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 I think about food all the time.

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 I didn't realize it, I've always suspected it,

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 but I didn't realize it until recently

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 when I started the spiritual discipline of fasting.

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 I'm not sure if anybody here has fasted before

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 or if you can remember doing the 40-hour famine.

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 I did that years ago.

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 But I spent a little bit of time fasting.

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 I spent a day fasting where I only consumed liquids

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 and used the time to focus my mind and my heart on praying to God.

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 And it was really helpful.

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 But I didn't realize how much I thought about food

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 until I took the food away.

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 Because I spent pretty much all day thinking about food.

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 I would wake up and my first thought is, I need coffee.

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 I don't know if anybody else here is like that.

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 I'm desperate for coffee.

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 And then it's breakfast.

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 And then when I get to work, it's more coffee.

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 And then when I'm working, I'm thinking,

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 morning tea is coming up soon.

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 I can't wait for morning tea.

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 And then I have morning tea.

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 And then it's like, how long till lunch?

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 Lunch is certainly around the corner.

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 Food, can't wait.

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 And then I'll have the food.

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 And then there's the afternoon snack.

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 And there's another coffee with that often.

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 And as soon as I get home,

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 I'm thinking, all right, what's for dinner?

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 And then after dinner is done, while I'm cleaning the kitchen,

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 I'm looking around.

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 Where's my little after dinner snack?

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 I need some kind of dessert situation for me.

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 Is there some kind of little treat?

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 Taking a day out of eating and fasting

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 actually helped me realize how much of my life is run by food,

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 how much of my joy I get from food,

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 how much wonder I place in my anticipation for eating.

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 I was looking to food as this thing that would satisfy me,

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 as this thing that I hold up with awe.

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 We are all wired for awe.

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 Now, awe is A-W-E, not the thing you row with, not O-R,

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 but A-W-E, awe, which is reverence with fear and wonder.

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 We all have awe for things, but also all have awe problems.

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 Things that we worship and chase that aren't God,

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 the one who is deserving of awe, all awe.

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 And an issue for many of us is that we live in a material world,

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 we are dependent on material things,

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 and we end up holding these material things in awe.

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 But nothing in our world can give us peace or meaning or purpose.

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 And so what happens is street-level materialism captures our hearts

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 and it eats up our time and energy and resources.

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 For me, it was that issue of gluttony,

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 not necessarily over-reading,

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 but holding food in awe.

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 We're all physical, material beings,

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 and we need to consume to survive.

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 But often we can chase consuming things

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 instead of the one who gives us good things.

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 Even for Christians,

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 God, the one who we should be in awe of,

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 we end up just being in awe of the things he gives us

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 and chasing those.

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 We all chase awe.

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 Whether it is the child who has ice cream for the first time

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 and they get that buzz of sugar and they're like,

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 oh, this is amazing, I need that again.

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 Whether it's the person going to an art gallery,

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 seeing beautiful works of art and being in awe,

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 or the person who climbs a mountain and looks at amazing vistas.

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 We are all wired for awe,

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 but awesome stuff doesn't satisfy.

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 Only the one who is deserving of all awe does.

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 We are in our Easter series,

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 which is called Awe.

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 As we head to Easter in two weeks' time,

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 we're going to be reminded of Jesus' death and resurrection.

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 But over these next couple of weeks,

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 we'll be called to have awe in God,

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 to direct our sense of wonder and fear and reverence

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 back to the one who deserves it.

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 And the challenge for us today as we start this series

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 will be to be made aware of the material things

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 that we have awe of

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 and how we are to restore our awe of God.

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 So as we seek to do this, let me pray for us.

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 Heavenly Father, I thank you

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 for all your many gifts that you give us.

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 Thank you for sweetness of food and for wonderful views

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 and that you have made us people who can enjoy these things.

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 But Heavenly Father, make us aware of the things that distract us

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 and take us away from being in awe of you, Lord,

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 that we would see how awesome you are.

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 Amen.

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 Three points.

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 This morning you can find those in the St. Paul's app

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 as we go through this.

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 And to help us as we seek to restore our awe of God,

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 particularly the challenge of being people who consume things,

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 today we're looking at the Lord's Supper,

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 which Anne read for us this morning from Luke chapter 22,

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 where Jesus commanded us to be consuming him

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 in contrast to the things of the world for us.

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 The Lord's Supper is Jesus' final meal with his disciples

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 before he is taken and crucified,

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 which we'll see in two weeks' time.

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 Jesus knew he was about to be killed

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 and he prepares his disciples

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 as he's about to walk this road to his crucifixion.

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 And so he gathers his disciples

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 to celebrate the Passover together.

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 And this meal is significant

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 and we need to understand the Passover

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 before we can understand the Lord's Supper.

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 So Luke 22, we're going to start in verse 14.

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 Have your Bibles open with me.

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 Chapter 22, verse 14.

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 When the hour came,

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 Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table

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 and he said to them,

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 I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you

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 before I suffer.

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 For I tell you, I will not eat it again

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 until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God.

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 Just to give us context of what the Passover is,

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 the Passover was a meal that the Jews would eat every year

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 to celebrate and to remember how God saved them from Egypt.

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 God used Moses through 10 miracles

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 to save the Israelites out of Egypt across the Red Sea.

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 And the most significant aspect of the Passover

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 was the final miracle or the final plague,

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 where after nine plagues,

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 God would show that he was powerful

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 over Pharaoh and over the Egyptian gods.

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 And God sent an angel to kill the firstborn,

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 except for those who had sacrificed an animal,

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 sacrificed a lamb,

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 and put the blood of the lamb over their door.

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 And so that day, God passed over those houses

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 which had an animal sacrificed.

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 And every year after that time,

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 God's people would remember that day.

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 They would remember that Passover.

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 They would continue to do that with a special feast

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 to remember what God did.

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 And they would feast with lamb

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 and bread made without yeast,

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 with bitter herbs.

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 And they would remember this feast

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 and remember who their God was.

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 They weren't remembering,

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 so it slipped out of their memory,

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 so they didn't just forget what happened.

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 They were remembering it

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 because of who God was.

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 One of my favorite parts of being in Chatswood

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 is learning about the different cultures around us

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 and eating different foods.

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 One of my favorite seasonal foods

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 has been Eight Treasures Duck.

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 I don't know if you've eaten that one.

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 That's a really good one.

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 There's another festival coming up

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 that's celebrated as part of the,

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 I think it's the Chinese calendar.

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 It's the Dragon Boat Festival.

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 Where historically they remember

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 a famous poet called Chu Yuan

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 who was celebrated by the people

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 but committed suicide by jumping into a river.

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 And so the people rowed their boats out

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 as quickly as they could

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 and they threw sticky balls of rice into the water

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 so the fish would eat the rice

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 and not the poet.

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 And so that from that time

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 we eat zongzi,

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 these sticky balls of rice wrapped in,

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 what are they wrapped in, John?

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 Is it bamboo leaves?

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 Banana.

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 Banana leaves.

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 Thank you.

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 Bamboo leaves.

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 Bamboo leaves.

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 Okay, there's a fight going on here.

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 So I know coming up on the 5th of May

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 when we celebrate it,

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 we're going to have different ones

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 and we can all taste test to see what's best.

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 And so we remember what happened.

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 I think it was about 500 BC as well.

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 So it's a while ago.

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 And we have dragon boat races.

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 Even coming up,

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 I think it's coming up at the end of this month,

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 there's Anzac Day

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 where we remember those who fought in wars.

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 But the original Passover

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 wasn't just an event to be remembered.

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 It wasn't even a time just to eat food

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 and remember something.

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 It wasn't just an interesting piece of history.

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 It was something that continued.

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 It was remembering who God is.

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 A meal to celebrate God's character,

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 that he is loving and he is forgiving.

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 He is good.

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 He is patient with his people.

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 He has power to defeat the enemy

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 and that God made a way

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 to save his enemy through death.

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 The people at the Passover

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 remembered who God was

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 back in the Passover,

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 who he continues to be

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 and who he would be in the future,

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 that he would save his people.

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 And Jesus is picking up that in Luke 22.

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 He didn't just want his people

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 to mark on the calendar,

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 oh, this is when we have the meal with lamb

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 and we have bitter herbs

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 and we have to cook bread

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 in this particular way.

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 It was actually far more significant

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 than just recalling an event.

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 And so second point today,

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 remembering and proclaiming the Lord's Supper,

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 Jesus picks up on this

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 that the Passover was more than

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 just a historical event

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 and he celebrates it in a new way.

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 No longer is it about lamb

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 and bread made without yeast

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 and bitter herbs,

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 but there's a new meal.

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 There's a new way of celebrating.

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 Verse 19.

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 He took bread,

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 he gave thanks and he broke it

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 and he gave it to them saying,

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 this is my body given for you.

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 Do this in remembrance of me.

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 In the same way,

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 after the supper,

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 he took the cup saying,

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 this cup is the new covenant in my blood,

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 which is poured out for you.

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 Jesus gives the wine and bread

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 as a new Passover meal.

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 Jesus is the sheep.

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 He's the one who's going to be sacrificed,

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 but he is bringing in a new

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 and everlasting covenant

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 and there is a new way to remember it.

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 And so today,

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 when we celebrate the Lord's Supper or communion,

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 which we'll do a little bit later,

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 we're not just remembering

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 something that happened 2000 years ago.

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 We're not just remembering a historical event.

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 We're not just calling it to mind.

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 It's not just a feast.

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 And I'm actually really thankful.

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 I've got a hot cross bun here.

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 You can't see it.

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 I'll slide it over here for those on screen.

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 I've got a hot cross bun.

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 I've never used a hot cross bun in communion,

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 but it's literally got a cross on it.

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 So I think that is a wonderful bread to use

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 to celebrate communion.

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 But it's not just remembering a historical event

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 that formed a cultural identity.

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 We continue to participate in the Lord's Supper now.

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 Jesus didn't just save us then.

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 He is continuing to work now.

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 When we celebrate the Lord's Supper,

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 it is to be a wonderful ceremony for us

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 where we adjust our lives based on what we remember.

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 Because there's a number of things

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 we celebrate in the Lord's Supper.

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 When we celebrate the Lord's Supper,

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 we remember Jesus' death for us.

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 Our actions give us a picture of his death for us.

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 When the bread is given out,

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 we remember that Jesus' body was given for us.

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 And when we hand out the juice

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 and when we drink the juice,

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 we're remembering that Jesus' blood was spilt

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 instead of mine, instead of yours.

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 We remember that when we get a benefit from his death,

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 we get life as we participate.

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 And it's not just an individual reminder

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 that Jesus' death was for me.

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 It's a corporate mind reminder.

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 It is for us as a church.

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 We are giving a clear sign that

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 we don't do this just at our homes.

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 We do this when we meet together.

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 Because Jesus did die for me,

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 but he died for you and he died for us.

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 And so this is a family meal.

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 The meal reminds us that Jesus loves us.

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 And while we remember a historical event

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 in the Lord's Supper,

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 we continue to do it now

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 as we look forward to the final meal,

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 the feast with Jesus when he returns

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 and we are with him forever.

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 And what a feast that will be.

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 And when we celebrate the Lord's Supper or communion,

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 we affirm our dependence on Jesus.

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 And we say,

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 Jesus, I need you so much more than this food

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 and this liquid.

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 I need these things to survive

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 for my body to continue to function.

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 But I need you far more than that.

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 I need you to forgive me.

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 I need you to give me life

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 because that's the only way I can have life.

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 And so communion helps to remind us

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 that we should be in awe of our God

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 or a mixture of fear and wonder.

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 Fear because the Lord's Supper reminds us

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 of how deeply in need of him we are.

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 And yet God in his goodness loves us.

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 He makes a way for us.

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 He brings salvation because of his great love for us.

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 It is so much more than just a symbol

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 of a historical event.

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 It calls us to respond with our hearts,

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 to continue to praise him

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 as we look forward to the meal we will have.

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 Paul talks about the Lord's Supper in 1 Corinthians 11.

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 He says,

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 for whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup,

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 you proclaim the Lord's death.

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 So when we actually eat this,

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 when we drink this,

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 we're actually preaching the gospel.

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 We're saying we are in need of Jesus.

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 You are in need of Jesus.

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 And anybody who's watching at home,

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 who's part of church online,

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 we together are in need of him.

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 We get to proclaim the good news of the gospel

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 by eating and drinking together.

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 And when we do this,

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 when we remember our desperate need,

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 it leads us to awe.

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 It's our final point today.

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 Communion or the Lord's Supper,

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 it is for us.

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 It's not just a practice

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 that we legalistically follow.

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 It's not just a routine.

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 It's not just something we go through.

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 There's actually a benefit for us.

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 Now, there is nothing special

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 about the juice or the wafer that we'll have.

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 Now, the hot cross bun is a little bit special,

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 but there's nothing more special about that

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 than the ingredients in it.

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 It doesn't physically become Jesus's body in communion,

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 or it doesn't actually become his blood.

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 But when we eat it,

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 when we drink it,

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 we're actively saying,

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 Jesus, I depend upon you.

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 I need you.

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 I need you to die in my place.

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 And I need you to have risen

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 so that I have hope for tomorrow.

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 Otherwise, I have no hope for tomorrow.

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 And so when we feed on this food,

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 we're feeding on him by faith.

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 It's a reminder that we are physical and material,

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 and we depend upon food,

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 but we depend upon him so much more.

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 I think it's also really wonderful

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 that Jesus gave us food and wine

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 to symbolize the new covenant,

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 the new testament.

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 Jesus could have replaced the Passover with anything.

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 It could have been anything.

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 It could have just been a prayer.

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 It could have been an action.

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 But he gave us a new meal

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 because we are physical beings who consume things.

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 And I think this is so helpful for us

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 because this is just part of who we are

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 and how we are wired as people.

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 Tastes and smells trigger memories for us

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 because this is how we're wired.

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 I remember sitting in the back of the car as a kid

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 on long family holidays

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 and smelling my mum's perfume.

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 So when I smell this particular perfume,

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 it triggers these wonderful memories for me.

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 Do you have these similar things?

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 Maybe you smell something

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 that reminds you of a family member.

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 When you smell a particular type of food

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 and it takes you back to your hometown.

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 It's just the way our brains are wired.

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 Our brain connects foods and smells to memories.

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 And there's a longing of our heart.

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 Jesus tells us to eat and drink

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 in remembrance of him.

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 It's just plain food we're having.

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 Grape juice,

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 a fairly plain wafer.

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 But it is significant and special

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 for our hearts and our souls.

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 It connects deeply with who we are as people.

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 And it's a wonderful moment to be reminded

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 to be in awe of God.

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 God, you are so good.

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 You've loved me.

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 You've provided for me.

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 I can be in fear of you

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 because you are so much bigger than me.

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 I can wonder at you

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 because I'm small and I'm in need of you.

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 But you do provide.

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 And we need this.

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 And we need this regularly.

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 Because we are also regularly consumed

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 throughout the week by other things.

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 We get distracted by things

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 that we think will satisfy.

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 I think it's been particularly hard

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 for all of us in this season

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 of COVID, post-COVID, lockdowns,

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 just general anxieties about life.

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 I had the wonderful privilege yesterday

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 of marrying two people from our church,

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 Jessica and Oscar.

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 Got the chance to marry them.

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 And that was a really wonderful occasion.

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 There's a number of people of church there.

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 But just walking with them

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 as they were getting ready to be married,

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 getting, I don't know

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 if you've organized a wedding.

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 I can't remember organizing mine.

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 It was too long ago.

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 There are so many things

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 to organize in a wedding.

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 Think about how many things

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 you need to juggle

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 organizing a wedding

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 in a COVID season

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 where people are pulling out

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 and you don't know

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 how many people can make it.

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 And you're just juggling

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 things upon things.

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 I think we are just,

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 as Steve mentioned recently,

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 we're still in a season

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 a season of languishing,

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 a season of depression

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 and anxiety.

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 We're going through

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 the normal motions

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 and trying to do normal things,

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 but they are hard

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 and increasingly difficult.

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 And worry comes into that,

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 trying to plan, you know,

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 anything.

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 Our family has two school parties today

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 and they've been canceled

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 because of COVID

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 and different things

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 and the rain certainly

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 hasn't helped.

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 Plans get thrown into disarray

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 and so our hearts

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 can feel pulled

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 to cynicism

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 and worry

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 and I'm not even going

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 to look forward to anything.

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 I'm not going to be

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 in awe of anything

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 because it's all too hard.

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 And so maybe I won't plan

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 for something

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 because it's hard.

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 And then not only

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 do I not plan,

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 I stop caring about

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 what's coming up

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 because it's all too hard.

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 And so it's no wonder

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 for me that I'm consuming

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 more of my phone

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 than I ever had before.

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 I was really,

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 I don't know about you guys,

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 but I get a pop-up

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 on my phone

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 Sunday mornings

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 just before church starts,

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 which is always

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 a wonderful rebuke for me.

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 It tells me

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 my average amount

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 of hours on my phone.

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 Does anybody want to tell me

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 their average amount

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 of hours on their phone?

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 No, no.

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 I was really excited

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 this morning

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 when I got my pop-up

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 because it said mine

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 was down

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 to five and a half hours a day.

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 Down to that many hours.

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 And I was thankful

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 but then just like,

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 man, daddy,

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 I'm still consuming

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 so much of my phone.

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 There's more TV

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 to distract me

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 of the challenges of life

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 because the reality is

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 me and you,

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 we're chasing things

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 to be in awe of.

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 I need something wonderful.

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 Do you know what?

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 Not even wonderful,

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 not even awesome.

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 I just want something

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 mildly okay

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 to distract me.

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 I'm not even chasing

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 awesome things.

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 into this season

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 and into the challenges

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 of life,

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 Jesus calls us

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 to restore our awe

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 of him.

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 Celebrating the Lord's Supper

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 helps us to do that.

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 But just the regular rhythm

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 of church

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 is also good for us.

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 The regular rhythm

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 of coming to church

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 once a week,

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 gathering,

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 is really good for us.

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 We need the weekly gathering

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 of 60 to 90 minutes

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 on a Sunday

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 to restore our awe of God.

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 I think it's indicative

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 of how God made us to be

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 on the seventh day.

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 God rested.

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 God instituted the Sabbath.

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 It is part of who we are

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 as physical beings.

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 We need a weekly reminder

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 that God is the one

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 who we should be in awe of.

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 He is the one

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 we should be consuming

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 and not the other things

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 we need to consume

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 and don't need to consume

00:23:05.100 --> 00:23:05.759
 throughout the week.

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 And every aspect of church

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 in some way

00:23:09.500 --> 00:23:10.559
 is restoring

00:23:10.559 --> 00:23:11.640
 our awe of God.

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 And so,

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 as we get up

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 to sing a song

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 at the start of our service,

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 at the end of our service,

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 it's restoring our awe

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 because we sing

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 of how good our God is.

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 Our singing

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 calls us to connect

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:26.100
 deep theological truths

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 with our heart

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 and praise Him.

00:23:29.600 --> 00:23:31.259
 Over our vision series,

00:23:31.400 --> 00:23:32.160
 we've been hearing

00:23:32.160 --> 00:23:33.540
 different people's testimony,

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 what it means

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 to be on their front line,

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 what it means

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 to be walking,

00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:38.900
 following God

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 in a difficult workplace.

00:23:41.580 --> 00:23:42.519
 We're reminded

00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:45.500
 by the awesome God

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 that these people

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 have been worshipping.

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 And we get to say,

00:23:48.820 --> 00:23:50.240
 I'm going to keep

00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:50.960
 worshipping God.

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 I'm going to keep

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 being in awe of Him

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 because I can see

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 how it is in their life.

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 When we sit under the Bible,

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 when the Bible

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 is read for us,

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 we should be in awe

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 that the God

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 of the universe

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 has made it

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 so we can understand Him.

00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:06.759
 He's given us words.

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 He communicates

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 as we communicate.

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 He's given us words

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 so we can understand Him.

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 Then,

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 when somebody,

00:24:15.339 --> 00:24:15.599
 Steve,

00:24:15.700 --> 00:24:15.940
 myself,

00:24:16.079 --> 00:24:16.400
 somebody else

00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:17.160
 gets up to preach,

00:24:17.500 --> 00:24:18.299
 we get to see

00:24:18.299 --> 00:24:19.279
 all kinds of wonderful

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 things about God.

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 His wisdom

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 and His power.

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 We get to see

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 His glory,

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 His perfection

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 and holiness.

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 His presence,

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 His love,

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 His sovereign control.

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 Easter is coming up

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 and we are reminded

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 of His boundless grace

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 to us

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 that His Son

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 would die

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 for me

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 and for you.

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 Brothers and sisters,

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 we live in a world

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 that consumes

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 so much

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 and we're seeking

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 to be captivated

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 by something

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 that is awesome

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 but in our

00:24:50.879 --> 00:24:51.720
 distraction,

00:24:52.379 --> 00:24:53.519
 we forget the one

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 that we stand in awe of.

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 So a simple call,

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 don't give up

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 meeting together.

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 Don't give up

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 meeting together

00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:04.440
 as a church.

00:25:05.340 --> 00:25:06.040
 It's normal

00:25:06.040 --> 00:25:06.620
 to miss a week

00:25:06.620 --> 00:25:07.060
 of church.

00:25:07.259 --> 00:25:08.160
 It's quite normal

00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:09.460
 when a family member

00:25:09.460 --> 00:25:10.279
 is isolated

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 and it's a wonderful joy

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 that we can do that online

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 but when we miss

00:25:14.779 --> 00:25:15.620
 a couple of weeks

00:25:15.620 --> 00:25:16.200
 of church,

00:25:16.460 --> 00:25:18.060
 we run the risk

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 of getting out

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 of the rhythm

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 of being in awe

00:25:21.560 --> 00:25:22.180
 of God

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 and instead

00:25:23.620 --> 00:25:24.400
 we consume

00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:25.300
 the things

00:25:25.300 --> 00:25:26.840
 of the material world

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 and we think

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 they will satisfy.

00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:29.799
 you

00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:31.240
 have a gift

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 to have a

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 song

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 that

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 you

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 and

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 as

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 you

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 have a

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 tell

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 you

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 have a

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lish

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 the

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 one

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 you

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 have a

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 that

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 one

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 one

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 two

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 one

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 one

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 and

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 two

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 one