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 We could stay here for the rest of this day till midnight and not be able to chase all the themes

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 and all the scriptures that have been alluded to in the reading we've just heard.

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 We're obviously not going to be able to do that, but let's stop and pray and ask the Lord to

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 minister to us by his spirit so that we might capture this incredible vision

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 that really is what we've all been waiting for.

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 Let's pray.

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 Dear Lord, we thank you so much that we come and it is so easy for us to come in a way that

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 we feel that just getting in the doors, we've done enough.

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 We've ticked the box.

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 And yet, Lord, as we have sung these amazing truths, as we have heard this amazing passage

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 from your word just read, we are reminded that we are on the verge of something quite incredible.

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 that you are indeed taking us forward to be part of something that no eye has seen, nor

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 ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, that you have prepared from before the foundation

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 of the world.

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 And we ask that by your spirit you would strip away the distractions, the weariness, and that

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 you would allow us to focus on what you have in store.

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 That you would minister to us so that our minds and hearts might be gripped and thoroughly

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 convinced by not just who you are and what you're doing, but of the part that you have

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 called us to play in it.

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 Dear Lord, we are not spectators here tonight.

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 We come as worshippers to hear and receive from you that you might indeed send us forward

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 into all that you have purposed for us to walk in, for your glory.

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 Amen.

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 Guys, I have been given an incredible privilege to come and share with you on a passage that

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 has just been read to us that reflects the climax of this amazing book.

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 The revelation of what will be for those following Jesus in these last days.

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 We have just heard about the end of every tear.

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 The answer to every prayer.

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 Think about that.

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 The answer to every prayer.

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 And you think, oh, gee, I had a very different shopping list of the things.

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 No, trust me.

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 The answer to every prayer, everything you have ever come to the throne of grace with is ultimately

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 answered here.

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 The healing of every hurt.

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 I spoke to a group of older people this morning.

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 There are not as many older people here.

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 And yet we can't be so naive as to think that it's only the older people who have lived enough

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 in this world under the curse that hurt.

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 I come from a place where out of the funerals I do, up to two or three a week, up to a third of them are from suicide.

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 I'm going to tell you a story shortly about a young boy, eight years of age, who's just seen enough hope in Jesus that he might not take his own life as an eight-year-old.

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 And he is not uncommon.

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 That says there is pain.

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 And we have just heard about the healing of every hurt.

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 Whatever your hurts are, whatever they have been, whatever binds you, whatever you long to be free of, whatever you just say, Lord, I want to live for you.

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 He speaks of this here.

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 And while, yes, we are speaking of a time that is hence, that is still future, he catches us up in it now.

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 There is an incredible liberation for those who realise and live as the kids of the kingdom.

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 And just like the building project next door, we will see that this is not going to be the goal.

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 The completion of this is not the goal.

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 The slab out the front is not the end of it.

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 Even the opening day, it's not the end.

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 It's the beginning.

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 We're getting ready to start.

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 And this is probably the hardest thing for you as young people to grasp.

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 That you think, this is it.

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 I'm in the prime of my life.

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 I look at this guy out the front and I just go, he is so not in the prime of his life.

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 But I am there.

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 I am there.

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 If you want to truly suck the marrow from life, in other words, get all the riches that God has purposed for you,

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 you must stop listening to the world out there.

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 You must stop listening to what it says will define you.

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 And you must listen to this.

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 You must live for this.

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 Because in the previous chapters to this, you have heard that the battle is over.

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 That evil has been swept away.

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 You know that you haven't been following a calendar or diarised set of things that starts from chapter one and the seven churches.

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 You're following something that is like layers.

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 Anyone watch Bathurst yesterday?

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 No one?

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 Today?

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 Was it today?

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 Oh, I lose track.

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 I haven't watched Bathurst today.

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 I used to love watching Bathurst.

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 You know?

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 You know how they do Bathurst?

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 Bathurst.

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 You know, like, Bathurst was just gold for guys that make technology little and use it with cameras.

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 You know?

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 Because, you know, Bathurst, you know, one moment you have that standard camera view and then the next moment you are, you know,

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 you're looking at this same race out of a camera that is down in the ground.

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 And the cars are going straight over the top of you.

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 And then the next moment you are on this pulley that is being pulled down the length of Pitt Street as fast as the cars go.

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 And you feel like, well, you are going as fast as the car.

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 The next moment you're actually looking from a camera that is up in the helicopter that is following around the mountain at, you know, nearly 200 miles an hour.

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 The next moment you are in the car, you are looking at the guy's feet going up and down on top of you as he changes the gears.

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 The next moment you are, let me think of another one, you're in the pits.

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 All of these different camera angles are all giving you the same view, sorry, a different view of the same event.

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 That is what Revelations do.

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 It is layer upon layer.

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 It keeps giving you different views of the same event of the last day, the period between Christ's first coming and his second coming.

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 So that you might be secure in the knowledge and the assurance of what he is doing in your midst.

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 And so having come through these previous visions and seen that the battle is over, evil has been swept away.

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 We now have three pictures of incredible glory.

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 The glory of a new day that we thought would never dawn has come.

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 And these three pictures are all seen in the first couple of verses.

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 Indeed, I'm going to focus on the first four verses of this chapter and leave the rest of it to you.

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 We will unpack a few things, but you see that it begins and he says,

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 Then I saw a new heavens and a new earth.

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 And we read of something that is referred to in Isaiah 65 and in many other places,

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 this promise of a new heavens and a new earth.

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 And he goes on and indeed says,

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 For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and there was no longer any sea.

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 And I'm sure you've been told not only not to view it as a timeline and all of that,

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 but not to take these pictures, these Old Testament allusions literally, right?

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 To make sure that even as, if you're anything like me,

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 you hear that passage read and you close your eyes.

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 And in one sense, you're picturing.

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 But remember, you're still picturing a vision that then has to be interpreted.

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 Never take the vision as literal.

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 You remember, it probably began with Steve preaching on the glorious vision of the risen and ascended Lord Jesus.

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 Right?

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 And if you take that vision literally, then of course, you will be ducking and weaving

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 when you stand before the Lord and get ready to give him a hug.

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 Because as you know, there is a sharp two-edged sword coming out of his mouth.

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 And if you are not careful, he will slice you in two when you give him a hug.

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 Do not worry.

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 This will not happen.

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 It is an image to be interpreted.

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 Right?

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 We know that it means that he speaks truth.

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 Every word is truth.

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 And similarly here, when we speak of the new heavens and the new earth,

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 just go back if you can,

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 for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away,

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 we actually need to interpret the image.

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 Because I'm going to call,

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 I'm going to call an elephant in the room.

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 that in fact,

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 if you are anything like me,

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 there is a bit of a worry about heaven.

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 There is a bit of a feeling that,

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 Lord, how can I be?

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 Look,

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 am I really going to want to be there?

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 When it really boils down,

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 that's the elephant in the room.

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 Am I really going to want to be there?

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 And this passage,

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 I've got to tell you,

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 does not give me any encouragement whatsoever.

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 Who here likes to surf?

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 Anybody?

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 Right?

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 Sorry, Sam.

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 I'm sorry, mate.

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 Who here likes to fish?

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 Yep,

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 a few more of those.

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 Who here likes to walk along the beach?

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 Oh,

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 lots of people.

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 Well,

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 I'm sorry,

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 you're just going to have to suck it up

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 because there is no longer any sea.

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 It's not a laughing matter.

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 And yet,

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 of course,

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 if we in fact receive as we need to,

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 every part of this revelation

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 as something that must be interpreted,

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 don't stop when you get to the millennium,

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 don't stop interpreting

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 and translating these images,

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 whether they be numbers,

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 time frames,

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 pictures,

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 whatever it be.

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 And similarly with this,

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 I'm just going to use this

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 no longer any sea as an example

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 that in fact,

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 we need to recognize,

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 as you see,

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 and you can go right back

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 to Genesis chapter one

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 and see that in the beginning,

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 God created the heavens and the earth.

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 The earth was without form and void.

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 Darkness was over the face of the deep

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 and the spirit of God

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 was hovering over the face of the waters.

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 So as the Lord moves out to create

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 and as we know in what flows

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 in the narrative there of chapter one,

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 the seas and the oceans

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 aren't created till later

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 and yet there is this image

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 in God creating out of nothing

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 that there is still this picture given us

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 that chaos

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 and that which is not of God

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 is reflected by the deep,

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 by waters that we don't know

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 what lurks beneath.

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 And so there is this picture of chaos

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 and he's not going to be

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 but of the Lord presiding.

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 He presides over it.

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 He rules it

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 and he conforms it to his purpose

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 and his plan.

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 And indeed,

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 as we go on through the prophets

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 and we could pick many others,

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 but just looking at Isaiah 57,

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 he says,

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 the wicked are like the tossing sea

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 for it cannot be quiet.

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 Its waters toss up mire and dirt.

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 If you've ever been down after a cyclone,

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 you've seen it can be literally towers of foam

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 and it is literally all the dirt

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 that has been tossed out of the sea.

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 So there's this picture of this chaos.

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 But what we are reading here

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 when we read

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 of the sea being no more

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 is not meant to discourage anybody

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 who would like a walk along the beach in eternity.

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 I can't tell you

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 what heaven will be like.

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 And you say,

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 what do you mean you can't tell me, Richard?

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 I mean,

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 we're just reading the book that is full of it

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 and I want to tell you,

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 no, we're not.

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 That's actually not the purpose

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 of the book of Revelation.

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 Its purpose is not to give you

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 a literal idea

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 of exactly what heaven will be like.

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 Test me.

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 Go back and read it.

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 Every picture is just that,

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 a picture to be interpreted.

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 The idea of this

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 is not to discourage surfers,

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 fishermen,

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 or walk along the beaches.

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 It is to actually

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 encourage those

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 who need to know

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 that will there be a day

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 when there is no longer,

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 not just that which is wrong

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 and bad

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 and unjust

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 and the root of pain,

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 but even the causes of sin.

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 I need to know

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 it will end.

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 And when he says

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 the sea was no more,

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 in that image,

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 that is what he's picking up.

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 in this new heavens

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 and new earth

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 there will be nothing

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 of that.

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 I can't tell you literally

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 what heaven will be like.

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 But I guarantee you

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 of one thing,

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 that while there's not

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 a single thing here

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 that tells you literally

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 what it will be,

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 it tells you

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 that God is there

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 and so are you

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 in complete love

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 forever.

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 And that is what

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 the rest of this unpacks.

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 That's what he goes on

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 indeed in the next

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 of these three

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 glorious pictures.

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 As we see,

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 he then says,

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 verse two,

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 I saw the holy city,

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 the new Jerusalem,

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 coming down out of heaven

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 from God,

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 prepared as a bride,

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 beautifully dressed

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 for her husband.

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 So we see this

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 bringing together

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 of these two pictures,

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 this second and third picture,

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 a holy city,

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 new Jerusalem,

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 coming down out of heaven

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 from God.

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 It's a picture

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 that you could follow

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 right through.

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 Right through.

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 I read from Isaiah 12

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 this morning,

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 Isaiah 11,

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 sorry,

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 about the time

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 when the lion

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 will dwell with the lamb,

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 when the child

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 won't just play

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 on the drums,

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 he will play

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 over the adder's den.

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 And dad will not

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 have to worry.

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 For no one

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 shall hurt

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 or steal

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 in all my holy mountain.

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 This is the holy city,

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 the new Jerusalem

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 that we now see

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 in this picture.

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 is coming down

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 out of heaven

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 and then,

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 bam,

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 we're into the next picture

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 which is

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 prepared as a bride,

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 beautifully dressed

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 for her husband.

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 I went to a wedding

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 on Friday,

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 my daughter's getting married.

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 My daughter's getting married

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 in three weeks' time.

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 Lots of lace

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 and tulle

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 and all of that,

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 I'm not allowed

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 to see the dress.

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 It's a secret.

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 But it's going

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 to be great.

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 But here are these

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 put together.

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 You see one moment,

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 Lord,

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 will you make up your mind?

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 What's coming down

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 out of heaven?

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 A city or a bride?

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 I need to know.

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 No, you don't.

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 Interpret it.

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 Translate it.

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 Understand it.

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 Consider the images

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 and then understand them.

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 Because as you do,

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 you are caught up

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 with something astounding.

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 And I want us

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 to quickly move forward

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 and move past

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 as we then look on

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 at verse 3

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 because these three images,

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 new heavens,

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 new earth,

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 holy city,

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 new Jerusalem,

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 bride adorned

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 for her husband.

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 What does it spell?

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 Verse 3.

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 Verse 3.

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 No,

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 verse 3.

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 Golly,

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 Jay!

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 Sorry

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 for that tantrum.

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 And I heard a loud voice

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 from the throne saying,

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 look,

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 God's dwelling place

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 is now among the people

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 and he will dwell with them.

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 They will be his people

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 and God himself

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 will be with them

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 and be their God.

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 Every one of the three

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 pictures of glory

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 that you've seen

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 in verses 1 and 2

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 spells that.

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 Just like I said,

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 none of what you see

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 in Revelation

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 about heaven

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 is to be understood

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 literally.

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 That is what

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 you're to understand.

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 That is what

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 has always been in view.

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 When the Lord

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 promised to the people

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 through Moses,

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 both of his presence

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 at the tabernacle,

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 of his presence

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 at the temple,

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 of them in the promised land,

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 of his promises

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 to David,

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 it was all

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 that they will be

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 his people

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 and God himself

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 will be with them

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 and be their God.

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 Is that not what it is?

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 And then verse 4,

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 he will wipe

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 every tear

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 from their eyes.

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 There will be no

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 more death

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 or mourning

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 or crying

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 or pain

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 for the old order

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 of things

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 has passed away.

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 and it's hard

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 for me to read that,

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 to sing

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 those words

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 and truths

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 so beautifully

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 expressed in that song

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 without contemplating

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 what it's meant,

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 the journey

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 that the Lord's

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 caused me

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 to travel

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 over these 52 years

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 to consider

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 what you are going through,

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 what I have no idea of

00:20:06.660 --> 00:20:08.259
 but which the Lord knows,

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 which Jesus

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 carried to the cross

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 when it said,

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 when he said,

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 your sins

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 were laid upon him

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 and that by his wounds

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 you would be healed,

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 that he bore

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 the punishment

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 that would make you whole.

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 When I think

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 of those

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 over in Wickham

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 and this

00:20:27.980 --> 00:20:29.180
 desperation,

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 I want to tell you

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 the story

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 of two friends

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 of mine

00:20:36.180 --> 00:20:36.900
 who are in fact

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 brothers and sisters

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 to you,

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 Bob and Pauline.

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 They were never married,

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 there's very little

00:20:46.180 --> 00:20:46.799
 marriage

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 that has gone on

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 over the last

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 30 years

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 in the Aboriginal

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 community

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 and the tribes

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 of the Pilbara

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 and we're just

00:20:56.740 --> 00:20:57.860
 starting to see that

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 there are four

00:20:58.659 --> 00:21:00.179
 Aboriginal couples

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 that have asked me

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 to marry them

00:21:01.439 --> 00:21:02.500
 just in the last year

00:21:02.500 --> 00:21:06.419
 and Bob and Pauline

00:21:06.419 --> 00:21:06.959
 I know

00:21:06.959 --> 00:21:08.459
 wanted to head that way.

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 Many of them

00:21:09.099 --> 00:21:09.879
 feel they can't

00:21:09.879 --> 00:21:10.659
 because the way

00:21:10.659 --> 00:21:11.359
 they've been taught

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 in the past

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 is that they've got

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 to get their

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 lives together

00:21:15.199 --> 00:21:16.679
 before they can

00:21:16.679 --> 00:21:19.359
 actually come to God

00:21:19.359 --> 00:21:20.419
 and accept Jesus

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 and sadly

00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.119
 we have those same

00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:25.019
 misconceptions

00:21:25.019 --> 00:21:26.519
 and stereotypes here

00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:27.379
 rather than the

00:21:27.379 --> 00:21:27.940
 realisation

00:21:27.940 --> 00:21:28.480
 that I have

00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:29.440
 no resources

00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:30.379
 in and of myself.

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 Who am I kidding

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 to think

00:21:32.879 --> 00:21:33.799
 that I can fix

00:21:33.799 --> 00:21:34.720
 the things in me

00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:36.059
 outside of the

00:21:36.059 --> 00:21:36.619
 unction of the

00:21:36.619 --> 00:21:36.879
 spirit?

00:21:38.639 --> 00:21:39.059
 And so

00:21:39.059 --> 00:21:40.819
 Bob

00:21:40.819 --> 00:21:42.099
 was

00:21:42.099 --> 00:21:43.879
 they had

00:21:43.879 --> 00:21:44.319
 heritage

00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:45.680
 of faith

00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:47.019
 and had been

00:21:47.019 --> 00:21:47.539
 taken

00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:48.740
 by grandparents

00:21:48.740 --> 00:21:49.379
 to church

00:21:49.379 --> 00:21:49.940
 as kids

00:21:49.940 --> 00:21:51.319
 but Bob

00:21:51.319 --> 00:21:51.639
 asked me

00:21:51.639 --> 00:21:52.139
 to visit him

00:21:52.139 --> 00:21:52.599
 in prison

00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:53.299
 to give him

00:21:53.299 --> 00:21:53.759
 a Bible

00:21:53.759 --> 00:21:54.799
 and we read it

00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:55.160
 and he put

00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:56.220
 his trust in Jesus

00:21:56.220 --> 00:21:57.460
 and even while

00:21:57.460 --> 00:21:57.980
 he was doing

00:21:57.980 --> 00:21:58.420
 his stint

00:21:58.420 --> 00:21:58.759
 in prison

00:21:58.759 --> 00:21:59.240
 which I think

00:21:59.240 --> 00:22:00.580
 was his 12th

00:22:00.580 --> 00:22:02.680
 I would talk

00:22:02.680 --> 00:22:03.800
 to Pauline

00:22:03.800 --> 00:22:04.259
 and we were

00:22:04.259 --> 00:22:05.140
 starting barbecue

00:22:05.140 --> 00:22:05.560
 church

00:22:05.560 --> 00:22:06.019
 and I would

00:22:06.019 --> 00:22:07.060
 visit everyone

00:22:07.060 --> 00:22:07.779
 in the community

00:22:07.779 --> 00:22:08.480
 each month

00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:09.720
 and I would

00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:10.580
 talk to her

00:22:10.580 --> 00:22:11.800
 and she would

00:22:11.800 --> 00:22:12.240
 say I don't

00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:12.900
 need Jesus

00:22:12.900 --> 00:22:15.140
 and if you knew

00:22:15.140 --> 00:22:15.700
 what had happened

00:22:15.700 --> 00:22:16.240
 in her life

00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:16.860
 you'd understand

00:22:16.860 --> 00:22:17.660
 why she says

00:22:17.660 --> 00:22:17.940
 that

00:22:17.940 --> 00:22:19.640
 and yet

00:22:19.640 --> 00:22:20.420
 it came to

00:22:20.420 --> 00:22:21.259
 the point

00:22:21.259 --> 00:22:21.759
 where she would

00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:22.599
 say to me

00:22:22.599 --> 00:22:25.519
 I don't

00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:25.879
 come to

00:22:25.879 --> 00:22:26.579
 barbecue church

00:22:26.579 --> 00:22:27.099
 but I want

00:22:27.099 --> 00:22:27.519
 you to know

00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:27.920
 that I'm

00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:28.319
 listening

00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:30.119
 see all the

00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:31.420
 drinking houses

00:22:31.420 --> 00:22:32.119
 would listen

00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:34.319
 to what was

00:22:34.319 --> 00:22:35.259
 sung and said

00:22:35.259 --> 00:22:36.539
 from their houses

00:22:36.539 --> 00:22:38.900
 as we turn up

00:22:38.900 --> 00:22:39.619
 the amp

00:22:39.619 --> 00:22:40.220
 a bit more

00:22:40.220 --> 00:22:42.980
 and the Lord

00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:44.900
 the Lord

00:22:44.900 --> 00:22:45.339
 I know

00:22:45.339 --> 00:22:45.940
 is working

00:22:45.940 --> 00:22:46.900
 not just in

00:22:46.900 --> 00:22:47.680
 those who come

00:22:47.680 --> 00:22:48.779
 but in those

00:22:48.779 --> 00:22:49.279
 who don't

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 and she said

00:22:50.660 --> 00:22:52.399
 I think this

00:22:52.399 --> 00:22:53.319
 Jesus is good

00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:55.160
 and then a

00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:55.799
 while later

00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:56.539
 months later

00:22:56.539 --> 00:22:57.759
 she said

00:22:57.759 --> 00:22:58.519
 she would

00:22:58.519 --> 00:22:59.000
 start saying

00:22:59.000 --> 00:22:59.200
 to me

00:22:59.200 --> 00:22:59.559
 I need

00:22:59.559 --> 00:22:59.859
 Jesus

00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:00.319
 and as you

00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:00.680
 can see

00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:01.539
 she started

00:23:01.539 --> 00:23:02.059
 coming to

00:23:02.059 --> 00:23:02.879
 barbecue church

00:23:02.879 --> 00:23:05.240
 and this

00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:05.720
 photo was

00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:06.200
 taken when

00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:07.200
 Bob was

00:23:07.200 --> 00:23:07.740
 out of prison

00:23:07.740 --> 00:23:08.619
 he's back

00:23:08.619 --> 00:23:09.240
 in for another

00:23:09.240 --> 00:23:09.899
 stint now

00:23:09.899 --> 00:23:11.500
 such are the

00:23:11.500 --> 00:23:12.899
 cycles of

00:23:12.899 --> 00:23:13.379
 dysfunction

00:23:13.379 --> 00:23:13.819
 and how

00:23:13.819 --> 00:23:14.500
 tightly they

00:23:14.500 --> 00:23:14.960
 bind us

00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:15.720
 they bind us

00:23:15.720 --> 00:23:16.339
 as tightly

00:23:16.339 --> 00:23:17.480
 as you might

00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:18.119
 find yourself

00:23:18.119 --> 00:23:18.700
 held by

00:23:18.700 --> 00:23:19.500
 consumerism

00:23:19.500 --> 00:23:20.420
 or held

00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:21.240
 by pride

00:23:21.240 --> 00:23:22.380
 or held

00:23:22.380 --> 00:23:22.779
 by the

00:23:22.779 --> 00:23:23.440
 need to

00:23:23.440 --> 00:23:24.039
 control

00:23:24.039 --> 00:23:24.840
 your life

00:23:24.840 --> 00:23:25.920
 or held

00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:27.319
 by whatever

00:23:27.319 --> 00:23:28.059
 it may be

00:23:28.059 --> 00:23:31.940
 and yet

00:23:31.940 --> 00:23:32.500
 she began

00:23:32.500 --> 00:23:32.880
 to come

00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:34.039
 to barbecue

00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:34.539
 church

00:23:34.539 --> 00:23:35.700
 and she

00:23:35.700 --> 00:23:38.000
 I know

00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:39.000
 that she

00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.299
 has said

00:23:40.299 --> 00:23:40.779
 yes to

00:23:40.779 --> 00:23:41.140
 Jesus

00:23:41.140 --> 00:23:42.220
 and we

00:23:42.220 --> 00:23:42.580
 would have

00:23:42.580 --> 00:23:43.400
 these amazing

00:23:43.400 --> 00:23:44.200
 conversations

00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:45.259
 and yet

00:23:45.259 --> 00:23:45.740
 still

00:23:45.740 --> 00:23:46.960
 she was

00:23:46.960 --> 00:23:47.759
 in the grip

00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:48.420
 of the things

00:23:48.420 --> 00:23:48.759
 to which

00:23:48.759 --> 00:23:49.039
 she had

00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:49.640
 been bound

00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:50.660
 and the

00:23:50.660 --> 00:23:51.240
 last time

00:23:51.240 --> 00:23:51.900
 I saw

00:23:51.900 --> 00:23:52.279
 her

00:23:52.279 --> 00:23:53.680
 a couple

00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:54.180
 of barbecue

00:23:54.180 --> 00:23:54.700
 churches

00:23:54.700 --> 00:23:55.200
 ago

00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:56.320
 she

00:23:56.320 --> 00:23:57.620
 came away

00:23:57.620 --> 00:23:57.940
 from the

00:23:57.940 --> 00:23:58.279
 group she

00:23:58.279 --> 00:23:58.759
 was drinking

00:23:58.759 --> 00:23:59.259
 with and

00:23:59.259 --> 00:24:00.259
 she spoke

00:24:00.259 --> 00:24:00.640
 to me

00:24:00.640 --> 00:24:01.600
 of having

00:24:01.600 --> 00:24:02.259
 been raped

00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:02.759
 recently

00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.640
 she spoke

00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:05.120
 to me

00:24:05.120 --> 00:24:06.960
 of the

00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:07.340
 fact that

00:24:07.340 --> 00:24:07.860
 she had

00:24:07.860 --> 00:24:08.220
 to get

00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:08.759
 off the

00:24:08.759 --> 00:24:09.120
 grog

00:24:09.119 --> 00:24:09.839
 and

00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:11.000
 if there

00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:11.559
 was to

00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:12.059
 be any

00:24:12.059 --> 00:24:12.579
 hope for

00:24:12.579 --> 00:24:12.859
 her

00:24:12.859 --> 00:24:13.219
 or for

00:24:13.219 --> 00:24:13.419
 Bob

00:24:13.419 --> 00:24:13.699
 when they

00:24:13.699 --> 00:24:14.099
 got out

00:24:14.099 --> 00:24:14.319
 when

00:24:14.319 --> 00:24:14.619
 Holmes

00:24:14.619 --> 00:24:14.819
 West

00:24:14.819 --> 00:24:15.099
 gave

00:24:15.099 --> 00:24:15.239
 them

00:24:15.239 --> 00:24:15.359
 a

00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:15.619
 house

00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:16.179
 and

00:24:16.179 --> 00:24:16.319
 she

00:24:16.319 --> 00:24:16.579
 said

00:24:16.579 --> 00:24:18.879
 you have

00:24:18.879 --> 00:24:19.739
 to pick

00:24:19.739 --> 00:24:20.059
 me up

00:24:20.059 --> 00:24:20.639
 for church

00:24:20.639 --> 00:24:21.659
 and I

00:24:21.659 --> 00:24:21.919
 thought she

00:24:21.919 --> 00:24:22.379
 meant barbecue

00:24:22.379 --> 00:24:22.699
 church

00:24:22.699 --> 00:24:23.159
 but she

00:24:23.159 --> 00:24:24.479
 like we've

00:24:24.479 --> 00:24:24.759
 had an

00:24:24.759 --> 00:24:25.259
 increasing

00:24:25.259 --> 00:24:25.719
 number of

00:24:25.719 --> 00:24:26.039
 aboriginal

00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:26.719
 people starting

00:24:26.719 --> 00:24:27.119
 to come

00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:27.539
 on Sunday

00:24:27.539 --> 00:24:28.000
 morning to

00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:28.259
 church

00:24:28.259 --> 00:24:28.679
 the first

00:24:28.679 --> 00:24:29.099
 year we

00:24:29.099 --> 00:24:29.439
 virtually

00:24:29.439 --> 00:24:29.899
 had no

00:24:29.899 --> 00:24:30.099
 one

00:24:30.099 --> 00:24:31.019
 there was

00:24:31.019 --> 00:24:31.399
 not an

00:24:31.399 --> 00:24:31.719
 aboriginal

00:24:31.719 --> 00:24:32.319
 person

00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:33.259
 in Wickham

00:24:33.259 --> 00:24:33.659
 that was a

00:24:33.660 --> 00:24:33.960
 Christian

00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.160
 and now

00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:37.560
 we probably

00:24:37.560 --> 00:24:38.120
 have up to

00:24:38.120 --> 00:24:38.560
 a dozen

00:24:38.560 --> 00:24:39.480
 that will

00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:39.820
 come

00:24:39.820 --> 00:24:42.920
 and to

00:24:42.920 --> 00:24:43.420
 realise that

00:24:43.420 --> 00:24:43.700
 she wanted

00:24:43.700 --> 00:24:44.200
 me to pick

00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:44.500
 her up

00:24:44.500 --> 00:24:45.080
 even for

00:24:45.080 --> 00:24:46.060
 morning church

00:24:46.060 --> 00:24:46.759
 and we

00:24:46.759 --> 00:24:47.420
 arranged and

00:24:47.420 --> 00:24:47.759
 I went

00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:48.360
 we went

00:24:48.360 --> 00:24:48.759
 round to

00:24:48.759 --> 00:24:49.279
 her place

00:24:49.279 --> 00:24:50.240
 to pick

00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:50.660
 her up

00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:51.340
 but after

00:24:51.340 --> 00:24:51.940
 inquiries

00:24:51.940 --> 00:24:52.500
 discovered

00:24:52.500 --> 00:24:53.740
 that she

00:24:53.740 --> 00:24:54.340
 had gone

00:24:54.340 --> 00:24:54.840
 to family

00:24:54.840 --> 00:24:55.360
 in Robben

00:24:55.360 --> 00:24:56.880
 and two

00:24:56.880 --> 00:24:57.620
 nights later

00:24:57.620 --> 00:24:58.060
 after an

00:24:58.060 --> 00:24:58.580
 argument she

00:24:58.580 --> 00:24:58.960
 took her

00:24:58.960 --> 00:24:59.360
 life

00:24:59.360 --> 00:25:03.279
 and at

00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:03.899
 her funeral

00:25:03.899 --> 00:25:05.420
 in front

00:25:05.420 --> 00:25:06.019
 of about

00:25:06.019 --> 00:25:06.619
 five to

00:25:06.619 --> 00:25:07.139
 six hundred

00:25:07.139 --> 00:25:08.139
 people

00:25:08.139 --> 00:25:08.799
 family

00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:11.200
 I was able

00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:11.660
 to speak

00:25:11.660 --> 00:25:12.119
 to them

00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:13.379
 because the

00:25:13.379 --> 00:25:13.759
 aboriginal

00:25:13.759 --> 00:25:14.539
 pastor asked

00:25:14.539 --> 00:25:15.000
 me to do

00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:15.420
 all the

00:25:15.420 --> 00:25:16.299
 teaching of

00:25:16.299 --> 00:25:16.720
 the bible

00:25:16.720 --> 00:25:18.519
 now at

00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:19.200
 these funerals

00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:19.500
 and he

00:25:19.500 --> 00:25:20.019
 asked me

00:25:20.019 --> 00:25:20.460
 and said

00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:23.259
 sorry I

00:25:23.259 --> 00:25:23.920
 shared with

00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:24.220
 them from

00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:25.059
 Matthew 5

00:25:25.059 --> 00:25:26.339
 blessed

00:25:26.339 --> 00:25:28.720
 are the

00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:29.019
 poor

00:25:29.019 --> 00:25:32.000
 blessed are

00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:32.319
 the poor

00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:32.740
 in spirit

00:25:32.740 --> 00:25:33.220
 for they

00:25:33.220 --> 00:25:33.759
 shall inherit

00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:34.140
 the earth

00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:34.900
 blessed are

00:25:34.900 --> 00:25:35.319
 those who

00:25:35.319 --> 00:25:35.759
 mourn for

00:25:35.759 --> 00:25:36.079
 they should

00:25:36.079 --> 00:25:36.660
 be comforted

00:25:36.660 --> 00:25:37.319
 I was able

00:25:37.319 --> 00:25:37.880
 to say to

00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:38.599
 them this

00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:38.980
 is not

00:25:38.980 --> 00:25:39.799
 talking about

00:25:39.799 --> 00:25:40.819
 those who

00:25:40.819 --> 00:25:41.319
 don't have

00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:41.920
 much money

00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:42.640
 getting this

00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:43.740
 reversal of

00:25:43.740 --> 00:25:44.400
 being rich

00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:45.740
 or those who

00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:46.480
 attend lots of

00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:47.120
 funerals like

00:25:47.120 --> 00:25:47.680
 you guys

00:25:47.680 --> 00:25:48.559
 you'll be the

00:25:48.559 --> 00:25:49.200
 ones that God

00:25:49.200 --> 00:25:49.720
 will comfort

00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:50.539
 it actually

00:25:50.539 --> 00:25:51.220
 speaks about

00:25:51.220 --> 00:25:51.839
 those who

00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:52.500
 realise that

00:25:52.500 --> 00:25:52.819
 they are

00:25:52.819 --> 00:25:53.759
 absolutely

00:25:53.759 --> 00:25:54.980
 bankrupt in

00:25:54.980 --> 00:25:56.000
 life without

00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:56.640
 Jesus

00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:00.380
 a realisation

00:26:00.380 --> 00:26:01.500
 that they

00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:01.900
 need to

00:26:01.900 --> 00:26:02.259
 come to

00:26:02.259 --> 00:26:02.960
 just as

00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:03.360
 much as

00:26:03.360 --> 00:26:03.759
 we need

00:26:03.759 --> 00:26:04.080
 to come

00:26:04.080 --> 00:26:04.200
 to

00:26:04.200 --> 00:26:04.660
 or should

00:26:04.660 --> 00:26:05.000
 I say

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:05.720
 that we

00:26:05.720 --> 00:26:06.160
 need to

00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:06.500
 come to

00:26:06.500 --> 00:26:07.180
 just as

00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:07.560
 much as

00:26:07.560 --> 00:26:07.940
 they need

00:26:07.940 --> 00:26:08.259
 to come

00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:08.500
 to

00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:09.520
 that those

00:26:09.520 --> 00:26:10.660
 in plain

00:26:10.660 --> 00:26:11.520
 dysfunction

00:26:11.520 --> 00:26:12.600
 open and

00:26:12.600 --> 00:26:13.160
 evident to

00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:13.560
 all

00:26:13.560 --> 00:26:16.900
 need it

00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:17.320
 just as

00:26:17.320 --> 00:26:17.720
 much as

00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:18.080
 we

00:26:18.080 --> 00:26:19.020
 with our

00:26:19.020 --> 00:26:19.280
 hidden

00:26:19.280 --> 00:26:20.180
 dysfunctions

00:26:20.180 --> 00:26:25.440
 desperately

00:26:25.440 --> 00:26:26.940
 need to

00:26:26.940 --> 00:26:27.299
 know the

00:26:27.299 --> 00:26:27.860
 sufficiency

00:26:27.860 --> 00:26:28.840
 the all

00:26:28.840 --> 00:26:29.420
 sufficiency

00:26:29.420 --> 00:26:30.360
 the lavish

00:26:30.360 --> 00:26:31.240
 resources

00:26:31.240 --> 00:26:32.340
 that Christ

00:26:32.340 --> 00:26:33.180
 brings to

00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:34.000
 us from

00:26:34.000 --> 00:26:34.600
 the Father's

00:26:34.600 --> 00:26:35.539
 hand and

00:26:35.539 --> 00:26:37.580
 to actually

00:26:37.580 --> 00:26:39.740
 see and

00:26:39.740 --> 00:26:40.160
 to know

00:26:40.160 --> 00:26:40.440
 and to

00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:42.560
 sing those

00:26:42.560 --> 00:26:43.100
 words

00:26:43.100 --> 00:26:45.340
 no more

00:26:45.340 --> 00:26:45.840
 tears

00:26:45.840 --> 00:26:46.640
 no more

00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:47.060
 crying

00:26:47.060 --> 00:26:48.299
 no more

00:26:48.299 --> 00:26:48.660
 mourning

00:26:48.660 --> 00:26:49.500
 no more

00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:49.920
 pain

00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.600
 no more

00:26:50.600 --> 00:26:50.900
 death

00:26:50.900 --> 00:26:52.400
 to know

00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:52.960
 that that

00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:53.860
 is hers

00:26:53.860 --> 00:26:58.539
 gives me

00:26:58.539 --> 00:26:59.000
 such a

00:26:59.000 --> 00:26:59.300
 comfort

00:26:59.300 --> 00:27:00.800
 but it

00:27:00.800 --> 00:27:01.560
 also creates

00:27:01.560 --> 00:27:02.240
 this prayer

00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:03.440
 where I

00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:03.900
 asked you

00:27:03.900 --> 00:27:04.320
 before

00:27:04.320 --> 00:27:05.279
 to pray

00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:05.920
 with us

00:27:05.920 --> 00:27:06.700
 that the

00:27:06.700 --> 00:27:07.279
 Lord indeed

00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:07.779
 will keep

00:27:07.779 --> 00:27:08.440
 people alive

00:27:08.440 --> 00:27:08.840
 long enough

00:27:08.840 --> 00:27:09.539
 another third

00:27:09.539 --> 00:27:09.980
 of those

00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:10.320
 that I

00:27:10.320 --> 00:27:10.900
 laid in

00:27:10.900 --> 00:27:11.279
 the ground

00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:11.800
 this year

00:27:11.800 --> 00:27:12.720
 died from

00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:13.640
 asbestosis

00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:14.759
 the public

00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:15.920
 face of

00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:17.000
 asbestos

00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.060
 related diseases

00:27:18.060 --> 00:27:18.420
 is

00:27:18.420 --> 00:27:19.240
 is

00:27:19.240 --> 00:27:21.120
 guys

00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:21.640
 white

00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:22.140
 Australians

00:27:22.140 --> 00:27:22.740
 that worked

00:27:22.740 --> 00:27:23.480
 in factories

00:27:23.480 --> 00:27:24.240
 you know

00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:24.700
 where it

00:27:24.700 --> 00:27:26.759
 was produced

00:27:26.759 --> 00:27:27.299
 or sent

00:27:27.299 --> 00:27:27.700
 out but

00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:28.299
 they missed

00:27:28.299 --> 00:27:28.859
 the people

00:27:28.859 --> 00:27:30.000
 who actually

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:31.680
 had to

00:27:31.680 --> 00:27:32.240
 endure

00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.620
 the results

00:27:34.620 --> 00:27:35.220
 of having

00:27:35.220 --> 00:27:36.299
 played

00:27:36.299 --> 00:27:36.859
 on their

00:27:36.859 --> 00:27:38.180
 on the

00:27:38.180 --> 00:27:38.640
 sacks

00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:39.539
 as they

00:27:39.539 --> 00:27:40.000
 sat on

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:40.539
 their dad's

00:27:40.539 --> 00:27:40.819
 truck

00:27:40.819 --> 00:27:41.099
 as he

00:27:41.099 --> 00:27:41.599
 drove it

00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:41.859
 from

00:27:41.859 --> 00:27:42.259
 Robben

00:27:42.259 --> 00:27:42.680
 out to

00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:43.339
 the

00:27:43.339 --> 00:27:44.039
 wharf

00:27:44.039 --> 00:27:44.220
 at

00:27:44.220 --> 00:27:44.460
 Point

00:27:44.460 --> 00:27:44.980
 Samson

00:27:44.980 --> 00:27:45.640
 as they

00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:46.059
 played

00:27:46.059 --> 00:27:46.359
 in the

00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:47.019
 tailings

00:27:47.019 --> 00:27:48.640
 one guy

00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:48.980
 who's got

00:27:48.980 --> 00:27:49.500
 cancer

00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:50.700
 a funeral

00:27:50.700 --> 00:27:51.120
 I took

00:27:51.120 --> 00:27:51.519
 for him

00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:51.839
 for his

00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:52.120
 brother

00:27:52.120 --> 00:27:53.220
 it was

00:27:53.220 --> 00:27:53.799
 the second

00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:54.279
 last

00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:54.720
 brother

00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:55.180
 apart

00:27:55.180 --> 00:27:55.779
 from him

00:27:55.779 --> 00:27:56.880
 left out

00:27:56.880 --> 00:27:57.319
 of seven

00:27:57.319 --> 00:27:57.720
 brothers

00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.360
 I need

00:28:00.360 --> 00:28:00.720
 to tell

00:28:00.720 --> 00:28:01.279
 you more

00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:02.880
 of the

00:28:02.880 --> 00:28:03.579
 situation

00:28:03.579 --> 00:28:04.380
 of the

00:28:04.380 --> 00:28:04.740
 Aboriginal

00:28:04.740 --> 00:28:05.360
 people in

00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:05.500
 the

00:28:05.500 --> 00:28:05.839
 Pilbara

00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:06.180
 for you

00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:06.819
 to understand

00:28:06.819 --> 00:28:07.240
 so that

00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:07.539
 you can

00:28:07.539 --> 00:28:08.039
 pray in

00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:08.740
 an informed

00:28:08.740 --> 00:28:09.100
 way

00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:09.819
 I'll do

00:28:09.819 --> 00:28:10.140
 that on

00:28:10.140 --> 00:28:10.420
 Wednesday

00:28:10.420 --> 00:28:10.660
 night

00:28:10.660 --> 00:28:10.960
 I've been

00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:11.160
 given

00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:11.600
 permission

00:28:11.600 --> 00:28:12.100
 to share

00:28:12.100 --> 00:28:12.880
 with you

00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:13.819
 indeed the

00:28:13.819 --> 00:28:14.440
 story of

00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:17.220
 the last

00:28:17.220 --> 00:28:18.360
 Indyabundi

00:28:18.360 --> 00:28:19.759
 elder to

00:28:19.759 --> 00:28:20.080
 die

00:28:20.080 --> 00:28:21.539
 normally

00:28:21.539 --> 00:28:21.920
 you're not

00:28:21.920 --> 00:28:22.299
 allowed to

00:28:22.299 --> 00:28:22.680
 do that

00:28:22.680 --> 00:28:23.059
 to share

00:28:23.059 --> 00:28:23.559
 his name

00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:24.279
 but his

00:28:24.279 --> 00:28:24.600
 elderly

00:28:24.600 --> 00:28:25.039
 children

00:28:25.039 --> 00:28:25.480
 have given

00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:25.820
 me

00:28:25.820 --> 00:28:26.779
 permission

00:28:26.779 --> 00:28:27.640
 to share

00:28:27.640 --> 00:28:27.880
 that

00:28:27.880 --> 00:28:28.720
 he died

00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:28.960
 at the

00:28:28.960 --> 00:28:29.259
 age of

00:28:29.259 --> 00:28:30.039
 107

00:28:30.039 --> 00:28:30.500
 and his

00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:30.940
 testimony

00:28:30.940 --> 00:28:31.519
 is one

00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:32.559
 that I

00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:33.140
 think

00:28:33.140 --> 00:28:35.100
 enters my

00:28:35.100 --> 00:28:35.580
 mind

00:28:35.580 --> 00:28:36.660
 and informs

00:28:36.660 --> 00:28:37.500
 my prayers

00:28:37.500 --> 00:28:38.000
 as I

00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:39.340
 ask the

00:28:39.340 --> 00:28:39.539
 Lord

00:28:39.539 --> 00:28:40.140
 his plans

00:28:40.140 --> 00:28:40.460
 for me

00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:40.980
 there each

00:28:40.980 --> 00:28:41.299
 day

00:28:41.299 --> 00:28:43.700
 and I'd

00:28:43.700 --> 00:28:44.019
 love you

00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:44.279
 to be

00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:44.559
 aware

00:28:44.559 --> 00:28:44.759
 of it

00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:44.900
 on

00:28:44.900 --> 00:28:45.180
 Wednesday

00:28:45.180 --> 00:28:45.539
 night

00:28:45.539 --> 00:28:46.539
 but

00:28:46.539 --> 00:28:48.039
 as we

00:28:48.039 --> 00:28:48.980
 move on

00:28:48.980 --> 00:28:51.420
 we then

00:28:51.420 --> 00:28:52.120
 hear this

00:28:52.120 --> 00:28:54.180
 interjection

00:28:54.180 --> 00:28:54.720
 this word

00:28:54.720 --> 00:28:55.100
 from the

00:28:55.100 --> 00:28:55.440
 throne

00:28:55.440 --> 00:28:56.340
 that comes

00:28:56.340 --> 00:28:56.819
 and says

00:28:56.819 --> 00:28:57.160
 I am

00:28:57.160 --> 00:28:57.539
 making

00:28:57.539 --> 00:28:58.200
 everything

00:28:58.200 --> 00:28:58.720
 new

00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:00.100
 says the

00:29:00.100 --> 00:29:00.519
 one seated

00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:00.799
 on the

00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:01.019
 throne

00:29:01.019 --> 00:29:01.700
 write this

00:29:01.700 --> 00:29:02.080
 down

00:29:02.080 --> 00:29:02.700
 for these

00:29:02.700 --> 00:29:03.200
 words are

00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:03.740
 trustworthy

00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:05.160
 and true

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:07.660
 trustworthy

00:29:07.660 --> 00:29:08.700
 and true

00:29:08.700 --> 00:29:09.960
 this is

00:29:09.960 --> 00:29:10.519
 reliable

00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:13.539
 God

00:29:13.539 --> 00:29:14.039
 is your

00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:14.400
 God

00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:15.920
 you are

00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:16.339
 his

00:29:16.339 --> 00:29:17.000
 child

00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:18.220
 you will

00:29:18.220 --> 00:29:18.720
 be with

00:29:18.720 --> 00:29:18.920
 him

00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:19.339
 forever

00:29:19.339 --> 00:29:19.700
 and

00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:20.259
 nothing

00:29:20.259 --> 00:29:21.940
 not the

00:29:21.940 --> 00:29:22.440
 sin

00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:23.799
 of you

00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:24.319
 or the

00:29:24.319 --> 00:29:24.740
 sin of

00:29:24.740 --> 00:29:25.139
 others

00:29:25.139 --> 00:29:25.660
 can take

00:29:25.660 --> 00:29:26.059
 him away

00:29:26.059 --> 00:29:26.519
 from you

00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:27.680
 or you

00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:28.160
 away from

00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:28.440
 him

00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:31.180
 whatever

00:29:31.180 --> 00:29:32.299
 you battle

00:29:32.299 --> 00:29:32.680
 with

00:29:32.680 --> 00:29:35.180
 whatever

00:29:35.180 --> 00:29:36.319
 deep down

00:29:36.319 --> 00:29:36.619
 in the

00:29:36.619 --> 00:29:37.259
 recesses

00:29:37.259 --> 00:29:37.559
 of your

00:29:37.559 --> 00:29:37.980
 heart

00:29:37.980 --> 00:29:41.160
 or through

00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:41.360
 the

00:29:41.360 --> 00:29:42.099
 accusations

00:29:42.099 --> 00:29:42.500
 of the

00:29:42.500 --> 00:29:43.019
 accuser

00:29:43.019 --> 00:29:43.640
 says it's

00:29:43.640 --> 00:29:44.240
 too late

00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.299
 it's too

00:29:45.299 --> 00:29:45.700
 late

00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:49.200
 your file

00:29:49.200 --> 00:29:49.920
 is marked

00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:52.120
 no

00:29:52.120 --> 00:29:54.319
 the cross

00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:54.680
 stands

00:29:54.680 --> 00:29:55.279
 as long

00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:55.579
 as the

00:29:55.579 --> 00:29:55.839
 cross

00:29:55.839 --> 00:29:56.380
 stands

00:29:56.380 --> 00:29:57.019
 do you

00:29:57.019 --> 00:29:57.400
 know one

00:29:57.400 --> 00:29:57.740
 day

00:29:57.740 --> 00:29:58.480
 as you

00:29:58.480 --> 00:29:58.880
 sing an

00:29:58.880 --> 00:29:59.180
 amazing

00:29:59.180 --> 00:29:59.500
 grace

00:29:59.500 --> 00:29:59.799
 when you've

00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:00.120
 been there

00:30:00.120 --> 00:30:00.880
 10,000

00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:01.420
 years

00:30:01.420 --> 00:30:03.039
 can you

00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:03.720
 imagine

00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:05.740
 when the

00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:06.140
 here and

00:30:06.140 --> 00:30:06.519
 now is

00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:07.140
 becoming a

00:30:07.140 --> 00:30:07.460
 distant

00:30:07.460 --> 00:30:07.880
 memory

00:30:07.880 --> 00:30:09.800
 when the

00:30:09.800 --> 00:30:10.360
 eternity

00:30:10.360 --> 00:30:12.060
 that we

00:30:12.060 --> 00:30:12.700
 have been

00:30:12.700 --> 00:30:13.460
 just getting

00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:13.940
 ready for

00:30:13.940 --> 00:30:14.480
 has begun

00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:14.780
 and you

00:30:14.780 --> 00:30:15.020
 are in

00:30:15.020 --> 00:30:15.840
 full swing

00:30:15.840 --> 00:30:16.760
 in the

00:30:16.760 --> 00:30:17.180
 purpose

00:30:17.180 --> 00:30:17.520
 of the

00:30:17.520 --> 00:30:17.880
 father

00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:20.400
 and you

00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:20.880
 will look

00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:21.320
 back

00:30:21.320 --> 00:30:22.560
 and the

00:30:22.560 --> 00:30:23.340
 foreshortening

00:30:23.340 --> 00:30:23.760
 of looking

00:30:23.760 --> 00:30:24.440
 back almost

00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:24.880
 along the

00:30:24.880 --> 00:30:25.040
 line

00:30:25.040 --> 00:30:25.520
 everything

00:30:25.520 --> 00:30:26.540
 will recede

00:30:26.540 --> 00:30:26.880
 into the

00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:27.120
 past

00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:27.500
 everything

00:30:27.500 --> 00:30:28.120
 will level

00:30:28.120 --> 00:30:29.120
 the pain

00:30:29.120 --> 00:30:30.040
 will become

00:30:30.040 --> 00:30:30.360
 a distant

00:30:30.360 --> 00:30:30.560
 memory

00:30:30.560 --> 00:30:30.960
 I don't

00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:31.520
 believe it

00:30:31.520 --> 00:30:31.980
 when people

00:30:31.980 --> 00:30:32.720
 say you

00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:33.200
 know time

00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:33.480
 heals

00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:34.200
 all wounds

00:30:34.200 --> 00:30:35.240
 only the

00:30:35.240 --> 00:30:35.940
 cross does

00:30:35.940 --> 00:30:36.980
 but let me

00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:37.260
 tell you

00:30:37.259 --> 00:30:37.539
 when you

00:30:37.539 --> 00:30:37.980
 look back

00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:38.720
 in thousands

00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:39.359
 of years

00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:40.519
 you will look

00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:40.920
 back and there'll

00:30:40.920 --> 00:30:41.680
 be only one

00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:42.480
 thing that rises

00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:43.420
 above the horizon

00:30:43.420 --> 00:30:44.099
 and that is the

00:30:44.099 --> 00:30:44.559
 cross

00:30:44.559 --> 00:30:48.240
 everything else

00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:48.960
 will recede

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:49.799
 but the cross

00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:51.240
 you will never

00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:52.019
 forget where you

00:30:52.019 --> 00:30:52.640
 came from

00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:53.539
 as blood

00:30:53.539 --> 00:30:54.440
 bought children

00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:57.299
 but as much

00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:57.820
 as that will

00:30:57.820 --> 00:30:58.420
 be the case

00:30:58.420 --> 00:30:59.200
 therefore live

00:30:59.200 --> 00:30:59.620
 each day

00:30:59.620 --> 00:31:00.500
 now defined

00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:01.380
 alone by

00:31:01.380 --> 00:31:01.860
 that and

00:31:01.860 --> 00:31:02.360
 by him

00:31:02.360 --> 00:31:06.940
 he goes

00:31:06.940 --> 00:31:07.400
 on and he

00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:07.900
 says it is

00:31:07.900 --> 00:31:08.400
 done I am

00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:08.799
 the alpha

00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:09.080
 and the

00:31:09.080 --> 00:31:09.519
 omega

00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:11.400
 the beginning

00:31:11.400 --> 00:31:11.740
 and the

00:31:11.740 --> 00:31:12.100
 end

00:31:12.100 --> 00:31:13.700
 I govern

00:31:13.700 --> 00:31:14.519
 all from

00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:14.980
 go to

00:31:14.980 --> 00:31:15.420
 woe

00:31:15.420 --> 00:31:16.360
 and we

00:31:16.360 --> 00:31:16.680
 need to

00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:17.539
 just go

00:31:17.539 --> 00:31:18.180
 back just

00:31:18.180 --> 00:31:18.720
 that previous

00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.380
 slide because

00:31:19.380 --> 00:31:19.920
 down in the

00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:20.600
 fine print

00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:22.019
 and it's

00:31:22.019 --> 00:31:22.439
 not fine

00:31:22.439 --> 00:31:22.759
 print in the

00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:23.199
 bible don't

00:31:23.199 --> 00:31:23.619
 worry God

00:31:23.619 --> 00:31:24.079
 has no

00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:24.659
 fine print

00:31:24.659 --> 00:31:25.579
 hidden things

00:31:25.579 --> 00:31:26.719
 stuff that

00:31:26.719 --> 00:31:27.119
 you know

00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:28.079
 he didn't

00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:28.480
 really want

00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:28.899
 you to know

00:31:28.899 --> 00:31:29.259
 but it's

00:31:29.259 --> 00:31:29.679
 down there

00:31:29.679 --> 00:31:30.099
 you know you

00:31:30.099 --> 00:31:30.379
 should have

00:31:30.379 --> 00:31:30.759
 checked

00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.039
 it's just I've

00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:33.379
 got it in a

00:31:33.379 --> 00:31:33.839
 smaller font

00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:34.740
 but down the

00:31:34.740 --> 00:31:35.699
 bottom where it

00:31:35.699 --> 00:31:36.359
 actually speaks

00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:36.819
 of the fact

00:31:36.819 --> 00:31:39.079
 that this is

00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:39.779
 open to all

00:31:39.779 --> 00:31:40.399
 who will come

00:31:40.399 --> 00:31:41.759
 it does of

00:31:41.759 --> 00:31:42.439
 course say

00:31:42.439 --> 00:31:43.019
 but the

00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:43.699
 cowardly the

00:31:43.699 --> 00:31:44.659
 unbelieving the

00:31:44.659 --> 00:31:45.240
 vile the

00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:45.839
 murderers the

00:31:45.839 --> 00:31:46.559
 sexually immoral

00:31:46.559 --> 00:31:47.019
 those who

00:31:47.019 --> 00:31:48.139
 practice magic

00:31:48.139 --> 00:31:49.500
 arts many of

00:31:49.500 --> 00:31:49.839
 those are

00:31:49.839 --> 00:31:50.460
 reflected among

00:31:50.460 --> 00:31:51.019
 the people I

00:31:51.019 --> 00:31:51.519
 work with

00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:52.740
 daily over

00:31:52.740 --> 00:31:55.940
 there those

00:31:55.940 --> 00:31:56.460
 who I work

00:31:56.460 --> 00:31:56.759
 with at

00:31:56.759 --> 00:31:57.779
 cranebrook I

00:31:57.779 --> 00:31:58.140
 remember the

00:31:58.140 --> 00:31:58.960
 last life work

00:31:58.960 --> 00:31:59.819
 series I did

00:31:59.819 --> 00:32:00.720
 which was a

00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:01.740
 gift a tool

00:32:01.740 --> 00:32:02.180
 that the Lord

00:32:02.180 --> 00:32:03.000
 provided out of

00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:05.079
 here I had a

00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:06.640
 committed warlock

00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:08.180
 come along to

00:32:08.180 --> 00:32:10.079
 life works and

00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:11.019
 the same he

00:32:11.019 --> 00:32:11.519
 said to me at

00:32:11.519 --> 00:32:11.839
 the end of the

00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:12.279
 first one he

00:32:12.279 --> 00:32:12.619
 said look

00:32:12.619 --> 00:32:14.960
 wonderful I

00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:17.099
 just I'm so

00:32:17.099 --> 00:32:18.099
 amazed at what

00:32:18.099 --> 00:32:19.279
 you do he

00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:20.079
 said it is so

00:32:20.079 --> 00:32:20.899
 real and so

00:32:20.899 --> 00:32:21.460
 genuine it's

00:32:21.460 --> 00:32:22.220
 not for me but

00:32:22.220 --> 00:32:22.859
 look thank you

00:32:22.859 --> 00:32:23.740
 for inviting me

00:32:23.740 --> 00:32:25.799
 the second week

00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:26.359
 he came back

00:32:26.359 --> 00:32:26.700
 and he said

00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:27.359
 look would you

00:32:27.359 --> 00:32:27.779
 mind if I

00:32:27.779 --> 00:32:28.339
 came again

00:32:28.339 --> 00:32:30.500
 and he attended

00:32:30.500 --> 00:32:31.000
 all seven

00:32:31.000 --> 00:32:32.420
 weeks I don't

00:32:32.420 --> 00:32:32.899
 know what the

00:32:32.899 --> 00:32:33.420
 Lord will do

00:32:33.420 --> 00:32:34.940
 with him will

00:32:34.940 --> 00:32:35.799
 it be good

00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:36.639
 news for him

00:32:36.639 --> 00:32:38.660
 or indeed will

00:32:38.660 --> 00:32:39.440
 it confirm the

00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:40.460
 justice of God's

00:32:40.460 --> 00:32:41.399
 judgment against

00:32:41.399 --> 00:32:43.940
 him I don't

00:32:43.940 --> 00:32:44.519
 know the decrees

00:32:44.519 --> 00:32:45.940
 of the Lord I

00:32:45.940 --> 00:32:46.839
 just know that I

00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:47.539
 am called to

00:32:47.539 --> 00:32:49.259
 love you are

00:32:49.259 --> 00:32:49.680
 you are in a

00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:50.160
 world that

00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:50.839
 especially as

00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:51.359
 young people

00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:51.980
 tells you that

00:32:51.980 --> 00:32:52.559
 if you don't

00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:53.180
 get what you

00:32:53.180 --> 00:32:54.579
 want you

00:32:54.579 --> 00:32:55.539
 should kick

00:32:55.539 --> 00:32:56.200
 up a stink

00:32:56.200 --> 00:32:58.119
 you should be

00:32:58.119 --> 00:33:00.059
 upset you

00:33:00.059 --> 00:33:00.759
 should demand

00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:02.299
 I live in a

00:33:02.299 --> 00:33:02.879
 world and in a

00:33:02.879 --> 00:33:04.079
 place where I

00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:05.559
 realized that what

00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:06.460
 Jesus said to me

00:33:06.460 --> 00:33:07.039
 when he said

00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:08.220
 you've heard it

00:33:08.220 --> 00:33:09.539
 said love your

00:33:09.539 --> 00:33:10.240
 enemies and pray

00:33:10.240 --> 00:33:10.759
 for those who

00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:11.599
 persecute you

00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:12.579
 sorry you've

00:33:12.579 --> 00:33:13.140
 heard it said

00:33:13.140 --> 00:33:15.220
 you know you

00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:15.579
 know what I

00:33:15.579 --> 00:33:15.819
 mean

00:33:15.819 --> 00:33:21.419
 what am I

00:33:21.419 --> 00:33:21.859
 trying to think

00:33:21.859 --> 00:33:23.759
 of where he

00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:26.819
 says love your

00:33:26.819 --> 00:33:27.439
 neighbors hate

00:33:27.439 --> 00:33:28.419
 your enemies and

00:33:28.419 --> 00:33:29.519
 he says I say to

00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:30.359
 you love your

00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:31.159
 enemies pray for

00:33:31.159 --> 00:33:32.059
 those who persecute

00:33:32.059 --> 00:33:34.119
 you where he

00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:36.139
 says you know

00:33:36.139 --> 00:33:38.200
 pay back seek

00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:41.619
 justice every time

00:33:41.619 --> 00:33:42.439
 I get disrespect

00:33:42.439 --> 00:33:43.200
 over there I

00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:43.799
 know they are

00:33:43.799 --> 00:33:44.339
 standing in

00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:45.159
 solidarity with

00:33:45.159 --> 00:33:45.799
 their forebears

00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:46.559
 and I realized

00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:47.500
 that even though

00:33:47.500 --> 00:33:48.480
 people both black

00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:49.099
 and white said to

00:33:49.099 --> 00:33:49.639
 me Richard you've

00:33:49.639 --> 00:33:50.439
 got to stop this

00:33:50.439 --> 00:33:53.599
 they could have

00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:54.299
 said in brackets

00:33:54.299 --> 00:33:54.959
 small font

00:33:54.959 --> 00:33:56.480
 Richard you are

00:33:56.480 --> 00:33:56.899
 part of the

00:33:56.899 --> 00:33:57.579
 dominant culture

00:33:57.579 --> 00:33:58.919
 here you must

00:33:58.919 --> 00:33:59.819
 not allow this to

00:33:59.819 --> 00:34:02.720
 continue I even

00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:03.179
 said to the

00:34:03.179 --> 00:34:03.919
 aboriginal pastor

00:34:03.919 --> 00:34:04.539
 I said Marshall

00:34:04.539 --> 00:34:05.339
 you could do

00:34:05.339 --> 00:34:08.059
 that but I

00:34:08.059 --> 00:34:09.679
 can't if I do

00:34:09.679 --> 00:34:11.079
 I confirm in

00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:12.099
 them the stereotype

00:34:12.099 --> 00:34:13.500
 that they have

00:34:13.500 --> 00:34:14.480
 rightly held

00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:16.000
 for so long

00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:17.559
 about this

00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:18.420
 dominant culture

00:34:18.420 --> 00:34:20.799
 that has made

00:34:20.799 --> 00:34:21.799
 them submit

00:34:21.799 --> 00:34:24.000
 endlessly and

00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:24.460
 when they

00:34:24.460 --> 00:34:25.639
 complained said

00:34:25.639 --> 00:34:27.079
 sorry you've got

00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:28.039
 to suck this up

00:34:28.039 --> 00:34:29.199
 you don't like it

00:34:29.199 --> 00:34:30.179
 build a bridge

00:34:30.179 --> 00:34:33.719
 as the dominant

00:34:33.719 --> 00:34:35.819
 culture we don't

00:34:35.819 --> 00:34:36.440
 have to cope with

00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:37.500
 disrespect in an

00:34:37.500 --> 00:34:38.819
 individualistic society

00:34:38.820 --> 00:34:40.460
 you can conform

00:34:40.460 --> 00:34:41.140
 things to your

00:34:41.140 --> 00:34:42.920
 will and if you

00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:43.800
 are young you are

00:34:43.800 --> 00:34:45.000
 still possibly

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:46.000
 convinced that it's

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:47.580
 possible I want to

00:34:47.580 --> 00:34:48.500
 tell you give up on

00:34:48.500 --> 00:34:50.500
 it now give up on

00:34:50.500 --> 00:34:51.320
 it now it is not

00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:52.260
 cross shaped it is

00:34:52.260 --> 00:34:53.080
 not the way of the

00:34:53.080 --> 00:34:57.700
 cross put your

00:34:57.700 --> 00:34:58.700
 trust in the Lord

00:34:58.700 --> 00:35:01.000
 see the gospel it

00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:01.920
 is good news for

00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:02.720
 those who receive it

00:35:02.720 --> 00:35:04.200
 it is extremely bad

00:35:04.200 --> 00:35:05.039
 news for those who

00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:06.760
 don't and and as

00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:08.100
 we continue he

00:35:08.100 --> 00:35:09.240
 then does an

00:35:09.240 --> 00:35:10.160
 amazing thing he

00:35:10.160 --> 00:35:11.220
 says one of the

00:35:11.220 --> 00:35:12.560
 seven angels who

00:35:12.560 --> 00:35:13.060
 had the seven

00:35:13.060 --> 00:35:14.380
 bowls seven last

00:35:14.380 --> 00:35:15.440
 plagues said to me

00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.480
 come I'll show you

00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:17.320
 the bride the wife

00:35:17.320 --> 00:35:18.160
 of the lamb he

00:35:18.160 --> 00:35:19.280
 carried me away to a

00:35:19.280 --> 00:35:21.480
 high mountain great

00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:22.620
 and high and showed

00:35:22.620 --> 00:35:23.840
 me the holy city so

00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:24.540
 once again you have

00:35:24.540 --> 00:35:25.300
 this mashing together

00:35:25.300 --> 00:35:26.140
 of these two pictures

00:35:26.140 --> 00:35:27.300
 of glory right the

00:35:27.300 --> 00:35:28.640
 bride and the holy

00:35:28.640 --> 00:35:30.260
 city right don't get

00:35:30.260 --> 00:35:31.760
 confused understand

00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:33.960
 right the holy city

00:35:33.960 --> 00:35:39.440
 is you the bride is

00:35:39.440 --> 00:35:43.260
 you he is he is

00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:44.320
 secured he is

00:35:44.320 --> 00:35:45.119
 sanctified you you

00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:45.860
 can be no more

00:35:45.860 --> 00:35:46.599
 righteous than you

00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:48.199
 are in him right

00:35:48.199 --> 00:35:51.699
 now so let everything

00:35:51.699 --> 00:35:53.559
 else go what about

00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:55.079
 that great song all

00:35:55.079 --> 00:35:56.360
 the things I'm holding

00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:58.840
 on to so tight that I

00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:01.220
 won't let go Paul

00:36:01.220 --> 00:36:02.360
 says I count them as

00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.340
 excrement let it go

00:36:06.340 --> 00:36:11.539
 because this is you

00:36:11.539 --> 00:36:12.960
 I'm not just saying

00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:14.380
 it's yours it's you

00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:16.320
 you're the holy city

00:36:16.320 --> 00:36:18.420
 you're the bride and

00:36:18.420 --> 00:36:19.579
 and he reveals this

00:36:19.579 --> 00:36:21.599
 the bride is this city

00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:24.099
 that is just so

00:36:24.099 --> 00:36:25.740
 glorious incredible

00:36:25.740 --> 00:36:26.860
 jewels the

00:36:26.860 --> 00:36:28.160
 foundations later on

00:36:28.160 --> 00:36:28.660
 when you heard that

00:36:28.660 --> 00:36:29.360
 did you notice that

00:36:29.360 --> 00:36:30.400
 the foundations each

00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:31.220
 foundation was a

00:36:31.220 --> 00:36:31.840
 different precious

00:36:31.840 --> 00:36:32.260
 stone

00:36:32.260 --> 00:36:33.360
 and you think golly

00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:34.600
 the foundations out

00:36:34.600 --> 00:36:35.440
 there it's road

00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:38.080
 base the foundations

00:36:38.080 --> 00:36:38.900
 of this city go on

00:36:38.900 --> 00:36:39.740
 to the next slide how

00:36:39.740 --> 00:36:40.760
 big is this city

00:36:40.760 --> 00:36:43.420
 right we count all the

00:36:43.420 --> 00:36:44.360
 gates and you see all

00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:45.880
 the 12s remember

00:36:45.880 --> 00:36:47.460
 everything has to be

00:36:47.460 --> 00:36:49.140
 interpreted all the

00:36:49.140 --> 00:36:50.100
 numbers in revelation

00:36:50.100 --> 00:36:51.960
 show what the book

00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:53.300
 is about they are all

00:36:53.300 --> 00:36:54.600
 derivatives of 7 and

00:36:54.600 --> 00:36:55.840
 12 God and his

00:36:55.840 --> 00:36:56.820
 people that's what the

00:36:56.820 --> 00:36:58.260
 book's about you're his

00:36:58.260 --> 00:36:59.640
 people he is your God

00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:02.519
 right and so we read

00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:05.039
 that you know not only

00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:06.079
 are there 12 gates and

00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:07.219
 12 foundations and

00:37:07.219 --> 00:37:07.879
 whatever but when you

00:37:07.879 --> 00:37:09.619
 get down to verse 16 he

00:37:09.619 --> 00:37:10.980
 actually says he measured

00:37:10.980 --> 00:37:11.859
 the city with the rod

00:37:11.859 --> 00:37:13.359
 found it to be 12,000

00:37:13.359 --> 00:37:17.699
 stadia see 12 right it's

00:37:17.699 --> 00:37:20.219
 got 144 cubits 12 times

00:37:20.219 --> 00:37:21.799
 12 it's really basic right

00:37:21.799 --> 00:37:23.519
 the whole idea is it's

00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:25.440
 speaking about you because

00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:26.659
 you're the people of God

00:37:26.659 --> 00:37:28.739
 right but of course just

00:37:28.739 --> 00:37:30.339
 do the math just for this

00:37:30.339 --> 00:37:31.440
 image paint the image

00:37:31.440 --> 00:37:32.920
 let let the the picture

00:37:32.920 --> 00:37:34.079
 fully develop itself

00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:38.219
 because 12,000 stadia

00:37:38.219 --> 00:37:40.379
 roughly 2,200 kilometers

00:37:40.379 --> 00:37:42.940
 if you go as the crow

00:37:42.940 --> 00:37:44.059
 flies to Wiccan that means

00:37:44.059 --> 00:37:44.980
 from here you get more

00:37:44.980 --> 00:37:46.899
 than halfway that's how

00:37:46.899 --> 00:37:49.960
 wide the city is and of

00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:52.059
 course he said that that's

00:37:52.059 --> 00:37:53.399
 it in length and it's as

00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:56.820
 wide and high as it is

00:37:56.820 --> 00:38:00.059
 long you could just fit the

00:38:00.059 --> 00:38:02.119
 city on the land mass of

00:38:02.119 --> 00:38:03.139
 Australia if you picture

00:38:03.139 --> 00:38:04.960
 Australia but of course

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:05.599
 you're not meant to

00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:06.579
 picture it literally like

00:38:06.579 --> 00:38:07.900
 that are you because what

00:38:07.900 --> 00:38:09.420
 did he say in length as

00:38:09.420 --> 00:38:11.420
 wide as it is high so it's a

00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:15.079
 cube you didn't want high

00:38:15.079 --> 00:38:20.260
 rise suck it up baby no it

00:38:20.260 --> 00:38:21.619
 is a picture it's an image

00:38:21.619 --> 00:38:23.199
 to be translated and

00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:25.400
 understood all right the

00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:29.719
 idea is the people of God

00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:32.079
 the new Jerusalem the bride

00:38:32.079 --> 00:38:34.799
 of Christ is glorious

00:38:34.799 --> 00:38:39.279
 gloriously beautiful which

00:38:39.279 --> 00:38:40.679
 means all the things in you

00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:42.940
 that you know aren't they

00:38:42.940 --> 00:38:45.819
 will be passed consigned to

00:38:45.819 --> 00:38:48.799
 the cross it is big you

00:38:48.799 --> 00:38:49.900
 don't have to get worried

00:38:49.900 --> 00:38:53.700
 that there won't be room and

00:38:53.700 --> 00:38:55.539
 it is secure I think he

00:38:55.539 --> 00:38:56.980
 says the walls are 65

00:38:56.980 --> 00:38:58.760
 meters thick which back in

00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:02.200
 those days was huge right

00:39:02.200 --> 00:39:03.760
 you guys sit there and you

00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:04.740
 think about all your movies

00:39:04.740 --> 00:39:05.860
 and say what about just

00:39:05.860 --> 00:39:07.340
 germ warfare or something

00:39:07.340 --> 00:39:08.660
 wouldn't matter how thick

00:39:08.660 --> 00:39:10.079
 the walls you're missing the

00:39:10.079 --> 00:39:12.440
 point understand the image

00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:14.860
 so guys look I've used as

00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:16.039
 much time as I can but I

00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:16.840
 want to tell you one more

00:39:16.840 --> 00:39:20.000
 story as I finish up this

00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:21.480
 boy's name it's a good one

00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:27.780
 Richard and he's now 10 and

00:39:27.780 --> 00:39:32.100
 he has been he's been talking

00:39:32.100 --> 00:39:33.840
 about suicide for quite some

00:39:33.840 --> 00:39:39.440
 time at school and his mum said

00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:41.079
 yes to Jesus at the last barbecue

00:39:41.079 --> 00:39:42.579
 church just before I came over

00:39:42.579 --> 00:39:45.299
 here and said would you pray for

00:39:45.299 --> 00:39:46.679
 me that I would stop gambling

00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:48.279
 and after we'd laid hands on her

00:39:48.279 --> 00:39:50.679
 and done so I said I said

00:39:50.679 --> 00:39:53.099
 what's been happening and she

00:39:53.099 --> 00:39:55.219
 she told me about what had been

00:39:55.219 --> 00:39:56.679
 happening for Richard at school

00:39:56.679 --> 00:39:58.819
 over the last few weeks and and

00:39:58.819 --> 00:40:02.420
 the concerns and she said that

00:40:02.420 --> 00:40:04.319
 during the week Richard came home

00:40:04.319 --> 00:40:06.340
 and there is no Christian

00:40:06.340 --> 00:40:08.519
 ministry in the school I mean I

00:40:08.519 --> 00:40:10.739
 I've got such open doors I could

00:40:10.739 --> 00:40:12.139
 place someone in there with my

00:40:12.139 --> 00:40:13.539
 Wickham community chaplain shirt

00:40:13.539 --> 00:40:16.039
 as a full-time chaplain tomorrow

00:40:16.039 --> 00:40:21.079
 Rio will give me a house tomorrow

00:40:21.079 --> 00:40:24.179
 I believe the Lord will provide the

00:40:24.179 --> 00:40:26.599
 funding but pray that someone will

00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:28.959
 go someone that is equipped in

00:40:28.959 --> 00:40:31.279
 this hot house of ministry and

00:40:31.279 --> 00:40:35.139
 growth in the word of Sydney that

00:40:35.139 --> 00:40:37.919
 someone will go to the furthest

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:42.159
 part of Australia because Richard

00:40:42.159 --> 00:40:46.340
 came home and said to his mum on

00:40:46.340 --> 00:40:49.240
 the Wednesday of that week mum you've

00:40:49.240 --> 00:40:52.220
 got to stop gambling because this is

00:40:52.220 --> 00:40:56.380
 a Jesus house now I think he'd heard

00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:58.260
 from a couple of other kids that had

00:40:58.260 --> 00:41:00.079
 actually come to my house and said

00:41:00.079 --> 00:41:02.159
 and are really struggling with the

00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:03.420
 bullying and all the crime they're

00:41:03.420 --> 00:41:05.019
 being pushed into by older kids and

00:41:05.019 --> 00:41:07.079
 said to me can we have Jesus in our

00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:08.759
 heart they'll have heard it from

00:41:08.759 --> 00:41:11.480
 grandparents say it right pastor

00:41:11.480 --> 00:41:13.579
 Marshall but they said can we have

00:41:13.579 --> 00:41:18.079
 Jesus in our heart and to see her

00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:20.880
 call call over her son from from

00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:22.659
 playing at the end of barbecue church

00:41:22.659 --> 00:41:25.800
 and tell him that she'd said yes to

00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:27.259
 Jesus and that she was going to stop

00:41:27.259 --> 00:41:31.679
 gambling to see the look in his eyes

00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:34.879
 that maybe there was hope there's a

00:41:34.879 --> 00:41:38.099
 reason to stay alive is a fantastic

00:41:38.099 --> 00:41:40.079
 thing and it makes me want to ask you

00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:41.940
 to pray to to indeed come on

00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:43.699
 Wednesday night and allow yourself to

00:41:43.699 --> 00:41:45.019
 be informed so that you can

00:41:45.019 --> 00:41:46.859
 understand the Aboriginal situation

00:41:46.859 --> 00:41:49.500
 indeed understand all that is going

00:41:49.500 --> 00:41:52.039
 on over there and continue to

00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.019
 support us in prayer in in an

00:41:54.019 --> 00:41:56.279
 informed way and and be aware of the

00:41:56.279 --> 00:41:57.679
 wonderful things that God is doing

00:41:57.679 --> 00:42:00.219
 that you can give thanks for let's

00:42:00.219 --> 00:42:03.399
 pray dear Lord we thank you so much

00:42:03.399 --> 00:42:05.980
 that in your powerful and great

00:42:05.980 --> 00:42:11.219
 mercy you have done what you've done

00:42:11.219 --> 00:42:14.279
 you didn't ask our permission you

00:42:14.279 --> 00:42:17.199
 didn't wait for our cooperation and

00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:18.579
 you have sent us out now with the

00:42:18.579 --> 00:42:23.459
 gospel I thank you so much that you

00:42:23.459 --> 00:42:25.879
 do not send us out and ask us to be a

00:42:25.879 --> 00:42:28.739
 behavior reformation a behavior

00:42:28.739 --> 00:42:33.399
 improvement society Lord you know that

00:42:33.399 --> 00:42:35.859
 we are bankrupt without you that just

00:42:35.859 --> 00:42:39.419
 like our sister Pauline there is no

00:42:39.419 --> 00:42:42.739
 hope for the things that we battle with

00:42:42.739 --> 00:42:46.659
 lest you by your spirit according to

00:42:46.659 --> 00:42:50.719
 your agenda for our lives powerfully

00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:54.739
 work to transform us to the likeness of

00:42:54.739 --> 00:42:58.019
 of Christ and so Lord we ask that

00:42:58.019 --> 00:43:01.719
 whatever age we are here that we will

00:43:01.719 --> 00:43:04.359
 entrust ourselves to that that we will

00:43:04.359 --> 00:43:06.500
 recognize that whether we are in

00:43:06.500 --> 00:43:09.239
 Wickham or whether we are this light on

00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:12.799
 the hill in Chatswood that we will

00:43:12.799 --> 00:43:14.979
 recognize the opportunity you have given

00:43:14.979 --> 00:43:16.779
 us in the place that you have called us

00:43:16.779 --> 00:43:17.399
 to serve

00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:23.460
 to be part of the preparations for the

00:43:23.460 --> 00:43:27.039
 greatest revelation and glory the

00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:31.760
 world has ever known we will never

00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:36.639
 forget the cross Lord when all this pain

00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:38.760
 is a distant memory we will never forget

00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:45.380
 the price you pay but we praise you now we

00:43:45.380 --> 00:43:50.380
 rejoice in your presence now and we

00:43:50.380 --> 00:43:55.000
 entrust ourselves to you body mind soul

00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:58.519
 in spirit in his name

00:43:58.519 --> 00:43:59.059
 Amen