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 Father, you know us so perfectly, and still you love us.

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 You know, Father, how we can hear a passage of Scripture that perfectly describes us,

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 but we don't think it describes us at all. We think it describes other people.

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 And Father, you know how much that can be a characteristic of each one of us.

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 So we ask, Father, that the Holy Spirit would move with might and power and deep conviction,

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 deep in the very center of who we are, at the level of our conscience,

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 at the level of our mind, and the level of our affections, and our memories, and our dreams.

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 And that, Father, you would bring your Word home to us in a very deep way.

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 And Father, as your Word is brought home to us in a deep way,

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 Father, grip us with the Gospel at the same time,

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 that we might understand how marvelous it is, what Jesus is, who he is, and what he accomplished for us.

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

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 Amen. Please be seated.

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 It's really good to see so many of you here, relatively speaking, in terms of such terrible, terrible weather.

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 I don't know about you, but some of you know that I'm sort of a regular runner.

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 If I was close to the canal today, I would go for a run today,

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 because in some ways, in a perverse sense, it gives you this great sense of accomplishment

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 to actually have gone out and done something like a run on a day like today.

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 Anyway, to the sermon and topic at hand.

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 I have always been good at math.

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 And it was always all the way through from grade one right up until I finished high school.

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 And then when I was in university for my first degree, I took a lot of courses in statistics,

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 and I was always just good at math.

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 My younger brother, who was about five grades below me, he was terrible at math.

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 And occasionally, when my brother started school,

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 my parents would try to get me to help my brother with his math homework.

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 And I was, I mean, I was probably a terrible big brother.

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 I'm sure my younger brother has been in therapy for years because of our childhood.

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 But I just couldn't help him, because I would look at the math question,

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 and it would just be obvious to me.

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 Like, I don't know, for those of you who are good at math,

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 you know what it's like for some simple things.

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 You just look at the question, and it's just obvious.

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 Like, how could you not just get it?

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 And I probably said that to him, how could you not just get it?

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 And so I was just terrible at it.

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 And I'm saying that not as a way of boasting at all, far from that.

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 There are just some things in our lives that we are good at, that we get instantly.

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 I cannot draw to save my life.

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 Like, probably the Sunday school, once they get to about grade one,

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 they can draw better than me.

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 I have a hard time drawing a stick figure.

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 And I know just about any time in a service I mention that,

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 at least one person comes up to me and says,

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 if you just took the right lessons, you'd be able to draw.

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 And maybe someday I'll do that.

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 But I just think I'm missing whatever that is that I could just pick up artwork.

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 There's just some things within us that we either get or we don't get.

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 But all of us have had the experience of having a conversation with somebody

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 to try to prove to them something being true or something being right.

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 And our arguments are compelling.

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 The facts are obvious.

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 And we leave the conversation or the series of conversations believing that the other person

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 just doesn't get it.

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 In fact, we'd almost say that what's going on with them is that they just refuse to accept it.

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 But they've stopped listening.

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 That they've closed their ears.

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 They've set their jaw.

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 They've set their body, their being just against even listening to reason or facts or argument.

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 And all of us have had conversations like that.

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 Because it's a very, very common thing to have a conversation with somebody

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 who just doesn't seem to get it.

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 And it's a different thing than getting math, obviously, or getting art, obviously.

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 In fact, it's a very, very common problem.

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 It's talked about occasionally in our society.

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 The problem of echo chambers.

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 The problem of just listening to your tribe.

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 Of refusing to be open to insight or knowledge.

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 It's a very, very common phenomenon talked about in our culture.

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 And believe it or not, the gospel text which we looked at today

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 has some very profound things to say about this phenomenon.

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 So it would be a great help to me if you open your Bibles.

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 Those of you who don't have Bibles with you, the words to the text will be up on the screen.

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 But, you know, it's a wonderful thing to bring your own Bible with you.

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 And some of you like to write in your Bible or underline.

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 It's just a good thing to be able to find it in your own text.

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 But we're going to look at this conversation.

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 And Jesus actually has, and the text has, very profound things to say about this phenomenon.

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 So you heard earlier, this is how it's going in the Gospel of John.

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 You know, John is one of Jesus' disciples.

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 His most intimate disciples.

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 He writes this biography of Jesus.

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 And he sort of gives chapter one as a big picture and historical introduction to who Jesus is.

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 John decides he's not going to talk about all of Jesus' miracles.

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 He's going to pick seven significant ones and sort of dig deep into them

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 and what they mean and what they sort of point about who Jesus is.

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 And then there's this transition chapter with the triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

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 And then we're going to get into the private lessons between Jesus and his disciples,

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 the trial, the crucifixion, and the resurrection.

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 And so this chapter, this bit that we're reading right now is in a sense that the end of Jesus' public ministry,

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 at least is the way that John tells the story.

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 And it takes place then maybe a day or so before the upper room,

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 a couple of days before Jesus is going to die on the cross.

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 And here's how it goes, verse 31.

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 Now is the judgment of this world.

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 Now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

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 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

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 Jesus said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

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 And we'll just sort of pause here for a second before we go any further.

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 You know, it's very, very funny.

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 When you just sort of look at that phrase,

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 and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.

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 And it's not immediately obvious to me and to you maybe from just reading that,

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 that it's referring to his crucifixion.

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 If you read the whole gospel from beginning to end,

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 you get a bit of an indication of it because the same phrase is used in John chapter 3.

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 And the same phrase is used in John chapter 8.

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 And the obvious thing is, as you're going to see in a moment,

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 with the crowd's reaction to Jesus' statement,

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 is that the crowd, like Jesus,

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 they understood that Jesus was referring to the fact that he was going to die on the cross.

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 And so Jesus, he says this thing that,

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 it's a bit of a troubling thing that,

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 and when I am lifted up from the earth, when I am crucified,

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 that he will draw all people to himself.

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 That's a very, very, very big claim.

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 And the rest of this text is sort of going to unpack it.

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 And at first, it looks like Jesus is talking about something

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 that almost makes it look as if God draws some people to himself and not others.

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 He closes some minds and not others.

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 It's that rather than actually providing light

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 or insight into the issue as to why sometimes people refuse to believe the truth,

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 in fact, it looks as if Jesus is taking a wrong turn.

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 And he's making it unhelpful.

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 But as we dig further into it,

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 we see that Jesus is actually really opening up to us

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 at a very deep and profound level

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 this whole issue of the conscience and the mind

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 and the affections and our ability to grasp the truth.

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 And he begins in this unlikely manner by saying,

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 I'm going to die on the cross.

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 And when I die on the cross and what I accomplish for the human race on the cross,

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 I'm going to then draw people to myself

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 from every single people group that's on the planet

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 and that will ever be on the planet.

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 Me dying on a cross and I, through that,

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 and through my person will draw people to me.

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 One of the things that it means,

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 like if I was to tell you the story of my conversion,

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 I would tell you how it is I saw something

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 when I was walking down Elgin Street

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 and that began to make me curious

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 and I started to seek out Jesus

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 and to try to figure out who he really was

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 and what it meant for me.

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 But what Jesus is saying here

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 is that it actually,

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 that I'm misunderstanding the process.

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 That it's not about the fact

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 that Jesus is sort of somewhere

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 just there hiding

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 and I seek him.

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 What Jesus is saying

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 is that before I sought him,

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 he sought me.

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 And before I started to feel drawn to him,

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 he was drawing me to himself.

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 And that's what he's saying.

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 And that he's drawing me to himself

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 to make me right with God,

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 to make me right with the creator of the universe.

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 And by making me right with the creator of the universe

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 to begin to make me right with the created order

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 in terms of what it means to live full and free

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 as a son,

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 in my case,

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 a son of light,

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 for some of you,

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 a daughter of light

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 in God's creation.

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 And when Jesus says

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 that the world is being judged,

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 it's being judged

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 because he understands

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 that he's not fully human

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 but he's also fully God.

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 And he understands

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 that when he is,

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 he is about to be,

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 I mean,

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 he understands that already

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 the religious,

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 intellectual,

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 and cultural leaders of the day

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 and soon to be

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 the power leaders

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 and the power brokers

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 of the entire world,

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 that they are going to conspire together

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 to receive him,

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 not to receive him

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 but to put him to death.

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 And so Jesus understands

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 that whether it's through spirituality,

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 whether it's through religion,

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 whether it's through philosophy,

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 whether it's through politics,

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 whether it's through

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 just a concern with culture,

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 whether it's through a concern

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 for the common life of the city,

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 that all of these different trends

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 and all of these different paths

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 and all of these different ways,

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 they will take you many places

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 but where they will never take you to

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 is the cross.

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 The death of Jesus upon the cross

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 reveals that they all fail.

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 All of them fail.

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 And at the same time,

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 he makes a very, very bold thing

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 which we won't go into very much

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 because the rest of the text

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 doesn't talk about it very much.

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 But Jesus understands

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 that his death upon the cross

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 and his resurrection

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 is a defeat,

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 a fatal defeat of the devil

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 who is present and active in the world.

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 And that as a result

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 of the death of Jesus upon the cross

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 and his resurrection,

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 it means that Satan has received

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 a grievous blow

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 and that his doom is certain.

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 Just one more thing.

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 Back in June,

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 I went for some training

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 in Montreal.

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 And some of you might have seen

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 or been to yourself

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 St. Joseph's Oratory,

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 a beautiful, huge

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 Roman Catholic building

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 on the side of a mountain.

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 And if you go inside

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 St. Joseph's Oratory,

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 you can go to different places

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 where you can light a candle.

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 And as you know,

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 Montreal is a very, very, very,

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 very, very, very secular city.

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 And if you go to the oratory,

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 it gets a huge number of tourists

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 from all over the place,

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 from all sorts of different faiths

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 or lack of faiths

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 or lack of perspectives.

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 But if you want to go,

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 and in a sense it's an act of prayer,

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 you can go and light a candle.

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 And the candles are organized

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 around certain themes

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 or certain issues.

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 It might be for success

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 or whatever.

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 But there's some candle sections

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 which most of the candle sections

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 don't have that many candles lit.

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 But if you go to a candle section

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 and you see virtually every candle lit

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 and you go and you look over it,

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 you'll see that the section

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 where the candles are all lit

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 in the secular city of Montreal

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 are all the ones

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 around deliverance from demons.

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 And we as Christians

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 have to start to be more unashamed

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 about talking about things like that.

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 Because in fact,

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 it's a very, very real problem

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 for many, many, many people

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 in our culture.

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 That even as our culture

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 on one level

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 seems to become more secular,

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 another level

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 is becoming very, very spiritual

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 and open to all sorts

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 of spiritual forces.

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 And the message here

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 of Jesus is that

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 with his death

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 and his resurrection,

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 Satan has been defeated.

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 He still has, in a sense,

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 a rear guard action.

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 It will not be until

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 the second coming of Jesus

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 that Satan

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 is cast into the lake

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 of fire forever

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 and his role

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 on the earth

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 will come to a complete

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 and utter end.

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 But his doom

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 is certain

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 and for those of us

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 who are in Jesus,

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 their power

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 and

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 their power over him

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 or at least

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 their resources

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 of power over him

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 in terms of going

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 to our Heavenly Father

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 are absolutely immense.

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 But Jesus,

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 when I said that

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 this is going to tell us,

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 this text is going to give us

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 some real insight

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 around the whole problem

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 of not being able

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 to know the truth

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 or at least thinking

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 other people have problems

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 of knowing the truth

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 or closing their conscience

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 or closing their mind.

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 And yet Jesus seems

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 to take us

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 in a very odd direction

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 that he is going to draw

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 all people to himself.

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 So we need to sort of

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 see how it is

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 that that's going to get

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 unpacked a little bit.

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 Well, let's look at verse 34.

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 So Jesus makes this comment

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 that he is going to draw

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 all people to himself

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 after he's died

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 upon the cross.

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 And some of his hearers

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 have a whole range

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 of problems with that.

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 And one of the problems

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 they have with it

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 is that it can't be true

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 because in fact

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 it doesn't seem as if

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 everybody's being drawn

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 to Jesus.

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 And they sort of push back

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 at this whole idea.

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 Look at verse 34.

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 So the crowd answered him.

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 The crowd answered him.

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 We have heard from the law,

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 that is the Bible,

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 the Old Testament,

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 that the Christ

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 remains forever.

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 How can you say

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 that the Son of Man

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 must be lifted up?

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 Who is the Son of Man?

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 See, they understand

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 that Jesus is saying

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 that the Son of Man

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 is going to die.

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 And they just have

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 a big problem with that.

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 And they're understanding

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 the Bible.

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 They're really saying,

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 did God really say

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 that the Christ

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 is going to die

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 on the cross?

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 Did God really say

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 that the Son of Man

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 is going to draw

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 all people to himself?

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 Did he really say

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 these things

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 and therefore

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 do they apply to you?

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 And is it going to really

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 be true

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 that he's going to die?

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 Like, how on earth

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 does this work?

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 And he continues on

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 in verse 36,

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 verse 35.

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 So Jesus said to them,

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 the light is among you

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 for a little while longer.

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 Walk while you have the light,

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 lest darkness overtake you.

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 The one who walks

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 in the darkness

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 does not know

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 where he is going.

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 While you have the light,

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 believe in the light

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 that you may become

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 the sons

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 or daughters

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 of light.

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 Now,

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 on one hand,

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 when you read this text,

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 it seems as if

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 Jesus doesn't answer

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 their question.

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 They've said,

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 okay,

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 Jesus,

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 you've made this

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 really big claim.

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 We've heard you before.

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 You say you're the Christ.

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 You say you're the Son of Man.

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 You say that Christ

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 and the Son of Man,

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 you know,

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 whatever you mean by those,

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 that you're going to die

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 and somehow

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 after you die

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 on a cross,

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 a shameful death,

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 you're going to draw

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 people to yourself.

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 But we read the Bible

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 and the Bible

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 doesn't say anything.

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 Does God really say that?

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 And then

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 you'd expect

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 Jesus to answer,

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 well,

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 sure,

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 you look at,

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 you know,

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 you look at Isaiah

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 chapter 53

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 and you look at here

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 and you look at here

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 and you look at here.

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 But what Jesus says

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 is he doesn't talk

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 about that at all,

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 does he?

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 And

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 he talks instead,

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 look at it again,

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 verse 35,

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 the light is among you

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 for a little while.

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 Walk longer,

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 walk while you have the light,

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 lest darkness overtake you.

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 The one who walks

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 in the darkness

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 does not know

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 where he is going.

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 While you have the light,

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 believe in the light

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 that you may become

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 the son or the daughter,

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 depending on your sex,

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 of light.

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 Well,

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 you see,

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 what's going on here

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 is that Jesus

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 is not answering

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 their question,

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 he's speaking

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 to their condition.

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 Because,

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 you see,

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 if you think about it,

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 the reason

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 that there were

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 such huge crowds

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 in Jerusalem

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 is that because

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 just outside

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 of Jerusalem,

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 Jesus,

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 there was a man

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 who had been dead

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 in the grave

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 for four days,

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 and Jesus spoke

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 to that dead man

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 and raised him

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 to life.

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 And if you think

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 about it,

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 earlier on in Jerusalem,

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 Jesus took a man

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 who had been born blind,

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 and he made him

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 to see.

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 And if you think

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 about it,

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 that it was in Jerusalem,

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 there was a very,

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 very, very grumpy,

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 ungrateful man

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 who had been unable

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 to walk for decades,

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 and Jesus had made

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 him to walk.

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 And if you think

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 about it,

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 they would have also

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 known about the fact

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 that Jesus had taken

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 one of Herod's

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 official sons,

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 and even though

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 that son was

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 a great distance away

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 by a mere word

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 of Jesus,

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 everybody would have

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 known that he had

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 made that man

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 come to life.

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 And everybody there

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 would have known

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 that Jesus had done

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 a miracle where

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 they'd taken a few

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 loaves and fishes,

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 and he was able

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 to feed 5,000 men.

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 And they might also

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 have known about

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 the fact that Jesus

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 had taken water,

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 and by a mere act

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 of his will,

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 had turned that water

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 into wine.

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 And so,

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 in a sense,

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 what Jesus is saying

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 is, listen,

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 if you don't listen

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 to that stuff,

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 how is quoting the Bible

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 going to actually

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 deal with your condition?

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 The problem isn't

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 that you need

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 another Bible study.

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 The problem is

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 that you are

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 completely and utterly

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 giving yourself over

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 to darkness

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 rather than light

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 and refusing

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 to think

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 and to recognize

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 and to believe.

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 You see,

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 Jesus goes

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 after the situation

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 because it had

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 come to a time

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 when further arguments

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 aren't going to help.

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 Further arguments

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 aren't going to help.

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 One of the,

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 there's a fellow

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 by the name

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 of Michael Conley,

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 and he writes

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 Bosch novels.

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 I think I'm pronouncing

00:19:41.579 --> 00:19:42.039
 it correctly,

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 B-O-S-C-H.

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 Some of the novels

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 have been turned

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 into a very popular

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 series on Amazon Prime,

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 but his novels

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 are always

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 New York Times

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 bestsellers.

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 And Michael Conley's

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 Bosch novels

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 are,

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 they're very well

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 written books,

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 which is why

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 they're bestsellers,

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 and they are

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 a perfect example

00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:04.099
 of a very common

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 type of fiction

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 and movie

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 in North America.

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 One of Bosch's lines,

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 he's a detective

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 in L.A.,

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 and one of his lines

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 is that everyone

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 matters or no one

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 matters.

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 And what drives

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 the story

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 is that there's

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 always a murder

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 or usually a murder,

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 sometimes by somebody

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 that the world

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 considers to be

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 very unimportant,

00:20:23.740 --> 00:20:24.579
 like a prostitute

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 or a street person,

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 sometimes a very

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 important person

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 like a film mogul.

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 But the point is

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 that Bosch has

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 this line that

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 everyone matters

00:20:32.420 --> 00:20:33.279
 and no one matters.

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 And so he goes

00:20:34.560 --> 00:20:35.740
 to solve the mystery

00:20:35.740 --> 00:20:36.799
 and there's sort of

00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:37.860
 two big things

00:20:37.860 --> 00:20:38.840
 that go on in the book.

00:20:39.140 --> 00:20:40.019
 On one hand,

00:20:40.100 --> 00:20:40.480
 of course,

00:20:40.600 --> 00:20:41.279
 is him actually

00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:42.000
 trying to solve

00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:42.640
 the mystery.

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 But the other part

00:20:44.440 --> 00:20:44.799
 of the book,

00:20:44.840 --> 00:20:45.560
 which is very,

00:20:45.660 --> 00:20:45.880
 very,

00:20:45.980 --> 00:20:46.660
 very important

00:20:46.660 --> 00:20:47.240
 and he does

00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:47.640
 very,

00:20:47.779 --> 00:20:48.400
 very well,

00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:50.360
 is that always

00:20:50.360 --> 00:20:52.100
 there are politicians

00:20:52.100 --> 00:20:53.299
 and other police

00:20:53.299 --> 00:20:54.900
 officers who in effect

00:20:54.900 --> 00:20:55.580
 don't want him

00:20:55.580 --> 00:20:56.480
 to solve the crime.

00:20:56.480 --> 00:20:57.980
 not because they're

00:20:57.980 --> 00:20:59.799
 allied with the bad guy.

00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:01.980
 It's not that they're

00:21:01.980 --> 00:21:02.740
 corrupt usually

00:21:02.740 --> 00:21:03.460
 in that way.

00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:05.380
 But because they don't

00:21:05.380 --> 00:21:06.160
 look at the case

00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:06.900
 and think that you

00:21:06.900 --> 00:21:07.799
 have to solve

00:21:07.799 --> 00:21:08.799
 who it is,

00:21:09.339 --> 00:21:11.099
 the actual murder,

00:21:11.700 --> 00:21:12.519
 they worry

00:21:12.519 --> 00:21:14.099
 that either the way

00:21:14.099 --> 00:21:14.579
 it's been

00:21:14.579 --> 00:21:15.660
 or the way it's going

00:21:15.660 --> 00:21:16.539
 that there's something

00:21:16.539 --> 00:21:17.960
 about it that is going

00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:18.380
 to,

00:21:18.500 --> 00:21:19.059
 and then you fill

00:21:19.059 --> 00:21:19.500
 in the blank,

00:21:19.579 --> 00:21:20.319
 it's going to affect

00:21:20.319 --> 00:21:20.940
 their career.

00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:22.400
 It's going to make

00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:23.200
 the police force

00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:23.720
 look bad.

00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:24.259
 It's going to make

00:21:24.259 --> 00:21:24.920
 the politicians

00:21:24.920 --> 00:21:25.600
 look bad.

00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:26.080
 It's going to make

00:21:26.080 --> 00:21:26.820
 a rich person

00:21:26.820 --> 00:21:27.440
 who's an important

00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:28.580
 donor look bad.

00:21:29.140 --> 00:21:30.360
 And so what Bosch

00:21:30.360 --> 00:21:31.240
 does is he's

00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:32.900
 constantly disobeying

00:21:32.900 --> 00:21:34.960
 his superiors,

00:21:35.360 --> 00:21:35.980
 he's pushing

00:21:35.980 --> 00:21:36.880
 against them

00:21:36.880 --> 00:21:38.120
 because they keep

00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:39.039
 wanting to short

00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:40.180
 circuit or close

00:21:40.180 --> 00:21:41.259
 down his investigation

00:21:41.259 --> 00:21:42.640
 in some of the books

00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:44.120
 they literally tell him

00:21:44.120 --> 00:21:45.000
 he has to stop

00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:46.360
 following the investigation

00:21:46.360 --> 00:21:47.320
 and he literally

00:21:47.320 --> 00:21:48.120
 doesn't stop

00:21:48.120 --> 00:21:49.120
 following the investigation

00:21:49.120 --> 00:21:50.680
 because he believes

00:21:50.680 --> 00:21:51.880
 that what matters

00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:53.259
 is doing what is just

00:21:53.259 --> 00:21:54.660
 and doing what is right

00:21:54.660 --> 00:21:55.640
 and that every human

00:21:55.640 --> 00:21:56.400
 being matters

00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:57.640
 and the people

00:21:57.640 --> 00:21:58.820
 who are in the hierarchy

00:21:58.820 --> 00:22:00.040
 they think that is not

00:22:00.040 --> 00:22:00.580
 what matters.

00:22:00.700 --> 00:22:01.320
 What matters

00:22:01.320 --> 00:22:02.340
 is what people

00:22:02.340 --> 00:22:03.100
 think of me,

00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:03.940
 what people think

00:22:03.940 --> 00:22:04.759
 of my organization,

00:22:05.180 --> 00:22:06.000
 what people think

00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:07.040
 of the city,

00:22:07.200 --> 00:22:08.279
 how it's going to

00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:09.259
 affect the economy,

00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:09.940
 how it's going to

00:22:09.940 --> 00:22:11.080
 affect investment,

00:22:11.380 --> 00:22:11.880
 how it's going to

00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:12.820
 affect all of these

00:22:12.820 --> 00:22:13.140
 things.

00:22:13.300 --> 00:22:13.980
 And so an important

00:22:13.980 --> 00:22:15.220
 part of every book

00:22:15.220 --> 00:22:17.500
 is Bosch

00:22:17.500 --> 00:22:19.700
 regularly fighting

00:22:19.700 --> 00:22:20.560
 against the pressure,

00:22:20.720 --> 00:22:21.640
 ignoring the pressure

00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:22.620
 to pursue that

00:22:22.620 --> 00:22:23.259
 which is right

00:22:23.259 --> 00:22:24.359
 and that which is just

00:22:24.359 --> 00:22:26.220
 in terms of this case.

00:22:27.180 --> 00:22:27.920
 Now here's the

00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:28.539
 interesting thing

00:22:28.539 --> 00:22:29.019
 about this.

00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:29.720
 In many ways

00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:30.900
 what these novels,

00:22:31.059 --> 00:22:31.680
 it's why they sell

00:22:31.680 --> 00:22:32.720
 millions and millions

00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:34.039
 and millions of novels,

00:22:34.859 --> 00:22:36.059
 millions of novels,

00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:38.839
 is that obviously

00:22:38.839 --> 00:22:39.660
 when you and I

00:22:39.660 --> 00:22:40.579
 read that book,

00:22:41.140 --> 00:22:41.879
 who are we?

00:22:42.299 --> 00:22:43.319
 I'm Bosch.

00:22:44.500 --> 00:22:45.579
 Bosch in a sense

00:22:45.579 --> 00:22:47.160
 perfectly articulates

00:22:47.160 --> 00:22:48.680
 what I wish I was,

00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:50.279
 what I believe I am.

00:22:50.279 --> 00:22:52.519
 But really,

00:22:52.639 --> 00:22:52.899
 literally,

00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:53.279
 do you think

00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:54.019
 all of the million

00:22:54.019 --> 00:22:54.799
 of us who read

00:22:54.799 --> 00:22:55.220
 that book

00:22:55.220 --> 00:22:56.160
 that we're all Bosch?

00:22:57.879 --> 00:22:59.240
 Like how many of us

00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:00.319
 in our day-to-day life

00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:01.220
 are in fact

00:23:01.220 --> 00:23:02.740
 the lieutenants

00:23:02.740 --> 00:23:03.519
 and the captains

00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:04.379
 and the politicians

00:23:04.379 --> 00:23:06.740
 and the important people

00:23:06.740 --> 00:23:08.319
 who don't really

00:23:08.319 --> 00:23:09.539
 want to pursue truth

00:23:09.539 --> 00:23:10.519
 but want to cover

00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:11.180
 things over

00:23:11.180 --> 00:23:12.000
 because we really

00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:12.879
 care more about

00:23:12.879 --> 00:23:13.700
 what people say

00:23:13.700 --> 00:23:14.259
 about us.

00:23:14.259 --> 00:23:16.859
 You see,

00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:21.039
 I can easily imagine

00:23:21.039 --> 00:23:22.019
 as well as you

00:23:22.019 --> 00:23:24.420
 that there could be

00:23:24.420 --> 00:23:25.259
 a whole busload

00:23:25.259 --> 00:23:25.960
 of people going

00:23:25.960 --> 00:23:26.799
 to work downtown

00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:28.099
 reading the Michael

00:23:28.099 --> 00:23:28.920
 Connolly novel

00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:29.379
 and going,

00:23:29.539 --> 00:23:30.220
 yes, Bosch,

00:23:30.359 --> 00:23:31.420
 way to go, Bosch,

00:23:31.460 --> 00:23:31.940
 and as soon as

00:23:31.940 --> 00:23:32.879
 we get to work,

00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:35.819
 we're the bureaucrats

00:23:35.819 --> 00:23:37.379
 who stop the truth.

00:23:38.180 --> 00:23:39.460
 We're the leaders

00:23:39.460 --> 00:23:40.819
 who care more

00:23:40.819 --> 00:23:42.440
 about our reputation.

00:23:42.440 --> 00:23:45.960
 And this is one

00:23:45.960 --> 00:23:46.420
 of the things

00:23:46.420 --> 00:23:47.059
 which Jesus,

00:23:47.380 --> 00:23:47.559
 you know,

00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:48.620
 and in a sense

00:23:48.620 --> 00:23:49.559
 what happens is

00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:50.860
 what we're describing

00:23:50.860 --> 00:23:52.259
 is this process

00:23:52.259 --> 00:23:53.200
 whereby

00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:55.519
 we believe

00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:56.259
 about ourselves

00:23:56.259 --> 00:23:56.980
 that we should be

00:23:56.980 --> 00:23:58.080
 pursuing the truth

00:23:58.080 --> 00:23:59.160
 but we lack

00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:00.380
 complete and utter

00:24:00.380 --> 00:24:01.580
 self-knowledge

00:24:01.580 --> 00:24:03.160
 that what we're

00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:04.059
 actually doing

00:24:04.059 --> 00:24:04.980
 is we're actually

00:24:04.980 --> 00:24:06.080
 don't really care

00:24:06.080 --> 00:24:06.840
 about the truth

00:24:06.840 --> 00:24:07.820
 but we care

00:24:07.820 --> 00:24:08.920
 more

00:24:08.920 --> 00:24:10.640
 about what people

00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:11.700
 think about us

00:24:11.700 --> 00:24:13.819
 about our respect

00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:15.880
 about promotions

00:24:15.880 --> 00:24:20.279
 about making more money

00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:21.539
 having more power

00:24:21.539 --> 00:24:23.340
 that these things

00:24:23.340 --> 00:24:24.140
 in fact

00:24:24.140 --> 00:24:25.380
 have a very,

00:24:25.559 --> 00:24:26.980
 very powerful hold

00:24:26.980 --> 00:24:29.600
 on how we understand

00:24:29.600 --> 00:24:30.380
 right and wrong

00:24:30.380 --> 00:24:31.220
 and how we pursue

00:24:31.220 --> 00:24:31.720
 the truth

00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:32.580
 and what actually

00:24:32.580 --> 00:24:33.759
 forms our conscience.

00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:36.579
 the Michael Connolly

00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:37.440
 novels both

00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:39.119
 show what we desire

00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:41.839
 but they don't have

00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:42.400
 the power

00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:43.819
 to reveal to us

00:24:43.819 --> 00:24:46.859
 our own divided nature

00:24:46.859 --> 00:24:48.000
 or maybe not even

00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:48.460
 divided

00:24:48.460 --> 00:24:49.259
 because we are

00:24:49.259 --> 00:24:50.440
 fully fledged

00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:50.980
 supporters

00:24:50.980 --> 00:24:52.019
 and pursuers

00:24:52.019 --> 00:24:52.819
 of pursuing

00:24:52.819 --> 00:24:53.740
 that

00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:54.720
 which makes

00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:55.480
 me

00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:56.400
 look

00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:57.379
 good.

00:24:57.380 --> 00:25:01.420
 and it's in the

00:25:01.420 --> 00:25:02.040
 middle of this

00:25:02.040 --> 00:25:03.040
 both desire

00:25:03.040 --> 00:25:03.920
 as to what we

00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:04.940
 think we would be

00:25:04.940 --> 00:25:07.940
 and lack of

00:25:07.940 --> 00:25:08.560
 insight

00:25:08.560 --> 00:25:09.900
 as to what's

00:25:09.900 --> 00:25:10.700
 going on

00:25:10.700 --> 00:25:11.900
 that Jesus

00:25:11.900 --> 00:25:12.760
 starts to reveal

00:25:12.760 --> 00:25:13.640
 to our hearts

00:25:13.640 --> 00:25:16.580
 because you see

00:25:16.580 --> 00:25:17.400
 my guess is

00:25:17.400 --> 00:25:18.300
 that every single

00:25:18.300 --> 00:25:18.980
 person who

00:25:18.980 --> 00:25:19.800
 listened to Jesus

00:25:19.800 --> 00:25:20.660
 unless they were

00:25:20.660 --> 00:25:21.700
 pricked by his

00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:22.860
 line about

00:25:22.860 --> 00:25:24.120
 there is a

00:25:24.120 --> 00:25:24.760
 possibility

00:25:24.760 --> 00:25:25.720
 that darkness

00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:26.500
 will overcome

00:25:26.500 --> 00:25:27.440
 your conscience

00:25:27.440 --> 00:25:28.980
 and darkness

00:25:28.980 --> 00:25:29.680
 will overcome

00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:30.839
 your affections

00:25:30.839 --> 00:25:32.079
 and darkness

00:25:32.079 --> 00:25:32.980
 can overcome

00:25:32.980 --> 00:25:34.079
 your intellect

00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:35.799
 and darkness

00:25:35.799 --> 00:25:36.680
 can overcome

00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:38.240
 your entire

00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:39.420
 sense of how

00:25:39.420 --> 00:25:40.120
 it is

00:25:40.120 --> 00:25:41.539
 right and just

00:25:41.539 --> 00:25:42.420
 to live in the

00:25:42.420 --> 00:25:42.779
 world

00:25:42.779 --> 00:25:44.100
 and darkness

00:25:44.100 --> 00:25:44.980
 can overcome

00:25:44.980 --> 00:25:45.900
 all of these

00:25:45.900 --> 00:25:46.460
 things without

00:25:46.460 --> 00:25:47.299
 you being aware

00:25:47.299 --> 00:25:47.539
 of it

00:25:47.539 --> 00:25:48.039
 and that's what

00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:48.839
 Jesus says to

00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:49.019
 them

00:25:49.019 --> 00:25:50.140
 do you get it?

00:25:50.860 --> 00:25:51.819
 do you get it?

00:25:53.460 --> 00:25:54.720
 do you get it?

00:25:55.720 --> 00:25:59.960
 you see on one

00:25:59.960 --> 00:26:00.700
 one hand

00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:01.980
 a novel like

00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:02.860
 a Bosch novel

00:26:02.860 --> 00:26:04.839
 and these words

00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:05.420
 of Jesus

00:26:05.420 --> 00:26:06.640
 on one hand

00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:07.339
 it can be very

00:26:07.339 --> 00:26:07.839
 depressing

00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:08.660
 that people don't

00:26:08.660 --> 00:26:08.960
 get it

00:26:08.960 --> 00:26:09.539
 that maybe I

00:26:09.539 --> 00:26:10.259
 don't get it

00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:12.940
 but the whole

00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:14.160
 context of

00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:14.539
 Jesus'

00:26:14.900 --> 00:26:15.660
 discussion

00:26:15.660 --> 00:26:16.759
 not only

00:26:16.759 --> 00:26:18.400
 will try to

00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:18.839
 have it

00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:19.480
 pierce

00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:20.380
 into our

00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:21.100
 consciousness

00:26:21.100 --> 00:26:22.900
 and our

00:26:22.900 --> 00:26:23.440
 conscience

00:26:23.440 --> 00:26:23.779
 and our

00:26:23.779 --> 00:26:24.160
 minds

00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:24.420
 and our

00:26:24.420 --> 00:26:25.220
 affections

00:26:25.220 --> 00:26:27.319
 that it

00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:27.720
 might very

00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:28.240
 well be

00:26:28.240 --> 00:26:28.740
 me

00:26:28.740 --> 00:26:29.880
 who is

00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:30.120
 being

00:26:30.120 --> 00:26:30.700
 described

00:26:30.700 --> 00:26:31.319
 as having

00:26:31.319 --> 00:26:31.579
 my

00:26:31.579 --> 00:26:32.079
 conscience

00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:32.519
 or my

00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:32.920
 mind

00:26:32.920 --> 00:26:33.640
 overwhelmed

00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:34.900
 and Jesus

00:26:34.900 --> 00:26:35.299
 is going

00:26:35.299 --> 00:26:35.559
 to go

00:26:35.559 --> 00:26:36.180
 dig deep

00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:36.720
 as to why

00:26:36.720 --> 00:26:37.120
 it is

00:26:37.120 --> 00:26:37.500
 that these

00:26:37.500 --> 00:26:37.759
 things

00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:38.380
 happen to

00:26:38.380 --> 00:26:38.600
 us

00:26:38.600 --> 00:26:39.559
 but he

00:26:39.559 --> 00:26:40.220
 will also

00:26:40.220 --> 00:26:40.680
 provide

00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:41.420
 some very

00:26:41.420 --> 00:26:42.240
 very important

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:42.980
 hope that he

00:26:42.980 --> 00:26:43.700
 draws people

00:26:43.700 --> 00:26:44.400
 to himself

00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:45.120
 that we're

00:26:45.120 --> 00:26:45.539
 not just

00:26:45.539 --> 00:26:46.160
 lost

00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:47.299
 and abandoned

00:26:47.299 --> 00:26:48.620
 in this

00:26:48.620 --> 00:26:49.299
 situation

00:26:49.299 --> 00:26:50.460
 that darkness

00:26:50.460 --> 00:26:51.100
 can overcome

00:26:51.100 --> 00:26:51.559
 us

00:26:51.559 --> 00:26:52.319
 and nothing

00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:52.940
 will help

00:26:52.940 --> 00:26:57.259
 John

00:26:57.259 --> 00:26:58.200
 the writer

00:26:58.200 --> 00:26:59.000
 of this

00:26:59.000 --> 00:27:00.480
 he

00:27:00.480 --> 00:27:01.960
 pauses

00:27:01.960 --> 00:27:02.580
 in these

00:27:02.580 --> 00:27:03.299
 words of

00:27:03.299 --> 00:27:03.620
 Jesus

00:27:03.620 --> 00:27:04.680
 and John

00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:05.059
 of course

00:27:05.059 --> 00:27:05.580
 was taught

00:27:05.580 --> 00:27:06.180
 by Jesus

00:27:06.180 --> 00:27:06.559
 if

00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:07.620
 when we

00:27:07.620 --> 00:27:07.960
 get to

00:27:07.960 --> 00:27:08.259
 heaven

00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:08.720
 John

00:27:08.720 --> 00:27:09.039
 will say

00:27:09.039 --> 00:27:09.340
 listen

00:27:09.340 --> 00:27:09.860
 all of

00:27:09.860 --> 00:27:10.039
 those

00:27:10.039 --> 00:27:10.360
 parts

00:27:10.360 --> 00:27:10.600
 if you

00:27:10.600 --> 00:27:11.059
 have a

00:27:11.059 --> 00:27:11.360
 Bible

00:27:11.360 --> 00:27:11.799
 like mine

00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:12.120
 that has

00:27:12.120 --> 00:27:12.440
 red and

00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:13.039
 black print

00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:14.340
 all of

00:27:14.340 --> 00:27:14.840
 those black

00:27:14.840 --> 00:27:15.279
 bits

00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:15.799
 that I

00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:16.180
 wrote in

00:27:16.180 --> 00:27:16.299
 there

00:27:16.299 --> 00:27:16.660
 I learned

00:27:16.660 --> 00:27:16.920
 all of

00:27:16.920 --> 00:27:17.080
 that

00:27:17.080 --> 00:27:17.299
 from

00:27:17.299 --> 00:27:17.820
 Jesus

00:27:17.820 --> 00:27:19.279
 none of

00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:19.660
 that came

00:27:19.660 --> 00:27:19.920
 from me

00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:20.160
 it all

00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:20.600
 came from

00:27:20.600 --> 00:27:21.039
 Jesus

00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:21.920
 all the

00:27:21.920 --> 00:27:22.220
 black

00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:22.480
 bits

00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:22.799
 all the

00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:23.059
 black

00:27:23.059 --> 00:27:23.420
 words

00:27:23.420 --> 00:27:23.920
 came from

00:27:23.920 --> 00:27:24.240
 Jesus

00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:24.700
 not just

00:27:24.700 --> 00:27:25.039
 the red

00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:25.420
 words

00:27:25.420 --> 00:27:26.859
 and if

00:27:26.859 --> 00:27:27.099
 you look

00:27:27.099 --> 00:27:27.379
 at the

00:27:27.379 --> 00:27:28.079
 second part

00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:28.379
 of verse

00:27:28.379 --> 00:27:29.019
 36

00:27:29.019 --> 00:27:29.700
 John

00:27:29.700 --> 00:27:30.240
 gives a bit

00:27:30.240 --> 00:27:30.500
 of a

00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:30.879
 summary

00:27:30.879 --> 00:27:31.379
 or an

00:27:31.379 --> 00:27:32.099
 understanding

00:27:32.099 --> 00:27:32.539
 of these

00:27:32.539 --> 00:27:32.759
 things

00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:33.359
 look at that

00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:34.079
 in verse 36

00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:35.599
 the second

00:27:35.599 --> 00:27:36.119
 part of it

00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:36.599
 when Jesus

00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:37.180
 had said

00:27:37.180 --> 00:27:38.000
 these things

00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:38.799
 he departed

00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:39.180
 and hid

00:27:39.180 --> 00:27:39.519
 himself

00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:40.240
 from them

00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:42.159
 though he

00:27:42.159 --> 00:27:42.500
 had done

00:27:42.500 --> 00:27:43.039
 so many

00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:43.779
 signs

00:27:43.779 --> 00:27:44.399
 see that's

00:27:44.399 --> 00:27:44.599
 where I

00:27:44.599 --> 00:27:44.920
 was saying

00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:45.339
 that John

00:27:45.339 --> 00:27:45.700
 is very

00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:46.240
 conscious

00:27:46.240 --> 00:27:47.139
 that Jesus

00:27:47.139 --> 00:27:47.659
 was very

00:27:47.659 --> 00:27:48.059
 conscious

00:27:48.059 --> 00:27:48.339
 he'd done

00:27:48.339 --> 00:27:48.799
 all these

00:27:48.799 --> 00:27:49.299
 miracles

00:27:49.299 --> 00:27:49.659
 right

00:27:49.660 --> 00:27:50.680
 though he

00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:51.060
 had done

00:27:51.060 --> 00:27:51.600
 so many

00:27:51.600 --> 00:27:52.259
 signs

00:27:52.259 --> 00:27:52.920
 before them

00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:53.380
 they still

00:27:53.380 --> 00:27:53.720
 did not

00:27:53.720 --> 00:27:54.259
 believe in

00:27:54.259 --> 00:27:54.500
 him

00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:56.240
 so we

00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:56.660
 might say

00:27:56.660 --> 00:27:57.200
 well doesn't

00:27:57.200 --> 00:27:57.560
 that show

00:27:57.560 --> 00:27:58.019
 that God

00:27:58.019 --> 00:27:58.580
 doesn't draw

00:27:58.580 --> 00:27:58.920
 no no

00:27:58.920 --> 00:27:59.200
 that would

00:27:59.200 --> 00:27:59.660
 only show

00:27:59.660 --> 00:28:00.120
 that if

00:28:00.120 --> 00:28:00.940
 God didn't

00:28:00.940 --> 00:28:01.340
 know what

00:28:01.340 --> 00:28:01.600
 was going

00:28:01.600 --> 00:28:02.000
 to happen

00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:02.320
 as if

00:28:02.320 --> 00:28:02.640
 somehow

00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:03.600
 God was

00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:03.860
 up in

00:28:03.860 --> 00:28:04.000
 heaven

00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:04.440
 said oh

00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:05.320
 dang

00:28:05.320 --> 00:28:06.360
 people aren't

00:28:06.360 --> 00:28:07.000
 reacting the way

00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:07.500
 I thought I

00:28:07.500 --> 00:28:07.700
 would I

00:28:07.700 --> 00:28:08.040
 guess I have

00:28:08.040 --> 00:28:08.240
 to have

00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:08.940
 plan B

00:28:08.940 --> 00:28:09.860
 no

00:28:09.860 --> 00:28:11.700
 no

00:28:11.700 --> 00:28:13.940
 John is

00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:14.540
 so helpful

00:28:14.540 --> 00:28:14.940
 here

00:28:14.940 --> 00:28:15.900
 Jesus is

00:28:15.900 --> 00:28:16.300
 so helpful

00:28:16.300 --> 00:28:16.600
 here

00:28:16.599 --> 00:28:17.659
 verse 37

00:28:17.659 --> 00:28:17.919
 again

00:28:17.919 --> 00:28:18.299
 though he

00:28:18.299 --> 00:28:18.579
 had done

00:28:18.579 --> 00:28:19.039
 so many

00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:19.599
 signs

00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:20.199
 before them

00:28:20.199 --> 00:28:20.579
 they still

00:28:20.579 --> 00:28:20.899
 did not

00:28:20.899 --> 00:28:21.359
 believe in

00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:21.519
 him

00:28:21.519 --> 00:28:22.379
 so

00:28:22.379 --> 00:28:23.839
 that the

00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:24.579
 word spoken

00:28:24.579 --> 00:28:24.959
 by the

00:28:24.959 --> 00:28:25.719
 prophet Isaiah

00:28:25.719 --> 00:28:26.279
 might be

00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:26.759
 fulfilled

00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:28.240
 Lord

00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:29.419
 he quotes

00:28:29.419 --> 00:28:29.740
 from

00:28:29.740 --> 00:28:31.379
 from Isaiah

00:28:31.379 --> 00:28:32.019
 53

00:28:32.019 --> 00:28:33.259
 Lord who

00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:33.779
 has believed

00:28:33.779 --> 00:28:34.119
 what he

00:28:34.119 --> 00:28:34.639
 heard from

00:28:34.639 --> 00:28:35.079
 us

00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:36.240
 to whom

00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:36.480
 is the

00:28:36.480 --> 00:28:36.859
 arm of

00:28:36.859 --> 00:28:37.119
 the Lord

00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:37.759
 been revealed

00:28:37.759 --> 00:28:39.839
 therefore

00:28:39.839 --> 00:28:41.000
 verse 39

00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:41.759
 they could

00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:42.559
 not believe

00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:43.959
 that's really

00:28:43.959 --> 00:28:44.879
 troublesome

00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:45.420
 I'll talk

00:28:45.420 --> 00:28:45.700
 about it

00:28:45.700 --> 00:28:45.860
 in a

00:28:45.860 --> 00:28:46.020
 moment

00:28:46.020 --> 00:28:46.460
 they could

00:28:46.460 --> 00:28:46.700
 not

00:28:46.700 --> 00:28:47.220
 believe

00:28:47.220 --> 00:28:48.620
 for again

00:28:48.620 --> 00:28:48.980
 Isaiah

00:28:48.980 --> 00:28:49.520
 said

00:28:49.520 --> 00:28:50.060
 and this

00:28:50.060 --> 00:28:50.240
 is going

00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:50.480
 to sound

00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:50.700
 very

00:28:50.700 --> 00:28:51.220
 troublesome

00:28:51.220 --> 00:28:52.320
 he has

00:28:52.320 --> 00:28:52.780
 blinded

00:28:52.780 --> 00:28:53.300
 their eyes

00:28:53.300 --> 00:28:53.840
 and hardened

00:28:53.840 --> 00:28:54.440
 their heart

00:28:54.440 --> 00:28:55.000
 lest they

00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:55.520
 see with

00:28:55.520 --> 00:28:55.980
 their eyes

00:28:55.980 --> 00:28:56.620
 and understand

00:28:56.620 --> 00:28:57.000
 with their

00:28:57.000 --> 00:28:57.300
 heart

00:28:57.300 --> 00:28:57.960
 and turn

00:28:57.960 --> 00:28:59.240
 and I

00:28:59.240 --> 00:28:59.420
 would

00:28:59.420 --> 00:28:59.680
 heal

00:28:59.680 --> 00:29:00.000
 them

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:01.860
 Isaiah

00:29:01.860 --> 00:29:02.820
 said these

00:29:02.820 --> 00:29:03.560
 things because

00:29:03.560 --> 00:29:04.180
 he saw

00:29:04.180 --> 00:29:05.160
 his glory

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:06.240
 that's God

00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:06.600
 the son

00:29:06.600 --> 00:29:07.280
 of God's

00:29:07.280 --> 00:29:07.960
 glory

00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:08.620
 he's talking

00:29:08.620 --> 00:29:08.940
 about the

00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:09.600
 pre-existence

00:29:09.600 --> 00:29:10.240
 of Christ

00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:11.600
 and spoke

00:29:11.600 --> 00:29:12.060
 of him

00:29:12.060 --> 00:29:13.940
 nevertheless

00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:15.600
 many even

00:29:15.600 --> 00:29:15.860
 of the

00:29:15.860 --> 00:29:16.340
 authorities

00:29:16.340 --> 00:29:16.960
 believed in

00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:17.259
 him

00:29:17.259 --> 00:29:18.420
 but for

00:29:18.420 --> 00:29:18.980
 fear of

00:29:18.980 --> 00:29:19.779
 the Pharisees

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:20.240
 they did

00:29:20.240 --> 00:29:21.059
 not confess

00:29:21.059 --> 00:29:21.320
 it

00:29:21.320 --> 00:29:22.900
 so that

00:29:22.900 --> 00:29:23.240
 they would

00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:23.700
 not be

00:29:23.700 --> 00:29:24.059
 put out

00:29:24.059 --> 00:29:24.320
 of the

00:29:24.320 --> 00:29:24.680
 synagogue

00:29:24.680 --> 00:29:25.960
 for they

00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:26.500
 love the

00:29:26.500 --> 00:29:26.940
 glory

00:29:26.940 --> 00:29:27.460
 that is

00:29:27.460 --> 00:29:28.180
 the praise

00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:29.059
 glory can

00:29:29.059 --> 00:29:29.580
 be translated

00:29:29.580 --> 00:29:29.960
 as the

00:29:29.960 --> 00:29:30.360
 glory

00:29:30.360 --> 00:29:31.120
 the praise

00:29:31.120 --> 00:29:31.779
 the honor

00:29:31.779 --> 00:29:32.559
 the respect

00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:33.900
 that comes

00:29:33.900 --> 00:29:34.400
 from other

00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:35.340
 human beings

00:29:35.340 --> 00:29:37.080
 more than

00:29:37.080 --> 00:29:37.600
 the glory

00:29:37.600 --> 00:29:38.460
 that comes

00:29:38.460 --> 00:29:39.039
 from God

00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:41.200
 he's

00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:41.700
 perfectly

00:29:41.700 --> 00:29:42.259
 described

00:29:42.259 --> 00:29:42.839
 the plot

00:29:42.839 --> 00:29:43.500
 of every

00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:43.920
 Bosch

00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:44.319
 novel

00:29:44.319 --> 00:29:47.039
 because the

00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:47.519
 people are

00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:48.160
 far more

00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:48.819
 concerned

00:29:48.819 --> 00:29:49.440
 with their

00:29:49.440 --> 00:29:50.019
 respect

00:29:50.019 --> 00:29:51.180
 their honor

00:29:51.180 --> 00:29:53.339
 their praise

00:29:53.339 --> 00:29:54.539
 than the

00:29:54.539 --> 00:29:54.960
 truth

00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:57.099
 now

00:29:57.099 --> 00:30:01.619
 what Jesus

00:30:01.619 --> 00:30:02.339
 is showing

00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:02.940
 here

00:30:02.940 --> 00:30:03.879
 is the

00:30:03.879 --> 00:30:04.619
 possibility

00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:06.200
 of us

00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:06.599
 having

00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:07.379
 very very

00:30:07.379 --> 00:30:08.220
 very very

00:30:08.220 --> 00:30:09.160
 hard

00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:10.099
 hearts

00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:17.759
 every

00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:18.399
 system of

00:30:18.399 --> 00:30:18.599
 thought

00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:19.039
 has to

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:19.240
 deal

00:30:19.240 --> 00:30:19.599
 with the

00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:20.019
 problem

00:30:20.019 --> 00:30:20.500
 that human

00:30:20.500 --> 00:30:20.859
 beings

00:30:20.859 --> 00:30:21.240
 seem to

00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:21.419
 have

00:30:21.419 --> 00:30:21.679
 free

00:30:21.679 --> 00:30:21.959
 will

00:30:21.959 --> 00:30:23.559
 yet on

00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:23.859
 the other

00:30:23.859 --> 00:30:24.279
 hand

00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:24.859
 there's

00:30:24.859 --> 00:30:25.359
 parts of

00:30:25.359 --> 00:30:25.559
 the way

00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:25.919
 the world

00:30:25.919 --> 00:30:26.480
 are organized

00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:26.939
 that would

00:30:26.939 --> 00:30:27.500
 imply that

00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:27.899
 free will

00:30:27.899 --> 00:30:28.319
 does not

00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:28.879
 exist

00:30:28.880 --> 00:30:32.480
 if you

00:30:32.480 --> 00:30:33.840
 a lot

00:30:33.840 --> 00:30:34.300
 of people

00:30:34.300 --> 00:30:34.620
 who would

00:30:34.620 --> 00:30:35.020
 say they're

00:30:35.020 --> 00:30:35.640
 scientists

00:30:35.640 --> 00:30:36.080
 are not

00:30:36.080 --> 00:30:36.320
 just

00:30:36.320 --> 00:30:38.080
 they're not

00:30:38.080 --> 00:30:38.420
 just

00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:43.980
 holding

00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:45.060
 or committed

00:30:45.060 --> 00:30:46.380
 to just

00:30:46.380 --> 00:30:46.840
 trying to

00:30:46.840 --> 00:30:47.660
 understand the

00:30:47.660 --> 00:30:48.700
 material causes

00:30:48.700 --> 00:30:49.500
 of why things

00:30:49.500 --> 00:30:49.880
 happen

00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:50.440
 they're also

00:30:50.440 --> 00:30:51.060
 committed to

00:30:51.060 --> 00:30:51.740
 a larger

00:30:51.740 --> 00:30:52.500
 philosophy

00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:53.160
 that says

00:30:53.160 --> 00:30:54.060
 that every

00:30:54.060 --> 00:30:55.060
 cause has

00:30:55.060 --> 00:30:55.580
 an effect

00:30:55.580 --> 00:30:55.960
 and that

00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:57.440
 we're locked

00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:58.060
 in a

00:30:58.059 --> 00:30:59.000
 series of

00:30:59.000 --> 00:30:59.599
 causes and

00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:00.119
 effects and

00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:00.659
 causes and

00:31:00.659 --> 00:31:01.159
 effects but

00:31:01.159 --> 00:31:01.480
 if you

00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:01.899
 if you

00:31:01.899 --> 00:31:02.259
 literally

00:31:02.259 --> 00:31:02.940
 believe that

00:31:02.940 --> 00:31:03.319
 it means

00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:03.619
 that there

00:31:03.619 --> 00:31:03.980
 is no

00:31:03.980 --> 00:31:04.500
 such thing

00:31:04.500 --> 00:31:04.879
 as free

00:31:04.879 --> 00:31:05.099
 will

00:31:05.099 --> 00:31:05.579
 it literally

00:31:05.579 --> 00:31:06.319
 means that

00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.000
 in islam

00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:08.639
 they have

00:31:08.639 --> 00:31:09.159
 the problem

00:31:09.159 --> 00:31:09.639
 that they've

00:31:09.639 --> 00:31:10.259
 made god

00:31:10.259 --> 00:31:10.819
 to be so

00:31:10.819 --> 00:31:11.679
 big and

00:31:11.679 --> 00:31:12.480
 powerful that

00:31:12.480 --> 00:31:13.000
 basically

00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:13.879
 everything that

00:31:13.879 --> 00:31:14.519
 happens is

00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:14.940
 fate

00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:15.879
 everything that

00:31:15.879 --> 00:31:16.460
 happens is

00:31:16.460 --> 00:31:16.740
 fate

00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:18.279
 in hinduism

00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:18.759
 and all of

00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:19.139
 the eastern

00:31:19.139 --> 00:31:19.919
 religions with

00:31:19.919 --> 00:31:20.539
 the whole law

00:31:20.539 --> 00:31:21.240
 of karma

00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:22.399
 and the cycle

00:31:22.399 --> 00:31:23.200
 of death

00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:23.700
 and birth

00:31:23.700 --> 00:31:24.159
 and rebirth

00:31:24.159 --> 00:31:25.279
 what ends up

00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:25.819
 happening is

00:31:25.819 --> 00:31:26.059
 that you

00:31:26.059 --> 00:31:26.659
 fundamentally

00:31:26.659 --> 00:31:27.460
 have a system

00:31:27.460 --> 00:31:28.079
 where everything

00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:28.779
 is completely

00:31:28.779 --> 00:31:29.299
 and utterly

00:31:29.299 --> 00:31:29.940
 determined

00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:31.259
 and all

00:31:31.259 --> 00:31:31.940
 systems of

00:31:31.940 --> 00:31:32.440
 thought have

00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:32.920
 to try to

00:31:32.920 --> 00:31:33.620
 deal with

00:31:33.620 --> 00:31:33.960
 the fact

00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:34.460
 that on one

00:31:34.460 --> 00:31:34.700
 hand

00:31:34.700 --> 00:31:35.720
 because hinduism

00:31:35.720 --> 00:31:36.240
 and buddhism

00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:36.819
 will still give

00:31:36.819 --> 00:31:37.340
 you ethical

00:31:37.340 --> 00:31:37.880
 commands

00:31:37.880 --> 00:31:38.620
 yet their

00:31:38.620 --> 00:31:39.079
 fundamental

00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:39.680
 understanding

00:31:39.680 --> 00:31:40.220
 of how things

00:31:40.220 --> 00:31:40.720
 work is

00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:41.220
 one is if

00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:41.860
 you're on a

00:31:41.860 --> 00:31:43.400
 cycle of fate

00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:44.240
 that will just

00:31:44.240 --> 00:31:45.120
 keep moving

00:31:45.120 --> 00:31:45.700
 you and moving

00:31:45.700 --> 00:31:46.160
 you and moving

00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:46.779
 and islam

00:31:46.779 --> 00:31:47.299
 has things

00:31:47.299 --> 00:31:47.600
 that you're

00:31:47.600 --> 00:31:48.039
 supposed to

00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:48.680
 do yet

00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:49.240
 their understanding

00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:49.740
 of god

00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:50.460
 is that all

00:31:50.460 --> 00:31:50.880
 these things

00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:51.400
 will just keep

00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:51.960
 happening and

00:31:51.960 --> 00:31:52.420
 happening and

00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:52.819
 happening because

00:31:52.819 --> 00:31:53.460
 it's all and

00:31:53.460 --> 00:31:54.400
 utterly completely

00:31:54.400 --> 00:31:55.299
 determined by

00:31:55.299 --> 00:31:56.360
 Allah and

00:31:56.360 --> 00:31:56.940
 only the

00:31:56.940 --> 00:31:57.759
 christian faith

00:31:57.759 --> 00:31:58.539
 wrestles with

00:31:58.539 --> 00:31:59.240
 these ways

00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:00.680
 in something

00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:01.120
 that is true

00:32:01.120 --> 00:32:01.400
 to our

00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:02.080
 experience

00:32:02.080 --> 00:32:03.259
 and gives

00:32:03.259 --> 00:32:03.759
 us hope

00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:05.140
 not just

00:32:05.140 --> 00:32:05.380
 that it

00:32:05.380 --> 00:32:05.700
 gives us

00:32:05.700 --> 00:32:06.059
 hope but

00:32:06.059 --> 00:32:06.720
 it's true

00:32:06.720 --> 00:32:07.880
 you see at

00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:08.180
 the very

00:32:08.180 --> 00:32:08.880
 heart of

00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:09.400
 the christian

00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:10.000
 faith is

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:10.700
 the threeness

00:32:10.700 --> 00:32:11.320
 of god

00:32:11.320 --> 00:32:13.580
 that from

00:32:13.580 --> 00:32:14.200
 all eternity

00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:14.720
 before there

00:32:14.720 --> 00:32:15.200
 was anything

00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:15.820
 created

00:32:15.820 --> 00:32:16.779
 from all

00:32:16.779 --> 00:32:17.120
 eternity

00:32:17.120 --> 00:32:17.700
 before anything

00:32:17.700 --> 00:32:18.360
 was created

00:32:18.360 --> 00:32:19.039
 the father

00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:20.340
 was god

00:32:20.340 --> 00:32:20.840
 the son

00:32:20.840 --> 00:32:21.360
 was god

00:32:21.360 --> 00:32:21.720
 the holy

00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:22.140
 spirit

00:32:22.140 --> 00:32:22.759
 was god

00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:23.160
 yet there's

00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:23.680
 only one

00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:24.200
 god and

00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:24.600
 the father

00:32:24.600 --> 00:32:25.160
 loved the

00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:25.519
 son and

00:32:25.519 --> 00:32:25.860
 the son

00:32:25.860 --> 00:32:26.320
 loved the

00:32:26.320 --> 00:32:26.759
 father

00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:27.600
 and the

00:32:27.600 --> 00:32:28.259
 holy spirit

00:32:28.259 --> 00:32:28.740
 in some

00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:29.000
 issue

00:32:29.000 --> 00:32:29.680
 in some

00:32:29.680 --> 00:32:30.039
 is a

00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:30.279
 third

00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:30.620
 person

00:32:30.620 --> 00:32:30.960
 in some

00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:31.180
 ways

00:32:31.180 --> 00:32:31.380
 this

00:32:31.380 --> 00:32:31.940
 personhood

00:32:31.940 --> 00:32:32.580
 is described

00:32:32.580 --> 00:32:32.980
 as that

00:32:32.980 --> 00:32:34.600
 unending love

00:32:34.600 --> 00:32:35.559
 and communication

00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:36.480
 and respect

00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:37.680
 and giving of

00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:38.320
 glory and

00:32:38.320 --> 00:32:39.019
 praise that

00:32:39.019 --> 00:32:40.180
 endlessly went

00:32:40.180 --> 00:32:40.720
 back and

00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:41.380
 forward without

00:32:41.380 --> 00:32:42.100
 ceasing from

00:32:42.100 --> 00:32:42.559
 the father

00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:43.279
 to the son

00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:44.200
 and at the

00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:44.740
 very very

00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:45.799
 heart of our

00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:46.700
 understanding of

00:32:46.700 --> 00:32:47.200
 who god

00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:47.799
 is is

00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:48.240
 community

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:48.600
 and is

00:32:48.600 --> 00:32:49.019
 love

00:32:49.019 --> 00:32:50.019
 love

00:32:50.019 --> 00:32:52.599
 and it

00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:53.059
 is the

00:32:53.059 --> 00:32:53.500
 father

00:32:53.500 --> 00:32:53.960
 the son

00:32:53.960 --> 00:32:54.180
 and the

00:32:54.180 --> 00:32:54.400
 holy

00:32:54.400 --> 00:32:54.940
 spirit

00:32:54.940 --> 00:32:55.259
 this

00:32:55.259 --> 00:32:56.019
 unending

00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:56.819
 community

00:32:56.819 --> 00:32:58.500
 of love

00:32:58.500 --> 00:33:00.619
 that is

00:33:00.619 --> 00:33:01.319
 the god

00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:02.079
 that has

00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:02.379
 created

00:33:02.379 --> 00:33:03.279
 all things

00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:05.059
 and so it

00:33:05.059 --> 00:33:05.559
 is that the

00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:06.099
 god who

00:33:06.099 --> 00:33:06.619
 really does

00:33:06.619 --> 00:33:06.980
 exist

00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:07.539
 he really

00:33:07.539 --> 00:33:07.879
 is

00:33:07.879 --> 00:33:08.180
 god

00:33:08.180 --> 00:33:08.480
 really

00:33:08.480 --> 00:33:08.759
 is

00:33:08.759 --> 00:33:09.200
 sovereign

00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:09.819
 over all

00:33:09.819 --> 00:33:10.200
 things

00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:10.960
 he really

00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:11.299
 truly

00:33:11.299 --> 00:33:11.559
 is

00:33:11.559 --> 00:33:11.900
 but the

00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:12.339
 world

00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:12.879
 that god

00:33:12.879 --> 00:33:13.319
 created

00:33:13.319 --> 00:33:14.279
 the father

00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:14.899
 and the

00:33:14.899 --> 00:33:15.139
 son

00:33:15.139 --> 00:33:15.379
 and the

00:33:15.379 --> 00:33:15.619
 holy

00:33:15.619 --> 00:33:16.099
 spirit

00:33:16.099 --> 00:33:16.399
 this

00:33:16.399 --> 00:33:17.160
 unending

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:18.039
 communication

00:33:18.039 --> 00:33:18.680
 and love

00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:19.519
 of giving

00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:20.379
 and receiving

00:33:20.379 --> 00:33:21.160
 of knowing

00:33:21.160 --> 00:33:21.559
 and being

00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:22.000
 known

00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:22.700
 that is at

00:33:22.700 --> 00:33:23.039
 the very

00:33:23.039 --> 00:33:23.559
 heart of

00:33:23.559 --> 00:33:24.099
 all things

00:33:24.099 --> 00:33:24.839
 this is

00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:25.379
 the god

00:33:25.379 --> 00:33:25.879
 who created

00:33:25.879 --> 00:33:26.619
 all things

00:33:26.619 --> 00:33:28.660
 and so

00:33:28.660 --> 00:33:29.500
 this god

00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:29.859
 who has

00:33:29.859 --> 00:33:30.180
 created

00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:31.039
 all things

00:33:31.039 --> 00:33:32.839
 it makes

00:33:32.839 --> 00:33:33.559
 complete another

00:33:33.559 --> 00:33:34.240
 sense that on

00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:34.799
 one hand

00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:35.379
 this god

00:33:35.379 --> 00:33:35.859
 would still

00:33:35.859 --> 00:33:36.700
 be sovereign

00:33:36.700 --> 00:33:37.839
 but the

00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:38.619
 very nature

00:33:38.619 --> 00:33:39.160
 of what he

00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:39.619
 wants to

00:33:39.619 --> 00:33:40.180
 give to his

00:33:40.180 --> 00:33:40.660
 creatures

00:33:40.660 --> 00:33:41.579
 is the

00:33:41.579 --> 00:33:42.039
 dignity

00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:43.099
 of causality

00:33:43.099 --> 00:33:43.859
 and the

00:33:43.859 --> 00:33:44.279
 dignity

00:33:44.279 --> 00:33:45.019
 of freedom

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:45.740
 and the

00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:46.219
 dignity

00:33:46.219 --> 00:33:46.579
 and the

00:33:46.579 --> 00:33:47.000
 power

00:33:47.000 --> 00:33:47.819
 of love

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:49.500
 and of

00:33:49.500 --> 00:33:49.899
 truly

00:33:49.899 --> 00:33:50.379
 knowing

00:33:50.379 --> 00:33:50.899
 and not

00:33:50.899 --> 00:33:51.419
 being

00:33:51.419 --> 00:33:52.339
 a constant

00:33:52.339 --> 00:33:52.839
 victim

00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:53.219
 why

00:33:53.219 --> 00:33:53.779
 because it

00:33:53.779 --> 00:33:54.079
 fits

00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:54.979
 exactly

00:33:54.979 --> 00:33:55.899
 with who

00:33:55.899 --> 00:33:56.299
 god

00:33:56.299 --> 00:33:56.539
 is

00:33:56.539 --> 00:33:57.159
 this

00:33:57.159 --> 00:33:57.579
 is

00:33:57.579 --> 00:33:57.839
 who

00:33:57.839 --> 00:33:58.259
 god

00:33:58.259 --> 00:33:58.779
 is

00:33:58.779 --> 00:34:00.919
 and so

00:34:00.919 --> 00:34:01.199
 when we

00:34:01.199 --> 00:34:01.719
 see these

00:34:01.719 --> 00:34:02.299
 words of

00:34:02.299 --> 00:34:02.699
 jesus

00:34:02.699 --> 00:34:03.000
 here

00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:03.419
 what he

00:34:03.419 --> 00:34:03.899
 is saying

00:34:03.899 --> 00:34:04.279
 here

00:34:04.279 --> 00:34:05.099
 isn't

00:34:05.099 --> 00:34:05.479
 that

00:34:05.479 --> 00:34:06.659
 oh

00:34:06.659 --> 00:34:07.099
 my

00:34:07.099 --> 00:34:07.559
 friend

00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:07.859
 and i'll

00:34:07.859 --> 00:34:08.400
 call him

00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:08.779
 bob

00:34:08.779 --> 00:34:09.059
 my

00:34:09.059 --> 00:34:09.420
 friend

00:34:09.420 --> 00:34:09.799
 bob

00:34:09.799 --> 00:34:10.619
 he keeps

00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:11.019
 wanting

00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:11.519
 to believe

00:34:11.519 --> 00:34:12.139
 in jesus

00:34:12.139 --> 00:34:12.679
 and god

00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:13.119
 sees him

00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:13.699
 and smacks

00:34:13.699 --> 00:34:14.119
 him down

00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:14.759
 no you're

00:34:14.759 --> 00:34:15.219
 not going

00:34:15.219 --> 00:34:15.519
 to believe

00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:16.019
 in jesus

00:34:16.019 --> 00:34:16.679
 i refuse

00:34:16.679 --> 00:34:16.859
 it

00:34:16.859 --> 00:34:17.500
 that's not

00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:17.839
 what this

00:34:17.839 --> 00:34:18.299
 is saying

00:34:18.299 --> 00:34:20.359
 as if god

00:34:20.359 --> 00:34:21.039
 somehow or

00:34:21.039 --> 00:34:22.259
 another undermines

00:34:22.259 --> 00:34:22.980
 our desires

00:34:22.980 --> 00:34:23.939
 to know him

00:34:23.939 --> 00:34:26.500
 you see a

00:34:26.500 --> 00:34:27.119
 merging of

00:34:27.119 --> 00:34:28.000
 two wills

00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:30.039
 i come to

00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:30.480
 hear the

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:31.319
 truth and i

00:34:31.319 --> 00:34:31.819
 turn away

00:34:31.819 --> 00:34:32.259
 from it

00:34:32.259 --> 00:34:32.779
 because i

00:34:32.779 --> 00:34:33.179
 love the

00:34:33.179 --> 00:34:33.699
 praise of

00:34:33.699 --> 00:34:34.179
 other human

00:34:34.179 --> 00:34:34.579
 beings i

00:34:34.579 --> 00:34:34.899
 want to be

00:34:34.899 --> 00:34:35.480
 thought well

00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:36.259
 of i

00:34:36.259 --> 00:34:36.500
 don't want

00:34:36.500 --> 00:34:36.960
 to take a

00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:37.679
 moral position

00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:38.059
 in my

00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:38.739
 society that

00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:39.019
 will make

00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:39.739
 people feel

00:34:39.739 --> 00:34:40.759
 unhappy

00:34:40.759 --> 00:34:41.599
 about me

00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:44.820
 and not

00:34:44.820 --> 00:34:45.380
 like me

00:34:45.380 --> 00:34:45.639
 or not

00:34:45.639 --> 00:34:45.960
 want to

00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:46.219
 talk to

00:34:46.219 --> 00:34:46.460
 me i

00:34:46.460 --> 00:34:46.940
 know very

00:34:46.940 --> 00:34:47.400
 well what

00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:47.800
 it's like

00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:48.259
 to develop

00:34:48.259 --> 00:34:48.820
 a friendship

00:34:48.820 --> 00:34:49.280
 with a

00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:49.699
 barista

00:34:49.699 --> 00:34:50.340
 or somebody

00:34:50.340 --> 00:34:50.579
 in a

00:34:50.579 --> 00:34:51.039
 starbucks

00:34:51.039 --> 00:34:51.519
 and eventually

00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:51.980
 they ask

00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:52.440
 me what i

00:34:52.440 --> 00:34:53.679
 do and

00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:54.179
 i tell them

00:34:54.179 --> 00:34:54.599
 that i'm a

00:34:54.599 --> 00:34:56.360
 pastor and

00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:57.039
 their face

00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:59.239
 gets cloudy

00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:00.539
 and they look

00:35:00.539 --> 00:35:01.179
 disappointed

00:35:01.179 --> 00:35:04.259
 i experience

00:35:04.259 --> 00:35:04.719
 that all

00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:05.239
 the time

00:35:05.239 --> 00:35:06.299
 we thought

00:35:06.299 --> 00:35:06.639
 he was a

00:35:06.639 --> 00:35:07.299
 nice guy

00:35:07.299 --> 00:35:09.639
 but he's a

00:35:09.639 --> 00:35:10.239
 christian

00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:12.259
 how could

00:35:12.259 --> 00:35:12.419
 he

00:35:12.419 --> 00:35:18.539
 and so

00:35:18.539 --> 00:35:18.940
 what the

00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:19.460
 bible is

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:19.919
 saying here

00:35:19.919 --> 00:35:20.239
 is there's

00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:20.679
 this double

00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:21.159
 there's this

00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:21.799
 old saying

00:35:21.799 --> 00:35:22.199
 that the

00:35:22.199 --> 00:35:22.639
 door to

00:35:22.639 --> 00:35:23.039
 hell is

00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:23.319
 locked

00:35:23.319 --> 00:35:23.719
 from the

00:35:23.719 --> 00:35:24.239
 inside

00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:26.519
 and that

00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:27.019
 i as a

00:35:27.019 --> 00:35:27.639
 human being

00:35:27.639 --> 00:35:28.279
 i have

00:35:28.279 --> 00:35:28.739
 this the

00:35:28.739 --> 00:35:29.500
 light of

00:35:29.500 --> 00:35:30.059
 conscience

00:35:30.059 --> 00:35:30.440
 i have

00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:30.980
 the light

00:35:30.980 --> 00:35:31.539
 of reason

00:35:31.539 --> 00:35:31.900
 i have

00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:32.440
 the light

00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:32.800
 of good

00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:33.420
 affections

00:35:33.420 --> 00:35:33.820
 and i

00:35:33.820 --> 00:35:34.400
 choose

00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:36.039
 the non-light

00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:37.440
 i hear the

00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:38.360
 truth and

00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:38.820
 i choose

00:35:38.820 --> 00:35:39.659
 non-truth

00:35:39.659 --> 00:35:40.740
 i hear of

00:35:40.740 --> 00:35:41.920
 justice and

00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:42.340
 i choose

00:35:42.340 --> 00:35:43.420
 non-justice

00:35:43.420 --> 00:35:44.400
 and what i'm

00:35:44.400 --> 00:35:44.860
 doing is

00:35:44.860 --> 00:35:45.780
 every time i

00:35:45.780 --> 00:35:46.440
 turn away

00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:46.920
 and choose

00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:47.500
 something else

00:35:47.500 --> 00:35:47.920
 i'm turning

00:35:47.920 --> 00:35:48.420
 away from

00:35:48.420 --> 00:35:48.760
 the light

00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:49.380
 i'm turning

00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:50.019
 away from

00:35:50.019 --> 00:35:50.340
 god

00:35:50.340 --> 00:35:51.179
 i'm choosing

00:35:51.179 --> 00:35:51.840
 darkness

00:35:51.840 --> 00:35:52.820
 i'm choosing

00:35:52.820 --> 00:35:53.420
 hardness

00:35:53.420 --> 00:35:54.139
 and at

00:35:54.139 --> 00:35:54.780
 some point

00:35:54.780 --> 00:35:55.280
 in time

00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:55.920
 god who

00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:56.300
 by his

00:35:56.300 --> 00:35:57.400
 common grace

00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:58.519
 is is

00:35:58.519 --> 00:35:59.440
 is stopping

00:35:59.440 --> 00:36:00.280
 the full

00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:00.840
 implication

00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:01.620
 of my

00:36:01.620 --> 00:36:02.180
 choice

00:36:02.180 --> 00:36:02.900
 to turn

00:36:02.900 --> 00:36:03.420
 away from

00:36:03.420 --> 00:36:03.660
 him

00:36:03.660 --> 00:36:04.460
 to choose

00:36:04.460 --> 00:36:04.820
 evil

00:36:04.820 --> 00:36:05.340
 to choose

00:36:05.340 --> 00:36:05.740
 to be a

00:36:05.740 --> 00:36:06.140
 god

00:36:06.140 --> 00:36:06.880
 to choose

00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:07.480
 to be better

00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:07.860
 than other

00:36:07.860 --> 00:36:08.360
 people to

00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:08.860
 choose to be

00:36:08.860 --> 00:36:09.300
 the center

00:36:09.300 --> 00:36:09.900
 all of these

00:36:09.900 --> 00:36:10.760
 times and

00:36:10.760 --> 00:36:11.700
 god god

00:36:11.700 --> 00:36:12.480
 reigns that

00:36:12.480 --> 00:36:12.840
 in he

00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:13.600
 resists that

00:36:13.600 --> 00:36:14.480
 he restrains

00:36:14.480 --> 00:36:14.980
 that and at

00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:15.700
 some point in

00:36:15.700 --> 00:36:16.559
 time he says

00:36:16.559 --> 00:36:17.280
 to me

00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:19.079
 i will be

00:36:19.079 --> 00:36:19.400
 done

00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:21.400
 you have chosen

00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:22.460
 darkness darkness

00:36:22.460 --> 00:36:23.180
 is what you will

00:36:23.180 --> 00:36:23.539
 have

00:36:23.539 --> 00:36:25.600
 you have chosen

00:36:25.600 --> 00:36:26.280
 hardness

00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:26.980
 hardness

00:36:26.980 --> 00:36:27.440
 will be

00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:27.820
 what you

00:36:27.820 --> 00:36:28.200
 have

00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:29.700
 you have

00:36:29.700 --> 00:36:30.380
 chosen to

00:36:30.380 --> 00:36:30.960
 resist the

00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:31.300
 truth

00:36:31.300 --> 00:36:32.640
 not knowing

00:36:32.640 --> 00:36:33.140
 the truth

00:36:33.140 --> 00:36:33.740
 will be

00:36:33.740 --> 00:36:34.120
 what you

00:36:34.120 --> 00:36:34.519
 have

00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:38.080
 and jesus

00:36:38.080 --> 00:36:38.460
 in this

00:36:38.460 --> 00:36:39.080
 teaching is

00:36:39.080 --> 00:36:39.840
 warning us

00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:41.140
 that it's

00:36:41.140 --> 00:36:41.920
 sometime by

00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:42.820
 god's sovereign

00:36:42.820 --> 00:36:43.519
 choice it's

00:36:43.519 --> 00:36:44.460
 only by god's

00:36:44.460 --> 00:36:45.040
 action that i

00:36:45.040 --> 00:36:45.580
 have freedom

00:36:45.580 --> 00:36:46.000
 that i can

00:36:46.000 --> 00:36:46.380
 know the

00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:46.860
 truth that i

00:36:46.860 --> 00:36:47.260
 can have

00:36:47.260 --> 00:36:47.880
 affections that

00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:48.100
 are good

00:36:48.100 --> 00:36:48.500
 that i can

00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:49.260
 love justice

00:36:49.260 --> 00:36:50.160
 and love

00:36:50.160 --> 00:36:51.140
 mercy and

00:36:51.140 --> 00:36:51.860
 love peace

00:36:51.860 --> 00:36:52.300
 and love

00:36:52.300 --> 00:36:53.180
 goodness and

00:36:53.180 --> 00:36:53.820
 desire to

00:36:53.820 --> 00:36:54.140
 know the

00:36:54.140 --> 00:36:54.680
 truth and be

00:36:54.680 --> 00:36:55.160
 in the truth

00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:55.679
 and not to

00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:56.179
 be a person

00:36:56.179 --> 00:36:56.420
 of the

00:36:56.420 --> 00:36:56.819
 lie but

00:36:56.819 --> 00:36:57.159
 to be a

00:36:57.159 --> 00:36:57.519
 person of

00:36:57.519 --> 00:36:57.839
 the truth

00:36:57.839 --> 00:36:58.339
 it's only

00:36:58.339 --> 00:36:58.940
 by god's

00:36:58.940 --> 00:36:59.579
 common grace

00:36:59.579 --> 00:36:59.940
 that even

00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:00.259
 though i

00:37:00.259 --> 00:37:00.839
 am fallen

00:37:00.839 --> 00:37:01.679
 that can

00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:02.219
 still be a

00:37:02.219 --> 00:37:02.859
 possibility at

00:37:02.859 --> 00:37:03.420
 some point

00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:04.099
 in time god

00:37:04.099 --> 00:37:04.819
 says enough

00:37:04.819 --> 00:37:08.079
 to darkness

00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:08.699
 you want to

00:37:08.699 --> 00:37:09.039
 go to

00:37:09.039 --> 00:37:09.659
 darkness you

00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:10.039
 will go

00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:12.019
 to never

00:37:12.019 --> 00:37:12.539
 have anything

00:37:12.539 --> 00:37:13.059
 to do with

00:37:13.059 --> 00:37:14.259
 me never

00:37:14.259 --> 00:37:14.859
 having anything

00:37:14.859 --> 00:37:15.399
 to do with

00:37:15.399 --> 00:37:17.079
 me is is

00:37:17.079 --> 00:37:17.859
 what will be

00:37:17.859 --> 00:37:18.460
 of you

00:37:18.460 --> 00:37:22.179
 and jesus

00:37:22.179 --> 00:37:22.839
 says these

00:37:22.839 --> 00:37:23.359
 things

00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:25.640
 so that

00:37:25.640 --> 00:37:25.900
 you and

00:37:25.900 --> 00:37:26.200
 i will

00:37:26.200 --> 00:37:26.579
 say is

00:37:26.579 --> 00:37:26.860
 it i

00:37:26.860 --> 00:37:27.220
 lord

00:37:27.220 --> 00:37:30.099
 is it

00:37:30.099 --> 00:37:30.320
 i

00:37:30.320 --> 00:37:30.680
 lord

00:37:30.680 --> 00:37:35.120
 and

00:37:35.120 --> 00:37:35.640
 unlike

00:37:35.640 --> 00:37:36.320
 the

00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:36.880
 scientific

00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:37.720
 so-called

00:37:37.720 --> 00:37:38.240
 scientific

00:37:38.240 --> 00:37:38.920
 understanding

00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:39.559
 unlike

00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:42.099
 the cycle

00:37:42.099 --> 00:37:42.660
 of life

00:37:42.660 --> 00:37:42.980
 and the

00:37:42.980 --> 00:37:43.480
 cycle of

00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:43.880
 karma

00:37:43.880 --> 00:37:44.680
 and unlike

00:37:44.680 --> 00:37:45.220
 even in

00:37:45.220 --> 00:37:45.680
 islam

00:37:45.680 --> 00:37:46.019
 where it's

00:37:46.019 --> 00:37:46.260
 all

00:37:46.260 --> 00:37:46.880
 controlled

00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:48.440
 because the

00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:48.920
 god who

00:37:48.920 --> 00:37:49.579
 does exist

00:37:49.579 --> 00:37:50.180
 is a god

00:37:50.180 --> 00:37:50.519
 who is

00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:50.940
 three

00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:52.120
 but one

00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:54.059
 that when

00:37:54.059 --> 00:37:54.799
 our conscience

00:37:54.799 --> 00:37:55.599
 is convicted

00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:56.319
 we can say

00:37:56.319 --> 00:37:56.779
 lord

00:37:56.779 --> 00:37:58.139
 have mercy

00:37:58.139 --> 00:37:59.400
 lord

00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:00.940
 have mercy

00:38:00.940 --> 00:38:01.980
 is it me

00:38:01.980 --> 00:38:02.500
 lord

00:38:02.500 --> 00:38:03.779
 have mercy

00:38:03.779 --> 00:38:05.039
 lord

00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:05.759
 have mercy

00:38:05.759 --> 00:38:07.079
 and there is a

00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:07.779
 god who can

00:38:07.779 --> 00:38:08.420
 hear who can

00:38:08.420 --> 00:38:09.380
 respond and

00:38:09.380 --> 00:38:10.380
 act with

00:38:10.380 --> 00:38:10.900
 power

00:38:10.900 --> 00:38:13.639
 who can say

00:38:13.639 --> 00:38:14.239
 george

00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:15.239
 george

00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:16.559
 you are so

00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:17.219
 ridiculous

00:38:17.219 --> 00:38:19.639
 george

00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:21.219
 you are so

00:38:21.219 --> 00:38:21.779
 given over

00:38:21.779 --> 00:38:22.159
 to your

00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:22.579
 ego

00:38:22.579 --> 00:38:23.979
 george

00:38:23.979 --> 00:38:25.599
 why is it

00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:26.059
 george that

00:38:26.059 --> 00:38:26.359
 when you

00:38:26.359 --> 00:38:26.879
 drive you

00:38:26.879 --> 00:38:27.399
 think people

00:38:27.399 --> 00:38:28.339
 driving faster

00:38:28.339 --> 00:38:28.699
 than you

00:38:28.699 --> 00:38:29.519
 are maniacs

00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:29.919
 and people

00:38:29.919 --> 00:38:30.719
 driving slower

00:38:30.719 --> 00:38:31.039
 than you

00:38:31.039 --> 00:38:31.639
 are idiots

00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:34.239
 why is it

00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:34.659
 you think

00:38:34.659 --> 00:38:35.000
 you're the

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:35.519
 center of

00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:36.239
 all things

00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:38.339
 you are so

00:38:38.339 --> 00:38:38.819
 hopeless

00:38:38.819 --> 00:38:39.919
 and i love

00:38:39.919 --> 00:38:40.199
 you

00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:42.239
 i am drawing

00:38:42.239 --> 00:38:42.619
 you to

00:38:42.619 --> 00:38:43.239
 myself

00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:46.199
 and

00:38:46.199 --> 00:38:48.659
 george

00:38:48.659 --> 00:38:50.339
 i

00:38:50.339 --> 00:38:51.539
 want

00:38:51.539 --> 00:38:52.219
 you to

00:38:52.219 --> 00:38:52.779
 understand

00:38:52.779 --> 00:38:53.799
 that there

00:38:53.799 --> 00:38:54.519
 is nothing

00:38:54.519 --> 00:38:55.099
 in your

00:38:55.099 --> 00:38:55.919
 salvation in

00:38:55.919 --> 00:38:56.439
 christ that

00:38:56.439 --> 00:38:56.719
 you can

00:38:56.719 --> 00:38:57.279
 take credit

00:38:57.279 --> 00:38:57.639
 for

00:38:57.639 --> 00:39:00.239
 because george

00:39:00.239 --> 00:39:01.419
 as a fallen

00:39:01.419 --> 00:39:02.039
 human being

00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:02.480
 you want to

00:39:02.480 --> 00:39:02.919
 take credit

00:39:02.919 --> 00:39:03.579
 for something

00:39:03.579 --> 00:39:05.039
 i'm not like

00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:05.759
 those stupid

00:39:05.759 --> 00:39:06.579
 people who

00:39:06.579 --> 00:39:06.799
 were

00:39:06.799 --> 00:39:08.339
 who studied

00:39:08.339 --> 00:39:09.319
 university like

00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:09.940
 i did and

00:39:09.940 --> 00:39:10.280
 they just

00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:10.780
 accepted

00:39:10.780 --> 00:39:11.500
 everything but

00:39:11.500 --> 00:39:12.580
 i sought

00:39:12.580 --> 00:39:13.420
 the truth and

00:39:13.420 --> 00:39:14.460
 eventually became

00:39:14.460 --> 00:39:15.000
 a christian

00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:15.820
 no george

00:39:15.820 --> 00:39:18.519
 i called

00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:20.280
 you i

00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:21.039
 chose you

00:39:21.039 --> 00:39:22.260
 i called

00:39:22.260 --> 00:39:23.280
 you i

00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:24.300
 enabled you

00:39:24.300 --> 00:39:25.200
 to come to

00:39:25.200 --> 00:39:26.120
 faith i

00:39:26.120 --> 00:39:26.740
 gave you

00:39:26.740 --> 00:39:27.480
 faith i

00:39:27.480 --> 00:39:28.260
 saved you

00:39:28.260 --> 00:39:29.200
 i hold

00:39:29.200 --> 00:39:30.000
 you i

00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:30.440
 will bring

00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:30.760
 you to

00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:31.660
 glory there

00:39:31.660 --> 00:39:32.340
 is nothing

00:39:32.340 --> 00:39:33.240
 in your

00:39:33.240 --> 00:39:34.140
 salvation that

00:39:34.140 --> 00:39:34.519
 you can

00:39:34.519 --> 00:39:35.500
 claim credit

00:39:35.500 --> 00:39:36.200
 for there

00:39:36.200 --> 00:39:36.780
 is nothing

00:39:36.780 --> 00:39:37.519
 in your

00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:38.559
 salvation george

00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:38.920
 that will

00:39:38.920 --> 00:39:39.440
 make you

00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:40.119
 can allow

00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:40.400
 you to

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:40.820
 look down

00:39:40.820 --> 00:39:41.240
 your nose

00:39:41.240 --> 00:39:41.559
 and other

00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:42.519
 people or

00:39:42.519 --> 00:39:43.260
 feel somehow

00:39:43.260 --> 00:39:44.139
 proud and pat

00:39:44.139 --> 00:39:44.860
 yourself on the

00:39:44.860 --> 00:39:45.400
 chest or the

00:39:45.400 --> 00:39:46.139
 back for what

00:39:46.139 --> 00:39:46.760
 you used to be

00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:47.480
 more flexible i

00:39:47.480 --> 00:39:48.180
 could pat myself

00:39:48.180 --> 00:39:48.940
 on the back now i

00:39:48.940 --> 00:39:50.099
 can't pat myself

00:39:50.099 --> 00:39:51.280
 on the head and

00:39:51.280 --> 00:39:51.980
 and and and and

00:39:51.980 --> 00:39:53.400
 and that's that's

00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:54.380
 what jesus saying

00:39:54.380 --> 00:39:56.039
 i die on the

00:39:56.039 --> 00:39:57.619
 cross i drink the

00:39:57.619 --> 00:39:58.740
 cup i am the

00:39:58.740 --> 00:39:59.519
 lamb of god who

00:39:59.519 --> 00:40:00.159
 takes away the

00:40:00.159 --> 00:40:00.659
 sin of the world

00:40:00.659 --> 00:40:02.119
 i draw you

00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:03.440
 listen there is

00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:04.260
 this possibility

00:40:04.260 --> 00:40:05.559
 that hardness will

00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:06.300
 overtake you and

00:40:06.300 --> 00:40:06.980
 darkness will

00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:07.920
 overtake you i

00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:08.780
 came that you

00:40:08.780 --> 00:40:09.900
 might be a

00:40:09.900 --> 00:40:10.840
 son or daughter

00:40:10.840 --> 00:40:11.480
 of light i

00:40:11.480 --> 00:40:12.880
 draw you so

00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:13.460
 you will have

00:40:13.460 --> 00:40:14.840
 eternal life i

00:40:14.840 --> 00:40:16.079
 love you

00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:21.460
 look how it

00:40:21.460 --> 00:40:22.000
 finishes in

00:40:22.000 --> 00:40:22.760
 verse 44

00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:24.800
 and jesus cried

00:40:24.800 --> 00:40:25.599
 out literally

00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:26.500
 means he

00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:27.019
 yelled

00:40:27.019 --> 00:40:29.019
 whoever believes

00:40:29.019 --> 00:40:29.740
 in me believes

00:40:29.740 --> 00:40:31.599
 not in me but

00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:32.400
 in him who sent

00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:32.920
 me and whoever

00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:34.619
 sees me sees me

00:40:34.619 --> 00:40:35.380
 sees him who

00:40:35.380 --> 00:40:36.559
 sent me i have

00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:37.199
 come into the

00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:38.420
 world as light

00:40:38.420 --> 00:40:39.880
 so that whoever

00:40:39.880 --> 00:40:40.679
 believes in me

00:40:40.679 --> 00:40:41.719
 may not remain

00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:42.400
 in darkness

00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:44.059
 there is hope

00:40:44.059 --> 00:40:46.480
 if anyone hears

00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:47.500
 my words and

00:40:47.500 --> 00:40:48.179
 does not keep

00:40:48.179 --> 00:40:48.860
 them i do not

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:49.619
 judge him for i

00:40:49.619 --> 00:40:50.360
 did not come to

00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:51.139
 judge the world

00:40:51.139 --> 00:40:52.259
 but to save the

00:40:52.259 --> 00:40:53.559
 world the one

00:40:53.559 --> 00:40:54.659
 who rejects me

00:40:54.659 --> 00:40:55.840
 and does not

00:40:55.840 --> 00:40:57.019
 receive my words

00:40:57.019 --> 00:40:57.880
 has a judge the

00:40:57.880 --> 00:40:58.480
 words that i have

00:40:58.480 --> 00:40:59.559
 spoken will judge

00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:00.639
 him on that last

00:41:00.639 --> 00:41:02.119
 day for i have not

00:41:02.119 --> 00:41:03.079
 spoken on my own

00:41:03.079 --> 00:41:03.679
 authority in other

00:41:03.679 --> 00:41:04.279
 words he's saying

00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:05.400
 my words don't

00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:06.260
 come out of me

00:41:06.260 --> 00:41:09.260
 just as an aside

00:41:09.260 --> 00:41:09.920
 you see this is

00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:10.540
 one of the so

00:41:10.540 --> 00:41:11.480
 many times in the

00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:12.700
 bible why do i

00:41:12.700 --> 00:41:13.380
 believe that the

00:41:13.380 --> 00:41:14.360
 scripture is infallible

00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:15.680
 and errant because

00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:16.640
 this is what jesus

00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:18.620
 teaches i have not

00:41:18.620 --> 00:41:19.480
 spoken on my own

00:41:19.480 --> 00:41:20.340
 authority but the

00:41:20.340 --> 00:41:21.440
 father who sent me

00:41:21.440 --> 00:41:22.400
 has himself given

00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:23.160
 me a commandment

00:41:23.160 --> 00:41:23.820
 what to say and

00:41:23.820 --> 00:41:25.320
 what to speak and i

00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:25.820
 know that his

00:41:25.820 --> 00:41:27.200
 commandment is

00:41:27.200 --> 00:41:29.200
 eternal life god

00:41:29.200 --> 00:41:30.519
 takes no delight in

00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:31.180
 the death of a

00:41:31.180 --> 00:41:32.000
 sinner but rather

00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:32.980
 that he or she

00:41:32.980 --> 00:41:34.380
 will turn from

00:41:34.380 --> 00:41:35.340
 their wickedness

00:41:35.340 --> 00:41:36.619
 and live

00:41:36.619 --> 00:41:39.619
 what i say

00:41:39.619 --> 00:41:40.360
 therefore i say

00:41:40.360 --> 00:41:40.860
 as the father

00:41:40.860 --> 00:41:41.699
 has told me

00:41:41.699 --> 00:41:43.780
 it's 40 minutes

00:41:43.780 --> 00:41:44.639
 i'll just show you

00:41:44.639 --> 00:41:45.639
 my points there

00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:46.280
 it'll help that

00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:46.619
 there are really

00:41:46.619 --> 00:41:47.420
 two points in

00:41:47.420 --> 00:41:48.119
 three parts if

00:41:48.119 --> 00:41:48.539
 you just put them

00:41:48.539 --> 00:41:49.300
 up very quickly

00:41:49.300 --> 00:41:51.480
 to bring this

00:41:51.480 --> 00:41:51.780
 home

00:41:51.780 --> 00:41:54.000
 you know

00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:55.920
 all of these

00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:57.360
 things in the

00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:58.400
 text are said

00:41:58.400 --> 00:41:59.240
 to try to help

00:41:59.240 --> 00:41:59.960
 you see who

00:41:59.960 --> 00:42:01.260
 you are at

00:42:01.260 --> 00:42:01.820
 the level of

00:42:01.820 --> 00:42:02.420
 your heart

00:42:02.420 --> 00:42:03.460
 in the presence

00:42:03.460 --> 00:42:04.000
 of the living

00:42:04.000 --> 00:42:04.380
 god

00:42:04.380 --> 00:42:06.660
 that's what the

00:42:06.660 --> 00:42:07.559
 text is trying

00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:07.860
 to do

00:42:07.860 --> 00:42:09.620
 jesus confronts

00:42:09.620 --> 00:42:10.940
 to connect

00:42:10.940 --> 00:42:11.920
 and maybe the

00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:12.340
 words won't

00:42:12.340 --> 00:42:12.720
 here you can go

00:42:12.720 --> 00:42:13.080
 in the line

00:42:13.080 --> 00:42:13.620
 later on and

00:42:13.620 --> 00:42:14.039
 find them

00:42:14.039 --> 00:42:14.960
 here's the

00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:15.760
 just try to

00:42:15.760 --> 00:42:16.559
 summarize this

00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:17.680
 the first thing

00:42:17.680 --> 00:42:18.559
 is outside of

00:42:18.559 --> 00:42:19.360
 god's grace

00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:21.059
 your heart

00:42:21.059 --> 00:42:22.440
 mind and

00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:23.260
 conscience

00:42:23.260 --> 00:42:25.080
 not can be

00:42:25.080 --> 00:42:26.000
 overtaken by

00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:26.860
 darkness but

00:42:26.860 --> 00:42:28.140
 will be

00:42:28.140 --> 00:42:28.880
 overtaken by

00:42:28.880 --> 00:42:29.420
 darkness

00:42:29.420 --> 00:42:30.720
 you see it's

00:42:30.720 --> 00:42:31.440
 god's common

00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:32.220
 grace that

00:42:32.220 --> 00:42:32.920
 allows us to

00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:35.159
 still to still

00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:35.720
 have a heart

00:42:35.720 --> 00:42:36.360
 and mind and

00:42:36.360 --> 00:42:37.119
 conscience that

00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:37.880
 seek after the

00:42:37.880 --> 00:42:38.340
 good and the

00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:38.760
 true and the

00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:39.980
 beautiful and

00:42:39.980 --> 00:42:41.039
 outside of god's

00:42:41.039 --> 00:42:42.539
 grace it will

00:42:42.539 --> 00:42:43.820
 it will become

00:42:43.820 --> 00:42:44.740
 darkness the

00:42:44.740 --> 00:42:46.260
 next point when

00:42:46.260 --> 00:42:47.019
 you continually

00:42:47.019 --> 00:42:48.139
 choose a hard

00:42:48.139 --> 00:42:50.240
 heart the lord

00:42:50.240 --> 00:42:51.000
 will eventually

00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:52.480
 harden your

00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:54.820
 heart you see

00:42:54.820 --> 00:42:55.380
 it isn't as if

00:42:55.380 --> 00:42:56.019
 he somehow makes

00:42:56.019 --> 00:42:56.680
 your heart hard

00:42:56.679 --> 00:42:57.219
 so you won't

00:42:57.219 --> 00:42:58.699
 believe but he

00:42:58.699 --> 00:42:59.500
 looks at george

00:42:59.500 --> 00:42:59.899
 and he says

00:42:59.899 --> 00:43:00.299
 look at that

00:43:00.299 --> 00:43:00.759
 george is

00:43:00.759 --> 00:43:01.199
 choosing a

00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:01.879
 hard heart and

00:43:01.879 --> 00:43:02.500
 he chooses it

00:43:02.500 --> 00:43:03.319
 again and again

00:43:03.319 --> 00:43:03.940
 and again and

00:43:03.940 --> 00:43:04.460
 again and at

00:43:04.460 --> 00:43:05.059
 some point in

00:43:05.059 --> 00:43:05.899
 time god says

00:43:05.899 --> 00:43:08.199
 to george your

00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:08.980
 will be done

00:43:08.980 --> 00:43:12.480
 next point

00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:14.219
 your love of

00:43:14.219 --> 00:43:15.339
 people's praise

00:43:15.339 --> 00:43:16.519
 respect and

00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:19.000
 honor will move

00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:20.099
 you farther and

00:43:20.099 --> 00:43:20.859
 farther from

00:43:20.859 --> 00:43:22.759
 jesus and deeper

00:43:22.759 --> 00:43:24.359
 and deeper into

00:43:24.360 --> 00:43:28.000
 darkness the

00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:29.320
 positive the

00:43:29.320 --> 00:43:29.860
 next point

00:43:29.860 --> 00:43:31.380
 andrew every

00:43:31.380 --> 00:43:32.480
 aspect of your

00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:33.579
 salvation in

00:43:33.579 --> 00:43:35.099
 jesus christ is

00:43:35.099 --> 00:43:37.260
 from him every

00:43:37.260 --> 00:43:41.240
 aspect next

00:43:41.240 --> 00:43:41.940
 point there is

00:43:41.940 --> 00:43:42.860
 no part of your

00:43:42.860 --> 00:43:43.920
 salvation that

00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:44.480
 you can take

00:43:44.480 --> 00:43:46.740
 credit for allowing

00:43:46.740 --> 00:43:47.720
 you to expect

00:43:47.720 --> 00:43:48.380
 praise from

00:43:48.380 --> 00:43:50.180
 others and or

00:43:50.180 --> 00:43:50.860
 look down on

00:43:50.860 --> 00:43:53.280
 others and

00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:54.380
 finally if you

00:43:54.380 --> 00:43:54.760
 could put it

00:43:54.760 --> 00:43:57.420
 up when you

00:43:57.420 --> 00:43:57.980
 believe in

00:43:57.980 --> 00:43:59.380
 jesus he

00:43:59.380 --> 00:44:00.120
 gives you

00:44:00.120 --> 00:44:01.060
 eternal life

00:44:01.060 --> 00:44:02.600
 and remakes

00:44:02.600 --> 00:44:04.180
 you into a

00:44:04.180 --> 00:44:05.360
 son or daughter

00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:06.140
 of light

00:44:06.140 --> 00:44:08.440
 you see to be

00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:08.980
 gripped by the

00:44:08.980 --> 00:44:09.780
 gospel and to be

00:44:09.780 --> 00:44:10.500
 a disciple of

00:44:10.500 --> 00:44:11.760
 jesus is to

00:44:11.760 --> 00:44:12.580
 ask that the

00:44:12.580 --> 00:44:13.880
 light will

00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:14.840
 characterize who

00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:15.540
 you are more

00:44:15.540 --> 00:44:16.720
 and more the

00:44:16.720 --> 00:44:17.640
 light of justice

00:44:17.640 --> 00:44:18.700
 the light of

00:44:18.700 --> 00:44:19.940
 mercy the light

00:44:19.940 --> 00:44:21.260
 of goodness the

00:44:21.260 --> 00:44:22.080
 light of truth

00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:23.059
 the light of

00:44:23.059 --> 00:44:24.239
 beauty will

00:44:24.239 --> 00:44:25.259
 characterize you

00:44:25.259 --> 00:44:26.400
 more and more

00:44:26.400 --> 00:44:28.019
 please stand

00:44:28.019 --> 00:44:39.279
 once again you

00:44:39.279 --> 00:44:40.980
 know if you

00:44:40.980 --> 00:44:41.619
 have never given

00:44:41.619 --> 00:44:42.199
 your life to

00:44:42.199 --> 00:44:43.159
 jesus there is no

00:44:43.159 --> 00:44:43.860
 better time than

00:44:43.860 --> 00:44:45.219
 now to say

00:44:45.219 --> 00:44:48.019
 jesus deliver me

00:44:48.019 --> 00:44:48.960
 from hardness of

00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:49.920
 heart and love of

00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:52.960
 darkness and make

00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:53.539
 me your own

00:44:53.539 --> 00:44:55.360
 just just say

00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:55.880
 those in your

00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:57.240
 own words jesus

00:44:57.240 --> 00:44:59.519
 deliver me from

00:44:59.519 --> 00:45:00.519
 hardness of heart

00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:01.159
 and love of

00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:02.300
 darkness and make

00:45:02.300 --> 00:45:02.920
 me your own

00:45:02.920 --> 00:45:05.740
 make me a son or

00:45:05.740 --> 00:45:06.559
 daughter of light

00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:07.260
 there is no better

00:45:07.260 --> 00:45:08.079
 time than now to

00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:08.940
 call out to jesus

00:45:08.940 --> 00:45:09.740
 and ask for that

00:45:09.740 --> 00:45:11.340
 and for those of

00:45:11.340 --> 00:45:12.840
 us who struggle

00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:14.019
 with if we're aware

00:45:14.019 --> 00:45:14.740
 of it that there's

00:45:14.740 --> 00:45:15.659
 things in our lives

00:45:15.659 --> 00:45:16.480
 right now that we're

00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:16.920
 just sort of

00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:17.880
 forgetting that he's

00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:18.860
 made us sons of

00:45:18.860 --> 00:45:19.720
 daughters of light

00:45:19.720 --> 00:45:20.380
 but we discover

00:45:20.380 --> 00:45:20.940
 that we have a

00:45:20.940 --> 00:45:22.460
 we've been challenged

00:45:22.460 --> 00:45:23.059
 that we have a bit

00:45:23.059 --> 00:45:24.800
 of a fear about the

00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:25.700
 truth the fear of

00:45:25.700 --> 00:45:27.840
 the light then

00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:28.380
 there's no better

00:45:28.380 --> 00:45:29.360
 time than now not

00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:30.280
 to not to become a

00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:31.079
 christian again but

00:45:31.079 --> 00:45:31.940
 to recommit to him

00:45:31.940 --> 00:45:32.820
 and say father thank

00:45:32.820 --> 00:45:33.860
 you so much that you

00:45:33.860 --> 00:45:34.920
 love me that you

00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:36.240
 know me that you

00:45:36.240 --> 00:45:37.440
 want me to be your

00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:38.380
 son and daughter of

00:45:38.380 --> 00:45:39.039
 light that you want

00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:40.760
 light to describe who

00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:41.519
 i am more and more

00:45:41.519 --> 00:45:42.099
 there's no better

00:45:42.099 --> 00:45:43.059
 time than now just to

00:45:43.059 --> 00:45:44.200
 call out to him

00:45:44.200 --> 00:45:46.500
 that the light would

00:45:46.500 --> 00:45:47.320
 have an even deeper

00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:48.200
 role in your life

00:45:48.199 --> 00:45:49.179
 let's pray to god

00:45:49.179 --> 00:45:52.000
 father i don't

00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:52.659
 preach to others

00:45:52.659 --> 00:45:53.619
 i preach to myself

00:45:53.619 --> 00:45:54.879
 i need your word

00:45:54.879 --> 00:45:55.359
 father

00:45:55.359 --> 00:45:58.779
 i father i hope

00:45:58.779 --> 00:45:59.799
 father no one here

00:45:59.799 --> 00:46:00.739
 thinks that i am a

00:46:00.739 --> 00:46:01.939
 shining example of

00:46:01.939 --> 00:46:03.759
 of of of the good

00:46:03.759 --> 00:46:04.359
 the true and the

00:46:04.359 --> 00:46:05.059
 beautiful father

00:46:05.059 --> 00:46:06.359
 it's all jesus i

00:46:06.359 --> 00:46:07.799
 thank you so much

00:46:07.799 --> 00:46:08.980
 for grace i thank

00:46:08.980 --> 00:46:09.859
 you father that

00:46:09.859 --> 00:46:11.480
 your son has drawn

00:46:11.480 --> 00:46:12.659
 me and others here

00:46:12.659 --> 00:46:14.199
 to him that you do

00:46:14.199 --> 00:46:15.399
 not wear merits but

00:46:15.399 --> 00:46:16.339
 pardon our offenses

00:46:16.339 --> 00:46:17.019
 that you do not

00:46:17.019 --> 00:46:18.099
 desire the death of

00:46:18.099 --> 00:46:18.840
 a sinner but that

00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:19.619
 we would turn to

00:46:19.619 --> 00:46:20.639
 you and live we

00:46:20.639 --> 00:46:21.559
 thank you father you

00:46:21.559 --> 00:46:22.619
 did not desire that

00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:23.619
 we would have hard

00:46:23.619 --> 00:46:24.639
 hearts but soft

00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:25.300
 hearts so we would

00:46:25.300 --> 00:46:26.280
 not choose darkness

00:46:26.280 --> 00:46:27.679
 but choose light and

00:46:27.679 --> 00:46:28.659
 we ask father that

00:46:28.659 --> 00:46:29.659
 your holy spirit would

00:46:29.659 --> 00:46:30.519
 move with might and

00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:31.320
 power and deep

00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:32.460
 conviction within us

00:46:32.460 --> 00:46:33.980
 and make us disciples

00:46:33.980 --> 00:46:34.860
 of jesus who are

00:46:34.860 --> 00:46:36.239
 gripped by the gospel

00:46:36.239 --> 00:46:38.159
 and able to confront

00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:39.960
 the darkness and

00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:41.039
 confront the hardness

00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:42.579
 that you would make

00:46:42.579 --> 00:46:43.860
 our hearts soft and

00:46:43.860 --> 00:46:45.239
 our minds more and

00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:46.439
 more hungry our hearts

00:46:46.439 --> 00:46:47.739
 more and more hungry

00:46:47.739 --> 00:46:48.739
 for the good the true

00:46:48.739 --> 00:46:49.839
 the beautiful for you

00:46:49.839 --> 00:46:51.679
 and we ask this in the

00:46:51.679 --> 00:46:53.639
 name of jesus and all

00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:55.839
 god's people said amen

00:46:55.839 --> 00:46:57.839
 you