780
 more like

00:34:14.780 --> 00:34:15.320
 him in my

00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:16.099
 daily life.

00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:18.019
 And so

00:34:18.019 --> 00:34:18.799
 Jesus will

00:34:18.799 --> 00:34:19.619
 always walk

00:34:19.619 --> 00:34:20.139
 towards your

00:34:20.139 --> 00:34:21.219
 sin and

00:34:21.219 --> 00:34:21.639
 he always

00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:22.119
 will walk

00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:22.659
 towards your

00:34:22.659 --> 00:34:23.019
 shame.

00:34:23.579 --> 00:34:24.239
 That's what

00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:25.259
 discipleship is.

00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:26.119
 He'll always

00:34:26.119 --> 00:34:27.019
 walk towards

00:34:27.019 --> 00:34:28.399
 it because

00:34:28.399 --> 00:34:28.859
 he already

00:34:28.859 --> 00:34:29.419
 knows about

00:34:29.419 --> 00:34:29.799
 it and he's

00:34:29.799 --> 00:34:30.459
 paid for it

00:34:30.459 --> 00:34:31.179
 and he walks

00:34:31.179 --> 00:34:31.859
 towards it

00:34:31.859 --> 00:34:32.559
 and he walks

00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:33.299
 towards it

00:34:33.299 --> 00:34:34.179
 so you can

00:34:34.179 --> 00:34:34.799
 begin to be

00:34:34.799 --> 00:34:35.459
 gripped by the

00:34:35.459 --> 00:34:36.059
 gospel and

00:34:36.059 --> 00:34:36.939
 understand that

00:34:36.939 --> 00:34:37.719
 the price has

00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:38.259
 already been

00:34:38.259 --> 00:34:38.639
 paid.

00:34:39.439 --> 00:34:40.259
 And you can

00:34:40.259 --> 00:34:40.919
 be gripped by

00:34:40.919 --> 00:34:41.719
 the gospel to

00:34:41.719 --> 00:34:42.519
 understand that

00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:43.579
 all Jesus wants

00:34:43.579 --> 00:34:44.439
 to do is always

00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:45.280
 to restore

00:34:45.280 --> 00:34:46.880
 you, to

00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:47.840
 restore you, to

00:34:47.840 --> 00:34:48.440
 restore you.

00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:48.920
 He doesn't

00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:49.400
 shoot the

00:34:49.400 --> 00:34:49.700
 wounded.

00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:52.420
 He saves and

00:34:52.420 --> 00:34:52.900
 restores.

00:34:53.059 --> 00:34:53.519
 And that's what

00:34:53.519 --> 00:34:54.260
 Jesus is doing

00:34:54.260 --> 00:34:54.920
 here with Peter

00:34:54.920 --> 00:34:55.700
 for every one

00:34:55.700 --> 00:34:56.539
 of his denials.

00:34:57.599 --> 00:34:58.400
 Every one of

00:34:58.400 --> 00:34:59.059
 his denials.

00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:01.340
 Jesus gives

00:35:01.340 --> 00:35:01.980
 him a commission.

00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:07.139
 Now if this

00:35:07.139 --> 00:35:07.820
 was just where

00:35:07.820 --> 00:35:08.579
 the gospel ended

00:35:08.579 --> 00:35:08.960
 it would be

00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:09.440
 really, really

00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:09.780
 good.

00:35:13.059 --> 00:35:13.860
 But Peter,

00:35:14.380 --> 00:35:15.420
 John wants to

00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:15.840
 deal with a

00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:16.240
 couple of

00:35:16.240 --> 00:35:16.940
 final things

00:35:16.940 --> 00:35:17.440
 that Jesus

00:35:17.440 --> 00:35:18.200
 does which

00:35:18.200 --> 00:35:18.860
 really matter

00:35:18.860 --> 00:35:19.340
 because he

00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:19.940
 talks about

00:35:19.940 --> 00:35:20.920
 the significance

00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:21.619
 of dark

00:35:21.619 --> 00:35:22.260
 times in our

00:35:22.260 --> 00:35:23.679
 life and

00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:24.260
 of death.

00:35:25.119 --> 00:35:25.519
 And so if we

00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:25.840
 just would

00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:26.579
 continue reading

00:35:26.579 --> 00:35:26.980
 on, if you

00:35:26.980 --> 00:35:27.519
 could put the

00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:28.420
 text back up

00:35:28.420 --> 00:35:28.860
 on the screen,

00:35:28.940 --> 00:35:29.480
 let's continue

00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:29.880
 reading at

00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:30.599
 verse 18.

00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:33.780
 Peter is now,

00:35:33.980 --> 00:35:34.460
 I mean Jesus

00:35:34.460 --> 00:35:35.500
 is still speaking

00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:36.099
 to Peter and

00:35:36.099 --> 00:35:36.400
 he says,

00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:37.340
 truly, truly I

00:35:37.340 --> 00:35:37.880
 say to you

00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:38.320
 when you were

00:35:38.320 --> 00:35:39.420
 young, you

00:35:39.420 --> 00:35:39.980
 used to dress

00:35:39.980 --> 00:35:40.700
 yourself and

00:35:40.700 --> 00:35:41.300
 walk wherever

00:35:41.300 --> 00:35:41.900
 you wanted.

00:35:42.619 --> 00:35:43.139
 But when you

00:35:43.139 --> 00:35:43.720
 are old, you

00:35:43.720 --> 00:35:44.119
 will stretch

00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:44.460
 out your

00:35:44.460 --> 00:35:44.960
 hands and

00:35:44.960 --> 00:35:45.400
 another will

00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:46.000
 dress you and

00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:46.619
 carry you where

00:35:46.619 --> 00:35:47.019
 you do not

00:35:47.019 --> 00:35:47.619
 want to go.

00:35:48.619 --> 00:35:49.200
 This Jesus

00:35:49.200 --> 00:35:49.960
 said to show

00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:50.659
 by what kind

00:35:50.659 --> 00:35:51.240
 of death

00:35:51.240 --> 00:35:52.400
 Peter was to

00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:53.280
 glorify God.

00:35:54.019 --> 00:35:54.500
 And after

00:35:54.500 --> 00:35:55.200
 saying this,

00:35:55.260 --> 00:35:55.860
 he said to

00:35:55.860 --> 00:35:56.480
 Peter, follow

00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:56.820
 me.

00:35:57.619 --> 00:35:58.220
 And just sort

00:35:58.220 --> 00:35:59.280
 of pause before

00:35:59.280 --> 00:35:59.700
 I read the

00:35:59.700 --> 00:36:00.400
 next little bit.

00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:03.240
 I, when I

00:36:03.240 --> 00:36:03.539
 read the

00:36:03.539 --> 00:36:04.400
 commentaries and

00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:04.920
 I talk about

00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:05.360
 the original

00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:06.159
 language, at

00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:06.720
 the level of

00:36:06.720 --> 00:36:07.200
 the original

00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:07.980
 language,

00:36:07.980 --> 00:36:10.199
 it's obvious

00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:11.760
 to all of

00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:12.260
 the people who

00:36:12.260 --> 00:36:12.519
 know the

00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:13.260
 original language

00:36:13.260 --> 00:36:13.920
 that Jesus

00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:14.900
 is referring to

00:36:14.900 --> 00:36:15.460
 Peter being

00:36:15.460 --> 00:36:17.119
 crucified, that

00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:17.500
 that's how

00:36:17.500 --> 00:36:17.940
 Peter's going

00:36:17.940 --> 00:36:18.300
 to die.

00:36:18.800 --> 00:36:19.300
 The English

00:36:19.300 --> 00:36:20.059
 can't capture

00:36:20.059 --> 00:36:20.199
 it.

00:36:20.260 --> 00:36:20.539
 I'm just

00:36:20.539 --> 00:36:21.179
 telling you

00:36:21.179 --> 00:36:22.240
 what smarter,

00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:23.119
 wiser people

00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:23.480
 who know

00:36:23.480 --> 00:36:24.079
 Greek know.

00:36:25.380 --> 00:36:27.159
 And so

00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:28.400
 Jesus has

00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:29.059
 revealed to

00:36:29.059 --> 00:36:30.579
 Peter that

00:36:30.579 --> 00:36:31.619
 how he's going

00:36:31.619 --> 00:36:32.539
 to die will

00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:32.900
 be by

00:36:32.900 --> 00:36:33.719
 crucifixion.

00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:35.339
 he will be

00:36:35.339 --> 00:36:36.139
 captured by

00:36:36.139 --> 00:36:36.579
 the Roman

00:36:36.579 --> 00:36:38.299
 authorities and

00:36:38.299 --> 00:36:38.739
 he will be

00:36:38.739 --> 00:36:39.339
 condemned and

00:36:39.339 --> 00:36:39.919
 he will die a

00:36:39.919 --> 00:36:40.239
 death of

00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:40.980
 crucifixion.

00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:43.619
 It's a very

00:36:43.619 --> 00:36:44.859
 hard thing that

00:36:44.859 --> 00:36:45.419
 Jesus shares

00:36:45.419 --> 00:36:45.959
 with Peter.

00:36:47.659 --> 00:36:47.859
 And

00:36:47.859 --> 00:36:51.799
 let's just

00:36:51.799 --> 00:36:52.059
 see what

00:36:52.059 --> 00:36:53.379
 happens after

00:36:53.379 --> 00:36:53.679
 this.

00:36:53.759 --> 00:36:54.179
 So Peter,

00:36:54.299 --> 00:36:54.879
 verse 20,

00:36:56.139 --> 00:36:56.879
 Peter turned

00:36:56.879 --> 00:36:57.480
 and saw the

00:36:57.480 --> 00:36:58.119
 disciple whom

00:36:58.119 --> 00:36:58.759
 Jesus loved

00:36:58.759 --> 00:37:00.659
 following them,

00:37:00.779 --> 00:37:01.339
 the one who

00:37:01.339 --> 00:37:02.139
 also had leaned

00:37:02.139 --> 00:37:02.759
 back against

00:37:02.759 --> 00:37:03.319
 him during the

00:37:03.320 --> 00:37:03.820
 supper and had

00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:04.019
 said,

00:37:04.120 --> 00:37:04.300
 Lord,

00:37:04.780 --> 00:37:05.200
 who is it

00:37:05.200 --> 00:37:05.519
 that's going

00:37:05.519 --> 00:37:06.000
 to betray

00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:06.240
 you?

00:37:07.120 --> 00:37:07.700
 When Peter

00:37:07.700 --> 00:37:08.360
 saw him,

00:37:08.780 --> 00:37:09.380
 he said to

00:37:09.380 --> 00:37:09.660
 Jesus,

00:37:09.820 --> 00:37:09.980
 Lord,

00:37:10.059 --> 00:37:10.360
 what about

00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:10.820
 this man?

00:37:10.860 --> 00:37:11.120
 It's very

00:37:11.120 --> 00:37:11.539
 natural,

00:37:11.620 --> 00:37:11.760
 right?

00:37:11.780 --> 00:37:12.180
 I can well

00:37:12.180 --> 00:37:12.920
 imagine if I

00:37:12.920 --> 00:37:13.400
 was walking

00:37:13.400 --> 00:37:13.860
 along with

00:37:13.860 --> 00:37:14.320
 Matt and

00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:14.940
 Jesus showed

00:37:14.940 --> 00:37:15.280
 up and

00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:15.440
 said,

00:37:15.580 --> 00:37:16.000
 by the way,

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:16.420
 George,

00:37:17.059 --> 00:37:17.940
 I want you

00:37:17.940 --> 00:37:19.360
 to know that

00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:19.920
 you're going

00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:20.460
 to die a

00:37:20.460 --> 00:37:20.900
 terrible,

00:37:21.120 --> 00:37:21.460
 painful,

00:37:21.700 --> 00:37:22.000
 horrible

00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:22.480
 death.

00:37:24.940 --> 00:37:25.420
 It would

00:37:25.420 --> 00:37:25.700
 be very

00:37:25.700 --> 00:37:26.280
 natural for

00:37:26.280 --> 00:37:26.880
 me to say,

00:37:27.080 --> 00:37:28.180
 what about

00:37:28.180 --> 00:37:28.539
 Matt?

00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:30.519
 And that's

00:37:30.519 --> 00:37:30.880
 what Peter

00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:31.220
 does.

00:37:32.220 --> 00:37:32.760
 He says,

00:37:32.760 --> 00:37:34.500
 what about

00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:34.880
 John?

00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:38.000
 And Jesus

00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:38.660
 said to him,

00:37:38.740 --> 00:37:39.540
 verse 22,

00:37:39.940 --> 00:37:40.580
 if it is my

00:37:40.580 --> 00:37:41.120
 will that he

00:37:41.120 --> 00:37:42.020
 remain until I

00:37:42.020 --> 00:37:42.340
 come,

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:42.800
 what is that

00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:43.180
 to you?

00:37:43.420 --> 00:37:44.780
 You follow

00:37:44.780 --> 00:37:45.080
 me.

00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:47.060
 So the

00:37:47.060 --> 00:37:47.820
 saying spread

00:37:47.820 --> 00:37:48.460
 abroad among

00:37:48.460 --> 00:37:49.200
 the brothers and

00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:49.840
 sisters that

00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:50.520
 this disciple

00:37:50.520 --> 00:37:51.120
 was not to

00:37:51.120 --> 00:37:51.360
 die,

00:37:51.460 --> 00:37:51.920
 yet Jesus

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:52.460
 did not

00:37:52.460 --> 00:37:53.080
 say to him

00:37:53.080 --> 00:37:53.300
 that he

00:37:53.300 --> 00:37:53.620
 was not

00:37:53.620 --> 00:37:54.120
 to die.

00:37:54.260 --> 00:37:55.060
 But if

00:37:55.060 --> 00:37:55.540
 it is my

00:37:55.540 --> 00:37:56.160
 will that he

00:37:56.160 --> 00:37:56.820
 remain until

00:37:56.820 --> 00:37:57.300
 I come,

00:37:57.700 --> 00:37:58.220
 what is that

00:37:58.220 --> 00:37:58.720
 to you?

00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:02.500
 basically what

00:38:02.500 --> 00:38:03.439
 Jesus says

00:38:03.439 --> 00:38:03.939
 is I

00:38:03.939 --> 00:38:04.619
 will sometimes

00:38:04.619 --> 00:38:05.559
 reveal things

00:38:05.559 --> 00:38:06.439
 to you about

00:38:06.439 --> 00:38:06.899
 what's going

00:38:06.899 --> 00:38:07.359
 to be happening

00:38:07.359 --> 00:38:07.699
 in your

00:38:07.699 --> 00:38:08.059
 life.

00:38:09.219 --> 00:38:09.539
 And the

00:38:09.539 --> 00:38:10.039
 main thing

00:38:10.039 --> 00:38:10.599
 is that even

00:38:10.599 --> 00:38:11.319
 if I reveal

00:38:11.319 --> 00:38:11.879
 them to you,

00:38:11.980 --> 00:38:12.719
 you follow

00:38:12.719 --> 00:38:12.959
 me.

00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:13.259
 I'm not

00:38:13.259 --> 00:38:13.439
 going to

00:38:13.439 --> 00:38:13.879
 reveal to

00:38:13.879 --> 00:38:14.279
 you necessarily

00:38:14.279 --> 00:38:14.719
 things that

00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:14.919
 are going

00:38:14.919 --> 00:38:15.299
 on in other

00:38:15.299 --> 00:38:15.699
 people's

00:38:15.699 --> 00:38:15.959
 life.

00:38:16.419 --> 00:38:16.759
 I'm

00:38:16.759 --> 00:38:17.279
 speaking to

00:38:17.279 --> 00:38:17.459
 you,

00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:18.679
 you follow

00:38:18.679 --> 00:38:18.980
 me.

00:38:19.379 --> 00:38:19.879
 You follow

00:38:19.879 --> 00:38:20.139
 me.

00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:23.299
 And he

00:38:23.299 --> 00:38:23.980
 doesn't satisfy

00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:24.879
 our curiosity

00:38:24.879 --> 00:38:25.679
 necessarily about

00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:26.099
 what happens

00:38:26.099 --> 00:38:26.419
 to others.

00:38:26.420 --> 00:38:26.720
 The other

00:38:26.720 --> 00:38:27.079
 thing that's

00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:27.740
 interesting

00:38:27.740 --> 00:38:28.059
 here is

00:38:28.059 --> 00:38:28.480
 that twice

00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:29.639
 Jesus says

00:38:29.639 --> 00:38:30.680
 very clearly

00:38:30.680 --> 00:38:31.039
 that he's

00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:31.220
 going to

00:38:31.220 --> 00:38:31.579
 come a

00:38:31.579 --> 00:38:32.159
 second time

00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:32.460
 which is

00:38:32.460 --> 00:38:32.920
 an important

00:38:32.920 --> 00:38:33.599
 doctrine for

00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:33.860
 us as

00:38:33.860 --> 00:38:34.420
 Christians to

00:38:34.420 --> 00:38:35.000
 understand.

00:38:35.940 --> 00:38:36.139
 And then

00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:36.500
 Peter,

00:38:36.680 --> 00:38:37.420
 John wraps

00:38:37.420 --> 00:38:37.659
 it up,

00:38:37.740 --> 00:38:38.240
 verse 24,

00:38:38.360 --> 00:38:38.800
 this is the

00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:39.659
 disciple who's

00:38:39.659 --> 00:38:40.260
 bearing witness

00:38:40.260 --> 00:38:40.780
 about these

00:38:40.780 --> 00:38:41.180
 things and

00:38:41.180 --> 00:38:41.360
 who has

00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:41.800
 written these

00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:42.639
 things and

00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:43.000
 we know that

00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:43.539
 his testimony

00:38:43.539 --> 00:38:44.220
 is true.

00:38:45.260 --> 00:38:45.680
 So John

00:38:45.680 --> 00:38:46.059
 is saying,

00:38:46.180 --> 00:38:46.340
 listen,

00:38:46.619 --> 00:38:47.099
 this is an

00:38:47.099 --> 00:38:47.539
 eyewitness

00:38:47.539 --> 00:38:48.260
 biography.

00:38:49.180 --> 00:38:49.599
 I've given

00:38:49.599 --> 00:38:50.240
 you names of

00:38:50.240 --> 00:38:50.820
 lots of other

00:38:50.820 --> 00:38:51.380
 people who are

00:38:51.380 --> 00:38:52.340
 also eyewitnesses.

00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:52.880
 You can check

00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:53.260
 it out with

00:38:53.260 --> 00:38:54.500
 him and I

00:38:54.500 --> 00:38:54.880
 want you to

00:38:54.880 --> 00:38:55.519
 know everything I

00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:56.179
 say is true.

00:38:57.199 --> 00:38:57.900
 Verse 25,

00:38:58.000 --> 00:38:58.440
 now there are

00:38:58.440 --> 00:38:58.920
 also many

00:38:58.920 --> 00:38:59.440
 other things

00:38:59.440 --> 00:38:59.860
 that Jesus

00:38:59.860 --> 00:39:00.400
 did where

00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:01.059
 every one of

00:39:01.059 --> 00:39:01.480
 them to be

00:39:01.480 --> 00:39:01.659
 written,

00:39:01.759 --> 00:39:02.239
 I suppose,

00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:02.539
 that the

00:39:02.539 --> 00:39:03.179
 world itself

00:39:03.179 --> 00:39:03.559
 could not

00:39:03.559 --> 00:39:04.119
 contain the

00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:04.920
 books that

00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:05.199
 would be

00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:05.440
 written.

00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:06.239
 If you could

00:39:06.239 --> 00:39:06.699
 put up the

00:39:06.699 --> 00:39:07.400
 third point,

00:39:07.500 --> 00:39:07.800
 that would be

00:39:07.800 --> 00:39:08.400
 very helpful.

00:39:08.900 --> 00:39:09.519
 Just to wrap

00:39:09.519 --> 00:39:09.759
 it up,

00:39:09.800 --> 00:39:10.340
 a Christian

00:39:10.340 --> 00:39:10.940
 is an

00:39:10.940 --> 00:39:11.300
 ordinary

00:39:11.300 --> 00:39:12.619
 person who

00:39:12.619 --> 00:39:13.300
 trusts Jesus

00:39:13.300 --> 00:39:13.820
 as their

00:39:13.820 --> 00:39:14.440
 Savior and

00:39:14.440 --> 00:39:14.960
 follows him

00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:15.280
 as their

00:39:15.280 --> 00:39:15.559
 Lord.

00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:17.519
 As John's

00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:18.280
 Gospel comes

00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:18.739
 to an end,

00:39:18.780 --> 00:39:19.159
 it's very,

00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:19.860
 very interesting.

00:39:19.980 --> 00:39:20.300
 If you go

00:39:20.300 --> 00:39:20.880
 back and read

00:39:20.880 --> 00:39:21.519
 John's Gospel

00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:21.920
 again,

00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:22.980
 you'll see

00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:23.639
 the very,

00:39:23.759 --> 00:39:24.320
 very first

00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:25.079
 words Jesus

00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:25.719
 says.

00:39:26.500 --> 00:39:26.880
 The very

00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.480
 first words

00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:27.900
 that Jesus

00:39:27.900 --> 00:39:28.539
 is recorded

00:39:28.539 --> 00:39:29.039
 as saying

00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:29.460
 is a

00:39:29.460 --> 00:39:29.880
 question.

00:39:30.940 --> 00:39:31.340
 What are

00:39:31.340 --> 00:39:31.799
 you seeking?

00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:33.480
 See,

00:39:33.539 --> 00:39:33.920
 every human

00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:34.299
 being is

00:39:34.299 --> 00:39:34.579
 seeking

00:39:34.579 --> 00:39:35.360
 something all

00:39:35.360 --> 00:39:35.699
 the time,

00:39:35.779 --> 00:39:36.440
 seeking meaning,

00:39:36.639 --> 00:39:37.340
 seeking love,

00:39:37.500 --> 00:39:38.840
 seeking food,

00:39:39.099 --> 00:39:40.159
 seeking prosperity,

00:39:40.460 --> 00:39:41.199
 seeking fame,

00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:42.119
 seeking success,

00:39:42.259 --> 00:39:42.960
 and Jesus,

00:39:43.319 --> 00:39:44.000
 the very first

00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:44.719
 words of Jesus

00:39:44.719 --> 00:39:45.219
 are,

00:39:45.860 --> 00:39:46.259
 what are you

00:39:46.259 --> 00:39:46.619
 seeking?

00:39:47.059 --> 00:39:47.599
 And the people

00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:48.340
 give the answer

00:39:48.340 --> 00:39:49.099
 and he says,

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:50.779
 come and see,

00:39:51.279 --> 00:39:52.179
 come and see.

00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:52.639
 And that's what

00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:53.239
 John's done with

00:39:53.239 --> 00:39:53.759
 the whole book.

00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:54.560
 He begins

00:39:54.560 --> 00:39:54.980
 by saying

00:39:54.980 --> 00:39:55.240
 to each

00:39:55.240 --> 00:39:55.660
 one of you,

00:39:55.900 --> 00:39:56.280
 you're coming

00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:56.780
 to Jesus,

00:39:56.900 --> 00:39:57.400
 the first thing

00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:57.740
 you have to

00:39:57.740 --> 00:39:58.280
 ask yourself

00:39:58.280 --> 00:39:58.600
 as you're

00:39:58.600 --> 00:39:58.880
 trying to

00:39:58.880 --> 00:39:59.640
 understand Jesus

00:39:59.640 --> 00:39:59.880
 is,

00:40:00.020 --> 00:40:00.460
 what are you

00:40:00.460 --> 00:40:00.860
 seeking?

00:40:01.440 --> 00:40:01.640
 Like,

00:40:01.700 --> 00:40:02.280
 know yourself.

00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:03.120
 And then

00:40:03.120 --> 00:40:03.700
 Jesus says,

00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:03.860
 well,

00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:04.380
 come and see,

00:40:04.420 --> 00:40:04.660
 and that's

00:40:04.660 --> 00:40:05.020
 how John

00:40:05.020 --> 00:40:05.800
 organizes the

00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:06.080
 Gospel,

00:40:06.180 --> 00:40:06.480
 around the

00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:06.880
 miracles,

00:40:07.120 --> 00:40:07.400
 around the

00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:07.840
 I am

00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:08.360
 statements,

00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:09.480
 about the

00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:10.480
 trial,

00:40:10.640 --> 00:40:11.000
 about the

00:40:11.000 --> 00:40:11.380
 death,

00:40:11.500 --> 00:40:11.820
 about the

00:40:11.820 --> 00:40:12.500
 empty tomb,

00:40:12.620 --> 00:40:12.960
 about the

00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:13.440
 resurrection,

00:40:13.940 --> 00:40:14.380
 and then the

00:40:14.380 --> 00:40:14.980
 final words

00:40:14.980 --> 00:40:15.360
 are a very,

00:40:15.460 --> 00:40:15.980
 very similar

00:40:15.980 --> 00:40:16.260
 thing.

00:40:16.340 --> 00:40:16.800
 If the first

00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:17.260
 thing is,

00:40:17.600 --> 00:40:17.900
 listen,

00:40:18.380 --> 00:40:18.960
 figure out what

00:40:18.960 --> 00:40:19.440
 you're seeking,

00:40:19.560 --> 00:40:20.300
 but come and see,

00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:24.200
 from me.

00:40:24.500 --> 00:40:24.900
 And then the

00:40:24.900 --> 00:40:25.720
 very final words

00:40:25.720 --> 00:40:26.480
 of Jesus are,

00:40:27.260 --> 00:40:27.760
 follow me,

00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:29.160
 follow me.

00:40:30.100 --> 00:40:30.700
 And a

00:40:30.700 --> 00:40:31.680
 Christian is an

00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:32.600
 ordinary person

00:40:32.600 --> 00:40:34.760
 who wants to

00:40:34.760 --> 00:40:35.520
 follow Jesus,

00:40:35.760 --> 00:40:36.660
 because he trusts

00:40:36.660 --> 00:40:37.120
 him as his

00:40:37.120 --> 00:40:37.920
 Savior and wants

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:38.420
 to follow him

00:40:38.420 --> 00:40:38.820
 as Lord.

00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:41.340
 You can't have

00:40:41.340 --> 00:40:41.760
 him as your

00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:42.400
 Savior without

00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:43.120
 having him as

00:40:43.120 --> 00:40:43.560
 your Lord,

00:40:43.680 --> 00:40:44.120
 and it makes

00:40:44.120 --> 00:40:44.720
 no sense to

00:40:44.720 --> 00:40:45.100
 have him as

00:40:45.100 --> 00:40:45.720
 your Lord if

00:40:45.720 --> 00:40:46.180
 he isn't your

00:40:46.180 --> 00:40:47.280
 Savior, but

00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:47.700
 that's what a

00:40:47.700 --> 00:40:48.280
 Christian is.

00:40:48.740 --> 00:40:49.320
 Next point,

00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:49.700
 please.

00:40:51.660 --> 00:40:52.240
 When you

00:40:52.240 --> 00:40:53.240
 follow Jesus,

00:40:53.239 --> 00:40:54.239
 even your

00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:54.979
 suffering and

00:40:54.979 --> 00:40:56.159
 death can

00:40:56.159 --> 00:40:56.679
 bring glory

00:40:56.679 --> 00:40:57.219
 to God.

00:40:58.179 --> 00:40:58.759
 When you

00:40:58.759 --> 00:40:59.739
 follow Jesus,

00:41:00.399 --> 00:41:00.959
 even your

00:41:00.959 --> 00:41:01.639
 suffering and

00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:02.939
 death can

00:41:02.939 --> 00:41:03.439
 bring glory

00:41:03.439 --> 00:41:03.959
 to God.

00:41:08.059 --> 00:41:08.819
 This would

00:41:08.819 --> 00:41:09.199
 be a whole

00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:09.779
 sermon in

00:41:09.779 --> 00:41:10.559
 and of

00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:11.119
 itself.

00:41:12.359 --> 00:41:12.939
 In the

00:41:12.939 --> 00:41:13.479
 eyes of the

00:41:13.479 --> 00:41:13.859
 world,

00:41:14.379 --> 00:41:14.899
 suffering and

00:41:14.899 --> 00:41:15.339
 death can

00:41:15.339 --> 00:41:16.319
 bring nobody

00:41:16.319 --> 00:41:17.059
 glory and

00:41:17.059 --> 00:41:18.359
 nobody any

00:41:18.359 --> 00:41:18.879
 type of

00:41:18.879 --> 00:41:19.439
 significance.

00:41:21.259 --> 00:41:21.899
 And in a

00:41:21.899 --> 00:41:22.519
 world where

00:41:22.519 --> 00:41:22.879
 there are

00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:23.480
 suicide

00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:23.960
 bombers,

00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:25.380
 the whole

00:41:25.380 --> 00:41:25.920
 idea of

00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:26.720
 death glorifying

00:41:26.720 --> 00:41:27.300
 God can

00:41:27.300 --> 00:41:27.820
 be very,

00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:28.079
 very,

00:41:28.160 --> 00:41:28.880
 very frightening.

00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:32.380
 But,

00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:33.260
 you know,

00:41:33.320 --> 00:41:35.360
 Muhammad died

00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:37.340
 as a result

00:41:37.340 --> 00:41:38.260
 of poisoning

00:41:38.260 --> 00:41:39.480
 of one of

00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:40.019
 the family

00:41:40.019 --> 00:41:40.920
 members of

00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:42.099
 his hundreds

00:41:42.099 --> 00:41:42.800
 and thousands

00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:43.539
 of victims.

00:41:44.860 --> 00:41:45.440
 And Jesus

00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:46.400
 dies on the

00:41:46.400 --> 00:41:48.119
 cross because

00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:48.800
 he loves you.

00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.800
 God's

00:41:50.800 --> 00:41:50.820
 and Jesus

00:41:50.820 --> 00:41:51.620
 is not

00:41:51.620 --> 00:41:52.460
 pardoning

00:41:52.460 --> 00:41:53.240
 suicide

00:41:53.240 --> 00:41:53.660
 bombers.

00:41:54.080 --> 00:41:54.320
 It's a

00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:54.900
 completely

00:41:54.900 --> 00:41:56.240
 and radically

00:41:56.240 --> 00:41:56.940
 opposite

00:41:56.940 --> 00:41:57.460
 different

00:41:57.460 --> 00:41:57.960
 religion.

00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:00.620
 Jesus is

00:42:00.620 --> 00:42:01.960
 saying that

00:42:01.960 --> 00:42:02.880
 even in your

00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:03.680
 suffering and

00:42:03.680 --> 00:42:04.240
 death, there

00:42:04.240 --> 00:42:05.060
 is a way to

00:42:05.060 --> 00:42:05.620
 suffer and

00:42:05.620 --> 00:42:06.140
 die when you

00:42:06.140 --> 00:42:06.680
 are following

00:42:06.680 --> 00:42:07.440
 Jesus that

00:42:07.440 --> 00:42:08.120
 can bring

00:42:08.120 --> 00:42:10.039
 God glory.

00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:12.039
 God's

00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:12.279
 and

00:42:12.279 --> 00:42:12.480
 if you

00:42:12.480 --> 00:42:12.739
 could put

00:42:12.739 --> 00:42:13.000
 up the

00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:13.679
 final point,

00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:16.380
 Jesus is

00:42:16.380 --> 00:42:16.980
 speaking to

00:42:16.980 --> 00:42:17.340
 you this

00:42:17.340 --> 00:42:17.880
 morning as

00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:18.460
 Savior and

00:42:18.460 --> 00:42:18.659
 Lord.

00:42:18.779 --> 00:42:19.159
 He is the

00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:19.599
 Savior and

00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:20.019
 Lord and

00:42:20.019 --> 00:42:20.440
 he is saying

00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:20.820
 to every

00:42:20.820 --> 00:42:21.480
 single one of

00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:21.579
 you,

00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:22.219
 follow me.

00:42:23.779 --> 00:42:24.460
 Follow me.

00:42:25.779 --> 00:42:26.639
 I can't say

00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:27.019
 follow me.

00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:27.400
 I don't want

00:42:27.400 --> 00:42:27.820
 you to follow

00:42:27.820 --> 00:42:28.139
 me.

00:42:29.119 --> 00:42:29.840
 Only follow

00:42:29.840 --> 00:42:30.360
 me if I'm

00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:31.159
 following Jesus

00:42:31.159 --> 00:42:31.659
 because we

00:42:31.659 --> 00:42:32.019
 need to

00:42:32.019 --> 00:42:32.659
 follow Jesus.

00:42:32.940 --> 00:42:33.239
 And this

00:42:33.239 --> 00:42:33.960
 invitation is

00:42:33.960 --> 00:42:34.279
 given to

00:42:34.279 --> 00:42:34.800
 every person

00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:35.119
 who is here

00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:35.619
 this morning.

00:42:36.059 --> 00:42:36.320
 That's how

00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:36.719
 the gospel

00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:37.739
 basically ends.

00:42:38.179 --> 00:42:38.819
 Follow me.

00:42:40.319 --> 00:42:41.059
 Every one of

00:42:41.059 --> 00:42:41.519
 us will go

00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:41.859
 through the

00:42:41.859 --> 00:42:42.339
 valley of

00:42:42.339 --> 00:42:44.699
 the shadow

00:42:44.699 --> 00:42:45.199
 of death.

00:42:45.279 --> 00:42:45.659
 And unless

00:42:45.659 --> 00:42:46.439
 Jesus comes

00:42:46.439 --> 00:42:47.119
 before we

00:42:47.119 --> 00:42:47.719
 die, we

00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:48.139
 will all

00:42:48.139 --> 00:42:48.500
 die.

00:42:49.719 --> 00:42:50.299
 But when

00:42:50.299 --> 00:42:50.759
 we follow

00:42:50.759 --> 00:42:53.000
 Jesus, he

00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:53.799
 will lead us

00:42:53.799 --> 00:42:54.419
 in the valley

00:42:54.419 --> 00:42:54.939
 of the shadow

00:42:54.939 --> 00:42:55.419
 of death.

00:42:55.519 --> 00:42:55.939
 He will lead

00:42:55.939 --> 00:42:56.699
 us right into

00:42:56.699 --> 00:42:57.579
 death and

00:42:57.579 --> 00:42:58.199
 beyond, which

00:42:58.199 --> 00:42:58.619
 is the new

00:42:58.619 --> 00:42:59.079
 heaven and

00:42:59.079 --> 00:42:59.339
 the new

00:42:59.339 --> 00:42:59.679
 earth.

00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:01.279
 We can

00:43:01.279 --> 00:43:01.879
 follow him

00:43:01.879 --> 00:43:02.619
 in success.

00:43:02.779 --> 00:43:03.019
 We can

00:43:03.019 --> 00:43:03.639
 follow him

00:43:03.639 --> 00:43:04.199
 in failure.

00:43:04.399 --> 00:43:04.659
 We can

00:43:04.659 --> 00:43:05.199
 follow him

00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:05.679
 when we are

00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:06.139
 ashamed.

00:43:06.339 --> 00:43:06.599
 We can

00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:07.059
 follow him

00:43:07.059 --> 00:43:07.380
 when we

00:43:07.380 --> 00:43:08.019
 have sinned.

00:43:08.079 --> 00:43:08.339
 We can

00:43:08.339 --> 00:43:09.000
 follow him

00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:09.900
 when times

00:43:09.900 --> 00:43:10.380
 are hard

00:43:10.380 --> 00:43:10.639
 and when

00:43:10.639 --> 00:43:11.079
 times are

00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:11.259
 good.

00:43:11.339 --> 00:43:11.599
 We can

00:43:11.599 --> 00:43:12.259
 follow him.

00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:13.159
 He wants

00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:13.920
 to be our

00:43:13.920 --> 00:43:14.799
 savior and

00:43:14.799 --> 00:43:15.119
 he wants

00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:15.519
 to be our

00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:15.799
 Lord.

00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:16.559
 He wants

00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:17.279
 you and

00:43:17.279 --> 00:43:17.759
 me to

00:43:17.759 --> 00:43:18.179
 follow him.

00:43:18.380 --> 00:43:18.559
 Please

00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:18.880
 stand.

00:43:24.599 --> 00:43:25.239
 Let's just

00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:25.719
 bow our heads

00:43:25.719 --> 00:43:26.179
 in prayer.

00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:31.719
 Father, we

00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:32.059
 thank you

00:43:32.059 --> 00:43:32.599
 for Jesus.

00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:34.319
 We thank

00:43:34.319 --> 00:43:35.159
 you, Father,

00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:36.199
 that when we

00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:36.579
 come to

00:43:36.579 --> 00:43:37.199
 Jesus, we

00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:37.699
 are coming

00:43:37.699 --> 00:43:38.359
 to a person

00:43:38.359 --> 00:43:38.699
 who knows

00:43:38.699 --> 00:43:39.319
 everything there

00:43:39.319 --> 00:43:39.759
 is to know

00:43:39.759 --> 00:43:40.439
 about us,

00:43:41.579 --> 00:43:42.339
 that he

00:43:42.339 --> 00:43:44.679
 knows every

00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:45.439
 sin, every

00:43:45.439 --> 00:43:46.639
 shame, everything

00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:47.839
 which is really

00:43:47.839 --> 00:43:48.779
 good about us,

00:43:49.039 --> 00:43:49.639
 everything which

00:43:49.639 --> 00:43:50.379
 is whole,

00:43:50.619 --> 00:43:51.179
 everything which

00:43:51.179 --> 00:43:51.759
 is broken.

00:43:52.379 --> 00:43:53.159
 We thank you

00:43:53.159 --> 00:43:53.559
 that when we

00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:54.419
 come to Jesus,

00:43:54.939 --> 00:43:56.039
 he knew us in

00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:56.519
 the womb,

00:43:57.659 --> 00:43:58.559
 he knew us as

00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:00.259
 babies, that he

00:44:00.259 --> 00:44:01.419
 knows even our

00:44:01.419 --> 00:44:02.759
 future, what will

00:44:02.759 --> 00:44:03.639
 happen in the days

00:44:03.639 --> 00:44:04.259
 and weeks and

00:44:04.259 --> 00:44:05.099
 months or years

00:44:05.099 --> 00:44:05.599
 ahead.

00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:07.839
 We thank you,

00:44:07.940 --> 00:44:08.360
 Father, that

00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:08.900
 when we come

00:44:08.900 --> 00:44:10.000
 to Jesus, he

00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:10.719
 knows every

00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:13.639
 mask, every

00:44:13.639 --> 00:44:16.480
 thought, everything

00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:17.279
 there is to know

00:44:17.279 --> 00:44:17.940
 about us, he

00:44:17.940 --> 00:44:19.259
 knew and he

00:44:19.259 --> 00:44:19.679
 knows.

00:44:19.819 --> 00:44:20.400
 And still he

00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:21.860
 loves us and

00:44:21.860 --> 00:44:22.679
 still he died

00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:23.239
 for us.

00:44:23.819 --> 00:44:24.599
 And still when

00:44:24.599 --> 00:44:25.079
 we put our

00:44:25.079 --> 00:44:25.739
 faith and trust

00:44:25.739 --> 00:44:26.279
 in him, he

00:44:26.279 --> 00:44:28.159
 accepted us in

00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:30.139
 all of who we

00:44:30.139 --> 00:44:30.880
 are with nothing

00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:31.559
 left over.

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 and we thank

00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:33.340
 you that he

00:44:33.340 --> 00:44:34.440
 died for all

00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:35.159
 that makes us

00:44:35.159 --> 00:44:35.840
 us without

00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:36.940
 anything left

00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:37.340
 over.

00:44:38.139 --> 00:44:38.960
 And that he

00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:39.779
 has paid for

00:44:39.779 --> 00:44:40.739
 all that makes

00:44:40.739 --> 00:44:41.400
 us us with

00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:41.940
 nothing left

00:44:41.940 --> 00:44:42.320
 over.

00:44:42.820 --> 00:44:43.719
 And that he

00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:44.519
 has covered us

00:44:44.519 --> 00:44:44.980
 with his

00:44:44.980 --> 00:44:46.659
 righteousness in

00:44:46.659 --> 00:44:47.559
 all that is

00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:49.119
 with us with

00:44:49.119 --> 00:44:49.679
 nothing left

00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:50.039
 over.

00:44:50.880 --> 00:44:51.719
 And we ask,

00:44:51.980 --> 00:44:52.400
 Father, that you

00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:53.159
 would grip us

00:44:53.159 --> 00:44:53.980
 with this deep

00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:54.880
 truth of the

00:44:54.880 --> 00:44:55.639
 deep knowledge

00:44:55.639 --> 00:44:56.320
 and love of

00:44:56.320 --> 00:44:57.340
 Jesus for us,

00:44:57.420 --> 00:44:58.299
 that he is

00:44:58.299 --> 00:44:59.759
 water, he is

00:44:59.760 --> 00:45:01.060
 oxygen, he is

00:45:01.060 --> 00:45:02.120
 life, he is

00:45:02.120 --> 00:45:03.540
 love, he is

00:45:03.540 --> 00:45:05.620
 light that makes

00:45:05.620 --> 00:45:06.340
 us whole and

00:45:06.340 --> 00:45:06.640
 free.

00:45:08.220 --> 00:45:09.220
 And Father, help

00:45:09.220 --> 00:45:09.780
 us to follow

00:45:09.780 --> 00:45:10.240
 Jesus.

00:45:11.180 --> 00:45:12.000
 And all God's

00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:12.660
 people said,

00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:13.580
 Amen.