WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Please turn back in your Bibles to Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and 4, page 554-55555 in the Black Church. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.800 Let me pray one more time as we come to God's Word. 00:00:18.280 --> 00:00:27.160 Our Father, we ask that you would speak and that we would listen because we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:00:29.839 --> 00:00:34.900 Well, Mohammed Al-Fayed was back in the news this week. You'll have seen that. 00:00:34.899 --> 00:00:40.219 The one-time owner of Harrods. He died last year, but he was back in the news this week 00:00:40.219 --> 00:00:46.280 because dozens of women, former staff, have come forward to say that he assaulted them. 00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:55.820 It's the age-old story. The rich and the powerful do what they like, and then they die and get away with it. 00:00:58.099 --> 00:01:04.299 Jeffrey Epstein, New York financier, jailed for trafficking minors for his and his wealthy friend's pleasure. 00:01:04.299 --> 00:01:12.140 Then he dies in very dubious circumstances in prison, and he takes a lot of secrets, his and others, to the grave. 00:01:13.060 --> 00:01:15.019 Jimmy Savile, the same. 00:01:16.039 --> 00:01:22.079 The rich and the powerful do what they like, and then they die and get away with some terrible things. 00:01:23.019 --> 00:01:23.819 Where's the justice? 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:26.459 Where's the justice? 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:28.700 And it isn't just them, is it? 00:01:29.420 --> 00:01:32.159 People seem to get away with all kinds of wickedness all the time. 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:34.039 We don't need to look too far to see that. 00:01:34.119 --> 00:01:39.939 There's plenty of crime that goes on around us day by day that the police don't even bother to deal with. 00:01:40.039 --> 00:01:44.159 They don't have the resources, and so it just goes unchecked. 00:01:46.140 --> 00:01:49.859 The security guard can do very little when the people help themselves in Tesco. 00:01:50.539 --> 00:01:54.140 He might be able to get his body cam kind of in the way to get a photograph of them, 00:01:54.199 --> 00:01:55.439 but that's about as far as it goes. 00:01:55.439 --> 00:01:57.439 And they get away with it. 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:06.679 And yet we heard last week, if you were here, in Ecclesiastes 3, about God's complete, total sovereignty. 00:02:07.259 --> 00:02:10.439 He has total control over everything under the sun. 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:14.180 So what's going on with the injustice? 00:02:14.180 --> 00:02:20.280 The obvious question that was left hanging last week was, 00:02:20.740 --> 00:02:25.219 well, if God has made everything fitting in its time as He says He has, 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:30.760 what does this mean for all the injustice and all the oppression that we see around us? 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:35.540 Solomon isn't blind to that question. 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:39.900 In fact, he addresses it straight on. 00:02:39.980 --> 00:02:41.219 Chapter 3, verse 16. 00:02:41.219 --> 00:02:47.439 Moreover, I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness. 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:52.340 And in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. 00:02:53.300 --> 00:02:56.800 He looks to the places where justice and righteousness should be upheld, 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.280 where they should be promoted, and he only finds wickedness. 00:03:00.379 --> 00:03:01.219 It's very familiar. 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:07.919 The place of justice, the law courts, where the weakest in society, the unborn, are unprotected. 00:03:07.919 --> 00:03:14.479 The place of righteousness, the church, where in many cases concerning doctrine and morality, 00:03:14.919 --> 00:03:16.919 good is called evil and evil good. 00:03:17.279 --> 00:03:23.039 Just this week, another story broke of a pastor defiling the pastoral office through adultery. 00:03:24.299 --> 00:03:25.479 Justice, where is it? 00:03:25.799 --> 00:03:27.560 Righteousness, where is it? 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:33.140 So how do we reconcile this injustice, 3, 16 and 4, 1? 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:33.680 Have a look. 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:34.659 Chapter 4, verse 1. 00:03:34.960 --> 00:03:35.400 Oppression. 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:41.000 How do we reconcile injustice and oppression with this great claim in chapter 3 to God's sovereignty? 00:03:41.379 --> 00:03:46.840 If God is in control of the whole world and His plan is fitting, it is beautiful, as He says, 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:53.840 if He is both all-powerful and all-good, what do we do with the problem of all this wickedness? 00:03:55.520 --> 00:04:00.159 Well, Solomon, it won't surprise you to know, has reflected on the question, 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:04.219 and he tells us we need a three-pronged approach. 00:04:05.219 --> 00:04:11.259 If we're going to be able to handle this, this reality that is in the world that we live in, 00:04:11.699 --> 00:04:13.180 we need a three-pronged approach. 00:04:13.180 --> 00:04:14.800 And the first is this, we need faith. 00:04:16.040 --> 00:04:16.439 Faith. 00:04:18.540 --> 00:04:20.400 It said in my heart, verse 17, 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:26.759 God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work. 00:04:28.259 --> 00:04:32.240 In the same way that he declared last week God's sovereign plan for the world to be fitting, 00:04:32.379 --> 00:04:38.019 chapter 3, verse 11, so also when it comes to justice, Solomon makes this confession of faith. 00:04:38.019 --> 00:04:44.759 You remember last time I said, when you look at the world, it doesn't seem like God's plan fits together perfectly. 00:04:45.579 --> 00:04:47.079 And Solomon's no different to us. 00:04:47.399 --> 00:04:50.699 He looks on the circumstances of his life and of the lives of others, 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:56.240 and he has to declare it in faith that God has a good plan that is fitting, that is beautiful. 00:04:56.899 --> 00:04:58.039 And it's the same here. 00:04:58.599 --> 00:05:03.879 He has to make this confession by faith, because this isn't what his experience tells him. 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:07.319 This isn't the way of the world. 00:05:07.540 --> 00:05:10.279 Everywhere he looks, he's just told us, he sees wickedness. 00:05:11.579 --> 00:05:16.800 So the fact that God will judge the righteous and the wicked is something that he must take on faith. 00:05:17.180 --> 00:05:21.839 There is a time for every matter and for every work. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.259 That means there is a time for injustice and a time for justice. 00:05:25.259 --> 00:05:29.920 And God can be trusted with it all. 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:38.620 One day, God will bring every deed into light, and perfect justice will be done. 00:05:40.279 --> 00:05:44.379 Now that's a great comfort for you if you have experienced injustice of any kind. 00:05:45.399 --> 00:05:52.120 Boys and girls, if someone has lied about you or has called you names, God will one day sort that out. 00:05:52.120 --> 00:05:58.620 And for the rest of us, if you have been betrayed, if you have been cheated on, 00:05:58.980 --> 00:06:05.699 if you have been slandered, been ripped off, scammed, assaulted, abused, injured by a drunk driver, 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.600 suffered because of medical negligence, 00:06:09.420 --> 00:06:11.740 if you have experienced a time of unrighteousness, 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.459 in any way, a time of putting things right is coming. 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:18.579 And God will do it. 00:06:18.579 --> 00:06:22.240 Every wrong will be put right. 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:28.859 Every single unborn child that was killed will get justice from the judge of all the earth. 00:06:29.500 --> 00:06:30.939 That's what Solomon is saying. 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:36.560 But because we don't see this now, we need to do what Solomon does here. 00:06:36.620 --> 00:06:37.919 We need to take that on faith. 00:06:39.259 --> 00:06:41.979 We need to believe that that is the case. 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:43.539 But here's the thing for us. 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:46.060 Here's the thing for us here this evening. 00:06:46.060 --> 00:06:52.579 We, gathered here as we are, are better equipped to do this than Solomon was. 00:06:53.319 --> 00:06:57.439 Because we have the benefit of living this side of the cross and resurrection of Jesus. 00:06:58.980 --> 00:07:05.439 We can trust that justice will one day be done because we have already seen God enter the world. 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:12.120 He has come in the person of Jesus to go to the cross, to bear the curse of sin and death in himself. 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:16.300 And then in his resurrection, he showed himself as Savior and Lord of all. 00:07:16.600 --> 00:07:18.100 Now what that means is three things. 00:07:18.220 --> 00:07:21.740 First of all, it means that for all who have put their faith in him, 00:07:21.819 --> 00:07:24.740 the judgment that we deserve has fallen on him. 00:07:24.800 --> 00:07:25.920 And so we go free. 00:07:25.920 --> 00:07:29.100 If God is going to judge the wicked, let's be honest. 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:32.060 We know that we're implicated in that. 00:07:32.420 --> 00:07:37.020 We know that we haven't lived in a way that has pleased God perfectly in his world. 00:07:37.340 --> 00:07:39.259 We know that we're implicated among the wicked. 00:07:39.460 --> 00:07:41.439 So we need that issue to be resolved. 00:07:42.340 --> 00:07:46.900 And he broke into the world all those years ago in order to do that at the cross. 00:07:46.899 --> 00:07:54.679 Secondly, any injustice, therefore, that we experience now, we experience in union with Christ. 00:07:55.259 --> 00:08:01.639 So it is a sharing, Paul says in Philippians 3, a sharing in the sufferings of Christ becoming like him in his death. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.659 What that means is any suffering that we experience now, we experience it in union with Christ. 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:12.159 And God is using those things to make us more Christ-like. 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:21.720 Then thirdly, Christ's resurrection is the guarantee of his future judgment. 00:08:22.460 --> 00:08:25.620 That's what the Apostle Paul preached in Athens in Acts 17. 00:08:26.740 --> 00:08:27.080 He said, 00:08:27.320 --> 00:08:32.240 God has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed. 00:08:35.540 --> 00:08:40.320 And of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead. 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:47.120 We look back to the empty tomb and the empty tomb is proof to us that God will one day judge. 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:57.379 All unrighteousness, all injustice, all wrongs of every flavor and every kind will be put right on that day. 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:06.200 It's interesting that the Apostle gave this as a reason why people should repent of their sin and put their faith in Christ. 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:13.920 I want to say if you're here this evening and you need to do that, I want to encourage you to do it. 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:18.660 To have the judgment that you deserve because you have lived in God's world according to your rules. 00:09:19.000 --> 00:09:21.400 Because you have actually sided with the wicked. 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:27.280 Put your faith in Jesus Christ and have the judgment that you deserve credited to him. 00:09:27.279 --> 00:09:32.100 It's taken away then and you're free. 00:09:34.559 --> 00:09:45.039 But notice it is also the reason, the resurrection is also the reason why we can trust that the Lord one day will put your injustice right. 00:09:45.039 --> 00:09:55.500 On that day, that injustice will be overturned and Al-Fayed and Epstein and Saville and whoever tells us that they didn't get away with their evil. 00:09:57.240 --> 00:10:03.120 They will one day give an account before the bar of God's justice which is a far higher court than any human court. 00:10:04.179 --> 00:10:06.779 And on that day, perfect justice will be done. 00:10:06.779 --> 00:10:11.220 When we look around in our world, this is a great comfort. 00:10:13.379 --> 00:10:16.439 And we take it on faith because the tomb is empty. 00:10:18.779 --> 00:10:21.779 Well, what someone might say, well, is that not a bit of a cop-out? 00:10:22.199 --> 00:10:24.120 Actually, it's just hoping for the best. 00:10:26.220 --> 00:10:31.220 It's a power of positive thinking trick that you're employing there to make a corrupt world bearable. 00:10:31.220 --> 00:10:36.899 If God really cared about justice, in fact, he'd do something now. 00:10:38.660 --> 00:10:40.960 Well, here Solomon takes us to our second point. 00:10:41.060 --> 00:10:45.540 If the first point is that we have to live by faith that God is going to deal with injustice, 00:10:45.700 --> 00:10:48.639 the second point is that he reminds us of our finitude. 00:10:49.340 --> 00:10:50.139 Our finitude. 00:10:50.300 --> 00:10:50.920 Verse 18, 00:10:50.919 --> 00:11:18.099 To the person who won't trust God with his plans for the world, 00:11:18.100 --> 00:11:23.259 to the person who won't trust God with his promise to put everything right one day, 00:11:23.379 --> 00:11:25.980 Solomon reminds them of their finitude. 00:11:27.879 --> 00:11:33.259 By making us wait, God is testing us to see if we will accept that he is God and we are not. 00:11:34.100 --> 00:11:37.399 To see if we will accept that he is the creator and we are his creatures. 00:11:37.779 --> 00:11:43.980 To see, to test us to see if we will live by faith according to God's word in God's world. 00:11:43.980 --> 00:11:48.159 And the way that Solomon does this is by reminding us of our death. 00:11:49.139 --> 00:11:49.840 Do you see that? 00:11:50.279 --> 00:11:51.019 Of our death. 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:54.139 He says in that regard we're no different to the animals. 00:11:54.460 --> 00:11:57.220 It's not that animals and humans are of equal value. 00:11:57.519 --> 00:12:01.980 He's saying no, that we are the same in that we both die and we both decompose. 00:12:02.820 --> 00:12:03.379 Verse 20, 00:12:03.700 --> 00:12:04.960 All go to one place. 00:12:05.480 --> 00:12:08.940 All are from the dust and to dust all return. 00:12:08.940 --> 00:12:13.840 Since our first parents, since they sinned in the garden, 00:12:14.060 --> 00:12:17.380 death has been a messenger to remind us over and over again, 00:12:17.860 --> 00:12:19.500 funeral after funeral, 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:21.560 graveside after graveside, 00:12:21.640 --> 00:12:22.960 that we are finite, 00:12:23.940 --> 00:12:25.880 that we're not in control, 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:27.020 that we're vapor, 00:12:27.860 --> 00:12:29.800 here for a season and then gone. 00:12:30.680 --> 00:12:35.780 We find it so hard to accept and yet it is impossible for us to ignore. 00:12:35.779 --> 00:12:41.059 Death is the ultimate case study that proves that we're not in control of our lives. 00:12:42.339 --> 00:12:44.779 You can train as diligently as you want. 00:12:45.179 --> 00:12:47.539 You can eat as clean as you want. 00:12:47.779 --> 00:12:50.139 You can get as much sleep as you feel you need, 00:12:50.500 --> 00:12:52.539 but you do not control your destiny. 00:12:54.539 --> 00:12:55.279 You don't. 00:12:55.799 --> 00:12:56.500 None of us do. 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:00.819 And Solomon adds to this, 00:13:00.939 --> 00:13:03.079 You have no idea what happens after you die. 00:13:03.159 --> 00:13:04.000 Look at verse 21. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.940 Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward 00:13:07.940 --> 00:13:11.379 and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? 00:13:12.980 --> 00:13:16.460 We talk about people when they die going to a better place 00:13:16.460 --> 00:13:19.559 or we say that they'll be looking down on us 00:13:19.559 --> 00:13:21.940 from whatever vantage point they now occupy. 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:24.360 But who actually knows this? 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:25.919 No one. 00:13:26.659 --> 00:13:29.139 Nobody has first-hand empirical evidence 00:13:29.139 --> 00:13:31.960 of what happens to the human spirit after they die. 00:13:33.639 --> 00:13:35.620 Does the spirit go upward to God 00:13:35.620 --> 00:13:38.000 or does it go into the ground and that's the end? 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:39.939 When you go to a funeral, 00:13:40.340 --> 00:13:42.220 where is the person that you once knew? 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:43.139 Where are they? 00:13:43.679 --> 00:13:46.019 And do you have any first-hand evidence of that? 00:13:46.019 --> 00:13:49.220 None of us can provide that evidence. 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:55.759 Which means we all take what we believe about the afterlife on faith. 00:13:56.059 --> 00:13:56.779 All of us. 00:13:58.199 --> 00:13:59.220 The question is, 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:03.460 does the ground beneath that faith actually hold? 00:14:03.460 --> 00:14:07.240 You see what I'm saying? 00:14:07.780 --> 00:14:09.220 See what Solomon is saying? 00:14:10.040 --> 00:14:13.980 None of us know actually empirically what happens after death. 00:14:14.560 --> 00:14:18.480 So all of us believe what we do about the afterlife on faith. 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:20.320 The question is, 00:14:20.399 --> 00:14:23.320 does the ground beneath that faith actually hold us? 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:25.060 For the Christian, 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.500 our faith is in the one who has dealt with the problem of death 00:14:27.500 --> 00:14:28.560 by dying in our place. 00:14:30.340 --> 00:14:32.519 He died in our place and then three days 00:14:32.519 --> 00:14:34.500 in the tomb he walked out again, 00:14:34.920 --> 00:14:35.360 alive. 00:14:36.600 --> 00:14:39.120 We have someone who went into death 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.480 and came out the other side glorified. 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:44.480 So we have one who has shown us 00:14:44.480 --> 00:14:47.500 actually what happens to a human soul 00:14:47.500 --> 00:14:49.460 such that now we, 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:50.419 quote, 00:14:50.860 --> 00:14:52.120 await a Savior from heaven 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:53.820 who will transform our lowly body 00:14:53.820 --> 00:14:55.159 to be like his glorious body 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:56.919 by the power of his resurrection. 00:14:57.700 --> 00:14:58.840 We are finite. 00:15:00.320 --> 00:15:02.840 And the curse of sin drags us into the dust. 00:15:02.940 --> 00:15:04.559 But if our faith is in the Lord Jesus 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:06.220 who went into the dust 00:15:06.220 --> 00:15:07.779 and came out the other side, 00:15:08.179 --> 00:15:10.399 then we have confidence that our future is sure 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:12.480 and that his promise to put things right 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:14.299 will come to pass. 00:15:14.299 --> 00:15:18.819 We must live by faith 00:15:18.819 --> 00:15:22.279 recognizing our finitude. 00:15:25.120 --> 00:15:26.399 What's interesting is 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:29.159 living in a world that is full of wickedness. 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:32.219 It's one thing to say, 00:15:32.579 --> 00:15:33.419 live by faith 00:15:33.419 --> 00:15:36.379 and if you're tempted to question God 00:15:36.379 --> 00:15:37.419 and what he's doing, 00:15:37.679 --> 00:15:38.860 remember your finitude, 00:15:39.059 --> 00:15:40.439 remember how limited you are, 00:15:40.559 --> 00:15:42.000 remember how finite you are. 00:15:43.500 --> 00:15:44.399 But then what? 00:15:46.279 --> 00:15:47.379 How do we get through? 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:48.819 What do we do? 00:15:48.919 --> 00:15:50.139 Well, Solomon here then moves 00:15:50.139 --> 00:15:52.240 to push us towards a very practical help. 00:15:52.979 --> 00:15:54.240 The first thing we need is faith. 00:15:54.319 --> 00:15:55.279 The second thing is 00:15:55.279 --> 00:15:56.599 an awareness of our finitude. 00:15:56.740 --> 00:15:57.819 The third thing he's saying 00:15:57.819 --> 00:15:58.919 we need are friends. 00:15:59.399 --> 00:15:59.779 Friends. 00:15:59.899 --> 00:16:01.159 Point number three is friends. 00:16:01.159 --> 00:16:04.019 For one, again I saw all the oppressions 00:16:04.019 --> 00:16:05.139 that are done under the sun 00:16:05.139 --> 00:16:06.959 and behold the tears of the oppressed 00:16:06.959 --> 00:16:08.879 and they had no one to comfort them. 00:16:10.139 --> 00:16:11.539 On the side of their oppressors 00:16:11.539 --> 00:16:12.179 there was power 00:16:12.179 --> 00:16:14.000 and there was no one to comfort them. 00:16:16.679 --> 00:16:17.939 Solomon seems to accept 00:16:17.939 --> 00:16:18.980 injustice and oppression 00:16:18.980 --> 00:16:20.719 as a fact of life in a fallen world 00:16:20.719 --> 00:16:22.699 but what really grieves him 00:16:22.699 --> 00:16:25.019 is when those who suffer 00:16:25.019 --> 00:16:26.819 do so alone. 00:16:27.939 --> 00:16:30.480 There was no one to comfort them. 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:32.639 Indeed he goes so far 00:16:32.639 --> 00:16:33.899 as to say that it is better 00:16:33.899 --> 00:16:34.659 to be dead 00:16:34.659 --> 00:16:36.579 than to face injustice alone. 00:16:36.980 --> 00:16:37.779 And best of all, 00:16:37.839 --> 00:16:38.799 verse three do you see 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:40.059 they have never been born 00:16:40.059 --> 00:16:40.819 in the first place. 00:16:43.980 --> 00:16:45.519 Better than both 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:47.399 is he who has not yet been 00:16:47.399 --> 00:16:49.439 and has not seen the evil deeds 00:16:49.439 --> 00:16:50.439 that are done under the sun. 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:53.519 Companionship, 00:16:54.659 --> 00:16:55.120 community, 00:16:55.819 --> 00:16:57.319 having your people 00:16:57.319 --> 00:16:59.819 in the tough reality of life 00:16:59.820 --> 00:17:00.560 is one of the ways 00:17:00.560 --> 00:17:01.620 that your faith endures 00:17:01.620 --> 00:17:06.039 and you can find joy 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:07.660 in the midst of it. 00:17:08.740 --> 00:17:09.720 See in a sense here 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:11.200 Solomon is giving further shape 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:11.700 to the life 00:17:11.700 --> 00:17:12.600 that he's calling us to 00:17:12.600 --> 00:17:14.000 in the book as a whole. 00:17:14.360 --> 00:17:15.820 So when he says in 3.22 00:17:15.820 --> 00:17:16.559 can you see 00:17:16.559 --> 00:17:19.019 he saw that there is nothing better 00:17:19.019 --> 00:17:20.360 than that a man should rejoice 00:17:20.360 --> 00:17:21.799 in his work for that is his lot. 00:17:22.620 --> 00:17:23.320 This echoes, 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:24.340 you remember what he said 00:17:24.340 --> 00:17:25.259 back in 2.24. 00:17:25.259 --> 00:17:26.619 There is nothing better 00:17:26.619 --> 00:17:27.200 for a person 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:28.379 than that he should eat and drink 00:17:28.379 --> 00:17:29.920 and find enjoyment in his toil. 00:17:31.180 --> 00:17:32.500 And the point now is 00:17:32.500 --> 00:17:33.879 that these things 00:17:33.879 --> 00:17:34.599 should be pursued 00:17:34.599 --> 00:17:35.980 in relationship with others. 00:17:37.420 --> 00:17:39.000 Eat and drink with friends. 00:17:39.599 --> 00:17:41.119 Work as part of a community. 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:42.759 Especially the community 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:43.480 of the faithful. 00:17:45.079 --> 00:17:46.240 This would have been the case 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:47.279 for the festival meals 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:48.460 that Solomon would have enjoyed 00:17:48.460 --> 00:17:49.859 within the life of God's people. 00:17:50.960 --> 00:17:51.960 This was where those 00:17:51.960 --> 00:17:52.779 who were oppressed 00:17:52.779 --> 00:17:54.759 strengthened their bonds 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:55.879 in the face of opposition 00:17:55.879 --> 00:17:57.579 and injustice. 00:17:58.819 --> 00:18:00.039 This is one of the reasons 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:01.019 why hospitality 00:18:01.019 --> 00:18:03.019 is such an important element 00:18:03.019 --> 00:18:04.059 in the Christian life. 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:06.099 And why we encourage it here 00:18:06.099 --> 00:18:07.079 as part of our regular 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:08.299 Lord's Day routines. 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:10.059 Eating and drinking together 00:18:10.059 --> 00:18:11.180 is central to building 00:18:11.180 --> 00:18:12.579 good relationships with others. 00:18:12.940 --> 00:18:13.899 And those relationships 00:18:13.899 --> 00:18:14.759 are what we need 00:18:14.759 --> 00:18:16.440 as we seek to live faithfully 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:17.759 in a culture that is awash 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:18.940 with injustice and oppression. 00:18:19.579 --> 00:18:21.359 We need friends. 00:18:22.779 --> 00:18:25.339 But you see as well 00:18:25.339 --> 00:18:27.299 in light of that 00:18:27.299 --> 00:18:28.379 it isn't just the threat 00:18:28.379 --> 00:18:29.139 of the oppressors 00:18:29.139 --> 00:18:30.279 that Solomon identifies. 00:18:31.539 --> 00:18:32.740 He can identify 00:18:32.740 --> 00:18:34.279 he also identifies 00:18:34.279 --> 00:18:35.920 how we damage ourselves 00:18:35.920 --> 00:18:36.480 in all of this. 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:37.279 Look at verse 4. 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:38.319 Then I saw 00:18:38.319 --> 00:18:39.359 that all toil 00:18:39.359 --> 00:18:40.319 and all skill and work 00:18:40.319 --> 00:18:41.240 come from a man's 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:42.259 envy of his neighbor. 00:18:42.639 --> 00:18:43.539 This also is vanity 00:18:43.539 --> 00:18:44.879 and a striving after wind. 00:18:45.539 --> 00:18:46.539 Solomon is nothing 00:18:46.539 --> 00:18:47.779 if not honest. 00:18:47.879 --> 00:18:49.099 I hope we've seen that by now. 00:18:49.160 --> 00:18:49.559 And here 00:18:49.559 --> 00:18:50.680 he presses the 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:51.879 uncomfortable point 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:53.080 that so much 00:18:53.080 --> 00:18:55.100 the point is this 00:18:55.100 --> 00:18:55.740 that so much 00:18:55.740 --> 00:18:56.380 that we accomplish 00:18:56.380 --> 00:18:57.440 in life 00:18:57.440 --> 00:18:58.180 is motivated 00:18:58.180 --> 00:18:59.380 by our envy of others. 00:19:01.380 --> 00:19:02.360 Who they are 00:19:02.360 --> 00:19:04.500 and what they have. 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:07.480 Lance Armstrong 00:19:07.480 --> 00:19:09.140 the disgraced 00:19:09.140 --> 00:19:10.160 American cyclist 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:12.200 fascinating individual 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.240 he writes 00:19:14.240 --> 00:19:15.660 and speaks about 00:19:15.660 --> 00:19:17.460 how the German cyclist 00:19:17.460 --> 00:19:18.140 Jan Ulrich 00:19:18.140 --> 00:19:19.420 was the single 00:19:19.420 --> 00:19:20.080 biggest reason 00:19:20.080 --> 00:19:21.400 for Armstrong's success. 00:19:22.280 --> 00:19:23.380 He said he couldn't 00:19:23.380 --> 00:19:24.420 stop thinking about him. 00:19:24.740 --> 00:19:25.480 What he was doing 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:26.220 what he was eating 00:19:26.220 --> 00:19:27.259 what he was training 00:19:27.259 --> 00:19:28.700 all that kind of stuff. 00:19:29.340 --> 00:19:30.720 That was what drove him. 00:19:31.860 --> 00:19:32.520 Now that can be 00:19:32.520 --> 00:19:33.340 okay in sport 00:19:33.340 --> 00:19:34.180 actually. 00:19:35.140 --> 00:19:35.759 That can be 00:19:35.759 --> 00:19:36.520 a great motivator 00:19:36.520 --> 00:19:37.880 to try and win 00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:38.380 in sport 00:19:38.380 --> 00:19:39.280 but when we bring it 00:19:39.280 --> 00:19:40.420 into everyday life 00:19:40.420 --> 00:19:41.880 let's be honest 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:43.259 it is a really 00:19:43.259 --> 00:19:44.220 destructive way 00:19:44.220 --> 00:19:44.980 to live. 00:19:44.980 --> 00:19:47.240 when we view 00:19:47.240 --> 00:19:47.759 others 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:49.099 as rivals 00:19:49.099 --> 00:19:50.839 it is 00:19:50.839 --> 00:19:51.700 yes 00:19:51.700 --> 00:19:52.339 a powerful 00:19:52.339 --> 00:19:52.920 motivator 00:19:52.920 --> 00:19:53.680 for productivity 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:55.480 but it destroys 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:56.220 relationships 00:19:56.220 --> 00:19:58.059 and in the end 00:19:58.059 --> 00:19:58.860 it's going to leave us 00:19:58.860 --> 00:19:59.500 isolated 00:19:59.500 --> 00:20:01.240 and it is the 00:20:01.240 --> 00:20:01.860 antithesis 00:20:01.860 --> 00:20:02.660 of what we need 00:20:02.660 --> 00:20:03.319 in the context 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:03.880 of oppression 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:04.500 and injustice. 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:08.700 Plus 00:20:08.700 --> 00:20:10.160 if Solomon 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:10.640 has said 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:11.039 that well 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:11.940 motivated labor 00:20:11.940 --> 00:20:12.640 is vapor 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:13.720 then what must 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:14.500 this sort of envy 00:20:14.500 --> 00:20:15.460 driven labor be 00:20:15.460 --> 00:20:17.079 vapor of vapors 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:20.380 and here's why 00:20:20.380 --> 00:20:21.140 look at verse 8 00:20:21.140 --> 00:20:23.140 one person 00:20:23.140 --> 00:20:24.259 who has no other 00:20:24.259 --> 00:20:27.460 an isolated individual 00:20:27.460 --> 00:20:28.539 either son or brother 00:20:28.539 --> 00:20:30.120 yet there is no end 00:20:30.120 --> 00:20:30.960 to all his toil 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:31.460 and his eyes 00:20:31.460 --> 00:20:32.319 are never satisfied 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:32.860 with riches 00:20:32.860 --> 00:20:33.980 so that he never asks 00:20:33.980 --> 00:20:35.259 for whom am I toiling 00:20:35.259 --> 00:20:36.620 and depriving myself 00:20:36.620 --> 00:20:37.079 of pleasure 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:38.660 this also is vanity 00:20:38.660 --> 00:20:40.400 and an unhappy business 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:42.200 the solitary worker 00:20:42.200 --> 00:20:43.299 laboring for himself 00:20:43.299 --> 00:20:44.039 in his own ends 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:45.079 is never satisfied 00:20:45.079 --> 00:20:46.200 either with the work 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:46.720 verse 8 00:20:46.720 --> 00:20:48.000 or the reward 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:48.519 that he gets 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:49.079 for the work 00:20:49.079 --> 00:20:50.359 or what purpose 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:50.899 or person 00:20:50.899 --> 00:20:51.399 his work 00:20:51.399 --> 00:20:52.259 is serving 00:20:52.259 --> 00:20:54.419 and all of this 00:20:54.419 --> 00:20:55.299 is because our work 00:20:55.299 --> 00:20:55.819 is designed 00:20:55.819 --> 00:20:56.359 to be done 00:20:56.359 --> 00:20:57.500 alongside others 00:20:57.500 --> 00:20:58.980 indeed verse 9 00:20:58.980 --> 00:20:59.680 can you see 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:00.139 verse 9 00:21:00.139 --> 00:21:00.839 is very important 00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:01.759 it is the first place 00:21:01.759 --> 00:21:02.240 in the book 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:03.440 where we see something 00:21:03.440 --> 00:21:04.720 that actually returns 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:05.279 a reward 00:21:05.279 --> 00:21:06.539 something that isn't 00:21:06.539 --> 00:21:07.039 vapor 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:08.159 verse 9 00:21:08.159 --> 00:21:09.119 two are better 00:21:09.119 --> 00:21:09.720 than one 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:10.779 because they have 00:21:10.779 --> 00:21:11.579 a good reward 00:21:11.579 --> 00:21:12.759 for their toil 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:15.079 for if they fall 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:16.279 one will lift up 00:21:16.279 --> 00:21:16.740 his fellow 00:21:16.740 --> 00:21:18.619 but woe to him 00:21:18.619 --> 00:21:19.139 who is alone 00:21:19.139 --> 00:21:19.839 when he falls 00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:20.939 and has not another 00:21:20.939 --> 00:21:21.679 to lift him up 00:21:21.679 --> 00:21:23.539 again if two lie together 00:21:23.539 --> 00:21:24.259 they keep warm 00:21:24.259 --> 00:21:24.960 but how can one 00:21:24.960 --> 00:21:25.779 keep warm alone 00:21:25.779 --> 00:21:27.500 and though a man 00:21:27.500 --> 00:21:28.059 might prevail 00:21:28.059 --> 00:21:28.639 against one 00:21:28.639 --> 00:21:29.199 who is alone 00:21:29.199 --> 00:21:30.359 two will withstand him 00:21:30.359 --> 00:21:31.539 a threefold cord 00:21:31.539 --> 00:21:33.699 is not quickly broken 00:21:33.699 --> 00:21:37.079 here are the benefits 00:21:37.079 --> 00:21:38.679 of companionship 00:21:38.680 --> 00:21:40.799 someone to lift us up 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:41.460 when we fall 00:21:41.460 --> 00:21:43.420 someone to keep us warm 00:21:43.420 --> 00:21:45.120 someone to help us 00:21:45.120 --> 00:21:46.600 against attack 00:21:46.600 --> 00:21:48.279 and if two 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:49.640 is better than one 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:50.759 verse 12 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:51.240 three 00:21:51.240 --> 00:21:52.580 is better again 00:21:52.580 --> 00:21:56.759 threefold cord 00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:57.720 is not quickly broken 00:21:57.720 --> 00:21:58.160 unfortunately 00:21:58.160 --> 00:21:58.779 this text 00:21:58.779 --> 00:21:59.340 has been used 00:21:59.340 --> 00:22:00.279 at a million weddings 00:22:00.279 --> 00:22:02.640 to describe the relationship 00:22:02.640 --> 00:22:03.240 between husband 00:22:03.240 --> 00:22:03.759 and wife 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:04.440 and God 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:05.720 that's the threefold cord 00:22:05.720 --> 00:22:06.500 who's heard a sermon 00:22:06.500 --> 00:22:06.920 like that 00:22:06.920 --> 00:22:08.319 who's given a sermon 00:22:08.319 --> 00:22:08.799 like that 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:13.339 it's not about that 00:22:13.339 --> 00:22:14.700 you know 00:22:14.700 --> 00:22:15.900 if it's just the two of you 00:22:15.900 --> 00:22:16.440 you're vulnerable 00:22:16.440 --> 00:22:17.279 but if you have God 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:17.860 in your marriage 00:22:17.860 --> 00:22:18.860 well then you'll be strong 00:22:18.860 --> 00:22:19.700 a threefold cord 00:22:19.700 --> 00:22:20.640 is not quickly broken 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:21.480 yeah fine okay 00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:22.120 but that's not what 00:22:22.120 --> 00:22:22.799 he's talking about 00:22:22.799 --> 00:22:24.059 he's referring to 00:22:24.059 --> 00:22:25.079 human companionship 00:22:25.079 --> 00:22:25.819 and to the strength 00:22:25.819 --> 00:22:26.400 that there is 00:22:26.400 --> 00:22:27.279 in numbers 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:32.700 we live in a broken world 00:22:32.700 --> 00:22:34.779 a world that is marked 00:22:34.779 --> 00:22:35.559 by injustice 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:36.480 and oppression 00:22:36.480 --> 00:22:37.359 by rivalry 00:22:37.359 --> 00:22:38.480 by falling down 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:39.480 by getting cold 00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:41.099 and being knocked down 00:22:41.099 --> 00:22:42.960 and God will one day 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:44.099 sort that all out 00:22:44.099 --> 00:22:45.160 but while we wait 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:46.139 it is far better 00:22:46.139 --> 00:22:47.200 to face this life 00:22:47.200 --> 00:22:47.960 with friends 00:22:47.960 --> 00:22:50.099 than to do so alone 00:22:50.099 --> 00:22:53.359 and don't confuse 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:54.539 real companionship 00:22:54.539 --> 00:22:55.000 by the way 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:55.960 with popularity 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:56.660 or recognition 00:22:56.660 --> 00:22:57.420 that's the point 00:22:57.420 --> 00:22:58.379 of 13 to 16 00:22:58.379 --> 00:22:59.139 at the end there 00:22:59.139 --> 00:23:00.740 he's talking about leaders 00:23:00.740 --> 00:23:01.759 and how leaders 00:23:01.759 --> 00:23:02.799 need trusted friends 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:03.759 to tell them the truth 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:04.700 verse 16 00:23:04.700 --> 00:23:05.519 they can be surrounded 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:06.080 by people 00:23:06.080 --> 00:23:06.819 but without someone 00:23:06.819 --> 00:23:07.840 to give wise counsel 00:23:07.840 --> 00:23:08.519 their leadership 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:09.880 is also vapor 00:23:09.880 --> 00:23:11.799 it's all about 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:12.880 having companions 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:14.740 having friends 00:23:14.740 --> 00:23:15.460 in the context 00:23:15.460 --> 00:23:16.039 of injustice 00:23:16.039 --> 00:23:16.720 and opposition 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:18.220 here's the point 00:23:18.220 --> 00:23:20.259 we need one another 00:23:20.259 --> 00:23:23.120 and we have been 00:23:23.120 --> 00:23:24.960 given one another 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:28.279 that's what the church is 00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:31.299 a key part of salvation 00:23:31.299 --> 00:23:32.399 is the creation 00:23:32.399 --> 00:23:33.779 of a community 00:23:33.779 --> 00:23:36.180 as we are reconciled 00:23:36.180 --> 00:23:36.639 to God 00:23:36.639 --> 00:23:38.420 we are also reconciled 00:23:38.420 --> 00:23:39.019 to one another 00:23:39.019 --> 00:23:40.720 we are incorporated 00:23:40.720 --> 00:23:41.940 into a new humanity 00:23:41.940 --> 00:23:44.779 the body of Christ 00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:46.440 the church 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:49.039 and so what is true 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:50.000 of us theologically 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:51.099 should be expressed 00:23:51.099 --> 00:23:51.660 practically 00:23:51.660 --> 00:23:53.220 as we pursue friendship 00:23:53.220 --> 00:23:54.660 that is genuine 00:23:54.660 --> 00:23:57.340 to help us endure 00:23:57.340 --> 00:23:58.060 in the context 00:23:58.060 --> 00:23:58.640 of injustice 00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:00.440 and oppression 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:03.440 we need to pursue friendship 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:04.880 and if this is the case 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:06.600 if that is 00:24:06.600 --> 00:24:07.900 how we are supposed to be 00:24:07.900 --> 00:24:08.779 we should be aware 00:24:08.779 --> 00:24:09.620 of those in our midst 00:24:09.620 --> 00:24:10.460 who are particularly 00:24:10.460 --> 00:24:11.840 susceptible to isolation 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:15.419 those who live alone 00:24:15.419 --> 00:24:16.179 singles 00:24:16.179 --> 00:24:17.459 divorcees 00:24:17.459 --> 00:24:17.959 widows 00:24:17.959 --> 00:24:18.959 internationals 00:24:18.959 --> 00:24:19.659 who just arrived 00:24:19.659 --> 00:24:20.179 in the country 00:24:20.179 --> 00:24:20.699 and don't know 00:24:20.699 --> 00:24:21.399 their way around 00:24:21.399 --> 00:24:22.259 now of course 00:24:22.259 --> 00:24:23.279 those sort of relationships 00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:23.980 and starting that 00:24:23.980 --> 00:24:24.720 it's not easy 00:24:24.720 --> 00:24:26.359 but it's what God requires 00:24:26.359 --> 00:24:28.399 and it's what God will bless 00:24:28.399 --> 00:24:32.319 we all wish 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:32.919 that injustice 00:24:32.919 --> 00:24:34.459 didn't exist 00:24:34.459 --> 00:24:38.359 whether it's Al-Fayed 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:38.980 or Epstein 00:24:38.980 --> 00:24:40.159 or Savile 00:24:40.159 --> 00:24:41.379 or your own experience 00:24:41.380 --> 00:24:42.320 we wish that that 00:24:42.320 --> 00:24:42.940 wasn't the case 00:24:42.940 --> 00:24:43.540 but it is 00:24:43.540 --> 00:24:44.440 it does exist 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:45.060 and it will 00:24:45.060 --> 00:24:46.600 until the Lord returns 00:24:46.600 --> 00:24:47.500 it's one of the things 00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:48.060 that we bear 00:24:48.060 --> 00:24:48.900 in a fallen world 00:24:48.900 --> 00:24:50.960 but we trust 00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:52.160 that he will return 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:55.520 he will come back 00:24:55.520 --> 00:24:56.220 to put it right 00:24:56.220 --> 00:24:56.860 on a day 00:24:56.860 --> 00:24:57.840 that he has set 00:24:57.840 --> 00:24:59.120 the Lord Jesus 00:24:59.120 --> 00:24:59.640 will bring 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:00.600 every injustice 00:25:00.600 --> 00:25:01.260 to account 00:25:01.260 --> 00:25:01.800 the whys 00:25:01.800 --> 00:25:02.560 and the wherefores 00:25:02.560 --> 00:25:03.220 and the timings 00:25:03.220 --> 00:25:04.320 those are beyond 00:25:04.320 --> 00:25:05.420 our finite grasp 00:25:05.420 --> 00:25:05.920 of things 00:25:05.920 --> 00:25:07.920 but because of the resurrection 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:09.180 we can be confident 00:25:09.180 --> 00:25:10.200 that God will bring 00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:11.400 this justice to pass 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:12.259 and so we live 00:25:12.259 --> 00:25:13.000 by faith 00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:16.420 and while we wait 00:25:16.420 --> 00:25:18.340 we should forge 00:25:18.340 --> 00:25:19.600 bonds with others 00:25:19.600 --> 00:25:21.220 that will enable us 00:25:21.220 --> 00:25:21.920 to endure 00:25:21.920 --> 00:25:23.519 until that day 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:25.539 friends who will 00:25:25.539 --> 00:25:26.360 keep us going 00:25:26.360 --> 00:25:28.600 friends who will 00:25:28.600 --> 00:25:29.480 stand with us 00:25:29.480 --> 00:25:30.799 friends who will 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:31.940 help us 00:25:31.940 --> 00:25:33.420 by not neglecting 00:25:33.420 --> 00:25:34.240 to meet together 00:25:34.240 --> 00:25:35.039 as is the habit 00:25:35.039 --> 00:25:35.440 of some 00:25:35.440 --> 00:25:36.180 but encouraging 00:25:36.180 --> 00:25:36.740 one another 00:25:36.740 --> 00:25:37.900 all the more 00:25:37.900 --> 00:25:38.460 as you see 00:25:38.460 --> 00:25:38.960 the day 00:25:38.960 --> 00:25:39.620 draw near 00:25:39.620 --> 00:25:40.400 that's what the writer 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:41.359 of the Hebrews says 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:43.380 we come together 00:25:43.380 --> 00:25:44.200 Lord's day 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:45.019 by Lord's day 00:25:45.019 --> 00:25:46.579 we build relationships 00:25:46.579 --> 00:25:47.440 in the context 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:48.380 of the church family 00:25:48.380 --> 00:25:50.240 because we need each other 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:51.579 if we're going to keep going 00:25:51.579 --> 00:25:54.339 Martin Luther speaking 00:25:54.339 --> 00:25:55.000 on this passage 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:55.500 said this 00:25:55.500 --> 00:25:56.420 and I'll close with this 00:25:56.420 --> 00:25:57.359 it is better 00:25:57.359 --> 00:25:58.839 to be in association 00:25:58.839 --> 00:25:59.720 with others 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:01.240 and to enjoy 00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:02.339 things in common 00:26:02.339 --> 00:26:04.139 in society 00:26:04.139 --> 00:26:05.159 meaning in relation 00:26:05.159 --> 00:26:05.699 with others 00:26:05.699 --> 00:26:07.259 there is mutual help 00:26:07.259 --> 00:26:08.459 common work 00:26:08.459 --> 00:26:11.000 and common solace 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:14.619 let's pray together 00:26:14.619 --> 00:26:15.199 let's pray together 00:26:15.199 --> 00:26:15.199 00:26:15.199 --> 00:26:15.199 00:26:15.199 --> 00:26:15.199 00:26:15.199 --> 00:26:15.199 00:26:15.199 --> 00:26:15.199 00:26:15.199 --> 00:26:15.199 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