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 Father, you know how hard it is for us to pay attention to your word.

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 You know, Father, how we prefer our own thoughts to what you're thinking,

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 how we prefer the thoughts of powerful people around us rather than to your thoughts.

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 We prefer, Father, to hear ourselves talk than to listen to you speak to us.

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 Father, we acknowledge this before you, and we acknowledge before you, Father,

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 that we're not even aware of when we're doing it.

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 We ask, Father, that your Holy Spirit would gently but deeply fall upon us this morning,

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 that you would help us, Father, to turn from ourselves and to listen to your word.

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 And not only, Father, listen to your word, but that you might help us to open our hearts,

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 our minds, our wills, our souls to your word, that your word might enter into us

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 and do its great work in us.

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 Father, 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 as is my custom this week, on most days of the week, I was in a Starbucks working on my sermon.

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 Actually, between the services, I go to a coffee shop.

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 I'm fairly Catholic in my taste.

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 It was a second cup.

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 And it was sort of neat.

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 There was a couple of people going by all dressed up for church.

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 And I happened to look up, and they saw me reading the Bible, and they smiled at me and gave me a little wave.

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 I guess they were going on their way to church.

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 But I don't always get that reaction when I'm in a Starbucks.

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 But this particular time, just this week, I can't remember the day of the week it was,

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 but it was the day after it was all in the papers about the Roman Catholic Church might or might not be changing its view

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 on same-sex marriage and a whole range of things, contraception, et cetera.

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 I think that was Tuesday morning.

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 I think it was in the paper on Monday, but maybe I have the dates wrong.

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 Anyway, I'm there in my, I'm in the Starbucks working on my sermon.

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 Bible's open.

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 A couple of working-class guys come and sit down beside me.

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 And one of the working-class guys just says to the other that he'd been over at his grandmother's house the night,

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 last night, and he said to his buddies, you know, my grandmother, she's Roman Catholic.

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 She goes to church.

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 She goes to Mass all the time.

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 And so I said to my Grammy, I said, Grammy, what do you think about what the Pope said?

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 And then he said, my Grammy said to me that the Pope's wrong, that he's wrong in what he's doing.

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 And then, you know, he said to the guys what, you know, his grandmother said.

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 And then he said to his friends, he said, you know, I said to my Grammy, I said, Grammy, that's like, that's,

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 you're just saying things like from 15 years ago.

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 Like, you have to get with now.

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 That's like something from 15 years ago.

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 Like, get with now.

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 And then he said what his grandmother said.

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 And then he said to this guy, he said, you know, I don't know what to say to my grandmother.

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 She's talking things like from 15 years ago.

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 How on earth can I possibly talk to her?

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 That was the conversation.

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 So I'm not going to talk this morning about same-sex marriage.

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 It just happens to be that it's sort of as an illustration of something.

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 Because what it is, is my sermon this week is going to be different than my usual sermon.

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 Because I don't know how many of you were able to pay attention as I was reading the Luke text, the gospel text.

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 But if you were, it's sort of an odd text.

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 It's a bit confusing.

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 And it would have been even more massively confusing to the original hearers and the people who originally read it,

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 maybe for the very, very first time.

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 And so I'm going to have to take a sort of a step back from the text.

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 And we're going to have to look at a couple of other things so that we can actually hear what the Bible says.

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 So here's the first thing.

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 And this is why I'm telling you the story.

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 I want to tell you something about what goes on in Canada.

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 A couple of weeks ago, one of the people who gets into arguments with me or persistent discussions,

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 might be a better way to put it, at Starbucks.

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 He's a committed secularist.

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 He sort of said to me, George, you know, the fact is that the Bible's all wrong because everything just goes in cycles.

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 Like, you know, we just, you know, you know, we die and somebody else is born.

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 And, you know, life, it's just a constant cycle.

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 And that's just how life works.

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 And I looked at him and said, I'm not going to answer that question because you don't believe that.

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 Well, let's talk about something you believe.

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 You don't believe that.

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 I said, you believe that things are getting better and better and better in a particular direction.

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 And that in, you know, like in 40 years, there'll be no more religion and that there'll be great world peace and lots of prosperity.

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 That's what you believe.

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 And he said, yeah, I was just trying to yank your chain.

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 But here's the thing.

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 If you could put up the first point, Andrew.

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 Virtually everybody in Canada believes history is moving towards something that matters

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 or should be moving towards something that matters.

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 I didn't say throughout the world because it wouldn't be true of the world.

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 In fact, there are parts of the world that would just believe that everything's just in constant cycles.

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 Like classic Hinduism, that there's this constant cycle.

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 Classic Buddhism, constant cycle.

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 Classic paganism, a constant cycle.

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 But I think in Canada, they might all differ on it,

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 but I think in Canada, virtually everybody in Canada believes history is moving towards something that matters

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 or should be moving towards something that matters.

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 And I'm using, I was going to use the word life.

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 I thought about using the word life, but I ended up deciding to use the word history

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 because it's as if people have this sense in Canada that there's been the past.

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 And as the past is coming up closer to the present, there's this development.

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 And it's as if there's a line going.

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 And so, for instance, many people on the left refer to themselves as progressives

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 because they have this sense that everything is moving in a particular direction.

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 It's progressing in a particular direction.

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 People who aren't of the left, at sort of a deeper level,

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 they might have more of a Star Trek view of the future.

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 You know, where, you know, in the future, I don't know how many years, I'm not a Trekkie,

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 but, you know, so many years in the future, you know, you just have to press a button in a machine

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 and your hot meal pops out and they've gotten rid of war, they've gotten rid of need,

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 they've gotten rid of want, and they can go off and explore the universe

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 and go where no man or woman has, you know, go boldly where nobody's gone before.

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 But, you know, many, many people, there's a, near where I live,

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 when I'm driving to one of my Starbucks, there's a place that's called evolution physiotherapy.

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 And what they mean by that is that somehow we're evolving to something better and better.

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 They don't mean that life is completely and utterly controlled by randomness and chaos,

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 and it might very well be that cockroaches are the only life form living in 100 years

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 when we completely annihilate ourselves, and that's just how evolution works, survival of the fittest.

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 And cockroaches might end up being, they don't mean that, right?

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 So it's a very, very common idea that things are moving in a certain direction.

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 And it's a very, very common idea that if we're depressed that things aren't moving in a particular direction,

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 it's because we believe they should go in a particular direction,

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 and we believe that this direction matters.

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 So it is that this working class guy sitting beside me, talking to some other working class guys,

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 evaluates his grandmother's argument by saying that this was something that they said 15 years ago.

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 That how history is moving matters, and how you understand right and wrong, how you live your life,

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 how you make your plans, who you marry, what you struggle with, what you don't struggle with, what you celebrate.

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 That's a very, very common.

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 So Canadians might differ, and there's many, many Canadians who say that because,

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 let's say the government isn't following the policies that are progressive,

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 that what's going to happen is some type of dystopia, that everything's going to go completely and utterly bad,

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 and so you better listen to us, but it matters.

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 Now, why does this matter?

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 How on earth does this have anything at all to do with Jesus?

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 Well, here's how it has something to do with Jesus and how it's to go back to the text,

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 which we're going to, we still have to take one more moment before we get back to it.

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 But one of the things that people will make fun of about Christians

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 is the Christian idea of the second coming of Jesus.

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 For many people in our culture, it's kooky.

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 You go hunting through the TV channels, and, okay, I don't mean to offend anybody by that.

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 I'm just trying to tell you how many people, if you get talking and they trust you, what they'll say.

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 So they go hunting through the channels, they'll come to a Christian channel,

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 and they'll see some sweating, overweight white guy going on with all sorts of lurid pictures and graphs

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 about what's happening in the Middle East and what's happening with Russia,

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 and where things are going, and they'll watch it for a few minutes to laugh,

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 because it looks ridiculous.

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 But here's the thing for us to think about for a second.

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 If nobody in Canada thought that history was going somewhere,

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 and that where that somewhere was going, that it was connected to the past, the present, and the future,

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 and that where it goes as matters, then for Christians to talk about the second coming of Jesus would be really odd.

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 But if, in fact, virtually everybody in Canada believes that the past matters,

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 the present matters, and that it's going somewhere,

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 then even though they might or might not be right to make fun of the person that they saw on television,

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 in fact, all it means is that Christians just have a different understanding of the direction of history than the culture.

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 See what I mean?

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 I mean, it's hard to communicate, and I don't know how I would communicate this to one of my friends in Starbucks,

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 but it's important for us to at least hear this,

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 that one moment, everybody believes history is going somewhere,

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 everybody believes something in the past, that there's some process that's going somewhere.

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 Christians also believe that.

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 In fact, actually, and this would in fact be true,

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 that one of the revolutions in human thought,

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 actually, that it, like,

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 people didn't believe there was a direction to history

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 until they, in a sense, learned it, and then forgot that they learned it from the Bible.

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 It's ultimately a Christian and Jewish idea,

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 a biblical idea that changed how people think.

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 And, um,

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 and so now it's a matter of,

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 well, one moment,

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 now we can sort of ask ourselves,

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 like, why is it that we think these things in the past are affecting the future,

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 and why is it that we think that these things in the future are going to happen,

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 and how is it that the Christian things sort of are similar or different?

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 See what I mean?

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 Like, it changes it,

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 even when we're reading the Bible.

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 Maybe it will make us less defensive

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 when we talk to others.

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 Less embarrassed about the angular and,

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 to the eyes of Canadians,

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 kooky aspects of Christianity.

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 So, here's another thing.

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 It's going to take us a while.

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 You know, we're actually going to,

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 you know, I'm going to do a lot of preview,

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 and then actually we're going to go through the Bible relatively quickly.

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 But there's one of,

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 so what does the Christian story look like?

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 Andrew, if you could put up the first screen.

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 So, the Bible has an overarching story,

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 an overarching narrative,

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 an overarching understanding of what's been going on in the past,

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 the present, and the future.

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 And while, to most Canadians,

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 they would understand that things,

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 we got,

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 things got the way they are through evolution,

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 that it's just ultimately a combination of chance,

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 coincidence,

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 genetic mutation,

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 followed by survival of fittest,

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 which is just another form of chance,

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 a physical process.

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 The Christian story begins in a very, very different way.

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 The Christian story begins by saying

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 that we believe there is a God who exists,

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 who's created all things.

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 That things aren't random and by chance.

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 And that when God created all things,

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 he made all things good.

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 And part of the way that he made all things good

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 is he put within human beings

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 who bear the image of God

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 and are like God,

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 he put within human beings

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 not perfect free will,

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 that they can have free will in every single thing,

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 but substantial and real free will

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 and within that free will,

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 the ability and the necessity to love

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 and to trust.

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 And that Adam and Eve

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 chose not to love and trust God,

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 but in a sense to usurp God's position

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 and try to become like God themselves.

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 And so the first part of the big story is creation.

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 The second is what's known as the fall.

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 And that when human beings,

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 our ancestors, Adam and Eve, did this,

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 it creates a bentness in all human nature

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 so that all human beings who descend from Adam and Eve,

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 which is everybody,

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 that there's a fundamental bentness in us,

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 that we're now not right.

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 And so that what characterizes human existence

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 is two things.

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 On one hand,

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 we're made in the image of the creator God.

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 We bear his image and likeness.

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 And God didn't remove that from human beings.

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 He didn't turn us into tortoises

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 or armadillos or aardvarks.

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 We're human.

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 We still bear the image and the likeness of God,

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 but now that image and likeness of God is marred.

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 It is bent.

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 It is twisted.

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 It is not the way it was intended.

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 And God saw that we human beings

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 could not fix ourselves.

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 So in Genesis 3 and on,

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 God begins what I'm labeling as promise,

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 that he promises that he is going to fix

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 what human beings cannot fix by themselves.

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 And what we believe then comes next

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 is that Jesus is God keeping his promise.

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 The promises originally were to patriarchs,

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 like Moses and Abraham,

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 I got the order wrong,

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 and the people of Israel.

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 And in some ways,

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 even the promises is different,

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 other types of things,

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 of intimations that other people had,

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 that there would be some way

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 that God was going to fix this.

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 And Jesus is the coming of God,

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 God, the Son of God,

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 into our human story.

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 God keeping his promises

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 to fix what human beings cannot fix.

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 And that's what we have in the Gospels.

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 In a sense, all of the Old Testament

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 is what we would call that

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 understanding, the unfolding,

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 the revealing,

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 the preparing of the promise.

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 Jesus is God keeping his promise

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 and keeping his promise

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 in a surprising way.

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 Not in the way that

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 the original people thought

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 he was going to do it,

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 but that God would first deal

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 with the bentness in us

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 before he dealt with the bentness

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 and the fallenness

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 in the entire created order.

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 So Jesus comes to die.

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 He dies upon the cross.

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 And his death upon the cross

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 is, in the words of Romans,

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 a power of God from salvation.

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 It's a power of God,

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 from God,

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 for salvation,

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 that is accomplished

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 with Jesus' death upon the cross.

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 And now God is taking a people

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 for himself

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 when we put our faith

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 and trust in Jesus.

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 And now,

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 after Jesus' death

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 and his resurrection,

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 he promises he's going to come again.

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 And so now,

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 every single one of us

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 is living in the between.

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 In fact,

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 if you could put the next slide up.

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 You know how you go to a mall

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 and you try to figure out

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 where you are?

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 Okay?

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 That's where we are

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 in the story.

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 We're in the between.

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 The between Jesus' coming

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 and his second coming.

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 And I've labeled

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 his second coming

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 the beginning.

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 Because it's not only a judgment,

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 but it's the beginning

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 of the new earth

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 and the new heaven.

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 The new earth and heaven

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 that we will live in

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 for eternity.

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 And that's the overarching

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 Christian story.

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 And I think it's,

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 the older I get

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 and the more I talk

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 to people at Starbucks,

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 the more convinced I am

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 of the profound wisdom

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 and truthfulness

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 of this overarching story.

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 That creation and fall

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 and promise in Jesus

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 in between and beginning

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 makes sense of our longings

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 and yearnings.

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 It makes sense of science.

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 It makes sense of history.

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 It makes sense of knowledge.

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 It just,

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 it makes sense.

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 And not only does it make sense

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 at a whole range

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 of philosophical

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 and scientific levels

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 and personal

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 and existential levels,

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 but also because

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 of the reality

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 of the death upon the cross

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 and the historical event

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 that there's actually

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 some historical evidence

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 that it might be possible

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 that in fact Jesus

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 did in fact defeat death

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 and emerge on the far side

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 of death on the third day

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 and that therefore

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 if he did that,

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 he can return.

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 And it makes sense.

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 It's a profound,

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 profound story.

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 So,

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 you see,

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 here's what I would say

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 to the young guy

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 if I'd had a chance

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 to talk with him.

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 I mean,

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 first of all,

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 I would have had to have fought

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 my urge to mock him.

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 What,

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 you think you tell truth

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 by the calendar?

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 Like,

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 I probably would have tried

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 to mock him.

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 You know,

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 that doesn't work well

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 in conversations

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 when you want to woo somebody

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 and start mocking them.

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 So,

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 I would have had to have fought that.

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 But,

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 you know,

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 what you could say,

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 well,

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 why is it that you think

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 that history's moving

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 in this particular direction?

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 Like,

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 what sort of evidence

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 is there for it?

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 Because,

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 you see,

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 there's a new age saying

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 that if you see the Buddha

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 on the road,

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 kill him.

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 And,

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 and in a sense,

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 I almost thought of making a point

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 when you hear of a utopia

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 or a future,

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 kill it.

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 That's like what the Bible says.

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 And if you could put up

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 the next point,

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 Andrew,

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 it's because I think

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 ultimately the Bible says

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 that we are made in God's image

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 and we are fallen.

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 And because of that,

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 we presume

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 to know.

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 But,

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 God is sovereign

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 and he knows.

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 And this is true

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 for Christians

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 and for non-Christians.

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 Many,

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 many Christians

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 think that they can figure out

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 from the Bible

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 all of the intricacies

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 of what's going to happen

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 in the last days,

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 despite the fact

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 that Jesus repeatedly says

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 that nobody can figure it out.

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 That they can't.

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 So,

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 if Christians,

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 even reading the Bible,

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 have a hard time,

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 then how much more

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 will our culture

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 have a hard time?

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 That on one hand,

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 because they have this sense

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 that this overarching story,

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 I would suggest,

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 is in fact

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 a true historical real story.

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 And on one hand,

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 because we're made

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 in the image of God

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 and because we're fallen,

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 we have this sense

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 that it's moving somewhere,

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 that it's not just

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 a result of blind chance

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 and blind processes,

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 but there actually

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 is a God

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 and that it's moving

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 to some type

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 of a completion

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 and that completion matters.

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 But because we're fallen

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 and yet we bear

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 the image of God,

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 we presume to know.

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 We presume to know

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 that we're going to have

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 a perfect Freudian future

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 or a communist future

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 or a Nazi future

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 or a queer future

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 or a Star Trek future

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 or whatever it is

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 and we presume to know

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 and we try to evaluate others

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 all in light of it,

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 but the Bible

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 would suggest to us

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 that we are,

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 on one hand,

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 just like the most

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 ardent skeptic

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 and say,

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 you have no evidence

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 for any of that.

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 You're presuming,

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 you don't know.

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 And then to which

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 if somebody says to you,

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 George,

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 you don't know either

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 and I would say,

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 you are very right.

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 I am not claiming

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 that I am smarter

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 than anybody.

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 But what if there is a God

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 who does exist

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 who tells us?

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 What if there is a God

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 who exists

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 who tells us?

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 You don't have to be clever.

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 You just have to listen.

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 And no Christian

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 should claim

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 that they are more clever

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 than others.

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 We are not.

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 My favorite line

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 from Spurgeon,

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 we are one beggar

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 telling another beggar

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 where to find bread.

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 We're not farmers,

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 we're beggars.

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 So,

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 how does this

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 fit with,

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 we're going to actually

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 read the Bible.

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 This is very unusual.

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 Usually if you come

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 to one of my sermons,

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 you don't wait 19 minutes

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 before we actually

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 crack open the Bible.

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 It's not a lecture.

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 We're going to now,

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 hopefully with this little thing

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 in our background,

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 we'll actually be able to hear

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 and also sort of catch

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 the surprise

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 and the shock

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 in the text.

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 So,

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 if you don't have Bibles,

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 there's always some free Bibles

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 up here at the front.

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 And it's Luke chapter 12.

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 If you use an electronic

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 version of your Bible,

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 try to restrain yourself

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 from checking your

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 Facebook updates,

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 Twitter feed,

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 or anything like that

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 and actually just stay

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 with the text.

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 And it's Luke chapter 12

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 beginning at verse 34.

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 And sort of mindful

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 of the overarching big story

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 and the fact that

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 we live in a world

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 where in Canada

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 where virtually everybody

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 believes something's

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 going to be happening

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 in the future that matters.

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 And so,

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 it's not that Jesus

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 is the only one

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 talking about this,

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 but that in fact

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 he's just saying

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 something very different

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 than what is commonly believed.

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 Let's listen to what

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 he has to say.

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 Verse 34.

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 And by the way,

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 let me see here.

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 How many people here

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 are familiar with the show

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 Downton Abbey?

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 Of course.

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 Okay,

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 well you'll be all glad

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 to know

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 that I actually

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 spent some time

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 researching Downton Abbey

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 this week

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 because Downton Abbey

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 helps you to understand

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 what's about to be said.

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 I'm not making that up.

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 It's true.

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 Very helpful

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 to understanding the Bible

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 in this particular context.

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 So,

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 Luke chapter 12

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 verses 34

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 and following.

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 Jesus speaking.

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 For where your treasure is,

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 there will your heart

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 be also.

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 Say,

00:21:50.500 --> 00:21:52.120
 stay dressed for action

00:21:52.120 --> 00:21:53.920
 and keep your lamps burning.

00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.580
 And be like men.

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 And in this particular case

00:21:58.420 --> 00:21:59.320
 it doesn't mean men or women.

00:21:59.440 --> 00:22:00.220
 It means men

00:22:00.220 --> 00:22:01.279
 because it's describing

00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:02.800
 a particular type of servant.

00:22:04.420 --> 00:22:05.820
 And in Downton Abbey

00:22:05.820 --> 00:22:06.960
 it would usually be

00:22:06.960 --> 00:22:07.700
 the men

00:22:07.700 --> 00:22:08.980
 who answer the door.

00:22:09.180 --> 00:22:09.320
 Right?

00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:13.000
 Not the women.

00:22:13.220 --> 00:22:14.420
 The men answer the door.

00:22:14.500 --> 00:22:15.620
 The men escort you out.

00:22:15.720 --> 00:22:17.140
 So this actually means men here.

00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:17.900
 It doesn't mean women.

00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:18.340
 It's not

00:22:18.340 --> 00:22:19.860
 poo-pooing women.

00:22:19.980 --> 00:22:20.300
 It's just

00:22:20.300 --> 00:22:21.480
 it's the story.

00:22:21.800 --> 00:22:22.840
 If you use Downton Abbey

00:22:22.840 --> 00:22:23.440
 you'd say,

00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:24.059
 oh,

00:22:24.120 --> 00:22:24.640
 women don't go

00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:25.259
 and answer the door.

00:22:26.519 --> 00:22:26.900
 Men.

00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:27.240
 So,

00:22:27.740 --> 00:22:28.900
 stay dressed for action

00:22:28.900 --> 00:22:30.059
 and keep your lamps burning.

00:22:30.320 --> 00:22:31.140
 Be like men

00:22:31.140 --> 00:22:31.900
 who are waiting

00:22:31.900 --> 00:22:32.720
 for their master

00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:33.400
 to come home

00:22:33.400 --> 00:22:34.440
 from the wedding feast.

00:22:35.320 --> 00:22:36.720
 In the ancient days

00:22:36.720 --> 00:22:37.559
 at the time of Jesus

00:22:37.559 --> 00:22:38.160
 wedding feast

00:22:38.160 --> 00:22:39.200
 could go on for a week

00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:40.160
 or less,

00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:40.680
 a little bit less,

00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:41.340
 a little bit more.

00:22:41.820 --> 00:22:43.400
 So if the master,

00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:45.140
 if Lord Grantham

00:22:45.140 --> 00:22:46.900
 went to a wedding

00:22:46.900 --> 00:22:48.100
 back in those days

00:22:48.100 --> 00:22:49.220
 the servants wouldn't know

00:22:49.220 --> 00:22:50.320
 when he's coming back.

00:22:51.820 --> 00:22:52.039
 Okay?

00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:52.720
 Because it wouldn't show.

00:22:52.819 --> 00:22:54.259
 Is he going to get tired

00:22:54.259 --> 00:22:54.720
 of drinking

00:22:54.720 --> 00:22:55.899
 after five days?

00:22:55.940 --> 00:22:56.759
 After eight days?

00:22:56.799 --> 00:22:56.940
 Like,

00:22:56.980 --> 00:22:57.680
 how's it going to go?

00:22:57.839 --> 00:22:57.980
 Right?

00:22:58.539 --> 00:22:59.740
 So stay dressed for action

00:22:59.740 --> 00:23:00.799
 and keep your lamps burning

00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:01.779
 and be like men

00:23:01.779 --> 00:23:02.319
 who are waiting

00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:03.039
 for their master

00:23:03.039 --> 00:23:03.579
 to come home

00:23:03.579 --> 00:23:04.420
 from the wedding feast

00:23:04.420 --> 00:23:05.639
 so that they may

00:23:05.639 --> 00:23:07.019
 open the door to him

00:23:07.019 --> 00:23:07.920
 at once

00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:08.559
 when he comes

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 and knocks.

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 Blessed,

00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:11.559
 it's a beatitude,

00:23:12.019 --> 00:23:13.659
 blessed are those servants

00:23:13.659 --> 00:23:14.480
 whom the master

00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:15.139
 finds awake

00:23:15.139 --> 00:23:15.720
 when he comes.

00:23:16.180 --> 00:23:16.539
 Truly,

00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:17.720
 it's actually the word

00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:18.079
 Amen.

00:23:18.579 --> 00:23:18.980
 Amen,

00:23:19.420 --> 00:23:20.259
 I say to you.

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 He will,

00:23:21.279 --> 00:23:21.860
 the master

00:23:21.860 --> 00:23:22.880
 will dress himself

00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:23.620
 for service

00:23:23.620 --> 00:23:24.400
 and have them

00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:25.480
 recline at table

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 and he will come

00:23:26.940 --> 00:23:28.059
 and serve them.

00:23:29.240 --> 00:23:29.740
 If you're wondering

00:23:29.740 --> 00:23:30.539
 in a few verses

00:23:30.539 --> 00:23:31.240
 why on earth

00:23:31.240 --> 00:23:31.980
 it is that Peter

00:23:31.980 --> 00:23:33.200
 can't understand

00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:33.860
 what on earth

00:23:33.860 --> 00:23:35.140
 Jesus is talking about

00:23:35.140 --> 00:23:36.299
 is because of this.

00:23:36.360 --> 00:23:36.900
 If you watch

00:23:36.900 --> 00:23:37.759
 Downton Abbey,

00:23:38.220 --> 00:23:38.880
 do you think

00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:39.779
 if Lord Grantham

00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:40.460
 comes home

00:23:40.460 --> 00:23:41.380
 after eight days

00:23:41.380 --> 00:23:41.940
 of drinking

00:23:41.940 --> 00:23:43.259
 and he's pleased

00:23:43.259 --> 00:23:44.299
 to have the door open,

00:23:44.500 --> 00:23:45.259
 he's going to say,

00:23:45.259 --> 00:23:45.579
 my,

00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:46.420
 you look tired,

00:23:46.759 --> 00:23:47.339
 sit down

00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:48.059
 while I make you

00:23:48.059 --> 00:23:48.500
 a feast

00:23:48.500 --> 00:23:48.960
 and I'm going

00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:49.579
 to serve you.

00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:51.480
 Doesn't happen,

00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:51.960
 does it?

00:23:55.259 --> 00:23:55.579
 I mean,

00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:56.819
 as you know,

00:23:57.220 --> 00:23:58.079
 the Lord Grantham

00:23:58.079 --> 00:23:58.440
 and his family,

00:23:58.559 --> 00:23:59.160
 they can hardly

00:23:59.160 --> 00:23:59.960
 boil water.

00:24:03.879 --> 00:24:04.680
 This doesn't

00:24:04.680 --> 00:24:05.700
 make any sense.

00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:07.839
 This doesn't happen.

00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:12.579
 So what's going on?

00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:14.000
 Okay,

00:24:14.059 --> 00:24:14.500
 I promise

00:24:14.500 --> 00:24:15.200
 I'm not going

00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:16.359
 to skip over text.

00:24:16.599 --> 00:24:17.000
 We're going

00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:17.440
 to come back

00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:17.920
 and read it

00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:18.640
 but to understand

00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:19.319
 what's going on

00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:19.960
 we have to jump

00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:20.960
 forward a few verses.

00:24:21.579 --> 00:24:22.420
 So jump forward

00:24:22.420 --> 00:24:23.279
 to verse 49.

00:24:25.279 --> 00:24:26.279
 And here we have,

00:24:27.019 --> 00:24:27.220
 you know,

00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:28.259
 sometimes I say

00:24:28.259 --> 00:24:28.720
 to people,

00:24:29.420 --> 00:24:29.819
 I was just saying

00:24:29.819 --> 00:24:30.059
 to this,

00:24:30.119 --> 00:24:30.880
 the guy at a Starbucks

00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:31.960
 a couple of weeks ago

00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:33.380
 because he was trying

00:24:33.380 --> 00:24:33.880
 to tell me

00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:35.099
 that I was just imposing

00:24:35.099 --> 00:24:35.819
 my understanding

00:24:35.819 --> 00:24:37.339
 of what Jesus came to do

00:24:37.339 --> 00:24:38.359
 and I said,

00:24:38.420 --> 00:24:38.740
 no, no, no,

00:24:38.740 --> 00:24:39.440
 we don't have to try

00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:40.400
 to figure that out ourselves.

00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:41.420
 If you read the Gospels,

00:24:41.539 --> 00:24:42.519
 Jesus will tell you

00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:43.279
 why he came.

00:24:44.500 --> 00:24:45.819
 Like he tells you,

00:24:45.920 --> 00:24:46.420
 I'm just trying

00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:47.319
 to listen to him.

00:24:47.700 --> 00:24:48.480
 You're trying

00:24:48.480 --> 00:24:49.700
 to impose something different.

00:24:49.799 --> 00:24:50.180
 I'm just trying

00:24:50.180 --> 00:24:50.539
 to listen.

00:24:50.799 --> 00:24:51.400
 And this is one

00:24:51.400 --> 00:24:52.119
 of those statements

00:24:52.119 --> 00:24:53.759
 and it's verse 49.

00:24:54.799 --> 00:24:55.440
 Jesus speaking,

00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:56.700
 I came to cast fire

00:24:56.700 --> 00:24:57.480
 on the earth

00:24:57.480 --> 00:24:58.579
 and would that

00:24:58.579 --> 00:24:59.740
 it were already kindled.

00:25:00.220 --> 00:25:01.240
 I have a baptism

00:25:01.240 --> 00:25:02.759
 to be baptized with

00:25:02.759 --> 00:25:04.160
 and how great

00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:05.160
 is my distress

00:25:05.160 --> 00:25:07.319
 until it is accomplished.

00:25:07.859 --> 00:25:08.599
 He came

00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:09.900
 to cast fire

00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:11.339
 and to have

00:25:11.339 --> 00:25:12.519
 this baptism happen.

00:25:12.519 --> 00:25:14.160
 Now this is a bit

00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:15.460
 of an odd,

00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:17.500
 odd story.

00:25:17.900 --> 00:25:18.420
 It's an odd,

00:25:18.480 --> 00:25:19.079
 odd line.

00:25:19.879 --> 00:25:21.019
 And here you sort

00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:22.139
 of have to trust me on it

00:25:22.139 --> 00:25:23.779
 but obviously

00:25:23.779 --> 00:25:24.680
 he's already been baptized

00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:25.740
 by John the Baptist.

00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:26.420
 That happened

00:25:26.420 --> 00:25:27.639
 earlier on in Luke

00:25:27.639 --> 00:25:30.019
 and he's not obviously

00:25:30.019 --> 00:25:30.559
 talking about

00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:31.720
 what Christians do

00:25:31.720 --> 00:25:32.379
 with baptism

00:25:32.379 --> 00:25:33.019
 because that doesn't

00:25:33.019 --> 00:25:33.819
 make any sense.

00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:35.039
 He's,

00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:37.220
 in the original language,

00:25:37.220 --> 00:25:38.460
 he's using an image

00:25:38.460 --> 00:25:39.339
 from the Psalms

00:25:39.339 --> 00:25:40.039
 and the prophets

00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:41.799
 and the image

00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:42.399
 of baptism

00:25:42.399 --> 00:25:43.099
 in the Psalms

00:25:43.099 --> 00:25:43.720
 and the prophets

00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:45.159
 is an image

00:25:45.159 --> 00:25:46.559
 of being inundated

00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:49.039
 by God's judgment.

00:25:50.619 --> 00:25:51.259
 Inundated

00:25:51.259 --> 00:25:52.419
 or caught

00:25:52.419 --> 00:25:53.500
 by God's judgment.

00:25:54.319 --> 00:25:55.299
 It would be as if

00:25:55.299 --> 00:25:57.859
 you're at a beach

00:25:57.859 --> 00:25:59.579
 and a tsunami comes

00:25:59.579 --> 00:26:02.679
 and you have a sense

00:26:02.679 --> 00:26:03.279
 that not only

00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:04.199
 is there a tsunami coming,

00:26:04.199 --> 00:26:05.619
 it's going to inundate you

00:26:05.619 --> 00:26:07.099
 and it's going to crush you

00:26:07.099 --> 00:26:08.779
 and you can't run away from it

00:26:08.779 --> 00:26:10.119
 and that it's going to

00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:10.939
 overwhelm you

00:26:10.939 --> 00:26:12.159
 and completely and utterly

00:26:12.159 --> 00:26:12.480
 just,

00:26:12.899 --> 00:26:14.039
 it's going to obliterate you.

00:26:14.699 --> 00:26:15.179
 There's been some

00:26:15.179 --> 00:26:15.919
 Hollywood movies

00:26:15.919 --> 00:26:17.000
 about these tsunamis

00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:18.039
 and coming and what they do

00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:20.240
 and Jesus is saying

00:26:20.240 --> 00:26:21.439
 this tsunami

00:26:21.439 --> 00:26:23.439
 while everybody else

00:26:23.439 --> 00:26:24.139
 on the planet

00:26:24.139 --> 00:26:25.859
 is trying to run from it

00:26:25.859 --> 00:26:26.399
 and there's many,

00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:26.980
 many people,

00:26:27.379 --> 00:26:28.299
 maybe even some of you

00:26:28.299 --> 00:26:28.719
 here today,

00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:29.980
 many people that we meet

00:26:29.980 --> 00:26:30.500
 in Starbucks

00:26:30.500 --> 00:26:31.199
 and other places,

00:26:31.339 --> 00:26:31.939
 they have a sense

00:26:31.939 --> 00:26:33.000
 of impending doom.

00:26:33.539 --> 00:26:34.740
 Maybe it's the impending doom

00:26:34.740 --> 00:26:35.939
 of the entire culture.

00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:36.919
 Maybe it's the impending

00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:38.200
 doom of the entire planet.

00:26:38.340 --> 00:26:38.860
 Maybe it's just

00:26:38.860 --> 00:26:40.360
 their personal impending doom

00:26:40.360 --> 00:26:42.180
 when they have a worry

00:26:42.180 --> 00:26:43.200
 about getting some news

00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:43.860
 from the doctor

00:26:43.860 --> 00:26:45.000
 but they have this sense

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:46.779
 of a tsunami wave

00:26:46.779 --> 00:26:47.700
 and their whole life

00:26:47.700 --> 00:26:48.620
 is a matter of

00:26:48.620 --> 00:26:49.779
 turning their back from it

00:26:49.779 --> 00:26:51.320
 and they live in the shadow

00:26:51.320 --> 00:26:52.240
 of the tsunami

00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:53.019
 which is coming

00:26:53.019 --> 00:26:54.600
 and Jesus says,

00:26:55.560 --> 00:26:56.480
 I came to walk

00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:57.539
 towards the tsunami.

00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:02.620
 I came not to be like

00:27:02.620 --> 00:27:03.940
 all of you who run from it,

00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:04.759
 who live in the fear

00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:05.360
 of the valley,

00:27:05.460 --> 00:27:06.039
 of the shadow,

00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:07.379
 of the coming tsunami.

00:27:07.720 --> 00:27:09.059
 I came to walk

00:27:09.059 --> 00:27:09.779
 towards that.

00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:12.299
 It's what I came for.

00:27:13.359 --> 00:27:13.980
 If you could put up

00:27:13.980 --> 00:27:14.460
 the point,

00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:18.240
 Jesus came to be inundated

00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:19.799
 by the judgment of God

00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:20.519
 that I deserve.

00:27:22.879 --> 00:27:25.119
 Jesus came to be inundated

00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:28.759
 by the judgment of God

00:27:28.759 --> 00:27:30.480
 that I deserve.

00:27:31.899 --> 00:27:33.200
 You read the book of Luke

00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:34.180
 from beginning to end.

00:27:34.180 --> 00:27:34.860
 It's a story.

00:27:34.860 --> 00:27:35.980
 Luke chapter 9,

00:27:36.100 --> 00:27:37.320
 Jesus first reveals

00:27:37.320 --> 00:27:38.360
 very clearly

00:27:38.360 --> 00:27:39.120
 that he's going

00:27:39.120 --> 00:27:39.940
 to Jerusalem to die,

00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:41.920
 that he came to earth

00:27:41.920 --> 00:27:42.900
 to be,

00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:43.519
 he was born,

00:27:43.620 --> 00:27:44.000
 all of that

00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.100
 all had a particular purpose

00:27:46.100 --> 00:27:47.060
 that he would go

00:27:47.060 --> 00:27:48.320
 to Jerusalem to die

00:27:48.320 --> 00:27:49.240
 and then to rise.

00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:51.000
 And everything that's going on

00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:51.640
 in the book of Luke

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:52.080
 right now,

00:27:52.140 --> 00:27:53.160
 it's all while Jesus

00:27:53.160 --> 00:27:53.940
 and his disciples

00:27:53.940 --> 00:27:55.279
 are walking to Jerusalem

00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.060
 and Jesus in a variety

00:27:57.060 --> 00:27:57.560
 of ways

00:27:57.560 --> 00:27:58.360
 through Old Testament

00:27:58.360 --> 00:27:58.840
 allusion,

00:27:59.039 --> 00:27:59.480
 through right,

00:27:59.680 --> 00:27:59.940
 straight,

00:28:00.120 --> 00:28:00.779
 direct speech,

00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:01.920
 continually telling

00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:02.640
 the disciples,

00:28:03.460 --> 00:28:04.940
 I'm walking to Jerusalem

00:28:04.940 --> 00:28:05.840
 to die.

00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:08.080
 I'm walking to Jerusalem

00:28:08.080 --> 00:28:10.400
 towards the tsunami

00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:11.580
 of God's judgment

00:28:11.580 --> 00:28:13.300
 and I am walking

00:28:13.300 --> 00:28:14.420
 towards that

00:28:14.420 --> 00:28:16.279
 to be inundated by you.

00:28:17.000 --> 00:28:18.400
 And I'm not coming

00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:20.100
 because I myself

00:28:20.100 --> 00:28:21.539
 deserve God's judgment.

00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:24.620
 I come in love for you.

00:28:25.300 --> 00:28:27.380
 I will bear the tsunami

00:28:27.380 --> 00:28:28.320
 of God's judgment

00:28:28.320 --> 00:28:29.080
 that you deserve.

00:28:29.079 --> 00:28:31.919
 I will take your place

00:28:31.919 --> 00:28:32.720
 and bear it

00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:34.179
 in your stead.

00:28:36.460 --> 00:28:36.740
 You see,

00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:37.220
 that's why

00:28:37.220 --> 00:28:38.019
 if you were to go back

00:28:38.019 --> 00:28:38.779
 to that screen

00:28:38.779 --> 00:28:39.279
 that was up

00:28:39.279 --> 00:28:40.240
 a couple of moments ago

00:28:40.240 --> 00:28:40.899
 where you go from

00:28:40.899 --> 00:28:41.519
 creation,

00:28:41.779 --> 00:28:42.319
 fall,

00:28:42.619 --> 00:28:43.159
 promise,

00:28:44.779 --> 00:28:45.980
 Jesus is God

00:28:45.980 --> 00:28:47.379
 keeping his promise

00:28:47.379 --> 00:28:49.679
 in a way

00:28:49.679 --> 00:28:51.059
 that nobody expected

00:28:51.059 --> 00:28:53.720
 because we human beings,

00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:54.879
 we watch,

00:28:55.619 --> 00:28:56.439
 we expect

00:28:56.439 --> 00:28:57.299
 that the powerful

00:28:57.299 --> 00:28:57.940
 and the rich

00:28:57.940 --> 00:28:59.599
 have privileges.

00:29:00.399 --> 00:29:01.079
 We expect

00:29:01.079 --> 00:29:01.960
 that the powerful

00:29:01.960 --> 00:29:02.460
 and the rich

00:29:02.460 --> 00:29:03.319
 do not serve.

00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:04.599
 We expect that.

00:29:04.940 --> 00:29:05.940
 We might resent it

00:29:05.940 --> 00:29:06.720
 when we are the ones

00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:07.720
 who are under their thumb

00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:08.579
 but we also know

00:29:08.579 --> 00:29:09.619
 that if we had that money

00:29:09.619 --> 00:29:11.139
 we would expect

00:29:11.139 --> 00:29:12.000
 to have those perks

00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:12.579
 and privileges.

00:29:13.159 --> 00:29:13.539
 And so,

00:29:13.899 --> 00:29:14.819
 we project

00:29:14.819 --> 00:29:15.839
 this understanding

00:29:15.839 --> 00:29:16.539
 onto God.

00:29:16.639 --> 00:29:17.960
 That's part of our presumption.

00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:19.039
 It's part of our fear.

00:29:19.159 --> 00:29:20.379
 It's part of our fallenness

00:29:20.379 --> 00:29:21.259
 that we project

00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:22.259
 that onto God

00:29:22.259 --> 00:29:23.339
 and Jesus

00:29:23.339 --> 00:29:24.220
 is constantly

00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:25.059
 trying to tell

00:29:25.059 --> 00:29:25.700
 his followers

00:29:25.700 --> 00:29:26.639
 that no,

00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:26.839
 no,

00:29:26.919 --> 00:29:27.079
 no,

00:29:27.179 --> 00:29:27.379
 no.

00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:30.279
 You know that story

00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:31.440
 just a few moments ago

00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:32.500
 the master comes

00:29:32.500 --> 00:29:33.259
 and he serves?

00:29:33.980 --> 00:29:35.740
 I come to serve you.

00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:38.279
 I will serve you

00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:40.559
 most profoundly

00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:41.720
 first and foremost

00:29:41.720 --> 00:29:43.099
 by walking towards

00:29:43.099 --> 00:29:43.759
 the tsunami

00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:44.799
 of God's judgment

00:29:44.799 --> 00:29:46.500
 and taking the inundation

00:29:46.500 --> 00:29:47.440
 that you deserve

00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:49.220
 and I will take

00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:50.019
 your stead.

00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:53.019
 That from beginning

00:29:53.019 --> 00:29:53.660
 to end

00:29:53.660 --> 00:29:54.259
 it's always

00:29:54.259 --> 00:29:55.480
 a matter of God

00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.859
 doing something

00:29:56.859 --> 00:29:58.319
 that we human beings

00:29:58.319 --> 00:29:59.400
 cannot do

00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:00.200
 and offering

00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:01.119
 a power

00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:02.019
 of salvation

00:30:02.019 --> 00:30:04.779
 and all we can do

00:30:04.779 --> 00:30:06.660
 is like beggars

00:30:06.660 --> 00:30:08.259
 receiving free bread.

00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:09.940
 Say,

00:30:10.879 --> 00:30:11.519
 Father,

00:30:11.599 --> 00:30:12.519
 I try to charm you

00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:13.319
 with my charm.

00:30:14.059 --> 00:30:14.859
 I try to do

00:30:14.859 --> 00:30:15.700
 all sorts of things

00:30:15.700 --> 00:30:16.240
 to put you

00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:16.920
 in my debt.

00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:19.000
 I try to presume

00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:19.779
 that I know more

00:30:19.779 --> 00:30:20.319
 than you do

00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:21.259
 but all I can do

00:30:21.259 --> 00:30:22.660
 is confess before you,

00:30:22.779 --> 00:30:23.019
 Father,

00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:24.299
 that I am a beggar.

00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:25.319
 I stand naked.

00:30:25.539 --> 00:30:26.759
 I have no resources.

00:30:27.019 --> 00:30:28.259
 I can only receive

00:30:28.259 --> 00:30:29.359
 that which you do,

00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:31.019
 that which you

00:30:31.019 --> 00:30:32.420
 whom I should serve,

00:30:32.519 --> 00:30:33.720
 that you would serve me

00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:35.220
 by this offer

00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:36.220
 of salvation

00:30:36.220 --> 00:30:38.220
 that I do not deserve.

00:30:42.379 --> 00:30:42.879
 See,

00:30:42.960 --> 00:30:43.440
 at the heart

00:30:43.440 --> 00:30:45.019
 of most modern stories

00:30:45.019 --> 00:30:45.839
 of how the future

00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:46.339
 is moving

00:30:46.339 --> 00:30:47.379
 are irrational

00:30:47.379 --> 00:30:48.160
 processes

00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:50.600
 and at the heart

00:30:50.600 --> 00:30:51.000
 of them

00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:52.500
 is always

00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:52.960
 that either

00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:53.600
 you get with

00:30:53.600 --> 00:30:54.279
 the program

00:30:54.279 --> 00:30:56.960
 or if you're lucky

00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.160
 you're like the grandmother

00:30:58.160 --> 00:30:59.000
 and you're just

00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:00.000
 in the dust bin

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:00.680
 of history.

00:31:00.880 --> 00:31:01.820
 If you're not lucky,

00:31:02.600 --> 00:31:04.040
 violence befalls you

00:31:04.040 --> 00:31:06.340
 because if we're moving

00:31:06.340 --> 00:31:07.300
 towards the glorious

00:31:07.300 --> 00:31:08.279
 workers' paradise,

00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:09.019
 if we're moving

00:31:09.019 --> 00:31:10.180
 towards this other type

00:31:10.180 --> 00:31:10.940
 of great paradise

00:31:10.940 --> 00:31:11.940
 and you're in the way,

00:31:12.820 --> 00:31:13.540
 the hope is

00:31:13.540 --> 00:31:14.460
 that if you don't

00:31:14.460 --> 00:31:15.340
 get with the program

00:31:15.340 --> 00:31:16.460
 and don't get with it,

00:31:16.460 --> 00:31:17.920
 this irrational process

00:31:17.920 --> 00:31:18.680
 that you'll be left

00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:19.180
 in the dust bin,

00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:20.680
 but time after time

00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:21.259
 after time,

00:31:21.340 --> 00:31:21.960
 when that comes

00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:22.799
 to full flower,

00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:23.840
 it leads to the death

00:31:23.840 --> 00:31:24.460
 of the innocent.

00:31:26.039 --> 00:31:27.100
 But Christians believe

00:31:27.100 --> 00:31:28.079
 it is not blind

00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:29.039
 irrational force

00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:29.799
 but a person

00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:32.680
 and then that person

00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:33.440
 who is sovereign

00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:34.240
 and knows

00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:36.319
 also loves

00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:37.940
 and sent his son

00:31:37.940 --> 00:31:39.180
 to be inundated

00:31:39.180 --> 00:31:40.140
 by the tsunami

00:31:40.140 --> 00:31:41.279
 of God's judgment

00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:42.400
 that you and I deserve,

00:31:42.600 --> 00:31:43.600
 that that would fall

00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:44.279
 on Jesus

00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:45.619
 as he dies

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:47.039
 upon the cross.

00:31:47.619 --> 00:31:48.160
 In fact,

00:31:48.259 --> 00:31:48.579
 actually,

00:31:48.740 --> 00:31:49.619
 in Luke's thing here,

00:31:49.720 --> 00:31:50.500
 if you look back,

00:31:50.899 --> 00:31:51.500
 verse 50,

00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:52.740
 verse 50,

00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:53.639
 I have a baptism

00:31:53.639 --> 00:31:54.740
 to be baptized with

00:31:54.740 --> 00:31:55.759
 and how great

00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:56.399
 is my distress

00:31:56.399 --> 00:31:57.500
 until it is accomplished.

00:31:58.099 --> 00:31:58.879
 The word there,

00:31:58.980 --> 00:31:59.339
 accomplished,

00:31:59.500 --> 00:32:00.480
 can also be translated

00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:01.099
 as finished

00:32:01.099 --> 00:32:02.420
 and it's the word

00:32:02.420 --> 00:32:03.180
 that Jesus says

00:32:03.180 --> 00:32:03.899
 from the cross.

00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:06.019
 It is finished.

00:32:07.619 --> 00:32:08.639
 It is accomplished.

00:32:09.379 --> 00:32:10.259
 It's the same word.

00:32:13.899 --> 00:32:14.259
 It's the same word.

00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:14.899
 So,

00:32:15.859 --> 00:32:20.259
 the last week or two

00:32:20.259 --> 00:32:20.779
 I've been watching

00:32:20.779 --> 00:32:22.099
 some BBC movies

00:32:22.099 --> 00:32:23.819
 called Hinderland

00:32:23.819 --> 00:32:25.899
 about a London detective

00:32:25.899 --> 00:32:26.899
 who goes to a remote

00:32:26.899 --> 00:32:27.700
 part of Wales.

00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:29.720
 Scenery, spectacular.

00:32:30.420 --> 00:32:31.240
 Best tradition

00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:32.359
 of that type of,

00:32:32.359 --> 00:32:32.660
 you know,

00:32:32.859 --> 00:32:33.420
 depressed,

00:32:33.819 --> 00:32:36.160
 struggling detective

00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:36.940
 with demons

00:32:36.940 --> 00:32:38.700
 trying to help people.

00:32:39.559 --> 00:32:40.200
 The Welsh have

00:32:40.200 --> 00:32:41.639
 really interesting names.

00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:42.319
 The whole shows,

00:32:42.420 --> 00:32:43.379
 I find it very interesting

00:32:43.379 --> 00:32:43.920
 to watch.

00:32:44.460 --> 00:32:45.779
 But in the first episode,

00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:46.860
 the first movie,

00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:48.900
 there's a person

00:32:48.900 --> 00:32:49.720
 who goes to chapel

00:32:49.720 --> 00:32:50.900
 and she's very,

00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:52.279
 very hard on the kids

00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:53.180
 that she's supposed to be

00:32:53.180 --> 00:32:54.480
 and they make the comment

00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:55.100
 that she was always

00:32:55.100 --> 00:32:56.000
 trying to scare them

00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:56.519
 with the devil

00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:57.500
 and beat the devil

00:32:57.500 --> 00:32:57.900
 out of them

00:32:57.900 --> 00:32:58.940
 but what she was really doing

00:32:58.940 --> 00:33:00.259
 was scaring the devil

00:33:00.259 --> 00:33:00.920
 into them

00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:02.039
 and beating the devil

00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:02.720
 into them.

00:33:02.720 --> 00:33:03.799
 Now I'm not trying

00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:04.519
 to scare you

00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:05.240
 but I'm going to talk

00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:06.180
 about how it is

00:33:06.180 --> 00:33:07.180
 that our story

00:33:07.180 --> 00:33:08.440
 intersects.

00:33:08.519 --> 00:33:08.660
 Andrew,

00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:09.279
 could you go back

00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:10.039
 a couple of screens

00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:10.700
 to that thing

00:33:10.700 --> 00:33:11.660
 where we are?

00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:13.039
 There you go.

00:33:13.779 --> 00:33:14.620
 We are here.

00:33:14.900 --> 00:33:15.900
 How do you and I

00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:17.220
 get involved in this story?

00:33:18.920 --> 00:33:19.180
 Andrew,

00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:20.019
 could you put up this,

00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:21.860
 I guess it's the third screen?

00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:23.660
 I'm not saying this

00:33:23.660 --> 00:33:24.380
 to scare you.

00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:26.799
 I'm just saying this is,

00:33:26.919 --> 00:33:27.940
 if you don't understand this

00:33:27.940 --> 00:33:28.639
 you're not really hearing

00:33:28.639 --> 00:33:29.559
 what Jesus says.

00:33:30.379 --> 00:33:31.259
 That we're in the

00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:32.059
 between Jesus

00:33:32.059 --> 00:33:34.119
 and the second coming

00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:37.519
 and I'm fallen,

00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:39.599
 not perfect,

00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:41.399
 I bear the image of God

00:33:41.399 --> 00:33:43.539
 and I'm also fallen

00:33:43.539 --> 00:33:45.700
 and I have before me

00:33:45.700 --> 00:33:46.359
 a choice.

00:33:47.639 --> 00:33:48.980
 I can refuse

00:33:48.980 --> 00:33:51.460
 what Jesus has offered,

00:33:51.659 --> 00:33:52.299
 has done for me

00:33:52.299 --> 00:33:52.960
 on the cross.

00:33:53.859 --> 00:33:55.259
 I can resist

00:33:55.259 --> 00:33:56.759
 the Holy Spirit

00:33:56.759 --> 00:33:57.680
 that tries to keep

00:33:57.680 --> 00:33:58.379
 drawing me back

00:33:58.379 --> 00:33:58.900
 to Jesus

00:33:58.900 --> 00:34:01.160
 and at the end

00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:02.920
 there's a final rejection

00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:04.740
 which works both ways.

00:34:05.839 --> 00:34:06.700
 Sometimes the Bible

00:34:06.700 --> 00:34:07.759
 talks about God

00:34:07.759 --> 00:34:08.840
 rejecting us

00:34:08.840 --> 00:34:10.860
 and sometimes

00:34:10.860 --> 00:34:11.699
 the Bible talks

00:34:11.699 --> 00:34:12.960
 about us rejecting God

00:34:12.960 --> 00:34:15.400
 but it means

00:34:15.400 --> 00:34:15.960
 that we appear

00:34:15.960 --> 00:34:17.099
 before the throne of God

00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:17.739
 and we sing

00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:18.699
 with Frank Sinatra

00:34:18.699 --> 00:34:19.679
 I did it my way,

00:34:20.099 --> 00:34:21.760
 I will always do it my way,

00:34:22.179 --> 00:34:23.079
 I will never do it

00:34:23.079 --> 00:34:23.920
 other than my way

00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:25.380
 and God gives us

00:34:25.380 --> 00:34:25.960
 what we want.

00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:28.220
 The Bible describes

00:34:28.220 --> 00:34:28.760
 it as hell.

00:34:30.140 --> 00:34:31.160
 The other choice

00:34:31.160 --> 00:34:31.900
 before us

00:34:31.900 --> 00:34:33.380
 is that we accept

00:34:33.380 --> 00:34:34.780
 what Jesus did for us

00:34:34.780 --> 00:34:35.940
 and we're redeemed,

00:34:36.160 --> 00:34:38.700
 that we live a life

00:34:38.700 --> 00:34:40.000
 not saying

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:40.440
 that we're now

00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:41.340
 redeemed by Jesus

00:34:41.340 --> 00:34:42.400
 and now after this

00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:43.660
 we just live by willpower

00:34:43.660 --> 00:34:44.980
 but we're gripped

00:34:44.980 --> 00:34:45.720
 by the gospel,

00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:46.480
 we're mindful

00:34:46.480 --> 00:34:47.020
 of the fact

00:34:47.020 --> 00:34:48.220
 that God ultimately

00:34:48.220 --> 00:34:48.840
 does something

00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:49.580
 that we can't do

00:34:49.580 --> 00:34:50.200
 for ourselves

00:34:50.200 --> 00:34:51.760
 and it's a matter

00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:53.140
 of as we're gripped

00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:53.920
 by the gospel.

00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:55.559
 It draws us

00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:56.139
 into change,

00:34:56.279 --> 00:34:57.239
 it pushes us

00:34:57.239 --> 00:34:57.900
 into change,

00:34:58.039 --> 00:34:59.579
 it enables us

00:34:59.579 --> 00:35:00.279
 to change

00:35:00.279 --> 00:35:01.900
 and then finally

00:35:01.900 --> 00:35:04.559
 either when we die

00:35:04.559 --> 00:35:05.920
 or when Jesus comes

00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:07.460
 that which we

00:35:07.460 --> 00:35:08.759
 think of as the end

00:35:08.759 --> 00:35:09.319
 but is really

00:35:09.319 --> 00:35:09.920
 the beginning

00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:11.119
 that we enter

00:35:11.119 --> 00:35:11.599
 into that.

00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:12.859
 If you want to use

00:35:12.859 --> 00:35:13.500
 more traditional

00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:14.639
 theological language,

00:35:14.799 --> 00:35:15.500
 the next screen,

00:35:15.500 --> 00:35:18.960
 my faith in Jesus

00:35:18.960 --> 00:35:20.139
 makes me justified,

00:35:21.420 --> 00:35:22.380
 mindful always

00:35:22.380 --> 00:35:22.920
 of being gripped

00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:23.539
 by the gospel

00:35:23.539 --> 00:35:24.179
 and thinking about

00:35:24.179 --> 00:35:24.900
 what Jesus did

00:35:24.900 --> 00:35:25.760
 for me in the cross

00:35:25.760 --> 00:35:26.420
 and that the power

00:35:26.420 --> 00:35:27.019
 of salvation

00:35:27.019 --> 00:35:27.599
 is not just

00:35:27.599 --> 00:35:28.480
 to justify me

00:35:28.480 --> 00:35:29.119
 but to make me

00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:29.900
 more like Jesus.

00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:31.659
 My life between now

00:35:31.659 --> 00:35:32.539
 and my death

00:35:32.539 --> 00:35:33.940
 or my life

00:35:33.940 --> 00:35:34.400
 and the coming

00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:34.780
 of Jesus

00:35:34.780 --> 00:35:35.960
 is to be sanctified

00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:37.699
 and that when I die

00:35:37.699 --> 00:35:38.940
 or when Jesus returns

00:35:38.940 --> 00:35:40.039
 I will be like him

00:35:40.039 --> 00:35:41.019
 because I will see him

00:35:41.019 --> 00:35:42.039
 like he is

00:35:42.039 --> 00:35:43.159
 and I will be glorified.

00:35:45.500 --> 00:35:47.460
 And the choice is ours.

00:35:47.559 --> 00:35:48.440
 The choice is yours.

00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:53.380
 There's a lot

00:35:53.380 --> 00:35:54.039
 in the news lately

00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:55.400
 about the Ebola crisis

00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:57.260
 and it's come

00:35:57.260 --> 00:35:58.159
 to the United States

00:35:58.159 --> 00:35:59.280
 and of course

00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:00.260
 I guess no surprise

00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:00.719
 to anybody.

00:36:00.900 --> 00:36:01.599
 I'm not saying

00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:02.579
 this to bash government.

00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:05.119
 Big organizations

00:36:05.119 --> 00:36:05.920
 and governments

00:36:05.920 --> 00:36:07.219
 are very unwieldy

00:36:07.219 --> 00:36:08.519
 and we're not prepared

00:36:08.519 --> 00:36:09.079
 for this

00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:10.280
 and we're still trying

00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:10.699
 to figure out

00:36:10.699 --> 00:36:11.380
 how to be prepared

00:36:11.380 --> 00:36:11.840
 for it.

00:36:12.780 --> 00:36:13.820
 What the Christian message

00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:14.780
 is something like this.

00:36:14.780 --> 00:36:16.300
 Imagine if all of a sudden

00:36:16.300 --> 00:36:17.340
 and maybe we discover

00:36:17.340 --> 00:36:17.980
 that some of us

00:36:17.980 --> 00:36:18.720
 have been infected

00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:19.980
 in that 21 day period

00:36:19.980 --> 00:36:20.600
 we don't realize

00:36:20.600 --> 00:36:21.360
 that we have Ebola

00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:26.019
 and we're going to

00:36:26.019 --> 00:36:27.519
 potentially die from it

00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:28.480
 but imagine

00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:29.480
 that they were to announce

00:36:29.480 --> 00:36:30.740
 that they found a cure

00:36:30.740 --> 00:36:32.720
 that's both a cure

00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:33.780
 and an immunization

00:36:33.780 --> 00:36:35.540
 and you just have

00:36:35.540 --> 00:36:36.300
 to go somewhere

00:36:36.300 --> 00:36:37.060
 and they'll give you

00:36:37.060 --> 00:36:37.460
 a needle

00:36:37.460 --> 00:36:38.500
 and it's in you

00:36:38.500 --> 00:36:40.140
 and if you have Ebola

00:36:40.140 --> 00:36:41.780
 you won't die from it

00:36:41.780 --> 00:36:43.040
 and if you don't have it

00:36:43.040 --> 00:36:43.800
 you won't get it.

00:36:44.780 --> 00:36:47.180
 And we'd all go.

00:36:48.920 --> 00:36:49.860
 We'd all go.

00:36:51.220 --> 00:36:52.240
 And what the Bible

00:36:52.240 --> 00:36:53.060
 is saying is that

00:36:53.060 --> 00:36:54.080
 when Jesus walks

00:36:54.080 --> 00:36:55.240
 towards the inundation

00:36:55.240 --> 00:36:56.560
 the tsunami

00:36:56.560 --> 00:36:57.400
 of God's judgment

00:36:57.400 --> 00:36:58.260
 that I deserve

00:36:58.260 --> 00:37:00.480
 that dying on the cross

00:37:00.480 --> 00:37:01.720
 that there's a power

00:37:01.720 --> 00:37:02.300
 of God

00:37:02.300 --> 00:37:03.120
 for salvation

00:37:03.120 --> 00:37:04.240
 that is accomplished

00:37:04.240 --> 00:37:04.960
 with his death

00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:05.780
 upon the cross

00:37:05.780 --> 00:37:09.760
 that has to get in us

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:11.019
 and the choice is ours

00:37:11.019 --> 00:37:14.800
 that has to get in us

00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:17.160
 and if it doesn't get in us

00:37:17.160 --> 00:37:20.160
 then the normal process

00:37:20.160 --> 00:37:20.700
 will be that

00:37:20.700 --> 00:37:21.560
 which is up

00:37:21.560 --> 00:37:22.140
 and to the right

00:37:22.140 --> 00:37:24.040
 and I don't say it

00:37:24.040 --> 00:37:24.640
 to scare you

00:37:24.639 --> 00:37:26.940
 but I would not be

00:37:26.940 --> 00:37:27.920
 a faithful servant

00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:28.559
 of God's word

00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:29.219
 that's what Jesus

00:37:29.219 --> 00:37:29.940
 is talking about

00:37:29.940 --> 00:37:30.480
 here in the text

00:37:30.480 --> 00:37:31.019
 so now we're going

00:37:31.019 --> 00:37:31.480
 to go back

00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:32.679
 actually before

00:37:32.679 --> 00:37:33.980
 some of you might say

00:37:33.980 --> 00:37:34.579
 how's my time

00:37:34.579 --> 00:37:35.500
 oh sorry

00:37:35.500 --> 00:37:36.059
 we're going

00:37:36.059 --> 00:37:37.299
 getting a bit stretched

00:37:37.299 --> 00:37:38.619
 some of you might say

00:37:38.619 --> 00:37:39.019
 well okay

00:37:39.019 --> 00:37:39.659
 George

00:37:39.659 --> 00:37:41.379
 how does this faith work

00:37:41.379 --> 00:37:41.980
 you just sort of say

00:37:41.980 --> 00:37:42.319
 yeah yeah

00:37:42.319 --> 00:37:42.839
 I'll choose that

00:37:42.839 --> 00:37:43.699
 I'll choose that path

00:37:43.699 --> 00:37:44.659
 yeah sure

00:37:44.659 --> 00:37:45.259
 Jesus

00:37:45.259 --> 00:37:46.039
 whoa

00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:48.279
 I'll take that

00:37:48.279 --> 00:37:48.980
 that path

00:37:48.980 --> 00:37:49.319
 that goes

00:37:49.319 --> 00:37:49.980
 that one there

00:37:49.980 --> 00:37:50.859
 I'll choose that

00:37:50.859 --> 00:37:51.739
 justified path

00:37:51.739 --> 00:37:54.699
 it's not just a matter

00:37:54.699 --> 00:37:57.859
 of a friend of mine

00:37:57.859 --> 00:37:58.379
 Andy

00:37:58.379 --> 00:37:59.139
 who's the pastor

00:37:59.139 --> 00:38:01.439
 of Calvary Chapel

00:38:01.439 --> 00:38:01.899
 we were out

00:38:01.899 --> 00:38:02.599
 at Starbucks

00:38:02.599 --> 00:38:03.039
 the other day

00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:03.559
 and he found out

00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:04.500
 that the staff

00:38:04.500 --> 00:38:05.539
 have a secret drink

00:38:05.539 --> 00:38:06.719
 and they called it

00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:07.659
 I think they call it

00:38:07.659 --> 00:38:08.639
 Rachel Shooters

00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:09.819
 which is

00:38:09.819 --> 00:38:11.239
 you put a big dollop

00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:12.319
 of something sweet

00:38:12.319 --> 00:38:13.039
 like vanilla

00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:14.460
 and then you put

00:38:14.460 --> 00:38:15.440
 a nice dollop

00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:16.759
 of good whipped

00:38:16.759 --> 00:38:17.619
 of cream

00:38:17.619 --> 00:38:18.960
 and then you take

00:38:18.960 --> 00:38:19.639
 an espresso

00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:20.840
 and you pour

00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:21.440
 the espresso

00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:22.219
 on a spoon

00:38:22.219 --> 00:38:23.519
 to help cool it a bit

00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:24.279
 and slow it down

00:38:24.279 --> 00:38:25.779
 and it goes on top of it

00:38:25.779 --> 00:38:26.539
 and it creates a drink

00:38:26.539 --> 00:38:27.400
 with three layers

00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:28.880
 a layer of syrup

00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.739
 a layer of cream

00:38:29.739 --> 00:38:31.239
 and a layer of espresso

00:38:31.239 --> 00:38:32.779
 and then you take

00:38:32.779 --> 00:38:33.519
 and you do a shooter

00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:33.880
 you go

00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:34.880
 you down it

00:38:34.880 --> 00:38:36.219
 and he said

00:38:36.219 --> 00:38:36.980
 wow that's good

00:38:36.980 --> 00:38:38.420
 you get hot and bitter

00:38:38.420 --> 00:38:40.000
 warm and creamy

00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:41.619
 cool and sweet

00:38:41.619 --> 00:38:43.019
 all one after another

00:38:43.019 --> 00:38:43.840
 and a quick shot

00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:45.139
 so is just saying

00:38:45.139 --> 00:38:45.820
 yes to Jesus

00:38:45.820 --> 00:38:46.219
 just like

00:38:46.219 --> 00:38:46.699
 I'm going to try

00:38:46.699 --> 00:38:47.440
 a Rachel Shooter

00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:47.860
 you know

00:38:47.860 --> 00:38:48.280
 yeah sure

00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:48.880
 give me a shot

00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:51.539
 Jesus immediately

00:38:51.539 --> 00:38:52.679
 after verse 50

00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.159
 warns you about something

00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:56.380
 look at verse 50

00:38:56.380 --> 00:38:57.460
 so verse 50 says

00:38:57.460 --> 00:38:58.320
 I have a baptism

00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:59.719
 to be baptized with

00:38:59.719 --> 00:39:00.219
 and how great

00:39:00.219 --> 00:39:00.800
 is my distress

00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:01.780
 until it is accomplished

00:39:01.780 --> 00:39:03.500
 do you think

00:39:03.500 --> 00:39:04.099
 that I have come

00:39:04.099 --> 00:39:04.739
 to give peace

00:39:04.739 --> 00:39:05.259
 on earth

00:39:05.259 --> 00:39:06.440
 no I tell you

00:39:06.440 --> 00:39:07.280
 but rather division

00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:08.579
 for from now on

00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:09.759
 in one house

00:39:09.759 --> 00:39:10.159
 there will be

00:39:10.159 --> 00:39:10.880
 five divided

00:39:10.880 --> 00:39:11.780
 three against two

00:39:11.780 --> 00:39:12.700
 and two against three

00:39:12.700 --> 00:39:13.560
 they will be divided

00:39:13.560 --> 00:39:14.640
 father against son

00:39:14.640 --> 00:39:15.640
 and son against father

00:39:15.640 --> 00:39:16.660
 mother against daughter

00:39:16.660 --> 00:39:17.720
 and daughter against mother

00:39:17.720 --> 00:39:19.180
 mother-in-law against her

00:39:19.180 --> 00:39:19.760
 daughter-in-law

00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:20.519
 and daughter-in-law

00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:21.519
 against mother-in-law

00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:23.920
 he also said to the crowds

00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:24.620
 so on one hand

00:39:24.620 --> 00:39:26.060
 he gives a profound warning

00:39:26.060 --> 00:39:28.540
 okay this isn't just like

00:39:28.540 --> 00:39:29.660
 trying Rachel Shooter

00:39:29.660 --> 00:39:30.200
 okay

00:39:30.200 --> 00:39:33.720
 this is about having

00:39:33.720 --> 00:39:34.460
 a new treasure

00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:35.340
 where your heart is

00:39:35.340 --> 00:39:36.180
 this is about having

00:39:36.180 --> 00:39:37.040
 a new master

00:39:37.040 --> 00:39:38.220
 where you start

00:39:38.220 --> 00:39:38.780
 to accept

00:39:38.780 --> 00:39:39.340
 that Jesus

00:39:39.340 --> 00:39:40.140
 I'm going to be

00:39:40.140 --> 00:39:40.559
 your master

00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:41.660
 it's about entering

00:39:41.660 --> 00:39:42.460
 the Jesus way

00:39:42.460 --> 00:39:43.100
 which you enter

00:39:43.100 --> 00:39:43.800
 one by one

00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:44.820
 but you walk

00:39:44.820 --> 00:39:45.720
 the Jesus way

00:39:45.720 --> 00:39:47.000
 with Jesus and others

00:39:47.000 --> 00:39:48.820
 with Jesus as your savior

00:39:48.820 --> 00:39:49.940
 and him as your lord

00:39:49.940 --> 00:39:51.280
 and that's how you walk

00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:54.400
 and on one hand

00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:55.559
 I want to warn you

00:39:55.559 --> 00:39:57.740
 that this is going to

00:39:57.740 --> 00:39:59.019
 potentially radically

00:39:59.019 --> 00:39:59.780
 change your life

00:39:59.780 --> 00:40:00.860
 if you're serious

00:40:00.860 --> 00:40:01.900
 because it's not just

00:40:01.900 --> 00:40:02.500
 a matter of trying

00:40:02.500 --> 00:40:02.900
 to shoot her

00:40:02.900 --> 00:40:04.039
 it's a matter of

00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:05.120
 turning with your heart

00:40:05.120 --> 00:40:05.800
 to accept

00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:07.579
 what only God can do

00:40:07.579 --> 00:40:10.059
 and I really do

00:40:10.059 --> 00:40:10.960
 come in

00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:11.779
 as savior

00:40:11.779 --> 00:40:12.880
 and as lord

00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:15.380
 and this will change you

00:40:15.380 --> 00:40:16.239
 you enter into

00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:17.239
 a covenant with me

00:40:17.239 --> 00:40:18.679
 that changes everything

00:40:18.679 --> 00:40:21.159
 verse 54

00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:21.900
 he said to the crowds

00:40:21.900 --> 00:40:22.699
 when you see a cloud

00:40:22.699 --> 00:40:23.460
 rising in the west

00:40:23.460 --> 00:40:24.099
 you say at once

00:40:24.099 --> 00:40:25.000
 a shower is coming

00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:25.799
 and so it happens

00:40:25.799 --> 00:40:26.940
 and when you see

00:40:26.940 --> 00:40:27.860
 the south wind blowing

00:40:27.860 --> 00:40:28.279
 you say

00:40:28.279 --> 00:40:29.219
 there will be

00:40:29.219 --> 00:40:29.860
 scorching heat

00:40:29.860 --> 00:40:30.460
 and it happens

00:40:30.460 --> 00:40:31.079
 you hypocrites

00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:31.940
 you know how to interpret

00:40:31.940 --> 00:40:33.239
 the appearance of earth

00:40:33.239 --> 00:40:33.679
 and sky

00:40:33.679 --> 00:40:34.539
 but why do you not know

00:40:34.539 --> 00:40:35.099
 how to interpret

00:40:35.099 --> 00:40:36.059
 the present time

00:40:36.059 --> 00:40:37.779
 and the word there is kairos

00:40:37.779 --> 00:40:38.940
 it's a significant moment

00:40:38.940 --> 00:40:39.380
 it's that

00:40:39.380 --> 00:40:40.099
 it's that

00:40:40.099 --> 00:40:41.139
 that point

00:40:41.139 --> 00:40:42.059
 where you go one way

00:40:42.059 --> 00:40:42.460
 or the other

00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:42.820
 why

00:40:42.820 --> 00:40:43.199
 like

00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:46.500
 I'm going to rise

00:40:46.500 --> 00:40:47.099
 from the dead

00:40:47.099 --> 00:40:48.860
 I fed the 5,000

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:50.539
 I've walked on water

00:40:50.539 --> 00:40:51.699
 like watch

00:40:51.699 --> 00:40:52.279
 look

00:40:52.279 --> 00:40:53.699
 listen to the story

00:40:53.699 --> 00:40:54.539
 don't you understand

00:40:54.539 --> 00:40:55.699
 how this overarching story

00:40:55.699 --> 00:40:57.139
 how it speaks to longings

00:40:57.139 --> 00:40:57.940
 and yearnings within you

00:40:57.940 --> 00:40:58.900
 look at the signs

00:40:58.900 --> 00:41:00.340
 look at the signs

00:41:00.340 --> 00:41:02.699
 verse 57

00:41:02.699 --> 00:41:03.900
 and why do you not

00:41:03.900 --> 00:41:04.699
 judge for yourselves

00:41:04.699 --> 00:41:05.399
 what is right

00:41:05.399 --> 00:41:06.819
 as you go with your accuser

00:41:06.819 --> 00:41:07.819
 before the magistrate

00:41:07.819 --> 00:41:08.460
 make an effort

00:41:08.460 --> 00:41:09.319
 to settle with him

00:41:09.319 --> 00:41:09.779
 on the way

00:41:09.779 --> 00:41:10.599
 lest he drag you

00:41:10.599 --> 00:41:11.079
 to the judge

00:41:11.079 --> 00:41:11.559
 and the judge

00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:12.139
 hand you over

00:41:12.139 --> 00:41:12.759
 to the officer

00:41:12.759 --> 00:41:13.339
 and the officer

00:41:13.339 --> 00:41:14.299
 put you in prison

00:41:14.299 --> 00:41:15.779
 I tell you

00:41:15.779 --> 00:41:16.639
 you will never get out

00:41:16.639 --> 00:41:17.359
 until you have paid

00:41:17.359 --> 00:41:18.339
 the very last penny

00:41:18.339 --> 00:41:19.779
 and the implication

00:41:19.779 --> 00:41:21.199
 there it's a Semitic term

00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:22.419
 it means you'll never get out

00:41:22.419 --> 00:41:24.960
 since Jesus says

00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:26.480
 that's the divide

00:41:26.480 --> 00:41:27.139
 before you

00:41:27.139 --> 00:41:29.119
 so here's the thing

00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:29.739
 Andrew if you could

00:41:29.739 --> 00:41:30.699
 put up the fourth point

00:41:30.699 --> 00:41:32.759
 the Bible warns me

00:41:32.759 --> 00:41:34.199
 that when I am born again

00:41:34.199 --> 00:41:35.159
 that's what happens

00:41:35.159 --> 00:41:35.859
 when we put our faith

00:41:35.859 --> 00:41:36.599
 and trust in Jesus

00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:37.399
 it's not just like

00:41:37.399 --> 00:41:38.159
 Rachel Schuter

00:41:38.159 --> 00:41:40.299
 Jesus comes in

00:41:40.299 --> 00:41:41.239
 it's a power of God

00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:41.839
 for salvation

00:41:41.839 --> 00:41:43.159
 it's like the immunization

00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:44.199
 and the cure of Ebola

00:41:44.199 --> 00:41:45.480
 it comes into you

00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:46.899
 it changes you

00:41:46.899 --> 00:41:49.519
 when I am born again

00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:50.480
 through faith in Jesus

00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:51.739
 I may be rejected

00:41:51.739 --> 00:41:53.059
 by significant people

00:41:53.059 --> 00:41:53.739
 in my life

00:41:53.739 --> 00:41:56.139
 that might be your wife

00:41:56.139 --> 00:41:57.219
 it might be your husband

00:41:57.219 --> 00:41:58.279
 it might be your kids

00:41:58.279 --> 00:41:59.339
 it might be your boss

00:41:59.339 --> 00:42:00.339
 it might be the police

00:42:00.339 --> 00:42:01.399
 it might be the government

00:42:01.399 --> 00:42:03.739
 it might be the army

00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:07.979
 it might be your employer

00:42:07.979 --> 00:42:11.399
 Jesus wants us to know that

00:42:11.399 --> 00:42:13.339
 but he wants us

00:42:13.339 --> 00:42:14.159
 to do something else

00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:15.179
 he wants us to choose

00:42:15.179 --> 00:42:17.079
 to accept what he does

00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:18.819
 I have to wrap this up quickly

00:42:18.819 --> 00:42:20.479
 Andrew if you could put this up

00:42:20.479 --> 00:42:21.199
 I have been waiting

00:42:21.199 --> 00:42:22.459
 for over a year and a half

00:42:22.459 --> 00:42:23.899
 to put up something like this

00:42:23.899 --> 00:42:24.959
 as a sermon point

00:42:24.959 --> 00:42:26.719
 dear God

00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:28.059
 please help me to live

00:42:28.059 --> 00:42:29.000
 like a marsh wiggle

00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:33.860
 now those of you

00:42:33.860 --> 00:42:34.280
 who have read

00:42:34.280 --> 00:42:35.320
 the Narnia Chronicles

00:42:35.320 --> 00:42:36.460
 might get a bit of a hint

00:42:36.460 --> 00:42:37.539
 about what that means

00:42:37.539 --> 00:42:38.579
 but for the rest of you

00:42:38.579 --> 00:42:39.199
 I am not saying

00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:39.760
 that you should want

00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:40.840
 to be very very tall

00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:42.300
 look a bit like a frog

00:42:42.300 --> 00:42:43.679
 and a scarecrow

00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:45.559
 like eating eels

00:42:45.559 --> 00:42:47.300
 and all of that type of stuff

00:42:47.300 --> 00:42:48.000
 but here is the thing

00:42:48.000 --> 00:42:48.960
 about marsh wiggles

00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:50.360
 is that marsh wiggles

00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:52.219
 in that book

00:42:52.219 --> 00:42:52.980
 you can read

00:42:52.980 --> 00:42:54.159
 it's in the Narnia Chronicles

00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:55.599
 it's the silver chair

00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:56.940
 marsh wiggles

00:42:56.940 --> 00:42:58.119
 pay great attention

00:42:58.119 --> 00:42:59.740
 to what the master says

00:42:59.740 --> 00:43:02.519
 and are faithful

00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:04.019
 in trying to live it

00:43:04.019 --> 00:43:06.039
 and they don't spend time

00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:06.720
 thinking about

00:43:06.720 --> 00:43:07.880
 their own views

00:43:07.880 --> 00:43:09.800
 but they just want to have

00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:11.000
 deep within their heart

00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:12.200
 governing their actions

00:43:12.200 --> 00:43:12.920
 what it is

00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:14.039
 that the master says

00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:18.000
 and Jesus says

00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:18.679
 look at the signs

00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:19.820
 so now just in closing

00:43:19.820 --> 00:43:20.480
 let's go back

00:43:20.480 --> 00:43:21.340
 I told you we read

00:43:21.340 --> 00:43:21.860
 the whole text

00:43:21.860 --> 00:43:22.539
 I wasn't going to skip

00:43:22.539 --> 00:43:23.019
 over anything

00:43:23.019 --> 00:43:24.019
 let's read the whole text

00:43:24.019 --> 00:43:24.780
 verse 34

00:43:24.780 --> 00:43:26.720
 just the part

00:43:26.719 --> 00:43:27.239
 that I haven't read

00:43:27.239 --> 00:43:28.119
 for where your treasure

00:43:28.119 --> 00:43:29.019
 is there will your heart

00:43:29.019 --> 00:43:29.500
 be also

00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:30.719
 stay dressed for action

00:43:30.719 --> 00:43:31.859
 and keep your lamps burning

00:43:31.859 --> 00:43:33.299
 and be like men

00:43:33.299 --> 00:43:33.799
 who are waiting

00:43:33.799 --> 00:43:34.500
 for their master

00:43:34.500 --> 00:43:35.079
 to come home

00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:35.959
 from the wedding feast

00:43:35.959 --> 00:43:37.039
 so that they may

00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:38.059
 open the door to him

00:43:38.059 --> 00:43:39.059
 at once when he comes

00:43:39.059 --> 00:43:39.799
 and knocks

00:43:39.799 --> 00:43:41.699
 what is it saying here

00:43:41.699 --> 00:43:42.739
 it's saying that

00:43:42.739 --> 00:43:43.599
 when we put our faith

00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:44.480
 and trust in Jesus

00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:45.259
 that one of the works

00:43:45.259 --> 00:43:45.819
 of the gospel

00:43:45.819 --> 00:43:47.099
 is that Jesus

00:43:47.099 --> 00:43:48.399
 becomes our treasure

00:43:48.399 --> 00:43:49.719
 he becomes

00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:50.819
 our master

00:43:50.819 --> 00:43:52.339
 and that what is it

00:43:52.339 --> 00:43:52.739
 to be like

00:43:52.739 --> 00:43:53.639
 to be a marsh wiggle

00:43:53.639 --> 00:43:54.779
 it is to desire

00:43:54.779 --> 00:43:56.099
 to be quick to obey

00:43:56.099 --> 00:43:57.819
 quick to obey

00:43:57.819 --> 00:43:59.019
 to be ready to obey

00:43:59.019 --> 00:44:00.619
 and to be quick to obey

00:44:00.619 --> 00:44:02.360
 not because we're hoping

00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:03.480
 to impress the master

00:44:03.480 --> 00:44:04.299
 in this case

00:44:04.299 --> 00:44:05.880
 but it's in response

00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:07.159
 it's in response

00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:07.759
 to what Jesus

00:44:07.759 --> 00:44:08.500
 has done for us

00:44:08.500 --> 00:44:09.119
 on the cross

00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:10.759
 that as the gospel

00:44:10.759 --> 00:44:11.319
 grips us

00:44:11.319 --> 00:44:12.239
 we desire to

00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:13.400
 to pay attention

00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:14.019
 to Jesus

00:44:14.019 --> 00:44:16.279
 to listen to his words

00:44:16.279 --> 00:44:17.739
 to be quick to obey

00:44:17.739 --> 00:44:20.360
 blessed are those servants

00:44:20.360 --> 00:44:21.339
 whom verse 37

00:44:21.339 --> 00:44:22.420
 the master finds awake

00:44:22.420 --> 00:44:23.099
 when he comes

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 truly I say to you

00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:25.039
 he will dress himself

00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:25.659
 for service

00:44:25.659 --> 00:44:26.199
 and have them

00:44:26.199 --> 00:44:27.059
 recline at table

00:44:27.059 --> 00:44:27.639
 and he will come

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 and serve them

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 if he comes

00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:30.599
 in the second watch

00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:31.219
 or in the third

00:44:31.219 --> 00:44:32.299
 and finds them awake

00:44:32.299 --> 00:44:33.519
 blessed are those servants

00:44:33.519 --> 00:44:34.719
 but know this

00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:35.460
 that if the master

00:44:35.460 --> 00:44:35.960
 of the house

00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:36.319
 had known

00:44:36.319 --> 00:44:36.960
 at what hour

00:44:36.960 --> 00:44:37.960
 the thief was coming

00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:38.920
 he would not

00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:39.880
 have left his house

00:44:39.880 --> 00:44:40.779
 to be broken into

00:44:40.779 --> 00:44:42.739
 you also must be ready

00:44:42.739 --> 00:44:43.599
 for the son of man

00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:44.659
 is coming in

00:44:44.659 --> 00:44:45.779
 at an hour

00:44:45.779 --> 00:44:47.319
 you do not expect

00:44:47.319 --> 00:44:49.259
 this is telling us

00:44:49.259 --> 00:44:50.139
 that we have to remember

00:44:50.139 --> 00:44:51.259
 that Jesus is coming

00:44:51.259 --> 00:44:53.119
 and we have to remember

00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:54.339
 that we don't know

00:44:54.339 --> 00:44:55.079
 when he's coming

00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:57.000
 just that he is coming

00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:58.639
 that it's essential

00:44:58.639 --> 00:44:59.619
 to discipleship

00:44:59.619 --> 00:45:00.199
 in Canada

00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:01.319
 to believe

00:45:01.319 --> 00:45:02.239
 that he's coming

00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:04.400
 and to live our lives

00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:05.359
 in light of the fact

00:45:05.359 --> 00:45:06.420
 that he is coming

00:45:06.420 --> 00:45:08.400
 and verse 41

00:45:08.400 --> 00:45:09.659
 Peter said

00:45:09.659 --> 00:45:10.400
 Lord are you telling

00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:11.440
 this parable for us

00:45:11.440 --> 00:45:12.299
 or for all

00:45:12.299 --> 00:45:12.920
 like Jesus

00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:13.799
 Peter doesn't understand

00:45:13.799 --> 00:45:14.539
 that Jesus is going

00:45:14.539 --> 00:45:15.019
 to come back

00:45:15.019 --> 00:45:15.980
 he can't figure out

00:45:15.980 --> 00:45:16.779
 why Jesus

00:45:16.779 --> 00:45:17.599
 you're here right now

00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:18.480
 why are you talking

00:45:18.480 --> 00:45:19.219
 about coming

00:45:19.219 --> 00:45:22.919
 like I don't understand

00:45:22.919 --> 00:45:25.339
 because he doesn't

00:45:25.339 --> 00:45:26.199
 know the end of the story

00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:28.579
 and then Jesus

00:45:28.579 --> 00:45:29.679
 sort of in some ways

00:45:29.679 --> 00:45:30.299
 ignores him

00:45:30.299 --> 00:45:30.899
 because he's going

00:45:30.899 --> 00:45:31.759
 to move forward

00:45:31.759 --> 00:45:32.879
 to the baptism image

00:45:32.879 --> 00:45:33.259
 he says

00:45:33.259 --> 00:45:34.179
 who then is the faithful

00:45:34.179 --> 00:45:35.059
 and wise manager

00:45:35.059 --> 00:45:36.239
 whom his master

00:45:36.239 --> 00:45:37.319
 will sit over his household

00:45:37.319 --> 00:45:37.839
 to give them

00:45:37.839 --> 00:45:38.759
 their portion of food

00:45:38.759 --> 00:45:39.639
 at the proper time

00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:41.980
 blessed is that servant

00:45:41.980 --> 00:45:42.859
 whom his master

00:45:42.859 --> 00:45:44.239
 will find so doing

00:45:44.239 --> 00:45:44.959
 when he comes

00:45:44.959 --> 00:45:46.500
 truly I say to you

00:45:46.500 --> 00:45:47.059
 he will set him

00:45:47.059 --> 00:45:48.079
 over all his possessions

00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:49.819
 but if that servant

00:45:49.819 --> 00:45:50.659
 says to himself

00:45:50.659 --> 00:45:51.699
 my master is delayed

00:45:51.699 --> 00:45:52.179
 in coming

00:45:52.179 --> 00:45:53.059
 and begins to beat

00:45:53.059 --> 00:45:53.980
 the male and female

00:45:53.980 --> 00:45:54.980
 servants that eat

00:45:54.980 --> 00:45:55.340
 and drink

00:45:55.340 --> 00:45:55.980
 and get drunk

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:57.779
 the master of that servant

00:45:57.779 --> 00:45:58.699
 will come on a day

00:45:58.699 --> 00:46:00.039
 when he does not expect him

00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:00.739
 and in an hour

00:46:00.739 --> 00:46:01.619
 he does not know

00:46:01.619 --> 00:46:03.019
 and will cut him in pieces

00:46:03.019 --> 00:46:04.480
 and put him with the unfaithful

00:46:04.480 --> 00:46:06.360
 it's a severe punishment

00:46:06.360 --> 00:46:06.940
 not death

00:46:06.940 --> 00:46:07.639
 because he's alive

00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:08.420
 in the next verse

00:46:08.420 --> 00:46:09.900
 and that servant

00:46:09.900 --> 00:46:11.059
 who knew his master's will

00:46:11.059 --> 00:46:12.079
 but did not get ready

00:46:12.079 --> 00:46:12.579
 for act

00:46:12.579 --> 00:46:13.500
 according to his will

00:46:13.500 --> 00:46:15.019
 will receive a severe beating

00:46:15.019 --> 00:46:15.579
 sorry it was

00:46:15.579 --> 00:46:17.639
 it's all part of 46

00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:19.759
 but the one who did not know

00:46:19.759 --> 00:46:21.000
 and did what deserved a beating

00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:22.159
 will receive a life beating

00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:24.619
 everyone to whom much was given

00:46:24.619 --> 00:46:26.559
 of him much will be required

00:46:26.559 --> 00:46:28.079
 and from him to whom

00:46:28.079 --> 00:46:29.199
 they entrusted much

00:46:29.199 --> 00:46:30.819
 they will demand the more

00:46:30.819 --> 00:46:33.000
 so what is it saying

00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:34.920
 it's saying that as we're waiting

00:46:34.920 --> 00:46:36.379
 that we're to serve others

00:46:36.379 --> 00:46:37.940
 we're to serve the church

00:46:37.940 --> 00:46:39.019
 we're to serve our community

00:46:39.019 --> 00:46:40.980
 it says that we're not to live

00:46:40.980 --> 00:46:42.400
 self-indulgent lives

00:46:42.400 --> 00:46:43.480
 or be abusive

00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:45.179
 and that we're willing

00:46:45.179 --> 00:46:46.759
 not only to be quick to obey

00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:48.460
 but to take on more

00:46:48.460 --> 00:46:50.660
 to say yes take me

00:46:50.660 --> 00:46:53.200
 not yes take her

00:46:53.200 --> 00:46:55.620
 yes take me

00:46:55.620 --> 00:46:57.520
 that's the good thing

00:46:57.520 --> 00:47:00.360
 not yeah take them

00:47:00.360 --> 00:47:03.240
 so here's just in closing

00:47:03.240 --> 00:47:04.320
 here's a final prayer

00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:05.260
 to try to wrap it all up

00:47:05.260 --> 00:47:06.220
 if we don't want to understand

00:47:06.220 --> 00:47:07.380
 if we can't understand entirely

00:47:07.380 --> 00:47:08.040
 what it means to live

00:47:08.040 --> 00:47:08.820
 like a marsh wiggle

00:47:08.820 --> 00:47:10.480
 it's a prayer that I invite you

00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:11.740
 to pray at the end with me

00:47:11.740 --> 00:47:13.300
 I'm going to say it

00:47:13.300 --> 00:47:14.100
 and then we're going to

00:47:14.100 --> 00:47:14.960
 have you all stand

00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:16.599
 and then those whom the Holy Spirit

00:47:16.599 --> 00:47:17.220
 is convicting

00:47:17.220 --> 00:47:18.500
 you can say it with me out loud

00:47:18.500 --> 00:47:18.980
 dear God

00:47:18.980 --> 00:47:19.820
 please grow in me

00:47:19.820 --> 00:47:22.599
 a humble trusting confidence

00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:24.340
 in Jesus Christ crucified

00:47:24.340 --> 00:47:25.159
 as my Savior

00:47:25.159 --> 00:47:26.720
 please grow in me

00:47:26.720 --> 00:47:28.320
 a humble trusting confidence

00:47:28.320 --> 00:47:29.619
 that Jesus will return

00:47:29.619 --> 00:47:31.420
 in glory as the Lord

00:47:31.420 --> 00:47:33.220
 please grow in me

00:47:33.220 --> 00:47:34.820
 a humble trusting doing

00:47:34.820 --> 00:47:37.539
 of what your word written says

00:47:37.539 --> 00:47:38.880
 please stand

00:47:38.880 --> 00:47:42.420
 in light of the overarching story

00:47:42.420 --> 00:47:43.900
 in light of Jesus

00:47:43.900 --> 00:47:45.960
 walking into the inundation

00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:46.980
 of God's judgment

00:47:46.980 --> 00:47:47.860
 that I deserve

00:47:47.860 --> 00:47:51.260
 in light of receiving that

00:47:51.260 --> 00:47:52.760
 Jesus is urging us

00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:53.980
 to receive what he does

00:47:53.980 --> 00:47:55.360
 that he might serve us

00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:55.960
 in this way

00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:57.860
 just as he will serve us

00:47:57.860 --> 00:47:58.880
 in a sense in heaven

00:47:58.880 --> 00:47:59.900
 as we serve him

00:47:59.900 --> 00:48:02.220
 to have a firm belief

00:48:02.220 --> 00:48:03.320
 in his second coming

00:48:03.320 --> 00:48:05.519
 and to live like a marsh wiggle

00:48:05.519 --> 00:48:08.460
 eager to hear what God says

00:48:08.460 --> 00:48:10.240
 and eager to seek to obey

00:48:10.240 --> 00:48:11.800
 not to impress Jesus

00:48:11.800 --> 00:48:13.220
 not to impress the Father

00:48:13.220 --> 00:48:15.460
 but in light

00:48:15.460 --> 00:48:17.000
 of what Jesus has done

00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:17.840
 for us in the cross

00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:20.639
 if the Holy Spirit so leads

00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:22.220
 please join with me in praying

00:48:22.220 --> 00:48:23.720
 dear God

00:48:23.720 --> 00:48:25.820
 please grow in me

00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:28.019
 a humble trusting confidence

00:48:28.019 --> 00:48:30.260
 in Jesus Christ crucified

00:48:30.260 --> 00:48:31.639
 as my Savior

00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:33.720
 please grow in me

00:48:33.720 --> 00:48:35.940
 a humble trusting confidence

00:48:35.940 --> 00:48:37.980
 that Jesus will return

00:48:37.980 --> 00:48:39.599
 in glory as the Lord

00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:41.860
 please grow in me

00:48:41.860 --> 00:48:43.800
 a humble trusting doing

00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:46.480
 of what your word written says

00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:48.099
 in Jesus' name

00:48:48.099 --> 00:48:48.659
 Amen

00:48:48.659 --> 00:48:49.420
 Amen

00:48:49.960 --> 00:49:03.619
 Liebe

00:49:03.619 --> 00:49:06.460
 Amen

00:49:06.460 --> 00:49:07.559
 Amen

00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:18.539
 Amen