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 Father, we're going to look at your word. We've just sung that the Bible tells us you love us.

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 Father, open our eyes, open the eyes of our heart to your great love for us in the person of your Son

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 and his death upon the cross. This we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 David, I've told, some of you have heard this before, but I actually am very, very thankful for an atheist philosophy professor

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 by the name of Marvin Glass, who was the one who encouraged me to read the Bible.

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 Actually, if he was here, he would probably not think that was what, he would actually be maybe unhappy that that was what he caused.

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 But he was spectacular at virtually every class, bringing up absurd parts of the Bible to make fun of it

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 or to show how it was wrong. He was very good at it.

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 And I had to confess, I had been a Christian for a couple of years, and I have to confess

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 that every time he would tell this story, I would, in my mind, say, I bet he's got this wrong.

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 He's not telling it right. And then I'd go and look it up, and he had it right.

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 And I realized that I didn't know the Bible, and it was always like a challenge to my faith.

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 So I sort of resolved, as a result of Marvin Glass, who ran for the Communist Party of Canada

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 in about eight by-elections and elections here in Ottawa, ten elections.

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 He was a good, hardcore Stalinist atheist, and he helped me to want to read the Bible.

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 And it was him who sort of pushed me to finally read all of the Old Testament,

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 because I have to confess that when I read the Old Testament, I actually confess right now,

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 if some of you, many of you, that if you're a person here who's just maybe here just as seeking,

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 it might surprise you to know that when you read books like The Year of Living Biblically

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 or something like that that makes fun of the Bible,

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 the fact of the matter is that most Christians have never read the whole Old Testament.

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 So there's no chance in the world they're going to try to live that way,

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 because they haven't made it all the way through from Genesis to the end of Malachi,

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 because, frankly, the Old Testament is often unbelievably weird and regularly incomprehensible.

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 And so when I read the Old Testament, which I try to do every day,

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 I try to read quite a few chapters of the Old Testament every day,

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 I just read it out of obedience.

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 I often don't get very much out of it.

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 Where if I do, it's taken a long time to start to get out of it.

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 Today, the text that we're looking at in Galatians,

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 it actually assumes that you know a really classically weird story in the Old Testament.

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 And so we're going to look at it.

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 And actually, after you hear about this classically weird story in the Old Testament,

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 maybe it'll encourage you to, once again, try to read the Old Testament

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 to understand that it might look weird on the surface,

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 but actually, it's quite spectacularly exciting once you pierce through it.

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 So if you get your Bibles, it's Galatians chapter 3, which is in the New Testament,

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 not the Old Testament, but we're going through the book of Galatians.

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 Galatians chapter 3, verse 15.

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 And Paul assumes that we know sort of a background story as he tells this.

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 And as you're turning to this, Galatians chapter 3, 15.

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 Galatians, I mean, we don't know for sure,

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 but many scholars think that Galatians was the first part of what we now call the New Testament,

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 the first part of the New Testament that was written.

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 It was maybe written about 15 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus.

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 It was written to a congregation of pagans, mainly pagans, although some Jews,

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 but mainly pagans who had become Christians.

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 They live in the part of the Roman Empire that we now call southern Turkey,

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 mid-sort of central southern Turkey.

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 And the problem which has caused the letter to be written

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 is that they have accepted the gospel, which I'll talk about a bit more in a moment,

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 but they have a group of people telling them they have to be way more religious and spiritual

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 and that the gospel isn't enough.

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 They have to be more religious, more spiritual,

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 or they're not going to really get the benefits of the gospel.

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 And that's what Paul's trying to go against.

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 And here's how it continues.

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 Verse 15.

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 To give a human example, brothers and sisters,

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 even with a man-made covenant, and just pause here for a second,

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 some of your Bibles will say the word will.

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 And in the original language, it's the same word.

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 There's two different English words for this singular sort of idea.

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 And so some of your versions have chosen the word will,

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 and some of the versions have chosen covenant.

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 They're both correct, because that's the original language word.

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 Okay?

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 And I'll explain it in a moment.

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 To give a human example, brothers and sisters, verse 15,

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 even with a man-made covenant,

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 no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.

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 I'll explain this in a moment.

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 Now, the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring.

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 It does not say, and to offsprings, referring to many,

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 but referring to one, and to your offspring, who is Christ.

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 This is what I mean.

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 The law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God,

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 so as to make the promise void.

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 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise,

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 but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

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 Now, one of the things we have to realize is that part of the whole point of Galatians,

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 in fact, most of the New Testament, is that God has to deliver us from religion.

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 The Bible isn't encouraging us to be religious.

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 In fact, the Bible is the good news that God delivers us from religion,

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 and this is very important here to understand the difference between the promise and religion.

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 And so the very first thing, then, is if we could put up the first point, Andrew.

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 The trustworthy, promise-keeping God promised to bless.

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 The trustworthy, promise-keeping God promised to bless.

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 Yes.

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 Now, I've gotten out of place in my notes.

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 First of all, I could give you a complicated, ancient Near East example of what Paul means

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 by saying you can't change contracts.

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 Some of them you can, some of them you can't.

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 The best example for us, that'd be obvious in Canada,

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 is that if, not if, Louise and I have made a will.

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 We have to update it, but we've made a will,

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 and if we die in a car accident this afternoon, which I hope and pray we don't,

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 but if we die this afternoon, we can't change the will.

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 It's unchangeable.

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 So that's a good Canadian example to try to get into what Paul is trying to refer to.

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 Sometimes a contract or a covenant or a will can be made that can't be changed.

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 In our case, when you're dead, it can't be changed.

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 You know, when we were first making our will, somebody gave us some advice that, you know,

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 many people just think the fairest way to do a will is you divide up your assets equally between all of the children,

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 but sometimes you need to take into account if some of your children have unique needs.

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 You know, so for instance, let's say maybe one of our children was to become a missionary,

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 and missionaries, generally speaking, don't become rich,

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 and maybe the rest of our children went into professional jobs.

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 It was going to make them a good income, and so maybe we would make a will to give more money

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 to the child who's going to be a missionary than to the other kids,

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 and we make the will.

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 That's not the way the will is, by the way.

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 That's all equal.

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 But you make the will.

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 In case my kids are worried.

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 By the way, it's not much to spend.

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 If Louise and I die today, it's not very much to spend, let me tell you.

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 You might buy a new, I don't know, what's the cheapest car you can buy nowadays?

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 Some type of Nissan.

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 You might get a new one of those.

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 That would be about the extent of it right now.

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 But anyway, but let's say, you know, we changed our will and die with that intent,

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 but a week after we die, or a month after we die, the kid who's the missionary writes a book

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 that sells five million copies and they're rich.

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 And the other kids with the professional jobs all get laid off.

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 The situation's completely changed, but you can't change it.

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 Okay?

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 And so part of what Paul is trying to get at here is that Paul, God makes a covenant,

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 like a will, a contract, so to speak, with Abraham,

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 and this is an unchangeable thing.

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 That's just the way the world works, folks.

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 And so whatever happens 430 years later when the law is given to Moses,

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 well, I mean, it just, it can't change it, right?

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 A later development can't change the original thing.

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 That's sort of at the heart of what Paul is trying to talk about.

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 But here, you know, look at the point.

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 The trustworthy promise-keeping God promised to bless.

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 And I think in that little few verses that I read,

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 I think the word promise is there, promise or promises are there five times.

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 It's there quite a bit in the passage we're going to look at.

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 And for many of us, as soon as we see the word promise connected to God,

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 well, maybe because, you know, your back, I can't really see you very well,

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 a combination of my glasses and the glare,

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 and, you know, your back is to other people,

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 but many of you, your eyes might have started to roll.

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 Oh, yeah.

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 I mean, if not, your eyes rolling on the outside and the inside,

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 because many of us are deeply conflicted and deeply cynical about promises in general,

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 but promises connected to God in specific.

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 Maybe I am vastly more sinful than every single person here,

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 or maybe this is an unbelievably unique collection of exemplary holy people,

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 but you don't have to go in the blog sphere very far or meet very many people to understand that,

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 you know, the fact of the matter is, I mean, how cynical we are about promises?

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 How many people are upset that the liberals haven't kept their promises?

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 How many conservatives were upset?

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 I mean, how many people were really upset or surprised,

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 shocked that the conservatives before that didn't keep their promises?

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 Like, what would you say to somebody who's going around to you and goes,

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 I am shocked, I am shocked that the liberals didn't keep their promises?

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 Like, you'd go, come on, get a life.

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 Like, did you really believe they were going to keep those promises?

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 Like, that's how Canadians are.

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 And do we expect big corporations?

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 Do we expect the government?

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 Do we expect people to keep their promises?

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 No.

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 And many of us, I mean, many of us, you know,

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 in important institutions like marriage, like with parents and kids,

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 we're just used to the fact that in many cases promises haven't been kept.

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 In many cases, we withhold promises from people.

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 Why?

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 We withhold promises from people because we don't want to disappoint them when we don't do it.

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 I mean, I'm not saying that we all, I mean, some of us are very good at keeping promises.

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 I just want to get at the point that many of us have a deep type of,

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 we're very conflicted about believing promises, making promises, keeping promises.

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 We all have a history of wounds, of having been hurt by promises not kept.

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 And we, if we're honest, have actually done wounding in our lives by making promises and not keeping them.

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 And so many people, there's a deep cynicism and conflictedness when they see anything to do with God making a promise.

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 And many of us in particular have believed the promises of God and have been disappointed,

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 or at least we thought we believed the promises of God and have been disappointed.

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 And so we often say, well, that's nice, George.

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 Good sentence, the trustworthy God, promise keeping God, promise to bless.

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 That, George, is such a classic religious statement.

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 It is so ambiguous that you can explain away everything.

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 Way to go, George.

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 That's what some people might be thinking.

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 Maybe you're thinking, I never thought about that before, but that's actually really good.

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 No, I'm just joking.

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 I don't want to come here and just plant seeds of doubt.

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 But, I mean, that's the context within which this text of the Bible has been written.

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 That's why the sermon title is The Promise of God to a Promise-Breaking People,

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 or a promise conflicted, or a promise skeptical, or a promise cynical people.

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 That's who we are.

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 But you look at the text.

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 Look at verse 18.

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 For if the inheritance comes by law, it no longer comes by promise, but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

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 And all the way through this text, it keeps talking about how God has made a promise to bless.

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 If you could put up the next point, Andrew, that would be very helpful.

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 In fact, underneath this text, or behind this text, because Paul's hearers must have known about it,

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 and we don't pick it up, but there's in fact a story behind this text that Paul is referring to.

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 And in it, the trustworthy God doubles down to show that he will keep his promise.

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 And we're not going to read the text.

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 It would have to be a whole sermon on it.

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 But later on, and it might be very hard, one of the problems with reading Genesis 15

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 is how you translate the word offspring, and it's the problem in the original language of singular and plural.

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 But I'll just give you a summary of the story.

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 Here's the story that Paul is sort of referring to.

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 It's really, it's one of those classic, weird Old Testament stories.

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 God says to Abraham, Abraham, I want you to take, I think it's four animals,

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 I want you to take four animals, I want you to kill the four animals,

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 and then I want you to cut the animals in half, and I want you to lay them out on the ground

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 so there's one half on one side, the other half on the other side.

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 I want you to do that.

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 Abraham goes, he kills the dog, kills the cat, kills the parrot, kills the budgie,

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 as a modern example.

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 Lays them out on the ground, because he cuts them in half, and he lays them in a row.

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 And then the next thing you know is, as God puts Abraham into a deep sleep,

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 and while Abraham is in a deep sleep, all of a sudden there's a torch that goes through between the animals,

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 and a pot that's full of, that's smoking, goes between the animals,

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 and then God speaks to Abraham in a dream and promises that he's going to bless him.

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 That's pretty weird, right?

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 But here's what's actually quite spectacular about this story,

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 and you know, this just comes from study.

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 In the ancient world at that time,

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 that's how contracts or covenants were made between the Lord and the vassal.

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 Okay, so this is me making a contract with Apple,

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 or Google,

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 you know, or the government,

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 and them with me.

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 Now what happens when you make a contract,

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 I'm the little guy,

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 I'm the minnow,

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 I'm the minion,

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 I'm the little guy,

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 what happens when you make a contract with a powerful person?

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 It's all stacked towards the powerful person, right?

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 In the 60s,

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 in the 70s,

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 in the 80s,

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 there's a very,

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 at the time,

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 famous African-American comedian,

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 a comedian by the name of Dick Gregory,

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 who just died a few years ago,

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 and he was a very important comedian for furthering civil rights in the States,

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 and he was also quite a part of the Vietnam War.

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 And one of his regular routines was that he was all in favor of the American government drafting his son to go fight in Vietnam,

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 pause,

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 as long as he got to serve beside the Rockefeller's son,

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 the Rockefeller's kids,

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 right?

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 Because he knew,

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 no, no,

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 that's not how it worked.

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 Poor African-American,

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 rich white guy,

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 their kids go to different places to fight.

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 You know,

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 some in clubs in Washington,

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 some in the jungles of Vietnam.

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 Because that's how it works in life.

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 So in this ancient world,

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 the way the contracts were made,

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 it's almost as if it's making a contract with the mob.

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 And so you cut the animals,

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 you kill the animals,

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 you cut the animals in half,

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 you put them down in a line,

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 and then the Lord makes the vassal walk between the dead animals.

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 Why?

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 You break the words of this contract,

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 this is what's going to happen to you.

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 Dead meat.

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 So what's so shocking about this story?

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 In this story,

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 it looks,

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 if you were a person in the ancient world,

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 you're reading this story in Genesis 15,

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 okay,

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 this is the way the Almighty God is going to work

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 with a normal,

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 ordinary,

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 finite human being.

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 Abraham,

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 find four animals,

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 cut,

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 kill them,

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 cut them in half,

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 lay them down,

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 and then everybody in the story

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 is waiting for Abraham to walk between the animals.

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 But what happens?

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 No.

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 God puts Abraham to sleep.

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 And the torch and the smoking pot go between the animals.

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 The torch is an image of God.

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 The pot,

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 the smoking pot,

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 the incense,

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 is an image of God.

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 God walks between the animals.

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 And God makes a unilateral promise

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 that he will do everything that's required to bless,

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 and Abraham is asked to do nada,

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 nil,

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 zip.

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 It's a shocking promise.

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 In fact,

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 could you put up the next point?

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 The birth,

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 life,

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 death,

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 and resurrection of Jesus Christ

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 is God

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 keeping

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 his promise

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 to bless.

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 In fact,

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 even this ancient

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 ritual

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 points to the fact

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 that there is going to be

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 someone will die

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 for this promise

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 to bless,

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 and it's not going to be Abraham,

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 it's going to be God

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 in the person of his son.

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 And when I put up there

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 the birth,

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 life,

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 death,

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 and resurrection of Jesus Christ

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 is God

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 keeping his promise

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 to bless,

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 we need to understand

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 that if you're going back,

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 you just read Genesis as a book,

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 begin at Genesis 1,

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 you come to Genesis 15,

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 you'll know

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 that whatever blessing means,

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 it's going to have to be,

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 if it's really a blessing from God,

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 it's going to have to be

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 something that deals

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 with sin

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 because human beings

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 have put themselves

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 in the place of God

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 and sin and evil

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 has entered into the world.

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 Whatever it's going to mean

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 for God to bless,

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 it's going to have to

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 deal with death

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 because

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 because of Adam

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 and Eve's rebellion

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 against God,

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 they have brought death

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 into the world.

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 They themselves

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 will die

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 and all of their seed,

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 all of their offspring,

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 and in fact,

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 not only that,

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 whatever God

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 is going to have to do

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 to bless,

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 he's going to have to deal

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 with the fact

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 that human beings

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 now are estranged from God,

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 they're alienated from God,

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 they live their lives

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 with their back to God,

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 with their ears blocked to God,

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 wanting to be like God themselves.

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 They are far from God,

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 not they are far from God,

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 we are far from God,

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 I am far from God,

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 and whatever it's going to mean

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 for God to bless,

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 he's going to have to deal with that.

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 You see that

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 if you just read

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 from Genesis 1

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 to Genesis 15,

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 whatever it's going to mean,

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 God's going to have to deal with that.

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 So that when Paul comes now

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 to understand

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 that in the birth,

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 life,

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 death,

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 and resurrection

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 of Jesus Christ,

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 it is God keeping

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 his promise to bless,

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 that in a sense,

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 when you see Jesus

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 dying upon the cross,

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 you see the promise.

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 When you think of Jesus

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 dying upon the cross,

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 you see promise kept

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 for you and for me.

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 because the birth

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 of Jesus

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 is not just

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 a pleasant story

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 that we can have

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 really cool looking

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 greeting card pictures.

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 The birth of Jesus

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 is an invasion.

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 It is God

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 invading

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 our created world

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 to sin.

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 It is not

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 human beings

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 sort of genetically

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 engineering

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 or just,

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 you know,

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 in modern and all of a sense

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 to try to have

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 the perfect child

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 that will now develop us.

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 No,

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 it is God

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 breaking into

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 our human world.

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 When we see

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 the life of Jesus,

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 we see not just

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 somebody who lived

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 a full life,

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 in fact,

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 that lived a very short life.

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 We see somebody

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 who now has

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 an entire life

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 of a complete

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 and utter submission

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 and humility

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 and obedience

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 before the Father.

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 And it is going to be

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 so important

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 because I am not humble.

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 I am not obedient.

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 I have not lived

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 a perfect life.

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 Whatever is going

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 to have to happen,

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 there is going to have

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 to be someone

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 who has done this

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 for me

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 that can somehow

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 be mine

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 in exchange

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 when I receive it

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 by faith.

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 And Jesus,

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 of course,

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 in his life,

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 his miracles

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 begin to vindicate

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 who he is.

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 His teaching

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 explains who he is

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 and how he is God

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 keeping his promise.

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 And the ultimate miracle,

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 his death,

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 and then his resurrection

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 is God vindicating

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 that what Jesus

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 has been saying

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 is true.

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 It is vindicating

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 that the promise

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 that was begun

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 to be made

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 in Genesis chapter 12

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 and Genesis 15

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 and Genesis 18

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 and Genesis 22

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 and all of those

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 four stories

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 as it unpacks

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 this promise

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 of blessing

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 that God

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 is making

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 to Abraham,

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 that God

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 is keeping

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 his promise

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 that Jesus

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 does not just

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 die upon the cross.

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 He does not die

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 for his own sins

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 at all.

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 He dies for you.

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 He dies for me.

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 He dies for the estranged.

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 He dies.

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 God knew

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 that I cannot

00:22:02.980 --> 00:22:03.800
 make promises

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 so he made a promise.

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 He knows

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 that I often

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 don't keep

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 my promises

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 so he keeps

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 his promise.

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 He knows

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 that I often

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 withhold

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 making promises

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 so he did not

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 hold back

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 in making a promise.

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 He keeps

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 his promise.

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 And Jesus'

00:22:18.819 --> 00:22:19.259
 death

00:22:19.259 --> 00:22:19.980
 is a death

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 for me

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 and his resurrection

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 is a resurrection

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 for me

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 and a vindication

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 that God

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 has kept

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 his promise

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 and that when we

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 read the gospels

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 we are reading

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 the story

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 of the promise

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 that has come

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 and the promise

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 that is kept.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Amen.

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 Just as a bit

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 of an aside

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 a bit of a plug

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 one of the things

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 at the conference

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 the apologetics conference

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 that's coming up

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 in just a couple

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 of weeks

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 Mike Lacona

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 has just written

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 a book

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 about a year ago

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 published by Oxford

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 University Press

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 on the reasonableness

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 and some of the

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 historical evidence

00:23:01.380 --> 00:23:02.160
 for the resurrection

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 of Jesus

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 and if you're wondering

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 I mean there is

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 in fact

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 surprisingly good

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 reasons to believe

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 that Jesus really did

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 in history die

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 and rise from the dead

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 and I encourage you

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 to go to that conference

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 to come

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 Mike Lacona

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 is going to begin

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 a talk

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 specifically around

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 that issue

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 I encourage you

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 to come

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 encourage you

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 to bring your friends

00:23:21.620 --> 00:23:23.019
 but here

00:23:23.019 --> 00:23:24.539
 so some of you

00:23:24.539 --> 00:23:24.900
 might say

00:23:24.900 --> 00:23:25.579
 okay George

00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:26.559
 this is sort of

00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:27.039
 I mean it is

00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:27.860
 a little bit interesting

00:23:27.860 --> 00:23:28.600
 to think of Jesus

00:23:28.600 --> 00:23:29.660
 as the promise

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 and the promise kept

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 but

00:23:32.180 --> 00:23:34.059
 I'm still

00:23:34.059 --> 00:23:35.180
 not entirely sure

00:23:35.180 --> 00:23:35.819
 what difference

00:23:35.819 --> 00:23:36.420
 it makes

00:23:36.420 --> 00:23:38.460
 well here's the

00:23:38.460 --> 00:23:39.300
 huge difference

00:23:39.300 --> 00:23:39.720
 it makes

00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:40.420
 and Paul's going

00:23:40.420 --> 00:23:41.039
 to start to try

00:23:41.039 --> 00:23:41.920
 to explain it to us

00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:42.500
 if you could put up

00:23:42.500 --> 00:23:43.160
 the next point

00:23:43.160 --> 00:23:43.560
 Andrew

00:23:43.560 --> 00:23:46.500
 needing to perform

00:23:46.500 --> 00:23:48.779
 is a very different

00:23:48.779 --> 00:23:49.820
 way to live

00:23:49.820 --> 00:23:51.220
 than living

00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:51.960
 by

00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:53.480
 believing God's

00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:53.960
 promise

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 there are two

00:23:55.360 --> 00:23:56.560
 mutually exclusive

00:23:56.560 --> 00:23:57.500
 and contradictory

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 ways of living

00:23:58.779 --> 00:24:00.279
 by contradictory

00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:00.920
 I mean you either

00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:01.640
 do one or the other

00:24:01.640 --> 00:24:02.660
 you can't do both

00:24:02.660 --> 00:24:04.880
 needing to perform

00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:06.340
 is a very different

00:24:06.340 --> 00:24:07.140
 way to live

00:24:07.140 --> 00:24:07.880
 than living

00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:08.540
 by believing

00:24:08.540 --> 00:24:09.300
 God's promise

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 if somebody told me

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 that I don't know

00:24:12.520 --> 00:24:13.500
 this would never happen

00:24:13.500 --> 00:24:14.380
 that if you just

00:24:14.380 --> 00:24:15.940
 merely come to a

00:24:15.940 --> 00:24:17.300
 ballroom in a hotel

00:24:17.300 --> 00:24:18.040
 and we're going to

00:24:18.040 --> 00:24:18.580
 give you

00:24:18.580 --> 00:24:20.720
 five luxury days

00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:22.060
 all for free

00:24:22.060 --> 00:24:23.320
 in a luxury hotel

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 or condo

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 and then you go there

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 and in fact

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 well there's this cost

00:24:28.120 --> 00:24:28.620
 this cost

00:24:28.620 --> 00:24:29.140
 this cost

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 this cost

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 you have to sit

00:24:30.140 --> 00:24:30.920
 through this talk

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 and this sales pitch

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 and then if you don't

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 do that

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 you don't really get that

00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:34.659
 you get something different

00:24:34.659 --> 00:24:35.779
 dang it all

00:24:35.779 --> 00:24:36.879
 it's not a promise

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 there's a whole pile

00:24:38.539 --> 00:24:39.619
 of things I got to do

00:24:39.619 --> 00:24:42.679
 just in case you ever

00:24:42.679 --> 00:24:44.019
 get a phone call

00:24:44.019 --> 00:24:45.000
 or an invitation

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:46.859
 for something like that

00:24:46.859 --> 00:24:48.500
 you know

00:24:48.500 --> 00:24:49.219
 it's a completely

00:24:49.219 --> 00:24:50.059
 different way

00:24:50.059 --> 00:24:50.839
 to live

00:24:50.839 --> 00:24:52.199
 all religion

00:24:52.199 --> 00:24:53.679
 all spirituality

00:24:53.679 --> 00:24:55.639
 is all based

00:24:55.639 --> 00:24:56.439
 on needing

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 to perform

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 and it might be

00:24:59.079 --> 00:24:59.480
 that in

00:24:59.480 --> 00:24:59.779
 you know

00:24:59.779 --> 00:25:00.699
 some very harsh

00:25:00.699 --> 00:25:01.199
 religions

00:25:01.199 --> 00:25:02.339
 it's very harsh

00:25:02.339 --> 00:25:02.839
 laws

00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:03.699
 and very harsh

00:25:03.699 --> 00:25:04.220
 rituals

00:25:04.220 --> 00:25:04.679
 that you need

00:25:04.679 --> 00:25:05.220
 to perform

00:25:05.220 --> 00:25:06.379
 it might be

00:25:06.379 --> 00:25:06.839
 that if you're

00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:07.779
 far more spiritual

00:25:07.779 --> 00:25:08.579
 you just have to

00:25:08.579 --> 00:25:09.199
 make sure you vote

00:25:09.199 --> 00:25:10.220
 for the green party

00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:12.199
 stop eating gluten

00:25:12.199 --> 00:25:13.439
 become a vegan

00:25:13.439 --> 00:25:14.959
 and that's all

00:25:14.959 --> 00:25:15.839
 you have to do

00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:17.679
 to go to heaven

00:25:17.679 --> 00:25:18.000
 I mean

00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:18.720
 it might be

00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:19.539
 that's the difference

00:25:19.539 --> 00:25:20.419
 between spirituality

00:25:20.419 --> 00:25:20.939
 and religion

00:25:20.939 --> 00:25:21.399
 often

00:25:21.399 --> 00:25:22.639
 and sorry

00:25:22.639 --> 00:25:23.539
 that's a terrible

00:25:23.539 --> 00:25:24.299
 thing for me to say

00:25:24.299 --> 00:25:24.759
 I apologize

00:25:24.759 --> 00:25:25.319
 I didn't mean

00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:25.779
 to offend

00:25:25.779 --> 00:25:26.500
 I really didn't

00:25:26.500 --> 00:25:28.199
 but the fact of the matter

00:25:28.199 --> 00:25:29.179
 is that spirituality

00:25:29.179 --> 00:25:29.720
 and religion

00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:30.659
 is not different

00:25:30.660 --> 00:25:32.800
 both of them

00:25:32.800 --> 00:25:33.480
 involve

00:25:33.480 --> 00:25:36.060
 needing to perform

00:25:36.060 --> 00:25:37.960
 it just might be

00:25:37.960 --> 00:25:38.720
 that the standards

00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:39.240
 are different

00:25:39.240 --> 00:25:39.779
 and the standards

00:25:39.779 --> 00:25:40.680
 are higher or lower

00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:43.279
 but Bible here

00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:43.920
 Paul is trying

00:25:43.920 --> 00:25:44.440
 to communicate

00:25:44.440 --> 00:25:45.640
 that the promise

00:25:45.640 --> 00:25:46.900
 living by

00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:48.580
 believing a promise

00:25:48.580 --> 00:25:49.700
 is very very different

00:25:49.700 --> 00:25:51.660
 there's a man

00:25:51.660 --> 00:25:52.279
 in the church

00:25:52.279 --> 00:25:53.220
 who has

00:25:53.220 --> 00:25:54.560
 for the last

00:25:54.560 --> 00:25:55.380
 several years

00:25:55.380 --> 00:25:57.080
 very graciously

00:25:57.080 --> 00:25:57.920
 allowed Louise

00:25:57.920 --> 00:25:58.680
 and me and the kids

00:25:58.680 --> 00:25:59.600
 to go to his cottage

00:25:59.600 --> 00:26:00.480
 for free

00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:02.960
 so one day

00:26:02.960 --> 00:26:03.420
 he said

00:26:03.420 --> 00:26:03.880
 George

00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:04.539
 how do you like

00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:05.460
 to go to my cottage

00:26:05.460 --> 00:26:06.839
 and be there

00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:07.299
 for a week

00:26:07.299 --> 00:26:07.799
 for free

00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:08.740
 he sent me an email

00:26:08.740 --> 00:26:11.640
 what do I have to do

00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:14.460
 to get that promise

00:26:14.460 --> 00:26:15.559
 I have to respond

00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:16.599
 I have to believe him

00:26:16.599 --> 00:26:18.440
 and all I had to do

00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:19.259
 was respond

00:26:19.259 --> 00:26:25.599
 when I got my equivalent

00:26:25.599 --> 00:26:26.519
 to an MDiv

00:26:26.519 --> 00:26:27.860
 what did I have to do

00:26:27.859 --> 00:26:29.740
 well George

00:26:29.740 --> 00:26:30.379
 you've got to study

00:26:30.379 --> 00:26:31.279
 for three years

00:26:31.279 --> 00:26:32.939
 you've got to fulfill

00:26:32.939 --> 00:26:34.699
 these diocesan requirements

00:26:34.699 --> 00:26:35.319
 you've got to fulfill

00:26:35.319 --> 00:26:36.619
 these academic requirements

00:26:36.619 --> 00:26:37.179
 you've got to get

00:26:37.179 --> 00:26:38.219
 that you have to pass

00:26:38.219 --> 00:26:38.879
 you've got to do this

00:26:38.879 --> 00:26:39.379
 you've got to do that

00:26:39.379 --> 00:26:40.619
 completely different

00:26:40.619 --> 00:26:41.359
 way of living

00:26:41.359 --> 00:26:43.419
 believing a promise

00:26:43.419 --> 00:26:45.439
 and needing to perform

00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:49.580
 and that's what Paul

00:26:49.580 --> 00:26:50.820
 is trying to communicate

00:26:50.820 --> 00:26:52.019
 they're completely

00:26:52.019 --> 00:26:52.600
 and utterly

00:26:52.600 --> 00:26:53.480
 different ways

00:26:53.480 --> 00:26:54.120
 to live

00:26:54.120 --> 00:26:56.100
 and the gospel

00:26:56.100 --> 00:26:57.720
 is good news

00:26:57.720 --> 00:26:59.220
 of God

00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:00.039
 making a promise

00:27:00.039 --> 00:27:00.740
 to bless

00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:02.140
 and the blessing

00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:02.700
 is going to deal

00:27:02.700 --> 00:27:03.340
 with sin

00:27:03.340 --> 00:27:04.059
 and it's going to deal

00:27:04.059 --> 00:27:04.620
 with death

00:27:04.620 --> 00:27:05.279
 and it's going to deal

00:27:05.279 --> 00:27:06.160
 with our estrangement

00:27:06.160 --> 00:27:06.720
 for God

00:27:06.720 --> 00:27:07.900
 and it's a promise

00:27:07.900 --> 00:27:08.340
 of something

00:27:08.340 --> 00:27:09.320
 that God will do

00:27:09.320 --> 00:27:11.019
 and it's the news

00:27:11.019 --> 00:27:12.519
 which I'm now

00:27:12.519 --> 00:27:13.480
 passing on to you

00:27:13.480 --> 00:27:15.559
 not only that God

00:27:15.559 --> 00:27:16.319
 has made a promise

00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:17.420
 but that he's kept it

00:27:17.420 --> 00:27:20.059
 and it's not news

00:27:20.059 --> 00:27:21.119
 of new rituals

00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:22.660
 new therapies

00:27:22.660 --> 00:27:25.839
 new things to do

00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:28.339
 new rules to keep

00:27:28.339 --> 00:27:31.279
 it's news of a promise

00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:31.700
 kept

00:27:31.700 --> 00:27:33.319
 which can be

00:27:33.319 --> 00:27:34.240
 for you

00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:38.740
 some of you

00:27:38.740 --> 00:27:39.019
 might say

00:27:39.019 --> 00:27:39.500
 okay George

00:27:39.500 --> 00:27:40.720
 that's very interesting

00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.819
 but one second here

00:27:42.819 --> 00:27:44.700
 I thought you're

00:27:44.700 --> 00:27:46.200
 sort of in favor

00:27:46.200 --> 00:27:48.380
 of things like

00:27:48.380 --> 00:27:49.120
 the Old Testament

00:27:49.120 --> 00:27:50.099
 and things like

00:27:50.099 --> 00:27:51.160
 the Ten Commandments

00:27:51.160 --> 00:27:52.940
 like George

00:27:52.940 --> 00:27:54.460
 like aren't you

00:27:54.460 --> 00:27:55.839
 sort of in favor

00:27:55.839 --> 00:27:57.740
 of like you shall

00:27:57.740 --> 00:27:58.740
 not commit adultery

00:27:58.740 --> 00:28:01.480
 I know your wife's

00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:02.339
 in favor of you

00:28:02.339 --> 00:28:03.120
 being in favor

00:28:03.120 --> 00:28:04.099
 of that particular

00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:04.859
 commandment

00:28:04.859 --> 00:28:05.839
 and I know

00:28:05.839 --> 00:28:06.500
 you're in favor

00:28:06.500 --> 00:28:07.039
 of her

00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:08.139
 believing in that

00:28:08.139 --> 00:28:08.819
 commandment

00:28:08.819 --> 00:28:10.139
 so George

00:28:10.139 --> 00:28:11.139
 like what are you

00:28:11.139 --> 00:28:11.699
 just saying

00:28:11.699 --> 00:28:12.199
 that you just

00:28:12.199 --> 00:28:12.740
 have to believe

00:28:12.740 --> 00:28:12.959
 this

00:28:12.959 --> 00:28:13.519
 like how

00:28:13.519 --> 00:28:13.759
 okay

00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:14.139
 that's what

00:28:14.139 --> 00:28:14.539
 Paul's going

00:28:14.539 --> 00:28:15.059
 to keep talking

00:28:15.059 --> 00:28:15.179
 about

00:28:15.179 --> 00:28:15.500
 let's look

00:28:15.500 --> 00:28:16.619
 at 19 to 23

00:28:16.619 --> 00:28:19.000
 in fact

00:28:19.000 --> 00:28:20.319
 Paul asked

00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:20.919
 the question

00:28:20.919 --> 00:28:22.359
 but by this aside

00:28:22.359 --> 00:28:22.819
 this is just

00:28:22.819 --> 00:28:23.379
 a little really

00:28:23.379 --> 00:28:23.619
 you know

00:28:23.619 --> 00:28:23.899
 this is one

00:28:23.899 --> 00:28:24.519
 of the shocking

00:28:24.519 --> 00:28:25.179
 things about

00:28:25.179 --> 00:28:26.079
 look at verse 19

00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:26.819
 why then the law

00:28:26.819 --> 00:28:27.659
 and then you're

00:28:27.659 --> 00:28:28.019
 going to look

00:28:28.019 --> 00:28:28.740
 down at verse 21

00:28:28.740 --> 00:28:29.199
 is the law

00:28:29.199 --> 00:28:29.779
 then contrary

00:28:29.779 --> 00:28:30.379
 to the promises

00:28:30.379 --> 00:28:30.619
 about

00:28:30.619 --> 00:28:31.179
 here's just a little

00:28:31.179 --> 00:28:31.819
 bit of an aside

00:28:31.819 --> 00:28:32.159
 this is one

00:28:32.159 --> 00:28:32.419
 of the things

00:28:32.419 --> 00:28:33.259
 which is so shocking

00:28:33.259 --> 00:28:33.980
 about the Bible

00:28:33.980 --> 00:28:34.740
 how the Bible

00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:35.440
 forms you

00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:37.599
 you know

00:28:37.599 --> 00:28:38.079
 there's all

00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:38.539
 sorts of

00:28:38.539 --> 00:28:38.880
 religions

00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:39.940
 and spiritualities

00:28:39.940 --> 00:28:40.500
 and maybe

00:28:40.500 --> 00:28:41.440
 many Christians

00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:42.360
 who mistakenly

00:28:42.360 --> 00:28:43.180
 say don't ask

00:28:43.180 --> 00:28:43.860
 that question

00:28:43.860 --> 00:28:44.680
 just believe

00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:45.940
 the Bible

00:28:45.940 --> 00:28:47.579
 always encourages

00:28:47.579 --> 00:28:48.559
 us to ask

00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:49.519
 honest questions

00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:52.779
 that's part

00:28:52.779 --> 00:28:53.299
 of the reason

00:28:53.299 --> 00:28:54.200
 I was only

00:28:54.200 --> 00:28:54.799
 within the

00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:55.620
 biblical world

00:28:55.620 --> 00:28:56.559
 that science

00:28:56.559 --> 00:28:57.519
 was able

00:28:57.519 --> 00:28:58.240
 to develop

00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.059
 because science

00:29:00.059 --> 00:29:00.740
 develops

00:29:00.740 --> 00:29:02.319
 on the idea

00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:03.579
 amongst other

00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:04.079
 things

00:29:04.079 --> 00:29:05.059
 that it is a

00:29:05.059 --> 00:29:05.539
 good thing

00:29:05.539 --> 00:29:06.000
 to ask

00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:06.620
 a question

00:29:06.620 --> 00:29:10.140
 and the Bible

00:29:10.140 --> 00:29:11.359
 models for us

00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:12.779
 that we should

00:29:12.779 --> 00:29:13.680
 ask good

00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:14.279
 questions

00:29:14.279 --> 00:29:15.120
 if you read

00:29:15.120 --> 00:29:15.859
 the Gospels

00:29:15.859 --> 00:29:17.279
 when people

00:29:17.279 --> 00:29:17.980
 ask Jesus

00:29:17.980 --> 00:29:18.740
 a false

00:29:18.740 --> 00:29:19.259
 question

00:29:19.259 --> 00:29:19.740
 because it's

00:29:19.740 --> 00:29:20.099
 not really

00:29:20.099 --> 00:29:20.519
 a question

00:29:20.519 --> 00:29:20.819
 it's just

00:29:20.819 --> 00:29:21.079
 trying to

00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:21.259
 get him

00:29:21.259 --> 00:29:21.740
 in trouble

00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:22.480
 he's very

00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:22.880
 subtle

00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:23.819
 but whenever

00:29:23.819 --> 00:29:24.579
 anybody asks

00:29:24.579 --> 00:29:25.160
 him an honest

00:29:25.160 --> 00:29:25.640
 question

00:29:25.640 --> 00:29:26.079
 he gives

00:29:26.079 --> 00:29:26.679
 him an answer

00:29:26.679 --> 00:29:28.099
 anyway

00:29:28.099 --> 00:29:28.859
 verse 19

00:29:28.859 --> 00:29:30.139
 why then

00:29:30.139 --> 00:29:30.579
 the law

00:29:30.579 --> 00:29:32.039
 why then

00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:32.339
 the Ten

00:29:32.339 --> 00:29:32.799
 Commandments

00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:33.099
 George

00:29:33.099 --> 00:29:33.599
 why then

00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:34.039
 things about

00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:34.659
 sacrifices

00:29:34.659 --> 00:29:35.279
 why then

00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:35.699
 things about

00:29:35.699 --> 00:29:36.179
 how you care

00:29:36.179 --> 00:29:36.740
 for the poor

00:29:36.740 --> 00:29:37.259
 how you care

00:29:37.259 --> 00:29:37.960
 for the environment

00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:38.819
 why then

00:29:38.819 --> 00:29:39.279
 the law

00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:41.199
 verse 19

00:29:41.199 --> 00:29:42.339
 next part

00:29:42.339 --> 00:29:43.000
 it was added

00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:43.480
 because of

00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:44.419
 transgressions

00:29:44.419 --> 00:29:46.439
 in other words

00:29:46.439 --> 00:29:47.199
 we'll get to

00:29:47.199 --> 00:29:47.859
 in other words

00:29:47.859 --> 00:29:48.119
 George

00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:48.639
 if you haven't

00:29:48.639 --> 00:29:49.099
 noticed

00:29:49.099 --> 00:29:50.460
 people

00:29:50.460 --> 00:29:51.659
 do bad

00:29:51.659 --> 00:29:52.000
 things

00:29:52.000 --> 00:29:52.460
 and screw

00:29:52.460 --> 00:29:52.839
 up

00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:56.240
 you know

00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:57.879
 you know

00:29:57.879 --> 00:29:58.480
 it's so funny

00:29:58.480 --> 00:29:59.059
 there's so many

00:29:59.059 --> 00:29:59.839
 times you see

00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:00.259
 about people

00:30:00.259 --> 00:30:00.759
 wanting to be

00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:01.139
 centered

00:30:01.139 --> 00:30:01.559
 but what

00:30:01.559 --> 00:30:02.079
 happens

00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:02.539
 you want to

00:30:02.539 --> 00:30:03.019
 be centered

00:30:03.019 --> 00:30:03.359
 but what

00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:03.879
 happens if

00:30:03.879 --> 00:30:04.480
 your center

00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:04.980
 is getting

00:30:04.980 --> 00:30:05.699
 revenge

00:30:05.699 --> 00:30:07.099
 what if

00:30:07.099 --> 00:30:07.819
 your center

00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:08.819
 is racism

00:30:08.819 --> 00:30:10.179
 what if

00:30:10.179 --> 00:30:10.799
 your center

00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:12.419
 is self-love

00:30:12.419 --> 00:30:13.419
 and narcissism

00:30:13.419 --> 00:30:14.859
 like the

00:30:14.859 --> 00:30:15.740
 primary advice

00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:16.519
 of our culture

00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:17.699
 is completely

00:30:17.699 --> 00:30:18.419
 and utterly

00:30:18.419 --> 00:30:19.059
 ignorant

00:30:19.059 --> 00:30:20.419
 of the fact

00:30:20.419 --> 00:30:20.939
 that we do

00:30:20.939 --> 00:30:21.399
 evil

00:30:21.400 --> 00:30:23.480
 I mean

00:30:23.480 --> 00:30:23.780
 you read

00:30:23.780 --> 00:30:24.240
 the national

00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:24.640
 post

00:30:24.640 --> 00:30:25.060
 the globe

00:30:25.060 --> 00:30:25.340
 and mail

00:30:25.340 --> 00:30:25.540
 I mean

00:30:25.540 --> 00:30:26.000
 the national

00:30:26.000 --> 00:30:26.340
 post

00:30:26.340 --> 00:30:26.560
 a little

00:30:26.560 --> 00:30:26.900
 while ago

00:30:26.900 --> 00:30:27.120
 there was

00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:27.480
 a whole

00:30:27.480 --> 00:30:28.980
 big glossy

00:30:28.980 --> 00:30:29.680
 insert

00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:30.340
 all around

00:30:30.340 --> 00:30:31.200
 different types

00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:31.740
 of spiritual

00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:32.320
 practices

00:30:32.320 --> 00:30:32.840
 like being

00:30:32.840 --> 00:30:33.320
 centered

00:30:33.320 --> 00:30:33.620
 and being

00:30:33.620 --> 00:30:34.040
 focused

00:30:34.040 --> 00:30:34.960
 but the

00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:35.800
 problem is

00:30:35.800 --> 00:30:36.600
 too many

00:30:36.600 --> 00:30:36.900
 of us

00:30:36.900 --> 00:30:37.400
 are focused

00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:37.720
 around

00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:38.280
 racism

00:30:38.280 --> 00:30:39.560
 and self-love

00:30:39.560 --> 00:30:40.620
 and narcissism

00:30:40.620 --> 00:30:41.960
 and pride

00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:42.700
 and anger

00:30:42.700 --> 00:30:43.460
 and envy

00:30:43.460 --> 00:30:44.160
 and greed

00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:45.120
 and gluttony

00:30:45.120 --> 00:30:46.600
 Lord don't

00:30:46.600 --> 00:30:47.040
 help me

00:30:47.040 --> 00:30:47.700
 be centered

00:30:47.700 --> 00:30:48.140
 help me

00:30:48.140 --> 00:30:48.480
 to be

00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:49.200
 de-centered

00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:51.580
 I want

00:30:51.580 --> 00:30:51.840
 to be

00:30:51.840 --> 00:30:52.120
 centered

00:30:52.120 --> 00:30:52.539
 on your

00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:53.140
 promise

00:30:53.140 --> 00:30:53.819
 because if

00:30:53.819 --> 00:30:54.240
 I'm centered

00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:55.019
 on myself

00:30:55.019 --> 00:30:56.480
 boy am I

00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:56.900
 in trouble

00:30:56.900 --> 00:30:57.539
 and boy are

00:30:57.539 --> 00:30:58.039
 my kids

00:30:58.039 --> 00:30:58.500
 in trouble

00:30:58.500 --> 00:30:59.000
 and boy is

00:30:59.000 --> 00:30:59.480
 my wife

00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:00.019
 in trouble

00:31:00.019 --> 00:31:01.740
 anyway

00:31:01.740 --> 00:31:02.319
 sorry

00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:03.680
 not sorry

00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:05.360
 that's what

00:31:05.360 --> 00:31:05.740
 the Bible

00:31:05.740 --> 00:31:06.140
 is saying

00:31:06.140 --> 00:31:06.740
 why then

00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:07.120
 the law

00:31:07.120 --> 00:31:07.920
 well why

00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:08.799
 because in

00:31:08.799 --> 00:31:09.120
 case you

00:31:09.120 --> 00:31:09.620
 haven't noticed

00:31:09.620 --> 00:31:10.140
 people do

00:31:10.140 --> 00:31:11.059
 bad things

00:31:11.059 --> 00:31:12.259
 and they do

00:31:12.259 --> 00:31:12.740
 bad things

00:31:12.740 --> 00:31:13.180
 without being

00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:13.799
 apologetic

00:31:13.799 --> 00:31:14.360
 they do

00:31:14.360 --> 00:31:14.840
 bad things

00:31:14.840 --> 00:31:15.180
 because they

00:31:15.180 --> 00:31:15.700
 like doing

00:31:15.700 --> 00:31:16.480
 bad things

00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:17.160
 they do

00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:17.819
 bad things

00:31:17.819 --> 00:31:18.599
 and then they

00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:19.119
 get mad at

00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:19.519
 people who

00:31:19.519 --> 00:31:19.839
 point out

00:31:19.839 --> 00:31:20.200
 that they've

00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:20.659
 done bad

00:31:20.659 --> 00:31:20.939
 things

00:31:20.939 --> 00:31:21.359
 that's all

00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:21.980
 encompassed in

00:31:21.980 --> 00:31:22.379
 this simple

00:31:22.379 --> 00:31:22.799
 line it was

00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:23.299
 added because

00:31:23.299 --> 00:31:24.419
 of transgressions

00:31:24.419 --> 00:31:25.859
 because of

00:31:25.859 --> 00:31:26.419
 transgressions

00:31:26.419 --> 00:31:27.000
 continue not

00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:27.939
 until the offspring

00:31:27.939 --> 00:31:28.720
 should come to

00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:29.960
 whom the promise

00:31:29.960 --> 00:31:30.700
 had been made

00:31:30.700 --> 00:31:31.980
 and it was put

00:31:31.980 --> 00:31:32.559
 in place through

00:31:32.559 --> 00:31:33.379
 angels by an

00:31:33.379 --> 00:31:34.079
 intermediary

00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:34.980
 now an

00:31:34.980 --> 00:31:36.039
 intermediary implies

00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:36.519
 more than one

00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:37.159
 but God is one

00:31:37.159 --> 00:31:38.480
 I only have nine

00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:38.980
 minutes left

00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:39.559
 I can't go into

00:31:39.559 --> 00:31:40.119
 that the main

00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:41.200
 thing is that

00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:42.179
 the same one

00:31:42.179 --> 00:31:43.480
 God there's one

00:31:43.480 --> 00:31:44.339
 will and one

00:31:44.339 --> 00:31:45.139
 mind and one

00:31:45.139 --> 00:31:45.980
 God behind all

00:31:45.980 --> 00:31:46.519
 of this thing

00:31:46.519 --> 00:31:47.759
 so the same

00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:48.379
 God who

00:31:48.379 --> 00:31:48.819
 ultimately

00:31:48.819 --> 00:31:49.980
 creates the

00:31:49.980 --> 00:31:50.379
 promises

00:31:50.379 --> 00:31:51.220
 ultimately the

00:31:51.220 --> 00:31:51.539
 one even

00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:51.839
 though it's

00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:52.160
 done through

00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:52.859
 an intermediary

00:31:52.859 --> 00:31:53.279
 who wanted

00:31:53.279 --> 00:31:53.680
 the law

00:31:53.680 --> 00:31:54.240
 so God

00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:54.579
 doesn't

00:31:54.579 --> 00:31:55.000
 contradict

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:55.559
 himself

00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:56.460
 you've got to

00:31:56.460 --> 00:31:57.039
 remember that

00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:57.859
 verse 21

00:31:57.859 --> 00:31:58.440
 is the law

00:31:58.440 --> 00:31:59.180
 then contrary

00:31:59.180 --> 00:31:59.920
 to the promises

00:31:59.920 --> 00:32:00.400
 of God

00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:01.180
 what does Paul

00:32:01.180 --> 00:32:01.400
 say

00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:02.619
 certainly not

00:32:02.619 --> 00:32:03.839
 for if a law

00:32:03.839 --> 00:32:04.379
 had been given

00:32:04.379 --> 00:32:04.960
 that could give

00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:05.519
 life then

00:32:05.519 --> 00:32:05.960
 righteousness

00:32:05.960 --> 00:32:06.660
 would indeed

00:32:06.660 --> 00:32:07.220
 be by the

00:32:07.220 --> 00:32:07.379
 law

00:32:07.379 --> 00:32:07.879
 just as an

00:32:07.879 --> 00:32:08.160
 aside

00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:08.700
 if you bring

00:32:08.700 --> 00:32:09.200
 a corpse

00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:09.879
 to a yoga

00:32:09.879 --> 00:32:10.420
 class

00:32:10.420 --> 00:32:10.980
 it'll still

00:32:10.980 --> 00:32:11.379
 be dead

00:32:11.379 --> 00:32:12.019
 at the end

00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:18.720
 if you say

00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:19.299
 morning and

00:32:19.299 --> 00:32:19.819
 evening prayer

00:32:19.819 --> 00:32:20.519
 over a corpse

00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:21.059
 it'll still

00:32:21.059 --> 00:32:21.660
 be dead

00:32:21.660 --> 00:32:25.839
 if you read

00:32:25.839 --> 00:32:26.700
 the if you

00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:27.480
 tattoo the

00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:28.079
 ten commandments

00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:28.599
 on a corpse

00:32:28.599 --> 00:32:28.980
 it's still

00:32:28.980 --> 00:32:29.460
 dead

00:32:29.460 --> 00:32:32.779
 for if a law

00:32:32.779 --> 00:32:33.420
 had been given

00:32:33.420 --> 00:32:34.200
 verse 21

00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:35.859
 that could give

00:32:35.859 --> 00:32:36.379
 life then

00:32:36.379 --> 00:32:36.839
 righteousness

00:32:36.839 --> 00:32:37.480
 would indeed

00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:38.039
 be by the

00:32:38.039 --> 00:32:38.400
 law

00:32:38.400 --> 00:32:39.680
 but the

00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:40.019
 scripture

00:32:40.019 --> 00:32:40.639
 imprisoned

00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:41.880
 did I skip

00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:42.300
 something

00:32:42.300 --> 00:32:43.540
 no I didn't

00:32:43.540 --> 00:32:43.780
 okay

00:32:43.780 --> 00:32:44.640
 but the

00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:45.120
 scripture

00:32:45.120 --> 00:32:45.800
 imprisoned

00:32:45.800 --> 00:32:46.540
 that sounds

00:32:46.540 --> 00:32:47.000
 mean

00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:47.820
 everything

00:32:47.820 --> 00:32:48.600
 under sin

00:32:48.600 --> 00:32:49.020
 so that

00:32:49.020 --> 00:32:49.740
 the promise

00:32:49.740 --> 00:32:50.500
 by faith

00:32:50.500 --> 00:32:50.920
 in Jesus

00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:51.320
 Christ

00:32:51.320 --> 00:32:51.740
 might be

00:32:51.740 --> 00:32:52.100
 given to

00:32:52.100 --> 00:32:52.520
 those who

00:32:52.520 --> 00:32:52.960
 believe

00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:53.940
 now before

00:32:53.940 --> 00:32:55.020
 faith came

00:32:55.020 --> 00:32:55.800
 we were

00:32:55.800 --> 00:32:56.800
 held captive

00:32:56.800 --> 00:32:57.240
 under the

00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:57.440
 law

00:32:57.440 --> 00:32:58.040
 imprisoned

00:32:58.040 --> 00:32:58.660
 until the

00:32:58.660 --> 00:32:59.320
 coming faith

00:32:59.320 --> 00:32:59.640
 would be

00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:00.000
 revealed

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:00.740
 so just

00:33:00.740 --> 00:33:01.020
 pause

00:33:01.020 --> 00:33:01.500
 that all

00:33:01.500 --> 00:33:01.820
 sounds

00:33:01.820 --> 00:33:02.160
 really

00:33:02.160 --> 00:33:02.420
 really

00:33:02.420 --> 00:33:03.100
 mean

00:33:03.100 --> 00:33:04.640
 and extreme

00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:05.060
 if you could

00:33:05.060 --> 00:33:05.300
 put up the

00:33:05.300 --> 00:33:05.780
 next point

00:33:05.780 --> 00:33:06.120
 Andrew

00:33:06.120 --> 00:33:06.640
 it's not

00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:07.000
 actually

00:33:07.000 --> 00:33:07.440
 it's very

00:33:07.440 --> 00:33:07.900
 helpful

00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:09.020
 God gave

00:33:09.020 --> 00:33:09.400
 the law

00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:09.840
 to sell

00:33:09.840 --> 00:33:10.480
 the problem

00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:12.240
 this church

00:33:12.240 --> 00:33:12.700
 we're very

00:33:12.700 --> 00:33:12.960
 blessed

00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:13.240
 we have

00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:13.519
 a very

00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:13.960
 very good

00:33:13.960 --> 00:33:14.460
 counsel

00:33:14.460 --> 00:33:15.279
 and one

00:33:15.279 --> 00:33:15.420
 of the

00:33:15.420 --> 00:33:15.779
 ways we

00:33:15.779 --> 00:33:16.019
 know we

00:33:16.019 --> 00:33:16.259
 have a

00:33:16.259 --> 00:33:16.660
 very good

00:33:16.660 --> 00:33:17.059
 counsel

00:33:17.059 --> 00:33:17.360
 is they

00:33:17.360 --> 00:33:17.559
 don't

00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:17.880
 always

00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:18.200
 agree

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:18.740
 with me

00:33:18.740 --> 00:33:21.400
 thanks

00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:21.940
 be to

00:33:21.940 --> 00:33:22.400
 God

00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:23.599
 and usually

00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:23.940
 when they

00:33:23.940 --> 00:33:24.319
 don't agree

00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:24.680
 with me

00:33:24.680 --> 00:33:25.160
 it's because

00:33:25.160 --> 00:33:25.700
 they're way

00:33:25.700 --> 00:33:26.400
 wiser than

00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:26.700
 me

00:33:26.700 --> 00:33:27.279
 and they've

00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:27.799
 saved us

00:33:27.799 --> 00:33:28.400
 from a

00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:28.720
 stupid

00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:29.279
 path

00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:30.759
 sometimes

00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:32.759
 I'll ask

00:33:32.759 --> 00:33:33.160
 them to

00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:33.640
 reconsider

00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:34.240
 an issue

00:33:34.240 --> 00:33:34.940
 because what

00:33:34.940 --> 00:33:35.140
 I've

00:33:35.140 --> 00:33:35.779
 realized

00:33:35.779 --> 00:33:36.360
 is I

00:33:36.360 --> 00:33:36.620
 didn't

00:33:36.620 --> 00:33:36.860
 sell

00:33:36.860 --> 00:33:37.039
 the

00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:37.500
 problem

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:41.039
 because I

00:33:41.039 --> 00:33:41.539
 deal with

00:33:41.539 --> 00:33:41.880
 the church

00:33:41.880 --> 00:33:42.440
 every day

00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:43.259
 it's one of

00:33:43.259 --> 00:33:43.539
 the main

00:33:43.539 --> 00:33:43.960
 things I

00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:44.539
 think about

00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:45.420
 and the

00:33:45.420 --> 00:33:45.779
 staff

00:33:45.779 --> 00:33:46.460
 think about

00:33:46.460 --> 00:33:46.920
 and we

00:33:46.920 --> 00:33:47.400
 talk to

00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:47.799
 each other

00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:48.319
 we can

00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:48.720
 start to

00:33:48.720 --> 00:33:49.000
 see a

00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:49.480
 really big

00:33:49.480 --> 00:33:50.119
 problem

00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:51.220
 and so we

00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:51.500
 come up

00:33:51.500 --> 00:33:51.759
 with a

00:33:51.759 --> 00:33:52.220
 proposal

00:33:52.220 --> 00:33:53.000
 to solve

00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:53.619
 the problem

00:33:53.619 --> 00:33:54.480
 and then the

00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:54.839
 council

00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:55.740
 or the

00:33:55.740 --> 00:33:56.160
 congregation

00:33:56.160 --> 00:33:56.740
 might say

00:33:56.740 --> 00:33:57.039
 nah

00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:57.359
 don't want

00:33:57.359 --> 00:33:57.519
 to do

00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:57.700
 it

00:33:57.700 --> 00:33:58.640
 and that's

00:33:58.640 --> 00:33:58.980
 because

00:33:58.980 --> 00:33:59.660
 I realized

00:33:59.660 --> 00:34:00.019
 afterwards

00:34:00.019 --> 00:34:00.359
 they didn't

00:34:00.359 --> 00:34:00.640
 see the

00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:01.039
 problem

00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:03.339
 and sometimes

00:34:03.339 --> 00:34:03.819
 in life

00:34:03.819 --> 00:34:04.220
 sometimes

00:34:04.220 --> 00:34:05.159
 it's a

00:34:05.159 --> 00:34:05.559
 classic

00:34:05.559 --> 00:34:06.119
 management

00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:06.599
 technique

00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:07.099
 that first

00:34:07.099 --> 00:34:07.500
 you sell

00:34:07.500 --> 00:34:08.099
 the problem

00:34:08.099 --> 00:34:11.119
 and so

00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:11.559
 that's what

00:34:11.559 --> 00:34:12.019
 Paul is

00:34:12.019 --> 00:34:12.500
 doing here

00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:12.880
 he's saying

00:34:12.880 --> 00:34:13.320
 that God

00:34:13.320 --> 00:34:13.719
 did the

00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:14.039
 law

00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:14.579
 to help

00:34:14.579 --> 00:34:15.300
 sell

00:34:15.300 --> 00:34:16.500
 the problem

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:17.840
 the fact

00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:18.059
 of the

00:34:18.059 --> 00:34:18.259
 matter

00:34:18.259 --> 00:34:18.719
 is

00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:20.779
 imagine

00:34:20.779 --> 00:34:21.179
 for an

00:34:21.179 --> 00:34:21.619
 instance

00:34:21.619 --> 00:34:22.239
 that

00:34:22.239 --> 00:34:22.719
 you

00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:25.079
 I was

00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:25.219
 just

00:34:25.219 --> 00:34:25.460
 reading

00:34:25.460 --> 00:34:26.279
 I just

00:34:26.279 --> 00:34:26.539
 finished

00:34:26.539 --> 00:34:26.739
 reading

00:34:26.739 --> 00:34:27.219
 a novel

00:34:27.219 --> 00:34:27.579
 just

00:34:27.579 --> 00:34:28.820
 yesterday

00:34:28.820 --> 00:34:30.259
 where

00:34:30.260 --> 00:34:31.500
 a

00:34:31.500 --> 00:34:31.820
 person

00:34:31.820 --> 00:34:31.940
 who

00:34:31.940 --> 00:34:32.100
 was

00:34:32.100 --> 00:34:32.400
 in

00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:32.640
 jail

00:34:32.640 --> 00:34:33.420
 wrongly

00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:33.680
 a

00:34:33.680 --> 00:34:35.080
 detective

00:34:35.080 --> 00:34:35.400
 comes

00:34:35.400 --> 00:34:35.580
 to

00:34:35.580 --> 00:34:35.760
 believe

00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:35.920
 that

00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.080
 he's

00:34:36.080 --> 00:34:36.540
 innocent

00:34:36.540 --> 00:34:37.840
 and

00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:38.060
 that

00:34:38.060 --> 00:34:38.280
 in

00:34:38.280 --> 00:34:38.580
 fact

00:34:38.580 --> 00:34:39.660
 if

00:34:39.660 --> 00:34:39.980
 some

00:34:39.980 --> 00:34:40.440
 requests

00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:40.620
 for

00:34:40.620 --> 00:34:40.820
 some

00:34:40.820 --> 00:34:41.120
 DNA

00:34:41.120 --> 00:34:41.420
 were

00:34:41.420 --> 00:34:42.000
 made

00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:43.140
 it

00:34:43.140 --> 00:34:43.260
 would

00:34:43.260 --> 00:34:43.520
 probably

00:34:43.520 --> 00:34:43.860
 prove

00:34:43.860 --> 00:34:43.980
 that

00:34:43.980 --> 00:34:44.080
 he

00:34:44.080 --> 00:34:44.220
 was

00:34:44.220 --> 00:34:44.840
 innocent

00:34:44.840 --> 00:34:45.000
 of

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:45.100
 the

00:34:45.100 --> 00:34:45.460
 crime

00:34:45.460 --> 00:34:46.580
 and

00:34:46.580 --> 00:34:46.820
 part

00:34:46.820 --> 00:34:46.900
 of

00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:47.000
 the

00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:47.200
 whole

00:34:47.200 --> 00:34:47.700
 problem

00:34:47.700 --> 00:34:48.080
 was

00:34:48.080 --> 00:34:48.960
 to

00:34:48.960 --> 00:34:49.120
 get

00:34:49.120 --> 00:34:49.320
 the

00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:49.660
 person

00:34:49.660 --> 00:34:49.840
 to

00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:50.180
 actually

00:34:50.180 --> 00:34:50.400
 want

00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:50.500
 to

00:34:50.500 --> 00:34:50.660
 make

00:34:50.660 --> 00:34:50.840
 the

00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:51.360
 request

00:34:51.360 --> 00:34:53.800
 so

00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:53.920
 if

00:34:53.920 --> 00:34:54.020
 we

00:34:54.020 --> 00:34:54.140
 just

00:34:54.140 --> 00:34:54.280
 sort

00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:54.380
 of

00:34:54.380 --> 00:34:54.660
 tame

00:34:54.660 --> 00:34:54.820
 that

00:34:54.820 --> 00:34:55.060
 just

00:34:55.060 --> 00:34:55.600
 imagine

00:34:55.600 --> 00:34:55.980
 for a

00:34:55.980 --> 00:34:56.180
 second

00:34:56.180 --> 00:34:56.620
 imagine

00:34:56.620 --> 00:34:56.840
 that

00:34:56.840 --> 00:34:57.060
 you

00:34:57.060 --> 00:34:57.840
 you're

00:34:57.840 --> 00:34:58.059
 that

00:34:58.059 --> 00:34:58.420
 person

00:34:58.420 --> 00:34:58.640
 or

00:34:58.640 --> 00:34:58.840
 maybe

00:34:58.840 --> 00:34:58.980
 you're

00:34:58.980 --> 00:34:59.140
 just

00:34:59.140 --> 00:34:59.300
 a

00:34:59.300 --> 00:34:59.640
 person

00:34:59.640 --> 00:34:59.840
 and

00:34:59.840 --> 00:34:59.960
 you

00:34:59.960 --> 00:35:00.240
 really

00:35:00.240 --> 00:35:00.579
 believe

00:35:00.579 --> 00:35:00.720
 that

00:35:00.720 --> 00:35:00.940
 this

00:35:00.940 --> 00:35:01.140
 new

00:35:01.140 --> 00:35:01.440
 DNA

00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:01.820
 evidence

00:35:01.820 --> 00:35:02.039
 will

00:35:02.039 --> 00:35:02.700
 prove

00:35:02.700 --> 00:35:02.900
 that

00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:03.059
 the

00:35:03.059 --> 00:35:03.400
 person

00:35:03.400 --> 00:35:03.660
 that's

00:35:03.660 --> 00:35:03.800
 in

00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:04.079
 jail

00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:04.579
 your

00:35:04.579 --> 00:35:04.920
 brother

00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:05.079
 or

00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:05.180
 your

00:35:05.180 --> 00:35:05.519
 sister

00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:05.740
 your

00:35:05.740 --> 00:35:06.000
 mom

00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:06.120
 or

00:35:06.120 --> 00:35:06.220
 your

00:35:06.220 --> 00:35:06.559
 dad

00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:06.700
 or

00:35:06.700 --> 00:35:06.820
 your

00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:07.240
 kid

00:35:07.240 --> 00:35:07.900
 will

00:35:07.900 --> 00:35:08.280
 get

00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:08.460
 them

00:35:08.460 --> 00:35:08.559
 out

00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:08.680
 of

00:35:08.680 --> 00:35:08.800
 jail

00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:08.960
 that

00:35:08.960 --> 00:35:09.100
 they've

00:35:09.100 --> 00:35:09.200
 been

00:35:09.200 --> 00:35:09.440
 innocent

00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:09.660
 all

00:35:09.660 --> 00:35:10.000
 along

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:10.440
 but

00:35:10.440 --> 00:35:10.539
 when

00:35:10.539 --> 00:35:10.600
 you

00:35:10.600 --> 00:35:10.820
 go to

00:35:10.820 --> 00:35:11.039
 visit

00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:11.180
 your

00:35:11.180 --> 00:35:11.400
 child

00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:11.600
 every

00:35:11.600 --> 00:35:11.820
 time

00:35:11.820 --> 00:35:11.940
 you

00:35:11.940 --> 00:35:12.180
 visit

00:35:12.180 --> 00:35:12.380
 your

00:35:12.380 --> 00:35:12.640
 child

00:35:12.640 --> 00:35:12.800
 they

00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:12.920
 don't

00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:13.200
 actually

00:35:13.200 --> 00:35:13.500
 believe

00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:13.680
 they're

00:35:13.680 --> 00:35:13.820
 in

00:35:13.820 --> 00:35:14.160
 prison

00:35:14.160 --> 00:35:14.340
 they

00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:14.620
 believe

00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:28.039
 grim

00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:28.660
 faced

00:35:28.660 --> 00:35:29.180
 and

00:35:29.180 --> 00:35:29.640
 metal

00:35:29.640 --> 00:35:29.840
 and

00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:30.220
 concrete

00:35:30.220 --> 00:35:30.620
 everywhere

00:35:30.620 --> 00:35:30.940
 if you've

00:35:30.940 --> 00:35:31.260
 ever been

00:35:31.260 --> 00:35:31.820
 inside a

00:35:31.820 --> 00:35:32.120
 jail

00:35:32.120 --> 00:35:33.039
 for the

00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:33.260
 record

00:35:33.260 --> 00:35:33.480
 I've

00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:33.640
 only

00:35:33.640 --> 00:35:33.860
 gone

00:35:33.860 --> 00:35:34.039
 to

00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:34.340
 visit

00:35:34.340 --> 00:35:35.059
 parishioners

00:35:35.059 --> 00:35:35.300
 not

00:35:35.300 --> 00:35:35.559
 because

00:35:35.559 --> 00:35:35.680
 I

00:35:35.680 --> 00:35:35.800
 had

00:35:35.800 --> 00:35:35.900
 to

00:35:35.900 --> 00:35:36.019
 do

00:35:36.019 --> 00:35:36.519
 time

00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:37.180
 not

00:35:37.180 --> 00:35:37.400
 that

00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:37.860
 you

00:35:37.860 --> 00:35:38.019
 know

00:35:38.019 --> 00:35:38.860
 Jesus

00:35:38.860 --> 00:35:39.860
 saves

00:35:39.860 --> 00:35:40.300
 prisoners

00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:40.579
 and all

00:35:40.579 --> 00:35:40.760
 but

00:35:40.760 --> 00:35:41.480
 if you

00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:41.880
 go in

00:35:41.880 --> 00:35:42.100
 it's

00:35:42.100 --> 00:35:42.240
 just

00:35:42.240 --> 00:35:42.480
 very

00:35:42.480 --> 00:35:43.140
 concrete

00:35:43.140 --> 00:35:43.519
 and

00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:43.920
 medley

00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.160
 and

00:35:45.160 --> 00:35:46.120
 for

00:35:46.120 --> 00:35:46.320
 them

00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:46.480
 to

00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:46.800
 somehow

00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:47.120
 think

00:35:47.120 --> 00:35:47.300
 no

00:35:47.300 --> 00:35:47.460
 no

00:35:47.460 --> 00:35:47.660
 no

00:35:47.660 --> 00:35:47.960
 no

00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:48.820
 dad

00:35:48.820 --> 00:35:49.220
 or

00:35:49.220 --> 00:35:49.940
 brother

00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:50.220
 or

00:35:50.220 --> 00:35:50.660
 sister

00:35:50.660 --> 00:35:51.559
 I'm

00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:51.720
 not

00:35:51.720 --> 00:35:51.980
 in a

00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:52.300
 jail

00:35:52.300 --> 00:35:53.280
 I'm

00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:53.500
 in a

00:35:53.500 --> 00:35:53.820
 five

00:35:53.820 --> 00:35:54.140
 star

00:35:54.140 --> 00:35:54.600
 hotel

00:35:54.600 --> 00:35:54.800
 and

00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:55.160
 resort

00:35:55.160 --> 00:35:55.860
 I'm

00:35:55.860 --> 00:35:56.039
 eating

00:35:56.039 --> 00:35:56.220
 the

00:35:56.220 --> 00:35:56.460
 best

00:35:56.460 --> 00:35:56.880
 food

00:35:56.880 --> 00:35:57.420
 what

00:35:57.420 --> 00:35:57.600
 you

00:35:57.600 --> 00:35:57.780
 want

00:35:57.780 --> 00:35:57.880
 to

00:35:57.880 --> 00:35:58.180
 do

00:35:58.180 --> 00:35:58.560
 is

00:35:58.560 --> 00:35:59.019
 you

00:35:59.019 --> 00:35:59.280
 want

00:35:59.280 --> 00:35:59.380
 to

00:35:59.380 --> 00:35:59.600
 have

00:35:59.600 --> 00:36:00.200
 something

00:36:00.200 --> 00:36:00.760
 to

00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:00.980
 get

00:36:00.980 --> 00:36:01.180
 you

00:36:01.180 --> 00:36:01.640
 almost

00:36:01.640 --> 00:36:01.960
 want

00:36:01.960 --> 00:36:02.200
 the

00:36:02.200 --> 00:36:02.539
 jail

00:36:02.539 --> 00:36:02.740
 to

00:36:02.740 --> 00:36:02.900
 be

00:36:02.900 --> 00:36:03.120
 more

00:36:03.120 --> 00:36:03.640
 jail

00:36:03.640 --> 00:36:04.039
 like

00:36:04.039 --> 00:36:04.300
 so

00:36:04.300 --> 00:36:04.420
 it

00:36:04.420 --> 00:36:04.560
 will

00:36:04.560 --> 00:36:04.940
 break

00:36:04.940 --> 00:36:05.440
 through

00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:06.500
 their

00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:07.220
 fantasy

00:36:07.220 --> 00:36:07.940
 for

00:36:07.940 --> 00:36:08.120
 them

00:36:08.120 --> 00:36:08.260
 to

00:36:08.260 --> 00:36:08.600
 realize

00:36:08.600 --> 00:36:08.820
 they're

00:36:08.820 --> 00:36:08.980
 in

00:36:08.980 --> 00:36:09.380
 jail

00:36:09.380 --> 00:36:09.920
 so

00:36:09.920 --> 00:36:10.100
 they

00:36:10.100 --> 00:36:10.300
 can

00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:10.740
 actually

00:36:10.740 --> 00:36:11.019
 then

00:36:11.019 --> 00:36:11.280
 have

00:36:11.280 --> 00:36:11.440
 the

00:36:11.440 --> 00:36:12.000
 desire

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:12.260
 to

00:36:12.260 --> 00:36:12.580
 ask

00:36:12.580 --> 00:36:12.820
 for

00:36:12.820 --> 00:36:12.980
 the

00:36:12.980 --> 00:36:13.620
 promise

00:36:13.620 --> 00:36:13.920
 for

00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:14.120
 the

00:36:14.120 --> 00:36:14.860
 thing

00:36:14.860 --> 00:36:15.019
 that

00:36:15.019 --> 00:36:15.120
 will

00:36:15.120 --> 00:36:15.300
 get

00:36:15.300 --> 00:36:15.480
 them

00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:15.720
 out

00:36:15.720 --> 00:36:16.840
 and

00:36:16.840 --> 00:36:17.260
 that's

00:36:17.260 --> 00:36:17.400
 what

00:36:17.400 --> 00:36:17.720
 Paul

00:36:17.720 --> 00:36:17.920
 is

00:36:17.920 --> 00:36:18.240
 saying

00:36:18.240 --> 00:36:18.480
 is

00:36:18.480 --> 00:36:18.720
 that

00:36:18.720 --> 00:36:19.140
 you

00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:25.560
 rules

00:36:25.560 --> 00:36:25.920
 his

00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:26.160
 own

00:36:26.160 --> 00:36:26.720
 laws

00:36:26.720 --> 00:36:26.960
 in

00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:27.180
 terms

00:36:27.180 --> 00:36:27.320
 of

00:36:27.320 --> 00:36:27.660
 how

00:36:27.660 --> 00:36:28.420
 a

00:36:28.420 --> 00:36:28.660
 holy

00:36:28.660 --> 00:36:29.260
 society

00:36:29.260 --> 00:36:29.539
 should

00:36:29.539 --> 00:36:29.760
 look

00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:29.920
 how

00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:30.080
 a

00:36:30.080 --> 00:36:30.240
 holy

00:36:30.240 --> 00:36:30.720
 society

00:36:30.720 --> 00:36:30.960
 should

00:36:30.960 --> 00:36:31.180
 work

00:36:31.180 --> 00:36:31.320
 how

00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:31.440
 it

00:36:31.440 --> 00:36:31.560
 should

00:36:31.560 --> 00:36:31.800
 care

00:36:31.800 --> 00:36:31.980
 for

00:36:31.980 --> 00:36:32.080
 the

00:36:32.080 --> 00:36:32.300
 poor

00:36:32.300 --> 00:36:32.420
 and

00:36:32.420 --> 00:36:32.620
 care

00:36:32.620 --> 00:36:32.820
 for

00:36:32.820 --> 00:36:32.920
 the

00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:33.280
 environment

00:36:33.280 --> 00:36:33.480
 and

00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:33.700
 care

00:36:33.700 --> 00:36:33.900
 for

00:36:33.900 --> 00:36:34.320
 marriages

00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:35.100
 and

00:36:35.100 --> 00:36:35.360
 the

00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:35.720
 ritual

00:36:35.720 --> 00:36:35.960
 thing

00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:36.340
 need

00:36:36.340 --> 00:36:36.440
 to

00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:36.560
 be

00:36:36.560 --> 00:36:36.780
 done

00:36:36.780 --> 00:36:37.200
 to

00:36:37.200 --> 00:36:37.420
 make

00:36:37.420 --> 00:36:37.539
 you

00:36:37.539 --> 00:36:37.720
 right

00:36:37.720 --> 00:36:37.900
 with

00:36:37.900 --> 00:36:38.260
 God

00:36:38.260 --> 00:36:38.800
 and

00:36:38.800 --> 00:36:39.320
 God

00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:39.680
 actually

00:36:39.680 --> 00:36:40.160
 provides

00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:40.320
 that

00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:40.460
 to

00:36:40.460 --> 00:36:40.640
 try

00:36:40.640 --> 00:36:40.820
 to

00:36:40.820 --> 00:36:41.200
 break

00:36:41.200 --> 00:36:41.760
 through

00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:42.900
 our

00:36:42.900 --> 00:36:43.840
 our

00:36:43.840 --> 00:36:45.220
 our

00:36:45.220 --> 00:36:45.860
 complete

00:36:45.860 --> 00:36:46.440
 and utter

00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:46.940
 often

00:36:46.940 --> 00:36:47.500
 refusal

00:36:47.500 --> 00:36:47.820
 to

00:36:47.820 --> 00:36:48.380
 recognize

00:36:48.380 --> 00:36:51.539
 that

00:36:51.539 --> 00:36:51.680
 we

00:36:51.680 --> 00:36:51.980
 still

00:36:51.980 --> 00:36:52.480
 sin

00:36:52.480 --> 00:36:53.460
 that

00:36:53.460 --> 00:36:53.619
 we're

00:36:53.619 --> 00:36:53.760
 going

00:36:53.760 --> 00:36:53.880
 to

00:36:53.880 --> 00:36:54.300
 die

00:36:54.300 --> 00:36:55.159
 like

00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:55.360
 it's

00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:55.659
 actually

00:36:55.659 --> 00:36:55.920
 quite

00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:56.400
 amazing

00:36:56.400 --> 00:36:56.679
 for

00:36:56.679 --> 00:36:56.940
 most

00:36:56.940 --> 00:36:57.099
 of

00:36:57.099 --> 00:36:57.400
 us

00:36:57.400 --> 00:37:00.179
 nobody

00:37:00.179 --> 00:37:00.559
 here

00:37:00.559 --> 00:37:00.740
 has

00:37:00.740 --> 00:37:00.980
 lived

00:37:00.980 --> 00:37:01.400
 forever

00:37:01.400 --> 00:37:03.360
 all

00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:03.500
 of

00:37:03.500 --> 00:37:03.639
 us

00:37:03.639 --> 00:37:03.820
 had

00:37:03.820 --> 00:37:03.960
 a

00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:04.320
 beginning

00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:05.980
 I

00:37:05.980 --> 00:37:06.099
 don't

00:37:06.099 --> 00:37:06.220
 want

00:37:06.220 --> 00:37:06.320
 to

00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:06.720
 depress

00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:07.039
 you

00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:07.840
 but

00:37:07.840 --> 00:37:08.019
 you're

00:37:08.019 --> 00:37:08.220
 all

00:37:08.220 --> 00:37:08.400
 going

00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:08.519
 to

00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:08.900
 die

00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:10.840
 unless

00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:11.179
 Jesus

00:37:11.179 --> 00:37:11.500
 comes

00:37:11.500 --> 00:37:11.800
 back

00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:12.220
 first

00:37:12.220 --> 00:37:13.440
 and

00:37:13.440 --> 00:37:13.599
 you're

00:37:13.599 --> 00:37:13.740
 all

00:37:13.740 --> 00:37:14.000
 very

00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:14.460
 limited

00:37:14.460 --> 00:37:16.400
 so

00:37:16.400 --> 00:37:16.539
 you're

00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:16.720
 all

00:37:16.720 --> 00:37:17.199
 finite

00:37:17.199 --> 00:37:18.079
 but

00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:18.380
 why

00:37:18.380 --> 00:37:18.720
 is it

00:37:18.720 --> 00:37:18.860
 that

00:37:18.860 --> 00:37:19.000
 we

00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:19.280
 so

00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:19.820
 easily

00:37:19.820 --> 00:37:20.260
 think

00:37:20.260 --> 00:37:20.460
 that

00:37:20.460 --> 00:37:20.639
 we're

00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:20.880
 like

00:37:20.880 --> 00:37:21.440
 God

00:37:21.440 --> 00:37:23.740
 why

00:37:23.740 --> 00:37:23.880
 do

00:37:23.880 --> 00:37:24.000
 we

00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:24.220
 so

00:37:24.220 --> 00:37:24.740
 easily

00:37:24.740 --> 00:37:25.119
 fill

00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:25.599
 ourselves

00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:25.920
 with

00:37:25.920 --> 00:37:26.380
 arrogant

00:37:26.380 --> 00:37:26.960
 thoughts

00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:27.200
 of

00:37:27.200 --> 00:37:27.659
 power

00:37:27.659 --> 00:37:29.940
 when

00:37:29.940 --> 00:37:30.119
 a

00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:30.700
 microscopic

00:37:30.700 --> 00:37:31.500
 germ

00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:31.800
 can

00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:32.220
 kill

00:37:32.220 --> 00:37:32.720
 us

00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:38.420
 and

00:37:38.420 --> 00:37:38.720
 God

00:37:38.720 --> 00:37:39.019
 needs

00:37:39.019 --> 00:37:39.220
 to

00:37:39.220 --> 00:37:39.460
 sell

00:37:39.460 --> 00:37:39.639
 the

00:37:39.639 --> 00:37:40.099
 problem

00:37:40.099 --> 00:37:40.400
 to

00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:40.659
 us

00:37:40.659 --> 00:37:40.980
 so

00:37:40.980 --> 00:37:41.119
 that

00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:41.240
 we

00:37:41.240 --> 00:37:41.460
 need

00:37:41.460 --> 00:37:41.599
 to

00:37:41.599 --> 00:37:42.400
 call

00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:42.599
 out

00:37:42.599 --> 00:37:42.760
 to

00:37:42.760 --> 00:37:43.320
 God

00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:44.860
 and

00:37:44.860 --> 00:37:45.280
 receive

00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:45.539
 his

00:37:45.539 --> 00:37:45.960
 promise

00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:46.220
 to

00:37:46.220 --> 00:37:46.619
 bless

00:37:46.619 --> 00:37:51.739
 and

00:37:51.739 --> 00:37:51.839
 the

00:37:51.839 --> 00:37:51.980
 law

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:52.179
 does

00:37:52.179 --> 00:37:52.500
 something

00:37:52.500 --> 00:37:52.779
 else

00:37:52.779 --> 00:37:52.980
 just

00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:53.239
 very

00:37:53.239 --> 00:37:53.659
 quickly

00:37:53.659 --> 00:37:53.900
 because

00:37:53.900 --> 00:37:54.039
 I'm

00:37:54.039 --> 00:37:54.179
 running

00:37:54.179 --> 00:37:54.319
 out

00:37:54.319 --> 00:37:54.420
 of

00:37:54.420 --> 00:37:54.579
 time

00:37:54.579 --> 00:37:54.699
 if

00:37:54.699 --> 00:37:54.779
 you

00:37:54.779 --> 00:37:54.900
 could

00:37:54.900 --> 00:37:55.019
 wrap

00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:55.159
 the

00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:55.359
 next

00:37:55.359 --> 00:37:55.739
 point

00:37:55.739 --> 00:37:57.900
 remember

00:37:57.900 --> 00:37:58.059
 that

00:37:58.059 --> 00:37:58.239
 whole

00:37:58.239 --> 00:37:58.440
 thing

00:37:58.440 --> 00:37:58.679
 about

00:37:58.679 --> 00:37:59.179
 George

00:37:59.179 --> 00:37:59.440
 are you

00:37:59.440 --> 00:37:59.699
 saying

00:37:59.699 --> 00:37:59.880
 that

00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:00.440
 you

00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:00.819
 can

00:38:00.819 --> 00:38:00.960
 just

00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:01.639
 disregard

00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:02.079
 that

00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:02.279
 you

00:38:02.279 --> 00:38:02.639
 should

00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:02.839
 not

00:38:02.839 --> 00:38:03.099
 commit

00:38:03.099 --> 00:38:03.619
 adultery

00:38:03.619 --> 00:38:04.599
 hopefully

00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:05.099
 you believe

00:38:05.099 --> 00:38:05.359
 that

00:38:05.359 --> 00:38:06.179
 your wife

00:38:06.179 --> 00:38:06.440
 hopes

00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:06.579
 you

00:38:06.579 --> 00:38:06.839
 believe

00:38:06.839 --> 00:38:06.980
 it

00:38:06.980 --> 00:38:07.119
 and

00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:07.279
 I

00:38:07.279 --> 00:38:07.400
 know

00:38:07.400 --> 00:38:07.539
 you

00:38:07.539 --> 00:38:07.699
 hope

00:38:07.699 --> 00:38:07.859
 your

00:38:07.859 --> 00:38:08.079
 wife

00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:08.420
 believes

00:38:08.420 --> 00:38:08.599
 it

00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:08.739
 and

00:38:08.739 --> 00:38:09.000
 we

00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:09.259
 both

00:38:09.259 --> 00:38:09.599
 do

00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:10.819
 and

00:38:10.819 --> 00:38:11.019
 here

00:38:11.019 --> 00:38:11.259
 the

00:38:11.259 --> 00:38:11.799
 law

00:38:11.799 --> 00:38:12.059
 was

00:38:12.059 --> 00:38:12.539
 your

00:38:12.539 --> 00:38:13.259
 version

00:38:13.259 --> 00:38:13.539
 some

00:38:13.539 --> 00:38:13.659
 of

00:38:13.659 --> 00:38:13.779
 your

00:38:13.780 --> 00:38:14.140
 versions

00:38:14.140 --> 00:38:14.340
 will

00:38:14.340 --> 00:38:14.519
 say

00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:14.900
 guardian

00:38:14.900 --> 00:38:15.160
 some

00:38:15.160 --> 00:38:15.320
 will

00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:15.480
 say

00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:15.900
 teacher

00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:16.240
 there's

00:38:16.240 --> 00:38:17.200
 an

00:38:17.200 --> 00:38:17.720
 original

00:38:17.720 --> 00:38:18.180
 language

00:38:18.180 --> 00:38:18.560
 word

00:38:18.560 --> 00:38:18.820
 there

00:38:18.820 --> 00:38:19.019
 that

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:19.280
 doesn't

00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:19.460
 have

00:38:19.460 --> 00:38:19.600
 an

00:38:19.600 --> 00:38:19.940
 easy

00:38:19.940 --> 00:38:20.540
 English

00:38:20.540 --> 00:38:22.180
 equivalent

00:38:22.180 --> 00:38:23.920
 guardian

00:38:23.920 --> 00:38:24.400
 sort

00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:24.500
 of

00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:24.660
 is

00:38:24.660 --> 00:38:24.920
 right

00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:25.140
 but

00:38:25.140 --> 00:38:25.300
 not

00:38:25.300 --> 00:38:25.740
 entirely

00:38:25.740 --> 00:38:26.280
 teacher

00:38:26.280 --> 00:38:26.780
 task

00:38:26.780 --> 00:38:27.180
 master

00:38:27.180 --> 00:38:27.440
 has

00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:27.560
 to

00:38:27.560 --> 00:38:27.700
 be

00:38:27.700 --> 00:38:27.940
 added

00:38:27.940 --> 00:38:28.100
 to

00:38:28.100 --> 00:38:28.220
 get

00:38:28.220 --> 00:38:28.320
 a

00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:28.400
 bit

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:28.500
 of

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:28.640
 a

00:38:28.640 --> 00:38:28.980
 sense

00:38:28.980 --> 00:38:29.660
 the

00:38:29.660 --> 00:38:29.820
 law

00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:30.019
 was

00:38:30.019 --> 00:38:30.160
 a

00:38:30.160 --> 00:38:30.500
 guardian

00:38:30.500 --> 00:38:30.940
 teacher

00:38:30.940 --> 00:38:31.400
 task

00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:31.780
 master

00:38:31.780 --> 00:38:32.000
 until

00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:32.160
 the

00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:32.540
 promise

00:38:32.540 --> 00:38:32.880
 came

00:38:32.880 --> 00:38:33.019
 it

00:38:33.019 --> 00:38:33.160
 was

00:38:33.160 --> 00:38:33.320
 not

00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:33.500
 the

00:38:33.500 --> 00:38:33.820
 promise

00:38:33.820 --> 00:38:34.260
 itself

00:38:34.260 --> 00:38:36.060
 in

00:38:36.060 --> 00:38:36.180
 other

00:38:36.180 --> 00:38:36.320
 words

00:38:36.320 --> 00:38:36.460
 it's

00:38:36.460 --> 00:38:36.600
 all

00:38:36.600 --> 00:38:36.800
 part

00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:36.920
 of

00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:37.080
 God

00:38:37.080 --> 00:38:37.400
 telling

00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:37.580
 us

00:38:37.580 --> 00:38:37.740
 the

00:38:37.740 --> 00:38:38.220
 problem

00:38:43.780 --> 00:38:44.019
 do

00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:44.160
 and

00:38:44.160 --> 00:38:44.260
 what

00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:44.380
 we

00:38:44.380 --> 00:38:44.519
 had

00:38:44.519 --> 00:38:44.660
 to

00:38:44.660 --> 00:38:45.420
 accomplish

00:38:45.420 --> 00:38:47.019
 if

00:38:47.019 --> 00:38:47.180
 we

00:38:47.180 --> 00:38:47.540
 treated

00:38:47.540 --> 00:38:47.740
 it

00:38:47.740 --> 00:38:47.860
 as

00:38:47.860 --> 00:38:47.940
 a

00:38:47.940 --> 00:38:48.040
 way

00:38:48.040 --> 00:38:48.140
 to

00:38:48.140 --> 00:38:48.300
 make

00:38:48.300 --> 00:38:48.580
 ourselves

00:38:48.580 --> 00:38:48.820
 right

00:38:48.820 --> 00:38:48.960
 with

00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:49.140
 God

00:38:49.140 --> 00:38:49.260
 it

00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:49.640
 completely

00:38:49.640 --> 00:38:50.019
 and utterly

00:38:50.019 --> 00:38:50.660
 failed

00:38:50.660 --> 00:38:52.920
 but

00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:55.420
 here's

00:38:55.420 --> 00:38:55.560
 the

00:38:55.560 --> 00:38:56.060
 illustration

00:38:56.060 --> 00:38:56.440
 maybe

00:38:56.440 --> 00:38:56.740
 this is

00:38:56.740 --> 00:38:56.940
 an

00:38:56.940 --> 00:38:57.280
 illustration

00:38:57.280 --> 00:38:57.560
 to help

00:38:57.560 --> 00:38:57.680
 you

00:38:57.680 --> 00:38:58.019
 understand

00:38:58.019 --> 00:38:58.180
 what

00:38:58.180 --> 00:38:58.400
 Paul

00:38:58.400 --> 00:38:58.500
 is

00:38:58.500 --> 00:38:58.660
 trying

00:38:58.660 --> 00:38:58.740
 to

00:38:58.740 --> 00:38:58.880
 make

00:38:58.880 --> 00:38:58.960
 it

00:38:58.960 --> 00:38:59.160
 remember

00:38:59.160 --> 00:38:59.300
 I

00:38:59.300 --> 00:38:59.540
 said

00:38:59.540 --> 00:38:59.720
 that

00:38:59.720 --> 00:39:01.160
 living

00:39:01.160 --> 00:39:01.820
 believing

00:39:01.820 --> 00:39:02.140
 in a

00:39:02.140 --> 00:39:02.640
 promise

00:39:02.640 --> 00:39:02.980
 is

00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:03.400
 vastly

00:39:03.400 --> 00:39:03.840
 different

00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:04.019
 than

00:39:04.019 --> 00:39:04.200
 needing

00:39:04.200 --> 00:39:04.420
 to

00:39:04.420 --> 00:39:04.900
 perform

00:39:04.900 --> 00:39:10.080
 if

00:39:10.080 --> 00:39:10.519
 somebody

00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:10.860
 from

00:39:10.860 --> 00:39:11.019
 the

00:39:11.019 --> 00:39:11.240
 church

00:39:11.240 --> 00:39:11.460
 said

00:39:11.460 --> 00:39:11.560
 you

00:39:11.560 --> 00:39:11.680
 know

00:39:11.680 --> 00:39:12.000
 George

00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:12.220
 if

00:39:12.220 --> 00:39:12.360
 you

00:39:12.360 --> 00:39:12.600
 start

00:39:12.600 --> 00:39:12.940
 cleaning

00:39:12.940 --> 00:39:13.240
 my

00:39:13.240 --> 00:39:13.640
 cottage

00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:13.940
 on a

00:39:13.940 --> 00:39:14.239
 regular

00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:14.699
 basis

00:39:14.699 --> 00:39:15.159
 maybe

00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:15.779
 someday

00:39:15.779 --> 00:39:16.139
 I'll

00:39:16.139 --> 00:39:16.319
 let

00:39:16.319 --> 00:39:16.519
 you

00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:16.859
 stay

00:39:16.859 --> 00:39:17.239
 there

00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:19.519
 well

00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:19.619
 I

00:39:19.619 --> 00:39:19.779
 probably

00:39:19.779 --> 00:39:20.019
 wouldn't

00:39:20.019 --> 00:39:20.480
 start

00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.759
 in a

00:39:22.759 --> 00:39:22.900
 sense

00:39:22.900 --> 00:39:22.980
 I

00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:23.059
 would

00:39:23.059 --> 00:39:23.159
 be

00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:23.319
 like

00:39:23.319 --> 00:39:23.519
 an

00:39:23.519 --> 00:39:24.379
 irreligious

00:39:24.379 --> 00:39:24.960
 person

00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:25.819
 I

00:39:25.819 --> 00:39:26.019
 just

00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:26.159
 say

00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:26.219
 I

00:39:26.219 --> 00:39:26.319
 have

00:39:26.319 --> 00:39:26.500
 better

00:39:26.500 --> 00:39:26.739
 things

00:39:26.739 --> 00:39:26.900
 to do

00:39:26.900 --> 00:39:27.099
 on a

00:39:27.099 --> 00:39:27.299
 Sunday

00:39:27.299 --> 00:39:27.739
 afternoon

00:39:27.739 --> 00:39:28.119
 NFL

00:39:28.119 --> 00:39:28.359
 is

00:39:28.359 --> 00:39:28.500
 on

00:39:28.500 --> 00:39:28.699
 this

00:39:28.699 --> 00:39:29.159
 afternoon

00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:29.799
 and

00:39:29.799 --> 00:39:31.000
 my

00:39:31.000 --> 00:39:31.319
 bed

00:39:31.319 --> 00:39:31.900
 beckons

00:39:31.900 --> 00:39:32.199
 for a

00:39:32.199 --> 00:39:32.500
 nap

00:39:32.500 --> 00:39:33.480
 going

00:39:33.480 --> 00:39:33.739
 to a

00:39:33.739 --> 00:39:33.980
 cottage

00:39:33.980 --> 00:39:34.199
 to

00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:34.480
 clean

00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:34.599
 it

00:39:34.599 --> 00:39:34.759
 in the

00:39:34.759 --> 00:39:34.920
 hope

00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:35.079
 that

00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:35.339
 next

00:39:35.339 --> 00:39:35.559
 year

00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:35.719
 you

00:39:35.719 --> 00:39:35.900
 might

00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:36.079
 let

00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:36.219
 me

00:39:36.219 --> 00:39:36.379
 use

00:39:36.379 --> 00:39:36.539
 the

00:39:36.539 --> 00:39:36.879
 cottage

00:39:36.879 --> 00:39:37.379
 nah

00:39:37.379 --> 00:39:37.539
 I

00:39:37.539 --> 00:39:37.699
 don't

00:39:37.699 --> 00:39:37.920
 think

00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:38.239
 so

00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:39.259
 maybe

00:39:39.259 --> 00:39:39.459
 I

00:39:39.459 --> 00:39:39.599
 get

00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:39.699
 a

00:39:39.699 --> 00:39:39.799
 little

00:39:39.799 --> 00:39:39.939
 bit

00:39:39.939 --> 00:39:40.119
 filled

00:39:40.119 --> 00:39:40.279
 with

00:39:40.279 --> 00:39:40.659
 optimism

00:39:40.659 --> 00:39:40.899
 I

00:39:40.899 --> 00:39:41.179
 try

00:39:41.179 --> 00:39:41.319
 it

00:39:41.319 --> 00:39:41.459
 for

00:39:41.459 --> 00:39:41.559
 a

00:39:41.559 --> 00:39:41.859
 while

00:39:41.859 --> 00:39:42.459
 but

00:39:42.459 --> 00:39:42.619
 even

00:39:42.619 --> 00:39:42.779
 if

00:39:42.779 --> 00:39:42.919
 I

00:39:42.919 --> 00:39:43.199
 did

00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:43.459
 it

00:39:43.459 --> 00:39:43.679
 I

00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:43.799
 would

00:39:43.799 --> 00:39:44.139
 probably

00:39:44.139 --> 00:39:44.599
 eventually

00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:44.779
 be

00:39:44.779 --> 00:39:44.959
 doing

00:39:44.959 --> 00:39:45.059
 it

00:39:45.059 --> 00:39:45.179
 with

00:39:45.179 --> 00:39:45.259
 a

00:39:45.259 --> 00:39:45.399
 lot

00:39:45.399 --> 00:39:45.500
 of

00:39:45.500 --> 00:39:45.979
 grudging

00:39:45.979 --> 00:39:46.279
 sense

00:39:46.279 --> 00:39:46.439
 and

00:39:46.439 --> 00:39:46.699
 that's

00:39:46.699 --> 00:39:46.839
 what

00:39:46.839 --> 00:39:47.219
 religion

00:39:47.219 --> 00:39:47.459
 and

00:39:47.459 --> 00:39:47.859
 spirituality

00:39:47.859 --> 00:39:48.359
 does

00:39:48.359 --> 00:39:48.539
 to

00:39:48.539 --> 00:39:48.699
 us

00:39:48.699 --> 00:39:48.819
 it

00:39:48.819 --> 00:39:49.059
 creates

00:39:49.059 --> 00:39:49.779
 anxiety

00:39:49.779 --> 00:39:50.799
 it

00:39:50.799 --> 00:39:51.099
 creates

00:39:51.099 --> 00:39:51.479
 false

00:39:51.479 --> 00:39:51.879
 hopes

00:39:51.879 --> 00:39:52.099
 it

00:39:52.099 --> 00:39:52.500
 creates

00:39:52.500 --> 00:39:53.119
 resentment

00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:55.119
 but

00:39:55.119 --> 00:39:55.319
 let

00:39:55.319 --> 00:39:55.439
 me

00:39:55.439 --> 00:39:55.719
 tell

00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:56.019
 you

00:39:56.019 --> 00:39:56.379
 when

00:39:56.379 --> 00:39:56.719
 Louise

00:39:56.719 --> 00:39:56.899
 and

00:39:56.899 --> 00:39:57.159
 I

00:39:57.159 --> 00:39:58.019
 are

00:39:58.019 --> 00:39:58.579
 leaving

00:39:58.579 --> 00:39:58.819
 the

00:39:58.819 --> 00:39:59.179
 cottage

00:39:59.179 --> 00:40:01.139
 we

00:40:01.139 --> 00:40:01.519
 clean

00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:01.759
 that

00:40:01.759 --> 00:40:02.119
 cottage

00:40:02.119 --> 00:40:02.419
 really

00:40:02.419 --> 00:40:02.779
 well

00:40:02.779 --> 00:40:05.419
 out

00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:09.139
 not

00:40:09.139 --> 00:40:09.379
 out

00:40:09.379 --> 00:40:09.479
 of

00:40:09.479 --> 00:40:09.579
 a

00:40:09.579 --> 00:40:09.959
 desire

00:40:09.959 --> 00:40:10.199
 to

00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:10.739
 perform

00:40:10.739 --> 00:40:12.079
 but

00:40:12.079 --> 00:40:12.199
 out

00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:12.299
 of

00:40:12.299 --> 00:40:12.699
 gratitude

00:40:12.699 --> 00:40:15.699
 and

00:40:15.699 --> 00:40:15.979
 that's

00:40:15.979 --> 00:40:16.119
 the

00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:16.539
 difference

00:40:16.539 --> 00:40:16.779
 the

00:40:16.779 --> 00:40:17.159
 gospel

00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:17.659
 makes

00:40:17.659 --> 00:40:18.939
 as

00:40:18.939 --> 00:40:19.059
 it

00:40:19.059 --> 00:40:19.299
 starts

00:40:19.299 --> 00:40:19.500
 to

00:40:19.500 --> 00:40:19.679
 grip

00:40:19.679 --> 00:40:20.000
 us

00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:23.019
 if

00:40:23.019 --> 00:40:23.139
 you

00:40:23.139 --> 00:40:23.279
 could

00:40:23.279 --> 00:40:23.459
 put

00:40:23.459 --> 00:40:23.619
 up

00:40:23.619 --> 00:40:23.839
 the

00:40:23.839 --> 00:40:24.399
 final

00:40:24.399 --> 00:40:24.839
 point

00:40:24.839 --> 00:40:26.719
 believe

00:40:26.719 --> 00:40:27.179
 his

00:40:27.179 --> 00:40:27.679
 promise

00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:27.919
 to

00:40:27.919 --> 00:40:28.319
 become

00:40:28.319 --> 00:40:28.619
 his

00:40:28.619 --> 00:40:29.119
 child

00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:30.559
 believe

00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:30.919
 the

00:40:30.919 --> 00:40:31.459
 promises

00:40:31.459 --> 00:40:32.139
 of

00:40:32.139 --> 00:40:32.299
 the

00:40:32.299 --> 00:40:32.859
 promise

00:40:32.859 --> 00:40:33.619
 to

00:40:33.619 --> 00:40:33.799
 live

00:40:33.799 --> 00:40:33.939
 as

00:40:33.939 --> 00:40:34.079
 his

00:40:34.079 --> 00:40:34.399
 child

00:40:34.399 --> 00:40:37.539
 believe

00:40:37.539 --> 00:40:37.920
 his

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:38.380
 promise

00:40:38.380 --> 00:40:38.619
 to

00:40:38.619 --> 00:40:39.019
 become

00:40:39.019 --> 00:40:39.279
 his

00:40:39.279 --> 00:40:39.759
 child

00:40:39.759 --> 00:40:40.860
 believe

00:40:40.860 --> 00:40:41.119
 the

00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:41.639
 promises

00:40:41.639 --> 00:40:42.500
 of

00:40:42.500 --> 00:40:42.659
 the

00:40:42.659 --> 00:40:43.139
 promise

00:40:43.139 --> 00:40:44.099
 to

00:40:44.099 --> 00:40:44.259
 live

00:40:44.259 --> 00:40:44.400
 as

00:40:44.400 --> 00:40:44.559
 his

00:40:44.559 --> 00:40:44.860
 child

00:40:44.860 --> 00:40:49.199
 Jesus

00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:49.599
 is

00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:49.800
 the

00:40:49.800 --> 00:40:50.279
 promise

00:40:50.279 --> 00:40:51.440
 he's

00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:51.840
 God's

00:40:51.840 --> 00:40:52.179
 promise

00:40:52.179 --> 00:40:52.420
 to

00:40:52.420 --> 00:40:52.759
 bless

00:40:52.759 --> 00:40:54.619
 and

00:40:54.619 --> 00:40:54.759
 as

00:40:54.759 --> 00:40:54.880
 he

00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:55.139
 dies

00:40:55.139 --> 00:40:55.400
 upon

00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:55.599
 the

00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:56.000
 cross

00:40:56.000 --> 00:40:56.579
 we

00:40:56.579 --> 00:40:56.900
 see

00:40:56.900 --> 00:40:57.119
 the

00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:57.599
 promise

00:40:57.599 --> 00:40:58.179
 kept

00:40:58.179 --> 00:40:59.159
 and

00:40:59.159 --> 00:40:59.259
 he

00:40:59.259 --> 00:40:59.400
 is

00:40:59.400 --> 00:40:59.739
 always

00:40:59.739 --> 00:41:00.059
 to

00:41:00.059 --> 00:41:00.460
 us

00:41:00.460 --> 00:41:01.679
 promise

00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:04.400
 one

00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:04.480
 of

00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:04.599
 the

00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:04.880
 things

00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:05.179
 for

00:41:05.179 --> 00:41:05.539
 us

00:41:05.539 --> 00:41:06.159
 is

00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:06.320
 we

00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:06.480
 will

00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:06.739
 read

00:41:06.739 --> 00:41:06.920
 the

00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:07.340
 promises

00:41:07.340 --> 00:41:07.539
 in

00:41:07.539 --> 00:41:07.660
 the

00:41:07.660 --> 00:41:07.920
 Bible

00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:08.200
 after

00:41:08.200 --> 00:41:08.340
 we

00:41:08.340 --> 00:41:08.539
 put

00:41:08.539 --> 00:41:08.660
 our

00:41:08.660 --> 00:41:09.019
 hope

00:41:09.019 --> 00:41:09.220
 and

00:41:09.220 --> 00:41:09.500
 trust

00:41:09.500 --> 00:41:09.640
 in

00:41:09.640 --> 00:41:09.760
 the

00:41:09.760 --> 00:41:10.079
 promise

00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:10.280
 and

00:41:10.280 --> 00:41:10.400
 there

00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:10.500
 will

00:41:10.500 --> 00:41:10.620
 be

00:41:10.620 --> 00:41:10.940
 times

00:41:10.940 --> 00:41:11.100
 we

00:41:11.100 --> 00:41:11.200
 are

00:41:11.200 --> 00:41:11.320
 going

00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:11.420
 to

00:41:11.420 --> 00:41:11.620
 feel

00:41:11.620 --> 00:41:11.740
 that

00:41:11.740 --> 00:41:11.840
 we

00:41:11.840 --> 00:41:11.900
 are

00:41:11.900 --> 00:41:12.140
 very

00:41:12.140 --> 00:41:12.720
 disappointed

00:41:12.720 --> 00:41:13.019
 one

00:41:13.019 --> 00:41:13.100
 of

00:41:13.100 --> 00:41:13.200
 the

00:41:13.200 --> 00:41:13.539
 problems

00:41:13.539 --> 00:41:13.780
 we

00:41:13.780 --> 00:41:14.200
 have

00:41:14.200 --> 00:41:15.380
 is

00:41:15.380 --> 00:41:15.539
 we

00:41:15.539 --> 00:41:16.059
 imagine

00:41:16.059 --> 00:41:17.180
 what

00:41:17.180 --> 00:41:17.559
 God's

00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:17.960
 promises

00:41:17.960 --> 00:41:18.400
 say

00:41:18.400 --> 00:41:19.019
 rather

00:41:19.019 --> 00:41:19.200
 than

00:41:19.200 --> 00:41:19.500
 actually

00:41:19.500 --> 00:41:19.840
 listen

00:41:19.840 --> 00:41:20.019
 to

00:41:20.019 --> 00:41:20.200
 what

00:41:20.200 --> 00:41:20.400
 they

00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:20.800
 say

00:41:20.800 --> 00:41:23.559
 but

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:23.720
 we

00:41:23.720 --> 00:41:23.820
 are

00:41:23.820 --> 00:41:23.900
 to

00:41:23.900 --> 00:41:24.019
 be

00:41:24.019 --> 00:41:24.160
 a

00:41:24.160 --> 00:41:24.600
 promise

00:41:24.600 --> 00:41:24.960
 driven

00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:25.460
 people

00:41:25.460 --> 00:41:27.380
 and

00:41:27.380 --> 00:41:27.559
 when

00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:27.760
 it

00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:28.079
 seems

00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:28.280
 that

00:41:28.280 --> 00:41:28.740
 sometimes

00:41:28.740 --> 00:41:28.980
 some

00:41:28.980 --> 00:41:29.059
 of

00:41:29.059 --> 00:41:29.160
 the

00:41:29.160 --> 00:41:29.579
 promises

00:41:29.579 --> 00:41:29.820
 that

00:41:29.820 --> 00:41:30.000
 God

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:30.280
 makes

00:41:30.280 --> 00:41:30.460
 to

00:41:30.460 --> 00:41:30.660
 us

00:41:30.659 --> 00:41:30.859
 the

00:41:30.859 --> 00:41:31.359
 individual

00:41:31.359 --> 00:41:31.759
 ones

00:41:31.759 --> 00:41:31.980
 aren't

00:41:31.980 --> 00:41:32.179
 being

00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:32.539
 kept

00:41:32.539 --> 00:41:32.779
 then

00:41:32.779 --> 00:41:33.019
 that's

00:41:33.019 --> 00:41:33.139
 a

00:41:33.139 --> 00:41:33.279
 good

00:41:33.279 --> 00:41:33.559
 time

00:41:33.559 --> 00:41:33.719
 to

00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:33.940
 call

00:41:33.940 --> 00:41:34.099
 out

00:41:34.099 --> 00:41:34.219
 to

00:41:34.219 --> 00:41:34.480
 God

00:41:34.480 --> 00:41:34.639
 and

00:41:34.639 --> 00:41:34.859
 ask

00:41:34.859 --> 00:41:35.000
 him

00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:35.480
 questions

00:41:35.480 --> 00:41:35.759
 and

00:41:35.759 --> 00:41:35.980
 ask

00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:36.139
 your

00:41:36.139 --> 00:41:36.599
 pastor

00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:37.699
 but

00:41:37.699 --> 00:41:37.839
 we

00:41:37.839 --> 00:41:38.000
 need

00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:38.119
 to

00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:38.279
 be

00:41:38.279 --> 00:41:38.739
 prepared

00:41:38.739 --> 00:41:38.980
 to

00:41:38.980 --> 00:41:39.179
 be

00:41:39.179 --> 00:41:39.639
 humbled

00:41:39.639 --> 00:41:43.559
 because

00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:44.679
 often

00:41:44.679 --> 00:41:45.339
 what happens

00:41:45.339 --> 00:41:45.859
 when we hear

00:41:45.859 --> 00:41:46.420
 the individual

00:41:46.420 --> 00:41:46.980
 promises

00:41:46.980 --> 00:41:47.579
 of God

00:41:47.579 --> 00:41:48.319
 our desire

00:41:48.319 --> 00:41:48.779
 to be

00:41:48.779 --> 00:41:49.079
 like

00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:49.480
 God

00:41:49.480 --> 00:41:49.759
 and to

00:41:49.759 --> 00:41:49.920
 be

00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:50.500
 exalted

00:41:50.500 --> 00:41:50.799
 into

00:41:50.799 --> 00:41:51.199
 glory

00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:51.460
 and

00:41:51.460 --> 00:41:51.759
 boast

00:41:51.759 --> 00:41:52.199
 quickly

00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:52.639
 come

00:41:52.639 --> 00:41:52.960
 in

00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:53.719
 and we

00:41:53.719 --> 00:41:53.960
 don't

00:41:53.960 --> 00:41:54.219
 hear

00:41:54.219 --> 00:41:54.420
 what

00:41:54.420 --> 00:41:54.679
 God

00:41:54.679 --> 00:41:55.139
 actually

00:41:55.139 --> 00:41:55.539
 says

00:41:55.539 --> 00:41:55.679
 and

00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:55.799
 what

00:41:55.799 --> 00:41:55.940
 will

00:41:55.940 --> 00:41:56.440
 actually

00:41:56.440 --> 00:41:56.819
 bless

00:41:56.819 --> 00:41:57.139
 us

00:41:57.139 --> 00:41:57.920
 but

00:41:57.920 --> 00:41:58.099
 we

00:41:58.099 --> 00:41:58.619
 imagine

00:41:58.619 --> 00:41:59.159
 something

00:41:59.159 --> 00:41:59.400
 that

00:41:59.400 --> 00:41:59.539
 will

00:41:59.539 --> 00:41:59.759
 make

00:41:59.759 --> 00:42:00.039
 us

00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:00.519
 glorious

00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:01.059
 and

00:42:01.059 --> 00:42:01.619
 powerful

00:42:01.619 --> 00:42:02.460
 over

00:42:02.460 --> 00:42:02.839
 others

00:42:02.839 --> 00:42:03.079
 a

00:42:03.079 --> 00:42:03.400
 source

00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:03.619
 of

00:42:03.619 --> 00:42:04.079
 envy

00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:07.279
 but

00:42:07.279 --> 00:42:07.579
 we

00:42:07.579 --> 00:42:08.420
 are

00:42:08.420 --> 00:42:08.699
 to

00:42:08.699 --> 00:42:09.119
 learn

00:42:09.119 --> 00:42:09.559
 to

00:42:09.559 --> 00:42:10.179
 trust

00:42:10.179 --> 00:42:10.859
 that

00:42:10.859 --> 00:42:11.099
 the

00:42:11.099 --> 00:42:11.400
 same

00:42:11.400 --> 00:42:12.000
 God

00:42:12.000 --> 00:42:13.179
 who

00:42:13.179 --> 00:42:13.480
 died

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:13.779
 upon

00:42:13.779 --> 00:42:13.980
 the

00:42:13.980 --> 00:42:14.379
 cross

00:42:14.379 --> 00:42:14.639
 to

00:42:14.639 --> 00:42:14.980
 redeem

00:42:14.980 --> 00:42:15.420
 us

00:42:15.420 --> 00:42:16.299
 who

00:42:16.299 --> 00:42:16.599
 paid

00:42:16.599 --> 00:42:16.819
 the

00:42:16.819 --> 00:42:17.259
 price

00:42:17.259 --> 00:42:17.619
 who

00:42:17.619 --> 00:42:17.819
 lived

00:42:17.819 --> 00:42:17.980
 the

00:42:17.980 --> 00:42:18.299
 perfect

00:42:18.299 --> 00:42:18.719
 life

00:42:18.719 --> 00:42:19.039
 for

00:42:19.039 --> 00:42:19.519
 us

00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:20.699
 that

00:42:20.699 --> 00:42:20.859
 he

00:42:20.859 --> 00:42:21.099
 did

00:42:21.099 --> 00:42:21.359
 this

00:42:21.359 --> 00:42:21.759
 all

00:42:21.759 --> 00:42:22.119
 for

00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:22.599
 us

00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:23.059
 that

00:42:23.059 --> 00:42:23.199
 he

00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:23.839
 suffered

00:42:23.839 --> 00:42:24.960
 abandonment

00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:25.199
 of the

00:42:25.199 --> 00:42:25.599
 father

00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:26.079
 that

00:42:26.079 --> 00:42:26.219
 he

00:42:26.219 --> 00:42:26.460
 did

00:42:26.460 --> 00:42:26.799
 this

00:42:26.800 --> 00:42:27.120
 for

00:42:27.120 --> 00:42:27.600
 us

00:42:27.600 --> 00:42:28.200
 that

00:42:28.200 --> 00:42:28.539
 he

00:42:28.539 --> 00:42:28.840
 in

00:42:28.840 --> 00:42:29.160
 fact

00:42:29.160 --> 00:42:29.420
 is

00:42:29.420 --> 00:42:30.000
 God's

00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:30.620
 promise

00:42:30.620 --> 00:42:31.240
 kept

00:42:31.240 --> 00:42:31.660
 to

00:42:31.660 --> 00:42:32.080
 bless

00:42:32.080 --> 00:42:33.420
 and

00:42:33.420 --> 00:42:33.560
 when

00:42:33.560 --> 00:42:33.760
 we

00:42:33.760 --> 00:42:34.180
 believe

00:42:34.180 --> 00:42:34.539
 the

00:42:34.539 --> 00:42:34.940
 promise

00:42:34.940 --> 00:42:35.160
 we

00:42:35.160 --> 00:42:35.539
 become

00:42:35.539 --> 00:42:35.780
 his

00:42:35.780 --> 00:42:36.200
 child

00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:37.440
 and

00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:37.580
 we

00:42:37.580 --> 00:42:37.860
 live

00:42:37.860 --> 00:42:38.060
 his

00:42:38.060 --> 00:42:38.420
 life

00:42:38.420 --> 00:42:39.140
 mindful

00:42:39.140 --> 00:42:39.500
 and

00:42:39.500 --> 00:42:39.820
 gripped

00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:40.019
 by

00:42:40.019 --> 00:42:40.200
 the

00:42:40.200 --> 00:42:40.700
 promise

00:42:40.700 --> 00:42:43.260
 and

00:42:43.260 --> 00:42:43.440
 we

00:42:43.440 --> 00:42:43.960
 hear

00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:44.480
 the

00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:45.000
 promises

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:45.340
 the

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 promise

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 makes

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 to

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 us

00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:47.780
 as

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 the

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 way

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 to

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 live

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 please

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 stand

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 just

00:42:58.859 --> 00:42:59.059
 bow

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 our

00:42:59.179 --> 00:42:59.359
 heads

00:42:59.359 --> 00:42:59.539
 in

00:42:59.539 --> 00:42:59.879
 prayer

00:42:59.879 --> 00:43:06.039
 father

00:43:06.039 --> 00:43:06.519
 we

00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:07.719
 if

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 there's

00:43:07.899 --> 00:43:08.059
 any

00:43:08.059 --> 00:43:08.500
 here

00:43:08.500 --> 00:43:08.960
 father

00:43:08.960 --> 00:43:09.359
 some

00:43:09.359 --> 00:43:09.779
 of

00:43:09.779 --> 00:43:09.899
 us

00:43:09.899 --> 00:43:10.039
 here

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 may

00:43:10.199 --> 00:43:10.299
 be

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 really

00:43:10.539 --> 00:43:11.079
 burdened

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 with

00:43:11.239 --> 00:43:11.639
 wounds

00:43:11.639 --> 00:43:11.899
 of

00:43:11.899 --> 00:43:13.299
 promises

00:43:13.299 --> 00:43:14.179
 that

00:43:14.179 --> 00:43:14.279
 have

00:43:14.279 --> 00:43:14.440
 been

00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:14.879
 broken

00:43:14.879 --> 00:43:15.279
 to

00:43:15.279 --> 00:43:15.619
 them

00:43:15.619 --> 00:43:17.299
 father

00:43:17.299 --> 00:43:17.500
 I

00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:17.699
 ask

00:43:17.699 --> 00:43:17.839
 that

00:43:17.839 --> 00:43:17.960
 your

00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:18.179
 holy

00:43:18.179 --> 00:43:18.659
 spirit

00:43:18.659 --> 00:43:19.139
 would

00:43:19.139 --> 00:43:19.380
 turn

00:43:19.380 --> 00:43:19.559
 their

00:43:19.559 --> 00:43:19.799
 eyes

00:43:19.799 --> 00:43:20.019
 to

00:43:20.019 --> 00:43:20.559
 you

00:43:20.559 --> 00:43:20.880
 to

00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:21.039
 your

00:43:21.039 --> 00:43:21.539
 promise

00:43:21.539 --> 00:43:21.739
 to

00:43:21.739 --> 00:43:21.880
 your

00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:22.219
 promise

00:43:22.219 --> 00:43:22.599
 kept

00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:24.000
 father

00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:24.219
 there

00:43:24.219 --> 00:43:24.339
 are

00:43:24.339 --> 00:43:24.539
 some

00:43:24.539 --> 00:43:24.679
 of

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 us

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 who

00:43:25.039 --> 00:43:25.119
 are

00:43:25.119 --> 00:43:25.339
 maybe

00:43:25.339 --> 00:43:25.699
 burnt

00:43:25.699 --> 00:43:25.900
 out

00:43:25.900 --> 00:43:26.079
 and

00:43:26.079 --> 00:43:26.420
 cynical

00:43:26.420 --> 00:43:26.699
 by

00:43:26.699 --> 00:43:26.880
 the

00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:27.299
 promises

00:43:27.299 --> 00:43:27.519
 that

00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:27.639
 we

00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:27.779
 have

00:43:27.779 --> 00:43:28.139
 broken

00:43:28.139 --> 00:43:29.579
 maybe

00:43:29.579 --> 00:43:30.119
 wounds

00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:30.480
 in

00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:30.699
 terms

00:43:30.699 --> 00:43:30.859
 of

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 how

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 we

00:43:31.279 --> 00:43:31.400
 have

00:43:31.400 --> 00:43:31.940
 hurt

00:43:31.940 --> 00:43:32.259
 others

00:43:32.259 --> 00:43:32.500
 by

00:43:32.500 --> 00:43:32.799
 making

00:43:32.799 --> 00:43:33.299
 promises

00:43:33.299 --> 00:43:33.539
 and

00:43:33.539 --> 00:43:33.699
 then

00:43:33.699 --> 00:43:34.000
 breaking

00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:34.239
 them

00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:35.059
 father

00:43:35.059 --> 00:43:35.400
 turn

00:43:35.400 --> 00:43:35.579
 the

00:43:35.579 --> 00:43:35.900
 eyes

00:43:35.900 --> 00:43:36.039
 of

00:43:36.039 --> 00:43:36.199
 our

00:43:36.199 --> 00:43:36.639
 hearts

00:43:36.639 --> 00:43:36.920
 to

00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:37.699
 Jesus

00:43:37.699 --> 00:43:38.099
 and

00:43:38.099 --> 00:43:38.239
 to

00:43:38.239 --> 00:43:38.539
 you

00:43:38.539 --> 00:43:39.319
 your

00:43:39.319 --> 00:43:39.819
 promise

00:43:39.819 --> 00:43:40.239
 made

00:43:40.239 --> 00:43:40.480
 your

00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:40.960
 promise

00:43:45.619 --> 00:43:45.739
 how

00:43:45.739 --> 00:43:46.179
 deeply

00:43:46.179 --> 00:43:46.440
 we

00:43:46.440 --> 00:43:47.380
 easily

00:43:47.380 --> 00:43:48.099
 slide

00:43:48.099 --> 00:43:48.859
 into

00:43:48.859 --> 00:43:49.179
 thinking

00:43:49.179 --> 00:43:49.519
 we need

00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:49.659
 to

00:43:49.659 --> 00:43:50.099
 perform

00:43:50.099 --> 00:43:50.599
 perform

00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:51.119
 perform

00:43:51.119 --> 00:43:51.480
 and

00:43:51.480 --> 00:43:51.639
 we

00:43:51.639 --> 00:43:52.039
 forget

00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:53.139
 the

00:43:53.139 --> 00:43:53.719
 promise

00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:55.039
 and

00:43:55.039 --> 00:43:55.179
 we

00:43:55.179 --> 00:43:55.400
 ask

00:43:55.400 --> 00:43:55.699
 father

00:43:55.699 --> 00:43:55.900
 that

00:43:55.900 --> 00:43:56.000
 you

00:43:56.000 --> 00:43:56.159
 would

00:43:56.159 --> 00:43:56.440
 turn

00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:56.779
 our

00:43:56.779 --> 00:43:57.259
 hearts

00:43:57.259 --> 00:43:57.440
 and

00:43:57.440 --> 00:43:57.579
 our

00:43:57.579 --> 00:43:58.079
 eyes

00:43:58.079 --> 00:43:58.659
 to

00:43:58.659 --> 00:43:59.000
 you

00:43:59.000 --> 00:43:59.259
 to

00:43:59.259 --> 00:43:59.440
 your

00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:00.039
 promise

00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:01.339
 kept

00:44:01.339 --> 00:44:03.059
 and

00:44:03.059 --> 00:44:03.380
 father

00:44:03.380 --> 00:44:03.599
 if

00:44:03.599 --> 00:44:03.719
 there

00:44:03.719 --> 00:44:03.819
 are

00:44:03.819 --> 00:44:03.980
 any

00:44:03.980 --> 00:44:04.299
 here

00:44:04.299 --> 00:44:04.500
 who

00:44:04.500 --> 00:44:04.639
 have

00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:04.940
 never

00:44:04.940 --> 00:44:05.619
 given

00:44:05.619 --> 00:44:05.960
 their

00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:06.619
 lives

00:44:06.619 --> 00:44:07.099
 have

00:44:07.099 --> 00:44:07.460
 come

00:44:07.460 --> 00:44:07.659
 to

00:44:07.659 --> 00:44:07.799
 you

00:44:07.799 --> 00:44:07.980
 to

00:44:07.980 --> 00:44:08.179
 say

00:44:08.179 --> 00:44:08.559
 father

00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:08.719
 you

00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:08.839
 have

00:44:08.839 --> 00:44:09.019
 made

00:44:09.019 --> 00:44:09.259
 this

00:44:09.259 --> 00:44:09.739
 promise

00:44:09.739 --> 00:44:11.059
 I

00:44:11.059 --> 00:44:11.440
 believe

00:44:11.440 --> 00:44:11.699
 it

00:44:11.699 --> 00:44:12.239
 may

00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:12.359
 it

00:44:12.359 --> 00:44:12.500
 be

00:44:12.500 --> 00:44:12.779
 real

00:44:12.779 --> 00:44:12.980
 in

00:44:12.980 --> 00:44:13.219
 me

00:44:13.219 --> 00:44:14.819
 may

00:44:14.819 --> 00:44:15.039
 that

00:44:15.039 --> 00:44:15.559
 promise

00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:16.079
 I

00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:17.179
 accept

00:44:17.179 --> 00:44:17.360
 I

00:44:17.360 --> 00:44:17.639
 take

00:44:17.639 --> 00:44:17.820
 the

00:44:17.820 --> 00:44:18.159
 promise

00:44:18.159 --> 00:44:18.320
 and

00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:18.539
 all

00:44:18.539 --> 00:44:18.659
 it

00:44:18.659 --> 00:44:19.059
 involves

00:44:19.059 --> 00:44:19.380
 father

00:44:19.380 --> 00:44:19.559
 if

00:44:19.559 --> 00:44:19.659
 there

00:44:19.659 --> 00:44:19.759
 are

00:44:19.759 --> 00:44:19.940
 any

00:44:19.940 --> 00:44:20.219
 here

00:44:20.219 --> 00:44:20.400
 who

00:44:20.400 --> 00:44:20.519
 have

00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:20.699
 not

00:44:20.699 --> 00:44:20.900
 yet

00:44:20.900 --> 00:44:21.099
 done

00:44:21.099 --> 00:44:21.300
 that

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:21.519
 may

00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:22.400
 may

00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:22.559
 your

00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:22.800
 Holy

00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:23.139
 Spirit

00:44:23.139 --> 00:44:23.380
 move

00:44:23.380 --> 00:44:23.500
 and

00:44:23.500 --> 00:44:23.699
 work

00:44:23.699 --> 00:44:23.820
 in

00:44:23.820 --> 00:44:23.940
 their

00:44:23.940 --> 00:44:24.259
 lives

00:44:24.259 --> 00:44:24.440
 that

00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:24.579
 they

00:44:24.579 --> 00:44:24.820
 might

00:44:24.820 --> 00:44:25.000
 do

00:44:25.000 --> 00:44:25.199
 that

00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:25.579
 business

00:44:25.579 --> 00:44:25.820
 and

00:44:25.820 --> 00:44:26.039
 work

00:44:26.039 --> 00:44:26.239
 with

00:44:26.239 --> 00:44:26.380
 you

00:44:26.380 --> 00:44:26.719
 today

00:44:26.719 --> 00:44:27.840
 to

00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:29.619
 receive

00:44:29.619 --> 00:44:30.099
 that

00:44:30.099 --> 00:44:30.639
 promise

00:44:30.639 --> 00:44:31.800
 father

00:44:31.800 --> 00:44:33.519
 give

00:44:33.519 --> 00:44:33.639
 me

00:44:33.639 --> 00:44:33.900
 that

00:44:33.900 --> 00:44:34.420
 promise

00:44:34.420 --> 00:44:37.900
 so

00:44:37.900 --> 00:44:38.059
 that

00:44:38.059 --> 00:44:38.179
 I

00:44:38.179 --> 00:44:38.380
 might

00:44:38.380 --> 00:44:38.739
 live

00:44:38.739 --> 00:44:39.980
 by

00:44:39.980 --> 00:44:40.219
 that

00:44:40.219 --> 00:44:40.639
 promise

00:44:40.639 --> 00:44:40.840
 in

00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:41.000
 light

00:44:41.000 --> 00:44:41.099
 of

00:44:41.099 --> 00:44:41.279
 that

00:44:41.279 --> 00:44:41.699
 promise

00:44:41.699 --> 00:44:42.219
 father

00:44:42.219 --> 00:44:42.500
 may

00:44:42.500 --> 00:44:43.059
 you

00:44:43.059 --> 00:44:43.320
 help

00:44:43.320 --> 00:44:43.659
 people

00:44:43.659 --> 00:44:43.880
 make

00:44:43.880 --> 00:44:44.099
 that

00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:45.400
 all

00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:45.619
 these

00:44:45.619 --> 00:44:45.820
 things

00:44:45.820 --> 00:44:45.980
 we

00:44:45.980 --> 00:44:46.239
 ask

00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:46.360
 in

00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:46.460
 the

00:44:46.460 --> 00:44:46.599
 name

00:44:46.599 --> 00:44:46.779
 of

00:44:46.779 --> 00:44:47.099
 Jesus

00:44:47.099 --> 00:44:47.360
 your

00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:47.759
 son

00:44:47.759 --> 00:44:47.940
 and

00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:48.099
 our

00:44:48.099 --> 00:44:48.420
 savior

00:44:48.420 --> 00:44:49.559
 amen