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 Father, we so desperately need your Holy Spirit to work in the depths of who we are,

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 to bring your word to the depths of who we are,

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 to help us to understand the gospel at the very depths of who we are.

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 And so we ask that you would do that ongoing wonderful work in our lives

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 so that we might be free and we might glorify you and enjoy you forever.

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

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 Please be seated.

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 I'm actually a pretty quiet guy, but I get paid to speak on Sundays and other types of times.

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 And of course, in a sense, I get paid, so to speak, to speak to people.

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 So there's lots of times that without intending to, I offend people.

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 I'm going to share a story of a friend of mine who was speaking to a group of people,

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 and he was under the impression that everybody who was there was a Christian.

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 And what he didn't know was that there were four or five Orthodox Jews who were there,

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 or at least very conservative Jews.

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 They didn't have the, you know, all that stuff that some Orthodox Jews wear,

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 but they were very conservative Jews.

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 And they were wearing kippahs, but he didn't notice this.

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 And he was actually reading a text from John's Gospel.

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 And some of you might be familiar that in John's Gospel,

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 one of the ways that John refers to Jewish people is as the Jews.

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 And it's, in a sense, the job of the pastor or the Bible study leader or the preacher

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 to help people to understand what that particular word means.

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 It's a literal translation of a word that John uses.

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 But this fellow, he didn't do that.

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 And he kept reading the text.

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 It was a good expository thing of the text.

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 And he kept using the word the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, the Jews, the Jews,

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 all the way through without helping the congregation,

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 and especially without helping the four or five Jewish people who were there

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 understand what was being said.

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 So it actually sounded, the whole point of the sermon to them

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 was that it was as if we Christians were blaming the Jews

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 on every bad thing that happened to Jesus.

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 And they were quite offended.

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 They were very, very bothered by it.

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 It was a real, just unfortunate, missed opportunity.

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 And especially because with a couple of simple things,

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 the speaker could have clarified, amongst other things,

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 that Jesus was Jewish, that John was Jewish.

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 I'm surprised how many Jewish people are surprised to find out

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 that every book in the New Testament, with the exception of Luke and Acts,

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 was written by a Jewish man.

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 And it catches them by surprise when you tell them that.

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 And it just, it brought needless offense.

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 And I'm sure I could have also, I'm sure you could probably give me examples

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 of times that I spoke and I offended you without realizing it,

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 or I offended one of your friends.

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 The text of Scripture that we're going to be looking at today,

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 it's something I've almost talked about quite a few times,

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 but there's a way that Jesus talks and prays

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 that Christians find very precious,

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 but that is deeply offensive to a lot of people in Canada.

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 And it's going to come up very, very powerfully in this prayer,

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 especially at the beginning, at the end,

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 but the verses that we're going to look at right now.

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 So it'd be a great help.

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 We're going to look at the text, and then we're going to sort of,

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 just a very short text this morning,

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 and then we're going to sort of camp in it,

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 look at it a little bit more deeply as to why it is that Jesus used this language,

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 and whether there's a way that we could get around it

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 to make it a little bit less offensive.

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 And so John chapter 17, it's verses 1 to 5,

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 and I think Andrew's going to have the text up on the screen.

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 You know, we put the text on the screen

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 because it's very helpful for a lot of you,

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 but I really want to encourage you to bring your own Bibles to church.

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 You know, if you're the type who likes to make little notes in them,

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 it's just there's something about having your own copy of the word

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 or your own version that you can refer to,

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 but the words are going to be on the screen.

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 So it's just five verses, and it goes like this.

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 And so just if you remember, if you're a guest, you might not know this,

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 we're coming to the end of John's Gospel.

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 Judas is left to betray Jesus.

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 Probably even as Jesus is speaking,

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 the troops are getting their swords and their stuff on,

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 and they're heading to where Judas knows that Jesus is going to be in a short while,

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 or some time that evening he knows that Jesus is going to be in a certain garden.

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 And so even as Jesus is talking,

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 the troops and the betrayer are moving ahead of Jesus to wait for Jesus to capture him.

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 And Jesus knows that this is happening.

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 He knows that he's going to die on the cross the next day.

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 And this is, in a sense, his final prayer of consecration of himself, of his disciples,

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 and he's also praying for you and me.

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 And these three sort of elements of praying in terms of just consecrating himself

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 this prayer for the disciples who are literally right in front of him.

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 And literally, I believe this very literally,

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 literally Jesus is looking down the ages and he sees you and me

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 sitting here on a Sunday morning in an ice storm in postmodern, post-industrial,

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 advanced capitalist Canada.

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 And he's praying for you and me as well.

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 And those three types of things weave in and out of this prayer in a very, very beautiful

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 and complex way with very simple childlike language.

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 And here we'll just look at the first five verses, the first sort of grouping of the text.

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 And it goes like this.

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 When Jesus had spoken these words, these words of comfort and challenge and exhortation,

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 these words that he is having victory over the world,

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 when Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and he said,

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 Father, the hour has come.

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 Glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you.

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 Now just sort of pause.

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 Here's the thing which all the way through John's Gospel,

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 one of the main ways that Jesus refers to God as his Father.

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 And that's very simple and not that controversial in a room like this for most of us.

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 But you could well imagine that if you got invited by some friends to maybe lead a Bible study

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 for some inquirers at church,

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 and you would have many, not just women but men,

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 wonder why it is that you call God Father.

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 And why is all this masculine imagery?

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 And maybe there would be a time when you're leading a Bible study at a university,

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 at your workplace,

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 and you come to this and you happen to know that maybe there's a woman or a man in the group

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 who aren't Christians who were terribly abused by their dad,

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 that were sexually abused by their father.

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 And you'd come to say this,

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 and it might very well be if you have emotional intelligence,

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 and you're just conscious of this big issue of abuse in the person's life,

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 and you come to the word father,

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 and you might hesitate in saying it.

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 You might wish that you'd chosen another text.

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 You might wonder, like I said to you,

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 my friend, there was a simple way that he could have used,

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 every time he said the Jews,

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 there was a simple explanation he could have done

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 to bring the meaning of the text out

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 in a way that wouldn't offend Orthodox Jewish

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 or just any Jewish person.

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 It wouldn't offend them.

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 with a couple of simple explanatory things.

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 And you might wonder if this is a place where you should say,

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 mother, the hour has come.

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 And maybe to substitute child for son.

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 Because it's not just amongst people who've been sexually abused by their dad,

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 and it's not just in the queer studies or feminist studies

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 or women's studies departments.

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 It's a very, very common thing in our culture

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 to be just deeply bothered by using this language of father.

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 And I just want to highlight it for you.

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 And I'm going to circle around.

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 We're going to return to it.

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 There's been quite a few times I thought I wanted to talk about it,

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 but we need to grasp this.

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 And actually, believe it or not,

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 if we grasp why it is that Jesus is saying father,

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 it actually helps us to enter into, in a far deeper way,

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 everything that's going on in this text.

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 All of the theology, all of this whole thing about the gospel,

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 which is just so wonderful,

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 that actually fulfills the longings and yearnings of feminists,

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 of social justice warriors, of capitalists,

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 of the broken, of the successful.

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 The gospel is the end of the longings and yearnings,

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 the true deep longings and yearnings of our hearts.

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 It is an answer to the hurts and the wounds and the brokenness.

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 It is the answer to our sins.

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 And I just want to highlight to you that this is such a hard term for people

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 and say, but if we're going to circle back and we're going to look at it,

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 and as we start to pierce into the heart of Jesus in the language,

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 we realize that it's revealing the heart of Jesus.

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 In a very powerful way.

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 You just said right now, we'll come back to it.

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 Don't worry about it.

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 Well, I'll read that last part of verse one again.

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 Father, Father, the hour has come.

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 Glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you,

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 for you have given him authority over all flesh

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 to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

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 And this is eternal life,

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 that they may know you, the only true God,

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 and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

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 Now just pause here for a second.

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 There's a very, very wonderful little contrast here in the verse.

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 If you look up at verse two,

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 since you have given him authority over all flesh

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 to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

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 It's a very, very wonderful little contrast here

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 between these two things,

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 because even in our language,

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 the word flesh tells us about something very earthy and physical.

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 Flesh.

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 It doesn't say you've given authority over all spirits,

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 or all minds, or all consciousnesses.

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 It uses this word flesh.

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 And in John's language,

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 in the Gospel of John,

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 whenever John uses this word flesh,

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 he wants us to understand fully the frailty

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 and the weakness

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 and just the ordinary aspect of human life.

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 You know, I don't know if they give,

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 I'd never tell this to my interns, you know,

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 but I've heard supposedly that they tell people,

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 like, if you're worried about speaking,

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 just imagine all the people with no clothes on, so to speak,

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 that they're just ordinary people underneath maybe their $4,000 suits

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 and their $3,000 handbags.

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 Could be this person with the suit has the handbag

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 or it could be different sexes.

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 And you just try to get at the ordinariness of them.

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 But this, I don't know if that is something,

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 the advice that they give,

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 I don't know if it would help if you did give that advice,

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 but there's this wonderful contrast here in John

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 about the fact that Jesus,

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 God the Father,

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 has given authority over all human beings.

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 And human beings are flesh.

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 We are born,

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 babies are spectacularly demanding

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 and spectacularly helpless.

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 And we're just frail.

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 I drove Barbara Allen home.

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 If I move my arm a certain way

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 and I look like I'm wincing,

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 I had a really bad fall, actually, coming in here.

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 Many of you may be,

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 some of you may be had a bad fall.

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 I think I might have actually bruised a rib

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 because I really fell hard.

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 And it's,

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 I was just thinking about that

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 while I was praying before the service

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 that in some ways God wanted me to remember

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 that I'm flesh

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 as I get to speak.

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 I'm frail.

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 I'm one virus away from death.

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 I am one car accident or slip away from death.

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 We are flesh.

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 But it's flesh that gets eternal life.

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 This wonderful contrast,

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 eternal life to flesh.

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 And verse 3,

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 verse 3,

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 and this is eternal life,

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 that they may know you,

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 the only true God,

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 and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

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 In some ways,

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 that's the,

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 my main point for the whole sermon

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 is just for you folks and myself

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 to grasp the wonder and the beauty

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 and the power

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 and the relevance of that line.

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 At first, it sounds kooky.

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 Like,

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 it sort of sounds like,

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 okay, George,

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 you're saying something like

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 if you know that 2 plus 2 equals 4,

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 you have eternal life?

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 If you just know Jesus and God,

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 you have eternal life?

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 Like, that doesn't seem to make any sense.

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 It sounds like it's a bit of a kooky type of thing.

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 Like,

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 why on earth would eternal life

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 depend upon knowing a couple of things

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 about Jesus and God?

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 But once again,

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 in that which looks like

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 it's sort of very confusing

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 and doesn't actually make much sense

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 and just looks ridiculous,

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 when we pause

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 and actually listen to what Jesus is saying,

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 we see how,

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 in fact,

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 this text is,

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 it is the end of our longings

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 and our yearnings,

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 and it is better than religion,

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 it's better than spirituality,

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 and it's better than irreligion,

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 and it's just very powerful.

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 But let's finish the verse,

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 this section.

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 I'll read verse 3 again,

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 and this is eternal life,

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 that they may know you,

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 the only true God and Jesus Christ,

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 whom you have sent.

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 It's the only time in the Bible,

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 by the way,

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 that Jesus refers to himself

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 as Jesus Christ.

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 Only time Jesus refers to himself that way.

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 Verse 4,

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 I glorified you on earth,

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 having accomplished the work

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 that you gave me to do,

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 and now,

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 Father,

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 see,

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 once again,

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 he uses that word,

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 glorify me in your own presence

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 with the glory that I had with you

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 before the world existed.

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 It's a very,

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 very,

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 you know,

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 very,

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 very powerful text.

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 Now,

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 so here's the,

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 here's the problem,

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 you know,

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 right off the,

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 we'll go right back to the problem.

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 I mean,

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 there's just so much problem

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 around this text,

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 right?

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 Like,

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 why is it that Jesus calls God Father?

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 Like,

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 doesn't Jesus know,

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 like,

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 if Jesus is God,

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 shouldn't he know that even back in his day,

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 there were dads who were sexually abusing

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 or physically abusing their kids?

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 Like,

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 even in Jesus's day,

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 didn't he know that there were just terrible,

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 horrible,

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 absent dads?

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 And even if he didn't know that that was there,

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 if he's God,

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 like,

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 wouldn't he know that that's going on right now?

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 And,

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 and why would he choose a word that's so offensive?

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 And what about all that other stuff?

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 Like,

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 I already mentioned,

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 like,

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 why is it that our eternal destiny just hangs on whether or not we know something?

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 Like,

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 that just seems,

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 like,

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 odd.

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 Like,

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 it sounds like,

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 I don't know,

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 like,

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 there's a secret handshake to get into a certain organization,

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 and if I teach you the secret handshake,

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 then you're part of this inner club and inner circle that other people can't be,

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 and maybe is it the same thing?

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 You get to know the code word,

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 the password,

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 and those select few who know the password,

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 they get in,

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 and it has nothing to do with anything else.

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 And why is this,

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 all this stuff about,

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 excuse me,

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 glorifying?

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 Like,

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 why is it that God seems to be addicted to getting said,

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 you're really good,

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 you're really good?

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 Like,

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 it just sounds like lots of this text,

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 you can just,

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 like,

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 a lot of this text is just,

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 it seems a bit odd.

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 It would seem very odd to Canadians.

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 And,

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 and,

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 and part of the problem for many of us who've been Christians for a long time,

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 the text is so wonderful to us,

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 we don't realize how weird it sounds to others.

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 So,

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 let's just begin with,

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 with one of them.

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 If you could put up the,

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 the,

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 the,

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 the text,

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 Andrew,

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 my,

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 my big point,

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 you're going to see this like four or five times throughout the rest of the,

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 the,

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 my time up here.

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 This is eternal life,

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 that they may know you the only true God and Jesus Christ,

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 whom,

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 whom you,

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 whom you have sent.

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 So,

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 how about this language of God and calling God father?

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 And,

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 and all this other talk about knowing.

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 We just need to actually just pause for a second and just think about a little bit about what it means to know something.

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 And,

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 and it's very,

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 very helpful if you think in a sense of types of things that you know by types.

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 And so,

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 if you think about the difference between knowing a rock or a pebble,

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 let's,

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 we'll use the word pebble,

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 knowing a pebble,

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 knowing a bug,

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 knowing a dog,

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 knowing a person,

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 and knowing God.

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 And if you think about these things a little bit,

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 you'll start to get a little bit of an understanding and appreciation for what it is that Jesus is doing all the way,

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 all the times that he talks.

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 Now,

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 I'm not a science type here.

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 There might very well be somebody here who has a degree in geology,

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 or a degree in physics,

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 or a degree in chemistry,

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 or,

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 or something like that.

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 But basically,

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 if you want to know a pebble,

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 if you want to know about a pebble,

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 the pebble is,

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 well,

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 the pebble is a pebble.

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 It can't run away.

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 It can't hide.

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 It can't pretend.

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 In fact,

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 you know that everything about knowing the pebble all comes from you.

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 And,

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 and so,

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 you know,

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 and it can't,

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 the pebble can't resist you knowing about it.

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 All of the,

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 all of the effort of knowing flows from you.

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 And so,

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 you know,

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 if you,

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 you,

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 you,

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 you really want to understand the pebble,

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 you might bring in some geologists to identify the pebble,

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 and you might,

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 you know,

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 you might subject it to x-rays or other types of things to see,

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 what's inside of it.

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 And,

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 and you could maybe see if there's some metal in it by waving a metal detector over it.

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 And you could weigh it.

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 And,

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 and you could take photographs of it.

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 And all of the effort of knowing the pebble,

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 it all flows from you.

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 And the pebble is just,

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 it's just a pebble.

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 Now you take something a little bit different.

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 Take something like a bug.

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 And once again,

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 when it comes to knowing a bug,

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 almost everything,

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 virtually everything about knowing the bug comes from you.

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 The bug contributes nothing.

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 The only difference is,

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 well,

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 you might have a hard time catching the bug.

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 Because bugs move,

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 generally.

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 It might be that some people want to know the bug,

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 are afraid of bugs,

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 and,

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 and that,

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 that's not really the bug's fault.

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 But the main thing is the bug can move and a bug can die.

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 And they do die.

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 But apart from those simple things,

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 once you catch the bug,

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 and,

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 and then you might actually catch three or four bugs,

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 and a couple of them you kill,

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 so you can rip them apart and see what they're like inside.

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 And,

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 and others you just study how they move.

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 And it might be that they're hard sometimes to study in their movement,

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 because they don't move if they think they're being watched.

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 But fundamentally,

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 like,

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 virtually everything about knowing the bug,

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 all comes from you.

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 The bug does some things without being conscious of it,

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 that frustrates your knowledge.

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 But,

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 but fundamentally,

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 everything that comes from you,

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 about the knowledge,

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 comes from you.

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 The bug doesn't know you at all.

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 The bug is just a bug.

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 Now we move to a dog.

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 And now dogs are a little bit different than this.

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 I don't know how many of you are dog people,

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 but I know there's at least a couple of dog people in the room.

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 And,

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 and,

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 and everybody will tell you,

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 like,

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 you know,

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 I,

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 I know people who'd say,

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 why do I want a boyfriend?

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 Like a dog is a lot better.

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 Dogs always happy to see you.

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 They never get into arguments with you.

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 They're always friendly.

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 And there's all these wonderful things about,

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 about dogs that are just so,

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 just so wonderful.

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 And,

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 and,

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 and you can get to know the dog,

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 but there really is a sense that the dog also plays some role in you getting to know the dog.

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 I mean,

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 the dog could bite you or run away.

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 You know,

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 you could get a dog that's been physically abused and you've,

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 you've,

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 you've rescued the dog.

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 And it's going to take you a lot to really get to know the dog,

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 because the dog has been so terribly wounded.

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 And,

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 and still most of the knowing of the dog comes from you,

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 but still the dog has an actual role in being known.

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 And the dog actually,

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 in some ways can reveal himself or herself to you.

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 And there actually is a different relationship that can develop between something like a dog and a human being.

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 And the same could be said about a cat or a horse or some of the higher animals,

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 that there is really,

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 in a sense,

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 something that is in that other,

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 that dog that has to be open to being known,

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 that is necessary for you and me to know the dog.

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 Now we move to human beings.

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 Human beings are very,

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 very different than knowing a bug,

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 knowing a pebble,

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 and knowing a dog.

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 I,

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 when I was the first 10 or 15 years,

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 because I'm a very slow learner,

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 I,

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 I sort of felt that I had to go to every wedding.

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 When I did the wedding and I got,

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 you know,

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 I could do the wedding and they invite me to the reception.

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 And,

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 and for the first 15 years or so,

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 because it was how I was trained,

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 I went to every wedding reception when I did the wedding.

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 It took me a while to realize I said,

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 I should stop doing that.

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 Because,

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 you know,

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 a lot of times,

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 because I was doing a lot of weddings for people who didn't go to the church and they didn't know me,

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 they liked the building or whatever,

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 and I would do the wedding.

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 And it took me a long time to realize that on one level,

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 they were actually happier if I didn't go to the wedding.

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 Because,

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 like,

00:22:36.579 --> 00:22:37.620
 you go to the wedding reception,

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 what do you do with the priest?

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 Like,

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 oh,

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 dear,

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 he's coming.

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 I was hoping he wouldn't.

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 I mean,

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 they say,

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 oh,

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 we really hope you come.

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 We'll be so sad if you don't.

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 But then when you don't,

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 they forget that you said no,

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 and they're actually probably happy.

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 So what would often happen?

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 Well,

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 I think there was a movie a few years ago about all the rejects,

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 like the people they hoped,

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 they wouldn't come to the wedding and they all get to sit at a table.

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 Anyway,

00:23:01.279 --> 00:23:02.160
 I go to that table.

00:23:02.259 --> 00:23:07.500
 That's who the minister goes to when it's a secular wedding and I did their ceremony and they want me to go.

00:23:07.600 --> 00:23:08.920
 And I'm at that table,

00:23:09.380 --> 00:23:09.600
 right?

00:23:10.039 --> 00:23:15.560
 And so sometimes what it means is they pick the kooky people that nobody wants to sit with,

00:23:15.580 --> 00:23:16.700
 and I sit with them.

00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:18.120
 Nothing personal.

00:23:18.120 --> 00:23:21.360
 The kooky people are the hyper charismatic aunt,

00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.600
 or maybe the fundamentalist uncle,

00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:31.459
 or the person who's really into crystals or talking to ghosts or,

00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:32.199
 you know,

00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:32.659
 whatever.

00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:33.439
 And,

00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:38.219
 or often it's the 90 year olds who haven't brought their hearing aid,

00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:40.019
 who just sort of sit there,

00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:41.039
 you know,

00:23:41.119 --> 00:23:42.579
 95 year old,

00:23:42.639 --> 00:23:43.519
 and they're drooling.

00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:43.939
 And I'm,

00:23:43.939 --> 00:23:44.799
 I'm with them,

00:23:44.879 --> 00:23:45.099
 right?

00:23:45.099 --> 00:23:49.500
 Because I'm at the table where they don't want to put all the people they wished had said,

00:23:49.639 --> 00:23:49.959
 no,

00:23:50.579 --> 00:23:51.759
 I'm at that table,

00:23:51.959 --> 00:23:52.299
 right?

00:23:52.699 --> 00:23:52.980
 And,

00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:54.959
 and so sometimes I'm at these table,

00:23:55.059 --> 00:23:56.119
 I was at these tables.

00:23:56.240 --> 00:23:56.559
 And,

00:23:56.699 --> 00:24:01.559
 and the reason I'm there isn't because I actually thought when I met what they thought was a kooky,

00:24:01.699 --> 00:24:02.039
 charismatic,

00:24:02.199 --> 00:24:03.299
 we'd have a great time.

00:24:03.299 --> 00:24:04.480
 Like that was spectacular.

00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:06.860
 Or the fundamentalist that they didn't like.

00:24:06.960 --> 00:24:07.579
 And I sit with them,

00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:09.440
 I'd have a spectacular time with them,

00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:10.000
 right?

00:24:10.740 --> 00:24:12.120
 They didn't know I'm like a kooky,

00:24:12.299 --> 00:24:13.559
 charismatic fundamentalist.

00:24:13.579 --> 00:24:14.579
 They didn't know that about me,

00:24:14.640 --> 00:24:14.759
 right?

00:24:14.819 --> 00:24:16.259
 But I am by their definitions.

00:24:16.259 --> 00:24:17.000
 That's what I was.

00:24:17.059 --> 00:24:18.779
 So I was actually with a brother or a sister,

00:24:18.779 --> 00:24:23.500
 but sometimes it would be with the people who had like zero social skill.

00:24:23.579 --> 00:24:23.839
 In fact,

00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:25.880
 their social skills were in the negatives,

00:24:26.299 --> 00:24:26.480
 not the naughty.

00:24:27.360 --> 00:24:29.299
 Zero would be a step up,

00:24:29.660 --> 00:24:31.960
 five steps up from where they were.

00:24:31.960 --> 00:24:40.799
 And so you're sitting at this table with these people who are unbelievably introverted or whatever,

00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:44.720
 and you try to start a conversation with them.

00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:50.220
 And they give grunt answers or don't answer at all,

00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:52.860
 or every answer is a no or a yes.

00:24:53.539 --> 00:24:56.340
 And I'm here trying to make conversation with them,

00:24:56.400 --> 00:24:58.579
 getting completely and utterly exhausted,

00:24:59.059 --> 00:25:00.319
 looking at my watch,

00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:00.779
 wondering,

00:25:00.939 --> 00:25:03.159
 what on earth can I leave politely now that I'm here?

00:25:03.399 --> 00:25:03.980
 I don't go to,

00:25:04.099 --> 00:25:04.359
 you know,

00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:07.759
 I only go to weddings with people I know now,

00:25:07.799 --> 00:25:08.819
 even if I've done the wedding ceremony.

00:25:09.179 --> 00:25:09.399
 Anyway,

00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:11.279
 but the point of all of this is this,

00:25:12.159 --> 00:25:13.480
 other than you think,

00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:13.799
 George,

00:25:13.980 --> 00:25:16.579
 why did you go to so many wedding receptions like that?

00:25:16.639 --> 00:25:18.000
 But the point is this,

00:25:18.379 --> 00:25:21.480
 if I'm sitting beside somebody at a wedding reception,

00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:23.099
 and they don't want to be known,

00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:24.319
 I cannot know them.

00:25:24.319 --> 00:25:27.559
 I can know a few superficial things about them.

00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:29.839
 I might be able to tell a police officer afterwards,

00:25:30.439 --> 00:25:30.700
 you know,

00:25:30.779 --> 00:25:33.019
 whether they were African American,

00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:34.379
 or whether they were Asian,

00:25:34.619 --> 00:25:34.700
 or,

00:25:34.779 --> 00:25:34.939
 you know,

00:25:35.019 --> 00:25:35.220
 whether,

00:25:35.480 --> 00:25:35.919
 you know,

00:25:36.000 --> 00:25:38.399
 whether they were tall or short or old or young.

00:25:38.819 --> 00:25:39.619
 I might know a few,

00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:40.099
 like,

00:25:40.439 --> 00:25:41.879
 irrelevant things about them,

00:25:41.899 --> 00:25:44.419
 but if they don't want me to know them,

00:25:44.480 --> 00:25:46.299
 I cannot know them.

00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:48.419
 They can ignore me.

00:25:49.060 --> 00:25:50.820
 They can tell lies to me.

00:25:50.820 --> 00:25:51.279
 They can,

00:25:51.420 --> 00:25:55.720
 I need them to reveal themselves to me,

00:25:55.860 --> 00:25:57.440
 if I'm going to know them.

00:25:57.940 --> 00:25:59.019
 That's how it is with people,

00:25:59.080 --> 00:25:59.420
 isn't it?

00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:02.920
 I need them to,

00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:05.019
 I need to reveal some things about myself.

00:26:05.320 --> 00:26:07.380
 They need to reveal some things about themselves.

00:26:07.560 --> 00:26:08.640
 There has to be this,

00:26:09.120 --> 00:26:09.800
 in a sense,

00:26:09.980 --> 00:26:12.720
 opening of ourselves to each other,

00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:14.820
 a giving of information,

00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:18.340
 and a willingness to be known for me to know another,

00:26:18.420 --> 00:26:19.080
 human being.

00:26:20.279 --> 00:26:21.440
 So remember where we've gone.

00:26:21.500 --> 00:26:22.440
 We've gone from the pebble,

00:26:22.539 --> 00:26:23.019
 to the bug,

00:26:23.100 --> 00:26:23.660
 to the dog,

00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:24.400
 to the person.

00:26:25.360 --> 00:26:26.500
 Now we go to God.

00:26:28.840 --> 00:26:30.940
 And if there is a God who really does exist,

00:26:31.060 --> 00:26:31.980
 who is anything at all,

00:26:32.039 --> 00:26:33.920
 like the way Jesus describes him,

00:26:35.840 --> 00:26:36.980
 then you'll see,

00:26:38.080 --> 00:26:38.220
 well,

00:26:38.320 --> 00:26:38.420
 actually,

00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.039
 you know what you'll see?

00:26:39.460 --> 00:26:41.060
 Here's the hard thing to think about.

00:26:42.860 --> 00:26:45.259
 I have more in common with a pebble

00:26:45.259 --> 00:26:47.940
 than I have in common with God.

00:26:48.420 --> 00:26:52.200
 I'm finite.

00:26:52.880 --> 00:26:55.220
 God is not just big.

00:26:55.700 --> 00:26:56.660
 He's infinite.

00:26:57.400 --> 00:26:58.840
 I live in time.

00:26:59.800 --> 00:27:00.960
 God created time

00:27:00.960 --> 00:27:02.560
 and doesn't live in time.

00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:06.000
 I need an environment to live in.

00:27:07.079 --> 00:27:10.659
 God doesn't need any environment to live in.

00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:13.440
 I have a beginning and an end.

00:27:14.240 --> 00:27:17.619
 God has no beginning and no end.

00:27:17.619 --> 00:27:21.319
 I can only know a few types of things,

00:27:21.379 --> 00:27:22.019
 very limited.

00:27:23.239 --> 00:27:25.059
 God knows everything.

00:27:25.739 --> 00:27:27.379
 And you could go on and on and on and on.

00:27:27.899 --> 00:27:29.879
 I am physical with a soul.

00:27:31.959 --> 00:27:32.399
 God,

00:27:33.079 --> 00:27:33.319
 well,

00:27:33.379 --> 00:27:34.039
 God is God.

00:27:34.579 --> 00:27:35.899
 Doesn't have a body part,

00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:38.000
 body or parts.

00:27:38.500 --> 00:27:39.399
 Doesn't have passions.

00:27:40.080 --> 00:27:41.280
 The fact of the matter is,

00:27:41.300 --> 00:27:42.820
 is that there is more in common

00:27:42.820 --> 00:27:43.860
 between me and a pebble

00:27:43.860 --> 00:27:45.380
 than there is between me and God.

00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:47.740
 And if that is the case,

00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:48.860
 then if,

00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:51.120
 if just to merely know another human being,

00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:52.880
 I need that human being

00:27:52.880 --> 00:27:54.240
 to reveal

00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:56.420
 something about themselves to me.

00:27:56.480 --> 00:27:58.140
 They need to be willing to be known

00:27:58.140 --> 00:27:59.660
 if I am to know them.

00:27:59.660 --> 00:28:01.840
 And I have to be willing to be,

00:28:01.920 --> 00:28:03.540
 I have to be willing to know them

00:28:03.540 --> 00:28:04.740
 and to be known myself

00:28:04.740 --> 00:28:07.200
 if there's going to be any real knowledge

00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:08.019
 that goes on.

00:28:08.519 --> 00:28:10.100
 In the case of God,

00:28:11.160 --> 00:28:16.220
 at a most fundamental level,

00:28:16.900 --> 00:28:18.700
 everything about knowing God

00:28:18.700 --> 00:28:20.220
 has to come from God.

00:28:21.940 --> 00:28:22.420
 Everything.

00:28:24.500 --> 00:28:25.560
 And when I mean everything,

00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:26.600
 I mean literally everything.

00:28:26.720 --> 00:28:27.480
 With nothing left out,

00:28:27.519 --> 00:28:28.920
 it all has to come from God.

00:28:28.920 --> 00:28:30.460
 None of it can come from me.

00:28:33.720 --> 00:28:34.519
 And in fact,

00:28:34.620 --> 00:28:34.900
 actually,

00:28:35.039 --> 00:28:36.340
 if God was a very,

00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:37.480
 very cruel God,

00:28:38.360 --> 00:28:39.600
 he could just sort of

00:28:39.600 --> 00:28:41.720
 force openness in me.

00:28:42.200 --> 00:28:43.220
 It's only because

00:28:43.220 --> 00:28:43.980
 it's something about

00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:45.300
 the nature of God

00:28:45.300 --> 00:28:46.740
 as revealed by Jesus

00:28:46.740 --> 00:28:47.580
 that we'll talk about

00:28:47.580 --> 00:28:48.380
 in a couple of minutes

00:28:48.380 --> 00:28:49.279
 that the fact of the matter

00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:51.060
 is that God actually wants me

00:28:51.060 --> 00:28:52.060
 to know him.

00:28:54.180 --> 00:28:55.800
 He doesn't force me.

00:28:57.300 --> 00:28:58.700
 It's not like a demonic,

00:28:58.920 --> 00:28:59.840
 possession.

00:29:01.680 --> 00:29:03.400
 He's made me to be free.

00:29:04.120 --> 00:29:05.700
 He's made me to have a will.

00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:08.840
 He's made me to want to know him.

00:29:09.519 --> 00:29:12.380
 But unless God reveals himself

00:29:12.380 --> 00:29:13.620
 to me

00:29:13.620 --> 00:29:16.720
 and to you,

00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:19.220
 I can't know anything about God

00:29:19.220 --> 00:29:21.700
 without him revealing himself to me.

00:29:21.700 --> 00:29:27.180
 And so I guess what I want to say

00:29:27.180 --> 00:29:28.299
 about this is this.

00:29:29.680 --> 00:29:30.600
 If you could put up

00:29:30.600 --> 00:29:31.259
 the first point,

00:29:31.380 --> 00:29:31.620
 Andrew,

00:29:32.299 --> 00:29:35.960
 it is because God is personal

00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:38.200
 that you cannot invent

00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:39.500
 ways to address him.

00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:43.680
 It is because God is personal

00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:46.319
 that you cannot invent ways

00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:47.319
 to address him.

00:29:48.240 --> 00:29:49.019
 I could call a rock

00:29:49.019 --> 00:29:49.779
 anything I want.

00:29:49.980 --> 00:29:50.859
 I could call a bug

00:29:50.859 --> 00:29:51.720
 anything I want.

00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:52.960
 I could step on the bug

00:29:52.960 --> 00:29:54.319
 if I wanted.

00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:55.480
 I could call a dog

00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.460
 anything I want.

00:29:56.460 --> 00:29:58.740
 Actually,

00:29:58.840 --> 00:30:00.019
 I can't call a human being

00:30:00.019 --> 00:30:00.940
 anything I want.

00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:02.840
 I mean,

00:30:02.900 --> 00:30:04.799
 if I called Daniel

00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:05.620
 a girl,

00:30:06.299 --> 00:30:07.100
 he'd be offended.

00:30:07.559 --> 00:30:08.700
 And he's way bigger

00:30:08.700 --> 00:30:10.059
 and stronger than me as well.

00:30:11.140 --> 00:30:11.420
 You know,

00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:12.380
 and if I called him,

00:30:12.900 --> 00:30:13.340
 I don't know,

00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:13.759
 Betty

00:30:13.759 --> 00:30:15.000
 or something like that,

00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:15.740
 he wouldn't answer.

00:30:15.880 --> 00:30:16.220
 If he did,

00:30:16.240 --> 00:30:17.220
 it would be very rude

00:30:17.220 --> 00:30:18.360
 or something like that.

00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:19.279
 And he should do

00:30:19.279 --> 00:30:19.859
 something like that.

00:30:19.919 --> 00:30:20.059
 You know,

00:30:20.079 --> 00:30:21.479
 I'm limited in that.

00:30:21.779 --> 00:30:23.019
 But it's precisely

00:30:23.019 --> 00:30:24.279
 because God is God

00:30:24.279 --> 00:30:25.199
 and the way that Jesus

00:30:25.199 --> 00:30:26.159
 is trying to reveal

00:30:26.159 --> 00:30:27.179
 who God is,

00:30:27.779 --> 00:30:29.119
 he's revealing a God

00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:30.519
 who is infinite,

00:30:30.779 --> 00:30:31.599
 who is a person.

00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:32.479
 It's precisely

00:30:32.479 --> 00:30:34.219
 because God is personal.

00:30:34.939 --> 00:30:35.939
 That we are completely

00:30:35.939 --> 00:30:37.000
 and utterly dependent

00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:37.719
 upon God

00:30:37.719 --> 00:30:39.179
 to reveal himself to us.

00:30:39.479 --> 00:30:40.659
 And I can't just

00:30:40.659 --> 00:30:42.319
 take the words of Jesus

00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:42.879
 and say,

00:30:42.959 --> 00:30:43.719
 I'm going to substitute

00:30:43.719 --> 00:30:44.799
 mother every time

00:30:44.799 --> 00:30:45.679
 he says father.

00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:46.919
 And I'm going to substitute

00:30:46.919 --> 00:30:48.000
 child every time

00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:48.779
 he says son

00:30:48.779 --> 00:30:49.859
 because then

00:30:49.859 --> 00:30:50.400
 what I'm doing

00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:51.099
 is I'm just in,

00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:51.660
 I can't,

00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:52.799
 if God is personal,

00:30:53.380 --> 00:30:54.140
 you can't,

00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:56.299
 you get the point,

00:30:56.359 --> 00:30:57.059
 you can't do it.

00:30:58.880 --> 00:30:59.279
 Now,

00:31:00.500 --> 00:31:02.740
 some other point in time,

00:31:04.019 --> 00:31:04.119
 we,

00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:04.920
 not now,

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:05.460
 we can talk,

00:31:05.539 --> 00:31:06.180
 all we can do

00:31:06.180 --> 00:31:07.059
 is try to guess

00:31:07.059 --> 00:31:08.220
 why it is that Jesus,

00:31:08.400 --> 00:31:08.960
 I mean Jesus,

00:31:09.619 --> 00:31:11.420
 Jesus lived at a time

00:31:11.420 --> 00:31:12.160
 when there were

00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:13.400
 goddesses everywhere.

00:31:15.980 --> 00:31:17.299
 Like it wasn't as if he went,

00:31:17.299 --> 00:31:18.500
 as if you could go up

00:31:18.500 --> 00:31:19.220
 to Jesus now

00:31:19.220 --> 00:31:19.639
 and he'd go,

00:31:19.819 --> 00:31:20.019
 oh,

00:31:20.619 --> 00:31:20.980
 duh,

00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:22.779
 there's goddesses?

00:31:22.779 --> 00:31:23.599
 I didn't know that.

00:31:23.680 --> 00:31:24.379
 You mean I'm permitted

00:31:24.379 --> 00:31:25.200
 to call God?

00:31:25.379 --> 00:31:25.559
 Oh,

00:31:25.639 --> 00:31:25.879
 no.

00:31:27.180 --> 00:31:28.159
 Goddesses were everywhere.

00:31:30.399 --> 00:31:31.240
 And he just even

00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:32.680
 had to read his Old Testament

00:31:32.680 --> 00:31:33.980
 to have language

00:31:33.980 --> 00:31:34.740
 of goddesses.

00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:35.339
 He knew that,

00:31:36.099 --> 00:31:36.659
 but God,

00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:38.000
 why did God choose father?

00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:38.639
 I don't entirely,

00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:39.339
 I don't know.

00:31:39.460 --> 00:31:40.779
 I just know that he did

00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:41.680
 and he did it

00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:42.579
 because he knows you

00:31:42.579 --> 00:31:43.000
 and me

00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:43.519
 and he knows,

00:31:43.579 --> 00:31:44.200
 and I could give you

00:31:44.200 --> 00:31:44.759
 some guesses

00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:45.619
 as to why God

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:46.579
 used this language

00:31:46.579 --> 00:31:47.799
 to reveal it,

00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:48.319
 but it's a very,

00:31:48.420 --> 00:31:49.259
 very personal word.

00:31:49.339 --> 00:31:50.279
 It's even more personal

00:31:50.279 --> 00:31:52.019
 because father

00:31:52.019 --> 00:31:52.519
 is a very,

00:31:52.640 --> 00:31:53.480
 very good translation,

00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:55.339
 but the actual word

00:31:55.339 --> 00:31:56.960
 is the adult word,

00:31:57.160 --> 00:31:59.000
 the adult intimate word

00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:01.319
 that a child would use

00:32:01.319 --> 00:32:01.839
 of their,

00:32:02.140 --> 00:32:03.259
 like an adult child

00:32:03.259 --> 00:32:04.299
 would use of their father.

00:32:04.460 --> 00:32:04.700
 Actually,

00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:05.480
 I shouldn't say adult.

00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:06.960
 It's what anybody

00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:07.980
 at your stage of life

00:32:07.980 --> 00:32:08.400
 would use

00:32:08.400 --> 00:32:09.480
 to address your father.

00:32:09.480 --> 00:32:09.559
 father.

00:32:11.620 --> 00:32:12.700
 And the translation

00:32:12.700 --> 00:32:13.500
 is right to use

00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:14.220
 the word father

00:32:14.220 --> 00:32:15.640
 because for some of you,

00:32:15.740 --> 00:32:15.920
 I mean,

00:32:15.980 --> 00:32:17.299
 I would call my dad,

00:32:17.420 --> 00:32:17.740
 dad.

00:32:18.759 --> 00:32:19.440
 And some of you

00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:20.240
 might call your dad,

00:32:20.339 --> 00:32:20.640
 daddy.

00:32:20.920 --> 00:32:21.539
 And some of you

00:32:21.539 --> 00:32:22.420
 might use other types

00:32:22.420 --> 00:32:22.880
 of language,

00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:23.599
 but it's actually,

00:32:23.680 --> 00:32:24.660
 the word is actually

00:32:24.660 --> 00:32:25.240
 the intimate,

00:32:25.880 --> 00:32:27.579
 personal form

00:32:27.579 --> 00:32:29.319
 of private address

00:32:29.319 --> 00:32:31.799
 between a child

00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:33.099
 and their father.

00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:33.700
 That's actually

00:32:33.700 --> 00:32:34.440
 the Greek word

00:32:34.440 --> 00:32:35.120
 that's used.

00:32:36.120 --> 00:32:37.599
 And it's a word

00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:38.620
 that beckons us

00:32:38.619 --> 00:32:40.019
 into a relationship

00:32:40.019 --> 00:32:41.299
 with God.

00:32:43.459 --> 00:32:45.219
 And we can't correct it.

00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:47.919
 All we can do

00:32:47.919 --> 00:32:48.439
 is say,

00:32:48.959 --> 00:32:49.319
 Jesus,

00:32:51.079 --> 00:32:51.839
 you knew,

00:32:52.919 --> 00:32:53.859
 for some of us,

00:32:53.919 --> 00:32:54.739
 all we can say

00:32:54.739 --> 00:32:54.939
 is,

00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:55.299
 Jesus,

00:32:55.459 --> 00:32:56.039
 you knew

00:32:56.039 --> 00:32:57.819
 what my earthly father

00:32:57.819 --> 00:32:58.599
 was like.

00:33:00.439 --> 00:33:01.619
 And I don't know,

00:33:01.719 --> 00:33:02.539
 I don't know,

00:33:02.659 --> 00:33:02.919
 Jesus,

00:33:03.079 --> 00:33:04.159
 why you use this language,

00:33:04.159 --> 00:33:04.779
 but I know

00:33:04.779 --> 00:33:05.799
 that you know me

00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:06.679
 and you know me

00:33:06.679 --> 00:33:07.199
 so well

00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:07.720
 that you died

00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:08.860
 on the cross for me,

00:33:08.900 --> 00:33:09.940
 you love me so much

00:33:09.940 --> 00:33:10.319
 you're willing

00:33:10.319 --> 00:33:11.420
 to die for me.

00:33:12.340 --> 00:33:13.539
 And I don't know

00:33:13.539 --> 00:33:15.160
 why you use this language

00:33:15.160 --> 00:33:16.039
 and I'm willing

00:33:16.039 --> 00:33:16.940
 to walk with you,

00:33:16.980 --> 00:33:17.220
 Jesus.

00:33:17.360 --> 00:33:17.920
 I ask that you

00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:19.059
 would reveal this to me,

00:33:19.120 --> 00:33:19.700
 that you would bring

00:33:19.700 --> 00:33:20.620
 healing so that

00:33:20.620 --> 00:33:21.539
 I could use this word.

00:33:21.860 --> 00:33:22.660
 I understand why

00:33:22.660 --> 00:33:23.100
 some of us

00:33:23.100 --> 00:33:24.000
 have to pray that prayer.

00:33:24.220 --> 00:33:25.500
 That's fine.

00:33:26.620 --> 00:33:28.019
 But we can't replace it.

00:33:28.019 --> 00:33:33.200
 Jesus gives this language

00:33:33.200 --> 00:33:36.539
 because he loves us.

00:33:39.180 --> 00:33:39.559
 Well,

00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:40.519
 in some of your case,

00:33:40.619 --> 00:33:40.819
 George,

00:33:40.900 --> 00:33:41.980
 well that's very interesting,

00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:42.720
 but what about

00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:43.819
 this whole problem

00:33:43.819 --> 00:33:44.799
 with glory?

00:33:45.019 --> 00:33:45.139
 Like,

00:33:45.220 --> 00:33:45.839
 why is it that

00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:46.400
 we've seen that?

00:33:46.500 --> 00:33:46.619
 Like,

00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:48.180
 if you could put up

00:33:48.180 --> 00:33:49.619
 the scripture text again,

00:33:49.819 --> 00:33:50.619
 Andrew,

00:33:50.940 --> 00:33:51.720
 I'll just say

00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:52.900
 that the main point here,

00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:53.779
 this is eternal life

00:33:53.779 --> 00:33:54.579
 that they may know you,

00:33:54.639 --> 00:33:55.420
 the only true God

00:33:55.420 --> 00:33:56.259
 and Jesus Christ

00:33:56.259 --> 00:33:57.420
 whom you have sent.

00:33:57.420 --> 00:33:58.220
 But if you look at

00:33:58.220 --> 00:33:59.680
 all the language around it,

00:33:59.759 --> 00:33:59.940
 like,

00:34:00.259 --> 00:34:00.720
 those of you

00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:01.460
 who have your Bibles,

00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:01.779
 you know,

00:34:01.980 --> 00:34:02.680
 verse 1,

00:34:02.800 --> 00:34:03.820
 glorify your son

00:34:03.820 --> 00:34:04.340
 that your son

00:34:04.340 --> 00:34:05.160
 may glorify you.

00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:05.660
 You've given him

00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:07.039
 authority over all flesh.

00:34:07.660 --> 00:34:07.880
 You know,

00:34:07.940 --> 00:34:08.840
 in verse 6,

00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:09.720
 verse 5,

00:34:09.860 --> 00:34:10.059
 Father,

00:34:10.200 --> 00:34:10.780
 glorify me

00:34:10.780 --> 00:34:11.539
 in your own presence

00:34:11.539 --> 00:34:12.099
 with the glory

00:34:12.099 --> 00:34:12.860
 that I had with you

00:34:12.860 --> 00:34:15.039
 before all of the world

00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:15.420
 was,

00:34:16.740 --> 00:34:16.960
 you know,

00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:18.539
 before there was world.

00:34:18.619 --> 00:34:19.599
 And all this language

00:34:19.599 --> 00:34:21.480
 of authority

00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:22.599
 and glory

00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:23.659
 and all that,

00:34:23.659 --> 00:34:23.940
 like,

00:34:25.260 --> 00:34:25.820
 like,

00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:26.659
 does God have

00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:27.079
 some type

00:34:27.079 --> 00:34:27.839
 of a problem

00:34:27.839 --> 00:34:29.139
 that he needs

00:34:29.139 --> 00:34:29.879
 to always be,

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:30.339
 like,

00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:31.899
 using language

00:34:31.899 --> 00:34:32.639
 like this?

00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:34.539
 Andrew,

00:34:34.579 --> 00:34:35.279
 if you could put up

00:34:35.279 --> 00:34:36.480
 the next point

00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:37.219
 that would be helpful.

00:34:37.679 --> 00:34:38.399
 And it's this,

00:34:38.739 --> 00:34:39.000
 actually,

00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:40.159
 my last four points,

00:34:40.339 --> 00:34:40.759
 I have to be,

00:34:40.839 --> 00:34:40.980
 well,

00:34:41.059 --> 00:34:41.779
 I'm going to really

00:34:41.779 --> 00:34:42.319
 have to rush.

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:42.719
 Sorry.

00:34:43.759 --> 00:34:44.679
 They're going to be questions.

00:34:44.839 --> 00:34:45.279
 If living

00:34:45.279 --> 00:34:46.519
 an impersonal life

00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:47.399
 is to be avoided,

00:34:48.339 --> 00:34:49.119
 why do you want

00:34:49.119 --> 00:34:49.460
 to live

00:34:49.460 --> 00:34:50.819
 with an impersonal God?

00:34:50.820 --> 00:34:53.380
 If living

00:34:53.380 --> 00:34:55.360
 an impersonal life

00:34:55.360 --> 00:34:56.539
 is to be avoided,

00:34:57.400 --> 00:34:58.240
 why do you want

00:34:58.240 --> 00:34:58.700
 to live

00:34:58.700 --> 00:35:00.840
 with an impersonal God?

00:35:00.900 --> 00:35:01.920
 I almost wanted

00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:03.160
 to name this point,

00:35:03.960 --> 00:35:04.600
 who would choose

00:35:04.600 --> 00:35:05.780
 to live with a toaster

00:35:05.780 --> 00:35:07.440
 rather than a person?

00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:09.360
 Who would choose

00:35:09.360 --> 00:35:10.440
 to live with a toaster

00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:12.500
 rather than a person?

00:35:12.500 --> 00:35:14.500
 You see,

00:35:16.820 --> 00:35:21.320
 this language

00:35:21.320 --> 00:35:22.039
 of the point

00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:23.239
 that it is,

00:35:23.460 --> 00:35:24.579
 this is eternal life

00:35:24.579 --> 00:35:25.440
 that they may know you,

00:35:25.519 --> 00:35:26.500
 the only true God

00:35:26.500 --> 00:35:27.460
 and Jesus Christ

00:35:27.460 --> 00:35:29.059
 whom you have sent.

00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:34.300
 Most of the analogies

00:35:34.300 --> 00:35:35.019
 that our culture

00:35:35.019 --> 00:35:36.179
 uses for God

00:35:36.179 --> 00:35:38.579
 are basically

00:35:38.579 --> 00:35:39.980
 impersonal images.

00:35:42.500 --> 00:35:44.480
 The Star Wars movies,

00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:46.199
 it talks about the force.

00:35:47.800 --> 00:35:48.860
 Most Buddhism

00:35:48.860 --> 00:35:50.460
 and Eastern religions,

00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:52.199
 the analogy

00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:53.360
 that will be used

00:35:53.360 --> 00:35:54.559
 for who God is

00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:55.179
 is that God

00:35:55.179 --> 00:35:56.260
 is like all things

00:35:56.260 --> 00:35:57.500
 which is impersonal.

00:35:58.460 --> 00:35:59.880
 That when you finish

00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:00.480
 the cycle

00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:01.500
 of reincarnation

00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:02.500
 and reincarnation

00:36:03.099 --> 00:36:03.500
 and reincarnation,

00:36:04.739 --> 00:36:05.760
 what happens

00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:06.880
 is that a human being

00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:07.880
 is like a drop

00:36:07.880 --> 00:36:08.719
 of water

00:36:08.719 --> 00:36:09.900
 and the drop of water

00:36:09.900 --> 00:36:10.880
 finally merges

00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:11.719
 with the ocean

00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:12.559
 so the ocean

00:36:12.559 --> 00:36:13.759
 is the image of God

00:36:13.759 --> 00:36:15.599
 and the fundamental image

00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:16.359
 of a human being

00:36:16.359 --> 00:36:17.719
 is like a drop of water

00:36:17.719 --> 00:36:18.919
 which is impersonal

00:36:18.919 --> 00:36:19.819
 and the impersonal

00:36:19.819 --> 00:36:20.739
 drop of water

00:36:20.739 --> 00:36:22.000
 gets merged

00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:23.799
 with the impersonal ocean

00:36:23.799 --> 00:36:25.919
 and most of the images

00:36:25.919 --> 00:36:26.579
 that we use

00:36:26.579 --> 00:36:27.299
 in our culture

00:36:27.299 --> 00:36:27.959
 about God,

00:36:28.059 --> 00:36:28.819
 we use language

00:36:28.819 --> 00:36:29.579
 of like it's

00:36:29.579 --> 00:36:31.000
 that God is like light,

00:36:31.699 --> 00:36:33.239
 God is like a force,

00:36:33.879 --> 00:36:35.899
 God is like all of nature

00:36:35.899 --> 00:36:38.039
 and it's all impersonal,

00:36:38.179 --> 00:36:39.480
 impersonal language.

00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:41.280
 Yet the problem is

00:36:41.280 --> 00:36:43.659
 that none of us

00:36:43.659 --> 00:36:44.679
 wants to live

00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:47.599
 like if we had everything,

00:36:47.980 --> 00:36:48.840
 if we were stuck

00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:50.280
 in solitary confinement

00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:52.539
 and all of the food

00:36:52.539 --> 00:36:53.659
 that just came to us

00:36:53.659 --> 00:36:55.059
 just came by a machine

00:36:55.059 --> 00:36:56.360
 through the door,

00:36:56.519 --> 00:36:57.800
 we would experience that

00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.719
 as cruel and unusual punishment.

00:37:00.760 --> 00:37:01.900
 We would understand

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:02.559
 that if you were

00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:03.159
 to completely

00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:04.480
 and utterly lost

00:37:04.480 --> 00:37:05.480
 to dealing

00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:06.019
 and spending

00:37:06.019 --> 00:37:07.039
 the rest of your life

00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:08.219
 without any type

00:37:08.219 --> 00:37:09.259
 of human contact

00:37:09.259 --> 00:37:10.500
 or personal contact

00:37:10.500 --> 00:37:11.500
 and all you had

00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:12.159
 were walls

00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:13.000
 and all you had

00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:13.659
 were things

00:37:13.659 --> 00:37:14.659
 and there was

00:37:14.659 --> 00:37:15.639
 no human being

00:37:15.639 --> 00:37:16.159
 to talk to,

00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:17.400
 not even a dog

00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:19.039
 to give you some comfort

00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:19.860
 but completely

00:37:19.860 --> 00:37:21.039
 and utterly impersonal,

00:37:21.340 --> 00:37:22.619
 we wouldn't want that.

00:37:23.900 --> 00:37:25.300
 But at the same time,

00:37:25.659 --> 00:37:26.860
 we have this image

00:37:26.860 --> 00:37:27.440
 of God

00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:28.340
 as if it's something

00:37:28.340 --> 00:37:29.279
 like a pebble,

00:37:30.279 --> 00:37:31.779
 like a thing,

00:37:31.940 --> 00:37:32.900
 not even a bug

00:37:32.900 --> 00:37:33.860
 but like a pebble.

00:37:33.860 --> 00:37:36.440
 But,

00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:38.320
 and this is,

00:37:38.420 --> 00:37:38.660
 by the way,

00:37:38.720 --> 00:37:39.180
 all the way

00:37:39.180 --> 00:37:40.140
 through the Old Testament

00:37:40.140 --> 00:37:41.360
 a constant thing

00:37:41.360 --> 00:37:42.300
 about idolatry.

00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:44.079
 There's these wonderful texts

00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:45.400
 that happens a couple of times

00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:46.500
 where the prophet says,

00:37:46.980 --> 00:37:47.180
 like,

00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:47.900
 don't you folks

00:37:47.900 --> 00:37:48.940
 understand what you're doing?

00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:49.720
 You go to a tree

00:37:49.720 --> 00:37:50.380
 in the forest

00:37:50.380 --> 00:37:51.800
 and you cut down the tree

00:37:51.800 --> 00:37:53.780
 and out of the tree

00:37:53.780 --> 00:37:54.539
 that you cut down,

00:37:54.900 --> 00:37:55.599
 part of it

00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:57.220
 you make a fire out of

00:37:57.220 --> 00:37:57.960
 and the other part

00:37:57.960 --> 00:37:59.220
 you make an idol out of it,

00:37:59.300 --> 00:37:59.940
 this dead wood

00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:01.079
 you make an idol out of it

00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:01.820
 and you bow down

00:38:01.820 --> 00:38:03.960
 and worship dead wood.

00:38:05.019 --> 00:38:05.440
 Like,

00:38:05.500 --> 00:38:06.059
 what's wrong

00:38:06.059 --> 00:38:07.100
 with this picture

00:38:07.100 --> 00:38:08.420
 of you thinking

00:38:08.420 --> 00:38:09.059
 that God

00:38:09.059 --> 00:38:09.720
 is something

00:38:09.720 --> 00:38:10.600
 like a rock

00:38:10.600 --> 00:38:11.900
 or dead wood

00:38:11.900 --> 00:38:13.180
 that you would bow down

00:38:13.180 --> 00:38:13.760
 to worship?

00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:16.340
 And the wonderful thing

00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:17.940
 about Jesus here

00:38:17.940 --> 00:38:18.820
 and about the gospel

00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:19.360
 is that

00:38:19.360 --> 00:38:20.720
 if we think about it

00:38:20.720 --> 00:38:21.740
 nobody would want to have

00:38:21.740 --> 00:38:23.200
 such an impersonal future.

00:38:23.620 --> 00:38:24.640
 We would really think

00:38:24.640 --> 00:38:25.320
 it was cruel

00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:26.440
 and unusual punishment

00:38:26.440 --> 00:38:27.400
 if there was a prison

00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:28.620
 that you sent somebody to

00:38:28.620 --> 00:38:29.420
 that meant

00:38:29.420 --> 00:38:30.700
 they would never even have

00:38:30.699 --> 00:38:31.659
 a single word,

00:38:31.779 --> 00:38:33.000
 a single human contact

00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:34.179
 for the entire rest

00:38:34.179 --> 00:38:34.659
 of their life

00:38:34.659 --> 00:38:35.559
 until they died.

00:38:36.139 --> 00:38:36.960
 All of the food

00:38:36.960 --> 00:38:37.619
 would be brought

00:38:37.619 --> 00:38:38.819
 by machines

00:38:38.819 --> 00:38:39.619
 in a room

00:38:39.619 --> 00:38:40.799
 without ever seeing

00:38:40.799 --> 00:38:41.299
 a human being

00:38:41.299 --> 00:38:42.119
 and we would view that

00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:43.579
 as cruel and unusual punishment

00:38:43.579 --> 00:38:44.679
 because it's a completely

00:38:44.679 --> 00:38:45.719
 impersonal future

00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:46.599
 yet we desire

00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:47.179
 as a culture

00:38:47.179 --> 00:38:48.239
 an impersonal God.

00:38:48.339 --> 00:38:49.500
 Why does that make any sense?

00:38:53.099 --> 00:38:54.399
 Because we understand

00:38:54.399 --> 00:38:56.159
 the value of a person

00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:57.940
 and Jesus is revealing

00:38:57.940 --> 00:38:58.859
 a God

00:38:58.859 --> 00:39:00.899
 who is a personal God

00:39:00.899 --> 00:39:02.679
 who loves you

00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:04.299
 and wants to be known.

00:39:05.059 --> 00:39:06.119
 Could you put the scripture

00:39:06.119 --> 00:39:07.480
 text up again please Andrew?

00:39:07.539 --> 00:39:08.179
 I have to go through

00:39:08.179 --> 00:39:09.179
 these far more quickly

00:39:09.179 --> 00:39:10.279
 than I thought.

00:39:10.799 --> 00:39:11.859
 This is eternal life

00:39:11.859 --> 00:39:12.739
 that they may know you

00:39:12.739 --> 00:39:13.920
 the only true God

00:39:13.920 --> 00:39:14.920
 and Jesus Christ

00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:16.299
 whom you have sent.

00:39:18.099 --> 00:39:19.579
 But what about this problem

00:39:19.579 --> 00:39:20.519
 of God wanting

00:39:20.519 --> 00:39:21.420
 to be glorified

00:39:21.420 --> 00:39:24.199
 and God wanting

00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:25.019
 to be praised?

00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:26.119
 Could you put up

00:39:26.119 --> 00:39:27.399
 the next point Andrew please?

00:39:28.000 --> 00:39:29.039
 Here's in terms

00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:29.719
 of a question.

00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:32.019
 If you look down

00:39:32.019 --> 00:39:32.659
 on a person

00:39:32.659 --> 00:39:33.460
 who always needs

00:39:33.460 --> 00:39:34.279
 to be praised

00:39:34.279 --> 00:39:36.059
 how can you look up

00:39:36.059 --> 00:39:36.739
 to a God

00:39:36.739 --> 00:39:37.839
 who always needs

00:39:37.839 --> 00:39:38.519
 to be praised?

00:39:43.659 --> 00:39:44.879
 Now this is

00:39:44.879 --> 00:39:45.579
 what's so wonderful

00:39:45.579 --> 00:39:46.379
 about what Jesus

00:39:46.379 --> 00:39:46.939
 is saying

00:39:46.939 --> 00:39:47.939
 and what he is revealing

00:39:47.939 --> 00:39:49.259
 about the nature of God.

00:39:50.179 --> 00:39:51.559
 To our Jewish friends

00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:52.819
 and our Muslim friends

00:39:52.820 --> 00:39:53.900
 I do not know

00:39:53.900 --> 00:39:54.340
 how they would

00:39:54.340 --> 00:39:55.480
 answer this question.

00:40:00.380 --> 00:40:01.200
 Because the fact

00:40:01.200 --> 00:40:01.860
 of the matter is

00:40:01.860 --> 00:40:03.000
 is if you had

00:40:03.000 --> 00:40:04.360
 a child or a friend

00:40:04.360 --> 00:40:05.680
 and they came

00:40:05.680 --> 00:40:06.280
 to the point

00:40:06.280 --> 00:40:07.000
 where you always

00:40:07.000 --> 00:40:08.080
 had to praise them

00:40:08.080 --> 00:40:08.880
 they always had

00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:09.539
 to be praised

00:40:09.539 --> 00:40:10.580
 time and time

00:40:10.580 --> 00:40:11.019
 and time

00:40:11.019 --> 00:40:11.780
 and time and time

00:40:11.780 --> 00:40:12.320
 again you would

00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:13.120
 look down your nose

00:40:13.120 --> 00:40:13.600
 at them.

00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:16.160
 And I don't know

00:40:16.160 --> 00:40:17.039
 how Jewish people

00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:17.840
 and how Muslims

00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:18.880
 would answer this

00:40:18.880 --> 00:40:20.180
 but you see

00:40:20.180 --> 00:40:20.900
 here's the wonderful

00:40:20.900 --> 00:40:21.980
 thing about the gospel.

00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:23.300
 And if you look

00:40:23.300 --> 00:40:24.180
 back in the text

00:40:24.180 --> 00:40:25.800
 Jesus describes

00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:27.180
 how from all eternity

00:40:27.180 --> 00:40:29.980
 the Father

00:40:29.980 --> 00:40:31.059
 was glorifying

00:40:31.059 --> 00:40:31.619
 the Son

00:40:31.619 --> 00:40:33.400
 and from all eternity

00:40:33.400 --> 00:40:34.000
 the Son

00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:34.860
 was glorifying

00:40:34.860 --> 00:40:35.460
 the Father

00:40:35.460 --> 00:40:37.760
 and they don't need

00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:39.200
 any human being

00:40:39.200 --> 00:40:40.740
 to give them praise.

00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:41.760
 It's not because

00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:42.880
 God has a lack

00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:43.519
 it's not as if

00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:44.200
 God the Father

00:40:44.200 --> 00:40:44.579
 is saying

00:40:44.579 --> 00:40:46.180
 dang it

00:40:46.180 --> 00:40:47.079
 Jesus doesn't

00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:48.340
 give me enough praise

00:40:48.340 --> 00:40:49.760
 like I want more

00:40:49.760 --> 00:40:50.420
 like come on

00:40:50.420 --> 00:40:51.000
 give more

00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:52.100
 Jesus just isn't

00:40:52.100 --> 00:40:52.320
 doing

00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:53.200
 the Son of God

00:40:53.200 --> 00:40:53.940
 isn't giving me

00:40:53.940 --> 00:40:54.660
 enough praise

00:40:54.660 --> 00:40:55.720
 I think I'm going

00:40:55.720 --> 00:40:56.680
 to create George

00:40:56.680 --> 00:40:57.400
 and Daniel

00:40:57.400 --> 00:40:57.920
 and Anne

00:40:57.920 --> 00:40:58.900
 and a few other people

00:40:58.900 --> 00:41:00.020
 so they can top up

00:41:00.020 --> 00:41:00.600
 what Jesus

00:41:00.600 --> 00:41:02.080
 God the Son of God

00:41:02.080 --> 00:41:02.960
 just isn't able

00:41:02.960 --> 00:41:03.260
 to give

00:41:03.260 --> 00:41:03.740
 no that's not

00:41:03.740 --> 00:41:04.160
 how it works

00:41:04.160 --> 00:41:04.660
 at all.

00:41:05.780 --> 00:41:06.720
 Even the language

00:41:06.720 --> 00:41:07.380
 of glory

00:41:07.380 --> 00:41:07.900
 the language

00:41:07.900 --> 00:41:08.780
 of glorifying

00:41:08.780 --> 00:41:09.760
 is about a matter

00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:10.860
 about honoring

00:41:10.860 --> 00:41:11.780
 it's a matter

00:41:11.780 --> 00:41:12.760
 about recognizing

00:41:12.760 --> 00:41:13.520
 worth

00:41:13.520 --> 00:41:14.120
 it's a matter

00:41:14.120 --> 00:41:15.260
 of recognizing

00:41:15.260 --> 00:41:16.720
 just this profound

00:41:16.720 --> 00:41:17.360
 value

00:41:17.360 --> 00:41:17.840
 that when

00:41:17.840 --> 00:41:19.260
 we want to glorify

00:41:19.260 --> 00:41:19.660
 something

00:41:19.660 --> 00:41:20.420
 we want to praise

00:41:20.420 --> 00:41:20.740
 something

00:41:20.740 --> 00:41:21.260
 it's because

00:41:21.260 --> 00:41:22.140
 there's a depth

00:41:22.140 --> 00:41:23.060
 a wonder

00:41:23.060 --> 00:41:23.760
 a value

00:41:23.760 --> 00:41:24.720
 and so from

00:41:24.720 --> 00:41:25.420
 all eternity

00:41:25.420 --> 00:41:26.260
 the God

00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:27.360
 the Father

00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:28.700
 was saying

00:41:28.700 --> 00:41:29.560
 that the huge

00:41:29.560 --> 00:41:30.460
 value of the

00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:31.240
 person of God

00:41:31.240 --> 00:41:32.140
 the Son of God

00:41:32.140 --> 00:41:33.340
 and how worthy

00:41:33.340 --> 00:41:34.220
 he was to be

00:41:34.220 --> 00:41:34.660
 honored

00:41:34.660 --> 00:41:35.260
 and he said

00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:35.640
 you are

00:41:35.640 --> 00:41:37.500
 just to be

00:41:37.500 --> 00:41:38.040
 praised

00:41:38.040 --> 00:41:38.680
 and to honored

00:41:38.680 --> 00:41:39.360
 and glorified

00:41:39.360 --> 00:41:41.060
 and the Father

00:41:41.060 --> 00:41:41.780
 doesn't view this

00:41:41.780 --> 00:41:42.400
 as a lack

00:41:42.400 --> 00:41:43.500
 that all of eternity

00:41:43.500 --> 00:41:44.760
 he is glorifying

00:41:44.760 --> 00:41:45.340
 the Son

00:41:45.340 --> 00:41:46.320
 and the Son

00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:47.040
 doesn't view it

00:41:47.040 --> 00:41:47.700
 as any type of

00:41:47.699 --> 00:41:48.219
 lack

00:41:48.219 --> 00:41:48.699
 or need

00:41:48.699 --> 00:41:49.099
 in him

00:41:49.099 --> 00:41:49.659
 that from all

00:41:49.659 --> 00:41:50.199
 it just seems

00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:50.919
 that God

00:41:50.919 --> 00:41:51.399
 the Father

00:41:51.399 --> 00:41:52.460
 is so worthy

00:41:52.460 --> 00:41:53.500
 he is so

00:41:53.500 --> 00:41:54.639
 wonderful

00:41:54.639 --> 00:41:55.259
 and is so

00:41:55.259 --> 00:41:55.839
 worthy

00:41:55.839 --> 00:41:57.239
 for the Son

00:41:57.239 --> 00:41:57.759
 to say

00:41:57.759 --> 00:41:59.079
 to glorify him

00:41:59.079 --> 00:42:00.559
 and so from

00:42:00.559 --> 00:42:01.259
 all eternity

00:42:01.259 --> 00:42:01.879
 the Father

00:42:01.879 --> 00:42:02.659
 is glorifying

00:42:02.659 --> 00:42:03.019
 and giving

00:42:03.019 --> 00:42:03.480
 worth

00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:04.059
 and honor

00:42:04.059 --> 00:42:04.619
 and praise

00:42:04.619 --> 00:42:05.219
 to the Father

00:42:05.219 --> 00:42:05.779
 and the Father

00:42:05.779 --> 00:42:06.439
 to the Son

00:42:06.439 --> 00:42:07.319
 and then

00:42:07.319 --> 00:42:08.239
 God the Father

00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:08.839
 God the Son

00:42:08.839 --> 00:42:09.960
 and God the Holy Spirit

00:42:09.960 --> 00:42:11.519
 three persons

00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:12.099
 one God

00:42:12.099 --> 00:42:12.919
 from all eternity

00:42:12.919 --> 00:42:14.019
 they create

00:42:14.019 --> 00:42:15.119
 human beings

00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:16.659
 and human beings

00:42:16.659 --> 00:42:17.059
 are meant

00:42:17.059 --> 00:42:17.859
 not just to live

00:42:17.859 --> 00:42:18.779
 all by themselves

00:42:18.779 --> 00:42:19.920
 but to live

00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:21.099
 male and female

00:42:21.099 --> 00:42:22.239
 and to have families

00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:23.380
 and to live in communities

00:42:23.380 --> 00:42:24.460
 and to have churches

00:42:24.460 --> 00:42:25.599
 and have organizations

00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:27.239
 and God the Father

00:42:27.239 --> 00:42:27.920
 God the Son

00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:29.019
 God the Holy Spirit

00:42:29.019 --> 00:42:30.139
 is not saying

00:42:30.139 --> 00:42:31.799
 oh I am so needy

00:42:31.799 --> 00:42:32.759
 I am so needy

00:42:32.759 --> 00:42:33.219
 he's saying

00:42:33.219 --> 00:42:33.659
 no

00:42:33.659 --> 00:42:34.920
 from all eternity

00:42:34.920 --> 00:42:35.819
 there's this fullness

00:42:35.819 --> 00:42:36.480
 of love

00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:37.099
 this fullness

00:42:37.099 --> 00:42:37.779
 of praise

00:42:37.779 --> 00:42:38.359
 this fullness

00:42:38.359 --> 00:42:38.859
 of giving

00:42:38.859 --> 00:42:39.359
 of glory

00:42:39.359 --> 00:42:40.679
 and we want you

00:42:40.679 --> 00:42:41.519
 flesh

00:42:41.519 --> 00:42:42.619
 to come

00:42:42.619 --> 00:42:44.019
 and enter into this

00:42:44.019 --> 00:42:47.519
 out of our fullness

00:42:47.519 --> 00:42:49.679
 we desire you

00:42:49.679 --> 00:42:50.239
 to enter

00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:51.360
 into this

00:42:51.360 --> 00:42:55.699
 you could put up

00:42:55.699 --> 00:42:56.480
 the scripture text

00:42:56.480 --> 00:42:56.800
 again

00:42:56.800 --> 00:42:57.320
 Andrew

00:42:57.320 --> 00:42:59.019
 this is eternal life

00:42:59.019 --> 00:42:59.840
 that they may know you

00:42:59.840 --> 00:43:00.860
 the only true God

00:43:00.860 --> 00:43:01.840
 and Jesus Christ

00:43:01.840 --> 00:43:03.360
 whom you have sent

00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:05.739
 well

00:43:05.739 --> 00:43:08.119
 what about this whole

00:43:08.119 --> 00:43:09.019
 problem of knowledge

00:43:09.019 --> 00:43:09.759
 if you could put up

00:43:09.759 --> 00:43:10.519
 point number four

00:43:10.519 --> 00:43:12.739
 the problem is

00:43:12.739 --> 00:43:13.360
 that when

00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:14.220
 remember I went

00:43:14.220 --> 00:43:14.820
 through the beginning

00:43:14.820 --> 00:43:15.660
 about the whole thing

00:43:15.660 --> 00:43:16.280
 about the difference

00:43:16.280 --> 00:43:17.380
 between knowing a pebble

00:43:17.380 --> 00:43:18.200
 and knowing a bug

00:43:18.200 --> 00:43:19.039
 and knowing a dog

00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:19.860
 and knowing a person

00:43:19.860 --> 00:43:20.780
 and knowing God

00:43:20.780 --> 00:43:22.900
 and you realize

00:43:22.900 --> 00:43:23.840
 that in knowing

00:43:23.840 --> 00:43:24.660
 a person

00:43:24.660 --> 00:43:26.740
 you're changed

00:43:26.740 --> 00:43:28.680
 if knowing a person

00:43:28.680 --> 00:43:29.500
 changes you

00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:30.539
 how much more

00:43:30.539 --> 00:43:31.820
 must knowing

00:43:31.820 --> 00:43:33.360
 the personal God

00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:39.700
 I can't even

00:43:39.700 --> 00:43:40.720
 begin to count

00:43:40.720 --> 00:43:41.780
 the different ways

00:43:41.780 --> 00:43:42.620
 that my life

00:43:42.620 --> 00:43:43.220
 is different

00:43:43.220 --> 00:43:43.780
 from knowing

00:43:43.780 --> 00:43:44.460
 my wife

00:43:44.460 --> 00:43:47.900
 it would be

00:43:47.900 --> 00:43:48.420
 impossible

00:43:48.420 --> 00:43:49.280
 for anybody

00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:50.480
 to trace back

00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:51.059
 we've been married

00:43:51.059 --> 00:43:52.099
 37 years

00:43:52.099 --> 00:43:52.880
 what George

00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:53.480
 would be like

00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:54.099
 without knowing

00:43:54.099 --> 00:43:55.019
 having ever met

00:43:55.019 --> 00:43:55.539
 Louise

00:43:55.539 --> 00:43:56.620
 than it would be

00:43:56.620 --> 00:43:57.460
 to know him now

00:43:57.460 --> 00:43:58.500
 for me to have

00:43:58.500 --> 00:43:59.640
 spent 37 years

00:43:59.640 --> 00:44:00.380
 knowing her

00:44:00.380 --> 00:44:02.660
 like you can't

00:44:02.660 --> 00:44:03.400
 know a person

00:44:03.400 --> 00:44:04.440
 without being

00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:05.240
 changed

00:44:05.240 --> 00:44:07.599
 and if knowing

00:44:07.599 --> 00:44:08.180
 a person

00:44:08.180 --> 00:44:09.000
 is all about

00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:10.500
 opening yourself

00:44:10.500 --> 00:44:11.539
 to the other person

00:44:11.539 --> 00:44:13.180
 and at the same time

00:44:13.180 --> 00:44:13.800
 the other person

00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:14.579
 opens themselves

00:44:14.579 --> 00:44:15.220
 to you

00:44:15.220 --> 00:44:16.539
 and in some way

00:44:16.539 --> 00:44:17.300
 you enter into

00:44:17.300 --> 00:44:18.019
 the other person

00:44:18.019 --> 00:44:18.640
 in some way

00:44:18.640 --> 00:44:19.340
 they enter into

00:44:19.340 --> 00:44:19.880
 you and you're

00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:20.340
 changed

00:44:20.340 --> 00:44:21.380
 and as I've

00:44:21.380 --> 00:44:21.960
 shared with you

00:44:21.960 --> 00:44:22.240
 before

00:44:22.240 --> 00:44:22.920
 that's why

00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:24.559
 it is so common

00:44:24.559 --> 00:44:26.240
 when a loved one

00:44:26.240 --> 00:44:26.760
 dies

00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:28.300
 whether it's

00:44:28.300 --> 00:44:28.880
 a child

00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:30.360
 or your wife

00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:31.140
 or your husband

00:44:31.140 --> 00:44:31.920
 it often

00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:33.020
 feels for people

00:44:33.020 --> 00:44:33.700
 as if there is

00:44:33.700 --> 00:44:34.500
 now a hollow

00:44:34.500 --> 00:44:35.860
 spot inside

00:44:35.860 --> 00:44:36.440
 of you

00:44:36.440 --> 00:44:39.020
 that something's

00:44:39.020 --> 00:44:39.660
 left you

00:44:39.660 --> 00:44:40.820
 because you're

00:44:40.820 --> 00:44:41.400
 changed by

00:44:41.400 --> 00:44:42.220
 knowing a person

00:44:42.220 --> 00:44:44.340
 and so what

00:44:44.340 --> 00:44:45.220
 Jesus is saying

00:44:45.220 --> 00:44:46.100
 here is once

00:44:46.100 --> 00:44:46.620
 again just

00:44:46.620 --> 00:44:47.340
 helping us

00:44:47.340 --> 00:44:47.900
 to understand

00:44:47.900 --> 00:44:48.520
 this personal

00:44:48.520 --> 00:44:48.820
 God

00:44:48.820 --> 00:44:49.540
 and it just

00:44:49.540 --> 00:44:50.400
 makes sense

00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:52.100
 if knowing

00:44:52.100 --> 00:44:52.660
 Louise

00:44:52.660 --> 00:44:53.860
 changes me

00:44:53.860 --> 00:44:55.220
 how much

00:44:55.220 --> 00:44:55.780
 more must

00:44:55.780 --> 00:44:56.680
 knowing God

00:44:56.680 --> 00:44:58.400
 change me

00:44:58.400 --> 00:45:00.200
 you could put up

00:45:00.200 --> 00:45:00.640
 the scripture

00:45:00.640 --> 00:45:01.420
 text Andrew

00:45:01.420 --> 00:45:04.700
 this is eternal

00:45:04.700 --> 00:45:05.060
 life

00:45:05.060 --> 00:45:05.580
 that they may

00:45:05.580 --> 00:45:06.100
 know you

00:45:06.100 --> 00:45:06.900
 the only true

00:45:06.900 --> 00:45:07.260
 God

00:45:07.260 --> 00:45:07.720
 and Jesus

00:45:07.720 --> 00:45:08.300
 Christ

00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:09.060
 whom you

00:45:09.060 --> 00:45:09.600
 have sent

00:45:09.600 --> 00:45:11.000
 and now

00:45:11.000 --> 00:45:11.300
 if you could

00:45:11.300 --> 00:45:11.660
 put up the

00:45:11.660 --> 00:45:12.180
 point again

00:45:12.180 --> 00:45:12.580
 Andrew

00:45:12.580 --> 00:45:12.980
 the final

00:45:12.980 --> 00:45:13.320
 point

00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:14.340
 if knowing

00:45:14.340 --> 00:45:14.880
 a wonderful

00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:15.420
 person

00:45:15.420 --> 00:45:16.040
 feels like

00:45:16.040 --> 00:45:16.560
 a gift

00:45:16.560 --> 00:45:18.540
 how much

00:45:18.540 --> 00:45:19.120
 more must

00:45:19.120 --> 00:45:19.560
 it be

00:45:19.560 --> 00:45:20.580
 a real

00:45:20.580 --> 00:45:21.120
 and true

00:45:21.120 --> 00:45:21.600
 gift

00:45:21.600 --> 00:45:22.800
 to know

00:45:22.800 --> 00:45:23.240
 God

00:45:23.240 --> 00:45:25.080
 if knowing

00:45:25.080 --> 00:45:25.620
 a wonderful

00:45:25.619 --> 00:45:26.539
 person feels

00:45:26.539 --> 00:45:27.259
 like a gift

00:45:27.259 --> 00:45:28.759
 how much

00:45:28.759 --> 00:45:29.339
 more must

00:45:29.339 --> 00:45:29.659
 it be

00:45:29.659 --> 00:45:30.199
 a real

00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:30.759
 and true

00:45:30.759 --> 00:45:31.219
 gift

00:45:31.219 --> 00:45:32.400
 to know

00:45:32.400 --> 00:45:32.779
 God

00:45:32.779 --> 00:45:34.900
 I'm not

00:45:34.900 --> 00:45:35.380
 just talking

00:45:35.380 --> 00:45:35.839
 about some

00:45:35.839 --> 00:45:36.619
 famous people

00:45:36.619 --> 00:45:37.000
 that I've

00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:37.259
 known

00:45:37.259 --> 00:45:39.039
 I

00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:40.659
 you know

00:45:40.659 --> 00:45:41.019
 I've been

00:45:41.019 --> 00:45:41.380
 at some

00:45:41.380 --> 00:45:41.880
 gatherings

00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:42.299
 and you

00:45:42.299 --> 00:45:42.839
 see this

00:45:42.839 --> 00:45:43.179
 person

00:45:43.179 --> 00:45:43.500
 you can

00:45:43.500 --> 00:45:44.019
 just tell

00:45:44.019 --> 00:45:44.400
 maybe they

00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:45.019
 just radiate

00:45:45.019 --> 00:45:46.139
 goodness

00:45:46.139 --> 00:45:47.420
 or they

00:45:47.420 --> 00:45:48.079
 just radiate

00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:48.699
 wisdom

00:45:48.699 --> 00:45:49.139
 wisdom

00:45:49.139 --> 00:45:51.319
 and then

00:45:51.319 --> 00:45:51.739
 they say

00:45:51.739 --> 00:45:52.319
 want to

00:45:52.319 --> 00:45:53.119
 have coffee

00:45:53.119 --> 00:45:54.299
 and I

00:45:54.299 --> 00:45:55.159
 I'll tell

00:45:55.159 --> 00:45:55.539
 you this

00:45:55.539 --> 00:45:56.059
 I just

00:45:56.059 --> 00:45:56.599
 feel so

00:45:56.599 --> 00:45:57.299
 unworthy

00:45:57.299 --> 00:45:59.079
 I'll call

00:45:59.079 --> 00:45:59.559
 up Louise

00:45:59.559 --> 00:46:00.159
 and say

00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:05.339
 I just

00:46:05.339 --> 00:46:05.859
 feel so

00:46:05.859 --> 00:46:06.399
 unworthy

00:46:06.399 --> 00:46:06.839
 that they'd

00:46:06.839 --> 00:46:07.279
 actually want

00:46:07.279 --> 00:46:07.659
 to talk

00:46:07.659 --> 00:46:08.059
 to me

00:46:08.059 --> 00:46:09.239
 like it

00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:09.659
 just feels

00:46:09.659 --> 00:46:10.019
 like this

00:46:10.019 --> 00:46:10.519
 act of

00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:10.899
 grace

00:46:10.899 --> 00:46:11.500
 or gift

00:46:11.500 --> 00:46:13.980
 that they

00:46:13.980 --> 00:46:14.359
 would want

00:46:14.359 --> 00:46:14.739
 to spend

00:46:14.739 --> 00:46:15.359
 time with

00:46:15.359 --> 00:46:15.539
 me

00:46:15.539 --> 00:46:15.859
 and get

00:46:15.859 --> 00:46:16.319
 to know

00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:16.760
 me

00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:17.380
 and not

00:46:17.380 --> 00:46:17.780
 just to

00:46:17.780 --> 00:46:18.000
 spend

00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:18.460
 time with

00:46:18.460 --> 00:46:18.600
 me

00:46:18.600 --> 00:46:18.900
 so they

00:46:18.900 --> 00:46:19.300
 could talk

00:46:19.300 --> 00:46:19.800
 about their

00:46:19.800 --> 00:46:20.480
 accomplishments

00:46:20.480 --> 00:46:20.880
 or how

00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:21.220
 wonderful

00:46:21.220 --> 00:46:21.660
 they are

00:46:21.660 --> 00:46:23.300
 but here

00:46:23.300 --> 00:46:23.960
 this person

00:46:23.960 --> 00:46:24.400
 whether it's

00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:24.760
 a person

00:46:24.760 --> 00:46:25.120
 of great

00:46:25.120 --> 00:46:25.740
 accomplishment

00:46:25.740 --> 00:46:26.360
 or just a

00:46:26.360 --> 00:46:26.780
 person of

00:46:26.780 --> 00:46:27.460
 great goodness

00:46:27.460 --> 00:46:28.019
 or great

00:46:28.019 --> 00:46:28.480
 holiness

00:46:28.480 --> 00:46:29.000
 or great

00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:29.400
 wisdom

00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:30.880
 and they

00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:31.380
 want to

00:46:31.380 --> 00:46:32.100
 actually spend

00:46:32.100 --> 00:46:32.680
 time with

00:46:32.680 --> 00:46:33.440
 me and I

00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:34.460
 feel like I

00:46:34.460 --> 00:46:34.860
 have been

00:46:34.860 --> 00:46:35.600
 given a

00:46:35.600 --> 00:46:36.260
 profound

00:46:36.260 --> 00:46:37.320
 gift

00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:40.660
 and if

00:46:40.660 --> 00:46:41.019
 that is

00:46:41.019 --> 00:46:41.480
 true just

00:46:41.480 --> 00:46:41.820
 with a

00:46:41.820 --> 00:46:42.539
 person how

00:46:42.539 --> 00:46:43.180
 much more

00:46:43.180 --> 00:46:43.860
 true must

00:46:43.860 --> 00:46:44.420
 it be of

00:46:44.420 --> 00:46:44.860
 God

00:46:44.860 --> 00:46:47.620
 and that's

00:46:47.620 --> 00:46:48.039
 what Jesus

00:46:48.039 --> 00:46:48.720
 means by

00:46:48.720 --> 00:46:49.360
 saying that

00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:50.200
 only he

00:46:50.200 --> 00:46:51.360
 can give

00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:52.680
 this eternal

00:46:52.680 --> 00:46:53.340
 life only

00:46:53.340 --> 00:46:54.420
 he can give

00:46:54.420 --> 00:46:55.420
 this knowledge

00:46:55.420 --> 00:46:56.559
 of God

00:46:56.559 --> 00:46:58.840
 you know by

00:46:58.840 --> 00:46:59.539
 our normal

00:46:59.539 --> 00:47:00.400
 ways of

00:47:00.400 --> 00:47:00.980
 thinking about

00:47:00.980 --> 00:47:01.579
 things as I've

00:47:01.579 --> 00:47:02.300
 already shared

00:47:02.300 --> 00:47:03.019
 we tend to

00:47:03.019 --> 00:47:03.559
 think of God

00:47:03.559 --> 00:47:03.820
 as an

00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:04.400
 impersonal

00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:04.880
 force

00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:06.720
 and often

00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:07.059
 when we

00:47:07.059 --> 00:47:07.400
 think of

00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:07.780
 God in

00:47:07.780 --> 00:47:08.579
 personal ways

00:47:08.579 --> 00:47:08.920
 we get

00:47:08.920 --> 00:47:09.400
 very very

00:47:09.400 --> 00:47:09.880
 frightened

00:47:09.880 --> 00:47:10.519
 we worry

00:47:10.519 --> 00:47:10.960
 that God

00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:11.260
 is going

00:47:11.260 --> 00:47:11.640
 to hurt

00:47:11.640 --> 00:47:11.980
 us

00:47:11.980 --> 00:47:13.180
 we worry

00:47:13.180 --> 00:47:13.519
 that he's

00:47:13.519 --> 00:47:13.960
 all about

00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:14.480
 ego

00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:15.380
 and the

00:47:15.380 --> 00:47:15.780
 fact of

00:47:15.780 --> 00:47:16.019
 the matter

00:47:16.019 --> 00:47:16.800
 is that

00:47:16.800 --> 00:47:17.619
 no train

00:47:17.619 --> 00:47:18.300
 of secular

00:47:18.300 --> 00:47:18.760
 thought

00:47:18.760 --> 00:47:19.440
 no train

00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:20.019
 of secular

00:47:20.019 --> 00:47:20.460
 wisdom

00:47:20.460 --> 00:47:21.199
 no train

00:47:21.199 --> 00:47:23.079
 of ordinary

00:47:23.079 --> 00:47:23.699
 religion

00:47:23.699 --> 00:47:24.500
 no train

00:47:24.500 --> 00:47:25.199
 of ordinary

00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:25.880
 spirituality

00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:26.719
 will ever

00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:27.280
 say that

00:47:27.280 --> 00:47:27.639
 the way

00:47:27.639 --> 00:47:28.199
 that God

00:47:28.199 --> 00:47:28.539
 is going

00:47:28.539 --> 00:47:28.940
 to fully

00:47:28.940 --> 00:47:29.599
 reveal himself

00:47:29.599 --> 00:47:30.079
 and make

00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:30.440
 himself

00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:30.800
 known

00:47:30.800 --> 00:47:32.639
 is by

00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:33.300
 setting aside

00:47:33.300 --> 00:47:33.840
 his honor

00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:34.300
 and glory

00:47:34.300 --> 00:47:35.019
 and splendor

00:47:35.019 --> 00:47:35.440
 and divine

00:47:35.440 --> 00:47:36.059
 prerogatives

00:47:36.059 --> 00:47:36.760
 and entering

00:47:36.760 --> 00:47:37.260
 among us

00:47:37.260 --> 00:47:37.659
 to live a

00:47:37.659 --> 00:47:38.139
 fully human

00:47:38.139 --> 00:47:38.500
 life

00:47:38.500 --> 00:47:38.960
 and then to

00:47:38.960 --> 00:47:39.619
 die upon

00:47:39.619 --> 00:47:40.300
 the cross

00:47:40.300 --> 00:47:41.519
 bearing in

00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:42.260
 his person

00:47:42.260 --> 00:47:43.440
 your sin

00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:43.960
 and mine

00:47:43.960 --> 00:47:45.100
 your shame

00:47:45.100 --> 00:47:45.720
 and mine

00:47:45.720 --> 00:47:46.680
 your death

00:47:46.680 --> 00:47:47.300
 and mine

00:47:47.300 --> 00:47:48.160
 your doom

00:47:48.160 --> 00:47:48.780
 and mine

00:47:48.780 --> 00:47:50.040
 no train

00:47:50.040 --> 00:47:50.720
 of natural

00:47:50.720 --> 00:47:51.220
 thought

00:47:51.220 --> 00:47:52.000
 would ever

00:47:52.000 --> 00:47:52.440
 lead us

00:47:52.440 --> 00:47:53.280
 to understand

00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:53.980
 that that

00:47:53.980 --> 00:47:54.640
 is the

00:47:54.640 --> 00:47:55.240
 revelation

00:47:55.240 --> 00:47:56.080
 of the

00:47:56.080 --> 00:47:56.500
 glory

00:47:56.500 --> 00:47:57.480
 of God

00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:00.140
 only Jesus

00:48:00.140 --> 00:48:01.260
 reveals

00:48:01.260 --> 00:48:02.260
 the God

00:48:02.260 --> 00:48:02.860
 that really

00:48:02.860 --> 00:48:03.820
 does exist

00:48:03.820 --> 00:48:04.400
 and it is

00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:05.140
 not in

00:48:05.140 --> 00:48:05.520
 keeping

00:48:05.520 --> 00:48:06.140
 with any

00:48:06.140 --> 00:48:06.720
 train

00:48:06.720 --> 00:48:07.560
 of spiritual

00:48:07.560 --> 00:48:08.180
 thought

00:48:08.180 --> 00:48:09.140
 or rash

00:48:09.139 --> 00:48:10.219
 or wisdom

00:48:10.219 --> 00:48:13.259
 and so

00:48:13.259 --> 00:48:13.980
 this wonderful

00:48:13.980 --> 00:48:14.579
 thing is

00:48:14.579 --> 00:48:14.900
 that when

00:48:14.900 --> 00:48:15.500
 I reach

00:48:15.500 --> 00:48:15.839
 out with

00:48:15.839 --> 00:48:16.480
 my mind

00:48:16.480 --> 00:48:16.819
 or my

00:48:16.819 --> 00:48:17.239
 heart

00:48:17.239 --> 00:48:17.539
 or my

00:48:17.539 --> 00:48:17.960
 arm

00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:19.219
 to recognize

00:48:19.219 --> 00:48:19.920
 that Jesus

00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:20.639
 is the one

00:48:20.639 --> 00:48:21.400
 who can reconcile

00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:22.059
 me to God

00:48:22.059 --> 00:48:22.500
 and I need

00:48:22.500 --> 00:48:23.019
 him as my

00:48:23.019 --> 00:48:23.379
 savior

00:48:23.379 --> 00:48:24.279
 and my

00:48:24.279 --> 00:48:24.699
 mind

00:48:24.699 --> 00:48:25.379
 cannot reach

00:48:25.379 --> 00:48:25.799
 Jesus

00:48:25.799 --> 00:48:26.900
 my heart

00:48:26.900 --> 00:48:27.619
 cannot reach

00:48:27.619 --> 00:48:28.000
 Jesus

00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:28.679
 my will

00:48:28.679 --> 00:48:29.420
 cannot reach

00:48:29.420 --> 00:48:29.799
 Jesus

00:48:29.799 --> 00:48:30.460
 my hand

00:48:30.460 --> 00:48:31.139
 cannot reach

00:48:31.139 --> 00:48:31.480
 Jesus

00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:32.139
 because there

00:48:32.139 --> 00:48:32.460
 is an

00:48:32.460 --> 00:48:33.299
 infinite distance

00:48:33.299 --> 00:48:33.920
 between me

00:48:33.920 --> 00:48:34.339
 and him

00:48:34.339 --> 00:48:35.219
 but the

00:48:35.219 --> 00:48:35.779
 wonder of the

00:48:35.779 --> 00:48:36.440
 gospel is

00:48:36.440 --> 00:48:37.059
 that Jesus

00:48:37.059 --> 00:48:37.920
 crosses that

00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:38.960
 infinite distance

00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:40.039
 that I

00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:40.980
 cannot cross

00:48:40.980 --> 00:48:42.099
 and he

00:48:42.099 --> 00:48:42.659
 comes to

00:48:42.659 --> 00:48:43.159
 my mind

00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:43.760
 he comes

00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:44.139
 to my

00:48:44.139 --> 00:48:44.480
 heart

00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:45.019
 he comes

00:48:45.019 --> 00:48:45.420
 to my

00:48:45.420 --> 00:48:45.720
 will

00:48:45.720 --> 00:48:46.280
 he comes

00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:46.619
 to my

00:48:46.619 --> 00:48:46.940
 hand

00:48:46.940 --> 00:48:47.420
 he comes

00:48:47.420 --> 00:48:47.760
 to my

00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:48.139
 body

00:48:48.139 --> 00:48:49.800
 and as my

00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:50.159
 hand

00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:50.559
 touches

00:48:50.559 --> 00:48:51.280
 his hand

00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:51.539
 that is

00:48:51.539 --> 00:48:51.920
 crossed

00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:52.400
 to come

00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:52.800
 across

00:48:52.800 --> 00:48:53.059
 such

00:48:53.059 --> 00:48:53.440
 infinite

00:48:53.440 --> 00:48:53.900
 space

00:48:53.900 --> 00:48:54.260
 and I

00:48:54.260 --> 00:48:54.679
 touch

00:48:54.679 --> 00:48:54.960
 him

00:48:54.960 --> 00:48:55.800
 there's

00:48:55.800 --> 00:48:56.320
 not only

00:48:56.320 --> 00:48:56.800
 the sense

00:48:56.800 --> 00:48:57.159
 that he

00:48:57.159 --> 00:48:57.639
 becomes

00:48:57.639 --> 00:48:58.119
 in a sense

00:48:58.119 --> 00:48:58.360
 my

00:48:58.360 --> 00:48:58.980
 substitute

00:48:58.980 --> 00:49:00.119
 it's

00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:00.619
 not just

00:49:00.619 --> 00:49:01.000
 that he

00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:01.539
 becomes

00:49:01.539 --> 00:49:02.059
 in a sense

00:49:02.059 --> 00:49:02.720
 where I

00:49:02.720 --> 00:49:03.400
 exchange

00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:04.159
 my doom

00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:04.780
 for his

00:49:04.780 --> 00:49:05.340
 destiny

00:49:05.340 --> 00:49:06.679
 it is

00:49:06.679 --> 00:49:07.380
 also a

00:49:07.380 --> 00:49:07.780
 touching

00:49:07.780 --> 00:49:08.240
 of him

00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:09.099
 by which

00:49:09.099 --> 00:49:10.199
 I now

00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:11.019
 start to

00:49:11.019 --> 00:49:11.439
 know

00:49:11.439 --> 00:49:12.399
 God

00:49:12.399 --> 00:49:12.819
 and to

00:49:12.819 --> 00:49:13.219
 be known

00:49:13.219 --> 00:49:14.159
 by him

00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:14.699
 and to

00:49:14.699 --> 00:49:15.639
 know God

00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:16.359
 is a gift

00:49:16.359 --> 00:49:16.799
 of the

00:49:16.799 --> 00:49:17.419
 grace of

00:49:17.419 --> 00:49:17.839
 Jesus

00:49:17.839 --> 00:49:20.519
 and it

00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:21.039
 is

00:49:21.039 --> 00:49:24.639
 this knowledge

00:49:24.639 --> 00:49:25.319
 of him

00:49:25.319 --> 00:49:27.299
 is eternal

00:49:27.299 --> 00:49:27.839
 life

00:49:27.839 --> 00:49:28.959
 that is the

00:49:28.959 --> 00:49:29.579
 change that

00:49:29.579 --> 00:49:29.979
 it works

00:49:29.979 --> 00:49:30.619
 within me

00:49:30.619 --> 00:49:31.919
 that even

00:49:31.919 --> 00:49:32.439
 though I

00:49:32.439 --> 00:49:33.139
 walk around

00:49:33.139 --> 00:49:33.659
 right now

00:49:33.659 --> 00:49:34.279
 even as I

00:49:34.279 --> 00:49:35.119
 stand with

00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:36.099
 normal earthly

00:49:36.099 --> 00:49:36.900
 human life

00:49:36.900 --> 00:49:37.259
 when I

00:49:37.259 --> 00:49:37.759
 put my

00:49:37.759 --> 00:49:38.219
 hand in

00:49:38.219 --> 00:49:38.559
 the hand

00:49:38.559 --> 00:49:39.000
 of Jesus

00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:39.400
 when I

00:49:39.400 --> 00:49:39.900
 put my

00:49:39.900 --> 00:49:40.420
 mind

00:49:40.420 --> 00:49:41.480
 on Jesus

00:49:41.480 --> 00:49:41.900
 when I

00:49:41.900 --> 00:49:42.400
 give my

00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:42.940
 heart

00:49:42.940 --> 00:49:43.739
 and my

00:49:43.739 --> 00:49:44.319
 will to

00:49:44.319 --> 00:49:44.699
 Jesus

00:49:44.699 --> 00:49:45.199
 and he

00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:46.059
 really always

00:49:46.059 --> 00:49:46.940
 takes any

00:49:46.940 --> 00:49:47.619
 offer to

00:49:47.619 --> 00:49:48.380
 give ourselves

00:49:48.380 --> 00:49:48.799
 to him

00:49:48.799 --> 00:49:49.519
 he always

00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:50.299
 takes it

00:49:50.299 --> 00:49:52.119
 that at the

00:49:52.119 --> 00:49:52.719
 same time

00:49:52.719 --> 00:49:53.299
 that I have

00:49:53.299 --> 00:49:53.940
 an earthly

00:49:53.940 --> 00:49:54.500
 life

00:49:54.500 --> 00:49:55.219
 I now

00:49:55.219 --> 00:49:56.000
 have received

00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:56.619
 an eternal

00:49:56.619 --> 00:49:57.119
 life

00:49:57.119 --> 00:49:58.319
 which means

00:49:58.319 --> 00:49:58.799
 a life

00:49:58.799 --> 00:49:59.360
 that only

00:49:59.360 --> 00:50:00.059
 comes from

00:50:00.059 --> 00:50:00.400
 God

00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:01.039
 that begins

00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:01.519
 now

00:50:01.519 --> 00:50:03.300
 and at

00:50:03.300 --> 00:50:03.639
 the moment

00:50:03.639 --> 00:50:04.019
 of my

00:50:04.019 --> 00:50:04.440
 death

00:50:04.440 --> 00:50:05.579
 what my

00:50:05.579 --> 00:50:06.159
 family and

00:50:06.159 --> 00:50:06.619
 my friends

00:50:06.619 --> 00:50:07.039
 will see

00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:07.420
 as my

00:50:07.420 --> 00:50:07.780
 death

00:50:07.780 --> 00:50:09.139
 is actually

00:50:09.139 --> 00:50:09.719
 the moment

00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:10.880
 that eternal

00:50:10.880 --> 00:50:11.420
 life

00:50:11.420 --> 00:50:12.820
 swallows my

00:50:12.820 --> 00:50:13.900
 earthly life

00:50:13.900 --> 00:50:15.559
 so that all

00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:16.159
 that I have

00:50:16.159 --> 00:50:17.440
 left is this

00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:18.300
 eternal life

00:50:18.300 --> 00:50:19.360
 of knowing

00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:19.840
 God

00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:20.860
 and being

00:50:20.860 --> 00:50:21.400
 known by

00:50:21.400 --> 00:50:22.000
 him

00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:26.719
 I invite you

00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:27.199
 to stand

00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:38.179
 and

00:50:38.179 --> 00:50:39.279
 you know

00:50:39.279 --> 00:50:39.639
 here's the

00:50:39.639 --> 00:50:40.439
 wonderful thing

00:50:40.439 --> 00:50:41.319
 about this

00:50:41.319 --> 00:50:41.739
 image

00:50:41.739 --> 00:50:43.559
 that eternal

00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:43.899
 life

00:50:43.899 --> 00:50:44.259
 if you could

00:50:44.259 --> 00:50:44.659
 put up the

00:50:44.659 --> 00:50:45.319
 scripture text

00:50:45.319 --> 00:50:46.239
 perfect Andrew

00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:46.899
 this is eternal

00:50:46.899 --> 00:50:47.519
 life that they

00:50:47.519 --> 00:50:48.179
 may know you

00:50:48.179 --> 00:50:48.919
 the only true

00:50:48.919 --> 00:50:49.439
 God and

00:50:49.439 --> 00:50:50.119
 Jesus Christ

00:50:50.119 --> 00:50:50.460
 whom you

00:50:50.460 --> 00:50:50.980
 have sent

00:50:50.980 --> 00:50:53.899
 salvation

00:50:53.899 --> 00:50:54.579
 begins when

00:50:54.579 --> 00:50:54.819
 you know

00:50:54.819 --> 00:50:55.399
 God for the

00:50:55.399 --> 00:50:56.019
 first time

00:50:56.019 --> 00:50:58.300
 I've been

00:50:58.300 --> 00:50:58.699
 married to

00:50:58.699 --> 00:50:59.159
 Louise for

00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:00.059
 37 years

00:51:00.059 --> 00:51:00.579
 I'm still

00:51:00.579 --> 00:51:01.059
 learning to

00:51:01.059 --> 00:51:01.539
 know her

00:51:01.539 --> 00:51:05.420
 and

00:51:05.420 --> 00:51:07.199
 and so

00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:07.820
 this is a

00:51:07.820 --> 00:51:08.559
 time for

00:51:08.559 --> 00:51:09.280
 God's people

00:51:09.280 --> 00:51:10.019
 to cry out

00:51:10.019 --> 00:51:10.420
 and say

00:51:10.420 --> 00:51:10.800
 father

00:51:10.800 --> 00:51:11.860
 I don't

00:51:11.860 --> 00:51:12.259
 want to

00:51:12.259 --> 00:51:12.719
 just know

00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:13.239
 about you

00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:13.699
 but I do

00:51:13.699 --> 00:51:13.980
 want to

00:51:13.980 --> 00:51:14.400
 know about

00:51:14.400 --> 00:51:14.559
 you

00:51:14.559 --> 00:51:14.840
 but I

00:51:14.840 --> 00:51:15.259
 want to

00:51:15.259 --> 00:51:16.019
 know you

00:51:16.019 --> 00:51:16.599
 and I

00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:16.860
 want to

00:51:16.860 --> 00:51:17.559
 be known

00:51:17.559 --> 00:51:18.759
 by you

00:51:18.759 --> 00:51:19.139
 and I

00:51:19.139 --> 00:51:19.460
 want to

00:51:19.460 --> 00:51:19.880
 know you

00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:20.539
 more and

00:51:20.539 --> 00:51:21.039
 more and

00:51:21.039 --> 00:51:21.440
 more and

00:51:21.440 --> 00:51:21.860
 have you

00:51:21.860 --> 00:51:22.420
 know me

00:51:22.420 --> 00:51:23.380
 more and

00:51:23.380 --> 00:51:23.739
 more and

00:51:23.739 --> 00:51:24.019
 more in

00:51:24.019 --> 00:51:24.460
 the power

00:51:24.460 --> 00:51:24.739
 of the

00:51:24.739 --> 00:51:25.360
 Holy Spirit

00:51:25.360 --> 00:51:26.320
 and this

00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:26.620
 is the

00:51:26.620 --> 00:51:27.200
 time for

00:51:27.200 --> 00:51:27.579
 us as

00:51:27.579 --> 00:51:28.000
 God's

00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:28.480
 people to

00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:29.140
 call out

00:51:29.140 --> 00:51:29.760
 to God

00:51:29.760 --> 00:51:31.059
 just to

00:51:31.059 --> 00:51:31.640
 ask to

00:51:31.640 --> 00:51:32.340
 know him

00:51:32.340 --> 00:51:32.920
 more and

00:51:32.920 --> 00:51:33.200
 to be

00:51:33.200 --> 00:51:33.920
 known by

00:51:33.920 --> 00:51:34.640
 him more

00:51:34.640 --> 00:51:35.059
 and to

00:51:35.059 --> 00:51:35.620
 know that

00:51:35.620 --> 00:51:36.260
 we have

00:51:36.260 --> 00:51:37.120
 a dad

00:51:37.120 --> 00:51:37.820
 in heaven

00:51:37.820 --> 00:51:39.099
 who loves

00:51:39.099 --> 00:51:39.500
 us who

00:51:39.500 --> 00:51:40.180
 hears our

00:51:40.180 --> 00:51:41.420
 prayers who

00:51:41.420 --> 00:51:42.599
 answers our

00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:43.920
 prayers as

00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:44.579
 we pour out

00:51:44.579 --> 00:51:45.079
 our hearts

00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:45.539
 to him

00:51:45.539 --> 00:51:49.079
 let's pray

00:51:49.079 --> 00:51:54.219
 father if

00:51:54.219 --> 00:51:54.420
 there are

00:51:54.420 --> 00:51:54.920
 any here

00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:55.239
 who are

00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:55.719
 hesitating

00:51:55.719 --> 00:51:56.179
 to call

00:51:56.179 --> 00:51:56.500
 out to

00:51:56.500 --> 00:51:56.759
 you for

00:51:56.759 --> 00:51:57.159
 the first

00:51:57.159 --> 00:51:57.679
 time to

00:51:57.679 --> 00:51:57.880
 have

00:51:57.880 --> 00:51:58.539
 Jesus as

00:51:58.539 --> 00:51:58.739
 their

00:51:58.739 --> 00:51:59.279
 Lord and

00:51:59.279 --> 00:51:59.619
 Savior

00:51:59.619 --> 00:52:01.319
 to come

00:52:01.319 --> 00:52:01.659
 and to

00:52:01.659 --> 00:52:02.000
 touch

00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:02.440
 them and

00:52:02.440 --> 00:52:02.779
 to help

00:52:02.779 --> 00:52:03.159
 them to

00:52:03.159 --> 00:52:03.659
 know you

00:52:03.659 --> 00:52:04.019
 and to

00:52:04.019 --> 00:52:04.599
 know him

00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:06.039
 father I

00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:06.340
 ask that

00:52:06.340 --> 00:52:06.699
 your Holy

00:52:06.699 --> 00:52:07.559
 Spirit would

00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:09.079
 move in

00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:09.579
 their hearts

00:52:09.579 --> 00:52:10.219
 and lives

00:52:10.219 --> 00:52:10.639
 that this

00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:11.039
 might be

00:52:11.039 --> 00:52:11.619
 that time

00:52:11.619 --> 00:52:11.960
 when they

00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:12.539
 say Jesus

00:52:12.539 --> 00:52:13.219
 I'm here

00:52:13.219 --> 00:52:14.380
 I want

00:52:14.380 --> 00:52:14.599
 to be

00:52:14.599 --> 00:52:15.059
 yours

00:52:15.059 --> 00:52:16.599
 I want

00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:16.940
 to know

00:52:16.940 --> 00:52:17.299
 you

00:52:17.299 --> 00:52:18.880
 and be

00:52:18.880 --> 00:52:19.400
 known by

00:52:19.400 --> 00:52:19.699
 you I

00:52:19.699 --> 00:52:19.920
 want to

00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:20.199
 know the

00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:20.779
 father and

00:52:20.779 --> 00:52:21.099
 be known

00:52:21.099 --> 00:52:21.719
 by him

00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:23.119
 and father

00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:23.440
 if there

00:52:23.440 --> 00:52:23.699
 are any

00:52:23.699 --> 00:52:24.320
 here who

00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:24.659
 are really

00:52:24.659 --> 00:52:25.159
 struggling

00:52:25.159 --> 00:52:25.799
 with abusive

00:52:25.799 --> 00:52:26.539
 dads and

00:52:26.539 --> 00:52:27.039
 have problems

00:52:27.039 --> 00:52:27.340
 with the

00:52:27.340 --> 00:52:27.820
 language I

00:52:27.820 --> 00:52:28.340
 ask that you

00:52:28.340 --> 00:52:28.759
 would pour

00:52:28.759 --> 00:52:29.079
 out the

00:52:29.079 --> 00:52:29.659
 Holy Spirit

00:52:29.659 --> 00:52:30.139
 with might

00:52:30.139 --> 00:52:30.639
 and power

00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:31.079
 and deep

00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:31.539
 conviction

00:52:31.539 --> 00:52:32.279
 upon us

00:52:32.279 --> 00:52:35.219
 that we

00:52:35.219 --> 00:52:35.779
 might pour

00:52:35.779 --> 00:52:36.159
 out our

00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:36.679
 hearts

00:52:36.679 --> 00:52:38.039
 father to

00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:39.739
 you we

00:52:39.739 --> 00:52:40.079
 might know

00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:40.599
 healing

00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:43.719
 and father

00:52:43.719 --> 00:52:44.179
 for every

00:52:44.179 --> 00:52:44.679
 one of us

00:52:44.679 --> 00:52:45.000
 we know

00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:45.619
 how in

00:52:45.619 --> 00:52:46.019
 our

00:52:46.019 --> 00:52:46.539
 personal

00:52:46.539 --> 00:52:47.239
 relationships

00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:47.639
 there's

00:52:47.639 --> 00:52:48.179
 times when

00:52:48.179 --> 00:52:48.460
 we can

00:52:48.460 --> 00:52:48.879
 just be

00:52:48.879 --> 00:52:49.379
 indifferent

00:52:49.379 --> 00:52:50.359
 and we

00:52:50.359 --> 00:52:50.779
 can take

00:52:50.779 --> 00:52:51.319
 people for

00:52:51.319 --> 00:52:51.659
 granted

00:52:51.659 --> 00:52:52.000
 and we

00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:52.319
 know that

00:52:52.319 --> 00:52:52.799
 can happen

00:52:52.799 --> 00:52:53.139
 with our

00:52:53.139 --> 00:52:53.619
 relationship

00:52:53.619 --> 00:52:54.059
 with you

00:52:54.059 --> 00:52:54.539
 we thank

00:52:54.539 --> 00:52:55.059
 you father

00:52:55.059 --> 00:52:55.559
 you never

00:52:55.559 --> 00:52:56.940
 let us

00:52:56.940 --> 00:52:57.319
 go

00:52:57.319 --> 00:52:59.199
 we ask

00:52:59.199 --> 00:52:59.839
 father that

00:52:59.839 --> 00:53:00.079
 you would

00:53:00.079 --> 00:53:00.500
 pour out

00:53:00.500 --> 00:53:00.839
 the Holy

00:53:00.839 --> 00:53:01.139
 Spirit

00:53:01.139 --> 00:53:01.639
 upon us

00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:02.159
 with might

00:53:02.159 --> 00:53:02.699
 and power

00:53:02.699 --> 00:53:03.099
 and deep

00:53:03.099 --> 00:53:03.659
 conviction

00:53:03.659 --> 00:53:04.879
 to fan

00:53:04.879 --> 00:53:05.319
 into flame

00:53:05.319 --> 00:53:05.759
 within us

00:53:05.759 --> 00:53:06.359
 a longing

00:53:06.359 --> 00:53:07.119
 and yearning

00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:07.639
 to know

00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:08.319
 about you

00:53:08.319 --> 00:53:08.619
 and to

00:53:08.619 --> 00:53:09.339
 know you

00:53:09.339 --> 00:53:09.699
 and to

00:53:09.699 --> 00:53:10.119
 be known

00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:11.279
 by you

00:53:11.279 --> 00:53:11.980
 to know

00:53:11.980 --> 00:53:12.299
 you

00:53:12.299 --> 00:53:12.960
 not just

00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:13.799
 the appearances

00:53:13.799 --> 00:53:14.399
 but to

00:53:14.400 --> 00:53:15.139
 to know

00:53:15.139 --> 00:53:15.519
 you in

00:53:15.519 --> 00:53:16.019
 reality

00:53:16.019 --> 00:53:16.840
 not just

00:53:16.840 --> 00:53:17.619
 in make

00:53:17.619 --> 00:53:17.920
 believe

00:53:17.920 --> 00:53:18.300
 but to

00:53:18.300 --> 00:53:18.820
 know you

00:53:18.820 --> 00:53:19.380
 in reality

00:53:19.380 --> 00:53:19.720
 and to

00:53:19.720 --> 00:53:20.160
 know you

00:53:20.160 --> 00:53:20.660
 more and

00:53:20.660 --> 00:53:21.019
 more and

00:53:21.019 --> 00:53:21.340
 more and

00:53:21.340 --> 00:53:21.360
 more and

00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:21.720
 more and

00:53:21.720 --> 00:53:22.180
 fan into

00:53:22.180 --> 00:53:22.639
 flame within

00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:23.079
 us father

00:53:23.079 --> 00:53:23.599
 such a

00:53:23.599 --> 00:53:24.240
 desire in

00:53:24.240 --> 00:53:24.539
 the midst

00:53:24.539 --> 00:53:24.840
 of our

00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:25.579
 earthly life

00:53:25.579 --> 00:53:25.840
 in the

00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:26.200
 midst of

00:53:26.200 --> 00:53:27.519
 our jobs

00:53:27.519 --> 00:53:27.840
 and our

00:53:27.840 --> 00:53:28.360
 tasks

00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:28.720
 and our

00:53:28.720 --> 00:53:29.160
 chores

00:53:29.160 --> 00:53:29.619
 and our

00:53:29.619 --> 00:53:30.200
 relationships

00:53:30.200 --> 00:53:30.760
 to know

00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:31.099
 you

00:53:31.099 --> 00:53:31.940
 to be

00:53:31.940 --> 00:53:32.400
 known by

00:53:32.400 --> 00:53:32.599
 you

00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:32.920
 father

00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:33.559
 pour out

00:53:33.559 --> 00:53:33.780
 your

00:53:33.780 --> 00:53:34.079
 Holy

00:53:34.079 --> 00:53:34.460
 Spirit

00:53:34.460 --> 00:53:34.760
 upon

00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:35.059
 us

00:53:35.059 --> 00:53:36.059
 that we

00:53:36.059 --> 00:53:36.480
 might know

00:53:36.480 --> 00:53:36.660
 the

00:53:36.660 --> 00:53:37.019
 father

00:53:37.019 --> 00:53:37.380
 you

00:53:37.380 --> 00:53:37.780
 and we

00:53:37.780 --> 00:53:38.160
 might know

00:53:38.160 --> 00:53:38.539
 Jesus

00:53:38.539 --> 00:53:39.200
 more and

00:53:39.200 --> 00:53:39.559
 more and

00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:39.880
 more and

00:53:39.880 --> 00:53:41.220
 more and

00:53:41.220 --> 00:53:41.579
 all of

00:53:41.579 --> 00:53:42.160
 God's people

00:53:42.159 --> 00:53:42.559
 said

00:53:42.559 --> 00:53:43.619
 Amen