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 You are listening to a message from Southwood Presbyterian Church in Huntsville, Alabama.

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 I'm loving getting to study Hebrews together. The book of Hebrews is a sermon, really a sermon

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 written in the first century to churches struggling with following Jesus in a world

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 that's opposed to Him. Many of them were starting to feel small, insignificant,

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 insignificant, unsuccessful. Maybe we can relate.

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 He started just in the first couple of chapters by telling them of the greatness of Jesus, right?

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 Even greater than all the angels. So don't drift from Jesus. And he says that because this morning

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 God wants to look at all of us feeling insignificant and discouraged right in the face and say,

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 look at God's glorious plan for you and Jesus. That's what he wants you to see.

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 Now I want to give you a warning before we read. This passage could change the way that you view

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 your entire existence, your whole life. It may change the way you see Jesus. In fact,

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 we should hope it does since it's God's word to us so that we will see rightly and truly.

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 Let me read it first and then we'll ask for God's help. Hebrews chapter 2, beginning at verse 5.

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 Now it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come of which we are speaking.

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 It has been testified somewhere, what is man that you are mindful of him or the son of man that you

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 care for him? You made him a little while lower than the angels. You have crowned him with glory and

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 honor, putting everything in subjection under his feet. Now in putting everything in subjection to him,

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 he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

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 But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory

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 and honor because of the suffering of death so that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.

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 For it was fitting that he for whom and by whom all things exist in bringing many sons to glory should

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 make the founder of their salvation perfect through suffering. For he who sanctifies and those who are

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 sanctified all have one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying,

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 I will tell of your name to my brothers. In the midst of the congregation, I will sing your praise.

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 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, behold, I and the children God has given me.

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 Thus far, God's holy word. Let's pray together.

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 Father, we are really thankful for your word.

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 I'm just aware that as I preach, I'm preaching a book that I did not write.

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 With power and ability that I don't purchase or earn to people that I don't save and can't save.

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 We need you, Father. We need you to speak. It's your word that needs to penetrate our hearts.

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 So by your spirit, would you help us? We ask that you do that especially now in Jesus' name. Amen.

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 There's a reason that you want people to notice or remember you.

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 There's a reason you get bored or frustrated when you wake up and don't feel you have a purpose for the day.

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 There's a reason that you long to make a difference in the world, to do something that really matters.

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 God made you for glory.

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 That's the reason.

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 Notice, it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come.

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 So who was it?

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 Who was it, we want to ask?

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 He doesn't give us a single immediate answer because he's going to give us two.

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 We'll get there.

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 But first, he goes back to Psalm 8.

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 That's the psalm that says,

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 O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name and all the earth.

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 You've set your glory above the heavens and so forth.

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 And he says,

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 You made humanity, mankind, for a little while lower than angels.

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 Crowned with glory and honor, putting everything under his feet.

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 That's how you created it, God.

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 The psalmist is marveling at this glorious divine plan.

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 There's echoes of Genesis 1, right?

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 Man and woman created in God's image as vice regents to exercise dominion over God's good creation.

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 To name the animals, right?

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 To tend the garden, to harvest the fruit of all the trees.

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 Dominion over all sorts of animals and all sorts of environments and with all sorts of plants.

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 There's nothing outside of his control.

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 That's the point.

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 Do you realize that?

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 That this world made to shine the goodness of the creator king is to be watched over by you and me

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 to the end that it gleams with glory.

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 That's what God's doing.

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 That's the way he designed it.

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 Adam and Eve, you and I are to fill every corner of the globe with the most glorious light.

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 You know what it is?

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 It's the reflection of the very image of God.

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 That's what you're here to do.

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 To reflect his image.

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 The image of the king who rules righteously and justly and mercifully.

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 Who feeds every animal.

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 Who causes the sun to rise and the rains to fall and the just and the unjust.

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 In God's creation, he crowned you.

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 That's the plan.

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 Sons of Adam and daughters of Eve.

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 Kings and queens in God's world.

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 To no one and nothing else did God give that role.

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 Not the angels.

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 Not lions.

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 Not stars.

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 Not puppies.

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 No.

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 We rule.

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 We live in relationship.

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 This is the design.

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 So close to this glorious creator.

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 We know him so personally and so intimately that we shine his glory over and into every place that he sends us to rule on his behalf.

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 Wow.

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 That's a lot of glory.

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 Except that something happened to our glory.

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 Keep reading.

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 Here he explains what you may feel when I talk that way.

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 At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

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 Uh-oh.

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 Not the way it's supposed to be.

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 Thorns and thistles and painful childbirth.

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 They start pushing back against the vice regents.

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 The ones who themselves stopped submitting to their king who in our rebellion trashed the world that we were supposed to tend.

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 I want to open this up for us a bit and see if you can feel it.

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 What you live every day.

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 See, it's not merely that we haven't mastered the plants and the animals, the storms and the winds, the physical creation.

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 That's true.

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 But in addition, we war with one another, don't we?

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 We abuse power.

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 We neglect people.

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 Many of us are trapped in some aspect of that sin that messed everything up in the first place.

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 Some deep selfishness or lust or apathy that's just unbecoming of a king or queen of creation.

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 And it makes us feel powerless and hopeless oftentimes.

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 It's enough to make one feel pretty small.

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 Pretty insignificant some days, isn't it?

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 We thought we were headed upward to glory.

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 But day to day, our path seems to trend downward.

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 Doesn't it?

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 I want you to imagine listening to this story of this first century church this sermon is written to.

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 See if you recognize anything for the 21st century church.

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 They might say something like, you know, we thought we were going to change the world and move from success to success.

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 Well, to be honest, we don't yet have everything under control the way God designed.

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 In fact, some of our leaders we most look to have been killed for their outspoken faith.

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 Others have abandoned the faith themselves or failed to finish well, shipwrecked in immorality or greed.

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 Some of our young people have found the cost too high.

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 The church too unreliable.

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 They've moved on.

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 Our neighbors seem to want us just to keep caring for the poor but stop talking about Jesus.

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 We came together early on.

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 We were so excited about our glorious Savior.

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 But all of us feel like we've drifted from Him at times.

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 We read the beginning of this letter and we think, oh no, how could we possibly have drifted already?

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 How embarrassing it is.

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 To be honest, we're not feeling much of the glory.

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 Any of that sound familiar?

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 I come to church wanting to taste glory and the coffee's not my favorite.

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 The pastor's mic doesn't work sometimes.

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 We're behind in the budget.

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 I was at that meeting last week.

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 More than that, we're not having the impact in our community that we long for.

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 Even our own marriages and families are longing for help.

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 We're not in power politically.

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 Not in vogue culturally.

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 Not in control personally.

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 I mean, we indulge our apathy and comfort more than we share the good news with the world.

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 We indulge our lusts and our greed more than we sacrifice for our spouses or our neighbors.

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 We're not feeling much of the glory.

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 We're pretty sure we're moving in the wrong direction, aren't we?

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 Downward in sin and suffering and persecution.

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 What an insignificant bunch we must be.

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 Anybody ready to give up?

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 I wonder if it's worth it.

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 If that's all you see, you probably would be ready to give up.

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 But the writer, the preacher, wants to make sure that we see someone else too.

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 So you can, as a person or a church, be in a place where you feel, maybe even for two decades,

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 in Lyon, France.

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 It's like, God, what are you doing?

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 I thought you were going to do something great here and it's not working on my timetable.

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 You feel that in Huntsville, Alabama when things don't go in your family or your church the way they want.

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 And God says, don't just see those things.

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 He wants us to see someone else.

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 Who's the one that we need to see?

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 Kids, what do you think?

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 When the writer of Hebrews is saying, who do we need to see?

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 Who do we need to fix our eyes on?

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 Who is it that we need not to drift away from?

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 We need to listen to and see who?

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 Kids?

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 Jesus.

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 See, you got it.

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 They didn't even know the answer.

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 Y'all are very good.

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 Jesus.

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 All caps.

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 Jesus.

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 That's who we want you to see.

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 I love this verse.

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 Watch how this develops.

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 We don't yet see everything in subjection to him, meaning mankind, right?

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 That is an understatement.

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 We're not in control of everything.

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 We don't have it all figured out.

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 We don't yet see everything in subjection to him, but we see Jesus.

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 We see him for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus.

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 Now, let me explain what he's doing here.

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 Not everyone agrees with me on this, but I'm pretty confident that what the writer does here

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 is show us Jesus as the man par excellence.

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 He's the one.

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 The writer's pointing us back to Psalm 8, and he's saying, look, while this hasn't fully

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 happened yet for Adam or Eve or you, look how Jesus fulfills this because you're connected

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 to him.

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 Back to union with Christ in just a minute.

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 Verse 9 says, we see him, but it's not the same pronoun him that's being used in verses

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 6 through 8.

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 There's a change.

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 We see him, someone different.

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 And I think what he says is, so now that we're talking about Jesus, look back to Psalm 8 with

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 me.

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 He's going to repeat some of the phrases.

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 He, Jesus, in his incarnation was made for a little while lower than the angels, right?

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 But he is now, what?

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 Crowned with glory and honor.

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 Ah, there's the glory that we've been looking for.

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 It's Jesus.

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 He's the one who has it.

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 He is the man, the one with the glory.

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 But importantly, how did he get there?

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 How is it that Jesus is the one with the glory?

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 What's the pathway to glory?

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 It's the suffering of death.

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 Do you mean it's possible that those of us going downward, hurting, seeming insignificant,

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 are actually on the pathway to glory?

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 We're not lost in the dark forest somewhere?

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 Nah, no.

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 That doesn't feel like glory.

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 What?

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 Keep reading.

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 So that by the grace of God, he might taste death for everyone.

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 Oh, wait.

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 Maybe there could be.

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 This glorious king, the one crowned with glory, tasted death?

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 Yeah.

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 He suffered and died.

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 He sacrificed and at the same time substituted, tasted death for me?

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 That doesn't sound very glorious, tasting death.

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 The preacher says, I know.

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 I know it doesn't sound like that, but listen, don't give up on this pathway.

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 It was actually fitting.

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 It's important that you understand this, Hebrew church.

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 Southwood church.

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 Don't miss this.

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 It was fitting.

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 A suffering savior, a dying king is not something to be embarrassed about.

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 It was fitting, appropriate.

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 It was right that God, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the founder of their salvation,

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 that's Jesus, perfect through suffering.

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 Now, that doesn't mean that Jesus was imperfect morally.

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 The word there implies completion, perfection of this role as savior.

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 Complete through what?

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 What did Jesus not have yet?

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 Through suffering.

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 He had to take on flesh and suffer and die.

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 More on that next week.

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 He's going to go into more detail.

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 But there's this word founder there that's at the crux of what God's people need to see then and now

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 when we see Jesus, the founder of our salvation.

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 It's a hard word to translate with a single English word.

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 I'll say trailblazing champion.

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 The word is archegos, the one who goes first,

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 who makes it possible for others to follow in his wake.

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 The pioneer, the captain of our salvation.

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 The point is that Jesus has blazed the trail, okay?

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 He's trod the path to glory so that others can follow that way with him.

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 I really want to help you understand what this means.

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 I want to give you a couple pictures

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 because each of them reflects some aspect of what God wants us to see of Jesus here.

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 But we see Jesus, our archegos, our champion.

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 It's football season, so a quick video.

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 Pay attention in this video, not just to the guy carrying the ball.

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 He's returning a kick.

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 I especially want you to watch the lead blocker right in front of him.

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 Watch this video.

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 Got them both.

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 Close up.

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 Boom.

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 All the way to the end zone.

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 To glory, right?

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 But only because the lead blocker paves the way, knocks down the enemy.

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 That's Jesus, the trailblazing champion.

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 That's what it's like.

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 Pastor Derek told me this week that we're talking about this word.

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 He said, this word makes me think of when I would mow the grass behind my dad.

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 That's not Pastor Derek.

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 But this is the same idea.

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 The dad having to push the mower to blaze a trail through tall, thick grass,

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 perhaps all that suffering,

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 so that his son with the toy plastic mower can come right in behind him

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 and maybe not cut a lot of grass possibly,

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 but enjoy the glory of a freshly mowed lawn with his dad.

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 It's also MLK weekend,

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 so I thought of Rosa Parks,

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 who 70 years ago, unbeknownst to her,

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 she didn't set out to do this,

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 and she became the mother of the civil rights movement

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 when she wouldn't get out of her seat on the bus in Montgomery, right?

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 She was arrested.

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 She was maligned by many.

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 She suffered so that many others could eventually sit on the bus

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 and in many other places without enduring the suffering

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 that she did as the pioneer, right?

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 The champion.

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 That's what Jesus has done for us.

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 You mean to tell me, Pastor,

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 that this dark path of suffering and shame

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 and seeming insignificance that I'm on

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 is the path Jesus walked on his way to glory?

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 You mean I'm not on the wrong path?

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 That's right.

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 If you're a discouraged brother or sister today,

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 if walking with Jesus hasn't seemed like everything you thought it was going to be

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 and life hasn't just gotten simpler and easier,

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 yet don't give up.

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 Don't turn back.

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 Don't choose comfort or power

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 and just give up on the path that you're walking.

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 In fact, Jesus has tasted death

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 so that we won't have to forever.

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 He's blazed a trail to glory, to salvation,

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 that we walk with him, behind him.

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 Yes, we see Jesus.

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 We have hope of glory.

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 Keep walking with him.

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 It's the right path.

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 He's cleared it of your worst enemies.

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 Stay on that path with him.

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 Verse 11 may be the most important verse for you to hear today

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 if you battle shame and weakness and smallness.

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 Listen to this.

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 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified

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 all have one origin, one source.

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 That is why he is not ashamed

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 to call them brothers.

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 Jesus is the Holy One,

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 the beginning of that verse,

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 the one who does the sanctifying,

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 who sets the others apart

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 as they're united to him by faith.

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 And the ones who are sanctified, that's us.

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 The ones still in process,

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 the ones struggling behind,

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 thankful that our strong champion is out in front.

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 But what he's getting at is,

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 how does he feel about us?

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 You know, as he with his big, strong,

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 loud lawnmower looks back over his shoulder

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 and peers back at us,

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 is he ashamed?

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 Is he embarrassed at how little we're accomplishing?

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 At how insignificant our plastic mower contributions are?

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 Is that how he feels?

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 Oh, he knows compared to his,

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 it's nothing.

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 No.

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 In fact, he says,

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 look, dear ones,

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 we have the same father.

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 We're brothers and sisters.

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 You're my brother, Jesus says.

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 You're my sister, Jesus says.

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 I'm proud of you.

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 And I know some of your hearts say when you hear that,

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 he doesn't really mean it.

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 Or he has to say that

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 because he's God

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 and all that love and stuff in the Bible,

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 he just has to say it.

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 Or he says it,

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 but he only means that

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 about the good Christians

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 who never doubt or divorce or drink.

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 No.

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 No, don't diminish his cross.

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 He died to make you a brother or sister of his.

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 He won't have you be anything less.

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 He refuses.

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 Most of us have some family members

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 that we're maybe a little bit ashamed of,

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 not really wanting to associate with

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 or promote our connection to,

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 advertise around as though

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 it's going to get us ahead.

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 Jesus says he proudly stands by you

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 in a culture where family means everything.

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 And he says,

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 that's my boy.

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 She's my sister.

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 It's like the puny freshman

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 on the football team

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 who's just being mercilessly mocked

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 and beaten up on

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 by the older players

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 until the star senior linebacker

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 walks across the field.

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 And though it might cost him,

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 puts his arm around you

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 and says,

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 that's my brother.

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 It's like the sixth grade girl

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 who doesn't really know

00:26:14.019 --> 00:26:16.859
 how to dress or act in middle school.

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 And the older kids

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 are just picking on her

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 terribly

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 and she just wants to go home

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 until the it,

00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:27.740
 eighth grade girl,

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 leader of the cool crowd

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 who would never usually

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 be seen with anyone else,

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 walks across the cafeteria

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 and puts her arm around you

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 and says,

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 that's my sister.

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 Jesus knows.

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 He understands your path

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 doesn't look pretty right now.

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 He's walked it.

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 Without sin,

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 He knows the struggle

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 and He's making you holy

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 because He's made you His.

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 Okay?

00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:02.299
 You're coming to glory

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 because you're coming with Him.

00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:08.279
 Finally,

00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:10.660
 as we're seeing Jesus,

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 the preacher puts three

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 Old Testament quotations

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 in Jesus' mouth

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 to affirm this amazing reality

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 that He's not ashamed

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 of His brothers and sisters.

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 The latter two are from Isaiah 8.

00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:28.079
 In that context,

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 they highlight trusting God

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 in the dark times

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 even when His face

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 is turned away from you.

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 It's what those two are about.

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 They're just really short.

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 That these are people

00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:38.660
 who are struggling,

00:27:38.660 --> 00:27:40.640
 but Jesus claims them

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 in His family.

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 The first one

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 is from Psalm 22.

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 That one right there.

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 That's a psalm

00:27:51.860 --> 00:27:53.140
 that Jesus famously

00:27:53.140 --> 00:27:54.140
 takes on His lips

00:27:54.140 --> 00:27:54.880
 on the cross

00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:56.040
 when He cries out,

00:27:56.120 --> 00:27:56.440
 my God,

00:27:56.500 --> 00:27:56.900
 my God,

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 why have you forsaken me?

00:27:58.440 --> 00:27:58.640
 Right?

00:27:59.240 --> 00:27:59.800
 Here,

00:28:00.300 --> 00:28:01.580
 the part referenced

00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:03.899
 is the suffering Messiah

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 praising God

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 in the congregation

00:28:07.199 --> 00:28:09.679
 of God's people.

00:28:10.339 --> 00:28:10.460
 Like,

00:28:11.240 --> 00:28:12.179
 right there in the pews.

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 He speaks of God's name

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 to His brothers.

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 This is,

00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:20.799
 I don't know

00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:22.699
 if you can quite grasp this,

00:28:23.199 --> 00:28:24.759
 but it's like you turn

00:28:24.759 --> 00:28:26.419
 during the meet and greet time

00:28:26.419 --> 00:28:28.559
 and Jesus is there

00:28:28.559 --> 00:28:31.019
 shaking your hand

00:28:31.019 --> 00:28:32.680
 welcoming you.

00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:35.279
 He's been worshiping with you.

00:28:35.720 --> 00:28:36.839
 That Jesus,

00:28:37.079 --> 00:28:37.859
 the one worthy

00:28:37.859 --> 00:28:39.960
 of all worship Himself,

00:28:40.639 --> 00:28:41.680
 stands with us,

00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:43.059
 raises His hands

00:28:43.059 --> 00:28:44.039
 in praise,

00:28:44.420 --> 00:28:45.480
 opens His heart

00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:46.220
 in dependence

00:28:46.220 --> 00:28:47.779
 upon His heavenly Father.

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 I mean,

00:28:48.759 --> 00:28:49.339
 think about that

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 the next time

00:28:49.859 --> 00:28:50.400
 you're preparing

00:28:50.400 --> 00:28:51.240
 to come to worship,

00:28:51.379 --> 00:28:51.639
 would you?

00:28:52.700 --> 00:28:53.339
 You think about

00:28:53.339 --> 00:28:53.980
 what that would do

00:28:53.980 --> 00:28:54.599
 to your heart?

00:28:55.500 --> 00:28:55.879
 Jesus,

00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:57.000
 your older brother

00:28:57.000 --> 00:28:58.759
 who went to the cross,

00:28:59.220 --> 00:29:00.160
 joins you

00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:01.580
 in singing praise

00:29:01.580 --> 00:29:02.580
 to Yahweh.

00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:04.019
 He prays with you

00:29:04.019 --> 00:29:05.660
 our Father in heaven.

00:29:06.060 --> 00:29:07.340
 His voice is the loudest

00:29:07.340 --> 00:29:07.900
 one in the room.

00:29:08.820 --> 00:29:10.060
 He listens eagerly

00:29:10.060 --> 00:29:11.279
 to the Word of God.

00:29:12.340 --> 00:29:12.820
 Wow!

00:29:13.820 --> 00:29:14.380
 That,

00:29:14.380 --> 00:29:15.660
 that's what it's saying.

00:29:17.320 --> 00:29:17.960
 See,

00:29:18.060 --> 00:29:19.420
 He's the true man.

00:29:20.779 --> 00:29:22.880
 Now crowned with glory

00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:24.320
 because though,

00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:25.360
 though being king,

00:29:25.460 --> 00:29:27.620
 He sacrificed His life

00:29:27.620 --> 00:29:29.460
 to blaze a trail for us

00:29:29.460 --> 00:29:31.220
 into relationship with God,

00:29:31.480 --> 00:29:32.280
 true holiness,

00:29:32.720 --> 00:29:34.000
 genuine worship.

00:29:34.740 --> 00:29:35.680
 We men and women

00:29:35.680 --> 00:29:37.480
 now get to follow Him.

00:29:38.560 --> 00:29:39.360
 But where?

00:29:40.660 --> 00:29:42.960
 What will that look like?

00:29:44.060 --> 00:29:45.240
 What's it gonna look like

00:29:45.240 --> 00:29:46.300
 if we're not gonna stay

00:29:46.300 --> 00:29:48.360
 small and insignificant,

00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:49.860
 hopeless,

00:29:49.859 --> 00:29:51.500
 despairing?

00:29:53.639 --> 00:29:54.639
 I want you to track

00:29:54.639 --> 00:29:55.740
 with Jesus' path,

00:29:55.819 --> 00:29:55.979
 right?

00:29:56.359 --> 00:29:57.779
 Jesus' path started where?

00:29:58.740 --> 00:30:00.879
 Highest glory possible.

00:30:01.579 --> 00:30:02.379
 The radiance

00:30:02.379 --> 00:30:04.199
 of the glory of God.

00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:07.559
 Downward,

00:30:07.779 --> 00:30:09.399
 to be coming for a little while,

00:30:09.799 --> 00:30:10.819
 lower than the angels.

00:30:10.819 --> 00:30:12.039
 Actually humbled

00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:12.839
 to the point

00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:13.899
 of death

00:30:13.899 --> 00:30:15.199
 on a cross

00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:16.400
 so that God

00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:17.620
 could exalt Him

00:30:17.620 --> 00:30:19.299
 to the highest place

00:30:19.299 --> 00:30:20.720
 now crowned

00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:21.799
 with glory

00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:22.940
 and honor

00:30:22.940 --> 00:30:24.819
 ruling over everything.

00:30:25.420 --> 00:30:26.720
 You got Jesus' path?

00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:28.059
 Now what was God

00:30:28.059 --> 00:30:28.660
 doing

00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:29.779
 when He sent His Son

00:30:29.779 --> 00:30:30.819
 down that path

00:30:30.819 --> 00:30:31.700
 and then brought Him

00:30:31.700 --> 00:30:32.299
 home to glory?

00:30:32.360 --> 00:30:33.059
 Look at verse 10.

00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:34.460
 In bringing

00:30:34.460 --> 00:30:35.940
 His Son to glory.

00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:36.420
 Nope.

00:30:37.080 --> 00:30:37.819
 In bringing

00:30:37.819 --> 00:30:39.039
 many

00:30:39.039 --> 00:30:40.019
 sons

00:30:40.019 --> 00:30:41.740
 to glory.

00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:41.920
 glory.

00:30:44.059 --> 00:30:45.059
 In bringing

00:30:45.059 --> 00:30:46.200
 many

00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:47.120
 sons

00:30:47.120 --> 00:30:48.079
 to glory,

00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:48.819
 God's

00:30:48.819 --> 00:30:50.660
 original plan

00:30:50.660 --> 00:30:52.339
 is gonna come

00:30:52.339 --> 00:30:52.920
 to fruition.

00:30:53.400 --> 00:30:53.779
 Glory

00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:54.680
 is not merely

00:30:54.680 --> 00:30:55.799
 God's original plan

00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:56.380
 for mankind

00:30:56.380 --> 00:30:57.700
 that He's now scrapped

00:30:57.700 --> 00:30:58.920
 because we're such failures.

00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:00.559
 No.

00:31:01.120 --> 00:31:02.720
 It's God's future

00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:04.140
 for mankind.

00:31:05.200 --> 00:31:05.839
 Glory.

00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:07.640
 That's what's happening

00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:08.519
 when you walk

00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:09.039
 this path

00:31:09.039 --> 00:31:10.059
 of insignificance.

00:31:10.059 --> 00:31:11.579
 It's actually the pathway

00:31:11.579 --> 00:31:12.819
 to glory.

00:31:13.599 --> 00:31:13.899
 Remember,

00:31:14.079 --> 00:31:15.179
 God has subjected

00:31:15.179 --> 00:31:16.039
 the world to come

00:31:16.039 --> 00:31:17.000
 to two answers.

00:31:17.500 --> 00:31:18.419
 Can you give them now?

00:31:18.740 --> 00:31:19.419
 Two answers.

00:31:19.700 --> 00:31:20.659
 The first is mankind

00:31:20.659 --> 00:31:23.379
 and the second

00:31:23.379 --> 00:31:24.000
 is united

00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:25.700
 to Christ.

00:31:26.639 --> 00:31:28.139
 Their champion king.

00:31:28.559 --> 00:31:29.480
 It's you

00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:30.039
 and me

00:31:30.039 --> 00:31:31.700
 in Christ.

00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:33.819
 You're following

00:31:33.819 --> 00:31:34.659
 the same path

00:31:34.659 --> 00:31:35.119
 as Jesus

00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:35.960
 from glory

00:31:35.960 --> 00:31:36.980
 to suffering

00:31:36.980 --> 00:31:38.059
 to glory.

00:31:38.059 --> 00:31:38.779
 Jesus

00:31:38.779 --> 00:31:39.879
 as the founder,

00:31:40.159 --> 00:31:40.679
 the champion

00:31:40.679 --> 00:31:41.500
 of your salvation

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:42.659
 has cleared the way

00:31:42.659 --> 00:31:44.319
 so that this is the way,

00:31:44.579 --> 00:31:45.519
 the fitting way,

00:31:45.619 --> 00:31:46.659
 the right way

00:31:46.659 --> 00:31:48.119
 that you reach glory

00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:49.639
 just as it was for Him.

00:31:50.359 --> 00:31:51.000
 Wounds

00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.399
 which mar

00:31:52.399 --> 00:31:53.659
 the chosen one

00:31:53.659 --> 00:31:55.799
 bring many sons

00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:57.159
 to glory,

00:31:57.319 --> 00:31:57.799
 don't they?

00:31:59.339 --> 00:31:59.980
 Listen,

00:32:00.059 --> 00:32:00.879
 the Bible tells you

00:32:00.879 --> 00:32:02.619
 this glorious destiny

00:32:02.619 --> 00:32:04.240
 from cover to cover.

00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:06.680
 we will reign forever

00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:08.579
 with Jesus,

00:32:08.759 --> 00:32:10.039
 judging even the angels.

00:32:11.380 --> 00:32:12.079
 We've seen

00:32:12.079 --> 00:32:13.400
 the beginning of this

00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:14.880
 in Genesis 1,

00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:16.680
 Psalm 8 referencing it.

00:32:17.059 --> 00:32:18.019
 Daniel tells us

00:32:18.019 --> 00:32:19.359
 about the end of it.

00:32:20.140 --> 00:32:20.740
 The kingdom

00:32:20.740 --> 00:32:21.740
 and the dominion

00:32:21.740 --> 00:32:22.620
 and the greatness

00:32:22.620 --> 00:32:23.339
 of the kingdoms

00:32:23.339 --> 00:32:24.519
 under the whole heaven

00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:25.480
 shall be given

00:32:25.480 --> 00:32:27.039
 to the people

00:32:27.039 --> 00:32:28.500
 of the saints

00:32:28.500 --> 00:32:30.099
 of the Most High.

00:32:30.099 --> 00:32:32.740
 to the people,

00:32:33.459 --> 00:32:35.139
 an everlasting kingdom.

00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:36.799
 And Paul writes

00:32:36.799 --> 00:32:37.779
 in 2 Timothy,

00:32:39.319 --> 00:32:40.159
 if we've died

00:32:40.159 --> 00:32:41.139
 with Him,

00:32:41.759 --> 00:32:42.939
 we will also live

00:32:42.939 --> 00:32:44.039
 with Him.

00:32:44.740 --> 00:32:45.719
 If we endure,

00:32:46.719 --> 00:32:48.219
 we will also reign

00:32:48.219 --> 00:32:49.859
 with Him.

00:32:50.299 --> 00:32:51.219
 Isn't union

00:32:51.219 --> 00:32:52.119
 with Christ

00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:53.399
 amazing

00:32:53.399 --> 00:32:55.079
 and beautiful?

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 That's why you can't

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 read Psalm 8

00:32:57.639 --> 00:32:59.139
 as an either or.

00:32:59.679 --> 00:33:01.240
 Jesus or humanity,

00:33:01.399 --> 00:33:02.019
 which one is it

00:33:02.019 --> 00:33:02.639
 talking about?

00:33:02.939 --> 00:33:04.480
 What happens to Jesus

00:33:04.480 --> 00:33:05.980
 happens to us.

00:33:06.500 --> 00:33:07.899
 Where He goes,

00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:09.240
 we get to go.

00:33:09.980 --> 00:33:10.799
 In this case,

00:33:10.939 --> 00:33:11.980
 we reign

00:33:11.980 --> 00:33:13.539
 with Him.

00:33:13.919 --> 00:33:15.359
 Revelation 22 concludes,

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 just in case you think

00:33:16.319 --> 00:33:16.859
 it stops,

00:33:17.619 --> 00:33:17.980
 they will need

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 no light of lamp

00:33:18.679 --> 00:33:19.500
 or sun for the Lord.

00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:20.539
 God will be their light

00:33:20.539 --> 00:33:22.579
 and they

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 will reign

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 forever

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 and ever.

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 Look,

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 your life here

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 is only the pregame,

00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:30.860
 if you will,

00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:32.400
 as long as,

00:33:32.820 --> 00:33:33.180
 by that,

00:33:33.320 --> 00:33:34.140
 it's not to say

00:33:34.140 --> 00:33:34.800
 it doesn't matter,

00:33:35.560 --> 00:33:36.720
 but rather to say

00:33:36.720 --> 00:33:37.740
 that you still have

00:33:37.740 --> 00:33:38.660
 an eternity

00:33:38.660 --> 00:33:40.080
 of glory,

00:33:40.540 --> 00:33:41.440
 of ruling

00:33:41.440 --> 00:33:42.200
 and reigning

00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:42.740
 with Jesus,

00:33:42.900 --> 00:33:43.700
 of reflecting

00:33:43.700 --> 00:33:45.020
 God's glory

00:33:45.020 --> 00:33:47.160
 throughout His creation.

00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:48.360
 You don't,

00:33:48.940 --> 00:33:49.640
 think of all the things,

00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:50.300
 you're going to relate

00:33:50.300 --> 00:33:51.240
 to your fellow man

00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:53.160
 without selfish pride

00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:55.160
 or shameful insecurity

00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:55.940
 to keep you

00:33:55.940 --> 00:33:57.560
 from loving Him

00:33:57.560 --> 00:33:59.160
 and enjoying Him.

00:34:00.140 --> 00:34:01.120
 You're going to walk

00:34:01.120 --> 00:34:02.400
 with God Himself

00:34:02.400 --> 00:34:04.840
 and soak in His glory

00:34:04.840 --> 00:34:05.980
 and grace

00:34:05.980 --> 00:34:07.180
 with nothing

00:34:07.180 --> 00:34:08.440
 to distract you

00:34:08.440 --> 00:34:09.119
 from Him.

00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:12.500
 You're going to tend gardens

00:34:12.500 --> 00:34:14.539
 with no cursed weeds.

00:34:15.519 --> 00:34:17.579
 You're going to explore space

00:34:17.579 --> 00:34:19.760
 with no time limit.

00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:21.200
 You're going to roll

00:34:21.200 --> 00:34:22.080
 in the grass

00:34:22.080 --> 00:34:22.960
 with lions

00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:24.720
 with no fear

00:34:24.720 --> 00:34:27.060
 like their golden retriever

00:34:27.060 --> 00:34:27.620
 puppies.

00:34:29.660 --> 00:34:32.200
 And all of that glory

00:34:32.200 --> 00:34:32.800
 of heaven

00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:34.220
 is ahead of you

00:34:34.220 --> 00:34:37.440
 because the champion

00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:38.460
 of your salvation

00:34:38.460 --> 00:34:40.000
 left the glory of heaven

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:40.960
 behind Him

00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:44.380
 to take the downward path

00:34:44.380 --> 00:34:45.540
 to suffer

00:34:45.540 --> 00:34:46.760
 and die

00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:47.900
 for you.

00:34:47.900 --> 00:34:48.840
 that's that same

00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:49.880
 great exchange

00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:51.700
 that's in Mark Twain's story.

00:34:53.200 --> 00:34:54.460
 The prince lived

00:34:54.460 --> 00:34:55.380
 like a pauper

00:34:55.380 --> 00:34:57.260
 so the pauper

00:34:57.260 --> 00:34:59.019
 could live

00:34:59.019 --> 00:34:59.880
 like a prince.

00:35:00.240 --> 00:35:02.220
 That's our story

00:35:02.220 --> 00:35:04.139
 brothers and sisters

00:35:04.139 --> 00:35:06.019
 sons and daughters

00:35:06.019 --> 00:35:07.760
 of the King of Heaven

00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:09.740
 made for glory

00:35:09.740 --> 00:35:12.180
 seeming,

00:35:12.760 --> 00:35:13.240
 feeling,

00:35:14.240 --> 00:35:14.960
 insignificant.

00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:17.240
 Jesus

00:35:17.240 --> 00:35:20.420
 remade

00:35:20.420 --> 00:35:21.940
 for glory.

00:35:22.940 --> 00:35:24.139
 That's our story.

00:35:25.820 --> 00:35:27.079
 That is great

00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:28.920
 and really great

00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:29.480
 for one day

00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:29.840
 someday

00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:31.000
 it's going to be glorious.

00:35:32.260 --> 00:35:33.240
 What do we have

00:35:33.240 --> 00:35:33.720
 in the meantime?

00:35:35.539 --> 00:35:37.260
 What hope for me

00:35:37.260 --> 00:35:37.659
 today

00:35:37.659 --> 00:35:38.579
 pastor?

00:35:39.139 --> 00:35:39.579
 Come on Will

00:35:39.579 --> 00:35:40.099
 you said this

00:35:40.099 --> 00:35:41.179
 could change

00:35:41.179 --> 00:35:41.720
 the way

00:35:41.720 --> 00:35:42.360
 that I view

00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:43.320
 my existence

00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:44.180
 now

00:35:44.180 --> 00:35:44.900
 not just

00:35:44.900 --> 00:35:45.420
 give me

00:35:45.420 --> 00:35:46.079
 one day

00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:46.519
 someday

00:35:46.519 --> 00:35:47.440
 stuff.

00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:48.260
 What are you

00:35:48.260 --> 00:35:49.180
 offering today?

00:35:49.180 --> 00:35:50.059
 I'm hurting

00:35:50.059 --> 00:35:51.340
 I'm discouraged

00:35:51.340 --> 00:35:52.700
 I'm struggling

00:35:52.700 --> 00:35:53.200
 I'm barely

00:35:53.200 --> 00:35:54.340
 holding on

00:35:54.340 --> 00:35:55.480
 this isn't

00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:55.960
 what I thought

00:35:55.960 --> 00:35:56.800
 I was signing up

00:35:56.800 --> 00:35:57.559
 for with Jesus

00:35:57.559 --> 00:35:58.640
 life's not going

00:35:58.640 --> 00:35:59.780
 the way I planned.

00:35:59.780 --> 00:36:04.380
 right now

00:36:04.380 --> 00:36:06.920
 in your smallness

00:36:06.920 --> 00:36:08.640
 in your failure

00:36:08.640 --> 00:36:10.660
 in your seeming

00:36:10.660 --> 00:36:12.000
 insignificance

00:36:12.000 --> 00:36:14.160
 you have a champion

00:36:14.160 --> 00:36:17.660
 who is not ashamed

00:36:17.660 --> 00:36:19.580
 to call you brother

00:36:19.580 --> 00:36:20.300
 or sister

00:36:20.300 --> 00:36:22.420
 even while you're

00:36:22.420 --> 00:36:23.680
 still in process

00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:26.600
 soak that in

00:36:26.600 --> 00:36:27.060
 yes

00:36:27.059 --> 00:36:29.039
 lift up your head

00:36:29.039 --> 00:36:30.559
 it's how he feels

00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:31.219
 about you

00:36:31.219 --> 00:36:35.279
 you have a substitute

00:36:35.279 --> 00:36:37.259
 who tasted

00:36:37.259 --> 00:36:38.159
 death

00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:39.119
 for you

00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:40.000
 who drained

00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:40.860
 the cup

00:36:40.860 --> 00:36:42.199
 of God's wrath

00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:43.699
 towards your sin

00:36:43.699 --> 00:36:45.460
 to its dregs

00:36:45.460 --> 00:36:46.739
 so you can

00:36:46.739 --> 00:36:47.739
 confidently

00:36:47.739 --> 00:36:48.559
 rest

00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:50.739
 finally

00:36:50.739 --> 00:36:54.039
 so that you can

00:36:54.039 --> 00:36:55.500
 boldly share

00:36:55.500 --> 00:36:57.039
 even if it costs

00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:57.579
 you

00:36:57.579 --> 00:36:58.639
 of his great

00:36:58.639 --> 00:36:59.360
 salvation

00:36:59.360 --> 00:37:00.019
 today

00:37:00.019 --> 00:37:03.659
 and maybe

00:37:03.659 --> 00:37:04.539
 most importantly

00:37:04.539 --> 00:37:07.340
 you have Christ

00:37:07.340 --> 00:37:08.719
 in you

00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:10.840
 the hope

00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:12.559
 of glory

00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:13.420
 listen

00:37:13.420 --> 00:37:14.019
 you know what that

00:37:14.019 --> 00:37:14.820
 you know what that

00:37:14.820 --> 00:37:16.159
 means now

00:37:16.159 --> 00:37:16.860
 that you are

00:37:16.860 --> 00:37:17.699
 you are made

00:37:17.699 --> 00:37:18.420
 for that

00:37:18.420 --> 00:37:19.639
 and that connected

00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:20.440
 to him

00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:21.840
 in every high

00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:22.940
 and stormy

00:37:22.940 --> 00:37:23.420
 gale

00:37:23.420 --> 00:37:25.240
 my anchor holds

00:37:25.240 --> 00:37:26.059
 within

00:37:26.059 --> 00:37:27.220
 the veil

00:37:27.220 --> 00:37:28.519
 living hope

00:37:28.519 --> 00:37:30.119
 unassailable hope

00:37:30.119 --> 00:37:32.139
 glorious hope

00:37:32.139 --> 00:37:33.240
 Christ

00:37:33.240 --> 00:37:34.139
 in

00:37:34.139 --> 00:37:34.920
 you

00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:36.659
 the hope

00:37:36.659 --> 00:37:38.159
 of glory

00:37:38.159 --> 00:37:40.079
 let's pray

00:37:40.079 --> 00:37:44.519
 Jesus what a

00:37:44.519 --> 00:37:45.840
 gift that is

00:37:45.840 --> 00:37:46.500
 to us

00:37:46.500 --> 00:37:49.260
 especially when we

00:37:49.260 --> 00:37:49.680
 don't feel

00:37:49.680 --> 00:37:50.200
 glorious

00:37:50.199 --> 00:37:50.439
 glorious

00:37:50.439 --> 00:37:52.799
 you are

00:37:52.799 --> 00:37:54.980
 and you've

00:37:54.980 --> 00:37:55.759
 come to us

00:37:55.759 --> 00:37:56.359
 to take you

00:37:56.359 --> 00:37:57.099
 with us

00:37:57.099 --> 00:37:59.000
 that you would

00:37:59.000 --> 00:37:59.679
 bring us

00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:00.539
 to glory

00:38:00.539 --> 00:38:01.899
 many sons

00:38:01.899 --> 00:38:03.119
 and daughters

00:38:03.119 --> 00:38:05.399
 oh give us

00:38:05.399 --> 00:38:06.379
 joy

00:38:06.379 --> 00:38:07.159
 in that

00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:07.619
 give us

00:38:07.619 --> 00:38:08.079
 hope

00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:09.719
 lift our heads

00:38:09.719 --> 00:38:10.679
 personally

00:38:10.679 --> 00:38:11.960
 corporately

00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:13.259
 might we be a

00:38:13.259 --> 00:38:14.539
 people who live

00:38:14.539 --> 00:38:15.119
 like there's

00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:16.000
 glory

00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:17.679
 shining from

00:38:17.679 --> 00:38:18.039
 us

00:38:18.039 --> 00:38:20.319
 sustaining us

00:38:20.319 --> 00:38:20.879
 in the

00:38:20.879 --> 00:38:21.319
 darkness

00:38:21.319 --> 00:38:23.719
 giving us

00:38:23.719 --> 00:38:24.460
 purpose

00:38:24.460 --> 00:38:26.219
 and significance

00:38:26.219 --> 00:38:27.559
 moment by moment

00:38:27.559 --> 00:38:28.500
 and day by day

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:30.139
 so help us

00:38:30.139 --> 00:38:30.779
 we ask

00:38:30.779 --> 00:38:31.819
 in Jesus name

00:38:31.819 --> 00:38:33.059
 amen

00:38:33.059 --> 00:38:35.859
 for more

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 information

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 visit us online

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 at

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 southwood.org

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