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 Hi, my name is George Sinclair. I'm the lead pastor of Church of the Messiah.

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! It is wonderful that you would like to check out some of the sermons done by Church of the Messiah,

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 either by myself or some of the others. Listen, just a couple of things. First of all, would you pray for us

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 that we will open God's Word well to His glory and for the good of people like yourself?

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 The second thing is, if you aren't connected to a church and if you are a Christian,

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 we really, I would really like to encourage you to find a good local church where they believe the

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 Bible, they preach the gospel, and if you have some trouble finding that, send us an email. We will do

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 what we can to help connect you with a good local church wherever you are. And if you're a non-Christian,

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 checking us out, we're really, really, really glad you're doing that. Don't hesitate to send us

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 questions. It helps me actually to know, as I'm preaching, how to deal with the types of things

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 that you're really struggling with. So God bless.

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 Let's bow our heads in prayer. Father, we give you thanks and praise that you know

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 everything there is to know about each one of us, that you know each of us personally.

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 Father, you know us from the moment we were conceived in our mother's womb. You even know

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 our future. You know the dreams that we do not remember when we wake in the morning. You know every

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 mask and front and posture which we go to from moment to moment throughout the day. You see us as we truly

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 are in all of our depths and all of our superficialities. And still you love us. And still Jesus came and died

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 on the cross to be our savior. We ask, Father, that your Holy Spirit would bring the wonderful truths of

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 your word deep into our hearts this morning, that we might learn, Father, to preach the gospel to

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 ourselves day by day. And we ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Please be seated.

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 A very common human problem is that, and maybe it's, I don't know, I'm not going to say it affects

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 everybody who's here. Maybe it affects most of us to some extent, but for some people it's a quite deep

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 problem. And that is this. We fear, we believe, and we fear that if somebody got to know me better,

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 they would like me less. If people got to know me better, they would like me less. In fact, for many of us,

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 we have the functional, whether we're conscious of it or not, we function on the level that if people

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 actually got to know us, they really wouldn't like us at all. They would hate us. And it's a very, very

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 hard thing for us to deal with, that type of situation. And it's funny. It might very well be

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 that the shy person has this as a problem, and they use their shyness to sort of hide so people

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 don't even get to know them very well. But actually, just as well, the very extroverted person can have

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 the same problem. The exceptionally confident person can have the same problem. And they use their

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 extroversion and their confidence and their confidence to keep everybody at arm's length, never

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 wanting anybody to get past this arm and start to come to see that person as they really are.

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 The text that Daniel read, which is what we're going to be looking at in a moment,

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 it starts off in a very unpromising way. But it actually has some, the best and most beautiful wisdom

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 ever written is found, is opened up in this text about dealing with this very common and very

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 disconcerting and painful human condition. So it would be very helpful to me if you would get in

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 yourself, if you open your Bible, and we're going to look at the Bible text together.

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 It's Romans chapter 2, verses 17 to the end of chapter 2. Romans 2, 17 to the end. It will be up on the

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 screen if you don't have a Bible, but it's really good if you have your Bible yourself and

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 to look and hear what it has to say. And it begins in a very, very unpromising way. In fact,

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 probably some of you who have good memories for listening say, George, this is going to be a very

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 interesting stretch, how you could get that introduction and connect it to this text. And

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 it begins in a very unhelpful way for many of us. It begins like this. By the way, when I say it begins

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 in an unhelpful way, one of the best ways to grow when you're reading your Bible is to be honest about

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 what you think and feel. I mean, God already knows that you think this is lame. It's better if you

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 acknowledge that you think it's lame, because then God can do more when you're acknowledging it. But that's

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 a whole other separate topic. So it begins like this. But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law

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 and boast in God, and for a lot of us, all of a sudden we check out. I don't know how many, I mean,

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 I think there's, I know there's some Jewish people in the room right now, but for the rest of us,

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 it would be like me getting an email that says, for chartered professional accountants who want

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 to know how to manage staff over 20 and doing taxes, we have a workshop for you. Delete, right? I'm not a

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 chartered professional accountant. I don't have a staff of 20. That's completely and utterly irrelevant to me.

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 And so when a text like this begins by, for if you, but if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the

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 law and boast in God, we just check out. I'm not Jewish. I don't seem to do any of these things.

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 Well, believe it or not, this is actually, well, so here's what's going on before we get any further.

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 At different times in the book of Romans, and it might mention it or might not later on,

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 a lot of times the arguments go from lesser to greater. It's sort of a little bit like if

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 this is a problem for George, then imagine what is a problem for somebody who's way better and more

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 competent, right? If this is a problem for a child, imagine like, you know, if peer pressure is a

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 problem for 12 year olds, wait until you become a 45 year old civil servant. And then you're really

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 going to understand what peer pressure is, or you know, whatever the situation is from the lesser to

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 the greater. And, but here there's an argument from the greater to the lesser. And this is the

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 counterintuitive first thing you not need to understand. There's an argument from the greater

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 to the lesser. So when it says, but if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast,

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 here's what's going to be addressed and why it's addressing the human condition or a certain segment of

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 the human condition and not just everybody. From the Bible's, I mean, and not just Jewish people.

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 From the Bible's point of view, the Jewish people up until the coming of Christ, who is Jewish,

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 of course, and is going to be introducing like the spirit of the law and tightening things up and,

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 and dealing with the sacrificial system and a whole pile of other things. Up until the coming of Jesus,

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 the Jewish people were the one, the ones who had a special relationship with God. Only they,

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 out of all of the people on the planet, had a special relationship with God. And out of all of

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 the systems of right and wrong and all of the, all of the, of the rules around ceremonies and rituals,

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 only they had a perfect one that came from God. Only them.

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 Not the Romans, not the Greeks, not the Chinese, not those in India. God, not, not because, you know,

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 the Old Testament that is the Bible, God says, it's not because you're the greatest and the smartest

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 and most holy people. I chose you to show my greatness. It's an early version of how God uses

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 the weak and the foolish to shame the wise. But the Jewish people were chosen to be his special

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 possession, a special relationship with God. And they were chosen and they, out of all of the people

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 on the earth, were given the perfect ones that actually came from God about how to live and how

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 to worship him and how to order your civic and common life. And so what Paul is going to be doing is going to be

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 saying, if the Jewish people with all of these privileges can't have these problems and can't

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 live out of it, how much more will everybody else? But I'm jumping ahead. See what I mean when I look at,

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 and you'll start to see why it applies to other people as well. Look at verse 17 again.

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 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God and know his will

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 and approve what is excellent because you are instructed from the law, and here the law means

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 what we would call the Old Testament, and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind,

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 a light to those who are in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children,

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 having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. And we're going to pause there.

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 Now here, Paul is not putting them down. These are good things. These are, in fact,

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 many of the things that God has told them that they were to do. That God gave them the law and

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 gave them this covenant so that the whole world would look and see how great and glorious God is

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 and want to know him. And so he's not putting them down. But if you listen to this and remember that

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 what he's going to be showing in a moment is the problem that is revealed, in a sense using the

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 Jewish people as a test case, well here, if you could put up the first point, Claire, that would be helpful.

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 It is good to want to know and teach what is beautiful and good. That's a good thing.

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 And this text shouldn't be read as trying to undermine that. It is a good,

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 it is good to want to know and teach what is beautiful and good.

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 And so we are filled in Canada with people who are very moralistic. In fact, part of our problem

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 right now is warring moralistic groups and multiple war, but we have people who follow

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 religions or spiritualities and are very, very moral. And they themselves, in fact, a way to

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 insult a Canadian, many Canadians would be to say to them, I don't think you're fit to teach other

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 people how to live a good life. Whoa! You want to have somebody hate you for years to come?

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 Just say that to them. Why? Because most of our self identities are around being good people,

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 being moral people. And we might not be spiritual or religious like those other people, but we have

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 our own way of doing those types of things. And there's obviously some people who delight in doing wrong.

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 But it is a common thing to want to know and what that's good and think that you have a right,

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 almost an obligation. Maybe not a specific platform like I have, but in the Starbucks

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 amongst the baristas, you understand yourself as actually being a good and moral person that

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 you should give instruction to other people around your office or in your neighborhood,

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 or because of a particular religious or spiritual group that you talk to.

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 You see, what Paul is going to be doing is the way that Paul's letter is structured,

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 right? There's a summary, and then he's going to sell the problem, and then he's going to show how

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 the gospel solves the problem, and then he's going to show how you live in light of the gospel solving the

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 problem. And the problem here before us is why do good people need the gospel?

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 Why do moralistic and religious and spiritual people need the gospel? Why do they need the gospel?

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 But if you're here and you haven't, you're outside the Christian faith or if you're watching this and

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 you're outside the Christian faith, I want to share a secret with you. A lot of Christians are too

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 intimidated by your togetherness and your goodness to think they could ever tell you about Jesus.

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 It's a very common Christian problem. I can't tell that person. I can't tell my boss. I can't tell

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 that person about Jesus. Look at them. I mean, they're together in their money. They live a really

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 good life. Everything about them is just really, really good. How on earth could I ever say something

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 to them? It's a very common Christian problem. But this section is going to go through why is it that

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 good religious together people actually need the gospel just as much as people that the rest of us

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 think are very, very bad. And here then is where it's going to be an argument from the greater to

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 the lesser. Because there are many groups that even though they might not say they're instructed from

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 the law, they just take that out, but it describes them. You know, they've been instructed by,

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 you know, by Oprah Winfrey. They've been instructed by Trump. They've been instructed by,

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 you know, take, take, pick your guru, by Muhammad, by Krishna. They've been instructed. They,

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 they have a body of teachings. They're good people. They're moral people. They're moralistic.

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 They're religious and spiritual in their own way. And they think they have an obligation to teach other

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 people. So why on earth does somebody like that need the gospel? Well, the first and most basic problem

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 is revealed in verse 21. And Paul's going to sort of identify two groups of reasons why those of us

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 who are moralistic and religious and spiritual need the gospel just as much as people who are very clearly

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 bad people. And look at verse 21. The first part of 21 summarizes the whole problem. Verse 21,

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 you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? Ah, there's the problem. Now he's going to unpack it.

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 If you could put up the second point, Claire, that would be very helpful. It's a human problem. It's not a

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 Jewish problem. It's a problem for Jewish people who are devout and for the Anglican Church of Canada

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 and for those who are parts of Brethren Churches or a church like ours or a cell of Wiccans or just

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 very moralistic baristas. The human problem, you don't have a good track record in doing what you teach.

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 You don't have a good track record in doing what you teach. Now just to be clear in this, when I say

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 you, it's to try to make it more punchy, but I mean me too. It's a human problem. That's why I say it's a

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 human problem. It's not a problem just for a particular religious or ethical group. We don't

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 have a good track record in doing what we preach. And Paul's going to sort of unpack this in two

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 different ways. And the first one will just continue. Look at verse 21 again. You then who teach others,

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 because many of us might think that's not the case, but you then who teach others, do not,

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 do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that one must

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 not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who have poor idols, do you rob temples?

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 You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For as it is written, the name of God is

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 blasphemed among the pagans because of you. And there Paul is just quoting, that's Isaiah 52, and he's

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 quoting a whole pile of Old Testament texts that if you're really interested in you can go and

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 Google them and you can see it's a constant theme, especially of the prophets, but also of Moses.

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 And so here's the thing, and it might be that in a room like this not many of us steal.

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 Although, you know, I don't know if God checked over your income tax return, he would agree with

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 every deduction that you made. And I don't know if he looked at how you manage attendance at work and

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 productivity if he would agree that you actually don't steal time from your employee, your employer.

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 I mean, if God was doing it with a really tight thing and you couldn't sort of gaslight him and

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 charm him and distract him. But the second one, this is where Jesus really comes in. And Jesus

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 tightening it up. And the Bible says that if a man or a woman looks at another human being and lusts

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 after them in their heart, if they imagine, you know, they imagine sexually knowing them or they

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 flirt with them or whatever, that they have committed adultery. And I don't know how many of us would

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 actually be able to pass that test. I'm sure some of us could. Although once again, as to whether in

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 the whole course of our life and God was using his standards, we'd pass it, we might be a little bit

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 red-faced, more than a little bit red-faced, even the most holy of us. But the perplexing thing at the

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 end is actually the real killer. That's the real thing which punctures everything. If you go back to

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 verse 22 again, it says, you who say that one must not commit adultery, do you commit adultery?

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 Now this is an odd phrase, you who abhor, that's really hate idols, do you rob temples? And there's

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 lots of debate in the scholarly literature about what he's meaning. But I think the simple way to

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 understand this particular text is to read it within its context. And in chapter one, which is just before

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 that, Paul has identified that a common, that the most common feature of the human condition is that

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 we're idol worshipers, that we create idols that we worship. And so this, what this is saying is,

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 it's saying, let's say, to the brethren elder, it's saying to the adoc priests like myself,

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 you say that you're completely and utterly opposed to idols, and you're very good at following the rules

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 externally. But in your heart, are you following those rules externally because you have idols in your

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 heart? Very good example for a minister. Very common problem for ministers is they have to do a sermon,

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 and they read the text, and what they're really looking for is how to be clever, how to be funny,

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 how to move your heart. And they don't read it at all about whether it speaks to them.

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 Pray for every pastor, pray for me, that I die to any temptation or tendency that I might have to

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 only read the Bible text so that I can come up with clever things to say to you so that you think I'm

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 clever. And pray that I'm not serving in type of idol by telling you that so that you'll think I'm even

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 more clever. And even more holy than I really am. Because you see, the fact of the matter is,

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 is that we can be very good at following external rules. But inwardly, we have, you see,

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 an idol in the ancient world was just a visible sign of a functional heart issue, whereby you gave

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 yourself to something or someone, seeing it as ultimate or as very important or as more important

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 than other things that you needed to honor, and you needed to serve, and you needed that to have meaning,

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 you needed that to have success, you needed that to have peace, and there's an actual need to do that.

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 And the idols have not changed. The names have changed. But they're centered around sexuality.

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 And they're centered around power. And they're centered around money. And they're centered around

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 politics. And they're centered around group identity. And they're centered around racial and ethnic and

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 linguistic identity and differences. And though, and it's centered around self. And those things haven't

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 changed. The names you put on them change. It's centered around fertility. It's centered around

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 children. It's centered around having a legacy. You could go on and on and on. And so you could

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 be apparently a very, very good person doing all of the things for the right reason, but really

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 what's motivating you is something else, and it's an idol. I say I hate those idols, but I really

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 like this one because I really want other people to think well of me, and I want to have power,

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 and I want to be seen as the center. And what's really motivating me to do those external things

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 is these inner idols. And that's why if God was to reveal your life as one day it will be revealed,

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 people will see, oh, George didn't do that sermon because he loved the congregation,

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 but because he wanted the congregation to love him.

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 Boy, that changes how you hear it, doesn't it?

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 And on and on and on. You flatter your boss, you flatter your co-workers because you

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 have an idol of promotions. Go on and on. And so you see, the problem is it is good to want to know

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 and teach what is beautiful and good. The human problem is, for moralistic people, is that we don't

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 have a good track record in doing what we teach. We're very good at seeing, we're very good at

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 flattering ourselves too much to detect or hate our own sin. You know, I got in, this is a few years ago,

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 in a coffee shop that I used to be a regular at, and I got to know a lot of the people very well, actually,

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 and it's very interesting how many of them thought that they were the most moral person

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 and disliked the other people all on the same thing. So the person they disliked, if you talked to them,

00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:28.440
 they were the only one who actually really was concerned for staff and really concerned about doing a good job

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 and really concerned about speaking the truth. And they'd take to another one, and they'd say,

00:21:32.660 --> 00:21:37.799
 that person over there, Sarah, they're terrible at all those things. And you talk to Sarah, and they'd say,

00:21:37.860 --> 00:21:40.640
 well, you know, over there, Bob, Sarah would say, I'm the only one who's doing all of these things.

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 That's the problem with Bob. He doesn't do all those things. And that's how moralistic people look at each other.

00:21:45.059 --> 00:21:49.900
 They're very good at flattering, we are very good at flattering ourselves too much to detect or hate our own sin,

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 and we are very good at finding specks in other people's eyes and not seeing the log in our own eyes,

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 and not even being aware of the fact that we walk around with idols as our glasses.

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 And that's how we see the world, and that's what motivates us.

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 We don't have a track record in doing what we teach.

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 But the second problem, Paul goes, is also in there, and that is seen if you look at verses 25 to 27,

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 and it loops up to something that he said at the beginning. We'll read it first,

00:22:21.720 --> 00:22:28.779
 because he seems to take an odd track here, verse 25 to 27.

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 So what this is basically saying is that for the Jewish people, the sign that you become a Jew

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 is if the male in your family grouping has been circumcised.

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 The Old Testament taught the circumcision of males.

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 It would completely and utterly be opposed to female circumcision.

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 Female circumcision is a horrific thing to hurt women and make them not even second-class citizens,

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 but tenth-class citizens. It's a horrific thing. The Bible has never taught it.

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 The Old Testament would have completely condemned it,

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 because the Old Testament wanted to honour women, not condemn them.

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 But it's talking about the circumcision as a sign of being Jewish,

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 having this privileged position vis-à-vis God.

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 And the point is, do you think really God was interested in having in-groups and out-groups,

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 or was he actually interested in changed lives?

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 So go back and read verse 25 again.

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 For circumcision is indeed of value if you obey the law,

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 or you practice the law. That's actually more literally, practice or do it.

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 But if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision.

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 So if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law,

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 that's the moral principles, not necessarily the Old Testament words,

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 but will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

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 Because ultimately God wants behaviour, action,

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 and action lining up with your heart, not group identity.

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 Then he who is physically uncircumcised, verse 27,

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 but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision,

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 but break the law.

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 So it's not just talking about hypocrisy,

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 because the Bible isn't interested so much.

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 I mean, it is really interested in hypocrisy,

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 but what Paul is doing is trying to open up something about the human condition,

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 and something about a way out of this problem

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 that respects the valid longings and yearnings that God has put within you.

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 The point of this text, and the earlier part, I meant to mention it last week,

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 isn't that teachers should stop teaching children how to behave

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 and what's right and wrong.

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 It's not trying to say that parents should start,

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 abdicate the responsibility of teaching a child what's good and right

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 and things which are bad.

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 It's not saying that.

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 It's how do you get to that

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 without this problem of being moralistic and self-righteous.

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 That's the problem, not the task.

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 The solution we're going to come to in a moment keeps that as a valid thing that you need to do.

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 But here's the problem with group identity,

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 and it's an issue of presumption.

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 You see, remember, you know, the guy,

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 I can't remember the guy's name,

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 the guy who launched all the shut,

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 I know I'm touching on a raw nerve for people,

00:25:24.339 --> 00:25:27.339
 all those COVID lockdowns was based on a model,

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 you know, that was going to have millions,

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 hundreds of millions of people killed.

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 And while he was doing that, what did he do?

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 He kept meeting his lover and having adultery with somebody,

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 even while he was causing everybody else to be shut down in lockdowns.

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 Like, that's the problem.

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 We give ourselves a pass, right?

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 People in in-groups give themselves mulligans.

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 They flatter themselves too much to detect or hate our own sin.

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 So, you know, if you're centering around Pierre Pauly,

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 you say, oh, look at the liberals, what they just did.

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 Oh, that's really, really terrible.

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 Well, they themselves are doing the exact same thing,

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 but that's different because, like, we're around Pierre.

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 Or the other way around.

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 You know, yeah, we're all around Carney, we're all liberals.

00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:08.000
 Look at how terrible those Pierre Pauly people are.

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 And then somebody points out, you do the same thing.

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 And they say, no, no, no, we're not doing the same thing.

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 But really what they're doing is they're just agreeing

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 that they're going to give themselves a pass.

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 And so it's interesting.

00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:20.220
 Go back to verse 17 for a second.

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 It's all hinted at there, but it's not clear in the English.

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 Verse 17,

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 But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God,

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 and there's this word boast.

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 And in the original language, there's two different senses of boast.

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 And you need to understand from the context which one is going on.

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 And one sense of it is a virtue,

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 and one sense of it is a vice, is a bad thing.

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 One sense of it is a type of presumption.

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 It's very interesting.

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 I'm going to get the word slightly wrong,

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 but those of you who like basketball,

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 many, many years ago,

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 when the Michael Jordan and the Bulls won their last NBA championship,

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 their sixth won in eight years,

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 and Steve Kerr, who's now the coach for Golden State Warriors,

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 he was just a bit player,

00:27:05.420 --> 00:27:08.379
 like a seventh-ranked player on the team or something like that.

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 And the person interviewed them

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 after they'd won the NBA championship.

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 They interviewed Michael, Steve Kerr,

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 and some other person said,

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 well, you know, how does it feel

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 to be a really good player on a really, really good team?

00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:22.880
 And Steve Kerr said,

00:27:23.059 --> 00:27:24.140
 that's not us.

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 We're just the lucky average players

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 who got to play with a basketball god,

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 and he won the game.

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 He was basically saying,

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 if I wasn't on the same team as Michael Jordan,

00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:37.480
 you wouldn't even be interviewing me.

00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:38.880
 You probably wouldn't even know who I am.

00:27:40.100 --> 00:27:42.319
 Michael Jordan carried the whole team on his shoulders.

00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:44.039
 And in that type of sense,

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 there's a type of boasting which is good.

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 That was a really good sermon.

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 All things come of you, Father,

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 and of your own have I given you.

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 There seems to be some health in the congregation.

00:27:54.919 --> 00:27:56.379
 Boy, if you know what we were really like,

00:27:56.439 --> 00:27:57.639
 if you know what some of us were like

00:27:57.639 --> 00:27:58.559
 before we knew Christ,

00:27:58.700 --> 00:28:01.099
 you'd want to get 100 miles away from us.

00:28:01.700 --> 00:28:03.700
 It's just really what Christ has done for us.

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 That's the type of boasting that God wants,

00:28:06.539 --> 00:28:08.159
 a confidence in Christ.

00:28:08.819 --> 00:28:10.599
 The other type of boasting is presumption.

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 I don't really have to follow those rules

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 because, I mean, I'm Jewish.

00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:16.539
 I don't really have to follow those rules

00:28:16.539 --> 00:28:17.399
 because I'm woke.

00:28:17.719 --> 00:28:19.419
 I don't really have to follow those rules

00:28:19.419 --> 00:28:23.359
 because I'm really into Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes.

00:28:24.079 --> 00:28:25.159
 By the way, if you're into them,

00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:26.679
 you really need to repent.

00:28:26.939 --> 00:28:29.059
 They're terrible, terrible, terrible people

00:28:29.059 --> 00:28:30.799
 who will terribly lead you astray.

00:28:32.879 --> 00:28:35.240
 Homophobic, anti-Semites,

00:28:36.740 --> 00:28:37.500
 Nazi lovers.

00:28:37.679 --> 00:28:39.000
 Stay away from them, by the way.

00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.539
 But I say that because some young men

00:28:41.539 --> 00:28:44.519
 are fascinated by those guys

00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:46.039
 and they're really, really bad news.

00:28:46.700 --> 00:28:48.380
 But the bottom line is,

00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:49.960
 we think we get a pass.

00:28:50.759 --> 00:28:52.119
 Because you're an evangelical,

00:28:52.420 --> 00:28:53.299
 because you're a Baptist,

00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:54.819
 because you're a Pentecostal,

00:28:54.940 --> 00:28:56.119
 because you're an Anglican,

00:28:56.220 --> 00:28:57.460
 because you're this group or that,

00:28:57.759 --> 00:28:59.240
 you have a type of presumption.

00:28:59.380 --> 00:29:03.119
 That's the type that's all wrong and all bad.

00:29:03.119 --> 00:29:09.339
 And so that's the second aspect of the big problem,

00:29:09.439 --> 00:29:09.899
 the human problem,

00:29:09.959 --> 00:29:10.939
 is you don't practice,

00:29:11.399 --> 00:29:12.839
 you don't have a good track record

00:29:12.839 --> 00:29:14.099
 in doing what you teach.

00:29:16.459 --> 00:29:17.919
 So now, okay,

00:29:17.979 --> 00:29:19.299
 now that I've depressed you all,

00:29:20.339 --> 00:29:21.839
 and now that God's depressed you,

00:29:21.879 --> 00:29:22.599
 and you're just going to think,

00:29:22.659 --> 00:29:23.579
 yeah, yeah, I suck.

00:29:23.819 --> 00:29:25.099
 I suck all the time.

00:29:25.419 --> 00:29:27.079
 And the more I try to not suck,

00:29:27.179 --> 00:29:28.139
 the more I suck.

00:29:28.339 --> 00:29:29.419
 That's not the message.

00:29:29.420 --> 00:29:32.660
 But here's the really surprising thing.

00:29:34.120 --> 00:29:35.920
 What we expect now,

00:29:36.120 --> 00:29:37.759
 out of our human condition,

00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:39.400
 is that now,

00:29:39.720 --> 00:29:41.200
 Paul is going to introduce

00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:44.940
 the Christian rituals that you need to do,

00:29:45.340 --> 00:29:48.539
 and the Christian rules that you need to follow,

00:29:48.860 --> 00:29:51.440
 so that these human condition problems

00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:52.300
 don't apply to you.

00:29:52.360 --> 00:29:53.300
 That's what we expect.

00:29:55.940 --> 00:29:57.140
 And he doesn't do it.

00:29:57.140 --> 00:30:00.320
 He goes in a completely and utterly,

00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:02.520
 shockingly different direction,

00:30:02.660 --> 00:30:03.840
 but the direction he goes

00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:05.860
 is exactly the direction we need.

00:30:06.700 --> 00:30:08.040
 Look, it's not obvious,

00:30:08.280 --> 00:30:10.160
 but it is once you see it.

00:30:10.340 --> 00:30:13.000
 Look at verse 28 and 29.

00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:15.620
 For no one is a Jew

00:30:15.620 --> 00:30:17.520
 who is merely one outwardly,

00:30:17.900 --> 00:30:20.980
 nor is circumcision outward and physical.

00:30:21.560 --> 00:30:22.340
 And by the way,

00:30:23.340 --> 00:30:24.780
 you read the Old Testament prophets,

00:30:24.780 --> 00:30:26.240
 you can find all sorts of prophets.

00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:27.559
 You can find Moses saying that,

00:30:27.620 --> 00:30:28.799
 actually, in the giving of the law.

00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:31.200
 And then verse 29.

00:30:31.460 --> 00:30:33.160
 But a Jew is one inwardly,

00:30:34.160 --> 00:30:36.259
 and circumcision is a matter of the heart

00:30:36.259 --> 00:30:37.859
 by the Holy Spirit,

00:30:38.440 --> 00:30:39.299
 not by the letter,

00:30:39.420 --> 00:30:40.680
 not by words.

00:30:41.359 --> 00:30:42.299
 His praise,

00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:42.940
 that is,

00:30:43.019 --> 00:30:45.680
 one who has come into a proper relationship with God,

00:30:45.839 --> 00:30:47.680
 is not from human beings,

00:30:47.779 --> 00:30:48.579
 but from God.

00:30:49.440 --> 00:30:51.000
 I'll read those two verses again.

00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:52.559
 For no one is a Jew

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:54.599
 that is in a special relationship with God,

00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:56.240
 who is merely one outwardly,

00:30:56.460 --> 00:31:00.759
 nor is circumcision outward and physical.

00:31:01.420 --> 00:31:04.259
 But a Jew is one inwardly,

00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:07.000
 and circumcision is a matter of the heart,

00:31:07.059 --> 00:31:08.059
 by the Holy Spirit,

00:31:08.140 --> 00:31:08.900
 not by the letter.

00:31:09.299 --> 00:31:10.660
 His praise is not from man,

00:31:10.740 --> 00:31:11.279
 but from God.

00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:12.460
 If you could put up the third point,

00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:12.700
 Claire,

00:31:12.740 --> 00:31:13.680
 that would be very helpful.

00:31:14.639 --> 00:31:15.859
 You need the Holy Spirit

00:31:15.859 --> 00:31:17.319
 to circumcise your heart.

00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:21.599
 You need the Holy Spirit

00:31:21.599 --> 00:31:23.180
 to circumcise your heart.

00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:24.680
 I need it too.

00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:26.680
 You see, it's funny.

00:31:26.680 --> 00:31:32.000
 What he's basically saying

00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:33.720
 is that all of the texts

00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:34.600
 in the Old Testament

00:31:34.600 --> 00:31:35.799
 about circumcision

00:31:35.799 --> 00:31:36.820
 were a sign,

00:31:36.980 --> 00:31:37.740
 a true sign,

00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:40.600
 but the question that you have to ask

00:31:40.600 --> 00:31:41.500
 is if it's a sign,

00:31:41.600 --> 00:31:42.660
 what's it pointing to?

00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:45.620
 And what it's pointing to

00:31:45.620 --> 00:31:47.480
 is a true and greater circumcision

00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:48.580
 that would only come

00:31:48.580 --> 00:31:50.100
 when the Lamb of God

00:31:50.100 --> 00:31:51.640
 who takes away the sin of the world

00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:53.080
 was to walk upon this earth

00:31:53.080 --> 00:31:53.920
 and live the life

00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:54.799
 that you should live

00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:55.460
 but couldn't

00:31:55.460 --> 00:31:56.900
 and die the death

00:31:56.900 --> 00:31:57.680
 that you deserve

00:31:57.680 --> 00:31:59.100
 and he didn't

00:31:59.100 --> 00:32:00.480
 where he becomes

00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:01.200
 the Lamb of God

00:32:01.200 --> 00:32:01.840
 who takes away

00:32:01.840 --> 00:32:02.660
 the sin of the world.

00:32:03.319 --> 00:32:04.039
 If you go back

00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:05.500
 and you read Genesis 12

00:32:05.500 --> 00:32:06.100
 to about,

00:32:06.220 --> 00:32:06.700
 I can't remember,

00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:07.600
 20 or 21,

00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:09.440
 there's a very interesting

00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:10.640
 series of stories

00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:11.480
 which capture

00:32:11.480 --> 00:32:12.579
 what's going on here

00:32:12.579 --> 00:32:13.640
 very well.

00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:14.559
 It sets the pattern.

00:32:15.220 --> 00:32:16.259
 And in the ancient world,

00:32:16.500 --> 00:32:17.840
 the idea of covenant

00:32:17.840 --> 00:32:18.740
 was very common

00:32:18.740 --> 00:32:19.480
 and there would be

00:32:19.480 --> 00:32:20.539
 a warlord

00:32:20.539 --> 00:32:21.319
 or a king

00:32:21.319 --> 00:32:22.059
 or an emperor

00:32:22.059 --> 00:32:23.880
 who would enter

00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:24.640
 into a covenant

00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:25.360
 with a group of

00:32:25.359 --> 00:32:26.159
 lesser people

00:32:26.159 --> 00:32:28.319
 maybe with a city

00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:29.259
 that was going to come

00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:30.539
 under his rule

00:32:30.539 --> 00:32:32.039
 or a family

00:32:32.039 --> 00:32:32.819
 or a tribe

00:32:32.819 --> 00:32:33.799
 or a person

00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:35.079
 and in that

00:32:35.079 --> 00:32:36.039
 there would be things

00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:37.099
 that would be set forward.

00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:38.459
 I will be your great Lord

00:32:38.459 --> 00:32:40.019
 and I will be your savior

00:32:40.019 --> 00:32:40.959
 and your deliverer

00:32:40.959 --> 00:32:42.479
 and you will be mine

00:32:42.479 --> 00:32:43.679
 and we will have a relationship

00:32:43.679 --> 00:32:44.439
 with each other

00:32:44.439 --> 00:32:46.199
 and this is a special

00:32:46.199 --> 00:32:47.519
 set-aside relationship

00:32:47.519 --> 00:32:48.919
 and these are the things

00:32:48.919 --> 00:32:49.959
 that you need to do

00:32:49.959 --> 00:32:51.359
 and these are the things

00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:52.419
 that I will do

00:32:52.420 --> 00:32:53.860
 and you need to do

00:32:53.860 --> 00:32:54.600
 these things

00:32:54.600 --> 00:32:55.800
 and if you don't

00:32:55.800 --> 00:32:57.160
 do these things

00:32:57.160 --> 00:32:59.240
 here's all the punishments

00:32:59.240 --> 00:32:59.920
 that are going to happen

00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:00.380
 to you.

00:33:01.100 --> 00:33:02.160
 It's a little bit like

00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:03.660
 I don't know

00:33:03.660 --> 00:33:05.080
 a bit 70-ish.

00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:07.220
 You go to a mafia don

00:33:07.220 --> 00:33:09.100
 and you want a mafia don

00:33:09.100 --> 00:33:09.600
 you want to come

00:33:09.600 --> 00:33:10.840
 under the mafia's employee

00:33:10.840 --> 00:33:11.759
 and he says

00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:12.539
 I'll take you

00:33:12.539 --> 00:33:13.220
 and my employee

00:33:13.220 --> 00:33:13.720
 you know

00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:14.759
 and you got to do this

00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:15.440
 and you got to do this

00:33:15.440 --> 00:33:16.200
 and you got to do this

00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:17.019
 but you know

00:33:17.019 --> 00:33:18.200
 if I catch you stealing

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:19.140
 I cut off your head.

00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:21.500
 If I catch you doing this

00:33:21.500 --> 00:33:22.400
 I cut off your arm.

00:33:23.220 --> 00:33:24.420
 If I catch you doing this

00:33:24.420 --> 00:33:25.259
 I'm going to kill

00:33:25.259 --> 00:33:26.200
 your wife and children.

00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:27.980
 If I catch you doing this

00:33:27.980 --> 00:33:29.660
 I'm going to skin you alive

00:33:29.660 --> 00:33:30.940
 and kill you.

00:33:32.220 --> 00:33:33.300
 That's how a lot of people

00:33:33.300 --> 00:33:34.040
 think God is

00:33:34.040 --> 00:33:34.560
 by the way.

00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:36.740
 And the amazing thing

00:33:36.740 --> 00:33:37.880
 in the story of Abraham

00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:39.040
 which is pointing

00:33:39.040 --> 00:33:40.200
 ultimately to Christ

00:33:40.200 --> 00:33:41.720
 is that when it comes time

00:33:41.720 --> 00:33:43.160
 God makes this covenant

00:33:43.160 --> 00:33:43.800
 with Abraham

00:33:43.800 --> 00:33:45.660
 and he says

00:33:45.660 --> 00:33:46.620
 I will be your Lord

00:33:46.620 --> 00:33:47.820
 and you can be my person

00:33:47.819 --> 00:33:49.059
 and from your seed

00:33:49.059 --> 00:33:50.179
 all the nations of the world

00:33:50.179 --> 00:33:50.799
 will be blessed

00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:52.139
 and I will take you to myself

00:33:52.139 --> 00:33:53.879
 and then when it comes time

00:33:53.879 --> 00:33:55.119
 for the circums

00:33:55.119 --> 00:33:57.579
 the part of the ceremony

00:33:57.579 --> 00:33:58.359
 where the

00:33:58.359 --> 00:33:59.179
 you know

00:33:59.179 --> 00:33:59.779
 they lay out

00:33:59.779 --> 00:34:00.579
 all of the things

00:34:00.579 --> 00:34:01.460
 that you need to do

00:34:01.460 --> 00:34:02.639
 and then when it comes time

00:34:02.639 --> 00:34:04.200
 to have that ceremony marked

00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:07.819
 and all of the things

00:34:07.819 --> 00:34:08.599
 that the bad things

00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:09.559
 that will happen to you

00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:09.980
 if those

00:34:09.980 --> 00:34:11.179
 the terms of the covenant

00:34:11.179 --> 00:34:11.900
 aren't kept

00:34:11.900 --> 00:34:14.039
 Abraham doesn't walk

00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:15.039
 through that ceremony

00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:16.000
 but God does

00:34:16.000 --> 00:34:16.819
 for Abraham

00:34:16.820 --> 00:34:20.340
 and so this gives us

00:34:20.340 --> 00:34:21.120
 a bit of a sense

00:34:21.120 --> 00:34:22.080
 about what's happening

00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:23.880
 with the person of Jesus

00:34:23.880 --> 00:34:24.720
 and why Paul

00:34:24.720 --> 00:34:26.080
 is talking about all of this

00:34:26.080 --> 00:34:27.240
 you see if you

00:34:27.240 --> 00:34:28.080
 when we're going to do

00:34:28.080 --> 00:34:28.700
 the Lord's Supper

00:34:28.700 --> 00:34:29.580
 in a couple of moments

00:34:29.580 --> 00:34:30.960
 we remember that Jesus

00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:32.800
 said that by his coming

00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:33.780
 and by his death

00:34:33.780 --> 00:34:34.880
 and by his resurrection

00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:35.820
 God had created

00:34:35.820 --> 00:34:36.680
 a new covenant

00:34:36.680 --> 00:34:37.900
 a new covenant

00:34:37.900 --> 00:34:38.580
 for people

00:34:38.580 --> 00:34:39.940
 of every tribe

00:34:39.940 --> 00:34:40.680
 and every nation

00:34:40.680 --> 00:34:41.920
 of every language group

00:34:41.920 --> 00:34:43.320
 of every type of sexuality

00:34:43.320 --> 00:34:44.580
 he has made

00:34:44.580 --> 00:34:45.760
 one covenant

00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:46.820
 that you enter

00:34:46.820 --> 00:34:47.539
 by faith

00:34:47.539 --> 00:34:50.500
 and the sign of that

00:34:50.500 --> 00:34:51.700
 is a variety of signs

00:34:51.700 --> 00:34:53.539
 but the consequences

00:34:53.539 --> 00:34:54.660
 for not being able

00:34:54.660 --> 00:34:55.700
 to keep it

00:34:55.700 --> 00:34:58.640
 fall on Jesus

00:34:58.640 --> 00:35:01.140
 it's very interesting

00:35:01.140 --> 00:35:01.920
 that in the garden

00:35:01.920 --> 00:35:03.260
 the cup of God's wrath

00:35:03.260 --> 00:35:04.780
 is drank by Christ

00:35:04.780 --> 00:35:07.559
 since Jesus drinks

00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:09.039
 the cup of God's wrath

00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.059
 so that by faith

00:35:11.059 --> 00:35:11.659
 in Christ

00:35:11.659 --> 00:35:12.719
 you can drink

00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:13.460
 the cup

00:35:13.460 --> 00:35:14.400
 of the new covenant

00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:16.920
 and so what Jesus

00:35:16.920 --> 00:35:17.599
 in a sense

00:35:17.599 --> 00:35:18.739
 is what God is saying

00:35:18.739 --> 00:35:19.759
 is that when Jesus

00:35:19.759 --> 00:35:20.820
 dies on the cross

00:35:20.820 --> 00:35:22.059
 all of the

00:35:22.059 --> 00:35:24.079
 all of the consequences

00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:25.159
 and penalties

00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:27.340
 that should fall on you

00:35:27.340 --> 00:35:28.440
 if you can't keep

00:35:28.440 --> 00:35:29.559
 the words of the covenant

00:35:29.559 --> 00:35:30.400
 and can't keep

00:35:30.400 --> 00:35:31.559
 the special relationship

00:35:31.559 --> 00:35:33.679
 they actually fell on him

00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:36.000
 and so when I put my faith

00:35:36.000 --> 00:35:37.079
 and trust in Christ

00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:38.960
 and he brings me

00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:39.639
 into himself

00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:40.739
 so that I am in union

00:35:40.739 --> 00:35:41.460
 with Christ

00:35:41.460 --> 00:35:43.460
 then all of those penalties

00:35:43.460 --> 00:35:44.819
 for not keeping the law

00:35:44.819 --> 00:35:45.599
 and not living up

00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:46.360
 to what I teach

00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:47.360
 all of those penalties

00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:48.279
 that I deserve

00:35:48.279 --> 00:35:49.539
 fall on him

00:35:49.539 --> 00:35:51.920
 and this covenant

00:35:51.920 --> 00:35:52.880
 of blessing

00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:53.699
 of favor

00:35:53.699 --> 00:35:54.519
 that goes even

00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:55.420
 into eternity

00:35:55.420 --> 00:35:56.400
 are now bestowed

00:35:56.400 --> 00:35:57.000
 upon me

00:35:57.000 --> 00:36:01.079
 and so that's why

00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:02.039
 it says here

00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:04.739
 that if you look back

00:36:04.739 --> 00:36:06.159
 at verse 29 again

00:36:06.159 --> 00:36:07.059
 but a Jew is one

00:36:07.059 --> 00:36:07.899
 inwardly

00:36:07.899 --> 00:36:09.920
 circumcision is a matter

00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:10.679
 of the heart

00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:12.539
 that's applying Christ

00:36:12.539 --> 00:36:13.159
 we're in union

00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:13.859
 with Christ

00:36:13.859 --> 00:36:16.379
 and so at a very depth

00:36:16.379 --> 00:36:16.940
 of who we are

00:36:16.940 --> 00:36:17.480
 because that's what

00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:18.500
 the heart is

00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:19.379
 Christ

00:36:19.379 --> 00:36:20.099
 that

00:36:20.099 --> 00:36:21.980
 all those punishments

00:36:21.980 --> 00:36:23.119
 and all those blessings

00:36:23.119 --> 00:36:24.339
 that

00:36:24.339 --> 00:36:25.899
 they have now come

00:36:25.899 --> 00:36:26.299
 to me

00:36:26.299 --> 00:36:27.099
 in my heart

00:36:27.099 --> 00:36:27.799
 and they're brought

00:36:27.799 --> 00:36:28.940
 by the Holy Spirit

00:36:28.940 --> 00:36:30.899
 not by any particular words

00:36:30.899 --> 00:36:32.219
 and the one

00:36:32.219 --> 00:36:32.559
 who is

00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:33.099
 praise

00:36:33.099 --> 00:36:34.059
 who prays

00:36:34.059 --> 00:36:34.839
 and is blessing

00:36:34.839 --> 00:36:36.119
 and is excited

00:36:36.119 --> 00:36:36.860
 about all of this

00:36:36.860 --> 00:36:37.819
 is God the Father

00:36:37.819 --> 00:36:39.699
 about what Christ

00:36:39.699 --> 00:36:40.639
 has done for you

00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:46.339
 and that's why

00:36:46.339 --> 00:36:47.139
 every human being

00:36:47.139 --> 00:36:48.000
 now how does this

00:36:48.000 --> 00:36:48.900
 apply though for us

00:36:48.900 --> 00:36:49.799
 then in terms

00:36:49.799 --> 00:36:50.519
 of how we live

00:36:50.519 --> 00:36:51.079
 well if you could

00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:51.940
 put up the fourth point

00:36:51.940 --> 00:36:52.960
 that would be very helpful

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:55.539
 you see Jesus

00:36:55.539 --> 00:36:57.259
 the Holy Spirit

00:36:57.259 --> 00:36:57.860
 the Father

00:36:57.860 --> 00:36:59.039
 wants us to receive

00:36:59.039 --> 00:36:59.599
 the gospel

00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:00.440
 to be made right

00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:00.980
 with God

00:37:00.980 --> 00:37:03.139
 and then he desires

00:37:03.139 --> 00:37:03.860
 that we preach

00:37:03.860 --> 00:37:04.420
 the gospel

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:05.339
 to ourselves

00:37:05.339 --> 00:37:06.920
 you preach the gospel

00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:07.679
 to yourself

00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:08.539
 day by day

00:37:08.539 --> 00:37:09.719
 to become more

00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:10.480
 Christ-like

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:12.239
 see that's the order

00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:14.179
 and just very briefly

00:37:14.179 --> 00:37:15.440
 I've reached my limit

00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:16.199
 but I want to say

00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:16.739
 a few things

00:37:16.739 --> 00:37:17.460
 about how you preach

00:37:17.460 --> 00:37:18.480
 the gospel to yourself

00:37:18.480 --> 00:37:19.219
 and why that's so

00:37:19.219 --> 00:37:20.400
 unbelievably important

00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:22.980
 and it's so

00:37:22.980 --> 00:37:24.000
 unbelievably important

00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:24.799
 because Christians

00:37:24.799 --> 00:37:25.659
 still have the human

00:37:25.659 --> 00:37:26.199
 condition

00:37:26.199 --> 00:37:27.539
 I don't practice

00:37:27.539 --> 00:37:28.319
 what I teach

00:37:28.320 --> 00:37:31.280
 neither do you

00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:33.080
 and that's not

00:37:33.080 --> 00:37:33.660
 going to stop

00:37:33.660 --> 00:37:34.760
 until we appear

00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:35.380
 before God

00:37:35.380 --> 00:37:36.100
 face to face

00:37:36.100 --> 00:37:36.620
 and we become

00:37:36.620 --> 00:37:37.220
 like Christ

00:37:37.220 --> 00:37:38.019
 when the Holy Spirit

00:37:38.019 --> 00:37:39.100
 completely and utterly

00:37:39.100 --> 00:37:40.240
 makes us like Christ

00:37:40.240 --> 00:37:41.380
 and we dwell

00:37:41.380 --> 00:37:42.400
 in the new heaven

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:42.980
 and the new earth

00:37:42.980 --> 00:37:43.340
 forever

00:37:43.340 --> 00:37:46.820
 so how do we do this

00:37:46.820 --> 00:37:48.340
 well really

00:37:48.340 --> 00:37:49.100
 the whole structure

00:37:49.100 --> 00:37:49.559
 of Romans

00:37:49.559 --> 00:37:50.700
 tells us

00:37:50.700 --> 00:37:52.280
 how that we

00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:53.080
 preach the gospel

00:37:53.080 --> 00:37:53.720
 to ourselves

00:37:53.720 --> 00:37:54.039
 you see

00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:54.780
 preaching the gospel

00:37:54.780 --> 00:37:55.360
 to ourselves

00:37:55.360 --> 00:37:56.400
 is not adoration

00:37:56.400 --> 00:37:57.840
 of God

00:37:57.840 --> 00:37:58.680
 that God is love

00:37:58.680 --> 00:37:59.100
 and it's not

00:37:59.100 --> 00:37:59.579
 remembering

00:37:59.579 --> 00:38:00.559
 that God is love

00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:01.380
 it's a matter

00:38:01.380 --> 00:38:01.940
 of the fact

00:38:01.940 --> 00:38:02.500
 that you don't

00:38:02.500 --> 00:38:03.200
 just hear these

00:38:03.200 --> 00:38:04.280
 words about Christ

00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:05.200
 to become right

00:38:05.200 --> 00:38:05.780
 with God

00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:06.980
 and then you move

00:38:06.980 --> 00:38:08.000
 on to something else

00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:08.780
 you move on

00:38:08.780 --> 00:38:09.820
 to therapy

00:38:09.820 --> 00:38:10.980
 you move on

00:38:10.980 --> 00:38:12.220
 to spiritual direction

00:38:12.220 --> 00:38:13.440
 you move on

00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:15.200
 to meditation techniques

00:38:15.200 --> 00:38:16.240
 you move on

00:38:16.240 --> 00:38:16.900
 to exercise

00:38:16.900 --> 00:38:18.079
 and wealth techniques

00:38:18.079 --> 00:38:18.640
 you move on

00:38:18.640 --> 00:38:19.240
 to other types

00:38:19.240 --> 00:38:19.539
 of things

00:38:19.539 --> 00:38:20.280
 and all you need

00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:21.539
 is to know Christ

00:38:21.539 --> 00:38:22.600
 and give your life

00:38:22.600 --> 00:38:22.880
 to him

00:38:22.880 --> 00:38:23.760
 and that makes you his

00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:24.320
 and then you move

00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:25.059
 on to something else

00:38:25.059 --> 00:38:25.780
 because the gospel

00:38:25.780 --> 00:38:26.360
 doesn't apply

00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:27.180
 to the rest of your life

00:38:27.179 --> 00:38:27.739
 but it does

00:38:27.739 --> 00:38:28.199
 and we'll use

00:38:28.199 --> 00:38:28.839
 the example

00:38:28.839 --> 00:38:31.179
 of the fact

00:38:31.179 --> 00:38:31.899
 that many of us

00:38:31.899 --> 00:38:32.299
 struggle

00:38:32.299 --> 00:38:33.940
 with the idea

00:38:33.940 --> 00:38:34.539
 that if people

00:38:34.539 --> 00:38:35.279
 got to know us

00:38:35.279 --> 00:38:35.539
 better

00:38:35.539 --> 00:38:36.679
 they wouldn't like us

00:38:36.679 --> 00:38:37.980
 the more they get

00:38:37.980 --> 00:38:38.399
 to know us

00:38:38.399 --> 00:38:39.500
 the less they'd like us

00:38:39.500 --> 00:38:40.599
 and if you just

00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:41.899
 meditate upon God's love

00:38:41.899 --> 00:38:42.679
 that's a good thing

00:38:42.679 --> 00:38:42.940
 to do

00:38:42.940 --> 00:38:43.639
 but it's not going

00:38:43.639 --> 00:38:44.480
 to be very helpful

00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:45.799
 for your human condition

00:38:45.799 --> 00:38:49.559
 you see

00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:50.960
 what I need to do

00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:51.899
 is I need

00:38:51.899 --> 00:38:53.319
 I need to preach

00:38:53.319 --> 00:38:53.799
 the gospel

00:38:53.799 --> 00:38:54.559
 to myself

00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:55.599
 and that means

00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:56.159
 first of all

00:38:56.159 --> 00:38:57.039
 coming to Jesus

00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:58.820
 and saying

00:38:58.820 --> 00:38:59.279
 Jesus

00:38:59.279 --> 00:39:04.519
 I live out

00:39:04.519 --> 00:39:05.139
 of this

00:39:05.139 --> 00:39:07.380
 lie about myself

00:39:07.380 --> 00:39:08.579
 that the more

00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:09.840
 people get to know me

00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:11.039
 the less they'll like me

00:39:11.039 --> 00:39:12.960
 and so I lie

00:39:12.960 --> 00:39:13.659
 and I cajole

00:39:13.659 --> 00:39:14.360
 and I joke

00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:15.400
 and I avoid appointments

00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:16.400
 and I avoid commitments

00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:17.340
 and I do all of these

00:39:17.340 --> 00:39:18.119
 types of things

00:39:18.119 --> 00:39:18.840
 and it's just going

00:39:18.840 --> 00:39:19.500
 to hurt me

00:39:19.500 --> 00:39:20.579
 and I've done

00:39:20.579 --> 00:39:21.099
 these things

00:39:21.099 --> 00:39:21.739
 which are wrong

00:39:21.739 --> 00:39:22.340
 and so we go

00:39:22.340 --> 00:39:22.980
 and we acknowledge

00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:23.600
 our sin

00:39:23.600 --> 00:39:26.019
 and then we don't

00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:26.780
 just think about

00:39:26.780 --> 00:39:27.800
 God being love

00:39:27.800 --> 00:39:28.579
 but we meditate

00:39:28.579 --> 00:39:29.800
 upon the riches

00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:30.660
 of the gospel

00:39:30.660 --> 00:39:32.539
 and in particular

00:39:32.539 --> 00:39:33.400
 is this

00:39:33.400 --> 00:39:36.780
 I acknowledge

00:39:36.780 --> 00:39:37.519
 and confess

00:39:37.519 --> 00:39:38.940
 my sin before God

00:39:38.940 --> 00:39:39.640
 and the problem

00:39:39.640 --> 00:39:40.519
 in my heart

00:39:40.519 --> 00:39:41.860
 which is tearing me down

00:39:41.860 --> 00:39:43.820
 and then I meditate

00:39:43.820 --> 00:39:45.720
 upon this profound truth

00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:48.219
 that Christ

00:39:48.219 --> 00:39:49.939
 was cut off

00:39:49.939 --> 00:39:51.259
 from life

00:39:51.259 --> 00:39:52.559
 and love

00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.480
 and the Father's presence

00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:55.799
 out of love

00:39:55.799 --> 00:39:56.359
 for me

00:39:56.359 --> 00:40:01.779
 my deep fear

00:40:01.779 --> 00:40:03.659
 is that if people

00:40:03.659 --> 00:40:04.419
 were to know

00:40:04.419 --> 00:40:05.559
 who I really am

00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:07.619
 that they would

00:40:07.619 --> 00:40:08.559
 cut me off

00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:10.039
 and I would be

00:40:10.039 --> 00:40:10.539
 cut off

00:40:10.539 --> 00:40:11.459
 from other people

00:40:11.459 --> 00:40:13.279
 and from life

00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:13.800
 itself

00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:15.340
 and now

00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:16.440
 I understand

00:40:16.440 --> 00:40:17.700
 I come to Jesus

00:40:17.700 --> 00:40:18.400
 acknowledging

00:40:18.400 --> 00:40:19.240
 and confessing

00:40:19.240 --> 00:40:20.460
 this as a problem

00:40:20.460 --> 00:40:22.620
 and I realize

00:40:22.620 --> 00:40:23.540
 that Christ

00:40:23.540 --> 00:40:24.600
 was cut off

00:40:24.600 --> 00:40:25.360
 for me

00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:27.280
 for me

00:40:27.280 --> 00:40:29.240
 in my place

00:40:29.240 --> 00:40:30.440
 and I am

00:40:30.440 --> 00:40:31.040
 in him

00:40:31.040 --> 00:40:33.060
 and the source

00:40:33.060 --> 00:40:33.860
 of love

00:40:33.860 --> 00:40:34.940
 himself

00:40:34.940 --> 00:40:35.960
 the source

00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:36.780
 of life

00:40:36.780 --> 00:40:37.760
 himself

00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:39.700
 smiles

00:40:39.700 --> 00:40:40.880
 and is pleased

00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:41.620
 at what Christ

00:40:41.620 --> 00:40:42.040
 has done

00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:42.559
 for me

00:40:42.559 --> 00:40:43.800
 and he was

00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:44.460
 cut off

00:40:44.460 --> 00:40:45.199
 that I might

00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:46.259
 know the Father's

00:40:46.259 --> 00:40:47.039
 love forever

00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:48.559
 and so

00:40:48.559 --> 00:40:49.320
 the truth

00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:50.059
 of the gospel

00:40:50.059 --> 00:40:50.739
 that Christ

00:40:50.739 --> 00:40:51.639
 was cut off

00:40:51.639 --> 00:40:52.380
 for one like

00:40:52.380 --> 00:40:52.960
 me

00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:55.340
 afraid

00:40:55.340 --> 00:40:55.860
 of being

00:40:55.860 --> 00:40:56.500
 cut off

00:40:56.500 --> 00:40:57.480
 by others

00:40:57.480 --> 00:40:59.480
 and I can

00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:00.159
 thank him

00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:01.759
 and it is

00:41:01.759 --> 00:41:02.300
 out of that

00:41:02.300 --> 00:41:03.199
 humble place

00:41:03.199 --> 00:41:03.860
 of acknowledging

00:41:03.860 --> 00:41:04.440
 sin

00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:06.000
 and that's

00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:06.320
 just one

00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:07.279
 particular example

00:41:07.279 --> 00:41:08.119
 if you labor

00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:09.099
 under anger

00:41:09.099 --> 00:41:09.880
 if you labor

00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:10.679
 under debt

00:41:10.679 --> 00:41:11.379
 if you labor

00:41:11.379 --> 00:41:12.259
 under shame

00:41:12.259 --> 00:41:14.099
 if you labor

00:41:14.099 --> 00:41:15.039
 under defeat

00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:16.099
 if you labor

00:41:16.099 --> 00:41:17.279
 under time

00:41:17.279 --> 00:41:17.960
 after time

00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:18.579
 after time

00:41:18.579 --> 00:41:19.199
 after time

00:41:19.199 --> 00:41:19.599
 and if you

00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:20.159
 as we go

00:41:20.159 --> 00:41:20.679
 through the book

00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:21.199
 of Romans

00:41:21.199 --> 00:41:22.199
 the structure

00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:23.299
 is always this

00:41:23.299 --> 00:41:24.599
 to come to God

00:41:24.599 --> 00:41:25.879
 not in presumption

00:41:25.879 --> 00:41:26.960
 and not in arrogance

00:41:26.960 --> 00:41:28.539
 or merely meditating

00:41:28.539 --> 00:41:29.559
 upon the attributes

00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:30.219
 and qualities

00:41:30.219 --> 00:41:30.739
 of God

00:41:30.739 --> 00:41:31.579
 as wonderful

00:41:31.579 --> 00:41:32.279
 and powerful

00:41:32.279 --> 00:41:33.219
 as those are

00:41:33.219 --> 00:41:34.179
 but to come

00:41:34.179 --> 00:41:34.799
 to God

00:41:34.799 --> 00:41:35.980
 acknowledging

00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:36.980
 my sin

00:41:36.980 --> 00:41:38.019
 and the fact

00:41:38.019 --> 00:41:38.679
 that I don't

00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:39.539
 do these things

00:41:39.539 --> 00:41:39.900
 and I do

00:41:39.900 --> 00:41:40.820
 these other things

00:41:40.820 --> 00:41:42.000
 and I kick myself

00:41:42.000 --> 00:41:42.639
 and I ruin

00:41:42.639 --> 00:41:43.240
 my life

00:41:43.240 --> 00:41:44.260
 and realizing

00:41:44.260 --> 00:41:44.820
 how there's

00:41:44.820 --> 00:41:45.599
 a particular

00:41:45.599 --> 00:41:46.039
 rich

00:41:46.039 --> 00:41:47.240
 an aspect

00:41:47.240 --> 00:41:48.059
 of the gospel

00:41:48.059 --> 00:41:49.019
 that specifically

00:41:49.019 --> 00:41:49.579
 speaks

00:41:49.579 --> 00:41:51.240
 to my situation

00:41:51.240 --> 00:41:52.679
 and to thank

00:41:52.679 --> 00:41:53.380
 him again

00:41:53.380 --> 00:41:54.679
 that he was

00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:55.679
 cut off

00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:57.440
 so that I

00:41:57.440 --> 00:41:58.240
 will not be

00:41:58.240 --> 00:41:58.719
 cut off

00:41:58.719 --> 00:41:59.260
 from the source

00:41:59.260 --> 00:41:59.619
 of love

00:41:59.619 --> 00:42:00.099
 and life

00:42:00.099 --> 00:42:02.460
 and then to have

00:42:02.460 --> 00:42:03.079
 an emotionally

00:42:03.079 --> 00:42:03.740
 secure

00:42:03.739 --> 00:42:04.739
 and intellectually

00:42:04.739 --> 00:42:05.379
 secure

00:42:05.379 --> 00:42:06.239
 and beautiful

00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:06.719
 place

00:42:06.719 --> 00:42:07.159
 to deal

00:42:07.159 --> 00:42:07.919
 with the problems

00:42:07.919 --> 00:42:08.659
 in my life

00:42:08.659 --> 00:42:09.579
 confident

00:42:09.579 --> 00:42:10.959
 in God's

00:42:10.959 --> 00:42:11.459
 acceptance

00:42:11.459 --> 00:42:12.019
 of me

00:42:12.019 --> 00:42:12.759
 in Christ

00:42:12.759 --> 00:42:15.759
 and we need

00:42:15.759 --> 00:42:16.299
 to preach

00:42:16.299 --> 00:42:16.919
 the gospel

00:42:16.919 --> 00:42:17.899
 to ourselves

00:42:17.899 --> 00:42:18.759
 and to each

00:42:18.759 --> 00:42:19.119
 other

00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:19.859
 and it is

00:42:19.859 --> 00:42:20.719
 out of that

00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:21.919
 that we can

00:42:21.919 --> 00:42:22.779
 humbly say

00:42:22.779 --> 00:42:24.379
 to a child

00:42:24.379 --> 00:42:25.619
 you shouldn't

00:42:25.619 --> 00:42:26.000
 steal

00:42:26.000 --> 00:42:27.359
 you should

00:42:27.359 --> 00:42:28.059
 be generous

00:42:28.059 --> 00:42:29.139
 you should

00:42:29.139 --> 00:42:29.559
 chair

00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:32.139
 you shouldn't

00:42:32.139 --> 00:42:32.699
 treat little

00:42:32.699 --> 00:42:33.719
 girls that way

00:42:33.719 --> 00:42:35.139
 to teenage

00:42:35.139 --> 00:42:35.459
 boys

00:42:35.459 --> 00:42:36.039
 you shouldn't

00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:37.599
 treat a girl

00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:38.259
 that way

00:42:38.259 --> 00:42:39.599
 to teenage

00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:39.980
 girls

00:42:39.980 --> 00:42:40.579
 you shouldn't

00:42:40.579 --> 00:42:41.639
 treat a teenage

00:42:41.639 --> 00:42:42.539
 boy that way

00:42:42.539 --> 00:42:44.199
 not out of a

00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:45.000
 place of arrogance

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:46.619
 but a place of

00:42:46.619 --> 00:42:47.059
 having been

00:42:47.059 --> 00:42:47.539
 humbled

00:42:47.539 --> 00:42:48.719
 and healed

00:42:48.719 --> 00:42:49.839
 by the cross

00:42:49.839 --> 00:42:50.339
 of Christ

00:42:50.339 --> 00:42:52.539
 we need

00:42:52.539 --> 00:42:53.379
 to preach

00:42:53.379 --> 00:42:54.319
 the gospel

00:42:54.319 --> 00:42:55.619
 to ourselves

00:42:55.619 --> 00:42:57.679
 invite you

00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:58.199
 to stand

00:42:58.199 --> 00:43:06.359
 father you

00:43:06.359 --> 00:43:06.879
 know those

00:43:06.879 --> 00:43:07.219
 in this

00:43:07.219 --> 00:43:07.599
 room

00:43:07.599 --> 00:43:08.579
 who struggle

00:43:08.579 --> 00:43:10.659
 or maybe

00:43:10.659 --> 00:43:10.919
 don't

00:43:10.919 --> 00:43:11.219
 they don't

00:43:11.219 --> 00:43:11.819
 even struggle

00:43:11.819 --> 00:43:12.199
 father

00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:12.679
 they're just

00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:13.319
 being beaten

00:43:13.319 --> 00:43:13.960
 up day

00:43:13.960 --> 00:43:14.539
 in and day

00:43:14.539 --> 00:43:14.859
 out

00:43:14.859 --> 00:43:16.679
 with this

00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:17.659
 a lie

00:43:17.659 --> 00:43:18.039
 that is

00:43:18.039 --> 00:43:18.559
 whispered

00:43:18.559 --> 00:43:19.019
 into their

00:43:19.019 --> 00:43:19.359
 ear

00:43:19.359 --> 00:43:20.259
 that if

00:43:20.259 --> 00:43:20.799
 people got

00:43:20.799 --> 00:43:21.159
 to know

00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:21.419
 them

00:43:21.419 --> 00:43:22.419
 they would

00:43:22.419 --> 00:43:22.879
 like them

00:43:22.879 --> 00:43:23.199
 less

00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:23.619
 and father

00:43:23.619 --> 00:43:24.099
 you know

00:43:24.099 --> 00:43:24.719
 who we

00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:24.980
 are

00:43:24.980 --> 00:43:25.559
 in the

00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:25.759
 room

00:43:25.759 --> 00:43:27.179
 and we

00:43:27.179 --> 00:43:27.799
 ask father

00:43:27.799 --> 00:43:28.259
 that you

00:43:28.259 --> 00:43:28.559
 would

00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:29.579
 help

00:43:29.579 --> 00:43:29.960
 these

00:43:29.960 --> 00:43:30.360
 riches

00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:30.779
 of the

00:43:30.779 --> 00:43:31.279
 gospel

00:43:31.279 --> 00:43:32.019
 father

00:43:32.019 --> 00:43:32.519
 to speak

00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:32.920
 to our

00:43:32.920 --> 00:43:33.299
 heart

00:43:33.299 --> 00:43:35.099
 and heal

00:43:35.099 --> 00:43:35.319
 our

00:43:35.319 --> 00:43:35.759
 heart

00:43:35.759 --> 00:43:37.819
 heal

00:43:37.819 --> 00:43:38.039
 our

00:43:38.039 --> 00:43:38.380
 heart

00:43:38.380 --> 00:43:38.639
 in a

00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:38.860
 way

00:43:38.860 --> 00:43:39.159
 which

00:43:39.159 --> 00:43:39.360
 is

00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:39.759
 humble

00:43:39.759 --> 00:43:40.199
 and not

00:43:40.199 --> 00:43:41.039
 presumptuous

00:43:41.039 --> 00:43:41.639
 which

00:43:41.639 --> 00:43:42.059
 is filled

00:43:42.059 --> 00:43:42.299
 with

00:43:42.299 --> 00:43:42.839
 gratitude

00:43:42.839 --> 00:43:44.279
 which

00:43:44.279 --> 00:43:44.699
 is

00:43:44.699 --> 00:43:45.819
 conscious

00:43:45.819 --> 00:43:47.139
 of sharing

00:43:47.139 --> 00:43:47.679
 the human

00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:48.199
 condition

00:43:48.199 --> 00:43:48.779
 with other

00:43:48.779 --> 00:43:49.239
 people

00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:50.159
 in the

00:43:50.159 --> 00:43:50.400
 same

00:43:50.400 --> 00:43:51.159
 situation

00:43:51.159 --> 00:43:52.940
 that

00:43:52.940 --> 00:43:53.460
 humbles

00:43:53.460 --> 00:43:53.699
 us

00:43:53.699 --> 00:43:54.159
 so we

00:43:54.159 --> 00:43:54.460
 don't

00:43:54.460 --> 00:43:55.239
 lift

00:43:55.239 --> 00:43:55.460
 our

00:43:55.460 --> 00:43:55.759
 heads

00:43:55.759 --> 00:43:55.960
 in

00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:56.219
 prayer

00:43:56.219 --> 00:43:56.639
 to you

00:43:56.639 --> 00:43:57.139
 but really

00:43:57.139 --> 00:43:57.519
 what we're

00:43:57.519 --> 00:43:58.000
 doing is

00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:58.480
 looking down

00:43:58.480 --> 00:43:59.000
 our noses

00:43:59.000 --> 00:43:59.519
 at others

00:43:59.519 --> 00:43:59.980
 but we

00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:00.219
 aren't

00:44:00.219 --> 00:44:00.719
 looking down

00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:01.279
 our noses

00:44:01.279 --> 00:44:01.819
 at others

00:44:01.819 --> 00:44:02.480
 but from

00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:03.779
 the bottom

00:44:03.779 --> 00:44:05.179
 and being

00:44:05.179 --> 00:44:05.779
 held and

00:44:05.779 --> 00:44:06.420
 surrounded by

00:44:06.420 --> 00:44:06.739
 the love

00:44:06.739 --> 00:44:07.259
 of Christ

00:44:07.259 --> 00:44:07.659
 and what he

00:44:07.659 --> 00:44:07.960
 has done

00:44:07.960 --> 00:44:08.239
 for us

00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:08.500
 on the

00:44:08.500 --> 00:44:08.859
 cross

00:44:08.859 --> 00:44:09.139
 so we

00:44:09.139 --> 00:44:09.500
 look up

00:44:09.500 --> 00:44:09.819
 to you

00:44:09.819 --> 00:44:10.139
 father

00:44:10.139 --> 00:44:11.219
 to see

00:44:11.219 --> 00:44:11.420
 your

00:44:11.420 --> 00:44:11.980
 praise

00:44:11.980 --> 00:44:14.719
 your

00:44:14.719 --> 00:44:15.179
 blessing

00:44:15.179 --> 00:44:15.940
 upon us

00:44:15.940 --> 00:44:16.579
 all in

00:44:16.579 --> 00:44:16.920
 the power

00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:17.159
 of the

00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:17.339
 Holy

00:44:17.339 --> 00:44:17.759
 Spirit

00:44:17.759 --> 00:44:18.759
 father

00:44:18.759 --> 00:44:19.219
 we ask

00:44:19.219 --> 00:44:19.500
 that you

00:44:19.500 --> 00:44:20.339
 would help

00:44:20.339 --> 00:44:20.619
 us to

00:44:20.619 --> 00:44:20.940
 hear the

00:44:20.940 --> 00:44:21.360
 gospel

00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:22.420
 and help

00:44:22.420 --> 00:44:22.720
 us to

00:44:22.720 --> 00:44:23.099
 preach the

00:44:23.099 --> 00:44:23.420
 gospel

00:44:23.420 --> 00:44:24.200
 to ourselves

00:44:24.200 --> 00:44:25.159
 and we

00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:25.579
 ask these

00:44:25.579 --> 00:44:25.980
 things in

00:44:25.980 --> 00:44:26.280
 the name

00:44:26.280 --> 00:44:26.760
 of Jesus

00:44:26.760 --> 00:44:27.420
 your son

00:44:27.420 --> 00:44:28.039
 and our

00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:28.380
 savior

00:44:28.380 --> 00:44:29.639
 amen