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 Good morning, my name is Chris. If you don't know me, I'm on the pastoral staff here.

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 You're very, very welcome this morning.

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 And it's interesting, just even as we're thinking about election and thinking about the city,

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 because this book of Titus that we're going through as a series that Graham started us last week,

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 and I'm just going to raise this a little bit, is a story, a letter that is written in a city

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 which is going through turmoil in much the same way as in Hong Kong.

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 Our city is often feeling like it's in turmoil as well.

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 You see, this letter that we're looking at is a letter which is all about how to be a healthy church in an unhealthy world.

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 That's why we're looking at the letter.

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 We're looking, how do you be healthy? How do you be godly?

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 How do you live as Christ wants us to live in a world which is anything but?

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 And the context of this book is just, I don't know if you know where Crete is.

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 Crete is a beautiful island in the Mediterranean.

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 It's a Greek island, and there are no dangerous animals on this island.

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 It is a fantastic paradise of an island.

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 But Paul, in the letter, he quotes a Greek historian who says,

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 Cretans are always liars, beasts, and lazy gluttons.

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 Now, that's not very pleasant.

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 But he's not being racist here.

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 He's being ironic.

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 What he's saying is, the most dangerous animals on the island are people.

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 Because we know from history, and other historians tell us, that the people were obsessed with money.

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 Here's what one guy says.

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 He says,

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 Money is so highly valued among them that its possession is not only thought to be necessary,

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 but in the highest degree, creditable.

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 And in fact, greed and avarice are so native to the soil in Crete that they are the only people in the world

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 among whom no stigma attaches to any sort of gain whatever.

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 This is a guy who's writing near the time of Jesus.

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 And to get money, they'll lie.

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 They'll stab you in the back.

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 It's a dog-eat-dog world.

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 There's political division.

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 You can't trust anybody.

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 There's corruption.

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 And to capital, many of the towns, their leaders are filled with pirates.

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 Now, I don't know if you can imagine, but what about having your boss being Jack Sparrow?

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 Because that's the kind of place...

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 Now, maybe you feel that's what your boss is just like.

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 But that's the kind of place that Crete was.

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 And so Paul's chief aim in this book is to say,

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 How do you live in a godly way?

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 And he starts off in verse 1, which we looked at last week.

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 He says,

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 I'm here on a mission.

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 I'm writing this letter because there is a truth which leads to godliness in an ungodly world.

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 And, you know, how do you get to this godliness?

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 Well, if you look in the verses here and have your bulletin here,

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 there's a whole list of things which Paul says that elders should be godly about.

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 And, you know, the list is kind of, ooh, okay.

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 And not arrogant, quick-tampered, drunkard, violent, greedy for gain.

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 But you must be hospitable, lover of God, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined.

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 And you think, how on earth do I get the fruit of godliness like that in my life?

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 Because the elders were meant to model what everybody in the church was to be like.

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 And the thing is, Paul is saying, the fruit of godliness in your life always comes from the seed that you plant in your life.

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 You know, if you plant a tomato seed, you get a tomato plant.

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 If you plant a durian seed, you get trouble.

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 But if you plant the gospel and you water it in your life, you get godliness.

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 And you live a life that displays the fruit of the Spirit, which is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, self-control.

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 And so, I want to look a little bit about how do you live in a godly way today?

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 How does your faith, is your faith, if I looked at it, does it produce that kind of fruit?

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 So, there are a couple of types of people.

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 And just recapping a little bit of what Graham said here, there's two kinds of people that are contrasted here.

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 Two kinds of teachers.

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 There are the elders who, in this city, they're to hold firm to a trustworthy word.

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 And there are some false teachers who are coming in and teaching something else.

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 That's in verse 10 to 16.

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 So, let's think about this in two ways.

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 One is, what is the seed, the transforming power to live in a godly way?

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 And secondly, it will be, what is the seed that can destroy godliness in your life?

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 Okay?

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 Seed which brings godliness, a seed which destroys godliness.

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 Okay?

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 So, let's dive in to the passage.

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 Have it open with you.

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 5 verse 9.

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 The elders are chosen to protect the church and their choice is not based primarily on how gifted they are,

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 but it's based primarily on two things, their character and their doctrine.

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 Okay?

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 Their character and their doctrine.

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 And it's both the public and private life of the elders is meant to be that of a lover.

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 Some of the characteristics.

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 Hospitable.

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 That means somebody who loves strangers.

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 They're to be a lover of good.

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 They're to be self-controlled, upright, wholly disciplined.

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 They're to have an integrity.

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 Not perfection, but an integrity that shows and displays a love for God.

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 And it comes from holding firm to the trustworthy word.

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 Elsewhere, it calls that the doctrine of God as Savior.

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 The grace of God that brings salvation.

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 So, in other words, the elders' job, it says, verse 9, is to instruct or to encourage people in this sound gospel doctrine

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 so that the church also becomes lovers,

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 and they are also to bear the fruit of godliness in their lives so it overflows into the church and into the world.

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 That's God's mission strategy, by the way.

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 Your life is God's mission strategy for attracting people to see how good the gospel is.

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 Okay?

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 So, how does this happen?

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 How does the gospel produce godliness?

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 I want to tell you two things that the gospel does.

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 The gospel changes what you love,

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 and it changes what you hate.

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 Changes what you love, changes what you hate.

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 The elder is a lover, a lover of good,

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 who knows that the ultimate love of God is in the gospel.

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 So, 1 John 4 says,

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 We love, we love because He first loved us.

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 In other words, all love for God only ever comes out of a response to seeing His love for you first.

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 Do you get that?

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 You've got to see His love for you first before you can respond in love for Him.

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 And the gospel tells you that by saying,

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 You can only see His love if you realize two things.

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 One, you're far worse than you dare imagine you could be.

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 You're far worse than you are.

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 If you think you're okay, you haven't understood the gospel.

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 You are far worse than you think you are.

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 Your sin deserves this, but you're far more loved, secondly,

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 than you could possibly imagine you are.

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 You're worse than you think you could be.

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 You're more loved than you could imagine and ever dare you could be.

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 And in the cross, when you see the cross,

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 and as Christians we talk about the cross all the time,

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 but we see that there's a God who chases after us

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 even when we're running away from Him.

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 He loves us to the point that He would die the death you and I deserve.

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 And if you trust in Him,

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 you can be utterly secure,

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 knowing that nothing you've done,

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 no merit you've done,

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 no achievement can ever change the security that you find in His love.

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 You're a child of God.

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 Your past is wiped out.

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 The shame, the guilt is gone.

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 Your future is secure.

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 You're held in His arms.

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 There's no need to fear, no need to worry,

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 no need to live in guilt.

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 He holds you.

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 Like a mother with a newborn child,

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 whatever you're going through,

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 He holds you.

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 That's the gospel.

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 But if, I don't know, like you or me,

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 I've been in church a long time.

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 I've heard that.

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 I know that.

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 And every day, I forget that.

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 Every day, I forget,

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 because stuff happens.

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 Stuff happened this morning.

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 Stuff happened this week.

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 You know, I make poor choices.

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 I get frustrated.

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 The life kind of overtakes me.

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 And I forget that God loves me.

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 I forget that there is this amazing gospel.

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 And I just kind of get back into me.

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 That's where it goes.

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 And John says in his book, Following On,

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 he says, I want you to realize

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 that when you run back to God

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 and you see again,

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 in the midst of your craziness,

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 you get a glimpse and you see His love for you,

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 His preciousness of your life.

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 Do you know what happens?

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 It changes you to want to obey Him.

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 Because love always expresses itself in obedience.

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 And the reason I don't obey

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 is because I don't get His love.

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 And my heart hasn't been changed by His love.

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 And the thing is,

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 if you don't see the depth of your need of God,

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 if you don't see,

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 if you're kind of so wrapped up in the world

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 and what's going on in your life,

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 and you don't see regularly, day by day,

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 this gospel message of the love

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 and the grace and the mercy,

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 you're worse than you could believe,

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 but you're more loved than you could imagine,

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 if you don't see that day by day by day,

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 what happens is,

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 we begin to go astray.

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 And when you begin to see,

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 well, maybe I don't really need God that much.

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 Maybe you're going to be like the French philosopher Voltaire who said,

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 of course God forgives.

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 It's His job.

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 And you don't see how costly God's love for you is.

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 And if you don't see how costly His love for you is,

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 then you'll never get a lifestyle of radical love

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 that is called to be a shining light in the world around.

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 I don't know if you've,

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 have you ever seen somebody who was addicted to their job

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 and then they fall in love.

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 You ever seen that?

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 You see,

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 I think it's very funny

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 because you see this guy or this girl

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 and they're just hardworking,

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 they work late,

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 you can't get them to go out,

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 they've always got to finish work,

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 and then one day,

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 something happens.

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 Everything changes.

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 Suddenly,

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 they're trying to sneak out of work early.

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 Suddenly,

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 they are kind of sneaking out of the office

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 to take kind of private phone calls in hushed tones.

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 Suddenly,

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 you know,

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 before they were kind of miserable,

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 so and so,

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 but then there's this kind of little cheeky grin

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 which comes on their face

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 and they're kind of nice to everybody.

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 It's amazing.

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 Do you know what I mean?

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 And you're thinking,

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 what do they have for breakfast?

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 But you know,

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 you know what's going on,

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 right?

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 You know what's going on

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 because their love for their job

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 has been replaced by a greater love.

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 And when they begin to have this greater love,

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 their behavior changes,

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 right?

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 And that's the way the gospel is meant to work in your life

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 because we love ourselves,

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 we love our comfort,

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 we love our ambition,

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 we love all this stuff,

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 and that's where sin,

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 the selfishness is.

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 But when you experience the love of God in the cross,

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 through His care,

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 through His working in your life,

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 when you experience it,

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 not just know it here,

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 when it actually hits you down here,

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 you know what it does?

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 It changes you.

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 It cannot but change you.

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 And it changes what you love.

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 It changes how you spend your time.

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 It changes the people around you

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 you want to serve

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 and love.

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 And the gospel gets displayed

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 not just in the kind of cheeky grin,

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 but in the fruit of love,

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 joy, peace, patience,

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 all the other stuff.

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 That's what happens.

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 And the more that you see

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 the sin in your life,

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 the more you repent,

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 the more you realize

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 how amazing God's love for you is,

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 the more it begins to change you.

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 You don't become perfect,

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 but you begin to bear that fruit

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 because you have that seed in your life.

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 So let me ask you,

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 are you increasingly seeing

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 love, joy, peace, patience,

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 kindness, goodness, gentleness,

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 self-control in your life?

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 Are you seeing evidence

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 of that regularly?

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 Not perfection?

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 Because if you're not,

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 then the chances are

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 that the gospel might be here,

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 but it's not here.

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 That you haven't understood

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 just how amazing

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 his love for you is.

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 Richard Sibbes,

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 who was an English pastor

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 500 years ago,

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 he says,

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 if Christ has once

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 possessed the affections,

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 that means the love,

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 what you're passionate about.

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 If Christ has possessed

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 your affections,

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 there's no dispossessing

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 of him again.

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 A fire in the heart

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 overcomes all fires without.

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 So do you have that fire

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 in your heart

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 which is kindled by his love?

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 Because if not,

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 then we need to pray

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 and repent and say,

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 God,

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 I want you

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 to rekindle my cold heart

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 and make me

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 that bearer of fruit

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 who loves you

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 from the heart.

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 That's the first thing

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 the gospel does.

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 The second thing

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 the gospel does,

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 it changes

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 what you hate.

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 There's some strong language

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 in this text.

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 It says things like

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 detestable,

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 disobedient,

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 and when God's people

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 see God's goodness,

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 their desires change

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 from loving what was wrong

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 to hating it.

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 You begin to hate it.

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 You see,

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 when you love your child,

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 you hate what causes them pain.

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 You hate what causes them sorrow.

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 And when you love God,

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 you hate what causes him pain.

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 And you increasingly hate sin.

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 You don't want to get close to it.

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 You're not kind of like

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 creeping up to it

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 just to see how far can I go

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 before it bites me.

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 You know,

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 if I was to put a cobra

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 in your bed

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 and ask you to lie down

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 next to it,

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 would you be saying,

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 oh,

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 I wonder how close I can get

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 before it bites me?

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 I don't think you would.

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 I think you'd be saying,

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 don't let that thing near me.

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 Get it out of here.

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 Even if you put it in the cage,

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 I don't want it in the room.

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 Defang it,

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 just throw it out.

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 I don't want it there.

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 Right?

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 Because you don't,

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 you hate something

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 which you know is dangerous

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 and something you know

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 is going to kill and destroy.

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 But that's often

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 how we deal with sin.

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 We say,

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 let me just,

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 you know,

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 I'll just get next to it,

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 but I won't touch it.

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 I'll smoke,

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 but I won't inhale.

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 Right?

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 You know?

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 But people who love God

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 have the same reaction

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 as you would have

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 to having a cobra

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 in your bed

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 towards sin.

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 The more God changes

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 what you love,

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 He changes what you hate,

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 sin becomes less appealing,

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 good becomes more lovely.

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 That's what the gospel does in you.

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 So that's

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 what God is wanting to happen

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 in these elders

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 as they're teaching

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 and living out this gospel

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 that's to flow into the church.

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 But there's a problem here.

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 And the problem in this church in Crete

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 is there's another seed

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 that's being sown.

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 There are insiders

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 in the church here

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 who are planting a seed

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 which if it's left unchecked

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 would be worse than a durian farm.

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 This is a seed

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 that destroys love,

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 destroys joy,

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 destroys peace

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 and kindness.

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 And it's a seed that

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 if it's sown in the church

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 becomes so unappealing

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 to the world around.

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 You know,

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 the reason why

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 many non-Christians

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 do not want to be Christians

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 is not just the gospel message.

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 It's because of the lives

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 of Christians

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 which are being planted

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 in a seed

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 which is not the gospel.

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 And here's that seed.

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 Do you know what it is?

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 Religion.

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 Self-righteous

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 is performance-based religion.

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 This is the seed

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 which destroys

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 the power for godliness.

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 We're going to look at

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 verses 10 to 16.

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 You see,

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 Paul is like a doctor here

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 who's diagnosing

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 a common condition.

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 You know,

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 I call it

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 the PBR virus,

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 the performance-based

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 religion virus.

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 And it's got to be,

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 it's like a cancer

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 that's got to be rooted out

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 in your life.

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 Otherwise,

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 it will suck you in

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 and destroy you.

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 Verse 10.

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 Here's how Paul describes

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 people sowing

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 this seed of religion.

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 There are many

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 who are insubordinate,

00:19:08.099 --> 00:19:08.900
 empty talkers,

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 deceivers,

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 especially of the circumcision party.

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 Now,

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 that sounds like

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 the rest of Cretan society.

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 Verse 16.

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 They profess to know God

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 but deny Him

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 by their works.

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 They're detestable,

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 disobedient,

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 unfit

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 for any good work.

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 Now,

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 I'm thinking as I read that,

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 Paul,

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 that's not very nice.

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 Can't you be a little bit more

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 peacey,

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 a little bit more tolerant?

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 But this challenges me

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 because actually,

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 the Bible is never tolerant

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 of what will destroy

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 love,

00:19:43.879 --> 00:19:44.139
 joy,

00:19:44.339 --> 00:19:44.680
 peace,

00:19:44.980 --> 00:19:45.379
 patience,

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 and all the rest of it.

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 And, you know,

00:19:47.899 --> 00:19:48.259
 Jesus,

00:19:48.700 --> 00:19:49.240
 as well,

00:19:49.359 --> 00:19:51.240
 uses His strongest language

00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:52.920
 to describe

00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:54.079
 the Pharisees,

00:19:54.180 --> 00:19:55.259
 the religious leaders,

00:19:55.879 --> 00:19:57.519
 who are also infected

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 with this virus.

00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:01.839
 Now,

00:20:01.899 --> 00:20:03.220
 let me give you

00:20:03.220 --> 00:20:03.779
 a little bit

00:20:03.779 --> 00:20:04.519
 of information

00:20:04.519 --> 00:20:05.200
 about who

00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:06.119
 these people

00:20:06.119 --> 00:20:07.619
 are in the church.

00:20:08.879 --> 00:20:09.859
 Verse 10 says,

00:20:09.940 --> 00:20:11.879
 they're of the circumcision party.

00:20:12.319 --> 00:20:12.659
 Now,

00:20:12.819 --> 00:20:13.539
 I don't know about you,

00:20:13.639 --> 00:20:14.519
 but putting the word

00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:15.359
 circumcision

00:20:15.359 --> 00:20:16.359
 and party

00:20:16.359 --> 00:20:17.579
 in the same sentence

00:20:17.579 --> 00:20:18.599
 doesn't sound

00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:19.839
 like a good idea to me.

00:20:20.359 --> 00:20:22.599
 But the Cretan church

00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:24.219
 here were Jewish Christians.

00:20:24.979 --> 00:20:25.799
 And some of them,

00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:27.419
 they came in some teachers

00:20:27.419 --> 00:20:28.740
 who were also

00:20:28.740 --> 00:20:29.599
 Jewish Christians

00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:30.059
 who claimed,

00:20:30.299 --> 00:20:30.439
 okay,

00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:31.439
 you can be saved

00:20:31.439 --> 00:20:32.459
 by faith in Jesus.

00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:33.139
 That's good.

00:20:33.299 --> 00:20:34.500
 But to be a good Christian,

00:20:34.740 --> 00:20:35.419
 you've got to keep

00:20:35.419 --> 00:20:36.519
 this list of rules.

00:20:37.399 --> 00:20:38.619
 You've got to be circumcised.

00:20:38.699 --> 00:20:39.339
 Don't eat this.

00:20:39.419 --> 00:20:40.119
 Don't eat that.

00:20:40.439 --> 00:20:40.699
 Okay?

00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:41.579
 Keep yourselves

00:20:41.579 --> 00:20:42.779
 ritually pure.

00:20:43.079 --> 00:20:43.339
 Okay?

00:20:43.500 --> 00:20:44.359
 People who break

00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:44.899
 those rules,

00:20:44.900 --> 00:20:46.019
 they're the bad Christians.

00:20:46.320 --> 00:20:47.440
 People who keep the rules,

00:20:47.560 --> 00:20:48.519
 they're the good Christians

00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:49.440
 and they can look down

00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:50.320
 on the bad Christians

00:20:50.320 --> 00:20:53.380
 and kind of condemn them occasionally

00:20:53.380 --> 00:20:56.240
 because that's what good Christians do.

00:20:58.420 --> 00:20:59.460
 And these teachers

00:20:59.460 --> 00:21:00.900
 were bringing division,

00:21:01.320 --> 00:21:01.980
 not peace,

00:21:02.120 --> 00:21:02.840
 division,

00:21:03.280 --> 00:21:05.140
 upsetting whole households,

00:21:05.300 --> 00:21:06.519
 it says in verse 11.

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 And Paul says,

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 it's the job of the elders

00:21:10.600 --> 00:21:12.019
 and Titus

00:21:12.019 --> 00:21:13.680
 to silence them,

00:21:13.840 --> 00:21:14.920
 to stop them

00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:16.720
 sowing these seeds

00:21:16.720 --> 00:21:18.380
 because these are toxic.

00:21:18.640 --> 00:21:20.060
 They will rip the love

00:21:20.060 --> 00:21:21.039
 and the joy

00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:21.820
 and the peace

00:21:21.820 --> 00:21:23.900
 out of this church.

00:21:24.900 --> 00:21:26.440
 It sounds strong,

00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:28.340
 but actually,

00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:30.720
 it's what a doctor would do

00:21:30.720 --> 00:21:31.920
 if there is a disease

00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:33.160
 where he's riddling a patient.

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 So I want to share with you

00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:37.540
 four results

00:21:37.540 --> 00:21:40.180
 of this performance-based religion

00:21:40.180 --> 00:21:41.420
 because we might look at this

00:21:41.420 --> 00:21:41.660
 and think,

00:21:41.759 --> 00:21:42.380
 well, that's,

00:21:42.940 --> 00:21:43.200
 okay,

00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:44.540
 I'm not tempted

00:21:44.540 --> 00:21:46.080
 about circumcision personally.

00:21:46.500 --> 00:21:46.660
 Okay?

00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:48.320
 That's not things

00:21:48.320 --> 00:21:49.340
 which we struggle with.

00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:50.400
 Well, let's have a look

00:21:50.400 --> 00:21:51.400
 at some of these things.

00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:56.279
 The first result of PBR,

00:21:56.500 --> 00:21:57.940
 performance-based religion virus,

00:21:57.940 --> 00:22:00.000
 is it makes you proud

00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:01.759
 or despairing

00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:07.000
 because PBR appeals

00:22:07.000 --> 00:22:07.960
 to every one of us

00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:09.580
 just like the circumcision party

00:22:09.580 --> 00:22:11.640
 appealed to the Jewish people there

00:22:11.640 --> 00:22:13.500
 because every one of us

00:22:13.500 --> 00:22:15.620
 has performance tendencies.

00:22:16.620 --> 00:22:16.700
 Right?

00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:17.160
 We live,

00:22:17.360 --> 00:22:17.740
 whoops,

00:22:18.220 --> 00:22:18.660
 okay,

00:22:18.840 --> 00:22:19.640
 I'm not performing.

00:22:20.100 --> 00:22:22.880
 We live in a culture

00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:26.259
 which basically

00:22:26.259 --> 00:22:27.420
 from the time when you're born

00:22:27.420 --> 00:22:28.440
 to the time when you die,

00:22:28.539 --> 00:22:29.180
 you kind of judged

00:22:29.180 --> 00:22:29.900
 on your performance,

00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:30.259
 right?

00:22:30.580 --> 00:22:31.660
 You judged on your grades,

00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:33.480
 you judged on your job appraisal,

00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:34.440
 your pay,

00:22:34.820 --> 00:22:35.580
 your marriage,

00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:36.160
 your kids,

00:22:36.259 --> 00:22:37.279
 you're judged on performance

00:22:37.279 --> 00:22:38.140
 and if you're successful,

00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:38.779
 you're elevated

00:22:38.779 --> 00:22:39.960
 and if you're failure,

00:22:40.080 --> 00:22:40.620
 you're demoted

00:22:40.620 --> 00:22:41.840
 and that's the way it works,

00:22:41.900 --> 00:22:42.140
 right?

00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:43.720
 Okay?

00:22:43.800 --> 00:22:44.620
 That's the culture

00:22:44.620 --> 00:22:45.460
 we live in.

00:22:45.660 --> 00:22:48.480
 But what we subtly mistake

00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:50.620
 is the need to perform

00:22:50.620 --> 00:22:51.440
 in society

00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:53.259
 with our ultimate identity

00:22:53.259 --> 00:22:54.220
 and worth

00:22:54.220 --> 00:22:55.360
 and value

00:22:55.360 --> 00:22:56.860
 and we kind of,

00:22:56.859 --> 00:22:58.019
 that's where we get in trouble

00:22:58.019 --> 00:22:59.359
 because we define ourselves

00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:00.539
 by our achievements.

00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:02.299
 We compare ourselves

00:23:02.299 --> 00:23:03.159
 to everyone else

00:23:03.159 --> 00:23:04.019
 just to check

00:23:04.019 --> 00:23:04.759
 that we're okay

00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:05.639
 or not

00:23:05.639 --> 00:23:07.279
 and we never compare

00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:08.500
 with God

00:23:08.500 --> 00:23:10.379
 but just with each other

00:23:10.379 --> 00:23:11.719
 and you know,

00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:12.740
 if we've achieved

00:23:12.740 --> 00:23:13.439
 our targets,

00:23:13.579 --> 00:23:14.519
 we kind of think that,

00:23:14.979 --> 00:23:15.979
 you know,

00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:16.939
 my spiritual condition

00:23:16.939 --> 00:23:17.559
 is pretty good.

00:23:17.979 --> 00:23:18.219
 You know,

00:23:18.299 --> 00:23:19.379
 if I've read my Bible today,

00:23:19.479 --> 00:23:20.159
 I feel like

00:23:20.159 --> 00:23:21.539
 I'm good,

00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:22.099
 right?

00:23:22.099 --> 00:23:24.899
 and we can become

00:23:24.899 --> 00:23:25.839
 self-sufficient,

00:23:26.179 --> 00:23:26.699
 proud.

00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:27.619
 I kind of,

00:23:27.679 --> 00:23:28.899
 my sense of need of God

00:23:28.899 --> 00:23:30.339
 becomes like my need

00:23:30.339 --> 00:23:31.059
 for ice cream.

00:23:31.199 --> 00:23:32.039
 It's kind of cool

00:23:32.039 --> 00:23:32.579
 and refreshing

00:23:32.579 --> 00:23:33.279
 but I don't really,

00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:34.599
 I can kind of live without it

00:23:34.599 --> 00:23:38.519
 because when you're operating

00:23:38.519 --> 00:23:39.419
 like this,

00:23:39.419 --> 00:23:41.059
 if you think you're doing okay,

00:23:41.199 --> 00:23:41.579
 you've chicked

00:23:41.579 --> 00:23:42.559
 the Christian boxes,

00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:43.519
 you've come to church,

00:23:43.639 --> 00:23:44.839
 you've given the offering,

00:23:44.939 --> 00:23:45.839
 you think you're okay

00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:47.459
 but then,

00:23:48.259 --> 00:23:49.379
 if you're operating like this,

00:23:49.419 --> 00:23:50.199
 you talk to a friend

00:23:50.199 --> 00:23:50.899
 and they say,

00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:54.659
 do you know what time

00:23:54.659 --> 00:23:55.879
 I get up every morning

00:23:55.879 --> 00:23:56.720
 to read my Bible

00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:58.899
 and then you're like,

00:23:59.359 --> 00:23:59.779
 man,

00:23:59.839 --> 00:24:00.720
 I'm a lazy bum

00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:02.639
 or like,

00:24:03.199 --> 00:24:04.359
 that guy is like,

00:24:04.419 --> 00:24:05.259
 he heard from God

00:24:05.259 --> 00:24:06.500
 three times last week

00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:07.519
 and then he went to,

00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:08.919
 he quit his job,

00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:10.339
 went to help in a soup kitchen

00:24:10.339 --> 00:24:11.919
 and 150 little babies

00:24:11.919 --> 00:24:12.699
 got saved

00:24:12.699 --> 00:24:15.519
 and I just stayed in last night

00:24:15.519 --> 00:24:16.220
 and all week

00:24:16.220 --> 00:24:17.379
 and I just watched Netflix.

00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:19.480
 Right?

00:24:19.700 --> 00:24:21.359
 And you compare yourself.

00:24:22.500 --> 00:24:22.819
 Right?

00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:26.900
 And we either get to the point

00:24:26.900 --> 00:24:27.099
 of saying,

00:24:27.180 --> 00:24:27.359
 okay,

00:24:27.460 --> 00:24:27.900
 so I've got to be

00:24:27.900 --> 00:24:28.539
 a better Christian,

00:24:28.700 --> 00:24:28.859
 okay,

00:24:28.940 --> 00:24:29.539
 let me go and feed

00:24:29.539 --> 00:24:30.619
 some more babies somewhere

00:24:30.619 --> 00:24:34.619
 or we get to the point of,

00:24:35.859 --> 00:24:36.279
 oh,

00:24:36.759 --> 00:24:38.339
 I know I'm going to be

00:24:38.339 --> 00:24:39.319
 a second class Christian.

00:24:39.980 --> 00:24:41.720
 You feel that kind of despair

00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:42.579
 and whenever you see

00:24:42.579 --> 00:24:43.019
 you're kind of,

00:24:43.180 --> 00:24:44.240
 you're not quite meeting up

00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:44.859
 to the mark,

00:24:44.859 --> 00:24:46.240
 then what happens is

00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:47.979
 it heaps this ton of guilt

00:24:47.979 --> 00:24:49.559
 and condemnation on you

00:24:49.559 --> 00:24:51.279
 and you either try

00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:51.959
 and work harder

00:24:51.959 --> 00:24:52.899
 or you give up

00:24:52.899 --> 00:24:53.719
 and you know what?

00:24:53.799 --> 00:24:55.079
 I've never met

00:24:55.079 --> 00:24:57.379
 one person

00:24:57.379 --> 00:24:59.319
 in my entire life

00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:01.519
 who feels trapped

00:25:01.519 --> 00:25:02.199
 under guilt

00:25:02.199 --> 00:25:03.319
 and condemnation

00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:04.439
 who's filled with love,

00:25:04.559 --> 00:25:05.219
 joy and peace.

00:25:06.959 --> 00:25:07.959
 Never met one.

00:25:08.579 --> 00:25:09.699
 They don't exist.

00:25:10.259 --> 00:25:10.879
 Do you know why?

00:25:10.939 --> 00:25:11.659
 Because that's not

00:25:11.659 --> 00:25:12.599
 the seed of the gospel.

00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:15.919
 because performance-based

00:25:15.919 --> 00:25:17.019
 religion never leads

00:25:17.019 --> 00:25:17.619
 to godliness.

00:25:19.039 --> 00:25:20.099
 It leads to just

00:25:20.099 --> 00:25:21.019
 keeping rules

00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:22.219
 but it doesn't

00:25:22.219 --> 00:25:23.119
 change your heart

00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:24.480
 and some of us here,

00:25:24.899 --> 00:25:25.799
 I know,

00:25:26.059 --> 00:25:28.359
 live under this guilt

00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:29.119
 and you wonder

00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:29.980
 why you haven't

00:25:29.980 --> 00:25:30.899
 got any joy

00:25:30.899 --> 00:25:31.859
 and it's because

00:25:31.859 --> 00:25:32.599
 you've listened

00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:33.559
 and you're believing

00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:34.480
 and you're infected

00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:35.599
 by this virus

00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:37.259
 and the gospel's

00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:37.899
 coming to you

00:25:37.899 --> 00:25:38.459
 and saying

00:25:38.459 --> 00:25:40.639
 it's not on your performance

00:25:40.639 --> 00:25:41.959
 that Christ has died

00:25:41.959 --> 00:25:42.359
 for you

00:25:42.359 --> 00:25:43.139
 and you're accepted.

00:25:43.339 --> 00:25:44.559
 It's only his performance

00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:46.459
 and you need to be

00:25:46.459 --> 00:25:47.199
 free from that

00:25:47.199 --> 00:25:48.119
 but some of us

00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:48.679
 have settled

00:25:48.679 --> 00:25:50.639
 for being mediocre Christians.

00:25:52.419 --> 00:25:53.059
 God's standards

00:25:53.059 --> 00:25:53.779
 are too high

00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:54.619
 so I'll just kind of

00:25:54.619 --> 00:25:55.480
 live down here.

00:25:56.359 --> 00:25:56.599
 You know,

00:25:57.099 --> 00:25:57.419
 it's too,

00:25:57.799 --> 00:25:58.939
 you look at these lists

00:25:58.939 --> 00:25:59.359
 and you feel,

00:25:59.599 --> 00:25:59.639
 wow,

00:25:59.719 --> 00:26:00.459
 I can't get there.

00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:01.599
 You feel burdened

00:26:01.599 --> 00:26:02.759
 and so you choose

00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:03.319
 to perform

00:26:03.319 --> 00:26:04.139
 in other areas

00:26:04.139 --> 00:26:04.599
 where you think

00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:05.679
 you can be successful

00:26:05.679 --> 00:26:09.079
 like work

00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:09.719
 or family

00:26:09.719 --> 00:26:10.799
 or those other things

00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:12.319
 but you're missing out

00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:13.379
 on joy

00:26:13.379 --> 00:26:14.119
 and purpose

00:26:14.119 --> 00:26:15.019
 and peace

00:26:15.019 --> 00:26:15.779
 and love

00:26:15.779 --> 00:26:17.179
 because you're not running

00:26:17.179 --> 00:26:19.000
 back to the gospel seed.

00:26:21.439 --> 00:26:22.759
 It makes you proud

00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:23.579
 or despairing.

00:26:24.119 --> 00:26:25.139
 The PBR virus

00:26:25.139 --> 00:26:25.899
 is powerless

00:26:25.899 --> 00:26:27.439
 to change the heart.

00:26:27.559 --> 00:26:28.399
 That's the second thing.

00:26:29.659 --> 00:26:29.959
 You see,

00:26:30.019 --> 00:26:30.980
 the circumcision party,

00:26:30.980 --> 00:26:31.799
 they had their rules

00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:32.960
 to keep everyone pure

00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:33.759
 from the culture

00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:34.480
 around them

00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:36.420
 but the crazy thing is

00:26:36.420 --> 00:26:38.200
 that Paul in verse 15,

00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:38.620
 he says,

00:26:38.759 --> 00:26:39.339
 to the pure,

00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:40.720
 all things are pure.

00:26:41.420 --> 00:26:42.640
 To those who've been washed

00:26:42.640 --> 00:26:43.539
 by Jesus' blood,

00:26:43.660 --> 00:26:44.160
 they're pure

00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:45.839
 but to those who are defiled

00:26:45.839 --> 00:26:46.559
 and unbelieving,

00:26:46.700 --> 00:26:47.620
 nothing is pure

00:26:47.620 --> 00:26:49.180
 and then he goes on

00:26:49.180 --> 00:26:50.480
 to call them detestable,

00:26:50.860 --> 00:26:51.420
 disobedient,

00:26:51.779 --> 00:26:52.279
 unfit

00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:53.519
 for any good work.

00:26:53.599 --> 00:26:54.220
 What's he saying?

00:26:54.420 --> 00:26:54.839
 He's saying,

00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:55.660
 these people

00:26:55.660 --> 00:26:56.759
 are advocating

00:26:56.759 --> 00:26:58.460
 keeping all these rules

00:26:58.460 --> 00:26:59.299
 to stay pure

00:26:59.299 --> 00:27:00.120
 but inside

00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:00.899
 they're just as dirty

00:27:00.899 --> 00:27:01.459
 as defiled

00:27:01.459 --> 00:27:02.119
 as anyone else

00:27:02.119 --> 00:27:02.839
 out in the culture.

00:27:05.319 --> 00:27:05.959
 And you know,

00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:08.299
 Jesus says something

00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:09.439
 very similar.

00:27:09.899 --> 00:27:10.379
 He says,

00:27:10.939 --> 00:27:13.099
 woe to you teachers

00:27:13.099 --> 00:27:13.619
 of the law

00:27:13.619 --> 00:27:14.639
 and you Pharisees,

00:27:14.739 --> 00:27:15.699
 you hypocrites

00:27:15.699 --> 00:27:17.279
 because that is what it is.

00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:18.579
 It makes you a hypocrite.

00:27:19.139 --> 00:27:20.859
 You clean the outside

00:27:20.859 --> 00:27:22.279
 of the cup and dish

00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:24.299
 but inside you're full

00:27:24.299 --> 00:27:25.159
 of greed

00:27:25.159 --> 00:27:26.959
 and self-indulgence.

00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:29.160
 And I think

00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:30.100
 all of us

00:27:30.100 --> 00:27:31.480
 in some way or other

00:27:31.480 --> 00:27:32.220
 have,

00:27:32.579 --> 00:27:33.680
 including myself,

00:27:33.819 --> 00:27:35.480
 I see this hypocrisy

00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:37.380
 in my own heart.

00:27:38.140 --> 00:27:40.000
 I say what I believe here

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:40.740
 but in my life

00:27:40.740 --> 00:27:41.700
 there's this gap.

00:27:42.740 --> 00:27:43.140
 You see,

00:27:44.240 --> 00:27:49.160
 if I come to you

00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:50.680
 and I give you

00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:51.620
 a nice watermark

00:27:51.619 --> 00:27:53.959
 and I,

00:27:54.239 --> 00:27:55.639
 as you look at it

00:27:55.639 --> 00:27:56.500
 I've kind of cleaned

00:27:56.500 --> 00:27:57.899
 the outside

00:27:57.899 --> 00:28:00.479
 and I come to you

00:28:00.479 --> 00:28:00.779
 and I say,

00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:00.919
 hey,

00:28:00.959 --> 00:28:01.219
 would you like

00:28:01.219 --> 00:28:01.799
 a drink of water?

00:28:06.959 --> 00:28:07.979
 Maybe you're not thirsty.

00:28:09.599 --> 00:28:10.199
 And you say,

00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:10.539
 okay,

00:28:10.819 --> 00:28:11.000
 yeah,

00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:11.239
 yeah,

00:28:11.239 --> 00:28:12.019
 I'll take it

00:28:12.019 --> 00:28:12.519
 and then I say,

00:28:12.539 --> 00:28:12.659
 oh,

00:28:12.759 --> 00:28:12.859
 yeah,

00:28:12.859 --> 00:28:13.619
 just one thing.

00:28:13.619 --> 00:28:16.979
 I produced a urine sample

00:28:16.979 --> 00:28:17.399
 before,

00:28:17.539 --> 00:28:18.659
 just before

00:28:18.659 --> 00:28:19.299
 and I haven't cleaned

00:28:19.299 --> 00:28:20.039
 out the inside.

00:28:20.939 --> 00:28:21.679
 Would you like a drink?

00:28:25.579 --> 00:28:26.059
 Now,

00:28:27.099 --> 00:28:29.679
 the outside of the cup

00:28:29.679 --> 00:28:30.239
 looks great

00:28:30.239 --> 00:28:31.719
 but would you want

00:28:31.719 --> 00:28:32.479
 to drink anything

00:28:32.479 --> 00:28:33.219
 from the inside

00:28:33.219 --> 00:28:33.799
 of the cup

00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:35.719
 if the inside

00:28:35.719 --> 00:28:37.339
 is dirty

00:28:37.339 --> 00:28:38.319
 and defiled?

00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:42.059
 The thing is,

00:28:42.399 --> 00:28:44.059
 much of our Christian lives

00:28:44.059 --> 00:28:45.359
 we spend polishing

00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:47.399
 the outside so well

00:28:47.399 --> 00:28:48.399
 and we forget

00:28:48.399 --> 00:28:49.399
 about the inside

00:28:49.399 --> 00:28:51.619
 because the thing is,

00:28:51.679 --> 00:28:52.859
 if you clean the inside,

00:28:53.099 --> 00:28:54.179
 the water's going to splash out

00:28:54.179 --> 00:28:54.819
 and it's going to

00:28:54.819 --> 00:28:56.700
 transform the outside anyway.

00:28:58.779 --> 00:29:01.000
 But we can be so busy

00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:01.819
 in church

00:29:01.819 --> 00:29:02.799
 doing activity

00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:03.799
 after activity,

00:29:03.960 --> 00:29:04.619
 reading our Bibles,

00:29:04.759 --> 00:29:05.059
 serving,

00:29:05.179 --> 00:29:05.759
 doing all these

00:29:05.759 --> 00:29:06.480
 different things

00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:07.339
 and you think

00:29:07.339 --> 00:29:08.079
 you're okay

00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:09.019
 because you think

00:29:09.019 --> 00:29:10.339
 I'm doing all this

00:29:10.339 --> 00:29:11.019
 for God.

00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:14.539
 But if your heart

00:29:14.539 --> 00:29:15.639
 is not being propelled

00:29:15.639 --> 00:29:17.139
 by God's love for you,

00:29:19.059 --> 00:29:20.980
 God looks at that

00:29:20.980 --> 00:29:22.220
 in the same way

00:29:22.220 --> 00:29:24.439
 that you would react

00:29:24.439 --> 00:29:25.720
 towards a urine sample

00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:26.939
 being in the drink of water.

00:29:29.500 --> 00:29:30.699
 It's detestable.

00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:34.939
 And I know this for myself

00:29:34.939 --> 00:29:36.099
 because it's so often

00:29:36.099 --> 00:29:37.740
 I come to the point

00:29:37.740 --> 00:29:38.039
 of saying,

00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:39.679
 have I done enough for God?

00:29:39.799 --> 00:29:41.099
 What must I do for God?

00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:43.679
 Have I reached the standard

00:29:43.679 --> 00:29:44.539
 so that I'm okay?

00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:48.480
 But if God's love

00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:49.779
 is not propelling you,

00:29:49.919 --> 00:29:50.939
 you'll be like a husband

00:29:50.939 --> 00:29:52.500
 who dutifully serves

00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:53.359
 one wife

00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:54.480
 but secretly wishes

00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:55.500
 he was with another.

00:29:56.299 --> 00:29:57.879
 Because what happens is,

00:29:58.779 --> 00:29:59.179
 you know,

00:29:59.220 --> 00:29:59.599
 have you seen

00:29:59.599 --> 00:30:00.659
 a dutiful son?

00:30:02.159 --> 00:30:02.939
 I've seen this.

00:30:03.019 --> 00:30:04.019
 I've seen a dutiful son

00:30:04.019 --> 00:30:05.819
 go and visit his mother

00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:06.900
 in hospital

00:30:06.900 --> 00:30:09.700
 but there's no love.

00:30:10.819 --> 00:30:11.819
 And you know,

00:30:11.900 --> 00:30:13.240
 there's a coldness.

00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:15.799
 There's just a clinicalness

00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:16.819
 to the way they go

00:30:16.819 --> 00:30:17.759
 about their duty.

00:30:17.879 --> 00:30:18.519
 They've done it.

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:20.440
 They visited their mother.

00:30:20.440 --> 00:30:22.420
 But there's,

00:30:22.620 --> 00:30:23.960
 the warmth is missing.

00:30:24.360 --> 00:30:25.799
 The joy is missing.

00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:28.600
 And as a church,

00:30:29.600 --> 00:30:31.880
 a church which is going to live

00:30:31.880 --> 00:30:32.920
 must be a church

00:30:32.920 --> 00:30:34.500
 which is filled with joy.

00:30:34.700 --> 00:30:35.440
 And joy,

00:30:35.539 --> 00:30:36.259
 not because I've got

00:30:36.259 --> 00:30:37.259
 a whole load of duties

00:30:37.259 --> 00:30:38.240
 that I've got to get through

00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:39.420
 to be a good Christian,

00:30:39.980 --> 00:30:41.559
 to read my Bible,

00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:42.580
 to do all these things

00:30:42.580 --> 00:30:43.740
 because I have to.

00:30:43.740 --> 00:30:48.099
 But because God's love

00:30:48.099 --> 00:30:49.259
 compels me,

00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:50.819
 draws me

00:30:50.819 --> 00:30:52.960
 in a relationship with me.

00:30:54.740 --> 00:30:57.120
 And I wonder

00:30:57.120 --> 00:30:58.559
 if you are like that with God.

00:31:00.180 --> 00:31:01.880
 I wonder if you are.

00:31:02.700 --> 00:31:04.039
 And don't mishear

00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:04.680
 what I'm saying

00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:07.579
 because it doesn't mean

00:31:07.579 --> 00:31:09.420
 that you have to always feel

00:31:09.420 --> 00:31:10.900
 this overwhelming passion

00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:13.220
 to serve or to give

00:31:13.220 --> 00:31:14.259
 or to do all the things

00:31:14.259 --> 00:31:14.900
 that as Christians

00:31:14.900 --> 00:31:16.220
 we should do.

00:31:17.079 --> 00:31:17.339
 You know,

00:31:17.460 --> 00:31:19.779
 a mother who has to,

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:21.059
 who loves their child

00:31:21.059 --> 00:31:22.100
 will change their nappy,

00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:22.660
 the diaper,

00:31:22.900 --> 00:31:23.700
 and they're not thinking,

00:31:24.019 --> 00:31:25.380
 wow, this is amazing.

00:31:25.620 --> 00:31:26.680
 But there is a love

00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:27.620
 and a duty

00:31:27.620 --> 00:31:29.019
 which go together.

00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:30.779
 It is not just

00:31:30.779 --> 00:31:32.440
 we obey out of love for Christ

00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:33.579
 and not out of duty.

00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:35.380
 Duty without love

00:31:35.380 --> 00:31:36.039
 is deadly.

00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:37.039
 But love always

00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:39.000
 involves duty.

00:31:43.220 --> 00:31:44.720
 And if you clean

00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:46.279
 the inside of the cup,

00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:47.640
 you will see

00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:48.519
 that even though it's,

00:31:49.059 --> 00:31:50.779
 sometimes you just don't feel

00:31:50.779 --> 00:31:52.019
 like you want to read your Bible.

00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:53.259
 Sometimes you just don't feel

00:31:53.259 --> 00:31:54.100
 like you want to serve

00:31:54.100 --> 00:31:55.140
 or you want to give.

00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:56.319
 Or before you do it,

00:31:56.620 --> 00:31:56.720
 you,

00:31:57.480 --> 00:31:58.460
 before you do it,

00:31:58.860 --> 00:32:00.200
 ask God to change it.

00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:01.000
 Do it anyway.

00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:03.920
 But ask God to change your heart

00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:04.960
 in doing it.

00:32:05.059 --> 00:32:06.339
 Don't just stop doing it.

00:32:07.860 --> 00:32:09.539
 Ask Him to change your heart.

00:32:09.539 --> 00:32:11.339
 Ask Him to refuel

00:32:11.339 --> 00:32:13.980
 and refire your love for Him

00:32:13.980 --> 00:32:15.159
 as you do it.

00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:16.680
 Okay?

00:32:18.059 --> 00:32:18.960
 It makes you proud.

00:32:19.059 --> 00:32:20.680
 The PBR virus makes you proud.

00:32:20.839 --> 00:32:21.359
 It makes you,

00:32:21.579 --> 00:32:23.440
 it's powerless to change your heart.

00:32:23.500 --> 00:32:24.399
 Only the gospel

00:32:24.399 --> 00:32:25.680
 can change your heart.

00:32:26.000 --> 00:32:26.879
 Third thing is,

00:32:27.859 --> 00:32:29.379
 performance-based religion

00:32:29.379 --> 00:32:30.980
 blinds you to your own condition.

00:32:33.500 --> 00:32:34.859
 It says in verse 16,

00:32:34.940 --> 00:32:36.059
 they profess to know God

00:32:36.059 --> 00:32:39.099
 but deny Him by their works.

00:32:39.539 --> 00:32:40.740
 That's a strong statement.

00:32:41.399 --> 00:32:42.960
 They profess to know God.

00:32:43.500 --> 00:32:46.000
 They profess to know God

00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.139
 but they deny Him by their works.

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:48.599
 You see,

00:32:48.920 --> 00:32:50.359
 performance-based religion

00:32:50.359 --> 00:32:53.119
 stops you seeing your need

00:32:53.119 --> 00:32:54.659
 for God and His grace.

00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:55.460
 And you can see

00:32:55.460 --> 00:32:57.559
 everyone else's need for grace.

00:32:58.559 --> 00:33:00.299
 You can see everyone else's need

00:33:00.299 --> 00:33:02.019
 for change

00:33:02.019 --> 00:33:02.720
 but not your own.

00:33:03.139 --> 00:33:03.339
 You know,

00:33:03.399 --> 00:33:04.259
 you listen to a sermon

00:33:04.259 --> 00:33:04.940
 and you think,

00:33:05.059 --> 00:33:06.720
 I wish my husband or wife

00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:07.539
 could hear this.

00:33:08.960 --> 00:33:09.259
 Right?

00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:11.619
 And you don't see

00:33:11.619 --> 00:33:13.980
 how it should apply to you.

00:33:14.220 --> 00:33:15.159
 I was sitting in a,

00:33:15.299 --> 00:33:17.259
 I was sitting in a restaurant

00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:17.720
 the other day

00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:18.579
 and I was listening to two,

00:33:18.700 --> 00:33:19.519
 two women

00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:20.680
 kind of gossiping

00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:21.599
 about their colleagues.

00:33:21.859 --> 00:33:22.460
 And they were saying,

00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:22.619
 oh,

00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:23.859
 they're so judgmental,

00:33:23.940 --> 00:33:24.639
 they're so this,

00:33:24.700 --> 00:33:25.299
 they're so that.

00:33:25.299 --> 00:33:26.960
 And I was listening to them

00:33:26.960 --> 00:33:27.099
 and thinking,

00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:28.980
 you're so judgmental

00:33:28.980 --> 00:33:30.039
 and you're like this.

00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:30.919
 And then I stopped

00:33:30.919 --> 00:33:31.740
 and thought to myself,

00:33:32.740 --> 00:33:39.220
 do you see,

00:33:39.379 --> 00:33:41.519
 all the time,

00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:43.720
 performance-based religion

00:33:43.720 --> 00:33:44.899
 is one of the things

00:33:44.899 --> 00:33:46.480
 that just gets me every time.

00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:49.559
 And we're just infected by it.

00:33:49.559 --> 00:33:51.619
 And we need the gospel

00:33:51.619 --> 00:33:53.179
 to keep reminding us,

00:33:54.139 --> 00:33:55.659
 to keep reminding us

00:33:55.659 --> 00:33:56.220
 you are more,

00:33:56.339 --> 00:33:56.899
 you're worse

00:33:56.899 --> 00:33:58.339
 than you can imagine you are,

00:33:58.679 --> 00:33:59.700
 but you're more loved

00:33:59.700 --> 00:34:01.679
 than you could dare believe you are.

00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:06.200
 Let me speak to some of you.

00:34:08.039 --> 00:34:08.940
 It's worse,

00:34:10.840 --> 00:34:12.139
 performance-based religion

00:34:12.139 --> 00:34:13.340
 is worse

00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:14.800
 than if you think

00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:15.700
 you are not a Christian,

00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:16.780
 if you're not a Christian.

00:34:17.280 --> 00:34:18.180
 If you're not a Christian,

00:34:18.300 --> 00:34:19.200
 you know you're not a Christian.

00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:20.119
 Right?

00:34:20.539 --> 00:34:20.780
 Okay?

00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:21.980
 You know where you stand.

00:34:22.220 --> 00:34:23.420
 But if you're in church,

00:34:23.740 --> 00:34:24.260
 week in,

00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:25.059
 week out,

00:34:25.240 --> 00:34:26.079
 listening to sermons,

00:34:26.380 --> 00:34:27.720
 giving money in the offering,

00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:28.960
 going to community group,

00:34:29.079 --> 00:34:31.159
 and you think you know God

00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:32.139
 because you've done

00:34:32.139 --> 00:34:33.559
 all those things,

00:34:34.139 --> 00:34:35.079
 you're in trouble.

00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:37.279
 You're in trouble.

00:34:39.139 --> 00:34:40.299
 Because just as

00:34:40.299 --> 00:34:41.819
 sitting in a garage

00:34:41.819 --> 00:34:42.960
 doesn't make you a car,

00:34:43.119 --> 00:34:43.879
 sitting in church

00:34:43.879 --> 00:34:45.159
 doesn't make you a Christian.

00:34:46.819 --> 00:34:48.420
 Because why do you think

00:34:48.420 --> 00:34:49.799
 God would accept you

00:34:49.799 --> 00:34:51.119
 if you say,

00:34:51.239 --> 00:34:52.420
 because I'm not a bad person?

00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:54.139
 Look at all the things

00:34:54.139 --> 00:34:54.799
 I've done for God.

00:34:54.839 --> 00:34:55.859
 I've got a loving heart.

00:34:56.039 --> 00:34:57.659
 If you say any of those things,

00:34:57.719 --> 00:34:58.480
 you're not a Christian.

00:34:59.579 --> 00:35:00.819
 You're not a Christian.

00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:03.319
 Because God looks on the inside

00:35:03.319 --> 00:35:04.199
 of the cup

00:35:04.199 --> 00:35:04.859
 and He says,

00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:06.619
 that is disgusting.

00:35:08.179 --> 00:35:09.339
 Whoa, that's strong.

00:35:11.899 --> 00:35:13.819
 But Christianity says,

00:35:13.940 --> 00:35:14.899
 though you're worse

00:35:14.899 --> 00:35:16.500
 than you think you are,

00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:20.019
 God,

00:35:20.259 --> 00:35:22.399
 through no merit of your own,

00:35:22.679 --> 00:35:24.420
 through the blood of Christ,

00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:25.099
 has come

00:35:25.099 --> 00:35:27.639
 and He has washed you

00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:29.599
 through His death

00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:30.699
 on the cross.

00:35:31.059 --> 00:35:32.039
 It is only

00:35:32.039 --> 00:35:33.440
 through His blood.

00:35:33.659 --> 00:35:34.559
 It is only

00:35:34.559 --> 00:35:36.420
 through His grace.

00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:37.519
 It is only

00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:39.259
 through His death

00:35:39.259 --> 00:35:40.259
 for you,

00:35:40.259 --> 00:35:42.019
 not because of how great

00:35:42.019 --> 00:35:43.319
 your performance was,

00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:45.139
 that you can now stand

00:35:45.139 --> 00:35:46.019
 to the pure,

00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:46.900
 all things are pure.

00:35:47.019 --> 00:35:48.460
 You can stand before God

00:35:48.460 --> 00:35:50.599
 pure in His eyes,

00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:52.380
 beautiful in His sight,

00:35:52.380 --> 00:35:53.099
 valued,

00:35:53.340 --> 00:35:53.680
 loved,

00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:54.500
 holy.

00:35:56.200 --> 00:35:56.900
 And He says,

00:35:56.980 --> 00:35:57.960
 I am pleased with you,

00:35:58.019 --> 00:35:59.200
 not because of your performance.

00:35:59.260 --> 00:36:00.340
 Your performance sucks,

00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:01.940
 but because of His performance.

00:36:03.079 --> 00:36:04.200
 That's the gospel.

00:36:04.780 --> 00:36:05.180
 That's the gospel.

00:36:05.179 --> 00:36:10.539
 So if you're living

00:36:10.539 --> 00:36:12.399
 on your parents' faith,

00:36:12.619 --> 00:36:13.219
 you're living

00:36:13.219 --> 00:36:14.579
 on any other thing,

00:36:15.299 --> 00:36:16.599
 you need to come

00:36:16.599 --> 00:36:17.659
 and talk with me

00:36:17.659 --> 00:36:19.339
 or talk with a community group leader

00:36:19.339 --> 00:36:20.019
 or otherwise

00:36:20.019 --> 00:36:21.519
 because you need to get right

00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:23.039
 with God today.

00:36:26.259 --> 00:36:27.899
 So where do we go with this?

00:36:28.319 --> 00:36:30.059
 Where do we go with this?

00:36:31.019 --> 00:36:32.119
 A couple of things.

00:36:32.179 --> 00:36:33.440
 You see there are these two seeds.

00:36:35.179 --> 00:36:37.139
 And the thing is,

00:36:37.339 --> 00:36:38.799
 we need to always,

00:36:41.079 --> 00:36:42.059
 in Hong Kong,

00:36:43.099 --> 00:36:44.440
 it's so easy,

00:36:45.359 --> 00:36:46.879
 I see it all the time,

00:36:47.259 --> 00:36:50.000
 that we go to churches

00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:51.239
 and choose churches

00:36:51.239 --> 00:36:52.759
 because we like the music

00:36:52.759 --> 00:36:54.480
 or we like the programs

00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:55.859
 or we like all kinds

00:36:55.859 --> 00:36:56.460
 of other things.

00:36:56.559 --> 00:36:58.119
 But this passage is telling us

00:36:58.119 --> 00:36:59.940
 you need to evaluate

00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:01.579
 a church,

00:37:01.719 --> 00:37:02.460
 a community,

00:37:02.659 --> 00:37:03.559
 all those other things.

00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:04.619
 You need to evaluate

00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:06.599
 your own life

00:37:06.599 --> 00:37:11.239
 on not just whether

00:37:11.239 --> 00:37:12.480
 something works for you

00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:13.679
 but is the gospel

00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:14.500
 being taught

00:37:14.500 --> 00:37:15.619
 in that church?

00:37:17.699 --> 00:37:18.400
 Or is,

00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:19.279
 you need to,

00:37:19.759 --> 00:37:20.880
 we're pragmatic here.

00:37:20.940 --> 00:37:21.659
 We want to work out

00:37:21.659 --> 00:37:22.960
 what works for us.

00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:23.820
 But there is,

00:37:24.320 --> 00:37:26.000
 doctrine is important.

00:37:26.460 --> 00:37:27.400
 What you believe

00:37:27.400 --> 00:37:28.320
 is important

00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:29.619
 because it always flows

00:37:29.619 --> 00:37:30.679
 into your life.

00:37:30.679 --> 00:37:32.460
 And so you've got to,

00:37:32.460 --> 00:37:33.519
 you've got to know

00:37:33.519 --> 00:37:34.839
 how do we evaluate

00:37:34.839 --> 00:37:36.539
 what different people say?

00:37:36.699 --> 00:37:37.739
 Because if you don't,

00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:39.359
 your joy is at stake.

00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:42.419
 Your joy is at stake.

00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:43.839
 The godliness,

00:37:44.019 --> 00:37:44.679
 that fruit,

00:37:44.940 --> 00:37:45.659
 that mission

00:37:45.659 --> 00:37:46.419
 to the world

00:37:46.419 --> 00:37:47.199
 is at stake.

00:37:51.139 --> 00:37:52.539
 But here's the difference.

00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:54.039
 When you hear this kind of,

00:37:54.099 --> 00:37:55.319
 you see this list of things

00:37:55.319 --> 00:37:56.179
 that we should be

00:37:56.179 --> 00:37:56.879
 as Christians.

00:37:57.539 --> 00:37:58.539
 You see it for elders.

00:37:59.260 --> 00:38:00.140
 You can see it

00:38:00.140 --> 00:38:00.840
 in all kinds of,

00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:02.140
 how do you stop

00:38:02.140 --> 00:38:03.720
 just kind of falling back in

00:38:03.720 --> 00:38:04.820
 as I do regularly

00:38:04.820 --> 00:38:06.420
 into PBR virus,

00:38:06.740 --> 00:38:08.460
 into this performance-based religion?

00:38:09.500 --> 00:38:10.579
 One of my mentors,

00:38:10.720 --> 00:38:11.920
 a guy called Tim Chester,

00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:12.780
 he wrote this.

00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:14.780
 And he calls

00:38:14.780 --> 00:38:16.180
 performance-based religion

00:38:16.180 --> 00:38:16.840
 legalism.

00:38:17.619 --> 00:38:18.039
 He says,

00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:19.860
 legalism says,

00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:21.840
 you should not do this.

00:38:22.539 --> 00:38:23.920
 The gospel says,

00:38:24.220 --> 00:38:25.900
 you need not do this.

00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:27.480
 Legalism says,

00:38:27.820 --> 00:38:29.039
 you should not sleep

00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:29.900
 with your boyfriend.

00:38:30.220 --> 00:38:31.519
 You should read your Bible

00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:32.019
 every day.

00:38:32.180 --> 00:38:33.440
 You should not get drunk.

00:38:33.660 --> 00:38:34.340
 You should witness

00:38:34.340 --> 00:38:35.019
 to your friends.

00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:36.599
 You should not lose your temper.

00:38:37.220 --> 00:38:38.160
 None of these

00:38:38.160 --> 00:38:38.960
 are good news

00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:39.820
 to someone struggling

00:38:39.820 --> 00:38:40.579
 with these issues.

00:38:41.660 --> 00:38:42.260
 To them,

00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:43.440
 it is condemnation

00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:44.619
 and sounds oppressive.

00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:47.440
 What the gospel says is,

00:38:47.940 --> 00:38:49.340
 you need not get drunk

00:38:49.340 --> 00:38:51.099
 because Jesus offers

00:38:51.099 --> 00:38:51.940
 a better refuge.

00:38:51.940 --> 00:38:53.679
 You need not lose

00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:54.340
 your temper

00:38:54.340 --> 00:38:56.840
 because God is in control

00:38:56.840 --> 00:38:57.880
 of the situation.

00:38:58.940 --> 00:39:00.880
 Sin is always making promises

00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:03.119
 and the gospel exposes

00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:03.940
 those promises

00:39:03.940 --> 00:39:05.220
 and false promises

00:39:05.220 --> 00:39:07.119
 and points to God

00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:08.019
 who is bigger

00:39:08.019 --> 00:39:09.119
 and better

00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:10.619
 than anything

00:39:10.619 --> 00:39:12.079
 sin offers.

00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:14.519
 That's the gospel.

00:39:15.380 --> 00:39:15.960
 I don't know what

00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:17.039
 you're struggling with

00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:17.639
 this week.

00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:19.259
 I don't know what area

00:39:19.259 --> 00:39:20.059
 of godliness

00:39:20.059 --> 00:39:21.339
 you wrestle with

00:39:21.339 --> 00:39:22.039
 but what I know

00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:22.519
 is this.

00:39:23.059 --> 00:39:24.420
 You don't stop worrying

00:39:24.420 --> 00:39:26.460
 by simply telling yourself

00:39:26.460 --> 00:39:27.339
 to stop worrying.

00:39:28.319 --> 00:39:28.659
 Right?

00:39:28.819 --> 00:39:29.279
 Try it.

00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:31.639
 You don't stop

00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:32.960
 porn addiction

00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:34.559
 by simply surrounding

00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:35.359
 yourself with

00:39:35.359 --> 00:39:36.539
 accountability partners

00:39:36.539 --> 00:39:37.579
 or security measures

00:39:37.579 --> 00:39:38.299
 on your computer.

00:39:39.359 --> 00:39:40.539
 Those things are good

00:39:40.539 --> 00:39:41.819
 but they're still

00:39:41.819 --> 00:39:42.719
 outside of the cup.

00:39:42.779 --> 00:39:43.779
 We need a clean outside

00:39:43.779 --> 00:39:45.619
 but they're still

00:39:45.619 --> 00:39:46.699
 outside the cup.

00:39:46.699 --> 00:39:51.319
 because if you hear

00:39:51.319 --> 00:39:52.639
 the Bible's command

00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:53.099
 which says

00:39:53.099 --> 00:39:54.119
 don't do those things

00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:54.759
 and then suddenly

00:39:54.759 --> 00:39:55.319
 you realize

00:39:55.319 --> 00:39:56.619
 you are doing those things

00:39:56.619 --> 00:39:57.599
 you know what happens?

00:39:58.879 --> 00:40:01.519
 You just feel worse.

00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:03.159
 You feel condemned.

00:40:03.319 --> 00:40:03.699
 You feel like

00:40:03.699 --> 00:40:05.219
 oh, done it again.

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 And that doesn't

00:40:07.839 --> 00:40:08.759
 bring you to joy

00:40:08.759 --> 00:40:11.759
 because the command

00:40:11.759 --> 00:40:12.500
 then becomes

00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:13.759
 like the judge's hammer

00:40:13.759 --> 00:40:14.659
 that condemns you

00:40:14.659 --> 00:40:16.099
 but there's one old writer

00:40:16.099 --> 00:40:16.980
 who wrote this.

00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:19.000
 His name was John.

00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:20.279
 He said,

00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:21.059
 run John

00:40:21.059 --> 00:40:22.839
 run the law commands

00:40:22.839 --> 00:40:23.719
 but gives us

00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:24.599
 neither feet

00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:25.480
 nor hands.

00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:27.000
 Far better news

00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:28.179
 the gospel brings

00:40:28.179 --> 00:40:29.639
 it bids us fly

00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:31.039
 and gives us wings.

00:40:31.699 --> 00:40:32.480
 It's not Red Bull

00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:33.460
 that gives you wings.

00:40:33.880 --> 00:40:34.839
 It's the gospel

00:40:34.839 --> 00:40:36.039
 that gives you wings.

00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:37.279
 The way to stop worrying.

00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:38.059
 The way to deal

00:40:38.059 --> 00:40:38.799
 with porn.

00:40:39.139 --> 00:40:40.159
 Yes, have other stuff

00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:40.819
 around you

00:40:40.820 --> 00:40:41.700
 but you need to

00:40:41.700 --> 00:40:42.980
 massage the truth

00:40:42.980 --> 00:40:43.620
 of the gospel

00:40:43.620 --> 00:40:45.400
 every single day

00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:46.160
 into your heart.

00:40:46.260 --> 00:40:47.080
 You need a community

00:40:47.080 --> 00:40:48.240
 around you

00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:49.280
 who are also

00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:50.660
 telling you the gospel

00:40:50.660 --> 00:40:51.980
 day in, day out

00:40:51.980 --> 00:40:52.460
 because you're going

00:40:52.460 --> 00:40:52.960
 to forget.

00:40:55.880 --> 00:40:57.100
 And when you come

00:40:57.100 --> 00:40:57.760
 and run to God

00:40:57.760 --> 00:40:58.000
 and say,

00:40:58.080 --> 00:40:58.680
 God, I need you

00:40:58.680 --> 00:40:59.280
 to change me.

00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:00.400
 I need you to show me

00:41:00.400 --> 00:41:01.120
 your love.

00:41:01.820 --> 00:41:02.700
 Do you know what happens?

00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:05.059
 Something beautiful occurs.

00:41:05.660 --> 00:41:06.400
 You begin to see

00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:07.000
 that fruit

00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:08.980
 that you're always wanting

00:41:08.980 --> 00:41:10.059
 that you would produce.

00:41:12.539 --> 00:41:13.019
 Spurgeon,

00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:13.559
 the preacher,

00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:14.360
 said this,

00:41:15.019 --> 00:41:15.719
 When I thought

00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:16.559
 God was hard,

00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:17.880
 I found it easy

00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:18.320
 to sin.

00:41:18.860 --> 00:41:19.940
 But when I found

00:41:19.940 --> 00:41:21.380
 God was so kind,

00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:22.380
 so good,

00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:23.480
 so overflowing

00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:24.280
 with compassion,

00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:25.840
 I smote upon

00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:26.659
 my breast

00:41:26.659 --> 00:41:27.659
 to think that

00:41:27.659 --> 00:41:28.500
 I could ever

00:41:28.500 --> 00:41:29.260
 have rebelled

00:41:29.260 --> 00:41:30.059
 against one

00:41:30.059 --> 00:41:31.280
 who loved me so

00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:32.219
 and sought

00:41:32.219 --> 00:41:33.079
 my good.

00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:35.480
 My prayer for us

00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:36.260
 as a church

00:41:36.260 --> 00:41:37.420
 is that we

00:41:37.420 --> 00:41:38.059
 would not be

00:41:38.059 --> 00:41:38.920
 a joyless

00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:40.139
 burdened,

00:41:40.420 --> 00:41:41.019
 condemned,

00:41:41.680 --> 00:41:42.200
 guilty,

00:41:42.539 --> 00:41:43.880
 shame-filled church,

00:41:44.180 --> 00:41:44.860
 but one

00:41:44.860 --> 00:41:45.940
 which knows

00:41:45.940 --> 00:41:47.119
 the joy

00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:48.300
 of being forgiven,

00:41:48.780 --> 00:41:49.860
 of being cleansed

00:41:49.860 --> 00:41:51.019
 by the blood of Jesus

00:41:51.019 --> 00:41:52.480
 and we're living it out

00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:53.800
 in radical love

00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:54.380
 for others

00:41:54.380 --> 00:41:54.980
 and for Him.

00:41:55.420 --> 00:41:55.980
 Let's pray.

00:41:55.980 --> 00:41:56.059
 Amen.

00:41:56.059 --> 00:41:56.139
 Amen.

00:41:56.139 --> 00:41:56.200
 Amen.

00:41:56.200 --> 00:41:57.139
 Amen.

00:41:57.139 --> 00:41:57.200
 Amen.

00:41:57.200 --> 00:41:57.260
 Amen.

00:41:57.260 --> 00:41:57.380
 Amen.

00:41:57.380 --> 00:41:57.980
 Amen.

00:41:57.980 --> 00:41:58.139
 Amen.

00:41:58.139 --> 00:41:58.200
 Amen.

00:41:58.200 --> 00:41:59.200
 Amen.

00:41:59.200 --> 00:42:00.139
 Amen.

00:42:00.139 --> 00:42:00.200
 Amen.

00:42:00.200 --> 00:42:01.139
 Amen.

00:42:01.139 --> 00:42:01.200
 Amen.

00:42:01.200 --> 00:42:01.260
 Amen.

00:42:01.260 --> 00:42:01.300
 Amen.

00:42:01.300 --> 00:42:01.320
 Amen.

00:42:01.320 --> 00:42:01.340
 Amen.

00:42:01.340 --> 00:42:01.380
 Amen.

00:42:08.920 --> 00:42:09.460
 Amen.

00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:10.720
 Amen.

00:42:10.720 --> 00:42:10.760
 Amen.

00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:16.340
 Amen.

00:42:16.340 --> 00:42:16.720
 Amen.

00:42:16.720 --> 00:42:18.300
 Amen.

00:42:18.300 --> 00:42:19.139
 Amen.

00:42:19.139 --> 00:42:20.139
 Amen.

00:42:20.139 --> 00:42:20.240
 Amen.

00:42:20.240 --> 00:42:20.320
 Amen.

00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:21.039
 Amen.

00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:21.500
 Amen.

00:42:21.500 --> 00:42:21.619
 Amen.

00:42:21.619 --> 00:42:21.980
 Amen.

00:42:21.980 --> 00:42:22.039
 Amen.

00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:22.440
 Amen.

00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:22.559
 Amen.

00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:22.619
 Amen.

00:42:22.619 --> 00:42:23.780
 Amen.

00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:24.680
 Amen.

00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:25.760
 Amen.

00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:26.139
 Amen.

00:42:26.139 --> 00:42:30.279
 Lord I pray for us

00:42:30.279 --> 00:42:31.299
 I pray for our hearts

00:42:31.299 --> 00:42:33.000
 I pray for those here

00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:34.099
 who are actually laboring

00:42:34.099 --> 00:42:35.539
 under that sense of guilt

00:42:35.539 --> 00:42:37.019
 and condemnation

00:42:37.019 --> 00:42:39.599
 I pray Lord

00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:40.679
 that you would speak

00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:41.859
 to their hearts now

00:42:41.859 --> 00:42:43.400
 you would help them

00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:44.319
 to see you

00:42:44.319 --> 00:42:47.279
 to see the one

00:42:47.279 --> 00:42:49.000
 whose blood was poured out

00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:49.639
 for them

00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:50.619
 for the sins

00:42:50.619 --> 00:42:51.980
 that are held in them back

00:42:51.980 --> 00:42:54.839
 you died for those very sins

00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:58.360
 I pray for those of us

00:42:58.360 --> 00:42:59.460
 who kind of don't really care

00:42:59.460 --> 00:43:02.059
 we've given up trying

00:43:02.059 --> 00:43:03.180
 we're just content

00:43:03.180 --> 00:43:04.160
 we think we're okay

00:43:04.160 --> 00:43:05.039
 Lord I pray

00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:07.380
 would your word

00:43:07.380 --> 00:43:10.780
 would it shatter

00:43:10.780 --> 00:43:14.760
 those false pretenses Lord

00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:17.000
 show us what we're really like

00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:20.440
 pray for us

00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:21.000
 who

00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.380
 just are feeling burdened in life

00:43:24.380 --> 00:43:28.460
 Lord I pray that you would

00:43:28.460 --> 00:43:30.800
 give us that joy again

00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:33.619
 that we would see

00:43:33.619 --> 00:43:35.559
 afresh

00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:37.039
 not that the gospel

00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:38.240
 is just some news

00:43:38.240 --> 00:43:38.920
 what I heard

00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:40.119
 a long time ago

00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:41.180
 but every time

00:43:41.180 --> 00:43:42.220
 every day

00:43:42.220 --> 00:43:44.059
 it's producing joy

00:43:44.059 --> 00:43:47.300
 make us a joyful people Lord

00:43:47.300 --> 00:43:49.519
 show us

00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:50.740
 again and again

00:43:50.740 --> 00:43:51.559
 the depths

00:43:51.559 --> 00:43:52.480
 of your grace

00:43:52.480 --> 00:43:54.139
 in your name

00:43:54.139 --> 00:43:55.360
 Amen

00:43:55.360 --> 00:43:55.639
 Amen

00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:56.879
 Amen

00:43:56.879 --> 00:43:57.279
 Amen

00:43:57.279 --> 00:43:58.000
 Amen

00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:59.960
 Amen

00:43:59.960 --> 00:44:00.599
 Amen

00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:02.019
 Amen

00:44:02.019 --> 00:44:04.619
 Amen

00:44:04.879 --> 00:44:06.799
 Amen

00:44:06.900 --> 00:44:09.019
 Amen

00:44:09.019 --> 00:44:09.259
 Amen

00:44:09.259 --> 00:44:09.400
 Amen

00:44:09.400 --> 00:44:09.839
 Amen

00:44:09.839 --> 00:44:10.759
 Amen

00:44:10.759 --> 00:44:11.019
 Amen

00:44:11.019 --> 00:44:11.319
 Amen

00:44:11.319 --> 00:44:12.559
 Amen

00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:13.359
 Amen

00:44:13.739 --> 00:44:13.759
 Amen

00:44:13.759 --> 00:44:15.639
 Amen

00:44:16.460 --> 00:44:17.139
 Amen

00:44:17.139 --> 00:44:17.519
 Amen

00:44:17.519 --> 00:44:18.539
 Amen

00:44:18.539 --> 00:44:19.500
 Yeah

00:44:19.500 --> 00:44:20.799
 Amen

00:44:20.799 --> 00:44:21.759
 Amen

00:44:21.759 --> 00:44:22.359
 Amen

00:44:22.359 --> 00:44:22.759
 Amen

00:44:22.759 --> 00:44:23.339
 Amen

00:44:23.339 --> 00:44:23.859
 Amen

00:44:23.859 --> 00:44:24.819
 Amen

00:44:24.819 --> 00:44:24.859
 Amen

00:44:24.859 --> 00:44:24.940
 Amen