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 You sit down. It would be great if you could get a Bible and turn to Hebrews chapter 2.

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 A couple of years ago, around this time of year, quite a mature believer in our old church said to me,

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 Stuart, I understand that Jesus is God. I get that. I don't really understand what it means for Jesus to be a man.

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 I don't really relate to that. And I think she was, as I say, she was a mature believer.

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 I think probably she was speaking for a lot of us. And we're so used to talking about Jesus as God on earth

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 that we don't really grasp what it means for, if we ever could, for the eternal Son of God to become a man.

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 So that's what we're going to be looking at over the next couple of Sunday mornings.

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 We all know the stories of angels and shepherds. What is the significance of all that?

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 What is the significance of the incarnation of God taking on human flesh?

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 And so we're going to be looking at Hebrews chapter 2, which probably of all the Bible is a chapter which focuses so much

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 on Jesus in the flesh, God becoming a human being.

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 So this week we're going to look at him as our Jesus, our representative and restorer.

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 And next week, God willing, we'll see him as our brother, our champion, our priest.

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 This letter to the Hebrews is written to a bunch of Christians from a Jewish background,

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 but they were struggling with their faith.

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 They were considering chucking in the towel and just going back to Judaism and leading this Christianity business.

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 It's just too much like hard work.

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 And I suspect if we're honest with ourselves, while we may not come from a Jewish background,

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 perhaps among us today, there are those of us who wonder, is it really worth it?

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 Is it really that great with the struggles in the Christian life?

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 Well, the writer to the Hebrews wants us to see it is that great.

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 And so he starts by showing us this big picture of who the eternal Son of God is.

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 Those words we read earlier in chapter 1, verse 2, that he's the one through whom all things were created.

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 He is the one who angels worship, chapter 1, verse 6.

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 He's the radiance of the glory of God.

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 He's so much better than the angels.

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 That's the whole point of chapter 1.

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 Then we get to chapter 2.

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 Look at verse 3 for a moment.

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 See what he says about this great salvation.

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 How will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation?

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 The salvation that Jesus has won for us.

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 Now what is salvation?

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 It's a very Christian word, isn't it?

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 We use it so often and so easily.

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 If you look it up in a dictionary, it says salvation is an act of saving something from harm or destruction.

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 But even then, what does that mean?

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 Let me try to illustrate it like this.

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 Sometimes we can think about salvation and think it's the same as salvaging something.

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 But it is not.

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 You may remember, when was it?

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 It was a couple of years ago now, three years ago now.

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 That huge ocean liner, huge cruise liner, the Costa Concordia, right aground and sank off the coast of Italy.

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 Well, there is now a salvaging operation going on.

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 What does that mean?

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 Well, it means that earlier this year, at great expense, they lifted the wreck up from the seashore to the bottom of the sea.

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 They towed it 200 miles up the coast to Genoa.

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 Now it's a port in Genoa being salvaged.

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 Which means essentially it's being destroyed.

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 They're going to recycle the metal that they can and everything else goes.

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 That's salvaging.

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 Just trying to rescue what is still of some use and recycle it.

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 I mean, salvation for the Costa Concordia would look like going down to the seabed, raising it up, bringing it back into port and then kind of remaking it somehow.

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 So it could float again.

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 That would be salvation.

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 But a great salvation, if you could do it for Costa Concordia, would be to go down, raise it up, turn it into port and then make it renewed completely.

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 With all the beauty, all the seaworthiness that once it had.

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 And not only that, a great salvation would be to make it unsinkable.

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 So it could never be destroyed again.

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 As we turn to Hebrews 2, we find out that the eternal Son of God has become man.

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 To work a great salvation.

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 To take what is broken, to bring it up, make it new so that it is now unbreakable.

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 And perfect forever.

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 That's what he has done.

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 That's what this chapter is about.

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 Let's look at verse 5 as we start the section that was read to us earlier.

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 The psalmist is quoting, the writer is quoting from Psalm 8.

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 So he says this,

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 Now it's not to angels that God subjected the world to come of which we're speaking.

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 This great salvation is a world to come.

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 We don't have it all yet.

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 It's a world to come.

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 But what's it like?

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 Well it's been testified somewhere.

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 What is man that you are mindful of him?

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 And so he goes on.

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 He goes back to use Psalm 8.

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 Written about what the world was like originally.

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 To show us how Jesus fulfills it.

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 So what we're going to do now is look at what Psalm 8 originally meant.

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 See how the writer uses it to show how Jesus fulfills it.

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 And then more briefly ask the question,

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 So what difference does it make for us?

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 What difference does it make for us?

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 So that's where we're going.

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 And the first point is going to, or the second point is going to take more or less forever.

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 Just warn you that now if you're taking notes.

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 So, Psalm 8.

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 What is Psalm 8 all about?

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 Oh Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth.

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 That's how it begins.

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 And then rejoices in God's care and attention for mankind.

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 And really it's a poem, a song, rejoicing in all that God had done in Genesis chapter 1.

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 Where he makes men and women in his own image.

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 Crowned with glory and honour as God's image bearers in the world.

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 Set to be rulers over God's world.

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 That's the crowning with honour as well.

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 So God said, Genesis 1.26,

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 Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.

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 And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and over the livestock.

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 And over all the earth.

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 That's what the Psalm is celebrating.

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 What is man?

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 What are we little creatures?

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 That God should love us so much and give us such responsibility.

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 So it celebrates the dignity God gave us and the responsibility he gave us.

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 Crowned with, you're made in lower than the angels, but crowned with glory and honour.

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 Verse 7.

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 But as we look around at the world today, we see, don't we, it's not the same as it was in Genesis chapter 1.

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 Yes, we're still made in God's image.

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 But the world is not perfectly under our rule anymore.

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 Just over this weekend, they've been fixing new climate change agreements in Lima, haven't they?

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 Worried about what man is doing to the environment around us.

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 We see in the news, mudslides in Indonesia are killing people.

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 We know we live in a world that is no longer perfectly under human rule.

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 But in a creation that is now often hostile to human existence.

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 Why is that?

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 Well, in a nutshell, it's because the first man wanted to be God.

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 The first man wanted to be God.

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 So if you read on through the story of Genesis, in chapter 3, we read men and women rebelling against God.

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 God had put some trees in the garden.

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 He said you can eat the fruit from all these trees, but not this one tree.

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 The tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

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 And Satan crept into the garden, disguised as a snake,

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 and said, Genesis 3, verse 4,

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 He said to the woman,

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 You will not surely die.

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 God said you'll die if this happens, but you will not surely die.

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 God knows that when you eat of it,

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 your eyes will be opened,

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 and you will be like God,

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 knowing good and evil.

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 See the temptation?

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 You see the attraction?

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 They wanted to be like God.

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 They weren't content with being made in God's image.

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 They wanted to be God themselves,

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 defining good and evil for themselves.

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 That's the human story, isn't it?

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 Every one of us wants to be God, naturally.

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 He wants to be in control of our own lives,

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 our own destinies.

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 And the result?

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 The result was disaster.

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 Death enters in the world,

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 the beautiful creation unravels,

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 and the world becomes hostile to us.

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 Just as when a nation suffers in unjust, bad government,

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 so society falls apart.

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 Look at Syria.

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 Look at Iraq.

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 So the world,

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 being no longer ruled by

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 beings doing what God wanted,

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 but by being ruled by those who turned away from God,

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 the creation unravels,

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 suffers the consequences of bad human leadership.

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 So the world is broken,

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 in a sense.

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 Now what do you do when something breaks,

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 when something you own breaks?

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 You can either

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 just chuck it out,

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 forget it.

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 Or you can make do.

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 The lock on our back door is not working right now,

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 it's actually locked shut.

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 Which is quite good,

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 because no one else can get in,

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 but it means we can't get out.

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 But you know what?

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 It's wet and horrible outside,

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 so we don't really care right now,

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 so we'll just make do.

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 We won't worry about it.

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 So you make do,

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 you can just throw things away,

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 or you can decide to fix it.

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 And our great God,

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 in his mercy,

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 in his commitment to the world he made,

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 has decided not just to make do with our rebellion,

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 not just to bid us all like we deserve,

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 but to come and fix what we broke.

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 As one writer put it,

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 God does not make junk,

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 and he does not junk what he has made.

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 He is committed to his world,

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 committed to his people.

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 So he's chose to fix the problem,

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 from the inside as it were.

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 The problem began,

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 with a man wanting to be God.

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 The problem is solved,

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 by God becoming man.

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 Coming down,

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 to fix what we broke.

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 And so that's how the psalmist now,

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 the writer of the Hebrews rather,

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 uses Psalm 8.

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 He says,

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 we don't see this perfect world God made,

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 but we do see what God has done,

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 in Jesus.

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 So let's have a look now,

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 secondly,

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 at how he applies,

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 this psalm to Jesus.

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 Look at verse 7 for a moment.

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 In a sense,

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 he breaks down Jesus' life and ministry,

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 into three parts.

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 Verse 7,

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 humiliation to begin with.

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 You made him for a little while,

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 lower than the angels.

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 Secondly,

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 exaltation.

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 You crowned him with glory and honour.

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 And finally,

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 putting everything in subjection,

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 under his feet.

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 The final triumph.

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 Humiliation,

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 exaltation,

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 then the final triumph,

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 when we see his exaltation.

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 So we're going to run through,

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 those three stages.

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 Of the incarnation,

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 of Jesus,

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 the son of God,

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 becoming flesh.

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 He unpacks those a bit more,

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 in verse 9.

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 Look at what he says,

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 in verse 9.

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 We do not see the world,

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 in subjection,

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 to human beings,

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 or to Jesus,

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 right now.

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 Verse 8.

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 But,

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 we see him,

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 who for a little while,

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 was made lower than the angels.

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 Namely,

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 Jesus,

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 crowned with glory and honour.

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 This is the first time,

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 in the book,

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 the writers use,

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 the name Jesus.

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 He's told us about,

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 the eternal son of God,

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 made in God's image,

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 the glory of God,

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 the exact imprint,

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 of his being,

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 of him being worshipped,

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 by the angels,

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 being greater than the angels.

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 And now he uses,

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 his human name,

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 Jesus.

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 This eternal God,

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 in his humility,

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 becoming lower than the angels,

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 to be worshipped by him.

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 Those who were worshipped,

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 by the angels,

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 now coming,

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 to take care of the earth.

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 Coming to do,

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 Adam and Eve's job,

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 the one who upholds,

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 the universe,

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 by the word of his power.

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 Verse 2.

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 Now coming,

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 to live as a man,

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 among us.

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 A couple of years ago,

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 Prince William spent,

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 I think a night,

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 out on the streets,

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 living as a homeless person,

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 identifying with them,

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 to highlight their need.

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 That was a,

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 wonderful thing for him to do.

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 He didn't need to do it.

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 Great thing.

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 But the eternal son of God,

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 didn't just identify with us,

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 for a night.

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 But after that moment,

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 in Bethlehem,

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 where he was born as a baby,

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 for all eternity,

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 he bears human flesh,

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 now renewed human flesh,

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 on the throne of heaven,

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 as the resurrected one.

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 But that journey,

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 that started in Bethlehem,

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 continues forever.

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 He so strongly,

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 identifies with us.

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 And he comes to do,

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 what Adam failed to do.

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 He comes to make amends,

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 to sort out the damage,

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 that was done by the first man.

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 And to see that,

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 a bit more clearly,

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 I want us to go back for a moment,

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 so I don't leap around a bit,

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 to Luke chapter 3 and 4.

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 So if you can turn back to page 859,

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 if you're using one of those

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 black church Bibles,

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 to Luke chapter 3.

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 I want us to see how Luke,

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 also,

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 as well as the writer of the Hebrews,

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 presents Jesus,

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 as the man who's come to do,

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 what Adam didn't do.

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 So Luke chapter 3.

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 The context here,

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 we want to see Jesus has been born,

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 he's been baptised,

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 the voice has come from heaven,

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 saying this is my beloved son,

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 with you I am well pleased.

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 And Luke 3 verse 23,

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 we begin with Jesus,

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 when he began his ministry,

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 was about 30 years of age,

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 being the son,

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 as we suppose,

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 of Joseph,

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 the son of Heli.

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 And then we get a genealogy.

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 And what do most of us do

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 when we hit a genealogy in the Bible?

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 Glaze over and flip over it

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 as quickly as possible.

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 That's right, isn't it?

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 That's what we do.

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 But look careful,

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 well don't look too carefully

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 at this one,

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 because you look down,

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 you see Luke does something

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 that Matthew doesn't do,

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 he traces Jesus all the way back,

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 yes,

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 through David,

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 verse 31,

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 through Jacob,

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 verse 34,

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 and Abraham,

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 verse 34,

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 and he keeps going back,

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 he goes back to Noah even,

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 verse 36.

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 And verse 37,

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 to the Methuselah,

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 who's lived for a long time,

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 back in Genesis 5.

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 And look where he takes it back to you,

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 verse 38.

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 The son of Enos,

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 the son of Seth,

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 the son of Adam,

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 the son of God.

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 There's a contrast between

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 two sons of God,

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 isn't there?

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 The son announced at the baptism,

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 my beloved son.

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 And the first one made in God's image,

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 made in God's likeness,

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 who in a sense was God's son

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 in his likeness,

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 Adam.

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 But what did Adam do?

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 In the garden,

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 he fell into temptation

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 and disobeyed.

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 What does Jesus do?

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 Where does Jesus go next?

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 What does it say at the top of chapter 4?

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 What's the headline there?

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 The temptation of Jesus.

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 As Adam was tempted in a garden,

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 as Israel was tempted

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 in the wilderness and failed,

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 now we get Jesus,

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 tempted in the wilderness.

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 And what happens to him?

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 Chapter 4, verse 1.

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 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit,

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 returned from the Jordan

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 and was led by the Spirit

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 into the wilderness

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 for forty days,

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 being tempted by the devil.

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 And he ate nothing

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 during those days,

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 and when they were over,

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 he was hungry.

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 See, Luke wants us

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 to see the contrast.

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 What Israel had failed to do,

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 what Adam had failed to do,

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 what now the Son of God,

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 the eternal Son

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 in human flesh,

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 comes to do.

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 We're going to look

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 very briefly

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 at these temptations

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 and want us to see,

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 as Luke wants us to see,

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 the humanity of Jesus,

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 but also the victory of Jesus

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 in Adam's place.

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 So first of all,

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 he resists the temptation

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 to use divine power

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 for his own ease.

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 Do you see that?

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 Verse 3.

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 The devil came to him

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 and said,

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 if you are the Son of God,

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 command this stone

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 to become bread.

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 Of course,

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 we see Jesus' humanity here.

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 God cannot be tempted.

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 James chapter 1,

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 verse 13.

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 We also see his humanity

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 in the days,

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 hungry,

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 like we get hungry.

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 Like some of you,

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 by the time I finish this morning,

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 will probably be hungry,

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 and at least want your tea

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 and biscuits

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 at the end of the servants.

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 Well, Jesus was hungry.

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 But you see his humanity,

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 he restricts himself.

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 He doesn't use his divine power

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 to make bread for himself

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 and make life easy.

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 Rather,

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 as the one

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 who's made lower

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 than the angels,

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 he submits to his Father's will,

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 submits to the restrictions

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 of just being a human being.

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 For the second temptation,

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 verse 5,

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 the devil took him

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 and showed him

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 all the kingdoms of the world

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 in a moment in time

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 and said to him,

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 to you I will give

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 all this authority

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 and their glory

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 for it has been delivered to me

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 and I will give it

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 to whom I will.

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 But what human

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 and what man particularly

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 is not tempted

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 by power

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 and prestige

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 and honour.

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 And yet the man Jesus

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 resists that temptation.

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 He's not going to take

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 the shortcut

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 of fatal worship

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 to the devil

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 but the long way

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 of costly obedience

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 to the Father

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 so that he can get

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 the honour

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 and glory

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 of the nations.

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 And look at the third temptation,

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 the temptation

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 to test God.

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 Verse 9,

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 the devil took Jesus

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 to Jerusalem

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 and set him

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 on the pinnacle

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 of the temple

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 and said to him,

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 if you are the son of God

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 throw yourself down

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 from there

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 for it is written

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 he will command

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 his angels

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 concerning you.

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 What was the temptation?

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 The temptation

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 to put God

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 to the test.

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 It's never okay

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 for human beings

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 to put God

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 to the test.

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 If you look through

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 the Bible

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 you find it's a good thing

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 when God puts humans

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 to the test

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 as you put Abraham

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 to the test

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 it resulted

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 in Abraham

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 being blessed.

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 But it's never good

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 for us

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 for mere men

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 to test God

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 to test whether

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 he is true

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 to his word.

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 It's not even okay

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 for the incarnate

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 son of God

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 to test his father.

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 See in his human nature

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 Jesus had to learn

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 to trust his father

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 just as you and I

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 are men and women

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 boys and girls

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 need to learn

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 to trust

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 the living God

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 who makes great promises

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 to us.

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 So you see

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 Jesus' humanity

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 in these temptations

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 but you notice

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 also the victory.

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 He does not give in.

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 He does not give in.

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 And there's a bit

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 of a parallel

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 with the way

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 Adam was tempted

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 in the garden

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 isn't there?

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 The first temptation

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 is to do with food.

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 Well Adam succumbed

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 when he and his wife

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 saw fruit

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 that was pleasing

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 to the eye

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 and good to eat.

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 The second temptation

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 was for God

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 like authority.

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 What did the serpent

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 say to Adam

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 and Eve in the garden?

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 Eat this

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 you'll become like God.

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 What did Satan

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 say to Jesus?

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 Worship me

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 and I'll give you

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 all the kingdoms

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 of the earth.

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 You can be like God.

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 Again Jesus

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 resists

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 claiming that

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 for himself.

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 And also

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 the temptation

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 to put God

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 to the test.

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 Satan's first

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 words to Eve

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 did God

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 really say?

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 Did God

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 really say

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 you died?

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 Is that what

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 God really said?

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 You test him

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 to see if that's true.

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 Yet Jesus

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 does not put God

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 to the test.

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 He will not

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 throw himself

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 off the temple

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 to see if the angels

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 catch him.

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 The very points

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 at which Adam

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 failed

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 the new Adam

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 Jesus

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 our new representative

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 the son of God

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 succeeds.

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 And what did he have

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 to resist

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 Satan's temptations

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 with?

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 What does verse 1

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 tell us?

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 Chapter 4

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 he was filled

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 with the Holy Spirit

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 and how did he

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 meet each temptation?

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 He quoted

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 the word of God

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 back at Satan.

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 See he resisted

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 with the resources

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 that we have.

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 He resisted

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 as a man

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 in his human nature

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 filled with the spirit

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 armed with the word

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 of God

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 what every believer

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 has as we battle

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 temptation today.

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 Well this is the

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 first part of this

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 humiliation

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 that he was

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 made lower than

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 the angels

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 made a human being

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 subject to all

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 our temptations

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 and difficulties.

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 If you want to

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 turn back to Hebrews

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 or get on with

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 that passage

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 back to page 1002

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 if you're a church

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 Bible

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 Hebrews chapter 2

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 So he was made

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 a little lower

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 than the angels

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 and then we see

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 his ultimate

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 humiliation there

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 if you look down

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 to verse 9

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 we see him

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 who for a little

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 while was made

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 lower than the angels

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 namely Jesus

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 crowned with glory

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 and honour

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 why?

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 Because of the

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 suffering of death

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 so that by the

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 grace of God

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 he might taste

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 death for everyone

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 death

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 he took on flesh

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 so that he could

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 die

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 he tasted death

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 for all of us

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 not just a sip of

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 the cup

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 but he drank it

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 to the dregs

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 so that we do not

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 need to drink it

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 death is not natural

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 in God's world

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 death is an enemy

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 an intruder

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 that's how the Bible

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 tells us

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 death came as a result

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 of Adam and Eve's

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 rebellion

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 the sin of the

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 first man brought

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 death into the

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 world

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 but this sinless

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 man comes

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 who does not

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 give in to

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 temptation

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 who does not

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 deserve death

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 but drinks the

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 cup of death

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 for us

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 so there can be

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 new life

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 and why?

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 verse 9

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 is by the grace

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 of God

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 through Adam

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 death came into

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 the world

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 through Jesus

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 the sinless one

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 who drinks death

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 death can be

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 done away with

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 he dies as our

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 representative

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 so that we can

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 have life

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 see this is the

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 great salvation

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 this is the great

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 salvation

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 all the consequences

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 of sin

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 being taken by

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 the sinless one

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 who lived the

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 sinless life

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 so this salvation

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 could come

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 all that's been

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 the humiliation

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 but don't worry

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 we're getting on to

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 exaltation now

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 verse 7b

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 actually look back

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 to verse 9

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 the fuller account

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 he'd been

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 crowned with

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 glory and

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 honour

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 because of

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 the suffering

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 of death

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 our first

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 parents

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 Adam and Eve

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 were in a sense

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 crowned with

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 glory and honour

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 being made in

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 God's image

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 being made to

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 rule his world

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 but that was

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 marred by their

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 sin by their

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 rebellion

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 still human

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 beings are still

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 in God's image

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 still have great

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 dignity

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 we don't have

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 all the honour

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 we had

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 but now Jesus

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 comes into the

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 world

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 and he is the

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 only

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 he's only the

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 second man

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 created

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 in perfect

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 fellowship with

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 God as God

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 intended

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 created without

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 sin

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 the man

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 Christ

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 Jesus

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 and yet he

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 takes death

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 for us

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 he's raised

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 to new life

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 with glory

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 and honour

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 to restore

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 the blessings

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 that Adam

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 and Eve

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 lost

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 to restore

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 the dignity

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 and the

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 hope

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 that was lost

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 through their

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 sin

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 but how do we

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 know he's

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 exalted in

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 glory and honour

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 now

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 how do we

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 know that

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 we know it

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 because the

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 tomb is empty

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 don't we

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 we know it

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 because of

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 the resurrection

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 we cannot

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 we cannot

00:22:32.019 --> 00:22:32.720
 just speak about

00:22:32.720 --> 00:22:33.060
 Christmas

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 we have to

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 speak about

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 Easter as

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 well

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 don't we

00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:35.980
 because that

00:22:35.980 --> 00:22:36.779
 tomb is empty

00:22:36.779 --> 00:22:37.320
 he's raised

00:22:37.320 --> 00:22:37.860
 to new life

00:22:37.860 --> 00:22:38.240
 he's now

00:22:38.240 --> 00:22:38.680
 reigning

00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:39.720
 in glory

00:22:39.720 --> 00:22:40.220
 and honour

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 at God's

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 right hand

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 the apostle

00:22:42.980 --> 00:22:43.460
 Paul puts

00:22:43.460 --> 00:22:44.039
 the contrast

00:22:44.039 --> 00:22:44.660
 between Jesus

00:22:44.660 --> 00:22:45.519
 and Adam

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 like this

00:22:46.220 --> 00:22:47.180
 1 Corinthians

00:22:47.180 --> 00:22:47.960
 15 verse

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 21

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 for as by

00:22:49.720 --> 00:22:50.180
 a man

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 came death

00:22:50.960 --> 00:22:52.460
 by a man

00:22:52.460 --> 00:22:53.860
 has come

00:22:53.860 --> 00:22:54.300
 also the

00:22:54.300 --> 00:22:54.800
 resurrection

00:22:54.800 --> 00:22:55.520
 from the

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 dead

00:22:55.820 --> 00:22:57.000
 for as in

00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:57.640
 Adam all

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 die

00:22:58.000 --> 00:22:58.520
 so in

00:22:58.520 --> 00:22:58.980
 Christ

00:22:58.980 --> 00:22:59.820
 all should

00:22:59.820 --> 00:23:00.100
 be made

00:23:00.100 --> 00:23:00.600
 alive

00:23:00.600 --> 00:23:02.280
 so in

00:23:02.280 --> 00:23:02.440
 the end

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 there are

00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:03.420
 two types

00:23:03.420 --> 00:23:03.760
 of human

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 beings

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 there are

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 those who

00:23:05.320 --> 00:23:05.500
 are on

00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:05.940
 Adam's

00:23:05.940 --> 00:23:06.200
 team

00:23:06.200 --> 00:23:07.040
 and those

00:23:07.040 --> 00:23:07.160
 who are

00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:07.280
 on

00:23:07.280 --> 00:23:07.520
 Jesus

00:23:07.520 --> 00:23:07.960
 team

00:23:07.960 --> 00:23:09.980
 those who

00:23:09.980 --> 00:23:10.460
 are still

00:23:10.460 --> 00:23:11.020
 on Adam's

00:23:11.020 --> 00:23:11.180
 team

00:23:11.180 --> 00:23:11.480
 the team

00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:11.560
 we're

00:23:11.560 --> 00:23:11.820
 naturally

00:23:11.820 --> 00:23:12.040
 born

00:23:12.040 --> 00:23:12.320
 onto

00:23:12.320 --> 00:23:14.280
 will

00:23:14.280 --> 00:23:14.700
 inherit

00:23:14.700 --> 00:23:15.180
 the death

00:23:15.180 --> 00:23:15.560
 that comes

00:23:15.560 --> 00:23:15.800
 through

00:23:15.800 --> 00:23:16.120
 him

00:23:16.120 --> 00:23:17.620
 those who

00:23:17.619 --> 00:23:18.599
 by grace

00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:18.819
 through

00:23:18.819 --> 00:23:19.239
 faith

00:23:19.239 --> 00:23:19.979
 are on

00:23:19.979 --> 00:23:20.239
 Jesus

00:23:20.239 --> 00:23:20.619
 team

00:23:20.619 --> 00:23:21.019
 he is

00:23:21.019 --> 00:23:21.199
 our

00:23:21.199 --> 00:23:21.539
 captain

00:23:21.539 --> 00:23:22.739
 we will

00:23:22.739 --> 00:23:23.159
 go his

00:23:23.159 --> 00:23:23.500
 way

00:23:23.500 --> 00:23:24.179
 inheriting

00:23:24.179 --> 00:23:24.659
 life

00:23:24.659 --> 00:23:26.839
 so that's

00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:27.599
 the exaltation

00:23:27.599 --> 00:23:28.119
 the leadership

00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:28.739
 and the rule

00:23:28.739 --> 00:23:29.139
 that human

00:23:29.139 --> 00:23:29.559
 beings are

00:23:29.559 --> 00:23:29.959
 supposed to

00:23:29.959 --> 00:23:30.519
 exercise

00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:31.859
 is now

00:23:31.859 --> 00:23:32.259
 entirely

00:23:32.259 --> 00:23:32.759
 with Jesus

00:23:32.759 --> 00:23:34.159
 who rules

00:23:34.159 --> 00:23:34.639
 on our

00:23:34.639 --> 00:23:35.139
 behalf

00:23:35.139 --> 00:23:35.939
 who rules

00:23:35.939 --> 00:23:36.279
 as our

00:23:36.279 --> 00:23:36.659
 king

00:23:36.659 --> 00:23:38.579
 but we

00:23:38.579 --> 00:23:38.959
 don't see

00:23:38.959 --> 00:23:39.339
 that rule

00:23:39.339 --> 00:23:39.739
 completely

00:23:39.739 --> 00:23:40.319
 manifest

00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:40.539
 yet

00:23:40.539 --> 00:23:40.879
 do we

00:23:40.879 --> 00:23:42.739
 we still

00:23:42.739 --> 00:23:43.239
 see sin

00:23:43.239 --> 00:23:43.679
 and pain

00:23:43.679 --> 00:23:44.159
 and death

00:23:44.159 --> 00:23:44.379
 in the

00:23:44.379 --> 00:23:44.599
 world

00:23:44.599 --> 00:23:45.699
 we still

00:23:45.699 --> 00:23:46.099
 see many

00:23:46.099 --> 00:23:46.559
 people who

00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:46.819
 will not

00:23:46.819 --> 00:23:47.259
 bow to

00:23:47.259 --> 00:23:47.460
 king

00:23:47.460 --> 00:23:47.859
 Jesus

00:23:47.859 --> 00:23:48.619
 who will

00:23:48.619 --> 00:23:49.079
 entrust

00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:49.440
 themselves

00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:49.680
 to his

00:23:49.680 --> 00:23:50.000
 gracious

00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:50.400
 rule

00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:51.579
 the kingdom

00:23:51.579 --> 00:23:51.920
 has not

00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:52.480
 yet fully

00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:52.920
 come

00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:54.859
 so after

00:23:54.859 --> 00:23:55.740
 the exaltation

00:23:55.740 --> 00:23:56.359
 sorry after

00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:57.019
 the humiliation

00:23:57.019 --> 00:23:57.819
 that has

00:23:57.819 --> 00:23:58.160
 happened

00:23:58.160 --> 00:23:59.539
 the exaltation

00:23:59.539 --> 00:24:00.599
 which is now

00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:02.259
 the present

00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:02.799
 experience

00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:03.180
 that Jesus

00:24:03.180 --> 00:24:03.879
 is raised

00:24:03.879 --> 00:24:04.920
 Jesus is

00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:05.299
 reigning

00:24:05.299 --> 00:24:06.220
 there's still

00:24:06.220 --> 00:24:06.859
 one final

00:24:06.859 --> 00:24:07.420
 stage

00:24:07.420 --> 00:24:08.680
 his return

00:24:08.680 --> 00:24:09.480
 in triumph

00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:10.480
 and that's

00:24:10.480 --> 00:24:10.940
 what's described

00:24:10.940 --> 00:24:11.359
 in verse

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 verse 8

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 first line

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 of verse 8

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 putting

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 everything

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 in subjection

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 under his

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 feet

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 you know

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 in psalm 8

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 it was only

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 the living

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 beasts

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 the cattle

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 the fish

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 of the sea

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 the birds

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 of the air

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 that were

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 under the

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 rule of

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 Adam and

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 Eve

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 but the

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 writer of the

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 Hebrews

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 sees that

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 for everything

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 to be restored

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 absolutely

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 everything

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 will be put

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 under the

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 feet of

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 the Lord

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 Jesus

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 Christ

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 so he

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 goes on

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 verse 8

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 now in

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 putting

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 everything

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 in subjection

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 to him

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 he left

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 nothing

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 outside his

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 control

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 at present

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 we do not

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 yet see

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 everything

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 in subjection

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 to him

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 but one

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 day we

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 will

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 one day

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 the man

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 who is on

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 the throne

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 of heaven

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 will come

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 back

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 as judge

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 of all

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 and everything

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 will be put

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 right

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 the kingdom

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 will fully

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 come

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 all who have

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 turned from

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 living for

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 themselves

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 to seek

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 his forgiveness

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 to seek

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 life

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 will be

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 forgiven

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 will be

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 forgiven

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 will enjoy

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 the glory

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 and honour

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 that Jesus

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 now has

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 his humiliation

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 his past

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 his exaltation

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 his present

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 the final victory

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 is still to come

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 that's how

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 psalm 8

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 meant originally

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 that's how

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 psalm 8

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 is fulfilled

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 by Jesus

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 the new

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 Adam

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 the new

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 representative

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 of the new

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 race

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 final question

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 so what does

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 the incarnation

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 mean for us

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 what does this

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 matter

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 why should we

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 celebrate Christmas

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 not just the way

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 the rest of the

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 culture does

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 well let me put it

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 like this first

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 if the second

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 person of the

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 trinity

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 if the eternal

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 son of God

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 had not become

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 a human being

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 what would we

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 still have

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 well we'd still

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 have a creation

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 that is imperfect

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 for us

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 with death

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 disease

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 disasters

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 we'd still have

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 to pay for

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 our own sin

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 because no

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 other man

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 would have

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 taken our

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 place

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 we'd still

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 face death

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 and judgment

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 we would

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 still not

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 have any

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 hope

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 but that is

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 not the

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 state we're

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 in

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 is it

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 because actually

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 the eternal

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 son of God

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 has come

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 has lived

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 as a human

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 being

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 on this

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 earth

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 lives now

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 as an

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 exalted

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 human being

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 in heaven

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 so what

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 difference does

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 that make

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 well let me

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 try and sum it up

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 very briefly

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 in about two

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 minutes

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 say three

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 things

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 to think

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 about afterwards

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 and talk

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 about over

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 lunch

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 this

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 Jesus

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 ministry

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 as a

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 real man

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 gives us

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 a pattern

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 to follow

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 a hope

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 to cling

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 on to

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 and a reason

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 to worship

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 a pattern

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 to follow

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 a hope

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 to cling

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 on to

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 and a reason

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 to worship

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 so a pattern

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 to follow

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 what was the

00:26:45.700 --> 00:26:46.140
 pattern of

00:26:46.140 --> 00:26:46.340
 Jesus'

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 life

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 humiliation

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 and then

00:26:49.660 --> 00:26:50.460
 exaltation

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 he went down

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 and then was

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 raised up

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 most people

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 around us

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 have this

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 faith that

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 life will just

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 keep on getting

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 better

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 don't they

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 that is

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 as one

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 political scientist

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 put it

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 the faith

00:27:05.700 --> 00:27:06.599
 of practical

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 men and women

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 who believe

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 they have no

00:27:08.639 --> 00:27:09.099
 religion

00:27:09.099 --> 00:27:10.079
 I love that line

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 practical men and women

00:27:11.460 --> 00:27:11.879
 who believe

00:27:11.879 --> 00:27:12.279
 they have no

00:27:12.279 --> 00:27:12.599
 religion

00:27:12.599 --> 00:27:13.480
 have this faith

00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:14.059
 that life will just

00:27:14.059 --> 00:27:14.740
 keep getting better

00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:16.960
 that's why there's

00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:17.639
 astonishment

00:27:17.639 --> 00:27:18.200
 in the last couple

00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:18.500
 of weeks

00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:20.319
 that government

00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:20.960
 levels of

00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:21.799
 public services

00:27:21.799 --> 00:27:22.319
 might go back

00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:23.619
 to 1930s levels

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 of investments

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 now forget any

00:27:25.779 --> 00:27:26.419
 political points

00:27:26.419 --> 00:27:26.740
 about that

00:27:26.740 --> 00:27:27.659
 what's the outcry

00:27:27.660 --> 00:27:28.740
 it looks like

00:27:28.740 --> 00:27:29.300
 life isn't going

00:27:29.300 --> 00:27:29.660
 to keep on

00:27:29.660 --> 00:27:30.200
 getting better

00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:31.460
 that challenges

00:27:31.460 --> 00:27:32.620
 the deeply

00:27:32.620 --> 00:27:33.400
 held faith

00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:34.200
 of every

00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:34.680
 natural

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 western

00:27:35.120 --> 00:27:36.000
 human being

00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:38.480
 but what does

00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:38.900
 a Christian

00:27:38.900 --> 00:27:39.220
 know

00:27:39.220 --> 00:27:40.279
 a Christian

00:27:40.279 --> 00:27:40.540
 know that

00:27:40.540 --> 00:27:41.000
 that is not

00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:41.460
 the pattern

00:27:41.460 --> 00:27:41.880
 of life

00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:42.400
 the pattern

00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:42.680
 of life

00:27:42.680 --> 00:27:42.920
 is not

00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:43.240
 that it keeps

00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:43.820
 getting steadily

00:27:43.820 --> 00:27:44.200
 better

00:27:44.200 --> 00:27:45.000
 but that there

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:45.800
 is humiliation

00:27:45.800 --> 00:27:46.400
 followed by

00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.160
 exaltation

00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:48.400
 we serve now

00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:49.259
 glory comes

00:27:49.259 --> 00:27:49.519
 later

00:27:49.519 --> 00:27:50.440
 we suffer now

00:27:50.440 --> 00:27:51.340
 glory comes

00:27:51.340 --> 00:27:51.640
 later

00:27:51.640 --> 00:27:52.360
 because that's

00:27:52.360 --> 00:27:52.800
 what Jesus

00:27:52.800 --> 00:27:53.240
 did

00:27:53.240 --> 00:27:54.720
 he gives us

00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:55.200
 a pattern

00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:55.840
 to follow

00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.379
 secondly

00:27:57.379 --> 00:27:57.720
 he gives us

00:27:57.720 --> 00:27:58.019
 a hope

00:27:58.019 --> 00:27:58.399
 to cling

00:27:58.399 --> 00:27:58.720
 to

00:27:58.720 --> 00:27:59.619
 we have

00:27:59.619 --> 00:28:00.319
 a hope

00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:00.559
 in the

00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:00.879
 present

00:28:00.879 --> 00:28:01.399
 don't we

00:28:01.399 --> 00:28:02.679
 as Jesus

00:28:02.679 --> 00:28:03.179
 went into

00:28:03.179 --> 00:28:03.699
 the wilderness

00:28:03.699 --> 00:28:05.000
 and had to

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:05.519
 do battle

00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:06.139
 with the devil

00:28:06.139 --> 00:28:06.899
 who tempted

00:28:06.899 --> 00:28:07.240
 him

00:28:07.240 --> 00:28:08.299
 what resources

00:28:08.299 --> 00:28:09.099
 did he have

00:28:09.099 --> 00:28:10.399
 he was filled

00:28:10.399 --> 00:28:11.099
 with the spirit

00:28:11.099 --> 00:28:11.639
 and he had

00:28:11.639 --> 00:28:12.079
 the word of

00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:12.439
 God

00:28:12.439 --> 00:28:14.000
 we have

00:28:14.000 --> 00:28:14.919
 those resources

00:28:14.919 --> 00:28:15.559
 too by

00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:16.419
 God's grace

00:28:16.419 --> 00:28:17.759
 more or less

00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:18.319
 in coming weeks

00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:18.879
 as we look at

00:28:18.879 --> 00:28:19.859
 Jesus as our

00:28:19.859 --> 00:28:20.299
 priest

00:28:20.299 --> 00:28:21.639
 we have the

00:28:21.639 --> 00:28:22.319
 same resources

00:28:22.319 --> 00:28:23.379
 to deal

00:28:23.379 --> 00:28:24.319
 with the

00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:24.899
 temptations

00:28:24.899 --> 00:28:25.579
 we face

00:28:25.579 --> 00:28:26.200
 so we have

00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:26.619
 hope in the

00:28:26.619 --> 00:28:26.960
 present

00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:28.019
 we also have

00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:28.480
 hope for the

00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:28.839
 future

00:28:28.839 --> 00:28:30.240
 we have this

00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:31.240
 great salvation

00:28:31.240 --> 00:28:32.500
 the creation

00:28:32.500 --> 00:28:32.899
 that was

00:28:32.899 --> 00:28:33.679
 wrecked and

00:28:33.679 --> 00:28:33.939
 ruined

00:28:33.939 --> 00:28:34.220
 has been

00:28:34.220 --> 00:28:34.839
 brought up

00:28:34.839 --> 00:28:35.119
 by the

00:28:35.119 --> 00:28:35.700
 Lord Jesus

00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:37.619
 been made

00:28:37.619 --> 00:28:37.960
 new

00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:38.480
 been made

00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:39.039
 so that we'll

00:28:39.039 --> 00:28:39.599
 never be

00:28:39.599 --> 00:28:40.159
 subject to

00:28:40.159 --> 00:28:41.139
 failure again

00:28:41.139 --> 00:28:43.299
 a real world

00:28:43.299 --> 00:28:44.500
 that is the

00:28:44.500 --> 00:28:45.839
 Christian hope

00:28:45.839 --> 00:28:46.980
 not merely

00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:47.379
 heaven

00:28:47.379 --> 00:28:48.639
 heaven is good

00:28:48.639 --> 00:28:50.599
 heaven is what

00:28:50.599 --> 00:28:51.019
 we get when

00:28:51.019 --> 00:28:51.480
 we die

00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:52.240
 but there is

00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:52.700
 something even

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:53.339
 better beyond

00:28:53.339 --> 00:28:53.660
 it

00:28:53.660 --> 00:28:54.480
 the new

00:28:54.480 --> 00:28:54.920
 creation

00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:55.400
 when heaven

00:28:55.400 --> 00:28:56.000
 comes back

00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:56.420
 down to

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 earth

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 when Jesus

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 comes to

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 reign

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 and everything

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 sad becomes

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 untrue

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 to steal a line

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 from Tolkien

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 for a moment

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 the Christian

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 hope is of

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 a real

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 physical life

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 in a real

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 physical world

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 no longer

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 scarred by

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 sin and

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 selfishness

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 and death

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 and disease

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 we don't have

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 the hope of

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 a Buddhist

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 nirvana

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 we have something

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 much better

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 something solid

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 something real

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 so we have a

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 pattern to follow

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 a hope to cling

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 to in the present

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 and for the future

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 and finally a reason

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 to worship

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 the triune God

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 has not given up

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 on us

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 that's the message

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 of the incarnation

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 isn't it

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 we broke his

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 world

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 he hasn't

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 binned it

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 he hasn't

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 ignored it

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 he's worked

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 to restore it

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 God does not

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 make junk

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 and he does not

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 junk what he has

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 made

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 he's so committed

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 to his creation

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 that the eternal

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 son of God

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 became a part

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 of that creation

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 came down

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 to lift us up

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 to the heights

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 God had planned

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 for us

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 the first Adam

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 wanted to be God

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 so he messed up

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 the world

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 the second Adam

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 the son of God

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 became man

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 to fix what Adam

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 broke

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 so because

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 God the son

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 became

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 and he

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 became a man

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 as our representative

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 and restorer

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 and tasted

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 death for us

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 we must trust

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 in him

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 for hope

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 in the present

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 for a pattern

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 to follow

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 for hope

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 for the future

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 we can trust

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 him

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 because he lived

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 with us

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 and lived for us

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 let's pray

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 a man

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 a man

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 a man

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 a man

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 a man

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 a man

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 a man

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