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 Father, we give you thanks and praise that you have created us,

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 that you sustain us, that you are sovereign over the entire universe,

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 that you will bring all things to their proper end

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 according to your direction and your command and your good and perfect will.

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 We confess before you, Father, that we have a hard time remembering

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 and acting as if we are creatures with a creator.

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 We ask, Father, that you would gently but deeply pour out your Holy Spirit upon us

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 so that your word might come deeply into our lives,

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 that we might know that you are God, that we are your creature,

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 that we are redeemed and reconciled to you by Jesus,

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 and that we might live free and whole for your glory in Jesus.

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 And this we ask in Jesus' name. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 Amen.

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 So some of you might be a tiny bit gobsmacked that it seems as if the Bible teaches

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 that if you're baptized, you go right away to heaven.

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 You know, it's very funny, even in, you know, there's often a bit of a misconception,

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 you know, maybe it's not a misconception,

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 but often we talk as if Baptists and Pentecostal and Brethren types really know the Bible,

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 and Anglican types don't know the Bible,

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 but it's surprising how often people are, I can remember the first time somebody who believes

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 that if you're baptized, you go right away to heaven,

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 and they showed me this verse in the Bible,

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 and I, like, when they told me that it was a Bible idea that if you're baptized, you go to heaven,

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 I didn't believe them.

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 And then when they showed me the verse,

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 I was gobsmacked, as the Irish say, or used to say, maybe they still do,

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 it just completely and utterly surprised me.

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 In fact, for many of us, it's such a surprise that we actually almost don't hear the rest of the text,

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 and the actual thing that most of the text is interested in,

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 because it just sounds like good grief,

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 if you get baptized, you go to heaven.

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 Is that what it says?

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 And this, by the way, is a common belief by many people.

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 I'm not sure if it's, somebody asked me if it was official Catholic dogma,

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 and I never looked it up to see if it was official Catholic dogma.

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 I know that in the church, the denomination I used to be part of,

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 that many clergy in the Anglican Church of Canada believed that if you're baptized, you go to heaven.

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 And, in fact, I remember I was in one meeting with other clergy,

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 and they were talking about this,

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 and they were also talking about the fact that they didn't want to just have people come to have their children baptized

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 who'd never been to church.

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 And I said to them, well, if you think that if baptism means to go to heaven,

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 like, why would you stop, why wouldn't you baptize every child?

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 And, in fact, actually, if you really believe that,

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 why wouldn't you at the Red Blacks game get, like, a water plane,

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 and as you fly over it, pour out the water on the crowd,

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 saying, I baptize you in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

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 because you're all going to go to heaven.

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 Like, why wouldn't you do that if that's true?

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 I don't know if they didn't really have an answer.

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 I thought they had some type of answer, because they're clergy,

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 they all have lots of degrees, and they gave me some type of an answer,

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 and I wasn't going to pursue it.

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 But let's look at the text.

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 Is that what the Bible says?

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 Does the Bible teach that if you're baptized, you go to heaven?

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 So the text is Romans chapter 6, and I think for a crowd like us,

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 we've got to look at this text before we actually see what it is

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 that Romans 6 is really concerned about.

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 And it goes like this, Romans chapter 6, verses 1 to 4.

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 And I'll just read the first and the other verses around it,

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 and if you listen to it more carefully,

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 you'll see that at least at first glance,

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 that it maybe does seem to teach this.

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 What shall we say then?

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 Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

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 By no means.

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 How can we who die to sin still live in it?

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 Now we get to the interesting part.

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 Well, it's all interesting, but now you know what I mean.

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 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus

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 were baptized into his death?

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 We were buried, therefore, with him by baptism into death,

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 in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead

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 by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

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 So, Andrew, if you could put up the first point.

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 There we go.

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 There you go, my first point.

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 The Bible does not teach that being baptized means you go to heaven.

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 The Bible does not teach that being baptized means you go to heaven.

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 And there's two reasons for this,

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 and it's not just because I don't like it or I don't agree with it

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 or I'm an evangelical and therefore it can't be true or anything like that.

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 There's actually, from a literary point of view and a text point of view,

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 there's two reasons why that isn't what this text means.

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 And the first one is if you just actually read Romans 1 up until this part.

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 So, every week in the bulletin, I have a little, in the bulletin, I have a section.

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 I think I've, there it is.

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 And in the bulletin, there's a separate page.

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 And I always, on one side of the page, Shirley types out two things.

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 One's called Growing in Grace, and the other one's called Going Deeper.

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 And in Going Deeper, sometimes people ask me,

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 George, why don't you give lots, like some people when they preach,

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 you know, they're all saying, look up Malachi, look at this, look at this, look at this, look at this.

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 And you spend the whole sermon like racing around the Bible,

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 looking at like a whole pile of different texts.

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 Why do I not do that?

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 Well, I, part of the reason is I don't,

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 I think we need to actually sort of camp in a Bible text and try to dwell in it.

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 So, usually what I do is I put other background texts, interesting things,

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 in the part called Going Deeper.

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 And it's written in a way so that you could do it as a small group Bible study,

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 or you could just do it with another person, or you could do it by yourself.

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 So, there's usually a question that says, getting to know me.

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 Then there's a section, getting into the Bible, and then getting real.

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 And in the getting into the Bible, I often provide that other type of context,

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 some of the other verses you can look at.

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 And so, the way the book of Romans is written, because it's a book,

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 is that I think it's the first seven verses,

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 Paul just sort of says the sort of normal types of greetings

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 and gives a bit of an outline about some of the things he's going to, like who he is.

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 And then, I think it's verses 8 to 15.

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 He just goes a little bit more, you know, I'm traveling here, I'm traveling there,

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 hope to see you soon, have the spare guest room ready.

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 And then, as those of you who have been here other weeks,

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 in verses 16 and 17, he does something which is almost like a university abstract today.

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 In verses 16 and 17, he gives in an abstract, like in a tiny little compressed form,

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 what he's going to spend the rest of the book explaining.

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 And then in chapter 1, verse 18 to chapter 320,

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 if we were using modern business language, he sells the problem.

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 Right?

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 That's often what business people do, it's often what consultants do, they sell the problem.

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 And if you don't understand that there's a problem, you're not interested in solutions,

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 so often you have to sell the problem.

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 And that's what Paul does.

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 From 118 to 320, he sells the problem.

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 And then from 321, the rest of the book,

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 he shows how the gospel is the answer to the problem.

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 So if you just, a bit of a long aside, but if you follow this going deeper,

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 and just as an exercise, you just start reading in chapter 1, verse 1,

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 up until chapter 5 at the end.

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 And maybe if you print out the Bible text on paper,

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 and just underline every single time it says that you need to have faith,

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 or you need to believe, to receive the gospel.

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 And I actually, in going deeper, I was going to start to write that.

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 But I stopped, because it's virtually every second verse.

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 Like, it must be 40 or 50 times before you get to chapter 6,

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 that Paul says, you need to have faith to receive what God does for you in Jesus.

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 You need to have faith, you need to believe.

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 He says, it must be, I didn't count it,

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 it would have been too long just to keep counting it.

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 That's why I just ask you just to read it, and mark it every time.

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 And so just purely from a literary point of view,

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 it makes no sense from a literary point of view to think

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 that for five chapters, 40 or 50 times, or 30 times,

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 he'd say you have to have faith,

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 and then all of a sudden, I don't know, boom,

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 something happens to his head, and he just says,

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 no, no, you don't have to have faith, you just have to be baptized.

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 It makes no sense, especially if, and I didn't do this in the going deeper,

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 if you then immediately go and look at all the times afterwards,

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 and see that once again, it's like all the time,

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 he's saying you have to have the faith in Jesus,

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 faith in Jesus, faith in Jesus.

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 So it can't, baptism can't mean,

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 those two verses can't mean that if you just have somebody dunk you

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 or pour water over your head, that automatically you go to heaven.

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 It can't be what it means.

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 The second thing is actually, if you look at the text very carefully,

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 and look again at verse three.

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 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized,

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 these screens are really close this week,

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 I'm going to fall off the stage.

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 Maybe people don't like me wondering.

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 I was in a philosophy class once,

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 this is a really cruel thing,

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 and I discovered at the end of the term

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 that the girls in the class had all gotten together,

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 it was a small class,

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 this is like 100 million years ago when you had classes like of 30,

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 and they'd all gotten together

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 because they'd noticed that the professor always wore the exact same sweater.

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 He did a lot of other things that were very irritating.

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 So what they did, just like as an experiment,

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 is that whenever he stood at one part of the room,

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 they'd all look up and pay attention,

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 and whenever he stood at another part of the room,

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 they'd all look like they weren't paying attention,

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 and by the end of the term,

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 they'd start to laugh at the end of the class

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 because he'd spent almost the entire class at the spot

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 where they'd pay attention,

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 the girls would pay attention.

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 And anyway, because I asked them once

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 why they were all laughing every time

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 they left from this boring philosophy class,

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 and that's because they were doing a psychology experiment

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 on the professor.

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 Anyway, I don't know if that's what's happening here.

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 I don't want George wandering anymore.

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 We'll just keep moving the screens

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 farther and farther and farther.

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 Anyway, sorry, I've lost my place.

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 Oh, yes, okay, so chapter 6, verse 3.

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 I don't know if you noticed it,

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 but look at it again carefully.

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 Do you not know that all of us

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 who have been baptized into water...

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 No, it doesn't say in water.

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 It doesn't mention water at all.

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 It says baptized into Christ Jesus

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 and baptized into his death

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 and baptism into death.

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 It doesn't talk about water.

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 And so there's this another meaning.

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 There's like, it's part of the basic fundamental meaning

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 of the word baptized,

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 which is translated as baptized,

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 that in other literature,

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 it can mean,

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 so, you know, it's not just a Christian word,

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 it's a Greek word.

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 And in the Greek word,

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 it puts the full in full immersion

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 because it's how you refer to some,

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 a ship that sunk

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 or a person that drowned.

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 And as I said,

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 that really puts full in full immersion.

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 That if you have the ship that's up on the top

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 and it's floating and then it sinks,

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 and now not only is it underneath

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 or in the water,

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 but the water is completely in it.

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 A person who drowns,

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 the water is now in their lungs

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 and everything like that.

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 The water enters into their body.

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 It's being immersed in water

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 to the point of death.

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 Fully immersed.

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 And so, Andrew,

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 if you could put the second point up,

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 here's what the Bible is saying.

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 When I put my faith in Jesus,

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 I am immersed to the point of death

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 in Jesus and his death.

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 When I put my faith in Jesus,

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 I am immersed to the point of death

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 in Jesus and his death.

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 That's what it's saying here.

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 It's a very, very,

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 and I'm going to explain to you in a moment

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 why this is such an important type of image

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 and why it's going to be important

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 to understand the question

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 that the text is primarily interested in.

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 And I'm going to say this thing.

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 Andrew, if you could put the A up.

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 I'm going to say this over and over again.

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 And it's going to be this week and next week

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 because chapter 6 is really posing us a question.

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 How shall we then live

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 when death lies behind us

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 and resurrection waits before us?

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 How shall we then live

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 when death lies behind us

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 and resurrection waits before us?

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 Now, some of you might say,

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 okay, George,

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 well, that's very interesting,

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 but you've actually made it worse

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 because it seems as if the Bible has,

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 Paul has asked a really good question.

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 It's a question that I have.

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 Is that, isn't, if, if,

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 George, are you saying that if,

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 like all these other weeks

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 that you've been talking,

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 you seem to talk as if,

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 God doesn't care about your good works.

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 Your good works don't add,

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 in a sense,

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 any value to you before God.

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 That we all deserve,

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 we are already separate from God

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 and we deserve to be separate from God

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 and have, you know,

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 his, you know,

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 his punishment upon us.

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 And you keep saying every week

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 that if you put your faith and trust in Jesus,

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 then you are made right with God.

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 And you're made right with God

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 because God makes you right,

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 not because of anything you do.

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 And doesn't that,

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 George, if that's true,

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 doesn't that lead to moral anarchy?

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 Like, if that's true,

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 then why do you do good at all?

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 Like, why don't you just do evil all the time?

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 I, you know, two examples of this.

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 This is an imaginary question.

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 I don't know,

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 maybe eight or nine or ten years ago,

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 I bumped into a fellow

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 that I had gone to,

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 that had gone to the same Baptist church in Ottawa

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 that I had gone to when I was a teenager.

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 And, you know, I bumped into him

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 and we got into a brief conversation

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 and I sort of asked him

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 if he still went to the church.

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 He said, no, I don't go to church,

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 I go to bars.

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 And, you know,

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 and then he, you know,

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 talked a little bit about his life

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 and he's having a lot of fun

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 and all that type of stuff.

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 And then he said to me,

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 George, you know,

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 the thing I really got out

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 of my Baptist background

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 is I'm just going to really live

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 a really, really fun life

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 and then I just know

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 that like just before I die,

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 I'm just going to say,

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 Jesus, can you be my Savior and my Lord

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 and I get to go to heaven?

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 Like, he told me this.

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 That's what he said

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 with a completely straight face.

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 I don't know him well enough

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 to know if he was joking or whatever,

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 but that was his completely straight face

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 that I learned,

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 I got the different lesson

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 from everybody else

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 in the Baptist church.

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 I think this is a spectacular thing.

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 I believe the Bible.

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 And I'm just going to say

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 the sinner's prayer

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 as close to death

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 as I possibly can

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 and then I go to heaven.

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 And in the meantime,

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 I get to go to bars.

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 Have lots of fun.

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 Sleep with different women.

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 You know, make lots of money.

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 Not have to give any of it away.

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 In the Anglican Church of Canada,

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 when I was still part of it,

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 I was involved in a controversy

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 as to whether the church

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 should say that God blesses

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 same-sex marriages.

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 And I'm not going to get into that topic

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 other than to say

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 that one person

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 in a public forum

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 said that people like me,

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 he didn't understand people like me

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 because he said

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 that according to the logic

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 of people like,

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 he didn't say George,

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 he used another word

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 for a group that I was part of.

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 He said,

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 according to their logic,

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 God just forgives all your sins.

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 So even if they view it as sinful,

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 like, why does it matter?

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 Because of grace

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 and you put your faith in Jesus,

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 you just go to heaven.

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 So like,

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 why are they worked up about it?

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 They should just accept it.

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 Move on with life

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 according to their logic.

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 So is it the case

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 that if you put your faith in Jesus

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 and God is the one

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 that makes you right with himself

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 and it's not your good works,

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 it's not going to church,

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 it's not knowing the creed,

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 it's not doing anything like that,

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 that you automatically

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 just go to heaven.

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 And if that's the case,

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 why bother doing anything good?

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 That's a real question

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 for some people.

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 And if you look again,

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 that's exactly the question

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 that the Bible asks.

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 Paul had raised the question

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 very briefly in chapter 3.

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 It's one of the ways

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 he writes the book,

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 but now he's actually

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 going to look at it

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 in some greater depth

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 because he realizes

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 that it's an easy thing,

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 especially because

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 we are more used to religion

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 and spirituality,

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 which basically always tells us

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 that the good things matter,

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 that it's doing good things,

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 whatever it is.

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 You know,

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 if you're a Roman Catholic,

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 maybe it's saying the rosary.

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 You know,

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 if you're an old-style

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 traditional Anglican

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 and it's using the book

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 of common prayer.

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 You know,

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 if it's,

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 you know,

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 it's going to church,

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 it's tithing,

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 it's,

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 I don't know,

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 singing praise songs

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 if you're Pentecostal.

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 I don't know.

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 You know,

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 and if you're a Buddhist,

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 it's this.

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 If you're a Muslim,

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 it's this.

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 But whatever it is,

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 if it's your own

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 spiritual religion,

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 I don't know,

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 like,

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 you know,

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 maybe if,

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 you know,

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 spirituality of Bridgehead,

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 it's voting green

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 and not liking Harper.

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 Like,

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 whatever it is,

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 if you do the right things,

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 you're going to end up in heaven.

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 And the Bible is completely

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 and utterly contrary to that

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 and so it's very natural for us

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 that are accustomed to religion

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 and spirituality

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 to think that the Bible

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 actually doesn't make any sense

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 and that it will lead

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 to people living immoral lives.

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 Look again at what it says

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 in verses 1 to 4.

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 What shall we say then?

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 He's following up on,

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 you know,

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 where grace abounded,

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 where sin abounded,

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 grace abounded even more.

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 Like,

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 he's just finished giving

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 a powerful explanation

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 about how grace leads to you

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 being able to be in God,

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 so that God makes you right.

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 Verse 1 of chapter 6.

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 What shall we say then?

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 Are we to continue in sin

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 that grace may abound?

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 Are we to sleep with as many women

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 as we can,

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 make as much money as we can,

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 give away as little as we can,

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 get drunk as much as we can,

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 and just say the sinner's prayer

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 one minute,

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 if you time it really well

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 before you lose consciousness

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 and then die,

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 and then you go to heaven?

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 So the quick answer is,

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 by no means.

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 If you don't get anything else,

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 in fact,

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 in the original Greek,

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 it's very infat.

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 It's like,

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 no way,

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 completely wrong,

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 got it wrong,

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 wrong.

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 That's the quick answer.

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 And then you might say,

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 okay,

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 okay,

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 come on,

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 you know,

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 are you just saying that

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 because,

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 in fact,

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 this is a regular feature

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 of most human beings

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 are better than their philosophy.

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 I mean,

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 it's one of the problems

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 that you have,

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 like if you witness to somebody

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 who's,

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 you know,

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 maybe taken a more Hindu

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 point of worldview,

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 like according to a more

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 Hindu worldview,

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 at the end of the day,

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 everything just becomes one.

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 And a Hindu

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 and a Buddhist worldview,

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 like the perception

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 of difference

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 is actually part of the problem.

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 At the end of the day,

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 everything becomes one.

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 At the end of the day,

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 there's ultimately

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 no distinction

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 between good and evil.

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 But fortunately,

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 Buddhists and Hindus

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 don't live that way.

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 Like in Muslim doctrine,

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 it's written on the baby

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 as they're born,

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 whether or not

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 they're going to go

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 to heaven or not,

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 regardless of what

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 they end up doing

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 with their life.

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 But fortunately,

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 most Muslims

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 don't live like that.

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 And,

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 you know,

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 we can argue

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 with relativists

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 that say that

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 all morality is relative

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 and we can try

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 to give them examples

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 of, okay,

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 how about raping babies

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 or how about Auschwitz?

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 And they can maybe

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 try to give some

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 convoluted answers

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 to why that just

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 only appears to be

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 evil to you

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 and it's not really evil.

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 But the fact

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 the matter is

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 is that many people

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 who are moral relativists,

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 you would love to have

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 them as your neighbors.

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 And so the question is,

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 is that what's going on

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 here in the Bible?

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 That you can't just say,

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 no way,

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 because,

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 you know,

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 the fact that

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 the logic of the gospel

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 seems to imply

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 that you can live

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 a completely and utterly

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 immoral life

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 and, George,

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 are you just,

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 you know,

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 basically say,

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 no way,

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 and then you give

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 some blah, blah, blah, blah,

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 blah, woof, woof, woof,

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 and then, you know,

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 but really it's just

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 fortunately to our neighbors

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 we don't live as bad

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 as our doctrine

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 encourages us to live.

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 Is it just the same?

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 So in verse 2

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 he says,

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 by no way,

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 by no means.

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 And then,

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 in a nutshell,

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 he's going to give

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 what he's going to unfold.

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 How can we

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 who died to sin

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 still live in it?

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 How can we

00:21:06.799 --> 00:21:08.279
 who died to sin

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 still live in it?

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 Do you not know

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 that all of us

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 who have been baptized

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 into Christ Jesus,

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 when we put our faith

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 and trust in Jesus,

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 we are immersed in Jesus

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 almost to the point of death.

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 Do you not know

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 that all of us

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 who have been baptized

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 into Christ Jesus

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 were baptized into his death?

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 We were buried,

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 therefore,

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 with him by baptism

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 into death.

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 That's this image

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 of immersion.

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 Which, by the way,

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 when we say

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 the Nicene Creed

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 and we say,

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 I believe,

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 in one baptism

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 for the remission of sins,

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 it's thinking

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 of Romans 6.3.

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 I've had so many

00:21:50.380 --> 00:21:52.000
 Baptist and Pentecostal types

00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:53.079
 not like that part

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 of the creed

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 because they think

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 it teaches

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 that baptism saves you.

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 The creed

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 is thinking

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 of Romans 6.3.

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 That we are to be,

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 when we come

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 to faith in Jesus,

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 and I'm going to explain

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 it more in a moment,

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 it's as if we're

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 completely and utterly

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 immersed in Jesus

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 and his death.

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 And it's Jesus

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 and his death

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 for us

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 that leads to

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 a remission of sins

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 and our salvation.

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 It's referring to

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 Romans 6.3.

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 That's what the creed's

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 referring to.

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 Verse 4,

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 we were buried,

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 therefore,

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 with him by baptism

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 into death

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 in order that just

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 as Christ was raised

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 from the dead,

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 by the glory

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 of the Father,

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 we too might walk

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 in newness of life.

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 Now,

00:22:37.799 --> 00:22:38.399
 here I'm going to

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 have to do something.

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 Actually, Andrew,

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 could you put up

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 the third point

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 for me, please?

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 Paul here is developing

00:22:45.559 --> 00:22:46.639
 an analogy

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 that he used

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 last week

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 that is just before

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 this in chapter 5,

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 and I preached

00:22:51.779 --> 00:22:52.699
 on this last week.

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 And if this was

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 a university lecture,

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 I'd say,

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 okay, students,

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 if you just look

00:22:56.480 --> 00:22:57.079
 at your notes

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 that you took

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 last week,

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 you can sort of

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 understand covenant

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 head because I

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 explained it last week.

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 This is in a university

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 class or a high school

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 class or an elementary

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 school class or

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 kindergarten class

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 or anything like that.

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 And so it's a bit

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 of an awkward point

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 here.

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 But here's the third

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 point.

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 When Jesus becomes

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 my covenant head,

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 I am with him

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 as he enters death

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 and dies.

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 That's the image

00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:24.480
 and the logic

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 behind this.

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 It's what,

00:23:25.860 --> 00:23:27.000
 just in chapter 5

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 before this,

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 it's what Paul

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 develops.

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 That how we go

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 from Adam being

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 our covenant head

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 to Jesus being

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 our covenant head.

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 So I'm just going

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 to hint at something,

00:23:38.900 --> 00:23:39.480
 but if you're

00:23:39.480 --> 00:23:40.519
 confused by this,

00:23:40.779 --> 00:23:41.539
 you can go online

00:23:41.539 --> 00:23:42.059
 and you can listen

00:23:42.059 --> 00:23:42.839
 to last week's

00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:44.660
 sermon in my

00:23:44.660 --> 00:23:45.779
 attempt to explain

00:23:45.779 --> 00:23:48.000
 this idea which

00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:48.960
 is foreign to

00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:50.240
 Canadians but is

00:23:50.240 --> 00:23:51.140
 deeply biblical.

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 And here he's

00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:53.460
 saying when Jesus

00:23:53.460 --> 00:23:54.680
 becomes my covenant

00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:55.019
 head,

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 I am with him

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 as he enters

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 death and dies.

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 And it's,

00:23:59.180 --> 00:23:59.660
 see one of the

00:23:59.660 --> 00:24:00.379
 things that's going

00:24:00.379 --> 00:24:01.000
 on in a lot of

00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:02.180
 this text is that

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 Paul understands,

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 he's going to try

00:24:04.779 --> 00:24:05.539
 to explain what

00:24:05.539 --> 00:24:06.799
 salvation means if

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 we understand what

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 it means that there

00:24:08.839 --> 00:24:09.599
 really is a God

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 that does exist,

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 who's really our

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 creator,

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 and that we are

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 actually creatures.

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 And if you

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 understand that

00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:17.339
 we're actually

00:24:17.339 --> 00:24:17.940
 creatures,

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 not gods,

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 that we're

00:24:20.339 --> 00:24:21.160
 creatures with a

00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:21.619
 creator,

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 then many things,

00:24:23.439 --> 00:24:24.279
 even spiritual

00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:26.159
 disciplines and

00:24:26.159 --> 00:24:27.279
 other things flow

00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:27.979
 from the fact,

00:24:28.519 --> 00:24:29.319
 the nature of what

00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:29.959
 it means to be

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 human.

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 It's funny that in

00:24:32.139 --> 00:24:33.119
 our culture we

00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:33.619
 often,

00:24:34.199 --> 00:24:34.959
 Canadian culture,

00:24:35.059 --> 00:24:35.539
 the way it views

00:24:35.539 --> 00:24:36.739
 Christianity is as if

00:24:36.739 --> 00:24:37.739
 the Christian faith is

00:24:37.739 --> 00:24:39.419
 somehow contrary to

00:24:39.419 --> 00:24:39.739
 nature.

00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:41.599
 It's an arbitrariness

00:24:41.599 --> 00:24:43.099
 against what's

00:24:43.099 --> 00:24:43.879
 nature.

00:24:43.880 --> 00:24:43.920
 nature,

00:24:45.440 --> 00:24:46.640
 but it's contrary

00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:47.680
 to the fall and

00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.180
 to evil,

00:24:48.340 --> 00:24:49.160
 but it's actually

00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:50.740
 rooted in a deep,

00:24:51.340 --> 00:24:53.680
 wise perception of

00:24:53.680 --> 00:24:54.580
 what it means to be

00:24:54.580 --> 00:24:54.960
 human,

00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:56.660
 what it means to be

00:24:56.660 --> 00:24:58.340
 a creature who has

00:24:58.340 --> 00:24:58.860
 a creator.

00:25:00.300 --> 00:25:01.500
 And so the idea

00:25:01.500 --> 00:25:02.100
 that was developed

00:25:02.100 --> 00:25:02.680
 last week,

00:25:02.760 --> 00:25:03.420
 that you can go and

00:25:03.420 --> 00:25:04.060
 listen to how I

00:25:04.060 --> 00:25:05.220
 explain it and maybe

00:25:05.220 --> 00:25:06.360
 argue for why it's a

00:25:06.360 --> 00:25:07.800
 reasonable and

00:25:07.800 --> 00:25:09.020
 insightful and wise

00:25:09.020 --> 00:25:09.500
 idea,

00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:11.640
 is that this idea

00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:12.620
 that when Adam

00:25:12.619 --> 00:25:15.259
 sinned by doing

00:25:15.259 --> 00:25:15.979
 what he shouldn't

00:25:15.979 --> 00:25:16.159
 do,

00:25:16.219 --> 00:25:17.199
 when he decided

00:25:17.199 --> 00:25:17.879
 that he wanted

00:25:17.879 --> 00:25:19.079
 to be like God,

00:25:19.699 --> 00:25:20.719
 and so as a way

00:25:20.719 --> 00:25:22.179
 to become like God,

00:25:22.659 --> 00:25:23.279
 he directly

00:25:23.279 --> 00:25:24.500
 disobeyed God.

00:25:25.339 --> 00:25:26.299
 And that part of

00:25:26.299 --> 00:25:27.059
 what it means to be

00:25:27.059 --> 00:25:30.299
 human is that I

00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:31.139
 and every other

00:25:31.139 --> 00:25:31.939
 human being,

00:25:32.119 --> 00:25:32.979
 in a sense,

00:25:33.439 --> 00:25:35.659
 as Adam did that

00:25:35.659 --> 00:25:37.259
 act of disobedience

00:25:37.259 --> 00:25:38.119
 and rebellion,

00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:40.119
 I was doing it

00:25:40.119 --> 00:25:40.359
 too,

00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:41.619
 and so were you.

00:25:42.619 --> 00:25:44.899
 And I explained

00:25:44.899 --> 00:25:45.959
 that as to why

00:25:45.959 --> 00:25:46.559
 that might be

00:25:46.559 --> 00:25:47.359
 reasonable and how

00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:47.979
 it might make sense.

00:25:48.019 --> 00:25:48.599
 I talked about that

00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:49.179
 last week.

00:25:49.719 --> 00:25:50.739
 But the big thing

00:25:50.739 --> 00:25:51.500
 that came out of

00:25:51.500 --> 00:25:52.759
 that is that Paul

00:25:52.759 --> 00:25:53.919
 develops this

00:25:53.919 --> 00:25:56.299
 explanation to

00:25:56.299 --> 00:25:57.539
 bring home something

00:25:57.539 --> 00:25:58.579
 very important to

00:25:58.579 --> 00:25:59.000
 Christians.

00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:01.239
 In chapter 3,

00:26:01.319 --> 00:26:02.039
 verse 21,

00:26:02.299 --> 00:26:03.759
 up until the first

00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:04.939
 half of chapter 5,

00:26:05.099 --> 00:26:06.000
 most of the images

00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:06.719
 of what,

00:26:07.019 --> 00:26:07.839
 an explanation for

00:26:07.839 --> 00:26:08.859
 what Jesus does for

00:26:08.859 --> 00:26:09.679
 us on the cross,

00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:11.740
 is our negative

00:26:11.740 --> 00:26:13.600
 images or images

00:26:13.600 --> 00:26:14.600
 of removal.

00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:16.220
 So it's that when

00:26:16.220 --> 00:26:17.259
 Jesus dies on the

00:26:17.259 --> 00:26:17.799
 cross,

00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:19.140
 the bad things that

00:26:19.140 --> 00:26:20.380
 we've done are

00:26:20.380 --> 00:26:21.519
 taken away,

00:26:21.620 --> 00:26:22.220
 they're dealt with.

00:26:22.620 --> 00:26:23.299
 That when Jesus

00:26:23.299 --> 00:26:24.200
 dies for us on the

00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:24.480
 cross,

00:26:24.620 --> 00:26:25.700
 the debt that we

00:26:25.700 --> 00:26:26.880
 owe God and the

00:26:26.880 --> 00:26:27.880
 created order is

00:26:27.880 --> 00:26:28.740
 removed.

00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:30.700
 That when God,

00:26:31.019 --> 00:26:31.940
 Jesus dies on the

00:26:31.940 --> 00:26:32.340
 cross,

00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:33.580
 in a sense,

00:26:33.660 --> 00:26:34.620
 the legal punishment

00:26:34.619 --> 00:26:36.659
 that awaits us

00:26:36.659 --> 00:26:38.099
 is removed.

00:26:38.939 --> 00:26:41.039
 When Jesus dies

00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:41.599
 on the cross,

00:26:41.699 --> 00:26:42.259
 the fact that we

00:26:42.259 --> 00:26:42.799
 are, in a sense,

00:26:42.939 --> 00:26:43.559
 slaves,

00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:45.039
 that status is

00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:45.879
 removed.

00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:47.219
 And there's a whole

00:26:47.219 --> 00:26:48.119
 range of different

00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:49.059
 images trying to

00:26:49.059 --> 00:26:49.979
 capture what Jesus

00:26:49.979 --> 00:26:50.799
 does on the cross

00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:52.159
 to remove things.

00:26:52.639 --> 00:26:53.399
 But if you think

00:26:53.399 --> 00:26:54.099
 about it for a

00:26:54.099 --> 00:26:54.659
 second, and this is

00:26:54.659 --> 00:26:55.299
 actually really,

00:26:55.479 --> 00:26:56.099
 really important to

00:26:56.099 --> 00:26:57.119
 living the Christian

00:26:57.119 --> 00:26:57.559
 life,

00:26:58.139 --> 00:26:59.359
 negative images

00:26:59.359 --> 00:27:00.979
 or removal images,

00:27:01.179 --> 00:27:02.179
 if that's all that

00:27:02.179 --> 00:27:02.959
 Jesus does for us

00:27:02.959 --> 00:27:03.500
 on the cross,

00:27:03.500 --> 00:27:04.660
 it actually creates

00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:06.380
 a sense of anxiety

00:27:06.380 --> 00:27:07.180
 within us.

00:27:07.859 --> 00:27:08.880
 Maybe not at first,

00:27:09.019 --> 00:27:11.259
 but as that solely

00:27:11.259 --> 00:27:12.599
 having images of

00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:13.160
 removal,

00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:14.640
 if that's all we

00:27:14.640 --> 00:27:15.140
 hear,

00:27:15.660 --> 00:27:16.799
 it creates anxiety.

00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:18.099
 To give you an

00:27:18.099 --> 00:27:18.500
 illustration,

00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:20.019
 maybe many of you

00:27:20.019 --> 00:27:20.799
 have watched movies

00:27:20.799 --> 00:27:21.539
 where somebody gets

00:27:21.539 --> 00:27:22.099
 out of jail,

00:27:22.660 --> 00:27:23.220
 and what often

00:27:23.220 --> 00:27:24.579
 happens in some of

00:27:24.579 --> 00:27:24.700
 them,

00:27:24.859 --> 00:27:25.240
 they have their

00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:26.960
 drunken,

00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:28.299
 drug-smoking buddy

00:27:28.299 --> 00:27:29.240
 pick them up in a

00:27:29.240 --> 00:27:30.220
 ratty old van or

00:27:30.220 --> 00:27:30.460
 car.

00:27:30.460 --> 00:27:31.960
 But apart from those

00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:32.599
 types of things,

00:27:32.599 --> 00:27:33.659
 you come out of

00:27:33.659 --> 00:27:33.959
 jail,

00:27:34.819 --> 00:27:35.559
 you've dealt with

00:27:35.559 --> 00:27:35.719
 your,

00:27:35.859 --> 00:27:36.839
 you've paid your

00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:37.240
 penalty,

00:27:37.719 --> 00:27:38.240
 and you come out

00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:38.659
 of jail,

00:27:38.819 --> 00:27:40.000
 and all you have

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:40.799
 is the clothes on

00:27:40.799 --> 00:27:41.319
 your back,

00:27:41.719 --> 00:27:42.480
 a few bucks in

00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:43.039
 your pocket,

00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:44.439
 you have no

00:27:44.439 --> 00:27:45.000
 family,

00:27:45.299 --> 00:27:46.039
 no friends,

00:27:46.219 --> 00:27:47.039
 no job,

00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:47.779
 no money,

00:27:48.019 --> 00:27:48.719
 no prospects,

00:27:49.399 --> 00:27:50.199
 but your debt's

00:27:50.199 --> 00:27:50.779
 taken away.

00:27:53.299 --> 00:27:54.139
 Well, that's not

00:27:54.139 --> 00:27:54.719
 very helpful.

00:27:55.639 --> 00:27:56.579
 And in many movies,

00:27:56.679 --> 00:27:57.459
 that's often then

00:27:57.459 --> 00:27:58.279
 how the bad guy,

00:27:58.339 --> 00:27:58.919
 or the guy who's

00:27:58.919 --> 00:27:59.399
 going out of jail,

00:27:59.480 --> 00:28:00.079
 gets involved in

00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:00.639
 crime again,

00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:00.880
 right?

00:28:02.060 --> 00:28:02.840
 Because he wants

00:28:02.840 --> 00:28:03.540
 to have buddies,

00:28:03.880 --> 00:28:04.740
 he wants to have

00:28:04.740 --> 00:28:05.259
 some money,

00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:06.140
 and he wants to

00:28:06.140 --> 00:28:06.400
 be able to live

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:06.759
 his life.

00:28:07.420 --> 00:28:08.220
 And so if all we

00:28:08.220 --> 00:28:09.380
 hear are images

00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:10.780
 of things being

00:28:10.780 --> 00:28:11.540
 removed,

00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:13.259
 it's a little bit

00:28:13.259 --> 00:28:13.700
 like,

00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.120
 get out of jail,

00:28:15.840 --> 00:28:16.960
 and then nothing.

00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:18.980
 And so our image

00:28:18.980 --> 00:28:19.580
 of the Christian

00:28:19.580 --> 00:28:20.180
 life is,

00:28:20.380 --> 00:28:20.560
 okay,

00:28:20.600 --> 00:28:21.160
 every week I've

00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:21.860
 done more bad

00:28:21.860 --> 00:28:22.400
 things,

00:28:22.700 --> 00:28:23.500
 so I come to

00:28:23.500 --> 00:28:23.960
 church and I

00:28:23.960 --> 00:28:24.820
 confess my sins

00:28:24.820 --> 00:28:25.200
 because they can

00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:25.680
 all be taken

00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:25.980
 away.

00:28:26.980 --> 00:28:28.040
 Oh, dang,

00:28:28.120 --> 00:28:28.960
 I did more bad

00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:29.720
 things than last

00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:29.920
 week.

00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:30.360
 I have to come

00:28:30.360 --> 00:28:30.720
 to church,

00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:31.420
 all my sins

00:28:31.420 --> 00:28:32.100
 are taken

00:28:32.100 --> 00:28:32.420
 away.

00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:34.700
 And Paul uses

00:28:34.700 --> 00:28:35.860
 this very powerful

00:28:35.860 --> 00:28:37.900
 image of a

00:28:37.900 --> 00:28:38.700
 covenant head

00:28:38.700 --> 00:28:39.779
 that in a sense

00:28:39.779 --> 00:28:41.180
 the way human

00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:42.000
 beings actually

00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:42.759
 are is that

00:28:42.759 --> 00:28:43.160
 there is a

00:28:43.160 --> 00:28:44.259
 connection between

00:28:44.259 --> 00:28:45.839
 human beings.

00:28:47.420 --> 00:28:48.299
 On one hand

00:28:48.299 --> 00:28:49.360
 it's at a DNA

00:28:49.360 --> 00:28:49.740
 level,

00:28:49.940 --> 00:28:50.660
 but it's more

00:28:50.660 --> 00:28:51.140
 than that,

00:28:51.200 --> 00:28:51.700
 that there's an

00:28:51.700 --> 00:28:52.420
 actual connection

00:28:52.420 --> 00:28:53.079
 between human

00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:53.500
 beings,

00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:54.779
 and that human

00:28:54.779 --> 00:28:55.400
 beings have a

00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:55.980
 covenant head.

00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:56.620
 And Adam,

00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:57.299
 when Adam

00:28:57.299 --> 00:28:58.359
 sinned,

00:28:58.440 --> 00:28:59.159
 it was as if

00:28:59.159 --> 00:29:00.059
 I sinned.

00:29:00.659 --> 00:29:01.379
 And Paul then

00:29:01.379 --> 00:29:02.279
 flips that on

00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:03.079
 its head and

00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:04.059
 says that God

00:29:04.059 --> 00:29:05.399
 provides a true

00:29:05.399 --> 00:29:06.099
 and greater

00:29:06.099 --> 00:29:06.579
 Adam.

00:29:08.039 --> 00:29:08.899
 Adam was but

00:29:08.899 --> 00:29:09.519
 a type.

00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:11.559
 Jesus is that

00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:12.779
 which the type

00:29:12.779 --> 00:29:13.659
 pointed to.

00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:15.480
 And Jesus

00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:16.579
 lived a life,

00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:17.919
 rather than

00:29:17.919 --> 00:29:19.440
 Adam desiring

00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:20.119
 to be like

00:29:20.119 --> 00:29:20.819
 God,

00:29:22.619 --> 00:29:23.440
 and in other

00:29:23.440 --> 00:29:23.859
 words to try

00:29:23.859 --> 00:29:24.500
 to exalt

00:29:24.500 --> 00:29:25.399
 himself and

00:29:25.399 --> 00:29:25.919
 to be able to

00:29:25.919 --> 00:29:26.539
 look down his

00:29:26.539 --> 00:29:27.399
 nose at other

00:29:27.399 --> 00:29:28.000
 people and

00:29:28.000 --> 00:29:28.599
 look down his

00:29:28.599 --> 00:29:29.460
 nose at God,

00:29:29.940 --> 00:29:30.519
 that Jesus

00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:31.319
 practiced the

00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:32.180
 complete opposite

00:29:32.180 --> 00:29:32.839
 trajectory.

00:29:33.619 --> 00:29:34.139
 That Jesus

00:29:34.139 --> 00:29:35.240
 left his

00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:37.559
 unending love

00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:38.159
 of the Father

00:29:38.159 --> 00:29:38.579
 and him,

00:29:38.639 --> 00:29:38.960
 and he set

00:29:38.960 --> 00:29:39.379
 aside his

00:29:39.379 --> 00:29:40.039
 glory and

00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:41.019
 divine prerogatives

00:29:41.019 --> 00:29:41.420
 and his

00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:42.099
 splendor and

00:29:42.099 --> 00:29:42.899
 his power as

00:29:42.899 --> 00:29:43.200
 God.

00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:43.960
 He left all

00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:44.579
 those things

00:29:44.579 --> 00:29:45.039
 aside,

00:29:45.299 --> 00:29:45.779
 but still

00:29:45.779 --> 00:29:46.700
 remaining God.

00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:47.500
 He took

00:29:47.500 --> 00:29:48.220
 into himself

00:29:48.220 --> 00:29:48.779
 our human

00:29:48.779 --> 00:29:49.139
 nature.

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:49.799
 He entered

00:29:49.799 --> 00:29:50.819
 into Mary's

00:29:50.819 --> 00:29:51.119
 womb.

00:29:51.539 --> 00:29:52.240
 He was born

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:53.299
 in a lower

00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:54.220
 working class

00:29:54.220 --> 00:29:55.319
 home of the

00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:55.839
 people who

00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:56.500
 were not the

00:29:56.500 --> 00:29:57.519
 imperial force,

00:29:57.599 --> 00:29:58.240
 but a subject

00:29:58.240 --> 00:29:59.359
 people in a

00:29:59.359 --> 00:30:00.619
 remote part of

00:30:00.619 --> 00:30:00.960
 the Roman

00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:01.500
 empire,

00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:02.519
 and he lived

00:30:02.519 --> 00:30:02.920
 and he had

00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:04.119
 to nurse.

00:30:04.640 --> 00:30:05.180
 The hands

00:30:05.180 --> 00:30:05.660
 that formed

00:30:05.660 --> 00:30:06.339
 the stars

00:30:06.339 --> 00:30:07.240
 couldn't reach

00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:07.880
 his mother's

00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:08.259
 nose.

00:30:10.460 --> 00:30:11.420
 And he takes

00:30:11.420 --> 00:30:12.079
 the path of

00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:12.619
 lowliness,

00:30:13.039 --> 00:30:13.940
 and he lives

00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:14.900
 amongst us,

00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:15.779
 and he lives

00:30:15.779 --> 00:30:16.660
 a sinless

00:30:16.660 --> 00:30:17.099
 life,

00:30:17.559 --> 00:30:18.160
 and he lives

00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:18.839
 a life that's

00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:19.140
 good,

00:30:19.220 --> 00:30:19.920
 that good

00:30:19.920 --> 00:30:20.440
 teaching,

00:30:20.619 --> 00:30:21.420
 wise teaching,

00:30:21.539 --> 00:30:22.119
 and kind,

00:30:22.259 --> 00:30:23.000
 and compassionate,

00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:23.720
 as we just saw

00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:24.180
 in the gospel

00:30:24.180 --> 00:30:24.720
 story in

00:30:24.720 --> 00:30:25.400
 John 6,

00:30:25.820 --> 00:30:26.320
 and that

00:30:26.320 --> 00:30:27.660
 he performs

00:30:27.660 --> 00:30:28.320
 miracles,

00:30:28.799 --> 00:30:29.259
 and his

00:30:29.259 --> 00:30:30.060
 descent of

00:30:30.060 --> 00:30:30.620
 lowliness

00:30:30.620 --> 00:30:32.160
 continues even

00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:32.720
 to the point

00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:33.100
 of being

00:30:33.100 --> 00:30:33.980
 willing to

00:30:33.980 --> 00:30:34.799
 enter death,

00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:35.519
 and take

00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:36.600
 upon himself

00:30:36.600 --> 00:30:37.920
 the wrath

00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:38.500
 that is due

00:30:38.500 --> 00:30:38.740
 us,

00:30:38.779 --> 00:30:39.380
 and the debt

00:30:39.380 --> 00:30:40.120
 that we can't

00:30:40.120 --> 00:30:40.360
 pay,

00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:41.340
 and the penalty

00:30:41.340 --> 00:30:42.060
 that we can't

00:30:42.060 --> 00:30:42.200
 pay,

00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:42.920
 and the punishment

00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:43.539
 that we can't

00:30:43.539 --> 00:30:43.680
 pay,

00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:44.340
 and he takes

00:30:44.340 --> 00:30:44.900
 all of that

00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:45.480
 upon himself,

00:30:45.740 --> 00:30:46.640
 and he becomes

00:30:46.640 --> 00:30:47.539
 even lower still

00:30:47.539 --> 00:30:48.340
 because you can't

00:30:48.340 --> 00:30:49.060
 be poorer than

00:30:49.060 --> 00:30:49.400
 dead.

00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:51.780
 you can't

00:30:51.780 --> 00:30:52.240
 be poorer

00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:52.800
 than dead,

00:30:53.300 --> 00:30:54.920
 and he enters

00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:55.560
 into death,

00:30:56.420 --> 00:30:57.240
 and then he rises

00:30:57.240 --> 00:30:57.860
 from the dead,

00:30:58.480 --> 00:30:59.900
 and what Paul

00:30:59.900 --> 00:31:00.860
 develops is that

00:31:00.860 --> 00:31:01.860
 the same sense

00:31:01.860 --> 00:31:03.120
 that when Adam

00:31:03.120 --> 00:31:05.060
 took the fruit

00:31:05.060 --> 00:31:05.500
 and rebelled

00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:06.080
 against God,

00:31:06.120 --> 00:31:06.800
 in a sense I

00:31:06.800 --> 00:31:07.160
 did,

00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:09.440
 when I by faith

00:31:09.440 --> 00:31:10.920
 recognize my

00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:11.900
 need for rescue

00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:12.780
 and call out

00:31:12.780 --> 00:31:13.500
 for the true

00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:14.640
 and greater Adam

00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:15.840
 to be my

00:31:15.840 --> 00:31:16.720
 covenant head,

00:31:17.080 --> 00:31:17.900
 that somehow

00:31:17.900 --> 00:31:19.660
 by the mystery

00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:20.100
 of what it

00:31:20.100 --> 00:31:20.580
 means to be

00:31:20.580 --> 00:31:20.840
 human,

00:31:20.920 --> 00:31:21.480
 and the mystery

00:31:21.480 --> 00:31:22.080
 of God's

00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:22.440
 grace,

00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:23.340
 Jesus'

00:31:23.780 --> 00:31:24.580
 obedience

00:31:24.580 --> 00:31:25.660
 is my

00:31:25.660 --> 00:31:26.240
 obedience,

00:31:27.240 --> 00:31:30.259
 and all

00:31:30.259 --> 00:31:30.640
 the way

00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:31.180
 through here

00:31:31.180 --> 00:31:31.740
 Paul is

00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:31.960
 going to

00:31:31.960 --> 00:31:32.519
 develop and

00:31:32.519 --> 00:31:32.740
 say,

00:31:33.140 --> 00:31:33.519
 Jesus'

00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:34.880
 life is

00:31:34.880 --> 00:31:36.160
 now your

00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:36.640
 life,

00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:37.759
 Jesus'

00:31:38.080 --> 00:31:38.580
 freedom

00:31:38.580 --> 00:31:39.820
 is your

00:31:39.820 --> 00:31:40.320
 freedom,

00:31:41.060 --> 00:31:41.340
 Jesus'

00:31:41.340 --> 00:31:42.180
 standing with

00:31:42.180 --> 00:31:42.640
 God

00:31:42.640 --> 00:31:43.900
 is your

00:31:43.900 --> 00:31:44.660
 standing with

00:31:44.660 --> 00:31:45.080
 God,

00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:47.400
 that the

00:31:47.400 --> 00:31:48.660
 cross is

00:31:48.660 --> 00:31:49.300
 not just

00:31:49.300 --> 00:31:49.600
 about

00:31:49.600 --> 00:31:50.360
 removal,

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:51.340
 but it

00:31:51.340 --> 00:31:51.780
 is about

00:31:51.780 --> 00:31:52.259
 removal,

00:31:52.680 --> 00:31:54.220
 it's also

00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:54.660
 about

00:31:54.660 --> 00:31:55.720
 bestowal

00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:57.180
 of giving,

00:31:58.180 --> 00:32:03.200
 and so

00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:04.300
 Paul is

00:32:04.300 --> 00:32:04.980
 saying here,

00:32:05.740 --> 00:32:06.480
 when Jesus

00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:07.860
 becomes my

00:32:07.860 --> 00:32:08.300
 covenant

00:32:08.300 --> 00:32:08.800
 head,

00:32:09.460 --> 00:32:10.680
 I am with

00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:11.320
 him as he

00:32:11.320 --> 00:32:12.160
 enters death

00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:13.519
 and dies,

00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:15.740
 Andrew,

00:32:15.800 --> 00:32:16.040
 if you could

00:32:16.040 --> 00:32:16.540
 put up A

00:32:16.539 --> 00:32:16.960
 again,

00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:18.819
 how shall

00:32:18.819 --> 00:32:19.359
 we then

00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:20.460
 live when

00:32:20.460 --> 00:32:21.159
 death lies

00:32:21.159 --> 00:32:22.019
 behind us

00:32:22.019 --> 00:32:23.039
 and resurrection

00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:23.980
 waits before

00:32:23.980 --> 00:32:24.379
 us?

00:32:25.019 --> 00:32:25.680
 How shall

00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:26.180
 we then

00:32:26.180 --> 00:32:27.259
 live when

00:32:27.259 --> 00:32:27.899
 death lies

00:32:27.899 --> 00:32:28.740
 behind us

00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:29.859
 and resurrection

00:32:29.859 --> 00:32:30.740
 waits before

00:32:30.740 --> 00:32:31.079
 us?

00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:33.819
 Some of you

00:32:33.819 --> 00:32:34.139
 might say,

00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:34.379
 George,

00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:34.799
 doesn't this

00:32:34.799 --> 00:32:35.379
 still actually

00:32:35.379 --> 00:32:35.659
 lead to

00:32:35.659 --> 00:32:37.000
 moral anarchy?

00:32:37.139 --> 00:32:37.500
 Haven't you

00:32:37.500 --> 00:32:38.000
 actually just

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.339
 made it

00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:38.720
 worse?

00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:41.779
 Haven't you

00:32:41.779 --> 00:32:42.180
 actually just

00:32:42.180 --> 00:32:42.519
 made it

00:32:42.519 --> 00:32:42.940
 worse?

00:32:42.940 --> 00:32:46.299
 if

00:32:46.299 --> 00:32:47.580
 heaven's

00:32:47.580 --> 00:32:48.100
 guaranteed?

00:32:49.580 --> 00:32:50.340
 Let's go

00:32:50.340 --> 00:32:50.820
 back to the

00:32:50.820 --> 00:32:51.320
 friend that I

00:32:51.320 --> 00:32:52.019
 bumped into

00:32:52.019 --> 00:32:53.299
 some ten

00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:53.860
 years ago.

00:32:54.080 --> 00:32:54.480
 We'll call

00:32:54.480 --> 00:32:54.960
 him Bob.

00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:56.900
 So Bob

00:32:56.900 --> 00:32:57.360
 had this

00:32:57.360 --> 00:32:58.180
 idea from

00:32:58.180 --> 00:32:58.640
 reading the

00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:00.039
 Bible that

00:33:00.039 --> 00:33:02.140
 you know,

00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:03.460
 gosh,

00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:03.799
 don't want to

00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:04.279
 do that,

00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:04.880
 don't want to

00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:05.360
 do that,

00:33:05.620 --> 00:33:06.039
 don't want to

00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:06.500
 do that,

00:33:06.720 --> 00:33:07.120
 don't want to

00:33:07.120 --> 00:33:07.620
 do that,

00:33:07.840 --> 00:33:08.279
 don't want to

00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:08.740
 do that.

00:33:09.019 --> 00:33:09.480
 This is

00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:09.980
 boring,

00:33:10.320 --> 00:33:10.779
 this is

00:33:10.779 --> 00:33:11.220
 stupid,

00:33:11.220 --> 00:33:12.000
 this is

00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:12.600
 embarrassing,

00:33:13.140 --> 00:33:13.519
 this is

00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:14.059
 uncomfortable,

00:33:14.279 --> 00:33:14.559
 but oh,

00:33:14.579 --> 00:33:15.100
 I like this

00:33:15.100 --> 00:33:15.720
 bit that if

00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:16.059
 I just,

00:33:16.180 --> 00:33:16.579
 in Romans

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:16.920
 10,

00:33:16.980 --> 00:33:17.319
 9 and

00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:17.519
 10,

00:33:17.579 --> 00:33:17.799
 that if

00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:18.100
 I just

00:33:18.100 --> 00:33:18.539
 say the

00:33:18.539 --> 00:33:18.980
 sinner's

00:33:18.980 --> 00:33:19.220
 prayer,

00:33:19.360 --> 00:33:19.600
 I go to

00:33:19.600 --> 00:33:19.799
 heaven.

00:33:19.940 --> 00:33:20.339
 I like

00:33:20.339 --> 00:33:20.839
 that part.

00:33:21.900 --> 00:33:22.100
 Now,

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:23.140
 here's the

00:33:23.140 --> 00:33:23.620
 thing about

00:33:23.620 --> 00:33:23.940
 this.

00:33:25.120 --> 00:33:25.460
 Has

00:33:25.460 --> 00:33:26.299
 Bob actually

00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:26.720
 understood

00:33:26.720 --> 00:33:27.420
 the gospel?

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:30.620
 Paul would

00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:31.220
 say no.

00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:33.799
 Paul would

00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:34.160
 say that

00:33:34.160 --> 00:33:35.960
 all that

00:33:35.960 --> 00:33:36.600
 Bob has

00:33:36.600 --> 00:33:37.559
 done is

00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:38.279
 that Bob

00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:39.160
 is still

00:33:39.160 --> 00:33:40.500
 encaptured,

00:33:40.500 --> 00:33:44.740
 still in

00:33:44.740 --> 00:33:45.680
 love with

00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:46.319
 being like

00:33:46.319 --> 00:33:46.900
 God.

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:48.640
 Only he

00:33:48.640 --> 00:33:49.259
 thinks he's

00:33:49.259 --> 00:33:51.960
 found a

00:33:51.960 --> 00:33:53.339
 loophole so

00:33:53.339 --> 00:33:53.799
 that God

00:33:53.799 --> 00:33:54.480
 will guarantee

00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:55.160
 him heaven.

00:33:56.640 --> 00:33:56.960
 And in a

00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:57.140
 sense,

00:33:57.220 --> 00:33:57.500
 in the back

00:33:57.500 --> 00:33:57.819
 of his mind,

00:33:57.880 --> 00:33:58.640
 imagine for a

00:33:58.640 --> 00:33:59.059
 second that you

00:33:59.059 --> 00:33:59.599
 want to fly

00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:00.220
 somewhere in a

00:34:00.220 --> 00:34:01.420
 year, and

00:34:01.420 --> 00:34:02.240
 then for some

00:34:02.240 --> 00:34:03.220
 weird reason,

00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:04.559
 if you book

00:34:04.559 --> 00:34:05.119
 your ticket

00:34:05.119 --> 00:34:06.440
 right now,

00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:06.859
 a year in

00:34:06.859 --> 00:34:07.200
 advance,

00:34:07.279 --> 00:34:07.500
 it's going to

00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:08.380
 cost you $100,000

00:34:08.380 --> 00:34:09.420
 for the ticket.

00:34:10.500 --> 00:34:11.320
 But somebody

00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:11.920
 like Bob

00:34:11.920 --> 00:34:12.440
 comes up

00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:13.420
 beside you

00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:13.760
 and said,

00:34:14.460 --> 00:34:14.880
 George,

00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:16.219
 if you just

00:34:16.219 --> 00:34:17.099
 buy the ticket

00:34:17.099 --> 00:34:17.739
 one minute

00:34:17.739 --> 00:34:18.239
 before the

00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:19.000
 plane takes

00:34:19.000 --> 00:34:19.360
 off, it

00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:20.019
 only costs

00:34:20.019 --> 00:34:20.820
 you $2,000,

00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:22.079
 a toonie.

00:34:23.119 --> 00:34:23.739
 Only a

00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:24.340
 Reuben a

00:34:24.340 --> 00:34:25.960
 fool pays

00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:26.960
 $100,000

00:34:26.960 --> 00:34:28.480
 when you can

00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:29.159
 buy the ticket

00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:29.900
 a minute before

00:34:29.900 --> 00:34:30.940
 the end and

00:34:30.940 --> 00:34:31.519
 get on the

00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:32.619
 plane for a

00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:32.900
 toonie.

00:34:32.900 --> 00:34:35.800
 And that's

00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:36.099
 all that

00:34:36.099 --> 00:34:36.619
 Bob thinks

00:34:36.619 --> 00:34:37.099
 he's done.

00:34:37.820 --> 00:34:38.579
 He is still

00:34:38.579 --> 00:34:39.440
 completely and

00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:40.700
 utterly wanting

00:34:40.700 --> 00:34:41.260
 to be like

00:34:41.260 --> 00:34:42.400
 Adam, wanting

00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:42.900
 to be like

00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:44.180
 God, wanting

00:34:44.180 --> 00:34:44.680
 to be able to

00:34:44.680 --> 00:34:45.340
 determine what's

00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:45.820
 right and wrong,

00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:46.340
 wanting to do

00:34:46.340 --> 00:34:46.860
 what he, like

00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:48.119
 he pleases, and

00:34:48.119 --> 00:34:48.900
 he just actually

00:34:48.900 --> 00:34:49.619
 now thinks he's

00:34:49.619 --> 00:34:50.260
 figured out a

00:34:50.260 --> 00:34:50.680
 way to have

00:34:50.680 --> 00:34:51.760
 God serve him

00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:52.320
 and gives him

00:34:52.320 --> 00:34:53.079
 what he wants.

00:34:54.019 --> 00:34:54.780
 And that's all

00:34:54.780 --> 00:34:55.380
 that Bob has

00:34:55.380 --> 00:34:55.680
 done.

00:34:56.940 --> 00:34:57.760
 But you see,

00:34:57.980 --> 00:34:58.440
 what you're going

00:34:58.440 --> 00:34:58.940
 to see here in

00:34:58.940 --> 00:34:59.440
 the rest of the

00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:00.300
 text is flowing

00:35:00.300 --> 00:35:01.139
 from this idea

00:35:01.139 --> 00:35:01.960
 that when Jesus

00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:02.920
 becomes my

00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:03.839
 covenant head,

00:35:04.679 --> 00:35:05.599
 that in a sense

00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:06.239
 I become,

00:35:06.460 --> 00:35:07.119
 Adam is my

00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:07.639
 covenant head

00:35:07.639 --> 00:35:08.259
 just by being

00:35:08.259 --> 00:35:08.679
 born.

00:35:10.279 --> 00:35:11.059
 But Jesus

00:35:11.059 --> 00:35:11.759
 becomes my

00:35:11.759 --> 00:35:12.359
 covenant head

00:35:12.359 --> 00:35:13.719
 when I ask

00:35:13.719 --> 00:35:14.719
 Jesus to become

00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:15.879
 my Savior and

00:35:15.879 --> 00:35:16.400
 my Lord.

00:35:17.739 --> 00:35:18.139
 Andrew, if you

00:35:18.139 --> 00:35:18.460
 could put up

00:35:18.460 --> 00:35:19.059
 the next point

00:35:19.059 --> 00:35:19.460
 please.

00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:23.000
 Every Christian

00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:23.719
 is a refugee.

00:35:25.839 --> 00:35:26.799
 Every Christian

00:35:26.799 --> 00:35:27.519
 is a refugee.

00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:30.420
 Every Christian

00:35:30.420 --> 00:35:31.119
 is a refugee.

00:35:31.139 --> 00:35:31.259
 refugee.

00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:34.639
 If you look at

00:35:34.639 --> 00:35:35.099
 the refugee

00:35:35.099 --> 00:35:35.960
 crisis, you're

00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:36.859
 seeing conversion.

00:35:37.500 --> 00:35:38.139
 In a sense, it's

00:35:38.139 --> 00:35:38.779
 an image of

00:35:38.779 --> 00:35:39.319
 conversion.

00:35:40.859 --> 00:35:41.559
 But this idea

00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:43.000
 of Jesus becoming

00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:43.579
 my covenant

00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:44.619
 head in

00:35:44.619 --> 00:35:45.819
 conversion, I am

00:35:45.819 --> 00:35:47.139
 taken from, I

00:35:47.139 --> 00:35:47.739
 want to be a

00:35:47.739 --> 00:35:49.980
 God land, and

00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:50.440
 don't get too

00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:51.039
 excited, you

00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:53.019
 Elvis fans, and

00:35:53.019 --> 00:35:53.900
 am brought as a

00:35:53.900 --> 00:35:54.920
 refugee to be a

00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:56.199
 citizen in God's

00:35:56.199 --> 00:35:56.960
 grace land.

00:35:57.099 --> 00:35:57.639
 First I said

00:35:57.639 --> 00:35:58.440
 grace land and I

00:35:58.440 --> 00:35:58.920
 thought that might

00:35:58.920 --> 00:35:59.699
 be too weird for

00:35:59.699 --> 00:36:00.900
 the Elvis fans in

00:36:00.900 --> 00:36:01.440
 the room.

00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:03.160
 So, in conversion,

00:36:03.380 --> 00:36:04.680
 I am taken from, I

00:36:04.680 --> 00:36:05.559
 want to be a God

00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:07.019
 land, and am

00:36:07.019 --> 00:36:07.740
 brought as a

00:36:07.740 --> 00:36:09.800
 refugee to be a

00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:11.340
 citizen in God's

00:36:11.340 --> 00:36:12.639
 grace land.

00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:14.440
 Since the Bible

00:36:14.440 --> 00:36:15.300
 says that every

00:36:15.300 --> 00:36:15.920
 human being we

00:36:15.920 --> 00:36:17.139
 meet has one of

00:36:17.139 --> 00:36:19.380
 two passports, a

00:36:19.380 --> 00:36:20.900
 passport that says

00:36:20.900 --> 00:36:21.579
 you're a citizen

00:36:21.579 --> 00:36:25.039
 of, I am, sorry,

00:36:25.099 --> 00:36:25.900
 I've lost my place,

00:36:25.900 --> 00:36:26.940
 I want to be a

00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:29.660
 God land, or a

00:36:29.660 --> 00:36:31.460
 passport that says

00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:32.700
 God's grace land.

00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:34.220
 Every human being

00:36:34.220 --> 00:36:34.920
 has one of those

00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:35.680
 two passports.

00:36:36.500 --> 00:36:37.099
 None of us are

00:36:37.099 --> 00:36:38.240
 born into God's

00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:38.820
 grace land.

00:36:39.800 --> 00:36:40.559
 We enter it when

00:36:40.559 --> 00:36:41.500
 we put our faith and

00:36:41.500 --> 00:36:43.240
 trust in Jesus, and

00:36:43.240 --> 00:36:44.639
 we enter it as a

00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:45.119
 refugee.

00:36:47.019 --> 00:36:48.019
 As a refugee.

00:36:49.119 --> 00:36:49.639
 I know it's a

00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:50.519
 switching imagery a

00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:51.180
 little bit, but if

00:36:51.180 --> 00:36:52.000
 you have any of you

00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:52.720
 who have seen World

00:36:52.720 --> 00:36:53.940
 War Z, and I hope

00:36:53.940 --> 00:36:54.860
 this isn't a spoiler

00:36:54.860 --> 00:36:55.720
 alert for those of

00:36:55.720 --> 00:36:56.240
 you who have, a

00:36:56.240 --> 00:36:56.980
 spoiler alert for

00:36:56.980 --> 00:36:57.440
 those of you who

00:36:57.440 --> 00:36:58.140
 haven't seen it,

00:36:58.500 --> 00:36:59.980
 close your ears, but

00:36:59.980 --> 00:37:01.320
 in World War Z, as

00:37:01.320 --> 00:37:02.519
 the zombie infection

00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:05.760
 spreads, how is it

00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:08.160
 that Brad Pitt and

00:37:08.160 --> 00:37:10.640
 his wife and kids,

00:37:11.660 --> 00:37:12.579
 they become like

00:37:12.579 --> 00:37:13.380
 refugees, the

00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:14.340
 helicopter plucks

00:37:14.340 --> 00:37:15.079
 them off the top

00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:15.539
 of the building,

00:37:15.640 --> 00:37:15.760
 right?

00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:17.000
 Zombies come.

00:37:17.120 --> 00:37:17.820
 In a sense, that's

00:37:17.820 --> 00:37:18.340
 an image of

00:37:18.340 --> 00:37:18.920
 conversion.

00:37:20.200 --> 00:37:20.960
 Powerless against

00:37:20.960 --> 00:37:21.780
 what's going on.

00:37:22.680 --> 00:37:24.440
 Call for help, and

00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:24.960
 you're rescued.

00:37:27.460 --> 00:37:28.639
 So if you

00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:30.860
 understand that

00:37:30.860 --> 00:37:31.579
 every single

00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:32.380
 Christian is a

00:37:32.380 --> 00:37:33.599
 refugee, that

00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:34.400
 we're a refugee

00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:35.740
 from the land

00:37:35.740 --> 00:37:37.200
 where I want to

00:37:37.200 --> 00:37:39.559
 be like God, and

00:37:39.559 --> 00:37:40.820
 we're now citizens

00:37:40.820 --> 00:37:41.860
 of God's grace

00:37:41.860 --> 00:37:43.460
 land, then the

00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:44.340
 rest of this text

00:37:44.340 --> 00:37:45.220
 makes sense.

00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:48.119
 Because, you

00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:50.059
 know, one of the

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:51.019
 problems that people

00:37:51.019 --> 00:37:52.220
 have often when

00:37:52.220 --> 00:37:53.400
 they come to a

00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:54.059
 country as a

00:37:54.059 --> 00:37:57.740
 refugee is, I

00:37:57.740 --> 00:37:58.019
 mean, they don't

00:37:58.019 --> 00:37:58.840
 speak the language

00:37:58.840 --> 00:37:59.579
 of the new land

00:37:59.579 --> 00:38:00.320
 often.

00:38:01.139 --> 00:38:01.800
 And they don't

00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:02.559
 know the laws, and

00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:02.980
 they don't know the

00:38:02.980 --> 00:38:03.760
 customs, and it's

00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:04.840
 very easy for them

00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:06.619
 to still interpret

00:38:06.619 --> 00:38:08.059
 things from the

00:38:08.059 --> 00:38:08.700
 country that they

00:38:08.700 --> 00:38:09.340
 came from.

00:38:10.059 --> 00:38:11.420
 It might be easy if

00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:12.380
 they see a member of

00:38:12.380 --> 00:38:13.099
 our Canadian Armed

00:38:13.099 --> 00:38:14.180
 Forces coming to

00:38:14.180 --> 00:38:14.380
 them.

00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:16.079
 Well, if you're in

00:38:16.079 --> 00:38:17.500
 Syria and you see a

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:18.500
 member of Assad's

00:38:18.500 --> 00:38:19.360
 army coming from

00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:20.519
 you, you don't, you

00:38:20.519 --> 00:38:21.280
 want to hide from

00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:22.820
 the soldier, and

00:38:22.820 --> 00:38:23.660
 it must puzzle them

00:38:23.660 --> 00:38:24.580
 that Canadians don't

00:38:24.580 --> 00:38:25.960
 run when they see a

00:38:25.960 --> 00:38:26.640
 soldier coming.

00:38:27.240 --> 00:38:28.400
 Or maybe if the

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:29.540
 police officer is

00:38:29.540 --> 00:38:29.980
 just going to

00:38:29.980 --> 00:38:31.440
 either try to rob

00:38:31.440 --> 00:38:31.960
 you or get a

00:38:31.960 --> 00:38:32.680
 bribe from you, you

00:38:32.680 --> 00:38:33.200
 see a police

00:38:33.200 --> 00:38:34.240
 officer, you expect

00:38:34.240 --> 00:38:34.800
 that that's what's

00:38:34.800 --> 00:38:35.300
 going to happen.

00:38:35.740 --> 00:38:36.620
 You're still living

00:38:36.620 --> 00:38:37.760
 within the mindset

00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:39.000
 and the expectations

00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:40.640
 of your former land,

00:38:41.140 --> 00:38:42.560
 and you haven't

00:38:42.560 --> 00:38:44.540
 learned the culture

00:38:44.540 --> 00:38:45.540
 and the laws and

00:38:45.540 --> 00:38:46.620
 the customs of your

00:38:46.620 --> 00:38:47.180
 new land.

00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:50.139
 And so conversion

00:38:50.139 --> 00:38:51.279
 is on one hand

00:38:51.279 --> 00:38:52.019
 when you are

00:38:52.019 --> 00:38:53.679
 plucked and become

00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:54.739
 a refugee and

00:38:54.739 --> 00:38:56.259
 Christ rescues you,

00:38:57.419 --> 00:38:58.199
 and sanctification

00:38:58.199 --> 00:39:00.259
 is learning that you

00:39:00.259 --> 00:39:02.019
 live in a new land

00:39:02.019 --> 00:39:03.799
 now with a new

00:39:03.799 --> 00:39:05.639
 king, with new

00:39:05.639 --> 00:39:08.199
 best practices, and

00:39:08.199 --> 00:39:10.539
 new values, and new

00:39:10.539 --> 00:39:11.739
 longings, and new

00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:13.659
 hopes, and you're

00:39:13.659 --> 00:39:14.519
 trying to learn what

00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:15.279
 it means to live in

00:39:15.279 --> 00:39:16.019
 this new land.

00:39:16.019 --> 00:39:17.460
 And if you listen

00:39:17.460 --> 00:39:18.280
 to that from that

00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:19.099
 perspective, listen

00:39:19.099 --> 00:39:20.259
 to how the rest of

00:39:20.259 --> 00:39:21.739
 chapter 6 sounds

00:39:21.739 --> 00:39:22.960
 beginning at verse 5.

00:39:23.739 --> 00:39:24.539
 For if we have been

00:39:24.539 --> 00:39:25.599
 united with him in a

00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:27.460
 death like his, we

00:39:27.460 --> 00:39:28.320
 shall certainly be

00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:30.000
 united with him in a

00:39:30.000 --> 00:39:31.259
 resurrection like his.

00:39:32.780 --> 00:39:34.199
 Our hope isn't that

00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:36.099
 we will somehow become

00:39:36.099 --> 00:39:37.440
 like God's, but that

00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:38.900
 we will share in

00:39:38.900 --> 00:39:40.000
 Jesus' resurrection,

00:39:40.179 --> 00:39:40.880
 and that's a certain

00:39:40.880 --> 00:39:41.860
 hope for a Christian.

00:39:42.659 --> 00:39:43.579
 We know that our

00:39:43.579 --> 00:39:45.420
 old self was

00:39:45.420 --> 00:39:46.539
 crucified with him in

00:39:46.539 --> 00:39:47.440
 order that the body

00:39:47.440 --> 00:39:48.240
 of sin might be

00:39:48.240 --> 00:39:49.420
 brought to nothing,

00:39:49.420 --> 00:39:50.300
 so that we would no

00:39:50.300 --> 00:39:51.900
 longer be enslaved to

00:39:51.900 --> 00:39:52.300
 sin.

00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:53.940
 Sin here is pictured

00:39:53.940 --> 00:39:54.400
 as that.

00:39:54.860 --> 00:39:56.159
 Sin is, I want to be

00:39:56.159 --> 00:39:57.579
 God land, and that is

00:39:57.579 --> 00:39:58.440
 actually a form of

00:39:58.440 --> 00:39:58.940
 slavery.

00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:00.579
 And what happens to

00:40:00.579 --> 00:40:01.700
 Jesus isn't that Jesus

00:40:01.700 --> 00:40:02.840
 enters into death and

00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:03.659
 then returns to this

00:40:03.659 --> 00:40:04.519
 side of death only to

00:40:04.519 --> 00:40:06.119
 have to die again, so

00:40:06.119 --> 00:40:07.800
 that sin, which causes

00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:09.059
 death, and death

00:40:09.059 --> 00:40:11.059
 itself is always over us

00:40:11.059 --> 00:40:12.759
 and looming over us, is

00:40:12.759 --> 00:40:13.639
 that we believe that

00:40:13.639 --> 00:40:14.900
 when Jesus truly

00:40:14.900 --> 00:40:16.420
 historically died, he

00:40:16.420 --> 00:40:17.900
 enters death, but he

00:40:17.900 --> 00:40:19.400
 truly historically comes

00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:20.440
 out on the other side

00:40:20.440 --> 00:40:21.259
 of death, having

00:40:21.259 --> 00:40:22.739
 defeated death, not

00:40:22.739 --> 00:40:24.400
 resuscitated, but

00:40:24.400 --> 00:40:25.079
 resurrected.

00:40:25.619 --> 00:40:26.579
 And he has defeated

00:40:26.579 --> 00:40:27.360
 death, and he has

00:40:27.360 --> 00:40:28.159
 defeated that which has

00:40:28.159 --> 00:40:29.299
 caused death, which is

00:40:29.299 --> 00:40:29.579
 sin.

00:40:29.840 --> 00:40:30.920
 He stands on the far

00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:32.779
 side of death in

00:40:32.779 --> 00:40:34.599
 resurrection, and that is

00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:35.679
 the Christian's certain

00:40:35.679 --> 00:40:36.099
 hope.

00:40:36.099 --> 00:40:36.179
 hope.

00:40:37.940 --> 00:40:39.960
 That is the Christian's

00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:41.059
 certain hope.

00:40:41.839 --> 00:40:44.299
 Not because we believe

00:40:44.299 --> 00:40:45.719
 in butterflies, or we

00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:47.519
 believe in spring, and

00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:49.360
 crocuses, but because we

00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:51.119
 believe that Jesus really

00:40:51.119 --> 00:40:52.539
 died and really rose

00:40:52.539 --> 00:40:53.960
 again, and that when we

00:40:53.960 --> 00:40:55.159
 put our faith and trust

00:40:55.159 --> 00:40:56.779
 in Jesus, he becomes our

00:40:56.779 --> 00:40:59.759
 covenant head, and his

00:40:59.759 --> 00:41:01.940
 triumph over death somehow

00:41:01.940 --> 00:41:04.639
 becomes ours, and that is

00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:07.460
 what our future is in

00:41:07.460 --> 00:41:07.920
 Christ.

00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:11.699
 In body of sin, he's

00:41:11.699 --> 00:41:12.480
 just sitting in a little

00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:13.539
 idea that's going to talk

00:41:13.539 --> 00:41:14.679
 about more in the rest of

00:41:14.679 --> 00:41:16.019
 chapter 6 and chapter 7

00:41:16.019 --> 00:41:17.980
 about moral struggle, but

00:41:17.980 --> 00:41:18.699
 it doesn't mean that the

00:41:18.699 --> 00:41:19.420
 body's evil.

00:41:19.940 --> 00:41:21.079
 And then verse 7, for one

00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:22.799
 who has died has been set

00:41:22.799 --> 00:41:23.839
 free from sin.

00:41:24.059 --> 00:41:25.699
 In other words, sin, which

00:41:25.699 --> 00:41:27.639
 is viewed as a land, you're

00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:28.279
 free from it.

00:41:28.339 --> 00:41:29.279
 You're a refugee from

00:41:29.279 --> 00:41:29.379
 there.

00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:30.519
 You no longer live in

00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:30.920
 Syria.

00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:31.000
 Syria.

00:41:33.079 --> 00:41:34.720
 You've been set free from

00:41:34.720 --> 00:41:35.240
 Syria.

00:41:36.420 --> 00:41:38.019
 You've been set free from

00:41:38.019 --> 00:41:38.539
 ISIS.

00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:41.519
 Now, if we have died with

00:41:41.519 --> 00:41:42.559
 Christ, we believe that we

00:41:42.559 --> 00:41:44.039
 will also live with him.

00:41:44.420 --> 00:41:46.180
 We have a new country with a

00:41:46.180 --> 00:41:46.800
 new king.

00:41:48.200 --> 00:41:49.980
 We know that Christ, being

00:41:49.980 --> 00:41:51.059
 raised from the dead, will

00:41:51.059 --> 00:41:52.039
 never die again.

00:41:52.300 --> 00:41:54.760
 Death no longer has dominion

00:41:54.760 --> 00:41:55.280
 over him.

00:41:55.539 --> 00:41:57.300
 For the death he died, he

00:41:57.300 --> 00:41:59.099
 died to sin once for all.

00:41:59.099 --> 00:42:00.819
 But the life he lives, he

00:42:00.819 --> 00:42:01.519
 lives to God.

00:42:01.759 --> 00:42:02.679
 This is my life.

00:42:02.940 --> 00:42:03.799
 This is my death.

00:42:04.880 --> 00:42:06.380
 So you also must consider

00:42:06.380 --> 00:42:08.000
 yourselves dead to sin and

00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:09.460
 alive to God in Christ

00:42:09.460 --> 00:42:09.839
 Jesus.

00:42:10.380 --> 00:42:12.900
 Let not sin, therefore, reign

00:42:12.900 --> 00:42:14.860
 in your mortal body to make

00:42:14.860 --> 00:42:15.920
 you obey its passions.

00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:21.940
 Every Christian in conversion

00:42:21.940 --> 00:42:24.579
 is a refugee taken from I

00:42:24.579 --> 00:42:26.719
 want to be God land and

00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:28.440
 brought as a refugee to be a

00:42:28.440 --> 00:42:30.920
 citizen in God's grace land.

00:42:32.659 --> 00:42:33.760
 Andrew, if you could put up

00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:34.139
 the A.

00:42:35.059 --> 00:42:37.940
 How shall we then live when

00:42:37.940 --> 00:42:40.019
 death lies behind us and

00:42:40.019 --> 00:42:41.740
 resurrection waits before us?

00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:44.619
 How shall we then live day by

00:42:44.619 --> 00:42:47.300
 day when death lies behind us

00:42:47.300 --> 00:42:49.579
 and resurrection waits before

00:42:49.579 --> 00:42:49.940
 us?

00:42:50.880 --> 00:42:52.119
 My time is gone.

00:42:52.220 --> 00:42:53.659
 I'll just very briefly, I have

00:42:53.659 --> 00:42:56.259
 to say, the part that's really

00:42:56.259 --> 00:42:57.839
 brought, been home to me, on

00:42:57.839 --> 00:42:59.059
 my very first day of looking

00:42:59.059 --> 00:43:01.279
 at sex on Monday, I had this

00:43:01.279 --> 00:43:03.279
 instant image of verse 13 and

00:43:03.279 --> 00:43:04.359
 it's been an image which has

00:43:04.359 --> 00:43:05.639
 transformed my week.

00:43:06.739 --> 00:43:07.879
 It's an image that's

00:43:07.879 --> 00:43:09.239
 transformed my week.

00:43:09.619 --> 00:43:10.719
 And it's a second way of

00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:13.139
 understanding why it is that

00:43:13.139 --> 00:43:15.639
 when we have Jesus as our

00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:16.719
 covenant head that it doesn't

00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:17.799
 lead to moral anarchy.

00:43:18.139 --> 00:43:19.799
 And it's an image as if you

00:43:19.799 --> 00:43:21.179
 show up at a job site.

00:43:21.179 --> 00:43:22.679
 Listen to what it says in

00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:23.539
 verse 13 and 14.

00:43:23.639 --> 00:43:24.619
 It might not jump out at you

00:43:24.619 --> 00:43:25.839
 at first, but here, listen to

00:43:25.839 --> 00:43:26.480
 verse 13.

00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:28.859
 Do not present your members,

00:43:29.699 --> 00:43:31.119
 and the word members can also

00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:32.599
 be translated as weapons or

00:43:32.599 --> 00:43:33.219
 tools.

00:43:34.739 --> 00:43:35.859
 It could be said, do not present

00:43:35.859 --> 00:43:38.419
 your tools or your weapons to

00:43:38.419 --> 00:43:40.679
 sin as instruments for

00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:42.139
 unrighteousness, but present

00:43:42.139 --> 00:43:44.440
 yourselves to God as those who

00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:46.159
 have been brought from death to

00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:49.399
 life, refugees, and your tools

00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:54.000
 or weapons to God as tools or

00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:56.119
 instruments or weapons for

00:43:56.119 --> 00:43:56.700
 righteousness.

00:43:57.380 --> 00:43:59.220
 For sin will have no dominion

00:43:59.220 --> 00:44:00.440
 over you since you are not

00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:02.720
 under law, but under grace.

00:44:04.340 --> 00:44:05.340
 Andrew, if you could put up the

00:44:05.340 --> 00:44:08.260
 point, every day, every human

00:44:08.260 --> 00:44:10.260
 being shows up at a job site.

00:44:11.220 --> 00:44:12.940
 The Bible text, and I'm asking

00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:15.639
 you, is whose job site did you

00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:16.880
 show up at this morning?

00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:19.559
 Whose job site do you show up

00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:20.240
 to every day?

00:44:21.140 --> 00:44:23.440
 That's the image here behind it.

00:44:24.059 --> 00:44:26.640
 And it's, it means that whether,

00:44:26.800 --> 00:44:27.559
 you know, whether you're a

00:44:27.559 --> 00:44:29.039
 retired person, whether you're

00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:30.740
 same-sex attracted, whether you've

00:44:30.740 --> 00:44:32.059
 never had same-sex attraction

00:44:32.059 --> 00:44:34.240
 issues, whether you, whether you're

00:44:34.240 --> 00:44:35.420
 very rich, whether you're very

00:44:35.420 --> 00:44:37.019
 poor, whether you're well-educated,

00:44:37.140 --> 00:44:38.680
 whether you're, you know, Asian or

00:44:38.680 --> 00:44:41.000
 African or European or Middle

00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:44.940
 Eastern, Native American, you know,

00:44:44.940 --> 00:44:46.880
 Inuit, it doesn't matter.

00:44:47.000 --> 00:44:48.400
 Every single human being, in a

00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:51.340
 sense, they wake up and they report

00:44:51.340 --> 00:44:52.380
 to a job site.

00:44:53.720 --> 00:44:54.639
 And that's the image.

00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:55.679
 And you can just sort of picture,

00:44:56.679 --> 00:44:57.619
 I'm not very handy.

00:44:57.780 --> 00:44:58.900
 Some of you have heard before that

00:44:58.900 --> 00:45:00.519
 when I try to do something in my

00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:02.380
 house, handy-wise, the house value

00:45:02.380 --> 00:45:03.820
 of every house in the street goes

00:45:03.820 --> 00:45:05.679
 down because I'm so completely

00:45:05.679 --> 00:45:07.159
 incompetent with things like that.

00:45:07.420 --> 00:45:08.940
 But if you could just imagine, you

00:45:08.940 --> 00:45:10.300
 know, those working men or women

00:45:10.300 --> 00:45:11.960
 with the tool belts and all the

00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:13.659
 stuff, all the tools fitting around

00:45:13.659 --> 00:45:15.519
 and their basket, one hand, there's

00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:16.699
 their basket of other tools, the

00:45:16.699 --> 00:45:17.500
 other hand, there's their big

00:45:17.500 --> 00:45:18.940
 basket, their big cooler for their

00:45:18.940 --> 00:45:21.239
 lunch, and they trudge over to the

00:45:21.239 --> 00:45:21.779
 job site.

00:45:21.899 --> 00:45:23.339
 In a sense, the Bible says every day

00:45:23.339 --> 00:45:25.359
 you show up at a job site, some

00:45:25.359 --> 00:45:25.940
 job site.

00:45:26.799 --> 00:45:29.399
 You show up at a place, and that

00:45:29.399 --> 00:45:31.460
 place is the place that helps you to

00:45:31.460 --> 00:45:33.739
 understand, like, what it means to

00:45:33.739 --> 00:45:38.500
 be human and what gives worth to

00:45:38.500 --> 00:45:39.940
 you and what gives value to you and

00:45:39.940 --> 00:45:41.399
 what you want to accomplish and how

00:45:41.400 --> 00:45:43.599
 you understand your day, and every

00:45:43.599 --> 00:45:45.460
 human being shows up at a job site,

00:45:45.500 --> 00:45:46.900
 and you can actually visualize it.

00:45:47.420 --> 00:45:48.820
 And so the question is, do you show

00:45:48.820 --> 00:45:52.260
 up at a job site that is all devoted

00:45:52.260 --> 00:45:53.019
 to your ego?

00:45:53.980 --> 00:45:56.559
 Do you show up at a job site devoted to

00:45:56.559 --> 00:46:01.039
 maybe you have the idols of Eros and

00:46:01.039 --> 00:46:04.340
 Aphrodite, that what really motivates you

00:46:04.340 --> 00:46:06.440
 and gives you meaning is some involvement

00:46:06.440 --> 00:46:08.200
 with sexual fantasies.

00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:10.319
 Maybe what you do is you're actually

00:46:10.319 --> 00:46:12.279
 worshiping mammon, that it's money that

00:46:12.279 --> 00:46:14.199
 gives you your worth and your value.

00:46:14.659 --> 00:46:16.519
 Maybe it's educational attainment, the

00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:18.000
 fact that you're really, really smart, and

00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:20.239
 every day it's your smartness and your

00:46:20.239 --> 00:46:22.719
 confidence that gives you value, a sense

00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:24.699
 of worth, a sense of identity, a sense of

00:46:24.699 --> 00:46:25.119
 purpose.

00:46:25.759 --> 00:46:27.199
 Is it just that you just want to be the

00:46:27.199 --> 00:46:28.699
 best, that you want to be over everybody?

00:46:28.839 --> 00:46:29.799
 Is it your anger?

00:46:30.159 --> 00:46:31.159
 Is it your wounds?

00:46:31.639 --> 00:46:34.319
 Is it your addiction to risk?

00:46:34.579 --> 00:46:37.000
 But you show up every day when you wake up

00:46:37.000 --> 00:46:38.719
 and you get out of bed and you put on

00:46:38.719 --> 00:46:42.800
 your tool belt and you show up to work

00:46:42.800 --> 00:46:43.559
 at a job site.

00:46:43.619 --> 00:46:46.719
 And the problem for us as Christians, we

00:46:46.719 --> 00:46:48.960
 keep showing up at the wrong job site.

00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:54.719
 Jesus is my covenant head.

00:46:55.500 --> 00:46:56.820
 I have a new CEO.

00:46:57.300 --> 00:46:58.380
 I have a new foreman.

00:46:58.940 --> 00:47:01.920
 And this company has a different set of

00:47:01.920 --> 00:47:02.360
 values.

00:47:02.480 --> 00:47:03.880
 They have a different set of best

00:47:03.880 --> 00:47:04.400
 practices.

00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:06.160
 They have a different type of building

00:47:06.160 --> 00:47:07.320
 that they're trying to build.

00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:10.019
 They have a different way of understanding

00:47:10.019 --> 00:47:10.940
 how you work.

00:47:11.639 --> 00:47:14.000
 And so Jesus is saying that every day you

00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:15.579
 wake up, you go to a job site.

00:47:16.200 --> 00:47:19.639
 Realize that you now are in Jesus, that you

00:47:19.639 --> 00:47:21.400
 are now in grace land.

00:47:22.019 --> 00:47:24.900
 So take your strength and your mind and

00:47:24.900 --> 00:47:26.900
 your creativity and your educational

00:47:26.900 --> 00:47:30.220
 attainment and your musical ability and

00:47:30.220 --> 00:47:32.619
 your finances and take all that your

00:47:32.619 --> 00:47:35.319
 sexuality and put that all in a sense on

00:47:35.319 --> 00:47:38.119
 your tool belt and show up at Jesus'

00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:39.039
 job site.

00:47:42.079 --> 00:47:44.900
 For him to be your foreman and to show

00:47:44.900 --> 00:47:47.779
 how to build and how to bless the city

00:47:47.779 --> 00:47:50.559
 and how to bless the world and how to

00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:52.500
 bless where you work and how to bless

00:47:52.500 --> 00:47:54.699
 your church and how to bless your family.

00:47:55.839 --> 00:47:58.099
 Stop showing up at the wrong job site.

00:47:58.099 --> 00:48:00.039
 That's stuck with me.

00:48:00.099 --> 00:48:02.039
 That image has stuck with me all week.

00:48:02.480 --> 00:48:05.179
 I confess to you, every day now when I

00:48:05.179 --> 00:48:07.079
 wake up, I've been saying to myself,

00:48:07.599 --> 00:48:10.119
 Jesus, I want to give you the best I have.

00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:12.319
 I'm putting on my tool belt with my best

00:48:12.319 --> 00:48:14.599
 tools and I want to show up at your job

00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:15.179
 site today.

00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:16.779
 I want you to be my foreman.

00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:18.219
 I know it sounds corny.

00:48:18.319 --> 00:48:20.259
 I'm often corny in the inside of my head.

00:48:20.940 --> 00:48:22.159
 But that's what I do.

00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:25.519
 It's really helped me.

00:48:30.139 --> 00:48:31.539
 Andrew, if you could put up the A.

00:48:32.219 --> 00:48:35.480
 How shall we then live when death lies

00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:38.379
 behind us and resurrection waits before us?

00:48:38.480 --> 00:48:40.339
 Whose job site are we going to show up at?

00:48:40.779 --> 00:48:43.759
 When death lies behind us and resurrection

00:48:43.759 --> 00:48:44.899
 waits before us.

00:48:45.579 --> 00:48:46.819
 Could you all stand, please?

00:48:47.799 --> 00:48:50.199
 Andrew, could you put up Romans 1, 16 to 17?

00:48:50.199 --> 00:48:52.659
 Could you folks all read this for me?

00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:55.299
 You see, as every week, you can start now

00:48:55.299 --> 00:48:58.179
 to see why is it that Romans 1, 16 to 17,

00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:00.819
 why is it that it sort of makes sense of

00:49:00.819 --> 00:49:01.379
 the whole book?

00:49:01.659 --> 00:49:03.379
 Now you have a different sense of what it

00:49:03.379 --> 00:49:05.179
 means for the power of God and what

00:49:05.179 --> 00:49:07.339
 righteousness means and what it means to

00:49:07.339 --> 00:49:08.659
 live from faith to faith.

00:49:09.059 --> 00:49:11.539
 That our life is always by faith.

00:49:11.859 --> 00:49:14.500
 That Jesus, Paul is saying, consider these

00:49:14.500 --> 00:49:14.859
 things.

00:49:15.099 --> 00:49:16.219
 Think about these things.

00:49:16.339 --> 00:49:17.779
 Be gripped by these things.

00:49:17.859 --> 00:49:18.399
 That's what he says.

00:49:18.500 --> 00:49:18.939
 Consider.

00:49:19.319 --> 00:49:19.599
 Reckon.

00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:21.380
 Be gripped by these truths.

00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:24.480
 And as we're gripped by it, there's a power

00:49:24.480 --> 00:49:26.940
 of God that comes into us to live our lives.

00:49:27.440 --> 00:49:28.619
 Could you say this with me?

00:49:29.199 --> 00:49:32.259
 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it

00:49:32.259 --> 00:49:35.360
 is the power of God for salvation to everyone

00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:38.739
 who believes, to the Jew first and also to

00:49:38.739 --> 00:49:39.179
 the Greek.

00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:42.360
 For in the gospel, the righteousness of God

00:49:42.360 --> 00:49:44.299
 is revealed from faith to faith.

00:49:44.779 --> 00:49:47.799
 As it is written, the righteous shall live by faith.

00:49:47.800 --> 00:49:51.660
 And Andrew, do you have the prayer to put up for our final prayer?

00:49:52.580 --> 00:49:53.940
 This is actually the prayer.

00:49:54.300 --> 00:49:57.380
 Every week in Growing in Grace, I write a prayer from the Bible text.

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 And this is a version of the prayer I pray now every morning.

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 I'm going to invite you to pray it with me today for the rest of our day.

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 To help bring Romans 6 home to you.

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 It's in your bulletin if it's helpful to you.

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 And as the Holy Spirit leads you, would you pray this prayer with me?

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 Lord, thank you for the gift of this new day.

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 I come to you ready to work for you and under your direction.

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 I bring the best of who I am and all of who I am.

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 I bring my mind, body, time, money, creativity, sexuality, influence, job, and life.

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 I am here to work for you.

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 Please guide, direct, and strengthen me to do what you would have me do.

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 Please free me so I work for your glory and not my own.

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 In Jesus' name, amen.

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 Father, may this prayer be the prayer of our heart.

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 Inform how we live.

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 In Jesus' name, amen.