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 Father, we ask that you gently but deeply pour out your Holy Spirit upon us so that we might hear your word, understand your word, that your word might enter deeply into our lives, and that as your word enters deeply into our lives, not only will we know more of your grace and freedom, but we will bear much fruit for your glory to the ends of the earth.

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

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 Amen. Please be seated. Oh, sorry, I'm trained.

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 But we're going to talk about ritual and all that in a moment, but you can see I have been trained.

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 If you're a guest here this morning, normally you're all standing because of the creed, and so I just instantly go into saying the same words.

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 So here's the thing. This past Monday, this is not going to surprise people who are regular here in the church.

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 I was at a Starbucks. I was leaving the Starbucks. I was going to go one way, and then I thought, no, I'll go the other way.

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 And as I go, one of the baristas that I've talked to a fair bit over the years, she's putting some cups and all there, and I'm just going to throw my cup out.

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 And I say, you know, how's it going? You know, how's it going? You know, you say, how's it going? What's the response?

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 Oh, it's fine. How's it going with you? Oh, it's fine. It doesn't matter.

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 And I ask her, how's it going? And she says, my life is terrible. My life sucks. I hate myself. I feel like killing myself. Everything is terrible.

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 And I'm saying it with a smile, but she did not say it with a smile. She said it with seriousness.

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 And so, you know, I'm a pastor. I should do something religious.

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 When somebody says that, I felt like saying, let's take a collection because that's pretty religious.

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 But instead, you know, I try to say something hopeful, you know, or whatever.

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 And she cuts me off after I'm trying to do my hopeful bit.

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 And she said, you know, there's these born-again Christian types. Have you heard of them?

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 I said, well, that actually would probably be me. I'm one of those types.

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 And she said, well, those born-again types, those born-again types, don't they believe that if Hitler, just before he died,

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 if he gave his life to Jesus, he'd go to heaven?

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 What do you think of that?

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 Well, I'm going to tell you roughly what I said in a few moments, but our text today talks about that.

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 And so it would be very helpful for me if you'd get your Bible.

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 And if you don't have a Bible of your own and you'd like to follow,

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 we're looking at the Book of Romans, which John just read a couple of moments ago.

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 There's always extra Bibles here at the front.

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 You can take them as a gift or you can bring them back afterwards.

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 And I tried in my sputtering best, very imperfectly, you know, if somebody had been videotaping this interchange,

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 it would not have ended up wanting to be in my great moments of conversation with people.

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 I stumbled through some things, but it's been on my mind all week.

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 And it's really appropriate that this is also the same week that we're looking at Romans 1.

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 And if you're wondering, today is the first Sunday in a sermon series.

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 We're going to go all the way through the Book of Romans.

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 And, you know, maybe I'll put on the webpage this week the different texts,

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 at least over the next few weeks that we'll be looking at.

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 And the sermon series is called Grace-Filled Life, Grace-Filled Life.

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 But that's, so, so, Hitler dying just before he dies.

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 He gives his life to Jesus.

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 He goes to heaven.

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 Like, what do you think about that?

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 And so here's how the text goes.

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 Verse 1 of Romans, chapter 1, verse 1.

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 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

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 Now, just pause right here.

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 This is actually the first seven verses or one long sentence in the original language.

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 And so it's almost a little bit like once you get on it, it's almost like a water slide.

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 You can hardly even catch your breath, and it just sort of zooms you right down to the end.

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 But I just want to pause here before we read any further.

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

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 Here's the first thing that we've got to see.

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 The gospel is good news from God.

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 Good news.

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 And if I should have bolded news or put it underlined or something.

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 The gospel is good news from God to ordinary people.

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 That's what it says here in verse 1.

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 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God.

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 And the word gospel means good news.

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 And when it says gospel of God, it means it's good news from God.

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 And as we're going to see that it's good news from God to ordinary people like you and me.

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 Not just to religious people or spiritual people.

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 It's good news to Muslims, to Jews, to Africans, to Asians, to Canadians, to rich people, to poor people, to people who have same-sex attraction, to those who don't like those who have same-sex attraction, to well-educated and poor-educated, to people who go to bars a lot and people who absolutely never go to a bar.

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 It's the gospel is good news from God to ordinary people.

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 And it's really important.

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 The reason I wanted to have news bolded is because, and the reason the sermon series, today's sermon, I wanted to try to say that the gospel is radically different than either religion or spirituality.

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 Because, you see, one of the things that characterizes religion and characterizes spirituality is that they're basically all about advice.

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 They're basically about advice, about how you need to live or what you need to do, what yoga postures you need to accomplish, what mantras you've got to say, what dietary laws you've got to follow, when you can get drunk, when you should never get drunk.

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 But whatever it is, maybe religion is sort of mean and cold and hard and means going to terrible, boring places like churches.

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 And spirituality means that you can play golf on a Sunday morning and then go to yoga and never go to church.

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 And the rules are maybe very more relaxed, that you eat local and think global and all that type of stuff, as opposed to, you know, mean religion.

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 But whatever it is, they all ultimately give you advice, tell you what to do.

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 But the gospel means, in Greek, it means good news.

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 And so, in fact, one of the hard parts it is, even for Christians, is that Christians want to try to keep turning the gospel into good advice.

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 But the gospel is about news that comes from God to ordinary people, and it's good news.

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 And when it says that it's coming from God, and we'll talk about this more a little bit in a few moments,

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 it means that it's not coming from my culture, my race, my sex, from a certain sexual orientation.

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 It's not coming from an institution.

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 It's not coming from a time which is sort of bounded, you know, like only the first century.

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 It's good news from God to ordinary people like you and me.

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 Now, some of you might say, George, you don't really think that's true.

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 Christians don't really think that's true.

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 I bet you any money, George, that as part of, I know you didn't say let's take up a collection, okay?

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 Although that's a very religious thing to do, and it's sort of neat that you're making fun about it.

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 But I bet you invited that young woman to church, didn't you?

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 And I did.

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 I did.

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 Right?

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 So, George, you're contradicting yourself.

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 You're not being consistent, are you?

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 Well, that's a really, really, really good question.

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 Well, let's look at it.

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 Let's go back to reading.

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 And I'll tell you, because the text talks about that.

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 And so go back to verse 1, and then we'll go to the long water slide,

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 and then we'll come back, and I'll sort of draw something out of it, right?

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 So, Paul, verse 1.

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 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

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 which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures concerning his son,

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 who was descended from David according to the flesh,

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 and was declared to be the son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead.

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 Jesus Christ, our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations.

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 That means among every single people group.

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 The gay people group, lost tribes in the Amazon, including you, that's you and I, who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.

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 To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints, grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 And from a literary point of view, Paul, almost all of the rest, a lot of the, he brings up all these themes he's going to develop later on in the book.

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 But here's the thing.

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 If you could have the second point up, Andrew, to sort of bring out like a little highlight here.

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 The good news from God.

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 Remember, the first point is that the gospel is good news from God to ordinary people.

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 The second thing is that the good news from God is about a person.

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 Jesus, Messiah, and Lord.

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 It's good news about a person.

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 Jesus, Messiah, and Lord.

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 That's what it says here in verse 2.

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 You see, it goes, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures concerning his son.

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 The gospel is concerning his son, who is descended from David, according to the flesh.

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 In other words, he's a real human being.

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 He's not just a disembodied person.

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 He's not just an idea of a person.

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 He's not just like an archetype of a person.

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 That this is a story.

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 The good news is about God's son, who is also a human being.

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 He's a person.

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 The good news is about a person.

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 And that means that the good news is not about the institution of the Anglican church.

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 It's not about the church of the Messiah.

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 It's not about rituals.

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 It's not about liturgies.

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 It's not about rules.

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 It's not about politics.

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 It's not about culture.

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 It's good news about a person.

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 That's what it's all about.

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 Now, some of you are saying, well, George, didn't you?

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 Okay, here's the thing.

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 People naturally have habits and naturally create institutions.

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 They naturally have rhythms.

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 You just saw it, evidence, a few moments ago when I was assuming you were all standing.

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 I'm just sort of programmed.

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 It's like my ritual after I ask you to pray is you all be seated.

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 But we all have rituals.

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 We all have different ways that we wake up in the morning.

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 Many of us maybe have the same thing for breakfast in the morning.

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 But people change our rituals.

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 I don't think John would mind me saying that.

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 But a little while ago, for four or five years, we had a really fine administrator by the name of John.

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 And it was very interesting.

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 John was, I think, in his early 30s, and he ate like a typical man in his early 30s.

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 Crappy.

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 And all of a sudden, he started to get interested in this young woman named Joanne.

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 And all of a sudden, fries consumption started to decline.

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 Green leafy consumption started to rise.

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 Ketchup on fries declines.

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 Tomatoes with the green leafy stuff starts to rise.

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 Less fried food.

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 More steamed food.

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 You get the point.

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 People change our rituals and our habits.

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 One of the hard things for me when I got married, it's a very common thing.

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 I think it's often harder for men than it is for women.

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 One of the hard things for me when I got married is that Louise very rightly would say,

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 like, I don't know, I'd have my own rhythms, right?

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 And when you're dating somebody, well, you can have your own rhythms.

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 And you make an appointment to meet.

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 But when you marry, the other person has a say in your 24-7 life, right?

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 So, therefore, if after you finish your class, you can't just go for this or just can't do that or just can't do that

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 because the other person has a say in it.

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 So, it's not that after you get to know your girlfriend or after I'm married that all of a sudden I move into a realm

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 where I have no institutions, no habits, no rhythms.

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 It is that the person changes it.

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 And that's why it's so significant.

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 You see, why did I invite the young woman to church?

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 I invited the young woman to church because I believe that what happens here on a Sunday morning

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 is that Jesus' people get to meet Jesus in the company of each other.

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 That's why I'm here.

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 I want to meet with Jesus.

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 And I want to meet with Jesus in the presence of his people.

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 I want to meet with Jesus in the presence of his people, in the power of his Holy Spirit.

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 And I want to try to introduce that person to Jesus.

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 That's why I invited her here.

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 That's why you should invite somebody.

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 Don't invite them because the band is hot or the speaker is great or anything like that.

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 Lord have mercy.

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 Christ have mercy.

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 Lord have mercy.

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 Don't do that.

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 But it's all about a person.

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 And the other thing which is so neat about this, you see,

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 is that much spiritual thinking and religious thinking is impersonal.

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 It leads us to impersonal things.

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 In fact, many of the images that we have is of energy and it's impersonal images.

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 And we crave, as human beings, personal contact.

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 Even when we're depressed, even when we feel that no one loves us,

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 we're depressed because we feel that no one loves us.

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 Even when we're grieving because somebody has died,

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 we're grieving because we miss that personal contact.

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 Even within a marriage, when one of the couple or both of them are feeling very, very alone

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 and maybe even very, very trapped,

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 they feel alone and trapped because they want to have that deeper personal contact

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 and a real contact and it's just not happening.

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 But we crave the personal.

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 And the good news, the good news from God is about a person,

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 Jesus, the Messiah, and the Lord.

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 And throughout the rest of the book of Romans,

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 Paul is going to explain what it means that Jesus is the Messiah,

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 the Jewish Messiah and the Lord.

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 He's going to explain it.

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 Now, some of you might be saying,

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 okay, George, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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 Good news from God.

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 Come on.

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 George, I bet you if you went on the internet

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 and you Googled people who have God speaking through them,

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 I bet you'd get millions of responses.

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 I bet you'd get all sorts of YouTube videos

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 of people claiming to speak for God.

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 Every religion does it.

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 How on earth could you make such a claim

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 that the gospel is good news from God to ordinary people,

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 that it's good news about a person, Jesus?

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 Like, how on earth, in a world like that,

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 with all, you know, there's like all this thing going on,

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 how on earth could you possibly make such a claim?

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 That's a really good question as well, isn't it?

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 Well, Paul talks about that here.

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 Remember that big, long sentence that we went through?

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 If you go back and look here at verse 4,

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 it's a very sort of odd type of phrase,

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 and it's a very dense sentence, right?

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 So that's where we're going to pause.

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 Actually, if you put up a point, Andrew,

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 but I'll read this, the verse 4.

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 And was declared or appointed or inaugurated

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 or authenticated to be the Son of God in power, okay?

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 In other words, how is he appointed or authenticated

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 to be the Son of God in power,

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 according to the Spirit of holiness,

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 by his resurrection from the dead?

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 And then once again, he says, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

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 Here's what Paul is saying.

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 The good news from God is authenticated

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 by the witness of the Holy Spirit

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 and the resurrection of Jesus.

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 That is how it is authenticated,

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 that it is news from God,

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 not from an institution, not from Paul,

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 not from a culture, not from a time period,

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 not by a guy who has particular brilliance

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 in writing or anything like that.

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 How is it that if we know that it comes from God,

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 that it's real, not counterfeit,

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 it's authenticated by the witness of the Holy Spirit

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 and the resurrection of Jesus?

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 And it's very, very interesting.

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 It shows one of the very spectacular things

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 about the gospel,

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 how it is that we are to respond to the good news.

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 Because you see, if you think about that,

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 if you think about what Paul's saying,

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 he's saying that it involves both the intellect

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 and our ability to ask questions

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 and seek and try to discover,

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 but it also is something deeply personal

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 within that we are to receive.

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 So with the resurrection,

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 that's an historical question.

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 Did Jesus really exist?

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 Did he really die upon the cross?

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 Was the tomb empty?

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 Do they have the body?

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 Were there witnesses to the fact

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 not only that the tomb was empty,

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 but that he claimed to be alive

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 and had defeated death?

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 Are there witnesses to this?

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 Are there historical records?

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 Are there historical traces?

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 Are they just in Jewish literature

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 or Christian literature

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 or pagan literature?

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 And you can get answers

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 to all of those questions.

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 You can actually say,

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 you could say,

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 George, I'd like to begin that search.

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 Do you have some scholarly work

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 that you could point me to

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 that I could go to start to read

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 and that I could follow the footnotes

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 and I could ask these questions

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 and I could start to give you that.

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 Others in the congregation

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 could not do it

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 and you could use your mind

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 to try to figure those things out.

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 And if you do,

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 you would come to the conclusion,

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 like myself and many other people,

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 that there actually is good historical evidence

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 and reasons to believe

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 that Jesus died on a Friday,

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 that every single person that he knew

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 believed that he had died

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 and was discredited,

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 and that on Easter Sunday,

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 the grave was empty,

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 the tomb was empty,

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 the body was gone,

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 and that people said they'd seen Jesus

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 and now rather than him being discredited,

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 they now believe that he was the Savior

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 and the Lord,

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 that he was the Messiah

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 long promised by God

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 in the scriptures of the first covenant.

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 And you can look for that.

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 You can seek that out.

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 You can use your mind.

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 But at the same time,

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 there's also this witness of the Holy Spirit,

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 which is a different type of thing.

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 It's an internal pressure.

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 It's like I became a Christian

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 when I was in grade 12.

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 And let me tell you

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 that what launched my quest for Jesus

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 wasn't that I had come to a faith

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 and trust in the resurrection.

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 It was when I'd seen people

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 whose lives had been changed by Jesus

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 and I had a sense of emptiness in my own life

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 and I had a sense that there must be more.

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 And I had a sense connected to these people

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 who were connected to Jesus

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 that there was something more.

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 And I went to events

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 and I was with them

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 and I heard them talk

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 and increasingly inside of myself,

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 there was a pressure.

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 It was as if there was almost a person

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 pushing on me

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 to surrender,

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 to humble myself,

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 to no longer push that pressure aside,

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 but to remove my arms

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 which were pushing that pressure aside

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 and to stand like this

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 and to let it come in.

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 The witness of the Holy Spirit.

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 The witness of the Holy Spirit

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 that authenticates it.

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 And just one other thing about this.

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 If I was to offer you counterfeit grass,

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 you'd go,

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 counterfeit grass?

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 Sorry, grass clippings.

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 If I was to go around the suburbs

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 and say,

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 I have some counterfeit grass clippings,

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 would you like to have it?

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 I'll sell it to you real cheap.

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 I'd go,

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 what do you mean?

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 Grass?

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 I have a problem getting rid of my grass clippings.

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 If you went around to the suburbs

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 and say,

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 I have counterfeit dandelions to sell you,

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 nobody would take them.

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 Unless they wanted them as a joke

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 to put on their neighbor's lawn

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 to harass them.

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 Counterfeits imply truth and value.

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 I try to pass off

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 a counterfeit $100 US bill.

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 That has an attraction

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 because there are real $100 US bills

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 and they're worth a lot of money,

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 $100 US.

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 Some parts of the world in Kenya,

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 they'd give you a lot more

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 than the $100 was worth

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 because it had a special significance

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 in Kenya when I was there.

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 It's one of the things

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 the guidebooks told you.

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 So all the things,

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 all of the religions,

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 all of the people talking

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 as if they talked from God,

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 rather than disproving

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 that God speaks,

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 it probably shows

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 that there is a God

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 who does speak.

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 That there's something human

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 to both desire it

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 and to try to twist it.

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 Counterfeits imply the real.

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 Well, some of you might say,

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 George,

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 words from God

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 to ordinary people.

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 Listen, George,

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 you know,

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 when you see cultures

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 that seem to have accepted

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 this God-speaking thing,

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 it just seems to consume them.

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 Like, George,

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 look at Islam.

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 Look at those devout Islam.

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 Not only does it lead them

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 to do murderous things,

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 it just seems to swallow up the person.

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 And it means that they start

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 dressing weird

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 and doing weird things

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 and doing murderous things.

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 And God always seems

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 to swallow the ordinary.

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 George,

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 isn't that what happens

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 when you think that God speaks?

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 Don't you think

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 that's what would happen to me

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 if I was to take your word for it

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 and to think that God

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 actually speaks to me?

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 That the gospel

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 is good news,

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 good words from God

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 to ordinary people?

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 That even though

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 it's authenticated

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 by the Holy Spirit

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 and about a person,

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 don't you think

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 that would just swallow me up?

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 Well, that's one of the reasons

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 why the next few verses

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 are so important

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 in Paul's letter.

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 Because the way Paul

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 writes this letter,

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 and by the way,

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 he's writing it about

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 20, 25 years

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 after the death

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 and resurrection of Jesus.

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 He's writing it

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 to a group of people

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 he's never met.

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 And it's just all of a sudden

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 he's given his sort of like

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 his powerful,

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 long sentence greeting.

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 And now,

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 before he's going to get

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 into his letter,

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 he turns to personal matters,

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 ordinary matters.

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 Like, listen along.

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 Verse 8.

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 First,

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 I thank my God

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 through Jesus Christ

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 for all of you

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 because your faith

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 is proclaimed

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 in all the world.

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 Oh, just pause here

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 for a second.

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 You know what's so cool

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 about this word first?

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 When I say

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 that the gospel

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 is good news from God,

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 don't make the mistake

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 of thinking then

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 that that somehow means

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 that the Bible

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 is a perfect book

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 or that it's the best

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 literature ever written.

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 What makes it

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 words from God

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 is that ultimately

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 the words that are here

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 are the words

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 that God wanted.

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 And this is actually written

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 in common

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 working class Greek,

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 not excellent Greek.

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 And you know what?

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 Here's a literary mistake

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 that Paul's make right here.

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 If you get a letter

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 and you say first,

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 you're expecting later on

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 you'll see second,

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 third, fourth.

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 There's no second,

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 third, and fourth.

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 He forgot to put them in.

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 It's not perfect literature.

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 We don't listen to this

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 because it's perfect.

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 We listen to it ultimately

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 because we believe

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 that it comes from God.

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 It's authenticated

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 by the resurrection

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 of Jesus from the dead

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 and the witness

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 of the Holy Spirit within.

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 But that was a digression.

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 Back to this.

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 Verse eight again.

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 First,

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 I thank my God

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 through Jesus Christ

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 for all of you

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 because your faith

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 is proclaimed

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 in all the world.

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 For God is my witness

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 whom I serve

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 with my spirit

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 and the gospel

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 of his son

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 that without ceasing

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 I mention you

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 always in my prayers

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 asking that somehow

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 by God's will

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 I may now at last

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 succeed in coming to you

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 for I long to see you

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 that I may impart to you

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 some spiritual gift

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 to strengthen you

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 that is

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 that we may be

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 mutually encouraged

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 by each other's faith

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 both yours and mine.

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 I want you to know

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 brothers and sisters

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 that I have often

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 intended to come to you

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 but thus far

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 have been prevented

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 in order that I may

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 reap some harvest

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 among you

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 as well as among

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 the rest of the pagans.

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 I am under obligation

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 both to Greeks

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 and to barbarians

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 both to the wise

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 and to the foolish

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 so I am eager

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 to preach the gospel

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 to you also

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 who are in Rome.

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 Don't you get this

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 just sense of this

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 personal and thankfulness

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 and mutual encouragement?

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 Paul is not swallowed up

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 obliterated by God

00:25:17.599 --> 00:25:19.559
 not even remotely.

00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:22.319
 You see the ordinariness

00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:23.119
 of it

00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:24.339
 of just being thankful

00:25:24.339 --> 00:25:25.119
 and of gratitude

00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:26.720
 and this idea

00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:27.559
 that they can spend

00:25:27.559 --> 00:25:28.339
 time together

00:25:28.339 --> 00:25:29.039
 and as a result

00:25:29.039 --> 00:25:30.379
 of just spending time together

00:25:30.379 --> 00:25:31.440
 that both will end up

00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:32.299
 being encouraged

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 that both will be stronger

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 and better off for it

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 and it's really interesting

00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:38.039
 here.

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 One other thing here

00:25:38.759 --> 00:25:39.099
 do you notice

00:25:39.099 --> 00:25:39.680
 he says here

00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:40.960
 in verse 14

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 I am under obligation

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 both to Greeks

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 and to the barbarians?

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 Actually literally

00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:46.980
 it's debtor

00:25:46.980 --> 00:25:48.980
 that he's in debt

00:25:48.980 --> 00:25:50.579
 to Greeks

00:25:50.579 --> 00:25:51.539
 and to barbarians.

00:25:51.539 --> 00:25:52.299
 so what on earth

00:25:52.299 --> 00:25:52.859
 does Paul mean

00:25:52.859 --> 00:25:53.259
 by saying

00:25:53.259 --> 00:25:54.039
 that he's in debt

00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:54.519
 to them?

00:25:55.359 --> 00:25:56.579
 Here's a very important thing

00:25:56.579 --> 00:25:57.159
 for those of us

00:25:57.159 --> 00:25:57.740
 who are Christians

00:25:57.740 --> 00:25:58.579
 to understand.

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 I'm going to get back

00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:01.480
 in a few moments

00:26:01.480 --> 00:26:02.740
 to my friend

00:26:02.740 --> 00:26:04.420
 and her question

00:26:04.420 --> 00:26:04.779
 about

00:26:04.779 --> 00:26:06.680
 could Hitler

00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:07.399
 have gone to heaven?

00:26:08.399 --> 00:26:09.299
 And I've already

00:26:09.299 --> 00:26:09.980
 shared with you

00:26:09.980 --> 00:26:10.940
 that we talked

00:26:10.940 --> 00:26:12.420
 for about 10-15 minutes

00:26:12.420 --> 00:26:13.680
 I tried to share

00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:14.680
 the gospel with her.

00:26:15.319 --> 00:26:16.079
 I probably did

00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:17.439
 a very very poor job.

00:26:19.019 --> 00:26:19.339
 I really

00:26:19.339 --> 00:26:20.500
 it really struck me

00:26:20.500 --> 00:26:20.980
 afterwards

00:26:20.980 --> 00:26:22.079
 that you know

00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:22.960
 it's not about you

00:26:22.960 --> 00:26:23.460
 George

00:26:23.460 --> 00:26:25.339
 and maybe

00:26:25.339 --> 00:26:26.179
 the point

00:26:26.179 --> 00:26:27.099
 of the conversation

00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:28.079
 wasn't that I would

00:26:28.079 --> 00:26:29.779
 do such a spectacular job

00:26:29.779 --> 00:26:30.519
 but that afterwards

00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:31.199
 I realized

00:26:31.199 --> 00:26:31.939
 I hadn't done

00:26:31.939 --> 00:26:32.439
 a good job

00:26:32.439 --> 00:26:32.980
 and I would pray

00:26:32.980 --> 00:26:33.399
 for her.

00:26:35.099 --> 00:26:35.359
 And

00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:36.579
 you know

00:26:36.579 --> 00:26:37.299
 so I have been

00:26:37.299 --> 00:26:37.639
 every day

00:26:37.639 --> 00:26:38.179
 I've been praying

00:26:38.179 --> 00:26:38.659
 for her

00:26:38.659 --> 00:26:40.359
 and that's maybe

00:26:40.359 --> 00:26:40.740
 the witness

00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:41.519
 of the Holy Spirit

00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:42.159
 not the witness

00:26:42.159 --> 00:26:42.659
 of George

00:26:42.659 --> 00:26:43.319
 but I made

00:26:43.319 --> 00:26:44.439
 my stumbling attempts

00:26:44.439 --> 00:26:45.720
 but here's the thing

00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:46.480
 how on earth

00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:47.859
 is Paul in debt?

00:26:47.939 --> 00:26:49.079
 What this is saying here

00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:50.439
 is that I actually

00:26:50.439 --> 00:26:52.240
 owe it

00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:52.960
 to her

00:26:52.960 --> 00:26:54.399
 I actually

00:26:54.399 --> 00:26:54.899
 owe it

00:26:54.899 --> 00:26:55.500
 to her

00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:56.399
 to tell

00:26:56.399 --> 00:26:57.259
 the gospel.

00:26:57.899 --> 00:26:58.299
 How is it

00:26:58.299 --> 00:26:58.879
 that I could be

00:26:58.879 --> 00:26:59.419
 in debt

00:26:59.419 --> 00:27:00.000
 to her?

00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:01.740
 Well

00:27:01.740 --> 00:27:03.019
 there's two different ways

00:27:03.019 --> 00:27:03.980
 that you can be in debt

00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:04.899
 to another person.

00:27:05.659 --> 00:27:06.379
 One way

00:27:06.379 --> 00:27:07.359
 that you could be in debt

00:27:07.359 --> 00:27:08.059
 to another person

00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:09.339
 is I could lend them

00:27:09.339 --> 00:27:10.799
 that they could lend me

00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:11.720
 $10,000

00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:13.759
 make it more

00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:15.059
 they could lend me

00:27:15.059 --> 00:27:16.539
 $25,000

00:27:16.539 --> 00:27:18.259
 even for rich people

00:27:18.259 --> 00:27:19.579
 that's serious change.

00:27:20.259 --> 00:27:20.839
 Donald Trump

00:27:20.839 --> 00:27:21.980
 didn't become Donald Trump

00:27:21.980 --> 00:27:23.460
 by ignoring 25k

00:27:23.460 --> 00:27:24.039
 okay

00:27:24.039 --> 00:27:25.240
 counts them up.

00:27:25.940 --> 00:27:26.620
 So let's say

00:27:26.620 --> 00:27:27.620
 this other person

00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:28.180
 gave me

00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:29.620
 lend me 25k

00:27:29.620 --> 00:27:30.380
 now I'm in debt

00:27:30.380 --> 00:27:30.720
 to them

00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:31.380
 to pay them back

00:27:31.380 --> 00:27:32.240
 the 25k

00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:34.299
 but there's another way

00:27:34.299 --> 00:27:35.460
 that I could be in debt

00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:36.279
 to the other person

00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:36.980
 it could be

00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:37.920
 that one of you

00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:39.980
 gives me 25k

00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:40.900
 to carry

00:27:40.900 --> 00:27:41.480
 and to give

00:27:41.480 --> 00:27:42.400
 to another person

00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.320
 and now

00:27:45.320 --> 00:27:46.220
 I am

00:27:46.220 --> 00:27:48.100
 under obligation

00:27:48.100 --> 00:27:49.780
 to pass on

00:27:49.780 --> 00:27:51.340
 that $25,000

00:27:51.340 --> 00:27:52.560
 to the other person

00:27:52.560 --> 00:27:53.519
 and wouldn't you all

00:27:53.519 --> 00:27:54.120
 be upset

00:27:54.120 --> 00:27:54.759
 if I kept

00:27:54.759 --> 00:27:55.900
 that $25,000

00:27:55.900 --> 00:27:57.660
 and didn't pass it on

00:27:57.660 --> 00:27:58.420
 to another person?

00:27:58.800 --> 00:27:59.980
 Doesn't every single

00:27:59.980 --> 00:28:00.759
 one of these people

00:28:00.759 --> 00:28:01.680
 of us in the room

00:28:01.680 --> 00:28:02.320
 and probably wouldn't

00:28:02.320 --> 00:28:03.480
 every one of our neighbors

00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:04.660
 appreciate

00:28:04.660 --> 00:28:05.780
 $25,000?

00:28:08.019 --> 00:28:08.560
 Wouldn't

00:28:08.560 --> 00:28:09.800
 that's what Paul

00:28:09.800 --> 00:28:10.620
 is saying here

00:28:10.619 --> 00:28:12.439
 that God

00:28:12.439 --> 00:28:14.179
 desires

00:28:14.179 --> 00:28:15.500
 the great gift

00:28:15.500 --> 00:28:15.959
 worth

00:28:15.959 --> 00:28:16.939
 an unbelievable

00:28:16.939 --> 00:28:17.719
 amount of money

00:28:17.719 --> 00:28:19.099
 to be told

00:28:19.099 --> 00:28:20.099
 to offered

00:28:20.099 --> 00:28:22.199
 to your next door

00:28:22.199 --> 00:28:22.579
 neighbors

00:28:22.579 --> 00:28:23.619
 your co-workers

00:28:23.619 --> 00:28:24.319
 the baristas

00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:25.199
 who serve you

00:28:25.199 --> 00:28:27.839
 the gay man

00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:28.539
 or the gay woman

00:28:28.539 --> 00:28:29.479
 who's your doctor

00:28:29.479 --> 00:28:30.299
 or your dentist

00:28:30.299 --> 00:28:32.239
 or cleans your house

00:28:32.239 --> 00:28:32.659
 or whatever

00:28:32.659 --> 00:28:33.639
 that you actually

00:28:33.639 --> 00:28:34.619
 from God

00:28:34.619 --> 00:28:36.259
 have an obligation

00:28:36.259 --> 00:28:39.339
 to with faltering lips

00:28:39.339 --> 00:28:40.460
 and maybe

00:28:40.460 --> 00:28:42.720
 with spectacular failure

00:28:42.720 --> 00:28:45.059
 attempt to share

00:28:45.059 --> 00:28:46.099
 the gospel with them.

00:28:46.879 --> 00:28:48.000
 That's what Paul's

00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:48.480
 saying here.

00:28:49.640 --> 00:28:50.140
 Friends,

00:28:50.259 --> 00:28:50.960
 brothers and sisters,

00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:52.180
 when that first struck me,

00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:54.000
 that has been haunting me

00:28:54.000 --> 00:28:55.299
 ever since it struck me.

00:28:55.299 --> 00:28:58.519
 that that's how I am

00:28:58.519 --> 00:28:59.619
 to view my neighbors

00:28:59.619 --> 00:29:01.619
 and the people around me

00:29:01.619 --> 00:29:03.399
 because it's so easy

00:29:03.399 --> 00:29:04.299
 to be ashamed

00:29:04.299 --> 00:29:05.180
 and intimidated

00:29:05.180 --> 00:29:06.799
 of the gospel,

00:29:06.980 --> 00:29:08.440
 ashamed of the gospel,

00:29:08.659 --> 00:29:09.579
 ashamed of Jesus

00:29:09.579 --> 00:29:10.919
 and it's so easy

00:29:10.919 --> 00:29:11.659
 to be intimidated

00:29:11.659 --> 00:29:12.700
 by the culture.

00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:14.480
 That's exactly

00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:15.359
 what Paul's going

00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:15.919
 to go into.

00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:16.659
 He's going to go into

00:29:16.659 --> 00:29:17.579
 the whole problem

00:29:17.579 --> 00:29:18.319
 of our being

00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:19.240
 intimidated

00:29:19.240 --> 00:29:20.759
 by our culture.

00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:24.279
 I haven't seen

00:29:24.279 --> 00:29:24.559
 the movie,

00:29:24.619 --> 00:29:25.799
 I think this weekend

00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:26.619
 in Canada

00:29:26.619 --> 00:29:27.379
 the movie

00:29:27.379 --> 00:29:28.180
 The War Room

00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:28.819
 just started

00:29:28.819 --> 00:29:30.879
 and it was reviewed

00:29:30.879 --> 00:29:33.619
 in the secular

00:29:33.619 --> 00:29:34.559
 papers of Ottawa

00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:37.019
 and I haven't seen

00:29:37.019 --> 00:29:37.259
 the movie,

00:29:37.299 --> 00:29:37.519
 I don't know

00:29:37.519 --> 00:29:38.039
 if it's a good movie

00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:38.640
 or a bad movie,

00:29:38.740 --> 00:29:39.200
 four people,

00:29:39.299 --> 00:29:40.099
 I know five people

00:29:40.099 --> 00:29:40.519
 who've seen it

00:29:40.519 --> 00:29:41.180
 and they really liked it

00:29:41.180 --> 00:29:41.420
 and I'm going

00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:41.940
 to encourage you

00:29:41.940 --> 00:29:42.460
 to go because

00:29:42.460 --> 00:29:42.920
 it's done by

00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:43.619
 brothers and sisters

00:29:43.619 --> 00:29:44.039
 in Christ

00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:44.539
 so I'm going

00:29:44.539 --> 00:29:45.299
 to stand with them

00:29:45.299 --> 00:29:45.879
 and encourage you

00:29:45.879 --> 00:29:46.140
 to go

00:29:46.140 --> 00:29:47.539
 but it was reviewed

00:29:47.539 --> 00:29:49.180
 and this is why

00:29:49.180 --> 00:29:49.680
 we often

00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:50.619
 in our culture

00:29:50.619 --> 00:29:51.059
 can feel

00:29:51.059 --> 00:29:51.359
 even though

00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:52.039
 we have freedom

00:29:52.039 --> 00:29:52.739
 but we can often

00:29:52.739 --> 00:29:53.659
 feel so intimidated.

00:29:54.359 --> 00:29:55.419
 The reviewer said

00:29:55.419 --> 00:29:56.819
 he pointed out

00:29:56.819 --> 00:29:57.599
 all of the ridiculous

00:29:57.599 --> 00:29:58.359
 things in the movie

00:29:58.359 --> 00:29:59.239
 from his point of view

00:29:59.239 --> 00:30:00.199
 and he said

00:30:00.199 --> 00:30:01.139
 he spent almost

00:30:01.139 --> 00:30:02.119
 the entire movie

00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:02.959
 doubled over

00:30:02.959 --> 00:30:03.739
 with laughter

00:30:03.739 --> 00:30:04.619
 at how ridiculous

00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:05.819
 every single thing

00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:06.639
 in the movie was

00:30:06.639 --> 00:30:07.319
 until he got

00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:07.919
 to the end

00:30:07.919 --> 00:30:09.279
 and then he sat up

00:30:09.279 --> 00:30:10.079
 because he realized

00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:11.119
 it was unbelievably

00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:11.919
 scary

00:30:11.919 --> 00:30:15.819
 in a bad way

00:30:15.819 --> 00:30:17.639
 like a type

00:30:17.639 --> 00:30:18.319
 of crazy

00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:19.079
 religiousness

00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:19.679
 that's only going

00:30:19.679 --> 00:30:20.479
 to ruin your life

00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:21.839
 and he worried

00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:23.220
 that anybody

00:30:23.220 --> 00:30:23.759
 would take

00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:24.400
 its advice

00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:26.160
 and we all

00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:27.059
 know in our spirit

00:30:27.059 --> 00:30:28.099
 that even though

00:30:28.099 --> 00:30:28.680
 most people

00:30:28.680 --> 00:30:29.420
 that many people

00:30:29.420 --> 00:30:29.799
 that we know

00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:30.440
 wouldn't actually

00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:31.460
 say that to our face

00:30:31.460 --> 00:30:32.059
 that's what's going

00:30:32.059 --> 00:30:32.680
 on in their heads

00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:33.360
 and their hearts

00:30:33.360 --> 00:30:36.140
 and so it's very easy

00:30:36.140 --> 00:30:36.980
 to be intimidated

00:30:36.980 --> 00:30:37.920
 by our culture

00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:39.180
 and not have a sense

00:30:39.180 --> 00:30:41.059
 that there is a debt

00:30:41.059 --> 00:30:42.539
 that I have

00:30:42.539 --> 00:30:43.420
 an obligation

00:30:43.420 --> 00:30:44.839
 to share the gospel

00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:45.640
 but to feel

00:30:45.640 --> 00:30:46.539
 intimidated

00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:48.519
 by my culture

00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:49.399
 and when I'm

00:30:49.399 --> 00:30:49.879
 intimidated

00:30:49.879 --> 00:30:50.799
 by my culture

00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:51.659
 I am ashamed

00:30:51.659 --> 00:30:55.399
 and it's made worse

00:30:55.399 --> 00:30:56.220
 because it seems

00:30:56.220 --> 00:30:57.180
 so weak

00:30:57.180 --> 00:30:59.119
 humanly speaking

00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:01.700
 but what does Paul

00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:02.279
 say he does

00:31:02.279 --> 00:31:02.940
 is that Andrew

00:31:02.940 --> 00:31:03.639
 could you put it up

00:31:03.639 --> 00:31:04.440
 I'd like you

00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:04.960
 to all say

00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:06.200
 these next two verses

00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:07.099
 the last two verses

00:31:07.099 --> 00:31:07.960
 of our sermon today

00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:08.680
 could you say this

00:31:08.680 --> 00:31:09.220
 with me

00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:10.399
 actually I can't see it

00:31:10.399 --> 00:31:10.720
 I'll use it

00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:11.680
 say it with me

00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:13.399
 for I am not ashamed

00:31:13.399 --> 00:31:14.319
 of the gospel

00:31:14.319 --> 00:31:16.160
 for it is the power

00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:16.779
 of God

00:31:16.779 --> 00:31:17.700
 for salvation

00:31:17.700 --> 00:31:18.660
 to everyone

00:31:18.660 --> 00:31:19.680
 who believes

00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:20.819
 to the Jew

00:31:20.819 --> 00:31:21.359
 first

00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:22.099
 and also

00:31:22.099 --> 00:31:22.920
 to the Greek

00:31:22.920 --> 00:31:24.740
 for in the gospel

00:31:24.740 --> 00:31:25.559
 the righteousness

00:31:25.559 --> 00:31:26.379
 of God

00:31:26.379 --> 00:31:27.180
 is revealed

00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:28.139
 from faith

00:31:28.139 --> 00:31:28.779
 to faith

00:31:28.779 --> 00:31:30.279
 as it is written

00:31:30.279 --> 00:31:31.339
 the righteous

00:31:31.339 --> 00:31:32.240
 shall live

00:31:32.240 --> 00:31:33.039
 by faith

00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:34.259
 friends

00:31:34.259 --> 00:31:36.759
 every Sunday

00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:37.399
 while we're going

00:31:37.399 --> 00:31:37.980
 through Romans

00:31:37.980 --> 00:31:38.539
 we're going to say

00:31:38.539 --> 00:31:39.119
 that verse

00:31:39.119 --> 00:31:39.660
 because this

00:31:39.660 --> 00:31:40.660
 these two verses

00:31:40.660 --> 00:31:41.480
 tell you what

00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:42.099
 the whole book

00:31:42.099 --> 00:31:42.539
 is about

00:31:42.539 --> 00:31:43.680
 it tells you

00:31:43.680 --> 00:31:44.480
 what the gospel

00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:44.819
 is

00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:45.920
 and we're going

00:31:45.920 --> 00:31:46.420
 to look at that

00:31:46.420 --> 00:31:47.039
 every week

00:31:47.039 --> 00:31:47.519
 when we're looking

00:31:47.519 --> 00:31:48.899
 at the weird things

00:31:48.899 --> 00:31:49.399
 why on earth

00:31:49.399 --> 00:31:50.240
 is Paul talking

00:31:50.240 --> 00:31:50.799
 about Israel

00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:51.579
 why is Paul

00:31:51.579 --> 00:31:52.500
 being so mean

00:31:52.500 --> 00:31:53.480
 to gay people

00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:54.639
 why is Paul

00:31:54.639 --> 00:31:55.899
 being so insulting

00:31:55.899 --> 00:31:58.619
 to other people

00:31:58.619 --> 00:31:59.379
 and why is he

00:31:59.379 --> 00:32:00.000
 talking about

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:00.579
 blood

00:32:00.579 --> 00:32:01.299
 and why is he

00:32:01.299 --> 00:32:01.819
 talking about

00:32:01.819 --> 00:32:02.180
 Adam

00:32:02.180 --> 00:32:03.619
 and every week

00:32:03.619 --> 00:32:03.940
 I'm going to

00:32:03.940 --> 00:32:04.299
 come back

00:32:04.299 --> 00:32:05.079
 because at a

00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:05.900
 literary level

00:32:05.900 --> 00:32:07.319
 anybody you study

00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:08.240
 talks about the book

00:32:08.240 --> 00:32:08.980
 at a literary level

00:32:08.980 --> 00:32:09.859
 Paul in verses

00:32:09.859 --> 00:32:10.839
 16 and 17

00:32:10.839 --> 00:32:11.400
 right here

00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:11.940
 he tells you

00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:12.779
 what the whole book

00:32:12.779 --> 00:32:13.220
 is about

00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:15.460
 and everything

00:32:15.460 --> 00:32:16.140
 in the book

00:32:16.140 --> 00:32:16.880
 is going to be

00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:18.220
 trying to unpack

00:32:18.220 --> 00:32:20.700
 these two verses

00:32:20.700 --> 00:32:22.079
 and so every week

00:32:22.079 --> 00:32:22.940
 we're going to say it

00:32:22.940 --> 00:32:24.220
 together at least once

00:32:24.220 --> 00:32:25.539
 and I hope by the end

00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:26.279
 it's not that you're

00:32:26.279 --> 00:32:27.019
 sick of the verses

00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:28.619
 but that you love

00:32:28.619 --> 00:32:29.140
 the verses

00:32:29.140 --> 00:32:30.460
 you have it

00:32:30.460 --> 00:32:30.900
 memorized

00:32:30.900 --> 00:32:32.660
 that it's changing

00:32:32.660 --> 00:32:33.360
 your life

00:32:33.360 --> 00:32:34.500
 it's changing the life

00:32:34.500 --> 00:32:35.259
 of our church

00:32:35.259 --> 00:32:37.100
 so just

00:32:37.100 --> 00:32:38.259
 we're going to say it

00:32:38.259 --> 00:32:38.720
 one more time

00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:39.080
 in a moment

00:32:39.080 --> 00:32:39.860
 but just Andrew

00:32:39.860 --> 00:32:40.420
 if you could put up

00:32:40.420 --> 00:32:40.840
 the point

00:32:40.840 --> 00:32:41.580
 just to sort of

00:32:41.580 --> 00:32:42.440
 what try to

00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:43.800
 be our initial thought

00:32:43.800 --> 00:32:44.520
 about what's going on

00:32:44.520 --> 00:32:45.040
 in that text

00:32:45.040 --> 00:32:45.520
 when he says

00:32:45.520 --> 00:32:46.620
 for I am not ashamed

00:32:46.620 --> 00:32:47.160
 of the gospel

00:32:47.160 --> 00:32:47.880
 for it is the power

00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:48.240
 of God

00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:48.840
 for salvation

00:32:48.840 --> 00:32:49.280
 to everyone

00:32:49.280 --> 00:32:49.880
 who believes

00:32:49.880 --> 00:32:50.680
 to the Jew first

00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:51.580
 and also to the Greek

00:32:51.580 --> 00:32:52.680
 for in the gospel

00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.060
 the righteousness of God

00:32:54.060 --> 00:32:54.620
 is revealed

00:32:54.619 --> 00:32:55.719
 from faith to faith

00:32:55.719 --> 00:32:57.419
 from faith to faith

00:32:57.419 --> 00:32:58.000
 as it is written

00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:58.739
 the righteous shall live

00:32:58.739 --> 00:32:59.139
 by faith

00:32:59.139 --> 00:33:00.659
 here's the sort of

00:33:00.659 --> 00:33:01.619
 the idea you can get

00:33:01.619 --> 00:33:02.319
 away for today

00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:03.859
 the gospel

00:33:03.859 --> 00:33:05.899
 is the power of God

00:33:05.899 --> 00:33:07.579
 which justifies

00:33:07.579 --> 00:33:08.939
 sanctifies

00:33:08.939 --> 00:33:10.219
 and glorifies

00:33:10.219 --> 00:33:11.219
 all who believe

00:33:11.219 --> 00:33:13.819
 the gospel

00:33:13.819 --> 00:33:16.519
 the good news

00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:17.279
 from God

00:33:17.279 --> 00:33:18.279
 to ordinary people

00:33:18.279 --> 00:33:19.379
 the good news

00:33:19.379 --> 00:33:20.019
 from God

00:33:20.019 --> 00:33:20.879
 to ordinary people

00:33:20.879 --> 00:33:21.879
 that's about a person

00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:22.840
 the person of Jesus

00:33:22.840 --> 00:33:23.820
 who's the Messiah

00:33:23.820 --> 00:33:24.860
 and the Lord

00:33:24.860 --> 00:33:26.060
 the good news

00:33:26.060 --> 00:33:26.640
 from God

00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:27.680
 which is authenticated

00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:28.320
 by the witness

00:33:28.320 --> 00:33:29.340
 of the Holy Spirit

00:33:29.340 --> 00:33:30.460
 and by the resurrection

00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:30.960
 of Jesus

00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:32.160
 this good news

00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:33.180
 which is the gospel

00:33:33.180 --> 00:33:34.540
 is a power

00:33:34.540 --> 00:33:35.600
 the power

00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:36.340
 of God

00:33:36.340 --> 00:33:37.600
 which justifies

00:33:37.600 --> 00:33:38.800
 sanctifies

00:33:38.800 --> 00:33:40.020
 and glorifies

00:33:40.020 --> 00:33:41.740
 every person

00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:42.740
 who believes

00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:44.580
 gay and straight

00:33:44.580 --> 00:33:45.880
 rich and poor

00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:47.680
 Arab

00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:48.600
 Jew

00:33:48.600 --> 00:33:49.800
 Gentile

00:33:49.799 --> 00:33:53.500
 mentally handicapped

00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:54.759
 mentally genius

00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:57.119
 every person

00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:57.819
 who believes

00:33:57.819 --> 00:33:58.879
 religious

00:33:58.879 --> 00:33:59.639
 and irreligious

00:33:59.639 --> 00:34:00.339
 spiritual

00:34:00.339 --> 00:34:01.180
 and completely

00:34:01.180 --> 00:34:01.619
 and utterly

00:34:01.619 --> 00:34:02.940
 unspiritual

00:34:02.940 --> 00:34:05.599
 back to

00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:06.460
 my friend

00:34:06.460 --> 00:34:08.920
 one of the reasons

00:34:08.920 --> 00:34:09.739
 I think

00:34:09.739 --> 00:34:11.139
 I mean

00:34:11.139 --> 00:34:11.900
 remember I told you

00:34:11.900 --> 00:34:12.719
 she

00:34:12.719 --> 00:34:14.320
 my life sucks

00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:15.199
 my life is horrible

00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:15.739
 I feel like

00:34:15.739 --> 00:34:16.500
 killing myself

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:16.940
 I'm not sure

00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:17.960
 if I should kill myself

00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:18.900
 or kill all the people

00:34:18.900 --> 00:34:19.699
 who are around me

00:34:19.699 --> 00:34:21.779
 and she said it

00:34:21.779 --> 00:34:22.579
 not with a smile

00:34:22.579 --> 00:34:23.599
 but with real emotion

00:34:23.599 --> 00:34:24.879
 and

00:34:24.879 --> 00:34:25.739
 you know

00:34:25.739 --> 00:34:26.279
 one of the reasons

00:34:26.279 --> 00:34:27.439
 I think she said that

00:34:27.439 --> 00:34:28.319
 is because

00:34:28.319 --> 00:34:31.460
 she is being

00:34:31.460 --> 00:34:32.519
 beaten up

00:34:32.519 --> 00:34:33.559
 and bent over

00:34:33.559 --> 00:34:34.679
 by massive

00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:35.539
 unfairness

00:34:35.539 --> 00:34:36.179
 in her life

00:34:36.179 --> 00:34:40.079
 unfairness at work

00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:40.679
 unfairness

00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:41.500
 from her family

00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:42.859
 unfairness

00:34:42.859 --> 00:34:43.919
 from boyfriends

00:34:43.919 --> 00:34:45.460
 unfairness

00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:46.279
 from significant

00:34:46.279 --> 00:34:47.339
 from her friends

00:34:47.340 --> 00:34:47.680
 just

00:34:47.680 --> 00:34:49.579
 really

00:34:49.579 --> 00:34:50.220
 really

00:34:50.220 --> 00:34:50.800
 really

00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:52.400
 undeservedly

00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:53.820
 bent

00:34:53.820 --> 00:34:54.760
 broken

00:34:54.760 --> 00:34:56.019
 and being

00:34:56.019 --> 00:34:56.539
 crushed

00:34:56.539 --> 00:34:57.600
 by unfairness

00:34:57.600 --> 00:34:59.900
 and you gotta

00:34:59.900 --> 00:35:00.420
 see where

00:35:00.420 --> 00:35:00.980
 she's coming

00:35:00.980 --> 00:35:01.360
 from

00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:03.039
 if you're being

00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:04.000
 bent and broken

00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:04.820
 by all the

00:35:04.820 --> 00:35:05.320
 significant

00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:06.019
 relationships

00:35:06.019 --> 00:35:06.519
 in your life

00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:07.180
 or many of the

00:35:07.180 --> 00:35:07.600
 significant

00:35:07.600 --> 00:35:08.260
 relationships

00:35:08.260 --> 00:35:09.000
 in your life

00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:09.880
 and you've been

00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:10.280
 broken

00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:11.300
 and been broken

00:35:11.300 --> 00:35:12.380
 by not just

00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:13.220
 an unfairness

00:35:13.220 --> 00:35:13.579
 in a day

00:35:13.579 --> 00:35:14.420
 but an unfairness

00:35:14.420 --> 00:35:14.900
 which seems

00:35:14.900 --> 00:35:15.440
 to just be

00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.280
 a pattern

00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:17.360
 of your life

00:35:17.360 --> 00:35:17.900
 that goes on

00:35:17.900 --> 00:35:18.460
 for a while

00:35:18.460 --> 00:35:19.440
 to hear

00:35:19.440 --> 00:35:20.480
 that Hitler

00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:21.460
 could just

00:35:21.460 --> 00:35:22.440
 say a prayer

00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:23.559
 and then

00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:24.480
 go to heaven

00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:25.539
 seems

00:35:25.539 --> 00:35:27.079
 unfair

00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:28.880
 doesn't it

00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.280
 it seems

00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:30.800
 unfair

00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:32.360
 and so

00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:33.099
 these born again

00:35:33.099 --> 00:35:33.720
 Christians

00:35:33.720 --> 00:35:35.320
 my co-workers

00:35:35.320 --> 00:35:35.960
 are unfair

00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:36.820
 the institution

00:35:36.820 --> 00:35:37.380
 is unfair

00:35:37.380 --> 00:35:38.139
 my family

00:35:38.139 --> 00:35:38.780
 is unfair

00:35:38.780 --> 00:35:39.500
 my friends

00:35:39.500 --> 00:35:40.139
 are unfair

00:35:40.139 --> 00:35:40.860
 boyfriends

00:35:40.860 --> 00:35:41.500
 were unfair

00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:42.260
 and now

00:35:42.260 --> 00:35:42.700
 you're telling

00:35:42.699 --> 00:35:43.859
 me God's unfair

00:35:43.859 --> 00:35:46.480
 well

00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:47.399
 whoop-de-doo

00:35:47.399 --> 00:35:48.059
 for you

00:35:48.059 --> 00:35:56.099
 what does it

00:35:56.099 --> 00:35:56.419
 mean

00:35:56.419 --> 00:35:58.379
 when it says

00:35:58.379 --> 00:36:00.480
 that there's

00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.039
 a righteousness

00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:01.759
 from God

00:36:01.759 --> 00:36:02.739
 what this text

00:36:02.739 --> 00:36:03.319
 is saying

00:36:03.319 --> 00:36:04.759
 is that God

00:36:04.759 --> 00:36:05.339
 does

00:36:05.339 --> 00:36:06.460
 what no human

00:36:06.460 --> 00:36:07.239
 being cannot

00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:07.619
 do

00:36:07.619 --> 00:36:09.679
 he acts

00:36:09.679 --> 00:36:11.579
 he acts

00:36:11.579 --> 00:36:12.439
 it's a power

00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:14.079
 he acts

00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:14.800
 in a way

00:36:14.800 --> 00:36:15.960
 which is right

00:36:15.960 --> 00:36:19.280
 to make us

00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:19.980
 right

00:36:19.980 --> 00:36:21.260
 with himself

00:36:21.260 --> 00:36:23.559
 that God

00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:24.079
 does

00:36:24.079 --> 00:36:25.200
 what no human

00:36:25.200 --> 00:36:26.119
 being can do

00:36:26.119 --> 00:36:27.639
 he acts

00:36:27.639 --> 00:36:28.559
 in a way

00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:29.820
 which is right

00:36:29.820 --> 00:36:32.179
 to make us

00:36:32.179 --> 00:36:32.720
 right

00:36:32.720 --> 00:36:34.420
 with himself

00:36:34.420 --> 00:36:35.519
 that's what the

00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:36.240
 Bible is saying

00:36:36.240 --> 00:36:37.400
 the gospel

00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:38.360
 that in this

00:36:38.360 --> 00:36:38.780
 this

00:36:38.780 --> 00:36:39.559
 you know

00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:40.659
 if you go

00:36:40.659 --> 00:36:41.219
 back and read

00:36:41.219 --> 00:36:42.000
 Genesis chapter

00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:42.420
 one

00:36:42.420 --> 00:36:44.519
 God speaks

00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:45.320
 and it is

00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:46.360
 God's

00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:47.279
 God can do

00:36:47.279 --> 00:36:47.519
 things

00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:48.960
 his very word

00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:50.360
 is power

00:36:50.360 --> 00:36:51.460
 he can create

00:36:51.460 --> 00:36:52.000
 things

00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:54.299
 and all the way

00:36:54.299 --> 00:36:54.719
 through the rest

00:36:54.719 --> 00:36:55.340
 of the book of Romans

00:36:55.340 --> 00:36:55.860
 I'm not going to try

00:36:55.860 --> 00:36:56.679
 to justify God

00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:57.019
 right now

00:36:57.019 --> 00:36:57.500
 but that's what

00:36:57.500 --> 00:36:58.179
 the rest of the book

00:36:58.179 --> 00:36:58.599
 of Romans

00:36:58.599 --> 00:36:59.239
 is going to do

00:36:59.239 --> 00:36:59.759
 he's going to start

00:36:59.759 --> 00:37:00.259
 to deal with

00:37:00.259 --> 00:37:00.920
 a whole pile

00:37:00.920 --> 00:37:01.420
 of moral

00:37:01.420 --> 00:37:02.360
 and other problems

00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:03.340
 and at the end

00:37:03.340 --> 00:37:03.559
 of it

00:37:03.559 --> 00:37:04.400
 he's going to say

00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:04.880
 that when you

00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:05.420
 understand

00:37:05.420 --> 00:37:06.360
 what God

00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:06.940
 is doing

00:37:06.940 --> 00:37:08.079
 how he's acting

00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:08.940
 to make you right

00:37:08.940 --> 00:37:09.519
 with himself

00:37:09.519 --> 00:37:10.360
 that he

00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:11.159
 you can't make

00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:11.880
 yourself right

00:37:11.880 --> 00:37:12.179
 with him

00:37:12.179 --> 00:37:13.380
 but he can make

00:37:13.380 --> 00:37:14.019
 you right

00:37:14.019 --> 00:37:14.880
 with himself

00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:15.799
 that when you

00:37:15.799 --> 00:37:17.119
 see how he does

00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:17.299
 it

00:37:17.299 --> 00:37:18.440
 and what he has

00:37:18.440 --> 00:37:18.679
 done

00:37:18.679 --> 00:37:19.480
 you're going to

00:37:19.480 --> 00:37:20.019
 say God

00:37:20.019 --> 00:37:20.799
 did it right

00:37:20.799 --> 00:37:22.139
 he's not

00:37:22.139 --> 00:37:22.759
 unfair

00:37:22.759 --> 00:37:24.099
 it's the opposite

00:37:24.099 --> 00:37:25.059
 of unfair

00:37:25.059 --> 00:37:26.219
 that God

00:37:26.219 --> 00:37:27.259
 has done

00:37:27.259 --> 00:37:28.039
 something

00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:29.139
 which blows

00:37:29.139 --> 00:37:29.840
 your mind

00:37:29.840 --> 00:37:30.319
 he's been

00:37:30.319 --> 00:37:31.099
 completely

00:37:31.099 --> 00:37:32.119
 massively

00:37:32.119 --> 00:37:32.980
 just

00:37:32.980 --> 00:37:34.880
 and completely

00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:35.940
 and massively

00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:37.139
 full of grace

00:37:37.139 --> 00:37:39.339
 in Islam

00:37:39.339 --> 00:37:40.960
 people go

00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:41.400
 to heaven

00:37:41.400 --> 00:37:42.699
 most people

00:37:42.699 --> 00:37:43.039
 don't

00:37:43.039 --> 00:37:43.460
 but people

00:37:43.460 --> 00:37:44.079
 go to heaven

00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.619
 but it's just

00:37:45.619 --> 00:37:46.119
 God just

00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:46.480
 chooses

00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:47.719
 it's just

00:37:47.719 --> 00:37:48.000
 like

00:37:48.000 --> 00:37:49.839
 you're going

00:37:49.839 --> 00:37:50.339
 to heaven

00:37:50.339 --> 00:37:51.480
 you're going

00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:51.960
 to heaven

00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:52.940
 you're going

00:37:52.940 --> 00:37:53.420
 to heaven

00:37:53.420 --> 00:37:54.379
 you're going

00:37:54.379 --> 00:37:54.739
 to heaven

00:37:54.739 --> 00:37:55.279
 the rest

00:37:55.279 --> 00:37:55.559
 of you

00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:55.839
 hell

00:37:55.839 --> 00:37:57.759
 what's next

00:37:57.759 --> 00:37:58.119
 on my

00:37:58.119 --> 00:37:58.519
 agenda

00:37:58.519 --> 00:38:01.059
 we'll see

00:38:01.059 --> 00:38:01.460
 that that's

00:38:01.460 --> 00:38:01.799
 not what

00:38:01.799 --> 00:38:02.159
 happens

00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:02.480
 with the

00:38:02.480 --> 00:38:02.900
 gospel

00:38:02.900 --> 00:38:04.359
 that after

00:38:04.359 --> 00:38:05.279
 you understand

00:38:05.279 --> 00:38:06.139
 what it is

00:38:06.139 --> 00:38:06.559
 that Jesus

00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:07.079
 has done

00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:07.519
 for you

00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:07.759
 and his

00:38:07.759 --> 00:38:07.940
 death

00:38:07.940 --> 00:38:08.400
 upon the

00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:08.820
 cross

00:38:08.820 --> 00:38:09.980
 his life

00:38:09.980 --> 00:38:10.360
 his death

00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:10.739
 upon the

00:38:10.739 --> 00:38:10.960
 cross

00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:11.179
 and his

00:38:11.179 --> 00:38:11.539
 resurrection

00:38:11.539 --> 00:38:12.219
 you will

00:38:12.219 --> 00:38:12.579
 say

00:38:12.579 --> 00:38:14.299
 God did

00:38:14.299 --> 00:38:14.460
 it

00:38:14.460 --> 00:38:15.340
 it's

00:38:15.340 --> 00:38:15.900
 right

00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:17.820
 and it's

00:38:17.820 --> 00:38:18.519
 a relationship

00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:18.940
 word

00:38:18.940 --> 00:38:19.420
 righteousness

00:38:19.420 --> 00:38:19.940
 it doesn't

00:38:19.940 --> 00:38:20.320
 mean that all

00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:20.659
 of a sudden

00:38:20.659 --> 00:38:21.059
 you become

00:38:21.059 --> 00:38:21.500
 perfect

00:38:21.500 --> 00:38:21.759
 that you

00:38:21.759 --> 00:38:22.099
 become

00:38:22.099 --> 00:38:22.480
 the elite

00:38:22.480 --> 00:38:22.759
 that you

00:38:22.759 --> 00:38:23.119
 become

00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:23.659
 the wise

00:38:23.659 --> 00:38:24.079
 person

00:38:24.079 --> 00:38:24.360
 that you

00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:25.239
 go around

00:38:25.239 --> 00:38:25.519
 and you

00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:26.019
 always know

00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:26.360
 the right

00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:26.699
 answer

00:38:26.699 --> 00:38:26.940
 and you

00:38:26.940 --> 00:38:27.559
 always know

00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:27.920
 the right

00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:28.299
 thing to

00:38:28.299 --> 00:38:28.679
 order on

00:38:28.679 --> 00:38:29.039
 the menu

00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:29.299
 and you

00:38:29.299 --> 00:38:29.860
 always know

00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:30.219
 the right

00:38:30.219 --> 00:38:30.940
 interest rate

00:38:30.940 --> 00:38:31.179
 and you

00:38:31.179 --> 00:38:31.820
 always know

00:38:31.820 --> 00:38:32.059
 how to

00:38:32.059 --> 00:38:32.340
 buy the

00:38:32.340 --> 00:38:32.820
 right car

00:38:32.820 --> 00:38:33.320
 and you

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:33.880
 always have

00:38:33.880 --> 00:38:34.259
 the right

00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:36.799
 perfect

00:38:36.799 --> 00:38:37.119
 person

00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:37.480
 it's not

00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:37.840
 about like

00:38:37.840 --> 00:38:38.099
 that at

00:38:38.099 --> 00:38:38.219
 all

00:38:38.219 --> 00:38:38.500
 it's about

00:38:38.500 --> 00:38:39.139
 God making

00:38:39.139 --> 00:38:39.539
 him right

00:38:39.539 --> 00:38:40.420
 with himself

00:38:40.420 --> 00:38:41.759
 and ultimately

00:38:41.759 --> 00:38:42.719
 with the entire

00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:43.539
 recreated

00:38:43.539 --> 00:38:44.360
 created order

00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:45.279
 that God

00:38:45.279 --> 00:38:45.900
 does this

00:38:45.900 --> 00:38:46.519
 and we can't

00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:46.779
 do it

00:38:46.779 --> 00:38:47.259
 ourselves

00:38:47.259 --> 00:38:48.940
 and this

00:38:48.940 --> 00:38:49.900
 word salvation

00:38:49.900 --> 00:38:51.400
 it's a word

00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:51.840
 that has

00:38:51.840 --> 00:38:52.519
 three tenses

00:38:52.519 --> 00:38:53.199
 it means that

00:38:53.199 --> 00:38:53.759
 God has done

00:38:53.759 --> 00:38:54.400
 something to make

00:38:54.400 --> 00:38:54.900
 us right with

00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:55.519
 himself in the

00:38:55.519 --> 00:38:56.199
 past in the

00:38:56.199 --> 00:38:56.739
 present in the

00:38:56.739 --> 00:38:57.619
 future that he

00:38:57.619 --> 00:38:59.219
 justifies that he

00:38:59.219 --> 00:39:00.719
 sanctifies and

00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:01.699
 that he glorifies

00:39:01.699 --> 00:39:02.779
 and that that's

00:39:02.779 --> 00:39:03.420
 what the gospel

00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:04.380
 does that's the

00:39:04.380 --> 00:39:05.159
 good news about

00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:06.059
 what Jesus has

00:39:06.059 --> 00:39:06.539
 done for us

00:39:06.539 --> 00:39:07.360
 on the cross

00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:08.079
 and in his

00:39:08.079 --> 00:39:08.619
 resurrection

00:39:08.619 --> 00:39:09.619
 that as we

00:39:09.619 --> 00:39:10.259
 hear this

00:39:10.259 --> 00:39:10.900
 we understand

00:39:10.900 --> 00:39:11.739
 that he

00:39:11.739 --> 00:39:13.239
 justifies us

00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:14.320
 it means in a

00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:15.340
 sense that

00:39:15.340 --> 00:39:16.440
 if you have

00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:17.219
 lived your life

00:39:17.219 --> 00:39:17.639
 and you have

00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:18.539
 been completely

00:39:18.539 --> 00:39:18.920
 and utterly

00:39:18.920 --> 00:39:19.679
 broken by

00:39:19.679 --> 00:39:20.480
 unfairness

00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:21.119
 and maybe you

00:39:21.119 --> 00:39:21.400
 have been

00:39:21.400 --> 00:39:21.940
 unfair with

00:39:21.940 --> 00:39:22.219
 others

00:39:22.219 --> 00:39:22.900
 that there

00:39:22.900 --> 00:39:23.480
 is something

00:39:23.480 --> 00:39:24.139
 that God

00:39:24.139 --> 00:39:24.699
 does

00:39:24.699 --> 00:39:25.759
 which makes

00:39:25.759 --> 00:39:26.599
 you completely

00:39:26.599 --> 00:39:27.279
 and utterly

00:39:27.279 --> 00:39:27.699
 new

00:39:27.699 --> 00:39:28.659
 which deals

00:39:28.659 --> 00:39:29.279
 with all

00:39:29.279 --> 00:39:29.900
 that which

00:39:29.900 --> 00:39:30.719
 is past

00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:31.940
 and at the

00:39:31.940 --> 00:39:32.480
 same time

00:39:32.480 --> 00:39:32.980
 that what he's

00:39:32.980 --> 00:39:33.400
 going to do

00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:33.719
 through the

00:39:33.719 --> 00:39:34.360
 person of his

00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:35.099
 son is

00:39:35.099 --> 00:39:35.719
 something that

00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:36.859
 sanctifies you

00:39:36.859 --> 00:39:37.799
 that it becomes

00:39:37.799 --> 00:39:38.419
 something that

00:39:38.419 --> 00:39:39.299
 starts to change

00:39:39.299 --> 00:39:40.259
 your life in

00:39:40.259 --> 00:39:40.819
 terms of how

00:39:40.819 --> 00:39:41.699
 you live but it

00:39:41.699 --> 00:39:42.539
 doesn't do it out

00:39:42.539 --> 00:39:43.459
 of guilt it

00:39:43.459 --> 00:39:44.219
 doesn't do it out

00:39:44.219 --> 00:39:45.099
 of rules and it

00:39:45.099 --> 00:39:45.719
 doesn't do it out

00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:46.759
 of obligation that

00:39:46.759 --> 00:39:47.939
 it comes out of

00:39:47.939 --> 00:39:48.839
 being gripped by

00:39:48.839 --> 00:39:49.759
 the gospel and

00:39:49.759 --> 00:39:51.359
 what God has done

00:39:51.359 --> 00:39:51.919
 for you in the

00:39:51.919 --> 00:39:53.000
 person of his son

00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:53.699
 that he does

00:39:53.699 --> 00:39:54.839
 freely out of

00:39:54.839 --> 00:39:55.759
 love for you that

00:39:55.759 --> 00:39:56.459
 he does it because

00:39:56.459 --> 00:39:57.359
 you cannot do it

00:39:57.359 --> 00:39:58.379
 for yourself and

00:39:58.379 --> 00:39:59.099
 as you're gripped

00:39:59.099 --> 00:40:00.519
 by the gospel all

00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:01.439
 of a sudden you

00:40:01.439 --> 00:40:02.079
 are starting to be

00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:03.039
 able to be nudged

00:40:03.039 --> 00:40:03.939
 into new ways of

00:40:03.940 --> 00:40:04.780
 living new ways of

00:40:04.780 --> 00:40:05.420
 living start to

00:40:05.420 --> 00:40:06.220
 become reasonable

00:40:06.220 --> 00:40:07.320
 to you and you

00:40:07.320 --> 00:40:08.139
 are drawn from

00:40:08.139 --> 00:40:08.920
 the future that

00:40:08.920 --> 00:40:10.059
 making these types

00:40:10.059 --> 00:40:10.820
 of changes that

00:40:10.820 --> 00:40:11.519
 it's worth it

00:40:11.519 --> 00:40:12.720
 because the end

00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:14.159
 is glory as you

00:40:14.159 --> 00:40:15.099
 are gripped by the

00:40:15.099 --> 00:40:17.200
 gospel and not

00:40:17.200 --> 00:40:18.099
 just gripped by the

00:40:18.099 --> 00:40:18.700
 gospel but the

00:40:18.700 --> 00:40:19.720
 story but the idea

00:40:19.720 --> 00:40:20.820
 as you'll see in the

00:40:20.820 --> 00:40:22.159
 Romans as it unfolds

00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:23.539
 that Jesus actually

00:40:23.539 --> 00:40:24.579
 walks with you that

00:40:24.579 --> 00:40:25.840
 the Holy Spirit

00:40:25.840 --> 00:40:27.019
 actually who's also

00:40:27.019 --> 00:40:28.059
 a person actually

00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:30.800
 indwells you and

00:40:30.800 --> 00:40:32.240
 that it's God at

00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:33.219
 work in his power

00:40:33.219 --> 00:40:36.059
 and then for

00:40:36.059 --> 00:40:36.739
 anybody who

00:40:36.739 --> 00:40:37.479
 labors under

00:40:37.479 --> 00:40:38.739
 unfairness don't

00:40:38.739 --> 00:40:39.439
 you want to have

00:40:39.439 --> 00:40:40.899
 the sense and for

00:40:40.899 --> 00:40:41.819
 any single human

00:40:41.819 --> 00:40:43.939
 being that even

00:40:43.939 --> 00:40:44.519
 though there'll be

00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:45.439
 things that are

00:40:45.439 --> 00:40:46.439
 really really hard

00:40:46.439 --> 00:40:47.359
 in life and you

00:40:47.359 --> 00:40:48.439
 deal with failure

00:40:48.439 --> 00:40:49.379
 don't you want to

00:40:49.379 --> 00:40:50.479
 have this sense that

00:40:50.479 --> 00:40:52.439
 the final word about

00:40:52.439 --> 00:40:54.699
 you will be one of

00:40:54.699 --> 00:40:55.239
 welcome and

00:40:55.239 --> 00:40:59.559
 acceptance and

00:40:59.559 --> 00:40:59.859
 that's what

00:40:59.859 --> 00:41:00.899
 glorification is

00:41:00.900 --> 00:41:01.500
 that's that's what

00:41:01.500 --> 00:41:02.619
 comes as Paul is

00:41:02.619 --> 00:41:03.579
 going to unfold in

00:41:03.579 --> 00:41:04.340
 the book of Romans

00:41:04.340 --> 00:41:06.079
 that you can know

00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:07.420
 today not based on

00:41:07.420 --> 00:41:08.420
 how you've performed

00:41:08.420 --> 00:41:09.300
 in the past or you

00:41:09.300 --> 00:41:10.260
 are performing today

00:41:10.260 --> 00:41:11.760
 that you can know

00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:13.200
 today God's final

00:41:13.200 --> 00:41:14.139
 word about you

00:41:14.139 --> 00:41:15.079
 spoken over your

00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:16.700
 life and you can

00:41:16.700 --> 00:41:17.780
 begin to live your

00:41:17.780 --> 00:41:19.180
 life day by day

00:41:19.180 --> 00:41:20.119
 moment by moment

00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:21.420
 in light of God's

00:41:21.420 --> 00:41:22.860
 final word about

00:41:22.860 --> 00:41:25.360
 you accomplished

00:41:25.360 --> 00:41:27.500
 by his work and

00:41:27.500 --> 00:41:29.280
 his action for you

00:41:29.280 --> 00:41:30.440
 for your good

00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:34.300
 what did I tell to

00:41:34.300 --> 00:41:34.840
 the young woman

00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:36.420
 I said if Hitler

00:41:36.420 --> 00:41:37.700
 had not died in

00:41:37.700 --> 00:41:40.260
 the bunker but

00:41:40.260 --> 00:41:41.019
 he'd been captured

00:41:41.019 --> 00:41:43.400
 by the soldiers and

00:41:43.400 --> 00:41:44.519
 he was put in jail

00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:45.960
 waiting execution

00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:48.640
 a chaplain should go

00:41:48.640 --> 00:41:50.180
 and visit him and

00:41:50.180 --> 00:41:51.220
 share the gospel with

00:41:51.220 --> 00:41:53.240
 him and even after

00:41:53.240 --> 00:41:54.260
 the death of six

00:41:54.260 --> 00:41:55.780
 million Jews of

00:41:55.780 --> 00:41:57.040
 gays and gypsies and

00:41:57.039 --> 00:41:57.920
 of many Christians

00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:01.119
 if he hears the

00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:02.059
 news of the gospel

00:42:02.059 --> 00:42:04.179
 and believes and

00:42:04.179 --> 00:42:05.000
 gives his life to

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.340
 Jesus God will

00:42:07.340 --> 00:42:08.340
 make what have

00:42:08.340 --> 00:42:09.099
 made him right

00:42:09.099 --> 00:42:09.820
 with himself

00:42:09.820 --> 00:42:14.539
 and then Hitler

00:42:14.539 --> 00:42:15.099
 should have been

00:42:15.099 --> 00:42:17.159
 executed for the

00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:18.000
 horrible things he

00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:22.000
 did because being a

00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:22.840
 Christian does not

00:42:22.840 --> 00:42:23.739
 make you part of the

00:42:23.739 --> 00:42:25.460
 Illuminati it does

00:42:25.460 --> 00:42:26.760
 not make you now a

00:42:26.760 --> 00:42:27.659
 ruler of the earth

00:42:27.659 --> 00:42:29.679
 it does not mean

00:42:29.679 --> 00:42:30.360
 that you can then

00:42:30.360 --> 00:42:31.340
 somehow get a free

00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:32.639
 pass from all of the

00:42:32.639 --> 00:42:33.539
 terrible things you've

00:42:33.539 --> 00:42:34.179
 done in your life

00:42:34.179 --> 00:42:38.840
 but it means you can

00:42:38.840 --> 00:42:40.000
 be reconciled to God

00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:42.639
 we don't enter the

00:42:42.639 --> 00:42:44.240
 elite we're made

00:42:44.240 --> 00:42:44.960
 right with God

00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:46.720
 the Christian faith is

00:42:46.720 --> 00:42:47.579
 one beggar telling

00:42:47.579 --> 00:42:48.460
 another beggar where

00:42:48.460 --> 00:42:50.380
 to find bread it's

00:42:50.380 --> 00:42:51.240
 not about how you

00:42:51.240 --> 00:42:51.960
 should rule over

00:42:51.960 --> 00:42:52.380
 others

00:42:52.380 --> 00:42:54.840
 could you please

00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:55.619
 stand Andrew could

00:42:55.619 --> 00:42:57.720
 you put Romans 1 16

00:42:57.720 --> 00:42:58.820
 17 up again

00:42:58.820 --> 00:43:01.400
 could you all as you

00:43:01.400 --> 00:43:02.519
 stand say this with

00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:03.460
 me one more time

00:43:03.460 --> 00:43:07.559
 for I am not ashamed

00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:09.420
 of the gospel for it

00:43:09.420 --> 00:43:10.860
 is the power of God

00:43:10.860 --> 00:43:12.160
 for salvation to

00:43:12.160 --> 00:43:13.660
 everyone who believes

00:43:13.660 --> 00:43:15.519
 to the Jew first and

00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:17.500
 also to the Greek for

00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:18.720
 in the gospel the

00:43:18.720 --> 00:43:20.260
 righteousness of God is

00:43:20.260 --> 00:43:21.860
 revealed from faith to

00:43:21.860 --> 00:43:23.660
 faith as it is written

00:43:23.660 --> 00:43:25.180
 the righteous shall

00:43:25.180 --> 00:43:27.400
 live by faith just

00:43:27.400 --> 00:43:28.079
 going to close my

00:43:28.079 --> 00:43:29.500
 words in in prayer but

00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:30.180
 I want to tell you

00:43:30.180 --> 00:43:31.079
 right now if you have

00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:31.980
 been coming to this

00:43:31.980 --> 00:43:33.680
 church where maybe

00:43:33.680 --> 00:43:35.340
 you've just wandered in

00:43:35.340 --> 00:43:37.460
 and you there might be

00:43:37.460 --> 00:43:38.539
 people here today who

00:43:38.539 --> 00:43:39.840
 like I did many years

00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:42.760
 ago feel a pressure a

00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:44.400
 pressure to let Jesus

00:43:44.400 --> 00:43:45.640
 come into your life and

00:43:45.640 --> 00:43:46.760
 be your Savior and Lord

00:43:46.760 --> 00:43:49.260
 and there is no better

00:43:49.260 --> 00:43:51.460
 time than right now to

00:43:51.460 --> 00:43:54.680
 put your arm down put

00:43:54.680 --> 00:43:57.600
 your hands like this and

00:43:57.600 --> 00:43:59.400
 don't push them away but

00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:01.260
 let them come in and I'm

00:44:01.260 --> 00:44:02.600
 not going to risk telling

00:44:02.600 --> 00:44:04.100
 you some magic formula or

00:44:04.100 --> 00:44:05.180
 words I just want to

00:44:05.180 --> 00:44:06.140
 challenge you if that's

00:44:06.140 --> 00:44:06.800
 happening to you right

00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:08.500
 now all I want you to do

00:44:08.500 --> 00:44:09.900
 is look at the screen and

00:44:09.900 --> 00:44:12.980
 say Jesus I want that

00:44:12.980 --> 00:44:16.699
 God doesn't listen to

00:44:16.699 --> 00:44:18.599
 magic formulas he wants

00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:21.159
 to hear you say that I

00:44:21.159 --> 00:44:23.420
 want that for the rest of

00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:25.500
 my life say it in your own

00:44:25.500 --> 00:44:28.039
 words no better time than

00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:29.599
 today to give your life to

00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:32.260
 Jesus let the witness of the

00:44:32.260 --> 00:44:33.460
 Holy Spirit flood in your

00:44:33.460 --> 00:44:35.199
 life bow our heads in

00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:35.440
 prayer

00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:43.920
 father thank you for Jesus

00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:46.619
 thank you for sending him

00:44:46.619 --> 00:44:49.099
 to walk amongst us thank

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 you that he is the

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 fulfillment of your centuries

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 of promises to the Jewish

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 people thank you that you

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 kept your word thank you

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 that you love us thank you

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 that in Jesus you do for me

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 and for other people what I

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 cannot do for myself thank you

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 that in Jesus and through

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 Jesus you make me right

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 with yourself in the past

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 in the present and into the

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 eternity and thank you

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 father that you do it in

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 Jesus I don't understand

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 how you do it I'm looking

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 forward to knowing more but

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 I thank you I believe that

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 you've done it and can do it

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 and will do it in my life and

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 whatever that says in Romans

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 1 16 and 17 father I want

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 that to be me I want that in

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 my life I want that to be how

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 I live I want to that father I

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 I want to have that good

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 news change me Jesus make me

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 a disciple gripped by the

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 gospel who lives for your

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 glory make us disciples of

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 Jesus gripped by the gospel

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 who live for your glory we

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 ask this in Jesus's name on

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 them

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 get you

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 and