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 Father, we ask that the Holy Spirit would move in our hearts and help us to see and understand ourselves in your word.

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 And we give you thanks and praise, Father, that your word speaks the truth about us,

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 not a truth that is brutal, that destroys us or diminishes us or hurts us,

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 but a truth, Father, that is always for our good to lead us to a truer and deeper knowledge of Jesus and what he did for us on the cross,

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 a truer and deeper knowledge, Father, of your great love for us and a truer and deeper knowledge of ourselves and others.

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 So, Father, we ask that your Holy Spirit would do that wonderful, gentle and powerful work in our lives this morning.

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 And we ask this in the precious name of Jesus. Amen.

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 Is this sit down, please? Is this working right?

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 It seems like it's good.

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 Okay, then not only am I nose running, but my ears aren't working right.

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 That's not a very good sign.

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 There's about a year and a half ago, I don't know, maybe it's a, I've lost track of time.

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 You know, it's COVID makes it hard to figure out how long ago anything was.

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 I don't know for you folks, it's just pre-COVID seems like a hundred million years ago to me.

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 It's hard to imagine there was, but I was just watching ER is on Netflix.

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 And it's just shocking to see what the doctors do with masks or don't do with masks.

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 It's like, whoa, what? That actually used to happen before COVID?

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 Anyway, so there was a big scandal that rocked the Christian church, I don't know, about a year and a half ago or so.

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 And it was a very, very hard revelation, series of revelations about Ravi Zacharias.

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 And many of you are probably familiar with it.

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 Ravi was a best-selling author, a Christian apologist, started a large organization that helped to defend and describe the Christian faith.

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 And then there had been some allegations just before he died, but they sort of seemed to be dealt with.

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 But then after he died, more and more revelations came out.

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 And it turned out that he had been a sexual predator for a long time.

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 Like just actually a terrible sexual predator.

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 And if he had not died before these revelations come out, he would definitely have been fired.

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 And he might very well have been in jail.

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 And it was a very, very hard thing for a lot of people to get their mind around.

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 And for some people, it weakened their faith in Christ.

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 I was just talking this week with somebody who was describing one of their friends who was part of a church where some sexual things had been going on.

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 And in this particular case, it was with teenage boys, younger, like 12 to 15-year-old teenage boys that had gone on and what happened.

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 And it just led their friends to basically lose their Christian faith over such a terrible thing to have been revealed.

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 I mean, it's interestingly enough, there's a part of the, what we're going to look at today actually speaks very directly to this problem.

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 In fact, it's one of the things which is very interesting about it.

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 It really struck me this week.

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 There's a part of the text that we're about to look at today that for many, many years, when I would teach this in a Bible study,

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 there would be a range of people who wouldn't like the text because they thought it was misogynistic, that it was sort of sexist.

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 It was a problem for them.

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 But as I was reading and studying this text this week in light of things like the Ravi Zacharias scandal and other scandals that have gone on in churches,

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 and not only in churches, of course, right, in Hollywood, in government, in the media, in, you know, different swamis and yogis and all that.

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 It's been a big scandal.

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 But in the Christian church, it's been a scandal.

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 And I realized that this was actually a very, very powerful thing that the text speaks into this situation.

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 And in fact, just to give you a bit of a teaser, I think as we grasp what the Bible is going to be saying to us this morning,

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 it will help us to realize that we shouldn't lose our faith over revelations about things like Ravi Zacharias.

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 And I'll tell you why.

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 I don't know how many of you are vaccinated.

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 And one of the things, by the way, that we can do is there is so much division and divisiveness and anger is rising in our culture at an exponential rate.

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 And we need to really, as a church, start to try to pray into that, that there can be actually, that people can have civil conversations

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 and just disagree over this without going nuclear and everything.

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 But anyway, for those of us who are baptized, for those of us who are vaccinated, I mean, we took the vaccines because of the promise that it would protect us from COVID,

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 that it would protect us probably from death, that it would be something very good for our life.

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 And if five years or two years down the road, it turns out that half of the people who got vaccinated developed cancer, well, we would be very mad.

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 I mean, I'm putting it mildly.

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 We would be absolutely furious.

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 Why?

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 Because the promise and prediction is one thing, but the outcome is completely different.

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 And so we're angry.

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 And one of the things which is very interesting about this biblical text, concealed within a part that many people, when they look at it from a different context,

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 find maybe insulting to women, that rather than that, it's actually a very, very profound warning about the human condition.

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 And in fact, a precise warning about the perennial problem of predators.

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 So in other words, it's as if it isn't as if God said, listen, believe the gospel and follow Jesus and none of this stuff will happen.

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 And it's, no, no, listen, this is going to be a constant problem.

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 You know, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries, Church of the Messiah, this is going to be a constant problem.

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 So you have to deal with it.

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 So let's look at the text.

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 So if you'd like to turn your Bibles to 2 Timothy chapter 3, verse 1.

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 If you're a guest this morning coming on, we preach through books of the Bible.

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 And so this is where we are in the book of 2 Timothy.

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 And 2 Timothy chapter 3, verses 1 to 9.

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 And it goes like this.

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 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

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 Now, we're going to stop and pause there for a second.

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 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty.

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 Now, if you're here as a guest and you haven't traveled and hung out with Christians for very long,

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 or if you're watching us online and you haven't hung out with Christians for very long,

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 or maybe you have hung out with Christians and you're in recovery and checking us out to see if maybe there is,

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 after being really burned by types of Christianity in churches, that maybe there is something in this Jesus thing.

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 I mean, just by the way, the biggest barrier for me becoming a Christian was the church,

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 which I try to remember as a pastor.

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 And I'm not saying that we do everything perfect, but that was part of my background that was a hard thing to get over.

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 But it's very interesting here that it says,

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 In the last days there will become times of difficulty.

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 And difficulty is a good word for the original language.

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 But don't think of difficulty as the difficulty that you have because you go to your coffee shop

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 and you have to wait 90 seconds longer because the person ahead of you is confused.

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 And you think, gosh, this is difficult.

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 Okay, that's what's called a first world problem.

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 Take a chill pill and, you know, pray for the person.

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 Like, do something productive with your time.

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 Like, what it's describing here is deep difficulty.

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 Like, really serious difficulties.

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 That's the way you have to understand that word.

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 But here's the significance.

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 If you travel with Christians, they'll often talk,

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 Oh, this person's going through a very, very hard time.

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 And what will Christians, many Christians often say,

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 Oh, they're obviously going through a time of attack.

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 The Bible here says that's wrong.

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 If you could put up my first point,

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 Life will always be difficult.

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 Aren't you glad you came to church?

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 I get to tell you that life will always be difficult.

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 It's not necessarily a time of special attack.

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 It's called normal life.

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 Life will always be difficult.

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 So following Jesus and learning from him as you walk with him is wise.

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 Life will always be difficult.

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 I mean, that's a...

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 It's actually very interesting for a moment.

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 Why is it that we don't like hearing that?

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 Like, what does it tell us...

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 What does it tell you about yourself that you don't like hearing that?

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 You know, the fact of the matter is that we live in a culture that's been very, very, very deeply formed by this idea that if you manage techniques, if you manage science, if you have a proper way of managing organizations and governments, and if you read this self-help book,

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 in self-help books, or different self-help gurus or coaches, they're going to teach you these different steps,

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 and if you follow these steps, then your marriage will be easier, your job search will be easier, your finances will be easier, your health will be easier, and on and on and on.

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 And we have this basic acceptance of the idea that life should be easy.

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 And Christians easily fall into it if you just have this experience of the Holy Spirit, if you have this breakthrough in your life, if you have this Bible study technique, if you are part of this church,

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 if you listen to this celebrity pastor tell you the steps for dealing with anxiety or this or that, then life will be easy.

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 It's as if that's normal life.

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 And when it's not easy, there's something wrong with you.

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 Or something wrong with your boss or something wrong with your wife or something wrong with your kids or something wrong anywhere else.

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 But we have this deep addiction to a myth that life is going to natural life is easy.

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 And if it's not easy, dang it, it's the school board's fault or the union's fault or Trump's fault or Biden's fault or Trudeau's fault or Toul's fault or fill in the blank.

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 The Bible says life is difficult.

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 Why am I saying that?

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 Because, you see, the last days began when Jesus rose from the dead.

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 It's not talking about some special time of season that happens the week or the month or the year or seven years or three and a half years before Jesus returns.

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 It's talking about what happened.

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 We live in the last days right now.

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 And it's very important that the Bible puts it in terms of the last days, you see, because the last days has a very, very powerful pull on our imagination.

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 That, you know, the last days will either be when the back when I was a kid, there was a very popular song.

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 This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

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 As if we were dawning the age where there would be peace and there would be love and there would be harmony and all of that type of stuff.

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 You know, there's intellectuals who talk about, there was an important intellectual that talked about how with the collapse of the Soviet Union, we'd reach the end of history.

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 And on the other hand, the end of the days can also be something that gives you license to do whatever you want.

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 The world is about to come to an end.

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 The comet's about to come.

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 We just do whatever.

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 We murder, rape, pillage, because it's all going to end.

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 And no, no, the Bible is saying we are in the last days.

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 And the last days means that your life's going to often be very difficult.

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 And then the Bible goes immediately into describing part of the reason why life is difficult.

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 And part of the reason life is difficult, you're going to be really glad you came to church this Sunday.

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 Part of the reason, you want to find out part of the reason why your life is difficult, the Bible says, look in a mirror.

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 And it doesn't mean look in a mirror to see what's behind you.

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 Look in a mirror to see what's around the corner.

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 Look in a mirror to see yourself.

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 And what the Bible is about to do now is to actually begin to describe the human condition.

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 So what does it do?

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 Let's look.

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 Verses 2 to 5.

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 What I'm going to do is I'm going to read through the list.

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 And then we're going to sort of just think about the list a little bit.

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 And then we're going to look at it in a little tiny bit of detail so that some of the points are brought home to you.

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 But listen to what it says.

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 So I'll read verse 1 again.

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 But understand this, that in the last days there will become times of difficulty.

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 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents,

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 ungrateful, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

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 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

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 having the appearance of godliness but denying its power.

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 Avoid such people.

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 Actually, literally it says cut them off.

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 Now that's quite a list.

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 And almost all child-raising books that are published in the secular and even much of the Christian world

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 says this isn't true.

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 I was just talking to somebody who'd been observing some child-care-raising practices

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 and at the heart of those child-care-raising practices is fundamentally the idea that this isn't what human beings are like,

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 that human beings, their children are fundamentally good.

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 And they were following techniques to try to deal with children that assumes that children are fundamentally good.

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 It's part of a lot of educational curriculum at an undergirding level that children and others are natural learners.

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 It doesn't entertain the idea that, naturally speaking, kids might spend six hours looking at TikTok or playing video games

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 and never actually wanting to master mathematics or physics.

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 That they'd much rather read a silly, easy book than to be stretched by a book.

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 This is a very, very hard list.

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

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 The Word of God brings you the bad news that the human condition is bent and disordered.

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 So life is difficult.

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 In other words, life is difficult not just because you age,

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 not just because you don't always get that promotion,

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 you don't always get the marriage,

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 you don't always get the children,

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 you don't always get that friendship,

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 you don't always get the house,

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 you don't always get these things.

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 It's hard and difficult because you live with people

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 that are at least partly described by some of the things on this list,

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 and life is difficult because you were partially described in this list.

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 Some of you know me reasonably well.

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 And you could probably pick different things

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 where you could see that this is a weakness in my life.

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 You would look at this list and say,

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 I can see George.

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 I could see how George would be tempted.

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 I could see how George has sometimes been a little bit like this

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 and a little bit like this and a little bit like this.

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 And my only hope is that if you ever reveal it to me,

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 you do it in a way that's not brutal.

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 Because if you do it in a way that's brutal,

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 you're in the list too.

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 You see, this isn't just describing the world,

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 it's describing the world that includes those who come to church.

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 It's describing Christians as well as non-Christians.

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 Now, this is a very, very interesting list, you see,

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 because it's not saying that human beings are all completely and utterly bad.

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 And it's not saying that human beings are by very, very nature good.

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 And if you just have the right religion or the right educational system

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 or the right form of government,

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 or if you're a part of the right group,

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 that this won't be characteristic of you.

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 It's far more nuanced.

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 And by the way, this is a very persistent problem.

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 You see, the heart of critical theory,

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 which is like, in a sense,

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 there's sort of several different things that go on

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 in how people think and talk in the media

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 and in educational institutions.

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 And part of it is this sort of a deep belief still

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 that there is something about people being fundamentally good.

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 But it's sort of mixed up a little bit with critical theory,

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 which is sort of the grandchild of Marxism,

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 which divides the world into classes.

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 And when you divide the world in classes in classic Marxism,

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 I mean, it doesn't really say that there's something wrong with the proletariat,

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 but there is something wrong with the owner class.

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 And critical theory has taken that and developed it.

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 So it might just be that if you're a white male like me,

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 then of course I'm going to be most of these things in the list.

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 But if you're some victim class,

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 that there's something about them in that victim class

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 that they don't lie, they don't lie.

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 Well, one moment, the Bible says that's not true.

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 This list describes everybody.

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 And just apart from a type of learned blindness,

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 we see it all the time.

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 And so you see, here's what the Bible is saying.

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 It's not that we're all bad or all good.

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 Like, take the idea of overcome with conceit.

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 Well, what's conceit?

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 Conceit, and this describes nobody in the room, okay?

00:18:28.779 --> 00:18:32.899
 Conceit is actually having too high opinion of your own ideas.

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 There's nobody here who never remembers

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 the time they made a prediction that it was wrong.

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 But they remember all the times

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 they made a prediction that it was right.

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 There's never been a time, any of us,

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 where we've made a proposal for a way to move forward,

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 and later events would show that if it had been followed,

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 that it would have been disastrous.

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 But we do remember the times we made proposals

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 where because it wasn't followed, there was disaster.

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 There's nobody here who thinks that they're sort of always right,

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 or that they're always the smartest person in the room,

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 or they're always the wisest person in the room.

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 There's nobody here that describes that.

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 Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

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 Isn't that ridiculous?

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 Some of us are squirming, and others are saying,

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 I sure wish my best friend was here to hear this,

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 or I really wish, I hope my husband is paying attention

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 to what George just described.

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 But you see, what's the problem with that?

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 The Bible doesn't say that you never have good ideas.

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 The Bible doesn't say you never have good proposals,

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 that there's just something completely dirty and wrong about you.

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 The Bible doesn't say that.

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 The Bible says the problem isn't that you never have good ideas,

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 is that there's something disordered in you,

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 and you're conceited.

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 You don't recognize that sometimes you're just wrong,

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 and you don't acknowledge it.

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 Right?

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 You see, the Bible here is very subtle.

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 That's why it says that the human problem,

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 there's something bent and disordered about human beings,

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 and that that's the human condition.

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 The human condition isn't that we have,

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 as Buddhism says, that we have desire,

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 and we have to kill desire,

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 and get rid of that through different techniques,

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 so that we will no longer have problems.

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 It doesn't say that the failure is because we don't understand

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 that all things are one.

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 The Bible isn't saying it's because we're part of the wrong class,

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 or the wrong group,

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 or that we haven't had the right education.

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 It's just saying this is the human condition,

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 and we have to deal with it.

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 But let's go through the list.

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 We have a few minutes.

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 Let's just go through the list again,

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 and just look at it,

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 about what it actually says.

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 For people will be lovers of self.

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 The Bible isn't here saying that you should never have

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 a positive regard for yourself.

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 But what it is saying is this,

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 that your concern for yourself,

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 and your desiring the best things for yourself,

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 is very easily disordered.

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 You see, here's the problem.

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 Most of us want love.

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 But if you are too much in love with yourself,

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 it will be impossible for you to love another person.

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 Why is that?

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 Well, you see, because partly what's loving another person,

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 is forgetting yourself for a moment,

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 is to say to yourself,

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 you know, gosh,

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 you know, whatever it is,

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 my wife, you know,

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 my kid,

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 gosh, they're a cute kid.

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 You know, gosh,

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 they did a really good job with that.

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 You know, gosh,

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 my wife is,

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 that was a really kind thing she did.

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 Gosh, she's beautiful.

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 But if every time you have an interaction with a person,

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 all you're thinking about is,

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 does my hair look good?

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 Like, am I coming across right?

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 Like, and all you're doing is thinking about yourself,

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 then it's hard to notice the other person.

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 It's hard to actually love the other person.

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 So the problem isn't that you just so love the other person

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 that you forget about yourself.

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 The problem is that your love is disordered.

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 You've got them out of,

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 it's in the wrong order.

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 Oops.

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 Good thing that was closed.

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 And then look at the second one here.

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 So that was the first one.

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 Lovers of self,

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 lovers of money.

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 The Bible isn't here saying,

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 I was talking to a business person the other day

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 in one of my favorite coffee shops.

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 And I said to him,

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 you know,

00:22:22.620 --> 00:22:23.819
 the Christian ideal,

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 because he obviously likes to make money.

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 And I said,

00:22:26.940 --> 00:22:27.079
 you know,

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 the Bible doesn't say you shouldn't be making money.

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 He provides employment for a lot of people.

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 And my guess is he's a really good boss.

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 I'd probably easily have one of my grandkids or kids

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 or recommend one of you to work for him.

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 I think he looks like he's a very conscientious boss,

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 cares about his employees,

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 probably pays them as fair as he can.

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 And I said,

00:22:45.339 --> 00:22:45.460
 you know,

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 the Christian ideal isn't like you see often in Hinduism or Buddhism,

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 where you have an emaciated person living an isolated life.

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 And that somehow is the pinnacle of the human life.

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 Christians believe in feasts.

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 You know,

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 the Sabbath is not just a day of rest.

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 It's a day that you should feast

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 and that you should share the food with other people if you can,

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 if it's a non-COVID world.

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 Have people over.

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 Remember,

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 bring out the pumpkin pie.

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 Add lots of whipped cream.

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 Bring out the best wine if you're not an alcoholic.

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 And if you're an alcoholic,

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 well,

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 bring out the best Coke.

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 Don't get the no-name stuff.

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 Buy it.

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 Get the real stuff.

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 You know,

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 give them the full experience.

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 Like,

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 it's not,

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 and I said,

00:23:30.279 --> 00:23:30.460
 you know,

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 I mean,

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 the Christian wisdom would be,

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 like a very one is,

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 you know,

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 earn as much as you can

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 and give as much as you can

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 because if money starts to control your life,

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 your life is just going to be miserable.

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 So,

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 you know,

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 a very standard piece of advice is,

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 you know,

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 live on 80% of,

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 you know,

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 give 10% of your money away

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 for the good of people

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 and the furtherance of the gospel.

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 Save 10%

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 because that's a wise thing for the future.

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 And with the other 80%,

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 have fun.

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 You sort of looked at me,

00:24:00.979 --> 00:24:02.039
 what Christians would say,

00:24:02.199 --> 00:24:03.019
 you can have fun.

00:24:03.879 --> 00:24:04.199
 Yeah,

00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:04.779
 have fun.

00:24:05.679 --> 00:24:05.899
 Like,

00:24:05.939 --> 00:24:07.379
 if you can afford an expensive car,

00:24:07.459 --> 00:24:08.559
 afford an expensive car.

00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:10.479
 See,

00:24:10.539 --> 00:24:11.899
 part of the way you deal with money

00:24:11.899 --> 00:24:13.019
 having control of your life

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 is giving it away.

00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:16.959
 Just giving it away.

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 And by the way,

00:24:18.479 --> 00:24:19.359
 if you're watching this

00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:20.039
 or if you're here

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 and you don't come to the church,

00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:21.959
 we don't want you to put any money

00:24:21.959 --> 00:24:22.459
 in the plate,

00:24:22.539 --> 00:24:22.740
 okay?

00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:23.679
 If you're not with Jesus,

00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:24.980
 we don't want you to give us any money.

00:24:25.019 --> 00:24:25.640
 I don't say that

00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:26.759
 so you give us money.

00:24:26.820 --> 00:24:27.580
 But for Christians,

00:24:27.980 --> 00:24:28.960
 you have to wonder,

00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:30.100
 you know,

00:24:30.960 --> 00:24:32.880
 is money running your life?

00:24:33.240 --> 00:24:34.400
 We can see how money runs

00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:35.480
 other people's lives

00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:36.279
 and it ruins them,

00:24:36.320 --> 00:24:37.960
 but does money run your own life?

00:24:38.019 --> 00:24:38.140
 Well,

00:24:38.160 --> 00:24:39.900
 you only actually experience that

00:24:39.900 --> 00:24:41.080
 if you try to give the money away.

00:24:43.900 --> 00:24:44.940
 Let's look at the rest of the list.

00:24:45.360 --> 00:24:46.440
 Sort of proud,

00:24:46.920 --> 00:24:47.500
 obvious,

00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:48.259
 arrogant,

00:24:49.259 --> 00:24:49.779
 abusive.

00:24:50.060 --> 00:24:51.299
 Abusive is here,

00:24:51.420 --> 00:24:53.039
 meant not just physically abusive,

00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:54.599
 but abusive with your tongue.

00:24:56.339 --> 00:24:58.539
 Being like a bull

00:24:58.539 --> 00:24:59.519
 in a tea shop,

00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:00.879
 being just very,

00:25:00.980 --> 00:25:01.879
 very domineering

00:25:01.879 --> 00:25:03.480
 in meetings

00:25:03.480 --> 00:25:04.019
 or groups

00:25:04.019 --> 00:25:04.740
 or your family.

00:25:05.379 --> 00:25:06.680
 Disobedient to their parents.

00:25:07.379 --> 00:25:08.680
 We'll talk a whole type

00:25:08.680 --> 00:25:09.559
 of thing about this,

00:25:09.659 --> 00:25:10.220
 but it's just

00:25:10.220 --> 00:25:11.700
 for children

00:25:11.700 --> 00:25:12.480
 who are still

00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:14.000
 under their parents

00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:15.039
 that there is a...

00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:18.299
 Okay.

00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:19.200
 I'm not telling you

00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:20.159
 to get a vaccine necessarily.

00:25:20.279 --> 00:25:21.019
 I'm trying to stay out

00:25:21.019 --> 00:25:21.619
 of that whole debate.

00:25:21.700 --> 00:25:22.339
 I just want things

00:25:22.339 --> 00:25:23.160
 to be divisive.

00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:25.059
 But I do know

00:25:25.059 --> 00:25:26.200
 that some people

00:25:26.200 --> 00:25:27.240
 don't want to get a vaccine

00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:28.319
 not because they have

00:25:28.319 --> 00:25:29.480
 good medical reasons,

00:25:30.059 --> 00:25:31.079
 and I know people

00:25:31.079 --> 00:25:32.519
 who have valid,

00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:33.619
 valid concerns about it,

00:25:33.660 --> 00:25:34.200
 but there's something

00:25:34.200 --> 00:25:34.720
 like the government

00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:35.980
 telling them what to do.

00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:38.259
 Okay, time out.

00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:40.599
 That's not a good reason.

00:25:44.879 --> 00:25:46.240
 That's just not a good reason.

00:25:46.240 --> 00:25:49.400
 I'm sorry.

00:25:50.160 --> 00:25:51.099
 I have all the time

00:25:51.099 --> 00:25:51.500
 in the world

00:25:51.500 --> 00:25:51.940
 for people

00:25:51.940 --> 00:25:53.099
 I have other concerns about.

00:25:53.180 --> 00:25:53.660
 I really do.

00:25:53.779 --> 00:25:55.099
 And I just was suggesting

00:25:55.099 --> 00:25:55.480
 to somebody

00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:55.759
 at the end

00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:56.559
 of the 8 o'clock service,

00:25:56.640 --> 00:25:56.880
 I said,

00:25:57.380 --> 00:25:58.960
 because they sent an email

00:25:58.960 --> 00:26:00.299
 about my latest blog,

00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:01.539
 which I wrote yesterday

00:26:01.539 --> 00:26:02.559
 about whether vaccinations

00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:04.019
 against COVID-19

00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:04.980
 are a mark of the beast.

00:26:05.380 --> 00:26:06.160
 And I said to them,

00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:06.519
 you know what would be

00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:07.039
 really wonderful?

00:26:07.120 --> 00:26:08.160
 I'd love it if I could get,

00:26:08.259 --> 00:26:09.359
 there's a wide range of views

00:26:09.359 --> 00:26:10.319
 on this in this congregation.

00:26:10.500 --> 00:26:11.019
 Wouldn't it be good?

00:26:11.099 --> 00:26:11.640
 Would you be willing

00:26:11.640 --> 00:26:12.539
 to be part of this,

00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:14.059
 to have 12 people

00:26:14.059 --> 00:26:14.920
 from the congregation

00:26:14.920 --> 00:26:16.200
 to represent the whole range

00:26:16.200 --> 00:26:16.660
 of things

00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:17.539
 and we'll get together,

00:26:17.660 --> 00:26:18.580
 we'll all share Coke

00:26:18.580 --> 00:26:19.600
 and have something to eat

00:26:19.600 --> 00:26:20.860
 and just see if we can have

00:26:20.860 --> 00:26:21.980
 a civil conversation

00:26:21.980 --> 00:26:22.580
 about this

00:26:22.580 --> 00:26:23.140
 and try to hear

00:26:23.140 --> 00:26:24.400
 how other people think?

00:26:28.880 --> 00:26:29.779
 Like that could be,

00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:30.920
 I mean if we could

00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:31.860
 actually manage that,

00:26:31.920 --> 00:26:32.539
 we should probably

00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:33.420
 put it on YouTube

00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:34.660
 and try to get it promoted

00:26:34.660 --> 00:26:35.480
 because there doesn't seem

00:26:35.480 --> 00:26:36.100
 to be anywhere

00:26:36.100 --> 00:26:37.060
 where people have

00:26:37.060 --> 00:26:38.360
 civil conversations

00:26:38.360 --> 00:26:39.180
 about this thing.

00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:40.240
 I'm getting off

00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:41.180
 of my sermon topic.

00:26:41.320 --> 00:26:41.840
 It just began

00:26:41.840 --> 00:26:42.820
 with that one thing of,

00:26:42.819 --> 00:26:45.139
 I know there's valid

00:26:45.139 --> 00:26:46.740
 reasons to take it

00:26:46.740 --> 00:26:48.220
 and I'm double vaccinated

00:26:48.220 --> 00:26:49.379
 and I understand

00:26:49.379 --> 00:26:50.039
 those who have

00:26:50.039 --> 00:26:50.579
 other concerns

00:26:50.579 --> 00:26:51.099
 but just because

00:26:51.099 --> 00:26:51.439
 the government

00:26:51.439 --> 00:26:52.159
 tells you to do it

00:26:52.159 --> 00:26:52.960
 is a reason not to do it.

00:26:53.039 --> 00:26:54.240
 That's not a biblical reason.

00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:56.200
 Sorry, it's not.

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:02.039
 Ungrateful, unholy,

00:27:04.740 --> 00:27:07.480
 heartless, unappeasable

00:27:07.480 --> 00:27:08.639
 is an interesting one.

00:27:09.159 --> 00:27:10.319
 The actual word is,

00:27:10.319 --> 00:27:12.639
 the opposite to unappeasable

00:27:12.639 --> 00:27:14.000
 is a treaty person.

00:27:15.339 --> 00:27:16.599
 A person who's willing

00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:17.639
 to get into a treaty.

00:27:17.879 --> 00:27:18.700
 A person who's willing

00:27:18.700 --> 00:27:19.139
 to say,

00:27:19.279 --> 00:27:20.579
 okay, we've made these claims,

00:27:20.679 --> 00:27:21.099
 they're wrong,

00:27:21.159 --> 00:27:22.339
 we're willing to set them aside.

00:27:22.919 --> 00:27:23.919
 Okay, we acknowledge

00:27:23.919 --> 00:27:24.879
 that we've done these things

00:27:24.879 --> 00:27:25.919
 and we need to stop them

00:27:25.919 --> 00:27:27.359
 and you'll stop them

00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:28.720
 and being able to enter

00:27:28.720 --> 00:27:29.480
 into a treaty

00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:30.220
 with a person

00:27:30.220 --> 00:27:31.659
 where it's not just a treaty

00:27:31.659 --> 00:27:32.519
 because you've just

00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:33.579
 completely and utterly

00:27:33.579 --> 00:27:34.679
 annihilated them

00:27:34.679 --> 00:27:35.700
 and while you have

00:27:35.700 --> 00:27:36.759
 your knee on their back

00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:37.619
 and a gun to their head

00:27:37.619 --> 00:27:38.720
 they have to sign something

00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:39.640
 but one where you actually

00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:40.240
 have a treaty

00:27:40.240 --> 00:27:41.160
 and you acknowledge

00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:43.519
 problems on both sides

00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:44.920
 and things you have to give up

00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:45.539
 to have a treaty.

00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:46.620
 The opposite of that

00:27:46.620 --> 00:27:47.420
 is the word here.

00:27:47.620 --> 00:27:48.360
 A person who never

00:27:48.360 --> 00:27:49.360
 enters into a treaty.

00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:51.000
 Never acknowledges

00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:51.720
 that they're wrong.

00:27:52.299 --> 00:27:53.579
 Never gives an inch.

00:27:53.960 --> 00:27:55.720
 Everything is somebody else's fault.

00:27:56.100 --> 00:27:57.420
 I have to get my way.

00:27:57.519 --> 00:27:58.740
 That's what this is describing.

00:27:58.740 --> 00:28:02.559
 Where am I here?

00:28:04.839 --> 00:28:05.279
 Slanderous,

00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:06.599
 without self-control,

00:28:06.819 --> 00:28:07.180
 brutal,

00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:09.240
 not loving good,

00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:10.400
 treacherous,

00:28:11.000 --> 00:28:11.339
 reckless,

00:28:12.259 --> 00:28:13.319
 swollen with conceit,

00:28:13.440 --> 00:28:14.220
 lovers of pleasure

00:28:14.220 --> 00:28:15.279
 rather than lovers of God.

00:28:15.339 --> 00:28:15.680
 Once again,

00:28:15.740 --> 00:28:16.700
 the Bible isn't saying

00:28:16.700 --> 00:28:19.420
 that you shouldn't go home

00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:20.620
 and get that pumpkin pie

00:28:20.620 --> 00:28:21.299
 from Costco

00:28:21.299 --> 00:28:22.120
 and add a whole pile

00:28:22.120 --> 00:28:22.740
 of whipped cream

00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:24.279
 and just enjoy it today.

00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:27.400
 We're not world denying.

00:28:28.740 --> 00:28:29.720
 But if pleasure starts

00:28:29.720 --> 00:28:30.579
 to rule your life

00:28:30.579 --> 00:28:31.359
 rather than God,

00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:32.019
 it means you'll never

00:28:32.019 --> 00:28:32.920
 pick up and cross

00:28:32.920 --> 00:28:33.599
 and follow Him.

00:28:33.779 --> 00:28:36.900
 You'll never be generous.

00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:40.740
 You'll never show

00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:42.000
 compassion to people.

00:28:42.559 --> 00:28:43.900
 If your pleasure

00:28:43.900 --> 00:28:44.700
 ends up being

00:28:44.700 --> 00:28:45.579
 what rules you,

00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:47.200
 you'll never do

00:28:47.200 --> 00:28:47.779
 these things

00:28:47.779 --> 00:28:49.019
 which are just good

00:28:49.019 --> 00:28:50.160
 and just so needed

00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:51.240
 for the social order

00:28:51.240 --> 00:28:53.160
 and having the appearance

00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:53.740
 of godliness

00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:54.900
 but denying its power

00:28:54.900 --> 00:28:55.900
 avoid such people.

00:28:55.900 --> 00:28:59.320
 So, you know,

00:28:59.360 --> 00:28:59.880
 just to go back,

00:28:59.960 --> 00:29:00.500
 the Word of God

00:29:00.500 --> 00:29:01.820
 brings you the bad news

00:29:01.820 --> 00:29:02.840
 that the human condition

00:29:02.840 --> 00:29:05.240
 is bent and disordered

00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:07.080
 and so life is difficult.

00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:08.500
 But the Bible

00:29:08.500 --> 00:29:09.780
 doesn't tell us this

00:29:09.780 --> 00:29:12.220
 just to depress us.

00:29:15.660 --> 00:29:16.440
 See, the thing

00:29:16.440 --> 00:29:17.480
 which is so powerful

00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:18.440
 about the Bible,

00:29:19.640 --> 00:29:20.220
 well, here,

00:29:20.560 --> 00:29:21.920
 before we get to it,

00:29:22.280 --> 00:29:23.600
 let's just look at

00:29:23.600 --> 00:29:24.380
 the type of thing

00:29:24.380 --> 00:29:24.940
 that happens.

00:29:24.940 --> 00:29:25.940
 There's another concern

00:29:25.940 --> 00:29:26.720
 that Paul has

00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:27.380
 with Timothy

00:29:27.380 --> 00:29:28.880
 that's,

00:29:29.460 --> 00:29:29.720
 you see,

00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:30.519
 what all,

00:29:30.799 --> 00:29:31.100
 actually,

00:29:31.180 --> 00:29:31.500
 what we'll do,

00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:32.480
 it's not going to be in,

00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:33.259
 you can't look at it

00:29:33.259 --> 00:29:33.779
 on the screen.

00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:35.519
 This is part of chapter 3

00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:36.420
 and chapter 3

00:29:36.420 --> 00:29:37.539
 culminates with this

00:29:37.539 --> 00:29:38.400
 very, very, very

00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:39.600
 powerful phrase.

00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:41.620
 If you have your Bibles

00:29:41.620 --> 00:29:42.039
 with you,

00:29:42.100 --> 00:29:42.759
 you won't have it

00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:43.299
 on the screen,

00:29:43.440 --> 00:29:44.360
 I should have had it

00:29:44.360 --> 00:29:44.759
 up here,

00:29:45.279 --> 00:29:47.539
 but if you look at

00:29:47.539 --> 00:29:49.519
 verses 15 and 16 and 17,

00:29:49.680 --> 00:29:50.900
 all of this bad news

00:29:50.900 --> 00:29:52.080
 is setting up the stage

00:29:52.080 --> 00:29:53.080
 for us to appreciate

00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:54.980
 verses 15, 16, and 17,

00:29:55.639 --> 00:29:56.720
 and how from childhood

00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:57.639
 you have been acquainted

00:29:57.639 --> 00:29:58.779
 with the sacred writings,

00:29:58.839 --> 00:29:59.559
 that's the Bible,

00:29:59.919 --> 00:30:01.359
 which are able to make you

00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:03.039
 wise for salvation

00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:04.579
 through faith in Christ Jesus.

00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:06.639
 All Scripture is breathed out

00:30:06.639 --> 00:30:07.939
 by God and profitable

00:30:07.939 --> 00:30:09.240
 for teaching,

00:30:09.679 --> 00:30:10.500
 for reproof,

00:30:10.759 --> 00:30:11.519
 for correction,

00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.619
 and for training

00:30:12.619 --> 00:30:13.859
 in righteousness,

00:30:14.639 --> 00:30:15.759
 that the man of God

00:30:15.759 --> 00:30:16.699
 or the woman of God

00:30:16.699 --> 00:30:17.859
 may be complete,

00:30:18.460 --> 00:30:18.980
 equipped,

00:30:18.980 --> 00:30:20.299
 for every good work.

00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:21.980
 And so the Bible

00:30:21.980 --> 00:30:22.980
 is giving us

00:30:22.980 --> 00:30:23.900
 this bad news

00:30:23.900 --> 00:30:25.160
 to make us understand

00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:26.120
 why we need the good news,

00:30:26.180 --> 00:30:27.339
 that we need a mirror

00:30:27.339 --> 00:30:28.539
 that actually shows us

00:30:28.539 --> 00:30:29.059
 who we are.

00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:29.980
 But the Bible

00:30:29.980 --> 00:30:31.220
 doesn't confront us

00:30:31.220 --> 00:30:32.120
 with these things

00:30:32.120 --> 00:30:32.759
 about ourselves

00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:33.900
 so that we despair.

00:30:34.220 --> 00:30:35.120
 The Bible's not

00:30:35.120 --> 00:30:35.900
 being brutal.

00:30:36.259 --> 00:30:37.339
 The Bible's getting us

00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:37.860
 to realize,

00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:38.880
 I need a Savior.

00:30:40.360 --> 00:30:41.599
 I need wisdom.

00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:43.720
 I need insight.

00:30:44.299 --> 00:30:45.319
 And I need wisdom

00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:45.779
 and insight

00:30:45.779 --> 00:30:46.799
 that isn't bent

00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:47.619
 and disordered.

00:30:47.779 --> 00:30:48.539
 I need something

00:30:48.539 --> 00:30:49.519
 that comes ultimately

00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:50.220
 from outside

00:30:50.220 --> 00:30:51.299
 this world condition

00:30:51.299 --> 00:30:52.200
 that ultimately

00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:52.899
 comes from God.

00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:54.180
 Like, I need this.

00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:56.319
 That if one or more

00:30:56.319 --> 00:30:57.139
 of these things,

00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:58.299
 the 19 things,

00:30:58.379 --> 00:30:59.000
 describe me,

00:30:59.039 --> 00:30:59.960
 then how can I ever

00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:00.619
 fix myself?

00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:01.919
 How can I leave myself

00:31:01.919 --> 00:31:03.039
 to save myself?

00:31:03.159 --> 00:31:04.279
 How can I leave myself

00:31:04.279 --> 00:31:05.039
 to fix myself?

00:31:05.139 --> 00:31:06.460
 I can't leave myself

00:31:06.460 --> 00:31:07.000
 to do this.

00:31:07.299 --> 00:31:08.299
 I need a Savior.

00:31:08.859 --> 00:31:09.559
 Like, either this

00:31:09.559 --> 00:31:10.659
 is condemning me

00:31:10.659 --> 00:31:11.759
 to a life

00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:12.539
 where there's never

00:31:12.539 --> 00:31:13.399
 any point

00:31:13.399 --> 00:31:14.940
 in trying to repent

00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:16.339
 or change

00:31:16.339 --> 00:31:17.659
 or anything like that.

00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:18.639
 This is trying

00:31:18.639 --> 00:31:19.259
 to communicate

00:31:19.259 --> 00:31:20.379
 why the good news

00:31:20.379 --> 00:31:21.339
 which has been described

00:31:21.339 --> 00:31:22.519
 in chapter 1 and 2

00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:23.859
 and will be later on

00:31:23.859 --> 00:31:24.579
 in chapter 3

00:31:24.579 --> 00:31:25.179
 and later on

00:31:25.179 --> 00:31:25.959
 in chapter 4,

00:31:26.259 --> 00:31:27.679
 why it's good news.

00:31:32.159 --> 00:31:32.899
 Let's look at

00:31:32.899 --> 00:31:33.939
 verses 6 to 9.

00:31:37.299 --> 00:31:38.699
 For among them

00:31:38.699 --> 00:31:40.519
 are those who creep

00:31:40.519 --> 00:31:41.220
 into households

00:31:41.220 --> 00:31:42.519
 and capture weak women,

00:31:42.819 --> 00:31:43.720
 burdened with sins

00:31:43.720 --> 00:31:44.379
 and led astray

00:31:44.379 --> 00:31:45.599
 by various passions.

00:31:46.339 --> 00:31:47.439
 always learning

00:31:47.439 --> 00:31:48.439
 and never able

00:31:48.439 --> 00:31:49.379
 to arrive at a knowledge

00:31:49.379 --> 00:31:50.000
 of the truth.

00:31:50.859 --> 00:31:51.839
 So, what the text

00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:52.279
 is saying here

00:31:52.279 --> 00:31:52.639
 when it says

00:31:52.639 --> 00:31:53.399
 from among them,

00:31:53.539 --> 00:31:54.179
 what it's basically

00:31:54.179 --> 00:31:55.179
 saying is that,

00:31:55.659 --> 00:31:56.740
 actually it's a bit

00:31:56.740 --> 00:31:57.459
 out of order, Claire,

00:31:57.559 --> 00:31:58.179
 could you just put up

00:31:58.179 --> 00:31:58.939
 my third point

00:31:58.939 --> 00:31:59.579
 right now?

00:32:00.879 --> 00:32:01.839
 Denying the truth

00:32:01.839 --> 00:32:03.139
 of the human condition

00:32:03.139 --> 00:32:05.379
 creates fertile soil

00:32:05.379 --> 00:32:06.220
 for predators

00:32:06.220 --> 00:32:07.480
 to prey on the weak

00:32:07.480 --> 00:32:08.159
 and the vulnerable.

00:32:10.099 --> 00:32:11.139
 Denying the truth

00:32:11.139 --> 00:32:12.259
 of the human condition

00:32:12.259 --> 00:32:13.720
 creates fertile soil

00:32:13.720 --> 00:32:14.480
 for predators

00:32:14.480 --> 00:32:16.319
 to prey on the weak

00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:17.720
 and the vulnerable.

00:32:17.860 --> 00:32:18.480
 That's what it's saying,

00:32:18.620 --> 00:32:19.380
 that out of these

00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:20.940
 things in the human condition.

00:32:21.539 --> 00:32:22.600
 So, what Paul is saying

00:32:22.600 --> 00:32:23.140
 to Timothy,

00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:23.660
 what he's saying

00:32:23.660 --> 00:32:24.420
 to us as a church

00:32:24.420 --> 00:32:25.140
 is you need to preach

00:32:25.140 --> 00:32:26.220
 about the human condition.

00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:27.000
 You need to preach

00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:28.079
 about the human condition

00:32:28.079 --> 00:32:29.740
 in the context of grace.

00:32:30.120 --> 00:32:31.480
 And you need to organize

00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:33.120
 around the human condition.

00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:34.039
 Not that your mind

00:32:34.039 --> 00:32:35.059
 is never going to be right,

00:32:35.180 --> 00:32:36.380
 but that there's a possibility

00:32:36.380 --> 00:32:37.519
 that you can fall too much

00:32:37.519 --> 00:32:38.420
 in love with your mind.

00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:39.680
 Not that you're always

00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:40.799
 going to have wrong plans,

00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:42.119
 but that you can forget

00:32:42.119 --> 00:32:43.200
 the times you were wrong.

00:32:43.339 --> 00:32:44.259
 And you need to remember

00:32:44.259 --> 00:32:44.659
 these things.

00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:45.339
 You need the Bible

00:32:45.339 --> 00:32:46.259
 to help to bring this

00:32:46.259 --> 00:32:47.460
 to some type of a clarity.

00:32:47.899 --> 00:32:48.619
 And you need to be able

00:32:48.619 --> 00:32:49.659
 to have a Savior

00:32:49.659 --> 00:32:50.879
 that you can walk with it.

00:32:50.919 --> 00:32:52.019
 You can call out to Him

00:32:52.019 --> 00:32:52.419
 and say,

00:32:52.539 --> 00:32:53.720
 Jesus, I really need you

00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:54.440
 to be my Savior

00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:55.359
 and I really need you

00:32:55.359 --> 00:32:56.139
 to be my Lord

00:32:56.139 --> 00:32:57.539
 because my relationship

00:32:57.539 --> 00:32:58.259
 with alcohol,

00:32:58.440 --> 00:32:59.700
 my relationship with money,

00:32:59.819 --> 00:33:00.559
 my relationship

00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:01.859
 with myself,

00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:03.440
 my relationship

00:33:03.440 --> 00:33:04.480
 with power,

00:33:04.619 --> 00:33:05.319
 my relationship

00:33:05.319 --> 00:33:05.980
 with others

00:33:05.980 --> 00:33:07.139
 is out of order.

00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:08.720
 And I can't just

00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:09.819
 white-knuckle at Jesus.

00:33:09.819 --> 00:33:10.700
 I have,

00:33:10.980 --> 00:33:11.419
 Jesus,

00:33:11.599 --> 00:33:12.200
 you need to be

00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:13.179
 that higher power.

00:33:13.359 --> 00:33:14.679
 You need to be that one

00:33:14.679 --> 00:33:15.939
 who can bring the order

00:33:15.939 --> 00:33:16.439
 in my life

00:33:16.439 --> 00:33:17.879
 that I can't create myself

00:33:17.879 --> 00:33:18.839
 and I need to be

00:33:18.839 --> 00:33:20.319
 constantly reminded of it

00:33:20.319 --> 00:33:21.779
 and I need to be part

00:33:21.779 --> 00:33:22.559
 of a community,

00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:23.200
 a church,

00:33:23.319 --> 00:33:24.679
 that will remind me of it

00:33:24.679 --> 00:33:26.000
 and will show grace

00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:26.839
 and will speak to me

00:33:26.839 --> 00:33:28.059
 in a way which is not brutal

00:33:28.059 --> 00:33:28.899
 and will tell me

00:33:28.899 --> 00:33:29.639
 about Jesus

00:33:29.639 --> 00:33:30.919
 and that will teach

00:33:30.919 --> 00:33:31.839
 in such a way

00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:33.119
 that will not just,

00:33:34.960 --> 00:33:35.559
 we don't want,

00:33:35.619 --> 00:33:36.619
 I don't want to be a predator.

00:33:37.399 --> 00:33:38.419
 I don't want to have predators.

00:33:38.420 --> 00:33:40.700
 We need to protect

00:33:40.700 --> 00:33:41.720
 the weak and the vulnerable.

00:33:42.920 --> 00:33:44.160
 But out of that teaching

00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:45.160
 which ignores

00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:46.300
 the human condition

00:33:46.300 --> 00:33:48.779
 creates a fertile soil

00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:49.779
 for predators

00:33:49.779 --> 00:33:50.779
 to prey on the weak

00:33:50.779 --> 00:33:52.259
 and the vulnerable.

00:33:52.960 --> 00:33:53.120
 See,

00:33:53.240 --> 00:33:53.320
 what,

00:33:53.740 --> 00:33:54.080
 if you know,

00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:55.019
 any of you have met

00:33:55.019 --> 00:33:56.240
 anybody who's a bit

00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:56.740
 of a predator,

00:33:56.900 --> 00:33:57.539
 predators have

00:33:57.539 --> 00:33:59.220
 a sixth sense

00:33:59.220 --> 00:34:00.660
 of picking out,

00:34:01.460 --> 00:34:02.519
 like I'm talking about men

00:34:02.519 --> 00:34:04.140
 who pick on women,

00:34:04.519 --> 00:34:05.620
 they have a sixth sense

00:34:05.619 --> 00:34:06.459
 about who's weak.

00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:08.960
 They'll go into a room

00:34:08.960 --> 00:34:10.019
 or they'll be part of a group

00:34:10.019 --> 00:34:10.519
 or a church

00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:11.119
 for a little while

00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:12.059
 and they can just tell

00:34:12.059 --> 00:34:12.599
 the women

00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:14.380
 who will just,

00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:14.980
 in a sense,

00:34:15.659 --> 00:34:16.440
 in a way that's,

00:34:16.619 --> 00:34:16.759
 you know,

00:34:16.819 --> 00:34:17.519
 Jesus loves you

00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:18.500
 but give them the finger

00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:20.019
 and put them

00:34:20.019 --> 00:34:20.619
 in their place

00:34:20.619 --> 00:34:21.219
 and they can tell

00:34:21.219 --> 00:34:21.539
 the women

00:34:21.539 --> 00:34:22.699
 who will be completely

00:34:22.699 --> 00:34:23.299
 and utterly,

00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:24.460
 well,

00:34:24.500 --> 00:34:24.960
 they're weak

00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:25.420
 and vulnerable.

00:34:25.819 --> 00:34:27.139
 Predators have a sixth sense.

00:34:27.139 --> 00:34:34.199
 And part of the issue

00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:35.519
 with the Ravi Zacharias thing

00:34:35.519 --> 00:34:36.179
 wasn't that they

00:34:36.179 --> 00:34:37.019
 as an organization

00:34:37.019 --> 00:34:38.059
 never believed

00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:38.659
 in the fall

00:34:38.659 --> 00:34:39.639
 but they didn't believe

00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:40.920
 that Ravi was fallen.

00:34:43.839 --> 00:34:44.699
 They thought everybody

00:34:44.699 --> 00:34:45.059
 in the world

00:34:45.059 --> 00:34:45.539
 was fallen

00:34:45.539 --> 00:34:46.259
 except Ravi

00:34:46.259 --> 00:34:47.059
 so they didn't have

00:34:47.059 --> 00:34:48.659
 normal checks

00:34:48.659 --> 00:34:49.319
 and balances

00:34:49.319 --> 00:34:50.279
 on how he spent

00:34:50.279 --> 00:34:50.779
 his money.

00:34:51.659 --> 00:34:52.579
 They'd believe him

00:34:52.579 --> 00:34:53.199
 when they'd say

00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:55.420
 that he could be

00:34:55.420 --> 00:34:56.179
 paying for women

00:34:56.179 --> 00:34:57.099
 to travel with him

00:34:57.099 --> 00:34:57.699
 and masseuses

00:34:57.699 --> 00:34:58.699
 to travel with him

00:34:58.699 --> 00:34:59.219
 but somehow

00:34:59.219 --> 00:34:59.880
 he was never

00:34:59.880 --> 00:35:01.179
 in a room alone

00:35:01.179 --> 00:35:01.559
 with them

00:35:01.559 --> 00:35:02.460
 and they'd believe it

00:35:02.460 --> 00:35:03.239
 because they just

00:35:03.239 --> 00:35:04.819
 thought as if

00:35:04.819 --> 00:35:06.099
 Ravi wasn't fallen.

00:35:13.819 --> 00:35:14.880
 And part of the whole

00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:15.880
 Me Too movement

00:35:15.880 --> 00:35:17.739
 developed very specifically

00:35:17.739 --> 00:35:19.360
 out of the sexual revolution

00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:20.539
 and the naturalness

00:35:20.539 --> 00:35:21.799
 of sexual desires

00:35:21.799 --> 00:35:22.659
 and this belief

00:35:22.659 --> 00:35:23.500
 that somehow

00:35:23.500 --> 00:35:25.019
 using sexual desires

00:35:25.019 --> 00:35:26.139
 or somehow natural

00:35:26.139 --> 00:35:27.019
 and right and good

00:35:27.019 --> 00:35:28.239
 yet to have

00:35:28.239 --> 00:35:29.739
 such a type of ideology

00:35:29.739 --> 00:35:30.579
 and such a type

00:35:30.579 --> 00:35:31.179
 of teaching

00:35:31.179 --> 00:35:32.539
 is fertile soil

00:35:32.539 --> 00:35:33.780
 for sexual predators

00:35:33.780 --> 00:35:35.179
 to be sexual predators.

00:35:37.780 --> 00:35:38.840
 The Bible here

00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:39.659
 isn't describing

00:35:39.659 --> 00:35:40.719
 that all women are weak

00:35:40.719 --> 00:35:41.960
 it's describing the fact

00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:42.880
 that if you don't deal

00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:43.860
 with the human condition

00:35:43.860 --> 00:35:45.039
 and preach against it

00:35:45.039 --> 00:35:46.800
 and you turn a blind eye

00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:47.860
 to normal types

00:35:47.860 --> 00:35:48.659
 of discipline

00:35:48.659 --> 00:35:49.940
 and normal types

00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:50.340
 of things

00:35:50.340 --> 00:35:51.460
 to try to prevent it

00:35:51.460 --> 00:35:52.820
 that sexual predators

00:35:52.820 --> 00:35:53.559
 will flourish.

00:35:53.559 --> 00:35:54.539
 it's also saying

00:35:54.539 --> 00:35:55.320
 that if when you hear

00:35:55.320 --> 00:35:55.920
 about an act

00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:57.500
 of sexual predation

00:35:57.500 --> 00:35:58.820
 or any other type

00:35:58.820 --> 00:35:59.799
 of predatory behavior

00:35:59.799 --> 00:36:01.059
 and if you don't discipline it

00:36:01.059 --> 00:36:02.239
 it will continue.

00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:06.960
 Like you can't stop it

00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.480
 from happening

00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:08.219
 because that's part

00:36:08.219 --> 00:36:09.079
 of the human condition

00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:09.840
 but you definitely

00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:10.719
 will encourage it

00:36:10.719 --> 00:36:11.119
 to happen

00:36:11.119 --> 00:36:11.719
 if you talk

00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:13.259
 as if there's certain people

00:36:13.259 --> 00:36:14.360
 where there's something

00:36:14.360 --> 00:36:15.360
 about the human condition

00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:16.259
 which is just natural

00:36:16.259 --> 00:36:16.639
 and good

00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:17.340
 and that there's nothing

00:36:17.340 --> 00:36:18.219
 evil about it

00:36:18.219 --> 00:36:18.960
 there's nothing bent

00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:20.039
 or disordered about it

00:36:20.039 --> 00:36:20.500
 and if you just

00:36:20.500 --> 00:36:21.539
 talk like that

00:36:21.539 --> 00:36:22.019
 then you'll turn

00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:23.099
 a blind eye to stuff

00:36:23.099 --> 00:36:23.880
 and it also makes it

00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:24.800
 harder to discipline it

00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:25.699
 when it happens

00:36:25.699 --> 00:36:27.300
 and the Bible here

00:36:27.300 --> 00:36:28.780
 is basically saying

00:36:28.780 --> 00:36:29.199
 to Timothy

00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:29.679
 because he's going

00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:30.159
 to be talking

00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:30.619
 to Timothy

00:36:30.619 --> 00:36:31.179
 and if you look

00:36:31.179 --> 00:36:32.179
 at 1 Timothy as well

00:36:32.179 --> 00:36:32.880
 which talked about

00:36:32.880 --> 00:36:34.400
 you deal with it

00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:34.820
 Timothy

00:36:34.820 --> 00:36:36.420
 like preach against it

00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:37.280
 and you deal with it

00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:38.019
 you set up things

00:36:38.019 --> 00:36:39.079
 and you deal with it

00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:40.019
 because the weak

00:36:40.019 --> 00:36:40.599
 and the vulnerable

00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:41.699
 matter to God

00:36:41.699 --> 00:36:43.940
 the weak

00:36:43.940 --> 00:36:44.559
 and the vulnerable

00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:45.599
 matter to God

00:36:45.599 --> 00:36:46.420
 and if they matter

00:36:46.420 --> 00:36:46.900
 to God

00:36:46.900 --> 00:36:47.739
 they should matter

00:36:47.739 --> 00:36:48.480
 to Christians

00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:49.740
 and they should matter

00:36:49.740 --> 00:36:50.679
 to the church

00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:53.599
 some of you know

00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:56.059
 that I had a role

00:36:56.059 --> 00:36:57.579
 in putting somebody

00:36:57.579 --> 00:36:58.699
 who had sexually abused

00:36:58.699 --> 00:36:59.280
 young girls

00:36:59.280 --> 00:36:59.940
 into jail

00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:02.139
 I had a role in that

00:37:02.139 --> 00:37:04.420
 and it was a family member

00:37:04.420 --> 00:37:06.860
 caused great division

00:37:06.860 --> 00:37:07.639
 in my family

00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:09.760
 and you would not believe

00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:11.659
 how many godly Baptists

00:37:11.659 --> 00:37:12.340
 and others

00:37:12.340 --> 00:37:13.360
 wrote me

00:37:13.360 --> 00:37:14.059
 and phoned me

00:37:14.059 --> 00:37:14.920
 and told me

00:37:14.920 --> 00:37:16.240
 that what I was doing

00:37:16.240 --> 00:37:16.940
 was wrong

00:37:16.940 --> 00:37:19.280
 and they wrote me

00:37:19.280 --> 00:37:20.159
 and told me

00:37:20.159 --> 00:37:21.920
 that I should be concerned

00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:22.940
 about the family

00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:23.800
 and the reputation

00:37:23.800 --> 00:37:25.659
 rather than the victims

00:37:25.659 --> 00:37:27.619
 and I can also tell you

00:37:27.619 --> 00:37:28.420
 I will not name them

00:37:28.420 --> 00:37:29.099
 one of these people

00:37:29.099 --> 00:37:30.700
 as a social justice champion

00:37:30.700 --> 00:37:31.280
 in Canada

00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:37.340
 folks if this happens

00:37:37.340 --> 00:37:37.860
 in the church

00:37:37.860 --> 00:37:38.400
 the last thing

00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:39.539
 we should concern about

00:37:39.539 --> 00:37:40.280
 is the reputation

00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:41.179
 of church and the Messiah

00:37:41.179 --> 00:37:42.440
 what we should be concerned about

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:42.840
 is the weak

00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:43.380
 and the vulnerable

00:37:43.380 --> 00:37:45.380
 and that shouldn't even be

00:37:45.380 --> 00:37:46.019
 something that we have

00:37:46.019 --> 00:37:46.619
 to think about

00:37:46.619 --> 00:37:49.659
 we shouldn't even have to say

00:37:49.659 --> 00:37:50.940
 we have to pray about that

00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:53.559
 just to wrap us up

00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:54.719
 the time story

00:37:54.719 --> 00:37:59.739
 when you understand

00:37:59.739 --> 00:38:00.679
 the bad news

00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:01.960
 you understand

00:38:01.960 --> 00:38:02.739
 your need

00:38:02.739 --> 00:38:04.059
 for the good news

00:38:04.059 --> 00:38:06.219
 when you understand

00:38:06.219 --> 00:38:06.859
 the bad news

00:38:06.859 --> 00:38:07.359
 you understand

00:38:07.359 --> 00:38:07.739
 your need

00:38:07.739 --> 00:38:08.319
 for the good news

00:38:08.319 --> 00:38:09.619
 you see here's the wonderful news

00:38:09.619 --> 00:38:10.639
 about the good news

00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:14.059
 for God so loved the world

00:38:14.059 --> 00:38:16.679
 that he gave his only begotten son

00:38:16.679 --> 00:38:17.879
 to the end

00:38:17.879 --> 00:38:19.519
 that anyone who believes in him

00:38:19.519 --> 00:38:20.539
 will not perish

00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:22.359
 but have everlasting life

00:38:22.359 --> 00:38:24.139
 when it says perish

00:38:24.139 --> 00:38:24.759
 what does that mean

00:38:24.759 --> 00:38:25.719
 means God knows

00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:27.920
 that those 19 vices

00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:29.699
 in 2nd Timothy

00:38:29.699 --> 00:38:30.759
 describe me

00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:34.720
 and even though

00:38:34.720 --> 00:38:35.460
 that God knew

00:38:35.460 --> 00:38:36.680
 that those 19

00:38:36.680 --> 00:38:37.340
 vices

00:38:37.340 --> 00:38:38.740
 describe me

00:38:38.740 --> 00:38:40.780
 still Jesus

00:38:40.780 --> 00:38:41.680
 died on the cross

00:38:41.680 --> 00:38:42.100
 for me

00:38:42.100 --> 00:38:43.860
 and he died on the cross

00:38:43.860 --> 00:38:44.420
 for me knowing

00:38:44.420 --> 00:38:45.660
 every single one of them

00:38:45.660 --> 00:38:46.600
 he knows the times

00:38:46.600 --> 00:38:47.180
 I've been brutal

00:38:47.180 --> 00:38:47.820
 to my wife

00:38:47.820 --> 00:38:48.740
 and to my kids

00:38:48.740 --> 00:38:51.200
 he knows the ways

00:38:51.200 --> 00:38:52.720
 that I've damaged

00:38:52.720 --> 00:38:53.620
 my marriage

00:38:53.620 --> 00:38:54.620
 or my family

00:38:54.620 --> 00:38:55.540
 by being a lover

00:38:55.540 --> 00:38:56.280
 of myself

00:38:56.280 --> 00:38:57.140
 rather than a lover

00:38:57.140 --> 00:38:58.300
 of my wife

00:38:58.300 --> 00:38:59.120
 for my kids

00:38:59.120 --> 00:39:01.200
 he knows all that

00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:02.280
 and he died

00:39:02.280 --> 00:39:02.880
 for me

00:39:02.880 --> 00:39:04.220
 and he died for you

00:39:04.220 --> 00:39:06.900
 and I don't know

00:39:06.900 --> 00:39:07.539
 how you can have

00:39:07.539 --> 00:39:09.000
 a moral self-examination

00:39:09.000 --> 00:39:09.760
 if you want to

00:39:09.760 --> 00:39:10.400
 if you're going to be

00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:11.320
 constantly thinking

00:39:11.320 --> 00:39:11.920
 that you need to

00:39:11.920 --> 00:39:13.100
 justify yourself

00:39:13.100 --> 00:39:14.740
 and manage your appearances

00:39:14.740 --> 00:39:15.420
 I don't know

00:39:15.420 --> 00:39:16.120
 how you manage it

00:39:16.120 --> 00:39:17.060
 I know people do

00:39:17.060 --> 00:39:18.300
 and God loved them

00:39:18.300 --> 00:39:18.820
 that they do

00:39:18.820 --> 00:39:20.000
 that's common grace

00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:21.380
 but let me tell you

00:39:21.380 --> 00:39:22.600
 as grace grips you

00:39:22.600 --> 00:39:23.280
 as you understand

00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:24.120
 more fully

00:39:24.120 --> 00:39:25.480
 that

00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:27.600
 for God so loved

00:39:27.600 --> 00:39:28.200
 the world

00:39:28.199 --> 00:39:28.799
 that he gave

00:39:28.799 --> 00:39:29.779
 his only begotten

00:39:29.779 --> 00:39:30.619
 son to the end

00:39:30.619 --> 00:39:31.519
 that all who believe

00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:32.259
 in him will not

00:39:32.259 --> 00:39:33.079
 perish but have

00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:33.679
 eternal life

00:39:33.679 --> 00:39:34.460
 when you understand

00:39:34.460 --> 00:39:35.159
 that he knew

00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:36.059
 we were perishing

00:39:36.059 --> 00:39:36.819
 and he knew

00:39:36.819 --> 00:39:38.079
 why we were perishing

00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:39.759
 and still he loved us

00:39:39.759 --> 00:39:40.639
 and came and died

00:39:40.639 --> 00:39:41.199
 for us

00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:42.139
 and that in a sense

00:39:42.139 --> 00:39:43.439
 no sin in my life

00:39:43.439 --> 00:39:44.480
 will ever surprise

00:39:44.480 --> 00:39:45.980
 Jesus who died for me

00:39:45.980 --> 00:39:46.879
 and my standing

00:39:46.879 --> 00:39:47.619
 before God

00:39:47.619 --> 00:39:48.379
 my justification

00:39:48.379 --> 00:39:49.379
 before God

00:39:49.379 --> 00:39:50.559
 is not that he

00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:51.359
 weighed my merits

00:39:51.359 --> 00:39:51.839
 but that he

00:39:51.839 --> 00:39:52.939
 pardoned my offenses

00:39:52.939 --> 00:39:53.859
 and it's not

00:39:53.859 --> 00:39:54.799
 that I was able

00:39:54.799 --> 00:39:55.919
 to get a great score

00:39:55.919 --> 00:39:56.460
 in ethics

00:39:56.460 --> 00:39:57.259
 and a great score

00:39:57.259 --> 00:39:57.819
 in theology

00:39:57.820 --> 00:39:58.880
 but I am covered

00:39:58.880 --> 00:39:59.500
 by the blood

00:39:59.500 --> 00:40:00.180
 of Christ

00:40:00.180 --> 00:40:01.400
 and that's my

00:40:01.400 --> 00:40:01.980
 justification

00:40:01.980 --> 00:40:03.140
 and that becomes

00:40:03.140 --> 00:40:03.720
 a stance

00:40:03.720 --> 00:40:04.940
 as that becomes

00:40:04.940 --> 00:40:05.660
 more real

00:40:05.660 --> 00:40:06.760
 and deep to my heart

00:40:06.760 --> 00:40:07.820
 that I can say

00:40:07.820 --> 00:40:08.559
 you know what

00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:10.320
 I can be really

00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:10.820
 ungentle

00:40:10.820 --> 00:40:11.680
 with my tongue

00:40:11.680 --> 00:40:13.380
 I can be like this

00:40:13.380 --> 00:40:14.660
 I can be like that

00:40:14.660 --> 00:40:16.620
 and I can call out

00:40:16.620 --> 00:40:17.120
 to Jesus

00:40:17.120 --> 00:40:17.880
 and thank him

00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:19.640
 for dying for me

00:40:19.640 --> 00:40:20.300
 and I can say

00:40:20.300 --> 00:40:21.019
 Lord Jesus

00:40:21.019 --> 00:40:22.300
 help me to be better

00:40:22.300 --> 00:40:23.260
 help me to be more

00:40:23.260 --> 00:40:24.019
 like Christ

00:40:24.019 --> 00:40:25.559
 help me to be less

00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:26.519
 a lover of myself

00:40:26.519 --> 00:40:27.380
 and more a lover

00:40:27.380 --> 00:40:27.719
 of you

00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:28.579
 help me to be less

00:40:28.579 --> 00:40:29.480
 a lover of money

00:40:29.480 --> 00:40:30.219
 and more a lover

00:40:30.219 --> 00:40:30.739
 of you

00:40:30.739 --> 00:40:32.539
 and what the money

00:40:32.539 --> 00:40:33.340
 that you've entrusted

00:40:33.340 --> 00:40:34.139
 to me for a while

00:40:34.139 --> 00:40:35.400
 could do for the furtherance

00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:35.960
 of the kingdom

00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:37.019
 and the relief

00:40:37.019 --> 00:40:37.659
 of the poor

00:40:37.659 --> 00:40:40.759
 and bringing glory

00:40:40.759 --> 00:40:41.380
 to you

00:40:41.380 --> 00:40:45.699
 see that's why

00:40:45.699 --> 00:40:46.940
 knowing the bad news

00:40:46.940 --> 00:40:47.920
 helps you appreciate

00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:48.739
 the good news

00:40:48.739 --> 00:40:50.299
 and one final thing

00:40:50.299 --> 00:40:51.679
 just as you all stand

00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:54.039
 the challenge here

00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:55.440
 is to teach the Bible

00:40:55.440 --> 00:40:57.079
 and discipline biblically

00:40:57.079 --> 00:40:58.019
 to help people

00:40:58.019 --> 00:40:59.159
 thrive in Christ

00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:00.179
 and to protect

00:41:00.179 --> 00:41:00.899
 the weak

00:41:00.899 --> 00:41:01.960
 and the vulnerable

00:41:01.960 --> 00:41:04.440
 that's why this section

00:41:04.440 --> 00:41:04.759
 is here

00:41:04.759 --> 00:41:05.879
 teach the Bible

00:41:05.879 --> 00:41:07.879
 and discipline biblically

00:41:07.879 --> 00:41:08.960
 why?

00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:10.519
 to help people

00:41:10.519 --> 00:41:11.739
 thrive in Christ

00:41:11.739 --> 00:41:13.159
 and to protect

00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:14.339
 the weak

00:41:14.339 --> 00:41:15.619
 and the vulnerable

00:41:15.619 --> 00:41:17.419
 please stand

00:41:17.420 --> 00:41:24.380
 just bow our heads

00:41:24.380 --> 00:41:24.860
 in prayer

00:41:24.860 --> 00:41:31.079
 Father

00:41:31.079 --> 00:41:33.960
 we confess

00:41:33.960 --> 00:41:34.400
 that it

00:41:34.400 --> 00:41:35.619
 it's

00:41:35.619 --> 00:41:37.000
 we really like it

00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:37.500
 when the Bible

00:41:37.500 --> 00:41:38.760
 speaks about other people

00:41:38.760 --> 00:41:39.920
 it can be hard

00:41:39.920 --> 00:41:40.460
 when it speaks

00:41:40.460 --> 00:41:41.220
 about ourselves

00:41:41.220 --> 00:41:42.480
 but Father

00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:43.159
 we thank you

00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:43.840
 that you press

00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:44.420
 through that

00:41:44.420 --> 00:41:47.039
 that your Bible

00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:48.159
 speaks to us

00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:49.699
 and that as the Holy Spirit

00:41:49.699 --> 00:41:50.539
 has a deeper role

00:41:50.539 --> 00:41:51.199
 in our lives

00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:52.440
 the Holy Spirit

00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:53.340
 will bring the Bible

00:41:53.340 --> 00:41:54.259
 to see how

00:41:54.259 --> 00:41:55.619
 it's describing us

00:41:55.619 --> 00:41:57.199
 describing me

00:41:57.199 --> 00:41:59.019
 describing our church

00:41:59.019 --> 00:42:00.420
 and so Father

00:42:00.420 --> 00:42:01.039
 we thank you

00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:02.000
 that you confront

00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.460
 to connect

00:42:03.460 --> 00:42:04.820
 and you confront

00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:05.679
 and you connect

00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:06.400
 so that we know

00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:07.519
 our need for a Savior

00:42:07.519 --> 00:42:09.039
 and your great grace

00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:10.519
 and Father

00:42:10.519 --> 00:42:11.400
 we give you thanks

00:42:11.400 --> 00:42:11.940
 and praise

00:42:11.940 --> 00:42:12.880
 that when we've accepted

00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:14.179
 Jesus as our Savior

00:42:14.179 --> 00:42:14.739
 and Lord

00:42:14.739 --> 00:42:16.559
 that we can repent

00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:17.199
 with hope

00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:19.259
 we can repent

00:42:19.259 --> 00:42:19.579
 Father

00:42:19.579 --> 00:42:20.360
 knowing that even

00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:21.299
 if we're going to fall

00:42:21.299 --> 00:42:23.139
 a hundred times more

00:42:23.139 --> 00:42:25.179
 over the next couple of years

00:42:25.179 --> 00:42:26.539
 but that every time

00:42:26.539 --> 00:42:27.299
 we can repent

00:42:27.299 --> 00:42:28.099
 that we don't have to make

00:42:28.099 --> 00:42:29.059
 a treaty with evil

00:42:29.059 --> 00:42:30.719
 we can make treaty

00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:31.340
 with others

00:42:31.340 --> 00:42:33.699
 for the good of the kingdom

00:42:33.699 --> 00:42:34.820
 and out of love

00:42:34.820 --> 00:42:36.400
 and being self-effacing

00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:37.380
 but we don't make treaties

00:42:37.380 --> 00:42:37.900
 with evil

00:42:37.900 --> 00:42:38.880
 we don't make treaties

00:42:38.880 --> 00:42:40.340
 with hurting the weak

00:42:40.340 --> 00:42:40.980
 and the vulnerable

00:42:40.980 --> 00:42:43.139
 and that Father

00:42:43.139 --> 00:42:44.980
 as the Bible grips us

00:42:44.980 --> 00:42:46.199
 so we can look at ourselves

00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:47.440
 we can repent

00:42:47.440 --> 00:42:48.659
 in the hope

00:42:48.659 --> 00:42:50.460
 that the final word

00:42:50.460 --> 00:42:50.960
 about us

00:42:50.960 --> 00:42:51.719
 will not be

00:42:51.719 --> 00:42:53.219
 bent and disordered

00:42:53.219 --> 00:42:54.760
 but made new in Christ

00:42:54.760 --> 00:42:56.400
 filled with the Holy Spirit

00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:58.559
 and that we can have

00:42:58.559 --> 00:42:59.219
 some victory

00:42:59.219 --> 00:43:00.199
 over these sins

00:43:00.199 --> 00:43:01.380
 on this side of the grave

00:43:01.380 --> 00:43:03.300
 that we can pick up

00:43:03.300 --> 00:43:03.820
 our cross

00:43:03.820 --> 00:43:04.619
 and follow Jesus

00:43:04.619 --> 00:43:05.639
 and become more like him

00:43:05.639 --> 00:43:05.900
 Father

00:43:05.900 --> 00:43:07.639
 help us to know

00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:08.340
 the bad news

00:43:08.340 --> 00:43:09.139
 so that we will love

00:43:09.139 --> 00:43:09.880
 the good news

00:43:09.880 --> 00:43:11.039
 and that we can repent

00:43:11.039 --> 00:43:13.340
 and amend our lives

00:43:13.340 --> 00:43:13.900
 with hope

00:43:13.900 --> 00:43:15.800
 and we ask this

00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:16.679
 in the precious name

00:43:16.679 --> 00:43:17.139
 of Jesus

00:43:17.139 --> 00:43:18.480
 and all God's people said

00:43:18.480 --> 00:43:19.519
 Amen

00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:19.719
 Amen

00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:19.779
 Amen

00:43:19.779 --> 00:43:20.279
 Amen

00:43:20.279 --> 00:43:20.340
 Amen

00:43:20.340 --> 00:43:20.400
 Amen

00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:20.440
 Amen

00:43:20.440 --> 00:43:20.500
 Amen

00:43:20.500 --> 00:43:20.579
 Amen