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 Father, sometimes it's really easy to follow Jesus.

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 Sometimes, Father Jesus, following him means we do things that people think are good and wise and true.

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 And sometimes we have to do things and change in ways that many people in our society think are odd or weird, maybe even wrong.

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 And Father, you know the different things in our hearts, and you know how much we like approval of others.

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 And we ask, Father, that the Holy Spirit would bring the truth of who Jesus is and what he did for us on the cross, bring that home deeply to us.

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 And we ask that you would bring your word home to us as well, that we would hear every word of your scripture as good news for us.

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 Not only good for us on this side of the grave, but good into eternity.

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

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 Please be seated.

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 So, I have sort of a nerdy aspect to me that many of you are aware of.

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 And I have a bit of a nerdy conscience that sometimes gets me into trouble.

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 It might get me into trouble today.

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 And so, the way I'm mentioning this is this.

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 When I was in the Anglican Church of Canada, for many, many, many years, it would come time for Advent.

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 And so, especially when I was first being trained, I was told we had to do an Advent sermon, right?

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 Because it was Advent.

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 And then I would be told that Advent is about, you know, there's the four candles.

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 And I think, was it one of them, like, love, peace, joy, and hope?

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 Do I have that?

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 I'd probably have the order all wrong.

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 But that's what I was told.

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 That's what Advent is.

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 And then I'd have to get up and do the sermon.

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 But here's part of my nerdy aspect.

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 I'd look at the scripture text for the day.

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 And the scripture text had nothing to do with those themes.

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 Like, I mean, maybe if you really played around with it like you did, you know, and that's what, you know, that's what I'd hear people other do.

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 They'd play around with it.

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 You know, maybe there was this, you know, I sometimes felt like if you took, you know, enough letters from different words, you could make the word peace or something.

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 And you could talk about that.

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 So, like, I, you know, I sort of think that my sermon should be based on the Bible text, not like I just do some things and add a couple of Bible verses.

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 So, and then it got even more complicated because as I started to become aware of the whole prayer book and the Inglis Reformation, I started to realize that actually how people talked about Advent isn't sort of how ancient Christians talked about Advent and how Anglicanism talked about Advent up until like just a few decades ago.

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 So, anyway, I wrote a very nerdy blog that came out on Monday.

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 And for those two or three people who read my blogs, if I don't get them done by 4.30 now, then they come out on Monday.

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 If I get it done before 4.30 on Friday, then it comes out on Saturday.

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 So, my blog didn't get done at 4.30 on Friday.

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 You'll get it tomorrow.

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 But one of the things I discovered is that like Advent goes right back to at least the fifth century.

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 In fact, I was talking to a guy who was like a patristic scholar just a week or two ago.

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 So, and he told me that like for those guys like in the fifth century, Gregory the Great, and I can't pronounce the name of the other pope, what they just did is codified stuff that had been going on a lot longer, right?

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 So, if it begins in the fifth century, it might have gone like a century or more even earlier.

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 And what happened is that these fundamental scripture texts, Advent, this way of beginning the church year, they didn't quite think of it in those terms back then, but preparing you to celebrate Christmas and all of that.

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 They had these sort of eight foundational texts, a gospel text and epistle, which would be read the first Sunday of Advent, second, third, and fourth.

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 And so, actually, if you go and find a 1662 book of common prayer, or you go online and type in 1662 book of common prayer, colics, if you look at the readings, this is what's so cool.

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 Like people who don't like, who want something thick and ancient, you're looking at the scripture texts that basically, up until they changed the lectionaries in the 1970s,

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 you're looking at the texts they read for Advent, right back to the 400s.

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 Like, isn't that cool?

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 Now, here's the problem, though.

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 Those texts don't talk about faith, hope, peace, and joy.

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 And so, what happens is that the Reformation comes in the mid-1500s, and Cramner, sort of this brilliant mind who ended up becoming a martyr,

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 he looks at these readings, and he ends up making two completely new, three basically new prayers,

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 and then a fourth one was added.

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 That's too nerdy.

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 Sorry, I'm losing you.

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 But here's the thing.

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 The collect that we have for all of Advent really gives you the ancient Christian, as reflected through the Reformation,

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 when we wanted to return to the Bible and the Gospel, it gives you what Advent is.

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 Now, listen, you know, faith, hope, peace, and joy, those are great.

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 The Bible doesn't tell you how to celebrate Advent, so, like, there's not, this isn't like a Gospel issue or anything like that.

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 So, all this is to say, so, Daniel and I are talking, like, months ago about what our scripture texts were going to be,

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 and Daniel said, well, you know, we always do some specialized services around Advent and Christmas.

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 Why don't we make December 12th the Advent Sunday, and then, which is what I'm doing,

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 and then 19th and 24th and 25th we'll have Christmas sermons on the key Christmas texts,

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 and then we'll do some other stuff December 26th, January 2nd, before we get back to Mark in January.

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 So, what we're looking at today is we're looking at, in a sense, the text,

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 which is the, that helps to form the ancient Christian, as reflected through the Reformation,

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 way of understanding what Advent is all about.

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 And what you see from that is it's about the three comings of Christ.

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 It's about remembering, of course, the birth of Jesus humbly, the first coming,

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 and it's also remembering the second coming, where he's going to come in glory to judge the living and the dead,

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 and it is urging us to consider the third coming, which is when he comes into your life to be your Savior and your Lord.

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 Now, this is all good, but one of the things is, is I discovered this week,

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 and it's been bothering my nerdy conscience all week,

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 is I could go through this text in such a way that the average Canadian would think,

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 yeah, that sounds like a really good idea, I agree with that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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 but not realizing that the Bible text actually goes against what most Canadians believe.

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 And that doesn't feel very Canadian Advent-y, you know,

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 and so I've struggled with it all week, but we're going to look at it anyway.

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 Okay, so what we're going to do first is we're going to just pray or read the Colic for All of Advent,

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 and you're just going to get it in your mind, and then you're going to see as we go through the Scripture text,

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 we'll pray it again at the end, how this Scripture text has had a huge formative influence

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 in the Book of Romans on how to understand Advent from an ancient perspective, a thick perspective.

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 So you have it on the screen, that would be great.

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 Let's pray it, say it together.

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 Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness

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 and put upon us the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life

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 in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility,

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 that in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty

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 to judge both the living and the dead, we may rise to the life immortal

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 through him who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit,

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 now, so one God, now and forever. Amen.

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 So you can see, I mean, there's already that judgment thing,

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 which we're going to talk just a tiny bit about because there's some other stuff to get at,

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 but let's look at the Bible text, and as we start to look at the Bible text,

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 you'll see how this text, which goes way back, Christians in the 5th century,

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 chose this as one of the texts on the first Sunday of Advent

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 to prepare people for the birth of Christ, to remember it,

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 to launch yourself into the Christian year, and so here's this text.

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 Romans chapter 13, and we'll start at verse 8.

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 Owe no one anything except to love each other.

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 Just by the way, if you have your own Bible, it's really good to follow along.

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 We have it up there on the screen, and you online, you can see it down here.

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 But, you know, if you're at home, get your own Bible.

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 It's really good to have your own Bible and to be able to look around the text

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 to see if I'm handling the text correctly and honestly and fairly.

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 I'll read it again.

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 Owe no one anything except to love each other.

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 For the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

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 And here the word law doesn't mean like the law of Rome or the law of Canada.

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 It means what we call the Old Testament

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 and our Jewish friends call the Tanakh or the Torah.

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 So it's saying all of the commands in the Bible.

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 I'll read that verse 8 again.

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 Owe no one anything except to love each other,

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 for the one who loves another has fulfilled the commandments of the Bible, the law.

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 For the commandments, verse 9, you shall not commit adultery,

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 you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,

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 and any other commandment are summed up in this word.

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 You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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 Love does no wrong to a neighbor.

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 Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

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 Now, that is a good text.

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 But if you think about it for a second,

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 it has something in there which is a bit of a puzzle.

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 It says, verse 8,

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 Owe no one anything except to love each other.

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 It's saying that somehow or another,

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 I owe it to you to love you.

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 That I owe it to people,

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 owe it to each other to love them.

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 Now, if you think about it for a second,

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 this is actually an idea that Canadians would find,

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 like just common sense.

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 Like if you were getting talking with,

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 you know, the Tim Hortons coffee person,

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 or, you know, Bridgehead, or Starbucks,

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 or something like that,

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 and you got chatting with them

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 because you're friendly with them,

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 and you just talked about how there was this interaction

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 and how a person was rude to you,

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 they would just automatically say,

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 well, it's just common sense, of course.

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 Like everybody knows that it's,

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 that's wrong,

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 that they shouldn't have been rude to you.

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 They should have acted in a more loving manner,

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 that what they did was wrong.

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 And that would just be,

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 that's like common morality in Canada.

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 But if you think about it for a second,

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 it's a very odd idea.

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 Like, and it's not actually,

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 it isn't in fact the case that it's obvious

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 to most people in the world,

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 either today or throughout history.

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 Like, in classic Hinduism,

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 the caste that you're in,

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 you deserve it.

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 If you're at the very, very bottom

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 of the caste hierarchy,

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 well, you deserve that.

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 And if you're at the top of the caste hierarchy,

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 you don't owe it to love a lower caste person.

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 They would go, what?

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 They're in this situation of abject poverty,

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 impoverishment, and powerlessness

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 because they deserve it,

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 because of what's happened in their previous lives.

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 That's just, that's common sense.

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 I deserve what I have,

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 they deserve what they have,

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 and I have no obligation to love them.

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 That would be common sense.

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 If you think about it within the Quran,

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 the Quran is a book of conquest

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 that Allah has basically commanded

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 his followers and his people

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 that the goal is that all of the world

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 will be subject to Allah.

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 And it wouldn't be an obvious thing

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 from reading the Quran

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 that there's an obligation to love.

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 In fact, Muhammad had slaves.

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 He was a warrior,

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 and Muhammad was the greatest

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 of all the followers of Allah.

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 He was Allah's prophet.

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 It isn't obvious in that context

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 that you're owed,

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 that you're owed it,

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 that people deserve to be loved.

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 They're owed it.

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 And if you think about it,

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 even, in fact,

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 if you read, like,

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 serious philosophers

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 who take evolution seriously,

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 it's not obvious

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 that human beings are owed love

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 because, you know,

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 at the end of the day,

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 from an evolutionary

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 and a scientific perspective,

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 there's nothing special

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 about human beings.

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 Like, there's nothing special

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 about us.

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 There's really, in a sense,

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 I have no more of an obligation

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 to love you

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 than I do to love a bird

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 or a budgie

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 or an earthworm.

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 That, in a sense,

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 you're all just sort of the same.

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 We might claim certain things,

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 and one of you might claim

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 that I owe it to love you,

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 but that's really not based

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 on science or reason.

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 It's just something

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 that you happen to say.

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 In fact, actually,

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 if you really think about it,

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 I know this is a discredited idea,

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 but the reason it's discredited

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 is actually because

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 of the influence

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 of Christianity,

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 not because of anything

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 inherent to the problem

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 of taking naturalistic evolution

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 seriously.

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 A very, very good case

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 would be that, in fact,

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 I don't owe anything

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 to the weak.

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 The weak should die,

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 and it's, in fact,

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 better for the human race

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 in the long run

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 if strong people

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 are able to exercise

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 their strength,

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 have the majority of the food

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 and the money

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 and the resources

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 and people who are poor

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 will die off

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 and those of us

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 who are stronger

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 and will actually be making

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 the human race

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 in a stronger and better way.

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 And I know that's a discounted idea,

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 but it's not discounted

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 because there's anything

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 inherently wrong

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 with the idea

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 within that worldview.

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 It ends up ultimately

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 because, you know what,

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 we owe others

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 the debt of love,

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 and that idea

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 comes from Christianity.

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 In fact,

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 if you could put up

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 the first point,

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 this is what Christianity teaches.

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 Because the triune God

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 is love,

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 he designed human beings

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 to be loved

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 and to love.

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 Because the triune God

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 is love,

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 he designed human beings

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 to be loved

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 and to love.

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 That's how he designed

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 human beings.

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 If you go to

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 an Anglican wedding ceremony,

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 one of the things

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 we say in the ceremony

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 at sort of the opening remarks

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 is that

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 the institution of marriage

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 is something that was

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 instituted of God

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 in the time of man

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 and woman's innocency.

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 In other words,

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 that God designed

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 human beings

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 that some human beings

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 would enter into marriage.

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 And that's not something

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 that was created

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 because of evil

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 coming into the world.

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 That was part of God's

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 original good intention.

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 That that's just how

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 God designed human beings.

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 And this is the same thing

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 here with this idea

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 is that God designed

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 human beings

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 in a sense when

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 when we say

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 oh no one anything

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 except to love each other,

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 this is actually saying

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 something that really

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 you'd have to think

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 that it's a bit of a tension

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 within other religions

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 and philosophies

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 because there is

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 something intuitive

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 about that

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 that does make sense.

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 even though

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 then maybe our mind

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 will come and say

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 no no no

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 Allah has said

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 something different

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 or the Hindu scriptures

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 have said something different

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 or the demands of Marxism

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 or the demands of cultural theory

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 or critical theory

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 demand something

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 very very different

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 than this

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 but and so there's

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 at least

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 for some people

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 there's a bit of a tension

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 between these types of things

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 but

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 this is why

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 in fact

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 Christianity

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 has this very very

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 deep understanding

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 of why it is

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 in fact the case

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 that I owe it

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 to the coffee person

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 to treat them

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 in a loving way

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 I owe it

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 to the other drivers

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 I owe it

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 to those in government

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 to treat them

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 in a loving type of way

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 now

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 it's very curious

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 that this

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 this powerful idea

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 is seen right here

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 in the text

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 at the same time

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 and this is where

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 my nerdy conscience

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 issue came out

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 because you see

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 I just the text

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 that I read

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 it could be understood

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 in such a way

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 that the average Canadian

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 would say

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 yeah yeah I understand that

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 because the average Canadian

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 would say

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 well you don't actually

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 have to

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 to be married

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 to live together

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 and as

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 you know

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 but if you're living together

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 you can't cheat

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 on your partner

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 like that's wrong

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 like that

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 that would be

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 a very common idea

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 and you wouldn't have

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 to do much

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 to argue for that

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 for most people

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 it would just be viewed

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 as inherently correct

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 and even later on

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 in the text

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 when it talks about

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 sexual immorality

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 most Canadians

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 from within their own

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 perspective

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 would understand themselves

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 to be very moral people

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 in the sexual matter

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 and so I could

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 read both of these things

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 and I could go on

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 but not realizing

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 that actually the Bible

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 is disagreeing with Canadians

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 in a very powerful way

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 and I've struggled

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 in my conscience

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 I wouldn't say struggled

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 the devil has told me

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 that I shouldn't talk

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 about this

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 but I thank you

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 for praying for me

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 here's what these two

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 it's right here

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 the word adultery

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 which is a good word

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 to translate it

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 in verse 9

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 you shall not commit adultery

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 and later on

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 in verse

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 later on when we read it

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 in verse 13

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 there's the word

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 sexual immorality

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 in the original language

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 it's the same word

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 and the word

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 is part of the

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 porneia word group

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 but here's the problem

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 what does the porneia word group

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 say

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 the porneia word group

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 is basically saying

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 that sexual knowing

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 and sexual stimulation

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 is a good gift from God

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 but is reserved

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 to be enjoyed

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 in the life

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 of a biological male

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 married to a biological female

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 and outside of that

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 we are called

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 to sexual abstinence

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 in singleness

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 so now that I've just

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 broken the law

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 of Bill C4

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 I'll say it again

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 sexual knowing

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 and stimulation

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 is good

00:18:36.619 --> 00:18:37.419
 actually it's not clear

00:18:37.419 --> 00:18:38.399
 whether I've broken the law

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 and not

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 but the wording

00:18:39.099 --> 00:18:40.099
 is very unclear

00:18:40.099 --> 00:18:42.659
 but because the wording

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 is unclear

00:18:43.159 --> 00:18:43.899
 it might be that

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 if I preach this sermon

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 in a year

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 you'll have to bail me out

00:18:46.439 --> 00:18:47.139
 later in the week

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 and I'm not saying

00:18:48.800 --> 00:18:49.640
 that for laughs

00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:51.920
 it's going to definitely

00:18:51.920 --> 00:18:52.759
 go to the courts

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 and it should concern

00:18:55.080 --> 00:18:55.660
 Christians

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 if you haven't looked

00:18:57.860 --> 00:18:58.500
 at it or read it

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 it should concern you

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 the way it's worded

00:19:01.340 --> 00:19:01.640
 is

00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:02.620
 it can mean

00:19:02.620 --> 00:19:03.420
 that as long as

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 I don't do it

00:19:03.920 --> 00:19:05.140
 in a therapeutic context

00:19:05.140 --> 00:19:05.640
 for money

00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:06.360
 that I'm fine

00:19:06.360 --> 00:19:08.100
 but it's not clear

00:19:08.100 --> 00:19:08.880
 that what I just

00:19:08.880 --> 00:19:09.580
 have said

00:19:09.580 --> 00:19:10.180
 is in fact

00:19:10.180 --> 00:19:11.100
 breaking the law

00:19:11.100 --> 00:19:11.740
 it's not clear

00:19:11.740 --> 00:19:15.160
 and that was pointed out

00:19:15.160 --> 00:19:16.200
 to the bill makers

00:19:16.200 --> 00:19:17.279
 and they refused

00:19:17.279 --> 00:19:18.259
 to clarify it

00:19:18.259 --> 00:19:21.160
 so

00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:24.000
 it's not clear

00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:24.920
 I'm going to say it again

00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:25.400
 what does the

00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:26.420
 pornea word group mean

00:19:26.420 --> 00:19:27.400
 it means this

00:19:27.400 --> 00:19:29.740
 sexual knowing

00:19:29.740 --> 00:19:30.400
 and stimulation

00:19:30.400 --> 00:19:31.440
 is a good gift

00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:32.079
 from God

00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:33.440
 but it is reserved

00:19:33.440 --> 00:19:34.359
 to be enjoyed

00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:35.039
 in the life

00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:35.720
 of a biblical

00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:36.880
 in the life

00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:38.339
 of a biological male

00:19:38.339 --> 00:19:39.920
 married to a

00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:41.079
 biological female

00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:42.939
 or

00:19:42.939 --> 00:19:43.659
 for those

00:19:43.659 --> 00:19:44.460
 outside of that

00:19:44.460 --> 00:19:46.319
 sexual abstinence

00:19:46.319 --> 00:19:46.980
 and singleness

00:19:46.980 --> 00:19:49.759
 now this is a

00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:50.639
 heartbreaking text

00:19:50.639 --> 00:19:51.399
 for many people

00:19:51.399 --> 00:19:53.379
 and I know

00:19:53.379 --> 00:19:53.939
 that there are

00:19:53.939 --> 00:19:54.559
 people here

00:19:54.559 --> 00:19:55.179
 who struggle

00:19:55.179 --> 00:19:59.879
 with this teaching

00:19:59.879 --> 00:20:00.720
 and I know

00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:02.740
 it's very very funny

00:20:02.740 --> 00:20:03.460
 because nowadays

00:20:03.460 --> 00:20:04.119
 when we talk

00:20:04.119 --> 00:20:04.559
 about this

00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:05.399
 it automatically

00:20:05.399 --> 00:20:06.179
 people think

00:20:06.179 --> 00:20:06.759
 of trans

00:20:06.759 --> 00:20:06.980
 and

00:20:06.980 --> 00:20:08.879
 our trans

00:20:08.879 --> 00:20:09.639
 family members

00:20:09.639 --> 00:20:10.159
 or friends

00:20:10.159 --> 00:20:10.539
 or are a

00:20:10.539 --> 00:20:10.859
 lesbian

00:20:10.859 --> 00:20:11.519
 and gay

00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:13.199
 family members

00:20:13.199 --> 00:20:13.719
 or friends

00:20:13.719 --> 00:20:14.459
 but in fact

00:20:14.459 --> 00:20:15.119
 this bible

00:20:15.119 --> 00:20:15.639
 doesn't pick

00:20:15.639 --> 00:20:15.879
 on it

00:20:15.879 --> 00:20:16.659
 the text

00:20:16.659 --> 00:20:17.240
 the word group

00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:17.719
 doesn't pick

00:20:17.719 --> 00:20:18.179
 on anybody

00:20:18.179 --> 00:20:19.099
 it's a word

00:20:19.099 --> 00:20:19.659
 to all human

00:20:19.659 --> 00:20:20.099
 beings

00:20:20.099 --> 00:20:23.639
 it includes

00:20:23.639 --> 00:20:26.119
 it's a challenge

00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:27.339
 to men

00:20:27.339 --> 00:20:27.759
 and women

00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:28.699
 who watch

00:20:28.699 --> 00:20:29.359
 heterosexual

00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:30.119
 pornography

00:20:30.119 --> 00:20:30.599
 or

00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.099
 have affairs

00:20:33.099 --> 00:20:33.479
 or

00:20:33.479 --> 00:20:35.740
 it's a

00:20:35.740 --> 00:20:36.379
 challenge

00:20:36.379 --> 00:20:37.619
 to all human

00:20:37.619 --> 00:20:38.079
 beings

00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:40.519
 but it's

00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:41.419
 very curious

00:20:41.419 --> 00:20:41.839
 isn't it

00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:42.059
 that

00:20:42.059 --> 00:20:44.299
 it's in the

00:20:44.299 --> 00:20:45.019
 same text

00:20:45.019 --> 00:20:45.439
 that say

00:20:45.439 --> 00:20:46.619
 that we're

00:20:46.619 --> 00:20:47.599
 owed love

00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:51.500
 that we have

00:20:51.500 --> 00:20:52.019
 this thing

00:20:52.019 --> 00:20:52.659
 here which

00:20:52.659 --> 00:20:53.740
 many Canadians

00:20:53.740 --> 00:20:54.179
 would say

00:20:54.179 --> 00:20:54.559
 is very

00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:55.019
 profoundly

00:20:55.019 --> 00:20:55.639
 unloving

00:20:55.640 --> 00:21:02.820
 this week

00:21:02.820 --> 00:21:03.300
 I was reading

00:21:03.300 --> 00:21:03.759
 a story

00:21:03.759 --> 00:21:04.340
 of a person

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 who at 15

00:21:05.160 --> 00:21:05.880
 years of age

00:21:05.880 --> 00:21:06.400
 came out

00:21:06.400 --> 00:21:07.280
 as a lesbian

00:21:07.280 --> 00:21:08.460
 and she lived

00:21:08.460 --> 00:21:09.220
 openly as a

00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:09.580
 lesbian

00:21:09.580 --> 00:21:11.040
 and when she

00:21:11.040 --> 00:21:11.320
 was in

00:21:11.320 --> 00:21:11.960
 university

00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:13.060
 amidst the

00:21:13.060 --> 00:21:13.620
 heartbreak

00:21:13.620 --> 00:21:14.160
 of her

00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:14.660
 girlfriend

00:21:14.660 --> 00:21:16.420
 dumping her

00:21:16.420 --> 00:21:18.780
 she came

00:21:18.780 --> 00:21:20.220
 across

00:21:20.220 --> 00:21:20.720
 she started

00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:21.320
 for a variety

00:21:21.320 --> 00:21:21.820
 of reasons

00:21:21.820 --> 00:21:22.400
 looking at a

00:21:22.400 --> 00:21:22.759
 couple of

00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:23.420
 bible texts

00:21:23.420 --> 00:21:23.779
 and she

00:21:23.779 --> 00:21:24.240
 started to

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 get in

00:21:24.460 --> 00:21:24.779
 this little

00:21:24.779 --> 00:21:25.000
 bit of

00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:25.440
 a journey

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 as to

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 whether

00:21:26.120 --> 00:21:29.519
 this first

00:21:29.519 --> 00:21:30.360
 century Jew

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 had something

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 for her

00:21:31.500 --> 00:21:31.920
 life

00:21:31.920 --> 00:21:33.880
 and she

00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:34.300
 didn't know

00:21:34.300 --> 00:21:34.740
 what to do

00:21:34.740 --> 00:21:35.080
 with any

00:21:35.080 --> 00:21:35.420
 of this

00:21:35.420 --> 00:21:35.759
 and so

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 interestingly

00:21:36.300 --> 00:21:36.660
 enough

00:21:36.660 --> 00:21:37.039
 the only

00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:37.600
 people she

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 knew

00:21:37.779 --> 00:21:38.100
 who were

00:21:38.100 --> 00:21:38.340
 out

00:21:38.340 --> 00:21:38.840
 Christians

00:21:38.840 --> 00:21:39.340
 were as

00:21:39.340 --> 00:21:39.800
 a lesbian

00:21:39.800 --> 00:21:40.220
 couple

00:21:40.220 --> 00:21:42.360
 and so

00:21:42.360 --> 00:21:42.840
 she talked

00:21:42.840 --> 00:21:43.100
 to the

00:21:43.100 --> 00:21:43.380
 lesbian

00:21:43.380 --> 00:21:43.800
 couple

00:21:43.800 --> 00:21:44.600
 about it

00:21:44.600 --> 00:21:44.980
 and they

00:21:44.980 --> 00:21:45.580
 said that

00:21:45.580 --> 00:21:46.200
 she should

00:21:46.200 --> 00:21:46.539
 pursue

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 Jesus

00:21:46.920 --> 00:21:47.360
 that the

00:21:47.360 --> 00:21:47.620
 bible

00:21:47.620 --> 00:21:48.200
 has things

00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:48.600
 to say

00:21:48.600 --> 00:21:49.360
 that are

00:21:49.360 --> 00:21:49.900
 just wrong

00:21:49.900 --> 00:21:50.320
 about other

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 things

00:21:50.600 --> 00:21:50.940
 but she

00:21:50.940 --> 00:21:51.500
 should pursue

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 Jesus

00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:52.940
 so it

00:21:52.940 --> 00:21:53.240
 was with

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 the encouragement

00:21:53.900 --> 00:21:54.559
 of this

00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:55.319
 lesbian

00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:55.779
 couple

00:21:55.779 --> 00:21:57.099
 that she

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 did pursue

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 Jesus

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 and she

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 ended up

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 becoming a

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 Christian

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 and so

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 as I'm

00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:02.460
 looking at

00:22:02.460 --> 00:22:02.779
 this text

00:22:02.779 --> 00:22:03.339
 all week

00:22:03.339 --> 00:22:03.640
 it's been

00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:04.140
 playing with

00:22:04.140 --> 00:22:04.720
 my mind

00:22:04.720 --> 00:22:05.220
 if a

00:22:05.220 --> 00:22:06.259
 member of

00:22:06.259 --> 00:22:06.720
 the lesbian

00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:07.240
 or the

00:22:07.240 --> 00:22:08.319
 gay community

00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:08.920
 was to come

00:22:08.920 --> 00:22:09.460
 here wondering

00:22:09.460 --> 00:22:09.900
 if there's

00:22:09.900 --> 00:22:10.440
 something for

00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:11.599
 them and

00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:11.880
 Jesus

00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:12.460
 or if a

00:22:12.460 --> 00:22:12.759
 person

00:22:12.759 --> 00:22:13.200
 struggling

00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:13.480
 with

00:22:13.480 --> 00:22:14.099
 or not

00:22:14.099 --> 00:22:14.519
 struggling

00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:15.819
 just very

00:22:15.819 --> 00:22:16.200
 happily

00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:16.859
 trans

00:22:16.859 --> 00:22:18.019
 happily gay

00:22:18.019 --> 00:22:18.720
 happily

00:22:18.720 --> 00:22:19.240
 lesbian

00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:20.740
 and if

00:22:20.740 --> 00:22:20.980
 they were

00:22:20.980 --> 00:22:21.359
 to come

00:22:21.359 --> 00:22:21.660
 here

00:22:21.660 --> 00:22:22.380
 if they

00:22:22.380 --> 00:22:22.740
 were to

00:22:22.740 --> 00:22:23.340
 see

00:22:23.340 --> 00:22:23.779
 that I've

00:22:23.779 --> 00:22:24.200
 now shut

00:22:24.200 --> 00:22:24.600
 the door

00:22:24.600 --> 00:22:25.060
 on them

00:22:25.060 --> 00:22:25.279
 but

00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:27.759
 you know

00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:28.140
 that very

00:22:28.140 --> 00:22:28.720
 very first

00:22:28.720 --> 00:22:29.259
 thing is

00:22:29.259 --> 00:22:29.700
 true

00:22:29.700 --> 00:22:30.800
 the triune

00:22:30.800 --> 00:22:31.420
 God is

00:22:31.420 --> 00:22:31.759
 love

00:22:31.759 --> 00:22:32.220
 and because

00:22:32.220 --> 00:22:32.779
 the triune

00:22:32.779 --> 00:22:33.259
 God is

00:22:33.259 --> 00:22:33.519
 love

00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:34.320
 he designed

00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:35.100
 human beings

00:22:35.100 --> 00:22:35.759
 to be loved

00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:36.320
 and to love

00:22:36.320 --> 00:22:37.320
 only that

00:22:37.320 --> 00:22:38.080
 explains

00:22:38.080 --> 00:22:38.920
 why it is

00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:39.200
 that we

00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:39.600
 sense

00:22:39.600 --> 00:22:39.900
 that we

00:22:39.900 --> 00:22:40.060
 are

00:22:40.060 --> 00:22:41.720
 that

00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:43.779
 that you

00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:45.060
 are owed

00:22:45.060 --> 00:22:45.560
 love

00:22:45.560 --> 00:22:47.820
 only that

00:22:47.820 --> 00:22:49.200
 statement

00:22:49.200 --> 00:22:49.940
 explains it

00:22:49.940 --> 00:22:50.120
 if you

00:22:50.120 --> 00:22:50.519
 just think

00:22:50.519 --> 00:22:50.860
 for a

00:22:50.860 --> 00:22:51.080
 second

00:22:51.080 --> 00:22:51.420
 it's

00:22:51.420 --> 00:22:51.620
 not

00:22:51.620 --> 00:22:52.220
 obvious

00:22:52.220 --> 00:22:53.580
 actually

00:22:53.580 --> 00:22:54.100
 in terms

00:22:54.100 --> 00:22:54.539
 of the

00:22:54.539 --> 00:22:55.200
 the real

00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:56.279
 serious

00:22:56.279 --> 00:22:57.559
 theology

00:22:57.559 --> 00:22:58.900
 and philosophy

00:22:58.900 --> 00:22:59.700
 of the world's

00:22:59.700 --> 00:23:00.120
 religions

00:23:00.120 --> 00:23:00.620
 and the

00:23:00.620 --> 00:23:00.960
 and the

00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:01.360
 and the

00:23:01.360 --> 00:23:01.660
 religion

00:23:01.660 --> 00:23:02.059
 of the

00:23:02.059 --> 00:23:02.420
 West

00:23:02.420 --> 00:23:04.720
 only this

00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:05.299
 very very

00:23:05.299 --> 00:23:05.920
 powerful

00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:06.500
 truth

00:23:06.500 --> 00:23:06.840
 that there

00:23:06.840 --> 00:23:07.120
 is a

00:23:07.120 --> 00:23:07.400
 God

00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:07.779
 that does

00:23:07.779 --> 00:23:08.160
 exist

00:23:08.160 --> 00:23:08.440
 that the

00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:08.700
 God

00:23:08.700 --> 00:23:08.980
 who does

00:23:08.980 --> 00:23:09.299
 exist

00:23:09.299 --> 00:23:09.640
 is the

00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:10.080
 triune

00:23:10.080 --> 00:23:10.460
 God

00:23:10.460 --> 00:23:10.799
 and it's

00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:11.240
 because

00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:12.160
 the

00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:12.580
 triune

00:23:12.580 --> 00:23:12.860
 God

00:23:12.860 --> 00:23:13.620
 is triune

00:23:13.620 --> 00:23:13.920
 three

00:23:13.920 --> 00:23:14.400
 persons

00:23:14.400 --> 00:23:14.900
 but one

00:23:14.900 --> 00:23:15.259
 God

00:23:15.259 --> 00:23:15.480
 that

00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:16.299
 that it

00:23:16.299 --> 00:23:16.700
 can be

00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:16.940
 said

00:23:16.940 --> 00:23:17.400
 that God

00:23:17.400 --> 00:23:18.059
 is love

00:23:18.059 --> 00:23:18.419
 because

00:23:18.419 --> 00:23:18.819
 the

00:23:18.819 --> 00:23:19.159
 father

00:23:19.159 --> 00:23:19.359
 has

00:23:19.359 --> 00:23:19.679
 always

00:23:19.679 --> 00:23:19.940
 loved

00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:20.139
 the

00:23:20.139 --> 00:23:20.359
 son

00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:20.599
 and the

00:23:20.599 --> 00:23:20.759
 son

00:23:20.759 --> 00:23:20.879
 has

00:23:20.879 --> 00:23:21.119
 always

00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:21.339
 loved

00:23:21.339 --> 00:23:21.500
 the

00:23:21.500 --> 00:23:21.799
 father

00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:22.099
 and the

00:23:22.099 --> 00:23:22.599
 son

00:23:22.599 --> 00:23:22.759
 the

00:23:22.759 --> 00:23:22.940
 Holy

00:23:22.940 --> 00:23:23.379
 Spirit

00:23:23.379 --> 00:23:23.579
 and the

00:23:23.579 --> 00:23:23.740
 Holy

00:23:23.740 --> 00:23:23.980
 Spirit

00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:24.220
 the

00:23:24.220 --> 00:23:24.539
 son

00:23:24.539 --> 00:23:24.720
 and

00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:25.399
 and

00:23:25.399 --> 00:23:25.659
 it's

00:23:25.659 --> 00:23:25.919
 because

00:23:25.919 --> 00:23:26.319
 that has

00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:26.799
 been true

00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:27.440
 from all

00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:28.119
 eternity

00:23:28.119 --> 00:23:29.639
 that God

00:23:29.639 --> 00:23:30.599
 designed

00:23:30.599 --> 00:23:32.299
 human beings

00:23:32.299 --> 00:23:32.740
 to be

00:23:32.740 --> 00:23:33.700
 to be

00:23:33.700 --> 00:23:33.940
 loved

00:23:33.940 --> 00:23:34.259
 and to

00:23:34.259 --> 00:23:34.559
 love

00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:39.619
 the

00:23:39.619 --> 00:23:39.899
 first

00:23:39.899 --> 00:23:40.139
 thing

00:23:40.139 --> 00:23:40.440
 is

00:23:40.440 --> 00:23:41.019
 I'm

00:23:41.019 --> 00:23:41.159
 going to

00:23:41.159 --> 00:23:41.500
 say this

00:23:41.500 --> 00:23:42.159
 a bit

00:23:42.159 --> 00:23:42.579
 more in a

00:23:42.579 --> 00:23:42.759
 moment

00:23:42.759 --> 00:23:43.240
 is this

00:23:43.240 --> 00:23:43.599
 text

00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:44.319
 should never

00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:44.779
 be taken

00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:45.440
 by Christians

00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:45.759
 in a

00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:46.079
 political

00:23:46.079 --> 00:23:46.599
 sense

00:23:46.599 --> 00:23:46.980
 it's not

00:23:46.980 --> 00:23:47.240
 part of

00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:47.740
 the culture

00:23:47.740 --> 00:23:48.259
 wars

00:23:48.259 --> 00:23:49.599
 because

00:23:49.599 --> 00:23:49.920
 you see

00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:50.480
 this text

00:23:50.480 --> 00:23:50.839
 is not

00:23:50.839 --> 00:23:51.359
 about us

00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:51.700
 versus

00:23:51.700 --> 00:23:52.140
 them

00:23:52.140 --> 00:23:52.779
 this text

00:23:52.779 --> 00:23:53.180
 is about

00:23:53.180 --> 00:23:53.759
 us

00:23:53.759 --> 00:23:55.240
 because

00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:55.680
 every

00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:56.160
 single

00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:56.579
 human

00:23:56.579 --> 00:23:56.920
 being

00:23:56.920 --> 00:23:57.140
 is

00:23:57.140 --> 00:23:57.539
 sexually

00:23:57.539 --> 00:23:58.000
 broken

00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:01.839
 every

00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:02.259
 single

00:24:02.259 --> 00:24:02.559
 human

00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:02.839
 being

00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:03.019
 is

00:24:03.019 --> 00:24:03.420
 sexually

00:24:03.420 --> 00:24:03.859
 broken

00:24:03.859 --> 00:24:05.440
 some

00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:05.720
 of us

00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:05.900
 more

00:24:05.900 --> 00:24:06.099
 than

00:24:06.099 --> 00:24:06.480
 others

00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:07.759
 some

00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:08.059
 of us

00:24:08.059 --> 00:24:08.180
 are

00:24:08.180 --> 00:24:08.480
 broken

00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:09.059
 to such

00:24:09.059 --> 00:24:09.200
 an

00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:09.519
 extent

00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:09.740
 that

00:24:09.740 --> 00:24:09.859
 if

00:24:09.859 --> 00:24:10.000
 one

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:10.099
 of

00:24:10.099 --> 00:24:10.200
 the

00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:10.400
 rest

00:24:10.400 --> 00:24:10.539
 of

00:24:10.539 --> 00:24:10.660
 us

00:24:10.660 --> 00:24:10.839
 heard

00:24:10.839 --> 00:24:11.059
 about

00:24:11.059 --> 00:24:11.160
 it

00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:11.259
 we

00:24:11.259 --> 00:24:11.400
 would

00:24:11.400 --> 00:24:11.559
 be

00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:11.900
 actually

00:24:11.900 --> 00:24:12.259
 quite

00:24:12.259 --> 00:24:12.779
 shocked

00:24:12.779 --> 00:24:13.620
 at

00:24:13.620 --> 00:24:13.779
 the

00:24:13.779 --> 00:24:14.039
 depth

00:24:14.039 --> 00:24:14.180
 of

00:24:14.180 --> 00:24:14.339
 our

00:24:14.339 --> 00:24:14.740
 sexual

00:24:14.740 --> 00:24:15.420
 brokenness

00:24:15.420 --> 00:24:17.560
 so this

00:24:17.560 --> 00:24:17.880
 is not

00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:18.019
 an

00:24:18.019 --> 00:24:18.240
 us

00:24:18.240 --> 00:24:18.539
 versus

00:24:18.539 --> 00:24:18.860
 them

00:24:18.860 --> 00:24:19.300
 text

00:24:19.300 --> 00:24:19.600
 this

00:24:19.600 --> 00:24:19.920
 is a

00:24:19.920 --> 00:24:20.240
 text

00:24:20.240 --> 00:24:20.539
 about

00:24:20.539 --> 00:24:21.279
 us

00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:23.460
 finding

00:24:23.460 --> 00:24:24.160
 a way

00:24:24.160 --> 00:24:25.200
 forward

00:24:25.200 --> 00:24:26.660
 to that

00:24:26.660 --> 00:24:27.200
 place

00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:27.600
 where we

00:24:27.600 --> 00:24:28.340
 understand

00:24:28.340 --> 00:24:30.140
 that we

00:24:30.140 --> 00:24:30.759
 are loved

00:24:30.759 --> 00:24:33.779
 I

00:24:33.779 --> 00:24:34.460
 meant to

00:24:34.460 --> 00:24:34.740
 show

00:24:34.740 --> 00:24:34.980
 it

00:24:34.980 --> 00:24:36.740
 a couple

00:24:36.740 --> 00:24:37.099
 of weeks

00:24:37.099 --> 00:24:37.440
 ago

00:24:37.440 --> 00:24:38.539
 when

00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:39.500
 or a

00:24:39.500 --> 00:24:39.660
 month

00:24:39.660 --> 00:24:39.920
 or two

00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:40.119
 ago

00:24:40.119 --> 00:24:40.379
 now

00:24:40.379 --> 00:24:40.720
 Louise

00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:41.039
 and I

00:24:41.039 --> 00:24:41.319
 were in

00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:41.680
 Montreal

00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:42.099
 for a

00:24:42.099 --> 00:24:42.279
 couple

00:24:42.279 --> 00:24:42.640
 of days

00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:43.059
 and we

00:24:43.059 --> 00:24:43.279
 stayed

00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:43.539
 on the

00:24:43.539 --> 00:24:43.759
 south

00:24:43.759 --> 00:24:44.140
 side

00:24:44.140 --> 00:24:44.400
 of

00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:44.700
 the

00:24:44.700 --> 00:24:44.879
 Mount

00:24:44.879 --> 00:24:45.180
 Royal

00:24:45.180 --> 00:24:45.599
 and there's

00:24:45.599 --> 00:24:45.740
 this

00:24:45.740 --> 00:24:46.140
 Mount

00:24:46.140 --> 00:24:46.420
 Royal

00:24:46.420 --> 00:24:46.740
 it's a

00:24:46.740 --> 00:24:46.879
 very

00:24:46.879 --> 00:24:47.220
 beautiful

00:24:47.220 --> 00:24:47.680
 park

00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:48.279
 and we

00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:48.640
 decided

00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:49.220
 to walk

00:24:49.220 --> 00:24:49.660
 from where

00:24:49.660 --> 00:24:50.000
 we were

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:50.279
 to the

00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:50.440
 other

00:24:50.440 --> 00:24:50.680
 side

00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:50.900
 of the

00:24:50.900 --> 00:24:51.200
 mountain

00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:51.559
 to go

00:24:51.559 --> 00:24:51.879
 to St.

00:24:51.960 --> 00:24:52.359
 Joseph's

00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:52.700
 Oratory

00:24:52.700 --> 00:24:53.660
 and it

00:24:53.660 --> 00:24:53.940
 was just

00:24:53.940 --> 00:24:54.420
 a beautiful

00:24:54.420 --> 00:24:54.940
 time to

00:24:54.940 --> 00:24:55.119
 go

00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:55.339
 you know

00:24:55.339 --> 00:24:55.559
 it was

00:24:55.559 --> 00:24:55.740
 one of

00:24:55.740 --> 00:24:55.859
 those

00:24:55.859 --> 00:24:56.119
 times

00:24:56.119 --> 00:24:56.319
 of the

00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:58.059
 leaves

00:24:58.059 --> 00:24:58.359
 on the

00:24:58.359 --> 00:24:58.700
 ground

00:24:58.700 --> 00:24:59.039
 that the

00:24:59.039 --> 00:24:59.339
 ground

00:24:59.339 --> 00:24:59.779
 was really

00:24:59.779 --> 00:25:00.200
 covered

00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:00.599
 with all

00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:00.819
 these

00:25:00.819 --> 00:25:01.159
 beautiful

00:25:01.159 --> 00:25:01.879
 multicolored

00:25:01.879 --> 00:25:02.319
 leaves

00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:02.679
 but there's

00:25:02.679 --> 00:25:03.039
 still enough

00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:03.319
 on the

00:25:03.319 --> 00:25:03.740
 trees

00:25:03.740 --> 00:25:04.480
 that you

00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:04.799
 had the

00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:05.139
 beautiful

00:25:05.139 --> 00:25:05.519
 leaves

00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:05.799
 on the

00:25:05.799 --> 00:25:06.039
 bottom

00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:06.679
 and above

00:25:06.679 --> 00:25:06.879
 you

00:25:06.879 --> 00:25:07.480
 all around

00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:07.700
 and it

00:25:07.700 --> 00:25:07.899
 was a

00:25:07.899 --> 00:25:08.079
 nice

00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:08.480
 temperature

00:25:08.480 --> 00:25:08.740
 it was

00:25:08.740 --> 00:25:09.039
 really

00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:09.519
 beautiful

00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:10.339
 anyway

00:25:10.339 --> 00:25:10.559
 we're

00:25:10.559 --> 00:25:10.960
 wandering

00:25:10.960 --> 00:25:11.299
 for a

00:25:11.299 --> 00:25:11.379
 way

00:25:11.379 --> 00:25:11.519
 we're

00:25:11.519 --> 00:25:11.720
 not in

00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:11.839
 any

00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:12.200
 rush

00:25:12.200 --> 00:25:12.460
 right

00:25:12.460 --> 00:25:12.659
 we're

00:25:12.659 --> 00:25:12.819
 just

00:25:12.819 --> 00:25:13.059
 taking

00:25:13.059 --> 00:25:13.200
 a

00:25:13.200 --> 00:25:13.319
 couple

00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:13.439
 of

00:25:13.439 --> 00:25:13.599
 days

00:25:13.599 --> 00:25:13.839
 off

00:25:13.839 --> 00:25:14.359
 so we

00:25:14.359 --> 00:25:14.539
 come

00:25:14.539 --> 00:25:14.700
 to

00:25:14.700 --> 00:25:14.859
 a

00:25:14.859 --> 00:25:15.179
 map

00:25:15.179 --> 00:25:16.039
 and

00:25:16.039 --> 00:25:16.119
 it

00:25:16.119 --> 00:25:16.240
 was

00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:16.359
 a

00:25:16.359 --> 00:25:16.579
 very

00:25:16.579 --> 00:25:16.859
 very

00:25:16.859 --> 00:25:17.159
 very

00:25:17.159 --> 00:25:17.439
 very

00:25:17.439 --> 00:25:17.480
 very

00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:18.079
 good

00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:18.539
 accurate

00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:26.799
 look at

00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:26.939
 the

00:25:26.939 --> 00:25:27.179
 map

00:25:27.179 --> 00:25:27.379
 and you

00:25:27.379 --> 00:25:27.599
 think

00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:28.399
 well

00:25:28.399 --> 00:25:28.659
 that's

00:25:28.659 --> 00:25:28.759
 a

00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:28.980
 nice

00:25:28.980 --> 00:25:29.500
 map

00:25:29.500 --> 00:25:31.480
 but I

00:25:31.480 --> 00:25:31.579
 don't

00:25:31.579 --> 00:25:31.679
 know

00:25:31.679 --> 00:25:31.980
 where I

00:25:31.980 --> 00:25:32.419
 am

00:25:32.419 --> 00:25:33.480
 like

00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:33.740
 in other

00:25:33.740 --> 00:25:33.879
 words

00:25:33.879 --> 00:25:34.000
 it

00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:34.319
 becomes

00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:34.799
 useless

00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:35.359
 and that's

00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:35.579
 actually

00:25:35.579 --> 00:25:35.939
 what goes

00:25:35.939 --> 00:25:36.220
 on in

00:25:36.220 --> 00:25:36.379
 our

00:25:36.379 --> 00:25:36.899
 culture

00:25:36.899 --> 00:25:38.779
 you see

00:25:38.779 --> 00:25:39.319
 the power

00:25:39.319 --> 00:25:39.619
 of what

00:25:39.619 --> 00:25:40.200
 this text

00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:40.480
 is going

00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:40.720
 to try

00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:41.159
 to point

00:25:41.159 --> 00:25:41.519
 this to

00:25:41.519 --> 00:25:41.759
 it's

00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:42.000
 trying

00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:42.159
 to

00:25:42.159 --> 00:25:42.779
 understand

00:25:42.779 --> 00:25:43.539
 it's

00:25:43.539 --> 00:25:43.859
 trying

00:25:43.859 --> 00:25:44.339
 to help

00:25:44.339 --> 00:25:44.500
 us

00:25:44.500 --> 00:25:44.659
 to

00:25:44.659 --> 00:25:45.179
 understand

00:25:45.179 --> 00:25:45.439
 where

00:25:45.439 --> 00:25:45.639
 we

00:25:45.639 --> 00:25:45.819
 need

00:25:45.819 --> 00:25:46.000
 to

00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:46.200
 go

00:25:46.200 --> 00:25:46.359
 and

00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:46.579
 where

00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:46.779
 we

00:25:46.779 --> 00:25:47.059
 are

00:25:47.059 --> 00:25:48.899
 and

00:25:48.899 --> 00:25:49.119
 part

00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:49.319
 of it

00:25:49.319 --> 00:25:49.619
 wants

00:25:49.619 --> 00:25:50.139
 to

00:25:50.139 --> 00:25:50.599
 understand

00:25:50.599 --> 00:25:50.919
 that you

00:25:50.919 --> 00:25:51.079
 are

00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:51.500
 sexually

00:25:51.500 --> 00:25:51.980
 broken

00:25:51.980 --> 00:25:54.559
 and that

00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:54.919
 if you

00:25:54.919 --> 00:25:55.339
 and I

00:25:55.339 --> 00:25:55.659
 just

00:25:55.659 --> 00:25:56.000
 look

00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:56.659
 within

00:25:56.659 --> 00:25:58.000
 to try

00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:58.519
 to figure

00:25:58.519 --> 00:25:58.839
 out

00:25:58.839 --> 00:25:59.639
 who we

00:25:59.639 --> 00:26:00.000
 are

00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:00.399
 and where

00:26:00.399 --> 00:26:00.819
 we have

00:26:00.819 --> 00:26:01.319
 to go

00:26:01.319 --> 00:26:01.980
 it's

00:26:01.980 --> 00:26:02.500
 hard

00:26:02.500 --> 00:26:03.039
 to figure

00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:03.339
 out

00:26:03.339 --> 00:26:03.679
 the

00:26:03.679 --> 00:26:04.039
 broken

00:26:04.039 --> 00:26:04.700
 parts

00:26:04.700 --> 00:26:05.119
 from the

00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:05.299
 good

00:26:05.299 --> 00:26:05.859
 parts

00:26:05.859 --> 00:26:07.940
 because

00:26:07.940 --> 00:26:08.500
 we look

00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:08.659
 at

00:26:08.659 --> 00:26:09.159
 ourselves

00:26:09.159 --> 00:26:09.599
 within

00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:10.000
 by our

00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:10.379
 normal

00:26:10.379 --> 00:26:10.940
 natural

00:26:10.940 --> 00:26:11.480
 abilities

00:26:11.480 --> 00:26:12.019
 and we

00:26:12.019 --> 00:26:12.339
 are like

00:26:12.339 --> 00:26:12.619
 looking

00:26:12.619 --> 00:26:12.919
 at the

00:26:12.919 --> 00:26:13.279
 beautiful

00:26:13.279 --> 00:26:13.700
 map

00:26:13.700 --> 00:26:14.000
 about

00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:14.259
 Mount

00:26:14.259 --> 00:26:14.519
 Royal

00:26:14.519 --> 00:26:14.919
 Park

00:26:14.919 --> 00:26:15.200
 without

00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:15.619
 knowing

00:26:15.619 --> 00:26:15.839
 where

00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:16.019
 we

00:26:16.019 --> 00:26:16.319
 are

00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:18.359
 to

00:26:18.359 --> 00:26:18.500
 know

00:26:18.500 --> 00:26:18.679
 whether

00:26:18.679 --> 00:26:18.839
 we

00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:18.980
 should

00:26:18.980 --> 00:26:19.099
 be

00:26:19.099 --> 00:26:19.319
 going

00:26:19.319 --> 00:26:19.659
 here

00:26:19.659 --> 00:26:19.879
 or

00:26:19.879 --> 00:26:20.179
 here

00:26:20.179 --> 00:26:20.399
 or

00:26:20.399 --> 00:26:20.759
 there

00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:21.500
 or

00:26:21.500 --> 00:26:22.000
 there

00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:27.180
 you

00:26:27.180 --> 00:26:27.480
 see

00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:28.019
 you

00:26:28.019 --> 00:26:28.220
 think

00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:28.400
 about

00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:28.500
 it

00:26:28.500 --> 00:26:28.779
 as well

00:26:28.779 --> 00:26:28.960
 if

00:26:28.960 --> 00:26:29.480
 because

00:26:29.480 --> 00:26:29.720
 the

00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:30.059
 triune

00:26:30.059 --> 00:26:30.299
 God

00:26:30.299 --> 00:26:30.480
 is

00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:31.079
 love

00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:31.480
 he

00:26:31.480 --> 00:26:31.859
 designed

00:26:31.859 --> 00:26:32.119
 human

00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:32.380
 beings

00:26:32.380 --> 00:26:32.680
 to be

00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:33.180
 loved

00:26:33.180 --> 00:26:33.579
 and to

00:26:33.579 --> 00:26:34.019
 love

00:26:34.019 --> 00:26:34.380
 that

00:26:34.380 --> 00:26:34.640
 word

00:26:34.640 --> 00:26:35.240
 designed

00:26:35.240 --> 00:26:35.819
 is really

00:26:35.819 --> 00:26:36.400
 important

00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:37.039
 and that

00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:37.519
 begins

00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:37.920
 to get

00:26:37.920 --> 00:26:38.299
 at the

00:26:38.299 --> 00:26:38.619
 great

00:26:38.619 --> 00:26:39.319
 profound

00:26:39.319 --> 00:26:40.460
 difference

00:26:40.460 --> 00:26:41.000
 between

00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:41.279
 the

00:26:41.279 --> 00:26:41.700
 Christian

00:26:41.700 --> 00:26:42.240
 faith

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:43.460
 and how

00:26:43.460 --> 00:26:43.799
 most

00:26:43.799 --> 00:26:44.279
 Canadians

00:26:44.279 --> 00:26:44.680
 think

00:26:44.680 --> 00:26:44.920
 about

00:26:44.920 --> 00:26:45.200
 these

00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:45.519
 things

00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:45.819
 now

00:26:45.819 --> 00:26:46.000
 is

00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:46.319
 because

00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:46.640
 we're

00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:46.980
 stuck

00:26:46.980 --> 00:26:47.200
 by

00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:47.400
 that

00:26:47.400 --> 00:26:47.660
 word

00:26:47.660 --> 00:26:48.220
 designed

00:26:48.220 --> 00:26:51.119
 and that

00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:51.400
 we were

00:26:51.400 --> 00:26:51.900
 designed

00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:52.340
 by

00:26:52.340 --> 00:26:53.160
 love

00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:54.300
 to be

00:26:54.300 --> 00:26:54.620
 loved

00:26:54.620 --> 00:26:54.920
 and to

00:26:54.920 --> 00:26:55.240
 love

00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.100
 it

00:26:57.100 --> 00:26:57.420
 means

00:26:57.420 --> 00:26:57.680
 that

00:26:57.680 --> 00:26:58.100
 we

00:26:58.100 --> 00:26:58.480
 can't

00:26:58.480 --> 00:26:58.740
 treat

00:26:58.740 --> 00:26:59.100
 human

00:26:59.100 --> 00:26:59.600
 beings

00:26:59.600 --> 00:27:00.259
 as if

00:27:00.259 --> 00:27:00.460
 we're

00:27:00.460 --> 00:27:00.759
 just

00:27:00.759 --> 00:27:01.380
 plastic

00:27:01.380 --> 00:27:02.440
 as if

00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:03.280
 it's

00:27:03.280 --> 00:27:03.500
 just

00:27:03.500 --> 00:27:03.980
 clay

00:27:03.980 --> 00:27:04.500
 and you

00:27:04.500 --> 00:27:04.620
 can

00:27:04.620 --> 00:27:04.800
 just

00:27:04.800 --> 00:27:05.100
 mold

00:27:05.100 --> 00:27:05.380
 that

00:27:05.380 --> 00:27:05.660
 clay

00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:05.980
 in any

00:27:05.980 --> 00:27:06.220
 type

00:27:06.220 --> 00:27:06.360
 of

00:27:06.360 --> 00:27:06.500
 way

00:27:06.500 --> 00:27:06.820
 in fact

00:27:06.820 --> 00:27:07.160
 actually

00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:07.440
 if you

00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:07.860
 hear of

00:27:07.860 --> 00:27:08.160
 somebody

00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:08.580
 treating

00:27:08.580 --> 00:27:08.920
 another

00:27:08.920 --> 00:27:09.259
 human

00:27:09.259 --> 00:27:09.500
 being

00:27:09.500 --> 00:27:09.840
 if you

00:27:09.840 --> 00:27:10.380
 come

00:27:10.380 --> 00:27:10.840
 across

00:27:10.840 --> 00:27:11.360
 a dad

00:27:11.360 --> 00:27:11.660
 or a

00:27:11.660 --> 00:27:11.900
 mom

00:27:11.900 --> 00:27:12.200
 treating

00:27:12.200 --> 00:27:12.400
 their

00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:12.720
 kid

00:27:12.720 --> 00:27:13.060
 as if

00:27:13.060 --> 00:27:13.220
 they're

00:27:13.220 --> 00:27:13.600
 clay

00:27:13.600 --> 00:27:13.960
 that can

00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:14.160
 just

00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:14.440
 be

00:27:14.440 --> 00:27:15.259
 molded

00:27:15.259 --> 00:27:15.640
 in any

00:27:15.640 --> 00:27:15.920
 type

00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:16.240
 of way

00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:16.560
 that the

00:27:16.560 --> 00:27:16.840
 parent

00:27:16.840 --> 00:27:17.220
 wants

00:27:17.220 --> 00:27:17.500
 what do

00:27:17.500 --> 00:27:17.920
 we say

00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:18.580
 that's

00:27:18.580 --> 00:27:18.800
 not

00:27:18.800 --> 00:27:19.259
 loving

00:27:19.259 --> 00:27:20.940
 that's

00:27:20.940 --> 00:27:21.220
 what we

00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:21.640
 say

00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:23.160
 if we

00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:23.560
 see that

00:27:23.560 --> 00:27:24.019
 a man

00:27:24.019 --> 00:27:24.500
 is treating

00:27:24.500 --> 00:27:25.220
 his wife

00:27:25.220 --> 00:27:25.680
 as if

00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:25.960
 she's

00:27:25.960 --> 00:27:26.120
 just

00:27:26.120 --> 00:27:26.440
 sort of

00:27:26.440 --> 00:27:27.000
 plastic

00:27:27.000 --> 00:27:28.200
 or

00:27:28.200 --> 00:27:30.279
 treating

00:27:30.279 --> 00:27:30.740
 her like

00:27:30.740 --> 00:27:31.100
 she's a

00:27:31.100 --> 00:27:31.360
 blank

00:27:31.360 --> 00:27:31.880
 slate

00:27:31.880 --> 00:27:33.180
 and he

00:27:33.180 --> 00:27:33.580
 can just

00:27:33.580 --> 00:27:34.060
 paint on

00:27:34.060 --> 00:27:34.220
 her

00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:34.560
 whatever

00:27:34.560 --> 00:27:34.840
 he

00:27:34.840 --> 00:27:35.240
 wants

00:27:35.240 --> 00:27:35.720
 we say

00:27:35.720 --> 00:27:36.080
 that's

00:27:36.080 --> 00:27:36.300
 not

00:27:36.300 --> 00:27:36.759
 loving

00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:37.539
 and it's

00:27:37.539 --> 00:27:37.860
 because

00:27:37.860 --> 00:27:38.240
 we

00:27:38.240 --> 00:27:38.880
 understand

00:27:38.880 --> 00:27:39.519
 on one

00:27:39.519 --> 00:27:40.140
 fundamental

00:27:40.140 --> 00:27:40.620
 level

00:27:40.620 --> 00:27:41.039
 that if

00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:42.100
 love

00:27:42.099 --> 00:27:42.939
 if we

00:27:42.939 --> 00:27:43.699
 are designed

00:27:43.699 --> 00:27:45.259
 by love

00:27:45.259 --> 00:27:47.179
 to receive

00:27:47.179 --> 00:27:47.559
 love

00:27:47.559 --> 00:27:47.879
 and to

00:27:47.879 --> 00:27:48.659
 give love

00:27:48.659 --> 00:27:49.259
 that means

00:27:49.259 --> 00:27:50.299
 we're not

00:27:50.299 --> 00:27:51.240
 just plastic

00:27:51.240 --> 00:27:51.859
 we're not

00:27:51.859 --> 00:27:53.019
 just clay

00:27:53.019 --> 00:27:53.399
 to be

00:27:53.399 --> 00:27:54.000
 molded

00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:54.480
 we're just

00:27:54.480 --> 00:27:55.159
 not blank

00:27:55.159 --> 00:27:55.839
 canvases

00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:56.259
 there's

00:27:56.259 --> 00:27:56.699
 something

00:27:56.699 --> 00:27:57.339
 there

00:27:57.339 --> 00:27:58.139
 that can

00:27:58.139 --> 00:27:58.659
 love

00:27:58.659 --> 00:27:59.019
 and

00:27:59.019 --> 00:28:01.719
 and has

00:28:01.719 --> 00:28:02.079
 to be

00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:02.480
 loved

00:28:02.480 --> 00:28:03.719
 and we

00:28:03.719 --> 00:28:04.219
 can't be

00:28:04.219 --> 00:28:04.879
 reduced

00:28:04.879 --> 00:28:05.500
 and if

00:28:05.500 --> 00:28:05.679
 we're

00:28:05.679 --> 00:28:06.219
 designed

00:28:06.219 --> 00:28:07.099
 it means

00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:07.559
 that there's

00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:08.039
 things that

00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:08.359
 we can

00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:08.579
 do

00:28:08.579 --> 00:28:09.000
 that might

00:28:09.000 --> 00:28:09.299
 seem

00:28:09.299 --> 00:28:09.759
 right to

00:28:09.759 --> 00:28:09.980
 us

00:28:09.980 --> 00:28:10.639
 but are

00:28:10.639 --> 00:28:11.059
 actually

00:28:11.059 --> 00:28:11.639
 breaking

00:28:11.639 --> 00:28:12.079
 us

00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:13.279
 like

00:28:13.279 --> 00:28:14.759
 if you

00:28:14.759 --> 00:28:15.079
 had an

00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:15.480
 iphone

00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:16.079
 13

00:28:16.079 --> 00:28:16.759
 pro

00:28:16.759 --> 00:28:18.879
 and you

00:28:18.879 --> 00:28:19.279
 happened to

00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:19.599
 leave it

00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:20.059
 down over

00:28:20.059 --> 00:28:20.399
 there

00:28:20.399 --> 00:28:21.000
 and one

00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:21.199
 of the

00:28:21.199 --> 00:28:21.500
 beautiful

00:28:21.500 --> 00:28:21.799
 little

00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:22.179
 kids

00:28:22.179 --> 00:28:22.599
 picked it

00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:22.759
 up

00:28:22.759 --> 00:28:23.139
 and figured

00:28:23.139 --> 00:28:23.339
 out

00:28:23.339 --> 00:28:23.659
 that that

00:28:23.659 --> 00:28:23.899
 would be

00:28:23.899 --> 00:28:24.339
 a great

00:28:24.339 --> 00:28:24.839
 way to

00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:25.839
 hammer in

00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:27.019
 a loose

00:28:27.019 --> 00:28:28.000
 nail on

00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:28.220
 one of

00:28:28.220 --> 00:28:28.699
 the chairs

00:28:28.699 --> 00:28:30.000
 you'd

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:30.559
 grab it

00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:31.139
 from them

00:28:31.139 --> 00:28:32.619
 and why

00:28:32.619 --> 00:28:33.220
 because an

00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:34.379
 iphone 13

00:28:34.379 --> 00:28:35.079
 pro isn't

00:28:35.079 --> 00:28:35.720
 designed

00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:36.519
 to hang

00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:37.119
 hammer and

00:28:37.119 --> 00:28:37.539
 attack

00:28:37.539 --> 00:28:38.119
 and if

00:28:38.119 --> 00:28:38.439
 the little

00:28:38.439 --> 00:28:39.119
 smart ass

00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:39.799
 kid said

00:28:39.799 --> 00:28:40.439
 but it's

00:28:40.439 --> 00:28:41.240
 perfect for

00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:41.439
 it

00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:41.860
 you'd

00:28:41.860 --> 00:28:42.059
 say

00:28:42.059 --> 00:28:42.380
 no

00:28:42.380 --> 00:28:42.660
 it's

00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:42.860
 not

00:28:42.860 --> 00:28:43.380
 designed

00:28:43.380 --> 00:28:43.900
 for

00:28:43.900 --> 00:28:44.240
 it

00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:48.640
 and

00:28:48.640 --> 00:28:49.039
 consider

00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:49.420
 a couple

00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:49.720
 of other

00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:50.180
 things

00:28:50.180 --> 00:28:51.600
 I'm not

00:28:51.600 --> 00:28:51.759
 going to

00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:51.980
 give you

00:28:51.980 --> 00:28:52.400
 the answer

00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:52.700
 to these

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:52.900
 things

00:28:52.900 --> 00:28:53.120
 but I

00:28:53.120 --> 00:28:53.380
 want to

00:28:53.380 --> 00:28:53.680
 try to

00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:53.920
 show

00:28:53.920 --> 00:28:54.400
 those of

00:28:54.400 --> 00:28:54.519
 you

00:28:54.519 --> 00:28:54.840
 who are

00:28:54.840 --> 00:28:55.759
 all of us

00:28:55.759 --> 00:28:55.960
 who have

00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:56.320
 trouble

00:28:56.320 --> 00:28:56.700
 thinking

00:28:56.700 --> 00:28:56.960
 about

00:28:56.960 --> 00:28:57.299
 this

00:28:57.299 --> 00:28:58.180
 and a lot

00:28:58.180 --> 00:28:58.460
 of us

00:28:58.460 --> 00:28:58.799
 Christians

00:28:58.799 --> 00:28:59.400
 are embarrassed

00:28:59.400 --> 00:28:59.759
 to even

00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:00.400
 think about

00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:00.600
 it

00:29:00.600 --> 00:29:01.140
 or talk

00:29:01.140 --> 00:29:01.420
 about

00:29:01.420 --> 00:29:01.640
 it

00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:02.680
 and if

00:29:02.680 --> 00:29:02.880
 you're

00:29:02.880 --> 00:29:03.220
 listening

00:29:03.220 --> 00:29:03.559
 in

00:29:03.559 --> 00:29:04.200
 and you're

00:29:04.200 --> 00:29:04.580
 here as

00:29:04.580 --> 00:29:05.080
 a seeker

00:29:05.080 --> 00:29:05.440
 and now

00:29:05.440 --> 00:29:05.860
 maybe you're

00:29:05.860 --> 00:29:06.380
 not a seeker

00:29:06.380 --> 00:29:06.700
 anymore

00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:07.180
 you're here

00:29:07.180 --> 00:29:08.059
 as a skeptic

00:29:08.059 --> 00:29:08.820
 you came

00:29:08.820 --> 00:29:09.200
 in sort

00:29:09.200 --> 00:29:09.480
 of like

00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:09.680
 this

00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:10.039
 but now

00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:10.220
 you're

00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:10.420
 sitting

00:29:10.420 --> 00:29:10.720
 like

00:29:10.720 --> 00:29:11.160
 this

00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:12.220
 just

00:29:12.220 --> 00:29:12.640
 consider

00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:12.960
 a couple

00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:13.240
 of these

00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:13.640
 questions

00:29:13.640 --> 00:29:14.200
 because the

00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:14.579
 fact of

00:29:14.579 --> 00:29:14.799
 the matter

00:29:14.799 --> 00:29:15.160
 is

00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:15.579
 if you

00:29:15.579 --> 00:29:16.000
 not only

00:29:16.000 --> 00:29:16.440
 follow

00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:17.180
 the trajectory

00:29:17.180 --> 00:29:17.680
 of the fact

00:29:17.680 --> 00:29:17.920
 that we're

00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:18.380
 owed love

00:29:18.380 --> 00:29:19.319
 but follow

00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:19.960
 the trajectory

00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:20.360
 of these

00:29:20.360 --> 00:29:21.079
 other things

00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:21.420
 which you

00:29:21.420 --> 00:29:21.839
 just think

00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.360
 are obvious

00:29:22.360 --> 00:29:22.980
 you realize

00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:23.920
 that you're

00:29:23.920 --> 00:29:24.420
 actually on

00:29:24.420 --> 00:29:24.860
 the Christian

00:29:24.860 --> 00:29:25.339
 side of the

00:29:25.339 --> 00:29:25.960
 conversation

00:29:25.960 --> 00:29:26.819
 not against

00:29:26.819 --> 00:29:27.039
 it

00:29:27.039 --> 00:29:27.519
 but you don't

00:29:27.519 --> 00:29:28.259
 realize it

00:29:28.259 --> 00:29:29.019
 like think

00:29:29.019 --> 00:29:29.339
 about it

00:29:29.339 --> 00:29:29.860
 for a second

00:29:29.860 --> 00:29:30.759
 every single

00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:31.200
 person

00:29:31.200 --> 00:29:31.539
 that you

00:29:31.539 --> 00:29:32.019
 almost

00:29:32.019 --> 00:29:32.380
 everybody

00:29:32.380 --> 00:29:32.740
 you meet

00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:33.400
 will care

00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:35.560
 it doesn't

00:29:35.560 --> 00:29:35.880
 matter how

00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:36.360
 secular

00:29:36.360 --> 00:29:36.840
 the person

00:29:36.840 --> 00:29:36.980
 is

00:29:36.980 --> 00:29:37.240
 or how

00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:37.740
 spiritual

00:29:37.740 --> 00:29:38.200
 the person

00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:38.380
 is

00:29:38.380 --> 00:29:38.980
 they care

00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:39.700
 who their

00:29:39.700 --> 00:29:40.180
 loved ones

00:29:40.180 --> 00:29:40.800
 sleep with

00:29:40.800 --> 00:29:43.680
 you meet a

00:29:43.680 --> 00:29:44.660
 25 year old

00:29:44.660 --> 00:29:45.280
 and they start

00:29:45.280 --> 00:29:45.759
 to tell you

00:29:45.759 --> 00:29:46.100
 that their

00:29:46.100 --> 00:29:46.940
 mom has

00:29:46.940 --> 00:29:47.580
 divorced

00:29:47.580 --> 00:29:48.259
 their dad

00:29:48.259 --> 00:29:50.120
 and she's

00:29:50.120 --> 00:29:50.680
 sleeping with

00:29:50.680 --> 00:29:51.240
 this guy

00:29:51.240 --> 00:29:52.700
 but he's a

00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:53.080
 jerk

00:29:53.080 --> 00:29:53.660
 he's going

00:29:53.660 --> 00:29:53.960
 to hurt

00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:54.160
 her

00:29:54.160 --> 00:29:55.700
 they care

00:29:55.700 --> 00:29:58.040
 who their

00:29:58.040 --> 00:29:58.860
 mom sleeps

00:29:58.860 --> 00:29:59.160
 with

00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:01.519
 and moms

00:30:01.519 --> 00:30:02.040
 and dads

00:30:02.040 --> 00:30:02.759
 care who

00:30:02.759 --> 00:30:03.240
 their kids

00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:03.839
 sleep with

00:30:03.839 --> 00:30:05.839
 but if you

00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:06.440
 care who

00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:07.059
 people sleep

00:30:07.059 --> 00:30:07.240
 with

00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:07.720
 why can't

00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:08.059
 God

00:30:08.059 --> 00:30:12.339
 like why

00:30:12.339 --> 00:30:12.640
 can't

00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:12.960
 God

00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:15.519
 and if in

00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:15.940
 fact the

00:30:15.940 --> 00:30:16.519
 true and

00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:16.980
 living God

00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:17.259
 is the

00:30:17.259 --> 00:30:17.920
 triune God

00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:18.240
 who is

00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:18.579
 love

00:30:18.579 --> 00:30:19.619
 who designed

00:30:19.619 --> 00:30:19.960
 us

00:30:19.960 --> 00:30:22.259
 maybe he

00:30:22.259 --> 00:30:22.980
 actually knows

00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:23.339
 the right

00:30:23.339 --> 00:30:25.019
 maybe he

00:30:25.019 --> 00:30:25.480
 knows what's

00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:25.779
 right

00:30:25.779 --> 00:30:27.359
 or

00:30:27.359 --> 00:30:28.839
 if your

00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:29.440
 kid

00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:31.099
 begins to

00:30:31.099 --> 00:30:31.640
 get caught

00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:32.259
 up in

00:30:32.259 --> 00:30:33.379
 neo-nazi

00:30:33.379 --> 00:30:35.160
 racist

00:30:35.160 --> 00:30:36.339
 literature

00:30:36.339 --> 00:30:39.359
 or if

00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:39.839
 your kid

00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:40.500
 gets caught

00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:40.900
 up in

00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:41.279
 something

00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:41.839
 which not

00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:42.319
 just says

00:30:42.319 --> 00:30:42.700
 that there's

00:30:42.700 --> 00:30:43.400
 problems with

00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:44.200
 covid-19

00:30:44.200 --> 00:30:44.940
 vaccines but

00:30:44.940 --> 00:30:45.799
 all vaccines

00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:46.099
 and they

00:30:46.099 --> 00:30:46.539
 really get

00:30:46.539 --> 00:30:47.519
 identified with

00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:48.059
 that and

00:30:48.059 --> 00:30:49.059
 start to tell

00:30:49.059 --> 00:30:49.359
 you other

00:30:49.359 --> 00:30:49.799
 types of

00:30:49.799 --> 00:30:50.119
 stuff and

00:30:50.119 --> 00:30:50.400
 they start

00:30:50.400 --> 00:30:51.059
 to hang

00:30:51.059 --> 00:30:51.420
 around with

00:30:51.420 --> 00:30:52.000
 people like

00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:52.259
 that and

00:30:52.259 --> 00:30:52.460
 they get

00:30:52.460 --> 00:30:53.000
 their identity

00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:53.460
 out of it

00:30:53.460 --> 00:30:53.980
 you care

00:30:53.980 --> 00:30:54.440
 about how

00:30:54.440 --> 00:30:55.000
 their identity

00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:55.400
 is being

00:30:55.400 --> 00:30:55.839
 formed

00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:57.599
 you care

00:30:57.599 --> 00:30:58.559
 what their

00:30:58.559 --> 00:30:59.079
 identity

00:30:59.079 --> 00:30:59.679
 is based

00:30:59.679 --> 00:31:00.039
 on

00:31:00.039 --> 00:31:01.599
 but if

00:31:01.599 --> 00:31:02.079
 you care

00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:02.399
 about it

00:31:02.399 --> 00:31:02.939
 why can't

00:31:02.939 --> 00:31:03.399
 God

00:31:03.399 --> 00:31:09.919
 if you

00:31:09.919 --> 00:31:10.559
 find out

00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:11.859
 that your

00:31:11.859 --> 00:31:12.399
 best friend

00:31:12.399 --> 00:31:12.919
 has this

00:31:12.919 --> 00:31:14.039
 new boyfriend

00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:16.500
 but he

00:31:16.500 --> 00:31:17.039
 treats

00:31:17.039 --> 00:31:17.899
 your best

00:31:17.899 --> 00:31:18.379
 friend

00:31:18.379 --> 00:31:19.899
 like she's

00:31:19.899 --> 00:31:20.519
 just a play

00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:20.859
 thing

00:31:20.859 --> 00:31:21.799
 a toy

00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:23.980
 a playground

00:31:23.980 --> 00:31:27.680
 don't you

00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:27.960
 sort of

00:31:27.960 --> 00:31:28.419
 agree with

00:31:28.419 --> 00:31:29.180
 the human

00:31:29.180 --> 00:31:29.839
 that the

00:31:29.839 --> 00:31:30.700
 bible teaching

00:31:30.700 --> 00:31:31.299
 that a human

00:31:31.299 --> 00:31:31.759
 being is

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:32.339
 more like a

00:31:32.339 --> 00:31:32.980
 temple than

00:31:32.980 --> 00:31:33.500
 a playground

00:31:33.500 --> 00:31:37.240
 that human

00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:37.680
 beings are

00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:38.119
 more like

00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:38.659
 temples

00:31:38.659 --> 00:31:40.559
 that there's

00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:41.579
 something sacred

00:31:41.579 --> 00:31:43.960
 and that human

00:31:43.960 --> 00:31:44.480
 beings are

00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:45.039
 just play

00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:45.619
 things or

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:46.919
 play toys

00:31:46.919 --> 00:31:48.460
 but you see

00:31:48.460 --> 00:31:49.139
 once you think

00:31:49.139 --> 00:31:49.659
 these things

00:31:49.659 --> 00:31:50.059
 you're on the

00:31:50.059 --> 00:31:50.659
 Christian side

00:31:50.659 --> 00:31:50.839
 of the

00:31:50.839 --> 00:31:51.460
 conversation

00:31:51.460 --> 00:31:53.559
 now you're

00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:53.779
 in the

00:31:53.779 --> 00:31:54.160
 world of

00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:54.680
 the bible

00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:59.500
 you don't

00:31:59.500 --> 00:31:59.900
 treat a

00:31:59.900 --> 00:32:00.400
 person like

00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:00.779
 a blank

00:32:00.779 --> 00:32:01.240
 slate

00:32:01.240 --> 00:32:01.980
 or like

00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:02.360
 clay

00:32:02.360 --> 00:32:04.759
 and in

00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:05.220
 fact even

00:32:05.220 --> 00:32:05.500
 if you

00:32:05.500 --> 00:32:05.920
 think about

00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:06.319
 it for a

00:32:06.319 --> 00:32:06.480
 second

00:32:06.480 --> 00:32:06.960
 talk to

00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:07.740
 alcoholics

00:32:07.740 --> 00:32:08.180
 talk to

00:32:08.180 --> 00:32:08.660
 people who've

00:32:08.660 --> 00:32:08.900
 struggled

00:32:08.900 --> 00:32:09.360
 with drug

00:32:09.360 --> 00:32:09.759
 addiction

00:32:09.759 --> 00:32:11.319
 but not

00:32:11.319 --> 00:32:11.799
 just that

00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:13.539
 people have

00:32:13.539 --> 00:32:13.880
 had to go

00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:14.420
 into therapy

00:32:14.420 --> 00:32:14.860
 for all

00:32:14.860 --> 00:32:15.200
 sorts of

00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:15.759
 other reasons

00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:16.140
 what you

00:32:16.140 --> 00:32:16.299
 can

00:32:16.299 --> 00:32:16.740
 if you

00:32:16.740 --> 00:32:17.140
 talk to

00:32:17.140 --> 00:32:17.259
 an

00:32:17.259 --> 00:32:17.759
 alcoholic

00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:19.220
 those of

00:32:19.220 --> 00:32:19.920
 us who've

00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:20.200
 struggled

00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:20.620
 with any

00:32:20.620 --> 00:32:21.019
 type of

00:32:21.019 --> 00:32:21.420
 addiction

00:32:21.420 --> 00:32:23.360
 what they'll

00:32:23.360 --> 00:32:23.820
 tell you

00:32:23.820 --> 00:32:24.380
 is this

00:32:24.380 --> 00:32:26.480
 that the

00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:26.940
 thing that

00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:27.279
 was the

00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:28.320
 most natural

00:32:28.320 --> 00:32:30.320
 desire

00:32:30.320 --> 00:32:31.580
 inside of

00:32:31.580 --> 00:32:31.960
 them and

00:32:31.960 --> 00:32:32.300
 the most

00:32:32.300 --> 00:32:32.940
 powerful

00:32:32.940 --> 00:32:33.680
 desire

00:32:33.680 --> 00:32:34.500
 inside of

00:32:34.500 --> 00:32:35.039
 them was

00:32:35.039 --> 00:32:35.680
 ruining their

00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:36.360
 lives

00:32:36.360 --> 00:32:40.259
 and they

00:32:40.259 --> 00:32:40.759
 needed some

00:32:40.759 --> 00:32:41.200
 type of

00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:41.880
 therapy and

00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:42.720
 help to

00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:43.420
 get clarity

00:32:43.420 --> 00:32:48.140
 to set

00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:48.880
 aside the

00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:49.580
 desires that

00:32:49.580 --> 00:32:49.920
 were more

00:32:49.920 --> 00:32:50.960
 powerful so

00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:51.380
 they could

00:32:51.380 --> 00:32:51.900
 start to

00:32:51.900 --> 00:32:52.900
 have sanity

00:32:52.900 --> 00:32:54.060
 and freedom

00:32:54.060 --> 00:32:54.779
 and control

00:32:54.779 --> 00:32:58.600
 but you

00:32:58.600 --> 00:32:59.060
 see if you

00:32:59.060 --> 00:32:59.920
 understand and

00:32:59.920 --> 00:33:00.560
 think that now

00:33:00.560 --> 00:33:00.940
 you're on the

00:33:00.940 --> 00:33:01.600
 Christian side of

00:33:01.600 --> 00:33:02.320
 the conversation

00:33:02.320 --> 00:33:02.740
 you're on the

00:33:02.740 --> 00:33:03.440
 biblical side of

00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:04.200
 the conversation

00:33:04.200 --> 00:33:06.779
 could you put

00:33:06.779 --> 00:33:07.180
 up the next

00:33:07.180 --> 00:33:07.519
 point

00:33:07.519 --> 00:33:09.100
 here's another

00:33:09.100 --> 00:33:09.480
 thing

00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:10.500
 I know I

00:33:10.500 --> 00:33:10.900
 have to be

00:33:10.900 --> 00:33:11.700
 my time

00:33:11.700 --> 00:33:13.000
 in every

00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:13.759
 human being

00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:15.079
 you can see

00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:15.759
 the truth

00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:16.680
 that you

00:33:16.680 --> 00:33:17.259
 are designed

00:33:17.259 --> 00:33:19.599
 and the

00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:20.039
 truth

00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:20.819
 that the

00:33:20.819 --> 00:33:21.579
 design is

00:33:21.579 --> 00:33:22.220
 bent or

00:33:22.220 --> 00:33:22.640
 broken

00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.099
 in other

00:33:25.099 --> 00:33:25.400
 words

00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:26.259
 that you're

00:33:26.259 --> 00:33:27.220
 not just

00:33:27.220 --> 00:33:28.420
 designed

00:33:28.420 --> 00:33:29.160
 but you're a

00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:29.700
 little bit

00:33:29.700 --> 00:33:30.360
 of a ruin

00:33:30.360 --> 00:33:32.860
 and so am I

00:33:32.860 --> 00:33:33.420
 by the way

00:33:33.420 --> 00:33:33.839
 when I say

00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:34.079
 this

00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:34.860
 there's three

00:33:34.860 --> 00:33:35.539
 fingers pointing

00:33:35.539 --> 00:33:36.220
 back at me

00:33:36.220 --> 00:33:38.819
 you think

00:33:38.819 --> 00:33:39.079
 about it

00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:39.480
 if you go to

00:33:39.480 --> 00:33:40.019
 a science

00:33:40.019 --> 00:33:40.759
 fiction movie

00:33:40.759 --> 00:33:41.240
 or anything

00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:41.960
 like that

00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:42.640
 or you watch

00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:43.519
 some documentaries

00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:44.559
 if you look

00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:45.299
 at a documentary

00:33:45.299 --> 00:33:45.799
 of like when

00:33:45.799 --> 00:33:46.380
 a tsunami

00:33:46.380 --> 00:33:46.880
 has gone

00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:47.299
 through

00:33:47.299 --> 00:33:48.339
 or if you

00:33:48.339 --> 00:33:48.680
 look at a

00:33:48.680 --> 00:33:49.240
 documentary

00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:49.759
 or movie

00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:50.120
 where there's

00:33:50.120 --> 00:33:50.600
 been a huge

00:33:50.600 --> 00:33:51.220
 war or

00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:51.660
 earthquakes

00:33:51.660 --> 00:33:52.559
 or you look

00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:52.779
 at the

00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:53.220
 tornado

00:33:53.220 --> 00:33:53.860
 stuff like

00:33:53.860 --> 00:33:54.100
 that

00:33:54.100 --> 00:33:55.279
 we can all

00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:55.759
 tell the

00:33:55.759 --> 00:33:56.140
 difference

00:33:56.140 --> 00:33:56.740
 between when

00:33:56.740 --> 00:33:57.100
 there's been

00:33:57.100 --> 00:33:57.660
 something like

00:33:57.660 --> 00:33:58.180
 a tornado

00:33:58.180 --> 00:33:58.680
 and there's

00:33:58.680 --> 00:33:59.360
 just a pile

00:33:59.360 --> 00:34:00.120
 of rubbish

00:34:00.120 --> 00:34:00.799
 the winds

00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:01.180
 have just

00:34:01.180 --> 00:34:01.819
 picked things

00:34:01.819 --> 00:34:02.100
 up

00:34:02.100 --> 00:34:02.720
 helter

00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:03.240
 skelter

00:34:03.240 --> 00:34:03.700
 higgledy

00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:04.100
 piggledy

00:34:04.100 --> 00:34:04.620
 thrown them

00:34:04.620 --> 00:34:04.980
 in a thing

00:34:04.980 --> 00:34:05.200
 and it's

00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:05.640
 just a big

00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:06.140
 jumble

00:34:06.140 --> 00:34:06.980
 you can all

00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:07.520
 tell the

00:34:07.520 --> 00:34:07.860
 difference

00:34:07.860 --> 00:34:08.500
 between that

00:34:08.500 --> 00:34:08.860
 without

00:34:08.860 --> 00:34:09.680
 with very

00:34:09.680 --> 00:34:10.019
 rarely

00:34:10.019 --> 00:34:10.599
 making a

00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:10.860
 stake

00:34:10.860 --> 00:34:11.280
 and between

00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:11.720
 something

00:34:11.720 --> 00:34:12.160
 which has

00:34:12.160 --> 00:34:12.539
 now been

00:34:12.539 --> 00:34:13.000
 damaged

00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:13.519
 and ruined

00:34:13.519 --> 00:34:15.059
 there's a

00:34:15.059 --> 00:34:15.420
 difference

00:34:15.420 --> 00:34:15.980
 between what

00:34:15.980 --> 00:34:16.500
 the forces

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:17.059
 of nature

00:34:17.059 --> 00:34:17.500
 create

00:34:17.500 --> 00:34:17.900
 which is

00:34:17.900 --> 00:34:18.660
 just a

00:34:18.660 --> 00:34:18.980
 jumble

00:34:18.980 --> 00:34:19.660
 of chaos

00:34:19.660 --> 00:34:20.720
 and what

00:34:20.720 --> 00:34:21.420
 human beings

00:34:21.420 --> 00:34:22.019
 design

00:34:22.019 --> 00:34:23.059
 and now

00:34:23.059 --> 00:34:23.720
 maybe due

00:34:23.720 --> 00:34:24.099
 to the

00:34:24.099 --> 00:34:24.960
 stress of

00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:25.400
 the wind

00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:26.820
 or over

00:34:26.820 --> 00:34:27.260
 time

00:34:27.260 --> 00:34:27.539
 if you're

00:34:27.539 --> 00:34:27.780
 watching

00:34:27.780 --> 00:34:28.519
 science fiction

00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:28.860
 things

00:34:28.860 --> 00:34:30.019
 or fantasy

00:34:30.019 --> 00:34:30.480
 things

00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:30.820
 are now

00:34:30.820 --> 00:34:31.480
 like ruins

00:34:31.480 --> 00:34:32.000
 starting to

00:34:32.000 --> 00:34:32.400
 crumble

00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:34.000
 you can see

00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:34.619
 the design

00:34:34.619 --> 00:34:35.019
 and you can

00:34:35.019 --> 00:34:35.320
 see the

00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:35.680
 design

00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:36.179
 you can see

00:34:36.179 --> 00:34:36.559
 that human

00:34:36.559 --> 00:34:36.839
 beings

00:34:36.839 --> 00:34:37.399
 aren't a

00:34:37.399 --> 00:34:37.799
 jumble

00:34:37.799 --> 00:34:39.000
 there's a

00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:39.639
 very interesting

00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:40.259
 book by

00:34:40.259 --> 00:34:41.139
 Eric Metaxas

00:34:41.139 --> 00:34:41.659
 that came out

00:34:41.659 --> 00:34:42.039
 just about a

00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:42.419
 month ago

00:34:42.419 --> 00:34:42.719
 called

00:34:42.719 --> 00:34:43.419
 Is Atheism

00:34:43.419 --> 00:34:43.719
 Dead

00:34:43.719 --> 00:34:44.739
 and the title

00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:45.179
 which I don't

00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:45.559
 think is the

00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:46.000
 world's greatest

00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:46.759
 title but it's a

00:34:46.759 --> 00:34:47.440
 play on words

00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:48.460
 to the famous

00:34:48.460 --> 00:34:49.339
 time magazine

00:34:49.339 --> 00:34:50.799
 cover in 1966

00:34:50.799 --> 00:34:51.619
 that is God

00:34:51.619 --> 00:34:52.099
 is dead

00:34:52.099 --> 00:34:53.279
 and the interesting

00:34:53.279 --> 00:34:54.079
 thing that he does

00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:55.119
 time and time and time

00:34:55.119 --> 00:34:55.639
 and time again

00:34:55.639 --> 00:34:56.239
 throughout the book

00:34:56.239 --> 00:34:57.079
 is he shows from

00:34:57.079 --> 00:34:58.179
 science and from

00:34:58.179 --> 00:34:59.199
 archaeology how

00:34:59.199 --> 00:35:00.059
 things have developed

00:35:00.059 --> 00:35:01.139
 since 1966

00:35:01.139 --> 00:35:02.379
 and the fact

00:35:02.379 --> 00:35:02.759
 the matter

00:35:02.759 --> 00:35:03.460
 is is that

00:35:03.460 --> 00:35:04.359
 every week

00:35:04.359 --> 00:35:05.500
 every week

00:35:05.500 --> 00:35:06.219
 every month

00:35:06.219 --> 00:35:07.039
 every year

00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:08.139
 the evidence

00:35:08.139 --> 00:35:08.879
 of design

00:35:08.879 --> 00:35:09.379
 of human

00:35:09.379 --> 00:35:09.799
 beings

00:35:09.799 --> 00:35:10.420
 goes up

00:35:10.420 --> 00:35:11.059
 like this

00:35:11.059 --> 00:35:11.679
 and the

00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:12.199
 possibility

00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:13.119
 of randomness

00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:13.779
 is going

00:35:13.779 --> 00:35:14.420
 down like

00:35:14.420 --> 00:35:14.839
 this

00:35:14.839 --> 00:35:15.839
 when

00:35:15.839 --> 00:35:17.259
 Darwin

00:35:17.259 --> 00:35:17.819
 developed

00:35:17.819 --> 00:35:18.279
 his theory

00:35:18.279 --> 00:35:19.059
 of naturalistic

00:35:19.059 --> 00:35:19.500
 evolution

00:35:19.500 --> 00:35:20.139
 fundamentally

00:35:20.139 --> 00:35:20.619
 they thought

00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:21.000
 a cell

00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:21.480
 was just

00:35:21.480 --> 00:35:21.779
 sort of

00:35:21.779 --> 00:35:22.079
 like a

00:35:22.079 --> 00:35:22.400
 little bit

00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:22.819
 of jello

00:35:22.819 --> 00:35:23.299
 covered

00:35:23.299 --> 00:35:23.859
 in a

00:35:23.859 --> 00:35:24.420
 pouch

00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:25.159
 like in

00:35:25.159 --> 00:35:25.699
 a pouch

00:35:25.699 --> 00:35:26.619
 now

00:35:26.619 --> 00:35:27.279
 you study

00:35:27.279 --> 00:35:27.619
 the life

00:35:27.619 --> 00:35:27.940
 of a

00:35:27.940 --> 00:35:28.359
 cell

00:35:28.360 --> 00:35:29.400
 the more

00:35:29.400 --> 00:35:29.860
 they study

00:35:29.860 --> 00:35:30.340
 and understand

00:35:30.340 --> 00:35:30.700
 about the

00:35:30.700 --> 00:35:30.900
 cell

00:35:30.900 --> 00:35:31.320
 the more

00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:31.700
 it is

00:35:31.700 --> 00:35:32.640
 unbelievably

00:35:32.640 --> 00:35:33.519
 complex

00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:34.340
 and designed

00:35:34.340 --> 00:35:35.180
 the more

00:35:35.180 --> 00:35:35.500
 they know

00:35:35.500 --> 00:35:35.920
 about the

00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:36.320
 universe

00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:37.300
 the fact

00:35:37.300 --> 00:35:37.720
 that our

00:35:37.720 --> 00:35:39.240
 life wouldn't

00:35:39.240 --> 00:35:39.660
 exist

00:35:39.660 --> 00:35:40.320
 if the moon

00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:40.800
 wasn't the

00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:41.559
 exact size

00:35:41.559 --> 00:35:42.140
 it was

00:35:42.140 --> 00:35:43.019
 in the exact

00:35:43.019 --> 00:35:43.579
 distance

00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:44.059
 from us

00:35:44.059 --> 00:35:45.019
 it goes on

00:35:45.019 --> 00:35:45.300
 and on

00:35:45.300 --> 00:35:45.740
 if we weren't

00:35:45.740 --> 00:35:46.039
 in this

00:35:46.039 --> 00:35:46.420
 obscure

00:35:46.420 --> 00:35:46.980
 corner of

00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:47.460
 the galaxy

00:35:47.460 --> 00:35:48.519
 all these

00:35:48.519 --> 00:35:48.940
 things

00:35:48.940 --> 00:35:49.519
 and then

00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:50.039
 in human

00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:50.400
 beings

00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:50.720
 and not

00:35:50.720 --> 00:35:51.160
 just human

00:35:51.160 --> 00:35:51.420
 beings

00:35:51.420 --> 00:35:51.680
 at a

00:35:51.680 --> 00:35:52.240
 scientific

00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:53.000
 biological

00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:53.539
 physical

00:35:53.539 --> 00:35:54.019
 level

00:35:54.019 --> 00:35:54.940
 and environmental

00:35:54.940 --> 00:35:55.780
 level

00:35:55.780 --> 00:35:56.340
 but also

00:35:56.340 --> 00:35:56.720
 the way

00:35:56.720 --> 00:35:57.059
 that we're

00:35:57.059 --> 00:35:57.599
 social

00:35:57.599 --> 00:35:58.000
 the way

00:35:58.000 --> 00:35:58.240
 that

00:35:58.239 --> 00:35:58.779
 the way

00:35:58.779 --> 00:35:59.099
 that we're

00:35:59.099 --> 00:35:59.599
 formed

00:35:59.599 --> 00:36:00.159
 the way

00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:00.419
 that

00:36:00.419 --> 00:36:01.659
 the longings

00:36:01.659 --> 00:36:01.879
 and the

00:36:01.879 --> 00:36:02.179
 yearnings

00:36:02.179 --> 00:36:02.500
 of our

00:36:02.500 --> 00:36:02.699
 heart

00:36:02.699 --> 00:36:02.979
 there's

00:36:02.979 --> 00:36:03.500
 all this

00:36:03.500 --> 00:36:03.839
 idea

00:36:03.839 --> 00:36:04.179
 that we're

00:36:04.179 --> 00:36:04.500
 designed

00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:04.959
 but also

00:36:04.959 --> 00:36:05.479
 that there's

00:36:05.479 --> 00:36:05.899
 something

00:36:05.899 --> 00:36:06.819
 broken

00:36:06.819 --> 00:36:07.479
 about us

00:36:07.479 --> 00:36:07.839
 which is

00:36:07.839 --> 00:36:08.479
 why I said

00:36:08.479 --> 00:36:08.879
 that every

00:36:08.879 --> 00:36:09.500
 single human

00:36:09.500 --> 00:36:09.899
 being

00:36:09.899 --> 00:36:10.939
 is sexually

00:36:10.939 --> 00:36:11.399
 broken

00:36:11.399 --> 00:36:12.979
 every single

00:36:12.979 --> 00:36:13.500
 one of us

00:36:13.500 --> 00:36:14.000
 are ruined

00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:15.279
 our sexuality

00:36:15.279 --> 00:36:17.479
 is part

00:36:17.479 --> 00:36:18.399
 ruin

00:36:18.400 --> 00:36:33.200
 you see

00:36:33.200 --> 00:36:33.539
 here's the

00:36:33.539 --> 00:36:34.160
 wonderful thing

00:36:34.160 --> 00:36:34.559
 about the

00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:34.960
 gospel

00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:35.420
 the bible

00:36:35.420 --> 00:36:36.000
 doesn't just

00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:36.280
 sort of

00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:36.760
 leave us

00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:37.079
 there

00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:38.240
 to help

00:36:38.240 --> 00:36:38.539
 us to

00:36:38.539 --> 00:36:38.980
 encourage

00:36:38.980 --> 00:36:39.780
 to understand

00:36:39.780 --> 00:36:40.099
 that we

00:36:40.099 --> 00:36:40.780
 are designed

00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:42.280
 I mean

00:36:42.280 --> 00:36:42.620
 on one

00:36:42.620 --> 00:36:42.900
 level

00:36:42.900 --> 00:36:43.500
 if you're

00:36:43.500 --> 00:36:43.940
 honest

00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:44.380
 about the

00:36:44.380 --> 00:36:44.800
 longings

00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:45.220
 and yearnings

00:36:45.220 --> 00:36:45.560
 of your

00:36:45.560 --> 00:36:45.860
 heart

00:36:45.860 --> 00:36:46.560
 the idea

00:36:46.560 --> 00:36:47.380
 that love

00:36:47.380 --> 00:36:48.120
 has designed

00:36:48.120 --> 00:36:48.620
 you

00:36:48.620 --> 00:36:49.519
 for to

00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:49.840
 love

00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:50.200
 and to be

00:36:50.200 --> 00:36:50.540
 loved

00:36:50.540 --> 00:36:51.000
 is both

00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:51.560
 something

00:36:51.560 --> 00:36:52.560
 which is

00:36:52.560 --> 00:36:53.920
 incredibly

00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:55.160
 that draws

00:36:55.160 --> 00:36:55.380
 you

00:36:55.380 --> 00:36:55.920
 but also

00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:56.640
 is incredibly

00:36:56.640 --> 00:36:57.240
 frightening

00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:58.639
 because

00:36:58.639 --> 00:36:59.219
 every one

00:36:59.219 --> 00:36:59.500
 of us

00:36:59.500 --> 00:36:59.779
 have been

00:36:59.779 --> 00:37:00.319
 let down

00:37:00.319 --> 00:37:00.839
 by love

00:37:00.839 --> 00:37:01.279
 and life

00:37:01.279 --> 00:37:01.659
 and some

00:37:01.659 --> 00:37:02.059
 of you

00:37:02.059 --> 00:37:02.699
 some of

00:37:02.699 --> 00:37:03.019
 us

00:37:03.019 --> 00:37:03.759
 have been

00:37:03.759 --> 00:37:04.359
 terribly

00:37:04.359 --> 00:37:05.139
 terribly

00:37:05.139 --> 00:37:05.979
 terribly

00:37:05.979 --> 00:37:06.839
 terribly

00:37:06.839 --> 00:37:07.500
 broken

00:37:07.500 --> 00:37:09.659
 and

00:37:09.659 --> 00:37:10.259
 experienced

00:37:10.259 --> 00:37:10.659
 hatred

00:37:10.659 --> 00:37:11.219
 rather than

00:37:11.219 --> 00:37:11.579
 love

00:37:11.579 --> 00:37:12.379
 from people

00:37:12.379 --> 00:37:12.819
 who really

00:37:12.819 --> 00:37:13.159
 should have

00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:13.679
 loved you

00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:15.719
 and so

00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:16.039
 to hear

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:16.479
 this is

00:37:16.479 --> 00:37:16.699
 both

00:37:16.699 --> 00:37:17.099
 something

00:37:17.099 --> 00:37:17.559
 which is

00:37:17.559 --> 00:37:17.819
 both

00:37:17.819 --> 00:37:18.159
 very

00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:18.559
 very

00:37:18.559 --> 00:37:19.639
 there's

00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:20.039
 a tug

00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:20.599
 of longing

00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:20.879
 but at

00:37:20.879 --> 00:37:20.979
 this

00:37:20.979 --> 00:37:21.299
 sometime

00:37:21.299 --> 00:37:21.739
 a tug

00:37:21.739 --> 00:37:22.379
 of fear

00:37:22.380 --> 00:37:30.539
 the Bible

00:37:30.539 --> 00:37:31.000
 provides

00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:31.160
 this

00:37:31.160 --> 00:37:31.579
 profoundly

00:37:31.579 --> 00:37:31.880
 good

00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:32.280
 news

00:37:32.280 --> 00:37:34.559
 look at

00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:34.780
 what it

00:37:34.780 --> 00:37:35.140
 continues

00:37:35.140 --> 00:37:35.559
 to say

00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:35.940
 in verses

00:37:35.940 --> 00:37:36.539
 11 and

00:37:36.539 --> 00:37:36.980
 following

00:37:36.980 --> 00:37:38.619
 besides

00:37:38.619 --> 00:37:39.079
 this

00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:39.340
 you know

00:37:39.340 --> 00:37:40.019
 the time

00:37:40.019 --> 00:37:40.420
 that the

00:37:40.420 --> 00:37:40.940
 hour has

00:37:40.940 --> 00:37:41.340
 come for

00:37:41.340 --> 00:37:41.559
 you to

00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:41.780
 wake

00:37:41.780 --> 00:37:42.019
 from

00:37:42.019 --> 00:37:42.440
 sleep

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:42.680
 for

00:37:42.680 --> 00:37:43.260
 salvation

00:37:43.260 --> 00:37:44.119
 is

00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:44.559
 nearer

00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:44.900
 to us

00:37:44.900 --> 00:37:45.160
 now

00:37:45.160 --> 00:37:45.340
 than

00:37:45.340 --> 00:37:45.480
 when

00:37:45.480 --> 00:37:45.640
 we

00:37:45.640 --> 00:37:45.940
 first

00:37:45.940 --> 00:37:46.360
 believed

00:37:46.360 --> 00:37:46.539
 the

00:37:46.539 --> 00:37:46.780
 night

00:37:46.780 --> 00:37:46.940
 is

00:37:46.940 --> 00:37:47.140
 far

00:37:47.140 --> 00:37:47.480
 gone

00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:47.640
 the

00:37:47.640 --> 00:37:47.800
 day

00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:47.960
 is

00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:48.079
 at

00:37:48.079 --> 00:37:48.480
 hand

00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.200
 so

00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:49.380
 then

00:37:49.380 --> 00:37:49.539
 let

00:37:49.539 --> 00:37:49.700
 us

00:37:49.700 --> 00:37:50.059
 cast

00:37:50.059 --> 00:37:50.320
 off

00:37:50.320 --> 00:37:50.480
 the

00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:50.740
 works

00:37:50.740 --> 00:37:50.900
 of

00:37:50.900 --> 00:37:51.260
 darkness

00:37:51.260 --> 00:37:51.480
 and

00:37:51.480 --> 00:37:51.619
 put

00:37:51.619 --> 00:37:51.920
 upon

00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:52.099
 us

00:37:52.099 --> 00:37:52.260
 the

00:37:52.260 --> 00:37:52.360
 arm

00:37:52.380 --> 00:37:52.720
 of

00:37:52.720 --> 00:37:53.000
 light

00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:54.380
 see

00:37:54.380 --> 00:37:55.000
 the

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:55.119
 way

00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:55.260
 the

00:37:55.260 --> 00:37:55.440
 book

00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:55.579
 of

00:37:55.579 --> 00:37:55.960
 Romans

00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:57.340
 is

00:37:57.340 --> 00:37:57.880
 written

00:37:57.880 --> 00:37:58.420
 is

00:37:58.420 --> 00:37:59.180
 actually

00:37:59.180 --> 00:37:59.660
 there's

00:37:59.660 --> 00:37:59.840
 a bit

00:37:59.840 --> 00:38:00.019
 of an

00:38:00.019 --> 00:38:00.420
 introduction

00:38:00.420 --> 00:38:00.840
 for I think

00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:01.160
 the first

00:38:01.160 --> 00:38:01.940
 15 verses

00:38:01.940 --> 00:38:02.960
 then verse

00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:03.500
 16 and

00:38:03.500 --> 00:38:03.900
 17

00:38:03.900 --> 00:38:05.039
 it's almost

00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:05.380
 as if

00:38:05.380 --> 00:38:05.660
 they give

00:38:05.660 --> 00:38:05.820
 a

00:38:05.820 --> 00:38:06.160
 praise

00:38:06.160 --> 00:38:06.519
 of what

00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:06.640
 the

00:38:06.640 --> 00:38:06.820
 whole

00:38:06.820 --> 00:38:07.079
 book

00:38:07.079 --> 00:38:07.180
 is

00:38:07.180 --> 00:38:07.320
 going

00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:07.519
 to be

00:38:07.519 --> 00:38:07.800
 about

00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:08.539
 then

00:38:08.539 --> 00:38:08.840
 verses

00:38:08.840 --> 00:38:09.440
 18

00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:09.640
 to

00:38:09.640 --> 00:38:10.000
 halfway

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:10.280
 through

00:38:10.280 --> 00:38:10.640
 chapter

00:38:10.640 --> 00:38:10.940
 3

00:38:10.940 --> 00:38:11.099
 is

00:38:11.099 --> 00:38:11.300
 just

00:38:11.300 --> 00:38:11.619
 telling

00:38:11.619 --> 00:38:11.760
 you

00:38:11.760 --> 00:38:11.920
 the

00:38:11.920 --> 00:38:12.440
 problem

00:38:12.440 --> 00:38:14.160
 of us

00:38:14.160 --> 00:38:14.420
 being

00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:14.700
 not

00:38:14.700 --> 00:38:14.900
 able

00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:15.099
 to

00:38:15.099 --> 00:38:15.360
 save

00:38:15.360 --> 00:38:15.840
 ourselves

00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:16.140
 that

00:38:16.140 --> 00:38:16.340
 we're

00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:16.940
 broken

00:38:16.940 --> 00:38:17.300
 there's

00:38:17.300 --> 00:38:17.559
 something

00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:17.940
 bent

00:38:17.940 --> 00:38:18.200
 about

00:38:18.200 --> 00:38:18.380
 us

00:38:18.380 --> 00:38:18.579
 there's

00:38:18.579 --> 00:38:18.840
 something

00:38:18.840 --> 00:38:19.260
 ruined

00:38:19.260 --> 00:38:19.600
 about

00:38:19.600 --> 00:38:19.860
 us

00:38:19.860 --> 00:38:19.980
 and

00:38:19.980 --> 00:38:20.100
 that

00:38:20.100 --> 00:38:20.220
 what

00:38:20.220 --> 00:38:20.400
 we

00:38:20.400 --> 00:38:20.640
 do

00:38:20.640 --> 00:38:20.840
 is

00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:21.280
 ruined

00:38:21.280 --> 00:38:22.079
 and

00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:22.660
 ruinous

00:38:22.660 --> 00:38:23.160
 and

00:38:23.160 --> 00:38:23.240
 that

00:38:23.240 --> 00:38:23.360
 we

00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:23.680
 can't

00:38:23.680 --> 00:38:23.980
 save

00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:24.500
 ourselves

00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:24.760
 and

00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:24.900
 then

00:38:24.900 --> 00:38:25.100
 from

00:38:25.100 --> 00:38:25.320
 the

00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:25.900
 last

00:38:25.900 --> 00:38:26.180
 half

00:38:26.180 --> 00:38:26.320
 of

00:38:26.320 --> 00:38:26.620
 chapter

00:38:26.620 --> 00:38:26.920
 3

00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:27.120
 up

00:38:27.120 --> 00:38:27.280
 to

00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:27.600
 chapter

00:38:27.600 --> 00:38:27.880
 11

00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:28.059
 it

00:38:28.059 --> 00:38:28.180
 is

00:38:28.180 --> 00:38:28.360
 a

00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:28.880
 glorious

00:38:28.880 --> 00:38:29.579
 constant

00:38:29.579 --> 00:38:30.420
 exposition

00:38:30.420 --> 00:38:31.180
 of how

00:38:31.180 --> 00:38:31.700
 God

00:38:31.700 --> 00:38:32.140
 has done

00:38:32.140 --> 00:38:32.559
 something

00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:32.840
 in the

00:38:32.840 --> 00:38:33.160
 person

00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:33.320
 of

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:33.480
 his

00:38:33.480 --> 00:38:33.920
 son

00:38:33.920 --> 00:38:34.480
 to

00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:35.100
 rescue

00:38:35.100 --> 00:38:35.940
 and

00:38:35.940 --> 00:38:36.680
 restore

00:38:36.680 --> 00:38:37.780
 people

00:38:37.780 --> 00:38:38.140
 who

00:38:38.140 --> 00:38:38.660
 cannot

00:38:38.660 --> 00:38:39.280
 rescue

00:38:39.280 --> 00:38:39.500
 and

00:38:39.500 --> 00:38:39.920
 restore

00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:40.539
 themselves

00:38:40.539 --> 00:38:40.860
 that

00:38:40.860 --> 00:38:41.019
 it's

00:38:41.019 --> 00:38:41.340
 all

00:38:41.340 --> 00:38:41.559
 been

00:38:41.559 --> 00:38:41.820
 done

00:38:41.820 --> 00:38:42.059
 by

00:38:42.059 --> 00:38:42.500
 Jesus

00:38:42.500 --> 00:38:43.300
 that

00:38:43.300 --> 00:38:43.500
 it's

00:38:43.500 --> 00:38:43.720
 not

00:38:43.720 --> 00:38:43.980
 just

00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:44.340
 something

00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:45.300
 happenstance

00:38:45.300 --> 00:38:45.500
 that

00:38:45.500 --> 00:38:45.820
 before

00:38:45.820 --> 00:38:46.039
 you

00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:46.300
 even

00:38:46.300 --> 00:38:46.680
 thought

00:38:46.680 --> 00:38:46.860
 of

00:38:46.860 --> 00:38:47.220
 Jesus

00:38:47.220 --> 00:38:47.740
 he

00:38:47.740 --> 00:38:48.080
 thought

00:38:48.080 --> 00:38:48.280
 of

00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:48.560
 you

00:38:48.560 --> 00:38:49.120
 before

00:38:49.120 --> 00:38:49.440
 you

00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:49.720
 started

00:38:49.720 --> 00:38:49.900
 to

00:38:49.900 --> 00:38:50.180
 think

00:38:50.180 --> 00:38:50.340
 of

00:38:50.340 --> 00:38:50.620
 going

00:38:50.620 --> 00:38:51.060
 towards

00:38:51.060 --> 00:38:51.440
 Jesus

00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:51.900
 he

00:38:51.900 --> 00:38:52.120
 was

00:38:52.120 --> 00:38:52.700
 calling

00:38:52.700 --> 00:38:53.160
 you

00:38:53.160 --> 00:38:53.700
 that

00:38:53.700 --> 00:38:54.060
 Holy

00:38:54.060 --> 00:38:54.539
 Spirit

00:38:54.539 --> 00:38:54.980
 was

00:38:54.980 --> 00:38:55.320
 moving

00:38:55.320 --> 00:38:55.500
 in

00:38:55.500 --> 00:38:55.620
 your

00:38:55.620 --> 00:38:55.920
 life

00:38:55.920 --> 00:38:56.100
 to

00:38:56.100 --> 00:38:56.480
 draw

00:38:56.480 --> 00:38:56.700
 you

00:38:56.700 --> 00:38:56.860
 to

00:38:56.860 --> 00:38:57.220
 Jesus

00:38:57.220 --> 00:38:57.500
 and

00:38:57.500 --> 00:38:57.600
 when

00:38:57.600 --> 00:38:57.720
 he

00:38:57.720 --> 00:38:58.060
 draws

00:38:58.060 --> 00:38:58.220
 you

00:38:58.220 --> 00:38:58.360
 to

00:38:58.360 --> 00:38:58.600
 Jesus

00:38:58.600 --> 00:38:58.820
 you

00:38:58.820 --> 00:38:59.019
 put

00:38:59.019 --> 00:38:59.200
 your

00:38:59.200 --> 00:38:59.480
 faith

00:38:59.480 --> 00:38:59.640
 and

00:38:59.640 --> 00:38:59.880
 trust

00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:00.060
 in

00:39:00.060 --> 00:39:00.280
 him

00:39:00.280 --> 00:39:00.700
 and

00:39:00.700 --> 00:39:00.840
 that

00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:01.240
 everything

00:39:01.240 --> 00:39:01.500
 that

00:39:01.500 --> 00:39:01.740
 had

00:39:01.740 --> 00:39:01.880
 to

00:39:01.880 --> 00:39:02.000
 be

00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:02.240
 done

00:39:02.240 --> 00:39:02.420
 to

00:39:02.420 --> 00:39:02.640
 make

00:39:02.640 --> 00:39:02.780
 you

00:39:02.780 --> 00:39:02.960
 right

00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:03.140
 with

00:39:03.140 --> 00:39:03.420
 God

00:39:03.420 --> 00:39:03.640
 was

00:39:03.640 --> 00:39:03.960
 done

00:39:03.960 --> 00:39:04.240
 by

00:39:04.240 --> 00:39:04.660
 him

00:39:04.660 --> 00:39:05.120
 that

00:39:05.120 --> 00:39:05.280
 you

00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:06.060
 receive

00:39:06.060 --> 00:39:06.700
 what

00:39:15.300 --> 00:39:17.080
 love

00:39:17.080 --> 00:39:17.539
 and

00:39:17.539 --> 00:39:17.940
 if

00:39:17.940 --> 00:39:18.039
 you

00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:18.160
 could

00:39:18.160 --> 00:39:18.280
 put

00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:18.380
 it

00:39:18.380 --> 00:39:18.600
 up

00:39:18.600 --> 00:39:18.800
 in

00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:19.200
 love

00:39:19.200 --> 00:39:19.400
 he

00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:19.680
 came

00:39:19.680 --> 00:39:19.880
 to

00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:20.260
 save

00:39:20.260 --> 00:39:20.500
 you

00:39:20.500 --> 00:39:20.700
 in

00:39:20.700 --> 00:39:20.940
 love

00:39:20.940 --> 00:39:21.120
 he

00:39:21.120 --> 00:39:21.580
 walks

00:39:21.580 --> 00:39:21.820
 with

00:39:21.820 --> 00:39:21.980
 you

00:39:21.980 --> 00:39:22.160
 in

00:39:22.160 --> 00:39:22.360
 love

00:39:22.360 --> 00:39:22.519
 he

00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:22.740
 will

00:39:22.740 --> 00:39:23.880
 come

00:39:23.880 --> 00:39:30.340
 to

00:39:30.340 --> 00:39:32.760
 save

00:39:32.760 --> 00:39:33.200
 you

00:39:33.200 --> 00:39:33.580
 in

00:39:33.580 --> 00:39:35.019
 the

00:39:35.019 --> 00:39:35.720
 whole

00:39:35.720 --> 00:39:35.900
 earth

00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:36.560
 and

00:39:36.560 --> 00:39:37.740
 bring

00:39:37.740 --> 00:39:38.460
 into

00:39:38.460 --> 00:39:38.880
 you

00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:39.180
 to

00:39:39.180 --> 00:39:39.700
 live

00:39:39.700 --> 00:39:40.400
 and

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:40.560
 live

00:39:40.560 --> 00:39:40.980
 there

00:39:40.980 --> 00:39:41.400
 MARK

00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:43.700
 is

00:39:43.700 --> 00:39:44.519
ischen

00:39:44.519 --> 00:39:45.300
 the ruins.

00:39:47.099 --> 00:39:48.559
 He lives

00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:50.519
 among the ruins.

00:39:53.860 --> 00:39:56.719
 He redeems the ruins.

00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.460
 And one day, even the

00:40:00.460 --> 00:40:02.500
 most ruined who have put their

00:40:02.500 --> 00:40:03.940
 faith and trust in Jesus

00:40:03.940 --> 00:40:06.360
 in the new heaven and the new earth,

00:40:08.280 --> 00:40:08.500
 well,

00:40:08.579 --> 00:40:10.719
 they, you, will be

00:40:10.719 --> 00:40:12.539
 if we saw you on this

00:40:12.539 --> 00:40:13.519
 side of the grave

00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:16.780
 we couldn't look at you for your glory.

00:40:17.900 --> 00:40:18.739
 We'd want

00:40:18.739 --> 00:40:20.679
 to worship you because we're

00:40:20.679 --> 00:40:21.320
 idolaters.

00:40:22.860 --> 00:40:24.800
 Our eyes couldn't stand the brightness.

00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:28.759
 When God, the Son of God, who made

00:40:28.759 --> 00:40:30.980
 you and designed you to love

00:40:30.980 --> 00:40:32.199
 and to be loved,

00:40:32.940 --> 00:40:34.079
 redeems you in love

00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:36.460
 and restores your ruins

00:40:36.460 --> 00:40:38.719
 and not just restores, but

00:40:38.719 --> 00:40:40.800
 amps it up to a whole other key

00:40:40.800 --> 00:40:42.940
 and level that for the rest

00:40:42.940 --> 00:40:44.380
 of eternity, you go farther up

00:40:44.380 --> 00:40:45.280
 and farther in,

00:40:45.960 --> 00:40:47.019
 into the glory of who

00:40:47.019 --> 00:40:48.159
 he created you to be

00:40:48.159 --> 00:40:49.599
 and the glorious creation

00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:51.019
 that you were meant to live in,

00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:52.700
 where for all eternity

00:40:52.700 --> 00:40:54.000
 you will bask in the love

00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:55.659
 of the triune God for you

00:40:55.659 --> 00:40:57.700
 and you will respond

00:40:57.700 --> 00:40:59.480
 with love to the triune God

00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:00.380
 and not only to other

00:41:00.380 --> 00:41:01.659
 human beings, but to all

00:41:01.659 --> 00:41:02.380
 of creation,

00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:04.200
 that all of creation

00:41:04.200 --> 00:41:06.099
 will be seen to be in love,

00:41:06.179 --> 00:41:07.679
 from love, for love,

00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:08.639
 to be loved,

00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:11.679
 in a love that will never end

00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:13.279
 or ever come to a rest,

00:41:14.059 --> 00:41:17.279
 and where every day

00:41:17.279 --> 00:41:19.039
 is better than the day before,

00:41:19.679 --> 00:41:21.759
 and it will be hard to imagine

00:41:21.759 --> 00:41:23.019
 how the day to come

00:41:23.019 --> 00:41:23.879
 will be even better

00:41:23.879 --> 00:41:24.879
 than the day to be,

00:41:25.420 --> 00:41:27.839
 but when we wake to that new day,

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 that new day will be even better

00:41:29.879 --> 00:41:31.859
 and greater than the day that was,

00:41:32.339 --> 00:41:33.059
 and the day to be

00:41:33.059 --> 00:41:34.159
 will be greater still,

00:41:34.159 --> 00:41:36.399
 everlastingly.

00:41:42.960 --> 00:41:45.519
 This text is telling us

00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:46.480
 that what we now live in

00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:47.199
 is the night

00:41:47.199 --> 00:41:52.000
 that Jesus will return,

00:41:53.399 --> 00:41:55.199
 and it's when he returns

00:41:55.199 --> 00:41:57.119
 that the day will finally have dawned.

00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:02.159
 You could put up verse 13,

00:42:02.399 --> 00:42:03.480
 actually verse 12 again,

00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:04.440
 the night is far gone,

00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:05.280
 the day is at hand,

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 so then let us cast off

00:42:06.480 --> 00:42:07.500
 the works of darkness

00:42:07.500 --> 00:42:09.340
 and put upon on the armor of light.

00:42:09.940 --> 00:42:11.179
 Let us walk properly

00:42:11.179 --> 00:42:11.920
 as in the daytime,

00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:13.420
 not in carousing,

00:42:13.579 --> 00:42:14.960
 which is better than orgies

00:42:14.960 --> 00:42:15.800
 and drunkenness,

00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:18.760
 not in porneia and sensuality.

00:42:19.059 --> 00:42:20.599
 Sensuality means sexualizing

00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:21.679
 all of life,

00:42:22.539 --> 00:42:24.659
 not in quarreling and jealousy,

00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:26.920
 but put on the Lord Jesus Christ

00:42:26.920 --> 00:42:28.079
 and make no provisions

00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:28.900
 for the flesh

00:42:28.900 --> 00:42:30.659
 to gratify its desires.

00:42:31.380 --> 00:42:31.860
 If you could put up

00:42:31.860 --> 00:42:32.559
 the final point

00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:33.179
 as we close,

00:42:33.299 --> 00:42:34.239
 gripped by the gospel,

00:42:35.199 --> 00:42:36.880
 cast off your works of darkness,

00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:38.219
 put on the armor of light,

00:42:38.340 --> 00:42:39.820
 walk in the dying of the night

00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:40.840
 to the glory of God

00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:41.619
 and the good of people.

00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:42.880
 It's really funny

00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:44.519
 to read nerdy commentators

00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:46.380
 as they try to struggle

00:42:46.380 --> 00:42:47.219
 with this idea

00:42:47.219 --> 00:42:48.500
 of putting on the armor of light,

00:42:48.579 --> 00:42:49.860
 but anybody who's watched

00:42:49.860 --> 00:42:51.139
 a superhero movie,

00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:53.139
 anybody who's read a fantasy

00:42:53.139 --> 00:42:54.699
 or science fiction novel,

00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:57.420
 we understand it intuitively.

00:42:57.420 --> 00:43:00.639
 when you take the sword

00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:01.700
 out of the stone,

00:43:01.700 --> 00:43:03.680
 the sword changes you.

00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:06.340
 When Aragorn gets his sword,

00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:09.559
 the sword makes him more Aragorn

00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:10.860
 and makes him greater.

00:43:11.539 --> 00:43:14.019
 When you get the suit

00:43:14.019 --> 00:43:14.980
 and you put it on,

00:43:15.079 --> 00:43:16.300
 you become the suit.

00:43:16.599 --> 00:43:18.559
 That's what the text is telling you.

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 It's very simple.

00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:21.260
 And for those of you

00:43:21.260 --> 00:43:22.980
 with great imaginations,

00:43:23.980 --> 00:43:27.960
 worry is a terrible misuse

00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:30.199
 of your imagination.

00:43:32.619 --> 00:43:34.119
 I'm preaching to myself.

00:43:35.880 --> 00:43:36.679
 Like imagine,

00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:38.400
 as you wake up every day,

00:43:38.500 --> 00:43:39.559
 today I'm going to take off

00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:40.619
 those things of darkness.

00:43:40.780 --> 00:43:41.940
 I'm going to take off despair.

00:43:42.260 --> 00:43:43.500
 I'm going to take off resentment.

00:43:44.099 --> 00:43:45.340
 I'm going to take off bitterness.

00:43:45.680 --> 00:43:47.260
 I'm going to take off greed.

00:43:47.539 --> 00:43:48.500
 I'm going to take off

00:43:48.500 --> 00:43:49.680
 lack of generosity.

00:43:49.860 --> 00:43:50.940
 I'm going to take that off

00:43:50.940 --> 00:43:51.940
 and I'm putting on

00:43:51.940 --> 00:43:52.740
 the armor of light.

00:43:52.820 --> 00:43:53.760
 I'm putting on Christ.

00:43:56.660 --> 00:43:57.480
 How am I going to deal

00:43:57.480 --> 00:43:58.420
 with my temptations?

00:43:58.500 --> 00:43:59.720
 I'm going to cast away

00:43:59.720 --> 00:44:00.300
 those things.

00:44:00.380 --> 00:44:01.079
 I'm going to put on

00:44:01.079 --> 00:44:02.039
 the armor of light.

00:44:04.380 --> 00:44:05.780
 And gripped by the gospel,

00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:07.620
 day by day,

00:44:07.620 --> 00:44:08.579
 I'm going to cast off

00:44:08.579 --> 00:44:09.620
 the works of darkness.

00:44:09.820 --> 00:44:10.420
 I'm going to put on

00:44:10.420 --> 00:44:11.240
 the armor of light.

00:44:12.120 --> 00:44:13.059
 And I'm going to walk

00:44:13.059 --> 00:44:14.340
 in the dying of the night

00:44:14.340 --> 00:44:15.800
 because that's the time

00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:16.420
 we're living in

00:44:16.420 --> 00:44:17.260
 to the glory of God

00:44:17.260 --> 00:44:18.039
 and the good of people.

00:44:20.220 --> 00:44:21.740
 I'd like you all to stand.

00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:23.400
 If you could put up

00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:24.140
 the collect again

00:44:24.140 --> 00:44:24.760
 in closing,

00:44:24.860 --> 00:44:25.579
 that would be wonderful.

00:44:27.220 --> 00:44:28.100
 In light of this

00:44:28.100 --> 00:44:29.079
 wonderful text,

00:44:29.579 --> 00:44:30.780
 let's pray together

00:44:30.780 --> 00:44:32.019
 the collect for all of Advent.

00:44:34.680 --> 00:44:35.880
 Almighty God,

00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:37.460
 give us grace

00:44:37.460 --> 00:44:38.940
 that we may cast away

00:44:38.940 --> 00:44:40.160
 the works of darkness

00:44:40.160 --> 00:44:41.700
 and put upon us

00:44:41.700 --> 00:44:42.860
 the armor of light.

00:44:42.860 --> 00:44:44.460
 now in the time

00:44:44.460 --> 00:44:45.620
 of this mortal life

00:44:45.620 --> 00:44:47.019
 in which your Son,

00:44:47.160 --> 00:44:47.840
 Jesus Christ,

00:44:47.900 --> 00:44:48.920
 came to visit us

00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:49.880
 in great humility,

00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:51.820
 that in the last day

00:44:51.820 --> 00:44:53.620
 when he shall come again

00:44:53.620 --> 00:44:55.140
 in his glorious majesty

00:44:55.140 --> 00:44:56.360
 to judge both

00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:57.280
 the living and the dead,

00:44:57.840 --> 00:44:58.660
 we may rise

00:44:58.660 --> 00:44:59.620
 to the life immortal

00:44:59.620 --> 00:45:00.740
 through him

00:45:00.740 --> 00:45:02.000
 who lives and reigns

00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:02.440
 with you

00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:03.519
 and the Holy Spirit,

00:45:04.019 --> 00:45:04.680
 one God,

00:45:05.099 --> 00:45:05.840
 now and forever.

00:45:06.380 --> 00:45:06.760
 Amen.

00:45:07.380 --> 00:45:07.640
 Father,

00:45:07.740 --> 00:45:08.519
 help us to put on

00:45:08.519 --> 00:45:09.500
 the armor of light.

00:45:09.900 --> 00:45:10.240
 And Father,

00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:11.119
 if there are any here

00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:12.299
 who have not yet

00:45:12.299 --> 00:45:13.000
 given their lives

00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:13.539
 to Jesus,

00:45:14.239 --> 00:45:14.439
 Father,

00:45:14.539 --> 00:45:15.239
 I ask that you just

00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:16.259
 help them to surrender,

00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:17.359
 to give their lives

00:45:17.359 --> 00:45:17.919
 to Christ.

00:45:18.279 --> 00:45:18.739
 We know you,

00:45:18.979 --> 00:45:19.059
 Father,

00:45:19.619 --> 00:45:20.719
 that you will receive them

00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:22.639
 as they turn to you,

00:45:22.779 --> 00:45:23.699
 as they turn to Jesus.

00:45:24.279 --> 00:45:24.519
 Father,

00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:25.519
 pour out the Holy Spirit

00:45:25.519 --> 00:45:26.079
 upon us

00:45:26.079 --> 00:45:27.319
 as we remember

00:45:27.319 --> 00:45:29.639
 your Son's death

00:45:29.639 --> 00:45:30.500
 and resurrection,

00:45:30.799 --> 00:45:31.559
 as we pray,

00:45:31.979 --> 00:45:33.000
 as we continue

00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:33.819
 to receive grace

00:45:33.819 --> 00:45:34.500
 from you together.

00:45:34.959 --> 00:45:35.599
 We ask this

00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:36.519
 in Jesus' name.

00:45:36.679 --> 00:45:36.939
 Amen.

00:45:36.939 --> 00:45:37.039
 Amen.