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 Father, we confess before you that sometimes your word just offends us, and we want to pretend that it doesn't, but it does.

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 Sometimes, Father, your word makes us proud when it should really be humbling us.

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 And sometimes, Father, your word just makes us feel bad when it's actually very, very good news.

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 Father, we need the help of your Holy Spirit that we might understand your word correctly.

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 So we ask that the Holy Spirit would move at a very deep level of who we are so that we might, Father, enter into your word,

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 and your word might enter into us, and in light of the gospel, that we might be changed more and more and more into the new creation

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 that we will eventually be in fullness and glory.

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

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 Please be seated.

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 So one of the things I do sometimes when I get into conversations with people about the Christian faith,

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 they find out I'm a Christian, at some point in time I might ask them if they actually own a Bible,

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 if they'd be interested in reading the Bible, and sometimes they say, no, I don't have a Bible.

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 And I say, would you like it if I gave you a New Testament or a Gospel of John?

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 And sometimes they say yes.

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 And one of the things I like to do sometimes when I'm working on my sermon is I like to imagine what would happen

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 if I discovered, let's say on Monday, that they actually had been reading the Bible by themselves,

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 and they came to me.

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 This actually did happen to me once about a year ago.

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 They came to me and said, George, how come it says this?

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 Like it was something about Jesus that said, I can't remember the text, but he said, this is really bloodthirsty.

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 And he was a bit shocked, and we ended up having a bit of a conversation about it.

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 So I don't know how many of you caught what Ken said when he was reading from Ephesians 4, verse 17 and following.

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 It'd be helpful if you get your Bibles out and look at it, Ephesians 4, 17 and following.

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 But you can well imagine that if your non-Christian friends saw this, they might be a little bit bothered by it.

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 And if you don't have your Bible, I'm just going to read it very, very quickly, just the first, the little hard bit,

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 and then we'll talk about it.

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 And here's how it goes.

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 Note what it says.

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 Now this I say and testify in the Lord.

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 And in the original language, this is like a solemn declaration.

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 The word say, in some contexts, could be also translated as I decree.

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 Like if you were the emperor, I decree this.

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 It's a solemn thing.

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 It's not said flippantly.

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 It's not like a put-down comment, snide, or anything like this.

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 This is something very solemn.

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 I solemnly say and testify in the Lord.

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 Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds.

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 Now just listen.

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 By the way, one of the reasons that what we're doing here is this.

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 One of the things which some of you know, I was just in Israel and I came back.

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 And one of the great privileges of this tour that I was able to be on in Israel is that we got to meet different Israeli officials

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 and also some ordinary people.

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 For instance, we had the privilege of going to an Orthodox Jewish home and seeing how they celebrate the Shabbat,

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 the beginning of the Sabbath.

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 But one of the things I noticed time and time again when I was speaking to Israelis,

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 especially around problems, is they said this particular phrase,

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 you got to see the world as it is, roll up your sleeves, and deal with it.

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 Like, isn't that good wisdom?

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 See the world as it is, roll up your sleeves, and deal with it.

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 Get down to it.

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 And so it is with this text.

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 It's very easy for us to quickly just go over it, hope that nobody really notices, not meditate upon it,

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 but it's a very stark text.

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 And so what we're going to do is we're walking towards the text.

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 We're going to camp in the text for a good part of the sermon,

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 just trying to understand what it says and what it's not saying.

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 So I'll begin reading at verse 17 again.

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 Now this I say in testifying the Lord.

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 Remember, this is a solemn thing.

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 It's to be read solemnly.

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 That you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do.

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 And Paul would be saying that anybody other than a Jewish person is a Gentile.

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 And many Christians would just see it as this is describing non-Christians.

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 I'm going to comment on that in a moment, but that's how they would be heard at least on one level.

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 That you must no longer walk, verse 17, and as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds.

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 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God

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 because of the ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart.

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 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality,

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 greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

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 Now, aren't you glad you invited your non-Christian friend to church today?

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 This would be such a good text for them to hear.

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 It's a very, very powerful and stark text.

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 We're going to walk towards this.

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 Now, the first thing you need to understand before I start to unpack it is this.

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 It sounds like it's an us versus them statement, but it's not.

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 If you understand it as an us versus them statement, you're going to misunderstand it.

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 What Paul is doing is he's describing the baseline of every human mind.

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 He is describing the baseline of the human mind for every human mind.

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 So the good news is this.

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 He's not insulting non-Christians.

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 He also is insulting everyone here in the room.

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 He's insulting all of us.

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 He's saying this is how the normal human mind works in these patterns.

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 And many of you would say, George, that doesn't help us at all.

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 It just doesn't, in fact, seem true.

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 It seems way, way, way too extreme.

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 So let's just look at some of these phrases and think about it for a second

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 and see if we actually think it's as extreme and as bad as it sounds.

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 Look at, we're not going to begin with futility.

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 We're going to end with futility in verse 17.

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 Let's look at the first phrase, they are darkened in their understanding.

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 And the word understanding there could also, some of your words, your Bible,

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 your Bibles have thoughts.

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 But the best word actually, the most literal word is mindset.

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 That there's something about the actual mind itself and the way it's set that is darkened.

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 Now, let me just ask you some thought experiments.

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 How many of you look at things in the paper or things that are going on in community

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 and you say to yourself, how can they not see that that is wrong?

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 Am I the only one?

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 Everyone does it, right?

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 How can they not see that that is wrong?

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 And you know what?

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 You can be absolutely guaranteed.

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 I don't know what your political views are.

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 I don't know what your views are on climate change.

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 I don't know who you voted for.

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 But I can guarantee whatever your view is, if it was published, there'd be a whole pile of Canadians

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 who would say, how can they not see that that is wrong?

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 Right?

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 That's what we say about each other.

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 How can they not see that that is wrong?

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 And if you think about it for yourself, if you think back on your former way of thinking,

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 I did a bit of a faux pas about a couple of months ago.

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 There's a neighbor of mine who goes to my old church.

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 And I started to talk about somebody that I thought was dead.

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 Okay?

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 And one of the things I talked about, I was just sharing.

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 I was just smiling.

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 He's dead.

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 I can say this thing about the guy in the past.

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 And this guy in the past, this was in 1985 when I was just ordained.

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 And I remember him going on this long rant.

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 He said, I work in the computer business and I can tell you this.

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 No computer will ever be so portable and ever so fast and can handle so much information

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 that it could ever be connected to a gun that would shoot down a missile.

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 And he went on an hour-long rant about how stupid Reagan was

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 and how stupid anybody was to think you'd ever have computers small enough, fast enough,

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 powerful enough to shoot down a missile.

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 And I just shared that with a chuckle.

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 And then the guy told me he's still alive.

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 And then he said with a smile, I really look forward to telling him this story.

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 Because it will make him very uncomfortable.

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 He was in the computer business, right?

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 That's what he said.

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 I'm in the computer business.

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 I know no computer will ever get like that.

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 Well, some of you are in the computer business.

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 We don't make those types of claims because who knows what's going to happen.

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 But here's the thing.

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 Remember I said, all of Canada we say, how could they not see that that was wrong?

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 But if you think about yourself, think if somebody was to remind you of something that you said

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 or believed a year ago, five years ago, 20 years ago, now you might say to yourself,

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 I don't know how I couldn't see that that was wrong.

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 What are you describing?

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 A darkened mind.

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 A darkened mind.

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 In fact, just think about it for a second.

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 Imagine you meet somebody and they come up and they start gushing to you.

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 Oh, you should meet this woman.

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 You should meet this man.

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 He's a teacher.

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 And all of his teaching is light.

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 He is completely and utterly enlightened.

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 Everything he sees, he sees clearly.

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 What will every single one of us think?

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 Nut job and cult, right?

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 What do we not believe?

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 In a mind which is only light.

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 I just proved it.

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 So why are we bothered here?

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 Let's look at the next one.

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 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the

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 ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart.

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 So what that just said, if you unpack it, verse 18, we have a hard heart.

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 And because of a hard heart, we have ignorance.

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 And because of this ignorance that comes out of a hard heart, we're alienated from God and

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 his life.

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 Does that sound extreme?

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 Well, let me ask you this thought experiment.

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 Imagine in a couple of years, human beings are able to land on Mars.

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 And so they land on Mars, a big enough ship and a group of a team of astronauts, men and

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 women, they get out and they have maybe, first they just walk around a little bit, but they

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 unload some type of a rover that can move on the surface of Mars.

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 And they hop in and the cameras are going and they're talking and everybody, like billions

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 of people on Earth will be fixated with this when the day happens, right?

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 And so they go around a corner and they get to be able to look down a bit of a crevice,

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 a valley, and on the bottom they see something that can travel on the surface of Mars.

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 And they can see that there's lights coming out of it.

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 It means it has power and it's turned on.

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 Now, if they said that, all of Earth would be riveted.

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 And then if they go down and they see that there's this thing that can travel on Mars

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 and it has obviously power and it's turned on, but there's nobody in it.

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 Like every single one of us, we'd be worried about aliens.

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 Are they around the corner?

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 Are they going to kill us?

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 Are they going to eat us?

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 Are they going to befriend us?

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 It'd be all this thing.

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 But imagine if a week afterwards NASA said, don't worry about it.

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 That thing that we found, it happened by chance.

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 We figured out that there were some explosions and some windstorms on Mars.

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 And a result of that, you have a rover with power turned on.

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 Who would believe them?

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 Zero.

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 Let me tell you.

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 Let me tell you.

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 The human cell is more complicated than that device and it got turned on by chance.

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 Why do we think that one idea is absurd and the other is the thing you have to believe to enter into polite society?

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 Try being a politician in Canada that says you think that a cell could not just happen by itself.

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 What Scheer is going through about abortion would be nothing compared to how everybody would hound them.

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 You think that's too extreme?

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 Imagine a second story.

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 Jenny comes in on a morning into the office and she finds me dead on the ground.

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 And she calls, there's a pool of blood.

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 She calls the police.

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 They come.

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 They discovered afterwards with an autopsy that somebody had broken my back and I was paralyzed.

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 And then they stabbed me several times and I bled to death.

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 But, before I died, with the blood that was pooling from my chest, I write on the side, Bob Jones murdered me last night in my blood.

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 And I hope there's no Bob Jones here.

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 I picked a name.

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 Maybe I should have picked Frodo Baggins.

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 I don't know.

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 But then we'd know there's no Frodo Baggins.

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 So, Bob Jones murdered me last night.

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 And if in his defense, when the police go, they arrest Bob Jones, you know, and Bob Jones said, that blood, that writing, George didn't write it.

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 It just happened by chance.

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 It's just the way the blood flowed.

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 Who would believe it?

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 But that simple message, Bob Jones murdered me, you know, whatever the date, is vastly simpler than DNA.

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 By a huge order of magnitude.

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 And DNA is just information, chemically put together.

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 Why is it that we think, that we would not believe that Bob Jones killed me this evening, that that couldn't happen by chance, that we believe DNA can happen by chance?

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 Is it possible that what we have is a hardness of heart that leads to ignorance, that means that we will not want to know the true and living God?

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 Is it possible, in fact, that when the Bible says here they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of the heart, that we have hard hearts when it comes to God?

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 And consider the next thing.

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 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality.

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 What does this mean here?

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 Just think about this for a second.

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 And I'm sure this has happened to everybody here.

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 But if you have any friends, if you have brothers and sisters, if you have any family, in fact, if you're anybody other than somebody who's lived in a test tube and behind some veil and never met a human being,

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 at some point in time, one of these moments will come to you, your wife or your friend or your child will come to you and say,

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 five years ago you did this and it hurt me unbelievably badly.

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 And you realize when you think about yourself.

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 And they said, not only did it hurt me really badly what you did, it didn't seem to bother you at all.

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 You just kept going on.

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 You were so caught up with just doing your own thing, you never even noticed how deeply you hurt me.

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 Every single one of us, if we haven't had that experience yet, just wait.

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 We get so caught up in pursuing our own pleasure, what pleases us, we don't realize the damage we might have just done to an important relationship.

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 What does that describe?

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 That describes what the Bible just says here, isn't it?

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 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality.

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 And let's look at the last one.

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 Greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

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 Now, at the level of the original language, impurity here is not referring to sexual purity.

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 It's referring to a relationship with God, the true and living God, the holy, good, only good, only loving, only truthful, only just, only merciful God.

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 And it's describing something here about the flow, the flow of our lives, so to speak.

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 Human beings aren't static, we're in motion.

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 And we're moving along a current.

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 And what is part of the current that describes every human being?

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 Well, a bit of a thought experiment.

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 And you might not agree with it, but I think you will if you think about it.

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 All of a sudden, I said, I think it would be a great moral evil if you touched one of those bronze door opening things underneath that exit sign over there.

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 And if I was to go on and on and on about how great a moral evil it would be and you should never do it, what would all of you want to do?

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 Touch it.

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 Touch it.

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 So, you said, why?

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 Because the fact of the matter is, is that within every single human being there is a flow.

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 there is a flow to do things to say to God,

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 you're not the boss of me.

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 You're not the boss of me.

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 You're only the boss of me to the extent that I allow you to be the boss of me.

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 And that describes every human mind.

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 So all of a sudden, you see,

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 when we Christians are afraid of the word of God and run from it,

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 we realize, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, one second.

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 The Bible here is describing every human mind, including you and me.

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 Including you and me.

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 Now, what about that first phrase way back up in verse 17,

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 which sort of launched all of this?

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 Now I say this, and I have to watch my time.

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 Now I say this, now this I say, verse 17,

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 and testifying the Lord that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do

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 in the futility of their minds.

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 And I describe to you how what the Bible is doing here

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 is it's describing the baseline of every human mind.

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 It's not an us or them statement.

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 The other thing you need to understand here is this,

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 that the statement, and some of you who are theologically trained

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 know that what we see here is the doctrine of total depravity, by the way.

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 And what this doctrine is saying here,

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 especially if you look at the rest of the Bible,

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 is it's not saying absolute futility,

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 but true futility.

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 It's not describing minds as being completely and utterly broken.

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 If that was the case, we couldn't have any communication.

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 Paul couldn't write and we couldn't read.

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 But it's saying that there's something in every human mind

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 which is broken, that's bent,

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 that doesn't work right.

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 It would be as if you went hunting

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 and you didn't realize that the rifle was just not actually straight,

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 and every time you lined it up to shoot,

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 it always kept missing.

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 But you just never try to adopt.

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 It's always just missing.

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 Or maybe it's a rifle that every time,

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 even when you adjust this.

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 Anyway, I don't want to forget,

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 the mind is bent.

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 And so here it is with futility.

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 And every single human being is touched by it.

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 And part of the reason that this flow that I just described

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 about wanting to show God that he's not the boss

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 and why this flow doesn't completely and utterly unmake us

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 is that the rest of the Bible teaches us

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 that there's this thing called common grace,

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 that God spares us from the full results of our decision

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 to say to God,

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 you are not my boss.

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 I am the boss.

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 Or this, the company is the boss.

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 Or this ideology is the boss.

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 Or money is the boss.

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 Or my wife is the boss.

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 Or my husband is the boss.

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 Or my kids are the boss.

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 And I'll only acknowledge your authority

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 to the extent that I allow you

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 after I serve these other types of things.

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 And the fact that that doesn't completely and utterly unmake us

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 is described in other parts in the Bible

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 as the doctrine of common grace,

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 that God restrains things that go on within us.

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 But what about futile?

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 Well, it's another topic of a conversation.

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 But what this is implying here

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 is that there is a true meaning to life.

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 There's a true end to life.

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 And the Bible is telling you very solemnly and truly

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 that there actually is the possibility

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 of real meaning to life.

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 At Dig and Delve, I got asked,

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 I got to do a presentation just last weekend

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 on Friday night.

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 It was on intelligent design and science

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 and whether science is leading us more and more

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 to believe that you have to have a designer

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 to account for what they're discovering about reality.

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 And I got to do one of the presentations,

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 the opening presentation to set the stage.

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 And they ended up inviting me to be on the panel.

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 And one of the questions that came to me was,

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 isn't it the case that lies

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 sometimes lead you to the truth

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 and that lies are important to knowing the truth?

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 What do you think about that?

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 And my response was,

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 do you want me to lie or tell you the truth?

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 And I mention this because it's sort of important,

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 is that what the Bible is saying here,

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 and it's beyond the scope of my sermon,

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 is that there really is meaning to life.

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 It's not just self-declared,

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 because there really is a God that does exist,

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 who has created us as human beings for a purpose,

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 and our chief end,

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 the true meaning of our life,

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 is to know God and enjoy him forever

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 and bring him glory.

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 We were made for this.

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 What about futility?

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 Here's the thought experiment.

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 Imagine in the spring,

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 you go up into the Ottawa Valley somewhere,

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 and you go to a river where it's dammed,

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 and if you know anything about dams,

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 sometimes the dams have runoff areas off to the side.

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 And you go, and you go the day before,

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 and you see that there's people camping there.

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 And you say to them,

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 tomorrow at this time,

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 they're going to open some floodgates

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 because of the waters rising,

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 there's going to be a runoff here,

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 and if you don't get out of this place,

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 you're going to drown.

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 The water will come through with a great torrent,

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 and will overwhelm you.

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 But in the meantime,

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 between now and then,

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 they don't listen,

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 they don't acknowledge.

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 In fact, what happens is,

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 one of them designs an app

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 that if it ever got released,

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 would make a million dollars,

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 a five million dollars,

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 ten million dollars,

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 lots of money.

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 Another person designs a poet,

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 a poem,

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 that if in fact you were able to show the poem,

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 it would end up being something

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 that would end up being put in school textbooks.

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 It's so brilliant.

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 Another person designs a dance.

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 Another person designs some new camping equipment.

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 Another person solves a problem on their computer,

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 a mathematical equation,

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 that had never been solved.

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 They do all of these things,

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 and then the next day,

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 the water comes,

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 but they don't actually leave,

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 and the water comes and kills them all.

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 Now, they've been absolutely brilliant.

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 They've been creative in dance,

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 in art,

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 in technology,

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 in math,

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 and all of those things,

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 but what would you say about their thinking?

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 It was futile.

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 It was futile.

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 They all died.

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 They just died.

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 It was futile.

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 And in fact,

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 it might be that there was somebody in the room

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 who was fairly average IQ

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 with their Down syndrome kid,

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 but they took the warning

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 and got up out of the thing,

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 and they're not as high an IQ,

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 but what would you say about their thinking?

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 It wasn't futile.

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 They're still alive.

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 They heard it,

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 and that's what the Bible is saying here.

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 You see,

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 if you look at it,

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 the Bible is describing

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 the possibility of real meaning,

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 and the Bible's description is true.

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 And here's the thing.

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 Why is it to read this

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 and hear that it's true?

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 Why does it depress people?

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 Why does it depress people?

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 Why does it depress people?

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 You see,

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 like,

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 part of the thing is

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 that the fact that it depresses us

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 both says something about our pride,

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 but it also says something about our longings.

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 Our pride says

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 we don't want to acknowledge

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 that there's darkness or callousness

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 or impurity within us,

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 but it also,

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 at the same time that it reveals our pride,

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 it also reveals something about our longings,

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 that surely our minds

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 are meant for more than this.

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 Surely our minds are meant

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 to be healthy

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 and responsive

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 and filled with light

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 and longing for light

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 and pure.

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 that this text

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 opens something

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 about our longings

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 and our pride.

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 So what does the Bible say about this?

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 Let's look what Paul moves to

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 very next.

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 That's verses 20 to 24.

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 And by the way,

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 as you turn to this in the Bible,

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 here's a little bit of a geek moment,

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 okay?

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 Those of you who are geeks,

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 timeout,

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 geek timeout moment,

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 okay?

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 Okay,

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 you can go to,

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 those who aren't geeks,

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 you can go to sleep

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 for about a minute.

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 I'll tell the geeks

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 this geek moment.

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 The way that this letter

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 is structured

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 is very,

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 very interesting.

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 Verses 17 to 24

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 basically sets up

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 the framework

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 to understand

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 all moral

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 and spiritual exhortation

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 that makes up

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 the rest of the letter.

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 From verse 25

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 to the end of chapter 6,

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 Paul is going to talk

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 about forgiveness,

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 language,

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 spiritual things,

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 marriage,

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 relationships,

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 parents and children.

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 And in a sense,

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 if you were going to try

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 to organize it,

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 you could say

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 that over here

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 there's this basic framework

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 and then he gives

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 a whole pile of,

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 for instance,

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 that flow from it.

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 And so in a sense,

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 every time you looked

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 at any moral thing,

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 spiritual warfare,

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 anything,

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 you could say,

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 okay,

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 let's go back to this.

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 This is the framework

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 to understand it.

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 Ah,

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 here's a,

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 for instance,

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 end of geek moment,

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 back to the text.

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 So what does Paul do?

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 Let's look at what he does.

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 And at first,

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 it's going to seem like

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 it's not very much.

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 But that's because often

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 we don't think

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 the gospel is very much.

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 You see,

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 because we are addicted

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 to the type of

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 immoral advice

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 that says,

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 try harder,

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 improve your education.

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 If you just know the truth,

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 you'll do the right thing.

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 If you just get

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 a better willpower

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 and you try harder,

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 that that will be good.

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 Where our other type

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 of moral advice

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 will be,

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 you know,

00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:52.680
 to appeal to our pride.

00:26:52.820 --> 00:26:52.960
 Like,

00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:53.840
 just think how bad

00:26:53.840 --> 00:26:54.880
 people will think of you

00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:55.680
 if you don't do this.

00:26:56.019 --> 00:26:56.700
 Or the other thing

00:26:56.700 --> 00:26:57.340
 that we'll do is,

00:26:57.559 --> 00:26:57.580
 well,

00:26:57.840 --> 00:26:59.000
 our moral improvement

00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.240
 and moral exhortation

00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:01.140
 often comes around

00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:02.500
 to a type of bribery.

00:27:03.080 --> 00:27:04.480
 If you give to people,

00:27:04.539 --> 00:27:05.400
 if you give more money

00:27:05.400 --> 00:27:05.880
 to the church,

00:27:05.940 --> 00:27:06.920
 you'll feel better.

00:27:07.019 --> 00:27:07.920
 So give more money

00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:08.500
 to the church,

00:27:08.580 --> 00:27:09.259
 you'll feel better.

00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:10.140
 It's appealing

00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:11.279
 to your own self-interest.

00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:11.880
 And often,

00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:13.160
 we're so used to

00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:14.019
 thinking about it

00:27:14.019 --> 00:27:15.420
 in those types of terms

00:27:15.420 --> 00:27:17.019
 where if you can't make it,

00:27:17.160 --> 00:27:17.740
 fake it.

00:27:17.740 --> 00:27:18.299
 Like,

00:27:18.460 --> 00:27:18.640
 you know,

00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:19.519
 we're used to those

00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:20.019
 types of things

00:27:20.019 --> 00:27:20.859
 and when we actually see

00:27:20.859 --> 00:27:22.059
 what the Bible speaks

00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:25.339
 in light of the profound insight

00:27:25.339 --> 00:27:27.660
 into how we actually function,

00:27:27.880 --> 00:27:29.700
 we're disappointed at first.

00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:32.039
 But it's wisdom.

00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:34.579
 Listen to what it says.

00:27:37.160 --> 00:27:38.099
 Verse 20.

00:27:39.220 --> 00:27:40.000
 But this is not,

00:27:40.140 --> 00:27:41.220
 but that is not the way

00:27:41.220 --> 00:27:42.140
 you learned Christ.

00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:46.160
 Assuming that you have heard

00:27:46.160 --> 00:27:47.340
 about him

00:27:47.340 --> 00:27:48.420
 and were taught in him

00:27:48.420 --> 00:27:49.460
 as the truth

00:27:49.460 --> 00:27:50.660
 is in Jesus.

00:27:52.040 --> 00:27:53.120
 To put off

00:27:53.120 --> 00:27:54.220
 your old self

00:27:54.220 --> 00:27:55.640
 which belongs

00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:56.300
 to your former

00:27:56.300 --> 00:27:57.440
 manner of life

00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:59.519
 and is corrupt

00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:01.060
 through deceitful desires

00:28:01.060 --> 00:28:02.720
 and to be renewed

00:28:02.720 --> 00:28:03.620
 in the spirit

00:28:03.620 --> 00:28:04.480
 of your minds

00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:06.560
 and to put on

00:28:06.560 --> 00:28:07.380
 the new self

00:28:07.380 --> 00:28:08.140
 created after

00:28:08.140 --> 00:28:09.220
 the likeness of God

00:28:09.220 --> 00:28:10.240
 in true righteousness

00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:10.900
 and holiness.

00:28:12.040 --> 00:28:13.080
 So what's Paul

00:28:13.080 --> 00:28:13.779
 saying here?

00:28:14.160 --> 00:28:15.000
 What's going on?

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.460
 Early on

00:28:18.460 --> 00:28:19.680
 in the book of Ephesians

00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:20.579
 in chapter 2

00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:21.559
 Paul uses

00:28:21.559 --> 00:28:22.160
 a very, very

00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:23.279
 graphic image

00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:23.880
 to describe

00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:25.759
 what conversion is

00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:26.319
 and what it means

00:28:26.319 --> 00:28:27.099
 to become a Christian.

00:28:27.619 --> 00:28:28.839
 He says in a sense

00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:30.099
 you want to understand

00:28:30.099 --> 00:28:31.039
 what the gospel is

00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:31.640
 and how you become

00:28:31.640 --> 00:28:32.059
 a Christian

00:28:32.059 --> 00:28:33.180
 go to a funeral home

00:28:33.180 --> 00:28:34.599
 and if you go to

00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:35.299
 a funeral home

00:28:35.299 --> 00:28:36.440
 you find dead bodies

00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:38.000
 and what you have

00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:38.579
 to understand

00:28:38.579 --> 00:28:39.920
 is that apart from Christ

00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:41.299
 you're like a dead body.

00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:42.980
 How good

00:28:42.980 --> 00:28:44.000
 are dead bodies

00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:45.200
 at seeking God?

00:28:45.319 --> 00:28:46.220
 Well, dead bodies

00:28:46.220 --> 00:28:47.000
 can't do anything

00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:47.620
 they're dead.

00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:49.779
 So how do you understand

00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:50.799
 how conversion works?

00:28:50.880 --> 00:28:51.819
 What you have to understand

00:28:51.819 --> 00:28:52.620
 in conversion

00:28:52.620 --> 00:28:54.620
 is that God calls you

00:28:54.620 --> 00:28:56.339
 and not only

00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:57.519
 does God choose you

00:28:57.519 --> 00:28:58.200
 and call you

00:28:58.200 --> 00:28:59.480
 but God gives you

00:28:59.480 --> 00:29:00.059
 the power

00:29:00.059 --> 00:29:01.319
 to make you alive

00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:02.140
 to respond

00:29:02.140 --> 00:29:03.759
 to his call

00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:04.839
 and as you respond

00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:05.180
 to it

00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:05.819
 he makes you

00:29:05.819 --> 00:29:06.940
 fully alive.

00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:08.559
 You have the power

00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:09.779
 to respond to God

00:29:09.779 --> 00:29:10.380
 the same

00:29:10.380 --> 00:29:11.780
 as a dead body

00:29:11.780 --> 00:29:12.540
 has the power

00:29:12.540 --> 00:29:13.360
 to run a marathon.

00:29:14.180 --> 00:29:14.600
 None.

00:29:14.840 --> 00:29:15.580
 You are completely

00:29:15.580 --> 00:29:16.180
 and utterly

00:29:16.180 --> 00:29:17.860
 dependent upon God.

00:29:18.260 --> 00:29:18.840
 Paul uses

00:29:18.840 --> 00:29:19.880
 a similar type

00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:20.500
 of analogy

00:29:20.500 --> 00:29:21.200
 here with us.

00:29:21.260 --> 00:29:22.100
 He's just described

00:29:22.100 --> 00:29:22.840
 how our minds

00:29:22.840 --> 00:29:23.600
 don't work

00:29:23.600 --> 00:29:26.400
 at least not

00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:27.480
 in terms of

00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:28.420
 any ultimate sense.

00:29:28.540 --> 00:29:29.000
 There's something

00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:29.640
 just bent

00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:30.680
 and broken with them.

00:29:31.600 --> 00:29:32.200
 And so he said

00:29:32.200 --> 00:29:33.060
 here's the power

00:29:33.060 --> 00:29:33.780
 it's very similar

00:29:33.780 --> 00:29:34.340
 if you go back

00:29:34.340 --> 00:29:34.740
 later on

00:29:34.740 --> 00:29:36.060
 look at 2 Corinthians 4

00:29:36.060 --> 00:29:37.160
 verses 1 to 6

00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:38.280
 it's a very similar

00:29:38.280 --> 00:29:38.920
 type of thing

00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:39.580
 and this is how

00:29:39.580 --> 00:29:40.280
 the image goes.

00:29:40.380 --> 00:29:41.060
 Look again

00:29:41.060 --> 00:29:41.840
 at verse 20

00:29:41.840 --> 00:29:44.220
 but that is not

00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:45.020
 the way you learned

00:29:45.020 --> 00:29:45.580
 Christ

00:29:45.580 --> 00:29:47.580
 assuming that you

00:29:47.580 --> 00:29:48.820
 heard about him

00:29:48.820 --> 00:29:49.440
 and were taught

00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:49.940
 in him

00:29:49.940 --> 00:29:50.620
 as the truth

00:29:50.620 --> 00:29:51.680
 is in Jesus.

00:29:52.800 --> 00:29:53.820
 And this is

00:29:53.820 --> 00:29:54.620
 one of those phrases

00:29:54.620 --> 00:29:55.640
 that in English

00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:56.940
 is very, very,

00:29:57.080 --> 00:29:58.280
 very, very dense.

00:29:59.060 --> 00:30:00.320
 It's really like

00:30:00.320 --> 00:30:01.340
 you know how

00:30:01.340 --> 00:30:02.380
 if a kid draws you

00:30:02.380 --> 00:30:02.780
 a picture

00:30:02.780 --> 00:30:03.860
 it's full of scribbles

00:30:03.860 --> 00:30:04.760
 and it looks just cute

00:30:04.760 --> 00:30:05.680
 because it's a kid

00:30:05.680 --> 00:30:06.520
 but most of the lines

00:30:06.520 --> 00:30:07.260
 don't really matter

00:30:07.260 --> 00:30:07.920
 and they don't really

00:30:07.920 --> 00:30:08.840
 illustrate anything.

00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:10.339
 This is more like

00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:10.939
 some of those

00:30:10.939 --> 00:30:13.599
 like Chinese

00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:14.799
 and Buddhist drawings

00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:15.899
 where there's just

00:30:15.899 --> 00:30:17.099
 a very small number

00:30:17.099 --> 00:30:17.720
 of lines

00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:18.959
 but every line

00:30:18.959 --> 00:30:20.500
 is very, very important

00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:21.099
 because there's

00:30:21.099 --> 00:30:21.939
 just a few of them

00:30:21.939 --> 00:30:22.819
 and it shows

00:30:22.819 --> 00:30:23.559
 the real skill

00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:24.079
 of the artist

00:30:24.079 --> 00:30:24.659
 and that's what

00:30:24.659 --> 00:30:25.599
 Paul is doing here.

00:30:26.179 --> 00:30:27.099
 What he's doing here

00:30:27.099 --> 00:30:27.599
 is he's saying

00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:27.959
 is this

00:30:27.959 --> 00:30:28.459
 George

00:30:28.459 --> 00:30:30.339
 I have just described

00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:31.059
 your mind

00:30:31.059 --> 00:30:32.319
 and one day

00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:32.839
 in the midst

00:30:32.839 --> 00:30:33.480
 of your mind

00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:33.959
 being the way

00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:34.440
 your mind

00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:35.039
 is

00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:36.759
 the message

00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:37.500
 of Christ

00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:38.019
 came

00:30:38.019 --> 00:30:40.539
 not what was

00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:41.000
 this message

00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:41.500
 of Christ

00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:42.079
 this message

00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:42.640
 of Christ

00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:43.319
 is that God

00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:44.259
 saw George

00:30:44.259 --> 00:30:45.360
 your unbelievable

00:30:45.360 --> 00:30:45.980
 need

00:30:45.980 --> 00:30:46.840
 and your inability

00:30:46.840 --> 00:30:48.180
 to unbend

00:30:48.180 --> 00:30:48.819
 your mind

00:30:48.819 --> 00:30:49.960
 and fix yourself

00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:51.019
 he saw

00:30:51.019 --> 00:30:51.779
 the direction

00:30:51.779 --> 00:30:52.160
 and flow

00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:52.779
 of your heart

00:30:52.779 --> 00:30:53.539
 and your inability

00:30:53.539 --> 00:30:54.740
 to fix that yourself

00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:55.860
 he saw you

00:30:55.860 --> 00:30:56.600
 in your weakness

00:30:56.600 --> 00:30:57.940
 he saw you

00:30:57.940 --> 00:30:58.759
 at your worst

00:30:58.759 --> 00:31:00.400
 and God's response

00:31:00.400 --> 00:31:00.900
 to that

00:31:00.900 --> 00:31:01.819
 is love

00:31:01.819 --> 00:31:04.619
 he loves you

00:31:04.619 --> 00:31:06.579
 and so

00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:07.700
 Jesus comes

00:31:07.700 --> 00:31:08.319
 and lives

00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:08.759
 the life

00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:09.259
 that you could

00:31:09.259 --> 00:31:09.960
 never live

00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:11.339
 he dies a death

00:31:11.339 --> 00:31:12.419
 in your place

00:31:12.419 --> 00:31:13.559
 he rises

00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:14.339
 from the dead

00:31:14.339 --> 00:31:15.099
 he defeats

00:31:15.099 --> 00:31:15.939
 that which keeps

00:31:15.939 --> 00:31:16.579
 you separated

00:31:16.579 --> 00:31:17.299
 from me

00:31:17.299 --> 00:31:18.200
 burying it

00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:19.299
 in his person

00:31:19.299 --> 00:31:21.500
 he defeats

00:31:21.500 --> 00:31:22.000
 death

00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:24.000
 his perfect light

00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:24.460
 all of

00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:25.319
 what is going

00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:25.619
 to be now

00:31:25.619 --> 00:31:26.000
 described

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:26.799
 you hear this

00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:27.579
 message

00:31:27.579 --> 00:31:28.839
 and this

00:31:28.839 --> 00:31:29.419
 message

00:31:29.419 --> 00:31:30.359
 pierces

00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.719
 your darkened

00:31:32.719 --> 00:31:33.219
 mind

00:31:33.219 --> 00:31:34.059
 not because

00:31:34.059 --> 00:31:34.799
 of the power

00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:35.179
 of my

00:31:35.179 --> 00:31:35.719
 not because

00:31:35.719 --> 00:31:36.379
 my mind

00:31:36.379 --> 00:31:36.859
 is somehow

00:31:36.859 --> 00:31:37.379
 special

00:31:37.379 --> 00:31:37.839
 that I have

00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:38.379
 an IQ

00:31:38.379 --> 00:31:38.859
 that you

00:31:38.859 --> 00:31:39.199
 don't

00:31:39.199 --> 00:31:39.759
 I have

00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:40.439
 an aptitude

00:31:40.439 --> 00:31:40.779
 that you

00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:41.039
 don't

00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:41.539
 know

00:31:41.539 --> 00:31:42.879
 the power

00:31:42.879 --> 00:31:43.619
 comes from

00:31:43.619 --> 00:31:44.479
 the proclamation

00:31:44.479 --> 00:31:45.779
 of Jesus

00:31:45.779 --> 00:31:46.399
 Christ

00:31:46.399 --> 00:31:47.459
 as Savior

00:31:47.459 --> 00:31:48.500
 and Lord

00:31:48.500 --> 00:31:49.219
 which is

00:31:49.219 --> 00:31:49.679
 humbly

00:31:49.679 --> 00:31:50.299
 shared

00:31:50.299 --> 00:31:51.740
 in my case

00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:53.399
 by an ex-drug

00:31:53.399 --> 00:31:53.759
 addict

00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:55.219
 who shared

00:31:55.219 --> 00:31:55.759
 that with me

00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.179
 in a way

00:31:56.179 --> 00:31:57.319
 that pierced

00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:57.659
 me

00:31:57.659 --> 00:31:59.539
 pierced

00:31:59.539 --> 00:31:59.819
 me

00:31:59.819 --> 00:32:02.720
 and that

00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:03.099
 message

00:32:03.099 --> 00:32:03.700
 comes to

00:32:03.700 --> 00:32:04.379
 our darkened

00:32:04.379 --> 00:32:04.879
 mind

00:32:04.879 --> 00:32:06.939
 and what

00:32:06.939 --> 00:32:07.559
 happens

00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:08.879
 I

00:32:08.879 --> 00:32:09.299
 my

00:32:09.299 --> 00:32:09.759
 I'm

00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:11.960
 I respond

00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:12.720
 with yes

00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:15.439
 and he

00:32:15.439 --> 00:32:16.159
 becomes my

00:32:16.159 --> 00:32:16.819
 Savior and

00:32:16.819 --> 00:32:17.119
 Lord

00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:20.220
 and how

00:32:20.220 --> 00:32:20.539
 can you

00:32:20.539 --> 00:32:20.939
 describe

00:32:20.939 --> 00:32:21.460
 what has

00:32:21.460 --> 00:32:22.000
 just now

00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:22.460
 happened

00:32:22.460 --> 00:32:23.579
 when I

00:32:23.579 --> 00:32:23.960
 in my

00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:24.480
 darkened

00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:24.939
 mind

00:32:24.939 --> 00:32:25.859
 have heard

00:32:25.859 --> 00:32:26.659
 the gospel

00:32:26.660 --> 00:32:28.259
 and it

00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:28.820
 pierces

00:32:28.820 --> 00:32:29.240
 me

00:32:29.240 --> 00:32:30.080
 not by

00:32:30.080 --> 00:32:30.360
 my

00:32:30.360 --> 00:32:30.779
 power

00:32:30.779 --> 00:32:31.140
 but by

00:32:31.140 --> 00:32:31.720
 the power

00:32:31.720 --> 00:32:32.040
 of the

00:32:32.040 --> 00:32:32.560
 gospel

00:32:32.560 --> 00:32:33.259
 the love

00:32:33.259 --> 00:32:33.840
 the power

00:32:33.840 --> 00:32:34.380
 of love

00:32:34.380 --> 00:32:34.900
 the power

00:32:34.900 --> 00:32:35.620
 of mercy

00:32:35.620 --> 00:32:36.660
 the power

00:32:36.660 --> 00:32:37.400
 of grace

00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:37.980
 the power

00:32:37.980 --> 00:32:38.779
 of goodness

00:32:38.779 --> 00:32:40.400
 and it

00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:41.300
 pierces me

00:32:41.299 --> 00:32:42.779
 and how

00:32:42.779 --> 00:32:43.079
 can I

00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:43.460
 understand

00:32:43.460 --> 00:32:43.700
 what

00:32:43.700 --> 00:32:44.079
 happens

00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:44.299
 well

00:32:44.299 --> 00:32:44.700
 the Bible

00:32:44.700 --> 00:32:44.960
 says

00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:45.279
 George

00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:45.519
 here's

00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:45.859
 how

00:32:45.859 --> 00:32:46.419
 you

00:32:46.419 --> 00:32:46.539
 can

00:32:46.539 --> 00:32:46.899
 understand

00:32:46.899 --> 00:32:47.119
 what

00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:47.299
 just

00:32:47.299 --> 00:32:47.700
 happened

00:32:47.700 --> 00:32:49.539
 the light

00:32:49.539 --> 00:32:50.059
 of the gospel

00:32:50.059 --> 00:32:50.740
 comes in

00:32:50.740 --> 00:32:51.839
 and Jesus

00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:52.440
 takes

00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:53.720
 your old

00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.279
 existence

00:32:54.279 --> 00:32:55.059
 in Adam

00:32:55.059 --> 00:32:56.579
 and he

00:32:56.579 --> 00:32:57.079
 takes it

00:32:57.079 --> 00:32:57.440
 off

00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:58.899
 puts it

00:32:58.899 --> 00:32:59.200
 away

00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:01.659
 he said

00:33:01.659 --> 00:33:02.000
 your old

00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:02.379
 existence

00:33:02.379 --> 00:33:03.139
 as Adam

00:33:03.139 --> 00:33:04.159
 I paid

00:33:04.159 --> 00:33:04.519
 for that

00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:04.799
 on the

00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:05.220
 cross

00:33:05.220 --> 00:33:07.480
 and then

00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:07.680
 you move

00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:07.960
 to the

00:33:07.960 --> 00:33:08.180
 third

00:33:08.180 --> 00:33:08.579
 image

00:33:08.579 --> 00:33:09.860
 and George

00:33:09.860 --> 00:33:10.200
 there's

00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:10.539
 you

00:33:10.539 --> 00:33:11.140
 you're

00:33:11.140 --> 00:33:11.519
 naked

00:33:11.519 --> 00:33:11.920
 you're

00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:12.299
 shivering

00:33:12.299 --> 00:33:12.700
 you're

00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:13.160
 pitiable

00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.339
 I put

00:33:15.339 --> 00:33:15.779
 on

00:33:15.779 --> 00:33:18.200
 this new

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:18.680
 life

00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:20.299
 this new

00:33:20.299 --> 00:33:20.660
 life

00:33:20.660 --> 00:33:21.339
 that is

00:33:21.339 --> 00:33:22.100
 eternal

00:33:22.100 --> 00:33:23.759
 that begins

00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:24.019
 to

00:33:24.019 --> 00:33:24.740
 you begin

00:33:24.740 --> 00:33:25.500
 to experience

00:33:25.500 --> 00:33:25.980
 eternity

00:33:25.980 --> 00:33:26.360
 now

00:33:26.360 --> 00:33:26.839
 but it's

00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:27.240
 it's a

00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:27.660
 new

00:33:27.660 --> 00:33:28.620
 it's a

00:33:28.620 --> 00:33:28.779
 new

00:33:28.779 --> 00:33:29.200
 putting

00:33:29.200 --> 00:33:29.720
 on

00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:30.160
 that's

00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:30.839
 my

00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:31.559
 perfect

00:33:31.559 --> 00:33:32.259
 fulfillment

00:33:32.259 --> 00:33:33.000
 of life

00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:33.759
 my perfect

00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:34.700
 relationship

00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:35.120
 with the

00:33:35.120 --> 00:33:35.360
 father

00:33:35.360 --> 00:33:35.860
 that now

00:33:35.860 --> 00:33:36.259
 stands

00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:36.559
 for you

00:33:36.559 --> 00:33:37.519
 I died

00:33:37.519 --> 00:33:37.860
 for the

00:33:37.860 --> 00:33:38.100
 old

00:33:38.100 --> 00:33:38.299
 thing

00:33:38.299 --> 00:33:39.200
 that came

00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:39.640
 on me

00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:39.920
 that's

00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:40.200
 why it's

00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:40.640
 off of

00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:40.860
 you

00:33:40.860 --> 00:33:41.559
 and what

00:33:41.559 --> 00:33:42.019
 you now

00:33:42.019 --> 00:33:42.580
 have is

00:33:42.580 --> 00:33:43.640
 my standing

00:33:43.640 --> 00:33:44.340
 before God

00:33:44.340 --> 00:33:44.860
 and I put

00:33:44.860 --> 00:33:45.299
 that on

00:33:45.299 --> 00:33:45.480
 you

00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:46.140
 and my

00:33:46.140 --> 00:33:46.480
 standing

00:33:46.480 --> 00:33:47.019
 before you

00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:47.319
 and this

00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:47.600
 new

00:33:47.600 --> 00:33:48.019
 clothing

00:33:48.019 --> 00:33:49.319
 is preparing

00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:50.059
 you to

00:33:50.059 --> 00:33:50.580
 live the way

00:33:50.580 --> 00:33:51.160
 that I always

00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:52.100
 designed creation

00:33:52.100 --> 00:33:52.620
 to live

00:33:52.620 --> 00:33:53.420
 and is preparing

00:33:53.420 --> 00:33:54.400
 you for the

00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:54.880
 new heaven

00:33:54.880 --> 00:33:55.240
 and the new

00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:55.400
 earth

00:33:55.400 --> 00:33:55.940
 and I put

00:33:55.940 --> 00:33:56.480
 that on

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:56.720
 you

00:33:56.720 --> 00:33:58.720
 I put

00:33:58.720 --> 00:33:59.080
 that on

00:33:59.080 --> 00:33:59.799
 your mind

00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:00.819
 and the

00:34:00.819 --> 00:34:01.240
 in between

00:34:01.240 --> 00:34:01.680
 thing

00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:02.580
 is it's

00:34:02.580 --> 00:34:03.080
 not just

00:34:03.080 --> 00:34:04.259
 that I

00:34:04.259 --> 00:34:04.519
 took

00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:05.019
 this off

00:34:05.019 --> 00:34:05.400
 and I put

00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:05.819
 this on

00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:06.039
 and then

00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:06.379
 off I

00:34:06.379 --> 00:34:06.759
 go and

00:34:06.759 --> 00:34:07.139
 do some

00:34:07.139 --> 00:34:07.680
 more fun

00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:07.980
 things

00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:08.400
 no

00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:09.940
 the very

00:34:09.940 --> 00:34:10.619
 very center

00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:10.980
 of who

00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:11.380
 you are

00:34:11.380 --> 00:34:11.800
 the very

00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:12.259
 center

00:34:12.259 --> 00:34:12.599
 of your

00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:13.019
 spirit

00:34:13.019 --> 00:34:13.559
 the center

00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:13.900
 of your

00:34:13.900 --> 00:34:14.400
 mind

00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:16.320
 there's

00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:16.679
 now like

00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:17.179
 an IV

00:34:17.179 --> 00:34:21.980
 and my

00:34:21.980 --> 00:34:22.579
 life

00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:25.219
 and my

00:34:25.219 --> 00:34:25.619
 wisdom

00:34:25.619 --> 00:34:26.000
 and my

00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:26.359
 mind

00:34:26.359 --> 00:34:26.899
 is coming

00:34:26.899 --> 00:34:27.500
 into you

00:34:27.500 --> 00:34:28.199
 every day

00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:30.519
 until you

00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:30.940
 die

00:34:30.940 --> 00:34:31.980
 and see

00:34:31.980 --> 00:34:32.480
 me face

00:34:32.480 --> 00:34:32.919
 to face

00:34:32.919 --> 00:34:33.199
 or I

00:34:33.199 --> 00:34:33.719
 come again

00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:33.960
 and you

00:34:33.960 --> 00:34:34.279
 see me

00:34:34.279 --> 00:34:34.539
 face

00:34:34.539 --> 00:34:35.039
 to face

00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:36.819
 and then

00:34:36.819 --> 00:34:37.139
 there is

00:34:37.139 --> 00:34:37.559
 no need

00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:37.899
 for an

00:34:37.899 --> 00:34:38.219
 IV

00:34:38.219 --> 00:34:41.279
 because you

00:34:41.279 --> 00:34:41.899
 become

00:34:41.899 --> 00:34:42.980
 a beautiful

00:34:42.980 --> 00:34:43.899
 cup

00:34:43.899 --> 00:34:44.460
 that I

00:34:44.460 --> 00:34:45.059
 will fill

00:34:45.059 --> 00:34:45.539
 with my

00:34:45.539 --> 00:34:45.880
 love

00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:46.199
 and my

00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:46.539
 life

00:34:46.539 --> 00:34:46.880
 and my

00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:47.239
 truth

00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:47.579
 and my

00:34:47.579 --> 00:34:47.920
 goodness

00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:48.340
 and my

00:34:48.340 --> 00:34:48.779
 justice

00:34:48.779 --> 00:34:49.719
 for all

00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:50.239
 eternity

00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:51.139
 and it will

00:34:51.139 --> 00:34:52.019
 always be new

00:34:52.019 --> 00:34:52.460
 and it will be

00:34:52.460 --> 00:34:53.320
 always fresh

00:34:53.320 --> 00:34:53.940
 and it will never

00:34:53.940 --> 00:34:54.579
 come to an

00:34:54.579 --> 00:34:55.699
 end and that

00:34:55.699 --> 00:34:56.559
 is your

00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:57.480
 destiny

00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:59.099
 now in

00:34:59.099 --> 00:34:59.519
 Christ

00:34:59.519 --> 00:35:04.159
 that's the

00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:04.559
 image

00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:07.699
 so how does

00:35:07.699 --> 00:35:08.400
 this help us

00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:09.320
 in the

00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:09.579
 moral

00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:10.400
 life

00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.780
 you see

00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:14.900
 here's the

00:35:14.900 --> 00:35:15.039
 thing

00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:15.700
 look again

00:35:15.700 --> 00:35:16.260
 at verse

00:35:16.260 --> 00:35:18.059
 verse 24

00:35:18.059 --> 00:35:19.740
 created

00:35:19.740 --> 00:35:20.840
 and put on

00:35:20.840 --> 00:35:21.160
 the new

00:35:21.160 --> 00:35:21.380
 self

00:35:21.380 --> 00:35:22.039
 created

00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:22.720
 after the

00:35:22.720 --> 00:35:23.200
 likeness of

00:35:23.200 --> 00:35:23.420
 God

00:35:23.420 --> 00:35:23.720
 and true

00:35:23.720 --> 00:35:24.099
 righteousness

00:35:24.099 --> 00:35:24.700
 and holiness

00:35:24.700 --> 00:35:25.740
 from our

00:35:25.740 --> 00:35:26.180
 point of

00:35:26.180 --> 00:35:26.400
 view

00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:27.139
 I become

00:35:27.139 --> 00:35:27.680
 converted

00:35:27.680 --> 00:35:28.800
 from God's

00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:29.139
 point of

00:35:29.139 --> 00:35:29.320
 view

00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:31.680
 he creates

00:35:31.680 --> 00:35:32.519
 me

00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:33.800
 and you

00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:35.720
 and new

00:35:35.720 --> 00:35:36.880
 a new

00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:37.380
 creation

00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:40.200
 I've used

00:35:40.200 --> 00:35:40.519
 up my

00:35:40.519 --> 00:35:40.740
 time

00:35:40.740 --> 00:35:41.079
 how does

00:35:41.079 --> 00:35:41.300
 this

00:35:41.300 --> 00:35:42.460
 matter

00:35:42.460 --> 00:35:42.840
 how does

00:35:42.840 --> 00:35:43.320
 this help

00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:43.599
 us

00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:44.480
 here's how

00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:44.920
 it helps

00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:45.420
 us

00:35:45.420 --> 00:35:50.099
 when I

00:35:50.099 --> 00:35:50.619
 look within

00:35:50.619 --> 00:35:51.300
 my life

00:35:51.300 --> 00:35:54.019
 and I

00:35:54.019 --> 00:35:54.680
 think about

00:35:54.680 --> 00:35:55.780
 whether I'm

00:35:55.780 --> 00:35:56.340
 doing bad

00:35:56.340 --> 00:35:56.800
 things or

00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:57.220
 whether I'm

00:35:57.220 --> 00:35:57.760
 doing good

00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:58.300
 things

00:35:58.300 --> 00:36:00.640
 sometimes I

00:36:00.640 --> 00:36:01.099
 think there is

00:36:01.099 --> 00:36:01.579
 good fruit in

00:36:01.579 --> 00:36:02.019
 my life

00:36:02.019 --> 00:36:05.340
 I'm not as

00:36:05.340 --> 00:36:06.059
 snarky as I

00:36:06.059 --> 00:36:06.640
 used to be

00:36:06.639 --> 00:36:08.799
 I think I

00:36:08.799 --> 00:36:09.079
 don't get

00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:09.679
 angry as

00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:10.199
 quickly as

00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:10.559
 I used

00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:11.799
 to and

00:36:11.799 --> 00:36:12.039
 I'm not

00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:12.219
 going to

00:36:12.219 --> 00:36:12.619
 start going

00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:13.000
 through all

00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:13.659
 my vices

00:36:13.659 --> 00:36:14.219
 by the way

00:36:14.219 --> 00:36:15.719
 okay you

00:36:15.719 --> 00:36:16.199
 know those

00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:16.679
 things that

00:36:16.679 --> 00:36:17.199
 George you

00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:17.759
 still got a

00:36:17.759 --> 00:36:17.960
 lot of

00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:18.279
 work to

00:36:18.279 --> 00:36:18.559
 do in

00:36:18.559 --> 00:36:19.199
 this and

00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:19.699
 this and

00:36:19.699 --> 00:36:20.039
 this and

00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:20.359
 this but

00:36:20.359 --> 00:36:20.819
 here's the

00:36:20.819 --> 00:36:21.960
 thing when

00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:22.339
 I look

00:36:22.339 --> 00:36:22.759
 within

00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:25.720
 what happens

00:36:25.720 --> 00:36:26.340
 is this

00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:28.880
 I either

00:36:28.880 --> 00:36:29.500
 get filled

00:36:29.500 --> 00:36:30.300
 with pride

00:36:30.300 --> 00:36:31.760
 because I

00:36:31.760 --> 00:36:32.840
 imagine that

00:36:32.840 --> 00:36:33.380
 there's lots

00:36:33.380 --> 00:36:33.760
 of good

00:36:33.760 --> 00:36:35.200
 fruit or I

00:36:35.200 --> 00:36:35.720
 get filled

00:36:35.720 --> 00:36:36.620
 with despair

00:36:36.620 --> 00:36:38.380
 because there's

00:36:38.380 --> 00:36:39.280
 not much

00:36:39.280 --> 00:36:39.860
 good fruit

00:36:39.860 --> 00:36:41.720
 or I

00:36:41.720 --> 00:36:42.400
 pretend

00:36:42.400 --> 00:36:43.900
 and deny

00:36:43.900 --> 00:36:44.960
 as if there

00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:45.540
 is lots of

00:36:45.540 --> 00:36:46.000
 good fruit

00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:47.020
 when everybody

00:36:47.020 --> 00:36:47.700
 around me

00:36:47.700 --> 00:36:49.020
 knows that

00:36:49.020 --> 00:36:49.920
 there isn't

00:36:49.920 --> 00:36:51.340
 see what

00:36:51.340 --> 00:36:51.880
 happens to

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:52.440
 human beings

00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:52.860
 is this

00:36:52.860 --> 00:36:53.180
 it's all

00:36:53.180 --> 00:36:53.500
 part of

00:36:53.500 --> 00:36:53.800
 how our

00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:54.240
 minds are

00:36:54.240 --> 00:36:54.500
 bent

00:36:54.500 --> 00:36:56.139
 having good

00:36:56.139 --> 00:36:57.260
 things that

00:36:57.260 --> 00:36:58.039
 we accomplish

00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.139
 becomes my

00:37:00.139 --> 00:37:00.659
 hope

00:37:00.659 --> 00:37:02.380
 my identity

00:37:02.380 --> 00:37:07.280
 my fuel

00:37:07.280 --> 00:37:08.880
 but here's

00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:09.539
 the problem

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:11.280
 I and

00:37:11.280 --> 00:37:11.920
 you and I

00:37:11.920 --> 00:37:12.519
 will never

00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:13.500
 have enough

00:37:13.500 --> 00:37:14.360
 good fruit

00:37:14.360 --> 00:37:15.340
 in your life

00:37:15.340 --> 00:37:16.740
 to silence

00:37:16.740 --> 00:37:17.880
 your conscience

00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:18.680
 or the

00:37:18.680 --> 00:37:19.099
 devil

00:37:19.099 --> 00:37:20.059
 or the

00:37:20.059 --> 00:37:20.519
 world

00:37:20.519 --> 00:37:22.539
 isn't that

00:37:22.539 --> 00:37:22.900
 true

00:37:22.900 --> 00:37:25.219
 unless all

00:37:25.219 --> 00:37:25.539
 you do

00:37:25.539 --> 00:37:26.239
 is pretend

00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:27.699
 deny and

00:37:27.699 --> 00:37:28.039
 pretend

00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:28.679
 deny and

00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:29.000
 pretend

00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:29.619
 deny and

00:37:29.619 --> 00:37:30.039
 pretend

00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:31.159
 and everybody

00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:31.579
 else is

00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:32.119
 holding their

00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:32.619
 nose like

00:37:32.619 --> 00:37:33.019
 this when

00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:33.480
 they're around

00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:33.799
 you

00:37:33.799 --> 00:37:34.819
 but you're

00:37:34.819 --> 00:37:35.339
 denying and

00:37:35.339 --> 00:37:35.679
 pretending

00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:36.259
 denying and

00:37:36.259 --> 00:37:36.699
 pretending

00:37:36.699 --> 00:37:38.400
 but when I

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:38.940
 look into

00:37:38.940 --> 00:37:39.579
 my life

00:37:39.579 --> 00:37:40.079
 and I

00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:40.659
 want to

00:37:40.659 --> 00:37:41.500
 have the

00:37:41.500 --> 00:37:41.719
 good

00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:42.400
 accomplishments

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:42.839
 I want to

00:37:42.839 --> 00:37:43.099
 have the

00:37:43.099 --> 00:37:43.679
 good fruit

00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:44.679
 and my

00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:45.299
 hope is

00:37:45.299 --> 00:37:45.779
 built on

00:37:45.779 --> 00:37:46.059
 that

00:37:46.059 --> 00:37:47.199
 my identity

00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:47.679
 is based

00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:47.960
 on that

00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:48.659
 my fuel

00:37:48.659 --> 00:37:49.019
 to do

00:37:49.019 --> 00:37:49.480
 other good

00:37:49.480 --> 00:37:49.839
 things

00:37:49.839 --> 00:37:50.299
 is built

00:37:50.299 --> 00:37:50.799
 on that

00:37:50.799 --> 00:37:51.579
 but the

00:37:51.579 --> 00:37:51.980
 fact of

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:52.319
 the matter

00:37:52.319 --> 00:37:53.119
 is that

00:37:53.119 --> 00:37:54.019
 my good

00:37:54.019 --> 00:37:54.420
 fruit

00:37:54.420 --> 00:37:54.779
 there's

00:37:54.779 --> 00:37:55.279
 never

00:37:55.279 --> 00:37:56.000
 enough

00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:56.839
 to silence

00:37:56.839 --> 00:37:57.719
 my conscience

00:37:57.719 --> 00:37:58.679
 to silence

00:37:58.679 --> 00:37:59.319
 the devil

00:37:59.319 --> 00:38:00.000
 and to

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:00.440
 silence

00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:01.119
 the world

00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:02.819
 what am I

00:38:02.819 --> 00:38:03.279
 to do

00:38:03.279 --> 00:38:07.779
 what happens

00:38:07.779 --> 00:38:08.679
 every time

00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:09.199
 we do

00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:09.739
 communion

00:38:09.739 --> 00:38:11.199
 Jesus is

00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:11.619
 about to

00:38:11.619 --> 00:38:11.839
 go to

00:38:11.839 --> 00:38:12.440
 the cross

00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:14.500
 and his

00:38:14.500 --> 00:38:14.980
 disciples

00:38:14.980 --> 00:38:17.420
 and his

00:38:17.420 --> 00:38:18.599
 20,000

00:38:18.599 --> 00:38:19.019
 foot

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:19.300
 in the

00:38:19.300 --> 00:38:19.639
 air

00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:20.659
 understanding

00:38:20.659 --> 00:38:21.420
 of what's

00:38:21.420 --> 00:38:21.840
 about to

00:38:21.840 --> 00:38:22.220
 happen

00:38:22.220 --> 00:38:23.260
 and he

00:38:23.260 --> 00:38:23.920
 gives them

00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:24.659
 a very

00:38:24.659 --> 00:38:25.280
 simple

00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:26.039
 habit

00:38:26.039 --> 00:38:26.940
 and discipline

00:38:26.940 --> 00:38:27.900
 to help

00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:28.559
 them learn

00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:29.260
 how to

00:38:29.260 --> 00:38:29.599
 live

00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:30.579
 their life

00:38:30.579 --> 00:38:31.720
 in light

00:38:31.720 --> 00:38:32.099
 of what

00:38:32.099 --> 00:38:32.559
 he's about

00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:33.440
 to accomplish

00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:34.659
 and what

00:38:34.659 --> 00:38:34.960
 does he

00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:35.280
 say

00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:36.920
 my body

00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:37.460
 given for

00:38:37.460 --> 00:38:37.920
 you do

00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:38.420
 this

00:38:38.420 --> 00:38:39.059
 in

00:38:39.059 --> 00:38:40.420
 remembrance

00:38:40.420 --> 00:38:41.039
 of me

00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:42.720
 the blood

00:38:42.720 --> 00:38:43.139
 of a new

00:38:43.139 --> 00:38:43.599
 covenant

00:38:43.599 --> 00:38:44.240
 a new

00:38:44.240 --> 00:38:45.440
 way of

00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:45.900
 relating

00:38:45.900 --> 00:38:46.480
 that I

00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:46.619
 have

00:38:46.619 --> 00:38:47.220
 established

00:38:47.220 --> 00:38:47.579
 it can

00:38:47.579 --> 00:38:48.000
 be for

00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:48.200
 you

00:38:48.200 --> 00:38:48.579
 this is

00:38:48.579 --> 00:38:48.940
 the blood

00:38:48.940 --> 00:38:49.119
 of the

00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:49.280
 new

00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:49.619
 covenant

00:38:49.619 --> 00:38:50.300
 do this

00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:50.720
 in

00:38:50.720 --> 00:38:51.860
 remembrance

00:38:51.860 --> 00:38:52.480
 of me

00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:53.639
 every morning

00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:54.039
 I wake

00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:54.400
 up and I

00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:54.760
 can choose

00:38:54.760 --> 00:38:55.200
 to forget

00:38:55.200 --> 00:38:55.599
 I can

00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:56.220
 just act

00:38:56.220 --> 00:38:56.619
 as if

00:38:56.619 --> 00:38:57.139
 nothing

00:38:57.139 --> 00:38:57.480
 has ever

00:38:57.480 --> 00:38:57.820
 happened

00:38:57.820 --> 00:38:58.360
 of importance

00:38:58.360 --> 00:38:58.680
 in my

00:38:58.680 --> 00:38:58.940
 life

00:38:58.940 --> 00:38:59.480
 and what

00:38:59.480 --> 00:38:59.940
 happens

00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:00.539
 is I

00:39:00.539 --> 00:39:01.019
 walk

00:39:01.019 --> 00:39:01.760
 out of

00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:02.340
 the baseline

00:39:02.340 --> 00:39:02.880
 of my

00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:03.280
 mind

00:39:03.280 --> 00:39:03.720
 but what

00:39:03.720 --> 00:39:04.000
 do I

00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:04.320
 do

00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:04.860
 as a

00:39:04.860 --> 00:39:05.079
 human

00:39:05.079 --> 00:39:05.400
 being

00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:05.639
 I'm

00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:06.019
 trying to

00:39:06.019 --> 00:39:06.220
 deal

00:39:06.220 --> 00:39:06.720
 with moral

00:39:06.720 --> 00:39:07.059
 things

00:39:07.059 --> 00:39:07.260
 I'm

00:39:07.260 --> 00:39:07.539
 trying to

00:39:07.539 --> 00:39:07.659
 deal

00:39:07.659 --> 00:39:09.859
 with

00:39:09.859 --> 00:39:10.139
 the

00:39:10.139 --> 00:39:10.299
 end

00:39:10.299 --> 00:39:10.539
 of the

00:39:10.539 --> 00:39:10.739
 day

00:39:10.739 --> 00:39:11.059
 it's

00:39:11.059 --> 00:39:11.339
 not

00:39:11.339 --> 00:39:11.799
 just

00:39:11.799 --> 00:39:11.980
 that

00:39:11.980 --> 00:39:12.119
 the

00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:12.639
 gospel

00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:12.859
 I

00:39:12.859 --> 00:39:13.079
 put

00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:13.299
 my

00:39:13.299 --> 00:39:13.599
 faith

00:39:13.599 --> 00:39:13.799
 in

00:39:13.799 --> 00:39:14.119
 Jesus

00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:14.420
 to

00:39:14.420 --> 00:39:14.960
 save

00:39:14.960 --> 00:39:15.259
 me

00:39:15.259 --> 00:39:15.719
 I

00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:16.099
 need

00:39:16.099 --> 00:39:16.279
 to

00:39:16.279 --> 00:39:16.480
 put

00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:16.679
 my

00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:17.119
 faith

00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:17.259
 in

00:39:17.259 --> 00:39:17.420
 the

00:39:17.420 --> 00:39:17.859
 gospel

00:39:17.859 --> 00:39:18.359
 every

00:39:18.359 --> 00:39:18.779
 day

00:39:18.779 --> 00:39:19.039
 to

00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:19.679
 live

00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:21.920
 I

00:39:21.920 --> 00:39:22.319
 cannot

00:39:22.319 --> 00:39:22.839
 say

00:39:22.839 --> 00:39:23.299
 to you

00:39:23.299 --> 00:39:23.539
 that

00:39:23.539 --> 00:39:23.940
 Christ

00:39:23.940 --> 00:39:24.159
 has

00:39:24.159 --> 00:39:24.420
 put

00:39:24.420 --> 00:39:24.679
 off

00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:24.879
 the

00:39:24.879 --> 00:39:25.199
 old

00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:25.500
 self

00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:25.679
 and

00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:25.879
 put

00:39:25.879 --> 00:39:26.039
 on

00:39:26.039 --> 00:39:26.159
 the

00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:26.359
 new

00:39:26.359 --> 00:39:26.719
 self

00:39:26.719 --> 00:39:27.279
 and

00:39:27.279 --> 00:39:27.460
 that

00:39:27.460 --> 00:39:27.859
 I

00:39:27.859 --> 00:39:28.019
 am

00:39:28.019 --> 00:39:28.199
 being

00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:28.559
 renewed

00:39:28.559 --> 00:39:28.859
 every

00:39:28.859 --> 00:39:29.079
 day

00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:29.279
 by

00:39:29.279 --> 00:39:29.460
 the

00:39:29.460 --> 00:39:29.679
 Holy

00:39:29.679 --> 00:39:30.159
 Spirit

00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:30.319
 and

00:39:30.319 --> 00:39:30.460
 by

00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:31.079
 God's

00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:31.359
 word

00:39:31.359 --> 00:39:31.759
 on

00:39:31.759 --> 00:39:31.920
 the

00:39:31.920 --> 00:39:32.359
 basis

00:39:32.359 --> 00:39:32.940
 of

00:39:32.940 --> 00:39:33.119
 the

00:39:33.119 --> 00:39:33.639
 fruit

00:39:33.639 --> 00:39:34.079
 of

00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:34.319
 my

00:39:34.319 --> 00:39:35.219
 accomplishments

00:39:35.219 --> 00:39:36.059
 if

00:39:36.059 --> 00:39:36.299
 I

00:39:36.299 --> 00:39:36.559
 try

00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:36.739
 to

00:39:36.739 --> 00:39:37.019
 tell

00:39:37.019 --> 00:39:37.179
 you

00:39:37.179 --> 00:39:37.500
 that

00:39:37.500 --> 00:39:37.839
 and

00:39:37.839 --> 00:39:37.980
 if

00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:38.139
 I

00:39:38.139 --> 00:39:38.559
 believe

00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:38.799
 that

00:39:38.799 --> 00:39:39.000
 for

00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:39.559
 myself

00:39:39.559 --> 00:39:40.079
 I

00:39:40.079 --> 00:39:40.279
 will

00:39:40.279 --> 00:39:40.480
 be

00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:41.000
 crushed

00:39:41.000 --> 00:39:41.460
 I

00:39:41.460 --> 00:39:41.679
 will

00:39:41.679 --> 00:39:42.259
 die

00:39:42.259 --> 00:39:42.819
 I

00:39:42.819 --> 00:39:43.440
 cannot

00:39:43.440 --> 00:39:44.279
 do

00:39:44.279 --> 00:39:44.559
 that

00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:44.739
 it

00:39:44.739 --> 00:39:44.940
 does

00:39:44.940 --> 00:39:45.299
 not

00:39:45.299 --> 00:39:45.880
 work

00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:47.400
 it

00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:47.779
 doesn't

00:39:47.779 --> 00:39:48.039
 work

00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:48.259
 for

00:39:48.259 --> 00:39:48.679
 you

00:39:48.679 --> 00:39:50.779
 I

00:39:50.779 --> 00:39:51.179
 believe

00:39:51.179 --> 00:39:51.419
 that

00:39:51.419 --> 00:39:51.799
 Christ

00:39:51.799 --> 00:39:52.119
 made

00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:52.279
 me

00:39:52.279 --> 00:39:52.599
 right

00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:52.859
 with

00:39:52.859 --> 00:39:53.179
 him

00:39:53.179 --> 00:39:53.819
 and

00:39:53.819 --> 00:39:54.119
 I

00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:55.460
 need

00:39:55.460 --> 00:39:55.639
 to

00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:55.940
 hear

00:39:55.940 --> 00:39:56.199
 that

00:39:56.199 --> 00:39:56.739
 gospel

00:39:56.739 --> 00:39:57.619
 over

00:39:57.619 --> 00:39:58.179
 and

00:39:58.179 --> 00:39:58.619
 over

00:39:58.619 --> 00:39:59.099
 and

00:39:59.099 --> 00:39:59.500
 over

00:39:59.500 --> 00:39:59.960
 again

00:39:59.960 --> 00:40:00.239
 I

00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:00.460
 can

00:40:00.460 --> 00:40:00.779
 say

00:40:00.779 --> 00:40:00.980
 to

00:40:00.980 --> 00:40:01.119
 the

00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:01.319
 Lord

00:40:01.319 --> 00:40:01.659
 Lord

00:40:01.659 --> 00:40:01.940
 my

00:40:01.940 --> 00:40:02.339
 fruit

00:40:02.339 --> 00:40:02.519
 is

00:40:02.519 --> 00:40:02.739
 not

00:40:02.739 --> 00:40:03.219
 showing

00:40:03.219 --> 00:40:04.519
 that

00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:04.659
 the

00:40:04.659 --> 00:40:04.879
 old

00:40:04.879 --> 00:40:05.159
 self

00:40:05.159 --> 00:40:05.339
 is

00:40:05.339 --> 00:40:05.719
 gone

00:40:05.719 --> 00:40:06.159
 you

00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:06.299
 have

00:40:06.299 --> 00:40:06.599
 clothed

00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:06.699
 me

00:40:06.699 --> 00:40:06.839
 with

00:40:06.839 --> 00:40:06.960
 a

00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:07.099
 new

00:40:07.099 --> 00:40:07.379
 one

00:40:07.379 --> 00:40:08.039
 and

00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:08.159
 I

00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:08.239
 have

00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:08.379
 been

00:40:08.379 --> 00:40:08.619
 renewed

00:40:08.619 --> 00:40:08.839
 by

00:40:08.839 --> 00:40:09.000
 your

00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:09.199
 Holy

00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:09.480
 Spirit

00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:09.679
 but

00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:09.839
 I

00:40:09.839 --> 00:40:10.179
 believe

00:40:10.179 --> 00:40:10.399
 in

00:40:10.399 --> 00:40:10.759
 Jesus

00:40:10.759 --> 00:40:13.179
 I

00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:13.579
 believe

00:40:13.579 --> 00:40:13.759
 he

00:40:13.759 --> 00:40:14.000
 died

00:40:14.000 --> 00:40:14.139
 on

00:40:14.139 --> 00:40:14.259
 the

00:40:14.259 --> 00:40:14.579
 cross

00:40:14.579 --> 00:40:14.759
 I

00:40:14.759 --> 00:40:15.079
 believe

00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:15.279
 he

00:40:15.279 --> 00:40:15.539
 rose

00:40:15.539 --> 00:40:15.980
 I

00:40:15.980 --> 00:40:16.420
 believe

00:40:16.420 --> 00:40:16.739
 he

00:40:16.739 --> 00:40:17.159
 came

00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:17.579
 and

00:40:17.579 --> 00:40:17.840
 gave

00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:18.019
 me

00:40:18.019 --> 00:40:18.279
 life

00:40:18.279 --> 00:40:18.500
 I

00:40:18.500 --> 00:40:18.940
 believe

00:40:18.940 --> 00:40:19.679
 his

00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:20.000
 light

00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:20.340
 came

00:40:20.340 --> 00:40:20.619
 into

00:40:20.619 --> 00:40:20.880
 who

00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:21.099
 I

00:40:21.099 --> 00:40:21.420
 am

00:40:21.420 --> 00:40:21.860
 I

00:40:21.860 --> 00:40:22.279
 believe

00:40:22.279 --> 00:40:22.480
 that

00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:22.699
 that

00:40:22.699 --> 00:40:22.900
 is

00:40:22.900 --> 00:40:23.279
 true

00:40:23.279 --> 00:40:25.820
 I

00:40:25.820 --> 00:40:26.139
 believe

00:40:26.139 --> 00:40:26.320
 I

00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:26.559
 have

00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:26.679
 an

00:40:26.679 --> 00:40:26.860
 old

00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:27.239
 self

00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:27.380
 and

00:40:27.380 --> 00:40:27.500
 a

00:40:27.500 --> 00:40:27.659
 new

00:40:27.659 --> 00:40:27.840
 I

00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:28.320
 believe

00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:28.519
 that

00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:28.679
 that

00:40:28.679 --> 00:40:28.880
 is

00:40:28.880 --> 00:40:29.219
 true

00:40:29.219 --> 00:40:29.719
 I

00:40:29.719 --> 00:40:29.960
 need

00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:30.099
 to

00:40:30.099 --> 00:40:30.239
 hear

00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:30.420
 the

00:40:30.420 --> 00:40:30.880
 gospel

00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:32.500
 what

00:40:32.500 --> 00:40:32.920
 happens

00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:33.199
 when we

00:40:33.199 --> 00:40:33.460
 start

00:40:33.460 --> 00:40:33.659
 to

00:40:33.659 --> 00:40:33.900
 believe

00:40:33.900 --> 00:40:34.079
 the

00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:34.500
 gospel

00:40:34.500 --> 00:40:34.679
 and

00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:34.840
 with

00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:35.239
 gospel

00:40:35.239 --> 00:40:35.599
 comes

00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:35.880
 more

00:40:35.880 --> 00:40:36.000
 and

00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:36.139
 more

00:40:36.139 --> 00:40:36.420
 real

00:40:36.420 --> 00:40:36.619
 to

00:40:36.619 --> 00:40:36.800
 us

00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:36.920
 as

00:40:36.920 --> 00:40:37.059
 we

00:40:37.059 --> 00:40:37.539
 remind

00:40:37.539 --> 00:40:37.960
 ourselves

00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:38.199
 of

00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:38.320
 it

00:40:38.320 --> 00:40:38.739
 as

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:38.880
 we

00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:39.199
 preach

00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:39.380
 the

00:40:39.380 --> 00:40:39.760
 bible

00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:40.660
 about

00:40:40.660 --> 00:40:40.880
 it

00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:41.460
 and

00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:41.599
 as

00:40:41.599 --> 00:40:41.760
 we

00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:42.260
 understand

00:40:42.260 --> 00:40:42.599
 that

00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:42.800
 it's

00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:43.280
 Christ

00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:43.500
 who

00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:43.860
 takes

00:40:43.860 --> 00:40:44.119
 away

00:40:44.119 --> 00:40:44.340
 my

00:40:44.340 --> 00:40:44.619
 old

00:40:44.619 --> 00:40:44.980
 self

00:40:44.980 --> 00:40:45.200
 that

00:40:45.200 --> 00:40:45.740
 it's

00:40:45.740 --> 00:40:46.320
 Christ

00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:46.700
 who

00:40:46.700 --> 00:40:47.000
 gives

00:40:47.000 --> 00:40:47.140
 me

00:40:47.140 --> 00:40:47.300
 the

00:40:47.300 --> 00:40:47.500
 new

00:40:47.500 --> 00:40:47.840
 self

00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:48.039
 that

00:40:48.039 --> 00:40:48.380
 it's

00:40:48.380 --> 00:40:48.860
 Christ

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:49.079
 who

00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:49.320
 gives

00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:49.440
 me

00:40:49.440 --> 00:40:49.619
 the

00:40:49.619 --> 00:40:49.860
 Holy

00:40:49.860 --> 00:40:50.300
 Spirit

00:40:50.300 --> 00:40:50.500
 that

00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:50.740
 comes

00:40:50.740 --> 00:40:50.980
 into

00:40:50.980 --> 00:40:51.180
 my

00:40:51.180 --> 00:40:51.519
 whole

00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:52.119
 myself

00:40:52.119 --> 00:40:52.440
 there's

00:40:52.440 --> 00:40:52.640
 two

00:40:52.640 --> 00:40:52.880
 things

00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:53.019
 that

00:40:53.019 --> 00:40:53.140
 come

00:40:53.140 --> 00:40:53.280
 the

00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:53.599
 first

00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:53.840
 thing

00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:54.119
 is

00:40:54.119 --> 00:40:54.720
 I

00:40:54.720 --> 00:40:55.039
 can

00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:55.440
 look

00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:55.800
 at

00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:56.059
 my

00:40:56.059 --> 00:40:56.400
 life

00:40:56.400 --> 00:40:56.539
 and

00:40:56.539 --> 00:40:56.740
 my

00:40:56.740 --> 00:40:57.059
 day

00:40:57.059 --> 00:40:57.200
 and

00:40:57.200 --> 00:40:57.340
 I

00:40:57.340 --> 00:40:57.500
 can

00:40:57.500 --> 00:40:57.860
 see

00:40:57.860 --> 00:40:58.099
 the

00:40:58.099 --> 00:40:58.440
 world

00:40:58.440 --> 00:40:58.680
 as

00:40:58.680 --> 00:40:58.820
 it

00:40:58.820 --> 00:40:59.200
 is

00:40:59.200 --> 00:40:59.680
 and

00:40:59.680 --> 00:40:59.900
 I

00:40:59.900 --> 00:41:00.220
 have

00:41:00.220 --> 00:41:00.360
 a

00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:00.900
 security

00:41:00.900 --> 00:41:01.099
 and

00:41:01.099 --> 00:41:01.240
 a

00:41:01.240 --> 00:41:01.460
 hope

00:41:01.460 --> 00:41:01.660
 to

00:41:01.660 --> 00:41:01.920
 roll

00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:02.099
 up

00:41:02.099 --> 00:41:02.320
 my

00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:02.760
 sleeves

00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:03.180
 and

00:41:03.180 --> 00:41:03.280
 in

00:41:03.280 --> 00:41:03.380
 the

00:41:03.380 --> 00:41:03.599
 power

00:41:03.599 --> 00:41:03.740
 of

00:41:03.740 --> 00:41:03.960
 Christ

00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:04.139
 to

00:41:04.139 --> 00:41:04.320
 deal

00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:04.519
 with

00:41:04.519 --> 00:41:04.760
 it

00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:05.800
 amen

00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:10.139
 remembering

00:41:10.139 --> 00:41:10.380
 the

00:41:10.380 --> 00:41:10.860
 gospel

00:41:10.860 --> 00:41:12.860
 can

00:41:12.860 --> 00:41:13.079
 roll

00:41:13.079 --> 00:41:13.200
 up

00:41:13.200 --> 00:41:13.420
 my

00:41:13.420 --> 00:41:13.860
 sleeves

00:41:13.860 --> 00:41:14.380
 see

00:41:14.380 --> 00:41:14.519
 the

00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:14.760
 world

00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:14.940
 as

00:41:14.940 --> 00:41:15.059
 it

00:41:15.059 --> 00:41:15.380
 is

00:41:15.380 --> 00:41:16.019
 and

00:41:16.019 --> 00:41:16.160
 say

00:41:16.160 --> 00:41:16.639
 Jesus

00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:17.039
 help

00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:17.139
 me

00:41:17.139 --> 00:41:17.260
 to

00:41:17.260 --> 00:41:17.400
 deal

00:41:17.400 --> 00:41:17.579
 with

00:41:17.579 --> 00:41:17.760
 it

00:41:17.760 --> 00:41:19.960
 the

00:41:19.960 --> 00:41:20.139
 other

00:41:20.139 --> 00:41:20.360
 thing

00:41:20.360 --> 00:41:20.519
 that

00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:20.880
 happens

00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:21.059
 as

00:41:21.059 --> 00:41:21.200
 the

00:41:21.200 --> 00:41:21.539
 gospel

00:41:21.539 --> 00:41:22.000
 becomes

00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:22.280
 more

00:41:22.280 --> 00:41:22.579
 real

00:41:22.579 --> 00:41:22.800
 to

00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:22.980
 our

00:41:22.980 --> 00:41:23.320
 hearts

00:41:23.320 --> 00:41:23.519
 and

00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:23.639
 to

00:41:23.639 --> 00:41:23.800
 our

00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:24.300
 minds

00:41:24.300 --> 00:41:25.579
 is

00:41:25.579 --> 00:41:25.660
 that

00:41:25.660 --> 00:41:25.760
 we

00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:25.960
 can

00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:26.220
 work

00:41:26.220 --> 00:41:26.340
 out

00:41:26.340 --> 00:41:26.480
 a

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.000
 gratitude

00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:29.820
 a

00:41:29.820 --> 00:41:30.360
 security

00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:30.599
 that

00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:30.920
 comes

00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:31.059
 in

00:41:31.059 --> 00:41:31.159
 our

00:41:31.159 --> 00:41:31.460
 identity

00:41:31.460 --> 00:41:31.659
 in

00:41:31.659 --> 00:41:32.039
 Jesus

00:41:32.039 --> 00:41:32.679
 a

00:41:32.679 --> 00:41:33.039
 gospel

00:41:33.039 --> 00:41:33.380
 based

00:41:33.380 --> 00:41:33.839
 identity

00:41:33.839 --> 00:41:35.019
 that

00:41:35.019 --> 00:41:35.119
 we

00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:35.279
 can

00:41:35.279 --> 00:41:35.480
 work

00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:35.619
 out

00:41:35.619 --> 00:41:35.739
 of

00:41:35.739 --> 00:41:36.380
 gratitude

00:41:36.380 --> 00:41:37.860
 that

00:41:37.860 --> 00:41:38.339
 means

00:41:38.339 --> 00:41:39.900
 I

00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:40.059
 don't

00:41:40.059 --> 00:41:40.259
 have

00:41:40.259 --> 00:41:40.400
 to

00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:40.779
 deny

00:41:40.779 --> 00:41:41.579
 I

00:41:41.579 --> 00:41:41.719
 don't

00:41:41.719 --> 00:41:41.920
 have

00:41:41.920 --> 00:41:42.039
 to

00:41:42.039 --> 00:41:42.480
 pretend

00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:43.659
 I

00:41:43.659 --> 00:41:43.779
 don't

00:41:43.779 --> 00:41:43.920
 have

00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:44.000
 to

00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:44.159
 be

00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:44.420
 proud

00:41:44.420 --> 00:41:44.559
 of

00:41:44.559 --> 00:41:44.699
 my

00:41:44.699 --> 00:41:45.380
 accomplishments

00:41:45.380 --> 00:41:46.159
 why

00:41:46.159 --> 00:41:48.019
 Jesus

00:41:48.019 --> 00:41:49.400
 pierced

00:41:49.400 --> 00:41:49.900
 the

00:41:49.900 --> 00:41:50.360
 gospel

00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:50.880
 pierced

00:41:50.880 --> 00:41:51.079
 my

00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:51.559
 darkened

00:41:51.559 --> 00:41:51.940
 mind

00:41:51.940 --> 00:41:54.000
 and

00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:54.139
 when

00:41:54.139 --> 00:41:54.299
 the

00:41:54.299 --> 00:41:54.500
 Holy

00:41:54.500 --> 00:41:54.920
 Spirit

00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:55.219
 helped

00:41:55.219 --> 00:41:55.339
 me

00:41:55.339 --> 00:41:55.519
 to

00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:55.719
 say

00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:56.079
 yes

00:41:56.079 --> 00:41:56.920
 Christ

00:41:56.920 --> 00:41:57.179
 took

00:41:57.179 --> 00:41:57.400
 off

00:41:57.400 --> 00:41:57.579
 my

00:41:57.579 --> 00:41:57.819
 old

00:41:57.819 --> 00:41:58.199
 self

00:41:58.199 --> 00:41:58.980
 Christ

00:41:58.980 --> 00:41:59.299
 puts

00:41:59.299 --> 00:41:59.480
 on

00:41:59.480 --> 00:41:59.619
 the

00:41:59.619 --> 00:41:59.799
 new

00:41:59.799 --> 00:42:00.179
 self

00:42:00.179 --> 00:42:01.019
 Christ

00:42:01.019 --> 00:42:01.559
 renews

00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:01.799
 me

00:42:01.799 --> 00:42:02.399
 day

00:42:02.399 --> 00:42:02.619
 by

00:42:02.619 --> 00:42:03.000
 day

00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:03.879
 all

00:42:03.879 --> 00:42:04.219
 praise

00:42:04.219 --> 00:42:04.379
 and

00:42:04.379 --> 00:42:04.599
 glory

00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:04.779
 to

00:42:04.779 --> 00:42:05.000
 him

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:06.559
 please

00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:07.000
 stand

00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:14.260
 Christians

00:42:14.260 --> 00:42:15.619
 remember

00:42:15.619 --> 00:42:15.780
 the

00:42:15.780 --> 00:42:16.219
 gospel

00:42:16.219 --> 00:42:17.719
 remember

00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:18.019
 it

00:42:18.019 --> 00:42:18.139
 when

00:42:18.139 --> 00:42:18.260
 you

00:42:18.260 --> 00:42:18.599
 gather

00:42:18.599 --> 00:42:18.739
 in

00:42:18.739 --> 00:42:18.860
 your

00:42:18.860 --> 00:42:19.179
 small

00:42:19.179 --> 00:42:19.519
 groups

00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:19.880
 remember

00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:20.039
 it

00:42:20.039 --> 00:42:20.079
 in

00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:20.199
 your

00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:20.659
 families

00:42:20.659 --> 00:42:21.059
 remember

00:42:21.059 --> 00:42:21.199
 it

00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:21.300
 as

00:42:21.300 --> 00:42:21.400
 you

00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:21.679
 face

00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:21.880
 your

00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:22.079
 day

00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:22.500
 remember

00:42:22.500 --> 00:42:22.699
 it

00:42:22.699 --> 00:42:24.659
 as you

00:42:24.659 --> 00:42:25.360
 celebrate

00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:26.079
 accomplishments

00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:26.639
 remember

00:42:26.639 --> 00:42:26.900
 it

00:42:26.900 --> 00:42:27.440
 as

00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:27.679
 you

00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:29.079
 deal

00:42:29.079 --> 00:42:29.300
 with

00:42:29.300 --> 00:42:29.639
 bad

00:42:29.639 --> 00:42:30.039
 news

00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:30.760
 help

00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:30.940
 us

00:42:30.940 --> 00:42:31.099
 to

00:42:31.099 --> 00:42:31.659
 pray

00:42:31.659 --> 00:42:31.900
 for

00:42:31.900 --> 00:42:32.059
 me

00:42:32.059 --> 00:42:32.239
 that

00:42:32.239 --> 00:42:32.420
 I

00:42:32.420 --> 00:42:32.880
 remember

00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:33.059
 it

00:42:33.059 --> 00:42:33.159
 that

00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:33.280
 I

00:42:33.280 --> 00:42:33.420
 can

00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:33.619
 help

00:42:33.619 --> 00:42:33.780
 you

00:42:33.780 --> 00:42:33.920
 to

00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:34.260
 remember

00:42:34.260 --> 00:42:34.400
 it

00:42:34.400 --> 00:42:34.519
 that

00:42:34.519 --> 00:42:34.619
 you

00:42:34.619 --> 00:42:34.740
 can

00:42:34.740 --> 00:42:34.900
 help

00:42:34.900 --> 00:42:35.099
 me

00:42:35.099 --> 00:42:35.200
 to

00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:35.500
 remember

00:42:35.500 --> 00:42:35.680
 it

00:42:35.680 --> 00:42:36.059
 Christians

00:42:36.059 --> 00:42:36.480
 remember

00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:36.660
 the

00:42:36.660 --> 00:42:37.019
 gospel

00:42:37.019 --> 00:42:37.599
 and if

00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:37.780
 you're

00:42:37.780 --> 00:42:37.980
 here

00:42:37.980 --> 00:42:38.260
 and you've

00:42:38.260 --> 00:42:38.820
 never received

00:42:38.820 --> 00:42:39.360
 the gospel

00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:39.880
 friend

00:42:39.880 --> 00:42:42.240
 today is

00:42:42.240 --> 00:42:42.680
 the day

00:42:42.680 --> 00:42:43.700
 you can

00:42:43.700 --> 00:42:44.139
 become

00:42:44.139 --> 00:42:44.840
 a new

00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:45.400
 creation

00:42:45.400 --> 00:42:51.440
 the gospel

00:42:51.440 --> 00:42:51.780
 has been

00:42:51.780 --> 00:42:52.320
 proclaimed

00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:52.820
 say

00:42:52.820 --> 00:42:53.300
 yes

00:42:53.300 --> 00:42:54.680
 say

00:42:54.680 --> 00:42:55.260
 yes

00:42:55.260 --> 00:42:58.019
 say

00:42:58.019 --> 00:42:58.559
 yes

00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:00.539
 in your

00:43:00.539 --> 00:43:01.019
 own words

00:43:01.019 --> 00:43:01.320
 say

00:43:01.320 --> 00:43:01.780
 yes

00:43:01.780 --> 00:43:02.559
 let's

00:43:02.559 --> 00:43:02.700
 bow

00:43:02.700 --> 00:43:02.960
 our heads

00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:03.400
 in prayer

00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:10.700
 father

00:43:10.700 --> 00:43:11.119
 thank you

00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:11.700
 so much

00:43:11.700 --> 00:43:11.920
 for

00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:12.320
 Jesus

00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:13.900
 thank you

00:43:13.900 --> 00:43:14.460
 so much

00:43:14.460 --> 00:43:14.820
 father

00:43:14.820 --> 00:43:15.180
 that

00:43:15.180 --> 00:43:15.519
 you

00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:16.240
 never

00:43:16.240 --> 00:43:16.780
 your

00:43:16.780 --> 00:43:17.539
 love

00:43:17.539 --> 00:43:17.860
 is

00:43:17.860 --> 00:43:18.780
 unfailing

00:43:18.780 --> 00:43:19.600
 your

00:43:19.600 --> 00:43:20.180
 love

00:43:20.180 --> 00:43:20.500
 is

00:43:20.500 --> 00:43:21.220
 unending

00:43:21.220 --> 00:43:22.059
 you

00:43:22.059 --> 00:43:22.500
 saw

00:43:22.500 --> 00:43:22.780
 us

00:43:22.780 --> 00:43:23.059
 as

00:43:23.059 --> 00:43:23.220
 we

00:43:23.220 --> 00:43:23.539
 really

00:43:23.539 --> 00:43:23.880
 are

00:43:23.880 --> 00:43:24.200
 and

00:43:24.200 --> 00:43:24.500
 still

00:43:24.500 --> 00:43:24.680
 you

00:43:24.680 --> 00:43:24.960
 loved

00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:25.200
 us

00:43:25.200 --> 00:43:25.360
 and

00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:25.580
 sent

00:43:25.580 --> 00:43:25.760
 your

00:43:25.760 --> 00:43:26.100
 son

00:43:26.100 --> 00:43:26.800
 we

00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:27.100
 thank

00:43:27.100 --> 00:43:27.280
 you

00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:27.640
 father

00:43:27.640 --> 00:43:27.960
 that

00:43:27.960 --> 00:43:28.160
 there

00:43:28.160 --> 00:43:28.320
 is

00:43:28.320 --> 00:43:28.740
 nothing

00:43:28.740 --> 00:43:29.160
 in

00:43:29.160 --> 00:43:29.580
 us

00:43:29.580 --> 00:43:29.820
 that

00:43:29.820 --> 00:43:30.000
 will

00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:30.180
 be

00:43:30.180 --> 00:43:30.320
 of

00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:30.440
 a

00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:30.920
 surprise

00:43:30.920 --> 00:43:31.220
 to

00:43:31.220 --> 00:43:31.420
 you

00:43:31.420 --> 00:43:31.720
 you

00:43:31.720 --> 00:43:32.019
 saw

00:43:32.019 --> 00:43:32.180
 us

00:43:32.180 --> 00:43:32.720
 perfectly

00:43:32.720 --> 00:43:33.480
 Jesus

00:43:33.480 --> 00:43:33.800
 knew

00:43:33.800 --> 00:43:33.940
 us

00:43:33.940 --> 00:43:34.400
 perfectly

00:43:34.400 --> 00:43:34.640
 when

00:43:34.640 --> 00:43:34.740
 he

00:43:34.740 --> 00:43:34.960
 died

00:43:34.960 --> 00:43:35.160
 for

00:43:35.160 --> 00:43:35.280
 us

00:43:35.280 --> 00:43:35.400
 on

00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:35.539
 the

00:43:35.539 --> 00:43:35.880
 cross

00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:36.420
 the

00:43:36.420 --> 00:43:36.620
 Holy

00:43:36.620 --> 00:43:37.019
 Spirit

00:43:37.019 --> 00:43:37.340
 knows

00:43:37.340 --> 00:43:37.500
 us

00:43:37.500 --> 00:43:37.720
 better

00:43:37.720 --> 00:43:37.900
 than

00:43:37.900 --> 00:43:38.000
 we

00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:38.140
 know

00:43:38.140 --> 00:43:38.620
 ourselves

00:43:38.620 --> 00:43:39.320
 we

00:43:39.320 --> 00:43:39.620
 thank

00:43:39.619 --> 00:43:39.799
 you

00:43:39.799 --> 00:43:40.119
 father

00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:40.359
 for

00:43:40.359 --> 00:43:41.099
 your

00:43:41.099 --> 00:43:41.519
 grace

00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:41.799
 your

00:43:41.799 --> 00:43:42.179
 mercy

00:43:42.179 --> 00:43:42.380
 the

00:43:42.380 --> 00:43:42.719
 power

00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:42.859
 of

00:43:42.859 --> 00:43:42.960
 the

00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:43.380
 gospel

00:43:43.380 --> 00:43:44.000
 we

00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:44.359
 thank

00:43:44.359 --> 00:43:44.599
 you

00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:45.059
 that

00:43:45.059 --> 00:43:45.259
 the

00:43:45.259 --> 00:43:45.679
 gospel

00:43:45.679 --> 00:43:46.099
 came

00:43:46.099 --> 00:43:46.299
 to

00:43:46.299 --> 00:43:46.579
 us

00:43:46.579 --> 00:43:46.719
 and

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 that

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 you

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 work

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 within

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 us

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 that

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 we

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 might

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 say

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 yes

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 and

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 father

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 we

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 ask

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 that

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 the

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 Holy

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 Spirit

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 might

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 move

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 and

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 might

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 empower

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 upon

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 us

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 as

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 individuals

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 as

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 friends

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 as

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 couples

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 as

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 families

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 as

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 a

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 congregation

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 that

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 we

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 might

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 remind

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 each

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 other

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 the

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 gospel

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 and

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 be

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 reminded

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 of

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 the

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 gospel

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 and

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 that

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 we

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 see

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 ourselves

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 in

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 the

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 world

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 and

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 that

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 which

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 draws

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 us

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 forward

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 to

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 live

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 in

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 a

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 way

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 that

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 is

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 good

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 for

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 people

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 proclaims

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 the

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 gospel

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 and

00:44:18.920 --> 00:44:19.179
 brings

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 you

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 glory

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 and

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 all

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 God's

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 people

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 said

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 Amen