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 Father, we are both very good at flattering ourselves too much to detect or hate our own sin,

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 and we're also very good at not seeing it.

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 And we're also very good, Father, at sometimes we just really look down our nose at others,

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 and sometimes we beat ourselves up.

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 And, Father, we're not as balanced and as whole as we think we are.

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 We fool ourselves.

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 We thank you, Father, that we can come to be in your presence this morning.

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 We come, Father, as maybe seekers, some maybe as skeptics, most of us as redeemed sinners.

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 But, Father, we are so glad we can come into your presence this morning to receive from you and receive grace from you.

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 And we ask that the Holy Spirit would fall with might and power and deep conviction as we think about Jesus

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 and who he is and what he has said and what he has done for us.

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

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 Some, because I'm ancient of days, at least 30 years ago, when I was still in the Anglican Church of Canada,

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 there was an official publication of the Anglican Church of Canada that went to all,

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 I think it, I'm not sure if it went to only clergy or it went to everybody,

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 but it was a very official publication.

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 And one of the writer of this one article in the publication was the secretary or the assistant to the primate,

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 so very high up and influential.

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 And he wrote an article about this particular story, the first one which we just read.

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 And the story was entitled The Conversion of Jesus.

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 And the point of the story was that Jesus had suffered under the racism and misogyny that was typical of men of his day,

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 and that this was a very important story in the Bible because it revealed a time when Jesus is confronted by the other

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 and is convicted of his sin.

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 And it's an important turning point in his life that he now begins to be less racist and less misogynistic.

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 When this was written about 30, at least 30 years ago, when I was still in the Anglican Church of Canada,

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 it didn't create any type of stir amongst the clergy.

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 Ideas like that had been very common for quite a while.

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 Some of you who follow progressive Christian blogs and tweets and Instagram posts

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 are probably aware that over the last couple of years,

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 this idea has emerged amongst progressive Christianity,

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 that this is a story which is significant because it shows the racism and misogyny of Jesus.

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 And once again, that it's a type of a conversion moment for Jesus,

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 that he would now look at things from the eye from a different point of view.

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 So is this true?

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 I mean, at least, I don't know how many of you were paying attention.

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 We're going to look at the text again.

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 But it is, at first glance at least, a troubling story, I think, for most Canadian Christians.

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 Probably not the story they'd pick to share with their co-workers,

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 that we would pick to share with our co-workers for the first time at looking at the Bible.

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 But let's walk towards it.

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 So it would be very helpful if you get out your own Bibles and turn to Mark chapter 7,

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 verses 24 to 37.

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 It's really two stories.

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 We're going to spend the bulk of our time on the first story.

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 The second story is weird, right?

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 You know, the spinning and all that type of stuff.

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 But we're going to spend most of our time on the first one.

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 And it's worth spending our time on.

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 And just to sort of give it a bit of a context, what's just happened before this,

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 because we are preaching through the book,

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 what's just happened before this is Jesus has had a conflict with the, I guess,

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 the cultural gatekeepers, the religious gatekeepers, the intellectual gatekeepers,

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 the elite, the one that, in a sense, tried to help the whole society,

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 the Jewish society, to understand themselves and how they're to live.

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 And he's had a conflict with them over uncleanness or cleanness.

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 And it's really a conflict about what allows you to connect to God

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 and what disconnects you from God, what allows you to approach God

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 and what keeps you far from God.

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 And the heart of the story, which has just gone on before this,

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 is that they tended to think of things in terms of the barriers were racial,

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 they were cultural, they were linguistic differences,

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 and there were also differences about how you ate and other types of rituals.

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 So, in other words, their emphasis was on externals.

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 And Jesus confronts them.

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 And at the heart of his message is that, in fact, what keeps you far from God,

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 what, in a sense, yeah, what keeps you far from God

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 is something that emerges from within your own heart.

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 That it's out of your heart that pride and envy and sexual sin

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 and coveting and greed, it emerges from within.

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 And that's what keeps you separate from God.

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 And so that's what's just happened.

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 And now the story of Mark continues with chapter 7, verse 24.

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 And from there, he arose and went away to the region of Tyre and Sidon.

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 And he entered a house and did not want anyone to know,

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 yet he could not be hidden.

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 But immediately a woman, whose little daughter had an unclean spirit,

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 heard of him and came and fell down at his feet.

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 Now the woman was a pagan, a Syrophoenician by birth.

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 And she begged Jesus to cast the demon out of her daughter.

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 It's a very good request, right?

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 Cast the demon out of my daughter.

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 And he said to her,

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 these are stinging words to the modern Canadian ear.

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 Let's just be honest.

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 Let the children be fed first,

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 for it is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs.

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 Now that's a hard saying for a lot of us today.

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 Just as a bit of an aside,

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 one of the commentaries that I consult in preparation of my sermons

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 was written about 150 years ago.

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 And I consult it every week.

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 And so I'm looking forward to reading it to see how he's going to address this issue.

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 He never mentions this at all.

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 Not at all.

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 I think it's partially because for those of you who read old things,

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 especially things from the 19th century and earlier,

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 it was very common for people to use very,

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 what we would now call abusive and insulting language.

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 It's just how they talked, right?

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 And so he doesn't even talk about this.

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 He gets to the other stuff,

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 the fact that there was a demon and the deliverance and all that.

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 But for us, it's a hard text.

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 And it's not made actually easier by what happens.

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 Look at what happens in verse 28.

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 But she answered him,

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 Yes, Lord,

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 yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs.

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 And he said to her,

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 For this statement you may go your way.

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 The demon has left your daughter.

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 And she went home and found the girl lying in the bed.

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 And the demon gone.

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 And we're going to pause and sort of camp on this a little bit for a while.

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 Now, one well-meaning solution that's often suggested by Christians defending the text.

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 And the defense is sort of half right, but only half right.

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 So it's in the right direction, but it's not quite phrased the right way.

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 But it's well-meaning.

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 And the well-meaning part of it is,

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 Well, look, at the end of the day,

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 he delivered the demon from her daughter.

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 So the stuff that goes before doesn't really matter,

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 because what really matters is how the story ends,

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 which is that, you know,

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 he sort of says,

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 Well done to the woman,

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 and the demon goes away.

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 So that's what really matters.

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 And that's,

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 the ending of the story really is important,

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 but not without doing some other thinking first,

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 because here's how I think

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 the average Canadian would respond.

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 The average Canadian would respond,

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 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, time out.

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 That's exactly how abusers treat people.

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 Isn't it?

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 Like, abusers just dump on people and call them names

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 and just really go after them.

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 And what they really want is they want the abused person to agree with them.

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 And then when the abused person agrees with them,

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 then with a smirk,

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 they let them have what they want,

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 because they've won the battle,

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 and they're helping the abused person to be even more abused.

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 They're maintaining abuse.

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 Like, isn't that,

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 that's,

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 that's how abusers work.

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 And now she's entering into his abuse,

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 acknowledging his abuse,

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 submitting to his abuse,

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 and says,

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 Oh, yeah, yeah,

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 like he lets her go.

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 So that actually doesn't seem to help the problem at all.

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 So,

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 so the first thing we have to do is,

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 that's a good response, by the way.

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 We can't dismiss good response.

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 We can't really dismiss,

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 it's a very,

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 it's a good observation,

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 if that's all that we know,

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 and we need to think about it.

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 So here's the first thing.

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 Part of the problem we have reading the text is,

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 we have a particular imagination about what's going on.

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 And so the imaginative problem would be that if you were to come to,

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 to see me at a family gathering,

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 and every time I saw one of my sons,

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 I went,

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 Whoa,

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 strong,

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 good looking,

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 smart.

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 And for my daughters,

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 it's,

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 you know,

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 your dogs.

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 And if you saw me treating my kids that way,

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 my sons one way,

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 and my daughters another way,

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 you'd all,

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 you'd call me on it.

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 If you didn't call me on it,

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 I'm giving you permission to call me on it,

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 like you should.

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 That would be terrible.

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 And that's sort of on one hand,

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 what we see going on here would be the same thing as if I had,

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 you know,

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 if I meet people throughout the day that are all like me,

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 and I'm very,

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 very friendly to them.

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 And I'm,

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 I'm,

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 I'm,

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 you know,

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 using very,

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 you know,

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 positive language to them.

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 And I meet people who aren't like me,

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 and I use very insulting language to them.

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 Then you'd want to call me on that.

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 That's very,

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 very clearly prejudice that I might not be aware of it,

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 but it's very clearly prejudice.

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 And that's sort of what we hear when we see the text.

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 We,

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 we,

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 we see this and,

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 yeah,

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 that's,

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 that's how we see it.

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 And,

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 actually,

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 I,

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 I,

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 I missed something that's sort of important that I want to go back to.

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 You know,

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 the story about the abuser and the abused,

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 and also this other language about,

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 you know,

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 the imagination,

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 the way we work.

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 One of the reasons this is a very important story to us is it touches at a very,

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 very deep fear that Canadian Christians have,

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 and Canadians who aren't Christians definitely have.

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 It's a human fear.

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 And it touches on a human fear that God will ultimately hurt us and demean us,

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 that God is a threat.

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 So,

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 whether,

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 whether you follow the,

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 you know,

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 Jordan Peterson is from a long line of scholars that looks at the stories in the book of Genesis,

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 as,

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 as,

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 you know,

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 Freud did this as well,

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 that,

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 that they're profound,

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 Jung did this as well,

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 they're profound insights into the human psyche,

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 the stories.

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 Or,

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 or whether you would be like me and say,

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 well,

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 they're also,

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 they are profound insights into the human psyche,

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 but they also happened.

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 But regardless of which approach you take,

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 Genesis chapter three is this very,

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 very profound story after God has made everything good.

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 And,

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 uh,

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 Adam and Eve choose to make themselves God,

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 choose their word over God's word,

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 and,

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 um,

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 and,

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 and choose to defy God in the process of choosing their word over God's,

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 and choose to defy God in the process of wanting to show that they're at least as equal,

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 but probably is better.

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 And the result is what we Christians call the fall.

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 And,

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 and you know that what happens is that after this,

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 God is going to do his customary thing where he's going to walk with the Adam and Eve in the garden of the cool of the day,

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 just to enjoy conversation with them.

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 But he comes and they're not there because they're hiding.

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 They're hiding because they're afraid of God.

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 And they,

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 their solution is even when they are forced to come out for God is that they try to cover themselves.

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 They continue to hide.

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 And this very ancient story shows that we do have this very,

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 very deep fear.

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 We have a fear that if we get too close to God,

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 if we get too close to Christ,

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 he's going to hurt us.

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 He's going to demean us.

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 He's going to make us,

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 he's going to belittle us.

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 He's going to make us less.

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 And it's a very,

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 very deep fear.

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 And it comes out really and fully in types of the imagination that we have around this particular text.

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 But let's have a different type of imagination when we look at the text for a second.

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 And this is an imagination that actually follows the text.

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 It's not imposed on the text.

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 Mark opens a door for us to imagine a very,

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 very different thing.

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 But before that,

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 I'm going to have to share a story with you of something that happened quite a few years ago,

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 and I was still part of the Anglican Church of Canada.

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 And it was very common for the clergy to dismiss people like me as fundamentalists.

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 They would do it right while I was in the room.

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 And they would make fun of fundamentalists.

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 They would see fundamentalists as the source of all their problems.

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 And one day,

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 for one of the people who used this language all of the time,

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 I was having coffee with them,

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 or at some gathering it was just me and him.

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 We'll call him, you know, Bob,

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 because all guys in my stories are Bob.

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 And I said to Bob,

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 because he was going on a little bit about fundamentalists,

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 and I said to Bob,

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 by the way, you know, that's a pejorative term.

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 That's an insulting term,

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 a prejudiced term against people like me.

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 And it was one of those moments,

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 it was long enough ago that phones,

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 there was a time that phones didn't have cameras.

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 For you younger folks,

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 hard to believe.

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 But there was a time when,

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 first of all,

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 there weren't phones that you carry around in your pocket.

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 But if you did,

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 they didn't have cameras.

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 Anyway,

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 I wish I'd had a,

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 one of those times would have been great to photograph it.

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 I think he actually,

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 if I remember correctly,

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 he actually had glasses.

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 And I said that to him,

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 you know,

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 that it's actually quite insulting

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 to be referred to that.

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 People like me,

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 you know,

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 who believe the Bible,

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 who believe that Jesus actually rose from the dead,

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 believe in the virgin birth,

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 believe in miracles,

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 and,

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 you know,

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 all that fundamentalist stuff,

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 right?

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 And he actually took off his glasses

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 and looked at me in complete and utter surprise

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 and said,

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 it's not prejudiced or insulting to say that.

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 And I said,

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 it is.

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 He said,

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 every single person I know

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 uses language like that.

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 Now,

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 here's the thing.

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 He was an impeccable part

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 of the Toronto elite

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 in terms of his education and formation.

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 He'd gone to University of Toronto

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 for his first degree.

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 He'd gone to Trinity College,

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 to sort of the elite seminary

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 in Anglicanism.

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 And he very,

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 very definitely traveled

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 in those high elite circles.

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 And part of it,

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 of course,

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 it was just the complete shock

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 because,

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 you see,

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 people who are like him,

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 who are liberals,

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 cannot,

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 by definition,

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 be prejudiced.

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 By definition,

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 I can't be prejudiced.

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 So he's not being prejudiced.

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 He's not putting me down.

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 He's not calling me names

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 because my sort of people

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 don't talk like this.

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 And I say this

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 as a bit of a,

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 to give me some mercy

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 because I might offend

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 some of you here

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 and I might offend

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 some of you here.

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 What's a better way

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 to imagine this story?

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 And I'm going to show you

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 why it's a better way

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 in a moment with the text.

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 There was recently

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 a little bit of a protest

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 in Ottawa.

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 Do some of you remember it?

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 In fact,

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 for those of you

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 watching online,

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 you might not realize,

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 but for the first weekend

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 of the truckers,

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 the Freedom Convoy,

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 throughout the entire,

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 throughout the latter part

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 of the service,

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 you could hear the horns honking.

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 So that's where we are.

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 Okay?

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 And,

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 um,

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 now,

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 the truckers

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 had,

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 uh,

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 a signs up

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 that had three words

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 and the first word

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 rhymed with truck

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 but began with F.

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 Um,

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 and you,

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 you know what the word is.

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 And,

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 uh,

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 and there were other

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 types of signs,

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 uh,

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 that they would display.

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 They,

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 they weren't innocent.

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 This isn't a story

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 between people

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 who are completely innocent

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 and people who are

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 completely guilty.

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 But on the other hand,

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 even before they arrived,

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 we were told

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 that they were

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 racist,

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 fascist,

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 misogynist,

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 anti-gay.

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 They were deplorables.

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 They were

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 coming here

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 to occupy

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 and to take over

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 the city.

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 This was said

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 by the political

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 elite of our country.

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 It was said

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 consistently

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 by all of the elite

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 and just mainstream

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 legacy media

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 of this country.

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 It has continued

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 to be said

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 by the mayor

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 and the media

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 of this,

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 of this,

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 of this country.

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 In fact,

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 actually,

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 it's very interesting.

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 One of the,

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 the columnists,

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 because I,

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 I read the citizen

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 every day.

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 I mean,

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 the six days a week.

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 And one of the,

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 the columnists

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 who was very,

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 very,

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 very filled

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 with all of this

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 language,

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 consistently

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 used freedom

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 in quote marks

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 and all that.

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 Her,

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 her last column

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 was actually

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 on the importance

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 of kindness.

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 I'm not making this up.

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 Her whole column

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 was on the importance

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 of kindness.

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 Now,

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 I would bet,

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 especially if,

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 if this,

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 you're a,

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 if you're a citizen

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 reporter

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 and you're here,

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 I'm really glad

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 you're here.

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 And I'll,

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 gladly have a coffee

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 with you,

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 if not after the service.

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 I'll,

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 I'll take you out

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 for lunch

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 and you,

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 you can push back

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 at me.

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 That's fine.

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 But I,

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 I get,

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 I'm guessing

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 that everybody,

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 like this columnist,

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 I'm guessing

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 everybody in the citizen

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 was like my friend

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 Bobby.

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 And they would just say,

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 we're not being

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 prejudiced or divisive.

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 Like,

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 everybody we know

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 talks like this.

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 And we're good

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 card-carrying liberals,

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 so by definition,

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 we're not prejudiced.

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 Like,

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 they'd probably be

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 puzzled.

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 Especially as evidenced

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 by the columnist

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 after three weeks

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 of name-calling,

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 saying that she's

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 a huge believer

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 in kindness

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 and bridge-building.

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 I'm not making it up.

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 So it's unconscious.

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 Now,

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 okay,

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 whoa,

00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:07.379
 whoa,

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 whoa,

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 whoa.

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 All of a sudden here,

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 this story's going to take on

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 a bit of a different spin.

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 You see,

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 because imagine,

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 and it's actually

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 not that hard to imagine,

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 that Jesus socially

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 was part of the main group

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 that was behind

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 the Freedom Convoy.

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 He was lower working class.

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 That he'd probably

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 have been among them.

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 Not with the FU,

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 but he'd be among them.

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 So imagine Jesus

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 was a part of the

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 Trucker Convoy.

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 And for those of you

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 watching this

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 who weren't from Ottawa,

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 you might not get this

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 city analogy.

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 But he decides

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 to go and spend

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 two days in the Glebe

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 at an Airbnb.

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 He leaves

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 the Trucker Convoy

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 and walks down

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 and stays in the Glebe

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 for a couple of days,

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 two days.

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 And in his first day

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 of staying in the Glebe,

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 a well-off woman

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 from the Glebe

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 with a rainbow flag,

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 her green party button,

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 and a little button

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 telling us her pronouns,

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 another appropriate

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 dress for somebody

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 who lives in the Glebe.

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 Nothing wrong

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 with any of those things

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 per se.

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 And she comes

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 to speak to Jesus

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 because she wants

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 something for him.

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 How does that conversation go?

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 Now we're getting into

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 what's actually happening

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 in this story.

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 Now why am I putting

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 Jesus with the weak people

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 and why am I putting

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 the woman

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 as a Glebe person?

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 Well, it's because

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 of the text,

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 not because I'm trying

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 to make a political point,

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 which I'm not.

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 Although obviously

00:19:50.539 --> 00:19:51.420
 there are some

00:19:51.420 --> 00:19:52.420
 political consequences

00:19:52.420 --> 00:19:53.240
 of what I've said,

00:19:53.400 --> 00:19:54.279
 but I don't want this

00:19:54.279 --> 00:19:55.259
 to be...

00:19:55.259 --> 00:19:56.400
 Listen to what goes on

00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:56.920
 in the text again,

00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:57.579
 verse 24.

00:19:58.119 --> 00:19:59.099
 And from there he arose

00:19:59.099 --> 00:20:00.059
 and went away

00:20:00.059 --> 00:20:01.000
 to the region of Tyre

00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:01.680
 and Sidon.

00:20:02.339 --> 00:20:03.240
 Now the big mistake

00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:04.480
 that all of the people

00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:05.420
 talking about this,

00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:06.440
 they talk as if somehow

00:20:06.440 --> 00:20:07.299
 the Jewish people

00:20:07.299 --> 00:20:07.980
 are powerful.

00:20:07.980 --> 00:20:09.920
 If you had gone back

00:20:09.920 --> 00:20:10.980
 in time to the Romans,

00:20:11.099 --> 00:20:12.059
 the people reading Marx

00:20:12.059 --> 00:20:12.839
 that the Jewish people

00:20:12.839 --> 00:20:13.799
 were powerful,

00:20:14.259 --> 00:20:15.460
 they would have laughed

00:20:15.460 --> 00:20:16.039
 at you.

00:20:17.339 --> 00:20:18.759
 Jewish people were excluded

00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:19.660
 from everything.

00:20:20.620 --> 00:20:22.059
 If you wanted to advance

00:20:22.059 --> 00:20:24.680
 primarily in the Roman world,

00:20:25.220 --> 00:20:26.380
 you had to be a pagan.

00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:28.680
 Like guilds were set up

00:20:28.680 --> 00:20:30.120
 around the worship of gods,

00:20:30.220 --> 00:20:31.860
 like cultural celebrations

00:20:31.860 --> 00:20:34.259
 to be part of the Roman legion.

00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:35.480
 It all involves

00:20:35.480 --> 00:20:37.380
 being willing to be a pagan,

00:20:37.380 --> 00:20:38.720
 to worship many gods.

00:20:39.260 --> 00:20:40.260
 And the Romans

00:20:40.260 --> 00:20:41.360
 were very, very good.

00:20:41.480 --> 00:20:42.080
 Whenever they went

00:20:42.080 --> 00:20:42.660
 into a region

00:20:42.660 --> 00:20:43.600
 and conquered an area

00:20:43.600 --> 00:20:44.120
 like Tyre,

00:20:44.220 --> 00:20:44.840
 and I don't know

00:20:44.840 --> 00:20:46.000
 if particularly they did this,

00:20:46.120 --> 00:20:47.500
 but they go into an area

00:20:47.500 --> 00:20:48.740
 like Tyre and Sidon,

00:20:48.940 --> 00:20:49.960
 they look at the range

00:20:49.960 --> 00:20:51.180
 of gods and goddesses

00:20:51.180 --> 00:20:51.780
 that the people

00:20:51.780 --> 00:20:53.100
 of Tyre and Sidon have,

00:20:53.560 --> 00:20:55.360
 and the ones that basically

00:20:55.360 --> 00:20:56.320
 look very similar

00:20:56.320 --> 00:20:57.200
 to the Roman gods,

00:20:57.300 --> 00:20:58.400
 they just rename them.

00:20:58.500 --> 00:20:58.800
 They say,

00:20:58.840 --> 00:20:59.180
 no, no, no,

00:20:59.220 --> 00:21:01.100
 this god and this god,

00:21:01.240 --> 00:21:02.180
 they're the same god.

00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:03.100
 And if the people

00:21:03.100 --> 00:21:04.000
 in Tyre and Sidon

00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:05.520
 have some gods and goddesses

00:21:05.520 --> 00:21:06.400
 that the Romans don't have,

00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:07.460
 they just adopt them.

00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:09.940
 Because if you believe

00:21:09.940 --> 00:21:10.920
 that there's lots of gods

00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:11.540
 and goddesses,

00:21:11.560 --> 00:21:12.259
 it's no big deal

00:21:12.259 --> 00:21:13.540
 if you discover another one.

00:21:14.180 --> 00:21:15.560
 And everything in civil life

00:21:15.560 --> 00:21:16.580
 revolves around,

00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:17.440
 if you want to advance

00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:18.500
 in the guilds

00:21:18.500 --> 00:21:19.120
 and politics

00:21:19.120 --> 00:21:19.720
 and anything,

00:21:19.860 --> 00:21:20.759
 you fundamentally have

00:21:20.759 --> 00:21:22.060
 to accept the pagan worldview

00:21:22.060 --> 00:21:23.019
 and live like a pagan.

00:21:23.840 --> 00:21:24.740
 The Jewish people

00:21:24.740 --> 00:21:25.480
 were oppressed,

00:21:25.640 --> 00:21:26.519
 powerless people.

00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:27.300
 They weren't the,

00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:28.920
 they were more like

00:21:28.920 --> 00:21:29.540
 the truckers

00:21:29.540 --> 00:21:30.440
 and not like the people

00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:31.100
 who live in the glee.

00:21:31.099 --> 00:21:32.179
 But there's nothing wrong

00:21:32.179 --> 00:21:33.000
 with living in the glee.

00:21:34.059 --> 00:21:34.299
 Like,

00:21:34.379 --> 00:21:35.740
 if you're important

00:21:35.740 --> 00:21:36.379
 in the government

00:21:36.379 --> 00:21:37.459
 and you can afford money,

00:21:37.859 --> 00:21:38.599
 praise God.

00:21:39.359 --> 00:21:40.240
 Nothing wrong with that.

00:21:44.879 --> 00:21:45.819
 And you know,

00:21:45.879 --> 00:21:46.500
 the other thing is

00:21:46.500 --> 00:21:47.039
 is that the people

00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:48.039
 of Tyre and Sidon

00:21:48.039 --> 00:21:49.159
 were the ancient enemies

00:21:49.159 --> 00:21:49.899
 of the Jews.

00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:52.679
 They were.

00:21:52.680 --> 00:21:58.200
 So a Jewish man

00:21:58.200 --> 00:21:59.400
 goes into an area

00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:00.220
 that are the ancient

00:22:00.220 --> 00:22:01.400
 enemies of the Jews

00:22:01.400 --> 00:22:04.380
 and a native of that land

00:22:04.380 --> 00:22:05.340
 comes to ask him

00:22:05.340 --> 00:22:06.140
 for some help.

00:22:07.560 --> 00:22:08.500
 I could have started

00:22:08.500 --> 00:22:09.279
 with this analogy,

00:22:09.460 --> 00:22:10.160
 but if I did that,

00:22:10.259 --> 00:22:10.799
 then Canadians

00:22:10.799 --> 00:22:11.680
 could just get left

00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:12.600
 off the hook.

00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:13.560
 It would be like

00:22:13.560 --> 00:22:14.519
 Jesus going to spend

00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:15.019
 some time

00:22:15.019 --> 00:22:15.940
 in the Gaza Strip.

00:22:17.259 --> 00:22:17.980
 How would that

00:22:17.980 --> 00:22:18.900
 conversation go

00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:21.240
 if somebody from Hamas

00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:22.320
 wanted to have

00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:22.960
 a conversation

00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:23.659
 with Jesus?

00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:24.819
 Wanted some help.

00:22:25.039 --> 00:22:25.460
 How would that

00:22:25.460 --> 00:22:26.279
 conversation go?

00:22:31.220 --> 00:22:32.119
 So she comes

00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:33.460
 and she falls

00:22:33.460 --> 00:22:34.000
 at her knees

00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:34.639
 and she wants

00:22:34.639 --> 00:22:36.519
 her help

00:22:36.519 --> 00:22:37.200
 from Jesus.

00:22:39.039 --> 00:22:39.659
 By the way,

00:22:39.700 --> 00:22:40.700
 that's a very long

00:22:40.700 --> 00:22:41.139
 journey

00:22:41.139 --> 00:22:42.519
 for a native

00:22:42.519 --> 00:22:43.960
 pagan,

00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:46.899
 which

00:22:46.899 --> 00:22:48.139
 maybe in heaven

00:22:48.139 --> 00:22:48.879
 we'll discover,

00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:49.700
 we'll meet

00:22:49.700 --> 00:22:50.399
 this woman

00:22:50.399 --> 00:22:51.240
 and we'll

00:22:51.240 --> 00:22:52.119
 get a bit

00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:52.879
 of her story

00:22:52.879 --> 00:22:53.379
 as to what

00:22:53.379 --> 00:22:53.959
 led to this

00:22:53.959 --> 00:22:54.759
 very long

00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:55.199
 journey,

00:22:55.339 --> 00:22:55.759
 even if it

00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:56.139
 was maybe

00:22:56.139 --> 00:22:56.779
 just walking

00:22:56.779 --> 00:22:57.479
 three houses

00:22:57.479 --> 00:22:58.059
 down.

00:22:58.939 --> 00:22:59.399
 But we all

00:22:59.399 --> 00:22:59.759
 know that it

00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:00.959
 would be as

00:23:00.959 --> 00:23:01.319
 if there was

00:23:01.319 --> 00:23:01.879
 a church

00:23:01.879 --> 00:23:02.959
 in a Muslim

00:23:02.959 --> 00:23:03.399
 neighborhood

00:23:03.399 --> 00:23:03.939
 and even if

00:23:03.939 --> 00:23:05.139
 the Muslim

00:23:05.139 --> 00:23:05.679
 house was

00:23:05.679 --> 00:23:06.079
 only two

00:23:06.079 --> 00:23:06.659
 doors away,

00:23:06.839 --> 00:23:07.500
 the journey

00:23:07.500 --> 00:23:08.159
 from the house

00:23:08.159 --> 00:23:09.679
 to the church

00:23:09.679 --> 00:23:10.079
 would be a

00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:10.699
 very long

00:23:10.699 --> 00:23:11.119
 journey.

00:23:13.500 --> 00:23:14.179
 And in many

00:23:14.179 --> 00:23:14.699
 ways a very

00:23:14.699 --> 00:23:15.219
 significant

00:23:15.219 --> 00:23:15.639
 journey.

00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:17.299
 And so she

00:23:17.299 --> 00:23:17.799
 makes this

00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:18.659
 significant journey

00:23:18.659 --> 00:23:19.319
 and she comes

00:23:19.319 --> 00:23:20.000
 and she asks

00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:20.599
 this Jewish

00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:21.119
 man to

00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:21.500
 heal her

00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:21.839
 daughter.

00:23:23.139 --> 00:23:23.819
 And Jesus

00:23:23.819 --> 00:23:24.319
 says,

00:23:25.259 --> 00:23:27.339
 now by using

00:23:27.339 --> 00:23:27.799
 the language

00:23:27.799 --> 00:23:28.099
 of the

00:23:28.099 --> 00:23:28.579
 truckers

00:23:28.579 --> 00:23:29.279
 and the

00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:30.000
 citizen

00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:30.779
 and by using

00:23:30.779 --> 00:23:31.399
 Hamas

00:23:31.399 --> 00:23:31.919
 and Jewish

00:23:31.919 --> 00:23:32.259
 people,

00:23:32.339 --> 00:23:32.899
 you understand

00:23:32.899 --> 00:23:33.299
 that name

00:23:33.299 --> 00:23:34.000
 calling goes

00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:34.700
 two ways.

00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:40.480
 That's what's

00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:41.159
 usually forgotten

00:23:41.159 --> 00:23:41.579
 when this

00:23:41.579 --> 00:23:42.259
 story is

00:23:42.259 --> 00:23:42.759
 interpreted.

00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:46.000
 because they

00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:46.279
 use the

00:23:46.279 --> 00:23:46.700
 imagination

00:23:46.700 --> 00:23:47.140
 of me

00:23:47.140 --> 00:23:47.500
 with my

00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:47.839
 sons and

00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:48.019
 my

00:23:48.019 --> 00:23:48.319
 daughters

00:23:48.319 --> 00:23:48.740
 and not

00:23:48.740 --> 00:23:49.579
 the story

00:23:49.579 --> 00:23:50.059
 which is

00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:50.619
 being told

00:23:50.619 --> 00:23:50.900
 here.

00:23:51.339 --> 00:23:51.779
 Those of you

00:23:51.779 --> 00:23:51.940
 who know

00:23:51.940 --> 00:23:52.279
 the Bible

00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:52.839
 very well,

00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:53.599
 Jezebel,

00:23:53.900 --> 00:23:54.879
 the archetype

00:23:54.879 --> 00:23:55.099
 of the

00:23:55.099 --> 00:23:55.299
 wicked

00:23:55.299 --> 00:23:55.539
 queen,

00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:56.099
 she's the

00:23:56.099 --> 00:23:56.660
 daughter of

00:23:56.660 --> 00:23:57.140
 the king

00:23:57.140 --> 00:23:57.640
 of Tyre.

00:23:59.819 --> 00:24:00.379
 And so

00:24:00.379 --> 00:24:01.000
 Jesus says,

00:24:01.180 --> 00:24:01.359
 let the

00:24:01.359 --> 00:24:01.960
 children be

00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:02.720
 fed first,

00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:03.379
 for it is

00:24:03.379 --> 00:24:03.920
 not right to

00:24:03.920 --> 00:24:04.279
 take the

00:24:04.279 --> 00:24:04.799
 children's

00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:05.299
 bread and

00:24:05.299 --> 00:24:05.619
 throw it

00:24:05.619 --> 00:24:05.859
 to the

00:24:05.859 --> 00:24:06.339
 dogs.

00:24:08.180 --> 00:24:08.700
 Now in

00:24:08.700 --> 00:24:09.099
 English,

00:24:09.259 --> 00:24:09.720
 here's one

00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:09.940
 of these

00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:10.559
 cases where

00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:10.980
 knowing the

00:24:10.980 --> 00:24:11.640
 original language

00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:12.140
 is actually

00:24:12.140 --> 00:24:12.400
 very,

00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:13.060
 very helpful

00:24:13.060 --> 00:24:13.740
 to understand

00:24:13.740 --> 00:24:14.340
 the story

00:24:14.340 --> 00:24:14.920
 because in

00:24:14.920 --> 00:24:15.200
 a sense

00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:15.700
 what Jesus

00:24:15.700 --> 00:24:16.040
 does,

00:24:16.100 --> 00:24:16.380
 he does

00:24:16.380 --> 00:24:16.880
 take some

00:24:16.880 --> 00:24:17.080
 of the

00:24:17.080 --> 00:24:17.660
 language

00:24:17.660 --> 00:24:18.820
 that is

00:24:18.820 --> 00:24:19.259
 used by

00:24:19.259 --> 00:24:19.960
 Jewish people

00:24:19.960 --> 00:24:20.320
 to look

00:24:20.320 --> 00:24:20.720
 down their

00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:21.259
 noses at

00:24:21.259 --> 00:24:21.700
 the time

00:24:21.700 --> 00:24:22.140
 of people

00:24:22.140 --> 00:24:22.820
 like this

00:24:22.820 --> 00:24:23.320
 particular

00:24:23.320 --> 00:24:23.700
 woman,

00:24:23.840 --> 00:24:24.140
 but he

00:24:24.140 --> 00:24:24.680
 actually

00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:25.740
 transforms

00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:26.360
 the language,

00:24:26.560 --> 00:24:26.860
 he uses

00:24:26.860 --> 00:24:27.500
 something which

00:24:27.500 --> 00:24:27.960
 is similar

00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:28.460
 but very

00:24:28.460 --> 00:24:28.820
 different,

00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:29.180
 and he

00:24:29.180 --> 00:24:29.780
 uses a

00:24:29.780 --> 00:24:30.980
 story which

00:24:30.980 --> 00:24:31.400
 believe it

00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:31.660
 or not

00:24:31.660 --> 00:24:32.259
 opens a

00:24:32.259 --> 00:24:32.720
 door to

00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:33.120
 the woman

00:24:33.120 --> 00:24:34.480
 without

00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:34.960
 in a sense

00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:35.360
 him giving

00:24:35.360 --> 00:24:35.700
 up any

00:24:35.700 --> 00:24:36.160
 ground.

00:24:37.820 --> 00:24:38.560
 The fact

00:24:38.560 --> 00:24:38.720
 of the

00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:39.220
 matter is,

00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:39.920
 is that as

00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:40.580
 Jesus says

00:24:40.580 --> 00:24:41.160
 in John,

00:24:41.320 --> 00:24:41.940
 salvation is

00:24:41.940 --> 00:24:42.299
 from the

00:24:42.299 --> 00:24:42.680
 Jews.

00:24:45.019 --> 00:24:45.279
 I mean,

00:24:45.340 --> 00:24:45.539
 my

00:24:45.539 --> 00:24:46.360
 forebears

00:24:46.360 --> 00:24:48.779
 stripped

00:24:48.779 --> 00:24:49.279
 themselves

00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:49.759
 naked,

00:24:50.080 --> 00:24:50.340
 painted

00:24:50.340 --> 00:24:50.880
 themselves

00:24:50.880 --> 00:24:51.360
 blue,

00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:52.019
 called

00:24:52.019 --> 00:24:52.620
 them on

00:24:52.620 --> 00:24:52.980
 their own

00:24:52.980 --> 00:24:53.559
 gods as

00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:53.960
 they fought

00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:54.600
 the Romans.

00:24:55.600 --> 00:24:55.940
 Those are

00:24:55.940 --> 00:24:56.700
 my heritage.

00:24:58.279 --> 00:24:58.460
 I mean,

00:24:58.519 --> 00:24:58.640
 wait,

00:24:58.740 --> 00:24:59.000
 that wasn't

00:24:59.000 --> 00:24:59.539
 my parents,

00:24:59.660 --> 00:24:59.820
 I mean,

00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:00.000
 way,

00:25:00.080 --> 00:25:00.500
 way back,

00:25:00.600 --> 00:25:00.779
 right?

00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:01.880
 Centuries.

00:25:01.880 --> 00:25:05.620
 And so

00:25:05.620 --> 00:25:06.120
 what Jesus

00:25:06.120 --> 00:25:06.880
 does here,

00:25:07.100 --> 00:25:07.720
 so it is

00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:08.180
 true that

00:25:08.180 --> 00:25:08.680
 the children

00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:09.100
 are to be

00:25:09.100 --> 00:25:09.400
 fed for,

00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:09.660
 I mean,

00:25:09.860 --> 00:25:10.500
 Jesus comes

00:25:10.500 --> 00:25:10.860
 from the

00:25:10.860 --> 00:25:11.200
 Jews,

00:25:11.740 --> 00:25:12.360
 it is the

00:25:12.360 --> 00:25:13.080
 Jewish people

00:25:13.080 --> 00:25:13.460
 who are

00:25:13.460 --> 00:25:14.540
 important in

00:25:14.540 --> 00:25:15.140
 understanding,

00:25:15.300 --> 00:25:15.740
 defining,

00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:16.320
 rejecting,

00:25:16.500 --> 00:25:16.960
 all of that

00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:17.700
 all comes

00:25:17.700 --> 00:25:18.060
 within the

00:25:18.060 --> 00:25:18.520
 Old Testament,

00:25:18.600 --> 00:25:18.860
 it's very

00:25:18.860 --> 00:25:19.300
 important.

00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:21.160
 But then the

00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:21.720
 language that

00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:22.420
 he uses about

00:25:22.420 --> 00:25:23.100
 this thing about

00:25:23.100 --> 00:25:23.600
 the children

00:25:23.600 --> 00:25:23.900
 and the

00:25:23.900 --> 00:25:24.180
 dogs,

00:25:24.280 --> 00:25:24.820
 he uses a

00:25:24.820 --> 00:25:25.340
 different word

00:25:25.340 --> 00:25:25.840
 for dog,

00:25:25.920 --> 00:25:26.300
 he doesn't

00:25:26.300 --> 00:25:26.660
 use the

00:25:26.660 --> 00:25:27.320
 normal word,

00:25:27.400 --> 00:25:27.780
 which is a

00:25:27.780 --> 00:25:28.480
 wild dog,

00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:30.400
 he uses the

00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:30.980
 word for a

00:25:30.980 --> 00:25:31.320
 pet.

00:25:32.420 --> 00:25:32.980
 A household

00:25:32.980 --> 00:25:33.380
 pet.

00:25:35.500 --> 00:25:36.060
 Now that

00:25:36.060 --> 00:25:36.400
 things are

00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:36.700
 about to

00:25:36.700 --> 00:25:37.020
 open up,

00:25:37.080 --> 00:25:37.580
 hopefully some

00:25:37.580 --> 00:25:37.940
 of you can

00:25:37.940 --> 00:25:38.380
 come to our

00:25:38.380 --> 00:25:38.800
 house at

00:25:38.800 --> 00:25:39.240
 some point

00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:39.500
 in time,

00:25:39.540 --> 00:25:39.840
 and if you've

00:25:39.840 --> 00:25:40.380
 never been to

00:25:40.380 --> 00:25:40.800
 our house,

00:25:40.880 --> 00:25:41.480
 we happen to

00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:42.040
 back on to

00:25:42.040 --> 00:25:42.520
 some green

00:25:42.520 --> 00:25:42.780
 belt,

00:25:43.580 --> 00:25:44.300
 and at

00:25:44.300 --> 00:25:45.020
 different times

00:25:45.020 --> 00:25:45.780
 there's coyotes

00:25:45.780 --> 00:25:46.320
 in the green

00:25:46.320 --> 00:25:46.600
 belt,

00:25:46.820 --> 00:25:47.340
 right behind

00:25:47.340 --> 00:25:47.720
 our house.

00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:48.240
 At night

00:25:48.240 --> 00:25:48.840
 sometimes you

00:25:48.840 --> 00:25:49.260
 can hear them

00:25:49.260 --> 00:25:49.660
 howling.

00:25:51.520 --> 00:25:52.120
 If our

00:25:52.120 --> 00:25:52.800
 neighbors found

00:25:52.800 --> 00:25:53.380
 out that we

00:25:53.380 --> 00:25:53.900
 were throwing

00:25:53.900 --> 00:25:54.600
 food over the

00:25:54.600 --> 00:25:55.020
 fence to

00:25:55.020 --> 00:25:55.360
 feed the

00:25:55.360 --> 00:25:55.780
 coyotes,

00:25:55.900 --> 00:25:56.160
 they'd be

00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:56.840
 very mad at

00:25:56.840 --> 00:25:57.120
 us,

00:25:57.360 --> 00:25:58.900
 and they

00:25:58.900 --> 00:25:59.300
 should be.

00:25:59.640 --> 00:26:00.080
 We'd be

00:26:00.080 --> 00:26:00.580
 mad if we

00:26:00.580 --> 00:26:01.080
 found out that

00:26:01.080 --> 00:26:01.540
 our neighbors

00:26:01.540 --> 00:26:01.860
 were feeding

00:26:01.859 --> 00:26:02.719
 the coyotes.

00:26:03.819 --> 00:26:04.359
 But you

00:26:04.359 --> 00:26:04.839
 all know how

00:26:04.839 --> 00:26:05.599
 important Rocky

00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:06.159
 was to our

00:26:06.159 --> 00:26:06.639
 household.

00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:10.819
 And we

00:26:10.819 --> 00:26:11.359
 fed Rocky

00:26:11.359 --> 00:26:11.659
 all the

00:26:11.659 --> 00:26:11.899
 time.

00:26:13.799 --> 00:26:14.339
 I mean,

00:26:14.399 --> 00:26:14.899
 many of you

00:26:14.899 --> 00:26:15.399
 who've had

00:26:15.399 --> 00:26:15.839
 dogs,

00:26:15.939 --> 00:26:16.599
 you understand

00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:17.159
 at a very

00:26:17.159 --> 00:26:17.759
 deep level

00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:18.119
 how the

00:26:18.119 --> 00:26:18.599
 death of a

00:26:18.599 --> 00:26:19.399
 dog is an

00:26:19.399 --> 00:26:20.539
 important change

00:26:20.539 --> 00:26:21.059
 in your whole

00:26:21.059 --> 00:26:21.519
 household.

00:26:21.519 --> 00:26:21.660
 world.

00:26:26.119 --> 00:26:26.879
 And Jesus

00:26:26.879 --> 00:26:27.720
 doesn't use the

00:26:27.720 --> 00:26:28.279
 language of

00:26:28.279 --> 00:26:29.019
 feeding the

00:26:29.019 --> 00:26:29.579
 coyotes.

00:26:29.900 --> 00:26:30.599
 He uses the

00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:31.139
 language of

00:26:31.139 --> 00:26:31.799
 feeding Rocky,

00:26:32.799 --> 00:26:36.039
 who would,

00:26:36.180 --> 00:26:36.539
 by the way,

00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:37.519
 sit under the

00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:38.039
 table waiting

00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:38.519
 for something

00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:38.960
 to fall,

00:26:39.900 --> 00:26:40.619
 as well as

00:26:40.619 --> 00:26:41.220
 our other

00:26:41.220 --> 00:26:41.639
 dogs.

00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:41.780
 people.

00:26:41.780 --> 00:26:46.640
 And one of

00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:46.920
 the things

00:26:46.920 --> 00:26:47.420
 which is very

00:26:47.420 --> 00:26:47.940
 unique about

00:26:47.940 --> 00:26:48.560
 this story

00:26:48.560 --> 00:26:49.240
 is that she's

00:26:49.240 --> 00:26:49.740
 the first

00:26:49.740 --> 00:26:50.960
 person in the

00:26:50.960 --> 00:26:51.960
 entire gospel

00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:52.740
 of Mark to

00:26:52.740 --> 00:26:53.820
 understand a

00:26:53.820 --> 00:26:54.380
 saying of

00:26:54.380 --> 00:26:54.820
 Jesus.

00:26:55.040 --> 00:26:55.500
 The first

00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:55.940
 person.

00:26:57.600 --> 00:26:58.360
 She doesn't

00:26:58.360 --> 00:26:59.200
 answer Jesus

00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:00.240
 from outside of

00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:00.880
 his saying,

00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:01.840
 his parable,

00:27:02.580 --> 00:27:03.360
 above it,

00:27:03.600 --> 00:27:04.400
 critiquing it.

00:27:04.600 --> 00:27:05.300
 She enters

00:27:05.300 --> 00:27:06.259
 into the door

00:27:06.259 --> 00:27:07.060
 which he opens

00:27:07.060 --> 00:27:08.480
 up and

00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:09.140
 answers from

00:27:09.140 --> 00:27:09.680
 within it.

00:27:09.680 --> 00:27:11.360
 And she

00:27:11.360 --> 00:27:11.940
 answers from

00:27:11.940 --> 00:27:12.539
 within it by

00:27:12.539 --> 00:27:13.039
 saying in

00:27:13.039 --> 00:27:13.740
 verse 28,

00:27:13.860 --> 00:27:14.039
 yes,

00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:14.380
 Lord,

00:27:14.620 --> 00:27:15.080
 even the

00:27:15.080 --> 00:27:15.580
 dogs under

00:27:15.580 --> 00:27:16.019
 the table

00:27:16.019 --> 00:27:16.360
 eat the

00:27:16.360 --> 00:27:16.860
 children's

00:27:16.860 --> 00:27:17.160
 crumbs.

00:27:19.039 --> 00:27:19.840
 And what

00:27:19.840 --> 00:27:20.440
 she's saying

00:27:20.440 --> 00:27:20.820
 is,

00:27:23.320 --> 00:27:24.019
 and for

00:27:24.019 --> 00:27:24.360
 some of

00:27:24.360 --> 00:27:24.600
 you who

00:27:24.600 --> 00:27:24.940
 are very

00:27:24.940 --> 00:27:25.759
 narcissistic

00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:26.480
 and proud,

00:27:26.539 --> 00:27:26.880
 and we all

00:27:26.880 --> 00:27:27.160
 know who

00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:27.500
 we are,

00:27:28.360 --> 00:27:28.900
 it's hard

00:27:28.900 --> 00:27:29.320
 for us to

00:27:29.320 --> 00:27:29.920
 understand that

00:27:29.920 --> 00:27:30.320
 there's some

00:27:30.320 --> 00:27:30.740
 people who

00:27:30.740 --> 00:27:31.160
 come to the

00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:31.920
 Christian faith

00:27:31.920 --> 00:27:32.320
 and they

00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:33.200
 really have

00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:33.660
 such a,

00:27:33.799 --> 00:27:34.279
 they've been

00:27:34.279 --> 00:27:35.220
 so rejected,

00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:37.620
 so abused,

00:27:38.400 --> 00:27:39.460
 so neglected,

00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:40.500
 so overlooked,

00:27:40.660 --> 00:27:41.519
 so beat up,

00:27:43.019 --> 00:27:43.400
 that they

00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:44.580
 really never,

00:27:44.700 --> 00:27:45.320
 it's hard for

00:27:45.320 --> 00:27:45.480
 them,

00:27:45.660 --> 00:27:46.380
 if God,

00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:46.960
 if God,

00:27:47.120 --> 00:27:47.680
 if Jesus

00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:48.240
 would just

00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:48.940
 accept them,

00:27:49.060 --> 00:27:49.460
 and you know,

00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:49.880
 even if you

00:27:49.880 --> 00:27:50.340
 don't accept

00:27:50.340 --> 00:27:51.320
 me as your

00:27:51.320 --> 00:27:51.600
 child,

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:51.900
 but if you

00:27:51.900 --> 00:27:52.400
 just sort of

00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:53.000
 let me in,

00:27:53.060 --> 00:27:53.320
 Jesus,

00:27:53.460 --> 00:27:53.920
 just off on

00:27:53.920 --> 00:27:54.360
 the side,

00:27:54.920 --> 00:27:55.420
 you know,

00:27:55.500 --> 00:27:55.740
 Jesus,

00:27:55.880 --> 00:27:56.180
 I'm not

00:27:56.180 --> 00:27:56.720
 worthy of

00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:56.920
 it,

00:27:57.539 --> 00:27:57.740
 you know,

00:27:57.799 --> 00:27:58.100
 nobody

00:27:58.100 --> 00:27:58.799
 accepts me,

00:27:58.940 --> 00:27:59.100
 nobody,

00:27:59.299 --> 00:27:59.420
 you know,

00:27:59.440 --> 00:27:59.940
 my parents

00:27:59.940 --> 00:28:00.420
 don't like

00:28:00.420 --> 00:28:00.700
 me,

00:28:00.960 --> 00:28:01.480
 I've always

00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.220
 been overlooked,

00:28:02.860 --> 00:28:03.400
 I'm not

00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:04.180
 very important,

00:28:04.380 --> 00:28:04.700
 I'm not

00:28:04.700 --> 00:28:05.220
 very good,

00:28:05.299 --> 00:28:05.560
 I'm not

00:28:05.560 --> 00:28:06.220
 very skilled,

00:28:06.360 --> 00:28:06.620
 I'm not

00:28:06.620 --> 00:28:07.360
 very powerful,

00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:07.779
 I'm not

00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:08.220
 very good

00:28:08.220 --> 00:28:08.599
 looking,

00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:09.680
 and all

00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:09.899
 of the

00:28:09.899 --> 00:28:10.200
 things,

00:28:10.339 --> 00:28:10.599
 and with

00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:11.019
 all of

00:28:11.019 --> 00:28:11.579
 their knots,

00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:11.960
 they would

00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:12.359
 just be

00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:12.680
 really,

00:28:12.819 --> 00:28:13.379
 really happy

00:28:13.379 --> 00:28:13.899
 if Jesus

00:28:13.899 --> 00:28:14.359
 would just

00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:14.839
 let them

00:28:14.839 --> 00:28:15.500
 slip in

00:28:15.500 --> 00:28:16.039
 and quietly

00:28:16.039 --> 00:28:16.480
 be at a

00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:16.759
 corner,

00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:17.539
 and for

00:28:17.539 --> 00:28:17.940
 some of us

00:28:17.940 --> 00:28:18.279
 it's very

00:28:18.279 --> 00:28:18.680
 hard to

00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:19.240
 imagine that

00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:19.619
 that's how

00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:20.180
 somebody would

00:28:20.180 --> 00:28:20.539
 think,

00:28:21.059 --> 00:28:21.539
 but there

00:28:21.539 --> 00:28:22.000
 are people

00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:22.460
 who think

00:28:22.460 --> 00:28:22.759
 and this

00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:23.160
 story is

00:28:23.160 --> 00:28:23.539
 for them,

00:28:23.599 --> 00:28:23.920
 and really

00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:24.359
 what this

00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:24.779
 woman is

00:28:24.779 --> 00:28:25.019
 saying,

00:28:25.119 --> 00:28:25.359
 Jesus,

00:28:25.700 --> 00:28:26.359
 I just

00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:26.579
 want to

00:28:26.579 --> 00:28:26.920
 be part

00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:27.119
 of your

00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:27.639
 household,

00:28:28.399 --> 00:28:30.180
 even if

00:28:30.180 --> 00:28:30.539
 it's only

00:28:30.539 --> 00:28:31.119
 as a

00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:31.460
 pet,

00:28:33.460 --> 00:28:36.039
 take me

00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:36.299
 in your

00:28:36.299 --> 00:28:36.819
 household,

00:28:36.819 --> 00:28:37.980
 even if

00:28:37.980 --> 00:28:38.339
 I'm just

00:28:38.339 --> 00:28:38.799
 your pet,

00:28:40.359 --> 00:28:41.779
 and that

00:28:41.779 --> 00:28:42.019
 would be

00:28:42.019 --> 00:28:42.359
 good enough

00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:42.720
 for me.

00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:47.679
 You see,

00:28:47.759 --> 00:28:48.019
 in many

00:28:48.019 --> 00:28:48.539
 ways this

00:28:48.539 --> 00:28:49.599
 story is

00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:50.759
 equivalent to

00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:51.379
 the story of

00:28:51.379 --> 00:28:51.980
 the prodigal

00:28:51.980 --> 00:28:52.519
 son in the

00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:53.079
 gospel of

00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:53.279
 Luke,

00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:53.619
 and for

00:28:53.619 --> 00:28:53.960
 those of

00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:54.319
 you who

00:28:54.319 --> 00:28:54.799
 know the

00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:55.079
 Bible,

00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:55.399
 you'll know

00:28:55.399 --> 00:28:55.879
 the story,

00:28:55.980 --> 00:28:56.299
 but very

00:28:56.299 --> 00:28:56.919
 simply the

00:28:56.919 --> 00:28:58.079
 son who

00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:58.500
 wants the

00:28:58.500 --> 00:28:59.099
 father dead

00:28:59.099 --> 00:28:59.679
 gets half

00:28:59.679 --> 00:28:59.939
 of his

00:28:59.939 --> 00:29:00.379
 inheritance,

00:29:00.619 --> 00:29:01.019
 blows it

00:29:01.019 --> 00:29:01.919
 all in a

00:29:01.919 --> 00:29:02.639
 foreign land,

00:29:02.639 --> 00:29:03.059
 and he's

00:29:03.059 --> 00:29:03.539
 reduced to

00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:04.339
 complete poverty,

00:29:04.460 --> 00:29:04.720
 and one

00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:05.379
 day while he's

00:29:05.379 --> 00:29:05.879
 feeding the

00:29:05.879 --> 00:29:06.159
 pigs,

00:29:06.160 --> 00:29:06.400
 and he

00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:06.820
 wishes he

00:29:06.820 --> 00:29:07.120
 could eat

00:29:07.120 --> 00:29:07.759
 the food

00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:08.080
 that the

00:29:08.080 --> 00:29:08.460
 pigs are

00:29:08.460 --> 00:29:08.680
 eating,

00:29:08.759 --> 00:29:08.920
 and he

00:29:08.920 --> 00:29:09.320
 comes and

00:29:09.320 --> 00:29:09.600
 he says

00:29:09.600 --> 00:29:10.100
 to himself,

00:29:10.340 --> 00:29:11.100
 this is

00:29:11.100 --> 00:29:11.440
 nuts,

00:29:11.900 --> 00:29:12.580
 my life

00:29:12.580 --> 00:29:13.080
 sucks,

00:29:13.920 --> 00:29:15.220
 maybe I

00:29:15.220 --> 00:29:15.560
 can go

00:29:15.560 --> 00:29:15.940
 back to

00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:16.380
 my dad,

00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:16.880
 because my

00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:17.340
 dad's

00:29:17.340 --> 00:29:18.519
 slaves eat

00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:19.320
 better than

00:29:19.320 --> 00:29:19.779
 I'm eating

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:20.360
 right now,

00:29:20.920 --> 00:29:21.180
 and I

00:29:21.180 --> 00:29:21.900
 don't deserve

00:29:21.900 --> 00:29:23.279
 to be part

00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:25.640
 of the

00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:26.040
 family,

00:29:26.620 --> 00:29:27.160
 I don't

00:29:27.160 --> 00:29:27.560
 deserve to

00:29:27.560 --> 00:29:28.000
 be a son

00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:28.360
 anymore,

00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:29.840
 but maybe

00:29:29.840 --> 00:29:30.300
 he'd accept

00:29:30.300 --> 00:29:30.740
 me as a

00:29:30.740 --> 00:29:31.080
 slave.

00:29:32.259 --> 00:29:32.800
 And the

00:29:32.800 --> 00:29:33.279
 story goes,

00:29:33.360 --> 00:29:33.720
 he comes

00:29:33.720 --> 00:29:34.420
 back and the

00:29:34.420 --> 00:29:35.180
 father welcomes

00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:36.539
 him as way

00:29:36.539 --> 00:29:36.860
 more than

00:29:36.860 --> 00:29:37.400
 a slave.

00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:39.140
 And the

00:29:39.140 --> 00:29:39.500
 point of

00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:40.000
 this story

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:40.460
 is that

00:29:40.460 --> 00:29:41.240
 Jesus welcomes

00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:41.600
 the woman

00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:41.980
 as way

00:29:41.980 --> 00:29:42.299
 more than

00:29:42.299 --> 00:29:42.660
 a dad.

00:29:44.160 --> 00:29:44.720
 And it's

00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:45.140
 pointing to

00:29:45.140 --> 00:29:45.860
 this profound

00:29:45.860 --> 00:29:47.200
 change which

00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:47.580
 is going to

00:29:47.580 --> 00:29:48.900
 happen as a

00:29:48.900 --> 00:29:49.519
 result of the

00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:50.299
 life and death

00:29:50.299 --> 00:29:50.840
 and resurrection

00:29:50.840 --> 00:29:51.580
 of Jesus.

00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:53.299
 That when

00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:54.279
 Jesus dies on

00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:54.900
 the cross at

00:29:54.900 --> 00:29:55.299
 the end of

00:29:55.299 --> 00:29:55.539
 Mark,

00:29:55.640 --> 00:29:55.980
 the first

00:29:55.980 --> 00:29:56.519
 person to

00:29:56.519 --> 00:29:57.259
 recognize that

00:29:57.259 --> 00:29:57.920
 he is God

00:29:57.920 --> 00:29:59.180
 dying is the

00:29:59.180 --> 00:30:00.080
 Roman soldier

00:30:00.080 --> 00:30:01.039
 who crucifies

00:30:01.039 --> 00:30:01.659
 Jesus.

00:30:05.659 --> 00:30:06.599
 That the

00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:07.019
 death of

00:30:07.019 --> 00:30:07.539
 Jesus on

00:30:07.539 --> 00:30:08.180
 the cross

00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:09.799
 is for

00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:10.779
 pagans and

00:30:10.779 --> 00:30:11.680
 Jews and

00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:12.519
 gays and

00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:13.480
 straights and

00:30:13.480 --> 00:30:14.920
 suburbans and

00:30:14.920 --> 00:30:16.420
 downtown people and

00:30:16.420 --> 00:30:17.920
 rich and poor and

00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:19.039
 the fit and the

00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:21.519
 unfit, the

00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:22.559
 popular and the

00:30:22.559 --> 00:30:23.359
 unpopular.

00:30:23.920 --> 00:30:25.180
 It's for people

00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:26.379
 in China and

00:30:26.379 --> 00:30:27.299
 Korea and

00:30:27.299 --> 00:30:28.039
 Russia and

00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:29.359
 Ukraine and

00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:31.039
 Rwanda and

00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:33.839
 Uganda and

00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:35.479
 Argentina and

00:30:35.479 --> 00:30:37.379
 Colombia and

00:30:37.379 --> 00:30:38.219
 New York City,

00:30:38.399 --> 00:30:39.359
 Manhattan and

00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:40.939
 the annex in

00:30:40.939 --> 00:30:41.439
 Toronto.

00:30:42.279 --> 00:30:43.240
 Jesus died for

00:30:43.240 --> 00:30:43.439
 all.

00:30:46.259 --> 00:30:46.919
 He is the

00:30:46.919 --> 00:30:48.439
 king who

00:30:48.439 --> 00:30:48.979
 creates a

00:30:48.979 --> 00:30:51.519
 kingdom by

00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:52.139
 his death upon

00:30:52.139 --> 00:30:52.859
 the cross and

00:30:52.859 --> 00:30:53.599
 the good news

00:30:53.599 --> 00:30:54.159
 is that the

00:30:54.159 --> 00:30:55.439
 king who will

00:30:55.439 --> 00:30:56.079
 make you right

00:30:56.079 --> 00:30:56.699
 with almighty

00:30:56.699 --> 00:30:58.159
 God is inviting

00:30:58.159 --> 00:30:58.839
 you to be part

00:30:58.839 --> 00:30:59.119
 of his

00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:00.799
 kingdom and

00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:01.299
 what is needed

00:31:01.299 --> 00:31:01.979
 is repentance

00:31:01.979 --> 00:31:03.799
 and what is

00:31:03.799 --> 00:31:04.599
 needed is

00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:05.000
 faith.

00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:10.879
 Now note,

00:31:10.959 --> 00:31:11.259
 if you could

00:31:11.259 --> 00:31:11.639
 put up the

00:31:11.639 --> 00:31:12.199
 first point,

00:31:14.500 --> 00:31:15.239
 Jesus doesn't

00:31:15.239 --> 00:31:15.659
 in a sense

00:31:15.659 --> 00:31:15.979
 meet her

00:31:15.979 --> 00:31:16.399
 halfway.

00:31:18.199 --> 00:31:18.519
 You see,

00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:18.979
 here's the

00:31:18.979 --> 00:31:19.239
 thing.

00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:20.359
 Since Jesus

00:31:20.359 --> 00:31:21.259
 is the

00:31:21.259 --> 00:31:22.039
 savior, he

00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:22.559
 is the

00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:23.299
 Lord and

00:31:23.299 --> 00:31:23.859
 he is the

00:31:23.859 --> 00:31:24.500
 true God

00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:25.119
 incarnate,

00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:26.679
 there is no

00:31:26.679 --> 00:31:27.479
 middle ground

00:31:27.479 --> 00:31:28.339
 between him

00:31:28.339 --> 00:31:29.059
 and any

00:31:29.059 --> 00:31:29.459
 other way

00:31:29.459 --> 00:31:29.859
 to God.

00:31:32.379 --> 00:31:32.939
 There is

00:31:32.939 --> 00:31:33.459
 no middle

00:31:33.459 --> 00:31:34.099
 way between

00:31:34.099 --> 00:31:34.859
 him and

00:31:34.859 --> 00:31:35.459
 any other

00:31:35.459 --> 00:31:35.779
 way to

00:31:35.779 --> 00:31:36.079
 God.

00:31:39.019 --> 00:31:39.559
 If that

00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:39.839
 sounds,

00:31:40.059 --> 00:31:40.459
 just a

00:31:40.459 --> 00:31:40.740
 minute, I

00:31:40.740 --> 00:31:40.959
 mean, there

00:31:40.959 --> 00:31:41.299
 isn't a

00:31:41.299 --> 00:31:42.299
 cure for

00:31:42.299 --> 00:31:43.139
 COVID-19

00:31:43.139 --> 00:31:43.559
 yet.

00:31:43.859 --> 00:31:44.319
 There are

00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:45.179
 things which

00:31:45.179 --> 00:31:45.559
 mitigate

00:31:45.559 --> 00:31:46.359
 symptoms.

00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:48.079
 But if

00:31:48.079 --> 00:31:48.599
 there was a

00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:50.159
 cure, next

00:31:50.159 --> 00:31:50.659
 month there's

00:31:50.659 --> 00:31:51.359
 a cure for

00:31:51.359 --> 00:31:51.500
 it.

00:31:51.639 --> 00:31:52.019
 You get

00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:52.539
 this, you

00:31:52.539 --> 00:31:52.859
 will never

00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:53.579
 transmit it,

00:31:53.619 --> 00:31:53.819
 and you

00:31:53.819 --> 00:31:54.119
 will never

00:31:54.119 --> 00:31:54.559
 get it.

00:31:54.559 --> 00:31:54.679
 it.

00:31:55.879 --> 00:31:56.319
 You will

00:31:56.319 --> 00:31:56.539
 never

00:31:56.539 --> 00:31:57.119
 transmit it,

00:31:57.139 --> 00:31:57.299
 you will

00:31:57.299 --> 00:31:57.659
 never get

00:31:57.659 --> 00:31:57.839
 it, and

00:31:57.839 --> 00:31:58.099
 it covers

00:31:58.099 --> 00:31:58.379
 all the

00:31:58.379 --> 00:31:58.659
 variants.

00:31:58.740 --> 00:31:58.940
 If there

00:31:58.940 --> 00:31:59.200
 is a

00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:01.839
 cure, and

00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:02.019
 it's

00:32:02.019 --> 00:32:03.440
 announced, and

00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:04.259
 the scientific

00:32:04.259 --> 00:32:05.059
 literature, the

00:32:05.059 --> 00:32:07.319
 double-blind

00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:09.919
 control studies

00:32:09.919 --> 00:32:11.359
 with no

00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:12.339
 seboes and

00:32:12.339 --> 00:32:13.159
 placebos and

00:32:13.159 --> 00:32:13.679
 all that, and

00:32:13.679 --> 00:32:14.240
 it all proves

00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:14.539
 that this

00:32:14.539 --> 00:32:14.919
 works with

00:32:14.919 --> 00:32:15.460
 100%

00:32:15.460 --> 00:32:16.019
 effectiveness.

00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:20.619
 If anybody

00:32:20.619 --> 00:32:21.019
 said, no,

00:32:21.039 --> 00:32:21.259
 no, no,

00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:21.480
 no, no,

00:32:21.500 --> 00:32:21.940
 you've

00:32:21.940 --> 00:32:22.619
 got to

00:32:22.619 --> 00:32:23.160
 need, I

00:32:23.160 --> 00:32:24.200
 have this, my

00:32:24.200 --> 00:32:24.619
 own little

00:32:24.619 --> 00:32:25.420
 home solution

00:32:25.420 --> 00:32:26.119
 of mixing

00:32:26.119 --> 00:32:26.740
 honey and

00:32:26.740 --> 00:32:28.379
 baking soda and

00:32:28.379 --> 00:32:29.460
 alfalfa sprouts

00:32:29.460 --> 00:32:30.400
 and wheat germ,

00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:31.299
 and you need

00:32:31.299 --> 00:32:33.359
 to mix these

00:32:33.359 --> 00:32:33.759
 two.

00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:35.740
 You say, are

00:32:35.740 --> 00:32:37.339
 you foolish?

00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:38.640
 Like, you

00:32:38.640 --> 00:32:39.259
 don't mix the

00:32:39.259 --> 00:32:39.480
 two.

00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:40.119
 There's no

00:32:40.119 --> 00:32:40.700
 middle ground.

00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:42.680
 No matter

00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:43.240
 how much you

00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:43.680
 think your

00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:44.599
 organic wheat

00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:45.019
 germ will

00:32:45.019 --> 00:32:47.140
 help, there's

00:32:47.140 --> 00:32:47.500
 no middle

00:32:47.500 --> 00:32:48.079
 ground, and

00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:48.440
 that's what's

00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:48.700
 shown in

00:32:48.700 --> 00:32:49.240
 the story.

00:32:51.259 --> 00:32:53.640
 Now, one

00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:53.819
 of the

00:32:53.819 --> 00:32:54.319
 things, there's

00:32:54.319 --> 00:32:55.359
 two things, and

00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:55.940
 I had other

00:32:55.940 --> 00:32:56.299
 points.

00:32:56.379 --> 00:32:56.720
 I think I'm

00:32:56.720 --> 00:32:57.019
 going to just

00:32:57.019 --> 00:32:57.359
 end the

00:32:57.359 --> 00:32:57.799
 sermon with

00:32:57.799 --> 00:32:58.140
 these other

00:32:58.140 --> 00:32:58.759
 two points,

00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:00.720
 and I'll

00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:01.160
 put on the

00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:01.819
 online what

00:33:01.819 --> 00:33:02.160
 I was going

00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:02.640
 to say about

00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:03.000
 some of the

00:33:03.000 --> 00:33:03.680
 next story,

00:33:03.779 --> 00:33:04.160
 but just

00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:04.500
 looking at

00:33:04.500 --> 00:33:05.079
 the time, I

00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:05.420
 want to end

00:33:05.420 --> 00:33:05.720
 with these

00:33:05.720 --> 00:33:06.299
 two points.

00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:07.579
 The first

00:33:07.579 --> 00:33:08.299
 challenge in

00:33:08.299 --> 00:33:10.440
 this text is

00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:10.819
 there's a

00:33:10.819 --> 00:33:11.619
 challenge for

00:33:11.619 --> 00:33:12.059
 us as

00:33:12.059 --> 00:33:13.039
 Christians to

00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:13.779
 be so gripped

00:33:13.779 --> 00:33:14.400
 by this story

00:33:14.400 --> 00:33:14.640
 in the

00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:17.160
 gospel, that

00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:17.779
 when we see

00:33:17.779 --> 00:33:18.339
 people who

00:33:18.339 --> 00:33:19.019
 really differ

00:33:19.019 --> 00:33:20.579
 from us, we

00:33:20.579 --> 00:33:21.200
 fight the

00:33:21.200 --> 00:33:21.680
 urge to

00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:22.100
 call them

00:33:22.100 --> 00:33:23.580
 names, and

00:33:23.580 --> 00:33:24.180
 we call out

00:33:24.180 --> 00:33:24.720
 to God and

00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:25.340
 say, Lord, how

00:33:25.340 --> 00:33:26.100
 could I have a

00:33:26.100 --> 00:33:27.259
 conversation with

00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:27.900
 this person?

00:33:29.580 --> 00:33:30.100
 How could I

00:33:30.100 --> 00:33:30.640
 reach out a

00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:31.200
 hand of

00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:32.100
 welcome and

00:33:32.100 --> 00:33:33.080
 conversation with

00:33:33.080 --> 00:33:33.680
 this person?

00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:37.380
 In our flesh, we

00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:38.360
 want to zing

00:33:38.360 --> 00:33:39.559
 them and get

00:33:39.559 --> 00:33:42.140
 them and win

00:33:42.140 --> 00:33:43.539
 politically and

00:33:43.539 --> 00:33:44.019
 culturally.

00:33:46.620 --> 00:33:47.140
 And by the

00:33:47.140 --> 00:33:47.700
 way, I'm not

00:33:47.700 --> 00:33:48.279
 saying that there

00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:48.819
 aren't, I mean,

00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:49.340
 there aren't

00:33:49.339 --> 00:33:49.899
 Christians who

00:33:49.899 --> 00:33:50.199
 might be

00:33:50.199 --> 00:33:50.699
 called to

00:33:50.699 --> 00:33:51.119
 work in

00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:51.980
 the area of

00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:52.279
 being a

00:33:52.279 --> 00:33:53.019
 pundit and

00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:53.879
 involved in

00:33:53.879 --> 00:33:54.599
 cultural things.

00:33:54.699 --> 00:33:55.500
 That's fine.

00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:56.379
 That's your own

00:33:56.379 --> 00:33:57.159
 vocation, but for

00:33:57.159 --> 00:33:57.639
 the average

00:33:57.639 --> 00:33:59.039
 Christian, a

00:33:59.039 --> 00:33:59.699
 story like this

00:33:59.699 --> 00:34:00.879
 challenges us

00:34:00.879 --> 00:34:04.259
 that if we

00:34:04.259 --> 00:34:05.039
 meet somebody

00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:06.099
 who obviously

00:34:06.099 --> 00:34:06.639
 has a

00:34:06.639 --> 00:34:07.579
 worldview and a

00:34:07.579 --> 00:34:08.259
 culture that's

00:34:08.259 --> 00:34:09.299
 very opposed to

00:34:09.299 --> 00:34:10.079
 ours and in

00:34:10.079 --> 00:34:10.880
 fact actually would

00:34:10.880 --> 00:34:11.539
 really look down

00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:12.400
 their noses at us

00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:12.940
 and actually even

00:34:12.940 --> 00:34:13.920
 think that we're

00:34:13.920 --> 00:34:14.539
 evil, the

00:34:14.539 --> 00:34:15.199
 challenge of this

00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:16.519
 story is not

00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:17.960
 to get mad and

00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:18.559
 not to want to

00:34:18.559 --> 00:34:19.779
 punish them, not

00:34:19.779 --> 00:34:20.279
 to want to get

00:34:20.279 --> 00:34:21.359
 power so that we

00:34:21.359 --> 00:34:22.179
 can put them in

00:34:22.179 --> 00:34:22.839
 their place.

00:34:22.980 --> 00:34:23.219
 No.

00:34:23.980 --> 00:34:24.859
 The challenge of

00:34:24.859 --> 00:34:25.500
 this story is how

00:34:25.500 --> 00:34:25.919
 can I have a

00:34:25.919 --> 00:34:26.739
 conversation with

00:34:26.739 --> 00:34:27.739
 this person that

00:34:27.739 --> 00:34:28.419
 could lead them to

00:34:28.419 --> 00:34:28.779
 Jesus?

00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:31.339
 Like, Lord, help

00:34:31.339 --> 00:34:31.480
 me.

00:34:31.539 --> 00:34:32.139
 Help me to fight

00:34:32.139 --> 00:34:32.919
 my flesh.

00:34:33.799 --> 00:34:34.460
 Help me to fight

00:34:34.460 --> 00:34:35.859
 my desire to make

00:34:35.859 --> 00:34:36.599
 political and

00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:38.519
 cultural points and

00:34:38.519 --> 00:34:39.319
 engage in

00:34:39.319 --> 00:34:40.019
 conversation.

00:34:41.619 --> 00:34:42.460
 And the second

00:34:42.460 --> 00:34:43.480
 takeaway from this

00:34:43.480 --> 00:34:44.179
 story, and you'll

00:34:44.179 --> 00:34:45.079
 all have your own,

00:34:45.579 --> 00:34:47.359
 is that from the

00:34:47.359 --> 00:34:48.559
 point of view of

00:34:48.559 --> 00:34:50.039
 Jesus' disciples and

00:34:50.039 --> 00:34:50.919
 the Jewish people,

00:34:51.980 --> 00:34:53.000
 this woman was a

00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:54.619
 completely, like,

00:34:54.719 --> 00:34:55.519
 you don't even pray

00:34:55.519 --> 00:34:56.559
 for people like her

00:34:56.559 --> 00:34:57.379
 because she will

00:34:57.379 --> 00:34:58.379
 never have anything

00:34:58.379 --> 00:34:59.000
 to do with the

00:34:59.000 --> 00:34:59.460
 Messiah.

00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:00.599
 Wrong.

00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:03.279
 And one of the

00:35:03.279 --> 00:35:04.139
 challenges for this

00:35:04.139 --> 00:35:04.799
 is it's not only

00:35:04.799 --> 00:35:05.359
 important to figure

00:35:05.359 --> 00:35:05.799
 out how we have

00:35:05.799 --> 00:35:06.779
 conversations with

00:35:06.779 --> 00:35:07.239
 people who are

00:35:07.239 --> 00:35:07.940
 very different than

00:35:07.940 --> 00:35:08.519
 us, but it's also

00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:09.299
 really important that

00:35:09.299 --> 00:35:09.839
 we pray for

00:35:09.839 --> 00:35:10.739
 unlikely people.

00:35:11.699 --> 00:35:12.440
 In fact, I haven't

00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:13.219
 written a blog for a

00:35:13.219 --> 00:35:13.339
 while.

00:35:13.419 --> 00:35:13.960
 The blog that will

00:35:13.960 --> 00:35:14.539
 come out tomorrow

00:35:14.539 --> 00:35:15.420
 is a bit more on

00:35:15.420 --> 00:35:15.699
 this.

00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:17.480
 But we need to

00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:18.480
 fight the tendency

00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:19.159
 to think, no, no,

00:35:19.179 --> 00:35:19.920
 I can't pray for

00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:20.539
 this person to

00:35:20.539 --> 00:35:21.179
 become a Christian

00:35:21.179 --> 00:35:21.659
 because they'll

00:35:21.659 --> 00:35:22.300
 never become a

00:35:22.300 --> 00:35:22.500
 Christian.

00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:22.920
 You don't know

00:35:22.920 --> 00:35:23.240
 that.

00:35:24.860 --> 00:35:25.500
 In fact, I bet if

00:35:25.500 --> 00:35:25.900
 you knew the

00:35:25.900 --> 00:35:26.639
 stories of some

00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:27.260
 of the people in

00:35:27.260 --> 00:35:27.800
 here, you'd say,

00:35:27.860 --> 00:35:28.380
 well, there's no

00:35:28.380 --> 00:35:29.320
 way somebody like

00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:29.840
 you would ever

00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:30.320
 become, like,

00:35:30.380 --> 00:35:31.639
 what are you doing

00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:31.980
 here?

00:35:33.420 --> 00:35:34.840
 I remember I'm on

00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:36.639
 the Council of the

00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:37.420
 Gospel Coalition

00:35:37.420 --> 00:35:38.460
 Canada, and I'm

00:35:38.460 --> 00:35:38.820
 part of the

00:35:38.820 --> 00:35:39.440
 founding council

00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:40.139
 members, and they

00:35:40.139 --> 00:35:40.579
 went through the

00:35:40.579 --> 00:35:41.480
 biography of all

00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:42.199
 the different people,

00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:42.880
 and they all went to,

00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:43.860
 like John MacArthur's

00:35:43.860 --> 00:35:44.440
 school and this

00:35:44.440 --> 00:35:45.599
 school and that, and

00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:46.860
 then they came to me,

00:35:47.760 --> 00:35:48.500
 and I happened to be

00:35:48.500 --> 00:35:49.559
 alphabetically the last,

00:35:49.740 --> 00:35:50.480
 and the guy, he's a

00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:51.180
 really wonderful guy,

00:35:51.240 --> 00:35:52.220
 John Mahaffey, looked at

00:35:52.220 --> 00:35:52.840
 me and smiled.

00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:54.300
 He said, George, because

00:35:54.300 --> 00:35:55.400
 we all had a sheaf of our

00:35:55.400 --> 00:35:57.019
 biographies, one of the

00:35:57.019 --> 00:35:58.000
 people in here is not

00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:02.400
 like the others, referring

00:36:02.400 --> 00:36:03.079
 to me.

00:36:04.180 --> 00:36:05.300
 We need to fight that.

00:36:05.340 --> 00:36:06.200
 We need to pray for the

00:36:06.200 --> 00:36:06.840
 unlikely people.

00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.599
 Like, pray for your

00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:09.700
 children, pray for your

00:36:09.700 --> 00:36:10.740
 family, pray for your

00:36:10.740 --> 00:36:11.619
 neighbors, pray for your

00:36:11.619 --> 00:36:12.420
 loved ones, pray for the

00:36:12.420 --> 00:36:13.359
 people who are like you,

00:36:13.799 --> 00:36:14.739
 pray for them that they

00:36:14.739 --> 00:36:15.819
 come to a saving faith in

00:36:15.819 --> 00:36:17.759
 Jesus, but make sure you

00:36:17.759 --> 00:36:19.480
 look and say, Lord, who

00:36:19.480 --> 00:36:21.759
 do I know that I think

00:36:21.759 --> 00:36:22.839
 there is never in a

00:36:22.839 --> 00:36:24.099
 hundred gazillion years

00:36:24.099 --> 00:36:24.739
 that they would ever

00:36:24.739 --> 00:36:26.319
 become a Christian, and

00:36:26.319 --> 00:36:28.359
 then pray for them, and

00:36:28.359 --> 00:36:29.279
 pray for more than them.

00:36:29.859 --> 00:36:30.719
 Pray for the unlikely.

00:36:31.039 --> 00:36:32.059
 Waste your prayers on

00:36:32.059 --> 00:36:33.119
 them, in quotes.

00:36:33.980 --> 00:36:34.619
 Let's stand.

00:36:34.619 --> 00:36:42.400
 Bow our heads in prayer.

00:36:50.619 --> 00:36:54.079
 Father, we have to confess

00:36:54.079 --> 00:36:55.319
 before you that often we

00:36:55.319 --> 00:36:56.319
 look at your word and it

00:36:56.319 --> 00:36:58.159
 makes us afraid, that often

00:36:58.159 --> 00:36:59.199
 we look at your word and we

00:36:59.199 --> 00:36:59.819
 judge it.

00:37:01.139 --> 00:37:02.420
 And Father, we're not even

00:37:02.420 --> 00:37:03.820
 aware often that we're

00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:04.900
 afraid of your word or that

00:37:04.900 --> 00:37:05.760
 we judge your word.

00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:06.900
 It's just sort of an

00:37:06.900 --> 00:37:07.780
 unconscious thing.

00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:09.019
 Father, we confess before

00:37:09.019 --> 00:37:10.139
 you that we're more fallen

00:37:10.139 --> 00:37:11.980
 than we realize, and we're

00:37:11.980 --> 00:37:13.059
 more Canadian than we

00:37:13.059 --> 00:37:13.559
 realize.

00:37:14.720 --> 00:37:16.200
 And Father, we ask that the

00:37:16.200 --> 00:37:17.780
 Holy Spirit would help to

00:37:17.780 --> 00:37:18.980
 bring your word and your

00:37:18.980 --> 00:37:20.159
 gospel home to us at a

00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:21.240
 very, very deep level.

00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:24.300
 And we ask, Father, that you

00:37:24.300 --> 00:37:25.480
 put in our hearts to pray

00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:26.680
 for people that we think

00:37:26.680 --> 00:37:27.480
 would never become

00:37:27.480 --> 00:37:28.380
 Christians, that they would

00:37:28.380 --> 00:37:29.800
 become Christians, as well

00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:30.940
 as pray for others that we

00:37:30.940 --> 00:37:32.019
 think there's some hope for,

00:37:32.019 --> 00:37:32.960
 whether we would pray for

00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:33.980
 them, for their conversion.

00:37:35.239 --> 00:37:37.420
 And Father, we know that

00:37:37.420 --> 00:37:38.579
 some of us, as part of our

00:37:38.579 --> 00:37:40.099
 jobs and our vocations, have

00:37:40.099 --> 00:37:41.059
 to deal with some of the

00:37:41.059 --> 00:37:42.340
 cultural and political wars.

00:37:42.579 --> 00:37:43.960
 And Father, we bless them.

00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.440
 We ask that you grant them

00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:46.639
 great wisdom and discernment

00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:47.559
 as to how to do those

00:37:47.559 --> 00:37:48.860
 things, because there are

00:37:48.860 --> 00:37:50.259
 some cultural matters that

00:37:50.259 --> 00:37:51.300
 they matter greatly.

00:37:51.539 --> 00:37:52.440
 And Father, we don't want to

00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:53.119
 dismiss them.

00:37:53.619 --> 00:37:54.980
 And we ask your blessing upon

00:37:54.980 --> 00:37:56.019
 them if they're in politics

00:37:56.659 --> 00:37:58.059
 or certain areas of the media

00:37:58.059 --> 00:37:59.980
 or other culture-forming

00:37:59.980 --> 00:38:00.259
 groups.

00:38:00.260 --> 00:38:01.400
 We ask that you help them

00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:02.720
 to engage in those things

00:38:02.720 --> 00:38:03.640
 wisely and well.

00:38:03.740 --> 00:38:04.680
 But Father, for us as

00:38:04.680 --> 00:38:06.040
 Christians, for most of us

00:38:06.040 --> 00:38:08.120
 as Christians, we ask, Lord,

00:38:08.220 --> 00:38:10.260
 that you help us to put to

00:38:10.260 --> 00:38:12.040
 death our flesh and our

00:38:12.040 --> 00:38:14.500
 desire to pick fights and

00:38:14.500 --> 00:38:16.120
 focus on political things.

00:38:16.200 --> 00:38:17.200
 And Father, we ask that you

00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:18.800
 would grant us instead that

00:38:18.800 --> 00:38:20.060
 we would be slow to speak,

00:38:20.160 --> 00:38:21.300
 that we would be slow to

00:38:21.300 --> 00:38:23.260
 anger, that we would be

00:38:23.260 --> 00:38:25.260
 quick to listen.

00:38:25.260 --> 00:38:28.820
 and that you grant us ears to

00:38:28.820 --> 00:38:30.700
 know how we might say a word

00:38:30.700 --> 00:38:33.920
 to a person that might be that

00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:35.340
 little pebble, Father, that

00:38:35.340 --> 00:38:36.880
 goes in their boot or goes in

00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:38.120
 their shoe and ends up leading

00:38:38.120 --> 00:38:39.280
 them to become a Christian.

00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:42.680
 Father, grant us that ability to

00:38:42.680 --> 00:38:45.120
 not be afraid and not to be angry

00:38:45.120 --> 00:38:48.540
 and to say that one little word

00:38:48.540 --> 00:38:51.180
 that you then use to bring them

00:38:51.180 --> 00:38:51.640
 to Christ.

00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:51.759
 Christ.

00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:54.679
 And we ask all these things in

00:38:54.679 --> 00:38:56.659
 the name of Jesus, your son

00:38:56.659 --> 00:38:58.460
 and our savior and all God's

00:38:58.460 --> 00:39:00.059
 people said, amen.