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 Thank you so much for causing your word to be written.

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 We thank you that you sent your son Jesus to die upon the cross to be our savior.

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 We thank you for his tasting all there is to taste of death with nothing left over.

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 We thank you, Father, for his mighty resurrection, and we thank you for his ascension,

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 and we thank you, Father, for his coming again in glory.

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 And we thank you, Father, that you didn't just act to save us, but you gave us the good news.

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 You interpreted what happened. You told us what happened.

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 Father, we thank you for this.

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

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 so that our minds will not be conformed to this age,

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 but we will be transformed, Father, by your word and by your Holy Spirit.

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 We will be transformed and have minds that lead us to act in such a way

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 that our lives bring you great glory.

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 And this we ask in Jesus' name, your Son and our Savior. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 I wish I could tell you that every time somebody says something to me at a coffee shop,

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 like one of my non-Christian friends,

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 I wish I could tell you that I was like an apologetic ninja

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 that could just always parry everything that they say and just get them.

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 But, you know, often I'm the exact opposite of an apologetic ninja.

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 I just sort of stand there, not quite sure what to say,

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 and then thinking of the perfect thing to say five minutes or five hours later or something like that.

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 But I had a time just a little while ago where,

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 maybe it was even about a year ago,

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 maybe somebody had been to a church and heard something like the story of the Ascension,

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 which we're going to look at.

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 And he just completely mocked the story.

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 And really, like, in really quick, you know,

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 it's as if he'd been practicing,

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 and his speech just came so perfectly flowing and quick.

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 You know how completely and utterly ridiculous the Bible is?

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 It's completely unscientific.

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 It's worse than unscientific.

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 It's completely anti-scientific.

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 It presents this idea as if somehow or another

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 God sent down a fishing hook or a line and grabbed Jesus

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 and pulls him up into the sky.

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 And just on the other side of the clouds,

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 you know, where there's the blue dome,

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 and it's just painted blue,

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 and God paints it blue during the day,

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 and he paints it black at night,

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 or however, he just turns the light on and off.

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 And God lives in some little room just above the sky,

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 and he pulls Jesus up there,

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 and that's where Jesus is.

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 And the God and Jesus are just sort of waiting.

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 And he said, you know,

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 the Bible is just so completely and utterly ridiculous.

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 And I remember one time when I had something like this happen to me,

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 the fellow did it as well in a bit of a loud voice

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 so that most of the Starbucks could hear it.

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 And I can't remember what I said in reply.

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 What I do know is that he actually probably,

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 the fellow who said all this to me,

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 actually probably wasn't willing to hear the answer.

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 He just wanted to embarrass me.

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 But some people don't just want to embarrass us,

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 but they're troubled by texts like this.

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 They're troubled by the fact that it seems as if the Bible has a worldview

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 that science is just completely and utterly disproven

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 of a very tiny little planet Earth,

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 and there's no, you know, the sun is just like a,

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 I don't know, like a light that God turns on in the sky

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 and sort of walks it around the roof,

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 like a theater a little bit, I suppose.

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 You know, that the, and that God is just on the other side of that ceiling

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 and he turns different lights on and off and,

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 you know, has spotlights that move.

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 And that's sometimes how it looks as if the Bible,

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 is that what the Bible teaches?

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 Is that what Christians are supposed to believe?

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 It's obviously scientifically ridiculous.

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 So let's look.

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 Let's look and see what the Bible says.

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 Be a great help to me if you open the Bible.

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 Bible and Acts 1, verses 1 to 11.

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 And just a little bit of a plug.

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 I also read my Bible on my phone and stuff like that.

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 But, you know, I just want to really encourage you.

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 There's something about a book.

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 And part of the thing that's so good about a book

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 is that you know it's a book.

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 You know, when you're reading the book of Acts

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 and you know, look at this, there's all this stuff

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 in the book that goes before

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 and there's all this stuff that comes after.

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 There's just something about a book.

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 And so I want to encourage you not to give up on books

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 when it comes to reading your Bible.

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 I mean, obviously, if the screen helps you read,

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 then that's what you should do.

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 But sometimes it's good to crack open a book

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 and look at the words

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 because you see the bigger flow.

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 Anyway, Acts 1, 1 to 11.

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 So is the Bible teaching us something pretty ridiculous,

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 not only unscientific,

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 but completely and utterly anti-scientific?

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 So let's have a look.

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 And we'll start here.

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 Acts 1, verse 1.

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 In the first book, O Theophilus,

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 I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach.

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 Now just pause.

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 He says here in the first book.

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 So Luke has written another book

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 and we know it as the Gospel of Luke.

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 And it's very important in this case,

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 if we just want to understand what the Bible is saying,

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 to look at how Luke introduces his first book

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 because he has a very similar type of introduction

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 in both books.

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 So if you can just, you can keep your finger there

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 or maybe you're really good at finding places in the Bible,

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 just turn to Luke chapter 1.

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 And we're just going to read the first four verses

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 of Luke chapter 1

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 and just see how it is that Luke introduces

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 the first book that he writes.

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 And here's how he introduces it.

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 Luke 1.

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 Luke 1, 1.

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 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative

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 of the things that have been accomplished among us,

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 sorry, start again.

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 Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative

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 of the things that have been accomplished among us,

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 just as those who from the beginning

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 were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word

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 have delivered them to us,

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 it seemed good to me also,

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 having followed all things closely for some time past,

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 to write an orderly account for you,

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 most excellent Theophilus,

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 that you may have certainty

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 concerning the things that you have been taught.

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 So notice here that,

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 in fact, just if you're not aware of this,

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 Luke was not one of the original disciples.

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 He's not Jewish.

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 He didn't actually,

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 he was an eyewitness of Jesus

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 and what Jesus did.

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 Luke was a pagan, well-educated.

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 He was a doctor,

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 who had been relatively prosperous,

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 upper-middle-class doctor.

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 He becomes a Christian,

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 leaving paganism behind to become a Christian.

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 And he's one of the early pagans

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 who becomes a Christian.

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 And Luke becomes very deeply involved

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 in the early Christian community.

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 He meets many of the people who are eyewitnesses.

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 He probably,

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 who knows what types of other things

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 were in circulation,

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 maybe little handwritten things

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 or something like that.

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 And he's a literate man,

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 a scientific man,

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 at least as they would have understood science back then,

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 somebody who was careful in observation.

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 And he decides to write

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 not a story inspired by true events

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 or based upon true events.

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 He tries to tell you true events.

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 That's what he's claiming to do.

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 He tries to put in a narrative form.

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 And the best history is always written

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 in some type of a narrative form.

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 He tries to put in a narrative form,

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 selecting out of the hundreds and hundreds

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 and hundreds of things

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 that he could have written about Jesus,

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 eyewitness testimony in a narrative form.

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 And that's what he's trying to do.

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 And Theophilus is a pagan name.

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 So he's not writing it for Jewish people,

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 although obviously he'd be fine

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 if Jewish people read it.

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 He's writing for other pagans.

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 Whether Theophilus is a pagan

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 who's become a Christian

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 or whether he's a pagan

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 who's a complete opponent and skeptic,

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 whether he's a seeker, we don't know,

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 but he writes to another pagan.

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 So now let's look at Acts chapter one.

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 Sort of mindful of that.

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 That's Luke's first book.

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 And now we see Luke's second book.

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 And he wrote the first book

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 thinking he'd write a second.

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 And now we get how he introduces the second book.

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 Remember, this is all important

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 because we're trying to look and understand

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 does the Bible portray

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 that the universe is a little bit

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 like the Ottawa Little Theater

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 and God is on the roof.

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 Well, actually, there's a space between,

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 you know, here.

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 No, God doesn't need a roof.

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 So God just lives on the roof.

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 Is that what the Bible's telling us?

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 So chapter one of verse one of Acts again.

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 In the first book, O Theophilus,

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 I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach

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 until the day when he was taken up

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 after he had given commands or orders.

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 It's a bit of a military image.

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 Those of you who've served in the military,

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 Jesus gave orders.

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 He gave them a commission.

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 He gave commands through the Holy Spirit

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 to the apostles whom he had chosen.

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 He presented himself alive to them

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 after his suffering by many proofs,

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 appearing to them during 40 days

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 and speaking about the kingdom of God.

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 So here's the first thing.

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 Those of you who know me,

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 I'm not going to say,

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 well, this is just a metaphor.

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 It's just an analogy.

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 It's just, you know,

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 a mythical account of peak experience

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 or mystical experience.

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 It's, you know,

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 a way to use language or imagery

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 to talk about, you know,

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 what is Luke claiming?

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 If you could put the first point up, Andrew,

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 that would be great.

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 Luke tells the true story of Jesus,

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 body and soul,

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 being taken up into heaven.

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 That's what Luke's claiming to do.

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 Now, we might say he's wrong.

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 We might say that he was, you know,

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 full of it.

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 We might say that he's just,

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 he's believing nonsense.

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 We might believe,

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 we might say all of those types of things

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 and skeptics do

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 and people from other religions

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 and other faiths

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 and other spiritualities

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 and philosophies.

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 That's what they do.

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 But at least we need to hear Luke.

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 And this is what Luke is claiming.

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 Luke is claiming

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 that he is telling

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 the true story of Jesus

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 who, body and soul,

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 he was taken up into heaven.

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 And so it's not a metaphor.

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 It's not an image.

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 And by the way,

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 you know,

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 here's one of the things.

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 I'm not just saying this

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 because this is what Christians

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 have always believed.

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 And some people might feel

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 very uncomfortable

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 because you see some Christians

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 under the pressure

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 of science

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 and of skepticism.

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 They think they're helping

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 the Bible

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 or helping the Christian faith

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 by saying that it's just a metaphor

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 or it's an image,

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 it's an analogy,

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 it's just a mythic telling

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 of a spiritual truth.

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 And they might even say,

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 doesn't it actually say,

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 George,

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 in 1 Corinthians 15

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 that Jesus doesn't have

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 a physical body

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 but he has a spiritual body?

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 So isn't this just accounting

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 just a spiritual thing?

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 And so some people,

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 in a well-meaning way,

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 they try to reinterpret it.

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 But the fact of the matter is,

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 that's not at all

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 what the Bible,

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 it's not what the text says.

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 Just even if you just set aside

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 for a second,

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 in a sense,

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 I don't know if any of you

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 have ever watched,

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 there was a movie

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 that went out,

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 a documentary about

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 Christopher Hitchens

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 debating this very

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 orthodox Christian

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 and across the country.

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 And one of the things

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 that Christopher Hitchens

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 says is that he loves

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 debating this fellow.

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 In fact,

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 here's Lord have mercy.

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 He said,

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 I hate debating

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 those Anglican types

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 because when I start

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 to press them

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 on what the Bible says,

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 they say it's just a metaphor,

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 it's just an analogy,

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 it's just a parable.

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 But when I press

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 this guy on things,

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 he says,

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 yeah, darn tootin',

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 that's what it says.

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 And he defends it.

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 And the fact of the matter is,

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 is that you can't read

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 the book of Luke

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 and you can't read

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 the book of Acts

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 without coming to believe

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 that Luke believes

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 that everything

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 he's talking about

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 happened.

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 That's what he believes.

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 From a literary point of view,

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 that's what the book

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 is trying to communicate.

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 Whether or not

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 that's ridiculous,

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 that's a bit

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 of another question,

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 but we can't take refuge

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 that it's describing mysticism.

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 That's not what

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 the text is saying,

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 just straightly

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 from an intellectual level.

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 Now, here's the other thing

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 about this text,

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 is obviously we can't prove,

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 I mean, Luke is claiming

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 that if we went back

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 in a time machine,

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 and if we were there

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 with the apostles,

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 we were somehow able

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 to be just somehow

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 there in the background

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 waiting for it to happen,

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 what Luke described

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 is what we would see.

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 That's what Luke is claiming.

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 But the proof for this,

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 for somebody like you and me,

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 is it ultimately goes back

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 to the resurrection,

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 which I'm not going to spend

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 very much time on.

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 But, you know,

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 I'll just share with you,

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 I've had different times

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 in my life,

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 especially in the first

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 ten years of my Christian life,

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 where I almost left

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 the Christian faith.

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 You know, I have a degree

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 in sociology

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 with a minor in philosophy.

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 I only have studied

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 with non-Christian professors.

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 I've never had

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 an evangelical professor.

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 For any of my first degree

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 and my other types

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 of post-graduate work

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 and my graduate degree,

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 I've always had

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 non-Christian professors.

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 And I've had times

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 where I almost gave up my faith.

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 Just as I, you know,

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 you really just,

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 you get filled with the weight

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 of criticism.

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 And it can sometimes be very,

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 it was sometimes

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 very, very hard.

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 And I'd pray,

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 and I'd do reading,

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 and I would do research.

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 But I have never yet seen

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 any good account

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 for the start

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 of the Christian faith

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 that actually can deal

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 with the facts

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 in a reasonable way.

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 You know,

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 in our,

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 just during the last election,

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 one of the big cries

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 is that you wanted

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 evidence-based policy,

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 evidence-based thinking.

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 That was one of the big things

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 that supposedly,

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 I'm not making a political comment

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 one way or the other,

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 the conservatives

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 didn't believe

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 in evidence-based policy.

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 Whether you,

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 you know,

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 that's a separate matter.

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 I'm not going to comment

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 on that at all.

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 But, you know,

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 unless you're a person

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 who just says,

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 on no condition,

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 no matter what actually happens,

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 it's just absolutely

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 completely impossible

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 that anything in the book

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 of,

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 that any of the eyewitness

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 accounts of Jesus

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 are possibly true,

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 if it's just rejected,

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 using the philosophical term

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 a priori,

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 you just reject it

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 completely and utterly

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 as not even being

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 worth considering.

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 And you just say

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 it's completely and utterly wrong.

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 Unless you're,

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 if you're actually willing

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 to look at the evidence,

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 the evidence is very,

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 very, very strong.

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 And there's,

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 I have never seen

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 a good account

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 to account for Christian origins

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 apart from

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 this astounding claim

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 that Jesus really did die

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 on a Friday afternoon,

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 that he was

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 physically just known

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 to be dead,

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 that the thrust

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 of the spear,

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 the partial embalming,

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 the seal on the tomb,

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 and that on the third day,

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 the tomb is empty,

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 even though it was

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 guarded by soldiers,

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 and that Jesus appears

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 alive to a whole range

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 of witnesses

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 over 40 days.

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 And I,

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 there's been no account

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 that deals with the,

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 there's no other account

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 that deals with the evidence

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 of the explosive growth

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 of the Christian faith

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 in the very city

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 where Jesus died,

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 where all anybody had to do

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 was show the body.

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 And the explosive growth,

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 despite persecution,

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 despite jailing,

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 it's a complete opposite

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 of the,

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 of,

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 of Islamic origins

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 that are closely tied,

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 Islamic origins

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 are closely tied

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 to military victory.

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 Christianity suffers

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 complete and utter

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 the,

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 the weight,

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 the unrelated,

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 lenting weight

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 of the state

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 and the military

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 against it,

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 and the explosive growth

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 on the claim

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 of an empty tomb

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 and a real resurrection,

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 and there has never been,

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 I have not seen

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 an account

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 that can deal

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 with the evidence.

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 I just never have.

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 And that's,

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 it's because of that

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 that these other types

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 of claims

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 that I think

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 we need to take them

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 very seriously.

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 And,

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 and the claim

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 that we can't take

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 this very seriously,

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 this whole thing

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 of a,

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 of the worldview,

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 there's a very,

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 very simple mistake

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 that people make

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 when they say that.

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 They,

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 they,

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 sometimes they might

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 be well-meaning,

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 sometimes,

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 like my friend,

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 they were just trying

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 to embarrass me.

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 But,

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 Christians believe,

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 I mean,

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 this is a bit of a

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 theology geek moment,

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 like a bit of time out,

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 theology geeks,

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 okay,

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 time out for theology geeks.

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 But,

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 the Christian claim

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 is that it's the words

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 of the Bible

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 that are inspired.

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 It's the words,

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 the words that God

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 wanted written

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 are the words

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 that were put down.

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 The Bible doesn't

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 make the claim,

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 Christians haven't

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 made the claim,

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 that God scanned

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 the earth and thought,

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 you know what,

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 the most brilliant

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 person ever is Luke,

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 so I'm going to have

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 Luke write it.

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 And,

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 and the most mystical

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 person and holy

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 person ever is John.

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 I'm going to have

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 John write it.

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 Oh,

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 and look at Mark.

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 Mark,

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 whoa,

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 IQ through the roof,

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 you know?

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 No.

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 The Bible,

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 in fact,

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 God,

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 the consistent record

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 of the Bible

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 is that God chooses

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 the weak and the foolish

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 to shame the strong.

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 He wasn't looking

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 for the guys

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 with the highest IQs.

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 And that's a bit

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 of a put down

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 for us,

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 by the way,

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 okay?

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 We're not the highest

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 IQs in the city

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 of Ottawa.

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 If you think you are,

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 a few marks off

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 your IQ right there.

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 And,

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 and so,

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 what the Bible says

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 is that,

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 that,

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 okay,

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 you know what it says?

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 It's very chaste.

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 Look at verse 9 again.

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 Look at verse 9.

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 It's a very chaste

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 description

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 of what happens.

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 The whole account

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 of the ascension,

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 what goes on,

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 the few verses before,

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 which we're going to

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 look at in a moment,

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 the few verses after

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 give you interpretation

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 and context,

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 okay?

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 But the actual event,

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 look how simple it is.

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 And when he had said

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 these things

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 as they were looking on,

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 he was lifted up

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 and the cloud

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 took him out of their sight.

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 It's very,

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 very discreet.

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 Now,

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 you know what?

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 It might very well be

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 that if we went back

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 in a time machine

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 and we knew how to speak

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 to the apostles,

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 we'd mastered their language,

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 that if we were going back,

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 afterwards as they were going back

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 to their next place,

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 they might actually,

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 each one of them

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 might literally have thought,

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 whoa,

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 you know,

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 the world is like

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 the Ottawa Little Theater

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 and God is on the roof

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 and God pulled Jesus,

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 and that might be

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 what they think.

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 I mean,

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 that might be

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 what they think.

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 But you know,

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 one of the things

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 which is so wonderful

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 about the Bible

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 is that none of this

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 is actually in the Bible.

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 Like all their views

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 about how the world worked,

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 all their views

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 on what we would now call

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 astronomy and physics,

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 it's not there in the Bible.

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 Part of the power

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 of the Bible

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 as God's inspired word

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 is what's not in it.

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 And you know,

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 we should be so glad

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 that what is in it right now

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 doesn't accord

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 with what we say

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 in 2016,

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 because the fact

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 of the matter is

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 is that if Jesus

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 tarries in 2416,

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 the science

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 that we now hold,

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 they will laugh at.

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 So that if the Bible

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 was written in such a way

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 of somehow or another

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 that God had magically

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 given the apostles

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 an understanding

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 of physics and astronomy

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 that would match 2016,

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 it would just make it ridiculous

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 in a hundred years' time.

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 You see,

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 part of the power

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 of the Bible

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 is all the things

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 that are kept out.

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 Here's another thing.

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 This actually is something,

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 and you know,

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 maybe science will come up

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 with something

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 a little bit different.

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 You see,

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 the possibility,

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 it is making

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 an astounding claim.

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 What the text is saying

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 is that Jesus

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 started to rise.

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 And that as he started

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 to rise,

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 a cloud comes

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 and obscures him.

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 Now,

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 if you've read Luke,

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 you'll know that

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 at the end

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 of the transfiguration,

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 the cloud comes

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 and obscures Jesus

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 and everything

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 that's going on.

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 They're in a cloud.

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 And if you've read

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 the Old Testament,

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 there's a cloud

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 that leads the people

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 of Israel by day.

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 And if you read

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 the Old Testament,

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 you know that

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 the Shekinah,

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 the glory,

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 the cloud comes

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 and settles on the temple,

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 that there's different times

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 when the cloud

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 is a very,

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 very chaste way

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 of describing

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 the presence

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 of God's glory

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 and how,

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 as God's glory

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 comes,

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 it's as if

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 we can no longer

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 see God's glory

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 because our unfallen,

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 our fallen eyes

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 cannot behold

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 unfallen realities.

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 But rather than

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 trying to do it

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 the way

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 Steven Spielberg

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 would do it,

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 the Jewish people

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 under the inspiration

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 of the Holy Spirit

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 give a very chaste,

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 simple description.

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 And so what we see

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 is that Jesus

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 is rising,

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 the cloud,

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 the Shekinah glory

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 comes and no longer

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 can Jesus be seen.

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 And we can just imagine

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 that Peter and John

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 and James,

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 they elbow the others

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 and say,

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 we've seen something

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 like this before.

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 The cloud's going to go away

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 and it's just going to be

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 Jesus only.

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 But the cloud fades,

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 they're looking up,

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 waiting to see Jesus only

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 and Jesus is gone.

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 Christians believe,

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 you want to know

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 something which is

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 really cool?

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 And I have to be careful.

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 I'm going to be saying

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 a few things about physics

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 and all next week.

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 I know there's at least

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 one real physicist

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 in the room,

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 so I'm always a bit nervous

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 anything I say about physics.

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 But what I understand

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 about,

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 one of the things

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 I've understood

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 about physics is that,

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 and this is mind-blowing,

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 is that space is curved.

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 Like,

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 I always just sort of thought

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 that space,

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 like if you were able

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 to get like a laser,

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 like some unbelievably

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 powerful type of laser

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 that would never turn,

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 would just go straight

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 and somehow could withstand

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 gravitational pull

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 so that if you pointed it

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 at a black spot in the sky,

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 it would just go on

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 forever and ever

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 and ever and ever

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 and ever and ever

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 and ever and ever

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 and ever and ever

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 because space just goes on

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 forever and ever

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 and ever and ever.

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 But you know what physicists say?

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 That if you had that,

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 if you had that,

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 that laser

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 and it could point in,

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 it would never vary,

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 it would never go anything

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 other than straight

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 and it would never be affected

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 by gravitational pulls,

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 that if I did it like this

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 and it could speed time up,

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 it would hit me

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 in the back of the head.

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 That's what physics teach.

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 Space is curved.

00:23:01.700 --> 00:23:02.819
 Isn't that freaky?

00:23:07.140 --> 00:23:08.819
 And so what the Bible teaches

00:23:08.819 --> 00:23:11.299
 is that everything that we know,

00:23:12.460 --> 00:23:14.240
 all of space and time

00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:16.359
 was created by God.

00:23:18.380 --> 00:23:19.059
 Just imagine,

00:23:19.099 --> 00:23:19.779
 I'm not God,

00:23:20.019 --> 00:23:22.420
 but just imagine I'm God.

00:23:22.700 --> 00:23:24.079
 This is space and time,

00:23:24.259 --> 00:23:25.319
 all of the created order.

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 It's this tennis ball.

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 And God is outside of it.

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 There was a really,

00:23:33.539 --> 00:23:34.559
 really wonderful debate

00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:36.039
 slash dialogue the other night

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 and right up here,

00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:38.220
 the philosophy professor

00:23:38.220 --> 00:23:39.180
 from the University of Toronto

00:23:39.180 --> 00:23:39.880
 who was the atheist,

00:23:40.299 --> 00:23:41.120
 you could almost see him

00:23:41.120 --> 00:23:41.960
 just going like this,

00:23:41.960 --> 00:23:42.819
 like, you know,

00:23:42.880 --> 00:23:44.039
 how on earth could there possibly

00:23:44.039 --> 00:23:45.579
 be a God who's created all things?

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 Like, what was he doing before?

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 Like, was he just sort of

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 sitting around waiting

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 and he just sort of like

00:23:50.200 --> 00:23:51.559
 with a little bit of a grin

00:23:51.559 --> 00:23:52.360
 on his face?

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 The fact of the matter is

00:23:55.100 --> 00:23:56.900
 is that space and time

00:23:56.900 --> 00:23:57.740
 is created.

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 It's on the ball.

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 Time doesn't apply to God.

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 Just as if you're watching,

00:24:07.299 --> 00:24:08.180
 you know,

00:24:08.299 --> 00:24:09.100
 Downton Abbey

00:24:09.100 --> 00:24:10.720
 or watching something on Netflix

00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:12.039
 and we're outside of it,

00:24:12.100 --> 00:24:13.279
 the time that's going on

00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:14.339
 in the show,

00:24:14.539 --> 00:24:16.360
 that's completely different than us.

00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:18.259
 Just a very smart way.

00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:19.480
 And all of creation

00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:21.600
 is like this tennis ball.

00:24:21.860 --> 00:24:22.700
 It's even curved

00:24:22.700 --> 00:24:24.000
 because who on earth

00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:24.799
 can get their mind

00:24:24.799 --> 00:24:25.420
 around the fact

00:24:25.420 --> 00:24:26.559
 that space is curved?

00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:31.100
 And God is outside of it.

00:24:31.180 --> 00:24:32.380
 Time doesn't apply to him.

00:24:33.339 --> 00:24:34.700
 And what the Bible text

00:24:34.700 --> 00:24:35.420
 is just saying

00:24:35.420 --> 00:24:36.100
 is that Jesus,

00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:38.279
 who lived with body and soul,

00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:39.940
 that he entered,

00:24:39.940 --> 00:24:40.500
 in a sense,

00:24:40.580 --> 00:24:41.220
 this tennis ball.

00:24:41.299 --> 00:24:42.580
 He entered the realm

00:24:42.580 --> 00:24:43.600
 of space and time,

00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:44.420
 the credit order.

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 And he did all the things

00:24:47.519 --> 00:24:48.340
 that he did

00:24:48.340 --> 00:24:49.580
 to ultimately save us,

00:24:49.600 --> 00:24:50.740
 that at some point in time,

00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:52.460
 the resurrection appearances

00:24:52.460 --> 00:24:53.500
 come to an end,

00:24:53.559 --> 00:24:54.779
 which is part of the point

00:24:54.779 --> 00:24:55.559
 of the ascension.

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 And Jesus leaves space and time

00:24:58.259 --> 00:24:59.460
 and body and soul,

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 he goes outside of space and time

00:25:01.759 --> 00:25:03.039
 where God is.

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 And if you say,

00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:06.680
 well, how on earth

00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:07.460
 does that work?

00:25:07.460 --> 00:25:08.940
 Then all I can say

00:25:08.940 --> 00:25:09.980
 is what Paul says

00:25:09.980 --> 00:25:11.559
 in 1 Corinthians 15.

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 You fool.

00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:15.640
 How on earth

00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:16.960
 can we possibly talk

00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:18.059
 about what existence

00:25:18.059 --> 00:25:18.620
 is like

00:25:18.620 --> 00:25:20.319
 outside of space and time?

00:25:22.100 --> 00:25:22.299
 You know,

00:25:22.340 --> 00:25:22.920
 we can't even,

00:25:23.019 --> 00:25:24.120
 it's a famous problem

00:25:24.120 --> 00:25:24.779
 in philosophy

00:25:24.779 --> 00:25:25.740
 that you can't even

00:25:25.740 --> 00:25:26.779
 talk about time

00:25:26.779 --> 00:25:28.480
 without using

00:25:28.480 --> 00:25:29.200
 an analogy

00:25:29.200 --> 00:25:31.220
 of distance and length.

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 Isn't that freaky?

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 I think that's mind-blowing.

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 So how on earth

00:25:37.420 --> 00:25:38.180
 could God use

00:25:38.180 --> 00:25:39.220
 any words

00:25:39.220 --> 00:25:40.680
 that would mean

00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:42.539
 anything to our minds

00:25:42.539 --> 00:25:45.000
 framed by space and time

00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:46.680
 as to what it's like

00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:48.440
 for the God,

00:25:48.560 --> 00:25:49.340
 the Son of God,

00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:50.460
 body and soul,

00:25:50.880 --> 00:25:52.700
 to leave space and time

00:25:52.700 --> 00:25:53.860
 to be where there is

00:25:53.860 --> 00:25:54.740
 no space and time

00:25:54.740 --> 00:25:55.240
 where God is?

00:25:55.320 --> 00:25:56.320
 I don't know what that means.

00:25:57.180 --> 00:25:58.360
 But one day I will.

00:25:58.360 --> 00:25:58.420
 I will.

00:25:58.420 --> 00:26:05.920
 Now,

00:26:06.259 --> 00:26:09.220
 that's all pretty cool.

00:26:10.279 --> 00:26:11.120
 But you know what?

00:26:11.180 --> 00:26:12.060
 For some people,

00:26:12.580 --> 00:26:13.900
 just hearing what I've just said,

00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:14.440
 all it would do

00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:15.700
 is create fear within them.

00:26:16.340 --> 00:26:17.060
 I just saw this

00:26:17.060 --> 00:26:18.740
 really spectacular quote

00:26:18.740 --> 00:26:19.880
 in the paper the other day.

00:26:19.960 --> 00:26:20.519
 It was quoting

00:26:20.519 --> 00:26:22.759
 a Canadian academic.

00:26:23.340 --> 00:26:24.220
 It was written by,

00:26:24.220 --> 00:26:26.340
 the article was by

00:26:26.340 --> 00:26:27.039
 a non-Christian,

00:26:27.279 --> 00:26:28.039
 really very,

00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:28.839
 very, very, very

00:26:28.839 --> 00:26:30.079
 deeply thoughtful guy.

00:26:30.159 --> 00:26:30.980
 I love reading him.

00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:33.220
 And he was talking about

00:26:33.220 --> 00:26:34.619
 this new work

00:26:34.619 --> 00:26:35.519
 by a Canadian

00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:36.920
 teaching the States

00:26:36.920 --> 00:26:39.079
 trying to talk about terrorism.

00:26:40.039 --> 00:26:40.680
 And Andrew,

00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:41.240
 could you put up

00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:41.899
 the first note?

00:26:42.059 --> 00:26:42.299
 Hey, bien.

00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:42.819
 I'm going to,

00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:43.559
 this is a quote.

00:26:43.659 --> 00:26:44.500
 It's just NB

00:26:44.500 --> 00:26:45.680
 because it's not my point,

00:26:46.599 --> 00:26:47.099
 although I've just

00:26:47.099 --> 00:26:48.139
 slightly adapted it.

00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:49.879
 Here's what I saw

00:26:49.879 --> 00:26:50.599
 in the paper

00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:51.259
 just recently.

00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:52.359
 If God is,

00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:53.299
 actually they use God

00:26:53.299 --> 00:26:54.139
 with a capital G

00:26:54.139 --> 00:26:55.339
 and I demoted that God.

00:26:55.579 --> 00:26:55.779
 Sorry,

00:26:55.879 --> 00:26:56.759
 it's a Christian church,

00:26:56.859 --> 00:26:57.779
 so I demoted him.

00:26:58.039 --> 00:26:58.899
 it

00:26:58.899 --> 00:27:00.460
 for this purpose.

00:27:00.579 --> 00:27:02.319
 But if God is on our side,

00:27:02.500 --> 00:27:04.079
 everyone else is godless

00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:05.319
 and worthy of death.

00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:09.460
 If God is on our side,

00:27:09.619 --> 00:27:11.159
 everyone else is godless

00:27:11.159 --> 00:27:12.420
 and worthy of death.

00:27:14.019 --> 00:27:14.539
 Now,

00:27:14.639 --> 00:27:15.740
 in our bones,

00:27:16.399 --> 00:27:18.480
 we believe that.

00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:21.400
 I mean,

00:27:21.460 --> 00:27:22.380
 for a lot of people

00:27:22.380 --> 00:27:23.120
 in our culture,

00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:23.680
 if I,

00:27:23.779 --> 00:27:24.680
 the more you come

00:27:24.680 --> 00:27:25.779
 to prove that Jesus

00:27:25.779 --> 00:27:26.900
 might actually have risen

00:27:26.900 --> 00:27:27.640
 from the dead

00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:30.700
 or that it's intellectually compelling,

00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:32.259
 for many of them,

00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:32.720
 it's not,

00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:33.339
 oh,

00:27:34.620 --> 00:27:34.940
 you know,

00:27:34.940 --> 00:27:35.860
 tune my heart

00:27:35.860 --> 00:27:37.180
 to sing thy praise,

00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:39.500
 but a feeling of dread.

00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:41.920
 Now,

00:27:41.960 --> 00:27:43.160
 this quote was in the context

00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:43.859
 of explaining

00:27:43.859 --> 00:27:45.259
 Islamic terrorism

00:27:45.259 --> 00:27:46.960
 or Islamists,

00:27:47.259 --> 00:27:47.480
 anyway,

00:27:47.599 --> 00:27:47.759
 you know,

00:27:47.859 --> 00:27:48.299
 I don't,

00:27:48.420 --> 00:27:48.660
 I'm not,

00:27:48.819 --> 00:27:48.980
 you know,

00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:49.839
 that terrorism

00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:50.859
 from that root,

00:27:50.859 --> 00:27:52.880
 but the fact is

00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:53.700
 he didn't say that.

00:27:53.819 --> 00:27:54.140
 He made it

00:27:54.140 --> 00:27:55.440
 in a very general comment

00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:56.619
 and that for many,

00:27:56.720 --> 00:27:56.900
 many,

00:27:56.960 --> 00:27:57.160
 many,

00:27:57.160 --> 00:27:57.779
 many people

00:27:57.779 --> 00:27:58.660
 in our culture,

00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:00.819
 this is how

00:28:00.819 --> 00:28:01.740
 they view religion.

00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:04.000
 It's why,

00:28:04.140 --> 00:28:05.339
 no matter how compelling

00:28:05.339 --> 00:28:06.359
 arguments would be,

00:28:06.440 --> 00:28:07.160
 they do not want,

00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:07.840
 part of the reason

00:28:07.840 --> 00:28:08.580
 they do not want it

00:28:08.580 --> 00:28:09.060
 to be true,

00:28:09.220 --> 00:28:10.440
 but let's be honest.

00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:16.380
 If I was like God

00:28:16.380 --> 00:28:19.420
 and I could do things

00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:19.960
 like God

00:28:19.960 --> 00:28:20.820
 and get away with it,

00:28:21.360 --> 00:28:22.560
 people would die.

00:28:25.120 --> 00:28:25.920
 And I'm not

00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:26.779
 especially wicked.

00:28:28.320 --> 00:28:29.279
 I'm probably only

00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:30.140
 average wicked.

00:28:31.820 --> 00:28:33.060
 I think every single

00:28:33.060 --> 00:28:33.779
 one of you too,

00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:35.779
 if you think about it,

00:28:35.779 --> 00:28:37.180
 my body count

00:28:37.180 --> 00:28:38.019
 might be way higher

00:28:38.019 --> 00:28:38.599
 than yours

00:28:38.599 --> 00:28:38.980
 because you're

00:28:38.980 --> 00:28:39.660
 a better person

00:28:39.660 --> 00:28:40.079
 than me.

00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:41.920
 And why is it

00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:42.299
 that we talk

00:28:42.299 --> 00:28:43.599
 about murderous looks?

00:28:48.059 --> 00:28:49.379
 And there is

00:28:49.379 --> 00:28:50.399
 something deeply

00:28:50.399 --> 00:28:51.000
 human

00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.599
 in this phrase.

00:28:54.839 --> 00:28:55.740
 That if I had

00:28:55.740 --> 00:28:56.559
 the power of God,

00:28:56.619 --> 00:28:57.240
 if I thought that

00:28:57.240 --> 00:28:58.960
 God was on my side,

00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:00.519
 then those who

00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:01.480
 are the godless

00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:03.779
 are worthy of death.

00:29:03.779 --> 00:29:05.539
 And we would

00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:06.359
 kill some of them.

00:29:06.599 --> 00:29:07.700
 I would kill some of them.

00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:08.319
 So would you.

00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:09.000
 There's something

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:09.619
 very true

00:29:09.619 --> 00:29:10.500
 about that statement.

00:29:16.019 --> 00:29:16.420
 So,

00:29:18.180 --> 00:29:18.920
 and the other thing

00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:19.259
 about it was

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:20.139
 we have to be honest

00:29:20.139 --> 00:29:21.139
 is that some people

00:29:21.139 --> 00:29:22.119
 who call themselves

00:29:22.119 --> 00:29:22.579
 Christians

00:29:22.579 --> 00:29:23.339
 and maybe really

00:29:23.339 --> 00:29:24.339
 even are Christians

00:29:24.339 --> 00:29:25.019
 have acted

00:29:25.019 --> 00:29:25.839
 in this way.

00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:29.099
 God is on their side.

00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:29.779
 The godless,

00:29:29.940 --> 00:29:30.200
 therefore,

00:29:30.379 --> 00:29:31.599
 are worthy of death.

00:29:31.599 --> 00:29:35.579
 So let's just look

00:29:35.579 --> 00:29:36.759
 a little bit here

00:29:36.759 --> 00:29:37.399
 at the Bible

00:29:37.399 --> 00:29:38.679
 and see

00:29:38.679 --> 00:29:40.079
 do Christians

00:29:40.079 --> 00:29:41.579
 need to be corrected

00:29:41.579 --> 00:29:45.099
 by modern academics,

00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:46.539
 by secular culture?

00:29:46.699 --> 00:29:47.779
 Do we need to be

00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:48.439
 corrected?

00:29:48.899 --> 00:29:49.980
 Because if we get

00:29:49.980 --> 00:29:50.740
 too serious

00:29:50.740 --> 00:29:51.419
 in the Bible

00:29:51.419 --> 00:29:52.459
 it's only going to

00:29:52.459 --> 00:29:53.899
 cause deep problems.

00:29:53.900 --> 00:29:54.040
 Muslims.

00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.780
 I just read a very,

00:29:57.920 --> 00:29:59.080
 very fascinating book

00:29:59.080 --> 00:30:00.540
 by a former Muslim

00:30:00.540 --> 00:30:02.740
 and one of the things

00:30:02.740 --> 00:30:03.640
 that he says

00:30:03.640 --> 00:30:05.040
 is that part of the problem

00:30:05.040 --> 00:30:06.360
 right now going on

00:30:06.360 --> 00:30:06.980
 in Islam

00:30:06.980 --> 00:30:08.500
 it's by

00:30:08.500 --> 00:30:09.740
 Nabil Qureshi

00:30:09.740 --> 00:30:11.000
 and

00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:11.820
 is that

00:30:11.820 --> 00:30:12.580
 in Islam

00:30:12.580 --> 00:30:13.460
 there's the Quran

00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:14.400
 then there's the Hadith

00:30:14.400 --> 00:30:15.420
 and then there's Sharia

00:30:15.420 --> 00:30:16.580
 with fatwas

00:30:16.580 --> 00:30:17.600
 that go along with it

00:30:17.600 --> 00:30:19.040
 and all three of them

00:30:19.040 --> 00:30:19.759
 sort of govern

00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:20.660
 how Muslims

00:30:20.660 --> 00:30:21.840
 sort of understand

00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:22.280
 themselves

00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:23.859
 and that when people

00:30:23.859 --> 00:30:25.240
 are asking for Muslims

00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:26.099
 to go underneath

00:30:26.099 --> 00:30:27.359
 a reformation

00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:28.379
 the problem is

00:30:28.379 --> 00:30:29.539
 that the Quran

00:30:29.539 --> 00:30:31.579
 is vastly more

00:30:31.579 --> 00:30:32.940
 murderous and bloody

00:30:32.940 --> 00:30:35.619
 than the other two sources.

00:30:36.500 --> 00:30:37.579
 In other words

00:30:37.579 --> 00:30:38.200
 he says

00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:40.299
 ISIS

00:30:40.299 --> 00:30:42.220
 is the reformation

00:30:42.220 --> 00:30:45.420
 and that for Quran

00:30:45.420 --> 00:30:46.759
 for Muslims

00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:47.859
 we need to hope

00:30:47.859 --> 00:30:49.379
 that the other sources

00:30:49.379 --> 00:30:51.220
 which are far more humane

00:30:51.220 --> 00:30:52.759
 end up governing

00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:54.779
 and historically

00:30:54.779 --> 00:30:55.400
 have governed

00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:57.180
 how most actual Muslims

00:30:57.180 --> 00:30:57.980
 that you'd ever meet

00:30:57.980 --> 00:30:59.200
 actually would live

00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:00.759
 that those become

00:31:00.759 --> 00:31:01.420
 more powerful

00:31:01.420 --> 00:31:02.579
 but for Christians

00:31:02.579 --> 00:31:03.700
 is it that as we get

00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:05.180
 more closely into the Bible

00:31:05.180 --> 00:31:06.980
 that this will be true?

00:31:08.500 --> 00:31:09.100
 Well let's look

00:31:09.100 --> 00:31:10.940
 we stopped at verse 3

00:31:10.940 --> 00:31:12.240
 let's continue at verse 4

00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:15.319
 and while staying with them

00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:16.720
 that was Jesus

00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:18.360
 and by the way

00:31:18.360 --> 00:31:18.980
 one of the words

00:31:18.980 --> 00:31:19.660
 for staying

00:31:19.660 --> 00:31:21.579
 that little simple sentence

00:31:21.579 --> 00:31:22.120
 could be translated

00:31:22.120 --> 00:31:22.940
 in three ways

00:31:22.940 --> 00:31:23.400
 by the way

00:31:23.400 --> 00:31:23.960
 in Greek

00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:25.539
 and one of the ways

00:31:25.539 --> 00:31:26.319
 to translate it

00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:26.940
 would be that he was

00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:27.700
 eating with them

00:31:27.700 --> 00:31:28.759
 like yet another proof

00:31:28.759 --> 00:31:30.460
 that he was actually

00:31:30.460 --> 00:31:31.819
 physically alive

00:31:31.819 --> 00:31:33.380
 he ordered them

00:31:33.380 --> 00:31:34.059
 not to depart

00:31:34.059 --> 00:31:34.640
 from Jerusalem

00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:35.200
 but to wait

00:31:35.200 --> 00:31:35.960
 for the promise

00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:36.620
 of the Father

00:31:36.620 --> 00:31:37.660
 for which he said

00:31:37.660 --> 00:31:38.900
 you heard from me

00:31:38.900 --> 00:31:39.759
 for John baptized

00:31:39.759 --> 00:31:40.620
 with water

00:31:40.620 --> 00:31:41.420
 but you will be

00:31:41.420 --> 00:31:42.920
 baptized with the Holy Spirit

00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:43.700
 not many days

00:31:43.700 --> 00:31:44.319
 from now

00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:45.920
 and you know

00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:46.799
 it might very well be

00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:47.720
 that for the apostles

00:31:47.720 --> 00:31:48.139
 they think

00:31:48.139 --> 00:31:48.579
 whoa

00:31:48.579 --> 00:31:49.259
 we're going to really

00:31:49.259 --> 00:31:50.299
 have power now

00:31:50.299 --> 00:31:52.519
 now we're going to be able

00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:53.440
 who knows what they thought

00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:54.779
 then verse 6

00:31:54.779 --> 00:31:56.619
 so when they had come together

00:31:56.619 --> 00:31:57.299
 they asked him

00:31:57.299 --> 00:31:58.480
 Lord will you at this time

00:31:58.480 --> 00:32:00.220
 restore the kingdom of Israel

00:32:00.220 --> 00:32:02.859
 now when they're asking

00:32:02.859 --> 00:32:03.619
 in this question

00:32:03.619 --> 00:32:04.799
 they're basically asking

00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:06.619
 God are you going to come

00:32:06.619 --> 00:32:07.879
 is Jesus

00:32:07.879 --> 00:32:08.460
 are you going to become

00:32:08.460 --> 00:32:09.180
 the head of Israel

00:32:09.180 --> 00:32:10.819
 and is Israel going to

00:32:10.819 --> 00:32:11.879
 basically take over

00:32:11.879 --> 00:32:12.579
 the world

00:32:12.579 --> 00:32:13.559
 that all of the world

00:32:13.559 --> 00:32:14.899
 will bow the knee to Israel

00:32:14.900 --> 00:32:15.920
 and by the way

00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:16.560
 when they're asking

00:32:16.560 --> 00:32:17.120
 this question

00:32:17.120 --> 00:32:18.740
 if you read the gospels

00:32:18.740 --> 00:32:19.759
 you know that they thought

00:32:19.759 --> 00:32:20.920
 they would all have

00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:22.440
 they weren't thinking

00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:23.400
 they would be on the top

00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:23.980
 they weren't thinking

00:32:23.980 --> 00:32:25.000
 they'd be the top dog

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:25.600
 they were thinking

00:32:25.600 --> 00:32:26.519
 that Jesus would be

00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:27.200
 in the top chair

00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:28.019
 but guess who would be

00:32:28.019 --> 00:32:28.460
 in the chair

00:32:28.460 --> 00:32:29.360
 just underneath them

00:32:29.360 --> 00:32:31.580
 them

00:32:31.580 --> 00:32:33.940
 and then Israel

00:32:33.940 --> 00:32:35.100
 and then the world

00:32:35.100 --> 00:32:36.780
 so that's how they think

00:32:36.780 --> 00:32:37.360
 they're asking him

00:32:37.360 --> 00:32:37.960
 that question

00:32:37.960 --> 00:32:39.880
 verse 7

00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:41.480
 and if you think

00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:42.080
 about it for a second

00:32:42.080 --> 00:32:43.120
 isn't that question

00:32:43.120 --> 00:32:43.780
 like this

00:32:43.779 --> 00:32:47.339
 that's implicit

00:32:47.339 --> 00:32:48.119
 in the question

00:32:48.119 --> 00:32:50.920
 something like that

00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:53.299
 God's on our side

00:32:53.299 --> 00:32:57.539
 those who are not

00:32:57.539 --> 00:32:58.759
 are godless

00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:00.980
 and how does Jesus answer

00:33:00.980 --> 00:33:02.220
 he said to them

00:33:02.220 --> 00:33:02.799
 verse 7

00:33:02.799 --> 00:33:03.920
 it is not for you

00:33:03.920 --> 00:33:04.839
 to know times

00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:05.399
 or seasons

00:33:05.399 --> 00:33:06.139
 that the father

00:33:06.139 --> 00:33:06.779
 has fixed

00:33:06.779 --> 00:33:08.119
 by his own authority

00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:10.139
 now just pause here

00:33:10.139 --> 00:33:10.619
 for a second

00:33:10.619 --> 00:33:11.960
 he basically ignores

00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:12.559
 the question

00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:13.500
 basically he's saying

00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:14.119
 that's not what's

00:33:14.119 --> 00:33:14.640
 going to happen

00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.200
 and the other thing

00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:16.720
 which is really

00:33:16.720 --> 00:33:17.980
 really significant here

00:33:17.980 --> 00:33:19.319
 is that it's not

00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:20.279
 just that people

00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:21.720
 people who think

00:33:21.720 --> 00:33:22.640
 that God is on their

00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:22.900
 side

00:33:22.900 --> 00:33:23.359
 they also

00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:24.059
 you know

00:33:24.059 --> 00:33:24.960
 the most of the death

00:33:24.960 --> 00:33:26.039
 in the 20th century

00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:27.079
 that's been caused

00:33:27.079 --> 00:33:27.819
 by tyranny

00:33:27.819 --> 00:33:29.160
 has been by people

00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:30.319
 who think that utopia

00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:31.440
 is on their side

00:33:31.440 --> 00:33:33.079
 that they've understood

00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:34.720
 the flow of history

00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:36.660
 and because they know

00:33:36.660 --> 00:33:37.720
 how history is going

00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:38.200
 to go

00:33:38.200 --> 00:33:39.240
 the workers

00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:40.460
 the peasants

00:33:40.460 --> 00:33:41.119
 the educated

00:33:41.119 --> 00:33:42.079
 that the people

00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:42.839
 who are Chinese

00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:43.819
 if you're in Vietnam

00:33:43.819 --> 00:33:44.899
 or whatever

00:33:44.899 --> 00:33:45.899
 the wrong groups

00:33:45.899 --> 00:33:47.819
 they can be put

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:48.359
 to death

00:33:48.359 --> 00:33:49.719
 and Jesus here

00:33:49.719 --> 00:33:50.659
 is completely

00:33:50.659 --> 00:33:51.439
 rejecting

00:33:51.439 --> 00:33:52.539
 any type of

00:33:52.539 --> 00:33:53.139
 millennial

00:33:53.139 --> 00:33:54.659
 utopian knowledge

00:33:54.659 --> 00:33:56.079
 given to his people

00:33:56.079 --> 00:33:58.699
 Donald Trump

00:33:58.699 --> 00:33:59.519
 Hillary Clinton

00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:00.459
 Bernie Sanders

00:34:00.459 --> 00:34:01.419
 the person

00:34:01.419 --> 00:34:02.359
 who will serve you

00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:03.739
 coffee at Tim Hortons

00:34:03.739 --> 00:34:04.939
 and the next street

00:34:04.939 --> 00:34:05.339
 person

00:34:05.339 --> 00:34:06.259
 and me

00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:07.339
 all equally

00:34:07.339 --> 00:34:08.119
 know the future

00:34:08.119 --> 00:34:11.480
 as well as

00:34:11.480 --> 00:34:12.000
 the philosophy

00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:12.579
 faculty

00:34:12.579 --> 00:34:13.219
 and sociology

00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:14.039
 and psychology

00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:14.519
 and political

00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:15.500
 science faculty

00:34:15.500 --> 00:34:16.519
 and MBA faculty

00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:17.219
 University of Ottawa

00:34:17.219 --> 00:34:17.719
 and Carleton

00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:18.779
 we all equally

00:34:18.779 --> 00:34:19.460
 know the future

00:34:19.460 --> 00:34:20.559
 which is zero

00:34:20.559 --> 00:34:21.880
 the one thing

00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:22.380
 that Christians

00:34:22.380 --> 00:34:22.779
 know

00:34:22.779 --> 00:34:23.819
 is that Jesus

00:34:23.819 --> 00:34:24.500
 will return

00:34:24.500 --> 00:34:25.339
 beyond that

00:34:25.339 --> 00:34:26.199
 nada

00:34:26.199 --> 00:34:28.940
 that's

00:34:28.940 --> 00:34:29.819
 that's all we know

00:34:29.819 --> 00:34:32.239
 so you see

00:34:32.239 --> 00:34:32.619
 right here

00:34:32.619 --> 00:34:33.279
 that the biblical

00:34:33.279 --> 00:34:34.099
 text is starting

00:34:34.099 --> 00:34:35.139
 to cut the legs

00:34:35.139 --> 00:34:35.799
 out from that

00:34:35.800 --> 00:34:37.300
 human desire

00:34:37.300 --> 00:34:38.940
 expressed in that

00:34:38.940 --> 00:34:39.220
 quote

00:34:39.220 --> 00:34:39.920
 but it gets

00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:40.519
 even more

00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:41.400
 look at verse 8

00:34:41.400 --> 00:34:42.680
 but

00:34:42.680 --> 00:34:43.900
 okay

00:34:43.900 --> 00:34:45.320
 so we want

00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:46.400
 they want to have

00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:47.340
 political power

00:34:47.340 --> 00:34:48.480
 and they want to have

00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:49.740
 knowledge of the future

00:34:49.740 --> 00:34:50.800
 Jesus says

00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:51.519
 you're not going to have

00:34:51.519 --> 00:34:52.519
 either of those things

00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:53.019
 but

00:34:53.019 --> 00:34:54.460
 and I don't know

00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:55.060
 maybe they're going

00:34:55.060 --> 00:34:55.680
 okay but

00:34:55.680 --> 00:34:56.220
 there's going to be

00:34:56.220 --> 00:34:57.000
 something better

00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:58.320
 there's going to be

00:34:58.320 --> 00:34:58.920
 something better

00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:00.560
 you will receive

00:35:00.560 --> 00:35:01.380
 power when the

00:35:01.380 --> 00:35:01.880
 Holy Spirit

00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:02.880
 has come upon you

00:35:02.880 --> 00:35:03.860
 and you will be

00:35:03.860 --> 00:35:04.560
 my witnesses

00:35:04.560 --> 00:35:05.220
 in Jerusalem

00:35:05.219 --> 00:35:06.199
 and in all Judea

00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:06.779
 and Samaria

00:35:06.779 --> 00:35:07.219
 and to the end

00:35:07.219 --> 00:35:07.619
 of the earth

00:35:07.619 --> 00:35:08.500
 let's be honest

00:35:08.500 --> 00:35:08.879
 folks

00:35:08.879 --> 00:35:10.339
 for many of us

00:35:10.339 --> 00:35:12.359
 when we hear

00:35:12.359 --> 00:35:13.059
 that rather than

00:35:13.059 --> 00:35:13.779
 getting lots of

00:35:13.779 --> 00:35:14.699
 power and superior

00:35:14.699 --> 00:35:15.239
 knowledge

00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:16.019
 we just get the

00:35:16.019 --> 00:35:16.539
 Holy Spirit

00:35:16.539 --> 00:35:17.179
 we say we just

00:35:17.179 --> 00:35:18.059
 get the Holy Spirit

00:35:18.059 --> 00:35:19.779
 oh dang

00:35:19.779 --> 00:35:20.879
 I was hoping

00:35:20.879 --> 00:35:21.379
 for something

00:35:21.379 --> 00:35:22.059
 a bit better

00:35:22.059 --> 00:35:24.339
 let's just be honest

00:35:24.339 --> 00:35:29.259
 but Jesus

00:35:29.259 --> 00:35:30.059
 is giving us

00:35:30.059 --> 00:35:30.819
 something better

00:35:30.820 --> 00:35:35.140
 if we trust

00:35:35.140 --> 00:35:35.420
 him

00:35:35.420 --> 00:35:39.740
 in verse 9

00:35:39.740 --> 00:35:40.300
 and when he had

00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:40.940
 said these things

00:35:40.940 --> 00:35:41.320
 as they were

00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:41.820
 looking on

00:35:41.820 --> 00:35:42.660
 he was lifted up

00:35:42.660 --> 00:35:43.220
 and a cloud

00:35:43.220 --> 00:35:43.720
 took him out

00:35:43.720 --> 00:35:44.300
 of their sight

00:35:44.300 --> 00:35:45.340
 and while they

00:35:45.340 --> 00:35:45.820
 were gazing

00:35:45.820 --> 00:35:46.320
 into heaven

00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:46.820
 as he went

00:35:46.820 --> 00:35:47.260
 behold

00:35:47.260 --> 00:35:47.880
 two men

00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:49.380
 stood by them

00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:50.220
 in white robes

00:35:50.220 --> 00:35:50.740
 their angels

00:35:50.740 --> 00:35:52.420
 and said

00:35:52.420 --> 00:35:53.120
 men of Galilee

00:35:53.120 --> 00:35:54.160
 why do you stand

00:35:54.160 --> 00:35:55.240
 looking into heaven

00:35:55.240 --> 00:35:56.760
 this Jesus

00:35:56.760 --> 00:35:57.760
 by the way

00:35:57.760 --> 00:35:58.160
 this is going to be

00:35:58.160 --> 00:35:59.000
 really significant

00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:00.400
 because it introduces

00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:00.920
 a phrase

00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:01.440
 that's going to be

00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:01.980
 all the way

00:36:01.980 --> 00:36:02.420
 through the rest

00:36:02.420 --> 00:36:03.300
 of the book of Acts

00:36:03.300 --> 00:36:04.539
 and all the way

00:36:04.539 --> 00:36:05.300
 through the book of Acts

00:36:05.300 --> 00:36:06.019
 constantly

00:36:06.019 --> 00:36:07.079
 the apostles say

00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:09.119
 this same Jesus

00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:11.119
 whom you crucified

00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:13.840
 it's tying it

00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:14.519
 to the entire

00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:15.300
 book of Luke

00:36:15.300 --> 00:36:16.699
 this Jesus

00:36:16.699 --> 00:36:18.320
 okay I'll explain

00:36:18.320 --> 00:36:18.780
 the significance

00:36:18.780 --> 00:36:19.239
 in a moment

00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:19.900
 this Jesus

00:36:19.900 --> 00:36:20.739
 who was taken up

00:36:20.739 --> 00:36:21.519
 from you into heaven

00:36:21.519 --> 00:36:22.260
 will come

00:36:22.260 --> 00:36:23.219
 in the same way

00:36:23.219 --> 00:36:23.940
 as you saw him

00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:24.739
 go into heaven

00:36:24.739 --> 00:36:26.340
 could you put up

00:36:26.340 --> 00:36:27.039
 the first point

00:36:27.039 --> 00:36:27.960
 as the next point

00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:28.280
 Andrew

00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:29.760
 here's what the

00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:30.720
 Bible's trying to teach

00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:31.380
 this is one of the

00:36:31.380 --> 00:36:32.200
 reasons why this

00:36:32.200 --> 00:36:33.360
 deep fear that we

00:36:33.360 --> 00:36:34.420
 have in our culture

00:36:34.420 --> 00:36:35.940
 that the Bible

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:37.440
 the Christian faith

00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:38.680
 that what Jesus does

00:36:38.680 --> 00:36:39.620
 it completely

00:36:39.620 --> 00:36:40.880
 undermines it

00:36:40.880 --> 00:36:42.460
 because you see

00:36:42.460 --> 00:36:43.080
 the cultural

00:36:43.080 --> 00:36:44.180
 expectation we have

00:36:44.180 --> 00:36:44.900
 in our culture

00:36:44.900 --> 00:36:46.420
 is that if

00:36:46.420 --> 00:36:47.940
 if I was like God

00:36:47.940 --> 00:36:48.840
 people would die

00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:50.080
 that is so deeply

00:36:50.080 --> 00:36:51.220
 rooted in our culture

00:36:51.220 --> 00:36:51.560
 that if

00:36:51.560 --> 00:36:52.640
 in what it means

00:36:52.640 --> 00:36:53.160
 to be a human

00:36:53.160 --> 00:36:54.260
 that if I was God

00:36:54.260 --> 00:36:55.440
 if I was like God

00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:56.240
 if I had God

00:36:56.240 --> 00:36:57.040
 in my pocket

00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:58.179
 if I could walk

00:36:58.179 --> 00:36:58.860
 around and God

00:36:58.860 --> 00:36:59.699
 was right with me

00:36:59.699 --> 00:37:00.360
 and he would do

00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:01.279
 whatever I wanted

00:37:01.279 --> 00:37:02.400
 because he is my ally

00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:03.219
 people would die

00:37:03.219 --> 00:37:04.579
 and we cannot

00:37:04.579 --> 00:37:05.360
 understand

00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:06.820
 that the God

00:37:06.820 --> 00:37:08.119
 who really does

00:37:08.119 --> 00:37:09.259
 live and exist

00:37:09.259 --> 00:37:10.420
 and he saw human

00:37:10.420 --> 00:37:11.300
 beings like you

00:37:11.300 --> 00:37:11.659
 and me

00:37:11.659 --> 00:37:12.679
 and he decided

00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:13.679
 he would die

00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:17.420
 out of love

00:37:17.420 --> 00:37:17.980
 for us

00:37:17.980 --> 00:37:21.039
 and what we're

00:37:21.039 --> 00:37:21.719
 seeing here

00:37:21.719 --> 00:37:22.320
 with the end

00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:23.000
 of the ascension

00:37:23.000 --> 00:37:24.260
 is we see this

00:37:24.260 --> 00:37:25.700
 one powerful

00:37:25.700 --> 00:37:26.720
 act of grace

00:37:26.720 --> 00:37:27.880
 by one person

00:37:27.880 --> 00:37:28.500
 to redeem

00:37:28.500 --> 00:37:29.539
 every person

00:37:29.539 --> 00:37:30.780
 who receives him

00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:31.660
 by faith alone

00:37:31.660 --> 00:37:33.000
 what we have to

00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:33.400
 understand

00:37:33.400 --> 00:37:34.380
 is that it's all

00:37:34.380 --> 00:37:35.420
 just one mighty

00:37:35.420 --> 00:37:36.300
 act of God

00:37:36.300 --> 00:37:37.039
 Philippians 2

00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:37.740
 5 to 11

00:37:37.740 --> 00:37:38.400
 puts it all

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:38.960
 in a very very

00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:39.720
 wonderful way

00:37:39.720 --> 00:37:40.800
 and it's God

00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:41.660
 the son of God

00:37:41.660 --> 00:37:43.660
 and he sees

00:37:43.660 --> 00:37:44.720
 profound human need

00:37:44.720 --> 00:37:46.000
 he sees the murder

00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:46.700
 in our hearts

00:37:46.700 --> 00:37:47.860
 he sees the desire

00:37:47.860 --> 00:37:49.000
 for us to be God

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:49.780
 in our hearts

00:37:49.780 --> 00:37:51.280
 and seeing who we are

00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:52.280
 as we really are

00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:53.420
 he sets aside

00:37:53.420 --> 00:37:53.900
 his glory

00:37:53.900 --> 00:37:54.760
 and divine prerogatives

00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:56.220
 and it's one mighty

00:37:56.220 --> 00:37:57.320
 act to save us

00:37:57.320 --> 00:37:59.660
 created in the womb

00:37:59.660 --> 00:38:00.780
 of the virgin Mary

00:38:00.780 --> 00:38:02.480
 taking into himself

00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:03.480
 our human nature

00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:05.220
 even such unbelievably

00:38:05.220 --> 00:38:06.320
 frail and weak

00:38:06.320 --> 00:38:07.019
 human nature

00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:08.400
 as what a human being

00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:09.440
 is like in the womb

00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:10.760
 of a woman

00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:13.740
 taking that into himself

00:38:13.740 --> 00:38:14.700
 without giving up

00:38:14.700 --> 00:38:15.420
 being God

00:38:15.420 --> 00:38:16.360
 and going through

00:38:16.360 --> 00:38:17.500
 the process of birth

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:18.980
 and living as a child

00:38:18.980 --> 00:38:20.039
 and living as a lower

00:38:20.039 --> 00:38:21.460
 working class person

00:38:21.460 --> 00:38:22.539
 in an oppressed

00:38:22.539 --> 00:38:23.340
 people group

00:38:23.340 --> 00:38:24.579
 and doing his three

00:38:24.579 --> 00:38:25.440
 years of teaching

00:38:25.440 --> 00:38:26.519
 in his sinless life

00:38:26.519 --> 00:38:27.679
 it's all one mighty

00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:28.500
 act of God

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:29.380
 and his death

00:38:29.380 --> 00:38:30.199
 upon the cross

00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:31.639
 where God himself

00:38:31.639 --> 00:38:33.900
 dies for humanity

00:38:33.900 --> 00:38:35.780
 that wants to be God

00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:36.699
 and he sees

00:38:36.699 --> 00:38:38.320
 we cannot leave ourselves

00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:39.900
 and he dies

00:38:39.900 --> 00:38:41.119
 for us

00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:42.699
 God himself

00:38:42.699 --> 00:38:44.360
 as Jesus

00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:45.139
 as man

00:38:45.139 --> 00:38:45.820
 dies

00:38:45.820 --> 00:38:47.039
 for you

00:38:47.039 --> 00:38:47.900
 and me

00:38:47.900 --> 00:38:48.639
 and then

00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:49.260
 he tastes

00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:50.059
 all there is

00:38:50.059 --> 00:38:50.940
 to taste of death

00:38:50.940 --> 00:38:52.119
 and then he rises

00:38:52.119 --> 00:38:52.800
 from the dead

00:38:52.800 --> 00:38:53.579
 on the third day

00:38:53.579 --> 00:38:54.639
 and then he ascends

00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:55.119
 into heaven

00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:56.380
 it is one

00:38:56.380 --> 00:38:57.820
 mighty act

00:38:57.820 --> 00:38:58.599
 of grace

00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:00.059
 one mighty act

00:39:00.059 --> 00:39:00.700
 of God

00:39:00.700 --> 00:39:02.980
 to redeem

00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:03.880
 any

00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:05.039
 who put their faith

00:39:05.039 --> 00:39:05.940
 and trust in him

00:39:05.940 --> 00:39:08.840
 and it completely

00:39:08.840 --> 00:39:09.740
 subverts

00:39:09.740 --> 00:39:11.360
 to use modern

00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:12.619
 post-modern language

00:39:12.619 --> 00:39:13.460
 it completely

00:39:13.460 --> 00:39:14.800
 deconstructs

00:39:14.800 --> 00:39:16.460
 and subverts

00:39:16.460 --> 00:39:18.539
 the fear

00:39:18.539 --> 00:39:19.200
 and desires

00:39:19.200 --> 00:39:19.900
 of our heart

00:39:19.900 --> 00:39:22.500
 if we are but

00:39:22.500 --> 00:39:23.460
 willing to recognize

00:39:23.460 --> 00:39:24.019
 that they are there

00:39:24.019 --> 00:39:24.640
 within us

00:39:24.640 --> 00:39:30.060
 the other day

00:39:30.060 --> 00:39:31.400
 and that's by the way

00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:32.300
 that's why we don't need

00:39:32.300 --> 00:39:33.400
 secular philosophy

00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:34.700
 to improve

00:39:34.700 --> 00:39:35.340
 Christianity

00:39:35.340 --> 00:39:36.960
 what we just need

00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:37.580
 is to be gripped

00:39:37.580 --> 00:39:38.380
 by the gospel

00:39:38.380 --> 00:39:41.720
 Jesus calls us

00:39:41.720 --> 00:39:42.380
 to be witnesses

00:39:42.380 --> 00:39:43.280
 not rulers

00:39:43.280 --> 00:39:44.760
 and by the way

00:39:44.760 --> 00:39:45.599
 that's a wonderful

00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:46.519
 wonderful comfort

00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:48.140
 so I've shared

00:39:48.140 --> 00:39:48.480
 with you

00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:50.200
 there are many times

00:39:50.200 --> 00:39:50.880
 too many times

00:39:50.880 --> 00:39:51.619
 for me to share

00:39:51.619 --> 00:39:51.940
 with you

00:39:51.940 --> 00:39:52.400
 when I've tried

00:39:52.400 --> 00:39:53.400
 they know I'm a Christian

00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:54.440
 and people

00:39:54.440 --> 00:39:55.160
 it's almost as if

00:39:55.160 --> 00:39:56.400
 some people

00:39:56.400 --> 00:39:58.180
 this is not a bad thing

00:39:58.180 --> 00:39:58.800
 it's a good thing

00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:00.180
 it's almost as if

00:40:00.180 --> 00:40:00.640
 they're waiting

00:40:00.640 --> 00:40:01.420
 for me to come in

00:40:01.420 --> 00:40:02.059
 because they've got

00:40:02.059 --> 00:40:02.720
 an objection

00:40:02.720 --> 00:40:04.160
 to the Christian faith

00:40:04.160 --> 00:40:04.740
 that they don't think

00:40:04.740 --> 00:40:05.500
 I'll be able to beat

00:40:05.500 --> 00:40:06.599
 and sometimes

00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:08.460
 I am not an apologetic ninja

00:40:08.460 --> 00:40:09.000
 I don't go

00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:09.719
 oh yeah

00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:11.699
 and then karate chop them

00:40:11.699 --> 00:40:12.340
 and just

00:40:12.340 --> 00:40:13.460
 aha beat them

00:40:13.460 --> 00:40:13.840
 I am

00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:15.679
 Bible here isn't saying

00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:16.719
 I am going to make you

00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:18.019
 apologetic ninjas

00:40:18.019 --> 00:40:19.480
 who will destroy

00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:21.019
 every single argument

00:40:21.019 --> 00:40:21.980
 that ever comes your way

00:40:21.980 --> 00:40:23.179
 no it doesn't say that

00:40:23.179 --> 00:40:25.059
 the power comes

00:40:25.059 --> 00:40:25.980
 from the Holy Spirit

00:40:25.980 --> 00:40:26.980
 that's where all the power

00:40:26.980 --> 00:40:27.539
 comes from

00:40:27.539 --> 00:40:28.119
 I just want you

00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:28.780
 to be witnesses

00:40:28.780 --> 00:40:32.059
 not ninjas

00:40:32.059 --> 00:40:33.059
 witnesses

00:40:33.059 --> 00:40:38.639
 the word is martyr

00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:42.320
 the word is martyr

00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:46.019
 now just the other day

00:40:46.019 --> 00:40:46.880
 I was coming into

00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:47.940
 I have to

00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:48.860
 I have to be careful

00:40:48.860 --> 00:40:49.480
 here at my time

00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:51.400
 I came into

00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:52.320
 one of my favorite

00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:53.099
 coffee shops

00:40:53.099 --> 00:40:53.360
 and

00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:55.739
 a person was telling me

00:40:55.739 --> 00:40:56.679
 about their

00:40:56.679 --> 00:40:57.820
 I guess their latest theory

00:40:57.820 --> 00:40:58.960
 and

00:40:58.960 --> 00:41:00.320
 and she has a

00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:01.519
 science degree

00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:02.759
 and

00:41:02.759 --> 00:41:04.880
 completely non-Christian

00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:05.539
 really really

00:41:05.539 --> 00:41:05.860
 you know

00:41:05.860 --> 00:41:06.800
 a nice young woman

00:41:06.800 --> 00:41:07.699
 and

00:41:07.699 --> 00:41:08.280
 and

00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:09.079
 for some reason

00:41:09.079 --> 00:41:10.179
 she wanted to share with me

00:41:10.179 --> 00:41:11.079
 that the only value

00:41:11.079 --> 00:41:12.259
 that human beings have

00:41:12.259 --> 00:41:13.159
 is that the energy

00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:14.239
 that is within them

00:41:14.239 --> 00:41:15.519
 and

00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:17.739
 and that when they die

00:41:17.739 --> 00:41:19.159
 the only value we have

00:41:19.159 --> 00:41:19.880
 is the energy

00:41:19.880 --> 00:41:20.759
 that we release

00:41:20.759 --> 00:41:21.579
 back

00:41:21.579 --> 00:41:22.960
 when we die

00:41:22.960 --> 00:41:25.440
 and

00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:30.199
 here's the thing

00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:31.199
 Andrew could you

00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:33.780
 let's read verses 9 and 11 again

00:41:33.780 --> 00:41:36.260
 and when he had said these things

00:41:36.260 --> 00:41:37.199
 as they were looking on

00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:38.099
 he was lifted up

00:41:38.099 --> 00:41:38.679
 in a cloud

00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:39.980
 took him out of their sight

00:41:39.980 --> 00:41:41.119
 we'll just read verse 9

00:41:41.119 --> 00:41:43.880
 Jesus is taken up into heaven

00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:44.820
 body and soul

00:41:44.820 --> 00:41:46.639
 let's put this next point up

00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:46.960
 Andrew

00:41:46.960 --> 00:41:48.760
 the human person

00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:49.740
 body and soul

00:41:49.740 --> 00:41:50.820
 matters to God

00:41:50.820 --> 00:41:52.480
 so the person

00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:53.740
 body and soul

00:41:53.740 --> 00:41:56.100
 should matter to God's

00:41:56.100 --> 00:41:57.019
 redeemed people

00:41:57.019 --> 00:41:58.780
 I mean the fact of the matter

00:41:58.780 --> 00:41:59.559
 is it's actually sort of

00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:00.620
 very sad and tragic

00:42:00.620 --> 00:42:02.320
 and I didn't do a very good job

00:42:02.320 --> 00:42:03.220
 responding to

00:42:03.220 --> 00:42:04.640
 to this young woman

00:42:04.640 --> 00:42:06.420
 but it's sort of

00:42:06.420 --> 00:42:07.600
 very sad and tragic

00:42:07.600 --> 00:42:08.400
 to think that

00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:09.660
 the only way we can

00:42:09.660 --> 00:42:10.500
 could conceive

00:42:10.500 --> 00:42:11.980
 from a scientific point of view

00:42:11.980 --> 00:42:13.120
 the value of a human being

00:42:13.120 --> 00:42:13.860
 is the energy

00:42:13.860 --> 00:42:15.140
 value in the body

00:42:15.140 --> 00:42:16.900
 and

00:42:16.900 --> 00:42:18.539
 we don't really live that way

00:42:18.539 --> 00:42:20.140
 because the fact of the matter

00:42:20.139 --> 00:42:21.000
 is if somebody

00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:22.379
 had slapped her

00:42:22.379 --> 00:42:23.119
 I'm sure she'd say

00:42:23.119 --> 00:42:24.719
 how dare you treat me that way

00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:25.460
 if somebody had

00:42:25.460 --> 00:42:26.559
 you know

00:42:26.559 --> 00:42:28.000
 taken her wages

00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:29.219
 she'd work the hours

00:42:29.219 --> 00:42:30.039
 and then somebody else

00:42:30.039 --> 00:42:30.839
 had taken the wages

00:42:30.839 --> 00:42:31.739
 or taken all the tips

00:42:31.739 --> 00:42:32.099
 she'd say

00:42:32.099 --> 00:42:33.599
 how dare you treat me like that

00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:34.779
 and on one level

00:42:34.779 --> 00:42:36.940
 we have this very fundamental sense

00:42:36.940 --> 00:42:38.259
 that there's a dignity

00:42:38.259 --> 00:42:39.839
 and importance to human beings

00:42:39.839 --> 00:42:40.960
 and there's a dignity

00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:42.379
 and value of human beings

00:42:42.379 --> 00:42:44.039
 but for people increasingly

00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:44.739
 in our culture

00:42:44.739 --> 00:42:46.239
 we have no way of grounding

00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:46.839
 that in anything

00:42:46.839 --> 00:42:48.179
 like one of the saddest things

00:42:48.179 --> 00:42:49.219
 about the conversation

00:42:49.219 --> 00:42:50.059
 between the atheist

00:42:50.059 --> 00:42:51.159
 and Os Guinness

00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:51.819
 last Sunday night

00:42:51.819 --> 00:42:52.379
 in this room

00:42:52.379 --> 00:42:53.819
 was that he had no way

00:42:53.819 --> 00:42:54.659
 to actually account

00:42:54.659 --> 00:42:55.279
 for the value

00:42:55.279 --> 00:42:56.419
 or dignity of human beings

00:42:56.419 --> 00:42:57.480
 or even their freedom

00:42:57.480 --> 00:42:59.899
 but look at this

00:42:59.899 --> 00:43:00.500
 this text

00:43:00.500 --> 00:43:01.279
 of the ascension

00:43:01.279 --> 00:43:02.539
 it's so wonderful

00:43:02.539 --> 00:43:04.480
 Jesus

00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:06.879
 body and soul

00:43:06.879 --> 00:43:08.839
 goes to be with God

00:43:08.839 --> 00:43:10.319
 outside of space and time

00:43:10.319 --> 00:43:11.719
 it shows that the body

00:43:11.719 --> 00:43:12.299
 and what it means

00:43:12.299 --> 00:43:12.879
 to be a person

00:43:12.879 --> 00:43:14.039
 that it matters

00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:15.659
 and that's why

00:43:15.659 --> 00:43:17.119
 Christians throughout the ages

00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:18.119
 as they've been gripped

00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:19.000
 by the gospel

00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:20.380
 not only do they want

00:43:20.380 --> 00:43:21.420
 to go to the ends of the earth

00:43:21.420 --> 00:43:22.579
 to share the gospel

00:43:22.579 --> 00:43:23.440
 but we

00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:24.619
 that as you're gripped

00:43:24.619 --> 00:43:25.179
 by the gospel

00:43:25.179 --> 00:43:26.320
 you know that being a person

00:43:26.320 --> 00:43:27.539
 matters body and soul

00:43:27.539 --> 00:43:28.599
 and that's why

00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:30.559
 historically Christians

00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:32.239
 they want to

00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:33.539
 they want to start hospitals

00:43:33.539 --> 00:43:35.119
 they want to start hospices

00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:36.480
 they want to start schools

00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:37.000
 they want to

00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:38.380
 people who don't have

00:43:38.380 --> 00:43:39.480
 have language

00:43:39.480 --> 00:43:40.119
 but no writing

00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:41.259
 they want to give them writing

00:43:41.259 --> 00:43:42.099
 they want to give them

00:43:42.099 --> 00:43:42.980
 the gift of books

00:43:42.980 --> 00:43:44.380
 and the gift of learning

00:43:44.380 --> 00:43:46.219
 and they've been at the

00:43:46.219 --> 00:43:47.440
 and it's why Christians

00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:48.940
 you know Martin Luther King

00:43:48.940 --> 00:43:50.280
 and the whole civil rights movement

00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:51.699
 and William Stringfellow

00:43:51.699 --> 00:43:52.880
 and the abolition of slavery

00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:54.079
 and how Christians

00:43:54.079 --> 00:43:55.260
 and you know

00:43:55.260 --> 00:43:57.480
 the birth of some basic

00:43:57.480 --> 00:43:58.500
 social care issues

00:43:58.500 --> 00:43:59.059
 in Canada

00:43:59.059 --> 00:43:59.940
 which came out of the

00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:00.840
 you know

00:44:00.840 --> 00:44:01.380
 out of the

00:44:01.380 --> 00:44:02.480
 you know

00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:03.139
 out of the

00:44:03.139 --> 00:44:04.019
 Manitoba

00:44:04.019 --> 00:44:05.059
 and Christians

00:44:05.059 --> 00:44:05.440
 it's

00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:06.559
 there's a concern

00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:07.280
 for justice

00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:08.599
 for treating people right

00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:10.179
 for treating people well

00:44:10.179 --> 00:44:11.300
 for the abol

00:44:11.300 --> 00:44:13.860
 the body matters

00:44:13.860 --> 00:44:15.340
 the person matters

00:44:15.340 --> 00:44:16.480
 and because of that

00:44:16.480 --> 00:44:17.720
 justice matters

00:44:17.720 --> 00:44:19.220
 and feeding people

00:44:19.220 --> 00:44:20.240
 matters

00:44:20.240 --> 00:44:23.360
 and it's rooted

00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:24.960
 in Jesus

00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:27.180
 it's rooted in the gospel

00:44:27.180 --> 00:44:28.539
 as we're gripped

00:44:28.539 --> 00:44:29.320
 by the gospel

00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:30.100
 we will have

00:44:30.100 --> 00:44:31.240
 a greater concern

00:44:31.240 --> 00:44:32.220
 for the integrity

00:44:32.220 --> 00:44:33.060
 and the value

00:44:33.060 --> 00:44:33.880
 and the importance

00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:34.900
 of a person

00:44:34.900 --> 00:44:36.300
 body and soul

00:44:36.300 --> 00:44:39.200
 and in fact

00:44:39.200 --> 00:44:39.740
 as well as that

00:44:39.740 --> 00:44:40.500
 like you know

00:44:40.500 --> 00:44:41.539
 the well-meaning people

00:44:41.539 --> 00:44:42.100
 who try to say

00:44:42.100 --> 00:44:43.120
 that Jesus didn't ascend

00:44:43.120 --> 00:44:43.920
 bodily into heaven

00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:44.320
 and didn't

00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:45.539
 in 1 Corinthians 15

00:44:45.539 --> 00:44:47.539
 Jesus had a spiritual body

00:44:47.539 --> 00:44:48.420
 and they're

00:44:48.420 --> 00:44:49.600
 they're very well-meaning

00:44:49.600 --> 00:44:50.740
 but sometimes

00:44:50.740 --> 00:44:52.100
 they're often very well-meaning

00:44:52.100 --> 00:44:52.900
 sometimes they're not

00:44:52.900 --> 00:44:53.740
 sometimes they're just

00:44:53.740 --> 00:44:54.380
 being troublesome

00:44:54.380 --> 00:44:55.000
 and mischievous

00:44:55.000 --> 00:44:56.180
 but they're potentially

00:44:56.180 --> 00:44:56.700
 well-meaning

00:44:56.700 --> 00:44:57.760
 and they don't understand

00:44:57.760 --> 00:44:59.600
 that the 1 Corinthians 15

00:44:59.600 --> 00:45:00.240
 isn't saying

00:45:00.240 --> 00:45:00.700
 that somehow

00:45:00.700 --> 00:45:01.680
 Jesus' body

00:45:01.680 --> 00:45:03.060
 became just spirit

00:45:03.059 --> 00:45:06.599
 yet the spiritual body

00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:07.039
 means

00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:09.039
 you know

00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:09.699
 my body

00:45:09.699 --> 00:45:10.719
 and my spirit

00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:11.679
 and my mind

00:45:11.679 --> 00:45:13.139
 often don't work together

00:45:13.139 --> 00:45:16.019
 like I wake up

00:45:16.019 --> 00:45:16.519
 in the morning

00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:17.579
 and I'd like to be

00:45:17.579 --> 00:45:18.059
 a go up

00:45:18.059 --> 00:45:18.500
 get up

00:45:18.500 --> 00:45:19.019
 and get them

00:45:19.019 --> 00:45:19.840
 but my knees

00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:20.699
 just don't agree

00:45:20.699 --> 00:45:24.639
 I used to be

00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:25.340
 when I was young

00:45:25.340 --> 00:45:25.900
 I could get up

00:45:25.900 --> 00:45:26.199
 in the morning

00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:26.920
 go for a run

00:45:26.920 --> 00:45:27.519
 I need to be up

00:45:27.519 --> 00:45:28.179
 like for an hour

00:45:28.179 --> 00:45:28.559
 and a half

00:45:28.559 --> 00:45:29.340
 two hours

00:45:29.340 --> 00:45:30.320
 just to get the

00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:31.679
 things moving

00:45:31.679 --> 00:45:32.299
 you know

00:45:32.300 --> 00:45:34.000
 my mind

00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:34.660
 wants to do

00:45:34.660 --> 00:45:34.980
 something

00:45:34.980 --> 00:45:35.700
 my soul

00:45:35.700 --> 00:45:36.300
 wants to do

00:45:36.300 --> 00:45:36.580
 something

00:45:36.580 --> 00:45:37.160
 my body

00:45:37.160 --> 00:45:37.740
 just doesn't

00:45:37.740 --> 00:45:38.260
 agree

00:45:38.260 --> 00:45:40.220
 gets in the way

00:45:40.220 --> 00:45:43.300
 and the spiritual

00:45:43.300 --> 00:45:44.240
 body is saying

00:45:44.240 --> 00:45:45.080
 that the actual

00:45:45.080 --> 00:45:46.100
 body is so

00:45:46.100 --> 00:45:47.300
 completely at one

00:45:47.300 --> 00:45:48.039
 with God

00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:49.000
 with a redeemed

00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:49.660
 spirit

00:45:49.660 --> 00:45:52.360
 and so

00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:53.519
 when a spiritual

00:45:53.519 --> 00:45:54.100
 body

00:45:54.100 --> 00:45:55.420
 is being taken

00:45:55.420 --> 00:45:55.980
 up into heaven

00:45:55.980 --> 00:45:56.600
 it means that

00:45:56.600 --> 00:45:57.800
 Jesus is triumphant

00:45:57.800 --> 00:45:58.820
 not only over

00:45:58.820 --> 00:45:59.980
 all evil things

00:45:59.980 --> 00:46:01.200
 but creation

00:46:01.200 --> 00:46:02.180
 itself

00:46:02.179 --> 00:46:03.719
 which no

00:46:03.719 --> 00:46:04.639
 longer is the

00:46:04.639 --> 00:46:05.179
 way that it

00:46:05.179 --> 00:46:05.799
 should be

00:46:05.799 --> 00:46:06.460
 that create

00:46:06.460 --> 00:46:07.119
 the created

00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:08.199
 order itself

00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:09.339
 is drawn up

00:46:09.339 --> 00:46:09.859
 into heaven

00:46:09.859 --> 00:46:11.879
 which is why

00:46:11.879 --> 00:46:12.399
 it is that

00:46:12.399 --> 00:46:12.879
 Christians

00:46:12.879 --> 00:46:13.579
 gripped by the

00:46:13.579 --> 00:46:14.159
 gospel would

00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:14.779
 care for the

00:46:14.779 --> 00:46:15.199
 environment

00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:16.159
 and would care

00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:16.919
 whether animals

00:46:16.919 --> 00:46:17.279
 are treated

00:46:17.279 --> 00:46:17.819
 cruelly

00:46:17.819 --> 00:46:18.839
 because the

00:46:18.839 --> 00:46:19.839
 entire created

00:46:19.839 --> 00:46:20.919
 order matters

00:46:20.919 --> 00:46:21.460
 and is brought

00:46:21.460 --> 00:46:21.919
 up into

00:46:21.919 --> 00:46:23.539
 heaven

00:46:23.539 --> 00:46:24.899
 to be

00:46:24.899 --> 00:46:26.399
 with Jesus

00:46:26.399 --> 00:46:27.879
 and one final

00:46:27.879 --> 00:46:28.279
 thing in

00:46:28.279 --> 00:46:28.679
 closing

00:46:28.679 --> 00:46:34.199
 this is an

00:46:34.199 --> 00:46:35.179
 adaptation by

00:46:35.179 --> 00:46:35.919
 David Foster

00:46:35.919 --> 00:46:36.319
 Wallace

00:46:36.319 --> 00:46:37.079
 and it just

00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:37.579
 struck me

00:46:37.579 --> 00:46:37.960
 recently

00:46:37.960 --> 00:46:38.440
 could you put

00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:38.779
 up this

00:46:38.779 --> 00:46:39.239
 thing

00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:40.299
 I've just

00:46:40.299 --> 00:46:41.719
 slightly changed

00:46:41.719 --> 00:46:42.199
 something that

00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:42.659
 he said

00:46:42.659 --> 00:46:44.679
 most of the

00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:45.379
 big things in

00:46:45.379 --> 00:46:45.980
 my life do

00:46:45.980 --> 00:46:46.679
 not love me

00:46:46.679 --> 00:46:51.179
 that is

00:46:51.179 --> 00:46:52.299
 really true

00:46:52.300 --> 00:46:56.120
 you know I

00:46:56.120 --> 00:46:56.760
 was listening to

00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:57.200
 the radio a

00:46:57.200 --> 00:46:57.700
 little while ago

00:46:57.700 --> 00:46:58.180
 and somebody

00:46:58.180 --> 00:46:58.980
 commented about

00:46:58.980 --> 00:46:59.600
 how they just

00:46:59.600 --> 00:47:00.240
 before they knew

00:47:00.240 --> 00:47:00.560
 it they'd

00:47:00.560 --> 00:47:01.380
 wasted five

00:47:01.380 --> 00:47:02.340
 hours looking

00:47:02.340 --> 00:47:03.280
 at funny cat

00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:04.620
 videos on

00:47:04.620 --> 00:47:04.980
 YouTube

00:47:04.980 --> 00:47:07.560
 and I'm sure

00:47:07.560 --> 00:47:08.400
 nobody here in

00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:09.100
 this room has

00:47:09.100 --> 00:47:09.800
 ever done

00:47:09.800 --> 00:47:10.760
 anything even

00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:12.080
 remotely like

00:47:12.080 --> 00:47:12.500
 that

00:47:12.500 --> 00:47:14.640
 and if you

00:47:14.640 --> 00:47:15.440
 think about it

00:47:15.440 --> 00:47:16.539
 for five hours

00:47:16.539 --> 00:47:17.320
 the biggest thing

00:47:17.320 --> 00:47:17.980
 in your life

00:47:17.980 --> 00:47:19.100
 was looking at

00:47:19.100 --> 00:47:19.680
 a screen

00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.639
 and the

00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:23.299
 people who

00:47:23.299 --> 00:47:24.059
 invented all of

00:47:24.059 --> 00:47:24.619
 that none of

00:47:24.619 --> 00:47:25.219
 them love you

00:47:25.219 --> 00:47:27.719
 and it just

00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:28.319
 left you being

00:47:28.319 --> 00:47:28.739
 alone

00:47:28.739 --> 00:47:32.299
 and now some

00:47:32.299 --> 00:47:33.319
 of us some

00:47:33.319 --> 00:47:33.759
 of you have

00:47:33.759 --> 00:47:34.460
 young babies

00:47:34.460 --> 00:47:35.379
 and gosh they

00:47:35.379 --> 00:47:35.899
 love you

00:47:35.899 --> 00:47:37.899
 so it's not

00:47:37.899 --> 00:47:38.480
 that everything

00:47:38.480 --> 00:47:39.039
 that's a big

00:47:39.039 --> 00:47:39.460
 thing in your

00:47:39.460 --> 00:47:40.000
 life doesn't

00:47:40.000 --> 00:47:40.440
 love you

00:47:40.440 --> 00:47:43.139
 but you know

00:47:43.139 --> 00:47:43.619
 how many of us

00:47:43.619 --> 00:47:44.179
 give ourselves

00:47:44.179 --> 00:47:45.039
 to politics

00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:46.299
 how many of

00:47:46.299 --> 00:47:46.619
 us give

00:47:46.619 --> 00:47:47.259
 ourselves to

00:47:47.259 --> 00:47:47.759
 culture

00:47:47.759 --> 00:47:48.279
 how many of

00:47:48.279 --> 00:47:48.579
 us give

00:47:48.579 --> 00:47:49.259
 ourselves to

00:47:49.259 --> 00:47:49.619
 money

00:47:49.619 --> 00:47:50.559
 how many of

00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:50.839
 us give

00:47:50.839 --> 00:47:51.559
 ourselves to

00:47:51.559 --> 00:47:51.980
 career

00:47:51.980 --> 00:47:52.920
 how many of

00:47:52.920 --> 00:47:53.239
 us give

00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:53.900
 ourselves to

00:47:53.900 --> 00:47:54.519
 the university

00:47:54.519 --> 00:47:55.519
 how many of

00:47:55.519 --> 00:47:55.940
 us give

00:47:55.940 --> 00:47:56.819
 ourselves to

00:47:56.819 --> 00:47:57.359
 Netflix

00:47:57.359 --> 00:48:00.679
 and none of

00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:01.279
 these things

00:48:01.279 --> 00:48:01.799
 there are big

00:48:01.799 --> 00:48:02.259
 things in our

00:48:02.259 --> 00:48:02.859
 life and none

00:48:02.859 --> 00:48:03.359
 of them love

00:48:03.359 --> 00:48:03.599
 you

00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:08.579
 and that doesn't

00:48:08.579 --> 00:48:09.239
 even count the

00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:10.099
 fact that we

00:48:10.099 --> 00:48:10.339
 get

00:48:10.339 --> 00:48:12.480
 death's a big

00:48:12.480 --> 00:48:13.219
 thing sickness

00:48:13.219 --> 00:48:14.119
 is a big thing

00:48:14.119 --> 00:48:15.019
 being alone is a

00:48:15.019 --> 00:48:15.659
 big thing

00:48:15.659 --> 00:48:17.799
 enemies are big

00:48:17.799 --> 00:48:18.380
 things

00:48:18.380 --> 00:48:20.539
 things and

00:48:20.539 --> 00:48:21.440
 often if we

00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:22.079
 are honest

00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:23.460
 we seem like

00:48:23.460 --> 00:48:24.420
 small little

00:48:24.420 --> 00:48:25.340
 things in a

00:48:25.340 --> 00:48:26.340
 world of big

00:48:26.340 --> 00:48:27.960
 things and if

00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:28.640
 we are honest

00:48:28.640 --> 00:48:30.000
 most of those

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:30.800
 big things

00:48:30.800 --> 00:48:31.539
 don't love

00:48:31.539 --> 00:48:31.920
 us

00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.200
 and this

00:48:36.200 --> 00:48:37.780
 story of the

00:48:37.780 --> 00:48:38.500
 ascension of

00:48:38.500 --> 00:48:39.760
 Jesus tells a

00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:40.760
 completely different

00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:41.720
 way for those

00:48:41.720 --> 00:48:42.340
 who are followers

00:48:42.340 --> 00:48:43.220
 of Jesus to

00:48:43.220 --> 00:48:43.920
 begin to learn

00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:44.380
 to live

00:48:44.380 --> 00:48:45.360
 if you could

00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:45.760
 put up the

00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:46.340
 point Andrew

00:48:46.340 --> 00:48:48.539
 the real

00:48:48.539 --> 00:48:49.180
 true

00:48:49.180 --> 00:48:50.360
 living Lord

00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:51.140
 of costly

00:48:51.140 --> 00:48:51.579
 love

00:48:51.579 --> 00:48:53.119
 is vastly

00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:54.019
 bigger

00:48:54.019 --> 00:48:55.180
 than any

00:48:55.180 --> 00:48:55.680
 big thing

00:48:55.680 --> 00:48:56.019
 in my

00:48:56.019 --> 00:48:56.460
 life

00:48:56.460 --> 00:48:59.880
 verses 8

00:48:59.880 --> 00:49:00.340
 to 11

00:49:00.340 --> 00:49:01.900
 and if you

00:49:01.900 --> 00:49:02.660
 read through

00:49:02.660 --> 00:49:03.360
 the gospels

00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:03.960
 and read

00:49:03.960 --> 00:49:04.280
 through the

00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:05.000
 New Testament

00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:05.380
 one of the

00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:05.760
 things you'll

00:49:05.760 --> 00:49:06.280
 understand about

00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:07.039
 the Holy Spirit

00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:08.240
 is that the

00:49:08.240 --> 00:49:08.940
 Holy Spirit

00:49:08.940 --> 00:49:09.619
 is God

00:49:09.619 --> 00:49:10.119
 himself

00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:10.599
 the third

00:49:10.599 --> 00:49:11.079
 person of

00:49:11.079 --> 00:49:11.420
 the Trinity

00:49:11.420 --> 00:49:11.900
 and one way

00:49:11.900 --> 00:49:12.440
 to understand

00:49:12.440 --> 00:49:13.179
 the Holy Spirit

00:49:13.179 --> 00:49:13.579
 is the

00:49:13.579 --> 00:49:14.159
 everlasting

00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:14.920
 love of

00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:15.360
 the Father

00:49:15.360 --> 00:49:15.940
 to the Son

00:49:15.940 --> 00:49:16.360
 and the Son

00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:16.960
 to the Father

00:49:16.960 --> 00:49:18.619
 and that

00:49:18.619 --> 00:49:19.360
 everlasting

00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:20.480
 progression of

00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:21.159
 love is one

00:49:21.159 --> 00:49:21.420
 way to

00:49:21.420 --> 00:49:22.019
 understand the

00:49:22.019 --> 00:49:22.619
 Holy Spirit

00:49:22.619 --> 00:49:23.179
 himself

00:49:23.179 --> 00:49:24.860
 that the

00:49:24.860 --> 00:49:25.320
 coming of

00:49:25.320 --> 00:49:26.019
 the Holy Spirit

00:49:26.019 --> 00:49:26.740
 into our lives

00:49:26.740 --> 00:49:27.220
 is the coming

00:49:27.220 --> 00:49:27.679
 of love

00:49:27.679 --> 00:49:28.519
 into our lives

00:49:28.519 --> 00:49:29.900
 it's coming

00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:30.700
 into our lives

00:49:30.700 --> 00:49:31.179
 of the very

00:49:31.179 --> 00:49:31.800
 very same

00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:32.420
 power that

00:49:32.420 --> 00:49:32.840
 created the

00:49:32.840 --> 00:49:33.400
 universe that

00:49:33.400 --> 00:49:33.980
 rose Jesus

00:49:33.980 --> 00:49:34.440
 from the

00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:34.679
 dead

00:49:34.679 --> 00:49:38.400
 you know

00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:40.340
 what we'll

00:49:40.340 --> 00:49:40.840
 see with the

00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:41.159
 day of

00:49:41.159 --> 00:49:41.960
 Pentecost is

00:49:41.960 --> 00:49:42.220
 that the

00:49:42.220 --> 00:49:42.800
 Holy Spirit

00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:43.500
 comes upon

00:49:43.500 --> 00:49:44.220
 God's people

00:49:44.220 --> 00:49:44.579
 in a new

00:49:44.579 --> 00:49:45.220
 and powerful

00:49:45.220 --> 00:49:45.639
 way

00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:47.360
 you know

00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:47.699
 if you've

00:49:47.699 --> 00:49:47.960
 ever seen

00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:48.500
 the movie

00:49:48.500 --> 00:49:48.860
 The Lord

00:49:48.860 --> 00:49:49.240
 of the Rings

00:49:49.240 --> 00:49:49.659
 there's this

00:49:49.659 --> 00:49:50.679
 wonderful scene

00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:51.440
 towards the

00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:52.639
 end where

00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:53.639
 the orcs

00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:54.400
 are attacking

00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:55.699
 can't remember

00:49:55.699 --> 00:49:56.199
 the place

00:49:56.199 --> 00:49:59.179
 and they know

00:49:59.179 --> 00:49:59.460
 they're going

00:49:59.460 --> 00:49:59.840
 to win

00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:00.960
 and one orc

00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:01.460
 says out

00:50:01.460 --> 00:50:01.820
 loud

00:50:01.820 --> 00:50:03.460
 the age of

00:50:03.460 --> 00:50:04.119
 men have

00:50:04.119 --> 00:50:04.460
 ended

00:50:04.460 --> 00:50:06.539
 the age of

00:50:06.539 --> 00:50:07.179
 orcs have

00:50:07.179 --> 00:50:07.559
 begun

00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:09.500
 and of course

00:50:09.500 --> 00:50:10.000
 they're wrong

00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:10.860
 but

00:50:10.860 --> 00:50:13.340
 when we

00:50:13.340 --> 00:50:13.719
 read here

00:50:13.719 --> 00:50:14.099
 in verse

00:50:14.099 --> 00:50:14.480
 8

00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:15.099
 we're seeing

00:50:15.099 --> 00:50:16.340
 that God

00:50:16.340 --> 00:50:16.699
 is saying

00:50:16.699 --> 00:50:17.159
 the age

00:50:17.159 --> 00:50:17.380
 of the

00:50:17.380 --> 00:50:17.980
 Holy Spirit

00:50:17.980 --> 00:50:18.460
 has begun

00:50:18.460 --> 00:50:22.000
 the age

00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:22.519
 of witness

00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:23.059
 has begun

00:50:23.059 --> 00:50:24.179
 the in

00:50:24.179 --> 00:50:24.519
 between

00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:25.079
 time

00:50:25.079 --> 00:50:26.039
 between

00:50:26.039 --> 00:50:26.420
 Jesus

00:50:26.420 --> 00:50:26.840
 ascending

00:50:26.840 --> 00:50:27.300
 into heaven

00:50:27.300 --> 00:50:27.579
 and his

00:50:27.579 --> 00:50:27.840
 coming

00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:28.119
 again

00:50:28.119 --> 00:50:28.639
 that time

00:50:28.639 --> 00:50:29.139
 has begun

00:50:29.139 --> 00:50:31.659
 listen to

00:50:31.659 --> 00:50:32.039
 verse 8

00:50:32.039 --> 00:50:32.779
 but you

00:50:32.779 --> 00:50:33.259
 will receive

00:50:33.259 --> 00:50:33.759
 power

00:50:33.759 --> 00:50:34.119
 when the

00:50:34.119 --> 00:50:34.599
 Holy Spirit

00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:34.920
 has come

00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:35.420
 upon you

00:50:35.420 --> 00:50:35.659
 and you

00:50:35.659 --> 00:50:35.920
 will be

00:50:35.920 --> 00:50:36.159
 my

00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:36.539
 witnesses

00:50:36.539 --> 00:50:37.179
 in Jerusalem

00:50:37.179 --> 00:50:37.659
 and in all

00:50:37.659 --> 00:50:38.659
 Judea and Samaria

00:50:38.659 --> 00:50:39.039
 and to the

00:50:39.039 --> 00:50:39.440
 ends of the

00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:39.659
 earth

00:50:39.659 --> 00:50:40.639
 and when he

00:50:40.639 --> 00:50:40.980
 had said

00:50:40.980 --> 00:50:41.500
 these things

00:50:41.500 --> 00:50:41.880
 as they were

00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:42.420
 looking on

00:50:42.420 --> 00:50:42.960
 he was lifted

00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:43.460
 up and a

00:50:43.460 --> 00:50:44.159
 cloud took

00:50:44.159 --> 00:50:44.500
 him out of

00:50:44.500 --> 00:50:44.960
 their sight

00:50:44.960 --> 00:50:45.320
 and while

00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:45.579
 they were

00:50:45.579 --> 00:50:46.139
 gazing into

00:50:46.139 --> 00:50:46.360
 heaven

00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:46.639
 as he

00:50:46.639 --> 00:50:46.840
 went

00:50:46.840 --> 00:50:47.259
 behold

00:50:47.259 --> 00:50:47.840
 two men

00:50:47.840 --> 00:50:48.199
 stood

00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:49.039
 by them

00:50:49.039 --> 00:50:49.400
 in white

00:50:49.400 --> 00:50:49.820
 robes

00:50:49.820 --> 00:50:50.219
 and said

00:50:50.219 --> 00:50:50.599
 men of

00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:50.960
 Galilee

00:50:50.960 --> 00:50:51.380
 why do

00:50:51.380 --> 00:50:51.800
 you stand

00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:52.079
 looking

00:50:52.079 --> 00:50:52.320
 into

00:50:52.320 --> 00:50:52.579
 heaven

00:50:52.579 --> 00:50:53.340
 this

00:50:53.340 --> 00:50:53.860
 Jesus

00:50:53.860 --> 00:50:54.279
 this

00:50:54.279 --> 00:50:54.840
 Jesus

00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:55.699
 who has

00:50:55.699 --> 00:50:56.139
 taken up

00:50:56.139 --> 00:50:56.440
 from you

00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:56.840
 into heaven

00:50:56.840 --> 00:50:57.619
 will come

00:50:57.619 --> 00:50:57.940
 away

00:50:57.940 --> 00:50:58.380
 come

00:50:58.380 --> 00:50:58.859
 again

00:50:58.859 --> 00:51:00.519
 will come

00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:00.880
 in the

00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:01.359
 same way

00:51:01.359 --> 00:51:01.759
 as you

00:51:01.759 --> 00:51:02.159
 saw him

00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:02.480
 go

00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:03.199
 into

00:51:03.199 --> 00:51:03.519
 heaven

00:51:03.519 --> 00:51:09.039
 we

00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:09.500
 Christians

00:51:09.500 --> 00:51:09.920
 need to

00:51:09.920 --> 00:51:10.219
 learn

00:51:10.219 --> 00:51:11.659
 that Jesus

00:51:11.659 --> 00:51:12.279
 is big

00:51:12.279 --> 00:51:12.920
 and everything

00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:13.539
 we face

00:51:13.539 --> 00:51:14.099
 is small

00:51:14.099 --> 00:51:16.279
 and it's

00:51:16.279 --> 00:51:16.619
 not that

00:51:16.619 --> 00:51:17.139
 he's made

00:51:17.139 --> 00:51:17.739
 me big

00:51:17.739 --> 00:51:18.940
 but that

00:51:18.940 --> 00:51:19.299
 the one

00:51:19.299 --> 00:51:19.579
 who's

00:51:19.579 --> 00:51:20.059
 ascended

00:51:20.059 --> 00:51:20.960
 in triumph

00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:21.980
 over all

00:51:21.980 --> 00:51:22.839
 principalities

00:51:22.839 --> 00:51:23.460
 and power

00:51:23.460 --> 00:51:25.000
 and he's

00:51:25.000 --> 00:51:25.400
 ascended

00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:26.059
 over heaven

00:51:26.059 --> 00:51:27.139
 in triumphant

00:51:27.139 --> 00:51:27.500
 grace

00:51:27.500 --> 00:51:27.880
 filled

00:51:27.880 --> 00:51:29.820
 triumph

00:51:29.820 --> 00:51:31.539
 that I

00:51:31.539 --> 00:51:31.820
 can go

00:51:31.820 --> 00:51:32.219
 through my

00:51:32.219 --> 00:51:32.599
 day

00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:33.679
 being held

00:51:33.679 --> 00:51:34.260
 by him

00:51:34.260 --> 00:51:35.400
 who's

00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:35.780
 bigger than

00:51:35.780 --> 00:51:36.079
 everything

00:51:36.079 --> 00:51:36.699
 I face

00:51:36.699 --> 00:51:38.039
 I can go

00:51:38.039 --> 00:51:38.480
 through my

00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:39.019
 days

00:51:39.019 --> 00:51:39.719
 and I can

00:51:39.719 --> 00:51:40.179
 be like

00:51:40.179 --> 00:51:40.960
 I don't

00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:41.059
 know

00:51:41.059 --> 00:51:41.340
 some of

00:51:41.340 --> 00:51:41.699
 the kids

00:51:41.699 --> 00:51:42.000
 who come

00:51:42.000 --> 00:51:42.420
 down for

00:51:42.420 --> 00:51:42.840
 communion

00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:43.159
 you'll

00:51:43.159 --> 00:51:43.420
 notice

00:51:43.420 --> 00:51:43.739
 they don't

00:51:43.739 --> 00:51:44.159
 come down

00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:44.360
 for

00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:44.699
 communion

00:51:44.699 --> 00:51:45.159
 I mean

00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:45.400
 they get

00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:45.739
 a blessing

00:51:45.739 --> 00:51:45.960
 not

00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:46.260
 communion

00:51:46.260 --> 00:51:46.559
 they come

00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:46.699
 down

00:51:46.699 --> 00:51:46.920
 on their

00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:47.519
 daddy's

00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:48.119
 shoulders

00:51:48.119 --> 00:51:50.559
 they're

00:51:50.559 --> 00:51:51.119
 the tallest

00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:51.539
 ones

00:51:51.539 --> 00:51:51.800
 in the

00:51:51.800 --> 00:51:52.019
 room

00:51:52.019 --> 00:51:53.400
 even though

00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:53.760
 they're only

00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:54.300
 two feet

00:51:54.300 --> 00:51:54.659
 tall

00:51:54.659 --> 00:51:56.619
 and that's

00:51:56.619 --> 00:51:56.920
 you and

00:51:56.920 --> 00:51:57.179
 me

00:51:57.179 --> 00:51:58.239
 when we're

00:51:58.239 --> 00:51:58.799
 with Jesus

00:51:58.799 --> 00:52:00.579
 we can go

00:52:00.579 --> 00:52:01.039
 through our

00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:01.659
 day on

00:52:01.659 --> 00:52:02.000
 Jesus'

00:52:02.259 --> 00:52:02.639
 shoulders

00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:03.759
 and he's

00:52:03.759 --> 00:52:04.179
 bigger than

00:52:04.179 --> 00:52:04.679
 anything we

00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:05.079
 face

00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:07.519
 he's bigger

00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:07.980
 than anything

00:52:07.980 --> 00:52:08.559
 you face

00:52:08.559 --> 00:52:08.859
 in your

00:52:08.859 --> 00:52:09.299
 past

00:52:09.299 --> 00:52:09.739
 that still

00:52:09.739 --> 00:52:10.079
 haunts

00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:10.279
 you

00:52:10.279 --> 00:52:10.519
 any

00:52:10.519 --> 00:52:11.079
 bigger than

00:52:11.079 --> 00:52:11.500
 any type

00:52:11.500 --> 00:52:12.000
 of addiction

00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:12.619
 he is

00:52:12.619 --> 00:52:13.019
 bigger

00:52:13.019 --> 00:52:14.519
 and we're

00:52:14.519 --> 00:52:14.779
 on his

00:52:14.779 --> 00:52:15.179
 shoulders

00:52:15.179 --> 00:52:16.219
 want to

00:52:16.219 --> 00:52:16.659
 just stand

00:52:16.659 --> 00:52:17.099
 please

00:52:17.099 --> 00:52:18.259
 Andrew

00:52:18.259 --> 00:52:18.579
 could you

00:52:18.579 --> 00:52:18.940
 put up

00:52:18.940 --> 00:52:19.359
 the prayer

00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:20.059
 to close

00:52:20.059 --> 00:52:26.660
 you know

00:52:26.660 --> 00:52:27.120
 the wonderful

00:52:27.120 --> 00:52:27.620
 thing about

00:52:27.620 --> 00:52:27.960
 all of

00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:28.140
 this

00:52:28.140 --> 00:52:28.640
 before we

00:52:28.640 --> 00:52:29.019
 say this

00:52:29.019 --> 00:52:29.160
 prayer

00:52:29.160 --> 00:52:29.400
 I'm going

00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:29.700
 to invite

00:52:29.700 --> 00:52:29.960
 you to

00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:30.300
 say this

00:52:30.300 --> 00:52:30.539
 prayer

00:52:30.539 --> 00:52:31.039
 with me

00:52:31.039 --> 00:52:31.700
 is

00:52:31.700 --> 00:52:31.960
 remember

00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:32.559
 I tried

00:52:32.559 --> 00:52:32.960
 to say

00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:33.220
 that

00:52:33.220 --> 00:52:33.900
 Luke

00:52:33.900 --> 00:52:34.559
 believes

00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:35.140
 and I

00:52:35.140 --> 00:52:35.480
 believe

00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:35.720
 and I

00:52:35.720 --> 00:52:35.860
 think

00:52:35.860 --> 00:52:36.059
 there's

00:52:36.059 --> 00:52:36.519
 good reason

00:52:36.519 --> 00:52:36.860
 to believe

00:52:36.860 --> 00:52:37.260
 that this

00:52:37.260 --> 00:52:37.579
 really

00:52:37.579 --> 00:52:37.960
 happened

00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:38.680
 so this

00:52:38.680 --> 00:52:38.960
 isn't

00:52:38.960 --> 00:52:39.300
 just a

00:52:39.300 --> 00:52:39.539
 pleasant

00:52:39.539 --> 00:52:40.200
 story

00:52:40.200 --> 00:52:40.860
 to please

00:52:40.860 --> 00:52:41.140
 you

00:52:41.140 --> 00:52:41.760
 this

00:52:41.760 --> 00:52:42.039
 isn't

00:52:42.039 --> 00:52:42.300
 like

00:52:42.300 --> 00:52:43.019
 you know

00:52:43.019 --> 00:52:43.420
 like

00:52:43.420 --> 00:52:43.940
 you hurt

00:52:43.940 --> 00:52:44.320
 your knee

00:52:44.320 --> 00:52:44.640
 and your

00:52:44.640 --> 00:52:44.940
 mommy

00:52:44.940 --> 00:52:45.539
 tells you

00:52:45.539 --> 00:52:45.900
 something

00:52:45.900 --> 00:52:46.500
 about how

00:52:46.500 --> 00:52:46.840
 if she

00:52:46.840 --> 00:52:47.180
 kisses

00:52:47.180 --> 00:52:47.460
 it's

00:52:47.460 --> 00:52:47.680
 going to

00:52:47.679 --> 00:52:48.000
 make it

00:52:48.000 --> 00:52:48.239
 better

00:52:48.239 --> 00:52:48.559
 but you

00:52:48.559 --> 00:52:48.639
 know

00:52:48.639 --> 00:52:48.919
 we all

00:52:48.919 --> 00:52:49.099
 know

00:52:49.099 --> 00:52:49.399
 that a

00:52:49.399 --> 00:52:49.539
 kiss

00:52:49.539 --> 00:52:49.899
 by a

00:52:49.899 --> 00:52:50.099
 mommy

00:52:50.099 --> 00:52:50.440
 doesn't

00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:50.839
 actually

00:52:50.839 --> 00:52:51.339
 make the

00:52:51.339 --> 00:52:52.059
 cut go

00:52:52.059 --> 00:52:52.359
 away

00:52:52.359 --> 00:52:52.960
 I mean

00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:53.319
 we know

00:52:53.319 --> 00:52:53.639
 that

00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:53.819
 right

00:52:53.819 --> 00:52:54.119
 and this

00:52:54.119 --> 00:52:54.339
 isn't

00:52:54.339 --> 00:52:54.639
 just like

00:52:54.639 --> 00:52:55.239
 a story

00:52:55.239 --> 00:52:55.679
 like this

00:52:55.679 --> 00:52:56.419
 is true

00:52:56.419 --> 00:52:57.699
 like this

00:52:57.699 --> 00:52:57.940
 really

00:52:57.940 --> 00:52:58.500
 happened

00:52:58.500 --> 00:53:00.159
 like Jesus

00:53:00.159 --> 00:53:00.579
 is really

00:53:00.579 --> 00:53:01.059
 present

00:53:01.059 --> 00:53:03.299
 he really

00:53:03.299 --> 00:53:03.839
 gives his

00:53:03.839 --> 00:53:04.719
 holy spirit

00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:06.899
 to ordinary

00:53:06.899 --> 00:53:08.199
 fallen

00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:09.379
 human beings

00:53:09.379 --> 00:53:09.799
 like you

00:53:09.799 --> 00:53:10.000
 and me

00:53:10.000 --> 00:53:10.279
 when we

00:53:10.279 --> 00:53:10.599
 put our

00:53:10.599 --> 00:53:11.019
 faith and

00:53:11.019 --> 00:53:11.460
 trust in

00:53:11.460 --> 00:53:11.739
 Jesus

00:53:11.739 --> 00:53:12.039
 and if

00:53:12.039 --> 00:53:12.219
 you have

00:53:12.219 --> 00:53:12.419
 never

00:53:12.419 --> 00:53:12.819
 given your

00:53:12.819 --> 00:53:13.179
 life to

00:53:13.179 --> 00:53:13.419
 Jesus

00:53:13.419 --> 00:53:13.779
 there is

00:53:13.779 --> 00:53:14.159
 no better

00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:14.500
 time

00:53:14.500 --> 00:53:15.059
 than today

00:53:15.059 --> 00:53:16.119
 to make

00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:16.639
 even this

00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:17.099
 prayer

00:53:17.099 --> 00:53:17.659
 your

00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:18.259
 conversion

00:53:18.259 --> 00:53:18.719
 prayer

00:53:18.719 --> 00:53:23.460
 please

00:53:23.460 --> 00:53:23.839
 pray it

00:53:23.839 --> 00:53:24.359
 with me

00:53:24.359 --> 00:53:25.299
 Lord

00:53:25.299 --> 00:53:26.079
 I

00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:26.779
 confess

00:53:26.779 --> 00:53:27.319
 that I

00:53:27.319 --> 00:53:28.000
 live my

00:53:28.000 --> 00:53:28.440
 life

00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:29.159
 as if

00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:29.699
 you are

00:53:29.699 --> 00:53:30.199
 small

00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:31.139
 and most

00:53:31.139 --> 00:53:31.879
 other things

00:53:31.879 --> 00:53:32.399
 in my

00:53:32.399 --> 00:53:32.739
 life

00:53:32.739 --> 00:53:33.399
 are big

00:53:33.399 --> 00:53:34.379
 please

00:53:34.379 --> 00:53:35.019
 make me

00:53:35.019 --> 00:53:35.739
 a disciple

00:53:35.739 --> 00:53:36.519
 of Jesus

00:53:36.519 --> 00:53:37.299
 gripped by

00:53:37.299 --> 00:53:38.019
 the gospel

00:53:38.019 --> 00:53:39.059
 living for

00:53:39.059 --> 00:53:39.699
 your glory

00:53:39.699 --> 00:53:40.799
 please

00:53:40.799 --> 00:53:41.519
 grow in

00:53:41.519 --> 00:53:42.000
 me a

00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:42.339
 deep

00:53:42.339 --> 00:53:43.000
 humble

00:53:43.000 --> 00:53:43.799
 habit of

00:53:43.799 --> 00:53:44.179
 being

00:53:44.179 --> 00:53:44.719
 and

00:53:44.719 --> 00:53:45.379
 habit of

00:53:45.379 --> 00:53:45.940
 action

00:53:45.940 --> 00:53:46.619
 where

00:53:46.619 --> 00:53:46.900
 you

00:53:46.900 --> 00:53:47.059
 are

00:53:47.059 --> 00:53:47.539
 big

00:53:47.539 --> 00:53:48.079
 and

00:53:48.079 --> 00:53:48.539
 everything

00:53:48.539 --> 00:53:48.800
 I

00:53:48.800 --> 00:53:49.220
 face

00:53:49.220 --> 00:53:49.480
 is

00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:49.920
 small

00:53:49.920 --> 00:53:50.920
 father

00:53:50.920 --> 00:53:51.159
 this

00:53:51.159 --> 00:53:51.280
 is

00:53:51.280 --> 00:53:51.440
 the

00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:51.659
 cry

00:53:51.659 --> 00:53:51.820
 of

00:53:51.820 --> 00:53:51.980
 our

00:53:51.980 --> 00:53:52.360
 hearts

00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:53.700
 make us

00:53:53.700 --> 00:53:54.139
 disciples

00:53:54.139 --> 00:53:54.579
 of Jesus

00:53:54.579 --> 00:53:55.059
 gripped by

00:53:55.059 --> 00:53:55.639
 the gospel

00:53:55.639 --> 00:53:57.000
 living for

00:53:57.000 --> 00:53:57.519
 your glory

00:53:57.519 --> 00:53:58.800
 father

00:53:58.800 --> 00:53:59.440
 help us

00:53:59.440 --> 00:53:59.860
 to not

00:53:59.860 --> 00:54:00.340
 desire

00:54:00.340 --> 00:54:01.019
 to tower

00:54:01.019 --> 00:54:01.420
 over

00:54:01.420 --> 00:54:02.039
 things

00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:03.480
 but to

00:54:03.480 --> 00:54:04.159
 bear witness

00:54:04.159 --> 00:54:05.079
 to live

00:54:05.079 --> 00:54:05.380
 for your

00:54:05.380 --> 00:54:05.800
 glory

00:54:05.800 --> 00:54:07.159
 to live

00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:07.519
 for the

00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:07.860
 good of

00:54:07.860 --> 00:54:08.179
 people

00:54:08.179 --> 00:54:08.480
 and for

00:54:08.480 --> 00:54:08.639
 your

00:54:08.639 --> 00:54:08.940
 great

00:54:08.940 --> 00:54:09.320
 glory

00:54:09.320 --> 00:54:10.380
 help

00:54:10.380 --> 00:54:10.580
 us

00:54:10.580 --> 00:54:11.019
 father

00:54:11.019 --> 00:54:11.480
 to

00:54:11.480 --> 00:54:12.440
 face

00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:13.059
 each

00:54:13.059 --> 00:54:13.519
 day

00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:14.420
 with

00:54:14.420 --> 00:54:15.039
 courage

00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:15.460
 and

00:54:15.460 --> 00:54:15.860
 humility

00:54:15.860 --> 00:54:16.160
 and

00:54:16.160 --> 00:54:16.519
 hope

00:54:16.519 --> 00:54:17.820
 knowing

00:54:17.820 --> 00:54:18.200
 how

00:54:18.200 --> 00:54:18.559
 big

00:54:18.559 --> 00:54:18.820
 our

00:54:18.820 --> 00:54:19.240
 savior

00:54:19.240 --> 00:54:19.780
 is

00:54:19.780 --> 00:54:20.220
 who

00:54:20.220 --> 00:54:20.640
 carries

00:54:20.640 --> 00:54:21.019
 us

00:54:21.019 --> 00:54:22.100
 that

00:54:22.100 --> 00:54:22.300
 he

00:54:22.300 --> 00:54:22.539
 is

00:54:22.539 --> 00:54:23.340
 vastly

00:54:23.340 --> 00:54:23.800
 bigger

00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:24.360
 than

00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:24.680
 even

00:54:24.680 --> 00:54:24.920
 the

00:54:24.920 --> 00:54:25.220
 biggest

00:54:25.220 --> 00:54:25.500
 thing

00:54:25.500 --> 00:54:25.680
 we

00:54:25.680 --> 00:54:26.039
 face

00:54:26.039 --> 00:54:26.420
 father

00:54:26.420 --> 00:54:26.820
 thank

00:54:26.820 --> 00:54:27.039
 you

00:54:27.039 --> 00:54:27.980
 and

00:54:27.980 --> 00:54:28.140
 all

00:54:28.140 --> 00:54:28.500
 God's

00:54:28.500 --> 00:54:28.760
 people

00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:29.160
 said

00:54:29.160 --> 00:54:30.300
 amen