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 Father, we confess that it's very easy for us to bring our natural human tendencies

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 and the fallenness of our heart to the reading of your word.

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 So, Father, we confess before you that it's not that your word is not clear.

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 It's not, Father, that your word is not wise.

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 It's not that Jesus isn't the Savior.

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 Father, we confess before you that our left to ourselves in our natural human tendencies,

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 we will misread your word and mishear your word and change your word.

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 So we ask, Father, in your mercy and in your kindness that your Holy Spirit would gently but deeply fall upon us

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 so that we might truly hear your word and receive your word

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 and so be gripped by the gospel as disciples of Jesus, learning to live for your glory.

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

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 Please be seated.

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 I saw a truly heart-rending incident yesterday morning when I was working on my sermon at a Starbucks.

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 So I'm in there working.

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 My Bible's open.

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 I'm working on the sermon, trying to put my notes together,

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 trying to figure out the best way to word different things.

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 And I noticed this guy come in.

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 He's probably in his late 30s, and he looks nervous.

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 And he's sitting there, and he keeps sort of looking around.

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 And he looks nervous.

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 He's looking around, looking around, looking around, keep turning his phone on and looking at the time.

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 Eventually, I can see that he's texting somebody and calling.

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 And it's a Saturday, so I just sort of keep noticing his nervousness.

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 And, you know, I don't know how many of you go into places like Starbucks or Second Cup or Bridgehead,

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 but often a lot of business gets done during weekdays.

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 I often see real estate agents and lawyers and others in there doing work.

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 But it's a Saturday.

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 I was just a bit curious.

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 I thought he was waiting for a date, actually.

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 But then, here's the heart-rending part.

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 I hear the squeal of a high-pitched boy's voice.

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 And I turn around, and I'm just guessing the ages of five-year-old and a seven-year-old

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 come hurtling down through the Starbucks to sit with the fellow,

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 and the youngest one of them immediately goes on the fellow's knee.

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 And coming along quite slowly behind them was a stony-faced young woman.

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 And it was hard not to hear the conversation that's going on,

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 but it's very obvious that this is the dad of these two boys,

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 that he hasn't seen them in a while.

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 And he obviously can only see them for an hour.

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 And they're asking him where he lives.

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 They're asking him why they don't see him anymore.

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 And it just makes him very uncomfortable and nervous when they ask him those questions.

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 And, um, as the hour's coming up, he says,

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 I have to go.

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 I can't stay with you anymore.

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 And the youngest one just, you know, wraps his legs and his arms around the guy.

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 And the young woman continues just to look very stony-faced throughout it.

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 And, um, and then they go out and they're wondering where he lives.

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 And it's a very, very heart-rending hour in a Starbucks in this city on just yesterday morning.

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 And, um, you know, in light of this story, this is often, stories like this are often in the back of our minds,

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 or back of people's minds when they think about something like,

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 think of someone like Jesus and they think of something like the Christian faith.

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 Today we're going to be talking about prayer, what Jesus teaches on prayer.

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 And for many people in our culture, what they would say is, you know,

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 how can Christians talk about prayer when this is what real life is like?

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 Like, how can we take Jesus seriously, or even really listen to him or hear him,

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 when this is what real life is like?

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 Don't you think that maybe these young boys have prayed for their dad,

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 and yet they're still in this terrible situation?

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 Who knows what prayers the dad or the mom said,

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 and still they're in this situation.

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 How can we take the words of Jesus seriously?

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 How can we take prayer seriously when such things happen in the world?

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 So let's look and see what Jesus has to say about prayer.

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 So if you have your Bibles, and if you don't have Bibles with you,

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 there's always some extra Bibles up here at the front.

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 Turn in your Bibles to the Gospel text, which I just read a couple of minutes ago.

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 Luke chapter 11.

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 Luke chapter 11.

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 And we're going to begin reading again and hearing again.

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 Luke chapter 11.

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 From verse 1 on.

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 And just as you're turning to that, we're sort of starting a new series,

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 or recommencing an old series today.

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 The series' name is Jesus for Pagans and Skeptics.

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 It's really the Gospel of Luke.

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 And if you look in the bulletin today, there's my so-called blog,

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 and it talks a little bit about why the title is as it is,

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 Jesus for Pagans and Skeptics.

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 The thing to mainly get out of it is that this Gospel was written probably the year,

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 between year 62 and 65.

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 And Luke was a pagan who became a Christian.

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 And from the introduction, you'll see that he's writing it to a fellow with a pagan name.

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 So whether the fellow is a pagan Christian, who's now become a Christian,

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 or what the status is, nobody knows.

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 But he's writing this letter.

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 And you'll notice again in a couple...

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 Anyway, so let's start reading from this, verse 1, and here's how it begins.

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 Now Jesus was praying in a certain place, and when he finished,

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 one of his disciples said to him,

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 Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples.

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 Now just sort of put your finger there for a moment.

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 And this is just like a bit of an important little thing to notice.

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 It's not a point.

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 There's so much of something to notice.

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 In all of the Gospels, in all of the four accounts of Jesus' life,

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 this is the only time recorded when somebody asked Jesus to teach them to pray.

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 Only time in the four Gospels.

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 So it's sort of a significant thing.

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 It's a significant passage to come to again and again and again and reflect on,

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 that this is the only time.

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 And it's not the only time Jesus teaches on prayer.

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 In fact, if you're a guest here this morning and you maybe don't know about it,

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 if you go in the bulletin, or if you don't have a bulletin,

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 go online later on on our webpage.

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 Every Sunday, the normal part of the year,

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 I do something called Going Deeper and Growing in Grace.

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 And in Growing in Grace, I give a couple of biblical attitudes

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 that emerge out of the text.

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 I model how to pray part of the text.

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 And in going deeper, what I do is I take out of my notes

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 a couple of things that can be pursued after the sermon.

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 So for instance, this week, it's just a very, very simple thing you can do by yourself.

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 It's better if you do it with somebody else.

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 But you can follow all of the different references to Jesus praying in Luke's Gospel.

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 And then another track is you can look at all of the different times

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 that Jesus tells us about what to pray for in Luke's Gospel.

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 And then there's sort of, you know, just an opportunity first to reflect upon that.

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 And so anyway, those are things in the bulletin that are provided,

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 or you can go online and you can find them every week.

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 But this is the only time in the Gospel that somebody asked Jesus how to pray.

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 And so what does he say?

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 Verse 2.

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 Now just sort of pause here for a second.

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 Don't worry, I'm going to get to the question that I began the sermon with.

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 When we left off doing Luke's Gospel about a year and a half ago,

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 I did a six-week series or seven-week series on Luke's version of the Lord's Prayer.

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 So today I'm actually going to really be looking at verse 5 and following.

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 And if you're interested in what I preached on about that,

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 you can go onto the webpage and you can see the old sermons.

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 But if you're hoping I'm going to preach on the Lord's Prayer,

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 I'm not going to do it this morning.

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 But for some of you, and this is sort of a helpful way to sort of understand Luke's Gospel,

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 you might be wondering why is it that what we just read here sounds very similar

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 but it's also different from the Lord's Prayer that we customarily recite.

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 And some of you might be wondering if this is just yet another reason

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 why we can't really trust the Bible because they get the stories all mixed up.

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 Often if you talk to somebody who's a Muslim,

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 they'll say that the Bible's filled with errors and that you can't trust it,

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 that only the Koran is a true book.

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 And they might look at a text like this and say that the differences show

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 that you can't trust the Bible.

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 But that's a very, very, it doesn't work that way at all.

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 I mean, just if you were actually, just me, I only preach once a week,

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 probably over the course of the year in this church,

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 I'll preach about 45 times or something like that.

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 And if you were to go back and listen to my sermons throughout the years,

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 you'll see that I talk about the same thing more than once.

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 If you were to follow me around throughout the week,

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 and maybe, you know, maybe I speak on Parliament Hill occasionally,

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 I speak in other types of venues occasionally,

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 I talk to the staff, and you would hear that I tell the same jokes.

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 Maybe some of the staff would say he tells the same joke over and over and over again,

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 he's getting old, he can't remember when he's told us something before.

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 You know, you get questions, and maybe you answer the question,

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 and you take five minutes, and you say the same thing slightly different each way.

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 And that's what it's like with Jesus.

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 That's all that shows.

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 You know, do you think, actually, that in the whole three years of his ministry,

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 that Jesus only talked about prayer once?

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 Oh, come on.

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 I mean, that's pretty unreasonable, actually.

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 So Luke just records one of the times that Jesus talked,

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 and so what it shows is you can see some real commonalities

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 between Matthew and Luke about how Jesus taught about it,

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 and we're to learn from that.

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 But you see, if you go back later on,

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 and you read the very beginning of Luke's Gospel,

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 and then you read the very beginning of Acts,

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 the book of Acts,

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 and Luke wrote the same two books somewhere between the years 62 and 65,

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 approximately 30 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus.

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 And you'll see that Luke claims to be telling us,

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 after much research and careful thought and examination,

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 in a sense, weeding out legend and exaggeration and stuff

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 that couldn't be counted on and couldn't be depended upon,

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 Luke claims to be writing a true story, a true account of Jesus.

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 And this is very important.

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 If at the end of it, you won't see like you see in movies,

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 inspired by true events or based on true events,

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 which might mean that, I don't know,

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 that there actually was a person like that who lived

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 and everything else is completely and utterly fabricated.

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 You know, who knows what it means in a movie.

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 But Luke is making the claim,

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 we might disagree with it,

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 and it'll be something we talk about in other sermons,

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 but Luke is at least claiming that what he's giving us here

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 is after careful research,

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 even though he himself was not an eyewitness of the events

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 because he became a Christian after the death and resurrection of Jesus,

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 but that he's really looked into this very carefully,

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 and this is a true story of Jesus.

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 In fact, here's the first point, if you could put it up, Andrew.

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 Truth always matters.

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 Luke claims that these are the true and trustworthy words of Jesus on prayer.

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 If you want to make notes, if that's helpful to you

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 and you can't get them because I moved through some of the points fairly quickly,

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 you can always go online on Monday,

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 and the points will be there online.

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 Truth always matters.

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 Luke claims that these are the true and trustworthy words of Jesus on prayer.

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 So some of you might say,

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 Okay, George, so I take it you're not going to talk about this,

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 you know, thing about only calling God Father,

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 and I understand that you did that like a year and a half ago,

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 and I'll look it up online and see what you said.

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 But here's the thing, George, okay?

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 What about that dad with his kids and the stony-faced woman?

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 And I'm guessing an ex-wife or an ex-lived common-law partner or girlfriend or whatever.

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 And, you know, I seem to remember some of the things that you haven't gotten to earlier on in the text.

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 And, like, what about that?

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 Don't, isn't Jesus' words, aren't they extreme?

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 George, don't you think like most religious and spiritual people that Jesus is exaggerating?

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 And we've got to either tone it down or maybe just sort of ignore it or just say whatever

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 and just sort of go on with what we want?

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 Like, don't you think, George, that's the way to hear the words?

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 Let's listen to the words again.

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 Verse 5.

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 So basically in verses 1 to 4,

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 Jesus is outlining or mapping out things to pray,

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 whole areas of our lives to pray about.

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 But now he does something different.

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 He goes in, well, here's what he says, verse 5.

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 And Jesus said to them,

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 Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him,

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 Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey,

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 and I have nothing to set before him?

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 And he will answer from within, Do not bother me.

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 The door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed.

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 I cannot get up and give you anything.

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 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend,

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 yet because of his impotence, he will rise and give him whatever he needs.

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 We'll just sort of pause there and camp here for a second just to sort of settle on these words.

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 Now, here's, there's sort of two things you get out of the sermon today.

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 By the grace of God, here's one of the first things.

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 And I'm going to try to explain the text, but you need to understand this thing first.

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 If you could put the point up, Andrew, that would be great.

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 Natural human religion focuses on me without the heart.

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 Jesus focuses on both my heart and the true and living God.

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 This is a really important thing to understand all of the Bible

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 and how we read and misread and mishear the Bible,

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 even those of us who have maybe been followers of Jesus for a very long time,

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 is that natural human religion focuses on me without the heart.

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 Jesus focuses on both my heart and the true and living God.

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 And some of you might wonder, I always try to put that,

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 if you're writing notes about this for yourself, that's why I always say me or I,

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 rather than us often, so that you're reading it for yourself.

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 And so what does this mean?

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 Well, first of all, when the Bible uses the word heart,

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 the word heart in the Bible is a very, very important word.

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 And we tend to use the word heart to refer to the place of the emotions.

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 But the Bible, I mean, the emotions are connected to the heart in the Bible.

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 But actually, the Bible usually uses the word heart to refer to the center of who you are.

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 The very, very center of who you are.

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 The central, continuing thing, even though your body ages,

00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.420
 even though your body changes, even though your circumstances change,

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 that central, continuing, deep thing that makes you who you are,

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 that's expressed in a wide variety of things,

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 in terms of your strengths, your interests, your talents, your passions,

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 your inner conversation.

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 It's the very, very center of who you are.

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 And that's how the Bible refers to heart.

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 And so the natural human religion focuses on me without the heart.

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 We might be, we don't really ultimately like to really examine deep within

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 what it is that's driving us, what it is that's propelling us,

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 what it is that's really drawing out certain behavior and certain attitudes out of us.

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 We don't like to look within.

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 And we like to always sort of think the best of who we are.

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 Or maybe we feel very bad.

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 But we don't like to really think deep within.

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 And there's this fundamental self-centeredness about how we understand reality.

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 And it's natural human religion.

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 And so often what we have problems with when we're reading the Bible

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 is that we read the Bible from the eyeglasses of our natural human religion

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 and read it from the perspective of me and my

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 without wanting to examine the heart.

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 And when Jesus doesn't speak within that contour, we can't, we find it funny.

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 So you see, here's what happens with the text.

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 Is that, you see, in natural human religion,

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 there might be a focus on the proper way to ask boldly and shamelessly.

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 That's what the word here, which is translated as impudence,

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 means it's like a type of shameless boldness in asking.

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 And so we see this text.

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 And natural human religion will maybe want to tone it down a little bit

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 because in natural human religion, you don't want it to be shameless and bold.

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 So it gets, you want to water that down a little bit.

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 And you might want to focus on duty.

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 And you might want to focus a little bit on if things aren't going the way you want

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 and the way you pray, then there's probably something which is your fault.

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 And natural human religion wants to teach the proper way to pray.

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 And often at the center of natural human religion and religious organizations

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 is a focus on my will.

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 That if my will was just stronger, if my will was more articulate,

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 if my will knew the secret, if my will knew the right steps,

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 then I would be able to accomplish.

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 And whatever it is, I might accomplish that my kids are perfect

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 or that my neighbor becomes a Christian or that the business deal goes forward.

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 But the natural focus is on me learning the right technique

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 to get the right accomplishment.

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 And so I read the text about there's an obviously there's a correct way

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 to be boldlessly shameless so that I get what I want to accomplish.

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 Well, what is that?

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 And dang it all, I'm so frustrated with George because he's not telling me.

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 Like if George was more spiritual,

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 he would tell me these religious things that I've got to do

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 so that it would work.

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 I'm going to find a better church

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 that can tell me these secret things.

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 How many times, how deeply I have to bow,

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 how often I have to do this,

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 how to speak in tongues,

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 how to sing praise courses,

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 how to pray in a small group,

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 how to give more money,

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 how to give less money,

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 how to give more time,

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 how to give less time,

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 how to do this,

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 how to do that,

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 how to be able to think through the problem,

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 how to be able to analyze what's going on within myself.

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 And in more touchy-feely religious things,

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 it's often that what we need is therapy.

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 And so what we need to do is we talk,

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 we need to do some therapy

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 to get you to work on your self-image,

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 your inner confidence,

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 get you in touch with your inner child.

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 That's sort of an 80s type of thing.

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 You know?

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 And that's what we want.

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 And so whether it's more like a therapeutic type of model,

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 or a ritual model,

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 or in spiritual, not religion,

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 it just means that we can be more cutting edge

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 and transgressive.

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 But it's still natural human religion.

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 And in moralism, it's just key to success.

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 And so many people looking at what's going on

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 with natural human religion,

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 they say, whatever.

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 You know, whatever.

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 Just give me a glass of Jack

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 and put me in front of a TV

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 and I'll watch the NFL all day on Sunday.

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 Like, whatever.

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 Don't bother with all that other stuff.

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 You know, just make the business deal

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 and let's just move on.

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 Like, whatever.

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 Forget about all that stuff.

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 And so because we have this natural human religion

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 when we read the text,

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 we're very frustrated with the text.

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 But the story does encourage

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 a bold, shameless asking.

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 But what is it that Jesus asks us to think about?

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 Not the bold, shameless asking,

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 but the fact that

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 it's going to come out again later on.

00:21:23.820 --> 00:21:24.720
 Okay, Sinclair,

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 think about yourself for a second.

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 You know how you get limited by your resources.

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 You know how self-centered you can be.

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 And, you know,

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 you know how afraid you can be

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 if things aren't going the right way.

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 And you know what, George?

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 You can be generous occasionally.

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 Just think how generous God is.

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 Just think how unbelievably generous God is.

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 Like the texts saying

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 that as we think about

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 the bigness and generosity of God,

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 bold, shameless praying follows.

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 In fact, if you could put up the next point,

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 here's what we could pray.

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 Father, grow in me a humble, trusting knowledge

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 of your greatness and your glory

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 and your generosity.

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 In Jesus' name, amen.

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 Father,

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 stop, help me to stop

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 spending all my time

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 thinking about how I can,

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 you know, if I just listen to more Bach

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 or more jazz

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 or more praise music

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 so I can get really pumped.

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 If I could just learn

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 the proper therapeutic technique,

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 if I could just learn

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 the proper amount of prayer meetings to go to,

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 if I could just learn

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 the proper way to genuflect,

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 if I could just learn

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 how to sing the old rugged cross

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 all by myself as I walk along,

00:22:54.379 --> 00:22:55.539
 if I could just learn to pray

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 every hour for five seconds,

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 I'd set my watch and always do it,

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 if I could just learn to pray.

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 Jesus is saying,

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 shut up.

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 Natural human religion focuses on me,

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 but not my heart.

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 I'm inviting you to talk to God

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 and say, God,

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 grow in me

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 a humble, trusting knowledge

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 of your greatness

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 and your glory

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 and your generosity.

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 In Jesus' name, amen.

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 Some of you might say,

00:23:37.019 --> 00:23:37.659
 George, okay,

00:23:37.699 --> 00:23:38.939
 I can sort of see that,

00:23:38.940 --> 00:23:41.600
 but, you know,

00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:43.160
 okay,

00:23:43.200 --> 00:23:44.519
 I'm a little bit confused, George.

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 Are you just saying

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 that all we have to do

00:23:45.980 --> 00:23:47.320
 is just sit around in our house

00:23:47.320 --> 00:23:48.980
 and think great thoughts about God?

00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:50.880
 I don't know how many of you

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 read John Sanford novels.

00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:54.200
 I like them.

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 By the way,

00:23:54.820 --> 00:23:55.420
 just because I like them

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 doesn't mean that they're,

00:23:56.279 --> 00:23:56.539
 I mean,

00:23:56.620 --> 00:23:58.100
 they're very non-Christian.

00:23:58.259 --> 00:23:58.380
 Okay,

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 I'm not saying,

00:24:00.380 --> 00:24:00.600
 okay,

00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:01.140
 this isn't like,

00:24:01.220 --> 00:24:02.320
 he's not C.S. Lewis

00:24:02.320 --> 00:24:03.600
 or J.R. Tolkien,

00:24:03.980 --> 00:24:04.939
 but one of the characters

00:24:04.939 --> 00:24:06.259
 in about five of his novels

00:24:06.259 --> 00:24:07.059
 is a guy by the name

00:24:07.059 --> 00:24:07.919
 of Virgil Flowers

00:24:07.919 --> 00:24:10.359
 who grew up

00:24:10.359 --> 00:24:10.819
 in a very,

00:24:10.939 --> 00:24:11.899
 very devout religious,

00:24:12.059 --> 00:24:13.419
 pietistic Lutheran home,

00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:14.759
 but he himself

00:24:14.759 --> 00:24:15.579
 lives a completely

00:24:15.579 --> 00:24:17.059
 and utterly irreligious life

00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:17.959
 except he has one

00:24:17.959 --> 00:24:19.099
 very, very interesting

00:24:19.099 --> 00:24:19.799
 characteristic.

00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:20.939
 What he likes to do

00:24:20.939 --> 00:24:21.299
 at night

00:24:21.299 --> 00:24:22.039
 is when he glides

00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:22.699
 down to bed,

00:24:23.299 --> 00:24:24.000
 he likes to think

00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:24.619
 about God.

00:24:25.839 --> 00:24:26.179
 That's all he does.

00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:27.000
 He thinks about God,

00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:28.039
 helps him fall asleep,

00:24:28.659 --> 00:24:29.519
 and he sort of finds

00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:29.980
 it interesting

00:24:29.980 --> 00:24:30.579
 to think about God.

00:24:30.639 --> 00:24:31.439
 It's a very curious

00:24:31.439 --> 00:24:32.039
 characteristic

00:24:32.039 --> 00:24:33.279
 in Virgil Flowers.

00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:34.099
 So George,

00:24:34.139 --> 00:24:34.740
 are you telling me

00:24:34.740 --> 00:24:35.199
 that, okay,

00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:36.879
 all you want us to do

00:24:36.879 --> 00:24:37.740
 is think great things

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:38.179
 about God,

00:24:38.240 --> 00:24:38.639
 but George,

00:24:38.719 --> 00:24:40.099
 it did talk about

00:24:40.099 --> 00:24:40.859
 shameless asking

00:24:40.859 --> 00:24:42.599
 and isn't the next bit

00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:44.119
 ask, seek, and knock?

00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:44.799
 Like, isn't that

00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:45.599
 as if we should be

00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:46.500
 doing something?

00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:47.500
 Like, I'm a little bit

00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:48.059
 confused.

00:24:49.159 --> 00:24:49.859
 Let's look

00:24:49.859 --> 00:24:51.819
 at what goes on

00:24:51.819 --> 00:24:52.519
 after we've read

00:24:52.519 --> 00:24:52.839
 verse eight.

00:24:52.899 --> 00:24:53.699
 It's verse nine, right?

00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:54.039
 So,

00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:55.579
 verse nine says,

00:24:56.480 --> 00:24:57.459
 and I tell you

00:24:57.459 --> 00:25:00.379
 and ask

00:25:00.379 --> 00:25:01.279
 and it will be

00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:01.959
 given to you.

00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:03.219
 Seek and you will find,

00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:04.000
 knock and it will be

00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:04.940
 opened to you.

00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:06.960
 For every,

00:25:07.039 --> 00:25:07.740
 and just to make sure

00:25:07.740 --> 00:25:08.480
 we get it,

00:25:09.299 --> 00:25:09.920
 it sort of said

00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:11.220
 the same way

00:25:11.220 --> 00:25:12.140
 slightly different

00:25:12.140 --> 00:25:13.380
 in the next verse.

00:25:14.059 --> 00:25:14.559
 For everyone

00:25:14.559 --> 00:25:15.759
 who asks receives

00:25:15.759 --> 00:25:16.400
 and the one

00:25:16.400 --> 00:25:17.460
 who seeks finds

00:25:17.460 --> 00:25:18.259
 and the one

00:25:18.259 --> 00:25:18.759
 who knocks

00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:19.500
 it will be opened.

00:25:20.500 --> 00:25:21.980
 And then Jesus continues.

00:25:22.120 --> 00:25:23.299
 It sort of links

00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:24.480
 in to what he just said

00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:26.360
 about the knocking

00:25:26.360 --> 00:25:26.880
 on the door

00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:27.319
 at the middle

00:25:27.319 --> 00:25:27.700
 of the night.

00:25:27.700 --> 00:25:29.160
 what father

00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:29.640
 among you

00:25:29.640 --> 00:25:30.360
 if he asks,

00:25:30.620 --> 00:25:31.160
 if his son

00:25:31.160 --> 00:25:32.120
 asks for a fish

00:25:32.120 --> 00:25:32.580
 will instead

00:25:32.580 --> 00:25:33.000
 of a fish

00:25:33.000 --> 00:25:33.779
 give him a serpent?

00:25:37.920 --> 00:25:38.740
 Or if he asks

00:25:38.740 --> 00:25:39.299
 for an egg

00:25:39.299 --> 00:25:39.880
 will give him

00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:40.500
 a scorpion?

00:25:40.900 --> 00:25:41.539
 If you then

00:25:41.539 --> 00:25:42.299
 who are evil

00:25:42.299 --> 00:25:43.180
 know how to give

00:25:43.180 --> 00:25:43.680
 good gifts

00:25:43.680 --> 00:25:44.340
 to your children

00:25:44.340 --> 00:25:45.460
 how much more

00:25:45.460 --> 00:25:46.059
 will the heavenly

00:25:46.059 --> 00:25:47.200
 father give

00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:48.019
 the Holy Spirit

00:25:48.019 --> 00:25:49.660
 to those who ask him?

00:25:49.660 --> 00:25:51.380
 So, Andrew,

00:25:51.460 --> 00:25:51.800
 if you could put

00:25:51.800 --> 00:25:52.680
 the next point up here.

00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:53.160
 Here's,

00:25:53.220 --> 00:25:54.180
 remember my earlier

00:25:54.180 --> 00:25:54.940
 thing I said,

00:25:55.120 --> 00:25:55.940
 this is the exact

00:25:55.940 --> 00:25:56.519
 same point

00:25:56.519 --> 00:25:57.759
 as point number two

00:25:57.759 --> 00:25:58.220
 by the way.

00:25:59.360 --> 00:26:00.600
 Natural human religion

00:26:00.600 --> 00:26:01.779
 focuses on me

00:26:01.779 --> 00:26:02.700
 without the heart.

00:26:03.279 --> 00:26:04.120
 Jesus focuses

00:26:04.120 --> 00:26:05.380
 on both my heart

00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:06.600
 and the true

00:26:06.600 --> 00:26:07.480
 and living God.

00:26:07.700 --> 00:26:08.279
 In other words,

00:26:08.980 --> 00:26:09.920
 as we hear

00:26:09.920 --> 00:26:10.960
 the words of Jesus

00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:12.279
 he's going to keep

00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:13.960
 challenging our heart

00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:15.279
 like what's going on

00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:16.160
 or not going on

00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:16.660
 in the center

00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:17.340
 of who we are.

00:26:17.339 --> 00:26:19.559
 and he's going

00:26:19.559 --> 00:26:20.099
 to keep talking

00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:21.439
 to us about God

00:26:21.439 --> 00:26:22.679
 and something else

00:26:22.679 --> 00:26:23.359
 which we'll get to

00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:23.879
 in a moment.

00:26:24.779 --> 00:26:26.000
 So, like at a very

00:26:26.000 --> 00:26:26.819
 simple level

00:26:26.819 --> 00:26:28.720
 just so you understand

00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:29.659
 Jesus does talk

00:26:29.659 --> 00:26:30.480
 about three types

00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:30.939
 of prayer

00:26:30.939 --> 00:26:32.299
 and ask

00:26:32.299 --> 00:26:33.339
 just means

00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:33.919
 you know literally

00:26:33.919 --> 00:26:34.699
 that like he says

00:26:34.699 --> 00:26:35.759
 ask and it will be

00:26:35.759 --> 00:26:36.279
 given to you

00:26:36.279 --> 00:26:38.119
 that we ask God

00:26:38.119 --> 00:26:39.179
 for certain things

00:26:39.179 --> 00:26:40.039
 it might be knowledge

00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:40.879
 it might be help

00:26:40.879 --> 00:26:44.299
 maybe part of the reason

00:26:44.299 --> 00:26:45.259
 that God had me

00:26:45.259 --> 00:26:45.959
 witness that

00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:47.880
 heart-rending

00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:50.019
 heart-wrenching hour

00:26:50.019 --> 00:26:50.480
 yesterday

00:26:50.480 --> 00:26:50.900
 was that

00:26:50.900 --> 00:26:52.240
 he's calling me

00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:52.840
 and a few other

00:26:52.840 --> 00:26:53.660
 Christians in the room

00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:54.620
 to pray for the man

00:26:54.620 --> 00:26:55.100
 and the kids

00:26:55.100 --> 00:26:55.539
 and the woman

00:26:55.539 --> 00:26:57.019
 maybe that's

00:26:57.019 --> 00:26:59.240
 what I'm asked

00:26:59.240 --> 00:26:59.940
 to pray for

00:26:59.940 --> 00:27:01.559
 and to pray

00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:02.559
 for persecuted Christians

00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:03.140
 and the text

00:27:03.140 --> 00:27:04.059
 does say to ask

00:27:04.059 --> 00:27:05.440
 and it says

00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:06.079
 to seek

00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:07.120
 and that means

00:27:07.120 --> 00:27:08.059
 to seek to know

00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:09.759
 to seek to have more

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.120
 to have a fanning flame

00:27:12.120 --> 00:27:12.620
 within us

00:27:12.620 --> 00:27:13.559
 of desires

00:27:13.559 --> 00:27:15.220
 that we don't be

00:27:15.220 --> 00:27:16.039
 complacent

00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:17.059
 that we don't just be

00:27:17.059 --> 00:27:18.799
 always just feeling

00:27:18.799 --> 00:27:19.279
 that we

00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:20.839
 it's all over

00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:21.679
 that we have enough

00:27:21.679 --> 00:27:22.279
 of God

00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:23.159
 that we have a

00:27:23.159 --> 00:27:24.319
 great enough relationship

00:27:24.319 --> 00:27:25.119
 with our wife

00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:25.980
 or with our kids

00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:26.859
 or with our church

00:27:26.859 --> 00:27:28.179
 or with ministry

00:27:28.179 --> 00:27:29.000
 or with our job

00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:29.919
 that we are to seek

00:27:29.919 --> 00:27:31.659
 we are to seek

00:27:31.659 --> 00:27:32.539
 that there's to be this

00:27:32.539 --> 00:27:34.139
 that God

00:27:34.139 --> 00:27:35.419
 Jesus doesn't want us

00:27:35.419 --> 00:27:36.679
 to stop hungering

00:27:36.679 --> 00:27:38.019
 but we are to seek

00:27:38.019 --> 00:27:39.839
 and the image of knocking

00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:41.740
 is an image of presence

00:27:41.740 --> 00:27:43.160
 that we are

00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:43.900
 it's an image

00:27:43.900 --> 00:27:44.500
 of knocking

00:27:44.500 --> 00:27:45.240
 on a door

00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:45.960
 to enter

00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:47.380
 into God's presence

00:27:47.380 --> 00:27:50.160
 and that's

00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:50.759
 at a very

00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:52.240
 very simple level

00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:53.880
 what God

00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:54.420
 is telling

00:27:54.420 --> 00:27:55.440
 Jesus is telling us

00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:55.839
 to do

00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:58.839
 but here's

00:27:58.839 --> 00:27:59.920
 sort of a development

00:27:59.920 --> 00:28:00.660
 of this point

00:28:00.660 --> 00:28:01.180
 if you could put

00:28:01.180 --> 00:28:01.980
 the next point up

00:28:01.980 --> 00:28:02.359
 Andrew

00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:03.160
 it's another

00:28:03.160 --> 00:28:03.759
 I could have said

00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:04.779
 natural human religion

00:28:04.779 --> 00:28:05.420
 a second time

00:28:05.420 --> 00:28:06.319
 but I just wanted

00:28:06.319 --> 00:28:07.220
 to mix it up a bit

00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:09.559
 my natural tendency

00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:10.359
 is to link

00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:11.679
 proper prayer

00:28:11.679 --> 00:28:13.519
 with proper sacrifice

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:14.919
 so that God

00:28:14.919 --> 00:28:15.959
 is in my debt

00:28:15.959 --> 00:28:20.139
 my natural tendency

00:28:20.139 --> 00:28:21.059
 is to link

00:28:21.059 --> 00:28:22.399
 proper prayer

00:28:22.399 --> 00:28:24.679
 with proper sacrifice

00:28:24.679 --> 00:28:25.899
 so that God

00:28:25.899 --> 00:28:26.599
 is in my debt

00:28:26.599 --> 00:28:29.379
 many people

00:28:29.379 --> 00:28:30.459
 after we left this

00:28:30.459 --> 00:28:31.659
 after we walked away

00:28:31.659 --> 00:28:32.339
 from our building

00:28:32.339 --> 00:28:33.439
 three and a half years ago

00:28:33.439 --> 00:28:34.879
 we believed

00:28:34.879 --> 00:28:36.279
 many people believed

00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:36.959
 that God was going

00:28:36.959 --> 00:28:37.779
 to give us a building

00:28:37.779 --> 00:28:38.779
 within two years

00:28:38.779 --> 00:28:41.500
 our sacrifice

00:28:41.500 --> 00:28:42.200
 put God

00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:42.859
 in our debt

00:28:42.859 --> 00:28:47.200
 all godly people

00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:48.079
 all read the Bible

00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:50.940
 natural human religion

00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:53.599
 somehow

00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:54.619
 our sacrifice

00:28:54.619 --> 00:28:56.420
 with our prayers

00:28:56.420 --> 00:28:57.220
 puts God

00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:58.019
 in our debt

00:28:58.019 --> 00:28:59.139
 yes

00:28:59.139 --> 00:29:01.660
 he owes us

00:29:01.660 --> 00:29:02.899
 we got him

00:29:02.899 --> 00:29:05.319
 it doesn't come through

00:29:05.319 --> 00:29:07.180
 wasn't the proper prayer

00:29:07.180 --> 00:29:08.339
 and the proper sacrifice

00:29:08.339 --> 00:29:10.099
 if you knew

00:29:10.099 --> 00:29:11.000
 the proper prayer

00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:11.419
 George

00:29:11.419 --> 00:29:12.220
 it would have happened

00:29:12.220 --> 00:29:14.079
 if the church

00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:15.139
 knew the proper prayer

00:29:15.139 --> 00:29:15.819
 it would have happened

00:29:15.819 --> 00:29:18.039
 if we did morning prayer

00:29:18.039 --> 00:29:18.740
 more often

00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:20.079
 if we did evening prayer

00:29:20.079 --> 00:29:21.579
 if we spoke in tongues

00:29:21.579 --> 00:29:23.519
 if we sang more praise choruses

00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:25.439
 we deserve it

00:29:25.439 --> 00:29:28.359
 we didn't do the proper prayer

00:29:28.359 --> 00:29:30.919
 we made the proper sacrifice

00:29:30.919 --> 00:29:32.859
 we didn't do the proper prayer

00:29:32.859 --> 00:29:34.139
 dang it

00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:37.160
 I'm going to go somewhere else

00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:38.640
 where they have better proper prayers

00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:39.720
 and better sacrifices

00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:41.040
 they know the proper prayers

00:29:41.040 --> 00:29:42.900
 they know the proper sacrifices

00:29:42.900 --> 00:29:45.100
 they know that you got to go to

00:29:45.100 --> 00:29:47.160
 Habakkuk chapter 3 verse 4

00:29:47.160 --> 00:29:49.300
 to interpret all of the proper steps

00:29:49.300 --> 00:29:50.080
 you got to take

00:29:50.080 --> 00:29:51.660
 they wear funny clothes

00:29:51.660 --> 00:29:53.020
 they don't wear funny clothes

00:29:53.019 --> 00:29:58.900
 you see

00:29:58.900 --> 00:30:03.119
 I read the Bible

00:30:03.119 --> 00:30:04.579
 and I'm disappointed

00:30:04.579 --> 00:30:06.599
 in what Jesus says

00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:09.740
 because I want him

00:30:09.740 --> 00:30:11.319
 to outline to me

00:30:11.319 --> 00:30:13.119
 the proper prayer

00:30:13.119 --> 00:30:14.720
 and the proper sacrifice

00:30:14.720 --> 00:30:16.220
 how much money

00:30:16.220 --> 00:30:17.240
 do I have to give

00:30:17.240 --> 00:30:18.819
 and then

00:30:18.819 --> 00:30:19.539
 on one level

00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:20.039
 we want that

00:30:20.039 --> 00:30:20.579
 but on the other hand

00:30:20.579 --> 00:30:21.460
 we sort of have this sense

00:30:21.460 --> 00:30:22.819
 of obligation before God

00:30:22.819 --> 00:30:23.620
 because

00:30:23.620 --> 00:30:24.120
 you know

00:30:24.120 --> 00:30:25.100
 something doesn't happen

00:30:25.100 --> 00:30:26.180
 we don't get that promotion

00:30:26.180 --> 00:30:27.200
 we don't get the girl

00:30:27.200 --> 00:30:28.460
 we don't get the type of kids

00:30:28.460 --> 00:30:29.299
 that we think we deserve

00:30:29.299 --> 00:30:29.960
 we don't get the

00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:30.440
 you know

00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:31.279
 we don't get the marriage

00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:32.039
 we think we deserve

00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:33.039
 we don't get the recognition

00:30:33.039 --> 00:30:33.960
 we think we deserve

00:30:33.960 --> 00:30:35.000
 and inwardly

00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:36.340
 we are very very depressed

00:30:36.340 --> 00:30:37.200
 because we think

00:30:37.200 --> 00:30:37.920
 it's our work

00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:38.840
 and our sacrifice

00:30:38.840 --> 00:30:40.160
 and God

00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:41.420
 why didn't you give that to me

00:30:41.420 --> 00:30:42.259
 I mean after all

00:30:42.259 --> 00:30:43.279
 I go to this church

00:30:43.279 --> 00:30:44.279
 I've made this sacrifice

00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:44.920
 you know

00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:45.220
 God

00:30:45.220 --> 00:30:46.500
 I'm a pastor

00:30:46.500 --> 00:30:48.279
 why don't you do this thing for me

00:30:48.279 --> 00:30:49.240
 because I'm a pastor

00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:50.940
 look at all the time I spent

00:30:50.940 --> 00:30:51.860
 look at all this I did

00:30:51.860 --> 00:30:52.440
 look at all the

00:30:52.440 --> 00:30:53.740
 look how much I know the Bible

00:30:53.740 --> 00:30:54.559
 look at all the things

00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:55.279
 I've sacrificed

00:30:55.279 --> 00:30:56.559
 and done and accomplished

00:30:56.559 --> 00:30:58.799
 and why aren't you showing up

00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:01.759
 doing what I want

00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:03.299
 like

00:31:03.299 --> 00:31:04.420
 don't you realize

00:31:04.420 --> 00:31:05.880
 you're in my debt God

00:31:05.880 --> 00:31:10.279
 Jesus just says the words

00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:15.180
 the Holy Spirit tries to get us

00:31:15.180 --> 00:31:16.039
 to understand

00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:17.660
 that natural human religion

00:31:17.660 --> 00:31:19.580
 focuses on me

00:31:19.579 --> 00:31:21.839
 and not my heart

00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:26.299
 and that in my natural

00:31:26.299 --> 00:31:27.299
 human religion

00:31:27.299 --> 00:31:30.720
 I want to figure out

00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:31.759
 the proper prayer

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:33.159
 with the proper sacrifice

00:31:33.159 --> 00:31:34.339
 so God is in my debt

00:31:34.339 --> 00:31:36.379
 like in Islam

00:31:36.379 --> 00:31:37.099
 you have to pray

00:31:37.099 --> 00:31:38.199
 five times a day

00:31:38.199 --> 00:31:38.980
 and you don't only have to

00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:40.039
 pray five times a day

00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:40.740
 you have to go through

00:31:40.740 --> 00:31:42.359
 it's very complicated

00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:43.539
 washings

00:31:43.539 --> 00:31:45.220
 and rituals

00:31:45.220 --> 00:31:46.559
 and other types of things

00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:47.939
 and because you have to get

00:31:47.940 --> 00:31:48.759
 the proper prayer

00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:50.559
 there's rules for what happens

00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:51.640
 if there's no water

00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:52.720
 and how you use sand

00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:53.980
 and how you don't use sand

00:31:53.980 --> 00:31:55.279
 and we can say

00:31:55.279 --> 00:31:56.400
 oh well that's just those people

00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:57.640
 but it's not just those people

00:31:57.640 --> 00:31:59.160
 it's us at the same time

00:31:59.160 --> 00:32:01.799
 like we

00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:04.019
 we look for the proper type of prayer

00:32:04.019 --> 00:32:04.580
 you know you see

00:32:04.580 --> 00:32:05.160
 if it's

00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:05.779
 if it's

00:32:05.779 --> 00:32:06.019
 see

00:32:06.019 --> 00:32:06.920
 like

00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:08.100
 Luke is writing

00:32:08.100 --> 00:32:09.220
 as a pagan to pagans

00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:10.420
 and what is it that pagans do?

00:32:10.860 --> 00:32:11.620
 things aren't going up

00:32:11.620 --> 00:32:12.140
 they figure out

00:32:12.140 --> 00:32:12.920
 okay I gotta

00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:14.720
 I gotta make this sacrifice

00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:15.640
 to this goddess

00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:18.200
 I gotta make these sacrifices

00:32:18.200 --> 00:32:19.300
 to this god

00:32:19.300 --> 00:32:22.360
 and when I've done it successfully

00:32:22.360 --> 00:32:23.519
 the proper prayer

00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:24.779
 with the proper sacrifice

00:32:24.779 --> 00:32:25.300
 then there's

00:32:25.300 --> 00:32:26.400
 those gods only

00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:29.860
 but for us

00:32:29.860 --> 00:32:30.420
 we want to know

00:32:30.420 --> 00:32:31.300
 the rituals

00:32:31.300 --> 00:32:32.360
 we want to have the knowledge

00:32:32.360 --> 00:32:33.440
 we want to have the duty

00:32:33.440 --> 00:32:34.700
 we want to have the understanding

00:32:34.700 --> 00:32:36.200
 of the proper type of will

00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:37.180
 we want to understand

00:32:37.180 --> 00:32:37.900
 the principles

00:32:37.900 --> 00:32:39.519
 maybe the romantic principles

00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:41.440
 of the right types of feelings

00:32:41.440 --> 00:32:42.059
 in our hearts

00:32:42.059 --> 00:32:42.720
 maybe it's the

00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:43.579
 the rational

00:32:43.579 --> 00:32:45.200
 the things that we have to do

00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:46.579
 or the relational types of things

00:32:46.579 --> 00:32:46.740
 and

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:48.240
 and maybe if we've been influenced

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:49.759
 by the therapeutic culture

00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:50.339
 we want to have

00:32:50.339 --> 00:32:51.859
 the proper type of therapy

00:32:51.859 --> 00:32:52.079
 to

00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.099
 to inwardly know how we can ask

00:32:54.099 --> 00:32:55.879
 or get over our problem of asking

00:32:55.879 --> 00:32:57.440
 or our problem of seeking

00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:57.819
 and

00:32:57.819 --> 00:32:59.099
 and actually religion

00:32:59.099 --> 00:33:00.359
 doesn't even really like seeking

00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:00.740
 because it

00:33:00.740 --> 00:33:01.160
 that's

00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:03.379
 that raises all sorts of problematic questions

00:33:03.379 --> 00:33:03.960
 and knocking

00:33:03.960 --> 00:33:05.579
 and actually having God's presence

00:33:05.579 --> 00:33:06.339
 and

00:33:06.339 --> 00:33:07.639
 and if you're spiritual

00:33:07.639 --> 00:33:08.139
 not religious

00:33:08.139 --> 00:33:09.500
 it's just transgressive

00:33:09.500 --> 00:33:11.220
 types of proper prayers

00:33:11.220 --> 00:33:11.420
 and

00:33:11.420 --> 00:33:11.859
 and

00:33:11.859 --> 00:33:12.480
 and you can

00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:13.160
 you know you can

00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:14.839
 you can say she rather than he

00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:16.480
 trying to offend the Bible belt

00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:17.519
 or something like that

00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:18.000
 because it's

00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:19.039
 it's transgressive

00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:20.900
 it somehow is more cutting edge

00:33:20.900 --> 00:33:22.819
 but it's still just the proper prayer

00:33:22.819 --> 00:33:24.160
 with the proper sacrifice

00:33:24.160 --> 00:33:26.000
 because it's natural human religion

00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:29.099
 and so when we read the words of Jesus

00:33:29.099 --> 00:33:32.059
 he doesn't tell me what to sacrifice

00:33:32.059 --> 00:33:34.500
 or the proper words

00:33:34.500 --> 00:33:36.720
 and if we're honest

00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:37.759
 we're disappointed

00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:40.480
 in our natural selves

00:33:40.480 --> 00:33:44.660
 so what's going on

00:33:44.660 --> 00:33:47.019
 well here's where

00:33:47.019 --> 00:33:48.460
 one of the problems

00:33:48.460 --> 00:33:50.160
 one of the things that we have to recapture

00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:50.779
 as Christians

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:52.440
 is reading

00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:54.539
 not just snippets of the Bible

00:33:54.539 --> 00:33:55.900
 but reading books of the Bible

00:33:55.900 --> 00:33:56.839
 as books of the Bible

00:33:56.839 --> 00:33:58.519
 that

00:33:58.519 --> 00:34:00.579
 Luke doesn't just sort of

00:34:00.579 --> 00:34:01.819
 plunk in these thoughts

00:34:01.819 --> 00:34:02.439
 from Jesus

00:34:02.439 --> 00:34:03.359
 just in the middle of

00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:04.519
 with no context

00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:07.579
 I mean he's been writing a story

00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:09.480
 from Luke chapter 1 verse 1

00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:11.759
 and if you go back later on

00:34:11.759 --> 00:34:12.279
 and you read

00:34:12.279 --> 00:34:13.000
 what you need to do

00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:13.519
 is you need to

00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.799
 read Luke chapter 9

00:34:15.799 --> 00:34:17.219
 because what you'll discover

00:34:17.219 --> 00:34:18.299
 in Luke chapter 9

00:34:18.299 --> 00:34:19.539
 is in Luke chapter 9

00:34:19.539 --> 00:34:20.599
 for the first time

00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:22.279
 Jesus announces

00:34:22.279 --> 00:34:23.480
 to his disciples

00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:25.619
 that he's going to die

00:34:25.619 --> 00:34:26.279
 in Jerusalem

00:34:26.279 --> 00:34:27.559
 and he's going to die

00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:29.019
 a sacrificial death

00:34:29.019 --> 00:34:30.340
 in Jerusalem

00:34:30.340 --> 00:34:32.099
 and then a few verses

00:34:32.099 --> 00:34:32.800
 after that

00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:34.179
 Jesus sets his face

00:34:34.179 --> 00:34:35.099
 towards Jerusalem

00:34:35.099 --> 00:34:36.599
 and that means

00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:38.119
 that every single thing

00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:38.739
 that you see

00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:39.860
 from chapter 9

00:34:39.860 --> 00:34:41.480
 to the middle end

00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:42.579
 of chapter 19

00:34:42.579 --> 00:34:44.179
 is Jesus

00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:45.840
 walking to Jerusalem

00:34:45.840 --> 00:34:46.699
 to die

00:34:46.699 --> 00:34:48.759
 everything

00:34:48.759 --> 00:34:50.699
 is within that context

00:34:50.699 --> 00:34:52.219
 he's walking

00:34:52.219 --> 00:34:53.219
 to Jerusalem

00:34:53.219 --> 00:34:54.119
 to die

00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:55.759
 upon the cross

00:34:55.759 --> 00:34:57.320
 and he keeps telling

00:34:57.320 --> 00:34:58.000
 his disciples

00:34:58.000 --> 00:35:00.000
 I'm going to Jerusalem

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:01.239
 to die

00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:02.920
 upon the cross

00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:04.880
 so that gives us

00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:05.500
 a little bit

00:35:05.500 --> 00:35:06.719
 of an understanding

00:35:06.719 --> 00:35:07.900
 of how to understand

00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:08.719
 Jesus' words

00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:09.619
 if you can put it up

00:35:09.619 --> 00:35:12.000
 Jesus is on his way

00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:12.679
 to Jerusalem

00:35:12.679 --> 00:35:13.280
 to die

00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:15.059
 as God's one

00:35:15.059 --> 00:35:15.920
 perfect

00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:16.840
 complete

00:35:16.840 --> 00:35:18.420
 and all sufficient

00:35:18.420 --> 00:35:19.260
 sacrifice

00:35:19.260 --> 00:35:21.340
 so prayer

00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:22.300
 is now linked

00:35:22.300 --> 00:35:23.280
 with his sacrifice

00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:24.139
 for me

00:35:24.139 --> 00:35:25.780
 not my

00:35:25.780 --> 00:35:26.920
 sacrifice

00:35:26.920 --> 00:35:27.739
 for me

00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:35.000
 that means

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:53.539
 that when I accept

00:35:53.539 --> 00:35:54.159
 and receive

00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:55.280
 what Jesus has done

00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:55.599
 for me

00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:56.219
 in the cross

00:35:56.219 --> 00:35:57.119
 which is God's

00:35:57.119 --> 00:35:57.559
 provision

00:35:57.559 --> 00:35:58.119
 for me

00:35:58.119 --> 00:35:59.500
 God's provision

00:35:59.500 --> 00:36:01.119
 for me

00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:02.219
 of something

00:36:02.219 --> 00:36:02.900
 that I could

00:36:02.900 --> 00:36:03.940
 never accomplish

00:36:03.940 --> 00:36:04.779
 by myself

00:36:04.779 --> 00:36:06.119
 if I live

00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:06.659
 a life

00:36:06.659 --> 00:36:07.900
 of unbelievable

00:36:07.900 --> 00:36:08.679
 sacrifice

00:36:08.679 --> 00:36:09.759
 I have not

00:36:09.759 --> 00:36:10.239
 added

00:36:10.239 --> 00:36:11.139
 even the

00:36:11.139 --> 00:36:12.420
 tiniest drop

00:36:12.420 --> 00:36:13.199
 to the sacrifice

00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:13.819
 of Jesus

00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:20.160
 and when I receive

00:36:20.160 --> 00:36:21.080
 that which

00:36:21.080 --> 00:36:21.960
 Jesus has done

00:36:21.960 --> 00:36:22.460
 for me

00:36:22.460 --> 00:36:23.539
 once for all

00:36:23.539 --> 00:36:24.440
 perfectly

00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:25.320
 completely

00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:26.240
 and completely

00:36:26.240 --> 00:36:26.740
 and utterly

00:36:26.740 --> 00:36:27.420
 sufficiently

00:36:27.420 --> 00:36:29.380
 I am no more

00:36:29.380 --> 00:36:29.940
 forgiven

00:36:29.940 --> 00:36:30.900
 as I walk

00:36:30.900 --> 00:36:31.640
 into heaven

00:36:31.640 --> 00:36:33.580
 brought into heaven

00:36:33.579 --> 00:36:34.139
 by God

00:36:34.139 --> 00:36:34.599
 than I am

00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:35.059
 right now

00:36:35.059 --> 00:36:35.480
 when I have

00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:35.860
 given my

00:36:35.860 --> 00:36:36.559
 life to Jesus

00:36:36.559 --> 00:36:41.880
 if my prayer

00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:43.299
 is a type

00:36:43.299 --> 00:36:44.199
 of figuring out

00:36:44.199 --> 00:36:45.639
 the sacrifice

00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:46.440
 I can do

00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:47.199
 to get God

00:36:47.199 --> 00:36:48.539
 to owe me

00:36:48.539 --> 00:36:51.599
 there's nothing

00:36:51.599 --> 00:36:52.500
 I can do

00:36:52.500 --> 00:36:53.119
 to get God

00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:53.579
 to owe me

00:36:53.579 --> 00:36:56.380
 I am one

00:36:56.380 --> 00:36:59.099
 only one

00:36:59.099 --> 00:37:04.659
 I am always

00:37:04.659 --> 00:37:05.420
 in his debt

00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:09.599
 I'm always

00:37:09.599 --> 00:37:10.179
 and only

00:37:10.179 --> 00:37:11.000
 in his debt

00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:14.840
 what a glorious

00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:15.199
 debt

00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:15.799
 not debt

00:37:15.799 --> 00:37:16.420
 in a way

00:37:16.420 --> 00:37:17.199
 that crushes us

00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:17.779
 like our debt

00:37:17.779 --> 00:37:20.000
 it's a sacrifice

00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.599
 that reconciles

00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:23.239
 me to God

00:37:23.239 --> 00:37:23.879
 fits me

00:37:23.879 --> 00:37:24.459
 for heaven

00:37:24.459 --> 00:37:25.539
 and it's all

00:37:25.539 --> 00:37:26.559
 because God

00:37:26.559 --> 00:37:27.299
 does something

00:37:27.299 --> 00:37:28.419
 I can't do

00:37:28.419 --> 00:37:29.379
 he does it

00:37:29.379 --> 00:37:29.839
 once

00:37:29.839 --> 00:37:30.579
 he does it

00:37:30.579 --> 00:37:31.159
 perfectly

00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:32.139
 he does it

00:37:32.139 --> 00:37:32.699
 completely

00:37:32.699 --> 00:37:33.739
 and he does it

00:37:33.739 --> 00:37:34.500
 in such a way

00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:34.839
 that it's

00:37:34.839 --> 00:37:35.399
 completely

00:37:35.399 --> 00:37:36.159
 and utterly

00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:36.939
 sufficient

00:37:36.939 --> 00:37:38.239
 for everything

00:37:38.239 --> 00:37:39.099
 that makes me

00:37:39.099 --> 00:37:39.399
 me

00:37:39.399 --> 00:37:40.379
 and makes you

00:37:40.379 --> 00:37:40.799
 you

00:37:40.799 --> 00:37:42.419
 that is sufficient

00:37:42.419 --> 00:37:43.819
 to be with him

00:37:43.819 --> 00:37:44.759
 reconciled with him

00:37:44.759 --> 00:37:45.179
 forever

00:37:45.179 --> 00:37:50.779
 actually in a

00:37:50.779 --> 00:37:51.479
 very very subtle

00:37:51.479 --> 00:37:51.899
 way

00:37:51.899 --> 00:37:53.039
 at the original

00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:53.440
 language

00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:53.980
 this is even

00:37:53.980 --> 00:37:54.739
 taught in the text

00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:56.000
 in the original

00:37:56.000 --> 00:37:56.559
 language

00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:57.360
 in the earlier

00:37:57.360 --> 00:37:57.880
 story

00:37:57.880 --> 00:37:58.779
 the guy says

00:37:58.779 --> 00:37:59.639
 come on neighbor

00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:00.779
 loan me bread

00:38:00.779 --> 00:38:01.820
 there's two words

00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:02.440
 in the original

00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:03.420
 language for loan

00:38:03.420 --> 00:38:04.840
 and one of the

00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:05.579
 words for loan

00:38:05.579 --> 00:38:06.360
 says loan

00:38:06.360 --> 00:38:07.219
 and it implies

00:38:07.219 --> 00:38:07.699
 that there's

00:38:07.699 --> 00:38:08.259
 interest

00:38:08.259 --> 00:38:09.440
 charge

00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:10.639
 so that he's

00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:10.820
 saying

00:38:10.820 --> 00:38:11.679
 give me these

00:38:11.679 --> 00:38:12.119
 three loaves

00:38:12.119 --> 00:38:12.360
 of bread

00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:12.820
 and I understand

00:38:12.820 --> 00:38:13.440
 that the interest

00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:14.519
 rate is half

00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:15.340
 a loaf a day

00:38:15.340 --> 00:38:16.059
 and if I don't

00:38:16.059 --> 00:38:16.599
 pay you back

00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:17.460
 by two days

00:38:17.460 --> 00:38:18.259
 in two days

00:38:18.259 --> 00:38:18.539
 I owe you

00:38:18.539 --> 00:38:19.219
 four loaves

00:38:19.219 --> 00:38:20.599
 in four days

00:38:20.599 --> 00:38:21.319
 I owe you

00:38:21.319 --> 00:38:21.980
 five loaves

00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:22.980
 but there's

00:38:22.980 --> 00:38:23.480
 another word

00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:23.880
 for loan

00:38:23.880 --> 00:38:24.239
 that says

00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:24.679
 there's no

00:38:24.679 --> 00:38:25.219
 interest

00:38:25.219 --> 00:38:26.219
 and that's

00:38:26.219 --> 00:38:26.519
 the word

00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:27.099
 that's used

00:38:27.099 --> 00:38:28.639
 in Luke 11

00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.420
 nothing added

00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:32.779
 nothing added

00:38:32.779 --> 00:38:34.739
 by the person

00:38:34.739 --> 00:38:35.139
 asking

00:38:35.139 --> 00:38:38.500
 see here

00:38:38.500 --> 00:38:39.519
 here if we could

00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:40.039
 put up the next

00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:40.319
 thing

00:38:40.319 --> 00:38:41.039
 as we sort of

00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:41.619
 wrap this up

00:38:41.619 --> 00:38:42.219
 to the close

00:38:42.219 --> 00:38:44.119
 as I am

00:38:44.119 --> 00:38:44.899
 gripped by the

00:38:44.899 --> 00:38:45.500
 greatness and

00:38:45.500 --> 00:38:46.139
 the glory of

00:38:46.139 --> 00:38:46.759
 the gospel

00:38:46.759 --> 00:38:48.359
 prayer as

00:38:48.359 --> 00:38:48.899
 ask

00:38:48.899 --> 00:38:49.539
 seek

00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:50.279
 knock

00:38:50.279 --> 00:38:51.399
 grows

00:38:51.399 --> 00:38:54.039
 a smug

00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:54.519
 Christian

00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:55.339
 is a deluded

00:38:55.339 --> 00:38:55.939
 Christian

00:38:55.939 --> 00:38:58.679
 Christian who

00:38:58.679 --> 00:38:59.219
 thinks that

00:38:59.219 --> 00:38:59.819
 they don't need

00:38:59.819 --> 00:39:00.639
 more of God

00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:03.099
 or to know

00:39:03.099 --> 00:39:03.559
 more

00:39:03.559 --> 00:39:05.199
 and have

00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:06.199
 their desires

00:39:06.199 --> 00:39:06.839
 for God

00:39:06.839 --> 00:39:07.319
 grow

00:39:07.319 --> 00:39:07.699
 and his

00:39:07.699 --> 00:39:08.000
 greatness

00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:08.339
 and his

00:39:08.339 --> 00:39:09.119
 glory grow

00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:09.639
 and have

00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:10.480
 greater surrender

00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:11.960
 to desire

00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:12.820
 more

00:39:12.820 --> 00:39:14.219
 a Christian

00:39:14.219 --> 00:39:14.659
 that doesn't

00:39:14.659 --> 00:39:15.260
 desire those

00:39:15.260 --> 00:39:15.800
 things is a

00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:16.199
 deluded

00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:16.780
 Christian

00:39:16.780 --> 00:39:18.659
 one who

00:39:18.659 --> 00:39:19.119
 doesn't want

00:39:19.119 --> 00:39:19.579
 to knock

00:39:19.579 --> 00:39:20.219
 in the presence

00:39:20.219 --> 00:39:21.000
 of God's

00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:21.639
 door

00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:23.619
 and know

00:39:23.619 --> 00:39:24.179
 God's

00:39:24.179 --> 00:39:24.639
 presence

00:39:24.639 --> 00:39:25.139
 more and

00:39:25.139 --> 00:39:25.360
 more

00:39:25.360 --> 00:39:26.980
 is a

00:39:26.980 --> 00:39:27.420
 deluded

00:39:27.420 --> 00:39:27.980
 Christian

00:39:27.980 --> 00:39:30.159
 I'm a

00:39:30.159 --> 00:39:30.480
 deluded

00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:30.960
 Christian

00:39:30.960 --> 00:39:32.119
 when I

00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:32.780
 let those

00:39:32.780 --> 00:39:33.260
 things happen

00:39:33.260 --> 00:39:34.320
 but as

00:39:34.320 --> 00:39:34.539
 I'm

00:39:34.539 --> 00:39:35.059
 gripped by

00:39:35.059 --> 00:39:35.519
 the greatness

00:39:35.519 --> 00:39:35.900
 and the

00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:36.579
 glory of

00:39:36.579 --> 00:39:37.099
 the gospel

00:39:37.099 --> 00:39:37.679
 the gospel

00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:38.079
 is what

00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:38.500
 Jesus

00:39:38.500 --> 00:39:39.360
 accomplishes

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:39.760
 for me

00:39:39.760 --> 00:39:40.340
 in Jerusalem

00:39:40.340 --> 00:39:40.940
 upon the

00:39:40.940 --> 00:39:41.280
 cross

00:39:41.280 --> 00:39:41.539
 and is

00:39:41.539 --> 00:39:42.039
 once for

00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:42.180
 all

00:39:42.180 --> 00:39:42.539
 perfect

00:39:42.539 --> 00:39:43.000
 complete

00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:43.720
 sacrifice

00:39:43.720 --> 00:39:44.620
 as I'm

00:39:44.620 --> 00:39:44.900
 gripped

00:39:44.900 --> 00:39:45.260
 by the

00:39:45.260 --> 00:39:45.559
 greatness

00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:45.920
 and the

00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:46.180
 glory

00:39:46.180 --> 00:39:46.460
 of the

00:39:46.460 --> 00:39:46.920
 gospel

00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:47.640
 prayer

00:39:47.640 --> 00:39:47.920
 as

00:39:47.920 --> 00:39:48.460
 ask

00:39:48.460 --> 00:39:49.000
 seek

00:39:49.000 --> 00:39:49.460
 knock

00:39:49.460 --> 00:39:50.000
 growth

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:53.120
 you see

00:39:53.120 --> 00:39:53.680
 it's not

00:39:53.680 --> 00:39:54.039
 that we

00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:54.400
 need the

00:39:54.400 --> 00:39:54.760
 gospel

00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:55.220
 to become

00:39:55.220 --> 00:39:55.820
 a Christian

00:39:55.820 --> 00:39:57.079
 and then

00:39:57.079 --> 00:39:57.660
 after that

00:39:57.660 --> 00:39:58.140
 we don't

00:39:58.140 --> 00:39:58.519
 need the

00:39:58.519 --> 00:39:58.840
 gospel

00:39:58.840 --> 00:39:59.260
 we just

00:39:59.260 --> 00:39:59.480
 need

00:39:59.480 --> 00:40:00.200
 willpower

00:40:00.200 --> 00:40:01.420
 proper

00:40:01.420 --> 00:40:02.280
 techniques

00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:03.760
 proper

00:40:03.760 --> 00:40:04.380
 rituals

00:40:04.380 --> 00:40:08.160
 and oh

00:40:08.160 --> 00:40:08.240
 yeah

00:40:08.240 --> 00:40:08.420
 and then

00:40:08.420 --> 00:40:08.720
 we'll talk

00:40:08.720 --> 00:40:09.100
 about somebody

00:40:09.100 --> 00:40:09.280
 else

00:40:09.280 --> 00:40:09.600
 we need

00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:09.980
 the gospel

00:40:09.980 --> 00:40:10.199
 to get

00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:10.400
 them in

00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:10.679
 the door

00:40:10.679 --> 00:40:11.019
 but then

00:40:11.019 --> 00:40:11.440
 all they

00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:11.619
 need

00:40:11.619 --> 00:40:11.839
 they don't

00:40:11.839 --> 00:40:12.099
 need the

00:40:12.099 --> 00:40:12.460
 gospel

00:40:12.460 --> 00:40:13.079
 we always

00:40:13.079 --> 00:40:13.440
 need the

00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:13.739
 gospel

00:40:13.739 --> 00:40:16.759
 we always

00:40:16.759 --> 00:40:17.420
 need to

00:40:17.420 --> 00:40:17.900
 have a

00:40:17.900 --> 00:40:18.500
 greater

00:40:18.500 --> 00:40:18.920
 greater

00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:19.519
 sense

00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:20.039
 and depth

00:40:20.039 --> 00:40:21.039
 of what

00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:21.519
 it is that

00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:22.279
 Jesus accomplished

00:40:22.279 --> 00:40:22.920
 for us on the

00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:23.219
 cross

00:40:23.219 --> 00:40:23.839
 and as

00:40:23.839 --> 00:40:25.059
 as we're

00:40:25.059 --> 00:40:25.699
 gripped by

00:40:25.699 --> 00:40:26.179
 the greatness

00:40:26.179 --> 00:40:26.759
 and the glory

00:40:26.759 --> 00:40:27.400
 of the gospel

00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:27.880
 as we

00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:28.319
 as we

00:40:28.319 --> 00:40:28.960
 get this

00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:29.440
 sense

00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:30.119
 all of a

00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:30.440
 sudden

00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:31.579
 hopefully by

00:40:31.579 --> 00:40:31.980
 God's

00:40:31.980 --> 00:40:32.639
 Holy Spirit

00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:33.639
 we came in

00:40:33.639 --> 00:40:34.119
 here not

00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:34.839
 realizing our

00:40:34.839 --> 00:40:35.559
 natural human

00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:36.019
 tendencies

00:40:36.019 --> 00:40:36.619
 and natural

00:40:36.619 --> 00:40:37.299
 human religion

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 and now

00:40:37.720 --> 00:40:38.380
 maybe the

00:40:38.380 --> 00:40:39.000
 gospel is

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 coming to

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 our heart

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 the center

00:40:41.320 --> 00:40:41.860
 of who we

00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:42.380
 are and as

00:40:42.380 --> 00:40:42.980
 we start to

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 understand the

00:40:43.700 --> 00:40:44.340
 center of who

00:40:44.340 --> 00:40:44.960
 we are as the

00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:46.280
 gospel is applied

00:40:46.280 --> 00:40:47.039
 to our heart

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 and at the same

00:40:47.960 --> 00:40:48.660
 time it's applied

00:40:48.660 --> 00:40:49.340
 to our heart

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 not to condemn

00:40:50.600 --> 00:40:51.640
 us not to break

00:40:51.640 --> 00:40:52.740
 us down not to

00:40:52.740 --> 00:40:53.660
 make us depressed

00:40:53.660 --> 00:40:54.700
 not to make us

00:40:54.700 --> 00:40:56.320
 despair not to

00:40:56.320 --> 00:40:57.200
 make people think

00:40:57.200 --> 00:40:58.080
 that George is a

00:40:58.080 --> 00:40:58.820
 superstar or

00:40:58.820 --> 00:40:59.880
 somebody else is a

00:40:59.880 --> 00:41:00.820
 superstar such a

00:41:00.820 --> 00:41:02.519
 pastor layperson is a

00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:03.400
 superstar if we go

00:41:03.400 --> 00:41:04.320
 on but as the

00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:05.260
 gospel is applied

00:41:05.260 --> 00:41:06.039
 to our heart

00:41:06.039 --> 00:41:06.800
 in the context

00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:07.579
 of the greatness

00:41:07.579 --> 00:41:08.420
 and the glory

00:41:08.420 --> 00:41:09.180
 of what Jesus

00:41:09.180 --> 00:41:10.200
 does for us

00:41:10.200 --> 00:41:11.000
 in his person

00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:11.559
 and his work

00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:13.480
 prayers ask

00:41:13.480 --> 00:41:14.079
 seek not

00:41:14.079 --> 00:41:14.480
 growth

00:41:14.480 --> 00:41:21.940
 it grows

00:41:21.940 --> 00:41:27.440
 you see

00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:29.820
 we

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 and by the way

00:41:31.180 --> 00:41:32.079
 this is sort of

00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:32.500
 showed in a

00:41:32.500 --> 00:41:32.840
 very very

00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:33.539
 interesting way in

00:41:33.539 --> 00:41:34.140
 the text again

00:41:34.140 --> 00:41:34.660
 remember how it

00:41:34.660 --> 00:41:35.860
 says you know

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 after all of this

00:41:36.579 --> 00:41:37.220
 thing about the

00:41:37.220 --> 00:41:38.340
 stones and the

00:41:38.340 --> 00:41:39.100
 bread in the middle

00:41:39.100 --> 00:41:39.740
 of the night and

00:41:39.740 --> 00:41:41.079
 says if you how

00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:41.620
 much more will the

00:41:41.620 --> 00:41:42.340
 heavenly father give

00:41:42.340 --> 00:41:43.280
 the Holy Spirit to

00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:44.120
 those who ask and

00:41:44.120 --> 00:41:44.960
 the Holy Spirit who

00:41:44.960 --> 00:41:46.480
 guides us in prayer

00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:48.519
 who causes us to

00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:49.559
 seek who hope

00:41:49.559 --> 00:41:50.500
 who's God's very

00:41:50.500 --> 00:41:51.579
 presence who's God's

00:41:51.579 --> 00:41:52.220
 very direction

00:41:52.220 --> 00:41:54.019
 who's if God has

00:41:54.019 --> 00:41:55.180
 not withheld his

00:41:55.180 --> 00:41:57.240
 son why can't I

00:41:57.240 --> 00:41:59.920
 ask if God has

00:41:59.920 --> 00:42:00.820
 not withheld his

00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:01.900
 very presence in the

00:42:01.900 --> 00:42:02.600
 person of the Holy

00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:03.659
 Spirit given to me

00:42:03.659 --> 00:42:04.860
 freely not weighing my

00:42:04.860 --> 00:42:05.719
 marriage but pardoning

00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:07.480
 my offenses why can I

00:42:07.480 --> 00:42:08.880
 not speak and ask

00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:11.679
 pray for that man for

00:42:11.679 --> 00:42:12.779
 his kids and for his

00:42:12.779 --> 00:42:13.819
 wife and pray for my

00:42:13.819 --> 00:42:14.880
 own wife and for my

00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:16.179
 family and my church

00:42:16.179 --> 00:42:19.980
 and pray for fruit

00:42:19.980 --> 00:42:24.500
 thanks for the next thing

00:42:24.500 --> 00:42:24.920
 I'll have to do with you

00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:25.320
 and I'll have to do it

00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:26.260
 I'll have to do it for my

00:42:26.260 --> 00:42:27.119
 Lord and I'll have to do

00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:27.159
 you and I'll have to do it

00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:28.260
 and I'll have to do it for

00:42:28.260 --> 00:42:29.219
 you and I'll have to do it

00:42:29.219 --> 00:42:30.079
 prayer not a prayer not a

00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:31.319
 perfect prayer not you do this

00:42:31.319 --> 00:42:32.179
 with the right sacrifice

00:42:32.179 --> 00:42:33.159
 things are going to work

00:42:33.159 --> 00:42:34.419
 sorry folks

00:42:34.419 --> 00:42:36.159
 I'll have to say Lord

00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:37.500
 deliver me from natural

00:42:37.500 --> 00:42:38.619
 human religion

00:42:38.619 --> 00:42:41.199
 have mercy upon me

00:42:41.199 --> 00:42:43.219
 but I'm going to ask you in a

00:42:43.219 --> 00:42:45.039
 moment to stand in a moment

00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:46.599
 to stand and pray with me if

00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:47.599
 the Holy Spirit is pushing

00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:48.559
 putting it upon your heart

00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:49.859
 Father please pour out your

00:42:49.859 --> 00:42:51.119
 Holy Spirit upon me and

00:42:51.119 --> 00:42:52.439
 grant me a humble trusting

00:42:52.439 --> 00:42:54.099
 knowledge of the greatness and

00:42:54.099 --> 00:42:56.000
 the glory and the immensity of

00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:57.199
 your son's death upon the

00:42:57.199 --> 00:42:59.380
 cross for me and so draw me

00:42:59.380 --> 00:43:01.639
 into prayer in Jesus name

00:43:01.639 --> 00:43:03.400
 and for some of you you

00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:04.340
 know maybe this is the

00:43:04.340 --> 00:43:05.219
 moment that you give your

00:43:05.219 --> 00:43:07.000
 lives to Jesus because you

00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:07.860
 see what this wonderful

00:43:07.860 --> 00:43:09.800
 thing is maybe you think

00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:11.159
 you know I thought I you

00:43:11.159 --> 00:43:12.320
 know I spent time I heard

00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:13.679
 about Islam I heard about

00:43:13.679 --> 00:43:14.519
 Buddhism I heard about

00:43:14.519 --> 00:43:15.539
 spiritual not religious I

00:43:15.539 --> 00:43:16.619
 heard about Christianity I

00:43:16.619 --> 00:43:17.920
 heard all it was is rules

00:43:17.920 --> 00:43:20.219
 and and I just couldn't

00:43:20.219 --> 00:43:21.260
 follow those rules I

00:43:21.260 --> 00:43:22.380
 couldn't follow those I'm

00:43:22.380 --> 00:43:23.420
 hopeless at following

00:43:23.420 --> 00:43:25.420
 instructions I'm hopeless at

00:43:25.420 --> 00:43:25.920
 making the right

00:43:25.920 --> 00:43:27.680
 and so and so you turn your

00:43:27.680 --> 00:43:29.119
 back on God but the gospel

00:43:29.119 --> 00:43:30.300
 offers us something

00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:31.940
 different than any form of

00:43:31.940 --> 00:43:33.240
 natural human religion

00:43:33.240 --> 00:43:39.039
 for maybe some of us we are

00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:40.480
 weighed down with depression

00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:41.880
 and despair because we

00:43:41.880 --> 00:43:43.139
 believe that we have put God

00:43:43.139 --> 00:43:44.260
 in our debt and we have not

00:43:44.260 --> 00:43:45.980
 realized that God is never in

00:43:45.980 --> 00:43:46.320
 our debt

00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:51.099
 and so this prayer is to grow a

00:43:51.099 --> 00:43:52.639
 humble trusting knowledge is

00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:55.000
 also maybe for some of us the

00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:56.199
 time that we truly give

00:43:56.199 --> 00:43:59.380
 ourselves to Jesus and begin

00:43:59.380 --> 00:44:01.460
 the Jesus walk with Jesus

00:44:01.460 --> 00:44:03.380
 entering the Jesus way walking

00:44:03.380 --> 00:44:05.079
 with Jesus and others always

00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:06.440
 mindful of this once for all

00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:08.699
 perfect sacrifice for you please

00:44:08.699 --> 00:44:09.099
 stand

00:44:09.099 --> 00:44:39.079
 and as the Holy Spirit leads you please join me in with me because I need this prayer I need this I need something like this every day let's pray father please pour out your Holy Spirit upon me and grant me a humble trusting knowledge of the greatness and the glory of the

00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:48.079
 and the immensity of your son's death upon the cross for me and so draw me into prayer in Jesus's name amen

00:44:48.079 --> 00:44:55.079
 taking a posture of prayer we're now going to go into a time a brief time of intercession

00:44:55.079 --> 00:44:56.940
Boom

00:44:57.179 --> 00:45:01.019
 operation

00:45:04.019 --> 00:45:17.099
 and this is a ready to change m