WEBVTT 00:00:00.620 --> 00:00:05.660 Father, we ask that you would help us to understand your word. 00:00:06.740 --> 00:00:12.040 You know, Father, the different ways that we want to quench your word, quench your Holy Spirit. 00:00:12.259 --> 00:00:14.560 You know the different ways that we forget the gospel. 00:00:15.780 --> 00:00:22.140 You know, Father, the different ways that we can be full of ourselves and have problems then with ourselves and others. 00:00:22.580 --> 00:00:24.580 But, Father, you know all these things. 00:00:24.940 --> 00:00:25.940 We are in your presence. 00:00:26.580 --> 00:00:28.280 We know that you want to feed us through your word. 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:40.700 And so, Father, we ask that the Holy Spirit would move in our hearts and minds that we might think upon your word, that we might be drawn to you, that we might be gripped by the gospel and live for your glory. 00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:43.920 And this we ask in the name of Jesus, your Son and our Savior. 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:44.780 Amen. 00:00:47.040 --> 00:00:49.500 My wife loves young children. 00:00:49.780 --> 00:00:51.500 I mean, she loves older children, too, by the way. 00:00:51.560 --> 00:00:53.520 It's not as if she says, oh, they're no longer young. 00:00:54.040 --> 00:00:54.980 Forget about them. 00:00:54.980 --> 00:00:56.200 She loves people. 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:57.680 She loves young children. 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:04.319 And so, if you were to come to our house with a young child, my wife has toys for those young children. 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:11.180 Even though our youngest is not even close to being a child, we have toys. 00:01:11.539 --> 00:01:17.579 And one of the things that we have, which is perennially, it's always popular, is we have a red and yellow car. 00:01:18.039 --> 00:01:20.739 Just a simple red car with a yellow roof. 00:01:20.739 --> 00:01:25.199 It's a car that you don't need a pedal for or anything like that. 00:01:25.199 --> 00:01:30.859 You just sort of, you know, like in the Flintstones, you just, the little kids can just use their foot to make it move. 00:01:31.119 --> 00:01:32.239 There's a steering wheel. 00:01:32.719 --> 00:01:35.699 There's a door that opens so you can get in and sit. 00:01:35.700 --> 00:01:43.659 There's a trunk in the back so you can put Lego and dolls and stuffed animals and all that type of stuff. 00:01:43.659 --> 00:01:53.000 And when a kid comes to visit, basically, as soon as they can start to move at all, you can just see they love looking at that red and yellow car. 00:01:53.000 --> 00:02:02.260 And it's, in fact, there can be fights over it in terms of whose turn it is to get in and wheel that little thing around. 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:03.200 The kids just love it. 00:02:03.219 --> 00:02:05.960 You can just see their imagination at work. 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:10.580 You know, they're just thinking, like, there's, like, a mom or a dad or a big person driving their car. 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:11.699 There's stuffed animals. 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:12.900 It's a wonderful time. 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:13.319 They love it. 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:14.060 They have great fun. 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:19.400 I was going to bring a picture of it, but I thought, no, no, this is a sermon about imagination. 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:24.920 So I just want you to imagine a red car with a yellow roof where kids can sit in it. 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:32.960 And even better, older kids or uncles or aunts or parents can push that car with the kid really, really quick and all sorts of different things. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:39.020 Because all the child has to do is just lift his or her feet just an inch off the ground and off it goes. 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:40.180 The kid won't get hurt. 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:42.060 And it's a wonderful toy. 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:46.680 And we love to encourage imagination in our children. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:48.020 Every single one of us does. 00:02:48.020 --> 00:02:55.580 But one of the things, unfortunately, which has been true of the Christian church throughout the years and probably even true amongst many Christians today, 00:02:56.200 --> 00:02:59.660 is that for many Christians, it's all right for kids to have an imagination. 00:02:59.939 --> 00:03:02.740 But once they get a bit older, it becomes a little bit suspect. 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:09.379 In fact, for many churches, to go to a church is to go to a place where your imagination will die. 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:14.560 Because often we Christians are just very afraid of it. 00:03:14.560 --> 00:03:19.060 We're afraid of the type of freedom and creativity that comes with imagination. 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:26.479 I remember many, many years ago, because I'm getting ancient of days, I went back to the church that I grew up in. 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.259 Good godly church. 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:34.840 I'm sure there are lots and lots of the people who went to that church are in high places of heaven today, those who have died. 00:03:34.840 --> 00:03:39.219 But I remember going back and I had just started university. 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.580 And they all, with interest, asked me what I was doing about schooling. 00:03:44.159 --> 00:03:50.379 And when I told them that I had gone to a secular university to study philosophy and sociology, 00:03:51.259 --> 00:03:52.819 their face literally fell. 00:03:53.340 --> 00:03:54.080 Literally fell. 00:03:54.080 --> 00:03:57.540 And they warned me against going to such a place. 00:03:57.600 --> 00:04:01.100 And they recommended me to go to a place which was very, very strict. 00:04:01.860 --> 00:04:04.880 And just very, very strict. 00:04:04.980 --> 00:04:06.020 And very, very safe. 00:04:06.100 --> 00:04:06.900 Sort of like a ghetto. 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:12.080 So why is it that Christians often are very, very suspicious of the imagination? 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:15.660 Why is it that we encourage them with imagination with children, 00:04:15.900 --> 00:04:17.780 but are fearful of it with adults? 00:04:17.779 --> 00:04:23.679 And is this something that comes out of the fact that we're Christians? 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:28.539 Or is it something, does the Bible tell us something very, very different about the imagination? 00:04:29.159 --> 00:04:35.139 That's what the text that we're going to look at today has some very, very powerful and interesting things to say about this question. 00:04:35.579 --> 00:04:40.139 So if you have your Bibles, turn in them to Ephesians chapter 3, verse 14. 00:04:40.799 --> 00:04:43.919 Ephesians chapter 3, verse 14. 00:04:43.920 --> 00:04:50.900 And actually, for those of you who don't have your Bibles, we're going to put the text up on the screen. 00:04:51.180 --> 00:04:51.780 There it is. 00:04:52.259 --> 00:04:56.120 And just as you start to read it, just a little bit of context for you. 00:04:57.319 --> 00:05:00.660 This is something that began, it was a letter originally, 00:05:01.139 --> 00:05:04.879 and it was written by a man named Paul, maybe around the year 60. 00:05:05.379 --> 00:05:07.060 And he's in jail in Rome. 00:05:07.259 --> 00:05:10.639 And he's sending this letter to a place in what is now Turkey, 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.919 but at the time would have been just part of the Roman Empire. 00:05:14.060 --> 00:05:16.099 It was the second biggest city in the Roman Empire, 00:05:16.740 --> 00:05:20.860 a city devoted to the worship of Artemis, a goddess. 00:05:21.599 --> 00:05:24.459 And the people that he's writing to, 00:05:24.699 --> 00:05:28.259 almost all of them would have been pagans who would become Christians. 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:32.360 And here's how it goes, this little bit that we're looking at today. 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:37.280 For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, 00:05:37.800 --> 00:05:42.080 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:43.600 Just sort of pause there. 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.139 For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, 00:05:46.620 --> 00:05:50.720 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. 00:05:51.560 --> 00:05:53.960 Now, first of all, many of you might say, 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:56.000 George, I can see the problem right here. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:06:02.079 Like, this is why imagination and creativity goes to church to die. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:05.879 I mean, how on earth can you possibly begin a text on imagination 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:08.500 by having to bow your knee to God? 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:10.759 Like, surely, if there's going to be something 00:06:10.759 --> 00:06:13.560 that's going to just stop imagination cold, 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:17.500 it's this odd idea of bowing your knee to God. 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:19.019 It's not very, very promising. 00:06:19.980 --> 00:06:23.120 Now, I just want to explain something about this text 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:25.439 to see that it's actually the beginning of something 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.459 which is really important about imagination 00:06:27.459 --> 00:06:31.240 and the many, many different aspects of imagination. 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:34.780 And first of all, I have to apologize for those of you who are here, 00:06:34.899 --> 00:06:36.800 and this is your first week that you are here. 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.199 We're going through all of the book of Ephesians. 00:06:39.379 --> 00:06:41.840 And so one of the ways to imagine what you've just heard 00:06:41.840 --> 00:06:43.439 and what we're about to hear this morning 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:48.500 is imagine you're watching a series on Netflix 00:06:48.500 --> 00:06:50.379 that has 12 episodes. 00:06:51.180 --> 00:06:52.639 We're at episode 6. 00:06:53.819 --> 00:06:55.780 And so you've just come to visit us, 00:06:55.780 --> 00:06:58.620 and we're watching episode 6 with you. 00:06:58.740 --> 00:07:00.639 I've watched the previous five episodes. 00:07:01.100 --> 00:07:02.759 This is your first episode, and you're going, 00:07:02.860 --> 00:07:03.259 What? 00:07:03.740 --> 00:07:04.600 I'm like, What? 00:07:04.800 --> 00:07:05.920 What's going on here? 00:07:06.480 --> 00:07:09.079 So this thing here, which sounds really weird, 00:07:09.139 --> 00:07:11.100 is coming out of a previous episode, 00:07:11.100 --> 00:07:14.920 and it's actually something which is very, very powerful and wonderful. 00:07:15.579 --> 00:07:19.620 You see, actually here, I'll just put up the point, 00:07:19.699 --> 00:07:22.079 and then I'll explain a little bit about what's going on. 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:27.060 You bow the knee to the one who adopted you as his son, 00:07:27.740 --> 00:07:30.060 giving you a new name and a new destiny. 00:07:30.459 --> 00:07:34.259 You bow the knee to the one who adopted you as his son, 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:36.839 giving you a new name and a new destiny. 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.339 And somebody's saying, George, why it's all this guy stuff? 00:07:39.459 --> 00:07:41.000 Like, what about girls? 00:07:41.259 --> 00:07:42.000 Like, what about women? 00:07:42.500 --> 00:07:45.379 So here's the thing, the wonderful thing which went on earlier on 00:07:45.379 --> 00:07:48.579 in an earlier episode that we talked about. 00:07:48.579 --> 00:07:57.639 In the ancient world, somebody my age could be adopted. 00:07:59.859 --> 00:08:02.159 And in fact, in the ancient world, people my age, 00:08:02.500 --> 00:08:06.360 somebody like me might, in fact, a very, very rich person 00:08:06.360 --> 00:08:10.120 who didn't have an heir might look at me and say, 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:12.019 that's the guy I want to have. 00:08:12.019 --> 00:08:15.680 I'm going to adopt that guy so that he can become my heir 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:21.180 because he has five sons who are all healthy. 00:08:21.500 --> 00:08:22.959 This would be the perfect guy. 00:08:23.060 --> 00:08:24.000 And he seems, like, reasonable. 00:08:24.379 --> 00:08:26.240 He seems, you know, he knows how to brush his teeth. 00:08:26.359 --> 00:08:29.000 And at least on Sundays, I'm vaguely color-coordinated, 00:08:29.639 --> 00:08:31.599 although I am wearing sandals with socks, 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:33.179 which is a fashion faux pas. 00:08:33.179 --> 00:08:34.799 But, you know, apart from that, 00:08:34.859 --> 00:08:38.120 he's probably a perfectly good guy for me to adopt. 00:08:38.839 --> 00:08:41.679 And when this rich person would have adopted me 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:43.979 in the ancient world, I would have given up my last name. 00:08:44.059 --> 00:08:45.659 I would no longer be George Sinclair. 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:47.939 I would take on his last name. 00:08:48.259 --> 00:08:52.319 And I would be adopted as his son to inherit all things. 00:08:52.959 --> 00:08:54.599 And so one of the things that we looked at 00:08:54.599 --> 00:08:56.759 is that many people make the mistake of thinking 00:08:56.759 --> 00:09:00.379 that Christianity is just proposing a whole series of hypotheses. 00:09:00.379 --> 00:09:03.500 And obviously, it does propose things to believe. 00:09:04.019 --> 00:09:07.000 But at the heart of the Christian faith isn't just, 00:09:07.139 --> 00:09:10.559 I suggest this hypothesis and this hypothesis and this hypothesis. 00:09:11.299 --> 00:09:14.019 One of the ways to understand it is at the heart of the Bible, 00:09:14.120 --> 00:09:15.379 the heart of the New Testament, 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.860 is that God is making a proposal to you. 00:09:19.139 --> 00:09:21.259 Can I adopt you as my son? 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:24.399 And this is what's so breathtaking about this text 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:26.080 and it's why we keep the male language. 00:09:26.620 --> 00:09:29.519 You see, one of the things, if you go back and study 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:30.799 how the Christian church grew, 00:09:31.019 --> 00:09:34.120 in the first 50, 60 years, 100 years, 00:09:34.679 --> 00:09:37.159 the overwhelming majority of the church, 00:09:37.220 --> 00:09:39.220 not all, but the overwhelming majority of the church 00:09:39.220 --> 00:09:40.519 were women and slaves. 00:09:41.319 --> 00:09:44.120 You can't imagine in Canada 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:47.480 how powerful the message would be to a woman 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:53.740 who is lacking rights and power and property often, 00:09:53.740 --> 00:09:56.799 that if you become a Christian, 00:09:57.799 --> 00:10:02.039 the creator of the universe is going to adopt you 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:06.139 as if you are his son 00:10:06.139 --> 00:10:09.279 with the right to inherit. 00:10:10.100 --> 00:10:13.820 It's hard for us to imagine a slave being told 00:10:13.820 --> 00:10:16.039 that if you give your life to Jesus, 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:20.240 God will adopt you as his son 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:23.659 with the full right of inheritance. 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:26.940 And that's what's going on in this text. 00:10:27.560 --> 00:10:30.259 Paul is sort of bringing a section to a close. 00:10:30.379 --> 00:10:33.000 He's sort of rounding up some of the things 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:34.740 in the previous five episodes. 00:10:35.500 --> 00:10:37.639 He's rounding it up in the form of a prayer. 00:10:38.320 --> 00:10:40.820 And he's saying to these people 00:10:40.820 --> 00:10:42.539 who have given their lives to Jesus, 00:10:42.680 --> 00:10:43.680 and when it says here that, 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:46.320 if you remember, I'm not, 00:10:46.519 --> 00:10:47.840 I can go backwards, can't I? 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:49.139 Woo-hoo, let's see that. 00:10:49.139 --> 00:10:49.840 Here you go. 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:52.620 If you go back and you look at the text again, 00:10:53.019 --> 00:10:54.500 see, that's what's going on here. 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:56.960 For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father. 00:10:57.120 --> 00:10:58.819 Bowing my knees means that I'm, 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:01.480 it's an act of allegiance. 00:11:02.199 --> 00:11:04.840 It's an act of gratitude. 00:11:05.460 --> 00:11:07.600 It's an act of just acknowledging 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:13.840 the greatness of the one 00:11:13.840 --> 00:11:15.480 and the greatness of the gift. 00:11:15.480 --> 00:11:19.399 And you know, 00:11:20.180 --> 00:11:22.700 I mean, I'm going to inherit nothing from my parents. 00:11:24.700 --> 00:11:26.600 And I'm not losing any sleep over that, 00:11:26.680 --> 00:11:27.500 but just to, 00:11:27.899 --> 00:11:28.840 all of a sudden, 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:30.019 Bill Gates, 00:11:30.259 --> 00:11:31.360 if this was the ancient world, 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:32.700 and Bill Gates said, 00:11:32.800 --> 00:11:33.379 I'm going to be, 00:11:33.860 --> 00:11:35.259 George, you're going to be my heir. 00:11:36.100 --> 00:11:38.639 The billions and billions and billions of dollars. 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:42.340 Or if the Queen of England, 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:43.699 all her kids die, 00:11:43.779 --> 00:11:44.819 and she adopted me, 00:11:44.860 --> 00:11:46.080 and I'm going to be the next king. 00:11:48.319 --> 00:11:49.139 And so, 00:11:49.340 --> 00:11:50.639 for this reason, 00:11:51.080 --> 00:11:52.939 I bow my knee before the Father, 00:11:53.340 --> 00:11:56.679 from whom every family in heaven and earth is named. 00:11:56.740 --> 00:11:58.100 It's not saying every human being. 00:11:58.659 --> 00:12:00.620 It's saying every single person, 00:12:01.620 --> 00:12:04.000 whether in a family on earth, 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:05.700 or not, 00:12:06.340 --> 00:12:07.419 now has a new name, 00:12:07.720 --> 00:12:08.399 a new identity. 00:12:08.700 --> 00:12:09.899 That's what my point is. 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:11.259 Has a new name, 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:12.620 has a new identity. 00:12:13.539 --> 00:12:16.519 And you bow the knee to the one who adopted you as his son, 00:12:16.980 --> 00:12:18.019 giving you a new name, 00:12:18.500 --> 00:12:19.940 and a new destiny. 00:12:22.980 --> 00:12:23.700 You see, 00:12:24.700 --> 00:12:26.480 that's why he says this. 00:12:27.440 --> 00:12:30.539 Not to quench your imagination, 00:12:31.220 --> 00:12:32.500 not to put you down, 00:12:32.500 --> 00:12:34.820 but for Christians, 00:12:35.059 --> 00:12:36.399 to remind you who you are. 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.279 And his response is 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.620 completely and utterly reasonable. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:44.919 Now, usually, 00:12:45.059 --> 00:12:46.220 when we think of the imagination, 00:12:46.580 --> 00:12:48.159 we think of being able to draw. 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:49.620 We think of little kids 00:12:49.620 --> 00:12:52.460 playing in their red car 00:12:52.460 --> 00:12:53.480 with the yellow roof. 00:12:53.980 --> 00:12:56.200 We think of being able to write a book, 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:58.759 or being able to write a poem, 00:12:58.980 --> 00:13:00.179 or something like that. 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:00.679 But in fact, 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:01.279 the matter is, 00:13:01.279 --> 00:13:05.399 is the imagination is way more powerful and present in all of our lives than this. 00:13:06.059 --> 00:13:07.339 Just think of this quote. 00:13:07.899 --> 00:13:09.519 I wish I could remember where I heard it. 00:13:09.539 --> 00:13:10.980 I heard it a long, long time ago, 00:13:11.019 --> 00:13:12.720 and I can't remember now where I heard it from. 00:13:13.339 --> 00:13:15.639 Worry is a waste of the imagination. 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:17.459 Isn't that true? 00:13:18.120 --> 00:13:19.779 Worry is a waste of the imagination. 00:13:19.779 --> 00:13:25.559 Louise would have vastly more stories about this than I would. 00:13:26.079 --> 00:13:26.519 But I, you know, 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:27.939 there's been, you know, 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:29.240 times when I've been at home, 00:13:29.339 --> 00:13:32.379 and I've expected Louise home at four o'clock, 00:13:32.600 --> 00:13:34.220 and she's driving the vehicle, 00:13:34.939 --> 00:13:36.899 and 4.30 comes, 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:38.079 and five o'clock comes, 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:38.919 and 5.30, 00:13:39.019 --> 00:13:39.539 and six, 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:40.339 and 6.30, 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:41.360 and still no Louise. 00:13:41.360 --> 00:13:44.779 And my imagination starts to go. 00:13:45.060 --> 00:13:47.360 It's gone long before it's come to 6 or 6.30. 00:13:48.220 --> 00:13:49.899 And my imagination isn't, 00:13:49.980 --> 00:13:52.700 oh, she's just sitting somewhere having a coffee and a Starbucks, 00:13:52.980 --> 00:13:55.220 and having a wonderful quiet time by herself. 00:13:55.680 --> 00:13:56.120 No! 00:13:56.120 --> 00:14:03.139 I picture car accidents and terrible things going on, 00:14:03.200 --> 00:14:06.759 and that's how my imagination just automatically starts to go. 00:14:07.299 --> 00:14:08.060 And isn't that true? 00:14:08.139 --> 00:14:12.080 It's not just that our imagination works in terms of being able to draw something, 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:13.840 but we imagine success. 00:14:14.159 --> 00:14:15.580 We imagine triumph. 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:18.740 Somebody says some terrible thing to us, 00:14:18.779 --> 00:14:21.560 and we don't have the chutzpah or the guts to say something to them, 00:14:21.620 --> 00:14:22.500 but we walk away, 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:23.879 and in our imagination, 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:25.399 are we ever putting them straight? 00:14:25.399 --> 00:14:27.120 We're triumphing. 00:14:27.620 --> 00:14:29.879 But then if your wife says, 00:14:30.199 --> 00:14:32.019 you should go and say that to that person, 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:36.100 then our imagination instantly goes to the ruin that would happen 00:14:36.100 --> 00:14:38.819 if we actually tried to say that to the person. 00:14:39.579 --> 00:14:42.819 We imagine all sorts of things beyond just how to make a poem. 00:14:43.699 --> 00:14:46.699 Imagination's a far more powerful force in our lives. 00:14:47.179 --> 00:14:49.379 And the Bible here has something, again, 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:52.319 that's speaking far more deeply into imagination 00:14:52.319 --> 00:14:54.939 than just the aspect of creativity. 00:14:55.399 --> 00:14:56.600 Look what happens next. 00:14:56.679 --> 00:14:58.720 And those of you who are following along in the ESV, 00:14:58.779 --> 00:15:01.259 I've made a couple of tiny changes in the text, 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:03.679 not so that it fits my argument, I promise you, 00:15:03.740 --> 00:15:07.000 but to bring up the more literal original language. 00:15:07.459 --> 00:15:09.259 Here's what the next part of the Bible says. 00:15:09.259 --> 00:15:10.259 It says, 00:15:10.259 --> 00:15:13.299 that he may grant you to be strengthened with power 00:15:13.299 --> 00:15:16.360 in accordance with the riches of his glory 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:19.379 through his spirit in your inner being, 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:24.200 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, 00:15:24.639 --> 00:15:27.620 that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 00:15:28.059 --> 00:15:31.279 may have the strength to comprehend with all the saints 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:35.500 what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:38.199 and likewise to know the love of Christ 00:15:38.199 --> 00:15:39.539 that surpasses knowledge, 00:15:40.059 --> 00:15:43.819 that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 00:15:45.439 --> 00:15:48.039 It's a very, very rich and powerful text. 00:15:49.659 --> 00:15:51.879 And here's what's going on 00:15:51.879 --> 00:15:56.059 to try to help us to just calm down and pause 00:15:56.059 --> 00:15:57.980 and try to enter into the beauty of the text. 00:15:57.980 --> 00:16:00.820 A couple of weeks ago, I was in a coffee shop, 00:16:01.980 --> 00:16:06.840 and there was an older woman sitting there working. 00:16:07.420 --> 00:16:09.279 If you go to some coffee shops, 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:10.519 they'll have tables where, 00:16:10.659 --> 00:16:12.759 I think this table, you could get eight people seated. 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:15.240 And so there's a table for eight. 00:16:15.779 --> 00:16:17.139 I was at one end, 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:20.980 and there's this woman probably close in age to me 00:16:20.980 --> 00:16:21.820 at the other end, 00:16:22.060 --> 00:16:23.460 and there's nobody else. 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:25.159 All the other six chairs were empty. 00:16:25.620 --> 00:16:27.740 And a young woman came and sat right in front 00:16:27.740 --> 00:16:28.659 of the older woman. 00:16:29.379 --> 00:16:30.779 And not only did she come and sit 00:16:30.779 --> 00:16:32.019 right in front of the older woman, 00:16:32.220 --> 00:16:35.539 but she immediately put up a computer 00:16:35.539 --> 00:16:37.139 and another screen 00:16:37.139 --> 00:16:38.560 and a whole pile of things 00:16:38.560 --> 00:16:41.620 and basically pushed the older woman back 00:16:41.620 --> 00:16:44.419 and took away her view 00:16:44.419 --> 00:16:47.220 by putting like a double screen in front of her 00:16:47.220 --> 00:16:48.200 so that all of a sudden, 00:16:48.680 --> 00:16:50.100 if the older woman's sitting there, 00:16:50.139 --> 00:16:51.639 rather than being able to just sort of look out 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:52.680 or around people's shoulders, 00:16:52.840 --> 00:16:54.659 there are two big computer screens 00:16:54.659 --> 00:16:55.480 right in front of her, 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:56.480 right in front of her face, 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:57.680 like 18 inches away. 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:02.879 So a little drama unfolds 00:17:02.879 --> 00:17:05.900 in terms of the woman saying something 00:17:05.900 --> 00:17:06.860 to the younger woman 00:17:06.860 --> 00:17:09.120 and getting no response 00:17:09.120 --> 00:17:10.700 and then going to the manager. 00:17:11.799 --> 00:17:12.539 And then, 00:17:13.120 --> 00:17:13.839 the next thing you know, 00:17:13.900 --> 00:17:15.299 the young woman goes to the manager 00:17:15.299 --> 00:17:18.180 and still nothing happens 00:17:18.180 --> 00:17:19.480 and then the manager comes 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:21.319 to speak to the younger woman. 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:23.539 And what happens next 00:17:23.539 --> 00:17:25.119 is one of those things 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:27.059 that makes a public place 00:17:27.059 --> 00:17:28.079 like a coffee shop, 00:17:28.179 --> 00:17:29.279 everybody get quiet 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.139 and everybody get very, 00:17:31.259 --> 00:17:32.039 very uncomfortable. 00:17:32.919 --> 00:17:35.059 Because that young woman 00:17:35.059 --> 00:17:37.980 with a very, 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:39.339 very loud voice 00:17:39.339 --> 00:17:41.939 started claiming some disability 00:17:41.939 --> 00:17:43.359 with light sensitivity 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:45.099 and with a loud, 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:45.899 loud voice 00:17:45.899 --> 00:17:47.579 said that this was the only place 00:17:47.579 --> 00:17:49.179 in the entire restaurant 00:17:49.179 --> 00:17:50.379 that she had to, 00:17:50.500 --> 00:17:51.339 she could sit 00:17:51.339 --> 00:17:53.119 and so everybody else 00:17:53.119 --> 00:17:54.099 had to get out of their way 00:17:54.099 --> 00:17:55.259 and whenever the manager, 00:17:55.439 --> 00:17:55.859 who's very, 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:57.099 very quiet and gentle 00:17:57.099 --> 00:17:58.299 with a quiet voice, 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:00.539 started to try to say something to her, 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:01.579 she literally, 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:02.939 the young woman literally went, 00:18:03.419 --> 00:18:05.819 la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, 00:18:05.819 --> 00:18:07.779 with a loud voice, 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:08.919 her fingers and ears, 00:18:09.220 --> 00:18:10.559 la, la, la, la, la, la, 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.939 and finally the manager would pause, 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:13.579 she would, 00:18:13.879 --> 00:18:15.159 the young woman takes her fingers 00:18:15.159 --> 00:18:16.099 out of her ears 00:18:16.099 --> 00:18:18.659 and then the manager tries 00:18:18.659 --> 00:18:19.399 to talk to her again, 00:18:19.700 --> 00:18:21.099 la, la, la, la, la, la, 00:18:21.099 --> 00:18:21.859 even louder 00:18:21.859 --> 00:18:22.919 so the whole restaurant 00:18:22.919 --> 00:18:24.000 can hear this. 00:18:26.619 --> 00:18:27.279 You've got to go 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:28.240 to more coffee shops, 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:29.919 it's not just having a coffee, 00:18:30.019 --> 00:18:30.779 let me tell you, 00:18:30.859 --> 00:18:32.319 sometimes it's quite something. 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:34.500 I'm sitting there thinking, 00:18:34.879 --> 00:18:35.720 no, I'm not going 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:36.799 to get involved in this. 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:39.100 I'm just going to look at my book 00:18:39.100 --> 00:18:40.700 and pretend that nothing 00:18:40.700 --> 00:18:42.460 over there is happening. 00:18:43.240 --> 00:18:43.980 You know, eventually 00:18:43.980 --> 00:18:46.600 the manager left in defeat, 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:49.720 the older woman moved 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:51.779 and then three minutes later 00:18:51.779 --> 00:18:53.100 she gathered her stuff up 00:18:53.100 --> 00:18:54.180 and she left the restaurant 00:18:54.180 --> 00:18:55.480 and eventually the restaurant 00:18:55.480 --> 00:18:56.680 started to quieten down. 00:18:57.279 --> 00:18:59.259 Now, what that illustrates 00:18:59.259 --> 00:19:00.920 in a very, very powerful way, 00:19:01.339 --> 00:19:02.460 in an extreme way, 00:19:02.500 --> 00:19:03.440 is something that goes on 00:19:03.440 --> 00:19:05.019 all the time in our lives, right? 00:19:05.019 --> 00:19:05.859 It's the balance. 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:07.019 How do we balance 00:19:07.019 --> 00:19:08.879 getting along with a group 00:19:08.879 --> 00:19:10.900 and our own individualism? 00:19:11.259 --> 00:19:12.099 Like, how do we balance 00:19:12.099 --> 00:19:13.599 those things, right? 00:19:14.339 --> 00:19:16.019 Like, it comes up all the time. 00:19:16.119 --> 00:19:16.859 In our culture, 00:19:16.859 --> 00:19:18.079 we have a very, very, very, 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:19.500 very high demand 00:19:19.500 --> 00:19:21.579 of an individualism 00:19:21.579 --> 00:19:23.299 and being able to be 00:19:23.299 --> 00:19:24.559 authentic to yourself 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:26.220 and seek autonomy 00:19:26.220 --> 00:19:27.859 and being true to yourself 00:19:27.859 --> 00:19:29.900 and I have to be true to myself. 00:19:29.900 --> 00:19:31.980 And in our culture, 00:19:32.100 --> 00:19:33.100 often what that means 00:19:33.100 --> 00:19:33.880 is if you're going to be 00:19:33.880 --> 00:19:35.280 authentic and true to yourself, 00:19:35.380 --> 00:19:36.600 what it means ultimately 00:19:36.600 --> 00:19:38.980 is if that means 00:19:38.980 --> 00:19:40.440 that your wife 00:19:40.440 --> 00:19:41.160 or your husband 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:41.980 or your boyfriend 00:19:41.980 --> 00:19:42.780 or your girlfriend 00:19:42.780 --> 00:19:43.480 or your kids 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:44.320 just aren't getting 00:19:44.320 --> 00:19:45.280 with the program, 00:19:45.660 --> 00:19:46.540 in our culture, 00:19:46.640 --> 00:19:47.640 often it's viewed 00:19:47.640 --> 00:19:48.360 that it's fine 00:19:48.360 --> 00:19:49.560 to end the marriage 00:19:49.560 --> 00:19:51.019 or end the relationship 00:19:51.019 --> 00:19:54.680 because individualism triumphs. 00:19:55.040 --> 00:19:55.880 In other cultures, 00:19:55.960 --> 00:19:56.540 as we know, 00:19:56.740 --> 00:19:57.019 everything, 00:19:57.019 --> 00:19:58.379 the family matters 00:19:58.379 --> 00:19:59.200 very much more 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:01.160 and if you have a child 00:20:01.160 --> 00:20:02.559 who's just not fitting in, 00:20:02.639 --> 00:20:04.359 the child has to be squashed 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:05.740 to fit in with the family 00:20:05.740 --> 00:20:07.039 and there's, 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:08.539 we see in different cultures 00:20:08.539 --> 00:20:09.200 different ways 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:10.160 of trying to solve 00:20:10.160 --> 00:20:11.139 the interests, 00:20:11.299 --> 00:20:11.960 the needs, 00:20:12.099 --> 00:20:12.960 the desires, 00:20:13.259 --> 00:20:14.619 the plans of the individual 00:20:14.619 --> 00:20:15.339 with the group. 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:18.379 And believe it or not, 00:20:18.420 --> 00:20:19.180 what we see here, 00:20:19.299 --> 00:20:20.299 and so it's very easy 00:20:20.299 --> 00:20:21.420 for us to try to think 00:20:21.420 --> 00:20:22.039 that when we come 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:22.960 into the Christian world, 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:23.920 so Jesus becomes 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:24.920 our Savior and our Lord 00:20:24.920 --> 00:20:26.539 and he's going to pick 00:20:26.539 --> 00:20:28.299 one side on this. 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:29.960 He's going to say, 00:20:30.539 --> 00:20:32.220 yay, individualism! 00:20:32.700 --> 00:20:33.079 Woohoo! 00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:34.819 Like, you know, 00:20:35.299 --> 00:20:35.879 all, you know, 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:37.220 individualism trumps 00:20:37.220 --> 00:20:38.019 over marriage, 00:20:38.200 --> 00:20:39.319 trumps over family, 00:20:39.539 --> 00:20:40.700 trumps over the workplace. 00:20:41.399 --> 00:20:41.740 It just, 00:20:41.859 --> 00:20:42.279 it always, 00:20:42.559 --> 00:20:42.960 you know, 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:43.220 and then, 00:20:43.379 --> 00:20:44.759 or some of us 00:20:44.759 --> 00:20:45.119 are going to say, 00:20:45.180 --> 00:20:45.899 especially if we come 00:20:45.899 --> 00:20:47.339 from very traditional cultures 00:20:47.339 --> 00:20:48.319 or if we have 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:48.960 very traditional 00:20:48.960 --> 00:20:49.680 type of families, 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:50.819 we're hoping that Jesus 00:20:50.819 --> 00:20:53.000 says no to individualism, 00:20:53.180 --> 00:20:55.180 boo to individualism, 00:20:55.180 --> 00:20:56.080 up family, 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:57.279 up the organization, 00:20:57.560 --> 00:20:58.600 up the big group, 00:20:59.039 --> 00:21:00.259 and you just have 00:21:00.259 --> 00:21:01.080 to be squashed. 00:21:01.799 --> 00:21:02.759 And so we go 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:03.420 into the Bible 00:21:03.420 --> 00:21:04.380 and we bring 00:21:04.380 --> 00:21:05.779 this perspective with us 00:21:05.779 --> 00:21:07.100 and then what we come 00:21:07.100 --> 00:21:08.799 across is in this text 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:11.460 where Paul is summarizing 00:21:11.460 --> 00:21:12.320 the truths 00:21:12.320 --> 00:21:13.799 that have been unearthed 00:21:13.799 --> 00:21:15.600 in the five previous episodes 00:21:15.600 --> 00:21:17.440 and now he's taking 00:21:17.440 --> 00:21:18.380 these truths 00:21:18.380 --> 00:21:19.279 and he's turning it 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:20.180 into a prayer 00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:21.840 and in this prayer 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:24.079 we see a different path, 00:21:25.179 --> 00:21:27.899 a different option. 00:21:31.859 --> 00:21:33.000 Let me try to give you 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:33.779 a couple of points 00:21:33.779 --> 00:21:34.720 to try to bring it out. 00:21:36.579 --> 00:21:37.699 You will know him 00:21:37.699 --> 00:21:38.359 personally 00:21:38.359 --> 00:21:39.579 and uniquely 00:21:39.579 --> 00:21:41.279 but you know him 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:42.599 better with others. 00:21:43.559 --> 00:21:44.779 You will know him 00:21:44.779 --> 00:21:45.419 personally 00:21:45.419 --> 00:21:46.539 and uniquely 00:21:46.539 --> 00:21:48.419 but you know him 00:21:48.419 --> 00:21:49.819 better 00:21:49.819 --> 00:21:50.839 with others. 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:52.240 That's what we see 00:21:52.240 --> 00:21:52.759 going throughout 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:54.139 this entire text. 00:21:54.259 --> 00:21:54.559 You see, 00:21:55.159 --> 00:21:57.099 I can't become a Christian 00:21:57.099 --> 00:21:58.659 through my family. 00:21:58.859 --> 00:22:00.039 I need to come 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:01.119 to a personal 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:02.399 saving faith 00:22:02.399 --> 00:22:03.819 in Jesus Christ. 00:22:05.079 --> 00:22:05.960 Jesus died 00:22:05.960 --> 00:22:06.619 on the cross 00:22:06.619 --> 00:22:07.559 for me. 00:22:08.500 --> 00:22:09.799 He was thinking 00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:11.639 of me 00:22:11.639 --> 00:22:12.980 and he was thinking 00:22:12.980 --> 00:22:13.879 of you 00:22:13.879 --> 00:22:15.960 and he didn't just 00:22:15.960 --> 00:22:16.779 die 00:22:16.779 --> 00:22:17.819 for the wrongdoings 00:22:17.819 --> 00:22:19.539 of white males 00:22:19.539 --> 00:22:20.480 in Canada 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:21.859 over a certain age. 00:22:21.980 --> 00:22:22.960 No, he died 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:23.779 for the things 00:22:23.779 --> 00:22:25.399 that I have done wrong. 00:22:26.079 --> 00:22:27.259 He died 00:22:27.259 --> 00:22:28.279 to deal 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:29.839 with my debt. 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:30.579 He died 00:22:30.579 --> 00:22:31.159 to deal 00:22:31.159 --> 00:22:33.059 with my doom. 00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:34.539 He thought 00:22:34.539 --> 00:22:35.659 of me 00:22:35.659 --> 00:22:37.319 as he died 00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:39.679 and looked 00:22:39.679 --> 00:22:40.179 for me 00:22:40.179 --> 00:22:41.359 in his resurrection. 00:22:42.059 --> 00:22:43.019 It's deeply 00:22:43.019 --> 00:22:43.619 personal. 00:22:45.079 --> 00:22:45.799 But at the same 00:22:45.799 --> 00:22:46.259 time, 00:22:46.259 --> 00:22:47.619 at the same time, 00:22:47.700 --> 00:22:48.180 there's something 00:22:48.180 --> 00:22:48.579 more. 00:22:49.740 --> 00:22:49.980 Paul, 00:22:50.099 --> 00:22:50.640 all the way 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:51.379 through the text, 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:52.039 has been trying 00:22:52.039 --> 00:22:52.480 to show 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:52.960 how there's 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:53.779 this corporate 00:22:53.779 --> 00:22:56.000 larger aspect 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.180 to the Christian 00:22:57.180 --> 00:22:57.680 faith. 00:22:58.819 --> 00:22:59.700 And so it is, 00:23:00.140 --> 00:23:00.619 yes, 00:23:01.140 --> 00:23:02.160 it is the case 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:03.359 that when he talks 00:23:03.359 --> 00:23:04.039 about knowing 00:23:04.039 --> 00:23:04.900 Christ 00:23:04.900 --> 00:23:05.400 and the love 00:23:05.400 --> 00:23:05.900 of Christ 00:23:05.900 --> 00:23:06.799 that surpasses 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:07.359 knowledge, 00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:08.539 there is a sense 00:23:08.539 --> 00:23:08.960 that you will 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:09.379 know him 00:23:09.379 --> 00:23:09.940 personally 00:23:09.940 --> 00:23:10.900 and uniquely, 00:23:12.279 --> 00:23:13.099 but you know 00:23:13.099 --> 00:23:13.599 him better 00:23:13.599 --> 00:23:14.119 with others. 00:23:14.500 --> 00:23:15.059 And don't we 00:23:15.059 --> 00:23:15.799 sometimes when 00:23:15.799 --> 00:23:16.299 things are 00:23:16.299 --> 00:23:17.039 going best, 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:17.599 don't we 00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:18.399 experience that 00:23:18.399 --> 00:23:19.159 all the time? 00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:20.200 Like, 00:23:20.279 --> 00:23:21.259 isn't it the case 00:23:21.259 --> 00:23:21.919 that if you get 00:23:21.919 --> 00:23:22.839 to go to a cottage 00:23:22.839 --> 00:23:23.940 and the sun 00:23:23.940 --> 00:23:24.720 is setting 00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:26.919 and you just, 00:23:27.179 --> 00:23:27.960 and it's one 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:28.599 of those days 00:23:28.599 --> 00:23:29.159 where it's just 00:23:29.159 --> 00:23:30.460 perfect and it's 00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:31.659 the mosquito season's 00:23:31.659 --> 00:23:33.019 ended and the 00:23:33.019 --> 00:23:34.240 black fly season's 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:35.519 ended and you 00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:36.899 have a fire 00:23:36.899 --> 00:23:39.059 close to the shore 00:23:39.059 --> 00:23:40.119 and the sun is 00:23:40.119 --> 00:23:40.859 setting over the 00:23:40.859 --> 00:23:41.500 lake and you can 00:23:41.500 --> 00:23:42.579 hear the loon 00:23:42.579 --> 00:23:43.859 and it's just 00:23:43.859 --> 00:23:44.779 so beautiful 00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:45.679 and isn't it 00:23:45.679 --> 00:23:46.419 even more 00:23:46.419 --> 00:23:47.339 beautiful when 00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:47.839 you do it 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:48.500 with your loved 00:23:48.500 --> 00:23:48.939 ones? 00:23:49.679 --> 00:23:50.279 Isn't it? 00:23:51.359 --> 00:23:52.119 It is. 00:23:55.439 --> 00:23:56.119 And you can 00:23:56.119 --> 00:23:56.619 have a great 00:23:56.619 --> 00:23:57.359 time playing 00:23:57.359 --> 00:23:57.819 a game, 00:23:57.939 --> 00:23:58.259 but you know 00:23:58.259 --> 00:23:58.399 what, 00:23:58.439 --> 00:23:58.779 you can play 00:23:58.779 --> 00:23:59.119 that game 00:23:59.119 --> 00:23:59.579 with your loved 00:23:59.579 --> 00:23:59.779 ones, 00:23:59.859 --> 00:24:00.220 it's even 00:24:00.220 --> 00:24:00.519 better. 00:24:00.859 --> 00:24:01.199 You're listening 00:24:01.199 --> 00:24:02.000 to music, 00:24:02.339 --> 00:24:02.819 they can go 00:24:02.819 --> 00:24:03.619 on and on 00:24:03.619 --> 00:24:03.980 and on. 00:24:04.039 --> 00:24:04.559 There are so 00:24:04.559 --> 00:24:05.259 many times 00:24:05.259 --> 00:24:05.579 where it's 00:24:05.579 --> 00:24:06.119 both something 00:24:06.119 --> 00:24:06.439 that you 00:24:06.439 --> 00:24:07.039 personally, 00:24:07.259 --> 00:24:08.159 uniquely know, 00:24:08.559 --> 00:24:09.039 but at the 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:09.779 same time, 00:24:09.779 --> 00:24:11.480 the pleasure 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:12.339 of others 00:24:12.339 --> 00:24:12.920 is there. 00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:13.799 And what the 00:24:13.799 --> 00:24:14.599 Bible is saying 00:24:14.599 --> 00:24:15.180 is this, 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:17.839 when I see 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:18.660 God face to 00:24:18.660 --> 00:24:19.079 face, 00:24:20.700 --> 00:24:23.299 I will begin 00:24:23.299 --> 00:24:24.279 to know the 00:24:24.279 --> 00:24:25.539 unsurpassed 00:24:25.539 --> 00:24:26.200 knowledge of 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:26.700 the love of 00:24:26.700 --> 00:24:27.099 Christ. 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:28.660 But as I 00:24:28.660 --> 00:24:29.539 get to view 00:24:29.539 --> 00:24:30.160 Christ, 00:24:30.579 --> 00:24:31.319 I get to 00:24:31.319 --> 00:24:32.079 also view 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:32.859 him and see 00:24:32.859 --> 00:24:33.759 how my 00:24:33.759 --> 00:24:34.359 brother and 00:24:34.359 --> 00:24:35.639 sister from 00:24:35.639 --> 00:24:36.180 Uganda, 00:24:36.859 --> 00:24:38.039 from China, 00:24:38.039 --> 00:24:39.899 from Iran, 00:24:40.700 --> 00:24:42.899 from Alabama, 00:24:43.740 --> 00:24:45.720 from Guatemala, 00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:47.700 when I get 00:24:47.700 --> 00:24:48.279 to see how 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:49.000 they also 00:24:49.000 --> 00:24:49.619 at the same 00:24:49.619 --> 00:24:50.279 time know 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:52.220 Christ and 00:24:52.220 --> 00:24:52.639 are being 00:24:52.639 --> 00:24:53.500 overwhelmed 00:24:53.500 --> 00:24:53.899 with the 00:24:53.899 --> 00:24:54.700 surpassing 00:24:54.700 --> 00:24:55.519 knowledge of 00:24:55.519 --> 00:24:55.879 the love 00:24:55.879 --> 00:24:56.539 of Christ, 00:24:57.059 --> 00:24:57.779 and we not 00:24:57.779 --> 00:24:58.420 only get to 00:24:58.420 --> 00:24:59.019 see that with 00:24:59.019 --> 00:24:59.579 those of us 00:24:59.579 --> 00:24:59.980 who live on 00:24:59.980 --> 00:25:00.319 the earth 00:25:00.319 --> 00:25:00.720 here at the 00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:01.220 same time 00:25:01.220 --> 00:25:01.740 right now, 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:02.379 but also 00:25:02.379 --> 00:25:02.920 with the 00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:04.000 saints who 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:04.839 were martyred 00:25:04.839 --> 00:25:05.559 in the 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:06.480 Colosseum 00:25:06.480 --> 00:25:07.559 of Rome, 00:25:08.039 --> 00:25:08.519 in the 00:25:08.519 --> 00:25:09.379 first century, 00:25:10.259 --> 00:25:12.119 and the 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:13.740 barbarians who 00:25:13.740 --> 00:25:14.879 became Christians 00:25:14.879 --> 00:25:16.099 through the 00:25:16.099 --> 00:25:17.440 ministry of 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:18.759 Patrick in 00:25:18.759 --> 00:25:19.899 the 400s. 00:25:21.680 --> 00:25:22.619 And we 00:25:22.619 --> 00:25:23.119 will know 00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:23.740 the love of 00:25:23.740 --> 00:25:24.299 Christ that 00:25:24.299 --> 00:25:24.960 surpasses 00:25:24.960 --> 00:25:25.559 knowledge, 00:25:25.819 --> 00:25:26.700 but to know 00:25:26.700 --> 00:25:27.159 it in the 00:25:27.159 --> 00:25:28.039 context of 00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:28.639 men and 00:25:28.639 --> 00:25:29.019 women, 00:25:30.500 --> 00:25:31.099 young and 00:25:31.099 --> 00:25:31.680 old, 00:25:32.879 --> 00:25:33.220 different 00:25:33.220 --> 00:25:34.079 cultures and 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:34.599 languages, 00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:36.920 it will be 00:25:36.920 --> 00:25:37.259 better. 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:41.920 And if 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:42.539 that is 00:25:42.539 --> 00:25:42.940 what our 00:25:42.940 --> 00:25:43.720 final end 00:25:43.720 --> 00:25:44.119 is, 00:25:44.740 --> 00:25:45.319 we should 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:45.659 do what 00:25:45.659 --> 00:25:46.119 we can 00:25:46.119 --> 00:25:46.619 now to 00:25:46.619 --> 00:25:47.180 taste it 00:25:47.180 --> 00:25:47.539 now. 00:25:48.879 --> 00:25:49.819 To taste 00:25:49.819 --> 00:25:50.339 it now. 00:25:52.859 --> 00:25:53.460 Another 00:25:53.460 --> 00:25:54.519 illustration. 00:25:55.779 --> 00:25:56.639 You are 00:25:56.639 --> 00:25:57.819 the home 00:25:57.819 --> 00:25:58.899 where Jesus 00:25:58.899 --> 00:25:59.720 dwells, 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:00.960 and you 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:01.519 are a 00:26:01.519 --> 00:26:02.700 living stone 00:26:02.700 --> 00:26:03.019 among 00:26:03.019 --> 00:26:03.940 countless 00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:04.740 others being 00:26:04.740 --> 00:26:05.420 built into 00:26:05.420 --> 00:26:06.019 a temple 00:26:06.019 --> 00:26:07.139 where God 00:26:07.139 --> 00:26:07.900 dwells. 00:26:08.579 --> 00:26:09.000 I didn't, 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:10.039 my notes 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:10.420 are poor 00:26:10.420 --> 00:26:10.680 there. 00:26:11.059 --> 00:26:11.579 You are 00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:12.660 the home 00:26:12.660 --> 00:26:13.160 where Jesus 00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:13.839 dwells, 00:26:13.859 --> 00:26:14.500 and you 00:26:14.500 --> 00:26:15.279 are a 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:16.160 living stone 00:26:16.160 --> 00:26:16.480 among 00:26:16.480 --> 00:26:17.180 countless 00:26:17.180 --> 00:26:18.160 others being 00:26:18.160 --> 00:26:18.859 built by 00:26:18.859 --> 00:26:19.900 him into 00:26:19.900 --> 00:26:20.559 the temple 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:21.379 where he 00:26:21.379 --> 00:26:22.000 dwells. 00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:22.759 That's what 00:26:22.759 --> 00:26:23.359 Paul is getting 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:23.980 here as well, 00:26:24.039 --> 00:26:24.139 right? 00:26:24.200 --> 00:26:24.779 He says that 00:26:24.779 --> 00:26:25.400 Jesus might 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:26.019 dwell in your 00:26:26.019 --> 00:26:26.619 hearts with 00:26:26.619 --> 00:26:27.099 faith, but 00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:27.980 he says that 00:26:27.980 --> 00:26:28.879 you will 00:26:28.879 --> 00:26:29.559 know this 00:26:29.559 --> 00:26:30.319 with all 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:31.059 the saints. 00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:32.480 And that's 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:33.579 this spectacular 00:26:33.579 --> 00:26:34.480 mystery that, 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:35.299 in a sense, 00:26:35.620 --> 00:26:36.120 the Christian 00:26:36.120 --> 00:26:36.799 life really 00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:37.339 begins. 00:26:37.799 --> 00:26:38.259 There's this 00:26:38.259 --> 00:26:39.160 wonderful text 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:39.599 in the book 00:26:39.599 --> 00:26:40.200 of Revelation 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:40.660 that it 00:26:40.660 --> 00:26:41.299 pictures that 00:26:41.299 --> 00:26:42.000 Jesus is 00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:42.440 standing on 00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:42.740 the outside. 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:43.299 He'll never 00:26:43.299 --> 00:26:44.039 force his 00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:44.620 way in, 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:45.500 never at 00:26:45.500 --> 00:26:45.700 all. 00:26:45.980 --> 00:26:46.640 He respects 00:26:46.640 --> 00:26:47.240 your freedom 00:26:47.240 --> 00:26:47.740 right to 00:26:47.740 --> 00:26:48.120 the very 00:26:48.120 --> 00:26:48.640 end, 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:49.400 and in 00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:50.140 all eternity. 00:26:50.299 --> 00:26:50.900 He respects 00:26:50.900 --> 00:26:51.539 your freedom, 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:52.680 but he stands 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:53.180 at the door 00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:53.759 and knocks. 00:26:54.099 --> 00:26:54.559 And most 00:26:54.559 --> 00:26:55.700 religion is 00:26:55.700 --> 00:26:56.620 people talking 00:26:56.620 --> 00:26:57.160 to Jesus 00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:57.740 on the other 00:26:57.740 --> 00:26:58.200 side of the 00:26:58.200 --> 00:26:58.440 door. 00:26:58.779 --> 00:26:59.259 Maybe they 00:26:59.259 --> 00:26:59.960 bend down 00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:00.200 and they 00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:00.519 get on 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:02.360 the ground 00:27:02.360 --> 00:27:02.640 and they 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:03.380 see Jesus' 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:04.079 feet, 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:04.879 underneath 00:27:04.879 --> 00:27:05.480 the door. 00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:06.179 And maybe 00:27:06.179 --> 00:27:06.460 if it's 00:27:06.460 --> 00:27:07.159 an old-fashioned 00:27:07.159 --> 00:27:07.659 door with 00:27:07.659 --> 00:27:08.220 a big lock, 00:27:08.299 --> 00:27:08.599 they look 00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:08.919 through the 00:27:08.919 --> 00:27:09.460 keyhole and 00:27:09.460 --> 00:27:09.839 they see a 00:27:09.839 --> 00:27:10.240 little tiny 00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:10.699 bit of a 00:27:10.699 --> 00:27:11.199 glimpse of 00:27:11.199 --> 00:27:11.519 Jesus. 00:27:11.679 --> 00:27:11.960 But the 00:27:11.960 --> 00:27:12.579 Christian life 00:27:12.579 --> 00:27:13.220 begins when 00:27:13.220 --> 00:27:13.599 Jesus, 00:27:13.799 --> 00:27:13.980 who is 00:27:13.980 --> 00:27:14.699 knocking and 00:27:14.699 --> 00:27:15.299 knocking and 00:27:15.299 --> 00:27:15.659 knocking, 00:27:16.059 --> 00:27:16.599 not just 00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:17.220 content to 00:27:17.220 --> 00:27:17.740 talk to you 00:27:17.740 --> 00:27:18.099 through the 00:27:18.099 --> 00:27:18.379 door, 00:27:18.679 --> 00:27:19.000 and you 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:19.759 finally open 00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.399 the door up 00:27:20.399 --> 00:27:20.579 and you 00:27:20.579 --> 00:27:20.740 say, 00:27:20.819 --> 00:27:21.039 Jesus, 00:27:21.220 --> 00:27:21.559 come on 00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:21.740 in. 00:27:22.819 --> 00:27:23.199 Be in, 00:27:23.659 --> 00:27:24.220 come in, 00:27:24.879 --> 00:27:25.359 as my 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:25.879 Savior and 00:27:25.879 --> 00:27:26.220 as my 00:27:26.220 --> 00:27:26.539 Lord, 00:27:27.399 --> 00:27:27.879 and dwell 00:27:27.879 --> 00:27:28.240 within. 00:27:29.079 --> 00:27:29.299 See, 00:27:29.379 --> 00:27:29.759 the Christian 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:30.319 faith isn't 00:27:30.319 --> 00:27:31.039 just proposing 00:27:31.039 --> 00:27:31.759 an hypothesis. 00:27:32.259 --> 00:27:32.720 Here's another 00:27:32.720 --> 00:27:33.299 proposal. 00:27:33.299 --> 00:27:34.500 Jesus says 00:27:34.500 --> 00:27:34.980 to you, 00:27:35.460 --> 00:27:35.799 will you 00:27:35.799 --> 00:27:36.299 let me 00:27:36.299 --> 00:27:36.759 in to 00:27:36.759 --> 00:27:38.059 dwell in 00:27:38.059 --> 00:27:39.440 you as 00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:39.940 Savior and 00:27:39.940 --> 00:27:40.159 Lord? 00:27:41.539 --> 00:27:41.799 It's a 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:42.159 proposal. 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:42.659 Will you 00:27:42.659 --> 00:27:43.119 let me 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:43.779 enter in 00:27:43.779 --> 00:27:44.379 as your 00:27:44.379 --> 00:27:44.839 Savior and 00:27:44.839 --> 00:27:45.039 Lord? 00:27:45.700 --> 00:27:46.019 And he 00:27:46.019 --> 00:27:46.659 dwells. 00:27:47.539 --> 00:27:48.339 He dwells. 00:27:49.279 --> 00:27:49.759 Very 00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:50.339 personally 00:27:50.339 --> 00:27:50.740 unique. 00:27:50.839 --> 00:27:51.039 But you 00:27:51.039 --> 00:27:51.279 know what? 00:27:51.299 --> 00:27:51.619 If you go 00:27:51.619 --> 00:27:52.019 back and 00:27:52.019 --> 00:27:52.460 look at the 00:27:52.460 --> 00:27:53.159 earlier episodes, 00:27:53.159 --> 00:27:53.759 at the same 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:54.680 time, it's 00:27:54.680 --> 00:27:55.259 not just that 00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:55.819 he dwells 00:27:55.819 --> 00:27:56.700 within me, 00:27:57.240 --> 00:27:58.159 individualism, 00:27:58.720 --> 00:27:59.099 but the 00:27:59.099 --> 00:27:59.980 image is 00:27:59.980 --> 00:28:00.799 that out of 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:01.519 saints who 00:28:01.519 --> 00:28:02.440 became Christians 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:03.480 in Ireland 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:04.160 in the 00:28:04.160 --> 00:28:05.059 fourth century 00:28:05.059 --> 00:28:06.080 and in 00:28:06.080 --> 00:28:07.220 France in 00:28:07.220 --> 00:28:07.580 the year 00:28:07.580 --> 00:28:09.240 1000 and 00:28:09.240 --> 00:28:09.880 in China 00:28:09.880 --> 00:28:11.039 today and 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:11.660 in Alabama 00:28:11.660 --> 00:28:12.360 and in 00:28:12.360 --> 00:28:13.080 Africa and 00:28:13.080 --> 00:28:13.700 in Canada, 00:28:13.700 --> 00:28:14.559 that each 00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:15.100 one who 00:28:15.100 --> 00:28:15.980 allows Jesus 00:28:15.980 --> 00:28:16.620 to come in 00:28:16.620 --> 00:28:17.519 and dwell is 00:28:17.519 --> 00:28:18.600 also becoming 00:28:18.600 --> 00:28:19.080 a living 00:28:19.080 --> 00:28:20.220 stone and 00:28:20.220 --> 00:28:20.759 God is 00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:21.360 making this 00:28:21.360 --> 00:28:22.039 temple out 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:22.500 of human 00:28:22.500 --> 00:28:23.240 beings that 00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:24.400 crosses the 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:25.400 cultures and 00:28:25.400 --> 00:28:26.480 the races and 00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:27.240 the languages 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:28.640 and the ages 00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:29.360 and he 00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:30.500 dwells there 00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:32.300 at the 00:28:32.300 --> 00:28:32.920 same time. 00:28:34.040 --> 00:28:35.080 One final 00:28:35.080 --> 00:28:35.700 image from 00:28:35.700 --> 00:28:36.400 that text. 00:28:37.840 --> 00:28:38.480 The finite 00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:39.000 can be 00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:39.500 filled, 00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:41.780 the finite 00:28:41.780 --> 00:28:42.420 can be 00:28:42.420 --> 00:28:43.440 freshly filled 00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:43.960 with the 00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:44.400 infinite 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.300 forever. 00:28:46.100 --> 00:28:46.980 The finite 00:28:46.980 --> 00:28:47.960 can be 00:28:47.960 --> 00:28:48.520 filled, 00:28:49.040 --> 00:28:49.940 freshly filled 00:28:49.940 --> 00:28:50.360 with the 00:28:50.360 --> 00:28:50.680 infinite 00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:51.140 forever. 00:28:52.080 --> 00:28:52.380 You see, 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:52.880 that's what it 00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:53.420 says at the 00:28:53.420 --> 00:28:53.740 end, you 00:28:53.740 --> 00:28:54.160 know, that 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:55.040 you will be 00:28:55.040 --> 00:28:55.560 filled with 00:28:55.560 --> 00:28:56.060 the fullness 00:28:56.059 --> 00:28:56.799 of God 00:28:56.799 --> 00:28:57.200 and the 00:28:57.200 --> 00:28:57.899 image there, 00:28:58.079 --> 00:28:58.659 it's as if 00:28:58.659 --> 00:29:00.720 you are a 00:29:00.720 --> 00:29:01.679 big basin 00:29:01.679 --> 00:29:03.019 and a basin 00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:03.399 is just 00:29:03.399 --> 00:29:04.119 finite, but 00:29:04.119 --> 00:29:04.679 it's as if 00:29:04.679 --> 00:29:06.299 God pours 00:29:06.299 --> 00:29:07.279 himself into 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:07.919 you as a 00:29:07.919 --> 00:29:08.940 basin with 00:29:08.940 --> 00:29:09.740 living water. 00:29:09.859 --> 00:29:10.519 He pours 00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:11.379 himself into 00:29:11.379 --> 00:29:12.139 you and 00:29:12.139 --> 00:29:12.659 he pours 00:29:12.659 --> 00:29:13.399 himself into 00:29:13.399 --> 00:29:14.179 you and 00:29:14.179 --> 00:29:14.659 it's not as 00:29:14.659 --> 00:29:14.940 if, oh, 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:15.460 he's got you 00:29:15.460 --> 00:29:15.879 up to the 00:29:15.879 --> 00:29:16.279 top and 00:29:16.279 --> 00:29:16.460 now he's 00:29:16.460 --> 00:29:16.720 just going 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:16.940 to leave 00:29:16.940 --> 00:29:17.059 you. 00:29:17.099 --> 00:29:17.519 No, it's 00:29:17.519 --> 00:29:17.960 as if from 00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:18.619 all eternity 00:29:18.619 --> 00:29:19.379 I who am 00:29:19.379 --> 00:29:20.039 finite, just 00:29:20.039 --> 00:29:20.899 a basin, just 00:29:20.899 --> 00:29:21.839 a bowl, but 00:29:21.839 --> 00:29:22.339 from all 00:29:22.339 --> 00:29:23.179 eternity God 00:29:23.179 --> 00:29:24.019 pours himself 00:29:24.019 --> 00:29:24.639 into me and 00:29:24.639 --> 00:29:25.419 pours himself 00:29:25.419 --> 00:29:26.000 into me and 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:26.619 pours himself 00:29:26.619 --> 00:29:27.420 into me and 00:29:27.420 --> 00:29:28.019 even though I 00:29:28.019 --> 00:29:30.400 am finite and 00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:31.119 I will always 00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:31.980 be finite, I 00:29:31.980 --> 00:29:32.599 will never be 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:33.579 a God, neither 00:29:33.579 --> 00:29:36.440 will you, but 00:29:36.440 --> 00:29:36.740 when the 00:29:36.740 --> 00:29:37.680 infinite desire 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:38.460 is to freshly 00:29:38.460 --> 00:29:39.279 fill you, he 00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:39.880 will do that 00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:40.359 for all 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:41.259 eternity and 00:29:41.259 --> 00:29:41.920 it will always 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:42.940 be fresh and 00:29:42.940 --> 00:29:43.880 always be new 00:29:43.880 --> 00:29:44.599 and there 00:29:44.599 --> 00:29:45.160 will be no 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:47.640 end to the 00:29:47.640 --> 00:29:48.960 glory in 00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:49.160 you. 00:29:49.160 --> 00:29:49.220 Amen. 00:29:49.220 --> 00:29:49.279 Amen. 00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:49.339 Amen. 00:29:49.339 --> 00:29:49.359 Amen. 00:29:49.359 --> 00:29:49.400 Amen. 00:29:49.400 --> 00:29:49.460 Amen. 00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:49.480 Amen. 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:58.680 You see, why 00:29:58.680 --> 00:29:59.099 does this 00:29:59.099 --> 00:29:59.940 connect to the 00:29:59.940 --> 00:30:00.480 text that I 00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:01.039 began with, 00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:01.619 worry is a 00:30:01.619 --> 00:30:02.079 waste of the 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:02.519 imagination? 00:30:03.660 --> 00:30:04.420 You see, Paul 00:30:04.420 --> 00:30:05.519 wants to remind 00:30:05.519 --> 00:30:06.000 us in the 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:06.839 context of a 00:30:06.839 --> 00:30:10.019 prayer that so 00:30:10.019 --> 00:30:10.759 many of us, 00:30:10.900 --> 00:30:11.859 me especially, 00:30:12.579 --> 00:30:13.220 we use our 00:30:13.220 --> 00:30:14.380 imagination for 00:30:14.380 --> 00:30:14.880 worry. 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:18.079 We use our 00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:19.299 imagination for 00:30:19.299 --> 00:30:20.259 our own glory. 00:30:20.259 --> 00:30:21.960 we use our 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:22.680 imagination, 00:30:22.879 --> 00:30:24.119 imagining triumph 00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:25.400 or fearing 00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:26.700 complete and 00:30:26.700 --> 00:30:27.500 utter ruin, 00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:30.480 success or 00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:30.980 failure. 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:33.319 But that as 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:34.180 these truths 00:30:34.180 --> 00:30:37.259 grip us to 00:30:37.259 --> 00:30:37.799 give us a 00:30:37.799 --> 00:30:39.000 security about 00:30:39.000 --> 00:30:39.740 what is going 00:30:39.740 --> 00:30:40.680 on within us 00:30:40.680 --> 00:30:41.220 at the deepest 00:30:41.220 --> 00:30:42.039 level of who 00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:42.799 we are and 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:43.799 what our final 00:30:43.799 --> 00:30:44.759 end will be 00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:45.379 and the final 00:30:45.379 --> 00:30:46.180 word about 00:30:46.180 --> 00:30:47.460 us, it can 00:30:47.460 --> 00:30:48.599 start to create 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:50.200 a security to 00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:51.279 face the 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:52.500 hard times 00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:56.039 and security 00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:57.220 to take the 00:30:57.220 --> 00:30:58.580 risks to 00:30:58.580 --> 00:30:59.759 plan for 00:30:59.759 --> 00:31:00.580 growth, to 00:31:00.580 --> 00:31:01.620 take the 00:31:01.620 --> 00:31:02.740 risk of 00:31:02.740 --> 00:31:03.500 creating a 00:31:03.500 --> 00:31:05.160 business or 00:31:05.160 --> 00:31:06.519 creating a 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:08.519 beautiful cottage 00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:09.340 or house, 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:09.880 like it 00:31:09.880 --> 00:31:10.680 creates, this 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:11.480 begins to 00:31:11.480 --> 00:31:12.160 create and 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:12.759 root your 00:31:12.759 --> 00:31:13.720 creativity and 00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:14.620 your imagination 00:31:14.620 --> 00:31:16.680 in a way that 00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:17.400 you can over 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:18.799 deal with 00:31:18.799 --> 00:31:19.620 setbacks, 00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:21.819 hope for 00:31:21.819 --> 00:31:22.340 the future. 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:24.039 The Bible 00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:24.500 does not 00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:25.059 want you to 00:31:25.059 --> 00:31:25.420 live in 00:31:25.420 --> 00:31:25.920 fear, 00:31:26.860 --> 00:31:27.680 squashed. 00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:30.519 The Bible, 00:31:30.940 --> 00:31:31.700 God desires 00:31:31.700 --> 00:31:32.140 you to be 00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:32.640 healed and 00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:32.900 grow. 00:31:33.539 --> 00:31:33.980 Let's look 00:31:33.980 --> 00:31:34.200 at the 00:31:34.200 --> 00:31:35.000 final text. 00:31:36.420 --> 00:31:36.819 Now to 00:31:36.819 --> 00:31:38.100 him who 00:31:38.100 --> 00:31:38.860 is able to 00:31:38.860 --> 00:31:39.840 accomplish far 00:31:39.840 --> 00:31:40.819 more abundantly 00:31:40.819 --> 00:31:41.660 than all that 00:31:41.660 --> 00:31:42.500 we ask or 00:31:42.500 --> 00:31:43.059 imagine. 00:31:43.580 --> 00:31:43.980 There's the 00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:44.640 word imagine. 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:45.660 Say it 00:31:45.660 --> 00:31:45.860 again. 00:31:45.859 --> 00:31:46.299 Now to 00:31:46.299 --> 00:31:47.179 him who 00:31:47.179 --> 00:31:48.039 is able to 00:31:48.039 --> 00:31:49.019 accomplish far 00:31:49.019 --> 00:31:49.819 more abundantly 00:31:49.819 --> 00:31:50.579 than all that 00:31:50.579 --> 00:31:51.199 we ask or 00:31:51.199 --> 00:31:51.679 imagine, 00:31:52.059 --> 00:31:52.719 according to 00:31:52.719 --> 00:31:53.399 the power 00:31:53.399 --> 00:31:53.939 that is at 00:31:53.939 --> 00:31:54.539 work within 00:31:54.539 --> 00:31:55.299 us, to 00:31:55.299 --> 00:31:56.259 him be the 00:31:56.259 --> 00:31:57.179 glory in 00:31:57.179 --> 00:31:57.759 the church 00:31:57.759 --> 00:31:58.339 and in 00:31:58.339 --> 00:31:59.079 Christ Jesus 00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:00.019 throughout all 00:32:00.019 --> 00:32:00.699 generations, 00:32:01.019 --> 00:32:01.500 forever and 00:32:01.500 --> 00:32:01.759 ever. 00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:02.379 Amen. 00:32:03.079 --> 00:32:03.359 I'm going to 00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:03.819 say it again. 00:32:04.019 --> 00:32:04.359 Now to 00:32:04.359 --> 00:32:05.199 him who 00:32:05.199 --> 00:32:05.839 is able to 00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:06.779 accomplish far 00:32:06.779 --> 00:32:07.759 more abundantly 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:08.559 than all that 00:32:08.559 --> 00:32:09.439 we can ask or 00:32:09.439 --> 00:32:09.919 imagine, 00:32:10.259 --> 00:32:10.859 according to 00:32:10.859 --> 00:32:11.759 the power that 00:32:11.759 --> 00:32:12.359 is at work 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:12.959 within us, 00:32:13.219 --> 00:32:14.399 to him be the 00:32:14.400 --> 00:32:15.259 glory in 00:32:15.259 --> 00:32:15.820 the church 00:32:15.820 --> 00:32:16.380 and in 00:32:16.380 --> 00:32:17.040 Christ Jesus 00:32:17.040 --> 00:32:18.120 throughout all 00:32:18.120 --> 00:32:18.780 generations, 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:19.860 every generation 00:32:19.860 --> 00:32:20.860 forever and 00:32:20.860 --> 00:32:21.259 ever. 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:22.360 Amen. 00:32:23.380 --> 00:32:23.960 See, the fact 00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:24.259 of the matter 00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:24.900 is that the 00:32:24.900 --> 00:32:25.820 human problem 00:32:25.820 --> 00:32:27.600 is that our 00:32:27.600 --> 00:32:28.440 imagination is 00:32:28.440 --> 00:32:29.120 too weak. 00:32:32.259 --> 00:32:33.100 Every single 00:32:33.100 --> 00:32:33.640 one of you, 00:32:33.780 --> 00:32:34.420 your imagination 00:32:34.420 --> 00:32:35.500 is too weak. 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:39.860 Sometimes we 00:32:39.860 --> 00:32:41.100 fear success. 00:32:41.900 --> 00:32:43.220 We fear our 00:32:43.220 --> 00:32:43.920 imagination. 00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:44.660 If it starts 00:32:44.660 --> 00:32:45.039 to even get 00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:45.519 too strong, 00:32:45.600 --> 00:32:46.320 we fear it. 00:32:47.560 --> 00:32:48.400 Just like in 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:49.080 life, in so 00:32:49.080 --> 00:32:49.720 many businesses, 00:32:49.940 --> 00:32:50.840 a very common 00:32:50.840 --> 00:32:51.600 problem can be 00:32:51.600 --> 00:32:52.160 a fear of 00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:52.800 success. 00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:54.000 What if I 00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:54.900 actually get 00:32:54.900 --> 00:32:55.700 that promotion 00:32:55.700 --> 00:32:56.660 and then they'll 00:32:56.660 --> 00:32:57.980 realize I am 00:32:57.980 --> 00:32:58.539 a hopeless 00:32:58.539 --> 00:32:59.120 loser? 00:33:03.620 --> 00:33:04.380 I am a 00:33:04.380 --> 00:33:05.340 12-year-old 00:33:05.340 --> 00:33:05.840 who looks 00:33:05.840 --> 00:33:06.560 old. 00:33:06.820 --> 00:33:07.460 Why are they 00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:08.160 giving me this 00:33:08.160 --> 00:33:08.600 power? 00:33:10.180 --> 00:33:11.060 And so we 00:33:11.060 --> 00:33:11.600 can fear 00:33:11.600 --> 00:33:12.060 success. 00:33:12.300 --> 00:33:12.920 We can fear 00:33:12.920 --> 00:33:13.519 the promotion. 00:33:13.660 --> 00:33:14.340 We can fear 00:33:14.340 --> 00:33:15.500 that the 00:33:15.500 --> 00:33:17.519 dance or 00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:18.120 the music 00:33:18.120 --> 00:33:19.080 or the art 00:33:19.080 --> 00:33:19.480 or the 00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:20.180 business or 00:33:20.180 --> 00:33:20.940 the property 00:33:20.940 --> 00:33:21.620 or whatever 00:33:21.620 --> 00:33:22.460 it is that we 00:33:22.460 --> 00:33:23.180 desire, we 00:33:23.180 --> 00:33:25.320 can be destroyed 00:33:25.320 --> 00:33:26.500 by a fear of 00:33:26.500 --> 00:33:26.880 success. 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:27.779 It can be too 00:33:27.779 --> 00:33:28.960 much and we 00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:30.880 can quench it. 00:33:30.940 --> 00:33:31.500 You see, the fact 00:33:31.500 --> 00:33:32.380 of the matter is 00:33:32.380 --> 00:33:33.740 that stifling the 00:33:33.740 --> 00:33:34.880 imagination is a 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:35.800 human problem. 00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:38.259 It is a human 00:33:38.259 --> 00:33:38.839 problem. 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:41.960 And the 00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:42.899 gospel is this 00:33:42.899 --> 00:33:44.480 perennial quiet 00:33:44.480 --> 00:33:45.619 witness to 00:33:45.619 --> 00:33:46.559 those of us 00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:47.460 who want to 00:33:47.460 --> 00:33:48.099 live in 00:33:48.099 --> 00:33:49.159 ghettos and 00:33:49.159 --> 00:33:50.279 want to live 00:33:50.279 --> 00:33:51.119 in fear 00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.019 to not be 00:33:53.019 --> 00:33:53.539 afraid. 00:33:55.299 --> 00:33:55.980 What's one of 00:33:55.980 --> 00:33:56.500 the very, very 00:33:56.500 --> 00:33:57.099 first things? 00:33:57.139 --> 00:33:57.559 I think it's the 00:33:57.559 --> 00:33:58.339 very, very first 00:33:58.339 --> 00:33:59.200 thing Jesus says 00:33:59.200 --> 00:33:59.980 to the disciples 00:33:59.980 --> 00:34:01.159 after his 00:34:01.159 --> 00:34:01.700 resurrection. 00:34:01.700 --> 00:34:03.500 do not be 00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:03.920 afraid. 00:34:06.500 --> 00:34:07.519 Our imagination 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:08.619 is too weak. 00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:11.320 When we're 00:34:11.320 --> 00:34:11.780 gripped by the 00:34:11.780 --> 00:34:13.000 gospel, it 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:13.440 will grow. 00:34:15.179 --> 00:34:15.920 And our 00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:16.940 imagination is 00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:18.260 too easily 00:34:18.260 --> 00:34:19.220 turned to our 00:34:19.220 --> 00:34:20.059 own glory. 00:34:20.639 --> 00:34:21.860 And from our 00:34:21.860 --> 00:34:23.139 own glory, we 00:34:23.139 --> 00:34:23.860 have these 00:34:23.860 --> 00:34:25.139 artificial highs 00:34:25.139 --> 00:34:26.159 and lows of 00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:27.099 triumph or 00:34:27.099 --> 00:34:27.519 ruin. 00:34:28.119 --> 00:34:29.119 We have no 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:30.619 firm basis of 00:34:30.619 --> 00:34:31.280 security. 00:34:31.699 --> 00:34:32.399 that can go 00:34:32.399 --> 00:34:33.219 into all of 00:34:33.219 --> 00:34:33.799 eternity and 00:34:33.799 --> 00:34:34.379 the gospel 00:34:34.379 --> 00:34:35.460 desires to 00:34:35.460 --> 00:34:36.579 give you in 00:34:36.579 --> 00:34:37.839 Christ that 00:34:37.839 --> 00:34:39.019 security and 00:34:39.019 --> 00:34:39.859 knowing that 00:34:39.859 --> 00:34:41.759 Jesus knew and 00:34:41.759 --> 00:34:42.819 knows every 00:34:42.819 --> 00:34:43.960 single thing 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:44.799 about you from 00:34:44.799 --> 00:34:45.500 the moment of 00:34:45.500 --> 00:34:46.519 your birth to 00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:47.139 the moment of 00:34:47.139 --> 00:34:47.599 your death. 00:34:47.919 --> 00:34:48.799 He knows the 00:34:48.799 --> 00:34:49.799 dreams you don't 00:34:49.799 --> 00:34:50.759 remember when you 00:34:50.759 --> 00:34:51.219 wake up. 00:34:51.500 --> 00:34:52.259 He knows your 00:34:52.259 --> 00:34:53.159 secret shames. 00:34:53.299 --> 00:34:54.119 He even knows 00:34:54.119 --> 00:34:54.899 the shames that 00:34:54.899 --> 00:34:55.659 happened when you 00:34:55.659 --> 00:34:56.779 were young that 00:34:56.779 --> 00:34:57.779 you have repressed 00:34:57.779 --> 00:34:59.159 and blocked and 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:00.539 someday it comes 00:35:00.539 --> 00:35:01.000 to light. 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:01.619 God, but he 00:35:01.619 --> 00:35:02.619 knew and 00:35:02.619 --> 00:35:04.119 still knowing he 00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:05.320 died out of 00:35:05.320 --> 00:35:06.579 love for you and 00:35:06.579 --> 00:35:07.440 on the cross, 00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:08.739 every single thing 00:35:08.739 --> 00:35:09.579 that could possibly 00:35:09.579 --> 00:35:10.239 keep you from 00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:11.579 God, any possible 00:35:11.579 --> 00:35:12.719 accusation against 00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:13.679 yourself or another 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:15.039 against you, he 00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:15.860 paid for that 00:35:15.860 --> 00:35:16.280 price. 00:35:16.679 --> 00:35:17.139 And when you 00:35:17.139 --> 00:35:18.400 stand before God 00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:19.920 face to face, you 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:21.119 are not clothed with 00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:22.219 your perfect 00:35:22.219 --> 00:35:23.039 accomplishments. 00:35:23.320 --> 00:35:23.960 No, you are 00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:25.360 clothed with Christ's 00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:25.980 accomplishment. 00:35:25.980 --> 00:35:26.079 commitment. 00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:29.380 And this is to 00:35:29.380 --> 00:35:30.820 give us when we 00:35:30.820 --> 00:35:31.880 receive it, when we 00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:33.039 say, yes, I will 00:35:33.039 --> 00:35:34.039 accept your offer 00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:34.840 to adopt me. 00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:35.659 Yes, I will 00:35:35.659 --> 00:35:37.039 accept your offer. 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:38.380 Jesus, come in and 00:35:38.380 --> 00:35:39.480 dwell within me and 00:35:39.480 --> 00:35:40.460 make your home within 00:35:40.460 --> 00:35:41.719 me and remodel it 00:35:41.719 --> 00:35:43.639 and do whatever has 00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:44.300 to be done. 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:45.780 Come and live within 00:35:45.780 --> 00:35:46.000 me. 00:35:46.099 --> 00:35:47.260 He really comes. 00:35:47.260 --> 00:35:53.800 in him, through the 00:35:53.800 --> 00:35:55.040 gospel, your 00:35:55.040 --> 00:35:56.160 imagination will be 00:35:56.160 --> 00:35:58.660 healed and grow and 00:35:58.660 --> 00:36:00.260 in the light of his 00:36:00.260 --> 00:36:01.520 many-splendored, 00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:02.640 multicultural, 00:36:03.060 --> 00:36:04.000 multiracial, 00:36:04.320 --> 00:36:05.640 multigenerational, 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.360 eternal glory, it 00:36:08.360 --> 00:36:09.160 will be healed and 00:36:09.160 --> 00:36:09.380 grow. 00:36:12.700 --> 00:36:14.140 It will be healed and 00:36:14.140 --> 00:36:14.340 grow. 00:36:15.940 --> 00:36:16.860 I invite you to 00:36:16.860 --> 00:36:17.500 stand, please. 00:36:29.980 --> 00:36:31.480 Let's just, just 00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:32.240 before we go into 00:36:32.240 --> 00:36:35.900 prayer, if you have 00:36:35.900 --> 00:36:36.599 never even thought 00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:37.380 about the fact that 00:36:37.380 --> 00:36:38.099 it's not just a 00:36:38.099 --> 00:36:40.280 matter of ideas, but 00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:40.900 I mean, there is, 00:36:40.980 --> 00:36:41.880 there are these very 00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:43.180 powerful ideas of 00:36:43.180 --> 00:36:45.579 creation and how the 00:36:45.579 --> 00:36:47.519 world works and very 00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:48.679 powerful ideas, but 00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:49.579 it's not just that the 00:36:49.579 --> 00:36:51.000 Bible is giving us a 00:36:51.000 --> 00:36:53.259 seminar in ideas, 00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:55.000 although there are 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:57.420 ideas to learn, but 00:36:57.420 --> 00:36:58.279 that at the heart of 00:36:58.279 --> 00:37:00.159 the Christian faith is 00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:01.039 Jesus saying, 00:37:02.279 --> 00:37:03.059 George, I'm knocking 00:37:03.059 --> 00:37:03.759 at the door of your 00:37:03.759 --> 00:37:07.259 life, and I know 00:37:07.259 --> 00:37:08.599 what's inside there way 00:37:08.599 --> 00:37:09.500 better than you know 00:37:09.500 --> 00:37:10.799 what's inside yourself, 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:13.180 and I know the 00:37:13.180 --> 00:37:14.260 failures you're afraid 00:37:14.260 --> 00:37:14.900 of, I know the 00:37:14.900 --> 00:37:16.160 successes you're afraid 00:37:16.160 --> 00:37:17.320 of, I know the way you 00:37:17.320 --> 00:37:18.320 quench your imagination, 00:37:18.620 --> 00:37:19.240 I know how your 00:37:19.240 --> 00:37:20.539 imagination is bent, I 00:37:20.539 --> 00:37:22.780 know all that stuff, but 00:37:22.780 --> 00:37:23.760 I died for you. 00:37:24.539 --> 00:37:25.560 I want to enter in, just 00:37:25.560 --> 00:37:26.560 please, George, open the 00:37:26.560 --> 00:37:27.760 door, open the door, 00:37:28.920 --> 00:37:30.780 open the door, and 00:37:30.780 --> 00:37:31.560 don't just open the 00:37:31.560 --> 00:37:32.580 door, but say to me, 00:37:33.019 --> 00:37:34.240 Jesus, come on in, 00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:37.780 please come in, come in 00:37:37.780 --> 00:37:38.780 as Savior, come in as 00:37:38.780 --> 00:37:39.740 Lord, never let me go. 00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:40.480 If that's never 00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:42.019 happened for you, or 00:37:42.019 --> 00:37:44.460 you've never, a change 00:37:44.460 --> 00:37:45.140 has happened in your 00:37:45.140 --> 00:37:46.200 life where Jesus is 00:37:46.200 --> 00:37:46.980 your Savior and your 00:37:46.980 --> 00:37:47.620 Lord, but you've never 00:37:47.620 --> 00:37:48.460 said anything, you've 00:37:48.460 --> 00:37:49.040 never been able to put 00:37:49.040 --> 00:37:49.680 it into words, there's 00:37:49.680 --> 00:37:50.580 no better time, forget 00:37:50.580 --> 00:37:51.500 the rest of my prayer, 00:37:51.580 --> 00:37:52.660 just do some work with 00:37:52.660 --> 00:37:53.840 him right now, and say, 00:37:54.400 --> 00:37:55.420 and if some of you have 00:37:55.420 --> 00:37:56.200 very good visual 00:37:56.200 --> 00:37:57.160 imaginations, just 00:37:57.160 --> 00:37:58.519 imagine him coming in 00:37:58.519 --> 00:37:59.860 and dwelling within, and 00:37:59.860 --> 00:38:01.740 he will do it. 00:38:04.200 --> 00:38:06.580 And for all of us, let 00:38:06.580 --> 00:38:07.500 me pray for us. 00:38:08.780 --> 00:38:12.980 Father, we thank you 00:38:12.980 --> 00:38:13.720 that you do not want 00:38:13.720 --> 00:38:14.840 to squash our 00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:16.120 imagination, you don't 00:38:16.120 --> 00:38:17.460 want to squash our 00:38:17.460 --> 00:38:18.720 creativity, you do not 00:38:18.720 --> 00:38:20.780 want to squash us, that 00:38:20.780 --> 00:38:22.240 you died to save us. 00:38:22.980 --> 00:38:24.640 You died, Father, so 00:38:24.640 --> 00:38:26.940 that we might know the 00:38:26.940 --> 00:38:29.420 unsurpassable love of 00:38:29.420 --> 00:38:29.960 Christ. 00:38:31.620 --> 00:38:33.620 To begin to taste and 00:38:33.620 --> 00:38:35.100 know that now in 00:38:35.100 --> 00:38:36.600 ourselves and in the 00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:38.880 company of others, and 00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:40.279 that there is a sure and 00:38:40.279 --> 00:38:41.500 certain promise and 00:38:41.500 --> 00:38:44.619 hope that in Christ, our 00:38:44.619 --> 00:38:46.299 destiny, that even 00:38:46.299 --> 00:38:48.739 though we are finite, that 00:38:48.739 --> 00:38:50.980 for all eternity, you will 00:38:50.980 --> 00:38:53.360 freshly fill us with 00:38:53.360 --> 00:38:53.819 yourself. 00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:56.839 And that that is 00:38:56.839 --> 00:38:57.799 something, Father, we 00:38:57.799 --> 00:38:59.500 will delight in personally, 00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:01.860 and our delight will be 00:39:01.860 --> 00:39:03.320 multiplied many, many 00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:06.960 times as we share that 00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:07.860 delight with others. 00:39:09.179 --> 00:39:10.619 We thank you, Father, you 00:39:10.619 --> 00:39:11.639 do not want to leave us 00:39:11.639 --> 00:39:13.460 alone, that you have died 00:39:13.460 --> 00:39:15.800 to save us in the person 00:39:15.800 --> 00:39:16.420 of your Son. 00:39:17.699 --> 00:39:18.960 And we ask that you would 00:39:18.960 --> 00:39:20.320 grip us with these truths, 00:39:20.940 --> 00:39:22.059 grip us with the gospel, 00:39:22.599 --> 00:39:23.780 that we might live for your 00:39:23.780 --> 00:39:24.119 glory. 00:39:24.940 --> 00:39:26.380 And all God's people said, 00:39:26.380 --> 00:39:27.519 Amen.