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 Good morning, everyone. I'd be grateful if you had your Bibles in front of you as we go through.

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 We've got a variety of passages to jump into, but keep your fingers in both those passages, Luke 10, Ephesians 2,

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 but also Romans 5, if you can get to there as well. That'd be great.

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 Our purpose as a church is to treasure Jesus together for God's glory and the joy of all people.

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 Okay. Values are the things that shape our behaviours and our attitude.

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 That is, values are the ingredients of any culture that is formed.

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 We've got seven core values that shape the culture that we're seeking to build here at St Paul's.

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 And one of those values, as you often see declared around the place, is treasuring Jesus together.

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 That value reads like this.

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 Every member of St Paul's has been led individually by the Spirit of God to receive Jesus Christ as the Lord, Saviour and supreme treasure of their lives.

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 The Holy Spirit gathers us from all the variety of our individual backgrounds and unites us together as one body in Christ.

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 And so we believe that the people whom Jesus has called into relationship with himself from every tribe, language, nation and generation are his church and not an institution or a building.

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 In an age of individualism, we value vigilance and accountability in treasuring Jesus together as his diverse people.

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 Now, because all values like that result in aligned behaviours and attitudes,

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 one of the things that I did in the early days was ensuring that the core value was not just a statement,

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 but actually had lived out behaviours and attitudes so to ensure that we were actually aligning ourselves with that value.

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 That is, whatever you value will result in how you behave.

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 And so I want to reverse that and say, here's the behaviours that are associated with that value.

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 And so I feel that out.

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 And as a church, for instance, if we are saying that we're pursuing treasuring Jesus together,

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 then making corporate worship a weekly priority is how one will behave.

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 Treasuring Jesus together by engaging to watch over one another in love,

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 remembering one another in prayer, aiding one another in sickness and distress,

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 cultivating sympathy, Christian sympathy and joy, being courteous in our speech,

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 being slow to take offence, slow to take offence, but always ready for reconciliation

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 and mindful of the command of our Saviour to secure it without delay,

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 welcoming people from every background, openness towards new people and the avoidance of clickiness,

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 purging our lives of the sin that causes division.

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 That value is why we're doing this series right now.

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 Racism and ethnocentricity are hot topics in our society.

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 They are politically charged topics.

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 That's not the reason why we're doing this series.

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 The reason we're doing this series, and I'm not here to sort out all the political issues in our society,

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 I'm here to bring the authority of the Word of God to the people of God,

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 to bear on us His people so that our life together here might reflect something of His glory

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 and bring an element of hope and glory and joy and good to our neighbourhood.

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 That's why the church has always existed.

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 That's the purpose of this series.

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 We cannot live out our core value of treasuring Jesus together

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 if it's not also deeply connected to our core value of humble authenticity.

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 Unless humility is worked out in our heart, we can never, ever achieve TJT.

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 And so the issue for us in this series is whether we are growing together in humility.

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 That means searching your heart, not other people's hearts.

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 Your heart.

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 Not my heart, your heart.

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 Hearts humbled by the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 And that's my task today.

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 Let's pray.

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 Gracious Father, as we delve into your Word, help us to see that your Word speaks first and foremost to the reader.

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 And not to others.

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 And so Lord, bring your Word into every heart, we pray this morning.

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 Amen.

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 We saw two weeks ago that one of the foundational biblical truths is that all people are equally made in the image of God.

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 There's one race, the human race.

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 There is a solidarity in the image of God and a royal dignity attached to every single human being.

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 The bad news is we also have solidarity in sin, which is what we looked at last week.

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 We have all rejected God.

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 We've all got a broken image.

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 And we have defiled the purpose of bringing glory to God as our creator.

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 And there is no, there's not a hierarchy of some more sinful than others.

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 And likewise, with this issue of racism and ethnocentricity, there's not a hierarchy of some more sinful than others.

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 The solidarity in sin sets us up against God and against each other.

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 The compasses of our hearts point inwardly towards us, not towards God and others.

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 And sin means that we all have a default suspicion of other people because there is an innate desire to make the world and everything about me.

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 About me.

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 The Bible also gives us the good news.

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 And I started with that last week.

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 Abraham, Genesis 12, God's promise that through him all the nations will be blessed.

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 And the biblical narrative builds from that moment in Genesis 12 and it finds us center in the person of Jesus Christ.

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 And we've even declared that this morning.

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 If you look at the worldview, I've been unlying in front of us.

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 Even as we stood there and we declared from Colossians, he is the image of the invisible God.

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 The exact representation of his being.

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 And he came in to this world to bear sin.

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 And in the biographies of Jesus' life, we see Jesus is constantly dealing with this issue of sin.

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 And how it gets worked out even in the issue of ethnocentricity and racism.

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 In fact, you often see in the biographies of Jesus, the hated foreigner is the recipient of God's blessing and the hero of his stories.

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 It's remarkable.

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 One of the best examples is what was just read out to us by the Fitzroy family.

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 Thank you guys for that.

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 The Good Samaritan Luke chapter 10.

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 So go there if you like.

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 In fact, not even if you don't like.

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 It would be great if you did go there.

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 I'm not actually asking for you.

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 I just...

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 Okay, let me just go there.

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 Okay?

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 Verse 25.

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 A lawyer, a Jewish lawyer, asked Jesus what he must do to receive eternal life.

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 And Jesus asked him what he thought the law said about that.

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 And his reply is, love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, with all your mind.

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 And love your neighbor as yourself.

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 And Jesus says, yeah, that's right.

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 Go and do that.

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 Go and do that.

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 But verse 29.

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 He wanted to justify himself.

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 And so he asked Jesus, yeah, but, you know, who is my neighbor actually?

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 Who really is my neighbor?

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 He's looking to justify himself.

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 He's looking for Jesus to affirm that his thinking and his actions are righteous.

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 He's looking to limit who my neighbor is.

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 So in order to fulfill the law.

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 You see, the Jews of Jesus' time interpreted, and he's a lawyer here, he is a legal lawyer, in terms of the law, the Old Testament law.

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 They interpreted neighbor of this command from Leviticus 19 verse 18 to mean fellow Jews.

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 That's what it means, your fellow Jews.

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 And at a stretch, it may have included foreigners who were permitted residence and contributed to their corporate life.

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 But it certainly didn't include anyone else.

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 And then so Jesus pipes up and tells a story to his mainly Jewish audience.

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 And it's possibly the most socially charged story that Jesus ever tells.

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 He's telling it with his disciples.

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 They're with him there at the moment.

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 And if you know anything about Luke 10, preceding Luke 10 is Luke 9.

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 And the gospel's just been rejected in Samaria.

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 His disciples have just walked out from Samaria.

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 Jewish guys.

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 And so it's charged for them right now.

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 We've just been rejected.

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 You've just been rejected in Samaria, Jesus.

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 And then Jesus tells this story.

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 He says, this guy traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho.

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 We are to assume that the man is a Jewish man.

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 It's a main road that would have traveled by lots of people and Jewish people.

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 This man gets robbed, stripped, beaten, left for dead.

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 And by chance, a Jewish priest comes wandering by.

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 This is the Jewish pastor.

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 Surely he's going to help him.

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 But no.

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 The priest couldn't be bothered.

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 He walks on the other side of the street.

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 He didn't want to get near him.

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 Jesus goes on and says, now a Levite comes by.

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 Again, you would think that this fellow Jew would help.

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 Can't be bothered.

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 Also walks by.

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 And then Jesus says, along comes a Samaritan.

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 Bearing in mind that the Samaritan hated Jesus too.

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 And Jesus says, along comes a Samaritan.

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 And you can guarantee in the crowd at this moment, there's a Samaritan?

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 What's a Samaritan doing in the story?

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 Jewish and Samaritan Christians ran deep over a long period of time.

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 Samaritans were despised.

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 They were not to be associated with.

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 By the time of Jesus, the animosity between them had been growing for several hundred years

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 and had overflowed in explosive violence in the first century.

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 What's Samaritan doing here, Jesus?

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 And he's the hero.

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 He sees the injured Jew on the side of the road.

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 He goes over to him and has compassion on him.

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 Cleans him up.

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 Treats his wounds.

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 Puts him on his donkey.

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 Takes him to the local motel.

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 Checks him in.

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 Hands over his credit card.

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 Says, I'll fix up every expense when I get back.

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 By the time Jesus is done with this story, the Jewish jaws are on the ground.

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 Imagine the impact.

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 A Samaritan?

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 Hero?

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 That's unthinkable.

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 Reclaim Australia is a far-right Australian nationalistic protest group,

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 which primarily opposes the practice of Islam in Australia.

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 It opposes a number of things, but primarily Islam in Australia.

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 It has organised, you're probably aware, several protest rallies in major cities across the country over the recent years.

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 To give you a flavour, one speaker at a protest rally in South Australia warned of the risk of Islamic barbarity in our country

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 and encouraged those in attendance to insult and to vilify Islam five times a day if you want to.

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 That just gives you a flavour.

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 So imagine the response if I am a speaker.

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 I've been invited along to come to Reclaim Australia at one of their rallies,

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 and I get up and I tell the story of an injured SAS trooper in Afghanistan.

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 Blown up by a roadside bomb, lying there, dying.

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 An Australian medic comes along, sees him, and walks straight past him.

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 Then an Australian military chaplain pretends not to see him.

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 And then coming to our Australian SAS trooper's aide as an ISIS fighter.

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 Treats him of his wounds, takes him to a clinic, pays for all his expenses,

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 including paying for his military pension for his family.

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 Do you think I'm going to get invited back?

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 Jesus says to this lawyer, do that.

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 Do that.

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 Treat your worst enemy like that.

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 Now remember, this goes back to the question, the original question of what the lawyer,

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 how might I get eternal life?

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 And so when Jesus says, hey, just do that,

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 he's not saying, give that a try, have a crack at that and see how it works for you.

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 Make sure that your good acts overweigh your bad acts.

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 He's actually saying, do that all the time.

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 Get your worst enemy and treat them like they are your most loved friend.

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 Do that all the time.

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 Live and act and love and serve and think and sacrifice like the good Samaritan,

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 100% of the time, all the time for your worst enemy.

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 Then you can start thinking about confidence with eternal life.

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 Go and love and serve and sacrifice people who belittle you, curse you,

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 marginalize you, ridicule you, hate you, berate you, ignore you, demean you,

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 racially profile you and would even kill you.

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 Do that.

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 And that's the end of the story.

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 That's the end of it.

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 Go and do likewise.

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 And so is the answer of eternal life,

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 but also the answer to racial division in our world.

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 Just try harder.

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 That's why C.K.

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 Chesterton once said that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting.

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 It's been found difficult and left untried.

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 Now Luke was inspired by God to write what comes next.

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 One scene ends with a lawyer and the next is in a living room with two sisters.

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 Martha is busy making stuff happen while Mary is making it, taking it easy at the feet of Jesus.

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 Martha storms into the living room and tries to get Mary up off her feet from Jesus' feet,

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 come over here and help me in the kitchen.

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 And in short, Jesus' response to Martha is,

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 no, I'm not going to get her to move at all.

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 Let me cut to the chase here.

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 Without going all the details of the Mary Martha story,

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 which sister in this instance looks most like the good Samaritan?

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 Martha does.

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 Martha does.

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 Not Mary.

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 She's sitting there doing nothing.

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 Martha's busy doing stuff.

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 And Mary is sitting there at the feet of Jesus.

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 Mary looks like a bad Samaritan.

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 She looks like you're doing nothing, Samaritan.

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 And Martha is going and doing and serving and preparing and Mary's doing nothing.

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 She's just sitting at Jesus' feet.

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 And I think the lawyer should have responded at the end of that story with the go and do likewise.

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 He should have said,

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 I can't do that, Jesus.

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 I can't do that, Jesus.

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 And Jesus would have said,

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 yeah, I know.

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 I know.

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 You need to sit at my feet and look to me.

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 You need to trust me.

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 You see, the problem of sin,

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 self-centered hearts,

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 means that none of us can do it.

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 That's my point from last week.

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 Don't make it a political issue.

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 Make it a heart issue.

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 The problem is our heart,

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 not primarily our behaviors and our attitudes.

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 We need someone to treat us so comprehensively as we don't deserve that our broken image is restored,

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 renewed,

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 that it breaks our self-pride,

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 confident pride,

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 and grows us in humility.

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 We all need a good Samaritan.

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 To intervene because we can't heal the broken hearts,

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 our broken hearts ourselves.

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 We are dead.

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 We're not unconscious.

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 We are dead on the road in our sins and our transgressions.

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 And Romans 5 leads me,

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 so we looked at it last week,

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 Romans 5 leads me to believe that Jesus is the good Samaritan who does what we cannot do.

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 You and I are that man,

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 that unnamed man,

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 beaten and bruised and robbed and left for dead.

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 We are,

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 that's us spiritually,

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 not just left for dead,

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 we are dead spiritually.

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 Ephesians 2,

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 we just read it.

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 We are cut off from God.

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 We are dead in our transgressions and sins.

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 We have no ability to resolve our biggest problem,

00:19:44.159 --> 00:19:44.399
 sin.

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 And that means the consequences of sin will continue,

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 continue,

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 continue to ravage our lives and our relationships.

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 Now it may not seem fair that this is our state.

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 When you look at the carnage of human history and racial genocide,

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 and cancer and suffering and divorce and greed,

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 and the fact that my weeds grow faster than my grass,

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 it is so easy to get ticked off with Adam,

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 to judge Adam.

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 What were you thinking,

00:20:23.619 --> 00:20:23.759
 Adam?

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 My goodness,

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 you had the Garden of Eden,

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 you walked and talked with God.

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 He said,

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 just don't touch the apple.

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 It wasn't really an apple,

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 but just don't touch it.

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 What were you thinking?

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 God picks this champion to be the head of humanity,

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 and he blows it.

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 And ever since then,

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 he blew it,

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 ever since he blew it,

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 our lives have been messed up.

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 But there is something in all of us that says that's so radically unfair.

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 It feels unfair,

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 even though we join him in his choices every moment of every day.

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 And God understands that.

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 He understands that.

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 And so if you look at Romans 5,

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 what we see here is that he picks another champion for the human race,

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 to do that which is unfair to him.

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 To him.

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 At the cost of his own life,

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 God reconciles us to himself,

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 his worst enemies.

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 Romans 5.

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 You see,

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 at just the right time,

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 when we were still powerless,

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 Christ died for the ungodly.

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 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man,

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 though for a good man,

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 someone might possibly dare to die.

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 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this.

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 Why we were still sinners,

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 Christ died for us.

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 The man beaten on the road represents us in our sin.

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 The good Samaritan is Jesus,

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 who treats us in a way that we don't ever deserve because of our sin.

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 He's great enemies.

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 He treats us in a way that we don't deserve.

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 And how does he do that?

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 What does he do?

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 He trades places with us on the road.

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 He allows himself to be robbed,

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 beaten,

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 and killed.

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 He was nailed to the cross as an enemy of the people

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 so that we can be made friends with God and each other.

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 Consequently,

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 just as the result of one trespass was condemnation for all people,

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 so also the result of one act of righteousness

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 was justification that brings life to all people.

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 For just as through the disobedience of the one man,

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 the many were made sinners,

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 so also through the obedience of the one man,

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 the many will be made righteous.

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 What a text.

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 Everybody on this planet

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 who's ever put two feet,

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 or one foot,

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 or any feet on this planet

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 is in that text.

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 Because Adam was the father of everybody,

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 and therefore every person you meet of any ethnicity

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 is facing what that text talks about.

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 Death in Adam,

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 life in Christ.

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 That's a global text.

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 Don't miss that.

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 This is the defining reality

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 of every single person you will ever meet.

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 This is not a wimpy worldview.

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 It stretches over all of history,

00:23:52.700 --> 00:23:54.380
 over the entire world,

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 for every individual.

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 It profoundly affects every person in this world,

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 and every headline on the internet.

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 The spectacular sin of Adam

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 is not as great

00:24:08.700 --> 00:24:11.920
 as the spectacular grace and obedience

00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:13.180
 of Jesus Christ

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 and the gift of eternal life.

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 These words here in Romans 5

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 are precious words for sinners.

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 The grace is free.

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 The gift is free.

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 The righteousness of Christ is free.

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 And so I want to appeal to you all online

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 in this room.

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 Will you receive it

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 as the hope and the treasure of your life?

00:24:45.820 --> 00:24:46.980
 If you do,

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 you will reign in life

00:24:50.140 --> 00:24:51.880
 through the one man,

00:24:51.980 --> 00:24:52.720
 Jesus Christ,

00:24:52.800 --> 00:24:54.200
 and so receive it now.

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 And what we see here

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 is that what Jesus has done for us

00:25:01.940 --> 00:25:04.019
 can have a profound impact

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 on our life

00:25:04.860 --> 00:25:06.080
 and our life together.

00:25:07.820 --> 00:25:08.980
 Ephesians 2,

00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:10.580
 which outlines the fact

00:25:10.580 --> 00:25:11.340
 that we are sinners

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 made right in God's eyes,

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 then moves on

00:25:15.019 --> 00:25:17.160
 into a description

00:25:17.160 --> 00:25:18.200
 of the division

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 between Jews and Gentiles.

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 And then

00:25:21.960 --> 00:25:24.779
 in verse 19 to 22,

00:25:25.320 --> 00:25:26.420
 there's a description

00:25:26.420 --> 00:25:27.299
 of the reconciliation

00:25:27.299 --> 00:25:30.019
 between Jew and Gentile.

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 Now keep in mind here

00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:32.480
 that the division

00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:33.740
 between Jews and Gentile

00:25:33.740 --> 00:25:35.039
 was not small,

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 it wasn't simple,

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 and it wasn't shallow.

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 It was huge,

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 complex,

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 and deep,

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 had a very long history,

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 and it was bloody.

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 It was religious,

00:25:48.460 --> 00:25:49.240
 it was cultural,

00:25:49.440 --> 00:25:49.799
 social,

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 and it was racial.

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 The divide here

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 was as big

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 or bigger

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 than any divide

00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:02.539
 that we face today.

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 And so what happened?

00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:09.640
 What happened

00:26:09.640 --> 00:26:11.220
 between verses 11 and 12

00:26:11.220 --> 00:26:12.259
 of Ephesians 2

00:26:12.259 --> 00:26:14.920
 and verses 19 and 22

00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:16.559
 of Ephesians 12?

00:26:16.839 --> 00:26:17.599
 What happened?

00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:21.619
 Jesus Christ,

00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:22.359
 the Son of Christ,

00:26:22.500 --> 00:26:23.019
 the Son of God,

00:26:23.220 --> 00:26:23.680
 died.

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 That's what happened.

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 And he died by design.

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 We see it in the word blood

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 in verses,

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 the second half,

00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:30.460
 verse 13.

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 You who formerly

00:26:31.639 --> 00:26:32.440
 were far off

00:26:32.440 --> 00:26:33.339
 have been brought near

00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:34.519
 by the blood of Christ.

00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:35.899
 We also see it in

00:26:35.899 --> 00:26:36.899
 the word flesh

00:26:36.899 --> 00:26:38.379
 in verse 15,

00:26:39.299 --> 00:26:41.399
 abolishing in his flesh

00:26:41.399 --> 00:26:42.700
 the enmity.

00:26:43.299 --> 00:26:44.859
 And we see it in the word cross

00:26:44.859 --> 00:26:46.000
 in verse 16,

00:26:46.539 --> 00:26:47.839
 and might reconcile them

00:26:47.839 --> 00:26:49.079
 both in one body

00:26:49.079 --> 00:26:50.559
 to God

00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:51.799
 through the cross.

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 And the rest of this text

00:26:54.799 --> 00:26:55.740
 here in Ephesians 2

00:26:55.740 --> 00:26:57.240
 is Paul's explanation

00:26:57.240 --> 00:26:59.460
 how the blood of Christ,

00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:01.220
 his death in the flesh

00:27:01.220 --> 00:27:02.419
 on the cross

00:27:02.419 --> 00:27:04.980
 as the perfect image bearer

00:27:04.980 --> 00:27:05.659
 of God

00:27:05.659 --> 00:27:06.980
 bearing our sin

00:27:06.980 --> 00:27:08.599
 removes the enmity

00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:10.619
 between God and Jew,

00:27:12.159 --> 00:27:13.700
 God and Gentile,

00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:15.819
 Jew and Gentile.

00:27:15.819 --> 00:27:17.819
 Therefore,

00:27:17.980 --> 00:27:18.819
 by implication

00:27:18.819 --> 00:27:20.099
 between every

00:27:20.099 --> 00:27:21.559
 ethnic group,

00:27:22.220 --> 00:27:22.919
 cultural group,

00:27:23.079 --> 00:27:24.059
 political group

00:27:24.059 --> 00:27:25.220
 of Christians

00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:26.319
 who are in Christ,

00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:31.919
 from many bloodlines

00:27:31.919 --> 00:27:32.859
 and cultures

00:27:32.859 --> 00:27:34.679
 through the blood of Christ

00:27:34.679 --> 00:27:35.779
 on the cross,

00:27:36.019 --> 00:27:36.839
 we are brought into

00:27:36.839 --> 00:27:37.759
 one bloodline,

00:27:38.519 --> 00:27:39.099
 his blood.

00:27:39.099 --> 00:27:39.220
 God.

00:27:39.220 --> 00:27:44.299
 God aims to create

00:27:44.299 --> 00:27:45.200
 one new people

00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:45.980
 in Christ

00:27:45.980 --> 00:27:47.460
 who are reconciled

00:27:47.460 --> 00:27:48.079
 to each other

00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:49.039
 across racial

00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:50.039
 and ethnic lines,

00:27:50.140 --> 00:27:50.960
 no longer strangers,

00:27:51.140 --> 00:27:51.839
 not aliens,

00:27:52.299 --> 00:27:53.180
 no prejudice,

00:27:53.360 --> 00:27:54.039
 no enmity.

00:27:54.839 --> 00:27:55.920
 God ordained

00:27:55.920 --> 00:27:57.700
 the death of his son

00:27:57.700 --> 00:27:58.620
 to reconcile

00:27:58.620 --> 00:28:00.000
 alien people groups

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:01.180
 to each other

00:28:01.180 --> 00:28:02.839
 as one body

00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:04.140
 in Christ.

00:28:04.620 --> 00:28:05.839
 Christ died

00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:07.360
 to take pride

00:28:07.360 --> 00:28:08.500
 away from our hearts,

00:28:08.500 --> 00:28:09.059
 which is what

00:28:09.059 --> 00:28:09.799
 should have happened

00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:10.880
 to that lawyer

00:28:10.880 --> 00:28:11.799
 on that moment

00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:12.319
 when Jesus

00:28:12.319 --> 00:28:13.400
 was telling this story.

00:28:13.579 --> 00:28:14.400
 This is about you

00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:15.019
 and your heart.

00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:16.319
 You cannot do this.

00:28:18.220 --> 00:28:19.359
 You who are filled

00:28:19.359 --> 00:28:20.220
 with pride,

00:28:21.160 --> 00:28:22.460
 the gospel breaks it.

00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:25.059
 Whatever your race,

00:28:25.380 --> 00:28:26.339
 whatever your status,

00:28:26.519 --> 00:28:27.180
 in Jesus,

00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:28.660
 the gospel

00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:31.380
 smashes any form

00:28:31.380 --> 00:28:31.759
 of pride

00:28:31.759 --> 00:28:32.380
 that we may have

00:28:32.380 --> 00:28:33.319
 built up for ourselves.

00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:35.279
 That's why our core value

00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:36.119
 of humble authenticity

00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:37.200
 is so,

00:28:37.380 --> 00:28:38.480
 so central.

00:28:38.500 --> 00:28:39.180
 for us.

00:28:41.680 --> 00:28:42.880
 Racial and ethnic

00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:43.420
 tensions

00:28:43.420 --> 00:28:45.079
 are rife with pride.

00:28:45.619 --> 00:28:46.359
 The pride

00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:47.400
 of white supremacy,

00:28:47.640 --> 00:28:48.180
 the pride

00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:49.059
 of black power,

00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:49.839
 the pride

00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:50.960
 of intellectual analysis,

00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:51.559
 the pride

00:28:51.559 --> 00:28:53.220
 of anti-intellectual scorn,

00:28:53.519 --> 00:28:54.019
 the pride

00:28:54.019 --> 00:28:55.160
 of loud verbal attack,

00:28:55.259 --> 00:28:55.680
 the pride

00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:56.839
 of despising silence,

00:28:57.119 --> 00:28:57.559
 the pride

00:28:57.559 --> 00:28:58.380
 that feels secure,

00:28:58.700 --> 00:28:59.079
 the pride

00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:00.000
 that masks fear.

00:29:00.380 --> 00:29:01.160
 Where pride

00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:02.259
 holds sway,

00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:03.700
 there is no hope,

00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:05.640
 no hope at all,

00:29:05.640 --> 00:29:07.140
 for the kind of

00:29:07.140 --> 00:29:09.420
 listening and

00:29:09.420 --> 00:29:10.340
 patience

00:29:10.340 --> 00:29:11.759
 and understanding

00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:12.580
 and openness

00:29:12.580 --> 00:29:13.300
 to correction

00:29:13.300 --> 00:29:14.560
 that mature

00:29:14.560 --> 00:29:15.320
 relationships

00:29:15.320 --> 00:29:16.540
 require

00:29:16.540 --> 00:29:17.740
 and every single

00:29:17.740 --> 00:29:18.320
 one of us

00:29:18.320 --> 00:29:19.440
 needs correcting.

00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:19.500
 correcting.

00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:21.500
 All of us

00:29:21.500 --> 00:29:22.140
 need correcting.

00:29:29.539 --> 00:29:30.380
 The gospel

00:29:30.380 --> 00:29:31.279
 of Jesus Christ

00:29:31.279 --> 00:29:32.059
 breaks the power

00:29:32.059 --> 00:29:32.539
 of pride.

00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:33.860
 It reveals

00:29:33.860 --> 00:29:34.600
 the magnitude

00:29:34.599 --> 00:29:36.959
 and the ugliness

00:29:36.959 --> 00:29:38.919
 and the deadliness

00:29:38.919 --> 00:29:40.139
 of our sinful hearts

00:29:40.139 --> 00:29:42.339
 even as it provides

00:29:42.339 --> 00:29:43.159
 deliverance

00:29:43.159 --> 00:29:44.019
 from it.

00:29:46.679 --> 00:29:47.459
 Jesus' death

00:29:47.459 --> 00:29:47.939
 on the cross

00:29:47.939 --> 00:29:48.719
 for our salvation

00:29:48.719 --> 00:29:50.219
 is a devastation

00:29:50.219 --> 00:29:50.959
 to pride

00:29:50.959 --> 00:29:51.759
 and so hold

00:29:51.759 --> 00:29:52.799
 the gospel close.

00:29:54.339 --> 00:29:55.159
 By grace

00:29:55.159 --> 00:29:55.879
 you've been saved

00:29:55.879 --> 00:29:56.559
 through faith

00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:57.359
 and this is not

00:29:57.359 --> 00:29:58.240
 from your own doing,

00:29:58.459 --> 00:29:59.039
 it is a gift

00:29:59.039 --> 00:29:59.559
 from God,

00:30:00.099 --> 00:30:01.519
 not a result

00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:02.159
 of works

00:30:02.159 --> 00:30:03.339
 so that no one

00:30:03.339 --> 00:30:03.899
 can boast.

00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:07.919
 Jesus saves us

00:30:07.919 --> 00:30:08.959
 by grace alone

00:30:08.959 --> 00:30:10.519
 so that we would

00:30:10.519 --> 00:30:11.339
 boast in

00:30:11.339 --> 00:30:12.579
 him alone.

00:30:13.779 --> 00:30:14.659
 Pride is shattered.

00:30:15.879 --> 00:30:16.740
 So just imagine

00:30:16.740 --> 00:30:17.379
 what ethnic

00:30:17.379 --> 00:30:17.919
 and social

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 and cultural

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 controversies

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 and political

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 controversies

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 and everything,

00:30:20.980 --> 00:30:21.719
 what it would look

00:30:21.719 --> 00:30:22.980
 like if the

00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:23.500
 participants

00:30:23.500 --> 00:30:24.539
 in the debate

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 were in fact

00:30:25.899 --> 00:30:27.019
 dead to pride,

00:30:27.859 --> 00:30:28.699
 deeply humbled

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 before God

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 and able to

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 listen to each

00:30:31.899 --> 00:30:32.199
 other,

00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:34.099
 able to listen.

00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:35.379
 because their

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 identity

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 is not

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 attached

00:30:38.259 --> 00:30:39.079
 to them

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 being right

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 but it's

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 attached to

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 who they are

00:30:42.439 --> 00:30:42.959
 in Christ.

00:30:45.339 --> 00:30:46.019
 James will

00:30:46.019 --> 00:30:46.439
 talk a bit

00:30:46.439 --> 00:30:46.879
 more about

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 that next

00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:47.599
 week.

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 See,

00:30:51.219 --> 00:30:51.679
 this series

00:30:51.679 --> 00:30:52.159
 is about

00:30:52.159 --> 00:30:52.719
 your heart,

00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:53.059
 it's about

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 my heart

00:30:53.619 --> 00:30:55.399
 and it would

00:30:55.399 --> 00:30:55.839
 be somewhat

00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:56.339
 ironic

00:30:56.339 --> 00:30:57.699
 if we were

00:30:57.699 --> 00:30:58.379
 to look down

00:30:58.379 --> 00:30:59.079
 on others

00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:00.159
 as we take

00:31:00.159 --> 00:31:00.740
 this journey

00:31:00.740 --> 00:31:01.480
 to the scriptures

00:31:01.480 --> 00:31:02.000
 together

00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:02.519
 to deepen

00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:03.000
 our life

00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:03.420
 together.

00:31:04.779 --> 00:31:05.240
 It would

00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:05.619
 be somewhat

00:31:05.619 --> 00:31:06.519
 ironic if we

00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:07.079
 weren't searching

00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:07.779
 our own hearts

00:31:07.779 --> 00:31:08.319
 but looking at

00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:09.519
 others and

00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:10.220
 their failures

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 instead.

00:31:14.619 --> 00:31:15.259
 Wouldn't that

00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:15.680
 be ironic?

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 And yet

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 that's what

00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:20.660
 I've done

00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:21.380
 already.

00:31:23.600 --> 00:31:24.360
 In fact,

00:31:24.440 --> 00:31:24.920
 before I'd

00:31:24.920 --> 00:31:25.600
 even finished

00:31:25.600 --> 00:31:26.180
 preaching the

00:31:26.180 --> 00:31:26.680
 first sermon

00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:27.460
 in this series,

00:31:28.100 --> 00:31:29.200
 I had

00:31:29.200 --> 00:31:29.680
 thoughts of

00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:30.019
 prejudice

00:31:30.019 --> 00:31:30.820
 in my mind

00:31:30.820 --> 00:31:31.799
 as I

00:31:31.799 --> 00:31:32.259
 was

00:31:32.259 --> 00:31:32.660
 preaching.

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 I'm

00:31:40.660 --> 00:31:40.880
 still

00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:41.100
 living

00:31:41.100 --> 00:31:41.400
 with a

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 sinful

00:31:41.620 --> 00:31:42.080
 heart

00:31:42.080 --> 00:31:44.560
 but

00:31:44.560 --> 00:31:45.040
 thanks be

00:31:45.040 --> 00:31:45.279
 to the

00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:45.600
 gracious

00:31:45.600 --> 00:31:46.120
 God,

00:31:46.200 --> 00:31:46.640
 Lord Jesus

00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:47.120
 Christ.

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 Thanks be

00:31:49.759 --> 00:31:50.060
 to him.

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 My hope

00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:52.480
 and my

00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:52.779
 healing

00:31:52.779 --> 00:31:53.200
 are in

00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:53.360
 him

00:31:53.360 --> 00:31:53.700
 alone.

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 The

00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:56.320
 more I

00:31:56.320 --> 00:31:56.640
 stop

00:31:56.640 --> 00:31:57.019
 working

00:31:57.019 --> 00:31:57.460
 for my

00:31:57.460 --> 00:31:58.060
 justification

00:31:58.060 --> 00:31:59.019
 and sit

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 at the

00:31:59.340 --> 00:31:59.580
 feet

00:31:59.580 --> 00:31:59.820
 of

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 Jesus,

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 the

00:32:01.420 --> 00:32:01.800
 more I

00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:02.480
 become like

00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:02.740
 him,

00:32:03.740 --> 00:32:03.960
 the

00:32:03.960 --> 00:32:04.159
 good

00:32:04.159 --> 00:32:04.740
 Samaritan.

00:32:06.919 --> 00:32:07.440
 God

00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:08.019
 is calling

00:32:08.019 --> 00:32:08.700
 people of

00:32:08.700 --> 00:32:09.019
 the world

00:32:09.019 --> 00:32:09.579
 to share

00:32:09.579 --> 00:32:09.839
 in a

00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:10.339
 community

00:32:10.339 --> 00:32:11.200
 that includes

00:32:11.200 --> 00:32:11.839
 their enemies

00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:13.759
 and reconciles

00:32:13.759 --> 00:32:14.200
 them to

00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:14.839
 those who

00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:15.480
 worship and

00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:16.019
 live in

00:32:16.019 --> 00:32:16.759
 other ways.

00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:18.319
 If this

00:32:18.319 --> 00:32:18.680
 is the

00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:19.299
 design of

00:32:19.299 --> 00:32:19.740
 God,

00:32:20.460 --> 00:32:21.759
 then we

00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:22.359
 will not

00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:23.399
 display

00:32:23.399 --> 00:32:25.539
 and magnify

00:32:25.539 --> 00:32:26.480
 the cross

00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:27.059
 of Christ

00:32:27.059 --> 00:32:27.680
 better

00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:29.759
 than by

00:32:29.759 --> 00:32:30.680
 more and

00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:31.359
 deeper and

00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:31.799
 sweeter

00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:32.379
 ethnic

00:32:32.379 --> 00:32:33.059
 diversity

00:32:33.059 --> 00:32:33.719
 and humble

00:32:33.719 --> 00:32:34.479
 unity in

00:32:34.479 --> 00:32:34.899
 our worship

00:32:34.899 --> 00:32:35.299
 and life

00:32:35.299 --> 00:32:35.719
 together

00:32:35.719 --> 00:32:36.879
 and our

00:32:36.879 --> 00:32:37.319
 debating

00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:38.000
 with those

00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:38.299
 who are

00:32:38.299 --> 00:32:38.939
 ideologically

00:32:38.939 --> 00:32:39.399
 different

00:32:39.399 --> 00:32:40.399
 than us

00:32:40.399 --> 00:32:41.119
 in our

00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:41.579
 church.

00:32:43.459 --> 00:32:44.059
 When we

00:32:44.059 --> 00:32:44.379
 can do

00:32:44.379 --> 00:32:44.879
 that in

00:32:44.879 --> 00:32:45.359
 love,

00:32:45.679 --> 00:32:45.939
 with

00:32:45.939 --> 00:32:46.379
 patience,

00:32:46.500 --> 00:32:46.599
 with

00:32:46.599 --> 00:32:47.039
 listening,

00:32:47.899 --> 00:32:49.740
 being ready

00:32:49.740 --> 00:32:50.179
 and open

00:32:50.179 --> 00:32:50.919
 for correction,

00:32:51.859 --> 00:32:52.699
 we become

00:32:52.699 --> 00:32:53.479
 paysetters for

00:32:53.479 --> 00:32:53.959
 our world.

00:32:55.740 --> 00:32:56.319
 May we be

00:32:56.319 --> 00:32:57.179
 characterised by

00:32:57.179 --> 00:32:57.779
 grace and

00:32:57.779 --> 00:32:58.579
 humility and

00:32:58.579 --> 00:33:00.519
 civility as

00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:01.079
 we are slow

00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:01.700
 to speak,

00:33:02.700 --> 00:33:03.119
 quick to

00:33:03.119 --> 00:33:03.559
 listen to

00:33:03.559 --> 00:33:04.099
 each other,

00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:05.500
 seeking not

00:33:05.500 --> 00:33:05.900
 just to

00:33:05.900 --> 00:33:06.940
 understand a

00:33:06.940 --> 00:33:07.460
 position,

00:33:08.460 --> 00:33:09.220
 but to

00:33:09.220 --> 00:33:09.799
 understand a

00:33:09.799 --> 00:33:10.139
 person.

00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:12.700
 A person

00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:14.539
 made in

00:33:14.539 --> 00:33:15.240
 God's image

00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:16.920
 as fallen

00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:17.680
 as I am,

00:33:19.019 --> 00:33:19.440
 but an

00:33:19.440 --> 00:33:20.279
 equally a

00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:21.099
 recipient of

00:33:21.099 --> 00:33:21.839
 God's grace

00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:22.480
 and mercy

00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:23.839
 as I am.

00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:31.059
 aw,

00:33:31.059 --> 00:33:31.259
 you

00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:32.680
 wasn't

00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:33.720
 when you

00:33:33.720 --> 00:33:34.700
 can so

00:33:34.700 --> 00:33:35.059
 if there is

00:33:35.059 --> 00:33:36.400
 a

00:33:36.400 --> 00:33:37.680
 sign

00:33:37.680 --> 00:33:38.119
 of

00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:38.720
 and

00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:39.259
akah

00:33:39.259 --> 00:33:40.160
 may

00:33:40.160 --> 00:33:40.400
 in

00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:41.059
 time

00:33:41.059 --> 00:33:41.460
 once

00:33:41.460 --> 00:33:41.799
 to

00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:44.059
 OR

00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:44.839
 dok

00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:45.180
 those

00:33:45.180 --> 00:33:45.759
 mis

00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:46.180
izen

00:33:46.859 --> 00:33:47.480
 there

00:33:47.480 --> 00:33:48.500
 never

00:33:48.500 --> 00:33:48.940
 could

00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:49.839
 Ya

00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:50.779
 "'

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:51.180
'

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