WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.980 We are in Luke 4 tonight. Paul read for us from verses 1 all the way down to verse 13 of the temptation of Jesus Christ. 00:00:09.800 --> 00:00:21.080 ! I'm probably going to pull off a nifty trick because I'll eventually preach on the whole Luke 4 just now, but I had Paul think that I'm only going to preach in the first 12 verses. 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:28.960 And you've got to be warned, I've had a nap this afternoon, and so it means it's going to be a long sermon. I hope you're strapped in quite comfortably. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.640 And so, yeah, that's all good. 00:00:33.899 --> 00:00:40.280 Luke 4, it follows, of course, what's happened at the beginning of the Gospel. 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:47.200 And we've all enjoyed Christmas, I hope, and we have reminded ourselves of the birth of Jesus Christ. 00:00:47.200 --> 00:00:53.740 And we've most likely looked at various texts in the Gospels describing the birth of Jesus Christ. 00:00:53.740 --> 00:01:00.960 And so we're at the beginning of the Gospel, and you can trace the story of God's Son, Jesus Christ, who is born. 00:01:01.460 --> 00:01:10.640 And then as he is born, he is also eventually baptized, circumcised first, and then baptized later as an adult. 00:01:10.780 --> 00:01:14.579 And he is then tempted in the desert. 00:01:15.060 --> 00:01:17.859 That's what we've just read of. 00:01:17.859 --> 00:01:23.640 Now, I want to help you do a number of things. 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:30.859 The first thing is a little bit harder to do, and that is to take your Christian faith out of the Victorian myth category. 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:41.159 And hopefully we are not there, but where you somehow treat your Christian faith as a great heartwarming story 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:46.599 that you pay attention to on a Sunday morning, a Sunday evening, and perhaps when you read the Bible at various stages. 00:01:46.739 --> 00:01:53.620 But where you carry on with your visceral, physical, flesh-and-blood life, well, there it's doggy-dog. 00:01:53.719 --> 00:01:55.899 There it is, a different set of rules that apply. 00:01:55.899 --> 00:02:01.239 And it's there that, well, decisions that I make there, well, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:04.519 But in church, well, that world is apart. 00:02:04.619 --> 00:02:14.740 So I live with a sort of dualism between the heavenly spiritual things and the earthly fleshy things. 00:02:14.900 --> 00:02:16.099 There's a dichotomy there. 00:02:16.139 --> 00:02:17.259 There's a separation there. 00:02:17.259 --> 00:02:28.139 And I want to show you that the way to straddle this gap, to not live in this dualism, is the Word of God. 00:02:28.139 --> 00:02:38.119 It is God's Word that straddles this gap between the reality of heaven and God and angels and Satan and demons 00:02:38.119 --> 00:02:44.299 and the reality of this world and work and play and school and everything else. 00:02:44.619 --> 00:02:48.839 What straddles the gap is the Word of God. 00:02:49.579 --> 00:02:54.539 In other words, if you want to live a really rich life, 00:02:54.539 --> 00:03:02.620 where you're not just moving superficially through this created world, through the city, on the train, on your bicycle, at home, 00:03:02.939 --> 00:03:07.239 just dealing with immediate emotions, a desire for food, you're tired, you want to sleep, 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:09.939 just dealing with physical, fleshy things, 00:03:10.079 --> 00:03:16.539 if you want to pursue, if you're not a Christian, you want to pursue a much richer, deeper experience of reality, 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.599 the way to do that is to pay attention to the Word. 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:28.799 It is the Word that can open up a world of richness to you with depth and with texture and with imagination 00:03:28.799 --> 00:03:37.919 and with exhilarating truths and fantastic stories and just opens up a much richer reality to you. 00:03:38.939 --> 00:03:42.359 If you want to straddle that gap, it's the Word of God that does it. 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:48.560 And this shouldn't be unfamiliar to you, that you can live in two realities. 00:03:48.820 --> 00:03:52.800 Just yesterday, I was driving to the co-op down the road, and I was going to buy some milk, 00:03:52.880 --> 00:03:55.440 and I could see a couple just standing. 00:03:55.540 --> 00:03:56.000 It's raining. 00:03:56.200 --> 00:03:57.040 I don't want to be outside. 00:03:57.140 --> 00:03:58.480 That's why I'm driving to the store. 00:03:59.040 --> 00:03:59.680 It's raining. 00:03:59.860 --> 00:04:03.000 And there they stand with their raincoats on, just looking at their phones. 00:04:03.500 --> 00:04:04.940 I had to think as I'm driving. 00:04:06.040 --> 00:04:08.820 They are living in two worlds at that very moment. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:10.300 I want to get out of the rain. 00:04:10.380 --> 00:04:11.120 I want to move. 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:14.719 I want to get some, but they're completely sucked into whatever is on their phone. 00:04:14.819 --> 00:04:21.939 So it's possible for you to be physically present in a certain circumstance whilst mentally in another place. 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:27.340 And I'm not talking about Facebook's metaverse just yet, but that's what they're selling. 00:04:28.019 --> 00:04:33.840 It's sort of grabbing us and our attention out of this world, out of the physical realm, 00:04:33.959 --> 00:04:37.480 and pushing it into another realm, one that they've made and created. 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:43.900 How do I straddle the gap between heaven and earth? 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:45.960 The Word of God. 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:47.160 The Word of God. 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:49.480 Where do I get it in this passage? 00:04:49.620 --> 00:04:52.040 Well, that is for me also the million-dollar question. 00:04:52.220 --> 00:04:56.920 Let's look at the passage, and I hope I can show you how it fits together. 00:04:56.920 --> 00:04:59.439 Now, it is the temptation of Jesus Christ. 00:04:59.540 --> 00:05:10.960 And right from the off, we learn that Jesus had just finished his time in the wilderness that lasted for 40 days. 00:05:11.740 --> 00:05:12.600 40 days. 00:05:12.600 --> 00:05:19.040 And after this time in the desert of 40 days, something strange happens. 00:05:19.200 --> 00:05:25.420 Verse 3 tells us that the devil came and tempted him, asking, 00:05:25.800 --> 00:05:29.460 if you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread. 00:05:29.580 --> 00:05:31.439 Now, this is where it gets weird. 00:05:31.500 --> 00:05:33.720 And if you're not a Christian, you think, hang on, the devil? 00:05:34.420 --> 00:05:36.080 Are we, are you sure? 00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:40.899 I mean, it feels like I've slipped down a rabbit hole, and it's a fantasy novel. 00:05:41.019 --> 00:05:44.759 I'm expecting magicians on broomsticks to fly by any moment. 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:48.819 It feels like you've taken me from a very visceral story. 00:05:48.899 --> 00:05:51.419 This whole story is based in history. 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:57.360 We're getting mentions of Tiberius Caesar and Pontius Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch. 00:05:57.500 --> 00:05:59.120 You can date the things that's happened. 00:05:59.219 --> 00:06:01.299 It happened in real time, in real history. 00:06:01.759 --> 00:06:04.139 And whoa, all of a sudden, we're dealing with the devil. 00:06:04.139 --> 00:06:09.560 We're dealing with temptation and this strange business where Jesus goes from the wilderness 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.680 to a mountaintop and then to the pinnacle of the temple. 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:17.560 It feels like everything has just gone off track a little bit. 00:06:17.620 --> 00:06:22.860 And it's just suddenly spiritual, metaphysical, different reality all of a sudden. 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:25.659 Please don't shut off. 00:06:25.779 --> 00:06:32.120 Don't take this passage that doesn't fit your neat, perhaps conservative, evangelical, rational world 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.420 where you can look at historical facts and evidence for Jesus and fit it all together. 00:06:36.660 --> 00:06:42.879 It doesn't fit that neat world because it speaks of demons and devils and angels in a spiritual way 00:06:42.879 --> 00:06:44.980 that you find a little bit uncomfortable. 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:47.199 Don't shut it down. 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:53.660 No, do the hard work of bringing the spiritual and the physical together through the Word of God. 00:06:53.660 --> 00:06:56.260 It's Jesus that straddles this gap. 00:06:56.840 --> 00:07:00.540 And the clue is in the 40 days. 00:07:01.740 --> 00:07:09.620 You see, the 40 days mimics something or at least recapitulates something that happens in the Old Testament 00:07:09.620 --> 00:07:11.020 in a very real sense. 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:18.680 It's the 40 years that God's first son, Israel, was in the wilderness. 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:24.500 And you'll soon see that everything that happens with Jesus in this temptation 00:07:24.500 --> 00:07:30.560 is essentially a smaller, shorter, compacted version of everything that happened 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:34.579 in flesh and blood history to Israel in the whole Old Testament. 00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:36.780 Yes, Israel was in the wilderness 40 years. 00:07:37.460 --> 00:07:39.540 Yes, Jesus in the wilderness 40 days. 00:07:40.579 --> 00:07:47.819 And then Israel, well, God met Moses on Mount Zion and there he gave him his Word. 00:07:47.819 --> 00:07:53.079 And whilst God was meeting with his church, with his people, with his first son Israel 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:58.740 and making covenant with them from the mountaintop, well, the people were making a golden calf 00:07:58.740 --> 00:07:59.639 and worshiping it. 00:08:00.339 --> 00:08:04.360 But there's a mountaintop experience in Israel's history. 00:08:04.560 --> 00:08:08.339 They go from the wilderness to the mountain and from the mountain they eventually end up 00:08:08.339 --> 00:08:11.199 in the promised land and the temple. 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:18.180 And that's where Jesus' temptation takes him next, to the temple, to the pinnacle of the temple. 00:08:19.620 --> 00:08:28.719 And so this is a clue that helps you to see that far from being simply spiritual, metaphysical, 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.360 this whole thing that happened to Jesus when he's being tempted, 00:08:32.019 --> 00:08:35.879 it's actually something that's happened in flesh and blood real time 00:08:35.879 --> 00:08:40.539 to God's first son Israel in the whole Old Testament. 00:08:42.419 --> 00:08:47.639 And you've got to start seeing that there is a congruence between what happens in the physical realm 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:49.759 to that which happens in the spiritual realm. 00:08:50.139 --> 00:08:53.379 There is a connection between these two things. 00:08:53.840 --> 00:08:54.299 Strange. 00:08:57.620 --> 00:08:59.059 It shouldn't surprise us, should it? 00:08:59.139 --> 00:09:01.799 Ephesians 6 says, put on the full armor of God 00:09:01.799 --> 00:09:05.039 so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 00:09:05.139 --> 00:09:07.639 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, 00:09:07.779 --> 00:09:10.279 against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, 00:09:10.579 --> 00:09:14.419 and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:18.519 There is supposed to be a connection between the heavenly realms 00:09:18.519 --> 00:09:21.599 and this physical experience that we live in this world. 00:09:22.319 --> 00:09:25.759 And if you want to straddle the gap, you can finish that sentence by now. 00:09:26.479 --> 00:09:28.079 You need the word of God. 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:31.960 That's exactly what Jesus came to do. 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:34.180 He is the word in the flesh. 00:09:34.920 --> 00:09:37.040 And he's here to straddle that gap. 00:09:38.060 --> 00:09:40.240 To show us that he is the way, the truth, and the life. 00:09:40.300 --> 00:09:42.460 And if we want to have a fuller understanding of reality, 00:09:42.620 --> 00:09:45.100 we need him to lead us in this way. 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:48.639 So the devil tempts Jesus. 00:09:48.740 --> 00:09:50.940 And he tempts him on these three occasions. 00:09:51.620 --> 00:09:55.540 In the wilderness, on the mountaintop, and in the temple. 00:09:56.400 --> 00:09:57.120 He tempts Jesus. 00:09:57.120 --> 00:09:58.560 But why is he tempting Jesus? 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:02.820 It's Hermann Barfing that said, 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:05.500 The essence of the Christian religion consists in this, 00:10:05.620 --> 00:10:08.460 that the creation of the Father, ruined by sin, 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:12.639 is restored in the death of the Son of God, 00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:15.620 is restored in the death of the Son of God, 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:19.580 and recreated by the grace of the Holy Spirit 00:10:19.580 --> 00:10:21.360 into a kingdom of God. 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:29.120 It's this mission that the devil was trying to stop. 00:10:29.460 --> 00:10:32.060 First in the first son, Israel. 00:10:32.180 --> 00:10:33.639 Before that, in Adam and Eve. 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:35.560 And now in Jesus. 00:10:36.519 --> 00:10:39.000 And then in the New Testament church, 00:10:39.100 --> 00:10:40.600 the church that we live in now. 00:10:41.419 --> 00:10:44.580 He wants to stop this mission where God's creation, 00:10:44.580 --> 00:10:46.139 ruined by sin, 00:10:47.139 --> 00:10:50.780 that has been restored in the death of the Son of God. 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:51.879 If Jesus did not die, 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:53.500 the restoration would not have been possible. 00:10:53.500 --> 00:10:55.860 So the devil wants to stop this mission, 00:10:55.960 --> 00:10:56.540 this project. 00:10:57.020 --> 00:10:58.320 It would not have been possible, 00:10:58.320 --> 00:11:00.800 so that it can then not just be restored, 00:11:00.940 --> 00:11:03.940 but recreated by the grace of the Holy Spirit, 00:11:03.940 --> 00:11:06.580 as we build the kingdom of God. 00:11:08.800 --> 00:11:11.700 So the devil schemes as to interrupt this plan. 00:11:12.860 --> 00:11:15.160 And he tempts Jesus after 40 days in the desert, 00:11:15.740 --> 00:11:17.540 then on a mountaintop, 00:11:18.100 --> 00:11:20.040 and then on the top of the temple. 00:11:20.840 --> 00:11:23.520 And the heart of his temptation is a single question, 00:11:24.140 --> 00:11:25.660 if you are the Son of God. 00:11:25.740 --> 00:11:29.040 He asks this basic question about Jesus' identity. 00:11:30.680 --> 00:11:32.640 If you are the Son of God, do this. 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.139 If you're not the Son of God, don't do this. 00:11:35.480 --> 00:11:37.080 If you are the Son of God, do this. 00:11:37.139 --> 00:11:38.419 But it's the Son of God, 00:11:38.539 --> 00:11:40.399 the identity of him as Son of God, 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:44.679 that is where the real battle line lies. 00:11:46.500 --> 00:11:48.039 If you continue to read Luke 4, 00:11:48.659 --> 00:11:51.340 you'll see that Jesus then follows up this temptation 00:11:51.340 --> 00:11:54.720 with miracles that proves that he is the Son of God. 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:56.399 He drives out demons, 00:11:57.100 --> 00:11:59.059 he heals the ill, the unwell, 00:11:59.439 --> 00:12:02.080 and he speaks with such authority 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:03.240 that people start to say, 00:12:03.860 --> 00:12:04.320 hang on, 00:12:05.040 --> 00:12:06.680 this man is the Son of God. 00:12:07.480 --> 00:12:09.460 So the people start to recognize 00:12:09.460 --> 00:12:11.379 what the devil wanted to suppress, 00:12:12.259 --> 00:12:13.480 that which Jesus knew. 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:18.420 So God's Word, 00:12:18.540 --> 00:12:19.920 God's Word, 00:12:20.580 --> 00:12:22.879 is that which helps us to straddle the gap 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:24.660 between the spiritual and the physical, 00:12:25.220 --> 00:12:26.460 the heavenly and the earthly. 00:12:26.460 --> 00:12:29.379 But how does he do that? 00:12:32.740 --> 00:12:34.040 We read Luke 4, 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:35.340 and the following thing happens. 00:12:35.460 --> 00:12:37.379 Jesus is in the temple, 00:12:38.740 --> 00:12:40.000 in the synagogue. 00:12:41.180 --> 00:12:43.080 And it's on the Sabbath day 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:44.780 that he preaches. 00:12:46.540 --> 00:12:48.420 And in verse 17 we read, 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:49.940 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah 00:12:49.940 --> 00:12:50.759 was given to him. 00:12:51.220 --> 00:12:52.360 He unrolled the scroll, 00:12:52.500 --> 00:12:53.820 he found the place where it's written. 00:12:53.820 --> 00:12:55.040 And this is what's written. 00:12:55.740 --> 00:12:57.320 But before I read what's written, 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:58.100 Jesus stands up, 00:12:58.140 --> 00:12:58.600 he reads this. 00:12:58.660 --> 00:12:59.860 When he's done reading this, 00:12:59.900 --> 00:13:00.860 he will say this. 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:01.440 He will say, 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:03.160 everything you've just heard, 00:13:03.460 --> 00:13:04.140 the prophet said, 00:13:04.440 --> 00:13:05.600 is about me. 00:13:06.900 --> 00:13:08.220 Everything I've just read 00:13:08.220 --> 00:13:09.060 from the prophet, 00:13:09.580 --> 00:13:10.100 it's me. 00:13:11.420 --> 00:13:13.740 So let me read what he reads on Isaiah. 00:13:13.860 --> 00:13:15.040 He reads in verse 18, 00:13:15.039 --> 00:13:34.819 It's me. 00:13:34.819 --> 00:13:35.919 That's what Jesus is saying. 00:13:36.139 --> 00:13:38.659 He's reading this prophecy from Isaiah, 00:13:38.779 --> 00:13:39.099 and he says, 00:13:39.379 --> 00:13:40.459 I am the anointed one. 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:42.000 I am the son of God. 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.500 And can you imagine the scene 00:13:44.500 --> 00:13:45.019 in that synagogue? 00:13:45.220 --> 00:13:46.139 It's a bit silent. 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:47.259 Jesus has just read it. 00:13:47.500 --> 00:13:48.919 He's received the scroll 00:13:48.919 --> 00:13:50.720 from the synagogue assistant. 00:13:50.940 --> 00:13:52.019 If I had one of my sons, 00:13:52.100 --> 00:13:52.879 they would have brought me 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:54.019 the scroll. 00:13:54.200 --> 00:13:55.240 I would unfurl it 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:56.019 and stand here, 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:57.120 then read, 00:13:57.360 --> 00:13:58.500 and then with drama 00:13:58.500 --> 00:13:59.080 and suspense, 00:13:59.299 --> 00:14:00.279 slowly roll it up 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:00.919 and hand it, 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:01.620 and they take it, 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:02.500 and they put it away. 00:14:03.299 --> 00:14:03.960 And then everyone 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:04.799 with suspense 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:05.919 wait to hear what Jesus 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:06.679 has to say about 00:14:06.679 --> 00:14:07.279 what he's just read. 00:14:07.340 --> 00:14:08.019 This is what he says. 00:14:08.679 --> 00:14:09.799 He rolled up the scroll, 00:14:10.379 --> 00:14:11.559 gave it back to the attendant, 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:12.459 and sat down. 00:14:12.719 --> 00:14:14.099 And the eyes of all 00:14:14.099 --> 00:14:14.679 in the synagogue 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:15.819 were fixed on him. 00:14:16.819 --> 00:14:18.459 And he began to say, 00:14:20.339 --> 00:14:20.739 Today, 00:14:21.619 --> 00:14:22.579 this scripture 00:14:22.579 --> 00:14:24.539 has been fulfilled 00:14:24.539 --> 00:14:26.279 in your hearing. 00:14:29.079 --> 00:14:29.599 Today. 00:14:30.959 --> 00:14:32.299 So everyone sitting there 00:14:32.299 --> 00:14:33.139 looking at Jesus 00:14:33.139 --> 00:14:34.179 starts to make 00:14:34.179 --> 00:14:35.000 the calculation 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:35.619 in their minds. 00:14:36.479 --> 00:14:37.339 The anointed one, 00:14:38.359 --> 00:14:39.579 today this has been fulfilled. 00:14:39.659 --> 00:14:40.599 They know the reports 00:14:40.600 --> 00:14:41.879 of Jesus healing people 00:14:41.879 --> 00:14:43.100 and setting captives free. 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:44.360 They're starting to think, 00:14:45.220 --> 00:14:45.480 well, 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:46.580 perhaps, 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:47.920 perhaps, 00:14:48.620 --> 00:14:49.399 who knows, 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:50.340 but look what happens. 00:14:51.980 --> 00:14:53.740 And all spoke well 00:14:53.740 --> 00:14:54.399 of him 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:56.360 and marveled 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:57.759 at the gracious words 00:14:57.759 --> 00:14:58.420 that were coming 00:14:58.420 --> 00:14:59.220 from his mouth. 00:15:01.040 --> 00:15:01.940 You see what happened? 00:15:02.300 --> 00:15:02.960 Jesus said, 00:15:03.060 --> 00:15:03.779 I am the one, 00:15:04.540 --> 00:15:05.700 and people started 00:15:05.700 --> 00:15:06.759 to calculate it, 00:15:06.820 --> 00:15:07.759 and then as they sat there, 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:08.059 they said, 00:15:08.340 --> 00:15:10.299 mind blown, 00:15:10.439 --> 00:15:11.159 this is him. 00:15:11.539 --> 00:15:13.080 This is the anointed one. 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:15.319 This is Jesus. 00:15:17.419 --> 00:15:18.039 Now we said, 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:19.039 if we want to straddle the gap 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:19.740 between the spiritual 00:15:19.740 --> 00:15:20.200 and the real, 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:21.620 we need the word of God. 00:15:22.299 --> 00:15:23.539 And what Jesus was doing 00:15:23.539 --> 00:15:24.360 at the very point, 00:15:24.439 --> 00:15:25.419 he was saying to them, 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:27.939 I am the word of God. 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:28.620 Not, 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:30.000 here is the word of God 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:30.639 in a scroll 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:31.460 written up for you 00:15:31.460 --> 00:15:32.159 to go and read, 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:33.679 but the word of God 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:34.539 is physically 00:15:34.539 --> 00:15:35.539 in front of you 00:15:35.539 --> 00:15:36.740 in three dimensions 00:15:36.740 --> 00:15:38.199 right here in front of you. 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.019 If you want to straddle the gap, 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:42.059 don't just listen 00:15:42.059 --> 00:15:42.939 to the teaching, 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:45.959 but eat me 00:15:45.959 --> 00:15:46.919 through faith. 00:15:48.899 --> 00:15:50.059 I'll explain that later, 00:15:50.120 --> 00:15:51.199 but eat me through faith. 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:52.299 I want to say that 00:15:52.299 --> 00:15:54.000 in a slightly jarring way 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.039 so that you don't 00:15:55.039 --> 00:15:56.079 make the mistake 00:15:56.079 --> 00:15:56.879 that the audience 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:57.720 made in the synagogue 00:15:57.720 --> 00:15:58.419 at the time, 00:15:58.600 --> 00:15:59.500 they were listening 00:15:59.500 --> 00:16:00.179 to Jesus 00:16:00.179 --> 00:16:01.240 as he was reading, 00:16:01.240 --> 00:16:02.899 much like you might 00:16:02.899 --> 00:16:03.720 listen to a sermon 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:04.659 when someone is preaching. 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:06.360 I agree with that. 00:16:06.440 --> 00:16:07.019 That's fine. 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:08.740 Okay, 00:16:08.899 --> 00:16:10.639 that makes sense to me. 00:16:11.940 --> 00:16:12.600 But yet, 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:13.440 and this has happened 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:14.139 in our church, 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:15.680 yet your job is 00:16:15.680 --> 00:16:17.080 you work for a gambling firm 00:16:17.080 --> 00:16:17.759 and so tomorrow 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:18.399 you go back 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:19.340 and you write algorithms 00:16:19.340 --> 00:16:20.279 for a firm 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:21.000 that essentially 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.060 makes the poor poorer 00:16:23.060 --> 00:16:24.340 by stealing their money 00:16:24.340 --> 00:16:26.000 through little phone apps 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:27.680 and you don't think 00:16:27.680 --> 00:16:28.480 twice about that 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:29.000 because, you know, 00:16:29.100 --> 00:16:29.680 I've been able 00:16:29.680 --> 00:16:30.720 to separate two things. 00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:32.100 I can think about Jesus 00:16:32.100 --> 00:16:33.120 and about how interesting 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:34.080 the Bible 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:34.759 and the gospel 00:16:34.759 --> 00:16:35.519 and all of these things, 00:16:35.759 --> 00:16:36.800 but flesh and blood stuff 00:16:36.800 --> 00:16:37.279 doesn't matter. 00:16:37.680 --> 00:16:38.279 I can live it 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:39.480 the way I want to live. 00:16:39.700 --> 00:16:40.440 These two things 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:41.720 don't need to come together. 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:44.620 But Jesus won't leave you there 00:16:44.620 --> 00:16:45.540 and what you do 00:16:45.540 --> 00:16:46.340 with Jesus, 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:49.000 what you do with Jesus 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:50.560 will reveal 00:16:50.560 --> 00:16:51.800 how you view him. 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:54.680 Perhaps you've not read this, 00:16:54.720 --> 00:16:55.279 but we've read it 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:56.259 in Canada Water Church 00:16:56.259 --> 00:16:56.899 in Luke 2 00:16:56.899 --> 00:16:58.040 where Simeon 00:16:58.040 --> 00:16:58.960 picks up the baby 00:16:58.960 --> 00:16:59.920 and says to Mary, 00:17:00.340 --> 00:17:01.139 the sun is destined 00:17:01.139 --> 00:17:01.879 for the fall 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:02.840 and rise of many 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:04.680 and essentially 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:06.120 he will provoke 00:17:06.120 --> 00:17:06.799 a response 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:07.539 from everybody. 00:17:07.860 --> 00:17:08.840 Well, Jesus provoked 00:17:08.840 --> 00:17:09.660 a response here 00:17:09.660 --> 00:17:10.700 in Luke 4. 00:17:10.840 --> 00:17:11.759 The response was 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:12.700 that people listened 00:17:12.700 --> 00:17:13.700 to him and loved him. 00:17:14.420 --> 00:17:15.440 That was the first thing 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:15.720 they did. 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:16.799 The second thing 00:17:16.799 --> 00:17:17.319 they did 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:18.819 is they said, 00:17:19.500 --> 00:17:19.960 but hang on, 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:20.960 you're the son of Joseph. 00:17:21.539 --> 00:17:22.420 You're one of the kids 00:17:22.420 --> 00:17:23.220 of our town, 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:23.980 of our village. 00:17:23.980 --> 00:17:25.519 And we've heard 00:17:25.519 --> 00:17:26.759 you've done some great stuff 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:27.759 in other little villages. 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:29.599 Put us on the map. 00:17:30.220 --> 00:17:30.900 Put us on the map. 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:31.640 You're one of us. 00:17:31.740 --> 00:17:32.660 Come do some stuff 00:17:32.660 --> 00:17:33.180 for us as well. 00:17:33.420 --> 00:17:34.099 Why don't you come 00:17:34.099 --> 00:17:35.440 and do a lot of miracles 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:36.019 over here 00:17:36.019 --> 00:17:37.980 so people will flock in 00:17:37.980 --> 00:17:39.000 and come to our little town 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:40.039 and we'll become famous 00:17:40.039 --> 00:17:41.440 for having Jesus, 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:42.500 the miracle worker 00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:43.000 around here. 00:17:43.980 --> 00:17:45.700 They wanted to co-opt Jesus. 00:17:46.319 --> 00:17:48.140 And listen to what they've done. 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:50.220 They've heard the word, 00:17:50.220 --> 00:17:52.079 but instead of doing 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:52.940 the only thing 00:17:52.940 --> 00:17:54.079 that you could do 00:17:54.079 --> 00:17:56.079 when Jesus reveals himself 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:57.600 as the word of God, 00:17:57.740 --> 00:17:58.940 that is to fall down 00:17:58.940 --> 00:17:59.839 and worship him, 00:18:00.740 --> 00:18:02.680 they wanted to co-opt him. 00:18:03.420 --> 00:18:04.740 They wanted to get him 00:18:04.740 --> 00:18:05.440 under their thumb. 00:18:06.539 --> 00:18:08.200 They wanted to get him 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:08.920 as one of them. 00:18:12.059 --> 00:18:13.339 They refused, 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:14.019 in other words, 00:18:14.100 --> 00:18:15.200 to accept that Jesus 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:16.160 is speaking of 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:17.059 a different reality 00:18:17.059 --> 00:18:18.160 that will require them 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:19.339 to relinquish the way 00:18:19.339 --> 00:18:19.940 that they viewed 00:18:19.940 --> 00:18:20.299 the world 00:18:20.299 --> 00:18:21.240 until the very moment 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:21.580 and say, 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:22.940 here is the one 00:18:22.940 --> 00:18:24.799 and we are to worship him. 00:18:27.820 --> 00:18:28.740 It's not surprising 00:18:28.740 --> 00:18:29.640 what they do next. 00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:32.120 Continue reading Luke 4. 00:18:33.640 --> 00:18:35.100 You see that 00:18:35.100 --> 00:18:36.700 when Jesus finally says, 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:36.920 look, 00:18:36.980 --> 00:18:38.019 you want me to perform 00:18:38.019 --> 00:18:38.779 miracles for you. 00:18:38.820 --> 00:18:39.519 Be your performing 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:40.600 miracle worker. 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:42.980 But God's prophets 00:18:42.980 --> 00:18:44.140 like Elijah and Elisha 00:18:44.140 --> 00:18:45.240 is beholden to no one. 00:18:45.320 --> 00:18:46.759 We are in no one's pocket. 00:18:46.920 --> 00:18:47.920 We work for God 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:48.600 and for God alone. 00:18:48.720 --> 00:18:49.420 Elisha and Elijah 00:18:49.420 --> 00:18:49.960 did it the same. 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:51.380 They yield foreigners 00:18:51.380 --> 00:18:53.019 instead of Israelites. 00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:54.560 Don't expect me 00:18:54.560 --> 00:18:55.620 to work for you. 00:18:56.340 --> 00:18:57.660 I'm not in your pocket. 00:18:58.180 --> 00:18:59.940 I am from God 00:18:59.940 --> 00:19:01.120 and I'm for God 00:19:01.120 --> 00:19:01.900 and I will exist 00:19:01.900 --> 00:19:03.200 to proclaim his gospel 00:19:03.200 --> 00:19:04.320 fully and completely. 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:05.600 That is what he's saying. 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:07.720 And when he said that, 00:19:08.720 --> 00:19:10.140 they rose up. 00:19:11.080 --> 00:19:11.740 Well, first, 00:19:11.940 --> 00:19:13.000 when they heard these things, 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:14.039 all in the synagogue 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:15.539 were filled with wrath 00:19:15.539 --> 00:19:17.619 and they rose up 00:19:17.619 --> 00:19:18.859 and drove him 00:19:18.859 --> 00:19:19.619 out of the town 00:19:19.619 --> 00:19:20.240 and brought him 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:21.160 to the brow of the hill 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:22.039 on which their town 00:19:22.039 --> 00:19:22.480 was built 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:23.220 so that they could 00:19:23.220 --> 00:19:24.500 throw him down the cliff. 00:19:25.619 --> 00:19:26.480 But passing through 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:26.960 their midst, 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:27.700 he went away. 00:19:30.240 --> 00:19:31.359 This is the same group 00:19:31.359 --> 00:19:31.740 of people 00:19:31.740 --> 00:19:32.779 that marveled 00:19:32.779 --> 00:19:33.519 at him speaking 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:35.980 and then quietly resented 00:19:35.980 --> 00:19:36.740 that he didn't want 00:19:36.740 --> 00:19:37.839 to be co-opted by them 00:19:37.839 --> 00:19:39.200 and then raged 00:19:39.200 --> 00:19:40.000 with anger enough 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:40.859 to want to kill him 00:19:40.859 --> 00:19:41.699 when he didn't fit 00:19:41.699 --> 00:19:42.419 their agenda. 00:19:44.959 --> 00:19:46.399 Is this so dissimilar 00:19:46.399 --> 00:19:47.139 to what happens 00:19:47.139 --> 00:19:48.259 in Jesus' temptation? 00:19:50.679 --> 00:19:51.679 Just think about that 00:19:51.679 --> 00:19:52.059 for a moment. 00:19:52.179 --> 00:19:53.419 The devil comes three times 00:19:53.419 --> 00:19:54.299 to tempt Jesus. 00:19:55.939 --> 00:19:56.919 He tempts Jesus 00:19:56.919 --> 00:19:57.579 in the wilderness, 00:19:58.299 --> 00:19:59.159 make bread for yourself 00:19:59.159 --> 00:19:59.799 out of these words. 00:19:59.899 --> 00:20:00.740 Jesus rebukes him 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:02.939 with scripture. 00:20:05.479 --> 00:20:07.079 He tries a second time. 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:08.559 He refuses to fall down 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:09.479 and worship Jesus. 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:11.599 He tries a second time. 00:20:12.500 --> 00:20:13.160 He takes him 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:13.779 to the high top. 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:14.000 He says, 00:20:14.099 --> 00:20:14.559 if you fall down 00:20:14.559 --> 00:20:15.319 and worship me, 00:20:15.460 --> 00:20:16.559 you'll get all the authority 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:17.680 with me 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:19.120 over all of these towns 00:20:19.120 --> 00:20:20.339 and kingdoms. 00:20:22.099 --> 00:20:23.059 And Jesus again 00:20:23.059 --> 00:20:24.059 rebuts him 00:20:24.059 --> 00:20:24.519 with scripture. 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:27.660 And then he ups 00:20:27.660 --> 00:20:28.539 the ante a little bit 00:20:28.539 --> 00:20:29.059 and he takes him 00:20:29.059 --> 00:20:29.599 to the top 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:30.220 of the temple. 00:20:31.660 --> 00:20:32.660 And there he quotes 00:20:32.660 --> 00:20:33.700 scripture back at him 00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:34.019 and he says, 00:20:34.099 --> 00:20:35.160 if you throw yourself 00:20:35.160 --> 00:20:36.599 off this high pinnacle, 00:20:37.420 --> 00:20:38.240 he will command 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:38.819 these angels 00:20:38.819 --> 00:20:39.980 that will scoop you 00:20:39.980 --> 00:20:40.720 up in their hands 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:41.460 and you will not 00:20:41.460 --> 00:20:42.480 strike your feet. 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:44.359 He warps scripture 00:20:44.359 --> 00:20:47.099 and Jesus responds 00:20:47.099 --> 00:20:47.859 with scripture. 00:20:50.439 --> 00:20:51.919 And these three temptations 00:20:51.919 --> 00:20:52.779 in my understanding 00:20:52.779 --> 00:20:53.599 of this text 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:55.819 gets reenacted 00:20:55.819 --> 00:20:56.559 in some way 00:20:56.559 --> 00:20:58.079 in the way 00:20:58.079 --> 00:20:58.759 that the Jews 00:20:58.759 --> 00:20:59.439 in the synagogue 00:20:59.439 --> 00:21:01.359 respond to Jesus. 00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:03.619 and the reason 00:21:03.619 --> 00:21:04.379 I want to put 00:21:04.379 --> 00:21:05.019 these two next 00:21:05.019 --> 00:21:05.439 to each other 00:21:05.439 --> 00:21:06.679 and I'm pretty sure 00:21:06.679 --> 00:21:08.839 my New Testament professor 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:09.459 isn't listening 00:21:09.459 --> 00:21:10.299 to this at the moment. 00:21:10.399 --> 00:21:10.659 He said, 00:21:10.740 --> 00:21:11.459 once you've seen 00:21:11.459 --> 00:21:12.139 three points 00:21:12.139 --> 00:21:13.240 that make neat sense 00:21:13.240 --> 00:21:13.959 and you want to fit 00:21:13.959 --> 00:21:14.759 the rest of the passage 00:21:14.759 --> 00:21:15.719 into your little model, 00:21:15.839 --> 00:21:16.459 you're most likely 00:21:16.459 --> 00:21:17.319 on the wrong path. 00:21:18.679 --> 00:21:19.339 Could be. 00:21:20.279 --> 00:21:21.139 But hear me on this 00:21:21.139 --> 00:21:21.839 and see if you 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:23.019 see the correlation. 00:21:24.319 --> 00:21:24.819 Is that 00:21:24.819 --> 00:21:25.500 this 00:21:25.500 --> 00:21:27.019 almost fantasy 00:21:27.019 --> 00:21:27.639 novel-like 00:21:27.639 --> 00:21:28.659 experience of Jesus 00:21:28.660 --> 00:21:30.380 on being tempted 00:21:30.380 --> 00:21:31.100 by the devil? 00:21:32.080 --> 00:21:32.620 Wilderness, 00:21:33.259 --> 00:21:33.920 mountaintop, 00:21:34.300 --> 00:21:34.640 temple. 00:21:35.940 --> 00:21:37.860 Is reenacted 00:21:37.860 --> 00:21:39.300 in the physical realm 00:21:39.300 --> 00:21:40.660 through 00:21:40.660 --> 00:21:42.519 the people 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:43.320 in the synagogue 00:21:43.320 --> 00:21:44.800 that refuses 00:21:44.800 --> 00:21:45.340 to believe 00:21:45.340 --> 00:21:45.840 that Jesus 00:21:45.840 --> 00:21:47.519 is the word of God. 00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:49.519 That refuses 00:21:49.519 --> 00:21:50.220 to believe 00:21:50.220 --> 00:21:50.900 that Jesus 00:21:50.900 --> 00:21:52.540 is to be worshipped. 00:21:53.380 --> 00:21:53.820 They want to 00:21:53.820 --> 00:21:54.380 co-opt him. 00:21:55.380 --> 00:21:56.000 And refuses 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:56.660 to believe 00:21:56.660 --> 00:21:57.779 that Jesus 00:21:57.779 --> 00:21:59.039 will not allow 00:21:59.039 --> 00:22:00.039 scripture 00:22:00.039 --> 00:22:01.220 to be warped 00:22:01.220 --> 00:22:02.899 for nonsensical 00:22:02.899 --> 00:22:03.519 purposes. 00:22:04.440 --> 00:22:04.660 No, 00:22:04.700 --> 00:22:05.420 he exists 00:22:05.420 --> 00:22:06.059 only 00:22:06.059 --> 00:22:07.859 to glorify God 00:22:07.859 --> 00:22:08.940 and he will not 00:22:08.940 --> 00:22:09.460 throw himself 00:22:09.460 --> 00:22:10.139 down a cliff 00:22:10.139 --> 00:22:12.299 or jump 00:22:12.299 --> 00:22:12.720 off the tip 00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:13.279 of a temple. 00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:15.000 Jesus 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:15.559 straddles 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:16.200 this gap 00:22:16.200 --> 00:22:17.559 between the spiritual 00:22:17.559 --> 00:22:18.559 and the real 00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:20.019 because he is 00:22:20.019 --> 00:22:21.059 the word 00:22:21.059 --> 00:22:22.059 of God. 00:22:23.660 --> 00:22:24.599 Let's make this 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:25.420 practical for a minute. 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:27.580 if your faith 00:22:27.580 --> 00:22:28.960 as a Christian 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:30.279 is currently 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:30.980 sustained 00:22:30.980 --> 00:22:32.800 on fridge 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:33.300 magnets, 00:22:33.800 --> 00:22:35.620 on tweets, 00:22:36.340 --> 00:22:37.039 or on 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:38.080 Facebook posts, 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:40.340 you will use 00:22:40.340 --> 00:22:40.980 the scriptures 00:22:40.980 --> 00:22:42.039 in the same way 00:22:42.039 --> 00:22:42.720 as Satan 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:43.500 used the scriptures 00:22:43.500 --> 00:22:44.420 against the Lord Jesus. 00:22:46.160 --> 00:22:47.519 If you sustain 00:22:47.519 --> 00:22:48.620 your spiritual faith 00:22:48.620 --> 00:22:49.380 with tidbits, 00:22:50.580 --> 00:22:51.820 you will warp it 00:22:51.820 --> 00:22:52.759 and misunderstand 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:53.480 that Jesus 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:54.019 came 00:22:54.019 --> 00:22:54.960 as the 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:55.619 son of God 00:22:55.619 --> 00:22:56.400 in the flesh 00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:57.539 to straddle 00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:57.900 the gap 00:22:57.900 --> 00:22:58.319 between heaven 00:22:58.319 --> 00:22:58.879 and earth 00:22:58.879 --> 00:23:00.000 so that he 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:00.619 will one day 00:23:00.619 --> 00:23:01.160 bring heaven 00:23:01.160 --> 00:23:01.680 and earth 00:23:01.680 --> 00:23:02.400 together 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:02.960 in the new 00:23:02.960 --> 00:23:03.240 heavens 00:23:03.240 --> 00:23:03.559 and new 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:03.920 earth. 00:23:04.740 --> 00:23:05.180 And you 00:23:05.180 --> 00:23:06.339 will have 00:23:06.339 --> 00:23:07.279 such a low 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:07.859 view of what 00:23:07.859 --> 00:23:08.359 Jesus came 00:23:08.359 --> 00:23:09.099 to accomplish 00:23:09.099 --> 00:23:10.799 that you'd 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:11.480 be likely 00:23:11.480 --> 00:23:12.980 to do 00:23:12.980 --> 00:23:13.379 not just 00:23:13.379 --> 00:23:13.900 what the devil 00:23:13.900 --> 00:23:14.619 did with Jesus 00:23:14.619 --> 00:23:15.259 but do 00:23:15.259 --> 00:23:16.480 what the synagogue 00:23:16.480 --> 00:23:16.920 rulers 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:17.339 and those 00:23:17.339 --> 00:23:17.960 listening to him 00:23:17.960 --> 00:23:18.519 did the first 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:18.819 time. 00:23:18.819 --> 00:23:21.159 You might as 00:23:21.159 --> 00:23:21.619 well stop 00:23:21.619 --> 00:23:21.919 with that 00:23:21.919 --> 00:23:22.419 because where 00:23:22.419 --> 00:23:23.099 that ends 00:23:23.099 --> 00:23:24.220 is you 00:23:24.220 --> 00:23:24.839 want to join 00:23:24.839 --> 00:23:25.299 in the crowd 00:23:25.299 --> 00:23:25.799 by throwing 00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:26.439 Jesus off a 00:23:26.439 --> 00:23:26.919 cliff because 00:23:26.919 --> 00:23:27.619 he will not 00:23:27.619 --> 00:23:28.919 be beholden 00:23:28.919 --> 00:23:29.339 to a fridge 00:23:29.339 --> 00:23:30.079 magnet or a 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:30.740 tweet or to 00:23:30.740 --> 00:23:31.839 whatever your 00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:33.079 particular agenda 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:33.559 is at the 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:33.899 moment. 00:23:34.819 --> 00:23:35.899 He will reveal 00:23:35.899 --> 00:23:36.319 through his 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:36.939 actions and 00:23:36.939 --> 00:23:37.279 through his 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:38.759 words that 00:23:38.759 --> 00:23:39.240 he is the 00:23:39.240 --> 00:23:39.779 Lord of the 00:23:39.779 --> 00:23:40.279 universe and 00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:40.579 there's only 00:23:40.579 --> 00:23:41.200 one right 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:41.740 response to 00:23:41.740 --> 00:23:41.879 him and 00:23:41.879 --> 00:23:42.179 that's to 00:23:42.179 --> 00:23:42.700 fall down 00:23:42.700 --> 00:23:43.179 and worship 00:23:43.179 --> 00:23:43.539 him. 00:23:43.539 --> 00:23:48.839 And so 00:23:48.839 --> 00:23:49.119 if you 00:23:49.119 --> 00:23:49.740 sustain your 00:23:49.740 --> 00:23:50.359 spiritual walk 00:23:50.359 --> 00:23:50.559 at the 00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:51.220 moment with 00:23:51.220 --> 00:23:52.680 tidbits, 00:23:53.379 --> 00:23:54.200 be very 00:23:54.200 --> 00:23:54.559 careful. 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:56.839 It's the 00:23:56.839 --> 00:23:57.559 word of God 00:23:57.559 --> 00:23:58.099 that straddles 00:23:58.099 --> 00:23:58.599 the gap and 00:23:58.599 --> 00:23:59.039 here we are 00:23:59.039 --> 00:23:59.240 at the 00:23:59.240 --> 00:23:59.619 beginning of 00:23:59.619 --> 00:24:00.019 the year. 00:24:00.639 --> 00:24:01.099 Would you 00:24:01.099 --> 00:24:01.839 take up the 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:02.440 word and 00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:03.159 read it this 00:24:03.159 --> 00:24:03.319 year? 00:24:03.379 --> 00:24:03.839 If you are 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:04.359 here tonight 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:04.639 and you 00:24:04.639 --> 00:24:04.960 don't have 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:05.539 a regular 00:24:05.539 --> 00:24:06.359 Bible reading 00:24:06.359 --> 00:24:07.019 plan where 00:24:07.019 --> 00:24:07.779 you immerse 00:24:07.779 --> 00:24:08.259 yourself in 00:24:08.259 --> 00:24:08.740 the scriptures, 00:24:09.319 --> 00:24:09.559 where you 00:24:09.559 --> 00:24:10.200 allow the 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:10.799 scriptures to 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:11.460 come at 00:24:11.460 --> 00:24:11.700 you, 00:24:11.980 --> 00:24:12.420 not just 00:24:12.420 --> 00:24:13.099 this short 00:24:13.099 --> 00:24:13.879 sayings, 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:14.579 not just 00:24:14.579 --> 00:24:15.099 this little 00:24:15.099 --> 00:24:15.639 teachings. 00:24:15.819 --> 00:24:16.259 If you're 00:24:16.259 --> 00:24:16.639 reading a 00:24:16.639 --> 00:24:17.399 Bible devotional 00:24:17.399 --> 00:24:17.679 at the 00:24:17.679 --> 00:24:18.059 moment that 00:24:18.059 --> 00:24:18.500 just has 00:24:18.500 --> 00:24:19.119 two verses 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:19.439 at the 00:24:19.439 --> 00:24:19.719 top and 00:24:19.719 --> 00:24:20.259 a lot of 00:24:20.259 --> 00:24:20.919 human speech 00:24:20.919 --> 00:24:21.459 below it and 00:24:21.459 --> 00:24:21.699 a little 00:24:21.699 --> 00:24:22.399 summary prayer 00:24:22.399 --> 00:24:22.659 at the 00:24:22.659 --> 00:24:22.899 bottom, 00:24:23.699 --> 00:24:24.579 you can't 00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:25.599 sustain your 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:26.799 faith with 00:24:26.799 --> 00:24:27.519 that. 00:24:28.459 --> 00:24:28.980 You've got 00:24:28.980 --> 00:24:29.419 to come 00:24:29.419 --> 00:24:31.599 into the 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:32.319 Bible which 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:33.399 is a world. 00:24:34.839 --> 00:24:35.419 The Bible 00:24:35.419 --> 00:24:36.059 comes to you 00:24:36.059 --> 00:24:36.579 not just as 00:24:36.579 --> 00:24:37.179 little tidbits, 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:37.500 as little 00:24:37.500 --> 00:24:37.819 sayings. 00:24:37.859 --> 00:24:38.179 Of course 00:24:38.179 --> 00:24:38.439 there's 00:24:38.439 --> 00:24:39.339 sayings in 00:24:39.339 --> 00:24:39.439 there. 00:24:39.480 --> 00:24:39.699 There's 00:24:39.699 --> 00:24:40.439 wisdom literature, 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:40.799 there's 00:24:40.799 --> 00:24:41.279 psalms, 00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:41.559 there's 00:24:41.559 --> 00:24:41.899 songs, 00:24:42.059 --> 00:24:42.599 there's 00:24:42.599 --> 00:24:43.039 narrative 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:43.339 there's 00:24:43.339 --> 00:24:43.720 history, 00:24:43.859 --> 00:24:44.039 there's 00:24:44.039 --> 00:24:44.500 prophecy, 00:24:44.899 --> 00:24:45.139 there's 00:24:45.139 --> 00:24:45.980 a whole 00:24:45.980 --> 00:24:46.639 world in 00:24:46.639 --> 00:24:47.099 the Bible. 00:24:48.279 --> 00:24:48.599 And here 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:48.799 at the 00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:49.180 beginning of 00:24:49.180 --> 00:24:49.839 the year, 00:24:50.279 --> 00:24:50.659 God is 00:24:50.659 --> 00:24:51.399 enticing you 00:24:51.399 --> 00:24:51.759 to come 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:52.460 into this 00:24:52.460 --> 00:24:54.500 world so 00:24:54.500 --> 00:24:54.839 that you 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:55.980 get to 00:24:55.980 --> 00:24:56.379 know him 00:24:56.379 --> 00:24:56.899 not just 00:24:56.899 --> 00:24:58.240 as words 00:24:58.240 --> 00:24:58.599 on a 00:24:58.599 --> 00:24:58.980 page, 00:24:59.039 --> 00:24:59.240 but you 00:24:59.240 --> 00:24:59.579 get to 00:24:59.579 --> 00:25:00.059 know him 00:25:00.059 --> 00:25:01.139 as the 00:25:01.139 --> 00:25:02.980 person that 00:25:02.980 --> 00:25:03.579 can stand 00:25:03.579 --> 00:25:04.039 up in the 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:04.500 midst of the 00:25:04.500 --> 00:25:04.819 synagogue 00:25:04.819 --> 00:25:06.859 and say, 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:08.319 man shall 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:09.000 not live 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:10.279 by bread 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:10.700 alone, 00:25:10.700 --> 00:25:11.960 but by 00:25:11.960 --> 00:25:12.920 every word 00:25:12.920 --> 00:25:13.619 that proceeds 00:25:13.619 --> 00:25:14.019 from my 00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:14.380 mouth. 00:25:16.319 --> 00:25:16.779 Hang on, 00:25:16.819 --> 00:25:17.140 he didn't 00:25:17.140 --> 00:25:17.700 say that. 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:18.740 Huh? 00:25:19.119 --> 00:25:19.420 Did he? 00:25:22.299 --> 00:25:22.799 Kids, 00:25:22.900 --> 00:25:23.299 I'll do a 00:25:23.299 --> 00:25:23.839 trick quickly. 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:29.460 What's 00:25:29.460 --> 00:25:29.920 noticeable 00:25:29.920 --> 00:25:30.519 about me 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:30.779 at the 00:25:30.779 --> 00:25:31.059 moment? 00:25:31.299 --> 00:25:32.299 What's 00:25:32.299 --> 00:25:32.299 00:25:32.299 --> 00:25:33.299 about me 00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:33.299 00:25:33.299 --> 00:25:34.299 moment? 00:25:34.299 --> 00:25:36.919 what's 00:25:36.919 --> 00:25:37.359 drawing your 00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:37.759 attention 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:38.079 at the 00:25:38.079 --> 00:25:38.399 moment? 00:25:44.099 --> 00:25:44.779 Except for 00:25:44.779 --> 00:25:45.319 my striking 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:45.819 good looks 00:25:45.819 --> 00:25:46.079 and the 00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:46.379 fact that 00:25:46.379 --> 00:25:46.619 I wear 00:25:46.619 --> 00:25:47.119 a jean. 00:25:47.259 --> 00:25:47.519 I've 00:25:47.519 --> 00:25:47.740 never 00:25:47.740 --> 00:25:48.180 worn a 00:25:48.180 --> 00:25:48.379 jean 00:25:48.379 --> 00:25:48.960 in church, 00:25:49.039 --> 00:25:49.299 but here 00:25:49.299 --> 00:25:49.639 we go. 00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:52.180 There's 00:25:52.180 --> 00:25:52.480 something 00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:52.919 missing, 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:53.220 isn't 00:25:53.220 --> 00:25:53.419 there? 00:25:54.039 --> 00:25:54.460 That's 00:25:54.460 --> 00:25:54.639 what's 00:25:54.639 --> 00:25:54.839 drawing 00:25:54.839 --> 00:25:55.000 your 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:55.379 attention. 00:25:57.539 --> 00:25:57.980 Now, 00:25:58.039 --> 00:25:58.480 when Jesus 00:25:58.480 --> 00:25:59.319 spoke to 00:25:59.319 --> 00:25:59.720 the devil 00:25:59.720 --> 00:26:00.200 the first 00:26:00.200 --> 00:26:00.539 time, 00:26:00.579 --> 00:26:00.779 and he 00:26:00.779 --> 00:26:01.119 said to 00:26:01.119 --> 00:26:01.519 the devil, 00:26:02.819 --> 00:26:03.440 man cannot 00:26:03.440 --> 00:26:03.960 live 00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:04.980 by 00:26:04.980 --> 00:26:05.579 bread 00:26:05.579 --> 00:26:06.039 alone. 00:26:07.559 --> 00:26:08.140 You know 00:26:08.140 --> 00:26:08.539 a Jewish 00:26:08.539 --> 00:26:08.900 reader, 00:26:09.039 --> 00:26:09.440 when they 00:26:09.440 --> 00:26:10.140 read Luke 00:26:10.140 --> 00:26:10.420 and they 00:26:10.420 --> 00:26:10.799 hear that 00:26:10.799 --> 00:26:11.120 first 00:26:11.120 --> 00:26:11.579 phrase, 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:14.160 they want 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:14.559 to finish 00:26:14.559 --> 00:26:14.740 it. 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:15.180 Can anyone 00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:15.680 finish it? 00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:15.900 Let me 00:26:15.900 --> 00:26:16.840 first ask 00:26:16.840 --> 00:26:17.160 children, 00:26:17.259 --> 00:26:17.539 can you 00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:17.819 finish, 00:26:17.940 --> 00:26:18.240 how does 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:18.759 that sentence 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:19.039 go? 00:26:19.180 --> 00:26:19.860 Man cannot 00:26:19.860 --> 00:26:20.440 live by 00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:20.720 bread 00:26:20.720 --> 00:26:21.039 alone, 00:26:21.220 --> 00:26:21.460 but 00:26:21.460 --> 00:26:25.220 by every 00:26:25.220 --> 00:26:25.940 word that 00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:26.720 proceeds from 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:27.400 my mouth. 00:26:28.579 --> 00:26:29.360 That is a 00:26:29.360 --> 00:26:29.759 quote from 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:30.319 Deuteronomy 00:26:30.319 --> 00:26:30.779 8. 00:26:32.180 --> 00:26:32.900 And when 00:26:32.900 --> 00:26:33.780 Jesus said 00:26:33.780 --> 00:26:34.519 to Satan, 00:26:35.160 --> 00:26:35.640 man cannot 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:36.220 live by 00:26:36.220 --> 00:26:36.560 bread 00:26:36.560 --> 00:26:37.140 alone, 00:26:37.800 --> 00:26:38.200 and the 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:39.000 reader of 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:39.400 Luke's 00:26:39.400 --> 00:26:40.140 gospel read 00:26:40.140 --> 00:26:40.740 that passage, 00:26:40.840 --> 00:26:41.280 he wanted 00:26:41.280 --> 00:26:42.019 to fill in 00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:42.400 the dot 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:42.660 where it 00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:42.880 says, 00:26:43.360 --> 00:26:44.140 but by 00:26:44.140 --> 00:26:44.640 the word 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:45.200 that proceeds 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:45.780 from God's 00:26:45.780 --> 00:26:46.060 mouth. 00:26:47.060 --> 00:26:47.720 That is how 00:26:47.720 --> 00:26:48.160 we live. 00:26:49.460 --> 00:26:49.700 And so 00:26:49.700 --> 00:26:50.280 Jesus was 00:26:50.280 --> 00:26:51.040 drawing attention 00:26:51.040 --> 00:26:51.580 to that 00:26:51.580 --> 00:26:51.960 which was 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:52.320 missing, 00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:52.680 and that 00:26:52.680 --> 00:26:54.080 he is 00:26:54.080 --> 00:26:55.100 the word 00:26:55.100 --> 00:26:55.640 of God 00:26:55.640 --> 00:26:55.920 in the 00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:56.220 flesh, 00:26:56.480 --> 00:26:56.880 and that 00:26:56.880 --> 00:26:57.340 you will 00:26:57.340 --> 00:26:57.740 live, 00:26:57.980 --> 00:26:58.519 not just 00:26:58.519 --> 00:26:58.800 when you 00:26:58.800 --> 00:26:59.380 tickle your 00:26:59.380 --> 00:27:00.000 ears with 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:00.540 the gospel 00:27:00.540 --> 00:27:01.000 where you 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:02.200 hear God's 00:27:02.200 --> 00:27:02.400 word and 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:02.520 say, 00:27:02.600 --> 00:27:03.120 that's good, 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:03.440 but you 00:27:03.440 --> 00:27:03.960 live the 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:04.260 way that 00:27:04.260 --> 00:27:04.660 you want 00:27:04.660 --> 00:27:05.120 to live. 00:27:07.660 --> 00:27:08.460 He is 00:27:08.460 --> 00:27:09.380 the word 00:27:09.380 --> 00:27:10.120 that proceeds 00:27:10.120 --> 00:27:10.840 from God's 00:27:10.840 --> 00:27:11.160 mouth. 00:27:12.460 --> 00:27:13.120 He is 00:27:13.120 --> 00:27:13.680 God's 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:14.200 word. 00:27:15.500 --> 00:27:15.880 He is 00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:16.200 the one 00:27:16.200 --> 00:27:16.540 that as 00:27:16.540 --> 00:27:17.320 we hear 00:27:17.320 --> 00:27:17.500 him, 00:27:17.600 --> 00:27:18.000 we shouldn't 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:18.400 just hear 00:27:18.400 --> 00:27:18.500 him, 00:27:18.540 --> 00:27:18.840 we should 00:27:18.840 --> 00:27:19.700 eat him. 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:20.880 He should 00:27:20.880 --> 00:27:21.500 become our 00:27:21.500 --> 00:27:22.200 bread of 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:22.660 heaven. 00:27:23.620 --> 00:27:23.960 In the 00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:24.480 same way 00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:25.500 as Israel 00:27:25.500 --> 00:27:26.500 in Deuteronomy 00:27:26.500 --> 00:27:28.000 are panting 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:28.619 for food 00:27:28.619 --> 00:27:29.140 and God 00:27:29.140 --> 00:27:29.819 gives them 00:27:29.819 --> 00:27:30.480 food out 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:30.859 of heaven. 00:27:32.220 --> 00:27:32.640 He is 00:27:32.640 --> 00:27:33.059 the one 00:27:33.059 --> 00:27:34.220 that we 00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:34.480 are to 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:35.380 eat if 00:27:35.380 --> 00:27:35.660 we want 00:27:35.660 --> 00:27:36.180 to live. 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:37.599 He is 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:38.059 the rock 00:27:38.059 --> 00:27:38.500 on whom 00:27:38.500 --> 00:27:38.859 we should 00:27:38.859 --> 00:27:39.380 build our 00:27:39.380 --> 00:27:40.819 lives if 00:27:40.819 --> 00:27:41.059 we want 00:27:41.059 --> 00:27:41.640 to straddle 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:42.019 the gap 00:27:42.019 --> 00:27:42.400 between 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:43.119 the heavenly 00:27:43.119 --> 00:27:44.299 and the 00:27:44.299 --> 00:27:44.619 earthly. 00:27:47.619 --> 00:27:48.220 And so 00:27:48.220 --> 00:27:48.740 the invitation 00:27:48.740 --> 00:27:49.079 of this 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:49.819 passage is 00:27:49.819 --> 00:27:50.380 that you 00:27:50.380 --> 00:27:50.740 will come 00:27:50.740 --> 00:27:51.180 and eat 00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:51.539 the Lord 00:27:51.539 --> 00:27:51.819 Jesus 00:27:51.819 --> 00:27:52.119 through 00:27:52.119 --> 00:27:52.559 faith. 00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:54.640 Israel 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:55.259 failed in 00:27:55.259 --> 00:27:55.960 the temptations 00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:56.299 against 00:27:56.299 --> 00:27:56.680 Satan. 00:27:57.140 --> 00:27:57.440 Jesus 00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:58.140 succeeded 00:27:58.140 --> 00:27:58.519 fully. 00:27:58.680 --> 00:27:58.960 You are 00:27:58.960 --> 00:27:59.299 now the 00:27:59.299 --> 00:27:59.539 new 00:27:59.539 --> 00:28:00.000 Israel 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:00.259 as 00:28:00.259 --> 00:28:00.640 God's 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.079 church. 00:28:02.299 --> 00:28:02.819 You are 00:28:02.819 --> 00:28:03.100 now the 00:28:03.100 --> 00:28:03.279 new 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:03.660 Israel. 00:28:03.860 --> 00:28:04.079 And so 00:28:04.079 --> 00:28:04.279 these 00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:04.799 temptations 00:28:04.799 --> 00:28:05.180 will take 00:28:05.180 --> 00:28:05.500 different 00:28:05.500 --> 00:28:05.960 forms in 00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:06.559 our lives 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:06.940 where the 00:28:06.940 --> 00:28:07.259 question 00:28:07.259 --> 00:28:07.620 will come 00:28:07.620 --> 00:28:08.319 is Jesus 00:28:08.319 --> 00:28:08.759 the son 00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:09.100 of God 00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:09.420 that is 00:28:09.420 --> 00:28:09.680 to be 00:28:09.680 --> 00:28:10.160 worshipped? 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:11.579 And the 00:28:11.579 --> 00:28:11.799 scripture 00:28:11.799 --> 00:28:12.480 says yes 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:13.600 he is. 00:28:14.180 --> 00:28:14.480 And you 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:14.940 follow that 00:28:14.940 --> 00:28:15.400 up with a 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:16.059 life of 00:28:16.059 --> 00:28:16.579 conviction 00:28:16.579 --> 00:28:17.279 as you 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:18.240 live in 00:28:18.240 --> 00:28:18.740 that light. 00:28:19.600 --> 00:28:19.920 And I 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:20.200 want to 00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:20.740 close with 00:28:20.740 --> 00:28:20.980 this. 00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:22.279 If we 00:28:22.279 --> 00:28:22.720 are the 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:22.920 new 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:23.340 Israel 00:28:23.340 --> 00:28:23.920 and we 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:24.220 are, 00:28:25.019 --> 00:28:25.579 then we 00:28:25.579 --> 00:28:25.920 can go 00:28:25.920 --> 00:28:26.340 back to 00:28:26.340 --> 00:28:26.640 the word 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:26.980 of God 00:28:26.980 --> 00:28:27.380 not just 00:28:27.380 --> 00:28:27.779 the New 00:28:27.779 --> 00:28:28.120 Testament 00:28:28.120 --> 00:28:28.620 bits that 00:28:28.620 --> 00:28:29.080 we enjoy 00:28:29.080 --> 00:28:29.560 reading but 00:28:29.560 --> 00:28:29.900 we can 00:28:29.900 --> 00:28:30.500 read the 00:28:30.500 --> 00:28:31.120 Old Testament 00:28:31.120 --> 00:28:32.000 with a 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:32.259 new 00:28:32.259 --> 00:28:32.840 understanding 00:28:32.840 --> 00:28:33.240 to say 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:34.860 we are 00:28:34.860 --> 00:28:35.140 the new 00:28:35.140 --> 00:28:35.519 Israel. 00:28:36.320 --> 00:28:36.860 The promises 00:28:36.860 --> 00:28:37.340 of God 00:28:37.340 --> 00:28:37.640 to his 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:38.140 people of 00:28:38.140 --> 00:28:39.920 old has 00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:40.620 been fulfilled 00:28:40.620 --> 00:28:41.080 in Jesus 00:28:41.080 --> 00:28:41.800 Christ and 00:28:41.800 --> 00:28:42.080 we can 00:28:42.080 --> 00:28:42.820 therefore stand 00:28:42.820 --> 00:28:43.539 in confidence 00:28:43.539 --> 00:28:44.440 and boldness 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:45.100 in the broken 00:28:45.100 --> 00:28:45.680 world that we 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:46.100 live in that 00:28:46.100 --> 00:28:46.940 God will do 00:28:46.940 --> 00:28:47.380 what he has 00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:47.880 promised to 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:48.180 do and 00:28:48.180 --> 00:28:48.560 that is that 00:28:48.560 --> 00:28:48.840 he will 00:28:48.840 --> 00:28:49.500 fix this 00:28:49.500 --> 00:28:49.860 world. 00:28:50.800 --> 00:28:51.060 He will 00:28:51.060 --> 00:28:52.400 come and 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:52.660 he will 00:28:52.660 --> 00:28:53.500 redeem it all 00:28:53.500 --> 00:28:53.880 and he will 00:28:53.880 --> 00:28:54.519 finish his 00:28:54.519 --> 00:28:55.039 mission for 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:55.339 which he 00:28:55.339 --> 00:28:55.720 has come. 00:28:56.859 --> 00:28:57.220 So let 00:28:57.220 --> 00:28:58.119 me read 00:28:58.119 --> 00:28:58.700 these words 00:28:58.700 --> 00:28:59.240 in closing 00:28:59.240 --> 00:29:00.079 from Zephaniah 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:01.259 3 verse 14 00:29:01.259 --> 00:29:02.639 and it's 00:29:02.639 --> 00:29:03.259 Old Testament 00:29:03.259 --> 00:29:04.960 written to 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:06.200 Israel at 00:29:06.200 --> 00:29:06.700 the restoration 00:29:06.700 --> 00:29:07.619 of Jerusalem. 00:29:08.379 --> 00:29:08.639 Will you 00:29:08.639 --> 00:29:09.159 believe that 00:29:09.159 --> 00:29:09.700 this is true 00:29:09.700 --> 00:29:10.200 of God's 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:10.879 church today? 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:11.259 Will you 00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:11.659 believe that 00:29:11.659 --> 00:29:12.139 this is true 00:29:12.139 --> 00:29:12.539 of you 00:29:12.539 --> 00:29:12.980 today? 00:29:13.859 --> 00:29:14.139 And will 00:29:14.139 --> 00:29:14.619 you start 00:29:14.619 --> 00:29:15.000 to live 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:15.319 with a 00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:15.740 richness 00:29:15.740 --> 00:29:17.480 of experience 00:29:17.480 --> 00:29:18.000 as you know 00:29:18.000 --> 00:29:18.500 that the 00:29:18.500 --> 00:29:19.019 world is not 00:29:19.019 --> 00:29:19.500 just flesh 00:29:19.500 --> 00:29:19.839 and blood 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:20.799 stuff in 00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:21.180 front of us. 00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:21.920 It's rich 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:22.500 with God's 00:29:22.500 --> 00:29:23.240 promises and 00:29:23.240 --> 00:29:23.539 he will 00:29:23.539 --> 00:29:24.200 fulfill them. 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:25.700 Sing aloud 00:29:25.700 --> 00:29:26.100 O daughter 00:29:26.100 --> 00:29:26.640 of Zion 00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:28.259 shout O 00:29:28.259 --> 00:29:28.500 Israel 00:29:28.500 --> 00:29:29.200 rejoice and 00:29:29.200 --> 00:29:29.660 exult with 00:29:29.660 --> 00:29:29.920 all your 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:30.200 heart. 00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:30.960 O daughter 00:29:30.960 --> 00:29:31.560 of Jerusalem 00:29:31.560 --> 00:29:32.080 the Lord 00:29:32.080 --> 00:29:32.600 has taken 00:29:32.600 --> 00:29:33.220 away the 00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:33.640 judgments 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:34.620 against you. 00:29:35.100 --> 00:29:35.320 He has 00:29:35.320 --> 00:29:36.019 cleared away 00:29:36.019 --> 00:29:36.560 your enemies. 00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:37.460 The King 00:29:37.460 --> 00:29:37.860 of Israel 00:29:37.860 --> 00:29:38.360 the Lord 00:29:38.360 --> 00:29:39.019 is in your 00:29:39.019 --> 00:29:39.320 midst. 00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:39.740 You shall 00:29:39.740 --> 00:29:40.320 never again 00:29:40.320 --> 00:29:41.000 fear evil. 00:29:42.539 --> 00:29:42.779 On that 00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:43.060 day it 00:29:43.060 --> 00:29:43.279 shall be 00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:43.700 said to 00:29:43.700 --> 00:29:44.120 Jerusalem 00:29:44.120 --> 00:29:44.840 fear not 00:29:44.840 --> 00:29:45.019 O 00:29:45.019 --> 00:29:45.220 Zion 00:29:45.220 --> 00:29:45.700 let not 00:29:45.700 --> 00:29:46.120 your hands 00:29:46.120 --> 00:29:46.740 grow weak. 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:47.840 The Lord 00:29:47.840 --> 00:29:48.360 your God 00:29:48.360 --> 00:29:48.800 is in your 00:29:48.800 --> 00:29:49.140 midst. 00:29:49.519 --> 00:29:49.820 The mighty 00:29:49.820 --> 00:29:50.220 one who 00:29:50.220 --> 00:29:50.779 will save. 00:29:50.779 --> 00:29:51.660 He will 00:29:51.660 --> 00:29:52.500 rejoice over 00:29:52.500 --> 00:29:52.819 you with 00:29:52.819 --> 00:29:53.299 gladness. 00:29:53.359 --> 00:29:53.539 He will 00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:54.119 quiet you 00:29:54.119 --> 00:29:54.500 by his 00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:54.839 love. 00:29:55.240 --> 00:29:55.480 He will 00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.180 exult over 00:29:56.180 --> 00:29:56.440 you with 00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:57.099 loud singing. 00:29:57.660 --> 00:29:58.059 I will 00:29:58.059 --> 00:29:58.660 gather those 00:29:58.660 --> 00:29:59.180 of you who 00:29:59.180 --> 00:29:59.899 mourn for 00:29:59.899 --> 00:30:00.639 the festival 00:30:00.639 --> 00:30:01.180 so that you 00:30:01.180 --> 00:30:01.879 will no longer 00:30:01.879 --> 00:30:02.819 suffer reproach. 00:30:03.740 --> 00:30:04.200 Behold at 00:30:04.200 --> 00:30:04.859 that time I 00:30:04.859 --> 00:30:05.339 will deal 00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:05.799 with all 00:30:05.799 --> 00:30:06.720 your oppressors 00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:07.579 and I will 00:30:07.579 --> 00:30:08.180 save the 00:30:08.180 --> 00:30:08.559 lame and 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.119 gather the 00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:09.680 outcasts and 00:30:09.680 --> 00:30:09.839 I will 00:30:09.839 --> 00:30:10.440 change their 00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:10.960 shame into 00:30:10.960 --> 00:30:11.539 praise and 00:30:11.539 --> 00:30:12.039 renown in 00:30:12.039 --> 00:30:12.319 all the 00:30:12.319 --> 00:30:12.579 earth. 00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:13.680 At that 00:30:13.680 --> 00:30:14.200 time I 00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:14.639 will bring 00:30:14.639 --> 00:30:15.039 you in. 00:30:15.660 --> 00:30:15.960 At the 00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:16.519 time when I 00:30:16.519 --> 00:30:16.980 gather you 00:30:16.980 --> 00:30:18.220 together for 00:30:18.220 --> 00:30:19.000 I will make 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:19.680 you renowned 00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:20.420 and praised 00:30:20.420 --> 00:30:20.660 among 00:30:20.660 --> 00:30:21.240 all the 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:21.660 peoples of 00:30:21.660 --> 00:30:22.040 the earth 00:30:22.040 --> 00:30:22.820 when I 00:30:22.820 --> 00:30:23.560 restore your 00:30:23.560 --> 00:30:24.420 fortunes before 00:30:24.420 --> 00:30:25.080 your eyes 00:30:25.080 --> 00:30:26.820 says the 00:30:26.820 --> 00:30:27.120 Lord. 00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:28.000 Let me 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:28.240 pray. 00:30:28.660 --> 00:30:29.759 Let me 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 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00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:29.759 00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:59.740 Thank you.