WEBVTT 00:00:00.620 --> 00:00:13.200 What difference does the birth of Jesus Christ make anyway? Answering that question that the letter to the Galatians might not be the first place you think to go to in the Bible. 00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:27.100 You'd probably go to Luke's Gospel wouldn't you or Matthew's Gospel in the New Testament and they would be good places to go to if you wanted to find out about the birth of Jesus Christ at Christmas time. 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:35.859 But the Apostle Paul here gives us an alternative to the famous nativity accounts that we know so well. 00:00:36.340 --> 00:00:40.460 This is Paul's take on the birth of Jesus Christ. 00:00:41.579 --> 00:00:52.980 He pulls back the theological curtains on the nativity scene and the reason why the birth in Bethlehem was so significant, just picture it for a moment. 00:00:52.979 --> 00:01:00.159 The smelly animals and the baby crying, the chaos and the muck of the cattle shed. 00:01:00.239 --> 00:01:02.679 It sounds like a prison cell, doesn't it? 00:01:03.099 --> 00:01:05.840 Unless it felt like that for the Son of God. 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:12.219 To willingly contract himself down into a seven or eight pound baby. 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:16.219 Into the custody of a human body. 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:20.519 The restriction and the captivity of that. 00:01:20.519 --> 00:01:27.899 But the Apostle Paul thinks of that rather than as a day of captivity, as a day of release. 00:01:29.119 --> 00:01:30.379 As a day of freedom. 00:01:31.699 --> 00:01:35.799 As a day of emancipation for all of humanity. 00:01:37.299 --> 00:01:45.239 And listen to the words that he uses to describe life, the situation, before the first Christmas. 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:51.859 He uses words like captive in verse 23. 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:54.359 Imprisoned. 00:01:55.539 --> 00:01:58.619 Under a guardian or a warden. 00:02:00.219 --> 00:02:05.859 In that moment where the Son of God, the eternal Son of God, took on human flesh. 00:02:06.699 --> 00:02:11.719 He added to him the restriction of a human body becoming contracted. 00:02:11.719 --> 00:02:14.020 He is in custody. 00:02:15.340 --> 00:02:18.340 And yet we are somehow released. 00:02:20.319 --> 00:02:21.659 And it's so true, isn't it? 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:26.360 With presents, the best ones are the ones that you don't think to ask for. 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:31.439 And if someone knows you really, really well, they can get you a present like that, can't they? 00:02:31.439 --> 00:02:35.180 Without you giving them your Amazon wish list. 00:02:35.819 --> 00:02:39.439 When you don't just say, how did you know it's always what I wanted? 00:02:39.539 --> 00:02:43.900 But actually, how did you know when I didn't even know it's what I always wanted? 00:02:44.579 --> 00:02:48.360 And Paul shows us here that that is what happened at Christmas time. 00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:51.240 God sent a gift. 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:53.520 The gift of Jesus. 00:02:53.979 --> 00:02:57.000 The gift that we didn't even know we needed ourselves. 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:04.460 Because first off, he says, before Jesus came, number one, we were imprisoned. 00:03:05.580 --> 00:03:06.560 We were imprisoned. 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.180 Just look at verse 23. 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:14.360 Now, before faith came, we were held captive under the law. 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:18.240 Imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:25.860 The birth of Jesus Christ makes a difference because before it happened, Paul says, we were held captive. 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:32.800 Before Jesus arrived, we lived behind bars. 00:03:34.140 --> 00:03:36.020 In an invisible prison. 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:40.920 With walls and a floor and a ceiling. 00:03:41.100 --> 00:03:44.560 And we couldn't see that prison physically around us. 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:49.099 But it was a prison that was real and it kept us from being free. 00:03:49.340 --> 00:03:50.060 Really free. 00:03:51.180 --> 00:03:54.599 It made us feel a kind of bondage. 00:03:55.300 --> 00:03:56.000 And a restriction. 00:03:56.500 --> 00:04:01.480 He says, we were held captive under the law. 00:04:03.259 --> 00:04:07.920 Let me give you a bit of background on that letter to the Galatians that we're reading today. 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:09.860 We've jumped in halfway through, haven't we? 00:04:09.900 --> 00:04:11.599 We've kind of jumped in a bit cold, really. 00:04:11.599 --> 00:04:20.079 Paul writes this letter to a group of churches who are a mixture of Jewish converts to Christianity and non-Jews. 00:04:20.980 --> 00:04:25.860 And Galatians is one of the most brutal letters that Paul writes to a group of Christians. 00:04:26.219 --> 00:04:27.319 Things are pretty dire. 00:04:27.480 --> 00:04:35.399 Earlier in the letter, he says, you've departed from the true gospel to a different false message. 00:04:35.399 --> 00:04:41.819 And there are some among them who want to distort the good news of Jesus. 00:04:43.039 --> 00:04:46.560 They particularly want to add some Jewish practices. 00:04:47.899 --> 00:04:57.319 They want to keep some Old Testament Bible laws like circumcision and like certain religious Jewish days. 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:01.899 And that is what Paul means when he talks about the law here. 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:09.279 But he says to them, why would you want to add those laws onto the wonderful message about Jesus? 00:05:09.560 --> 00:05:11.000 That is bizarre behaviour. 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:19.439 And one reason for that is that the law was designed not to set you free, but partly as a prison. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:27.439 The law was designed and given to you to keep you in a cell. 00:05:28.740 --> 00:05:32.439 He says, verse 23, it held us captive. 00:05:33.959 --> 00:05:44.159 You could use that word captive to describe the kind of time before a person is kind of judged and sentenced in court. 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:50.420 It's like being held in a holding cell in a local police station. 00:05:51.500 --> 00:05:57.040 They're kept in police custody or by the court authorities. 00:05:57.640 --> 00:06:01.560 Kept until a further day when proceedings can go further. 00:06:01.860 --> 00:06:03.720 That is the kind of thing that's going on here. 00:06:05.379 --> 00:06:10.140 So if you open up the Old Testament and you go to the books of the law, 00:06:11.060 --> 00:06:13.879 Leviticus and Deuteronomy and in other places, 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:18.280 you can see that law in all of its glorious detail, 00:06:18.939 --> 00:06:21.520 keeping the festivals and the feasts, 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:24.660 making sacrifices, giving free will offerings, 00:06:24.840 --> 00:06:27.140 giving offerings, giving compulsory offerings, 00:06:27.500 --> 00:06:29.260 having ceremonial washings, 00:06:29.560 --> 00:06:31.320 wearing certain types of clothing, 00:06:31.480 --> 00:06:32.900 not wearing this kind of clothing, 00:06:33.280 --> 00:06:34.900 cutting your hair in a certain way, 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:36.500 not cutting your hair in that way, 00:06:36.860 --> 00:06:39.540 eating certain foods, not eating those foods, 00:06:39.879 --> 00:06:41.400 and on and on and on. 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:47.039 There was so much that you had to do as an Old Testament Jew. 00:06:48.399 --> 00:06:50.599 And part of, not all of it, 00:06:50.659 --> 00:06:54.199 but part of the design of the law, Paul says, 00:06:54.299 --> 00:06:57.779 was to make you realise that you are trapped. 00:06:59.679 --> 00:07:01.599 Clean your house in a certain way. 00:07:01.679 --> 00:07:03.139 Not in this way, but in this way. 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:05.459 Bake bread in a certain way, 00:07:05.539 --> 00:07:06.939 not with yeast, this way. 00:07:06.939 --> 00:07:10.339 Using utensils for this and not for that. 00:07:10.819 --> 00:07:12.339 Dealing with skin diseases. 00:07:13.660 --> 00:07:15.319 Where to go to the toilet. 00:07:15.740 --> 00:07:16.980 Not here, but over here. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:22.439 All the fine details of ceremonies and the days 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:25.139 and the practices were given by God, 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:26.360 and they were good, 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:28.720 but at the same time, 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:31.340 they were to make God's people feel like 00:07:31.340 --> 00:07:34.520 they were scratching off the days in the prison cell. 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:39.020 They were constructed to give them longing 00:07:39.020 --> 00:07:42.460 for a freedom that they didn't have. 00:07:43.699 --> 00:07:45.780 A freedom that they knew 00:07:45.780 --> 00:07:48.340 they couldn't get for themselves. 00:07:48.339 --> 00:07:51.560 It was, wasn't it, 00:07:51.599 --> 00:07:53.879 the prison of perfection. 00:07:55.719 --> 00:07:58.299 Keep this good and holy law, 00:07:58.379 --> 00:08:00.039 and all of these laws, 00:08:00.459 --> 00:08:02.379 and you must keep all of it 00:08:02.379 --> 00:08:03.919 to be pleasing to God. 00:08:05.939 --> 00:08:07.439 I don't know if you've worn 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:10.159 virtual reality goggles ever. 00:08:10.779 --> 00:08:12.000 They're really weird. 00:08:12.279 --> 00:08:13.079 I don't know if you've tried it. 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:15.199 I did it once in a doctor's surgery. 00:08:16.459 --> 00:08:18.179 He was looking at my spine, 00:08:18.339 --> 00:08:19.199 with issues with that, 00:08:19.339 --> 00:08:21.339 and then you kind of go in the room, 00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:22.519 and it was a chiropractor, 00:08:22.659 --> 00:08:24.159 and it was a bit of a grotty room, 00:08:24.219 --> 00:08:24.839 to be honest. 00:08:25.459 --> 00:08:27.299 Kind of dark and a bit dingy, 00:08:27.399 --> 00:08:29.859 with a little kind of old chair in the corner. 00:08:30.539 --> 00:08:34.519 But he put this virtual reality headset on me, 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:36.100 and the room transformed. 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:37.459 It was amazing. 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:38.919 Everything was clean. 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.600 There was a plant plot 00:08:41.600 --> 00:08:42.919 with flowers in the corner. 00:08:43.659 --> 00:08:45.919 And then he suddenly brought this projection 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:47.720 of my own body. 00:08:48.340 --> 00:08:51.160 where you could see the spine. 00:08:52.100 --> 00:08:52.560 And I was like, 00:08:52.620 --> 00:08:53.660 who is this guy? 00:08:54.420 --> 00:08:55.639 He is incredible. 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:57.840 He has got a six-pack 00:08:57.840 --> 00:08:59.720 and pecs. 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.040 And then you take off the goggles. 00:09:04.480 --> 00:09:06.960 And you remember where you are, 00:09:07.460 --> 00:09:09.600 and exactly who you are again. 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:13.540 And the law functioned like that. 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:16.139 The law told you, 00:09:16.620 --> 00:09:18.220 get real with yourself, 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:19.879 and take off the goggles. 00:09:21.220 --> 00:09:22.920 The law showed them 00:09:22.920 --> 00:09:24.540 who they really were, 00:09:24.620 --> 00:09:26.279 and where they really were. 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:29.320 The reality is, 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:30.000 it said to them, 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:31.180 you are in a prison 00:09:31.180 --> 00:09:32.820 of your own inability 00:09:32.820 --> 00:09:34.779 to be right with God. 00:09:34.779 --> 00:09:37.039 It was a prison 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:38.459 that taught God's people 00:09:38.459 --> 00:09:39.740 that life, 00:09:39.939 --> 00:09:40.480 and freedom, 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:41.539 and holiness 00:09:41.539 --> 00:09:43.939 cannot be done 00:09:43.939 --> 00:09:45.480 ultimately in these things 00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:46.379 for you. 00:09:47.319 --> 00:09:49.019 By your own efforts. 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:51.539 So the law, 00:09:51.699 --> 00:09:52.299 part of it, 00:09:52.379 --> 00:09:54.019 made them unsatisfied. 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:57.159 Perfection is required. 00:09:57.799 --> 00:09:59.480 The prison told them, 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:01.539 nobody's perfect. 00:10:01.539 --> 00:10:04.860 And it was to drive them 00:10:04.860 --> 00:10:06.439 away from themselves, 00:10:07.339 --> 00:10:08.659 and towards God, 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:09.699 to help them. 00:10:10.500 --> 00:10:11.839 It was to drive them 00:10:11.839 --> 00:10:13.159 towards faith, 00:10:13.939 --> 00:10:14.539 Paul says. 00:10:14.659 --> 00:10:15.339 Verse 24. 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:18.159 The law was a guardian, 00:10:19.299 --> 00:10:21.519 and not in a positive sense there. 00:10:22.339 --> 00:10:24.500 The word is more like a warden. 00:10:25.500 --> 00:10:27.079 The law drove them 00:10:27.079 --> 00:10:28.719 to faith in God, 00:10:28.719 --> 00:10:30.959 as the one who makes us 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:32.560 right with him. 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:34.740 The law wasn't given 00:10:34.740 --> 00:10:35.920 so that they could earn 00:10:35.920 --> 00:10:37.040 friendship with God, 00:10:37.139 --> 00:10:38.620 but precisely to show them 00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:39.980 that they couldn't do that. 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:42.160 But they had to trust. 00:10:43.100 --> 00:10:44.420 They had to have faith 00:10:44.420 --> 00:10:45.139 in the God 00:10:45.139 --> 00:10:46.480 who could make it work. 00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:48.720 And that is why 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:50.060 Paul mentions Abraham 00:10:50.060 --> 00:10:51.840 in verse 29, 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:52.860 because that is exactly 00:10:52.860 --> 00:10:54.060 what happened with Abraham. 00:10:55.019 --> 00:10:56.400 That Abraham is the kind of 00:10:56.400 --> 00:10:58.139 father of the faith, 00:10:58.139 --> 00:10:58.620 isn't he? 00:10:59.820 --> 00:11:00.320 And do you remember 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:01.360 the story of Abraham? 00:11:01.540 --> 00:11:02.840 God asks Abraham, 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:03.960 he kind of appears 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:04.680 to Abraham, 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:06.520 and he asks Abraham 00:11:06.520 --> 00:11:07.480 to obey him 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:08.760 and to trust in him. 00:11:09.620 --> 00:11:10.360 And we're told 00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:11.140 in Genesis, 00:11:11.400 --> 00:11:13.300 Abraham believed God, 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:15.120 and that belief 00:11:15.120 --> 00:11:16.360 was credited, 00:11:16.640 --> 00:11:18.420 counted as righteousness 00:11:18.420 --> 00:11:20.480 for Abraham. 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:20.620 Abraham. 00:11:21.740 --> 00:11:23.080 And then the law 00:11:23.080 --> 00:11:24.240 of God's people 00:11:24.240 --> 00:11:25.500 didn't come 00:11:25.500 --> 00:11:26.820 for centuries later 00:11:26.820 --> 00:11:27.860 until the time 00:11:27.860 --> 00:11:28.440 of Moses. 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:31.519 The law wasn't given 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:32.159 as the way 00:11:32.159 --> 00:11:33.019 the people could be 00:11:33.019 --> 00:11:34.539 made right with God. 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:36.200 It was given 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:37.039 afterwards 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:38.060 to keep them 00:11:38.060 --> 00:11:39.039 looking to God 00:11:39.039 --> 00:11:39.700 in faith, 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:41.340 just as Abraham 00:11:41.340 --> 00:11:42.560 had first done. 00:11:42.920 --> 00:11:43.500 Verse 25, 00:11:43.500 --> 00:11:45.000 that they might 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:46.179 be justified 00:11:46.179 --> 00:11:48.240 by faith. 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:51.580 When you die, 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:54.259 God will ask you, 00:11:54.379 --> 00:11:54.759 won't he, 00:11:54.860 --> 00:11:55.919 why should I let you 00:11:55.919 --> 00:11:56.559 into heaven? 00:11:57.700 --> 00:11:58.820 Why should I 00:11:58.820 --> 00:12:00.440 justify you? 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:01.759 Why should I say 00:12:01.759 --> 00:12:03.139 you are right 00:12:03.139 --> 00:12:03.679 with me? 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:05.639 Is it by things 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:06.899 that you have done 00:12:06.899 --> 00:12:07.720 in this life? 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:09.940 Or is it because 00:12:09.940 --> 00:12:11.320 you believed 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:12.920 I could do it? 00:12:14.840 --> 00:12:15.940 I've told this story 00:12:15.940 --> 00:12:16.879 before of an old 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:18.500 monk and a student. 00:12:19.620 --> 00:12:20.379 And the student 00:12:20.379 --> 00:12:21.759 asks his master 00:12:21.759 --> 00:12:22.820 for advice 00:12:22.820 --> 00:12:23.680 in life. 00:12:24.420 --> 00:12:25.460 What's the key? 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:27.440 And the older monk 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:28.340 says to the student, 00:12:28.519 --> 00:12:30.060 go back to your cell 00:12:30.060 --> 00:12:32.300 and your cell 00:12:32.300 --> 00:12:33.019 will teach you 00:12:33.019 --> 00:12:33.440 everything. 00:12:35.060 --> 00:12:36.019 And the law 00:12:36.019 --> 00:12:36.920 is like that. 00:12:36.919 --> 00:12:37.939 The law is the 00:12:37.939 --> 00:12:39.019 prison facility 00:12:39.019 --> 00:12:39.899 that teaches 00:12:39.899 --> 00:12:41.539 much about ourselves 00:12:41.539 --> 00:12:43.759 and why we need 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:44.360 Jesus. 00:12:45.620 --> 00:12:46.879 The incessant, 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:47.879 scrupulous, 00:12:48.120 --> 00:12:48.659 detailed, 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:50.559 all-pervading laws 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:51.219 spoke to them 00:12:51.219 --> 00:12:52.419 of their inadequacy. 00:12:54.719 --> 00:12:55.519 So if you imagine 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:56.379 in any way, 00:12:56.479 --> 00:12:57.240 you might not have 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:57.759 grown up 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:59.659 with Jewish religion, 00:12:59.860 --> 00:13:00.339 you might not, 00:13:00.599 --> 00:13:01.179 this might be the 00:13:01.179 --> 00:13:01.779 first time you've 00:13:01.779 --> 00:13:02.519 heard any of this, 00:13:02.599 --> 00:13:03.439 but if you imagine 00:13:03.439 --> 00:13:04.319 in any way 00:13:04.319 --> 00:13:05.179 that you are going 00:13:05.179 --> 00:13:06.259 to make yourself 00:13:06.259 --> 00:13:07.500 right with God, 00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:10.360 if you are good 00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:11.580 enough to do that, 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:13.519 or that you are 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:14.980 living a good life 00:13:14.980 --> 00:13:15.799 and God thinks 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:16.580 that is okay 00:13:16.580 --> 00:13:17.480 and you can be 00:13:17.480 --> 00:13:18.279 justified, 00:13:19.759 --> 00:13:20.819 the law says 00:13:20.819 --> 00:13:22.220 just take off 00:13:22.220 --> 00:13:22.759 the goggles. 00:13:24.659 --> 00:13:25.819 Because it took 00:13:25.819 --> 00:13:27.759 them an age 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:29.120 to realise 00:13:29.120 --> 00:13:29.799 that that is 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:31.259 absolute baloney. 00:13:31.259 --> 00:13:34.159 by the end of it 00:13:34.159 --> 00:13:35.100 they were saying, 00:13:35.220 --> 00:13:35.500 weren't they, 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:36.179 I'm a sinner, 00:13:36.340 --> 00:13:37.179 let me out of here, 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:38.740 let me out. 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:43.200 Before Jesus came 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:43.899 we were held 00:13:43.899 --> 00:13:44.340 captive 00:13:44.340 --> 00:13:46.559 by our own 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:47.139 sin 00:13:47.139 --> 00:13:47.799 and our own 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:48.240 inability 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:49.279 and the law 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:50.659 proved that to us 00:13:50.659 --> 00:13:51.740 just as surely 00:13:51.740 --> 00:13:52.679 as a concrete 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:53.939 prison would prove 00:13:53.939 --> 00:13:55.039 that we are 00:13:55.039 --> 00:13:55.679 held captive. 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.879 So when Jesus 00:13:59.879 --> 00:14:00.339 was born 00:14:00.339 --> 00:14:00.839 we were held 00:14:00.839 --> 00:14:01.219 captive 00:14:01.219 --> 00:14:01.979 but secondly 00:14:01.979 --> 00:14:03.439 then faith 00:14:03.439 --> 00:14:04.620 came to set us 00:14:04.620 --> 00:14:04.939 free. 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:05.979 Faith came to 00:14:05.979 --> 00:14:06.599 set us free 00:14:06.599 --> 00:14:07.739 and the story 00:14:07.739 --> 00:14:08.479 goes of a prison 00:14:08.479 --> 00:14:09.259 in the US 00:14:09.259 --> 00:14:09.799 where at 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:11.000 twenty past twelve 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:12.379 one Saturday 00:14:12.379 --> 00:14:12.879 morning 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:13.659 a glitch 00:14:13.659 --> 00:14:14.519 in the security 00:14:14.519 --> 00:14:15.279 system 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.559 simultaneously 00:14:16.559 --> 00:14:17.539 unlocked 00:14:17.539 --> 00:14:18.599 all five hundred 00:14:18.599 --> 00:14:19.500 cell doors 00:14:19.500 --> 00:14:20.919 and just imagine 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:21.719 the look on the 00:14:21.719 --> 00:14:22.740 warden's face 00:14:22.740 --> 00:14:23.679 as he kind of saw 00:14:23.679 --> 00:14:24.659 that on the CCTV 00:14:24.659 --> 00:14:26.299 the doors like 00:14:26.299 --> 00:14:27.039 dominoes 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:29.239 swinging open 00:14:29.239 --> 00:14:31.019 Paul says 00:14:31.019 --> 00:14:32.079 until Christ 00:14:32.079 --> 00:14:32.639 came 00:14:32.639 --> 00:14:34.199 we were under 00:14:34.199 --> 00:14:35.059 a warden 00:14:35.059 --> 00:14:37.239 but now 00:14:37.239 --> 00:14:38.399 faith has come 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:39.519 we are no longer 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.039 under a guardian 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:42.039 or a warden 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:43.639 but it's not a 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:44.120 glitch 00:14:44.120 --> 00:14:46.799 it is that 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:47.740 a child 00:14:47.740 --> 00:14:49.139 has been born 00:14:49.139 --> 00:14:50.959 in the prison 00:14:50.959 --> 00:14:53.279 and the doors 00:14:53.279 --> 00:14:54.179 swing open 00:14:54.179 --> 00:14:54.879 Paul says 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:56.799 he is 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:57.620 in this passage 00:14:57.620 --> 00:14:58.379 talking about 00:14:58.379 --> 00:14:59.039 the birth 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:00.120 of Jesus 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:00.679 Christ 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:01.819 but it's 00:15:01.819 --> 00:15:02.399 strange how 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:03.240 he describes 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:03.860 that moment 00:15:03.860 --> 00:15:04.899 isn't it 00:15:04.899 --> 00:15:05.879 who came 00:15:05.879 --> 00:15:06.720 into the world 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:07.379 at Christmas 00:15:07.379 --> 00:15:07.959 Paul 00:15:07.959 --> 00:15:09.339 look at how 00:15:09.339 --> 00:15:10.279 he described it 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:11.059 verse 25 00:15:11.059 --> 00:15:12.179 now 00:15:12.179 --> 00:15:13.480 faith 00:15:13.480 --> 00:15:14.980 has come 00:15:14.980 --> 00:15:16.839 he says it 00:15:16.839 --> 00:15:17.459 in the same way 00:15:17.459 --> 00:15:18.299 in verse 23 00:15:18.299 --> 00:15:20.399 before faith 00:15:20.399 --> 00:15:21.059 came 00:15:21.059 --> 00:15:22.199 we were held 00:15:22.199 --> 00:15:22.639 captive 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:23.559 now we are 00:15:23.559 --> 00:15:24.059 on the same 00:15:24.059 --> 00:15:24.719 page here 00:15:24.719 --> 00:15:25.179 aren't we 00:15:25.179 --> 00:15:26.259 because verse 24 00:15:26.259 --> 00:15:27.879 he elaborates 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:28.299 he says 00:15:28.299 --> 00:15:29.500 until Christ 00:15:29.500 --> 00:15:30.299 came 00:15:30.299 --> 00:15:32.039 so we know 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:32.599 he's talking 00:15:32.599 --> 00:15:33.779 about the 00:15:33.779 --> 00:15:34.399 coming of the 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:34.939 Lord Jesus 00:15:34.939 --> 00:15:36.500 we're on the 00:15:36.500 --> 00:15:37.139 same page 00:15:37.139 --> 00:15:38.159 we are talking 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:38.559 about the 00:15:38.559 --> 00:15:39.159 incarnation 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:40.500 but why say 00:15:40.500 --> 00:15:41.599 faith 00:15:41.599 --> 00:15:42.859 came 00:15:42.859 --> 00:15:43.619 when Jesus 00:15:43.619 --> 00:15:44.219 arrived 00:15:44.219 --> 00:15:45.579 a coming 00:15:45.579 --> 00:15:46.239 faith 00:15:46.239 --> 00:15:46.659 that would 00:15:46.659 --> 00:15:47.319 be revealed 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:48.620 is he saying 00:15:48.620 --> 00:15:49.280 that before 00:15:49.280 --> 00:15:50.140 Jesus came 00:15:50.140 --> 00:15:50.520 there was 00:15:50.520 --> 00:15:51.440 no faith 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:52.420 and then 00:15:52.420 --> 00:15:53.300 suddenly people 00:15:53.300 --> 00:15:54.020 started to have 00:15:54.020 --> 00:15:54.660 this faith 00:15:54.660 --> 00:15:55.420 well of course 00:15:55.420 --> 00:15:55.620 not 00:15:55.620 --> 00:15:56.080 that is the 00:15:56.080 --> 00:15:56.560 point about 00:15:56.560 --> 00:15:57.060 Abraham 00:15:57.060 --> 00:15:57.680 isn't it 00:15:57.680 --> 00:15:58.960 he was the 00:15:58.960 --> 00:15:59.520 father of 00:15:59.520 --> 00:15:59.720 faith 00:15:59.720 --> 00:16:00.360 it started 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:01.200 with him 00:16:01.200 --> 00:16:02.620 he was the 00:16:02.620 --> 00:16:03.640 first to say 00:16:03.640 --> 00:16:04.940 I can't do 00:16:04.940 --> 00:16:05.640 this God 00:16:05.640 --> 00:16:06.860 but I'll 00:16:06.860 --> 00:16:07.820 trust in you 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:09.740 now what 00:16:09.740 --> 00:16:10.340 he's saying 00:16:10.340 --> 00:16:10.740 is that 00:16:10.740 --> 00:16:11.740 Jesus came 00:16:11.740 --> 00:16:12.920 as the 00:16:12.920 --> 00:16:13.820 person 00:16:13.820 --> 00:16:15.020 and the 00:16:15.020 --> 00:16:15.900 object 00:16:15.899 --> 00:16:16.679 that all 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:17.340 those with 00:16:17.340 --> 00:16:18.179 true faith 00:16:18.179 --> 00:16:18.720 have looked 00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:19.100 to 00:16:19.100 --> 00:16:20.000 in the 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:20.500 past 00:16:20.500 --> 00:16:22.059 he is 00:16:22.059 --> 00:16:22.419 the one 00:16:22.419 --> 00:16:22.799 he is 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:23.740 the object 00:16:23.740 --> 00:16:24.659 of faith 00:16:24.659 --> 00:16:26.299 he is 00:16:26.299 --> 00:16:26.799 what this 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:27.519 faith is 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:28.100 in 00:16:28.100 --> 00:16:29.779 so much 00:16:29.779 --> 00:16:30.159 so that 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:30.559 when he 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:31.159 arrives 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:31.879 faith 00:16:31.879 --> 00:16:32.720 has found 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:33.559 its goal 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:34.259 faith has 00:16:34.259 --> 00:16:34.819 arrived 00:16:34.819 --> 00:16:35.740 and him 00:16:35.740 --> 00:16:36.120 as the 00:16:36.120 --> 00:16:36.480 object 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:37.179 of faith 00:16:37.179 --> 00:16:38.139 until 00:16:38.139 --> 00:16:38.659 Christmas 00:16:38.659 --> 00:16:39.000 time 00:16:39.000 --> 00:16:39.679 was not 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:40.399 revealed 00:16:40.399 --> 00:16:41.279 Paul says 00:16:41.279 --> 00:16:42.419 revealed 00:16:42.419 --> 00:16:43.439 means literally 00:16:43.439 --> 00:16:44.439 discovered 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:46.260 there is 00:16:46.260 --> 00:16:46.740 a sense 00:16:46.740 --> 00:16:47.580 that before 00:16:47.580 --> 00:16:47.980 Jesus' 00:16:48.220 --> 00:16:48.680 birth 00:16:48.680 --> 00:16:49.880 the object 00:16:49.880 --> 00:16:50.900 of Abraham's 00:16:50.900 --> 00:16:51.260 faith 00:16:51.260 --> 00:16:51.620 as he 00:16:51.620 --> 00:16:52.240 trusted in 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:52.640 God 00:16:52.640 --> 00:16:54.000 and Moses' 00:16:54.220 --> 00:16:54.480 faith 00:16:54.480 --> 00:16:55.280 and David's 00:16:55.280 --> 00:16:56.220 faith 00:16:56.220 --> 00:16:56.820 and everyone 00:16:56.820 --> 00:16:57.760 up until now 00:16:57.760 --> 00:16:58.880 they trusted in 00:16:58.880 --> 00:16:59.640 God's promises 00:16:59.640 --> 00:17:01.060 to make them 00:17:01.060 --> 00:17:01.740 right with him 00:17:01.740 --> 00:17:02.540 they believed 00:17:02.540 --> 00:17:03.040 God 00:17:03.040 --> 00:17:03.860 and they acted 00:17:03.860 --> 00:17:04.940 based on what 00:17:04.940 --> 00:17:05.440 they couldn't 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:05.860 see 00:17:05.860 --> 00:17:07.180 and they were 00:17:07.180 --> 00:17:07.519 kind of in 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:08.180 this dark 00:17:08.180 --> 00:17:08.559 room 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:08.940 and the 00:17:08.940 --> 00:17:09.299 furniture 00:17:09.299 --> 00:17:09.759 was all 00:17:09.759 --> 00:17:10.360 in place 00:17:10.360 --> 00:17:10.799 they just 00:17:10.799 --> 00:17:11.259 needed to 00:17:11.259 --> 00:17:12.100 trust God 00:17:12.099 --> 00:17:13.959 for them 00:17:13.959 --> 00:17:14.459 to believe 00:17:14.459 --> 00:17:15.199 his word 00:17:15.199 --> 00:17:15.619 and his 00:17:15.619 --> 00:17:16.019 promises 00:17:16.019 --> 00:17:16.719 but when 00:17:16.719 --> 00:17:17.179 Jesus 00:17:17.179 --> 00:17:17.819 arrives 00:17:17.819 --> 00:17:18.339 it's as if 00:17:18.339 --> 00:17:19.019 the light 00:17:19.019 --> 00:17:19.579 is switched 00:17:19.579 --> 00:17:19.939 on in 00:17:19.939 --> 00:17:20.459 the room 00:17:20.459 --> 00:17:22.359 and he 00:17:22.359 --> 00:17:23.019 becomes 00:17:23.019 --> 00:17:23.619 clear 00:17:23.619 --> 00:17:25.240 as the 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:25.539 one that 00:17:25.539 --> 00:17:25.899 they've been 00:17:25.899 --> 00:17:26.459 believing in 00:17:26.459 --> 00:17:27.039 all along 00:17:27.039 --> 00:17:29.379 we've been 00:17:29.379 --> 00:17:29.740 in this 00:17:29.740 --> 00:17:30.099 prison 00:17:30.099 --> 00:17:30.740 perfectly 00:17:30.740 --> 00:17:31.259 designed 00:17:31.259 --> 00:17:31.899 by God 00:17:31.899 --> 00:17:32.699 to make 00:17:32.699 --> 00:17:33.359 us long 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:34.199 for God 00:17:34.199 --> 00:17:34.740 himself 00:17:34.740 --> 00:17:35.240 to come 00:17:35.240 --> 00:17:35.819 and deal 00:17:35.819 --> 00:17:36.740 with our 00:17:36.740 --> 00:17:37.259 sins 00:17:37.259 --> 00:17:38.539 and each 00:17:38.539 --> 00:17:39.179 piece of 00:17:39.179 --> 00:17:39.779 law is 00:17:39.779 --> 00:17:40.399 like another 00:17:40.399 --> 00:17:41.199 bar on 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--> 00:18:05.220 the goal 00:18:05.220 --> 00:18:05.819 of that 00:18:05.819 --> 00:18:06.600 faith is 00:18:06.600 --> 00:18:07.940 fleshed out 00:18:07.940 --> 00:18:08.900 quite literally 00:18:08.900 --> 00:18:11.140 and Jesus 00:18:11.140 --> 00:18:11.860 is going 00:18:11.860 --> 00:18:12.420 to come 00:18:12.420 --> 00:18:13.800 and glitch 00:18:13.800 --> 00:18:14.540 the prison 00:18:14.540 --> 00:18:15.140 doors 00:18:15.140 --> 00:18:17.000 by coming 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:17.759 and living 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:18.400 out the 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:18.580 law 00:18:18.580 --> 00:18:19.080 by coming 00:18:19.080 --> 00:18:19.580 and living 00:18:19.580 --> 00:18:19.980 as a 00:18:19.980 --> 00:18:20.440 man 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:22.820 being born 00:18:22.820 --> 00:18:23.480 under the 00:18:23.480 --> 00:18:23.740 law 00:18:23.740 --> 00:18:24.480 himself 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:26.640 and completing 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:28.000 every single 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:29.100 element of it 00:18:29.100 --> 00:18:29.620 and offering 00:18:29.620 --> 00:18:30.360 the ultimate 00:18:30.360 --> 00:18:31.240 sacrifice 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:32.220 of all 00:18:32.220 --> 00:18:32.880 sacrifices 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:33.500 he will 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:34.019 bring 00:18:34.019 --> 00:18:35.080 complete 00:18:35.080 --> 00:18:36.000 satisfaction 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:36.440 of the 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:36.800 law 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:37.779 he will 00:18:37.779 --> 00:18:38.000 bring 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:38.799 absolute 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:39.680 fulfilment 00:18:39.680 --> 00:18:40.200 of this 00:18:40.200 --> 00:18:40.579 law 00:18:40.579 --> 00:18:42.819 so he 00:18:42.819 --> 00:18:43.200 comes 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:43.899 into the 00:18:43.899 --> 00:18:44.180 prison 00:18:44.180 --> 00:18:44.740 he lives 00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:45.259 life 00:18:45.259 --> 00:18:46.559 and he 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:47.119 dies a 00:18:47.119 --> 00:18:47.399 death 00:18:47.399 --> 00:18:48.019 in perfect 00:18:48.019 --> 00:18:48.480 obedience 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:49.079 he lives 00:18:49.079 --> 00:18:49.460 in the 00:18:49.460 --> 00:18:49.819 cell 00:18:49.819 --> 00:18:50.180 and he 00:18:50.180 --> 00:18:50.419 meets 00:18:50.419 --> 00:18:50.980 all the 00:18:50.980 --> 00:18:51.519 requirements 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:52.119 of this 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:52.659 prison 00:18:52.659 --> 00:18:55.759 he goes 00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:56.139 to the 00:18:56.139 --> 00:18:56.779 mess hall 00:18:56.779 --> 00:18:57.279 and he 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:57.919 lives in 00:18:57.919 --> 00:18:58.460 solitary 00:18:58.460 --> 00:18:59.159 confinement 00:18:59.159 --> 00:18:59.960 and he 00:18:59.960 --> 00:19:00.339 is in 00:19:00.339 --> 00:19:01.099 the yard 00:19:01.099 --> 00:19:02.039 and he 00:19:02.039 --> 00:19:02.399 is on 00:19:02.399 --> 00:19:02.779 death 00:19:02.779 --> 00:19:03.279 row 00:19:03.279 --> 00:19:04.720 and the 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:05.339 warden 00:19:05.339 --> 00:19:06.419 meets him 00:19:06.420 --> 00:19:07.580 and there 00:19:07.580 --> 00:19:08.360 is nothing 00:19:08.360 --> 00:19:09.620 he can 00:19:09.620 --> 00:19:10.200 say to 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:10.840 accuse 00:19:10.840 --> 00:19:11.539 Jesus 00:19:11.539 --> 00:19:13.840 it is as 00:19:13.840 --> 00:19:14.279 if the 00:19:14.279 --> 00:19:15.120 prison is 00:19:15.120 --> 00:19:16.380 so enamoured 00:19:16.380 --> 00:19:17.320 with the 00:19:17.320 --> 00:19:17.900 perfection 00:19:17.900 --> 00:19:18.580 of this 00:19:18.580 --> 00:19:19.160 man 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:20.500 he is 00:19:20.500 --> 00:19:20.840 its 00:19:20.840 --> 00:19:21.460 master 00:19:21.460 --> 00:19:22.960 and the 00:19:22.960 --> 00:19:23.600 prison has 00:19:23.600 --> 00:19:24.279 met its 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:24.900 match 00:19:24.900 --> 00:19:25.860 the builder 00:19:25.860 --> 00:19:26.700 and finisher 00:19:26.700 --> 00:19:27.240 of this 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breathes a 00:19:47.319 --> 00:19:47.839 sigh of 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:48.360 relief 00:19:48.360 --> 00:19:50.400 Jesus 00:19:50.400 --> 00:19:51.440 comes 00:19:51.440 --> 00:19:52.259 so the 00:19:52.259 --> 00:19:52.920 warden 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:54.120 collects his 00:19:54.120 --> 00:19:54.460 things 00:19:54.460 --> 00:19:55.200 puts it in 00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:55.660 a cardboard 00:19:55.660 --> 00:19:56.220 box 00:19:56.220 --> 00:19:57.319 and leaves 00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.000 for good 00:19:59.000 --> 00:20:01.359 and we 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:02.160 don't need 00:20:02.160 --> 00:20:02.579 him 00:20:02.579 --> 00:20:03.259 anymore 00:20:03.259 --> 00:20:05.059 his 00:20:05.059 --> 00:20:05.640 purpose 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:06.279 was to 00:20:06.279 --> 00:20:06.900 make us 00:20:06.900 --> 00:20:07.660 long for 00:20:07.660 --> 00:20:08.240 another 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.220 and over 00:20:10.220 --> 00:20:10.920 an age 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:11.559 of God's 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:11.880 people 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:12.539 the prison 00:20:12.539 --> 00:20:13.140 was made 00:20:13.140 --> 00:20:13.579 to make 00:20:13.579 --> 00:20:14.180 the prisoners 00:20:14.180 --> 00:20:14.880 long for 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:15.839 someone in 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:16.380 faith 00:20:16.380 --> 00:20:17.400 who could 00:20:17.400 --> 00:20:17.980 fulfil it 00:20:17.980 --> 00:20:18.319 on their 00:20:18.319 --> 00:20:18.740 behalf 00:20:18.740 --> 00:20:19.339 and now 00:20:19.339 --> 00:20:20.240 that someone 00:20:20.240 --> 00:20:21.019 has come 00:20:21.019 --> 00:20:21.480 in the 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:21.920 flesh 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:24.900 and don't 00:20:24.900 --> 00:20:25.359 get me wrong 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:25.740 here because 00:20:25.740 --> 00:20:26.599 I'm not saying 00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:27.460 that the law 00:20:27.460 --> 00:20:27.940 of the Old 00:20:27.940 --> 00:20:28.579 Testament in 00:20:28.579 --> 00:20:29.539 every respect 00:20:29.539 --> 00:20:30.159 is to be 00:20:30.159 --> 00:20:30.619 forgotten 00:20:30.619 --> 00:20:31.699 I want that 00:20:31.699 --> 00:20:32.179 to be really 00:20:32.179 --> 00:20:32.579 clear 00:20:32.579 --> 00:20:34.379 it continues 00:20:34.379 --> 00:20:35.059 to be a 00:20:35.059 --> 00:20:36.039 perfect rule 00:20:36.039 --> 00:20:36.759 of righteousness 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:37.500 for us 00:20:37.500 --> 00:20:37.919 today 00:20:37.919 --> 00:20:39.779 but in the 00:20:39.779 --> 00:20:40.339 sense that 00:20:40.339 --> 00:20:40.839 the law 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:41.439 might be 00:20:41.439 --> 00:20:42.179 used to 00:20:42.179 --> 00:20:43.439 earn salvation 00:20:43.439 --> 00:20:45.199 or as a 00:20:45.199 --> 00:20:45.799 gruelling 00:20:45.799 --> 00:20:46.859 demonstration of 00:20:46.859 --> 00:20:47.500 what is needed 00:20:47.500 --> 00:20:48.419 to be righteous 00:20:48.419 --> 00:20:49.639 Paul says 00:20:49.639 --> 00:20:50.139 elsewhere 00:20:50.139 --> 00:20:50.839 the law 00:20:50.839 --> 00:20:51.659 in that sense 00:20:51.659 --> 00:20:52.159 is now 00:20:52.159 --> 00:20:53.319 dead to us 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:55.679 the walls 00:20:55.679 --> 00:20:56.240 of our 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:56.799 inability 00:20:56.799 --> 00:20:57.799 and slavery 00:20:57.799 --> 00:20:58.419 crumble 00:20:58.420 --> 00:20:58.980 because there 00:20:58.980 --> 00:20:59.740 is one 00:20:59.740 --> 00:21:00.840 who has 00:21:00.840 --> 00:21:01.580 done his 00:21:01.580 --> 00:21:02.220 time 00:21:02.220 --> 00:21:04.220 and by 00:21:04.220 --> 00:21:04.720 doing so 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:05.240 he's done 00:21:05.240 --> 00:21:05.920 all of our 00:21:05.920 --> 00:21:06.320 time 00:21:06.320 --> 00:21:08.300 he's busted 00:21:08.300 --> 00:21:08.900 us out 00:21:08.900 --> 00:21:11.560 you may have 00:21:11.560 --> 00:21:12.019 seen a book 00:21:12.019 --> 00:21:12.539 that came out 00:21:12.539 --> 00:21:13.039 a few years 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:13.779 ago called 00:21:13.779 --> 00:21:14.640 the year of 00:21:14.640 --> 00:21:14.940 living 00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:15.800 big biblically 00:21:15.800 --> 00:21:16.580 one man's 00:21:16.580 --> 00:21:17.220 humble quest 00:21:17.220 --> 00:21:17.820 to follow the 00:21:17.820 --> 00:21:18.279 bible as 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:18.860 literally as 00:21:18.860 --> 00:21:19.240 possible 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:19.960 by AJ 00:21:19.960 --> 00:21:20.539 Jacobs 00:21:20.539 --> 00:21:21.640 it's kind of 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:22.460 funny but 00:21:22.460 --> 00:21:23.460 interesting 00:21:23.460 --> 00:21:24.220 points 00:21:24.220 --> 00:21:24.839 this guy 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:25.460 he basically 00:21:25.460 --> 00:21:26.660 tries to 00:21:26.660 --> 00:21:27.220 live his 00:21:27.220 --> 00:21:27.819 life in 00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:28.319 New York 00:21:28.319 --> 00:21:28.740 City 00:21:28.740 --> 00:21:30.079 for one 00:21:30.079 --> 00:21:30.440 year 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:31.400 following as 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:31.960 many of 00:21:31.960 --> 00:21:32.480 the rules 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:33.019 in the 00:21:33.019 --> 00:21:33.519 Old Testament 00:21:33.519 --> 00:21:33.940 that he 00:21:33.940 --> 00:21:34.460 can find 00:21:34.460 --> 00:21:34.980 so he 00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:36.299 tries wearing 00:21:36.299 --> 00:21:37.500 clothes without 00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:38.600 mixed fibres 00:21:38.600 --> 00:21:39.079 in them 00:21:39.079 --> 00:21:40.839 he avoids 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:41.920 certain foods 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:42.860 he tries to 00:21:42.860 --> 00:21:43.480 do the whole 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:43.960 thing 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:45.880 but in the end 00:21:45.880 --> 00:21:46.539 he concludes 00:21:46.539 --> 00:21:47.480 he found it 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:49.000 virtually impossible 00:21:49.000 --> 00:21:50.059 to do it all 00:21:50.059 --> 00:21:51.379 not least because 00:21:51.379 --> 00:21:51.960 he was living in 00:21:51.960 --> 00:21:52.859 20th century 00:21:52.859 --> 00:21:53.579 New York 00:21:53.579 --> 00:21:54.639 but he really 00:21:54.639 --> 00:21:55.240 actually 00:21:55.240 --> 00:21:56.859 misunderstands the 00:21:56.859 --> 00:21:57.359 point of the 00:21:57.359 --> 00:21:58.139 law anyway 00:21:58.139 --> 00:21:59.559 it's quite a 00:21:59.559 --> 00:21:59.919 shame 00:21:59.919 --> 00:22:00.460 you get to the 00:22:00.460 --> 00:22:00.740 end of the 00:22:00.740 --> 00:22:00.899 book 00:22:00.899 --> 00:22:01.859 he's just 00:22:01.859 --> 00:22:02.419 not got 00:22:02.419 --> 00:22:02.839 this 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.240 he misunderstands 00:22:05.240 --> 00:22:05.799 the bible 00:22:05.799 --> 00:22:06.500 if he thinks 00:22:06.500 --> 00:22:07.740 that this year 00:22:07.740 --> 00:22:08.559 was living 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:09.319 biblically 00:22:09.319 --> 00:22:11.159 because that 00:22:11.159 --> 00:22:11.879 was never the 00:22:11.879 --> 00:22:12.559 purpose of the 00:22:12.559 --> 00:22:13.000 law 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.200 living biblically 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:15.839 as the title 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:16.179 says 00:22:16.179 --> 00:22:17.079 it is not about 00:22:17.079 --> 00:22:18.039 the pursuit of 00:22:18.039 --> 00:22:18.700 following the 00:22:18.700 --> 00:22:19.299 rules 00:22:19.299 --> 00:22:21.059 that life 00:22:21.059 --> 00:22:22.039 acts as a 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:22.500 prison 00:22:22.500 --> 00:22:23.359 this law 00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:24.000 acts as a 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:24.519 prison to 00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:24.960 tell you 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:25.539 you need 00:22:25.539 --> 00:22:26.079 faith in 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:26.500 another 00:22:26.500 --> 00:22:28.960 and so 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:29.279 with the 00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:30.000 appearance of 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:30.599 Jesus in 00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:30.980 the New 00:22:30.980 --> 00:22:31.480 Testament 00:22:31.480 --> 00:22:33.019 and the 00:22:33.019 --> 00:22:33.919 first Jewish 00:22:33.919 --> 00:22:34.359 apostles 00:22:34.359 --> 00:22:35.159 they have to 00:22:35.159 --> 00:22:35.480 get their 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:36.000 heads around 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:36.180 it 00:22:36.180 --> 00:22:36.759 don't they 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:38.599 came 00:22:38.599 --> 00:22:39.440 freedom 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:41.940 the freedom 00:22:41.940 --> 00:22:42.759 to eat 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:43.480 sausages 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:44.099 wrapped in 00:22:44.099 --> 00:22:44.539 bacon 00:22:44.539 --> 00:22:46.579 or the 00:22:46.579 --> 00:22:47.000 freedom 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:47.740 to wear 00:22:47.740 --> 00:22:48.519 jeans 00:22:48.519 --> 00:22:52.319 the freedom 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:52.779 to eat 00:22:52.779 --> 00:22:53.559 brioche 00:22:53.559 --> 00:22:54.539 the freedom 00:22:54.539 --> 00:22:55.059 to cut 00:22:55.059 --> 00:22:55.859 your hair 00:22:55.859 --> 00:22:56.779 if it's 00:22:56.779 --> 00:22:57.559 not prohibited 00:22:57.559 --> 00:22:59.200 if it doesn't 00:22:59.200 --> 00:22:59.879 damage your 00:22:59.879 --> 00:23:00.579 conscience 00:23:00.579 --> 00:23:01.180 or somebody 00:23:01.180 --> 00:23:01.539 else's 00:23:01.539 --> 00:23:01.920 conscience 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:02.579 you are 00:23:02.579 --> 00:23:03.460 free to 00:23:03.460 --> 00:23:04.000 do whatever 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:04.579 you like 00:23:04.579 --> 00:23:06.359 free to 00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:06.980 wear what 00:23:06.980 --> 00:23:07.500 you like 00:23:07.500 --> 00:23:08.480 you're free 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:09.000 to eat 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:09.400 what you 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:09.799 like 00:23:09.799 --> 00:23:10.839 you're not 00:23:10.839 --> 00:23:11.720 bound by 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:12.379 the law 00:23:12.379 --> 00:23:13.940 you're free 00:23:13.940 --> 00:23:14.379 from the 00:23:14.379 --> 00:23:15.279 food regulations 00:23:15.279 --> 00:23:15.940 you're free 00:23:15.940 --> 00:23:16.379 from the 00:23:16.379 --> 00:23:16.700 washing 00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:17.440 regulations 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:18.640 you're free 00:23:18.640 --> 00:23:19.740 from circumcision 00:23:19.740 --> 00:23:20.720 praise be 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:21.960 you're free 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:23.320 from penance 00:23:23.320 --> 00:23:24.900 you're free 00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:25.600 from lighting 00:23:25.600 --> 00:23:26.440 candles 00:23:26.440 --> 00:23:27.900 and visiting 00:23:27.900 --> 00:23:28.960 shrines 00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:29.920 you're free 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:30.600 from eating 00:23:30.600 --> 00:23:31.960 halal food 00:23:31.960 --> 00:23:33.360 you're free 00:23:33.360 --> 00:23:33.880 from having 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:34.539 to go on 00:23:34.539 --> 00:23:35.559 pilgrimages 00:23:35.559 --> 00:23:36.480 or making 00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:37.360 sacrifices 00:23:37.360 --> 00:23:38.320 you are 00:23:38.320 --> 00:23:39.400 totally free 00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:40.279 from guilt 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:41.080 and from 00:23:41.080 --> 00:23:41.680 punishment 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:42.500 from God 00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:44.960 you're free 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:46.200 from constantly 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:46.980 rating your 00:23:46.980 --> 00:23:48.000 own performance 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.920 this is not 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:50.400 a place 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:50.980 where we come 00:23:50.980 --> 00:23:51.900 to perform 00:23:51.900 --> 00:23:52.420 is it 00:23:52.420 --> 00:23:53.460 church 00:23:53.460 --> 00:23:55.160 sometimes we 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:55.880 struggle to 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:56.519 believe that 00:23:56.519 --> 00:23:58.059 you are free 00:23:58.059 --> 00:23:58.740 though to 00:23:58.740 --> 00:23:59.740 serve 00:23:59.740 --> 00:24:00.720 and to 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:01.700 obey God 00:24:01.700 --> 00:24:02.759 without dread 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:03.319 and fear 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:03.880 of punishment 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:06.259 the doors 00:24:06.259 --> 00:24:07.140 of the law 00:24:07.140 --> 00:24:07.940 as the way 00:24:07.940 --> 00:24:08.740 of you being 00:24:08.740 --> 00:24:09.440 right with 00:24:09.440 --> 00:24:09.940 God 00:24:09.940 --> 00:24:11.200 with the 00:24:11.200 --> 00:24:11.559 God 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:12.120 who made 00:24:12.120 --> 00:24:12.360 you 00:24:12.360 --> 00:24:12.799 are 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:13.519 knocked 00:24:13.519 --> 00:24:13.779 out 00:24:13.779 --> 00:24:14.120 and you 00:24:14.120 --> 00:24:14.660 are free 00:24:14.660 --> 00:24:16.559 that is the 00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:16.980 difference 00:24:16.980 --> 00:24:17.279 that the 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:17.660 birth of 00:24:17.660 --> 00:24:17.880 Jesus 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:18.420 makes 00:24:18.420 --> 00:24:20.019 we were 00:24:20.019 --> 00:24:20.420 captive 00:24:20.420 --> 00:24:20.720 then 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:21.140 faith 00:24:21.140 --> 00:24:21.440 came 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:22.080 but thirdly 00:24:22.080 --> 00:24:22.420 then 00:24:22.420 --> 00:24:23.620 and lastly 00:24:23.620 --> 00:24:24.080 we are 00:24:24.080 --> 00:24:24.820 now not 00:24:24.820 --> 00:24:25.460 slaves 00:24:25.460 --> 00:24:26.180 but sons 00:24:26.180 --> 00:24:26.820 in Christ 00:24:26.820 --> 00:24:27.220 we are 00:24:27.220 --> 00:24:27.779 now not 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:28.380 slaves 00:24:28.380 --> 00:24:29.720 but sons 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:30.320 in Christ 00:24:30.320 --> 00:24:30.840 now it's 00:24:30.840 --> 00:24:31.259 not just 00:24:31.259 --> 00:24:31.580 that we 00:24:31.580 --> 00:24:32.180 are freed 00:24:32.180 --> 00:24:32.640 from the 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:32.900 law 00:24:32.900 --> 00:24:33.320 but it's 00:24:33.320 --> 00:24:33.680 that our 00:24:33.680 --> 00:24:34.259 status 00:24:34.259 --> 00:24:35.080 has changed 00:24:35.080 --> 00:24:35.559 actually 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:36.419 look at 00:24:36.419 --> 00:24:37.319 verse 26 00:24:37.319 --> 00:24:39.460 for in 00:24:39.460 --> 00:24:39.839 Christ 00:24:39.839 --> 00:24:40.259 Jesus 00:24:40.259 --> 00:24:40.839 you are 00:24:40.839 --> 00:24:41.159 all 00:24:41.159 --> 00:24:41.679 sons 00:24:41.679 --> 00:24:41.980 of 00:24:41.980 --> 00:24:42.299 God 00:24:42.299 --> 00:24:42.619 through 00:24:42.619 --> 00:24:43.240 faith 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:44.839 now this 00:24:44.839 --> 00:24:45.139 is another 00:24:45.139 --> 00:24:45.679 picture that 00:24:45.679 --> 00:24:46.240 Paul uses 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:46.740 to talk 00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:47.079 about 00:24:47.079 --> 00:24:48.579 the Old 00:24:48.579 --> 00:24:48.940 Testament 00:24:48.940 --> 00:24:49.519 people of 00:24:49.519 --> 00:24:49.899 God 00:24:49.899 --> 00:24:50.619 he'll develop 00:24:50.619 --> 00:24:52.000 it later 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:52.539 in the passage 00:24:52.539 --> 00:24:52.940 that we'll 00:24:52.940 --> 00:24:53.259 look at 00:24:53.259 --> 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00:25:08.799 chapter 4 00:25:08.799 --> 00:25:09.459 verse 1 00:25:09.459 --> 00:25:10.939 but now 00:25:10.939 --> 00:25:11.719 that Christ 00:25:11.719 --> 00:25:12.279 has come 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:12.859 they've 00:25:12.859 --> 00:25:13.219 kind of 00:25:13.219 --> 00:25:13.679 come of 00:25:13.679 --> 00:25:14.199 age 00:25:14.199 --> 00:25:15.299 in the 00:25:15.299 --> 00:25:15.659 family 00:25:15.659 --> 00:25:17.439 because of 00:25:17.439 --> 00:25:17.779 Christ 00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:18.139 they are 00:25:18.139 --> 00:25:18.479 now 00:25:18.479 --> 00:25:19.479 sons 00:25:19.479 --> 00:25:20.779 in the 00:25:20.779 --> 00:25:21.000 sense 00:25:21.000 --> 00:25:21.319 that they 00:25:21.319 --> 00:25:21.519 have 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:22.339 entitlement 00:25:22.339 --> 00:25:22.839 to 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:23.799 inheritance 00:25:23.799 --> 00:25:26.119 he says 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:26.479 they 00:25:26.479 --> 00:25:27.219 verse 28 00:25:27.219 --> 00:25:27.719 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