WEBVTT 00:00:00.180 --> 00:00:05.219 Father, your word has said some very hard things to us this morning. 00:00:05.980 --> 00:00:10.960 Things, Father, which are not the way that Canadians talk or think. 00:00:12.099 --> 00:00:18.480 And Father, you know how deeply Canadian we are, and most of the time, Father, you don't think that's a bad thing, that we're Canadian. 00:00:19.379 --> 00:00:23.519 But we ask, Father, that your Holy Spirit might bring your word home to us, 00:00:24.379 --> 00:00:28.740 that we might hear what your word says, that we might be unashamed of it, 00:00:28.739 --> 00:00:32.439 that we might be fed by it, that we might be formed by it. 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:36.699 And we ask this in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen. 00:00:37.619 --> 00:00:38.479 Please be seated. 00:00:41.159 --> 00:00:45.939 So, yeah, if you don't have Bibles, there's maybe one left up there. 00:00:45.959 --> 00:00:47.179 I don't know if there's some left over there. 00:00:47.179 --> 00:00:50.759 I don't know how many of you noticed it with Laurier when he was reading, 00:00:50.959 --> 00:00:54.759 but twice the Bible said something very shocking and un-Canadian. 00:00:55.420 --> 00:00:58.019 It said that somebody should be accursed. 00:00:58.740 --> 00:01:00.120 I don't know if you picked that up. 00:01:00.179 --> 00:01:03.160 If you have it in your Bibles, I'll just make sure you heard it. 00:01:03.460 --> 00:01:04.680 Some of you probably did. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.740 It's one of the starkest... 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:09.920 I don't know what the right word is. 00:01:10.420 --> 00:01:16.659 It's a bit of a shocking thing for Canadian ears to hear something like this said. 00:01:17.359 --> 00:01:17.560 Right? 00:01:17.659 --> 00:01:19.140 Look at verse 8 and 9. 00:01:19.140 --> 00:01:22.099 Chapter 1 of Galatians. 00:01:22.180 --> 00:01:28.280 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:30.780 let him be accursed. 00:01:31.819 --> 00:01:33.299 And that's pretty stark. 00:01:33.939 --> 00:01:36.980 And then, to make sure that we get it, he says it a second time. 00:01:36.980 --> 00:01:45.840 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:49.340 let him be accursed. 00:01:49.340 --> 00:01:52.859 Now, this is very offensive to Canadians. 00:01:54.380 --> 00:02:00.760 I mean, one of the things, you can hardly watch a movie, not just for Canadians but for North Americans, 00:02:00.859 --> 00:02:06.219 you can hardly watch a movie where somewhere through the movie somebody will say, 00:02:06.219 --> 00:02:08.680 nobody can tell you how to live. 00:02:10.099 --> 00:02:12.180 You're responsible for your own happiness. 00:02:13.580 --> 00:02:17.079 You need to do what you need to do to be happy. 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.460 No one can tell you what to do about how to be happy or how to be whole. 00:02:21.900 --> 00:02:23.120 You've got to listen to yourself. 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:24.340 You've got to listen to your heart. 00:02:25.139 --> 00:02:28.539 And that, I mean, it's in Disney movies, Pixar movies. 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.219 It's in just about every type of movie that you can possibly watch. 00:02:32.219 --> 00:02:40.060 And then here we have Paul saying that if you speak a certain way, you should be accursed. 00:02:41.379 --> 00:02:47.560 And let me just tell you, you know, sometimes, you know, I look into the, 00:02:47.719 --> 00:02:51.340 to research the original language and what it means in the original language. 00:02:51.740 --> 00:02:54.180 And sometimes that makes the thing a bit easier. 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:55.360 It doesn't make it easier. 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:03.860 Literally what it means is, may you be handed over to God who in wrath will judge you. 00:03:04.380 --> 00:03:06.140 It actually makes it worse. 00:03:07.160 --> 00:03:12.320 May you be handed over to the living God who in wrath will judge you. 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:14.440 So it's pretty shocking. 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:28.599 So, well, what would possibly, is, I mean, one of the things I pray, actually, you know, 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.259 I invite people to church. 00:03:31.439 --> 00:03:35.960 I don't have a good track record of them actually coming, but I invite them. 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:43.020 And the people I invite, like there's a couple of people at one of the coffee shops that I go to 00:03:43.020 --> 00:03:46.820 that I've invited and several of them have never been to a church service in their life. 00:03:47.659 --> 00:03:51.700 And I think to myself when I'm preparing the service, what would, what would it be like 00:03:51.700 --> 00:03:53.300 if this is the Sunday they come? 00:03:55.100 --> 00:03:57.000 If this is the Sunday they come. 00:03:57.200 --> 00:03:58.800 I actually pray that every week. 00:03:59.540 --> 00:04:02.360 In fact, I have two different names that I use. 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:07.020 And in my notes I have, you know, I'm not going to say their names, but I, you know, 00:04:07.020 --> 00:04:08.640 one's a woman and one's a man. 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:12.099 And I actually put, you know, what about blank? 00:04:12.239 --> 00:04:13.119 What about blank? 00:04:13.459 --> 00:04:15.419 What if this is the Sunday they come? 00:04:16.379 --> 00:04:20.259 And it doesn't mean that I'm going to back away from things. 00:04:20.339 --> 00:04:21.939 I just want to be conscious of it. 00:04:21.939 --> 00:04:23.319 What if this is the Sunday they come? 00:04:23.500 --> 00:04:25.899 And they've just heard this about it being accursed. 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.860 So let's look to see what's going on in the text. 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:34.399 What would lead Paul to say something so strong? 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:38.379 So we'll begin at the beginning and look at how it begins. 00:04:38.539 --> 00:04:40.279 We'll look at the first two verses. 00:04:41.479 --> 00:04:45.839 And just as you're reading this, one of the things to keep in mind is this isn't Paul 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:50.060 speaking about all the people who believe other religions. 00:04:51.039 --> 00:04:56.060 And this isn't Paul speaking about all of the people who don't follow any religion whatsoever. 00:04:56.339 --> 00:05:00.239 They just like to, frankly, do whatever they want to do. 00:05:00.500 --> 00:05:03.979 Make a lot of money, get drunk, like whatever it is they want to do. 00:05:03.980 --> 00:05:05.060 He's not talking to them. 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:06.800 This is a letter to a church. 00:05:07.080 --> 00:05:10.000 In fact, it's actually to at least five churches. 00:05:10.980 --> 00:05:16.280 And in terms of the context of the letter, the churches that he's writing to, all of the 00:05:16.280 --> 00:05:20.939 people in those churches had been Christians no more than about a year and a half. 00:05:22.259 --> 00:05:28.100 And they became Christians out of the Jewish background, which would now mean they're completed 00:05:28.100 --> 00:05:32.040 Jews, by the way, because Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:37.379 But they're followers of Jesus, the Messiah, and pagans. 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:42.760 So some of the people who wrote but get this letter, up until they became Christians, they 00:05:42.760 --> 00:05:43.960 would go and worship the emperor. 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:46.220 They would go and worship Zeus. 00:05:47.100 --> 00:05:48.120 Like, that's what they did. 00:05:48.740 --> 00:05:51.100 And unbelievably, they became Christians. 00:05:51.100 --> 00:05:54.360 And so now Paul is writing this letter to them. 00:05:54.700 --> 00:05:56.140 And look at how it begins. 00:05:56.260 --> 00:05:57.280 It begins like this. 00:05:58.560 --> 00:06:07.040 Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, 00:06:07.160 --> 00:06:12.220 who raised him from the dead, and all the brothers and sisters who are with me to the churches 00:06:12.220 --> 00:06:13.060 of Galatia. 00:06:13.060 --> 00:06:19.000 Now, if you could put up the first point, Andrew, and I got this distinction from Kierkegaard. 00:06:20.500 --> 00:06:21.780 Paul is not a genius. 00:06:22.519 --> 00:06:23.459 He is an apostle. 00:06:25.860 --> 00:06:28.420 That's one of the things that Paul is saying right off the bat. 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:30.300 He's saying, I'm not a genius. 00:06:30.939 --> 00:06:31.680 I'm an apostle. 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:34.500 The name Paul, by the way, means little. 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:36.779 It's actually sort of an interesting way. 00:06:36.779 --> 00:06:44.639 We don't know whether when he got named as a Jewish man living outside of the promised 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:49.259 land, it was very common for Jewish people to have a Jewish name and a Greek name. 00:06:49.339 --> 00:06:53.819 And we don't know if that's the name that he got from birth or if it's a name that he 00:06:53.819 --> 00:07:00.319 chose as he began his ministry more and more amongst non, outside of the Jewish homeland, 00:07:00.459 --> 00:07:01.179 the promised land. 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:04.419 But he chose for himself or had given him the name little. 00:07:04.420 --> 00:07:05.860 But it's very interesting. 00:07:05.960 --> 00:07:07.480 If you look at it again, what does it say here? 00:07:07.699 --> 00:07:12.920 When I say that Paul is not a genius, he's an apostle, this is going to become something 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:17.640 that we're going to talk about more next week because it's an important point in the book 00:07:17.640 --> 00:07:18.460 of Galatians. 00:07:18.840 --> 00:07:20.020 But look what it says. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:27.879 He says he's an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:29.620 the Father who raised him from the dead. 00:07:29.620 --> 00:07:37.100 So Paul is saying that it's not that he himself was specifically a great genius. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:42.120 And because he, you know, from man and through man, he's a genius. 00:07:42.840 --> 00:07:47.040 And the local Christians also thought, look at that guy Paul. 00:07:47.259 --> 00:07:48.459 He's so smart. 00:07:48.620 --> 00:07:54.100 He's like a philosophical genius, a theological genius, a poetic genius. 00:07:54.100 --> 00:07:58.540 You know, philosophical, ethical. 00:07:58.700 --> 00:07:59.720 He's just a genius. 00:08:00.140 --> 00:08:03.400 We should really train this guy and we should appoint him. 00:08:03.860 --> 00:08:07.060 And Paul is saying, that's not how it worked with me. 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:08.820 I'm not a genius. 00:08:09.980 --> 00:08:14.300 Nobody looked at me and said, this guy is so smart, we should appoint him and we should 00:08:14.300 --> 00:08:14.840 send him. 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:21.039 In fact, if you go and you look in the rest of Paul's story, Paul in 1 Corinthians says, 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:26.519 he's the absolute last guy that any church would have ever picked to do anything. 00:08:27.339 --> 00:08:33.620 In fact, as he says in one of his letters, he's the guy that if Paul, if he'd come into 00:08:33.620 --> 00:08:36.519 a church, nobody would want him behind him. 00:08:38.959 --> 00:08:39.439 Okay? 00:08:39.440 --> 00:08:45.660 Everybody, like if it would be, if he came into the room, I'd go, you'd tell from my face 00:08:45.660 --> 00:08:49.320 that something had just happened and you'd all start to look. 00:08:50.140 --> 00:08:53.560 And throughout the entire rest of the service, you would have only been partially looking at 00:08:53.560 --> 00:08:57.240 me and you would have been keeping your eye on him because he's dangerous. 00:08:58.800 --> 00:09:04.600 And so Paul is not saying, Paul is saying, you have to understand that I am not a genius. 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:07.360 It wasn't that I'm well-trained. 00:09:07.360 --> 00:09:15.159 It wasn't that any human institution has chosen me or picked me, but I'm an apostle. 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:17.600 And who has made me an apostle? 00:09:18.620 --> 00:09:26.980 Jesus Christ is the one who revealed himself to me, who called me, who saved me, and who 00:09:26.980 --> 00:09:27.680 taught me. 00:09:29.460 --> 00:09:30.659 That's who I am. 00:09:30.659 --> 00:09:34.000 I am little. 00:09:35.379 --> 00:09:39.959 But, and in the New Testament, there's two types of ways that the word apostle is used. 00:09:40.100 --> 00:09:42.699 Apostle, by the way, was just a word in the old world. 00:09:43.120 --> 00:09:45.839 It's sort of a little bit like ambassador or envoy. 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:52.919 And so there's all sorts of different people who were made like apostles, like envoys to carry 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:54.759 a message and to fulfill a task. 00:09:54.759 --> 00:10:01.080 But the New Testament makes clear that there were 12 apostles specifically chosen by Jesus 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:10.120 and specifically given the role of making sure that his teaching would be correctly disseminated 00:10:10.120 --> 00:10:11.519 and understood. 00:10:12.279 --> 00:10:14.279 And Paul is saying, I am one of those 12. 00:10:15.379 --> 00:10:17.039 I was taught by Jesus. 00:10:17.519 --> 00:10:19.240 I was saved by Jesus. 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:21.060 Jesus revealed himself to me. 00:10:21.560 --> 00:10:26.279 In a sense, what Paul, if you could put the next point up, in a sense, what Paul is claiming 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:26.899 is this. 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:32.480 To listen to Paul is to listen to the Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father. 00:10:33.899 --> 00:10:40.980 To listen to Jesus, to Paul, listen to Galatians, is to actually be listening to the Lord Jesus 00:10:40.980 --> 00:10:47.960 Christ and God the Father explain who Jesus is and what he did upon the cross and what it 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.580 means to live after we've received the gospel. 00:10:52.019 --> 00:10:55.800 We're going to talk about this more next week because Paul talks about it more next week 00:10:55.800 --> 00:10:58.280 in the part of Galatians that comes after this. 00:10:59.280 --> 00:11:01.580 But this is the fundamental Christian claim. 00:11:01.759 --> 00:11:05.420 And what I can tell you, I mean, there's some arguments that I could give you as to why 00:11:05.420 --> 00:11:06.960 this is a reasonable thing to believe. 00:11:07.060 --> 00:11:12.100 But at the end of the day, people of you who know me know I like the phrase, but at the 00:11:12.100 --> 00:11:16.900 end of the day, the end of the day, it's the witness of the Holy Spirit and Jesus 00:11:16.899 --> 00:11:18.179 himself to our hearts. 00:11:19.840 --> 00:11:25.019 And that every follower of Jesus who becomes more in tune with the Bible, it becomes more 00:11:25.019 --> 00:11:29.240 and more clear that when they hear the Bible, they're not just listening to human words, 00:11:29.579 --> 00:11:32.079 that it's God himself speaking to us. 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:41.020 So what we're getting here is this is, you know, it's, as I said before, it's a challenge 00:11:41.020 --> 00:11:46.400 to Canadians because to Canadians, movies and everything in the press, they say no one 00:11:46.400 --> 00:11:48.240 can tell you how to live or be happy. 00:11:48.520 --> 00:11:52.020 You go to a high school graduation, people will tell you the same thing. 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:53.700 It's what the valedictorian will tell you. 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:55.200 It's what the principal will tell you. 00:11:55.520 --> 00:11:57.860 It's what the superintendent will tell you. 00:11:57.920 --> 00:12:01.340 They'll tell you that in a public school and they'll tell you this in a Catholic school. 00:12:01.340 --> 00:12:03.639 They'll say no one can tell you how to live. 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:05.259 No one can tell you how to be happy. 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.540 No one can tell you how to find meaning in your life. 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.519 You've got to make your mind up for this. 00:12:09.820 --> 00:12:13.240 But now Paul here is making a very, very, very specific claim. 00:12:13.340 --> 00:12:15.259 He's saying, well, what about if God speaks to you? 00:12:18.460 --> 00:12:20.340 What if it's God who speaks to you? 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:27.320 And what if it's God who speaks to you, who's not just a God who's distant and who hates you, 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:29.820 but how is he described? 00:12:29.940 --> 00:12:31.360 Look again at what the text says. 00:12:32.280 --> 00:12:37.480 Paul, an apostle, not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:39.660 who raised him from the dead. 00:12:40.680 --> 00:12:43.560 And in a moment we're going to see even more about what it means 00:12:43.560 --> 00:12:46.800 that Jesus was actually raised from the dead. 00:12:46.799 --> 00:12:53.819 So now, you might not still agree with it, but now think about this a little bit again. 00:12:53.939 --> 00:12:56.179 Look again at the end, verses 8 and 9. 00:12:57.199 --> 00:13:02.019 But even if we are an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, 00:13:02.399 --> 00:13:03.399 let him be accursed. 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:05.919 As we have said before, so now I say again, 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.039 if anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, 00:13:09.299 --> 00:13:10.240 let him be accursed. 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:16.419 So now maybe we get a little bit of a sense about what it is that's getting Paul so riled. 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.240 Because Paul is saying to the people, 00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:23.100 listen, there's all sorts of geniuses in the world. 00:13:23.759 --> 00:13:25.019 I am not a genius. 00:13:25.620 --> 00:13:26.500 I am an apostle. 00:13:27.180 --> 00:13:32.960 And when you hear me, you're hearing what Jesus himself revealed to me about who he is 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:36.899 and what he did on the cross and what that means for your life. 00:13:36.899 --> 00:13:39.439 And when you hear Jesus revealing it to me, 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:45.039 Jesus, every word that Jesus speaks is exactly the word the Father wants to speak to you. 00:13:45.500 --> 00:13:50.240 And so you get a little bit, maybe a bit of a sense about what it means if something was changed, 00:13:50.319 --> 00:13:55.000 especially if what is changed, as Paul is going to say, leads to disaster. 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.340 I'm not making any comment about Trump or anything like that, 00:13:59.379 --> 00:14:02.120 but we all know there's a big crisis going on with North Korea. 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:06.740 And imagine for a moment that not just Trump, 00:14:07.659 --> 00:14:10.139 but that Trump and his best advisors, 00:14:10.139 --> 00:14:13.039 they come up with a very, very carefully crafted message. 00:14:13.220 --> 00:14:14.560 They consult the South Koreans. 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.120 And between the South Korean government and the Japanese government 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:19.639 and the American government, 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:22.480 they come up with a very carefully crafted message. 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:27.039 And they have the carefully crafted message delivered by their apostles, 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:29.340 their envoys, their ambassadors, 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:31.759 to give to the North Korean government. 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:34.799 And then imagine after that message was delivered, 00:14:35.299 --> 00:14:36.860 12 hours after it's delivered, 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:39.840 North Korea launches its nuclear weapons. 00:14:41.019 --> 00:14:43.259 And then afterwards, we discover 00:14:43.259 --> 00:14:47.659 that what the ambassadors did when they went to see the North Korean government, 00:14:47.820 --> 00:14:48.259 they said, 00:14:48.779 --> 00:14:51.039 we don't like this. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:53.179 We're going to tell them something else. 00:14:53.179 --> 00:14:57.219 And just on their own authority, 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:59.439 they throw out what the South Korean, 00:14:59.599 --> 00:15:00.159 the American, 00:15:00.359 --> 00:15:02.579 and the Japanese government have come up with. 00:15:02.719 --> 00:15:03.779 They just throw it away, 00:15:03.819 --> 00:15:06.799 and they try to tell you something that they cooked up out of their own brains. 00:15:07.299 --> 00:15:08.659 And then 12 hours later, 00:15:08.659 --> 00:15:09.819 there's a nuclear war. 00:15:10.359 --> 00:15:10.779 Like, 00:15:10.819 --> 00:15:12.419 what would we say about those guys? 00:15:14.479 --> 00:15:15.799 We might say something like, 00:15:15.859 --> 00:15:16.799 let them be accursed. 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:20.439 If it's led to a disaster. 00:15:21.039 --> 00:15:24.019 So Paul is saying that my message is not my message. 00:15:24.419 --> 00:15:24.719 In fact, 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:25.959 one of the things which is very, 00:15:26.079 --> 00:15:29.439 very interesting is if you look at that verse 8 again, 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:30.899 look at verse 8. 00:15:32.599 --> 00:15:33.039 And this, 00:15:33.819 --> 00:15:34.479 Paul says, 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:40.759 but even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, 00:15:40.800 --> 00:15:41.500 let him be accursed. 00:15:41.720 --> 00:15:43.440 He puts himself under it. 00:15:43.940 --> 00:15:44.500 He says, 00:15:44.800 --> 00:15:45.779 if down the road, 00:15:45.899 --> 00:15:47.360 I decide I'm a genius, 00:15:47.980 --> 00:15:50.039 and I can improve on this, 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:52.000 I should be accursed. 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:54.279 If an angel comes and says, 00:15:54.420 --> 00:15:55.980 I think I'm smarter than God, 00:15:56.399 --> 00:15:57.539 here's a better message. 00:15:57.960 --> 00:15:59.060 He should be accursed. 00:15:59.779 --> 00:16:00.019 Like, 00:16:00.019 --> 00:16:02.720 what matters is the message that comes from God, 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.080 not the message from a genius. 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:06.000 Now, 00:16:06.040 --> 00:16:06.740 some of you might say, 00:16:06.820 --> 00:16:06.920 okay, 00:16:06.980 --> 00:16:07.180 George, 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:08.759 that's all right about North Korea. 00:16:09.420 --> 00:16:09.800 Okay, 00:16:09.860 --> 00:16:10.440 I get it, 00:16:10.580 --> 00:16:12.000 but that's about North Korea. 00:16:12.680 --> 00:16:13.180 Okay, 00:16:13.379 --> 00:16:14.779 I understand that. 00:16:15.379 --> 00:16:16.019 But George, 00:16:16.740 --> 00:16:18.360 this is just religion. 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:22.940 It's just religion and spirituality. 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:23.740 Like, 00:16:23.800 --> 00:16:26.279 this isn't real stuff like North Korea 00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:28.500 and nuclear bombs. 00:16:28.500 --> 00:16:29.980 It's just religion. 00:16:29.980 --> 00:16:33.960 A couple of months ago, 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:35.720 when I was in one of the coffee shops, 00:16:36.100 --> 00:16:38.300 a person that I've talked to quite a few times, 00:16:39.980 --> 00:16:40.740 he's had, 00:16:41.259 --> 00:16:42.019 he really, 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:42.500 really, 00:16:42.659 --> 00:16:43.039 really, 00:16:43.500 --> 00:16:45.300 I don't know if I'm allowed to say this on tape, 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:48.600 just about every authority figure in his life 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:49.320 has screwed him. 00:16:50.940 --> 00:16:51.340 Like, 00:16:51.560 --> 00:16:53.139 you know that old song from friends 00:16:53.139 --> 00:16:53.840 when it hasn't been, 00:16:53.940 --> 00:16:54.519 what's your day, 00:16:54.620 --> 00:16:55.000 your week, 00:16:55.060 --> 00:16:55.420 your month, 00:16:55.460 --> 00:16:56.300 or even your year? 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:57.099 Like, 00:16:57.159 --> 00:16:57.439 for him, 00:16:57.479 --> 00:16:57.839 it would be, 00:16:57.899 --> 00:16:58.740 it hasn't been his day, 00:16:58.819 --> 00:16:59.199 his week, 00:16:59.279 --> 00:16:59.979 his month, 00:17:00.059 --> 00:17:00.439 his year, 00:17:00.500 --> 00:17:01.519 or his decade, 00:17:01.839 --> 00:17:02.439 or two. 00:17:03.359 --> 00:17:03.719 Like, 00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:05.639 he has just been failed by his dad, 00:17:05.720 --> 00:17:07.279 he's been failed by his mom, 00:17:07.379 --> 00:17:08.740 he's been failed by bosses, 00:17:09.299 --> 00:17:11.240 and I know I'm only hearing his side of it, 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:11.460 but, 00:17:11.839 --> 00:17:13.539 and I know that when I'm only hearing his side of it, 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:15.379 you have to be careful to hear the other side of it, 00:17:15.419 --> 00:17:15.579 but, 00:17:16.019 --> 00:17:16.579 you know, 00:17:16.659 --> 00:17:19.119 he also worked in this particular one, 00:17:19.180 --> 00:17:21.259 and I saw how he was really treated very, 00:17:21.259 --> 00:17:23.019 very unjustly by the supervisor, 00:17:23.180 --> 00:17:23.779 by the manager. 00:17:23.779 --> 00:17:24.819 And, 00:17:24.899 --> 00:17:25.119 and, 00:17:25.220 --> 00:17:26.359 and he was telling me this, 00:17:26.460 --> 00:17:27.039 this one day, 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:28.500 he was on a little bit of a rant, 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:30.139 about how, 00:17:30.899 --> 00:17:31.139 you know, 00:17:31.160 --> 00:17:32.980 you can't trust human institutions, 00:17:33.700 --> 00:17:34.139 and, 00:17:34.259 --> 00:17:36.559 you can't trust families, 00:17:36.799 --> 00:17:38.259 and you can't trust people, 00:17:38.859 --> 00:17:40.440 people tell you lies, 00:17:40.899 --> 00:17:41.839 people fail, 00:17:42.399 --> 00:17:42.740 and, 00:17:42.819 --> 00:17:43.319 and, 00:17:43.399 --> 00:17:43.559 you know, 00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:45.720 sometimes I screw up and mess up, 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:47.339 and I can't even trust myself, 00:17:47.859 --> 00:17:49.240 and the fact of the matter is, 00:17:49.299 --> 00:17:50.519 that every day I wake up, 00:17:50.579 --> 00:17:50.799 and I, 00:17:50.799 --> 00:17:51.579 I sort of wonder, 00:17:51.700 --> 00:17:51.899 you know, 00:17:51.980 --> 00:17:53.079 why I even live, 00:17:53.079 --> 00:17:55.919 and it feels as if living is a little bit of a curse, 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:58.079 and it feels like I'm just going to have to live, 00:17:58.139 --> 00:17:59.720 and put up with all this crap, 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:00.740 day in, 00:18:00.779 --> 00:18:01.619 and day out, 00:18:02.159 --> 00:18:02.460 you know, 00:18:02.559 --> 00:18:02.720 my, 00:18:02.759 --> 00:18:04.019 my girlfriends broke, 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:06.119 every one of my girlfriends has broken up with me, 00:18:06.199 --> 00:18:07.579 I just have to put up with this crap, 00:18:07.659 --> 00:18:09.119 and the most that I can hope for, 00:18:09.399 --> 00:18:11.220 is that I'll make a few dollars, 00:18:11.339 --> 00:18:12.399 and then I die. 00:18:15.259 --> 00:18:16.419 And I just listened, 00:18:16.420 --> 00:18:19.360 and somebody was praying for me right then, 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:20.960 because I said, 00:18:21.320 --> 00:18:22.960 you've just perfectly described, 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:24.840 why you need a savior. 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:27.120 Like, 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:28.779 you've just perfectly described, 00:18:28.900 --> 00:18:30.380 what the Bible tries to describe, 00:18:30.460 --> 00:18:31.360 as a human condition, 00:18:31.500 --> 00:18:32.320 that most Canadians, 00:18:32.460 --> 00:18:34.000 and North Americans don't understand. 00:18:35.140 --> 00:18:36.660 You've perfectly expressed, 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:37.180 and understood, 00:18:37.380 --> 00:18:38.539 that no human institution, 00:18:38.539 --> 00:18:40.339 all human institutions fail, 00:18:41.379 --> 00:18:42.779 all of the people fail, 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:43.619 and you fail, 00:18:44.319 --> 00:18:44.920 and you need, 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:46.399 a deliverance, 00:18:46.799 --> 00:18:47.700 from outside, 00:18:47.940 --> 00:18:49.159 of that which is human, 00:18:49.700 --> 00:18:50.579 which is real, 00:18:50.700 --> 00:18:51.519 and that's exactly, 00:18:51.700 --> 00:18:52.420 what Christians say, 00:18:52.460 --> 00:18:53.420 the gospel is about, 00:18:54.019 --> 00:18:55.639 is that Jesus is God, 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:56.440 the son of God, 00:18:56.579 --> 00:18:58.559 come into our human world, 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:00.599 and dine upon the cross, 00:19:00.659 --> 00:19:02.399 to actually deliver you, 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:05.099 and that this isn't just a story, 00:19:05.200 --> 00:19:06.139 like the great pumpkin, 00:19:06.379 --> 00:19:07.379 or the Easter bunny, 00:19:07.380 --> 00:19:10.080 or Santa Claus, 00:19:10.180 --> 00:19:11.120 that Christians believe, 00:19:11.180 --> 00:19:13.220 this actually really happened, 00:19:13.460 --> 00:19:15.180 and you really will be delivered. 00:19:17.200 --> 00:19:18.460 They didn't give their life, 00:19:18.540 --> 00:19:19.560 to Jesus right then, 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:21.960 I don't know what's going to happen to them, 00:19:22.120 --> 00:19:22.960 I pray for them, 00:19:23.780 --> 00:19:24.500 they're one of the people, 00:19:24.600 --> 00:19:25.640 I pray for when I come, 00:19:25.740 --> 00:19:26.720 at the beginning of the service, 00:19:27.020 --> 00:19:28.340 the beginning of the praise songs, 00:19:28.440 --> 00:19:29.440 if you see me praying, 00:19:29.540 --> 00:19:30.420 one of the things I do, 00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:32.120 because I'm not always very good, 00:19:32.140 --> 00:19:33.060 at remembering to pray, 00:19:33.180 --> 00:19:34.400 for people throughout the week, 00:19:34.980 --> 00:19:36.240 is I have a list of people, 00:19:36.240 --> 00:19:36.840 that I pray, 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:38.159 will come to a saving faith, 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:38.639 in Jesus, 00:19:38.799 --> 00:19:39.679 and that's one of the people, 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:40.439 that I pray for, 00:19:41.679 --> 00:19:42.500 it's one of the things, 00:19:42.579 --> 00:19:43.359 I do while you guys, 00:19:43.419 --> 00:19:44.359 are singing it first, 00:19:45.439 --> 00:19:45.839 sort of, 00:19:46.019 --> 00:19:46.740 it's as if God, 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:47.439 has given me this, 00:19:47.639 --> 00:19:48.339 one time of week, 00:19:48.399 --> 00:19:48.779 at least, 00:19:48.879 --> 00:19:49.859 where I remember to pray, 00:19:49.859 --> 00:19:52.959 and, 00:19:52.959 --> 00:19:52.979 and, 00:19:52.979 --> 00:19:53.000 and, 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:53.259 and, 00:19:53.259 --> 00:19:53.339 and, 00:19:53.339 --> 00:19:53.500 and, 00:19:53.500 --> 00:19:53.519 and, 00:19:53.519 --> 00:19:53.779 you see, 00:19:53.839 --> 00:19:55.119 that's exactly what Paul, 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:56.319 is claiming here, 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:57.339 is that this is, 00:19:57.339 --> 00:19:58.359 a real, 00:19:58.359 --> 00:19:59.740 deliverance, 00:20:00.279 --> 00:20:01.439 from, 00:20:02.159 --> 00:20:03.119 he uses the word, 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:04.279 an evil age, 00:20:04.339 --> 00:20:05.119 look at what he says, 00:20:05.159 --> 00:20:06.359 it begins in verse 3, 00:20:06.359 --> 00:20:08.719 grace to you, 00:20:08.819 --> 00:20:09.939 and peace, 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:11.019 from God our Father, 00:20:11.099 --> 00:20:12.319 and the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:14.259 who gave himself, 00:20:14.819 --> 00:20:16.159 for our sins, 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:17.819 to deliver us, 00:20:17.819 --> 00:20:19.839 from the present evil age, 00:20:20.339 --> 00:20:21.539 according to the will, 00:20:21.599 --> 00:20:22.319 of our God, 00:20:22.399 --> 00:20:22.979 and Father, 00:20:23.139 --> 00:20:24.299 to whom be the glory, 00:20:24.799 --> 00:20:25.199 forever, 00:20:25.459 --> 00:20:26.119 and ever, 00:20:26.959 --> 00:20:27.559 amen. 00:20:28.500 --> 00:20:29.139 And one of the things, 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:30.079 which is so interesting, 00:20:30.199 --> 00:20:30.879 that you look back up, 00:20:30.919 --> 00:20:31.740 to verse 1 again, 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:32.620 Paul, 00:20:32.700 --> 00:20:33.180 an apostle, 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:34.140 not from men, 00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:34.839 nor through men, 00:20:34.900 --> 00:20:35.900 but through Jesus Christ, 00:20:35.980 --> 00:20:36.720 and God the Father, 00:20:36.779 --> 00:20:37.920 who raised him from the dead, 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:39.160 is that this, 00:20:39.480 --> 00:20:41.920 many scholars believe, 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:42.440 that this, 00:20:42.620 --> 00:20:43.319 this letter, 00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:44.220 which we now know of, 00:20:44.220 --> 00:20:45.200 as the letter of Galatians, 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:45.839 that it was written, 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:47.079 around the year 48, 00:20:48.460 --> 00:20:49.859 around the year 48, 00:20:49.940 --> 00:20:50.779 it might very well be, 00:20:50.859 --> 00:20:51.640 the very first bit, 00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:52.359 of the New Testament, 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:53.099 that was written, 00:20:54.160 --> 00:20:54.519 and, 00:20:54.579 --> 00:20:56.660 scholars don't know, 00:20:56.740 --> 00:20:57.920 when Jesus was born, 00:20:58.759 --> 00:20:59.460 precisely, 00:21:00.339 --> 00:21:00.759 but, 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:02.460 because they can plot, 00:21:02.579 --> 00:21:03.400 Passovers, 00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:04.579 back in time, 00:21:05.379 --> 00:21:05.940 most scholars, 00:21:06.180 --> 00:21:06.720 depending on how you put, 00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:07.500 the evidence together, 00:21:07.619 --> 00:21:08.400 believe that Jesus, 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:09.480 was either killed, 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:10.700 just before Passover, 00:21:10.839 --> 00:21:11.619 in the year 30, 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:12.799 or just before Passover, 00:21:12.920 --> 00:21:13.660 in the year 33, 00:21:14.359 --> 00:21:14.819 you could actually, 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:15.579 they could actually, 00:21:15.579 --> 00:21:16.420 look up the date, 00:21:17.119 --> 00:21:18.099 and it's because of, 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:19.259 all the cross references, 00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:20.200 in the gospels, 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:21.619 to Passover services, 00:21:21.819 --> 00:21:22.379 and other types, 00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:23.460 of historical markers, 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:25.000 so if, 00:21:25.700 --> 00:21:26.599 Jesus died, 00:21:26.700 --> 00:21:27.200 and rose again, 00:21:27.240 --> 00:21:28.099 from the year 33, 00:21:28.299 --> 00:21:29.559 this was written 15 years, 00:21:29.599 --> 00:21:30.180 after the death, 00:21:30.220 --> 00:21:30.700 and resurrection, 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:31.400 of Jesus, 00:21:32.059 --> 00:21:34.059 15 years, 00:21:36.059 --> 00:21:37.579 September 11th, 00:21:37.579 --> 00:21:38.960 was more than 15 years ago, 00:21:39.019 --> 00:21:39.960 and we all remember that, 00:21:40.599 --> 00:21:42.619 and this, 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:43.519 is a letter written, 00:21:43.740 --> 00:21:44.539 from what we now call, 00:21:44.680 --> 00:21:45.019 Syria, 00:21:45.200 --> 00:21:45.759 to a place, 00:21:45.900 --> 00:21:46.779 which we now call, 00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:47.359 Turkey, 00:21:47.759 --> 00:21:48.799 because that's where, 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:49.559 the churches are, 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:50.720 and here we see, 00:21:50.859 --> 00:21:51.559 Paul proclaiming, 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:52.160 the resurrection, 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:53.859 and we not only hear, 00:21:53.940 --> 00:21:54.680 him proclaiming, 00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:55.220 the resurrection, 00:21:55.420 --> 00:21:56.500 we hear him proclaiming, 00:21:56.539 --> 00:21:57.140 the significance, 00:21:57.140 --> 00:21:58.140 of the resurrection, 00:21:58.140 --> 00:21:59.460 and it's, 00:21:59.540 --> 00:22:00.400 that there's grace, 00:22:00.500 --> 00:22:01.200 that there's peace, 00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:02.400 but you notice the thing, 00:22:02.500 --> 00:22:04.200 which is so key to this, 00:22:04.820 --> 00:22:06.160 is that it's real, 00:22:06.340 --> 00:22:07.600 deliverance, 00:22:08.280 --> 00:22:09.800 gave himself, 00:22:09.800 --> 00:22:10.640 for us, 00:22:10.720 --> 00:22:11.640 to deliver us, 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:13.200 from the evil age, 00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:14.819 there's a real, 00:22:14.819 --> 00:22:16.299 deliverance, 00:22:16.600 --> 00:22:17.980 which is won by Jesus, 00:22:18.660 --> 00:22:20.680 I was, 00:22:20.740 --> 00:22:21.720 just watching, 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:22.500 a really, 00:22:22.620 --> 00:22:22.799 really, 00:22:22.900 --> 00:22:23.799 really excellent movie, 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:24.700 this last week, 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:26.000 it was called, 00:22:26.100 --> 00:22:26.759 Hidden Figures, 00:22:26.840 --> 00:22:27.759 is that the name of the movie, 00:22:28.180 --> 00:22:28.720 about the, 00:22:28.740 --> 00:22:29.860 the woman, 00:22:30.080 --> 00:22:31.440 who did all the calculations, 00:22:31.660 --> 00:22:32.519 for the space thing, 00:22:33.100 --> 00:22:33.539 and, 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:34.880 you notice, 00:22:34.980 --> 00:22:35.380 that the very, 00:22:35.500 --> 00:22:36.819 very first man flight, 00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:39.319 not, 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:40.180 not in orbit, 00:22:40.180 --> 00:22:41.200 but the first guy, 00:22:41.259 --> 00:22:41.759 they're actually able, 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:42.600 to put at the end of it, 00:22:42.680 --> 00:22:42.840 you know, 00:22:42.860 --> 00:22:43.560 it's really amazing, 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:44.140 you think about it, 00:22:44.160 --> 00:22:45.100 let's stick a human being, 00:22:45.180 --> 00:22:46.140 at the end of an unbelievably, 00:22:46.140 --> 00:22:47.000 big rocket, 00:22:47.360 --> 00:22:48.960 and fire him up in the air, 00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:50.680 and see if they can survive, 00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:51.600 alive, 00:22:52.180 --> 00:22:52.920 and anyway, 00:22:53.440 --> 00:22:53.660 you know, 00:22:53.680 --> 00:22:54.519 it's a good thing, 00:22:54.840 --> 00:22:55.980 that it's a young guy, 00:22:56.299 --> 00:22:56.620 or a young, 00:22:56.720 --> 00:22:57.420 in this case, 00:22:57.460 --> 00:22:57.820 it was guys, 00:22:57.880 --> 00:22:58.400 but a young guy, 00:22:58.460 --> 00:22:59.100 or a young gal, 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:00.600 I think only they would think, 00:23:00.640 --> 00:23:00.740 yeah, 00:23:00.740 --> 00:23:01.840 let's put on the end of a rocket, 00:23:02.100 --> 00:23:03.380 and just go way up, 00:23:03.660 --> 00:23:03.900 anyway, 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:04.539 at the, 00:23:04.539 --> 00:23:06.160 it crashes, 00:23:06.400 --> 00:23:07.240 right into the ocean, 00:23:07.380 --> 00:23:08.019 and it's sinking, 00:23:08.660 --> 00:23:10.019 and they have to send, 00:23:10.019 --> 00:23:11.279 they send the helicopter out, 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:12.279 and they have to get somebody, 00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:12.940 who, 00:23:13.799 --> 00:23:15.519 is connected to the helicopter, 00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:17.079 and jumps into the water, 00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:17.960 to get the guy out, 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:18.519 because the, 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:19.240 it's sinking, 00:23:20.039 --> 00:23:20.279 the, 00:23:20.379 --> 00:23:21.720 the capsule is sinking, 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:22.740 so you see, 00:23:22.819 --> 00:23:24.000 this is a very powerful image, 00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:25.200 of what Jesus is doing, 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:27.639 it isn't that the helicopter, 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:28.680 shows up, 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:30.359 and I mean, 00:23:30.379 --> 00:23:31.359 you have to go back in time, 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:33.000 but it's like a modern helicopter, 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:33.599 back in time, 00:23:33.639 --> 00:23:34.619 and has a big screen, 00:23:35.139 --> 00:23:35.700 and it says, 00:23:36.039 --> 00:23:37.759 here's a picture of Jesus swimming, 00:23:38.539 --> 00:23:39.500 so just quickly, 00:23:39.500 --> 00:23:40.440 while you're drowning, 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:42.039 watch this video, 00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:43.779 and learn how to swim like Jesus, 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:45.200 well that's ridiculous, 00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:46.359 the guy would drown, 00:23:46.859 --> 00:23:47.880 like what help is it, 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:48.740 to show somebody, 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:50.160 who's in the water drowning, 00:23:50.720 --> 00:23:52.099 here's how Jesus swims, 00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:52.859 okay, 00:23:52.960 --> 00:23:53.500 just don't, 00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:54.440 don't die yet, 00:23:54.539 --> 00:23:55.700 just watch the video, 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:57.039 and you can learn, 00:23:57.140 --> 00:23:58.039 how to swim like Jesus, 00:23:58.119 --> 00:23:59.279 it's completely ridiculous, 00:24:00.180 --> 00:24:01.319 really all religion, 00:24:01.319 --> 00:24:02.140 and spirituality, 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:03.359 is just a version of that, 00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:04.200 okay, 00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:05.160 your life sucks, 00:24:05.460 --> 00:24:06.140 you're screwed, 00:24:06.519 --> 00:24:07.400 you're gonna die, 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:08.940 watch Buddha do it, 00:24:09.280 --> 00:24:09.500 you know, 00:24:09.600 --> 00:24:10.800 watch this guy do it, 00:24:10.960 --> 00:24:12.280 watch this person do it, 00:24:12.920 --> 00:24:14.100 but what does Jesus do, 00:24:14.860 --> 00:24:15.600 he's the guy, 00:24:15.660 --> 00:24:16.360 in the end of the harness, 00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:17.519 who gets into the water, 00:24:18.180 --> 00:24:19.340 and gets even deeper, 00:24:19.440 --> 00:24:19.860 than the guy, 00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:21.160 so he can grab the guy, 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:22.100 and get the guy, 00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:23.960 and actually deliver him, 00:24:24.320 --> 00:24:25.920 and that's what the Bible text, 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:26.380 is saying, 00:24:27.180 --> 00:24:27.820 it's saying, 00:24:27.940 --> 00:24:29.200 Jesus doesn't show us, 00:24:29.300 --> 00:24:30.920 how to swim video, 00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:32.160 he doesn't show us, 00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:33.380 how to build a fire, 00:24:33.500 --> 00:24:34.640 in an evil age, 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:36.040 so we can be warm, 00:24:36.120 --> 00:24:36.540 he doesn't say, 00:24:36.680 --> 00:24:37.140 I'm gonna show you, 00:24:37.180 --> 00:24:38.240 how to build a house, 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:40.020 he delivers, 00:24:40.560 --> 00:24:41.680 look again at verse three, 00:24:41.800 --> 00:24:42.280 grace to you, 00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:43.380 and peace from God our Father, 00:24:43.460 --> 00:24:44.440 and the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:46.180 who gave himself, 00:24:46.620 --> 00:24:48.080 for our sins, 00:24:48.860 --> 00:24:50.220 to deliver us, 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:52.540 from the present evil age, 00:24:52.920 --> 00:24:53.720 according to the will, 00:24:53.759 --> 00:24:54.820 of our God and Father, 00:24:55.220 --> 00:24:56.040 to whom be glory, 00:24:56.540 --> 00:24:57.680 to whom be the glory, 00:24:58.080 --> 00:24:58.480 forever, 00:24:58.780 --> 00:24:59.400 and ever, 00:24:59.580 --> 00:24:59.980 amen, 00:25:00.580 --> 00:25:01.720 that whatever is happening, 00:25:01.720 --> 00:25:03.060 to Jesus on the cross, 00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:04.460 whatever is happening, 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:05.919 when he is raised from the dead, 00:25:06.259 --> 00:25:07.480 that what we are witnessing, 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:09.099 is we are witnessing, 00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:10.619 the Father and the Son, 00:25:11.019 --> 00:25:11.859 who have loved us, 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:13.099 from all eternity, 00:25:13.919 --> 00:25:14.799 that the Son, 00:25:15.139 --> 00:25:15.879 who has loved us, 00:25:15.980 --> 00:25:16.899 in all eternity, 00:25:17.419 --> 00:25:18.079 in obedience, 00:25:18.419 --> 00:25:18.980 and in love, 00:25:19.059 --> 00:25:19.740 with the Father, 00:25:19.859 --> 00:25:21.019 and with us as human beings, 00:25:21.179 --> 00:25:23.720 in one at will with him, 00:25:24.119 --> 00:25:25.240 that he comes, 00:25:25.399 --> 00:25:26.099 to go, 00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:27.819 into the evil age, 00:25:27.899 --> 00:25:28.980 and into the muck, 00:25:29.259 --> 00:25:30.259 in such a way, 00:25:30.259 --> 00:25:31.980 that he's for us, 00:25:31.980 --> 00:25:33.299 and that as a result, 00:25:33.420 --> 00:25:34.160 of what he does, 00:25:34.360 --> 00:25:35.839 he delivers us, 00:25:35.960 --> 00:25:37.099 and he delivers us, 00:25:37.180 --> 00:25:37.900 completely, 00:25:39.779 --> 00:25:40.140 in fact, 00:25:40.180 --> 00:25:40.860 if you go back, 00:25:40.900 --> 00:25:41.640 and look at other parts, 00:25:41.740 --> 00:25:42.539 Paul is going to develop, 00:25:42.660 --> 00:25:43.380 the idea that, 00:25:43.700 --> 00:25:44.079 you know, 00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:45.660 it would really be as if, 00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:46.880 I've taken on water, 00:25:47.059 --> 00:25:48.120 and I'm drowning, 00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:49.259 and I'm maybe even, 00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:50.240 my heart is stopped, 00:25:50.339 --> 00:25:51.480 and I'm not even breathing, 00:25:51.819 --> 00:25:52.920 and I'm in the water, 00:25:53.099 --> 00:25:54.079 and there's nothing, 00:25:54.240 --> 00:25:55.599 at all that I can do, 00:25:55.779 --> 00:25:57.360 I can't signal for help, 00:25:57.620 --> 00:25:58.740 I can't hold on, 00:25:58.740 --> 00:25:59.319 to the helper, 00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:00.579 and when I am, 00:26:00.659 --> 00:26:01.700 completely and utterly, 00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:02.279 that I am, 00:26:02.379 --> 00:26:02.720 in fact, 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:03.879 as good as dead, 00:26:04.220 --> 00:26:05.599 that Jesus comes down, 00:26:05.679 --> 00:26:06.579 into the water, 00:26:06.980 --> 00:26:07.759 deeper than me, 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:09.079 it's his grip, 00:26:09.379 --> 00:26:10.439 it's his action, 00:26:10.720 --> 00:26:11.839 it's his deliverance, 00:26:12.059 --> 00:26:13.000 he does it all, 00:26:13.220 --> 00:26:14.119 I do nothing, 00:26:15.240 --> 00:26:17.639 and then when it says here, 00:26:17.700 --> 00:26:18.319 in this text, 00:26:18.419 --> 00:26:19.740 from this present evil age, 00:26:19.799 --> 00:26:20.619 look what it says again, 00:26:21.059 --> 00:26:21.539 grace to you, 00:26:21.579 --> 00:26:22.720 and peace from God our Father, 00:26:22.779 --> 00:26:23.799 and the Lord Jesus Christ, 00:26:23.859 --> 00:26:24.539 who gave himself, 00:26:24.539 --> 00:26:25.179 for our sins, 00:26:25.259 --> 00:26:26.220 to deliver us, 00:26:26.339 --> 00:26:27.619 from the present evil age, 00:26:27.619 --> 00:26:29.979 he's referring, 00:26:30.179 --> 00:26:30.759 to the time, 00:26:30.939 --> 00:26:31.899 from Genesis 3, 00:26:31.979 --> 00:26:32.839 until the time, 00:26:32.939 --> 00:26:34.059 that Jesus returns, 00:26:34.619 --> 00:26:35.519 which is the time, 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:36.199 that we live in, 00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:36.959 he's making it, 00:26:36.959 --> 00:26:37.759 it's not just that, 00:26:38.099 --> 00:26:38.739 it's just this, 00:26:38.919 --> 00:26:40.939 private individualistic, 00:26:41.179 --> 00:26:41.479 Jesus, 00:26:41.679 --> 00:26:42.339 who deals with, 00:26:42.459 --> 00:26:43.719 private individualistic, 00:26:43.899 --> 00:26:44.279 George, 00:26:44.379 --> 00:26:44.919 to deal with, 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:46.599 private individualistic, 00:26:46.759 --> 00:26:48.439 George's spiritual preferences, 00:26:48.619 --> 00:26:49.939 and spiritual feelings, 00:26:50.419 --> 00:26:51.419 it's cosmic, 00:26:51.879 --> 00:26:52.919 it's historical, 00:26:53.079 --> 00:26:55.239 it's this evil age, 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.359 it's what characterizes, 00:26:57.559 --> 00:26:58.539 human life, 00:26:58.559 --> 00:26:59.980 until Jesus returns, 00:27:00.079 --> 00:27:01.120 ever since evil, 00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:01.640 and sin, 00:27:01.700 --> 00:27:02.079 and death, 00:27:02.180 --> 00:27:03.279 entered into this human thing, 00:27:03.480 --> 00:27:04.480 and in the midst of this, 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:05.539 evil age, 00:27:05.640 --> 00:27:06.640 this cosmic, 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:07.880 historical, 00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:09.000 process, 00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:10.599 that we are in, 00:27:10.700 --> 00:27:11.900 in the midst of that, 00:27:12.019 --> 00:27:13.120 Jesus comes in, 00:27:13.380 --> 00:27:14.359 to deliver us, 00:27:14.559 --> 00:27:15.299 he gives, 00:27:15.579 --> 00:27:16.299 himself, 00:27:16.779 --> 00:27:17.680 and dies, 00:27:17.680 --> 00:27:18.819 and he does it, 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:20.200 to deliver us, 00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:21.259 and it means, 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:22.279 that when we receive, 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:22.859 the gospel, 00:27:22.980 --> 00:27:24.160 and we are gripped about it, 00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:26.080 it changes the story, 00:27:26.080 --> 00:27:27.259 of our lives, 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:31.560 that person, 00:27:31.660 --> 00:27:32.460 I was sharing with, 00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:33.340 everybody's going to, 00:27:33.380 --> 00:27:33.980 let you down, 00:27:34.140 --> 00:27:35.519 I let myself down, 00:27:35.800 --> 00:27:37.320 and maybe I can get some toys, 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:38.620 and then I die, 00:27:38.980 --> 00:27:40.140 and I said, 00:27:40.320 --> 00:27:42.040 there's a different story, 00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:44.420 a different narrative, 00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:45.700 that can be the story, 00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:46.600 of your life, 00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:49.500 and it's not just, 00:27:50.040 --> 00:27:50.880 let's just choose, 00:27:50.940 --> 00:27:51.740 a different story, 00:27:51.740 --> 00:27:52.800 with a happy ending, 00:27:52.799 --> 00:27:56.940 it's real, 00:27:57.899 --> 00:28:01.480 he's alive, 00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:02.200 right now, 00:28:02.700 --> 00:28:05.159 he did it for you, 00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:05.980 in the past, 00:28:06.379 --> 00:28:08.119 but it applies, 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:08.859 for you, 00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:11.359 and he can deliver you, 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:12.079 right now, 00:28:12.419 --> 00:28:13.720 and he can change, 00:28:13.819 --> 00:28:14.399 the story, 00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:15.079 and the narrative, 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:15.980 of your life, 00:28:16.019 --> 00:28:17.119 and how you understand, 00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:18.139 yourself, 00:28:18.500 --> 00:28:19.579 and your future, 00:28:19.579 --> 00:28:21.399 he, 00:28:21.659 --> 00:28:22.879 he did it, 00:28:23.579 --> 00:28:25.859 and that's the gospel, 00:28:25.859 --> 00:28:33.199 but some of you, 00:28:33.299 --> 00:28:33.639 might say, 00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:34.179 George, 00:28:35.099 --> 00:28:35.699 okay, 00:28:35.779 --> 00:28:36.079 that's, 00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:37.639 that's really something, 00:28:38.099 --> 00:28:39.220 but George, 00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:40.819 if you just change, 00:28:40.819 --> 00:28:41.500 the gospel, 00:28:41.639 --> 00:28:42.119 a little bit, 00:28:42.179 --> 00:28:43.319 you're going to be accursed, 00:28:43.879 --> 00:28:44.859 like George, 00:28:45.299 --> 00:28:46.460 doesn't that just sound, 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:47.759 so nitpicky, 00:28:48.879 --> 00:28:50.099 some of you know, 00:28:50.159 --> 00:28:50.740 I've been on lots, 00:28:50.740 --> 00:28:52.200 of different national committees, 00:28:52.339 --> 00:28:52.579 doing, 00:28:52.819 --> 00:28:54.039 organizing different things, 00:28:54.599 --> 00:28:55.539 there's been a few times, 00:28:55.579 --> 00:28:56.799 I can think of one guy, 00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:58.159 he was the most, 00:28:58.299 --> 00:28:59.980 unbelievable nitpicker, 00:29:00.099 --> 00:29:01.159 I have ever met, 00:29:01.619 --> 00:29:02.039 in fact, 00:29:02.119 --> 00:29:02.859 the other people, 00:29:02.859 --> 00:29:03.960 on the team would say, 00:29:04.339 --> 00:29:05.200 he is not only, 00:29:05.200 --> 00:29:05.980 a nitpicker, 00:29:06.859 --> 00:29:07.159 he, 00:29:07.879 --> 00:29:08.980 there is no nit, 00:29:09.339 --> 00:29:10.879 which he will not find, 00:29:11.119 --> 00:29:11.939 to pick at, 00:29:11.940 --> 00:29:13.840 and when he picked at a nit, 00:29:14.580 --> 00:29:15.600 he wouldn't just, 00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:16.620 say, 00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:17.039 you know, 00:29:17.160 --> 00:29:18.000 maybe we need to change, 00:29:18.140 --> 00:29:18.580 this wording, 00:29:19.120 --> 00:29:20.860 he would write a 15 page, 00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:22.240 essay on the subject, 00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:23.840 and then he'd find another nit, 00:29:23.940 --> 00:29:25.039 and it would be an 8 page, 00:29:25.080 --> 00:29:25.400 essay, 00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:26.299 and then another nit, 00:29:26.620 --> 00:29:28.120 this is all just from one meeting, 00:29:28.380 --> 00:29:29.160 from one meeting, 00:29:29.420 --> 00:29:31.160 we might get 14 emails, 00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:32.340 totaling like, 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:34.120 100 pages of text, 00:29:35.400 --> 00:29:37.720 it was so annoying, 00:29:38.360 --> 00:29:41.620 like you really felt like, 00:29:41.619 --> 00:29:42.239 saying to him, 00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:44.019 chill out, 00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:45.399 relax, 00:29:45.919 --> 00:29:48.019 not every semicolon, 00:29:48.579 --> 00:29:49.159 matters, 00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:52.199 sometimes people, 00:29:52.199 --> 00:29:53.519 are just talking, 00:29:53.519 --> 00:29:54.979 amongst friends, 00:29:55.619 --> 00:29:57.359 we asked him to leave, 00:29:57.500 --> 00:29:58.000 by the way, 00:29:58.439 --> 00:30:00.159 I'm serious, 00:30:00.239 --> 00:30:01.299 you couldn't get any work done, 00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:02.379 with somebody like that, 00:30:03.259 --> 00:30:04.759 unrelenting nitpicking, 00:30:05.539 --> 00:30:06.979 and he'd have to go on, 00:30:07.039 --> 00:30:07.679 about the history, 00:30:07.759 --> 00:30:08.500 of theology, 00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:09.359 and thought, 00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:11.559 and he was just so unbelievable, 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.880 you couldn't get anything done, 00:30:13.200 --> 00:30:13.779 we had to ask him, 00:30:14.099 --> 00:30:15.160 so yeah, 00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:15.480 are there, 00:30:15.660 --> 00:30:16.539 this guy was a Christian, 00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:17.319 are there Christians, 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:17.960 who are nitpickers, 00:30:18.259 --> 00:30:18.839 you know what, 00:30:19.259 --> 00:30:20.759 the nitpickers are amongst us, 00:30:20.819 --> 00:30:21.960 some of them become Christians, 00:30:22.099 --> 00:30:23.519 some of them stay non-Christians, 00:30:23.640 --> 00:30:24.940 nitpickers are nitpickers, 00:30:25.940 --> 00:30:26.859 those of you, 00:30:26.940 --> 00:30:27.640 who are nitpickers, 00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:28.720 it's probably something, 00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:30.119 you need to either repent of, 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:31.980 and or get some therapy over, 00:30:32.099 --> 00:30:32.599 by the way, 00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:35.259 and you probably, 00:30:35.379 --> 00:30:36.240 don't know who you are, 00:30:36.339 --> 00:30:37.299 but people around you, 00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:38.099 know who you are, 00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:40.399 and we just have to pray, 00:30:40.539 --> 00:30:41.819 for a way to find you, 00:30:41.859 --> 00:30:43.199 to be gracefully revealed, 00:30:43.199 --> 00:30:43.759 about it, 00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:44.819 but is this what, 00:30:44.859 --> 00:30:45.639 Paul's going on here, 00:30:45.679 --> 00:30:47.079 is Paul just an unbelievable, 00:30:47.079 --> 00:30:47.799 nitpicker, 00:30:48.459 --> 00:30:50.419 well look at what he actually says, 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:51.500 look at verse six, 00:30:52.899 --> 00:30:53.679 and by the way, 00:30:53.879 --> 00:30:54.099 look at, 00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:55.419 notice the shock again, 00:30:55.500 --> 00:30:56.579 look at how verse five goes, 00:30:56.639 --> 00:30:57.359 to whom be the glory, 00:30:57.480 --> 00:30:58.039 forever and ever, 00:30:58.159 --> 00:30:58.480 amen, 00:30:58.779 --> 00:30:59.159 verse six, 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:00.320 I am astonished, 00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:02.740 that you are so quickly, 00:31:02.740 --> 00:31:03.980 deserting him, 00:31:04.660 --> 00:31:05.480 who called you, 00:31:05.540 --> 00:31:06.519 in the grace of Christ, 00:31:06.620 --> 00:31:07.420 and are turning, 00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:09.080 to a different gospel, 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:10.420 not that there is another one, 00:31:11.060 --> 00:31:11.900 but there are some, 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:12.700 who trouble you, 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:13.779 and want to distort, 00:31:13.779 --> 00:31:15.200 the gospel of Christ, 00:31:15.580 --> 00:31:17.500 and then he goes into the curses, 00:31:18.060 --> 00:31:18.340 so, 00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:19.420 this is a very, 00:31:19.540 --> 00:31:20.540 very interesting text, 00:31:20.580 --> 00:31:21.440 about what he says, 00:31:22.040 --> 00:31:23.259 the word here, 00:31:23.360 --> 00:31:24.420 which is translated, 00:31:24.620 --> 00:31:25.100 as desert, 00:31:25.740 --> 00:31:26.240 look at it again, 00:31:26.300 --> 00:31:27.019 I am astonished, 00:31:27.100 --> 00:31:27.800 you are so quickly, 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:28.400 deserting, 00:31:28.400 --> 00:31:29.820 him who called you, 00:31:29.860 --> 00:31:30.720 in the grace of Christ, 00:31:31.360 --> 00:31:31.900 the word, 00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:32.580 it's desert, 00:31:32.660 --> 00:31:33.060 is a very, 00:31:33.180 --> 00:31:33.900 very good word, 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:34.519 by the way, 00:31:35.300 --> 00:31:36.060 the image, 00:31:36.140 --> 00:31:36.820 in the original language, 00:31:36.900 --> 00:31:37.720 is the same word, 00:31:37.820 --> 00:31:38.620 in Hebrews, 00:31:39.360 --> 00:31:39.920 when it says, 00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:41.100 it says about Enoch, 00:31:41.180 --> 00:31:41.800 not dying, 00:31:41.900 --> 00:31:42.840 but going right to heaven, 00:31:43.560 --> 00:31:44.620 the word desert, 00:31:44.800 --> 00:31:45.500 literally means, 00:31:45.620 --> 00:31:46.720 go to a different place, 00:31:47.240 --> 00:31:48.960 so, 00:31:49.040 --> 00:31:49.920 what it's saying here, 00:31:50.080 --> 00:31:50.600 is there, 00:31:50.720 --> 00:31:51.860 they were in the place, 00:31:52.280 --> 00:31:53.580 of the grace of Christ, 00:31:54.420 --> 00:31:56.060 living under God, 00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:57.980 in fellowship with Jesus, 00:31:57.980 --> 00:31:59.220 and they're in the process, 00:31:59.220 --> 00:32:00.839 of going to a different place, 00:32:01.480 --> 00:32:04.000 they're going from the place, 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:05.279 of spiritual safety, 00:32:05.460 --> 00:32:06.519 of spiritual wholeness, 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:07.680 of spiritual freedom, 00:32:07.900 --> 00:32:08.360 of grace, 00:32:08.420 --> 00:32:08.980 and of mercy, 00:32:09.420 --> 00:32:10.920 they're going to a different place, 00:32:11.019 --> 00:32:11.839 any different place, 00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:12.680 is going to be worse, 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:15.620 and that's what's underlying, 00:32:15.740 --> 00:32:16.420 the word desert, 00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:18.279 and when it says here, 00:32:18.660 --> 00:32:19.900 but you're turning, 00:32:20.099 --> 00:32:21.200 to a different gospel, 00:32:21.360 --> 00:32:22.799 not that there is another one, 00:32:23.360 --> 00:32:24.779 there's two different words, 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:26.220 in the original language there, 00:32:26.220 --> 00:32:26.740 and they're sort of, 00:32:26.779 --> 00:32:27.900 very very interesting, 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:29.339 this morning, 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:30.100 I had to get up, 00:32:30.539 --> 00:32:31.680 earlier than usual, 00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:33.120 and I had to go pick up Barbara, 00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:34.539 and so Barbara, 00:32:34.539 --> 00:32:35.579 and I were the first two, 00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:36.140 to come here, 00:32:36.180 --> 00:32:37.460 to start to set the place up, 00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:38.720 first for the eight o'clock service, 00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:40.420 and then the beginning of the setup, 00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:41.539 for the ten o'clock service, 00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:43.059 so I told her, 00:32:43.120 --> 00:32:43.779 I'd pick her up, 00:32:44.160 --> 00:32:45.259 and if I had shown up, 00:32:45.299 --> 00:32:46.120 on my bicycle, 00:32:47.860 --> 00:32:49.259 and said, 00:32:49.360 --> 00:32:49.700 Barbara, 00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:51.740 I have a little trailer here, 00:32:51.799 --> 00:32:52.640 we can put your bag, 00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:53.120 in the trailer, 00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:53.899 I'm going to have you sit, 00:32:53.979 --> 00:32:54.979 on my handlebars, 00:32:55.279 --> 00:32:57.079 and I'm going to drive you, 00:32:57.239 --> 00:32:58.039 from your place, 00:32:58.699 --> 00:33:02.299 to St. Anne's, 00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:03.399 on my handlebars, 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:05.079 she'd say, 00:33:06.099 --> 00:33:09.719 I want a different mode, 00:33:09.739 --> 00:33:10.599 of transportation, 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:13.699 I want a completely different, 00:33:13.699 --> 00:33:14.859 kind of transportation, 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:15.579 I want a car, 00:33:15.919 --> 00:33:17.139 and that's what the word is, 00:33:17.219 --> 00:33:18.039 here for different, 00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:20.439 it's in the original language, 00:33:20.439 --> 00:33:20.799 it's saying, 00:33:20.899 --> 00:33:22.439 a completely different kind, 00:33:23.119 --> 00:33:24.000 okay, 00:33:24.159 --> 00:33:25.379 completely different kind, 00:33:25.459 --> 00:33:26.159 it's different from, 00:33:26.339 --> 00:33:27.639 being carried, 00:33:27.779 --> 00:33:29.199 in my nice, 00:33:29.319 --> 00:33:30.059 comfortable car, 00:33:30.139 --> 00:33:31.099 with leather seats, 00:33:31.659 --> 00:33:33.299 or handlebars, 00:33:33.399 --> 00:33:34.259 on my bicycle, 00:33:34.539 --> 00:33:35.159 that different, 00:33:35.579 --> 00:33:36.559 and so when it says, 00:33:37.139 --> 00:33:37.619 you are turning, 00:33:37.739 --> 00:33:38.799 to a different gospel, 00:33:38.939 --> 00:33:39.500 it's saying that, 00:33:39.659 --> 00:33:40.599 what it sounds like, 00:33:40.619 --> 00:33:41.119 it's a gospel, 00:33:41.199 --> 00:33:42.079 you think it's a gospel, 00:33:42.179 --> 00:33:43.059 but it's of a completely, 00:33:43.059 --> 00:33:43.939 different kind, 00:33:44.399 --> 00:33:45.579 and the word another, 00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:46.839 emphasizes it, 00:33:47.099 --> 00:33:48.319 because the word another, 00:33:48.919 --> 00:33:50.279 which is in the original language, 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:50.699 would be, 00:33:50.859 --> 00:33:52.299 if after the service, 00:33:52.299 --> 00:33:53.879 we go out for coffee, 00:33:54.259 --> 00:33:55.440 and one of you say to me, 00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:55.759 George, 00:33:55.799 --> 00:33:57.059 would you like another cup of coffee, 00:33:57.779 --> 00:33:58.519 in other words, 00:33:58.579 --> 00:33:59.240 would you like something, 00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:00.059 of the exact same, 00:34:00.159 --> 00:34:00.960 you want some more, 00:34:01.059 --> 00:34:02.200 of the exact same thing, 00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:03.500 and that, 00:34:03.639 --> 00:34:05.000 in the original language, 00:34:05.180 --> 00:34:06.139 that's the distinction, 00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:07.119 which is being made, 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:07.759 it's saying, 00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:09.000 what you're hearing, 00:34:09.360 --> 00:34:10.279 is a gospel, 00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:12.219 that's of a completely, 00:34:12.219 --> 00:34:13.300 different kind, 00:34:14.960 --> 00:34:15.300 it's, 00:34:15.460 --> 00:34:16.539 there is no other, 00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:17.960 similar gospel, 00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:19.239 which is just another gospel, 00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:19.980 just like you can have, 00:34:19.980 --> 00:34:21.360 another cup of coffee, 00:34:21.780 --> 00:34:22.400 and then, 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:23.420 and this is where, 00:34:23.500 --> 00:34:24.599 it's not just nitpicking, 00:34:24.940 --> 00:34:25.760 look further down, 00:34:25.840 --> 00:34:26.360 verse seven, 00:34:26.559 --> 00:34:27.699 not that there is another one, 00:34:27.780 --> 00:34:28.480 but there are some, 00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:29.159 who trouble you, 00:34:29.240 --> 00:34:30.360 and want to distort, 00:34:31.440 --> 00:34:33.000 the gospel of Christ, 00:34:33.659 --> 00:34:34.139 remember it says, 00:34:34.219 --> 00:34:34.880 gospel of Christ, 00:34:34.960 --> 00:34:35.719 it's emphasizing, 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.800 that this is not only, 00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:38.340 the gospel about Christ, 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:40.380 it's the gospel, 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:41.119 which Jesus, 00:34:41.300 --> 00:34:42.340 is communicating, 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:44.619 and the word distort, 00:34:45.099 --> 00:34:46.280 in the original language, 00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:47.079 is very interesting, 00:34:47.219 --> 00:34:48.480 distort's a very good word, 00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:50.460 but here's the image, 00:34:50.460 --> 00:34:51.000 behind it, 00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:52.039 in the original language, 00:34:52.599 --> 00:34:53.599 the image, 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:54.599 behind it, 00:34:54.659 --> 00:34:55.500 in the original language, 00:34:55.500 --> 00:34:56.940 is taking something, 00:34:56.940 --> 00:34:58.539 that belongs at the back, 00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:00.360 and putting it at the front, 00:35:01.119 --> 00:35:02.440 and then taking that, 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:03.679 which belongs at the front, 00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:05.380 and putting it at the back, 00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:07.460 I don't know much, 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:08.559 about carts and horses, 00:35:09.219 --> 00:35:10.380 but what I know, 00:35:11.139 --> 00:35:12.380 is if you want the cart, 00:35:12.500 --> 00:35:13.139 and the horse, 00:35:13.159 --> 00:35:14.440 to move together properly, 00:35:14.579 --> 00:35:15.400 you put the horse, 00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.079 at the front, 00:35:16.300 --> 00:35:18.400 the cart at the back, 00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:20.340 that if you put the horse, 00:35:20.380 --> 00:35:21.500 at the back of the cart, 00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:23.099 and the cart at the front, 00:35:23.159 --> 00:35:23.659 of the horse, 00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:25.840 nothing good's going to happen, 00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:28.119 but if you put the horse, 00:35:28.179 --> 00:35:28.579 at the front, 00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:29.340 and the cart at the back, 00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:29.940 and you high it up, 00:35:30.059 --> 00:35:30.880 then maybe the cart's, 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:31.420 going to move, 00:35:31.780 --> 00:35:32.480 in other words, 00:35:32.579 --> 00:35:33.679 the word for distort, 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:34.780 is to reverse, 00:35:35.460 --> 00:35:37.039 and so Andrew, 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:37.619 if you could put up, 00:35:37.659 --> 00:35:38.380 the next point, 00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:40.940 what Paul is saying, 00:35:41.260 --> 00:35:42.880 to reverse the gospel, 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:46.260 is to remove the gospel, 00:35:46.940 --> 00:35:50.119 leaving only worthless rules, 00:35:50.619 --> 00:35:52.579 to reverse the gospel, 00:35:52.980 --> 00:35:55.260 is to remove the gospel, 00:35:56.180 --> 00:35:58.760 leaving only worthless rules, 00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:00.019 you see, 00:36:00.300 --> 00:36:01.820 because here's what happens, 00:36:02.640 --> 00:36:04.260 if you want to, 00:36:04.400 --> 00:36:04.820 for many, 00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:05.059 many, 00:36:05.140 --> 00:36:05.320 many, 00:36:05.380 --> 00:36:06.000 many people, 00:36:06.200 --> 00:36:07.140 the Anglican way, 00:36:07.220 --> 00:36:07.920 is a religion, 00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:10.639 and what that means, 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:11.159 is this, 00:36:11.780 --> 00:36:12.900 you get baptized, 00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:14.639 and then, 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:15.720 you go to church, 00:36:16.340 --> 00:36:17.000 and you learn, 00:36:17.099 --> 00:36:18.099 the prayer book service, 00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:19.380 and you learn the creed, 00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:20.619 and you learn the catechism, 00:36:20.960 --> 00:36:22.180 and then you get confirmed, 00:36:22.639 --> 00:36:23.820 and then you never go to church again, 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:24.240 no sorry, 00:36:24.300 --> 00:36:25.019 that's not what it actually, 00:36:25.099 --> 00:36:25.780 is supposed to say, 00:36:26.300 --> 00:36:26.619 and then, 00:36:26.680 --> 00:36:27.240 and then you just, 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:27.519 you know, 00:36:27.599 --> 00:36:28.820 and then you get confirmed, 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:29.599 and then you live, 00:36:29.659 --> 00:36:30.420 the ten commandments, 00:36:31.220 --> 00:36:31.760 and you know, 00:36:31.820 --> 00:36:32.980 you support your church, 00:36:33.059 --> 00:36:34.300 and you be a good person, 00:36:34.420 --> 00:36:35.720 and you say your prayers, 00:36:36.539 --> 00:36:36.920 and, 00:36:36.920 --> 00:36:39.320 and you be a nice person, 00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:39.860 and you, 00:36:39.860 --> 00:36:40.180 yeah, 00:36:40.220 --> 00:36:41.360 you follow all these rules, 00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:42.680 and you learn the right things, 00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:44.119 and if you do this, 00:36:44.180 --> 00:36:45.099 then on the day of judgment, 00:36:45.240 --> 00:36:46.559 God will be good to you, 00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:50.200 you do all these things, 00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.280 and then if you do all these things, 00:36:52.360 --> 00:36:53.300 God will be good to you, 00:36:53.700 --> 00:36:55.460 and when Roman Catholicism, 00:36:55.460 --> 00:36:56.559 is turned into a religion, 00:36:56.680 --> 00:36:57.840 it's the same type of thing, 00:36:58.579 --> 00:36:58.840 you know, 00:36:58.920 --> 00:36:59.639 you get baptized, 00:37:00.200 --> 00:37:01.019 and then you get, 00:37:01.180 --> 00:37:01.860 you confirmed, 00:37:02.019 --> 00:37:02.940 and you go to confession, 00:37:03.139 --> 00:37:03.340 you know, 00:37:03.400 --> 00:37:04.240 at least appropriately, 00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:06.220 you do your days of solemn obligation, 00:37:06.899 --> 00:37:08.319 you make sure you go to mass, 00:37:08.339 --> 00:37:09.779 on these days of solemn obligation, 00:37:09.779 --> 00:37:11.099 and you be a good person, 00:37:11.179 --> 00:37:12.239 you be a nice person, 00:37:12.439 --> 00:37:14.000 and you support your church, 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:14.859 and, 00:37:14.939 --> 00:37:16.319 and then at the end of the day, 00:37:16.459 --> 00:37:18.099 God will be sort of good to you, 00:37:18.579 --> 00:37:18.779 or, 00:37:18.879 --> 00:37:19.039 you know, 00:37:19.099 --> 00:37:21.000 maybe religion is going to be like, 00:37:21.399 --> 00:37:21.639 you know, 00:37:21.699 --> 00:37:22.919 you make sure you keep Ramadan, 00:37:23.619 --> 00:37:24.379 and you, 00:37:24.599 --> 00:37:27.079 and you make sure you make your pilgrimage to Mecca, 00:37:27.419 --> 00:37:28.039 and, 00:37:28.139 --> 00:37:29.879 you give your alms to the poor, 00:37:29.980 --> 00:37:31.799 and you say your prayers during the right end of the day, 00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:32.600 and at the end of it, 00:37:32.620 --> 00:37:32.780 you know, 00:37:32.840 --> 00:37:34.600 God will probably show favor to you, 00:37:35.080 --> 00:37:36.100 and all religion, 00:37:36.220 --> 00:37:37.019 and all spirituality, 00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:38.740 is always of the exact same force, 00:37:38.860 --> 00:37:40.820 you have these rules that you follow, 00:37:41.620 --> 00:37:41.840 and, 00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:42.840 and then at the end of the day, 00:37:42.880 --> 00:37:44.200 if you follow all of these rules, 00:37:44.320 --> 00:37:45.100 and God might, 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:46.380 he probably will be, 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:47.940 because we're pretty confident of this, 00:37:47.980 --> 00:37:49.320 that if you follow our advice, 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:49.920 and our rules, 00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:50.539 at the end of it, 00:37:50.860 --> 00:37:51.880 God will accept you, 00:37:52.120 --> 00:37:53.360 and the Bible says, 00:37:53.519 --> 00:37:53.980 that in a sense, 00:37:54.060 --> 00:37:55.580 the gospel is a reversal, 00:37:56.060 --> 00:37:57.200 of all religion, 00:37:57.199 --> 00:38:00.139 because in the gospel, 00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:03.319 I am lying in the water, 00:38:03.879 --> 00:38:06.579 I have taken water into my lungs, 00:38:06.899 --> 00:38:08.839 I'm no longer breathing, 00:38:09.119 --> 00:38:10.819 and maybe my heart has stopped, 00:38:11.199 --> 00:38:12.939 and I cannot signal for help, 00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:14.939 and I can do nothing to save myself, 00:38:15.379 --> 00:38:16.779 and Jesus is the one, 00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:18.199 who out of courage, 00:38:18.319 --> 00:38:18.699 and love, 00:38:18.739 --> 00:38:19.419 and bravery, 00:38:20.099 --> 00:38:21.259 jumps into the water, 00:38:21.899 --> 00:38:23.519 grabs my lifeless body, 00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:25.379 pumps my chest, 00:38:25.379 --> 00:38:26.599 to give me CPR, 00:38:26.599 --> 00:38:28.480 puts his breath in me, 00:38:28.539 --> 00:38:29.420 to make me alive, 00:38:29.579 --> 00:38:30.980 and carries me for safety, 00:38:31.279 --> 00:38:33.019 and after I have been delivered, 00:38:33.739 --> 00:38:35.739 then I figure out how to live, 00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:37.980 in light of the fact, 00:38:38.059 --> 00:38:39.159 that he has delivered me, 00:38:39.179 --> 00:38:40.079 and made me alive, 00:38:40.799 --> 00:38:43.079 the gospel is the complete reversal, 00:38:43.079 --> 00:38:44.279 of all religion, 00:38:44.380 --> 00:38:45.059 and spirituality, 00:38:45.599 --> 00:38:47.579 and what the false teachers, 00:38:47.579 --> 00:38:48.259 are doing, 00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:50.539 is trying to turn the gospel, 00:38:50.659 --> 00:38:51.759 back into religion, 00:38:52.659 --> 00:38:53.819 or spirituality, 00:38:53.820 --> 00:38:53.940 equality, 00:38:54.700 --> 00:38:57.980 you got to vote for Trump, 00:38:58.500 --> 00:38:59.740 and be a good person, 00:39:00.380 --> 00:39:02.460 and have the correct political views, 00:39:02.820 --> 00:39:04.019 and God will like you, 00:39:04.280 --> 00:39:05.980 you got to not like Trump, 00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:07.400 you got to be progressive, 00:39:07.600 --> 00:39:09.140 you got to believe in global warming, 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:10.360 you got to believe in this, 00:39:10.500 --> 00:39:11.019 and then you got to, 00:39:11.180 --> 00:39:12.640 you have to be in favor of abortion, 00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:13.940 you have to be in favor, 00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:15.080 of complementarianism, 00:39:15.220 --> 00:39:16.300 you have to be in favor, 00:39:16.300 --> 00:39:16.900 of science, 00:39:16.960 --> 00:39:17.760 you have to do this, 00:39:17.820 --> 00:39:18.880 you have to follow these rules, 00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:19.760 and if you do these rules, 00:39:19.840 --> 00:39:20.599 plus the gospel, 00:39:20.700 --> 00:39:21.079 then God will, 00:39:21.500 --> 00:39:22.460 the Bible is saying, 00:39:22.579 --> 00:39:24.200 if you add anything to it, 00:39:24.880 --> 00:39:26.400 then what you're in a sense doing, 00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:27.460 is creating once again, 00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:28.280 a system whereby, 00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:29.559 if you follow the rules, 00:39:29.660 --> 00:39:30.519 God will accept you, 00:39:30.579 --> 00:39:31.900 you've reversed the gospel, 00:39:32.260 --> 00:39:33.740 and to reverse the gospel, 00:39:33.740 --> 00:39:35.160 means the gospel's gone, 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:36.900 all that you have left, 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:38.180 are worthless rules, 00:39:39.519 --> 00:39:41.640 completely, 00:39:42.059 --> 00:39:42.480 utterly, 00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:43.380 worthless, 00:39:43.380 --> 00:39:43.539 worthless, 00:39:43.820 --> 00:39:44.260 rules, 00:39:44.559 --> 00:39:47.180 in terms of getting out of this, 00:39:47.220 --> 00:39:47.680 evil age, 00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:48.380 and being delivered, 00:39:48.880 --> 00:39:52.059 so Paul is not being a nitpicker, 00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:54.980 just sort of wrapping this all up, 00:39:55.840 --> 00:39:56.940 if you could put up the next point, 00:39:58.420 --> 00:40:00.660 Paul does not want the church, 00:40:00.700 --> 00:40:02.200 to be anxious and fearful, 00:40:02.760 --> 00:40:04.700 like the point of the book of Galatians, 00:40:04.800 --> 00:40:05.780 isn't that afterwards, 00:40:05.900 --> 00:40:06.559 that we're worried, 00:40:06.680 --> 00:40:07.900 that we're not getting the gospel, 00:40:08.059 --> 00:40:08.579 exactly, 00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:12.680 he's not saying this, 00:40:12.680 --> 00:40:14.180 so that we all become nitpickers, 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.480 Paul does not want the church, 00:40:17.579 --> 00:40:18.660 to be anxious and fearful, 00:40:18.659 --> 00:40:20.579 he wants it to be humbly gripped, 00:40:20.579 --> 00:40:21.399 by the gospel, 00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:24.819 he wants us to be humble, 00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:25.519 and teachable, 00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:28.519 and he wants us to understand, 00:40:28.759 --> 00:40:29.480 more and more and more, 00:40:29.539 --> 00:40:30.619 what it is that Jesus did, 00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:31.460 for us on the cross, 00:40:31.539 --> 00:40:32.420 the different images, 00:40:33.139 --> 00:40:34.019 he's going to later on, 00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:35.000 he's given us an image, 00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:35.679 of deliverance, 00:40:35.739 --> 00:40:36.719 later on he's going to give us, 00:40:37.059 --> 00:40:38.319 images of being rescued, 00:40:38.619 --> 00:40:40.679 from fearful slavery, 00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:45.440 and he'll give different images, 00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:47.139 but it's always the same thing, 00:40:47.559 --> 00:40:48.940 human beings are deep, 00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:50.359 we are complex, 00:40:50.739 --> 00:40:51.739 we are mysterious, 00:40:51.739 --> 00:40:53.199 so the gospel, 00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:54.739 will always involve Jesus, 00:40:54.879 --> 00:40:56.599 doing everything for us, 00:40:56.659 --> 00:40:58.480 but it'll use different images, 00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:00.199 it'll use of deliverance, 00:41:00.339 --> 00:41:01.579 of being dead, 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:02.379 and coming alive, 00:41:02.539 --> 00:41:04.399 of being financially ruined, 00:41:04.500 --> 00:41:05.480 of being in slavery, 00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:06.559 of being alienated, 00:41:06.559 --> 00:41:07.639 of being, 00:41:08.159 --> 00:41:09.079 it'll use different images, 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:10.380 but it's always the same thing, 00:41:10.500 --> 00:41:12.759 Jesus does everything for us, 00:41:13.059 --> 00:41:15.159 and we receive what he does, 00:41:15.279 --> 00:41:16.880 and after we have received, 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:17.480 what he does, 00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:19.179 as the gospel grips us, 00:41:20.059 --> 00:41:21.599 it begins to change, 00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:23.440 how we understand the story, 00:41:23.539 --> 00:41:24.719 and the direction of our lives, 00:41:24.739 --> 00:41:25.920 and we begin to live, 00:41:26.279 --> 00:41:27.500 a new way, 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:29.579 could you put up the final point, 00:41:29.659 --> 00:41:30.299 Andrew please, 00:41:31.340 --> 00:41:32.920 this sort of brings it all home, 00:41:33.000 --> 00:41:34.159 this is going to be on the web page, 00:41:34.259 --> 00:41:35.019 a version of it, 00:41:35.059 --> 00:41:36.259 is actually in your bulletin, 00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:38.259 and it's, 00:41:38.579 --> 00:41:39.000 Father in heaven, 00:41:39.119 --> 00:41:40.779 thank you that you sent Jesus Christ, 00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:42.460 to give himself for my sins, 00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:43.860 and deliver me, 00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:45.259 from the present evil age, 00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:48.159 thank you for this eternal gift, 00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:49.299 of grace and peace, 00:41:49.420 --> 00:41:50.480 to me and all, 00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:52.699 to all who have received the gospel, 00:41:53.539 --> 00:41:54.940 and here's sort of the carry, 00:41:55.219 --> 00:41:56.360 the takeaway, 00:41:56.599 --> 00:41:58.219 please bring me with the gospel, 00:41:58.840 --> 00:42:00.199 help me to be gripped, 00:42:00.380 --> 00:42:01.079 by the gospel, 00:42:01.779 --> 00:42:03.739 so I will live for your glory, 00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:07.159 and please help me to grow, 00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:07.959 in knowing, 00:42:08.759 --> 00:42:09.199 trusting, 00:42:09.819 --> 00:42:10.799 and sharing, 00:42:11.299 --> 00:42:13.239 your one and only gospel, 00:42:13.539 --> 00:42:14.500 it's what's revealed, 00:42:14.699 --> 00:42:15.579 in the New Testament, 00:42:16.299 --> 00:42:17.319 please help me to grow, 00:42:17.479 --> 00:42:18.079 in knowing, 00:42:18.819 --> 00:42:19.259 trusting, 00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:20.359 and sharing, 00:42:20.519 --> 00:42:21.799 your one and only gospel, 00:42:22.019 --> 00:42:23.039 who Jesus is, 00:42:23.419 --> 00:42:24.459 and what he does, 00:42:24.559 --> 00:42:25.459 for us in the cross, 00:42:25.460 --> 00:42:27.019 and what it means, 00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:28.820 when he rescues us, 00:42:28.940 --> 00:42:30.760 and becomes our savior and Lord, 00:42:31.059 --> 00:42:32.440 and how that begins, 00:42:32.599 --> 00:42:33.659 to naturally, 00:42:33.900 --> 00:42:34.900 and supernaturally, 00:42:35.019 --> 00:42:36.079 shape the way we live, 00:42:36.500 --> 00:42:37.139 please stand, 00:42:37.240 --> 00:42:38.260 and join with me in praying, 00:42:38.960 --> 00:42:48.659 let us pray, 00:42:48.659 --> 00:42:50.519 Father in heaven, 00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:51.879 thank you, 00:42:51.879 --> 00:42:53.619 that you sent Jesus Christ, 00:42:53.779 --> 00:42:54.619 to give himself, 00:42:54.920 --> 00:42:55.899 for my sins, 00:42:56.099 --> 00:42:57.219 and deliver me, 00:42:57.420 --> 00:42:59.179 from the present evil age, 00:42:59.559 --> 00:43:00.339 thank you, 00:43:00.460 --> 00:43:01.819 for this eternal gift, 00:43:01.819 --> 00:43:02.460 of grace, 00:43:02.579 --> 00:43:03.159 and peace, 00:43:03.319 --> 00:43:03.960 to me, 00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:04.839 and to all, 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:06.420 who have received the gospel, 00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:08.099 please grip me, 00:43:08.099 --> 00:43:09.000 with the gospel, 00:43:09.339 --> 00:43:10.359 so I will live, 00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:11.179 for your glory, 00:43:11.819 --> 00:43:12.819 please help me, 00:43:12.819 --> 00:43:13.399 to grow, 00:43:13.579 --> 00:43:14.179 in knowing, 00:43:14.559 --> 00:43:14.920 trusting, 00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:15.779 and sharing, 00:43:16.159 --> 00:43:18.019 your one and only gospel, 00:43:18.019 --> 00:43:19.659 in Jesus's name, 00:43:19.940 --> 00:43:20.360 Amen, 00:43:21.219 --> 00:43:21.960 Father we ask, 00:43:22.199 --> 00:43:22.940 that you make us, 00:43:22.980 --> 00:43:23.960 disciples of Jesus, 00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:25.099 gripped by the gospel, 00:43:25.219 --> 00:43:25.639 who are learning, 00:43:25.759 --> 00:43:26.699 to live for your glory, 00:43:27.420 --> 00:43:28.559 and deliver us, 00:43:28.699 --> 00:43:30.000 from all aspects, 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:30.820 of nitpicking, 00:43:31.360 --> 00:43:32.519 but Father grant us, 00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:34.219 an ever deeper clarity, 00:43:34.699 --> 00:43:35.699 about what it is, 00:43:36.179 --> 00:43:37.179 who Jesus is, 00:43:37.360 --> 00:43:38.259 what he did for us, 00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:39.000 on the cross, 00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:40.639 and how that, 00:43:41.099 --> 00:43:42.300 that that father, 00:43:42.460 --> 00:43:43.800 that great gospel message, 00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:44.780 might be the ground, 00:43:44.780 --> 00:43:45.900 on which we stand, 00:43:45.900 --> 00:43:47.800 it might be, 00:43:47.980 --> 00:43:48.920 the air we breathe, 00:43:48.980 --> 00:43:50.019 and the food we eat, 00:43:50.099 --> 00:43:51.519 so that it shapes us, 00:43:52.240 --> 00:43:53.280 it prods us, 00:43:53.380 --> 00:43:54.180 and pulls us, 00:43:54.240 --> 00:43:55.220 and forms us, 00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:56.660 into living, 00:43:56.820 --> 00:43:57.900 a new story, 00:43:58.740 --> 00:43:59.700 that culminates, 00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:00.400 with us, 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:01.340 being with you, 00:44:01.400 --> 00:44:02.000 in the new heaven, 00:44:02.039 --> 00:44:02.680 and the new earth, 00:44:03.000 --> 00:44:03.900 for all eternity, 00:44:04.539 --> 00:44:05.500 Father this we ask, 00:44:05.579 --> 00:44:06.519 in Jesus's name, 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:07.340 Amen.