WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.560 Father, we ask your blessing on the children who are out in Sunday school and those children down in the nursery. 00:00:06.440 --> 00:00:14.179 Father, may your Holy Spirit move mightily in their lives, bringing them to a saving faith in Jesus, 00:00:14.439 --> 00:00:19.400 keeping them in a saving faith in Jesus, helping them to grow as disciples of Jesus. 00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:26.480 Father, we thank you that you have blessed us in many ways, the offering that we've collected. 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:33.539 Father, we ask that your Holy Spirit would make us a congregation that wants to give, that wants to bless, 00:00:34.039 --> 00:00:40.539 that wants to send, that wants to share, that wants to lift Jesus high in this city and to the ends of the earth. 00:00:40.659 --> 00:00:44.700 Father, may your Holy Spirit do that work in us day by day. 00:00:44.859 --> 00:00:51.519 And now as we gather to think about Jesus, to think about his word, to think about what he's done for us on the cross, 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.560 Father, pour out the Holy Spirit deep within us. 00:00:55.560 --> 00:01:01.660 Make us disciples of Jesus who are gripped by the gospel, learning to live day by day for your glory. 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:04.560 And we ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:01:05.219 --> 00:01:06.140 Please be seated. 00:01:08.020 --> 00:01:11.200 So, actually, we're going to start by putting... 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:16.359 You don't need your Bibles for this, but Andrew, could you put a scripture text right up on the screen right off the bat? 00:01:16.780 --> 00:01:20.340 So this is in case I put you all to sleep and you get nothing else out of the sermon. 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:22.579 We're going to begin with this verse. 00:01:22.579 --> 00:01:23.739 It's in the ESV. 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:28.099 I'll explain a little bit in a moment why it has his and all that type of stuff. 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:35.459 But right back from the early church fathers, and they don't talk about it very much anymore, 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:40.219 but right back from the early church fathers through the reformers and all of that, 00:01:40.379 --> 00:01:46.400 many, many, many people would say that these words deserve to be written in gold. 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:50.020 That it should have just been black all the way. 00:01:50.080 --> 00:01:54.680 And then when it comes to this, it should have been written in gold because they're such precious words. 00:01:55.620 --> 00:02:01.180 So let's say this together, please. 00:02:01.180 --> 00:02:05.720 If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 00:02:06.360 --> 00:02:13.599 Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 00:02:14.099 --> 00:02:17.120 And this is what Jesus says in the temple. 00:02:17.920 --> 00:02:20.960 So it's a wonderful verse. 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.360 I'm going to try to unpack a little bit for you in a few minutes. 00:02:25.140 --> 00:02:31.879 But, you know, it's really interesting the context within which Jesus talks about this 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.340 and makes this really quite an extravagant promise. 00:02:35.580 --> 00:02:40.860 If you look at it there for a second, that anyone at all, anybody who's thirsty, 00:02:40.980 --> 00:02:45.260 that's the only requirement to come to Jesus is having a thirst. 00:02:45.259 --> 00:02:50.679 A thirst for maybe a cleansing, thirst for pardon, thirst for forgiveness, 00:02:51.620 --> 00:02:57.479 a thirst to be able to forgive, thirst for meaning, thirst for significance, thirst for beauty. 00:02:57.780 --> 00:03:02.519 Like just if anyone thirsts in any way, come to me and drink. 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:07.739 And by coming to me and drink, it's an image of believing in Jesus. 00:03:08.799 --> 00:03:13.979 And then Jesus says, I'm going to summarize a whole range of scriptural sayings 00:03:13.979 --> 00:03:22.219 that if you come to me, you drink, and out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 00:03:22.419 --> 00:03:25.019 It's an extravagant promise. 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:27.299 An extravagant promise. 00:03:27.459 --> 00:03:32.819 Almost too much for even Christians, for many, many Christians to believe. 00:03:33.159 --> 00:03:36.479 And it's really interesting the context within which Jesus says this. 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:38.239 Like it's really fascinating. 00:03:38.699 --> 00:03:40.959 I don't know how many of you have been watching on Netflix, 00:03:41.299 --> 00:03:42.859 The Wild Wild Country. 00:03:42.860 --> 00:03:46.480 It's become a very talked about documentary. 00:03:47.180 --> 00:03:48.340 Wild Wild Country. 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:52.760 And it's about something that happened in the late 70s, 00:03:52.860 --> 00:03:55.580 but in particular in 19, I think it was 1981, 00:03:57.060 --> 00:04:03.040 an Indian guru, Rajneesh, I think that's his name, the Bhagwan, 00:04:03.640 --> 00:04:06.940 brought his whole commune from Bombay, India, 00:04:06.939 --> 00:04:09.280 to settle in the middle of Oregon. 00:04:10.319 --> 00:04:16.139 And in an empty place, a ranch that I think was a 10-square-mile ranch, 00:04:16.339 --> 00:04:17.279 out in the middle of nowhere. 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:20.839 And the documentary, it's a fascinating documentary, 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:22.660 maybe a bit disturbing. 00:04:22.819 --> 00:04:24.319 I'm not saying that everybody should watch it. 00:04:25.159 --> 00:04:28.680 I mean, one of the reasons I'm going to watch it again after it's over is 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:39.459 it's really both frightening and fascinating to see people who can lie boldly 00:04:39.459 --> 00:04:42.600 with no hint whatsoever of guilt. 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:48.019 Like they can just lie and say BS with impunity. 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:50.639 Like it's actually sort of, I mean, it's on one level disturbing. 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:53.259 It's also sort of fascinating to watch. 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:54.979 But here's the thing. 00:04:55.039 --> 00:04:56.019 Why am I bringing this up? 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:01.079 So if you watch this, the Bhagwan, the guru, 00:05:01.199 --> 00:05:03.159 who has thousands and thousands of followers, 00:05:03.300 --> 00:05:05.419 they show you several times, quite a few times, 00:05:05.479 --> 00:05:07.319 they give you film footage of him speaking. 00:05:07.860 --> 00:05:10.060 And every time he says a few words, 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:14.060 like everybody's either going like in ecstasy like this, 00:05:14.099 --> 00:05:17.099 or they're pumping their fist, or they're dancing, or they're clapping, 00:05:17.100 --> 00:05:20.660 and everybody is celebrating every time he speaks. 00:05:21.400 --> 00:05:26.879 And in fact, they almost get into a type of ecstatic frenzy of dancing. 00:05:27.220 --> 00:05:28.900 And I, you know, I'm listening to it, and I think, 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.020 gosh, a lot of this is just so trite, 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.540 or foolish, or stupid, or just wrong. 00:05:35.460 --> 00:05:37.939 But for them, as they listen, 00:05:38.060 --> 00:05:40.420 they just get unbelievably excited by it. 00:05:41.480 --> 00:05:43.379 And so, you know, it's very easy. 00:05:43.379 --> 00:05:47.180 In fact, it's interesting, just this week, 00:05:47.259 --> 00:05:49.480 one of the fellows that I've talked about most, 00:05:49.579 --> 00:05:51.180 a non-Christian I've talked about the most, 00:05:51.300 --> 00:05:53.319 about the Christian faith with, 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:54.680 in a coffee shop, 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:56.139 he asked me out of the blue 00:05:56.139 --> 00:06:01.199 what I was speaking on on Friday, on Sunday. 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:03.920 So I told him about this verse, 00:06:04.300 --> 00:06:05.839 and what I was speaking on. 00:06:06.600 --> 00:06:08.659 And when I told him the verse, 00:06:08.699 --> 00:06:09.759 he sort of rolled his eyes. 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.240 Like, you're going to see, you know. 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:13.840 And he said, well, you know, 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:16.240 it's easy for, you know, 00:06:16.300 --> 00:06:20.100 you religious people to get all excited about stuff like that. 00:06:21.860 --> 00:06:23.340 But I didn't push it. 00:06:23.460 --> 00:06:26.220 I just told him a little bit about what the text was. 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:28.980 And, you know, it's just often just bear witness. 00:06:29.180 --> 00:06:31.340 I don't, just, you just bear witness. 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:32.759 I wasn't intimidated by it. 00:06:33.180 --> 00:06:35.900 But afterwards, this is one of many, many times 00:06:35.900 --> 00:06:38.900 where I wished afterwards I could have said something to him 00:06:38.900 --> 00:06:39.579 that I didn't say. 00:06:39.579 --> 00:06:42.160 So I'm saying it to you, you captive audience. 00:06:43.220 --> 00:06:45.860 And what I wish I'd said to him is, 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:47.660 no, no, no, no, you don't understand 00:06:47.660 --> 00:06:50.379 the context that Jesus said this. 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:51.740 And it's really quite remarkable. 00:06:52.259 --> 00:06:53.840 So let's look at the context. 00:06:53.879 --> 00:06:56.620 Because it's actually not at all like the Bhagwan. 00:06:56.699 --> 00:06:58.519 And it's not at all like my friend thought. 00:06:58.819 --> 00:06:59.840 Let's look at the context. 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:03.139 The context is one of snarky comments, 00:07:03.579 --> 00:07:04.600 murderous intent, 00:07:04.600 --> 00:07:05.620 intent, 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:07.379 massive confusion, 00:07:07.980 --> 00:07:08.800 and name-calling. 00:07:09.900 --> 00:07:14.220 Like, it's really the most completely different context 00:07:14.220 --> 00:07:15.439 than you could possibly imagine. 00:07:15.580 --> 00:07:18.280 So if you get your Bibles and turn to John chapter 7, 00:07:18.660 --> 00:07:19.920 we'll look at the context. 00:07:20.180 --> 00:07:23.040 It's a very, very curious context 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:24.700 that leads to this comment. 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:26.879 John chapter 7, verse 1. 00:07:27.680 --> 00:07:28.420 After this, 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:30.000 Jesus went about in Galilee. 00:07:30.819 --> 00:07:32.639 He would not go about in Judea 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:34.319 because the Jewish leaders 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:35.680 were seeking to kill him. 00:07:36.079 --> 00:07:37.420 Now just sort of pause for a second. 00:07:37.519 --> 00:07:39.040 What's just going on before this 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.920 is the story of Jesus 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:43.899 feeding 5,000 men 00:07:43.899 --> 00:07:45.279 with five loaves and two fishes. 00:07:45.779 --> 00:07:47.139 He's walking on the water. 00:07:47.719 --> 00:07:48.819 And a sort of a controversy 00:07:48.819 --> 00:07:50.600 that came as a result of him 00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:52.399 feeding the 5,000. 00:07:52.399 --> 00:07:54.099 And that's what's going on just before this. 00:07:54.579 --> 00:07:55.500 So after this, 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:56.539 verse 1 again, 00:07:56.639 --> 00:07:57.899 Jesus went about in Galilee. 00:07:58.039 --> 00:07:59.539 He would not go about in Judea 00:07:59.539 --> 00:08:00.839 because the Jewish leaders 00:08:00.839 --> 00:08:01.899 were seeking to kill him. 00:08:02.699 --> 00:08:05.519 Now, the Jewish feast of booths 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:06.419 was at hand. 00:08:06.679 --> 00:08:07.859 And just pause there again. 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:09.439 So what this means, 00:08:09.599 --> 00:08:10.539 John's just giving us 00:08:10.539 --> 00:08:11.879 a little bit of a time marker. 00:08:12.479 --> 00:08:13.779 And what he's saying is 00:08:13.779 --> 00:08:15.379 six months have passed. 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:18.199 Because that's approximately 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:19.919 the distance from Passover, 00:08:20.239 --> 00:08:20.979 which was roughly 00:08:20.979 --> 00:08:22.199 when the last event happened. 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:23.620 It happened just before Passover. 00:08:24.399 --> 00:08:27.500 And now it's about, 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:29.539 it's six months later. 00:08:30.599 --> 00:08:31.319 And this is, 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.939 there's three sort of great feasts 00:08:33.939 --> 00:08:35.439 in the Jewish calendar 00:08:35.439 --> 00:08:36.519 at that time. 00:08:36.819 --> 00:08:38.240 The first one's Passover. 00:08:38.439 --> 00:08:39.340 Then there's a break 00:08:39.340 --> 00:08:40.259 of quite a few months. 00:08:40.379 --> 00:08:41.799 Then there's what we call 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:42.939 the Feast of Weeks 00:08:42.939 --> 00:08:44.879 or Pentecost. 00:08:45.539 --> 00:08:47.720 And then a few months after that, 00:08:47.799 --> 00:08:49.000 there's this final feast. 00:08:49.100 --> 00:08:50.299 It's called the Feast of Booths 00:08:50.299 --> 00:08:51.700 or the Feast of Tabernacles. 00:08:52.259 --> 00:08:53.040 And it remembers 00:08:53.040 --> 00:08:55.100 how the Israelites 00:08:55.100 --> 00:08:56.020 were in the wilderness 00:08:56.020 --> 00:08:57.700 and how God provided for them. 00:08:58.200 --> 00:08:58.800 When I grew up, 00:08:58.820 --> 00:09:00.060 I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. 00:09:00.379 --> 00:09:01.879 I grew up from the age of 00:09:01.879 --> 00:09:03.560 five to 14. 00:09:03.560 --> 00:09:04.620 I lived in a neighborhood 00:09:04.620 --> 00:09:05.800 where everybody was Jewish. 00:09:06.400 --> 00:09:07.780 All my friends were Jewish. 00:09:07.900 --> 00:09:08.960 There was only one other 00:09:08.960 --> 00:09:10.040 non-Jewish family 00:09:10.040 --> 00:09:10.800 on our street 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:11.280 of whatever, 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:12.220 60 houses. 00:09:12.220 --> 00:09:15.960 and all my friends 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:17.540 had bar mitzvahs. 00:09:17.940 --> 00:09:19.120 And in fact, 00:09:19.540 --> 00:09:19.740 you know, 00:09:19.800 --> 00:09:20.899 I find it so interesting 00:09:20.899 --> 00:09:22.540 when a lot of people 00:09:22.540 --> 00:09:23.360 of my generation, 00:09:23.500 --> 00:09:24.240 the Anglican Church, 00:09:24.340 --> 00:09:25.259 talk about how Canada 00:09:25.259 --> 00:09:26.460 used to be Christian and all. 00:09:26.779 --> 00:09:28.180 I didn't grow up thinking that 00:09:28.180 --> 00:09:30.259 because I grew up 00:09:30.259 --> 00:09:31.379 and everybody was Jewish. 00:09:32.980 --> 00:09:34.700 The Jewish holidays in the fall, 00:09:34.779 --> 00:09:36.279 it was a great thing for a kid 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.700 because the elementary school, 00:09:38.700 --> 00:09:39.920 all the Jewish parents 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:41.100 kept all their kids home. 00:09:41.780 --> 00:09:42.700 And this would have been 00:09:42.700 --> 00:09:43.540 a school that, 00:09:43.660 --> 00:09:43.879 I don't know, 00:09:43.920 --> 00:09:44.600 would have had like maybe 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:45.900 six or seven hundred kids 00:09:45.900 --> 00:09:46.720 in the elementary school. 00:09:46.800 --> 00:09:47.960 You could fit all of the 00:09:47.960 --> 00:09:49.020 non-Jewish kids 00:09:49.020 --> 00:09:50.140 in one classroom. 00:09:51.100 --> 00:09:52.300 I'm not making that up. 00:09:52.340 --> 00:09:53.240 In one classroom 00:09:53.240 --> 00:09:54.140 and we weren't crowded. 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:56.820 And after the first year, 00:09:56.900 --> 00:09:58.140 my mom just let me stay home 00:09:58.140 --> 00:09:59.100 with my Jewish friends. 00:09:59.280 --> 00:10:00.780 So you got two extra holidays 00:10:00.780 --> 00:10:01.560 in the fall. 00:10:01.920 --> 00:10:03.400 The nicest time of the year, 00:10:03.560 --> 00:10:04.920 you get two extra holidays. 00:10:05.100 --> 00:10:05.540 I can't remember 00:10:05.540 --> 00:10:06.300 what they were both for. 00:10:06.400 --> 00:10:06.620 Anyway, 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:07.759 so what's just happened? 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:09.159 It's the Feast of Tabernacles. 00:10:09.340 --> 00:10:10.319 The other time marker 00:10:10.319 --> 00:10:11.679 that John is giving us here 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:13.000 is he's letting you know 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:14.439 that in about six more months, 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.019 Jesus is going to die on the cross. 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:19.019 But this is a big festival. 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:20.220 And when it says the feast, 00:10:20.700 --> 00:10:21.019 this is, 00:10:21.319 --> 00:10:21.659 depending on, 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.059 scholars differ at that time 00:10:24.059 --> 00:10:25.000 whether they celebrated 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:26.480 for seven or eight days. 00:10:27.139 --> 00:10:28.080 It doesn't matter to us. 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:29.779 Some of you want to do 00:10:29.779 --> 00:10:31.139 a PhD dissertation on it, 00:10:31.159 --> 00:10:31.779 go ahead and do it. 00:10:31.819 --> 00:10:32.740 But it doesn't really matter. 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:33.860 But it's long, 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:34.879 seven or eight days. 00:10:35.220 --> 00:10:36.539 So that's the feast, okay? 00:10:36.539 --> 00:10:36.620 Okay? 00:10:36.959 --> 00:10:38.379 So it's one of the big three 00:10:38.379 --> 00:10:39.179 where Jewish people 00:10:39.179 --> 00:10:40.339 would all try to go to Jerusalem. 00:10:40.659 --> 00:10:41.539 So that's the context. 00:10:41.699 --> 00:10:41.819 Okay? 00:10:41.939 --> 00:10:42.079 Sorry, 00:10:42.179 --> 00:10:42.819 back to verse two. 00:10:42.899 --> 00:10:44.860 Now the Jewish feast of booths 00:10:44.860 --> 00:10:45.419 was at hand. 00:10:46.019 --> 00:10:48.399 So Jesus' brothers said to Jesus, 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:50.179 leave here and go to Judea 00:10:50.179 --> 00:10:51.559 that your disciples 00:10:51.559 --> 00:10:52.819 also may see the works 00:10:52.819 --> 00:10:53.319 you are doing. 00:10:53.439 --> 00:10:54.819 For no one works in secret 00:10:54.819 --> 00:10:56.259 if he seeks to be known openly. 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:58.059 If you do these things, 00:10:58.379 --> 00:10:59.639 show yourself to the world. 00:11:00.559 --> 00:11:02.139 For not even his brothers 00:11:02.139 --> 00:11:02.980 believed in him. 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:04.219 That's just a, 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:04.759 remember, 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:05.580 this is the context. 00:11:05.659 --> 00:11:06.519 This is what leading up 00:11:06.519 --> 00:11:07.399 to this unbelievable, 00:11:07.659 --> 00:11:09.120 this extravagant promise 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:09.779 by Jesus. 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:11.059 It's really quite remarkable. 00:11:11.759 --> 00:11:13.439 And in the original language, 00:11:13.899 --> 00:11:15.340 Jesus' brothers are speaking 00:11:15.340 --> 00:11:16.559 in a snarky way. 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:18.360 It's as if they're saying, 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:19.000 you know, 00:11:19.059 --> 00:11:19.360 listen, 00:11:19.620 --> 00:11:22.319 because Galilee is Hicksville, 00:11:22.679 --> 00:11:22.960 okay? 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:23.879 I don't know how many of you 00:11:23.879 --> 00:11:25.139 are from small towns 00:11:25.139 --> 00:11:26.080 or rural areas. 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:27.700 And I don't mean like 00:11:27.700 --> 00:11:28.480 small town, 00:11:28.559 --> 00:11:29.500 like Muskoka's, 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:30.720 where all the rich people 00:11:30.720 --> 00:11:31.519 go in the summer. 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:32.120 I mean like, 00:11:32.460 --> 00:11:33.539 where no rich people are. 00:11:33.620 --> 00:11:34.539 It's just Hicksville, 00:11:34.699 --> 00:11:35.039 you know? 00:11:36.539 --> 00:11:37.600 Because I had somebody here 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:38.799 who spends a lot of time 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:39.439 in Saskatchewan 00:11:39.439 --> 00:11:40.419 at the 8 o'clock service. 00:11:40.539 --> 00:11:40.819 I said, 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:41.460 you know, 00:11:41.579 --> 00:11:42.620 if you want to be famous, 00:11:42.740 --> 00:11:44.740 don't live in northern Saskatchewan. 00:11:45.740 --> 00:11:46.019 Okay? 00:11:46.579 --> 00:11:46.879 Like, 00:11:47.639 --> 00:11:49.860 nobody cares in northern Saskatchewan. 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:50.100 Like, 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:51.539 go to Toronto or Vancouver 00:11:51.539 --> 00:11:53.620 if you want to make a big splash, 00:11:53.659 --> 00:11:54.799 if you want to become famous. 00:11:54.879 --> 00:11:55.699 So that's what they're saying. 00:11:55.779 --> 00:11:56.639 Leave Hicksville, 00:11:56.899 --> 00:11:58.240 if you're such a big deal, 00:11:58.340 --> 00:11:59.039 go to Jerusalem. 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:00.740 And so, 00:12:00.919 --> 00:12:02.740 even Jesus' brothers 00:12:02.740 --> 00:12:03.419 don't believe him 00:12:03.419 --> 00:12:04.980 and they're sort of snarky. 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:05.799 Put him down. 00:12:07.179 --> 00:12:09.559 And Jesus says to them, 00:12:09.659 --> 00:12:10.240 verse 6, 00:12:11.379 --> 00:12:13.219 my time has not yet come, 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:15.679 but your time is always here. 00:12:16.419 --> 00:12:18.599 The world cannot hate you, 00:12:19.099 --> 00:12:20.259 but it hates me 00:12:20.259 --> 00:12:22.000 because I testify about it 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.319 that its works are evil. 00:12:23.939 --> 00:12:24.939 You go up to the feast. 00:12:25.059 --> 00:12:27.000 I am not going up to this feast, 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.740 for my time has not yet fully come. 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:30.700 Now, 00:12:30.820 --> 00:12:31.940 just sort of pause there. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:32.720 Some of you might be saying, 00:12:32.799 --> 00:12:32.879 well, 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:33.320 what's up? 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:34.899 Why on earth is it that Jesus says 00:12:34.899 --> 00:12:36.120 you can't hate his brothers? 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:36.940 Like, 00:12:36.980 --> 00:12:38.279 there's lots of hate in the world. 00:12:39.299 --> 00:12:39.659 Like, 00:12:39.740 --> 00:12:40.879 what's up with that? 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:41.159 Well, 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:42.460 what's going on here 00:12:42.460 --> 00:12:42.860 with this, 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:44.759 Jesus' comment is this. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:45.039 In, 00:12:45.120 --> 00:12:46.179 in, 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:47.240 in the bulletin 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:47.600 or in the, 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:49.100 the growing in grace section, 00:12:49.100 --> 00:12:50.340 I always try to share 00:12:50.340 --> 00:12:52.419 three different types of attitudes 00:12:52.419 --> 00:12:54.759 or sayings with you 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:56.000 that emerge from the text 00:12:56.000 --> 00:12:56.979 that help us to live 00:12:56.979 --> 00:12:57.599 the Christian life. 00:12:57.679 --> 00:12:57.979 I also, 00:12:58.539 --> 00:12:59.899 there's also a memory verse 00:12:59.899 --> 00:13:00.979 and there's sort of a prayer 00:13:00.979 --> 00:13:02.559 that flows from the text, 00:13:02.599 --> 00:13:03.000 which I, 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:03.479 I write, 00:13:03.599 --> 00:13:04.959 and it's available to you 00:13:04.959 --> 00:13:05.599 every week to, 00:13:05.659 --> 00:13:06.199 to consider. 00:13:06.319 --> 00:13:06.779 And I think, 00:13:07.259 --> 00:13:07.599 I can't, 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:08.719 I should have brought up a bulletin. 00:13:08.779 --> 00:13:10.059 I can't remember if I have it exactly, 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:10.419 but, 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:11.879 what, 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.699 what Jesus is saying is 00:13:13.699 --> 00:13:14.719 that, 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:15.259 um, 00:13:16.079 --> 00:13:19.279 because of the fall, 00:13:19.419 --> 00:13:20.899 because human beings 00:13:20.899 --> 00:13:22.939 are in rebellion against God 00:13:22.939 --> 00:13:24.899 and want to be God. 00:13:26.179 --> 00:13:27.199 That if God, 00:13:27.299 --> 00:13:27.980 the Son of God, 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:29.379 actually comes, 00:13:30.500 --> 00:13:31.759 people are going to hate him. 00:13:32.059 --> 00:13:32.220 Why? 00:13:32.340 --> 00:13:33.480 Because we want to be God. 00:13:34.819 --> 00:13:35.919 We want to be God. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:37.039 We want to be like God. 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:38.659 It's the central human problem. 00:13:39.199 --> 00:13:40.840 Buddhists are mistaken. 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:42.100 The central human problem 00:13:42.100 --> 00:13:43.039 isn't desire. 00:13:43.959 --> 00:13:44.139 You know, 00:13:44.199 --> 00:13:44.519 many, 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:45.199 uh, 00:13:45.220 --> 00:13:45.840 Hindu, 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:46.340 uh, 00:13:46.340 --> 00:13:47.279 types of faiths, 00:13:47.399 --> 00:13:48.319 they're just mistaken. 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:49.639 It's not the problem 00:13:49.639 --> 00:13:50.460 that, 00:13:50.500 --> 00:13:50.720 uh, 00:13:50.720 --> 00:13:51.840 people just have a different, 00:13:51.919 --> 00:13:53.740 have to have a type of different consciousness 00:13:53.740 --> 00:13:54.639 or something like that. 00:13:54.939 --> 00:13:56.299 Muslims are just mistaken. 00:13:56.419 --> 00:13:58.679 The problem isn't just that we don't, 00:13:58.679 --> 00:13:59.120 uh, 00:13:59.179 --> 00:14:00.279 submit to Allah 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:00.919 and, 00:14:01.019 --> 00:14:01.159 uh, 00:14:01.159 --> 00:14:03.139 and practice the five pillars of Islam. 00:14:03.819 --> 00:14:06.000 Christians say the problem is that fundamentally 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.919 every human being wants to be God. 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:09.019 They want to be like God. 00:14:09.100 --> 00:14:09.580 We want to be, 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:10.819 I want to be like God. 00:14:10.860 --> 00:14:11.819 That's my problem. 00:14:12.379 --> 00:14:13.740 And so if we have a world 00:14:13.740 --> 00:14:15.319 where people want to be God 00:14:15.319 --> 00:14:16.399 or want to be like God, 00:14:16.460 --> 00:14:17.700 if God actually shows up, 00:14:17.700 --> 00:14:18.440 we won't like him. 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:21.600 That's what Jesus is trying to talk about. 00:14:21.660 --> 00:14:23.440 I think what I put in the bulletin is, 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:24.360 uh, 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:26.660 God can't reveal himself 00:14:26.660 --> 00:14:28.860 without offending us. 00:14:31.660 --> 00:14:34.060 God cannot reveal himself 00:14:34.060 --> 00:14:36.620 without offending us. 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:37.920 Now, 00:14:38.100 --> 00:14:40.540 it's obviously a little bit more subtle than that 00:14:40.540 --> 00:14:43.100 because this is all leading us up to the test 00:14:43.100 --> 00:14:43.980 where Jesus says, 00:14:43.980 --> 00:14:45.639 if anyone thirsts, 00:14:45.639 --> 00:14:46.759 let him come to me 00:14:46.759 --> 00:14:48.159 and, 00:14:48.200 --> 00:14:48.580 uh, 00:14:48.680 --> 00:14:49.879 and believe on me. 00:14:49.920 --> 00:14:50.820 And as the scripture says, 00:14:50.860 --> 00:14:53.580 out of him will flow rivers of living water. 00:14:53.779 --> 00:14:55.659 So obviously on one hand, 00:14:55.659 --> 00:14:57.700 we have a bit of an attraction to God 00:14:57.700 --> 00:14:59.039 and we know we need a savior. 00:14:59.159 --> 00:15:00.039 It's a bit of a mystery, 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:02.600 but fundamentally God's word, 00:15:02.920 --> 00:15:04.060 God revealing himself 00:15:04.060 --> 00:15:06.100 will always offend us at some level. 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:07.240 Why? 00:15:07.420 --> 00:15:07.560 Well, 00:15:07.620 --> 00:15:09.620 because I have my God project. 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:11.220 I have my God desires. 00:15:11.379 --> 00:15:11.560 I, 00:15:11.620 --> 00:15:12.920 I want to be like God. 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:16.039 I don't like God correcting me. 00:15:17.979 --> 00:15:20.079 Either by telling me something I should do 00:15:20.079 --> 00:15:22.519 or telling me to stop doing something I should do. 00:15:23.299 --> 00:15:24.799 And that's sort of what Jesus is getting at. 00:15:24.860 --> 00:15:25.919 He's not saying that obviously, 00:15:26.179 --> 00:15:26.399 he's not, 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:26.779 I mean, 00:15:26.819 --> 00:15:27.179 he's not, 00:15:27.779 --> 00:15:27.939 I mean, 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:28.360 good grief. 00:15:28.419 --> 00:15:30.839 He knows that Jewish leaders are trying to kill him. 00:15:31.599 --> 00:15:33.479 So he knows there's hatred in the world. 00:15:34.659 --> 00:15:35.599 But that he's, 00:15:35.599 --> 00:15:36.199 he's saying, 00:15:36.379 --> 00:15:36.639 you know, 00:15:36.740 --> 00:15:39.259 I'm doing everything according to God's plan. 00:15:40.199 --> 00:15:40.599 My, 00:15:40.740 --> 00:15:42.899 my plan isn't to try to get as much publicity 00:15:42.899 --> 00:15:43.620 as possible. 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:43.899 In fact, 00:15:43.939 --> 00:15:44.419 there's only, 00:15:45.340 --> 00:15:45.600 yeah, 00:15:45.819 --> 00:15:46.259 there's, 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:47.799 I'm not trying to get publicity. 00:15:48.019 --> 00:15:48.459 I'm not getting, 00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:49.199 trying to get fame. 00:15:49.259 --> 00:15:51.459 I'm doing everything according to God's plan. 00:15:52.379 --> 00:15:52.779 So, 00:15:53.459 --> 00:15:54.240 verse nine, 00:15:54.579 --> 00:15:56.079 after saying this, 00:15:56.360 --> 00:15:57.240 the brothers leave, 00:15:57.379 --> 00:15:58.419 he remains in Galilee. 00:15:58.539 --> 00:15:59.059 Verse nine, 00:15:59.319 --> 00:15:59.980 after saying this, 00:16:00.019 --> 00:16:00.819 he remained in Galilee. 00:16:01.379 --> 00:16:02.059 But verse 10, 00:16:02.059 --> 00:16:04.279 but after his brothers had gone up to the feast, 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:06.100 then he also went up, 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:07.340 not publicly, 00:16:07.500 --> 00:16:08.120 but in private. 00:16:08.580 --> 00:16:10.159 It's harder to translate in English, 00:16:10.320 --> 00:16:10.779 but he didn't, 00:16:10.899 --> 00:16:11.039 his, 00:16:11.100 --> 00:16:13.279 his not doesn't mean he's not going up at all. 00:16:13.340 --> 00:16:17.759 It just means he wasn't going up with them or at that time or in that way or in that manner, 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:20.200 according to their schedule and their goals. 00:16:20.440 --> 00:16:25.000 He wasn't going to go and then have them parading around and mocking him and trying to draw a crowd. 00:16:25.100 --> 00:16:25.879 He wasn't going to go that. 00:16:25.940 --> 00:16:27.039 He's just not going on. 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:28.060 He's going on his own terms, 00:16:28.120 --> 00:16:28.779 not on theirs. 00:16:28.779 --> 00:16:30.519 But after they've left, 00:16:30.899 --> 00:16:31.980 he goes up quietly. 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.559 He goes up incognito, 00:16:34.919 --> 00:16:35.699 so to speak. 00:16:36.339 --> 00:16:36.839 Verse 11, 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:40.519 the Jewish leaders were looking for Jesus at the feast and saying, 00:16:40.639 --> 00:16:41.139 where is he? 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.360 And there was much muttering about him among the people. 00:16:44.980 --> 00:16:46.159 While some of the people said, 00:16:46.360 --> 00:16:47.179 he's a good man. 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:47.860 Others said, 00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:48.539 no, 00:16:48.959 --> 00:16:50.419 he's leading the people astray. 00:16:51.139 --> 00:16:52.720 Yet for fear of the leaders, 00:16:53.539 --> 00:16:55.379 no one spoke openly of him. 00:16:56.139 --> 00:16:57.419 About the middle of the feast, 00:16:57.419 --> 00:16:59.919 Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. 00:17:00.539 --> 00:17:01.740 So this would be day four. 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:08.599 Day four of weekly religious ceremonies and prayers and lots of feasting. 00:17:08.700 --> 00:17:09.319 Day four, 00:17:09.980 --> 00:17:12.139 Jesus goes to the temple and starts to preach, 00:17:12.339 --> 00:17:12.619 teach. 00:17:12.779 --> 00:17:13.460 Verse 15, 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.740 the Jewish people therefore marveled, 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:17.920 saying, 00:17:18.059 --> 00:17:21.680 how is it that this man has learning when he has never studied? 00:17:22.700 --> 00:17:23.899 So just sort of pause here. 00:17:23.899 --> 00:17:24.559 This is a, 00:17:24.759 --> 00:17:27.139 it's a very subtle thing in the English. 00:17:27.140 --> 00:17:27.540 You know, 00:17:28.180 --> 00:17:29.040 part of the problem is, 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:29.880 and by the way, 00:17:30.540 --> 00:17:33.320 one of the reasons maybe that God has called me to be a priest, 00:17:33.660 --> 00:17:37.360 a presbyter is because my natural inclination is to race through texts. 00:17:37.900 --> 00:17:41.780 And this forces me to keep going slow and trying to look at the nuances. 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:46.900 This is actually sort of grudging admiration by the Jewish leaders of Jesus, 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:48.259 but also a put down. 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:51.320 The grudging admiration comes in saying, 00:17:51.319 --> 00:17:51.619 wow, 00:17:51.759 --> 00:17:51.960 like, 00:17:52.619 --> 00:17:53.179 he has, 00:17:54.139 --> 00:17:54.460 like, 00:17:54.799 --> 00:17:55.740 he can teach. 00:17:56.379 --> 00:17:56.599 But, 00:17:57.259 --> 00:17:57.539 you know, 00:17:57.639 --> 00:17:58.759 we know he's not educated. 00:17:59.939 --> 00:18:00.279 Like, 00:18:00.619 --> 00:18:03.779 we know he didn't go to Harvard or U of T or Princeton. 00:18:04.099 --> 00:18:04.299 You know, 00:18:04.339 --> 00:18:05.279 he doesn't have certification. 00:18:05.639 --> 00:18:06.399 He's not ordained. 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:07.720 So it's, 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:07.859 it's, 00:18:07.859 --> 00:18:08.359 it's both, 00:18:08.460 --> 00:18:09.839 it's a very fascinating thing. 00:18:09.939 --> 00:18:11.359 There's a bit of a grudging admiration, 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:16.399 but they can't grudgingly admire Jesus without putting him in his place, 00:18:16.700 --> 00:18:17.399 putting him down. 00:18:18.220 --> 00:18:19.380 He doesn't have the proper teaching, 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:20.740 doesn't have the proper credentials, 00:18:20.940 --> 00:18:22.019 but doesn't have the proper, 00:18:22.220 --> 00:18:23.240 you know, 00:18:23.360 --> 00:18:23.800 lineage. 00:18:24.660 --> 00:18:26.120 He's just not proper. 00:18:28.580 --> 00:18:30.780 And so his brothers put him down. 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:33.320 People are grumbling about him. 00:18:33.720 --> 00:18:35.180 People are trying to kill him. 00:18:36.640 --> 00:18:39.660 And even when he starts to speak and people sort of admire him, 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:42.519 they can't admire him without also sort of putting him down. 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:44.200 So how does Jesus respond? 00:18:44.300 --> 00:18:44.400 Well, 00:18:44.440 --> 00:18:45.140 how does he respond? 00:18:45.259 --> 00:18:45.900 Verse 16. 00:18:45.900 --> 00:18:47.420 So Jesus answered them. 00:18:48.080 --> 00:18:49.480 My teaching is not mine, 00:18:49.580 --> 00:18:50.860 but his who sent me. 00:18:51.420 --> 00:18:55.019 If anyone's will is to do God's will, 00:18:56.060 --> 00:19:01.820 he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:05.840 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, 00:19:06.560 --> 00:19:09.940 but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true. 00:19:10.540 --> 00:19:11.320 And in him, 00:19:11.400 --> 00:19:12.420 there is no falsehood. 00:19:12.420 --> 00:19:14.519 Has not Moses given you the law, 00:19:14.600 --> 00:19:16.000 yet none of you keeps the law? 00:19:16.100 --> 00:19:18.240 Why do you seek to kill me? 00:19:18.240 --> 00:19:20.660 Now, 00:19:21.660 --> 00:19:23.000 just sort of pause there. 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:24.259 Some of you might be going, 00:19:24.359 --> 00:19:24.440 like, 00:19:24.500 --> 00:19:25.480 what's up with this? 00:19:26.240 --> 00:19:26.519 Like, 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:27.440 what's up with this, 00:19:27.539 --> 00:19:27.859 George? 00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:31.440 You've got to do God's will to be able to understand Jesus? 00:19:31.700 --> 00:19:31.940 Like, 00:19:32.259 --> 00:19:32.559 George, 00:19:32.620 --> 00:19:33.400 what's up with that? 00:19:33.460 --> 00:19:34.400 That doesn't make sense. 00:19:34.460 --> 00:19:34.579 Like, 00:19:34.620 --> 00:19:35.980 I don't have to do God's will, 00:19:35.980 --> 00:19:37.099 you know, 00:19:37.160 --> 00:19:39.019 to know math. 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:42.920 I don't have to be trying to live a certain type of life to know math. 00:19:43.019 --> 00:19:45.059 I don't have to live a certain type of life to know, 00:19:45.539 --> 00:19:46.379 you know, 00:19:46.420 --> 00:19:53.559 about economic theory or geography or read the paper and learn things or read blogs. 00:19:54.299 --> 00:19:55.980 So what's up with this? 00:19:56.240 --> 00:19:58.639 If anyone's will is to do God's will, 00:19:58.720 --> 00:20:02.519 he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority. 00:20:02.660 --> 00:20:02.740 Like, 00:20:03.099 --> 00:20:03.379 George, 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:05.400 isn't that just one of those types of things of, 00:20:05.500 --> 00:20:05.660 like, 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:07.039 just surrender your mind, 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:08.299 kiss your brain goodbye, 00:20:08.299 --> 00:20:10.059 and, 00:20:10.139 --> 00:20:10.639 um, 00:20:10.980 --> 00:20:12.379 just trust me, 00:20:13.079 --> 00:20:13.559 uh, 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:14.000 like, 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:15.159 those of you who will, 00:20:15.240 --> 00:20:17.240 if you end up seeing that Netflix documentary, 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:21.759 you can see the terrible things that happen when otherwise very, 00:20:21.919 --> 00:20:28.220 very bright people just completely and utterly surrender their mind to a charismatic leader. 00:20:28.500 --> 00:20:31.559 I'm not giving anything away because it's in the introduction to this, 00:20:31.559 --> 00:20:32.419 this film clip. 00:20:32.519 --> 00:20:34.000 This is something that took place in the, 00:20:34.059 --> 00:20:36.180 in the early to mid eighties in middle of Oregon. 00:20:36.180 --> 00:20:39.560 And by the time the story is finished being told, 00:20:39.799 --> 00:20:45.660 it's the largest bioterrorism act in the history of the United States. 00:20:46.299 --> 00:20:50.500 The largest immigration fraud in the history of the United States. 00:20:51.620 --> 00:20:52.799 Wire fraud, 00:20:53.519 --> 00:20:55.860 multiple attempts of murder, 00:20:55.859 --> 00:21:01.299 were all connected to people who surrender their mind to a charismatic leader. 00:21:05.159 --> 00:21:06.539 And many of the people, 00:21:06.740 --> 00:21:07.299 on one hand, 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:08.279 they show film clips, 00:21:08.500 --> 00:21:12.419 people who know that they're doing horrendous things, 00:21:13.199 --> 00:21:15.779 talk as if they're doing wonderful things. 00:21:15.779 --> 00:21:17.879 And so, 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:18.180 George, 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:19.160 what's up with this? 00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:20.359 Well, 00:21:21.879 --> 00:21:22.059 here, 00:21:23.379 --> 00:21:27.680 Jesus isn't saying that you have to do God's will to be able to understand math. 00:21:28.819 --> 00:21:30.879 And he's not saying you have to be able to do, 00:21:30.940 --> 00:21:33.579 you have to be a moral person just to understand, 00:21:34.039 --> 00:21:37.339 to be able to know who the leading goal scorer is in the NHL. 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:37.559 Like, 00:21:37.579 --> 00:21:38.779 Jesus isn't being stupid. 00:21:39.779 --> 00:21:40.019 But, 00:21:40.259 --> 00:21:42.019 think about what you need to know. 00:21:43.359 --> 00:21:43.579 So, 00:21:43.700 --> 00:21:44.119 first of all, 00:21:44.259 --> 00:21:45.700 the first context is, 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:46.559 he's saying, 00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:50.799 how do you think you can understand who I am if you're trying to murder me, 00:21:51.019 --> 00:21:51.980 an innocent person? 00:21:53.539 --> 00:21:53.940 Like, 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:55.599 we can see there's some wisdom to that, 00:21:55.700 --> 00:21:55.799 eh? 00:21:56.519 --> 00:21:56.879 Like, 00:21:57.500 --> 00:22:00.819 how on earth can you think you're trying to figure out me and my teaching 00:22:00.819 --> 00:22:02.200 if all the law, 00:22:02.339 --> 00:22:03.139 all the while, 00:22:03.420 --> 00:22:06.119 all you're doing is thinking about how you're going to get me killed? 00:22:07.539 --> 00:22:08.759 How you're going to abuse me? 00:22:08.779 --> 00:22:10.440 Is your power to get me killed? 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:12.779 But, 00:22:13.099 --> 00:22:15.279 Jesus is pointing here to a, 00:22:15.319 --> 00:22:16.920 it's a whole other sermon topic, 00:22:17.039 --> 00:22:18.460 but I wanted to bring it out to you. 00:22:18.519 --> 00:22:18.879 It's a, 00:22:18.879 --> 00:22:22.559 a key spiritual principle when it comes to, 00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:23.599 to knowing God. 00:22:24.099 --> 00:22:25.139 And that is, 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:26.819 that in knowing God, 00:22:27.099 --> 00:22:30.259 it's not that we don't think about what God has said. 00:22:30.319 --> 00:22:32.160 It's not that we don't think about God's word. 00:22:32.220 --> 00:22:33.759 It's not that we don't think about Jesus. 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:36.980 But for many things in the Christian life, 00:22:36.980 --> 00:22:39.860 we do not think our way to clarity. 00:22:40.720 --> 00:22:44.019 We obey our way to clarity. 00:22:44.019 --> 00:22:48.799 For many things to do in the Christian life, 00:22:49.400 --> 00:22:52.379 for many of the truths in the Christian life, 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:55.400 we do not just think our way to clarity, 00:22:55.559 --> 00:22:57.519 we obey our way to clarity. 00:22:58.299 --> 00:22:58.680 Well, 00:22:58.720 --> 00:22:59.359 why is that? 00:22:59.460 --> 00:22:59.539 Well, 00:22:59.619 --> 00:22:59.940 because, 00:23:00.500 --> 00:23:00.900 what is it, 00:23:01.039 --> 00:23:02.779 how can we know God? 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:04.079 Like, 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:04.639 we can't, 00:23:04.700 --> 00:23:05.119 if God, 00:23:05.220 --> 00:23:05.720 if God, 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:08.880 the God that Jesus describes really exists, 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:10.240 if he really does exist, 00:23:10.299 --> 00:23:13.240 if that really is the God that does exist, 00:23:13.319 --> 00:23:14.400 and has made himself known, 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:18.200 we can't know God without bowing to him. 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:23.079 We can't know God without worshiping him. 00:23:24.100 --> 00:23:27.960 We cannot know God without surrendering to him. 00:23:29.100 --> 00:23:29.339 Like, 00:23:29.339 --> 00:23:31.159 that's the only way we can know God. 00:23:32.639 --> 00:23:36.419 If the God described by Jesus really exists. 00:23:38.439 --> 00:23:38.879 And, 00:23:38.959 --> 00:23:40.000 and so it is, 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:40.959 for many, 00:23:41.079 --> 00:23:42.639 many things in the Christian life, 00:23:43.859 --> 00:23:45.399 if we just absolutely, 00:23:45.500 --> 00:23:47.679 it doesn't mean that we have to be perfect at doing things, 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:50.799 but if we absolutely refuse to do something, 00:23:51.799 --> 00:23:55.039 absolutely refuse to do something, 00:23:55.500 --> 00:23:57.879 then no amount of thinking will help you. 00:23:57.880 --> 00:23:59.600 I've shared this story before. 00:23:59.860 --> 00:24:00.480 I have time. 00:24:00.580 --> 00:24:01.420 I'll share it to you again. 00:24:01.840 --> 00:24:03.100 It was quite a few years ago, 00:24:04.380 --> 00:24:04.720 and, 00:24:04.860 --> 00:24:06.960 I was, 00:24:07.200 --> 00:24:07.420 I, 00:24:07.540 --> 00:24:10.260 I had just preached on this text at the morning. 00:24:10.300 --> 00:24:11.580 I used to have an evening service, 00:24:11.740 --> 00:24:13.640 and I preached on an aspect of this, 00:24:14.120 --> 00:24:14.820 one of the two, 00:24:15.220 --> 00:24:16.800 so there's an evening text. 00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:18.060 We just follow a lectionary. 00:24:18.160 --> 00:24:19.280 I'm going to be preaching on the, 00:24:19.360 --> 00:24:20.340 the first text, 00:24:20.420 --> 00:24:20.900 I think it was, 00:24:21.040 --> 00:24:22.320 but we read the second text. 00:24:22.580 --> 00:24:23.800 I don't even look at it. 00:24:23.800 --> 00:24:25.660 I just focus on the text I'm going to preach on. 00:24:25.740 --> 00:24:27.200 And it turned out the second text, 00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:31.039 was sort of controversial around the relationship of men and women. 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:32.019 Now, 00:24:32.059 --> 00:24:35.460 I had talked about that text a couple of months earlier in the morning service, 00:24:35.460 --> 00:24:37.700 so I didn't preach on it the Sunday evening service, 00:24:37.700 --> 00:24:39.740 because I'd sort of talked about it a couple of months earlier. 00:24:40.120 --> 00:24:41.220 But after the service, 00:24:41.620 --> 00:24:42.700 there was a young woman, 00:24:42.779 --> 00:24:42.980 very, 00:24:43.100 --> 00:24:43.580 very bright, 00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:44.039 and her, 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:44.620 and her, 00:24:44.620 --> 00:24:45.640 her fiance, 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:47.539 and also very, 00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.100 very bright. 00:24:48.160 --> 00:24:48.420 I mean, 00:24:48.519 --> 00:24:48.980 multiple, 00:24:49.140 --> 00:24:50.080 multiple degrees, 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:51.579 and, 00:24:51.579 --> 00:24:53.139 and very, 00:24:53.259 --> 00:24:53.699 very good, 00:24:53.819 --> 00:24:54.859 very nice people. 00:24:55.299 --> 00:24:56.279 And they came, 00:24:56.359 --> 00:24:57.759 and they asked me about the text. 00:24:58.139 --> 00:24:58.199 And, 00:24:58.259 --> 00:25:00.519 and I started to try to explain the language, 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:00.980 and, 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:01.619 and, 00:25:01.639 --> 00:25:02.559 and context, 00:25:02.699 --> 00:25:02.980 and all. 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:04.539 But then I had one of these moments, 00:25:05.019 --> 00:25:06.939 when it's as if the Holy Spirit said to me, 00:25:06.980 --> 00:25:07.199 George, 00:25:07.259 --> 00:25:08.500 you need to say something to them. 00:25:08.980 --> 00:25:09.619 And so I, 00:25:09.619 --> 00:25:10.039 I, 00:25:10.039 --> 00:25:11.440 I changed my course, 00:25:11.539 --> 00:25:11.839 because we, 00:25:12.059 --> 00:25:12.900 after church, 00:25:12.940 --> 00:25:14.220 we're talking about 15 or 20 minutes, 00:25:14.279 --> 00:25:14.960 and it wasn't getting anywhere. 00:25:15.019 --> 00:25:15.420 And I said, 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:16.599 I said to, 00:25:16.700 --> 00:25:17.259 I said to them, 00:25:17.500 --> 00:25:21.500 let's say that you decided that this is going to be your project for the next decade. 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:23.599 And so over the next decade, 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:24.599 you're going to learn Greek, 00:25:25.099 --> 00:25:26.099 you're going to learn Aramaic, 00:25:26.099 --> 00:25:27.039 you're going to learn Hebrew, 00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:29.000 you're going to maybe learn Syriac, 00:25:29.059 --> 00:25:32.500 or some other version that the New Testament was translated in. 00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:34.440 You're going to master archaeology, 00:25:34.500 --> 00:25:36.319 you're going to master Roman law, 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:39.319 you're going to master Roman and Greek literature, 00:25:39.480 --> 00:25:39.799 you're going to, 00:25:39.980 --> 00:25:43.759 you're going to master linguistics and sociolinguistics and anthropology, 00:25:43.759 --> 00:25:47.720 and you're going to do all of that to become unbelievably well, 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:49.619 scholarly, 00:25:50.179 --> 00:25:50.299 and, 00:25:50.419 --> 00:25:52.579 and just have knowledge to the gazoo. 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:54.879 And after you've done all of that study, 00:25:54.939 --> 00:25:55.619 after 10 years, 00:25:55.659 --> 00:25:56.879 you come back to the text, 00:25:56.960 --> 00:25:59.019 and it actually just means what it says, 00:25:59.539 --> 00:26:00.700 will you try to obey it? 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:02.019 And they both, 00:26:02.179 --> 00:26:02.980 without pausing at all, 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:03.159 said, 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:04.139 absolutely not. 00:26:05.439 --> 00:26:06.119 And I said, 00:26:06.119 --> 00:26:06.219 well, 00:26:06.219 --> 00:26:08.119 there's nothing I can do to explain the text to you. 00:26:10.219 --> 00:26:10.579 Like, 00:26:10.619 --> 00:26:12.179 if you absolutely refuse 00:26:12.179 --> 00:26:14.299 to even attempt 00:26:14.299 --> 00:26:16.779 to live the text, 00:26:17.439 --> 00:26:19.639 how can I ever explain the text to you? 00:26:20.719 --> 00:26:21.459 And there's many, 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:22.939 many things in the Christian life, 00:26:23.159 --> 00:26:23.559 because 00:26:23.559 --> 00:26:26.759 if Jesus really is the Savior and the Lord, 00:26:26.859 --> 00:26:28.219 if he really is, 00:26:28.559 --> 00:26:30.099 that if we come to him and drink, 00:26:30.779 --> 00:26:31.919 and believe in him, 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:32.439 that out of, 00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:33.019 out of, 00:26:33.099 --> 00:26:34.000 out of him, 00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:35.579 that he is the fountain of life, 00:26:35.740 --> 00:26:35.839 that, 00:26:35.859 --> 00:26:36.140 that, 00:26:36.140 --> 00:26:36.440 that, 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:38.000 that the Holy Spirit will come, 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:38.420 and, like, 00:26:38.500 --> 00:26:38.640 I, 00:26:38.980 --> 00:26:40.140 it, 00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:40.460 it, 00:26:40.460 --> 00:26:41.839 it's going to involve me 00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:45.220 learning to bow my knee to Jesus. 00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:47.039 So, 00:26:47.099 --> 00:26:48.759 that's what Jesus is saying that here. 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:49.980 He's, 00:26:50.019 --> 00:26:50.279 I mean, 00:26:50.440 --> 00:26:52.480 he's just really confronting them. 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:54.720 How on earth is it you think you can figure me out 00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:55.819 if you're trying to murder me? 00:26:55.819 --> 00:26:59.899 But his context has a very important principle 00:26:59.899 --> 00:27:01.019 for us to think through, 00:27:01.460 --> 00:27:03.480 that in many things in the Christian life, 00:27:03.559 --> 00:27:05.740 we obey our way to clarity, 00:27:06.099 --> 00:27:07.859 rather than think our way to clarity. 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:09.539 Anyway, so, 00:27:09.740 --> 00:27:11.659 so how do they respond to this? 00:27:12.179 --> 00:27:12.740 You know, 00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:15.139 because he just is revealed now in public 00:27:15.139 --> 00:27:17.539 that the Jewish leaders are trying to kill him. 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:18.259 And, 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:21.579 Jesus lived in a time which wasn't very politically correct, 00:27:21.579 --> 00:27:23.559 and people were very direct, 00:27:24.099 --> 00:27:24.399 and, 00:27:24.460 --> 00:27:26.159 quite willing to be insulting. 00:27:26.659 --> 00:27:28.059 And the response of the crowd, 00:27:28.220 --> 00:27:28.799 verse 20, 00:27:28.919 --> 00:27:29.759 is the crowd answered, 00:27:29.839 --> 00:27:30.619 you have a demon. 00:27:32.019 --> 00:27:32.500 Like, 00:27:32.699 --> 00:27:33.480 we might say, 00:27:33.699 --> 00:27:34.819 you're insane. 00:27:35.819 --> 00:27:35.939 You're, 00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:37.139 you've lost it. 00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:40.039 Who is seeking to kill you? 00:27:41.859 --> 00:27:42.539 In verse 21, 00:27:42.659 --> 00:27:43.220 Jesus says, 00:27:43.319 --> 00:27:44.419 I did one work. 00:27:44.939 --> 00:27:45.079 Now, 00:27:45.159 --> 00:27:45.399 what is, 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:47.619 what's caused in John's gospel? 00:27:47.779 --> 00:27:47.919 What, 00:27:48.240 --> 00:27:49.919 what is the spark 00:27:49.919 --> 00:27:51.240 that ignites 00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:52.839 their simmering 00:27:52.839 --> 00:27:55.579 envy and hatred of Jesus? 00:27:56.359 --> 00:27:56.779 So, 00:27:56.859 --> 00:27:57.759 for the Jewish leaders, 00:27:57.960 --> 00:27:58.079 they, 00:27:58.160 --> 00:28:00.059 they have this growing envy of Jesus 00:28:00.059 --> 00:28:01.120 and hatred of Jesus, 00:28:01.120 --> 00:28:02.420 and there's a spark 00:28:02.420 --> 00:28:03.980 that ignites it 00:28:03.980 --> 00:28:05.140 so that it starts to burn. 00:28:05.559 --> 00:28:06.620 And what it is, 00:28:06.660 --> 00:28:06.859 is, 00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:08.900 and it's recorded in John chapter 5, 00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:10.000 is on the Sabbath, 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:11.980 Jesus does two things 00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:12.539 to offend 00:28:12.539 --> 00:28:14.700 the religious establishment. 00:28:15.059 --> 00:28:16.180 He heals a man 00:28:16.180 --> 00:28:17.019 who's been an invalid 00:28:17.019 --> 00:28:18.200 for 38 years, 00:28:19.099 --> 00:28:20.740 which offends them, 00:28:21.240 --> 00:28:23.200 they consider it work, 00:28:23.819 --> 00:28:24.620 you're not supposed to work. 00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:25.400 The other thing is, 00:28:25.420 --> 00:28:26.099 he asked the man 00:28:26.099 --> 00:28:26.799 to carry his mat, 00:28:26.859 --> 00:28:28.259 so he's offended them twice. 00:28:29.180 --> 00:28:29.640 And that's, 00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:30.380 that's what's offended, 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:31.039 and that's what Jesus 00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:31.920 is referring to. 00:28:32.319 --> 00:28:32.880 Verse 21, 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:33.700 I did one work, 00:28:33.740 --> 00:28:34.779 and you all marvel at it. 00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:36.400 Moses gave you circumcision, 00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:38.359 not that it is from Moses, 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:39.299 but from the fathers, 00:28:39.400 --> 00:28:40.680 and you circumcise a man 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:41.259 on the Sabbath. 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:42.900 If on the Sabbath, 00:28:43.019 --> 00:28:44.620 a man receives circumcision 00:28:44.620 --> 00:28:46.720 so that the law of Moses 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:47.819 may not be broken, 00:28:47.819 --> 00:28:50.519 are you angry with me 00:28:50.519 --> 00:28:51.379 because on the Sabbath 00:28:51.379 --> 00:28:53.099 I made a man's whole body well? 00:28:53.899 --> 00:28:54.099 Like, 00:28:54.159 --> 00:28:55.279 do not judge by appearances, 00:28:55.439 --> 00:28:56.519 but judge with right judgment. 00:28:58.019 --> 00:28:59.299 So Jesus doesn't sort of 00:28:59.299 --> 00:29:00.119 get back at them 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:00.439 and say, 00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:00.639 listen, 00:29:00.659 --> 00:29:01.299 you call me a demon, 00:29:01.399 --> 00:29:02.019 you've got demons. 00:29:02.159 --> 00:29:02.319 Like, 00:29:02.339 --> 00:29:03.240 he doesn't just sort of go, 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:03.419 yeah, 00:29:03.500 --> 00:29:03.659 yeah, 00:29:03.839 --> 00:29:04.480 you've got demons. 00:29:04.559 --> 00:29:04.759 No, 00:29:04.879 --> 00:29:05.460 you have more demons. 00:29:05.460 --> 00:29:05.579 No, 00:29:05.579 --> 00:29:06.159 he doesn't do that. 00:29:06.819 --> 00:29:08.179 He just goes right to the point. 00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:08.460 Like, 00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:08.779 he said, 00:29:08.819 --> 00:29:10.119 you guys are thinking crazy. 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:11.299 Like, 00:29:11.319 --> 00:29:11.819 you really are. 00:29:11.879 --> 00:29:12.599 Just think about it 00:29:12.599 --> 00:29:13.079 for a second. 00:29:13.740 --> 00:29:14.000 Like, 00:29:14.159 --> 00:29:15.779 circumcision is the ritual 00:29:15.779 --> 00:29:17.680 that you have to have 00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:18.599 to become part, 00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:19.259 so to speak, 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:20.980 of physical Israel, 00:29:22.619 --> 00:29:23.779 of visible Israel. 00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:25.019 It doesn't save. 00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:27.000 That requires 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:28.000 a heart transformation. 00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:29.339 Right? 00:29:30.059 --> 00:29:30.559 By the way, 00:29:30.899 --> 00:29:30.980 in, 00:29:31.339 --> 00:29:31.480 yeah, 00:29:31.579 --> 00:29:31.799 anyway, 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:32.899 I almost took us off 00:29:32.899 --> 00:29:33.519 on a rabbit trail. 00:29:34.099 --> 00:29:35.200 And Jesus says, 00:29:35.599 --> 00:29:36.379 listen, 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:37.019 we all understand 00:29:37.019 --> 00:29:37.599 that that's fine. 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:37.759 Well, 00:29:37.839 --> 00:29:38.299 how on earth 00:29:38.299 --> 00:29:39.039 can it not be right 00:29:39.039 --> 00:29:40.379 to make a whole man well 00:29:40.379 --> 00:29:41.399 on the Sabbath? 00:29:41.579 --> 00:29:41.720 Like, 00:29:41.759 --> 00:29:42.579 how can that be breaking 00:29:42.579 --> 00:29:43.180 any rule? 00:29:43.799 --> 00:29:44.240 And it's actually 00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.019 not breaking the Bible, 00:29:45.019 --> 00:29:45.480 it's just breaking 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:46.039 your traditions. 00:29:48.099 --> 00:29:49.619 So he challenges them 00:29:49.619 --> 00:29:50.359 on their anger. 00:29:51.079 --> 00:29:51.240 Now, 00:29:51.319 --> 00:29:52.639 it actually has some effect 00:29:52.639 --> 00:29:54.319 because it must be 00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:55.440 that for some of the crowd, 00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:56.039 as we're going to see 00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:56.359 in a moment, 00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:57.039 they're thinking back 00:29:57.039 --> 00:29:57.420 one moment, 00:29:57.480 --> 00:29:57.579 yeah, 00:29:57.579 --> 00:29:58.480 they were really upset 00:29:58.480 --> 00:29:59.579 about that about a year ago 00:29:59.579 --> 00:30:00.460 when he did something 00:30:00.460 --> 00:30:00.900 like that, 00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:01.400 weren't they? 00:30:01.879 --> 00:30:02.039 And, 00:30:02.139 --> 00:30:02.440 oh yeah, 00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:02.740 like, 00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:04.420 before he started to speak, 00:30:04.900 --> 00:30:06.000 we were a bit nervous 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:07.139 about speaking out loud 00:30:07.139 --> 00:30:07.779 about Jesus 00:30:07.779 --> 00:30:08.639 because we could sort of 00:30:08.639 --> 00:30:09.579 sense that there's 00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:12.079 this hostility going on. 00:30:13.059 --> 00:30:13.980 So the people, 00:30:13.980 --> 00:30:15.259 on one level, 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:16.279 they hear this rebuke 00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:17.539 and look how they respond. 00:30:17.660 --> 00:30:18.259 Verse 25, 00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:19.079 some of the people 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:20.599 of Jerusalem therefore said, 00:30:21.140 --> 00:30:22.099 is not this the man 00:30:22.099 --> 00:30:23.259 whom they seek to kill? 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:25.420 And here he is speaking openly 00:30:25.420 --> 00:30:26.960 and they say nothing to him. 00:30:27.339 --> 00:30:28.599 Can it be that the authorities 00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:29.200 really know 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:30.380 that this is the Christ? 00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:31.839 But, 00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:33.500 we know where this man 00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:34.079 comes from 00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:35.160 and when the Christ appears, 00:30:35.299 --> 00:30:36.099 no one will know 00:30:36.099 --> 00:30:37.059 where he comes from. 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:39.200 And just sort of pause, 00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:43.319 what the Old Testament, 00:30:44.220 --> 00:30:45.539 which our Jewish friends 00:30:45.539 --> 00:30:46.420 call it the Tanakh 00:30:46.420 --> 00:30:46.960 and we call it 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:47.580 the Old Testament, 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:49.880 and it had many, 00:30:49.980 --> 00:30:50.700 many prophecies 00:30:50.700 --> 00:30:51.519 about the Messiah 00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:53.039 and the Jewish people 00:30:53.039 --> 00:30:53.440 of the day, 00:30:53.519 --> 00:30:54.480 they basically looked 00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:55.680 at all of the prophecies 00:30:55.680 --> 00:30:56.819 that really refer 00:30:56.819 --> 00:30:58.160 to Jesus' second coming, 00:30:58.259 --> 00:30:59.299 that he'll come in glory, 00:30:59.380 --> 00:31:00.360 that everybody will know, 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:01.380 that's spectacular. 00:31:01.600 --> 00:31:02.840 They miss the thing 00:31:02.840 --> 00:31:03.539 about the virgin 00:31:03.539 --> 00:31:04.319 shall conceive, 00:31:04.539 --> 00:31:05.799 they miss the suffering 00:31:05.799 --> 00:31:06.779 servant text, 00:31:06.860 --> 00:31:07.580 they miss all this 00:31:07.579 --> 00:31:08.059 other stuff. 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:09.500 And so they're just thinking 00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:10.519 like the same way 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:11.000 that we think 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:11.819 of the second coming 00:31:11.819 --> 00:31:12.980 where Jesus is just 00:31:12.980 --> 00:31:13.939 going to come in clouds 00:31:13.939 --> 00:31:15.199 and power and glory 00:31:15.199 --> 00:31:16.199 and everyone will know. 00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:17.179 And that's why 00:31:17.179 --> 00:31:18.379 they're confused, right? 00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:19.539 So verse 28, 00:31:19.639 --> 00:31:20.439 Jesus proclaimed 00:31:20.439 --> 00:31:21.279 as he taught in the temple, 00:31:21.399 --> 00:31:22.059 you know me 00:31:22.059 --> 00:31:23.740 and you know where I come from 00:31:23.740 --> 00:31:24.679 but I have not come 00:31:24.679 --> 00:31:25.480 of my own accord. 00:31:25.639 --> 00:31:27.000 He who sent me is true 00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:28.619 and him you do not know. 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:29.460 I know him 00:31:29.460 --> 00:31:31.460 for I come from him 00:31:31.460 --> 00:31:32.179 and he sent me. 00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:32.799 It's once again 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:33.480 Jesus saying 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:34.679 I've come from God. 00:31:35.299 --> 00:31:36.379 He keeps going on 00:31:36.379 --> 00:31:37.199 and on about this. 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:38.319 I've come from God. 00:31:38.319 --> 00:31:39.500 I am God, 00:31:39.640 --> 00:31:40.900 the son of God, 00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:42.819 sent by the father 00:31:42.819 --> 00:31:44.380 in the power of the spirit, 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:46.400 born of the virgin Mary 00:31:46.400 --> 00:31:48.340 to live amongst you. 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:54.580 But the crowd 00:31:54.580 --> 00:31:55.620 and the leaders 00:31:55.620 --> 00:31:56.660 sort of understand 00:31:56.660 --> 00:31:57.680 that this big claim 00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:58.160 he's making 00:31:58.160 --> 00:31:58.819 in verse 30, 00:31:58.920 --> 00:31:59.640 so they were seeking 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:00.700 to arrest him 00:32:00.700 --> 00:32:02.860 but no one 00:32:02.860 --> 00:32:04.180 laid a hand on him. 00:32:04.500 --> 00:32:05.039 Why? 00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:07.480 Because his hour 00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:08.700 had not yet come. 00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:10.359 So just pause. 00:32:10.440 --> 00:32:11.539 What this text is saying 00:32:11.539 --> 00:32:14.740 is God had a time 00:32:14.740 --> 00:32:15.480 and a purpose 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:16.539 for Jesus coming 00:32:16.539 --> 00:32:17.599 and the purpose 00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:18.940 of Jesus' coming 00:32:18.940 --> 00:32:20.460 is to die upon the cross. 00:32:22.740 --> 00:32:25.619 And Jesus has to resist temptation. 00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:28.420 The father doesn't keep 00:32:28.420 --> 00:32:29.980 temptation away from Jesus. 00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:33.660 But what this text is saying 00:32:33.660 --> 00:32:34.099 is that God 00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:35.019 just stops Jesus 00:32:35.019 --> 00:32:36.140 from being arrested. 00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:38.700 Like, 00:32:38.980 --> 00:32:40.079 why didn't Jesus 00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:40.559 get arrested? 00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:41.539 God stopped them. 00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:42.759 Do they go into details? 00:32:42.860 --> 00:32:42.940 Well, 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:43.880 how can they go into details 00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:44.400 about that? 00:32:44.480 --> 00:32:45.500 It's just God stopped them. 00:32:45.539 --> 00:32:46.120 That's what John 00:32:46.120 --> 00:32:46.880 now realizes 00:32:46.880 --> 00:32:48.480 as he writes it. 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:49.839 Verse 31, 00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:50.799 yet many of the people 00:32:50.799 --> 00:32:51.720 believed in Jesus. 00:32:51.879 --> 00:32:52.179 They said, 00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:53.139 when the Christ appears 00:32:53.139 --> 00:32:54.720 will he do more signs 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:55.699 than this man has done? 00:32:56.539 --> 00:32:57.619 The Pharisees 00:32:57.619 --> 00:32:58.419 heard the crowd 00:32:58.419 --> 00:32:59.439 muttering these things 00:32:59.439 --> 00:32:59.899 about him 00:32:59.899 --> 00:33:00.659 and the chief priests 00:33:00.659 --> 00:33:01.279 and Pharisees 00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:02.019 sent officers 00:33:02.019 --> 00:33:03.099 to arrest him. 00:33:03.959 --> 00:33:04.839 Jesus then said, 00:33:05.059 --> 00:33:06.359 I will be with you 00:33:06.359 --> 00:33:07.079 a little longer 00:33:07.079 --> 00:33:07.959 and then I am going 00:33:07.959 --> 00:33:09.059 to him who sent me. 00:33:09.519 --> 00:33:10.480 You will seek me 00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:11.859 and you will not find me. 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:13.299 Where I am, 00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:14.720 you cannot come. 00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:16.200 Now, 00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:18.539 what Jesus is saying here 00:33:18.539 --> 00:33:18.860 is, 00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:20.759 it's a very deep text. 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:21.500 On one level, 00:33:21.620 --> 00:33:22.059 he says, 00:33:22.200 --> 00:33:23.900 I'm going to die. 00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:24.980 I'm going to die 00:33:24.980 --> 00:33:25.660 on the cross. 00:33:26.360 --> 00:33:27.200 And after I've died 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:27.640 on the cross 00:33:27.640 --> 00:33:28.360 to taste all there is 00:33:28.360 --> 00:33:29.160 to taste of death, 00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:30.420 I'm going to ascend 00:33:30.420 --> 00:33:30.940 into heaven. 00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:35.620 And the other thing, 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:35.860 though, 00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:37.200 is this thing here, 00:33:37.299 --> 00:33:38.160 where I am, 00:33:38.220 --> 00:33:39.220 you cannot come. 00:33:39.539 --> 00:33:40.140 You notice that? 00:33:42.180 --> 00:33:43.960 Go read the Athanasian Creed. 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:44.700 This touches 00:33:44.700 --> 00:33:46.100 on the deep mystery 00:33:46.100 --> 00:33:46.860 that God, 00:33:46.980 --> 00:33:48.079 the Son of God, 00:33:48.519 --> 00:33:50.380 never stops being God. 00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:52.079 And yet, 00:33:52.140 --> 00:33:53.299 he takes into himself 00:33:53.299 --> 00:33:54.140 our human nature. 00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:55.539 The Athanasian Creed said, 00:33:55.980 --> 00:33:56.440 as God, 00:33:56.500 --> 00:33:57.340 he has no beginning. 00:33:57.940 --> 00:33:58.600 As man, 00:33:58.700 --> 00:33:59.880 he's born in Bethlehem. 00:33:59.920 --> 00:34:02.579 And this just teases open 00:34:02.579 --> 00:34:04.059 these profound mysteries 00:34:04.059 --> 00:34:05.079 of the fact 00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:06.500 that there's just one person, 00:34:06.620 --> 00:34:07.799 but he has a double nature. 00:34:08.019 --> 00:34:08.800 And I won't say anything 00:34:08.800 --> 00:34:09.340 more about it 00:34:09.340 --> 00:34:10.480 other than that's what he says. 00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:14.039 And the leaders 00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:14.880 and the people 00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:15.639 are confused. 00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:16.519 They say to one another, 00:34:16.619 --> 00:34:17.199 verse 35, 00:34:17.340 --> 00:34:17.940 where does this man 00:34:17.940 --> 00:34:18.500 intend to go 00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:19.780 that we will not find him? 00:34:20.179 --> 00:34:21.099 Does he intend to go 00:34:21.099 --> 00:34:22.159 to the dispersion 00:34:22.159 --> 00:34:23.019 among the Greeks 00:34:23.019 --> 00:34:24.260 and teach the Greeks? 00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:25.420 What does he mean by saying, 00:34:25.940 --> 00:34:26.840 you will seek me 00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:28.440 and you will not find me? 00:34:28.719 --> 00:34:29.559 And where I am, 00:34:29.860 --> 00:34:30.740 you cannot come. 00:34:32.340 --> 00:34:32.980 They don't know 00:34:32.980 --> 00:34:33.599 what it means. 00:34:33.599 --> 00:34:36.940 And it's in that context, 00:34:37.339 --> 00:34:38.539 four days later, 00:34:38.779 --> 00:34:39.940 or three days later, 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:41.259 on the last day of the feast, 00:34:41.339 --> 00:34:42.039 the great day, 00:34:42.759 --> 00:34:43.539 Jesus stood up 00:34:43.539 --> 00:34:44.279 and cried out, 00:34:44.900 --> 00:34:46.279 if anyone thirsts, 00:34:46.420 --> 00:34:47.339 let him come to me 00:34:47.339 --> 00:34:47.819 and drink. 00:34:48.460 --> 00:34:49.819 Whoever believes in me, 00:34:50.239 --> 00:34:51.579 as the scripture has said, 00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:53.139 out of his heart 00:34:53.139 --> 00:34:54.579 will flow rivers 00:34:54.579 --> 00:34:56.019 of living water. 00:34:57.039 --> 00:34:58.159 So you see the context? 00:34:58.960 --> 00:34:59.980 The context is 00:34:59.980 --> 00:35:00.659 his brothers 00:35:00.659 --> 00:35:02.000 are snarky 00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:03.099 and put him down. 00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:04.239 We see 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:06.599 all of the smart people, 00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:08.019 all of the bright people, 00:35:08.780 --> 00:35:10.139 all of the people 00:35:10.139 --> 00:35:11.239 who go to the right type 00:35:11.239 --> 00:35:11.860 of parties 00:35:11.860 --> 00:35:13.280 and have the right connections, 00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:14.960 they're the ones 00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:16.059 who want to kill Jesus. 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:18.280 The crowd is confused 00:35:18.280 --> 00:35:19.039 about Jesus. 00:35:19.619 --> 00:35:20.340 They're quite willing 00:35:20.340 --> 00:35:21.239 to call him a name 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:22.280 and then on one level, 00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:23.139 the next breath, 00:35:23.219 --> 00:35:23.460 they're saying, 00:35:23.539 --> 00:35:24.099 well, maybe he's 00:35:24.099 --> 00:35:24.860 the real thing. 00:35:26.079 --> 00:35:27.519 And so it's in the midst 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:28.699 of conflict, 00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:30.320 confusion, 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.519 and all of that 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:33.019 that they make 00:35:33.019 --> 00:35:34.500 this remarkable claim. 00:35:34.680 --> 00:35:35.220 Jesus makes 00:35:35.220 --> 00:35:36.380 this remarkable claim. 00:35:37.780 --> 00:35:38.700 So where are we? 00:35:38.740 --> 00:35:39.559 Just to close up. 00:35:39.740 --> 00:35:40.820 Actually, Andrew, 00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:41.220 could you put up 00:35:41.220 --> 00:35:41.880 the first point? 00:35:42.500 --> 00:35:43.220 Yeah, it's going to be 00:35:43.220 --> 00:35:44.580 a three-hour sermon, 00:35:44.700 --> 00:35:45.000 by the way. 00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:45.820 I have four points. 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:46.940 I spent 34 minutes 00:35:46.940 --> 00:35:47.840 on the first point. 00:35:49.120 --> 00:35:49.940 Just to sort of 00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:50.840 summarize it here. 00:35:51.320 --> 00:35:52.280 Here's the first thing 00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:53.019 that's really important 00:35:53.019 --> 00:35:53.720 to understand. 00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:55.720 The Father sent the Son 00:35:55.720 --> 00:35:56.640 to save you, 00:35:57.059 --> 00:35:58.680 not because he weighed 00:35:58.679 --> 00:35:59.460 your merits, 00:35:59.980 --> 00:36:00.980 but in order to 00:36:00.980 --> 00:36:01.940 pardon your offenses. 00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:03.480 The Father sent the Son 00:36:03.480 --> 00:36:04.179 to save you, 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:05.319 not because he weighed 00:36:05.319 --> 00:36:05.980 your merits, 00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:07.440 but in order to 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:08.279 pardon your offenses. 00:36:08.579 --> 00:36:09.960 This is so brilliantly 00:36:09.960 --> 00:36:11.259 seen in this text. 00:36:11.899 --> 00:36:12.019 Right? 00:36:12.279 --> 00:36:13.159 This isn't, 00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:14.379 oh, gosh, 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:14.839 Jesus, 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:15.839 you're so wonderful. 00:36:16.019 --> 00:36:16.879 Please come speak 00:36:16.879 --> 00:36:17.399 to us more. 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:18.259 Speak to us more. 00:36:18.359 --> 00:36:19.019 Give me more. 00:36:19.139 --> 00:36:19.799 Give me more. 00:36:20.139 --> 00:36:20.500 No. 00:36:22.899 --> 00:36:24.099 They don't believe him. 00:36:24.179 --> 00:36:25.039 They want to kill him. 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:26.359 They're snarky to him. 00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:28.179 They're confused by him. 00:36:28.179 --> 00:36:29.119 They don't understand. 00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:29.980 It's not, 00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:30.679 and that's how it is 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:31.460 with every human being. 00:36:31.539 --> 00:36:32.299 It's not as if God 00:36:32.299 --> 00:36:33.259 looks down at you 00:36:33.259 --> 00:36:33.980 and me and my life 00:36:33.980 --> 00:36:34.219 and says, 00:36:34.419 --> 00:36:34.759 gosh, 00:36:34.940 --> 00:36:36.179 George was such a, 00:36:36.980 --> 00:36:37.559 wow, 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:38.659 is he ever just saying 00:36:38.659 --> 00:36:39.739 to me, 00:36:39.839 --> 00:36:40.019 you know, 00:36:40.079 --> 00:36:40.599 I want to know 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:41.460 more and more of you 00:36:41.460 --> 00:36:42.399 all of his life. 00:36:42.500 --> 00:36:43.219 And so finally, 00:36:43.339 --> 00:36:44.839 because he's finally just, 00:36:45.179 --> 00:36:46.299 he's starting to applaud. 00:36:46.419 --> 00:36:47.559 It's like after the band 00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:49.139 is played the first time 00:36:49.139 --> 00:36:50.259 and everybody's standing up 00:36:50.259 --> 00:36:51.219 with a standing ovation, 00:36:51.440 --> 00:36:52.279 clapping and clapping 00:36:52.279 --> 00:36:53.319 so the band will come out. 00:36:53.779 --> 00:36:55.099 That's not like it was. 00:36:55.219 --> 00:36:56.239 That's not how it was. 00:36:58.179 --> 00:37:00.299 If you give it 00:37:00.299 --> 00:37:01.539 like a music example, 00:37:02.299 --> 00:37:03.739 everybody's out somewhere else. 00:37:03.799 --> 00:37:04.619 The room is empty. 00:37:06.539 --> 00:37:07.259 Everybody's outside 00:37:07.259 --> 00:37:08.179 having a cigarette 00:37:08.179 --> 00:37:09.099 or in the bar 00:37:09.099 --> 00:37:09.739 having a drink. 00:37:09.739 --> 00:37:10.500 In the actual room 00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:11.480 where the musicians are, 00:37:11.639 --> 00:37:12.339 nobody's there 00:37:12.339 --> 00:37:13.099 and nobody wants 00:37:13.099 --> 00:37:13.500 the musician 00:37:13.500 --> 00:37:14.259 to come and play. 00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:16.519 That's the context 00:37:16.519 --> 00:37:17.359 within which God 00:37:17.359 --> 00:37:18.139 sends his Savior. 00:37:18.139 --> 00:37:20.739 And if you could put up 00:37:20.739 --> 00:37:21.940 the second slide, 00:37:22.139 --> 00:37:22.239 Andrew, 00:37:22.279 --> 00:37:23.179 that would be really good. 00:37:24.299 --> 00:37:25.519 The resurrection of Jesus 00:37:25.519 --> 00:37:26.599 changes everything, 00:37:26.779 --> 00:37:27.719 vindicating him, 00:37:28.059 --> 00:37:28.699 his work, 00:37:29.019 --> 00:37:29.759 and his words. 00:37:30.099 --> 00:37:31.420 The resurrection of Jesus 00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:32.460 changes everything, 00:37:32.639 --> 00:37:33.400 vindicating him, 00:37:33.460 --> 00:37:33.960 his work, 00:37:34.219 --> 00:37:34.779 his words. 00:37:35.099 --> 00:37:36.420 In text after text 00:37:36.420 --> 00:37:37.039 after text, 00:37:37.139 --> 00:37:38.059 Jesus keeps saying, 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:39.460 I'm going to go to the Father. 00:37:39.539 --> 00:37:40.480 How does he go to the Father? 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:41.359 He goes to the Father 00:37:41.359 --> 00:37:43.139 first by dying upon the cross 00:37:43.139 --> 00:37:44.139 and then tasting 00:37:44.139 --> 00:37:44.779 all there is 00:37:44.779 --> 00:37:45.639 to taste of death 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:46.679 and then rising 00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:47.359 from the dead. 00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:48.579 And if Jesus hadn't 00:37:48.579 --> 00:37:49.320 risen from the dead, 00:37:49.620 --> 00:37:49.820 like, 00:37:50.200 --> 00:37:51.599 before I mention the Bhagwan, 00:37:51.720 --> 00:37:52.599 how many of you here 00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:53.280 knew of him? 00:37:54.680 --> 00:37:55.059 Well, 00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:55.660 the only reason 00:37:55.660 --> 00:37:56.300 that he's sort of 00:37:56.300 --> 00:37:56.840 known again 00:37:56.840 --> 00:37:57.680 is because there's 00:37:57.680 --> 00:37:58.420 this documentary 00:37:58.420 --> 00:37:59.200 which has gotten 00:37:59.200 --> 00:38:00.200 lots of talk. 00:38:01.660 --> 00:38:01.780 Well, 00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:01.940 why? 00:38:02.059 --> 00:38:03.120 Because he made all, 00:38:03.320 --> 00:38:04.120 the Bhagwan made 00:38:04.120 --> 00:38:05.340 these remarkable claims 00:38:05.340 --> 00:38:06.460 that he was going to 00:38:06.460 --> 00:38:06.940 change, 00:38:07.120 --> 00:38:08.079 create a new man 00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:08.740 that would change 00:38:08.740 --> 00:38:09.680 the whole human race. 00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:10.220 Well, 00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:11.220 he didn't. 00:38:13.140 --> 00:38:14.620 And nobody remembers him. 00:38:14.660 --> 00:38:15.500 And Jesus would have 00:38:15.500 --> 00:38:16.820 just been like the Bhagwan 00:38:16.820 --> 00:38:17.580 if he hadn't risen 00:38:17.580 --> 00:38:18.240 from the dead. 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:19.680 The resurrection 00:38:19.680 --> 00:38:20.940 changes everything. 00:38:22.780 --> 00:38:24.360 It changes everything. 00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:26.420 If it's true, 00:38:26.500 --> 00:38:27.380 it changes everything. 00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:27.660 You know, 00:38:27.680 --> 00:38:28.519 the remarkable thing 00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:29.220 about the resurrection 00:38:29.220 --> 00:38:30.640 is there's enough 00:38:30.640 --> 00:38:31.800 historical evidence 00:38:31.800 --> 00:38:33.120 that if you are seeking 00:38:33.120 --> 00:38:34.380 and you look at 00:38:34.380 --> 00:38:35.360 the evidence 00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:36.059 for the resurrection, 00:38:36.059 --> 00:38:37.160 you can say 00:38:37.160 --> 00:38:39.360 that I am not 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:40.360 kissing my brains 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:40.760 goodbye 00:38:40.760 --> 00:38:41.880 to believe in the resurrection. 00:38:42.039 --> 00:38:42.559 There is enough 00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:43.340 evidence to believe, 00:38:43.340 --> 00:38:44.039 but there's not 00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:44.760 enough evidence 00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:45.760 to force you 00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:46.840 to believe. 00:38:49.240 --> 00:38:50.820 Which is how it works 00:38:50.820 --> 00:38:51.820 on the Christian life. 00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:53.880 There's enough evidence 00:38:53.880 --> 00:38:54.559 to believe, 00:38:54.860 --> 00:38:56.760 but not so much evidence 00:38:56.760 --> 00:38:57.820 to force you to believe. 00:38:58.820 --> 00:39:00.120 But if Jesus really 00:39:00.120 --> 00:39:01.039 did rise from the dead, 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:01.880 if the grave is empty, 00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:02.700 it changes everything, 00:39:02.820 --> 00:39:03.740 then these words 00:39:03.740 --> 00:39:04.280 are true. 00:39:06.140 --> 00:39:07.019 Could we say these, 00:39:07.340 --> 00:39:08.059 could you put up 00:39:08.059 --> 00:39:08.620 the scripture, 00:39:08.880 --> 00:39:09.820 could you say this text 00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:10.460 with me as we're 00:39:10.460 --> 00:39:10.840 trying to draw 00:39:10.840 --> 00:39:11.660 in this to a close? 00:39:12.579 --> 00:39:14.140 If anyone thirsts, 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:15.500 let him come to me 00:39:15.500 --> 00:39:16.100 and drink. 00:39:16.700 --> 00:39:18.180 Whoever believes in me 00:39:18.180 --> 00:39:19.840 as the scripture has said, 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:21.220 out of his heart 00:39:21.220 --> 00:39:22.340 will flow rivers 00:39:22.340 --> 00:39:23.240 of living water. 00:39:23.579 --> 00:39:24.380 There's two things 00:39:24.380 --> 00:39:25.000 I want to show you 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:25.579 very briefly 00:39:25.579 --> 00:39:26.340 about this text 00:39:26.340 --> 00:39:27.400 which is so precious. 00:39:28.240 --> 00:39:29.039 And it's one of the reasons 00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:30.460 why the ESV 00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:32.220 is actually quite remarkable here. 00:39:33.059 --> 00:39:34.780 And I've kept the word him 00:39:34.780 --> 00:39:36.880 to refer to all human beings. 00:39:38.340 --> 00:39:39.579 And that's because 00:39:39.579 --> 00:39:41.059 in the original language, 00:39:41.319 --> 00:39:42.380 so in the original language 00:39:42.380 --> 00:39:43.000 they can use 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:44.279 the masculine pronoun 00:39:44.279 --> 00:39:44.880 like that 00:39:44.880 --> 00:39:46.460 to refer to all human beings. 00:39:47.460 --> 00:39:48.739 But the original language 00:39:48.739 --> 00:39:49.599 is actually a very, 00:39:49.739 --> 00:39:50.380 very interesting 00:39:50.380 --> 00:39:51.219 double meaning. 00:39:51.980 --> 00:39:52.860 It means that later on 00:39:52.860 --> 00:39:53.340 if you go back 00:39:53.340 --> 00:39:54.440 to your Bible translation, 00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:55.960 some of the Bible translations 00:39:55.960 --> 00:39:56.679 are going to translate 00:39:56.679 --> 00:39:57.400 this differently 00:39:57.400 --> 00:39:59.380 because the question is 00:39:59.380 --> 00:40:01.840 who is the his 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:03.860 in the last part 00:40:03.860 --> 00:40:04.360 of the verse? 00:40:06.319 --> 00:40:07.139 And it can have 00:40:07.139 --> 00:40:07.819 a double meaning. 00:40:07.820 --> 00:40:09.100 And so here's the first one. 00:40:09.160 --> 00:40:09.640 Andrew, if you could 00:40:09.640 --> 00:40:10.600 wrap up the third point. 00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:12.400 The first meaning is 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:13.500 if you are thirsty, 00:40:13.700 --> 00:40:14.420 come to Jesus 00:40:14.420 --> 00:40:15.840 and drink and live 00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:18.280 for he is the source 00:40:18.280 --> 00:40:20.039 of the river of life. 00:40:23.140 --> 00:40:24.720 That's a completely valid way 00:40:24.720 --> 00:40:25.360 to understand 00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:26.420 the original language. 00:40:27.180 --> 00:40:28.000 Jesus is saying, 00:40:28.100 --> 00:40:28.480 you know what, 00:40:28.519 --> 00:40:29.300 if you're thirsty. 00:40:31.260 --> 00:40:31.920 You know, Paul, 00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:32.820 and there's other parts 00:40:32.820 --> 00:40:33.280 in the Bible 00:40:33.280 --> 00:40:34.500 where it talks about sin 00:40:34.500 --> 00:40:35.539 and it talks about guilt 00:40:35.539 --> 00:40:36.780 and it talks about shame 00:40:36.780 --> 00:40:38.159 and in this part 00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:39.219 Jesus is just sharing 00:40:39.219 --> 00:40:39.800 about himself 00:40:39.800 --> 00:40:41.239 in a very different context. 00:40:41.440 --> 00:40:42.219 If you're thirsty, 00:40:42.840 --> 00:40:44.159 come to me and drink. 00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:44.699 Why? 00:40:45.260 --> 00:40:46.400 When you come to me and drink 00:40:46.400 --> 00:40:47.519 and coming to me and drink 00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:48.639 is a way of believing in me, 00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:49.300 you will discover 00:40:49.300 --> 00:40:50.360 that I am the source 00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:52.699 of the rivers of life. 00:40:55.900 --> 00:40:56.340 I was, 00:40:56.340 --> 00:40:59.280 just this week 00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:00.519 I had two conversations 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:01.579 around this text 00:41:01.579 --> 00:41:02.559 in my coffee shop. 00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:03.539 The one I've already shared, 00:41:03.539 --> 00:41:04.199 the other one, 00:41:04.619 --> 00:41:05.440 very different type 00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:06.279 of context 00:41:06.279 --> 00:41:09.719 because the person 00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:11.039 he was sharing with me 00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:11.360 about, 00:41:11.940 --> 00:41:12.139 you know, 00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:12.460 he asked, 00:41:13.039 --> 00:41:14.360 he was talking to me 00:41:14.360 --> 00:41:14.940 a little bit about 00:41:14.940 --> 00:41:15.940 why anybody would 00:41:15.940 --> 00:41:16.719 become a Christian 00:41:16.719 --> 00:41:17.739 and he didn't really feel 00:41:17.739 --> 00:41:18.539 like he was guilty 00:41:18.539 --> 00:41:19.539 or anything like that 00:41:19.539 --> 00:41:21.039 and I was thinking 00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:21.960 about this text 00:41:21.960 --> 00:41:23.119 and I said, 00:41:23.219 --> 00:41:23.779 well, you know, 00:41:23.940 --> 00:41:24.619 Jesus says 00:41:24.619 --> 00:41:25.519 if you're thirsty, 00:41:26.340 --> 00:41:27.900 come to him 00:41:27.900 --> 00:41:29.539 and I tried to quote 00:41:29.539 --> 00:41:29.920 the text. 00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:31.059 I hadn't memorized it then. 00:41:31.179 --> 00:41:31.960 I tried to share 00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:32.980 the text with him 00:41:32.980 --> 00:41:33.760 and he sort of thought, 00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:34.920 well, that's sort of interesting 00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:37.440 and I shared with him 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:38.679 the story of Paul Henderson. 00:41:40.619 --> 00:41:41.860 Some of you are too young 00:41:41.860 --> 00:41:43.159 to know who Paul Henderson is 00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:45.619 but there was a very famous 00:41:45.619 --> 00:41:47.900 hockey series 00:41:47.900 --> 00:41:49.420 in the 70s 00:41:49.420 --> 00:41:50.199 between Canada 00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:51.199 and the Soviet Union 00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:52.240 to see who was the best 00:41:52.240 --> 00:41:53.539 hockey power in the world 00:41:53.539 --> 00:41:55.679 and the USSR 00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:56.980 were up several games. 00:41:57.159 --> 00:41:57.420 I can't remember, 00:41:57.500 --> 00:41:58.039 it was going to be 00:41:58.039 --> 00:41:58.940 an eight-game series 00:41:58.940 --> 00:41:59.840 or something like that 00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:00.920 and Canada was down 00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:02.440 and if Canada was going 00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:03.059 to win the series, 00:42:03.140 --> 00:42:03.539 they had to win 00:42:03.539 --> 00:42:04.620 the last three games 00:42:04.620 --> 00:42:06.140 and Paul Henderson 00:42:06.140 --> 00:42:06.780 who used to play 00:42:06.780 --> 00:42:07.559 for the Leafs, 00:42:08.019 --> 00:42:09.920 he scored the game-winning goal 00:42:09.920 --> 00:42:12.000 in each of the last three games 00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:12.920 for Canada 00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:14.480 to beat the Soviet Union. 00:42:16.240 --> 00:42:16.579 Like, 00:42:17.180 --> 00:42:18.720 this was such a big thing. 00:42:19.260 --> 00:42:20.360 School was canceled 00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:21.720 to watch the last game. 00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:23.939 Okay, 00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:25.439 I mean, 00:42:25.480 --> 00:42:26.219 they couldn't officially 00:42:26.219 --> 00:42:26.899 say to school 00:42:26.899 --> 00:42:28.339 but in the biggest possible way 00:42:28.339 --> 00:42:28.699 they said, 00:42:28.939 --> 00:42:29.719 don't come to school 00:42:29.719 --> 00:42:30.759 but for those who did, 00:42:31.239 --> 00:42:32.459 you actually didn't go to class, 00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:33.799 they had TV set up 00:42:33.799 --> 00:42:34.879 in the different places 00:42:34.879 --> 00:42:36.500 so students could watch it together 00:42:36.500 --> 00:42:37.839 and my mom, 00:42:37.959 --> 00:42:38.819 who's watched exactly 00:42:38.819 --> 00:42:40.219 one hockey game in her life, 00:42:40.319 --> 00:42:41.819 she watched that final game 00:42:41.819 --> 00:42:43.539 and, 00:42:43.699 --> 00:42:43.899 I mean, 00:42:43.939 --> 00:42:45.279 maybe she's watched more since then 00:42:45.279 --> 00:42:46.659 and it was a big thing. 00:42:47.179 --> 00:42:47.959 Paul Henderson. 00:42:48.579 --> 00:42:49.099 In fact, 00:42:49.599 --> 00:42:50.319 you might not know it 00:42:50.320 --> 00:42:51.200 but what's now called 00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:52.440 Wilfrid Laurier University 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:53.260 which regrettably 00:42:53.260 --> 00:42:54.480 is constantly in the news 00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:56.460 for inordinate political correctness, 00:42:56.539 --> 00:42:57.220 it used to be called 00:42:57.220 --> 00:42:58.680 Waterloo Lutheran University 00:42:58.680 --> 00:43:00.600 and it was right around this time 00:43:00.600 --> 00:43:01.360 that they decided 00:43:01.360 --> 00:43:02.019 they were no longer 00:43:02.019 --> 00:43:02.840 going to be Lutheran, 00:43:02.880 --> 00:43:03.740 they were going to be secular 00:43:03.740 --> 00:43:04.720 and they wanted to change 00:43:04.720 --> 00:43:05.539 the name of the school 00:43:05.539 --> 00:43:06.780 and they had a poll 00:43:06.780 --> 00:43:07.500 of the students 00:43:07.500 --> 00:43:09.100 and the overwhelming majority 00:43:09.100 --> 00:43:09.680 of students 00:43:09.680 --> 00:43:10.920 wanted to name the university 00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:12.440 Paul Henderson University 00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:15.720 and the Board of Governors 00:43:15.720 --> 00:43:16.680 overrode that 00:43:16.680 --> 00:43:18.500 but Paul Henderson 00:43:18.500 --> 00:43:20.300 within about a year of this 00:43:20.300 --> 00:43:21.800 he was at the peak 00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:22.519 of his career, 00:43:22.760 --> 00:43:23.880 peak of his earning power, 00:43:24.420 --> 00:43:26.140 the greatest hockey moment 00:43:26.140 --> 00:43:27.240 in Canadian history 00:43:27.240 --> 00:43:28.280 to that point in time 00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:30.300 and his response was, 00:43:31.019 --> 00:43:32.620 is that all there is? 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:35.740 There must be something more 00:43:35.740 --> 00:43:38.180 and within a year 00:43:38.180 --> 00:43:39.019 he'd become a Christian. 00:43:39.820 --> 00:43:40.260 You see, 00:43:40.340 --> 00:43:41.200 these words of Jesus 00:43:41.200 --> 00:43:42.060 are very true. 00:43:42.700 --> 00:43:43.980 If anyone thirsts, 00:43:44.220 --> 00:43:45.060 come to me. 00:43:45.900 --> 00:43:46.860 And the wonderful thing 00:43:46.860 --> 00:43:47.620 about this text 00:43:47.620 --> 00:43:48.600 is it doesn't say to you 00:43:48.600 --> 00:43:49.200 as a Christian, 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:49.500 listen, 00:43:49.899 --> 00:43:50.519 if you thirst, 00:43:50.659 --> 00:43:51.379 come to me and drink 00:43:51.379 --> 00:43:52.299 and you'll never thirst again. 00:43:52.359 --> 00:43:53.039 It doesn't say that, 00:43:53.099 --> 00:43:53.419 does it? 00:43:53.759 --> 00:43:55.460 It's both a wonderful example 00:43:55.460 --> 00:43:57.000 of how you become a Christian 00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:57.919 if you thirst, 00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:58.679 if you suspect 00:43:58.679 --> 00:43:59.639 that there must be 00:43:59.639 --> 00:44:00.500 something more. 00:44:01.319 --> 00:44:02.299 Come to Jesus. 00:44:03.199 --> 00:44:04.639 He is the source 00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:07.119 of the rivers of life. 00:44:08.859 --> 00:44:10.000 And that's how you become 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:10.519 a Christian, 00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:11.500 to drink of him. 00:44:12.139 --> 00:44:13.119 But at the same time, 00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:14.279 it also just means 00:44:14.279 --> 00:44:15.419 in our day-to-day world 00:44:15.420 --> 00:44:16.500 as we get thirsty 00:44:16.500 --> 00:44:17.460 to come to Jesus 00:44:17.460 --> 00:44:18.680 and drink 00:44:18.680 --> 00:44:21.099 because he is the source 00:44:21.099 --> 00:44:22.159 of the rivers of life. 00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:24.059 But this verse 00:44:24.059 --> 00:44:25.180 can also be translated 00:44:25.180 --> 00:44:26.159 in another way, 00:44:26.340 --> 00:44:27.079 completely valid, 00:44:27.159 --> 00:44:27.960 has a double meaning 00:44:27.960 --> 00:44:28.460 in Greek. 00:44:28.539 --> 00:44:29.300 And the double meaning 00:44:29.300 --> 00:44:30.960 is that the rivers of life 00:44:30.960 --> 00:44:31.980 flow out of the Christian. 00:44:33.019 --> 00:44:33.559 So you could put up 00:44:33.559 --> 00:44:34.680 the final point, Andrew. 00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:37.760 When you believe in Jesus, 00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:38.740 the Holy Spirit 00:44:38.740 --> 00:44:40.599 both abides in you 00:44:40.599 --> 00:44:43.440 and flows out of you. 00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:47.599 That when I come 00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:49.179 to Jesus 00:44:49.179 --> 00:44:51.239 for that first time 00:44:51.239 --> 00:44:51.799 and say, 00:44:51.920 --> 00:44:52.819 Jesus, I believe 00:44:52.819 --> 00:44:53.799 that you are the source, 00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:56.480 the fountain of life, 00:44:56.579 --> 00:44:58.179 the source of the rivers of life 00:44:58.179 --> 00:44:59.299 and I'm thirsty. 00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:01.299 And in fact, 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:01.860 actually, you know, 00:45:02.420 --> 00:45:03.579 I hadn't thought of it 00:45:03.579 --> 00:45:04.400 until this week. 00:45:05.279 --> 00:45:06.579 What led me to 00:45:06.579 --> 00:45:08.159 give my life to Jesus 00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:09.619 wasn't because I wanted 00:45:09.619 --> 00:45:11.159 Jesus to pay for my sins, 00:45:11.219 --> 00:45:12.319 although I knew he did that. 00:45:12.920 --> 00:45:14.480 It was that I had a sense 00:45:14.480 --> 00:45:15.159 that there had to be 00:45:15.159 --> 00:45:15.799 something more. 00:45:16.839 --> 00:45:18.139 That's what led me to Christ. 00:45:18.859 --> 00:45:20.440 There must be something more. 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:24.900 And this wonderful text 00:45:24.900 --> 00:45:25.719 says that when you drink 00:45:25.719 --> 00:45:26.279 of Jesus, 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.000 the Holy Spirit, 00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:29.480 the rivers of life, 00:45:30.659 --> 00:45:32.460 it both is now 00:45:32.460 --> 00:45:35.539 inside of each Christian, 00:45:36.019 --> 00:45:37.420 but it flows out of us too. 00:45:37.579 --> 00:45:38.960 It explains the normal 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:39.699 Christian life, 00:45:39.780 --> 00:45:41.039 that the normal Christian life 00:45:41.039 --> 00:45:42.559 is to serve, 00:45:42.960 --> 00:45:43.840 is to give, 00:45:44.340 --> 00:45:45.860 is to go to Angola, 00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:49.500 is to try to church 00:45:49.500 --> 00:45:50.780 on Wednesday. 00:45:50.940 --> 00:45:51.559 It's to think of 00:45:51.559 --> 00:45:52.360 how you can go 00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:53.159 and how you can give 00:45:53.159 --> 00:45:53.780 and how you can make 00:45:53.780 --> 00:45:54.420 a difference. 00:45:55.119 --> 00:45:55.659 And it means, 00:45:55.920 --> 00:45:56.720 how can you make a difference 00:45:56.720 --> 00:45:57.900 to the kids in the church 00:45:57.900 --> 00:45:58.639 and how can you make 00:45:58.639 --> 00:45:59.519 a difference for the church 00:45:59.519 --> 00:46:00.099 and how can you make 00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:00.400 a difference? 00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:02.860 It's because it's of the nature 00:46:02.860 --> 00:46:04.340 of having faith in Jesus 00:46:04.340 --> 00:46:05.539 that the Holy Spirit 00:46:05.539 --> 00:46:06.599 both abides in us 00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:07.699 but flows now 00:46:07.699 --> 00:46:09.119 out of us 00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:10.839 as a river of life. 00:46:12.779 --> 00:46:13.440 Could we all say, 00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:14.559 could you put the verse up again, 00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:14.900 Andrew? 00:46:15.019 --> 00:46:16.159 Could we all say this together? 00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:17.299 Could you all stand, please? 00:46:20.759 --> 00:46:22.400 Can we say this again together? 00:46:23.099 --> 00:46:23.360 In fact, 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:24.239 I really encourage you 00:46:24.239 --> 00:46:25.319 to consider memorizing 00:46:25.319 --> 00:46:26.019 this verse. 00:46:26.019 --> 00:46:28.320 If anyone thirsts, 00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:29.619 let him come to me 00:46:29.619 --> 00:46:30.199 and drink. 00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:32.239 Whoever believes in me 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:34.019 as the scripture has said, 00:46:34.460 --> 00:46:35.519 out of his heart 00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:36.619 will flow rivers 00:46:36.619 --> 00:46:37.759 of living water. 00:46:38.119 --> 00:46:39.920 If you are here 00:46:39.920 --> 00:46:40.860 and you have not come 00:46:40.860 --> 00:46:41.340 to Jesus, 00:46:41.559 --> 00:46:42.539 I encourage you 00:46:42.539 --> 00:46:43.119 to say, 00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:43.579 Jesus, 00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:46.300 I am thirsty. 00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:51.179 I want to drink from you. 00:46:51.500 --> 00:46:52.800 I believe that you are 00:46:52.800 --> 00:46:53.900 the source 00:46:53.900 --> 00:46:54.960 of the river of life. 00:46:54.960 --> 00:46:56.380 There is no better time 00:46:56.380 --> 00:46:56.760 than today 00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:57.740 to come to Jesus 00:46:57.740 --> 00:46:58.119 and say, 00:46:58.220 --> 00:46:58.440 Jesus, 00:46:58.559 --> 00:46:59.220 I come to you 00:46:59.220 --> 00:46:59.900 as thirsty. 00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:01.960 Be to me 00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:02.679 that fountain 00:47:02.679 --> 00:47:03.820 of living waters. 00:47:04.199 --> 00:47:05.119 And for all of us, 00:47:05.340 --> 00:47:06.280 we all thirst 00:47:06.280 --> 00:47:06.880 day by day, 00:47:06.940 --> 00:47:07.440 those of us, 00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:08.240 brothers and sisters 00:47:08.240 --> 00:47:08.960 who are in Christ. 00:47:11.119 --> 00:47:12.099 Come to Jesus 00:47:12.099 --> 00:47:13.300 on a regular basis 00:47:13.300 --> 00:47:14.099 and say, 00:47:14.220 --> 00:47:14.480 Jesus, 00:47:14.599 --> 00:47:15.699 I am so thirsty. 00:47:16.220 --> 00:47:17.260 I come to you. 00:47:17.860 --> 00:47:18.880 I come to you, 00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:19.199 Jesus. 00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:20.840 Let's bow our heads 00:47:20.840 --> 00:47:21.220 in prayer. 00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:21.639 Father, 00:47:22.000 --> 00:47:23.159 thank you for Jesus. 00:47:23.159 --> 00:47:24.519 Thank you, 00:47:24.639 --> 00:47:24.899 Father, 00:47:25.119 --> 00:47:25.960 that you didn't 00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:26.500 sort of wait 00:47:26.500 --> 00:47:27.179 until we all 00:47:27.179 --> 00:47:28.440 had our lives together 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:29.859 and we're giving you 00:47:29.859 --> 00:47:30.960 a standing ovation 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:31.659 waiting for you 00:47:31.659 --> 00:47:32.759 to come and show up 00:47:32.759 --> 00:47:33.899 so we'd only cheer louder. 00:47:34.099 --> 00:47:34.259 Father, 00:47:34.339 --> 00:47:35.239 it wasn't that way at all. 00:47:35.319 --> 00:47:35.899 We thank you, 00:47:36.019 --> 00:47:36.219 Father, 00:47:36.279 --> 00:47:37.579 that you saw us. 00:47:37.659 --> 00:47:38.379 We had our backs 00:47:38.379 --> 00:47:39.179 turned to you. 00:47:39.699 --> 00:47:41.480 We were resisting you. 00:47:41.639 --> 00:47:42.639 We didn't want you. 00:47:42.739 --> 00:47:44.079 And still you loved us 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:45.440 and still you sent your son 00:47:45.440 --> 00:47:46.339 to die on the cross. 00:47:46.579 --> 00:47:47.739 Still you sent your son 00:47:47.739 --> 00:47:49.079 to be the one 00:47:49.079 --> 00:47:50.659 who could come among us 00:47:50.659 --> 00:47:51.659 as the source 00:47:51.659 --> 00:47:54.019 of the fountain of life 00:47:54.019 --> 00:47:56.339 so that all who thirst 00:47:56.339 --> 00:47:57.819 can come to him 00:47:57.819 --> 00:47:59.939 to receive that eternal life. 00:48:00.099 --> 00:48:00.319 Father, 00:48:00.419 --> 00:48:01.639 we thank you for Jesus. 00:48:01.839 --> 00:48:02.479 We thank you 00:48:02.479 --> 00:48:03.259 for your great love. 00:48:03.359 --> 00:48:04.799 We ask that your Holy Spirit 00:48:04.799 --> 00:48:06.279 move within us 00:48:06.279 --> 00:48:07.339 to come to you 00:48:07.339 --> 00:48:08.579 again and again and again 00:48:08.579 --> 00:48:09.559 when we are thirsty. 00:48:10.399 --> 00:48:10.739 And that, 00:48:10.839 --> 00:48:11.000 Father, 00:48:11.099 --> 00:48:11.759 you would teach us 00:48:11.759 --> 00:48:13.079 not to quench the Spirit, 00:48:13.279 --> 00:48:14.859 but that the Holy Spirit, 00:48:14.979 --> 00:48:16.479 that we might walk 00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:17.159 in the Spirit 00:48:17.159 --> 00:48:18.000 as we seek 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:19.159 to make a difference 00:48:19.159 --> 00:48:20.579 in this world 00:48:20.579 --> 00:48:22.240 for the good of the world 00:48:22.240 --> 00:48:23.260 and your great glory. 00:48:23.380 --> 00:48:24.059 And we ask this 00:48:24.059 --> 00:48:25.000 in the name of Jesus. 00:48:25.579 --> 00:48:25.940 Amen.